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Norwegian Family Cruises
And who said cruises aren't for kids? Norwegian offers what you want, what your kids want... good times all around, for all ages, at all times, just the way you like it. Plus, complimentary activities happen every day-whether your child wants to paint, have a pajama party or put on a show. And just think of the new friends they'll make-you might even have to schedule time just to see them.
Norwegian Cruise Line has updated its Youth Program in conjunction with several organizations promoting active entertainment for kids. The company offers Splash Academy, which was designed to engage active and creative kids ages 6 months – 12 years, and has integrated Cirque Du Jour, a New York-based company that specializes in teaching children real circus skills such as scarf juggling, ball juggling, plate spinning, clowning and acrobatics. Circus workshops and shows will also be offered for the entire family. Entourage is Norwegian's latest and greatest program for teens ages 13-17. Play a pickup game of soccer. Take part in a theater or fashion workshop. Dive into an interactive pool party. With so much to do around our ship, your teens can choose the activities they want to do!
In addition, the youth programs will be expanded to utilize other areas of the ships, including the sports courts, rock walls, theaters, lounges and public spaces and will feature more family events such as parades and scavenger hunts.
Splash Academy
Guppies (Ages 6 months-3 years, at least one parent required to attend)
Sensory play classes
Music and Movement
Colors of the Rainbow
Note: Norwegian Escape offers dropoff services in the Guppies Nursery for a fee.
Turtles (Ages 3-5)
Arts & crafts and painting
Circus School (Tiger Act, feather balancing)
Developmental Activities
Sensory play
Treasure hunts/parades
Seals (Ages 6-9)
Circus School (scarf juggling, plate spinning, devil sticks, spinning rope)
Video games
Sports and family activities
Team-building challenges
Treasure hunts
Video games
Dolphins (Ages 10-12)
Circus School (stilts, ball juggling, Chinese yo-yo, plate spinning)
Scavenger hunts
Team building challenges
Video games and challenges
Theme nights
Entourage (teen area) Take Over
The Entourage teen program for kids 13-17 features entertainment and activities like:
Singing, dancing
Create balloon sculptures or graffiti masterpieces
Circus skills (stilts, juggling, etc.) with an end of sailing performance
Fashion show
Improv classes
Movies, Wii U
Various sports (dodgeball, soccer, etc.)
Themed events like College Night, White Hot Party, Glow
FreeStyle Free Play
As part of the Youth Program, Norwegian offers "FreeStyle Free Play" for all age groups to socialize and play together. The designated time slots are typically the first hour of daily Youth activity, two hours in the afternoon, and the last half hour. In the event of high kid counts, the 2-4 year olds will be entertained with other fun programming. Please feel free to contact the Youth Program Supervisor on board with any questions. Times may vary slightly per ship and itinerary.
The Youth Staff
The Youth Staff is carefully chosen from Education and Recreation programs at their University. Your child will like the Youth Staff because they are fun. Actually, they are experts in fun-they design specialized activities for all ages. And they'll keep a constant watch over your children to make you happy. Not to mention, each staff member is CPR and First Aid certified, so your child will be safe and secure at all times. Plus, they're trained in communication and confidence building, too.
Splash Academy Specifics & Restrictions
A few things you need to know before the good times begin:
- Guppies Nursery, Splash Academy, and Entourage are adult free zones.
- A parent or guardian is required to register kids ages 6 months-17. After registering, kids can participate as often as they choose.
- Your child will be assigned to an age group based on his/her age at sailing. If they have a birthday while at sea, only then they are moved up. Sorry, no exceptions can be made-this helps keep your child safe.
- Kids under 13 may not sign themselves in and out. Only a designated adult over 21 may sign them in and out of the program. Until the Youth Staff gets to know you, have a photo ID ready for drop off or pick up.
- Norwegian is flexible. Activities and programs are subject to change to accommodate a child's needs.
- Sorry, Norwegian is not able to have one-on-one care within the Youth Programs.
- Leave the flip-flops and sandals in your cabin-Norwegian requires proper footwear.
- The staff is not able to change diapers or pull-ups, but will leave you with a beeper to alert you to do the duty. Beepers do not work ashore, so parents will have to stay onboard when their children are in the Youth Program.
- Your child not feeling well? Sick children need to see the medical center before coming to the program. There's no charge if your child is well and is allowed to join the activities.
- Please let the staff know if your child has allergies or note any medications on their registration. The staff has snacks and will need to know.
- Want to involve the whole family? Activities are subject to change per ship/itinerary but may include Family Movie Night, Family Scavenger Hunt, and Family LEGO Hour. Just remember, a parent is required to attend with a child to participate.
- Because the Youth Staff is not included in onboard gratuities, cash gratuities are divided among the staff and greatly appreciated. Individual gratuities can be made through the onboard Reception Desk.
Safety and Emergency Information
Relax-it's your job to have fun and Norwegian's job to keep your kids happy and safe. Every child in the Program receives an ID bracelet with their name, stateroom number, emergency station, allergies, and medications listed. If an emergency does occur, the Youth Staff is responsible for the mustering of the child in their care and bringing them to safety at the Child Muster Station. There, you can claim your child. All unclaimed children will be taken to the secondary station and distributed to their assigned lifeboat stations.
Group-Sitting for Kids
Need a little more "me" time? Norwegian offers more supervised fun for the kids. The "Late Night Fun Zone" and "Port Play" are both group-sitting services for kids ages 3-12. The Youth Staff runs these activities in the Youth Program Facilities and all the requirements and procedures apply.
The "Port Play" is offered from arrival in port to departure of port during port hours. During overnight in port hours, "Port Play" is offered from arrival in port until 8pm. Norwegian accommodates those parents booked on Shore Excursions. Sign up is 8pm the evening prior to the desired "Port Play".
The "Late Night Fun Zone" is offered nightly from 10:30pm-1:30am. The charges are $6.00 per hour, per child, and $4.00 per hour for each additional sibling in the same immediate family. Charges are applied directly to your onboard account. Sign up is 8pm the evening prior to the desired "Late Night Fun Zone". If no children are signed up or dropped off by 11:30pm, the center will close for the evening.
A reminder, if your child requires you to keep a beeper, a parent or guardian must stay behind on the vessel during either activity, as the beepers do not work off the ship. Also, no private or in-cabin babysitting is available on any Norwegian or NCLA vessels. The Youth Staff is waiting for you to sign up now. Your kids will have a blast!
Youth Program Discipline Policy
Your children are important. Norwegian wants your kids to have as much fun and be as safe as possible. Here is the four-step Discipline Policy to ensure this happens.
STEP 1: Warning: The Youth Counselor addresses the child and it is explained that his/her behavior is unacceptable and needs to be improved immediately.
STEP 2: Time out: If the child continues to disobey the Youth Counselor, a time out is issued and the parents are notified at pick-up time.
STEP 3: Suspension: If a time out is not effective in eliminating the inappropriate behavior, the parents are located and the child is grounded from the program for 24 hours. The child is then welcomed back, but if there is any reservation on the part of the Youth Counselor a parent may be required to attend with their child.
STEP 4: Dismissal: Once the child is allowed back into the program after the initial dismissal, if any disobedient behaviors continue, the child will no longer be allowed to participate.
In regards to 2-5 year olds, after 15 minutes of continuous crying, the parent will be called to pick-up their child as Norwegian is not able to have one-on-one care within their Youth Programs.
More Family Friendly Features
Cannon balls welcome here. Just for Junior cruisers, Norwegian offers splash pools on Norwegian DAWN, STAR, SPIRIT, GEM, JADE, JEWEL, EPIC and PRIDE OF AMERICA. Each ship has its own children's themed wet and wild fun areas- slides, water squirters, and splash areas far away from mom and dad's main pool area.
Think about this-Norwegian has arcades on every ship, but the bigger the ship the bigger the arcade and how much fun can you have in a day!
