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Hurun Report
Hurun Report publishes four magazines: Hurun Report is a monthly magazine targeted at the Chinese luxury consumer; Hurun Schools Guide comes out six times a year, targeted at parents looking to send their children to study abroad; Wings & Water, targeted at ultra-high net worth individuals with US$30 million and an interest in business jets and yachts; and Horse & Polo China is targeted at the fashionably interested in racing, polo and dressage.
Its two digital solutions include the Hurun App, ranked as the top business title on the Apple App Store, and the Hurun Schools Guide App.
Hurun Report holds 100 events a year, led by four flagship events in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Sanya. These events bring together 15,000 of China's most influential entrepreneurs, luxury consumers and opinion leaders.
Since 1999, Hurun Report's reporters and researchers have interviewed 1000s of entrepreneurs to create one of the foremost databases of high net worth individuals in China.
The Hurun China Rich List comes out each October, documenting the changes in the country's wealthiest individuals and inspiring many young entrepreneurs to set out on their own. The Hurun Best of the Best ranks the brands and service providers for China's richest, based on its proprietary Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey. The results are widely regarded as an ISO9000 for China's luxury sector. The Hurun Art List ranks the top 100 Chinese artists alive today, based on the sales of their works at public auctions throughout the past year. In April, the Hurun Wealth Report identifies the number of millionaires broken down by region across China. In May, the Hurun China Philanthropy List ranks the most generous Chinese.


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At this age, a business without online presence is simply not in the game. One way of securing your web footprints is through the creation of a website. A website is a virtual store or office where people can find you, make orders and interact with you. While this can be achieved easily without breaking a sweat, it is the selection of the appropriate name that is the real icing to the cake. Before you buy a domain name, there are a few issues that you need to put into consideration.
Appropriate name
Websites are a matter of names and the more popular some names are the more expensive the domain. You are most likely to find that the names that best describes your business are already taken or are outrageously expensive. It is hence important that you have a fall back plan and accept the names that you can relate with.
Website name
The worst mistake that can happen is when you have a website name that is different from the domain name. It is possible to come across a business name with a different website name due to one reason or another. The downside to this is that in the end you might lose out on crucial traffic as some of the customers will always be misdirected to another page probably to the competitor's site. It pays indeed to have a domain name that is related to your business, as not all customers will memorize the name of your website.
Go for short domains
In today's age of modernity most people are in search of information and may not be willing to memorize long domain names. As a rule, the maximum number of characters making up a domain is supposed to be 67. When it comes to length, the jury is still out there whether it is better to have a shorter or longer one. The basic argument is that the shorter it is the more memorable it is. A long domain name opens up the possibilities of mistakes when typing and also becomes hard to memorize. It is however increasingly expensive to buy a domain name that is shorter and the fewer that are there may not be relevant to your business. It is advisable to always go for a relevant domain name, especially the one that customers can relate with rather than taking a flashy short domain that will end up misleading them on what you really are offering.

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Got a new puppy and don't know what to do? Puppy Clicker Training will help you communicate with your dog, teach him basic doggy manners and establish a solid trust between the two of you.
Training a puppy dog is one of the most wonderful experiences of owning a pet. It is also the best time to establish house rules and socialize your dog. Unfortunately, most people only think about training when problems are underway.
Puppies can start a training program as soon as you bring them home. You should also think about enrolling your pooch in a positive puppy socialization class, where you can learn and play at the same time.
With puppy clicker training you can teach your pooch important things to keep him safe, obedient and grow up to be a confident and loving
hound. You will also bond with your new family member in a deeper way.
To start clicker training your puppy there is one thing you need to do:
Charge the clicker!
Simply click and give your dog a treat. Repeat….repeat…repeat in every room of your house, repeat no matter what your canine friend is doing…repeat until you see that your puppy's eyes light up at the sound of the clicker alone.
Once your dog understands that "click" means something good is going to happen, it is time to use the clicker to your advantage. Whenever your dog does something good you can click to tell him so! and he will understand! This means that he will try to do the behavior again in order to get another click.
Good behaviors = More clicks!
Your pet will try again and again.
Now you can add a verbal cue or a hand signal to get the behavior to happen on command reliably. Once the behavior is on cue you won't need the clicker any more. Simple praise with a marker word and a treat once in a while should be sufficient.
You can also read more advance clicker training methods like shaping and targeting. These are advance but easy to do!
Before you embark on training your puppy all sorts of tricks and commands I highly recommend you first focus on the following three most important things you should teach your puppy.
Potty training: The benefits of potty training your puppy are obvious, you want a clean house, dog potty outside. Training your puppy to eliminate outside can be the biggest nightmare if you do it incorrectly. If you follow the advice here you could have your doggy housetrained in about a week. Using puppy clicker training will further help you achieve success in this matter.
Socialization: This is probably the single most important thing you should work on with your new puppy and it is often the most overlooked. During the early stages of puppyhood the dog's brain learns what "things, sounds, sights, smells, etc." are safe and friendly, and which are not.
This means that if your furry friend has never seen a wheel chair during puppyhood it is very likely he will find it extremely frightening when he grows up. Your job is to expose your puppy to more than 100 new things before the age of 3 months. And the key to success: all these things have to be associated with something good! (treats, praise, play, etc). Using a clicker will make this job a lot easier and clear for your dog. Important note: This should be done in a safe environment, please read the full article.
No-biting: This is probably the second most important thing you should teach your puppy dog. During this time in development dogs also learn how to use their mouth properly. This means that dogs can learn to play with their mouth gently, without using their teeth.
Why is this so important? if your dog has been properly trained to use it's mouth and teeth he will be able to play with you without hurting you. Also, in the future, if your dog happens to get very upset and snaps at you or other person or dog he will most likely do not draw blood. Your dog will be able to demonstrate he can defend himself, if needed or pushed to, without actually hurting anyone. This is safety training and using a clicker will also speed communication between you and your pet.
If you have more time to train your puppy I recommend you try the following things. They will make your life ahead a lot easier!
Basic obedience: Like I mentioned above, puppyhood should be spent socializing and teaching the correct use of mouthing. But who doesn't like a dog that can sit or go down on command? These are very basic commands that can be trained in very little time. They are also very useful in situations in which you need to get your dog's attention. Settle is also a great way to teach your high-energy puppy to calm down. It can be done! And puppy clicker training will again make it happen faster.
Basic Manners: Finally it is important to teach your new friend the appropriate way to behave around two-legged people.
Clicker training for puppies is just one out of many dog training methods. It has many benefits and is easy and fun. If you are having problems, read these helpful tips. If you find that clicker training is not for you and your dog, please browse other methods to find the perfect match.
If you have any questions, I am here to help so feel free to contact me.
Enjoy your puppy!


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06 Aug Hail Damage
Strong storms swept through the area last night. According to MPR News reports of 1″-2″ hail were common. Some of the worst hit areas were the south west metro including Bloomington MN, Edina MN, and Eden Prairie MN. We hope everyone is safe and gets their power back quickly if you are one of the many without. After you're safe and secure, it might be time to have a roofing professional look at your roof and determine if there is hail damage on the shingles.
What is roofing hail damage?
There are many kinds of roofs and many ways that roofs can be damages. The most common is the asphalt shingle. This is often hard to recognize because the damage is subtle to the untrained eye. The granules on the shingle have two function. Most obvious is that they give the shingles their color, but most important is that they protect the asphalt from the sun and the elements. When hail is large enough, typically starting at 1″+, the granules get knocked off by the hail. A shingle that is missing granules is no longer working how it was designed to and will deteriorate at an advanced pace. This damage is exactly what insurance we have insurance for.


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NYPA Press Release
Northern New York Power Proceeds Allocation Board to Recommend Economic Development Funding at February 12 Meeting
For Immediate Release: 1/23/20
Contact: Paul DeMichele | firstname.lastname@example.com | (914) 390-8186
MASSENA—The Northern New York Power Proceeds Allocation Board is scheduled to meet on Wednesday, February 12, at 4 p.m., at the New York Power Authority's St. Lawrence-Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project visitors center, 21 Hawkins Point Road, Massena.
The proceeds board is expected to make funding recommendations under legislation signed into law by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to apply the net earnings of the market-sale of unutilized hydropower from New York Power Authority's St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project to support economic development in St. Lawrence County.
Consistent with Section 104(4) of the Open Meetings Law, the public has the right to attend Wednesday's meeting, which will be video streamed at www.nypa.gov/nnyppab.


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Some times it's easiest to focus on what's not going the ideal way.
I found out last week that my 11/11/11 wish didn't come true.
Blood sugars are a mess & we're just entering the holiday craze.
Exercise is weak.
– But Thanksgiving is a reminder to let all of those things go and focus on the good things that fill my life. –
A few things I'm thankful for:
1. Roasted Brussel Sprouts. I love 'em. Should enjoy them more.
2. My wonderful, amazing friends. Most of my closest friends live outside NYC and come from various points in my life but no matter what,we're there for each other.
3. Black dresses + boots. This is my new travel uniform.
4. The ability to run. Sometime not without pain or trouble but with full capability.
5. Coffee. Always
6. Fro-yo. Especially the 16-Handle birthday cake, pumpkin spice & apple pie variety
7. Sunshine. It makes me happy.
8. My diabetes. Yes that's right. Sometimes it sucks (especially recently) but out of all the things in life, I'm glad I'm facing a challenge that is well-recognized and has plenty of support in research. It could be worse. It could always be worse.
9. Living in NYC. It's not always easy or relaxing but it's empowering & eventful.
10. Chocolate. I don't understand people who don't like chocolate.
11. The Internet – what would I do without the internet?
12. My family. We may all be growing older & far apart but it is the meaning of unconditional love & support.
13. Pinterest. I'm addicted. It makes me happy.
14. Blogs. I have learned so much from
stalking reading blogs – from the authors, the community & myself.
15. My independence. Not just in the American freedom way but in the way that I was raised and allowed to make my own choices & judgements.
It's easy to take these things plus more for granted. Part of the independence + diabetes mix makes me very self-focused. It's nice to take a step away from my current happenings, good & bad, and take a look around.
Your turn:
Is there anything unexpected that you're thankful for?


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Green Shift Calls Liberal Party of Canada "Blatantly Unethical" For Stealing Name
We have mentioned Jennifer Wright and Toronto's Green Shift before; it is sort of a cross between a consulting firm and incubator for green products, a "Facilitator of environmental stewardship. Jennifer has spent a few years building her brand and her business; it is a good name. So good that the Liberal Party of Canada decided to steal it for their new carbon tax plan. People are now calling Jennifer and asking if she has ties to the Liberal party, which called her to say "I just want you to know that you are going to get a lot of hits on your website," thinking that she might be pleased. (Jennifer's company is at www.greenshift.ca; the Liberal party creatively bought www.thegreenshift.ca)
So she sent in the lawyers, telling the Liberal Party of Canada to cease and desist.
Jennifer writes:
"For those who are angry at us for thinking that we have teamed up with the Liberal party, and/or their newly devised plan, we sincerely hope that everyone will help us to set the record straight, and help us to prevent the fall out.
For the record, we were notified by the Liberal Party the evening before they launched their campaign. They presented it to us in a fashion that implied that we should be happy by all of the extra traffic that we would receive as a result. We immediately notified them that we would take action to protect the name and the integrity that we have associated with it, and that we were not interested in receiving misdirected traffic. We began by politely asking. After receiving calls from the media, we contacted the Liberal party to ask again that they please stop using a name that we have clearly associated with our environmental program, to prevent confusion. Only after they refused to stop, did we decide to send a legal notice. "
It is an interesting question, is the exposure good for her business? Is it silly trying to protect a name made of two common words like "green Shift"? Jennifer certainly doesn't think so.
"I suppose that it should come as no surprise that there will naturally, sadly, always be, those who instead can only see the cheap side – that is – suggesting that we would be happy with this misdirected attention. For anyone who knows us, we have plenty of positive attention directed at our own work, we are not looking for any undeserved thanks or criticisms. Quite simply, we believe in credit where credit is due, and have no interest in receiving credit or criticism where it is not due." ::Green shift
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The Federal Government has announced that it will contribute AUD$4m to redevelop the Redcliffe Dolphins Stadium at Kippa-Ring north of Brisbane, Australia.
Funding for the venue, also known as the Dolphin Oval, will see the new Stadium expanded to accommodate 10,000 people with covered seating, upgraded change rooms and a recreation area for schools and junior player camps.
The funding, in addition to the AUD$3m already secured from Moreton Bay Regional Council, is also expected to boost the Brisbane Bombers NRL expansion. The consortium team says the funding of a new boutique Redcliffe stadium could be a boon to their bid.
Speaking to Fairfax Media in June, Redcliffe Dolphins Chairman, Bob Jones, said a boutique stadium would be "helpful for the region's NRL push", though home games for any NRL team in the region would likely be played at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.
Bombers bid Chairman, Craig Davison, has previously stated his confidence that a second Brisbane team will be in the NRL in 2018.
Bombers bid Chief Executive, Nicholas Livermore, said they would be keen to work with the Dolphins if the Bombers were ultimately awarded an NRL licence, stating "we've identified way back we had a meeting with Redcliffe and looked at that opportunity, if we were awarded an NRL licence, participating in growth in second-tier rugby league".
The Redcliffe Dolphins currently play in the Queensland Cup, while their ground also has rugby union, football and hockey teams playing and training on its ovals.
Image: An artist's impression of the proposed Dolphin Stadium at Redcliffe.


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Jeremy Lee Orona
We have been spending significant amount of time working with various agencies in Missouri in attempt to locate Jeremy L. Orona on felony warrant(s). Information and Tips suggest Mr. Orona has allegedly been involved in additional activity in the Liberty, Kansas City and/or St. Joseph area.
May 27 we began an investigation where several gallons of gasoline was stolen from private property. We are seeking the suspects at this time for interview.
May 27 we served a Livingston County arrest warrant on Dallas Janae Garrison, 19, Chillicothe for alleged Probation Violation. Ms. Garrison was transferred to the Daviess Dekalb County Regional Jail.
May 23 a juvenile was detained and removed from the Chillicothe Middle School by Deputy Sheriff/School Resource Officer after alleged threat(s) to physically assault one or more students. Juvenile Officer, Parent and School Officials are aware of the situation.
May 23 a Rail Road requested we meet a train in Chula regarding a person trespassing and hiding under a rail car as it went south past Laredo. Officers arrested a homeless Arkansas Man for the alleged trespassing and transported Rand A. Shahan, 54 to the LCSO.
May 22 we began an investigation of alleged Hindering Prosecuting and Aiding the theft of a vehicle, checks and credit/debit cards in the Chula area. Charges on the accomplice(s) are anticipated in the near future.
May 22 we began investigation of 3 alleged Obstruction of Justice violations. Report being submitted to the Prosecuting Attorney for consideration of charge(s) on all persons.
May 21 we began investigating forgeries and/or fraud as either stolen check(s) or debit/credit cards were being used at area businesses. Warrant obtained for suspect that remains a fugitive as of May 30.
We currently have 34 people in custody at the Daviess Dekalb County Regional Jail.
This week we have had a significant amount of Court with Thursday and Friday involving a jury trial. 79 prospective jurors were summoned to appear in Court on May 29 for potential jury duty. That trial is expected to be completed today.
If you have any information on these or other crimes we ask that you call us at 660-646-0515 or dispatch at 660-646-2121.