Move over Tarzan, Norwegian has kids coming in! All Norwegian ships now offer jungle gyms with ball pits and tunnels. Just check out the youth facilities-registered participants can jump in anytime.
Time to go surfing? The onboard Internet Café is perfect for kids to send emails to friends, access AOL accounts and just surf the net. Basic time charge is .75 per minute and Norwegian offers great packages too. Parents wishing to block their children from Internet access can do by requesting the ship's Internet Café Manager onboard to de-activate their accounts.
Family Friendly Accommodations
The staterooms are designed with your family in mind - just the way you like them.
Freestyle Dining for All
Not a lima bean in sight-Norwegian gives kids what they want to eat - all day long in the Kid's Café. Kids can dig into the Kid's Buffet: sandwiches, hot dogs, fruits, yes, some veggies, French fries and cookies. They'll love the tables and chairs just their size too. Plus each itinerary offers a special Kid's Crew Dinner-sorry mom and dad, it's kids only this time. Sign up with the Youth Program staff.
Entourage Specifics & Restrictions
- Activities are flexible and subject to change based on participants.
- Norwegian reserves the right to cancel if no teen shows within the first 15 minutes of the scheduled activity. Teens will meet at the next scheduled activity.
- Teens not feeling well need to visit the medical center before being admitted to the program.
- Guardians must alert the Youth Staff of any allergies, medications or special needs of their teen when registering.
- All Teens are responsible for any personal items brought to activities and events.
- Norwegian strongly encourages that no teenagers go ashore alone in the ports of call.
- Because the Youth Staff is not included in onboard gratuities, cash gratuities are divided among the staff and greatly appreciated. Individual gratuities can be made through the onboard Reception Desk. Norwegian strongly encourages that no teenagers go ashore alone in the ports of call. If you have any questions, please see the Youth Program Supervisor.
Teen Safety & Emergency Information
Teens are responsible for reporting to their assigned emergency stations in the event of a ship emergency. Crewmembers throughout the vessel are trained to assist those in need.
Teens participating in Norwegian's youth programs are prohibited from smoking, drinking alcohol, and using profanity while attending Teen activities. Violence and vandalism will not be tolerated, ever.
A Teen exhibiting inappropriate behavior will be asked to stop immediately. If they do not stop, they will be dismissed from the activity. After dismissal, Parents and the ship's Security will be notified. Any behavior reported to a Youth Staff member taken outside of the Teen Program will also be reported to Security. Teens should be advised that all public areas are under 24-hour surveillance.
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The Coast Guard has asked the Justice Department to investigate possible pollution violations by both the drilling rigs Shell used in its botched efforts to explore for oil last year in the Arctic Ocean waters off the northern coast of Alaska.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo said Wednesday that he'd turned over to the Justice Department for review and possible prosecution an investigation into the troubled Shell drilling rig Kulluk. Ostebo said it was an "investigation into potential Marpol violations."
Marpol is short for marine pollution, and it's a name used to refer to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships.
The Coast Guard earlier had sent the Justice Department a list of 16 safety and environmental violations by the other rig used in Shell's Arctic efforts, the Noble Discoverer.
"As the Coast Guard and Department of Justice are still actively engaged in these investigations, it would not be appropriate for me to provide additional information at this time," Ostebo said at a Senate hearing in Anchorage, Alaska, chaired by Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich.
Shell Alaska Vice President Pete Slaiby said at the hearing that he also wouldn't discuss any matters under investigation, but he defended Shell's efforts.
"Our drilling operations were completed safely and successfully. . . . It was while leaving the theater of operations that issues with the Discoverer were identified by the Coast Guard and the Kulluk ran aground," Slaiby said.
The Kulluk was grounded for several days off Kodiak Island after a New Year's Eve storm. Ostebo, who's the Coast Guard's commander for Alaska, said the grounding was an "event that highlights the rigors of operating in Alaskan waters."
Ostebo said the Coast Guard was investigating the Kulluk grounding with help from experts with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Such an investigation might several take months to complete.
The Noble Discoverer was found to have 16 violations after a Coast Guard inspection at the end of November. They included pollution control problems and a finding that the vessel couldn't go fast enough to maneuver safely in rough Arctic conditions.
The rigs were able to drill only a partial well apiece. The Interior Department says Shell won't be allowed to drill the Arctic waters again until it presents a plan that shows it can handle the conditions. "Shell screwed up in 2012," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this month.
Shell has dropped plans to drill in Arctic waters this year in the wake of the problems, but the company promises to return at a "later stage."
Shell has spent more than $4.5 billion on its efforts to drill off the Alaska coast. David Lawrence, Shell's executive in charge of exploration in the Arctic and the rest of North America, has announced that he's resigning from the company. Lawrence told Dow Jones Newswires last year that the drilling off the northern coast of Alaska would be "relatively easy."
Last summer, Shell was the first company in two decades to drill in Alaska's Arctic waters. "It marked an historic re-entry into the U.S. Arctic offshore. . . . The first step to validating the enormous offshore resource potential," Shell executive Slaiby said Wednesday.
Environmental groups are calling on the Obama administration to shut down the Arctic offshore drilling program, but the president has declined to do so.
"The administration is committed to supporting safe and responsible exploration of potential energy resources in frontier areas such as the Arctic," Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Tommy Beaudreau said Wednesday.

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Mumbai: Delighted at dismissing Sachin Tendulkar, England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar on Friday said that out of the four wickets he took on the first day of the second Test against India, it was the wicket of the veteran batsman that he cherished the most.
"Obviously for me it has got to be the prince of India, Sachin Tendulkar. I was absolutely delighted with that," said Panesar, who pushed India on to the backfoot by sending back Virender Sehwag and Tendulkar in the space of 11 balls before the hosts fought back in the last session.
This was the third time that Panesar had dismissed Tendulkar. Previously it was at Nagpur in 2006 and at Lord`s in 2007.
Panesar, who ended with the figures of four for 91 in 34 overs, said he had worked hard with England bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed to get his action right and that paid rich dividends at the Wankhede stadium here today.
"During the practice session I have worked quite a lot with Mushy bhai in trying to get my action right. The previous ball, I remember, I got my action slightly wrong and dropped it. The next ball, I thought, I have to make sure that I get all the process I worked with Mushy bhai right. It seemed to click," said Panesar.
"I got my action right and got my fingers nicely around the ball. These kinds of things obviously work and it came out nice. Mushy bhai has been valuable for us. He has played a lot of cricket in the subcontinent. He understands the rhythm of the game out here and he helps us -- me and Swanny (Graeme Swann) -- a lot to understand the type of cricket that Indians play out here.
"And you have got to adjust to that, adjust to the conditions, to the heat, to the crowd noise. All of that comes into play when you are a spin bowler. You have to adjust to the flamboyant shots that they play and accept that and keep bowling the next ball," he added.
Panesar was confident that his team could restrict the hosts, who ended the first day today at 266 for six, to 300 tomorrow morning.
"They (Ravichandran) Ashwin and (Cheteshwar) Pujara obviously built a good partnership. So what we are hoping is to restrict them to 300 tomorrow morning, and that will be good for us. That kind of partnership has obviously given the momentum to India but overall I don't think they expected us to dominate the first two sessions like that.
"I thought we struck really well out there. We, especially, applied lot of pressure early on Indian batters, it was something that the Indian team didn't expect. They won the toss and thought they would only have a few wickets down with may be 300 plus score. But we as a team put pressure on them, and having five wickets down early on is a testament on how we applied pressure to the team out there," he explained.
Stating that there was a plenty of turn in the wicket, Panesar said, "Me and Swanny both provided each other a good platform. They have already played a Ranji trophy match there so the wicket is already been used. There is obviously turn and bounce in the wicket. They have prepared a pitch, on which a four-day match (Ranji Trophy tie between Mumbai and Railways) was played on, so they have prepared a pitch that is going to turn and bounce.
"Bowling at all these world class cricketers, I probably will need every help down in the pitch to get them out and that obviously helped me. Those are the kind of balls you need to bowl at these players to get them out. They are very good players in their own conditions."