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Without Visceral there can be no God. I read Sarah Young's devotional, Jesus Calling, today and it talked about making people and objects idols. When we love anyone or anything above God we are in the wrong, we are sining.
The visceral deals with deep-seeded thoughts that are outside of normal intellect. God is so much larger than any human or Earthly intellect. He created it all. So, as you can see, to put anyone or anything above Him, is pure nonsense. Our normal intellect says, 'This life is all you have! There is nothing more! Grab all you can now!' But that is not visceral thinking. That is every day, all that matters is what I can observe with the five senses thinking. With that method, there is no need for visceral and there is no need for God. And that, my friends is a dark and lonely road to travel.


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..exactly what the title says. Huey Lewis and the News: Power of Love (from Back to the Future) ..because fifteen years later I still have a crush on Marty McFly Roxette: It Must've Been Love (from Pretty Woman) ..because Richard Gere climbing a fire escape with a rose in his mouth is one of the […]
My name has five letters in it, and comes up in some Bright Eyes songs. I am (apparently) an artist, with too much time on her hands. Well, enough to blog (almost) daily. I am 1/4 (the smallest one, actually) of Lazy Acre Records; I also write & photograph for a
localmagazine based in Englaaand and makeused to draw musically-inspired comics for a canadian mag (RIP Inscribed). As if that wasn't enough, I book bands for a local experimental music venue called Subterrarium: we rock pretty hard. Sometimes I can be quite cute. I used tostill have a crush on Marty McFly; I like baking, overusing semi-colons, the smell of the sea, and thunderstorms.
I tend to be quite the busy bee, but if you make VERY sexy music and want me to listen and enjoy and possibly even (!!) write about it, shoot me a mail, baby. music(at)alicetragedy(dot)org


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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The real early music
Ethnomusicologists a generation before me discredited evolutionary theories of music's origin, but acoustic ecology gives us new insights into this major question. The evolutionary theories were regarded as too speculative, theory without fact. Besides, the racist odor of cultural evolutionism and social darwinism hung over the project. Finding music's origins, and reconstructing an original musical language (following the spectacular success of linguistics, which had postulated a proto-Indo-European language) was the project that both constructed and doomed comparative musicology. As of the 1950s the successor discipline, ethnomusicology, had a different project: ethnographic studies of music-making among contemporary human groups, from which comparative analysis might proceed on a sounder basis at a later date. Twenty years later, ethnomusicologists in the United States had become more interested in how people experience music, and what music means to people, than in musical transcription and comparative analysis of structure and function. Only a very few ethnomusicologists were asking questions about music's origin in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet by the 1990s cognitive scientists were pursuing these questions, again by means of evolutionary theory, which was making a comeback. Conferencing with one another and publishing scholarly articles, out of which a few popular books have emerged, they have made it possible to be taken seriously when speculating on early music--the real early music. But in light of acoustic ecology, their pursuit appears too narrowly focused on music rather than on sound, too beholden to analogies between music and language, too Eurocentric, too human-centric. In this pursuit I find that it is more helpful to think in terms of the niche that human sounds occupy in the overall soundscape, and the acoustic interdependence of their sounds with the sounds of the natural world. A few ethnomusicologists--notably Steve Feld, Tony Seeger, and Marina Roseman--have pursued acoustic ecology among the Kaluli, Suya, and Temiar peoples. We can learn from them.
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Labels: acoustic ecology, evolution, music, soundscape
Monday, April 28, 2008
Analogous to landscape, soundscape refers to the acoustic environment in a particular place. As a landscape is seen, a soundscape is heard. The soundscape includes all the sounds, music or not. The rattling of a window by the wind, speech broadcast on the radio, the hum of a computer's hard drive, the whoosh of air moved by a fan, the sound of tapping on the keyboard--we are surrounded by sounds. An acoustic ecology embraces the entire soundscape, not just music. We may consider music as soundscape--this is not really new--or we may ask about music within the context of the soundscape. That is, we may think about music as one kind of creature utterance within a soundscape, the utterance of human creatures. Two ecological principles apply to natural (non-human) soundscapes: niche and interdependence. Examining sound spectrograms in places where no human sounds are present, Bernie Krause found patterns showing that the sounds made by various creatures occupy particular aural niches based on frequency, timbre, rhythm, and other structural features. In other words, every species has its particular bioacoustic niche. Further spectrogram examination revealed to Krause that in a healthy, wild habitat creatures vocalize in a symbiotic, or interdependent, relationship, sensitive also to non-creature sounds such as made by wind, water, rain, thunder, and other elements of the acoustic environment. The health and sustainability of a soundscape is revealed by the variety of aural niches and the degree of interdependence of the individual voices. Where is music in the soundscape?
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Labels: ecology, soundscape
Sunday, April 20, 2008
How to think about music
Attempts to answer the question "what is music" land us in an essentialist swamp, for music is both sound and cultural product, with the notions of what music "is" and "is not" varying from one human and one group to another. Although ethnomusicologists a generation ago discredited evolutionary thinking about music, today scientists, philosophers and aestheticians have returned to the questions of music's origins and meanings with a vengeance. Did musical sound precede language, or vice versa, or did they emerge simultaneously, perhaps from a common ancestor? Is music (without words) a kind of primitive language of the emotions? Is it a language at all? Does musical sound have something like a vocabulary and a grammar; is it rule-governed? How does music communicate? What does music mean? How does music mean? Why assume universal answers to these questions when music is so culture-specific? Ecological thinking leads us in a different direction: how do people experience musical sound within an overarching soundsphere? What is the acoustic ecology of musical sound in various personal and group spaces?
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Labels: acoustic ecology, music, soundscape, soundsphere
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Music as resource?
Thinking about sustainability usually involves resources. Insofar as sustainability refers to a process that can continue indefinitely, renewable resources help sustain those processes. Sustainable forestry, for example, is based on human interventions that maintain a stable forest ecosystem conducive to harvest and regrowth. Is it useful to think of music as a renewable resource?
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Welcome to "sustainable music." The term "sustainable" has been doing a lot of heavy lifting lately. We hear of sustainable energy, sustainable agriculture, sustainable forestry, even sustainable clothing. Everyone seems to want to live a sustainable life. We are concerned about global warming, aka climate change. Sustainable means so many things these days that some claim that no one knows any longer what it really means. In my view, that is the mark of a powerful idea: that it does mean many things. Here I explore sustainable in relation to music.
When I speak to colleagues in ethnomusicology, I speak in academic language. It is the language of the university world. And so in this research blog I theorize various ways that music can be thought about as a human biocultural resource. In a nutshell, I will critique the currently prevailing sustainability strategies aimed at encouraging musical diversity by embracing economies through commodified products. Instead, I favor community partnerships encouraging collaborative, small-scale, amateur, face-to-face music-making without mediation or display. I believe that insights from applied ecology and from organic gardening will help in thinking about music and sustainability.
I have been thinking about "worlds of music" as music-based cultural ecosystems since 1984 when I introduced the idea in the book, Worlds of Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1984, p. 9): "Each world [of music] can be regarded as an ecological system, with the forces that combine to make up the music-culture . . . in a dynamic equilibrium." In saying so, I was implicitly drawing on my understanding of ecosystem science as developed by Howard Odum, whose book Fundamentals of Ecology (1953 and subsequent editions) was important to me as an undergraduate in the 1960s. There, Odum developed Arthur Tansley's taxonomic understanding of ecosystems into a dynamic model centered on energy exchanges. Music exchanges are at the center of music-culture ecosystems.
Although much of my activities over the years as a folklorist and ethnomusicologist have involved music and sustainability, I began to try to theorize it more systematically a few years ago, writing and lecturing on the subject beginning with the Nettl Lecture at the University of Illinois in the spring of 2006, and then organizing a panel on music and sustainability for the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology in that same year. I also spoke about musical and cultural sustainability at the American Folklore Society conference that year.
Although much of my activities over the years as a folklorist and ethnomusicologist have involved music and sustainability, I began to try to theorize it more systematically a few years ago, writing and lecturing on the subject beginning with the Nettl Lecture at the University of Illinois in the spring of 2006, and then organizing a panel on music and sustainability for the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology in that same year. I also spoke about musical and cultural sustainability at the American Folklore Society conference that year.
I will be posting to this blog various observations and ideas on music, sound and sustainability, some from past years, others going forward. Readers interested in the subject are invited to post comments and suggestions.
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Physical Education is incredibly vital and plays a huge role in the life of Lucas Vale and contributes to the holistic development of our children. Through participation, our children build and learn more about the main values of our school.
They build their ability to persevere, aspire for greatness and build their confidence. They also learn good sportsmanship through the range of games and activities that are made available to them.
At Lucas Vale, learning in PE is based on the keys skills in the new National Curriculum to ensure development for each individual across the school. These skills are taught explicitly during PE lessons and through cross-curricular avenues, especially science, numeracy and whole school events such as Application Focus Weeks. All children receive a minimum of two hours of PE delivered by the class teachers. Children in Years 4 and 5 receive weekly half hour swimming lessons by qualified coaches at the Wavelengths Leisure Centre in Deptford.
Teachers aim to:
- Inspire children to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities
- Enable children to become physically confident in a way in which supports their health and fitness
- Build character and help embed values such as fairness, respect and determination
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JANAE: Why's it called Drew Barrymore?
ME: Beats me, except she makes a cameo near the end of the video.
Listen, you know I love me a messy girl with big hair and and even bigger voice. If this were 2002 and I saw SZA's debut album (there's also an EP from last year) amongst the new releases at the FYE that used to be at the University Park Mall in Mishawaka, Indiana, I'd have bought just simply for the cover art. I'm totally here for streaming music services like Spotify and Apple Music (I subscribe to both, because I like to throw my money way) because it's super fucking convenient to just have the complete discography of Mariah Carey always at my immediate disposal, and really, the $23 or whatever it is those two subscriptions cost me per month is pocket change compared to the hundreds of dollars I used to spend on compact discs each month. Still, some of my favorite albums of all time are ones I discovered by accident, purchased on a whim because I happened to see the CD on a rack at some record store and responded in some way to the cover. But I haven't bought a CD in a years.
As it happens, I first heard SZA on Rihanna's Consideration, the opener of her 2016 album Anti. The song, co-written by and featuring SZA, has all the spunk, sass, and cunning lyricism she pushes to even more gratifying extremes on CTRL. Most easily classified within that burgeoning sub-genre of music known as "alt-R&B" (which I think means R&B that ostensibly "hip" white kids have decided is cool, re: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd), CTRL in fact resists labels and categorizations without quite eschewing them completely. There are, certainly, heavy elements of R&B throughout; inspirations from hip-hop are also prevalent, and there are strong whiffs of soul jazz, indie rock, and mass-appeal, radio-friendly contemporary pop. (A girl I know who has absolutely zero taste in anything, hearing Love Galore for the first time, pronounced it, "A really good song." She's not wrong — it's a slick, sexy jam that contains some of the album's baddest and most innovative lyrics, but it's minimalist production is firmly rooted in the now.) It's this perfect (if unruly) combination of influences that make CTRL such a pleasure. It's specific and unique, happy to suggest all sorts of identification yet refusing to pick just one.
On the album's inaugural track, Supermodel, SZA sings over a grungy electric guitar about, according to the Genius-powered "Behind The Lyrics" function on Spotify, "an ex-boyfriend who did her wrong." Her vocal delivery here (and elsewhere on the album) evokes songstresses like Amy Winehouse or Macy Gray with hints of Lauryn Hill and Nicki Minaj. "I could be your supermodel if you believe," SZA sings on the hook, "If you see it in me, see it in me, see it in me." Its poignant, somber sentiment is juxtaposed against the graphic aggression of the verse, in which she declares, "I've been secretly banging your homeboy" and taunts her estranged lover with, "How am I so easy to forget like that/It can be that easy for you to get like that." Here and elsewhere on CTRL, SZA reveals herself straddling the delicate balance between the fast-talking, smart-mouthed bad chick who's down for revenge sex and sharing dudes on "The Weekend," and the one whose loneliness might push to put up with the bullshit. The way SZA fuses these apparent contradictions, with such grace, cohesion, whimsy, and cool, reveals a creative mind as messy, distracted, interested, and exciting as the album itself, and I'm here for it.