Panesar, who was brought on to bowl his first over after just six overs of pace, said he enjoyed bowling with a hard ball.
"I have got various responsibilities with the new ball and sometimes you have to do holding role, sometimes I do attacking role. I just want to do them to the best I can and try and get the best for the team out there.
"I knew there was an option where the captain may want to use me with the new ball and I was kind of prepared for that. It is something that I quite enjoy. It is something new that I have gone into but I do enjoy bowling with new ball. I have obviously had the experience in the Pakistan series in Dubai, when I bowled with the new ball," said the bowler.
The spinner, who was surprisingly omitted from the opening game that England lost in Ahmedabad, said he was certainly upset at not having played in the series opener.
"Obviously there was a slight disappointment I didn't play, but I am happy to be playing in this match. It would have been nice to play but I am delighted to be playing this one," said Panesar.


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One of the fun parts of this job is picking the brains of leading agricultural researchers. In mid-April, I toured the USDA National Soil Tilth Laboratory in Ames, IA. Working inside this red brick building are researchers from many disciplines.
"We have everyone from clay mineralogists to microbiologists to agronomists and agricultural engineers," says Jerry Hatfield, the lab's director. "We have quite an exchange of ideas. The backdrop of our research program is to examine whole farming systems over a 365-day basis."
Over a cup of hot coffee on a chilly spring day, Hatfield discussed some of agriculture's hottest topics and laboratory research projects.
Precision farming. Lab researchers have immersed themselves in precision farming. They've found that rather than "farm by the foot," producers may want to instead "farm by the zone."
"We have to be more simple than where we're at today," Hatfield says. "We should try and divide the field down to two or three management zones, rather than down to the size of a desk. Measuring differences down to one square meter in a field probably won't do you much good in terms of a profitable system."
That's because the expense of minute measurements dwarfs potential yield gain. "But if there is a good-producing soil and a poor-producing soil in a field, dividing it into two or three zones should help," Hatfield says.
Grain quality. Rather than quantity, farmers and researchers will emphasize quality in future grain production.
"Eventually, producers will want to be paid for more than just mass quantities of grain," Hatfield says. "Right now, we sell No. 2 yellow corn and soybeans. But Canadian and Australian producers are moving their whole systems toward managing for quality."
To compete, Hatfield expects American producers to eventually follow suit.
Quality is particularly important to specialty grain producers. "We will see a lot more interest in how to consistently produce a specialty crop," Hatfield says. "For example, you may plant high-oil corn hybrids. However, you may be planting them on soils that won't allow the genetics to express themselves."
That's why lab researchers are testing the best nutrient, tillage and residue management packages for specialty grains.
Crop rotation. Corn and soybeans are the heart and soul of Midwestern agriculture. But in many areas, this rotation has become a monoculture that's ripe for disease and insect infestations.
"We need additional crops in our rotation," Hatfield says. Besides breaking up pest cycles, diversifying the rotation with additional crops could help protect the landscape over winter.
"Since corn and soybeans are planted in the spring and harvested in the fall, fields sit empty over the winter," Hatfield says. "There are crops that protect the landscape, such as alfalfa or another forage crop."
Manure management. Historically, farmers applied manure from their livestock on their crops. But integrated crop and livestock farms have decreased in number over the past 20 to 30 years. When many farmers began to specialize in crop or livestock production, manure converted from a nutrient into waste, Hatfield says.
"We think about manure disposal, not nutrient management," he adds. "We've boiled it down to simplistic terms that I don't think are healthy for long term in the ecosystem."
Hatfield encourages crop farmers and livestock producers to work together in order to use manure as a crop nutrient. "Part of our problem in modern agriculture is that we just think of row crops as a way to dispose of waste," Hatfield says. "We've taken and manipulated the system, and that's not healthy for us."
Nitrate runoff. Some government officials, researchers and environmentalists have blamed agricultural nitrogen (N) runoff for causing hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Hypoxia kills marine life by snuffing oxygen in the water.
Hatfield says that precipitation, soil type and the amount of watershed drainage in the system influences the amount of N runoff. "We probably can't change drainage systems," Hatfield says. "But we can influence the N management of the crops that are grown in the watershed."
For example, a five-year study revealed that subsurface drainage N concentrations decreased by 25% when researchers applied N during the spring and growing season instead of in the fall. Researchers also decreased N leaching by 50 to 75% through sophisticated N management, such as placing wood chips around tiles. By curbing N runoff, such practices could help halt hypoxia, Hatfield says.
Environmental issues. Typically, environmentalists and farmers oppose each other on environmental issues. But they have a lot more in common than they realize, Hatfield says.
"When you talk to both sides and find out what's important to them, both groups are really quite surprised that they carry the same value set," he says. "Both groups want to preserve the landscape for future generations. They just argue about what path to take."
On some issues, farmers could win over environmental groups via education. For example, environmentalists who oppose growing grains with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) don't realize that scientists have manipulated genetics for years. "It's just that we've removed Mother Nature a little more quickly with GMOs," Hatfield says.


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McCarthy, Aouad Two-Time All-Americansby Jim Amidon • May 28, 2010 Share:
Kevin McCarthy and Emanuel Aouad are now two-time All-Americans. Both duplicated their indoor accomplishments of earlier this year by running in the finals of the outdoor nationals Saturday.
Sophomore McCarthy qualified for the 1500 meter finals in 3.52.64. He ran 3.52.02 for a fifth place finish and All-American honors.
Aouad '10 bettered the previous Division III season-best time with a 14.24 to qualify for the finals. He ran just off that mark Saturday at 14.44 to finish seventh and All-American status.
Five Wabash underclassmen qualified for the national field and the coaches elected to take freshman indoor All-American Jake Waterman as an alternate. Only senior Emmanuel Aouad had "been there and done that" after making the national cut a year ago.
Kevin McCarthy, a low-seeded runner in the 1,500 meters, ran what Busch described as a "tough race" less than a month removed from an injury that threatened his entire outdoor season. McCarthy's time of 3:52.64 was just enough to get him into Saturday's finals — a field of a dozen runners.
McCarthy qualified for nationals with a time of 3:51.65, which was a new school record.
McCarthy finished sixth in the nation in the indoor 800 meters to become a sophomore All-American. He was the first runner in Wabash history to qualify for the national championships in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track — all in the same season.
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Bands you have never knowingly listened to.
I was just having a bath, and I realised, as far as I know, I had never heard a song by Teenage Fanclub. I was quite surprised by this, and decided to post a thread about it.
Great bands
Favourite songs from each:
Souvlaki Space Station - Slowdive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LIO138Z-A
Dreams Burn Down - Ride http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zTuVhNs5c
It was a bit too hot, actually. 4/10
Good bath review
Here's where someone better than me gives you a link to the best Teenage Fanclub song that blows your mind.
Happy to oblige
Maybe listen next time you're in the bath
Thanks :)
Kindof sounded how I expected it to, but probably better.
Fuck Sparky's Dream
The Concept is the best Fannies somg ;-)rainmaker this'd this
The Concept is brilliant :)
but to me Sparky's Dream is one of the best songs ever written. Could have gone with so many though, Guiding Star is another favourite
With honourable mentions for Everything Flows, Norman 3, Start Again & Baby Lee.
I first fell in love with TFC when they did a John Peel session.
I taped it off the radio but my attempts to buy anything from them were thwarted by Glaswegian humour, the lack of internet and living in buttfuck, north Wales. On the Peel Session they announced at the start of The Concept 'Here's our new single. It's called The Glove.... I didn't write it but I had a hand in it'. HMV in Chester were adamant that there wasn't a single by Teenage Fanclub called The Glove. Boy did I feel stupid when I realised.orangejuice this'd this
Realised today I've never knowingly heard Sven Vath
Was going to mention it in a different thread but this one seems better.
Also Alt-J.
Sven Vath's best 2 songs
L'esperanza: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hi_D3IR6Jw
Face It: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkd9noYxnE
The album versions are longer and probably better.
* I meant for L'esperanza
("Face It" is already the album version)
I've heard Sven Vath mixes
but I'm not sure I even knew he was anything other than just a DJ.
He's also a producer
He made some solo albums
I put him in the same sort of boat as Richie Hawtin
In that I know he's both a producer and a DJ but I've never made any of his stuff. I've heard loads of Richie Hawtin on mixes though but I don't think I've ever heard any Sven Vath, and considering how (somewhat bewilderingly) huge he is that surprises me.
Palma Violets
I get the idea they're a bit of a non-event outside the UK.
I don't think I've ever heard them
in the UK
I assume that they're the new Kayas-dan- this'd this
They're not as bad as that.
They're the new Vaccines.
Yeah, but not quite as bad as the Kayas
They're a bit better than the Vaccines, actually, tbh, but still not very good at all.
- aactv, El_Goodo, furio, and kilgore-trout this'd this
Which is why I probably dislike them so much!!!
It seems that anything NME go big on, I really dislike. It's almost an automatic reaction that if NME like it, then I won't.
Saw Palma Violets at Liverpool Psych Fest last year. They were completely underwhelming and dull.
Modest Mouse
Nothing (except Float On).
It's hard to say
they had changed significantly from that point to Float On but it's probably their most critically acclaimed album (that or Moon & Antarctica)
If you really like Float On then I suggest you start with Good News For People Who Love Bad News
I'd probably recommend Good News
it's accessible enough for a new listener while having enough similarities to their old stuff that you can get a good feel for whether this is the band for you or not.
Also this is probably my favourite song from Good News
that and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank are probably their most accessible. In saying that though, I started with Moon & Antarctica, and that's still my favourite album by them.
I started with Good News, because of Float On
I feel like a lot of people think I should be embarrassed about that fact, but I'm sure it is true for a LOT of people. I still really like that record a lot. It's definitely a great starting point, because there are so many songs in which Isaac Brock does what he does best, but in a way that is refined enough that you can ease into it. It's also got some GREAT pop songs on it, and a couple incredibly pretty ones (One Chance is beautiful).
As for We Were Dead... I always felt like it was accessible to the point of being paint-by-numbers Modest Mouse.
I'm getting off topic, I apologize.JaguarPirate and Lambchops this'd this
- skellywager, very_small_monk, kostenurky, ethricdouble, friday55, robluvsnic, urbanfox, and andyvine this'd this
- ThisTemporaryLife this'd this
you aint missing
much haha
oh my dear
you ain't livedpentargo this'd this
Camera Obscura
Fela Kuti
This is actually great
Similar thing to the Herbie Hancock stuff I've got.
Never heard a song by Velvet Underground or Ed Sheehan..
Don't know why, but those two came to mind at the same time.
The Blue Nile
Adebisi Shank
Future of the Left
Sharon von Etten
Aztec Camera
Lana Del Rey
Crystal Castles
Django Django
Frank Ocean
Magnetic Fields
Oh wait, no, I've heard a few Magnetic Fields songs
Don't remember any of them, but I'm sure I did listen to them.
Not looking for recs btw, if I wanted to listen to 'em I would. Cheers.
I know you said you weren't looking for recs, but
listen to Future of the Left. They are good.TheWza this'd this
Crystal Castles
Two songs from each album:
Crimewave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqMp91DahSU
Black Panther http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR3XB-982Bg
Celestica http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsxNUl1IHnE
Baptism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vStjmYxetY0
Kerosene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2QIJdtgiU
Sad Eyes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMkILY0s_Qsilver-crescent this'd this
Those are almost my exact favourite two from each album.
I'd probably switch Black Panther with Untrust Us.
don't bother with most of them
but AZTEC CAMERA are essential, and Magnetic Fields are pretty great
Are you not curious Dan?
What with people banging on about them all the time?
I don't think I've ever heard any of them being banged on about by anybody
whose music taste I respect.
are an odd one, I know I've heard them quite a lot. White Pony was a big album when I was at college. And I know I've gone on to hear a few of their albums since but I can never remember a single thing about them ever. When I listen I go, oh this is good. Then when its done its like nothing happened and I never recognise a tarck if its played without the name being said. There is somthing really nothingy about them, but they're still good, its odd.
Yeah, I get that with Deftones as well.
It annoys me because I really feel like I should like them from what everyone else has said, and I listen to them and they're really good, and then I completely forget about them, just like you said.
- Grimes, start with Visions (esp. the songs Oblivion, Genesis, Be a Body).
- Errors, start with Have Some Faith in Magic (esp. the songs Pleasure Palace, The Knock, Magna Encarta & Holus-Bolus).
- For Chromatics, start with Kill the Love (esp. the song Into the Black).
used that Pitchfork People's List as a prompt
Modest Mouse
The Postal Service
Joanna Newsom
Iron & Wine
Tom Waits (this is shocking)
The Decemberists
My Morning Jacket
The Postal Service is easy
Just one album, Give Up, plus some extra songs.
Their best known song is "Such Great Heights": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrsZog8qXg
Very pleasant music.JaguarPirate this'd this
I'd tell you to go for
Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse and the Woman King EP by Iron & WineJaguarPirate this'd this
I don't listen to enough MMJ to recommend, but:
Modest Mouse - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6l5w1mhqg
The Postal Service - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcqQDM-qOG0
I obviously recommend Give Up, because it is a flawless diamond, but also because it's the only record. If you like it, get Dntel's Life Is Full of Possibilities, because that is where it all started.
Joanna Newsom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STwVx6ynYjk
Start with Ys or Have One On Me, which offer a lot of different things, especially if you like music made by wood elves who play the harp.
Iron & Wine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7O-s4xBGmE
(NOTE: Woman King is not the song that I would generally choose to represent Iron & Wine, but it marked a definite turning point. Everything before the Woman King EP was whispery and singular, and everything AFTER was big, bold, and pretty experimental. His current live shows are big band affairs, and his records have begun to reflect that. I think it works. Some people do not.) I recommend Our Endless Numbered Days (if you like your folk rock peaceful) and The Shepherd's Dog (if you like it slightly experimental and all over the place)
Tom Waits - I've chosen two songs:
Martha (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Mse62NFl4), which represents his sentimental and beautiful side, and Hell Broke Luce (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8), which represents his GONNA FUCKING YELL LIKE A MADMAN side. These are likely my two favorite tracks, and they are from either end of his career. Both are worth the listen, I hope. I recommend every album, but Closing Time, Bone Machine, Bad As Me, and - if you're feeling crazy - Swordfishtrombones. Every album is a classic in its own way.
The Decemberists - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYwkmPKsctQ
The Decemberists have a lot of different sides, and one of the best ones is incredibly sad. These songs are usually very solitary, like Of Angels And Angles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTwh01MLSjY). They are also a very, very fun band. I recommend Picaresque.
ooh I forgot to talk about Modest Mouse a little more
I'll shut the hell up because I talked about them above, but I recommend Good News For People Who Love Bad News, and from there, go for either The Moon & Antarctica or The Lonesome Crowded West. Both are incredible, and you can't go wrong with either one.
I don't get why everyone is saying start with Good News... and then move on to Lonesome Crowded West/Moon&Antarctica. Surely just go straight to the best two and start with them?
Modest Mouse is a difficult band.
Not "difficult" per se, but Isaac Brock has a lot of tendencies that have a habit of turning people off. The Lonesome Crowded West starts off with a meandering, yowling "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine." While this is an amazing song, I probably wouldn't have appreciated it if I had started with that record, when I started listening to Modest Mouse.
And for The Moon & Antarctica, it's a visceral, heartwrenching piece, that I've never felt can be taken on a purely track-by-track basis. It loses itself in crevasses on a regular basis (see: the appropriately hypothermic "The Cold Part", or the outrageously tense breakdown in "Life Like Weeds"), and the weight begins to feel unbearable the farther away from "3rd Planet" you get.