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Women's College Basketball Starts up Conference Play
Conference play opens up with the start of the New Year, including a slew of games on ESPNU and ESPN3. BIG EAST, ACC and SEC play on ESPNU begins on Sunday, Jan. 6, with a tripleheader. The day starts with St. John's at Rutgers at 11:30 a.m., followed by No. 21 Florida State at No. 9 Maryland at 1:30 and Vanderbilt at Mississippi at 3:30 p.m. Additional games on ESPN3 include Elena Della Donne and Delaware at St. John's on Wednesday, Jan. 2, at 7 p.m. and No. 9 Maryland at No. 16 North Carolina on Thursday, Jan. 3, at 7 p.m.
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|No. 9 Maryland at No. 16 North Carolina
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|No. 21 Florida State at Georgia Tech
|Sat, Jan 5
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|Appalachian State at Davidson
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|Mercer at Kennesaw State
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|No. 12 Louisville at DePaul
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Shift in communication enables in-house lawyers to drive change
In-house counsel must change their communication techniques if they want to drive change within their organisation, according to the CEO of Emergent Solutions.
Speaking at the ACC Corporate Counsel day in Sydney last week, Holly Ransom, CEO of Emergent Solutions, spoke about how in-house lawyers can drive change within their organisations.
Ms Ransom acknowledged the difficulty that in-house counsel face when trying to knock on management's door and get engagement for whatever it is they're trying to do, such as changing a process or developing a better way of doing things.
Referring to a Ted Talk by Simon Sinek, Mr Ransom said in-house counsel must look at how they go about proposing change and to focus on the why, rather than the what.
"There's been this notion for a decade, or even a couple of decades, that the way we've gone about communicating what we want to do is exactly that – 'what'," she said.
"When we introduce ourselves, when we introduce an idea, when we're pitching our organisation, whatever it might be, we start with 'what'."
Ms Ransom said in-house counsel often pitch ideas by beginning with stating what needs to change and what they want to do over the next 12 months to make that change happen.
"If they have a little bit more time they get into some of the how, the nitty-gritty of how it's going to come together and who they're going to work with, but so rarely do they ever get to the 'why'," she said.
According to Ms Ranson, the 'why' is the most important part.
"The reason that the 'why' part matters so much is because it flicks on the component of the brain that drives behaviour and motivation, and when we're talking about change we're talking about people having to shift their behaviour."
Ms Ransom said if you want people to buy into your idea of change, the ability to be able to harness that part of the brain is absolutely critical.
"We need to invert the way we've been communicating. We need to be starting with the why and work out, instead of starting from the outside and working our way in."
Another point Ms Ransom made was that change doesn't always have to be big, or take a lot of time and resources.
"Sometimes when we think about change, we can place really high bars on what change looks like," she said. "[But] you can create micro conditions to give yourself licence to have a go."
In-house counsel can continue on with business as usual while carving out a small amount of time to devote to driving change, according to Ms Ransom.
"You shouldn't underestimate the power of the things you can create with just a little bit of resourcefulness and a little bit of time."


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At the moment, I'm helping to teach the daughter of a friend of mine how to drive (a prospect that, at first, terrified us both), and I've been thinking about when I learned to drive myself. Back when I first got behind the wheel it all seemed so impossible to get the hang of, especially given that here in the UK pretty much every one learns to drive in manual car and not an automatic. Now, after more than twenty years of driving, it all seems so straight forward and natural that I can do it without even thinking, but back then, it all seemed so complicated and alien, and at times I thought I'd never be able to do it. Yet, despite this, I did.
While musing on all of this, it occurred to me that learning to write is a lot like learning to drive. When you first start out, you look round at all these other people with their brilliant books, and then you look at your own raw scribbles and you think there's no way you'll even end up being able to produce anything even vaguely competent.
This puts a lot of budding writers off. This is because they have this amazing idea for a story in their head and when the sit down to actually write it, it turns out that it's all a bit crap. Mostly, this is because they haven't tried to write anything since their high school English class and even then, it was an essay titled What I Did On My Summer Holiday.
However, just like driving, it takes practice to learn how to write, and particularly to learn how to write well. Everyone knows you can't expect to just get behind the wheel of a car and be able to drive perfectly right away, but a lot of people seem to think that the ability to write is a skill you're either born with or you're not. This just isn't true. It takes a lot of hard work to learn how to write a good story, and just like learning to drive, you need to have an instructor who will give you encouraging, but honest feedback. You need someone who will read over your work and point out where it doesn't work, and then explain why, but they need to give you praise when you get it right, too.
This means that when you're learning to write, you need to seek out someone who's opinion you value, but who you trust to give you honest, yet positive, feedback. This last part is important. Negative feedback, even if honest, can put you off writing forever, while over-positive feedback which isn't honest gives you a false sense of confidence and will rob you of the chance to learn how to improve your writing skills.
So, how do you go about finding someone to give you the feedback you need as you learn how to write? This is always tricky. Your first instinct will be to go to a family member or your best friend, yet they are often the worst person to go to. This is because if they are too brutally honest, it may damage your relationship with them, and they know this. This means they will tend to avoid criticising you, even when you need criticism, because they want to preserve their relationship with you. This is not good and will do nothing to help you learn how to write. Instead, you need to find someone you trust, but you who you are distant enough from to avoid this conflict. In addition, this needs to be someone who is widely read and who knows what they are talking about.
When I first started writing, I turned to a colleague I knew from work who was also a budding author, and showed him an early draft of my first book. It took some persuasion to convince him that no matter what he said, it wouldn't damage our friendship, but What I eventually got in return was a five-page critique and some of the best writing advice I've ever received. It helped me turn the book from a basic and two-dimensional story into something much more complete and compelling. Even today, I look back on that advice and remember the key issues and short-comings that it raised. Without it, I probably wouldn't be the writer I am today.
So, just like driving, when you start out writing, it might seem at first like you'll never get the hang of it, but with plenty of practice and some good advice you'll get there in the end. All you need to do is stick with it and eventually you'll get to the stage where you'll look back and find yourself thinking 'why did I ever think this was so difficult?'
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Which Vegetables Grow Best in 5b Areas?
Zone 5B on the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map includes much of the central part of the U.S. and runs from southeast Colorado through northern Connecticut and southern Massachusetts. Central and lower Michigan and spots in northern Nevada and southern Oregon are also in this zone, where temperatures may reach minus 15 degrees. This area is suitable for a wide range of vegetables, including some that may be planted in late winter or early spring.
Leafy Vegetables
Cabbage, leaf lettuce and spinach are all good selections for zone 5b. Cabbage, transplanted from starter plants, may be planted in late April while leaf lettuce and spinach may be planted as seeds in mid-March. Cabbage, which requires full sun and moist soil in this zone, takes two to four months to mature for harvest.
Leaf lettuce, which is available in several varieties, should be planted in loose, well-draining soil and requires full sun and regular water.
Spinach, which is traditionally a slow grower, should be planted in organic, fast-draining soil and thrives in full sun with moist soil.
Underground Vegetables
Members of the Brassicaceae family, which include radishes and turnips, do well in Zone 5b, and may be planted in early April. Radishes provide nearly immediate gratification, as some varieties, including Cherry Bell and Crimson Giant, are ready to harvest three weeks after planting. Radishes may be planted at weekly intervals through the late spring.
Turnips take 75 days to mature and should be harvested as soon as the root is big enough to eat. Both vegetables should be planted in loose, well-draining, organic soil and thrive in full sun with regular water.
Other underground growers that may be used in Zone 5b are onions, carrots and beets, all of which may be planted as early as mid-April.
Tomatoes and Peppers
Tomatoes, which are among the most popular planting vegetable in the country, do well in Zone 5b, if planted in mid-May, which gives the flowers enough time to set. Tomatoes will not produce fruit if overnight temperatures dip below 55 or reach 100 F. Tomatoes mature in 55 to 100 days, depending on the variety.
Peppers, which need a longer growing season, may also be planted in mid-May, but may take up to 95 days to mature, depending on the variety. Both tomatoes and peppers should be staked as they grow, and require full sun and regular water.
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Rachelle Vega and son Will keep a protective eye on their cat Dobby. Their other cat was snatched by coyotes and they found its bloody tear-away collar at the edge of their yard.
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Neighborhoods in the Escarpment-Convict Hill Road area of Southwest Austin appear to be setting a record on the number of lost pets.
"Lost Cat" is a sign of the times in the Legend Oaks, Western Oaks and Villages of Western Oaks neighborhoods, where there has been a recent increase in reports of missing cats—and small dogs, too.
Chances are that many of the pets are not lost, however, but have been snatched up by coyotes or other predatory animals.
"Three 'homebody' older cats have gone missing from my corner within a two-house radius in just five weeks," according to Rachelle Vega. "One was our 11.5 year-old girl (cat), and we found her bloodied breakaway collar in our yard mere feet from our house," said Vega, who lives on John Chisum Lane.
Two of her neighbors give similar reports. Janell Black said she lost her 15 year-old cat, and Randal Pitts said he has lost three cats over the years, the most recent this month. The three live just doors away from each other. They're keeping their other cats indoors at night, and urging neighbors to do the same.
"There are many more signs for missing cats, and even a small dog, than I've ever seen posted in these neighborhoods, and many postings on craigslist for Lost Cats," she said.
Vega said she believes the culprits are coyotes coming from Dick Nichols Park, where there have been recent sightings. From there, they travel a greenbelt that runs right into her neighborhood.
"I think if you took an aerial view of that greenbelt, and compared it to reports of missing cats, you'd find a lot of similarities," she said.
One of her neighbors saw a coyote on Escarpment behind John Chisum Trail recently, and another heard the eerie, high pitched howl of coyotes, also known as prairie wolves, in the greenbelt just west of Escarpment.
Vega said a neighborhood service man has begun carrying a .22-caliber pistol because he entered backyards a number of times to find a coyote trapped inside the wooden fence and was afraid of what a cornered coyote might do.
"I was told when I called 311 to inform my neighbors to call 311 to report any coyote sightings or howling so the city can monitor activity. If those reports don't go in, then the sad stories remain just that—anecdotal without correlating factors, and coyote population assessments will never be conducted."
Jacob Hetzel, a wildlife biologist with Texas Wildlife Services, said unless people report coyote encounters to 311 the state has no way of keeping track.