Some bands/artists have bodies of work that command you start with the good albums before you get to the GREAT albums. I think that Medulla is one of Bjork's best albums, but I would never tell someone to start there.
Maybe I'm just bad at explaining things.
As a minor silly braggy side-note
I passed Brock on the street yesterday when I was on my way somewhere. I said "Hey" and he said "Sup?" and we kept walking. My wife said, "Who was that?" and I said, "Oh, that was Isaac Brock," and our friend started wigging out.
Good times. Great dude.
Plenty, although this is all I can think of at the moment:
Sigur Ros
Spacemen 3
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (I've listened to The Birthday Party, though)
I got told off yesterday
For not having heard Yeah Yeah Yeahs. So, them.
Blue Nile
Aztec Camera
Vampire Weekend
Kanye (last 4 I've heard songs by, but not a whole album)
Built To Spill
Titus Andronicus
Used the Pitchfork list too: http://pitchfork.com/peopleslist/
you really need to listen to Aztec Camera, Beck, Bjork, Kanye, Deerhunter and StereolabPickledOeuf this'd this
M83, Beck, Bjork, Deerhunter?
Holy cow, have you got some fun awaiting you when you get off your arse...El_Goodo this'd this
For Bjork
I would honestly start with 'Debut' and just move forwards from there. If it's not grabbing you then start with one of the 'classics' (Post or Homogenic)
But Debut IS a classic, just like Post and Homogenic.
It's actually my favourite. I just meant in terms of 'consensus classics'
I approach everything from quite a pop angle, so my picks reflect that
I'm perhaps not the man to ask, as I like his singles and really only one and a half of his albums. It doesn't help that he goes off in different directions all the time. For my money:
Lonesome Tears
The most epic break-up album ever.
Devil's Haircut
DJ-Shadowesque drums, riffage.
I'll ignore Midnight City because as much of a 'choon it is, some people find it too close to cheese.
Unfortunately I can't find my favourite M83 song which is actually a remix of Abstrakt Keal Agram's 'Jason Lytle'
Teen Angst
It's possible to just lose yourself in this when played at high volume. The more shoegazey/dream pop end of his spectrum
Kim & Jessie
Post + Homogenic are her masterpieces, with Homogenic edging it for me, but if you're going to just pick tracks, Joga and Bachelorette are my faves, although her vocals on Bachelorette are so epic that they might overpower you at first listen.
I feeeel emotionaaaal landscapes...
aka the Channel 4 Racing theme tune of yester-year
Desire Lines
I would have thought you'd have heard this somewhere but not know what it is. Certain clothes shops like to play this to increase their cred. Deerhunter are best when they write these harmonic jam songs, that just start spiralling off at the end. Worth sticking around to the end of the song.
He also specialises in hypnotic trancey drum / guitar funk outs.
Lonesome Tears is my sort of thing, and I like Lost Cause so I'll look into that album more.
Tentatively enjoying M83 and will investigate further. Haven't got to the others yet.
I'll do Stereolab
Ping Pong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_XswHm514w#
French Disko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kB9LRZ0sAs
For a full record Mars Audiac Quintet is probably the best entry point.
One of the greatest albums of the last 20 years. If you don't like that you should probably check that you have a pulse. Or a reflection.
SO if I don't like Bjork I'm a vampire...
How "today". At some point Bjork crawled up her own ass. I don't do weird for weird's sake.
Cryptograms and Fluorescent Grey EP
Are prob the best bits the rest is all on a kind of par bar the debut whic his just ok.
Microcastle/Weird Era Cont, Rainwater Cassette Exchange, Halcyon Digest. All kind of sit on plain. I dunno if any of them are the accessible one. They're all pretty odd with the odd ral catchy one and all the catchy ones are still on a kind of par.
the most accessible Deerhunter record has gotta be
Microcastle, hasn't it?
I don't think any of them are that accessible
Microcastle just happened to be their breakout rather than being any more accessible than the others. They all kind of have one or two really nice catchy ones then a lot of mucking about, i na good way of course haha.
plus its a double album
might be a bit of a mission to get into. Cryptograms is THE album for me with Deerhunter, so yeah stuff accessibility when you can just have a plain flant out ace record instead.
it's not really a double album though is it
anyway yeah, Cryptograms <3
For M83
1) If you like more abstract/ambient stuff:
- start with "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts". Then "Before the Dawn Heals Us", "M83" (self-titled debut) and "Digital Shades, Vol. 1". Then the rest (mentioned below).
Some songs:
Run Into Flowers http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtdan_m83-run-into-flowers_music?search_algo=2
In Church http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTVFyThJqsM
0078h http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_MGr6RPXHs
Teen Angst http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMirdNSKbho
Don't Save Us From the Flames http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpT0rrtwpLg
Coloring the Void http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdZldQH4ItI
Caresses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMBZMWdvOEU
Sitting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFkJQh3I4w
2) If you like more classic songwriting:
- start with "Saturdays=Youth". It's their most accessible and overall best album. Follow it with the double album "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming" (the one with Midnight City). Then the rest (mentioned above).
Some songs:
Graveyard Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCkk0-az5TA
Couleurs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrv0F-WTio4
Kim & Jessie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abqy3DdAzHI
We Own the Sky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzge5vY72hE
Midnight City http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE
Reunion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJQQrjVmQG0
Steve McQueen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Iqskd_Vq8
OK Pal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAFlBd7SNcE
Top quality band.
Good post.
M83 is a great band. Glad to see someone who likes both of the directions the project has gone in and not just one or the other.
I swear it always seems like people are all like "fuck midnight city, they haven't put out anything good since Dead Cities!!!11" OR "Dead Cities is boring as hell and they've only been good S=Y"
I hate these people
I like all M83 albums, more or less.
None of my friends believe me!
I've only ever heard one Adele song (the one in Skyfall, which I think is called Skyfall)
I don't remember ever listening to My Bloody Valentine.
For My Bloody Valentine, start with Loveless
Then m b v, Isn't Anything, and the EPs collection.
Probably their most accessible (and best IMO) song, "Soon": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4-5gHR3_Kg (the album version is much longer)
This is weird, I don't remember ever knowingly listening to them, but I recognise that song.
Also it only took a few minutes on youtube to realise how wrong I'd been not to check them before. Only Shallow <3
let me repeat... LOVELESS.
At first listen you'll think the CD is defective.
Second listen you'll think they're trying to be too clever
Third listen you'll think what's all the fuss about
Fourth listen you'll be in pop dreamland.
Yes, I classify Loveless as a pop record. It is.Antelope this'd this
I was in this boat until two weeks ago
Get 'Turn On The Bright Lights'
It's now become one of my favourite albums of all time for oh so many reasons.
Having lived overseas
For most of the period 1999 - 2006 there are loads of these! The most Dis-loved probably being Idlewild. It's likely I've heard SOMEthing but can't call to mind the sound of the singer's voice or a single chorus, riff, nothing.
A few random others that passed me by completely:
My Chemical Romance
Fall Out Boy
Ryan Adams
The Kills
The Kills - start with Midnight Boom
Short, punchy, and awesome album. Their best. Then the other albums in any order.
For Kosheen - start with Resist (their debut). It includes their most known singles. Follow it with Damage (my favorite Kosheen album). Then Kokopelli (it's quite rock) and Independence (their newest album).
...and I actually *own* crooked rain crooked pavement. I just haven't listend to it because I bought it right after I bought an iMac without a cd drive -_-
*crooked rain crooked rain* obv.
Dinosaur Jr
I know only one song, "Feel the Pain". Cool video too.
The album that song is on (Without A Sound) is probably my favourite and I'd say it's accessible
The stock answer though is 'You're Living All Over Me'
Surely you've heard Freak Scene?
If you're only going to know one Dinosaur Jr song, it oughtta be Freak Scene:
You're right. This too.
I found on my HDD a videoclip recorded from VH1 some years ago...