"I looked over all of the 311 call data that I have from the last three months (July-September) and there are very few calls in the Oak Hill area. All total there were 8 calls to 311 reporting coyote sightings in the following zip codes: 78735, 78736, 78737,78739, and 78749. Please have everyone report all coyote sightings or bold and aggressive behavior of coyotes to 311.
"If you have cats, keep them inside," Hetzel said. Reminded that cats that have always gone outside are difficult to keep indoors, he said, "Would you rather have an upset cat, or a dead one?"
Vega said that since her cat went missing, she enrolled in the homeagain.com alert service, and now gets notices for micro-chipped cats in her area that have vanished. "I reached out to someone who posted on craigslist about her missing cat in Villages of Western Oaks; and she forwarded my email to someone else missing a cat, who contacted me and said there are many people looking for answers and wanting to stop further losses for families.
"We knew that coyotes were a problem in outlying areas, but people need to be aware that they're a problem in these neighborhoods, too," added Vega. "The neighbors in my immediate vicinity are taking extra care to bring their cats in before dark and not let them out of the house. We're training our remaining cat to do the same."
Candace Hummel said her cat Newsy is an indoor cat, but managed to slip through a broken screen one night and hasn't come back. Hummel lives on Abilene Trail, which is east of Escarpment but close to the same greenbelt area that extends into Vega's neighborhood. However, Hummel said she has never seen or heard a coyote.
"We've gotten calls from people who said they've seen our cat, so I'm still hopeful that someone has him," said Hummel. She said she has two other cats, also kept indoors. Two of her three cats, including Newsy, were declawed.
Meanwhile, a wildlife biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said coyotes aren't the only threat to family pets. Terry Turney said there's a good chance a bobcat might be the culprit.
"Cats can climb trees, but coyotes can't. A bobcat, however, can run right up the tree after it," Turney said. The wildlife specialist said bobcats are so secretive and so hard to see that they can live in urban areas unnoticed.
There's a lot to be wary of in the great outdoors. Turney said another possibility is the great horned owl, which can swoop down on silent wings and pluck a house cat out of the backyard.
"I was at a buddy's house sitting on his patio one night and his cat was sitting in the fork of a tree. All of a sudden it flew past us. An owl had attacked it and punched a pretty good-sized hole in its back with a talon. If it had gotten a better hold that cat would be gone," said Turney.
Parks and Wildlife does not keep records on reports of missing pets, but all one has to do is check the want ads in any neighborhood newsletter to see it's a pretty common occurrence.
Turney said the state does not handle animal nuisance calls. Persons living in the city should call 311 to reach the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department's Animal Protection unit. The number for county residents to call is 974-2000.
"We put in a request to the city's Animal Control unit and they use it for tracking purposes," said a customer service representative for 311. The information also goes to the state's Animal Damage Control, which might set traps in particularly troublesome areas.
Parks and Wildlife provided some suggestions to help residents deal with problems involving coyotes and other wildlife.
• Do not feed coyotes! Keep pet food and water inside. Keep garbage securely stored, especially if it has to be put on the curb for collection; use tight-locking or bungee-cord-wrapped trashcans that are not easily opened.
• Keep compost piles securely covered; correct composting never includes animal matter like bones or fat, which can draw coyotes even more quickly that decomposing vegetable matter.
• Keep pets inside, confined securely in a kennel or covered exercise yard, or within the close presence of an adult.
• Walk pets on a leash and accompany them outside, especially at night.
• Do not feed wildlife on the ground; keep wild bird seed in feeders designed for birds elevated or hanging above ground, and clean up spilled seed from the ground; coyotes can either be drawn directly to the seed, or to the rodents drawn to the seed.
• Keep fruit trees fenced or pick up fruit that falls to the ground.
• Do not feed feral cats (domestics gone wild); this can encourage coyotes to prey on cats, as well as feed on cat food left out for them.
• Minimize clusters of shrubs, trees and other cover and food plants near buildings and children's play areas to avoid attracting rodents and small mammals that will in turn attract coyotes
• Use noise making and other scaring devices when coyotes are seen. Check with local authorities regarding noise and firearms ordinances. Portable air horns, motor vehicle horns, propane cannons, starter pistols, low-powered pellet guns, slingshots, and thrown rocks can be effective.
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October 6, 2012
Here are some suggestions based on actual and ongoing experience of many years with the coyotes:
A coyote looks on fruit as an alcoholic looks on booze. Keeping the compost deeply covered with leaves and straw will cover the smell so won't attract the animals. Although it is best for inexperienced composters to avoid meat and dairy, these can be composted with deep interment in the well-covered compost heap. Using the plastic bin composters will not mask the smell. They can be secured but you will have already drawn the coyotes, fruit flies, yellowjackets, opossum and raccoon.
KEEP YOUR CATS INDOORS. This is the ONLY way to keep them safe from coyotes and other outdoors dangers.
You CAN set up a feeding station for feral cats. Hopefully you're trapping, neutering and releasing them too. You must pick up all food dishes and sweep as they finish. Give the cats 15 minutes to appear and eat, then pick up the remaining food. They learn quickly to show up, eat, then make themselves scarce. This simple act of sanitation prevents attracting opossum, skunks, raccoon and rats as well. Keep a light on in the area where the cats might sleep. They will prefer to sleep in a well lit spot.
Place motion-activated lights around the property. A sudden flash of light startles coyotes.
Walk your dogs before dusk and after dawn. If you go outdoors between dusk and dawn, even when unaccompanied by a pet, take a big bright flash light and a heavy stick. Make noise, striking the stick on the ground, on trees, slashing through weeds and brush. Coyotes won't stick around when they perceive that something huge is about.
Coyotes can attack a dog or cat on a leash. A hungry coyote doesn't check to see if its prey is attached to anything. Never tie animals out. Even in daytime.
Construct a few platforms mounted on wood poles. This gives cats an escape. Coyotes can jump very high but can't climb a pole. A cat can climb the pole and stay safe on the platform. Platform should be 7-8 feet high. Be sure these are secure, rocking platforms are no good.
Keeping a tidy yard will help to not attract troublesome animals.
And, for pete's sake, buy homes that are already built. There is nothing like the arrogance of people who want brand new homes built on virgin land, then go on to complain when Fluffy is taken by an animal whose habitat no longer exists.
October 10, 2012
Education on WHY keeping your cat indoors is what the conversation ought to be….not only for the animal but for the millions of NATIVE TEXAS WILDLIFE that are killed by free roaming cats yearly. Yes, a well fed cat will hunt.
Instead of putting blame on coyotes…..we should EDUCATE each other that the outdoors is NO place for a domestic animal. Perhaps the attached study of free roaming cats with cameras will shock readers….how many animals these 'pets' are taking each day. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-cats-killing-wildlife-crittercam-20120807,0,350414.story
One image shows the cat has captured ALIVE, a baby chipmunk, bird, and lizard….and held hostage by puss and boots ready to die. The camera does not lie. The coyotes are doing OUR TEXAS WILDLIFE A FAVOR….in my view.
July 13, 2014
Coyotes don't just attack loose pets. They often come into yards. They're Very intelligent. One will distract prey while others sneak up from behind. While they don't usually attack humans, it does happen. There have been reports where someone seeing a coyote picks up their pet to keep it safe & the coyote attacks the human. My aunt knew a woman who was bitten several times while protecting her pet. Coyotes will also attack pets on leashes & and have been known to succeed…the poor pet is a captive target.–While coyotes do eat a lot of smaller wildlife but when that has been hunted out they look for other food sources. Each coyote needs a certain amount of territory & as pups age they go find their own. (The pups are born around May during which time there are a lot of sightings as the parents become desperate for more food. Be especially careful not to approach any pups/adults with pups. ) Unfortunately, the population has to be weeded out occasionally to make up for this. SO important not only not to feed/water them but also that you do your best to scare them away. They have become much too comfortable around humans. Obviously we can't shoot them in populated areas. You must NOT run away but approach, wave something,make lots of loud noise and throw something at them.