Yup. Freak Scene or their cover of Just Like Heaven
Can't go wrong with anything off You're Living All Over Me or Bug tho'
Artists I should check out but never got around to it or barely slipped my toe in the water.
Grateful Dead
Leonard Cohen
The Yardbirds
Blue Cheer
Neutral Milk Hotel
Arab Strap
Which is quite weird as I really like Malcolm Middleton. I've been playing A Brighter Beat fairly constantly for the past couple of months.


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Author Steve Hamilton's latest Alex McKnight novel has the fictional hero making the trip from the Upper Peninsula to his old stomping grounds in Detroit.
"Let it Burn" comes out on Tuesday, which is when Hamilton also kicks off a book tour in support.
He's to be in Okemos on Tuesday; Gaylord, Charlevoix and Petoskey on Wednesday; Mackinac Island and Mackinaw City on Thursday; and Traverse City and Ann Arbor on Friday.
In "Let it Burn," McKnight goes back to the Motor City, where he was a patrol officer decades earlier. He revisits an old murder case in which he may have arrested the wrong man.
Online — http://www.authorstevehamilton.com


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By Aydelfe M. Salvadora and Dirce Sarmento, ChildFund Timor-Leste
Highly nutritious food is often unavailable in Timor-Leste. Many children are malnourished because they don't have a proper mix of vegetables and protein, but a ChildFund home-gardening program, begun in 2012, is helping improve nutrition and provide needed income for families.
Irene, the eldest daughter of Rosalia and Felipe, started a garden in the backyard of her parents' small farming compound located in the sub-district of Tilomar. Like others in this community, Irene's family depends on farming for their livelihood, yet their earnings are meager and uneven.
Irene, who is married with a child of her own, recognized the opportunity for growing nutritious food and helping her parents achieve more steady income. She invited her friends, Felicidade and Guillermhina, to join in the backyard garden project and also share in the benefits.
Before they started the garden, Irene and her two friends received training in farming techniques through Graca, ChildFund's local partner, with funding from ChildFund Australia and AusAID's Maternal and Child Health project. The women received tools and seeds for bok choy, kangkung (a type of spinach), eggplant and tomatoes.
Irene and her husband shuttle between her parents' home and his home in another district, which makes it difficult for Irene to tend the approximately 300-square-foot garden all the time, so her mother, Rosalia, also helps the other two women.
Last year, the women harvested twice, generating income of US$110 that was shared among them. Irene and her friends now have money for family essentials and a bit left over to buy seeds for the next growing season.
With Irene's help, her parents now earn $20 monthly from the combined harvests of the home garden and the farm. Sometimes, Rosalia and Felipe also sell chickens raised in their backyard. This income is augmented when bananas are available; the family cooks pisang goreng (banana fritters) and offers them for sale to neighbors.
Without the garden, notes Felipe, the family would not be able to afford extra household items. He and his wife can buy food items like rice, as well as shoes and clothes for their 3-year-old grandchild.
Reflecting on their first year of gardening, the friends noted that their main challenge was access to water. During the dry season, the women had to take a brief break from gardening, and even during the rainy season, they have to fetch additional water for their plants from the neighboring aldeia (village), which is approximately 2 kilometers away.
And, yet, the garden thrived. The division of labor is fair, Rosalia says, and the gardeners look forward to this year's first growing cycle, which began this month and runs through March.


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City Directories and World War I Draft Registration Cards
This article originally appeared in "Directories" by Gordon L. Remington, FASG, FUGA in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
Another use for city directories is as an aid to locating the draft registration district in which an ancestor registered for the 1917'1918 draft. Inasmuch as the draft registration eventually encompassed all men born between 1873 and 1900, it is an extremely useful record to find. Full birth dates are given, and places of birth are given in the 1917 draft, including exact places in Europe for immigrants. Marital status, number of dependents, next of kin, employment information, and physical description are also provided.
Unfortunately, the draft registration cards are not yet fully indexed, and in large cities, you need to know the draft registration board to which your ancestor would have reported in order to find his registration card. Most cities had at least four draft boards, but New York City (189), Chicago (86), and Philadelphia (51) top the list.
Unfortunately, draft registration district maps do not exist for every city. The Family History Library has microfilmed maps of the following areas:
- Alabama'Birmingham
- California'Los Angeles, San Diego
- Colorado'Denver
- Connecticut'Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven
- Georgia'Atlanta
- Illinois'Chicago
- Indiana'Indianapolis
- Kansas'Kansas City
- Kentucky'Louisville
- Louisiana'New Orleans
- Maryland'Baltimore
- Massachusetts'Boston
- Minnesota'Minneapolis, St. Paul
- Missouri'Kansas City
- New Jersey'Jersey City
- New York'Albany and Rensselaer, Buffalo, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Rochester, Schenectady, Syracuse
- Ohio'Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo
- Pennsylvania'Allegheny, Luzerne, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Reading, Scranton, Westmoreland
- Rhode Island'Providence
- Texas'Dallas
- Washington, D.C.
- Washington'Seattle
- Wisconsin'Milwaukee<ref>FHL microfilm 1,498,803.</ref>
- The Family History Library Catalog notes that:
- Some of these maps are draft board maps showing the boundaries of the draft boards while others are just street and road maps which are helpful to some degree. The maps were filmed in the order as listed. The maps are enclosed in plastic sleeves for protection due to their fragile condition and age. Many of the maps are discolored or faded from age and this may make them difficult to use.
As an additional finding aid, the Family History Library has published a Register of World War I Selective Service System [boards and their locations] draft registration cards, 1917'1918: For Selective Service addresses for major cities as a noncirculating finding aid, use call number 973 M2wws, microfiche number 6039066.
Noting that the information in the book was taken from the Second Report of the Provost Marshall General to the Secretary of War, the book contains draft board addresses for the following cities:
- California' Los Angeles, San Francisco
- Colorado'Denver
- Connecticut'South New Haven
- Illinois'Chicago, Cook County
- Indiana'Indianapolis
- Louisiana'New Orleans
- Maryland'Baltimore
- Massachusetts'Boston (suburbs Brighton, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, West Roxbury)
- Michigan'Detroit
- Minnesota'Minneapolis, St. Paul
- Missouri'Kansas City, St. Louis
- New Jersey'Newark, Jersey City
- New York'Buffalo, New York City (Bronx, Brooklyn, New York City, Queens, Richmond/Staten Island)
- Ohio Cincinnati, Cleveland,
- Oregon'Portland
- Pennsylvania'Allegheny, Luzerne, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
- Rhode Island'Providence
- Washington'Seattle
- Wisconsin'Milwaukee
In order to find an ancestor in a large city in the World War I draft records, you first need a street address. The most likely source is from a city directory, but street addresses from the 1920 census, marriage records, and birth records of children can also be utilized. Once you find a street address, you can use a map that has draft boards already drawn on it, or you can use a contemporary map to find the nearest draft board. It is important to use a contemporary map as street names may have changed and some streets may no longer exist. You can then look at the draft registration cards for that district and hope to find your ancestor.
For instance, Martin Gross, a laborer, was listed at 107 South 14th Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a 1917 directory.<ref>1918 Polk's Pittsburgh City Directory (R. L. Polk and Co.), 1201.</ref> There were 21 draft boards in Pittsburgh.
Reference to the Family History Library's abovementioned finding aid indicates that Draft Board No. 14 was located at 40 South 14th Street. It doesn't take a map to know that these places must be close by, but a map confirmed the addresses were just a few blocks apart. The registration cards of Draft Board 14 revealed that Martin Gross, residing at 107 14th Street, registered on 12 September 1918. He was born 30 April 1873, was native born, worked as an inspector at a steel tube mill and his 'nearest relative' was 'Mrs. Katherine Gross,' presumably his wife.
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Ilija Lemajiþ
Born: 1897
Svrackovo Selo, Yugoslavia
Ilija was born in a village in the Croatian part of Yugoslavia. Like his parents and two brothers, Ilija was baptized in the Serbian Orthodox faith. The Lemajic family lived in a part of Croatia inhabited mostly by Serbs. After Ilija had completed grade school, his family moved to the village of Dubovac. When he was 30, he married a local girl and moved to Novska, where he found work.