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It's nearly 1:30 and I'm staying up until Marty's laundry's done. Tomorrow is his last day of work. I realized just now that I put four days' worth of work clothes in the laundry, for one last day of work.
Monday the 2nd, Marty gave two weeks' notice at the grocery store where he works. He will have been there for sixteen months, nearly.
I could have failed to notice the clothes, or told him to do them himself, but he worked today, and got the box of Anachronism cards he's been waiting for and was going through those, and then got dressed and drove several of us to the Thursday night SCA meeting I've been organizing (tonight's was on research and is here), where he arranged furniture, took photos and moved heavy luggage to another vehicle for our visiting friend, and then went to play basketball with friends, and is sleeping so he can get up at 5:30 and go to work for the last time at this job.
There he is between Holly and Sadie, just a few hours before now.
Marty's a good guy.


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My last summer home before university felt to find me in a perpetual state of orange balls.
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Gnarls Barkley, 'The Odd Couple' (Atlantic Records)
More than just gimmicky goofballs with a penchant for outlandish costumes, Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo Green and DJ Danger Mouse make some of the most deceptively funky songs about maladjusted behavior and alienation. Their unavoidable 2006 hit, 'Crazy' from their brilliant debut disc, 'St. Elsewhere,' may have sounded like a call to party, but it's really a tension-filled rumination about psychosis.
The duo's equally superb follow-up, 'The Odd Couple' doesn't feature a 'Crazy' -level supersmash, but they still wed dark emotions with compelling beats. The closest they come to recreating a 'Crazy' -like raucous paranoia is 'Run (I'm A Natural Disaster),' a '60s mod send up in the vein of Outkast's 'Hey Ya,' but again with foreboding lyrics: 'Run, children, run for your life!' Cee-Lo wails. Meanwhile, 'Going On' is another uptempo handclapper that fades out to Cee-Lo's echoing vocals, distorted drum kicks and soaring strings.
The rest of the disc covers a range of melancholy, but never feels like you're emotionally sandbagged. Instead the somber tones merely sound artful, and transcendent in the disc's best moment.
'Who's Gonna Save My Soul' is a slow-burning, soulful lament on which Cee-Lo begins, 'Got some bad news this morning/ which in turn made my day.' The chilling 'Would Be Killer' jump starts with what sounds like a gun being cocked, then continues with Cee-Lo's devilish snarls and Danger Mouse's penchant for moody atmospherics and retro-futuristic funk. And the flute-driven 'She Knows' is a cryptic song about dishonesty.
By the disc's end, the brooding moments relent a tad on 'A Little Better,' a track that talks of mental anguish yet imagines a hopeful outcome, as Cee-Lo delivers the hook: 'I feel better, I can smile at it now, I feel better ...' Through all the murky feelings, 'The Odd Couple' indeed has that sentimental effect.
His formidable rapping skills as solo artist and as a member of Atlanta's Goodie MOB notwithstanding, Cee-Lo proves he's a pure soulman at on the goose-bump invoking 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul.'
Gnarls Barkley skillfully expresses the demons of the mind on 'The Odd Couple'
Gnarls Barkley, 'The Odd Couple' (Atlantic Records)


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Gone by Midnight
Ex-cop Ted Conkaffey is slowly rebuilding his life in Crimson Lake, and getting to know his three-year-old daughter, Lillian. But when he and his PI partner Amanda take on the case of a boy who seems to have literally disappeared into thin air, his job once again threatens everything . . .
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On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel, four young friends are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. But when Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. The boys swear they stayed in their room, and CCTV confirms Richie has not left the building. Despite a thorough search, no trace of the child is found.
Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators: disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. This case just the sort of twisted puzzle that gets Amanda's blood pumping.
For Ted, the case couldn't have come at a worse time. Two years ago a false accusation robbed him of his career, his reputation and most importantly his family. But now Lillian, the daughter he barely knows, is coming to stay in his ramshackle cottage by the lake.
Ted must dredge up the area's worst characters to find a missing boy. And the kind of danger he uncovers could well put his own child in deadly peril . . .
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Painters have always used different shades of blue to give their artwork a certain intensity. For Thomas Gainsborough, a glistening blue was the key to his 18th-century work The Blue Boy. For Picasso, blue anchored a whole period in the early 1900s that conveyed solemnity and despair. Earlier this year, NoMe Edonna and four friends in the Furtherrr Collective cascaded blue over the entirety of their Lower Haight wall painting. Combined with its unusual pattern of shapes — everything from cubes and checkerboards to plant swirls and cloud formations — the work is a dense vision of blueness that is both atmospheric and something else Gainsborough and Picasso would have loved: practical.
Logistically, blue was much easier to use for San Francisco's Furtherrr Collective, which includes the artists Mars-1 (Mario Martinez), Oliver Vernon, Damon Soule, and David Choong Lee. The group has done three books and scores of other artwork together.
"A lot of our other works are colorful, but a lot of times, too, when you're working with a wall that massive — we only had a week or a week-and-a-half on it, and sometimes it makes it a whole lot easier to just deal with one color scheme," Edonna says. "You're trying to figure out all this light and shadow and composition. And if you throw color in there, that's a whole other thing."
The collective made special trips to do the mural. Vernon and Soule now live in Grass Valley (in California's Nevada County), and Edonna spends much of his time in southern Oregon, near Ashland, helping take care of a grandfather. Edonna drove six hours to San Francisco to help lead the group effort that transformed the outer wall of the Wild Feather store into a sea of blue.
"We know each other's work so well that we know what everyone is capable of," says Edonna, who's 43. "Basically, it's like free-form jazz, but visually. We all pick a spot. We start. And we play off of each other."
Standing there and looking at the work changes your perspective of blue. People who walk by in the color (passersby are frequently dressed in blue jeans) extend the mural outward for an instant. The artwork's lack of a title gives people a chance to imagine one, asNew Yorker readers would do for one of the magazine's cartoon caption contests.Blue Trippin'?Under a Blue Spell?The Ocean of My Mind?
"That wall has seen a lot of murals over the years," says Edonna. "We've gotten a lot of good feedback from people walking by."


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Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion (1567-1620 / England)
Thomas Campion Quotes
Devotion I
FOLLOW thy fair sun, unhappy shadow!
Though thou be black as night,
And she made all of light,
Yet follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow!
Follow her, whose light thy light depriveth!
Though here thou liv'st disgraced,
And she in heaven is placed,
Yet follow her whose light the world reviveth!