1933-39: I have a nice wife and two beautiful young daughters. I'm employed in the village of Novska in Croatia as a tax collector for the Yugoslav government. As Serbs in a predominantly Roman Catholic Croat village, we must travel whenever we want to attend a Serbian church. Yugoslavia's King Alexander was murdered in 1934--he was a Serb and many of the local Croats celebrated his death by throwing rocks at the windows of Serb homes.
1940-44: When the Germans invaded Yugoslavia, Croatian fascists came to power in Croatia. The new government told me that I'd have to convert to Roman Catholicism if I wanted to keep my job. I refused and was fired in July 1941. I moved my family to the nearby town of Okucani where I managed to find work. But in Okucani I was arrested, once by the Germans and once by the Croatian fascists. Both of those times I was released. Now I've been arrested yet again by the Croatian fascists. My crime--being a Serb.
Croatian fascists murdered Ilija near Okucani in September 1944. He was 47 years old.


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Official Twilight T-Shirt Contest Won't Let You Use Anything From Twilight
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That, of course, is not very interesting. Where it gets amusing is when you look at the restrictions in the fine print (I've bolded my favorites):
- No use of the official Twilight movie logo e.g.
- All images must be tagged with "twilight movie"
- No use of images or depictions of the actors in the movie
- No use of profanity, vulgar or hate language
- No use of explicit sexual language or graphics
- No use of copyrighted material from the movie or its promotional materials (e.g. no use of images of the movie, movie posters or from the movie website)
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- No blood
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- No coffins
- No bats
- No use of Twilight book cover images
- No pictures of apples
- No journals (you cannot create Twilight journal products)
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Wildfires have increased in number and ferocity over recent years, and at present the US is battling large-scale blazes in Colorado and New Mexico. Now a team from the University of California, Berkeley has published a study which suggests that wildfires in the US and Europe are set to increase over the next 30 years as climate change "disrupts future fire patterns".
The study, which was conducted in collaboration with Texas Tech University, suggests that by 2100 almost all of North America and most of Europe will see a significant jump in the frequency of wildfires, mainly because of increasing temperature trends. In contrast, wildfires will decreases in equatorial regions due to increased rainfall.
The full study, which was published in the latest issue of Ecosphere used 16 different climate change models to generate "one of the most comprehensive projections to date" of how climate change might affect global fire patterns.
In a press statement, study lead author Max Moritz, fire specialist in UC Cooperative Extension said: "In the long run, we found what most fear — increasing fire activity across large parts of the planet. But the speed and extent to which some of these changes may happen is surprising."
"These abrupt changes in fire patterns not only affect people's livelihoods, but they add stress to native plants and animals that are already struggling to adapt to habitat loss."
For their study, the team used over a decade of satellite-based fire records with historical climate observations and model simulations of future change. They then noted documented gradients between fire-prone and fire-free areas of Earth, and quantified the environmental factors responsible for these patterns. With their results, they then simulated how future climate change would drive future fire activity over the next century.
"Most of the previous wildfire projection studies focused on specific regions of the world, or relied upon only a handful of climate models," said study co-author Katharine Hayhoe, associate professor and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. "Our study is unique in that we build a forecast for fire based upon consistent projections across 16 different climate models combined with satellite data, which gives a global perspective on recent fire patterns and their relationship to climate."
The great disagreement in the study was the projected model for the next few decades, with uncertainty across more than half the planet about whether fire activity will increase or decrease. However there is a general consensus that the western US will see, and should brace themselves for, more wildfires.
"What is clear is that the choices we are making as a society right now and in the next few decades will determine what Earth's climate will look like over this century and beyond," Mortiz added. "We need to learn how to coexist with fire."
If your home is under risk from wildfires, read our article on 6 Steps To Protecting Your Home.
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It fits perfectly and is easy to toss on after a nice day out on the road. Keeps the bugs, pollen, tree debris, sun and rain off of my nice paint job and will hopefully prolong the quality for a long time to come. Quick delivery even though it was custom made. I ordered two covers, one of the less expensive ones for my older car that doesn't get driven very often and this nice one for my good car. Both covers are working out great!


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Information and resources concerning meeting students' health-related needs at school.
Asthma Management Guidelines
Asthma is a leading cause of school absenteeism. The California Department of Public Health's (CDPH) guidelines and Asthma Action Plan for Schools and Families assist schools in effectively managing this chronic disease.
Diabetes Management
Information to assist schools in effectively managing diabetes, one of the most common chronic diseases in school-aged children.
Emergency First Aid Guidelines for California Schools Manual (PDF; 2MB; Revised 2013)
Provides recommended guidelines, procedures, and first aid measures for response to medical problems when advanced medically trained personnel are not available on a school site, as well as serving as a guideline for licensed health care personnel.
Flu Prevention
Information for controlling the outbreak of the flu in schools, including information on pandemic influenza.
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Prevention (English) (PDF)
Available Translations of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Prevention
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Prevention offers information to parents and guardians about the prevention and treatment of this viral illness that mainly affects infants and young children.
Head Lice Prevention and Control
Information and guidelines on head lice prevention and control for school districts and child care facilities.
Immunization Requirements
Information on immunization requirements for school districts and child care facilities.
LEA Medi-Cal Billing Option Program Frequently Asked Questions
The California Department of Health Care Services (CDHCS) provides information for local educational agency (LEA) Medi-Cal Billing Option Providers on many issues related to the Billing Option including advising LEAs that they may not bill for state-mandated vision and hearing assessment.
Medication Administration
Information relating to medication administration in California schools, including checklists and training standards for the administration of epinephrine to students and adults, as well as frequently asked questions about the emergency anti-seizure medication law.
Oral Health
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Information related to California Education Code Section 49452.8, which requires public school students to have an oral health assessment no later than May 31 of their first year of school enrollment.
Information and guidance on mobile dental facilities for school administrators when entering into contracts with private dental vendors.
Scoliosis Screening in California Public Schools (PDF)
This publication provides districts and school health services personnel with guidelines to facilitate the planning and implementation of the state mandated scoliosis screening program for female students in grade seven and male students in grade eight.
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Exposure to the sun is not without risk. The CDPH's Skin Cancer Prevention Program has age-appropriate information and other colorful resources to help schools and others educate people of all ages about sun safety.
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This publication provides district and school health personnel with guidelines for a school vision testing program and the laws and regulations that govern it. The guidelines facilitate the planning and implementation of vision assessment programs so that all students in California public schools may benefit from optimal use of their sense of sight throughout their school years.
Available Translations of the Report of School Vision Test
The Report of School Vision Test is used for reporting results of vision testing to parents and guardians and for obtaining recommendations from the professional examiner.
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Many InnoDB mutexes and rw-locks are reserved for a short time. On a multi-core system, it can be more efficient for a thread to continuously check if it can acquire a mutex or rw-lock for a while before sleeping. If the mutex or rw-lock becomes available during this polling period, the thread can continue immediately, in the same time slice. However, too-frequent polling by multiple threads of a shared object can cause "cache ping pong", which results in processors invalidating portions of each other's cache. InnoDB minimizes this issue by waiting a random time between subsequent polls. The delay is implemented as a busy loop.
You can control the maximum delay between testing a mutex or
rw-lock using the
innodb_spin_wait_delay parameter.
The duration of the delay loop depends on the C compiler and the
target processor. (In the 100MHz Pentium era, the unit of delay
was one microsecond.) On a system where all processor cores share
a fast cache memory, you might reduce the maximum delay or disable
the busy loop altogether by setting
innodb_spin_wait_delay=0. On a
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parameter that you can specify in the MySQL option file
my.cnf or
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at runtime with the
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is the desired
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sufficient to set global system variables. See
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For performance considerations for InnoDB locking operations, see Section 8.11, "Optimizing Locking Operations".


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After a year of campaign sound and fury, we're about to hold an election that will probably fail to usher in the one thing voters of all stripes would like to see: an end to the partisan gridlock in Congress.
Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney appears likely to win the kind of landslide victory that provides a mandate for big change. And whoever wins the presidency is almost certain to face at least two years of divided government in Congress: a Republican House, a Democratic Senate.
No problem, both candidates have said in recent weeks, insisting that reasonable members of the other party can be persuaded to cooperate.
SLIDESHOW: Six numbers to ignore from the presidential campaign
"I'm going to have to reach across the aisle and meet with good Democrats who love America," the newly moderate Romney told supporters in Virginia last week. "And there are good Democrats like that," he felt it necessary to add.
Obama's professed his bipartisanship too. "We don't need a partisan agenda; we need a common-sense agenda," he said in Las Vegas, trying to revive his old post-partisan persona. But the priorities he listed — federal spending on education, energy and job creation — sounded as Democratic as ever.
Both candidates have plenty of plans — for fiscal policy, economic policy and every other kind of policy. But neither has offered much of a plan for bridging the partisan divide and breaking the deadlock over fiscal policy — beyond hoping that the election's results are one-sided enough to shock the other side into submission.
ENDORSEMENTS: The Times' recommendations for Nov. 6
In an interview with the Des Moines Register — released only after the newspaper chided him for wanting to keep it off the record — the president laid out a rough timeline for the first year of his second term. It begins with an acknowledgment that compromise will be difficult, starting with negotiations to avoid the "fiscal cliff," the draconian spending cuts and tax hikes that kick in automatically at the end of the year unless Congress intervenes.
"I believe in the first six months we are going to solve that big piece of business," Obama told the Register. "It will probably be messy. It won't be pleasant."
Once that fiscal bargain is struck, Obama said, bipartisan agreement should be possible on corporate tax reductions, regulatory reform, more spending on infrastructure and immigration reform — all areas that he suggested "should be non-ideological."
Has he not been paying attention the last four years? This is a Congress that can't even agree on what kind of utensils to use in the House cafeteria.
Immigration reform, in particular, is an issue designed to tear Congress in two. Most GOP leaders, including Romney, recognize that their party won't have a future unless it sheds its anti-immigrant image, but grass-roots conservative opposition to anything that sounds like amnesty has made it impossible for Republicans (including Romney) to move very far.
But at least Obama has suggested some areas in which he'd try to forge compromises. The Republican candidate has been even less specific, breezily assuring voters that he knows how to work with Democrats because he did it as governor of Massachusetts. But Romney's record in Boston wasn't really four years of genial comity; it was more like three years of gridlock (the legislature overrode more than 700 Romney vetoes) interrupted by one brilliant piece of bipartisan legislation, the healthcare law that Romney passed with help from the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Romney's professions of bipartisanship also collide with promises he has made to his own supporters — promises he could scarcely abandon even if he wanted to (and he says he doesn't). On "Day One" of his presidency, the GOP candidate says, he would begin the work of repealing Obama's healthcare law — something Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to block. If a straightforward attempt to repeal Obamacare fails in the Senate, many Republicans want to undermine the law by blocking its implementation and funding — a guerrilla campaign that would embitter Democrats and undercut cooperation on other issues.
So even if a President Romney turns out to be the Moderate Mitt of October 2012 instead of the severe conservative who won the Republican nomination, he'll still be pursuing deep cuts in domestic spending that most Democrats will resist.
We're in strange political times. The only clear mandate from the electorate is to end the partisan divide, but that seems to be the one message our political leaders can't hear. Both sides take the narrowest of wins as a clear mandate for their most extreme views. They're all for compromise, as long as it's the other side doing the compromising.
My reluctant forecast for Tuesday's outcome: a victory for gridlock.
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SCRAPS Popcorn Fundraiser
Pop-n-Corn will donate 10 percent of the proceeds from their sales on Black Friday and Saturday (Nov. 23-24) to SCRAPS. The proceeds will be used to host the shelters Happy Howl-i-day Party during the annual Open House on Dec. 15, noon until 5 p.m. Dec. 1-9, Pop-n-Corn will also offer special paw print bags full of popcorn. Each bag will cost $4 and the entire proceeds from those sales will be given to SCRAPS.
- Where:
- Spokane Valley Mall, Pop-n-Corn, 14740 E. Indiana Ave., Spokane Valley, WA
- City:
- Spokane Valley
- Neighborhood:
- Spokane Valley
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Braves deal for Dempster pending his approval
The Braves reached an agreement on Monday to acquire Dempster from the Cubs. But Dempster must accept the trade before it can be official. This is a right he has earned because he has played in the Majors for at least 10 years and been with the same team for at least five years.
"Nothing official to report. You will be the 1st to know. Thnx to all my fans for the support," Dempster tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
"I know what you guys know, basically the same thing, maybe a little bit more. I'm not going to lie to you about that," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said Monday. "But that's all I know right now. We're in a holding pattern."
Cubs manager Dale Sveum painted a different picture while suggesting that a deal had never been agreed upon between the two teams.
"I found out when I came in off the field from early BP," Sveum said. "Somebody said they saw it on the website, so I got on the website and saw it, and called the higher-ups to make sure, and they're like, 'No, nothing's happening, I don't know where that came from.' That's where we are with that."
When the Cubs were at Turner Field before the All-Star break, Dempster told some of the Braves players that he would like to play in Atlanta. The 35-year-old pitcher can be a free agent at the end of the season.
If this deal is completed, the Braves will likely be sending highly regarded pitching prospect Randall Delgado and at least one other player to the Cubs as compensation.
Dempster has the potential to serve as the stabilizing asset the Braves have been seeking to add to their inconsistent starting rotation. The 35-year-old right-hander has posted a 2.11 ERA in 15 starts this year and sports a 3.63 ERA in the 147 starts he has made since the start of the 2008 season.
Once Jair Jurrjens struggled again during Sunday's loss to the Nationals, it became more apparent the Braves would aggressively pursue an acquisition of a starting pitcher. Their rotation has posted the third-worst ERA (4.34) in the National League this year.
Dempster is owed approximately $5 million for the remainder of the season.
When the Braves began evaluating ways to improve their starting rotation, Dempster and Zack Greinke sat at the top of their wish list. But as the past few days passed, with the Brewers providing clear indication that they are willing to move Greinke, the focus fell on Dempster.
To get Greinke, the Braves would have had to likely part with top pitching prospect Julio Teheran and at least one other Top 15 prospect. Now they will likely simply pursue him on the free-agent market this winter.


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Luxury Italian Leather Extra Large Luggage Bag Flero Dark Chocolate Brown
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Our leather requires relatively little care. There is no need for frequent cleaning. Scratches or marks from daily wear can be rubbed or polished out with ease. You don't need any special cleaners to keep your leather looking good – just dip a clean cloth in a simple soap and water solution and gently clean the surface of your product. We wholeheartedly recommend Skidmore's leather cream. Although there are many other excellent leather care products on the market, this is by far our favourite. Please don't use chemical cleaners when caring for your item. Chemical conditioners can damage the surface of the leather, doing more harm than good. Try to avoid getting your product wet if possible, but if you get caught in the rain, don't panic! Carefully blot away any drops of water immediately and let the product dry naturally, keeping it away from any direct source of heat.
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Meet The Designer
Maxwell Scott Bags is a family run business fusing together British design with Italian style, materials and craftsmanship. The label was created with the philosophy of providing the finest quality luxury briefcases, handbags, luggage and accessories to suit today's demanding requirements. Each individual creation is beautifully hand crafted to the highest standard, using only full grain vegetable tanned Italian leather. Each hide is carefully chosen, and the brand insists on sourcing and using the finest locks, linings and fittings to compliment each design. They still use traditional methods by skilled Artisan craftsmen wherever possible, however recent technological advances in materials has given the means to extend the life of the products.


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