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Warrior Baseball Registration: Registration is ongoing for Warrior Baseball Association's 13-14 and 15-and-up leagues. Registration forms and coaches' applications are available online at www.warriorbaseball.info. Forms may be turned in at the Kentuck Park concession stand, along with registration fees, week nights (except Wednesdays) or on Saturdays. Fee for
Wildcat Baseball Camp: Chad Shannon, head coach at Tuscaloosa County High School, will conduct the Wildcat Baseball Camp, June 2-6. Age groups range from 5-9, 9 a.m. to noon each day, and 10-14, 1 to 4 p.m. Along with TCHS players, the instructors include TCHS assistants Jake Case and Price Thompson and Matt Lyles, an assistant at Huntingdon College. Costs are $65 before May 23 and $85 after May 23. In addition to the instruction, campers will receive a T-shirt and a personal evaluation. Checks may be made payable to: Chad Shannon, 2442 44th Ave., Northport, Ala., 35475. On-site registration will be at 8 a.m. at the TCHS baseball field on June 2. Call Shannon at 205-333-1348 or 256-338-9072.
Bobby Sprowl Summer Baseball Camp: Shelton State coach Bobby Sprowl will hold his annual baseball camp June 9-12 and July 14-17. The pitcher/catcher camp will be hend July 7-10 and July 21-24. Each day the camp runs from 9 a.m. till 2 p.m. at the Shelton State Baseball Complex. The camp is for players ages 6-17 and cost $95. Please mail application to Bobby Sprowl Baseball Camp at 4711 Leeward Avenue, Northport, 35473. For more information call Bobby Sprowl at 886-6240.
Baseball Country Camps: Baseball Country will host summer camps for ages 7-9 on June 2-6 and June 9-13 and ages 10-12 on June 23-27. Cost is $395. Registration limited to first 20 campers and registration ends May 31. To register visit www.baseballcountry.com or call Kenny Burns at 205-333-8393 or 205-454-3641.
Stillman College Baseball Camps: Stillman coach Donny Crawford will conduct two camps. The first is June 2-5 and the second is June 23-26. Camps are for ages 9-17 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Joe McComb will coach hitting, David Winingham will coach pitching and Marcus Whitfield will coach fielding. Cost is $80 before May 23 and $100 after. On-site registration will be at 8 a.m. at Stillman College baseball field on June 3. Call 292-8593.
YMCA Camp: Registration has opened for the Barnes Branch YMCA basketball camp. The camp is held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. For information, call 205-759-4284.
Adult summer basketball: Team registration is available. Teams will play an eight-game season with a double elimination postseason tournament. Games will be Monday-Thursday from 6-10 p.m. at the Belk Center. Cost is $325 per team. Registration deadline is May 30. Call
Mandy Johnson at 205-562-3200.
Scorekeepers Needed: Scorekeepers are needed for PARA recreational basketball leagues. Applicants must be at least 16 years of age and willing to work nights and weekends. Contact Wendy Harris or Mandy Johnson at 205-562-3200.
Druid City Bicycle Club: The Druid City Bicycle Club offers both road and mountain bike rides. Road bike rides start from Capitol Park at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays. A leisure ride is at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays. In April and throughout the summer months these ride times will change to 5:30 p.m. Mountain bike rides are Mondays at 6 p.m., leaving from Sokol Park. Visit www.druidcity.org for other event information.
TCHS Soccer Bass Tournament: The first Tuscaloosa County High School Soccer Bass Tournament will be held Saturday, May 24, out of Binion Creek Landing on Lake Tuscaloosa. Registration fee on day of tournament is $110. First place winner will receive $1,000. Call Jan Nichols at 205-534-5800.
TCHS Alumni Association Golf Classic: The TCHS Alumni Association's 15th annual Blue-White Golf Classic will be May 3 at Hidden Meadows Golf Course. Lunch is at noon, with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. Cost is $80 per player. Deadline for registration is Wednesday, April 30. Call Frances Pool at 205-345-1057
Winning Seasons Classic: Junior League of Tuscaloosa is sponsoring the Winning Seasons Classic at Ol' Colony Golf Complex on May 19. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., with the tournament starting with a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The cost is $500 per team or $125 per player for the four-player scramble. Call Kim Polifka at 205-792-8123 or contact her by e-mail at email@example.com.
Tide Golf Camp: University of Alabama men's coach Jay Seawell will host the Alabama Crimson Tide Golf Camp at the Jerry Pate Golf Center at Ol' Colony Club on June 7-11. The camp staff will include assistant coach Scott Limbaugh, Jackie Seawell Sr., a Master PGA professional, and Jackie Seawell, a former PGA Tour player, as well as members of the nationally ranked UA golf team. Campers have the option of staying overnight or attending as commuters. Call 205-310-1309 or register online at www.rolltide.com under the 'camps' link.
First Tee Golf: The First Tee program for golfers ages 6-17 is weekdays 4-5 p.m. and Saturdays at 8-11:30 a.m. Registration is open for the spring clinic which features instruction by professionals and emphasizes the importance of good sportsmanship. The annual cost is $85 with tournament play, $50 for practice only. For more information call Michael Shivetts at 205-562-3201.
Youth for Christ Tournament: Youth for Christ is sponsoring a golf tournament on May 7 at NorthRiver Yacht Club. Proceeds will benefit Campus Life and Teen Moms outreach programs for area high school students. Prizes will be available for top teams and fund-raisers. Lunch is at noon with tee time starting at 1 p.m. Call Mike Green, YFC executive director, at 752-3361.
DCH Fund Run: The Elizabeth Gottfried DCH SportsMedicine Fund Run will be Saturday, May 3, at the Sports and Medicine Complex on the campus of Northport Medical Center. The annual run benefits the DCH SportsMedicine Fund. The 5K race begins at 8 a.m. and the one-mile walk/run begins at 8:45 a.m. Registration prior to the day of the race is $15 per race. Register online at www.active.com. For information about the Fund Run, contact Sheryl Hendrix at 205-333-4778 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Workers Compensation Association of West Alabama 5K Run: The 5K run will be Saturday, May 10, at Kentuck Park in Northport. Walkers are welcome. Starts at 8 a.m. Registration is $15; $20 after April 25. Team Entry: $10 per person for group of 5 or more. Make checks payable to WCAWA. Race day registration is at 7 a.m. Call Chris Boyle at 758-8300 or 345-2627.
PARA/WASA Summer Soccer Camp: Designed to teach your soccer players fundamental and technical skills of soccer. For ages 4-10. Cost is $65 for U6 and $85 for U8-U12, per person. Registration Deadline is May 23. Call Mandy Johnson at 562-3200.
Alabama Soccer Academy: University of Alabama soccer coach Todd Bramble will host a soccer day camp, June 2-6, for boys and girls ages 5-13. Camp begins at 8:30 a.m. with the half-day session ending at 12:30 p.m. and the full-day session ending at 3:30 p.m. Lunch and a T-shirt are included for all campers. Bramble will conduct two residential camps for ages 10-18. Call 205-342-0550 or go online at www.alabamasocceracademy.com to register.
Shelton State Camp: Shelton State Community College will host its annual summer camps on June 2-6 and July 7-11 for girls and boys ages 5-12. Camp will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Cost is $100 per week without lunch or $125 per week with lunch. Discounts are available to youth attending both weeks. Each camper will receive a ball and T-shirt. Call Nellie Christian at 205-391-2499.
Northport Girls Fastpitch: The Northport Girls Fastpitch Softball League will be holding its registration for 15U and 18U teams for the summer 2008 season from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 10, at Riverside Middle School. Call Chris Giddiens at 205-339-5861.
Summer League Tuscaloosa Fast Pitch Softball: PARA and West Alabama Fast Pitch Softball will play games between Tuscaloosa, Northport, Cottondale, Northside, Moundville, Hillcrest and Gordo. Cost is $105 and registration is May 10, 10 a.m.-noon at the Belk Center for Tuscaloosa Fast Pitch Teams. Call Mandy Johnson at 562-3200.
District Tournament: The Class C and D district softball tournament will be May 23-24 at Memorial Park in Jasper. Entry fee is $200. Contact Terry Cook at 205-758-8184.
Scorekeepers Needed: Scorekeepers are needed for PARA recreational softball leagues. Applicants must be at least 16 years of age and willing to work nights and weekends. Contact Wendy Harris or Mandy Johnson at 562-3200.
Baseball Country Camps: Baseball Country will host girls fastpitch softball camps for ages 8-up on June 16-20. Cost is $395. Registration limited to first 20 campers and registration ends May 31. T
o register visit www.baseballcountry.com or call Kenny Burns at 205-333-8393 or 205-454-3641.
Tennis Private & Semi-Private Lessons: Lessons are held on Saturdays on a continuing basis at the Jack Evans Tennis Complex at Bowers Park from 8 a.m.-noon or 1-4 p.m. For registration and more information, call John Tilley at 205-562-3230.
HATHA Yoga classes: Held Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6-7 p.m. at the Phelps Center. Cost is $28-$35 depending on the number of classes per session. The instructor is Linda Dunn, RYT 200 Hr. YA.
YOGA Therapy classes: For persons with Multiple Sclerosis or other similar challenges begins Tuesdays, 12:15-1:05 p.m. at the Phelps Center. The cost is $35 per session. The instructor is Linda Dunn.
Lifeguards needed: PARA has pools with lifeguard positions available all year. Obtain an application online at www.tcpara.org and click on About PARA or call Mark Harrison at 758-0419.
Aqua Babies classes: For children ages 6 months through 3 years are Saturdays through May 17 from 9-9:30 a.m. at the McAbee Center. The cost is $50 for 8 classes.
Preschool and Junior swim lessons: For children 3-12 years old are Saturdays through May 17 from 9:30-10 a.m. or 10-10:45 a.m. at the McAbee Center. The cost is $50 for 8 classes.
Water Aerobics Class: For ages 14 and older begins Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:15-7 p.m. at the Miller Center Pool. The cost is $40 per person, per month.
Hydrofit swim classes: Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30-8:30 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30-9:30 a.m. and Mondays and Wednesdays at 5-5:45 p.m. at McAbee Center, Dockery Pool. The cost is $16 per month for members, $20 per month for non-members.
Aqua Flex Foundation classes: Aqua Flex classes provide a non-impact, non-aerobic workout, using resistance properties of the water. Classes are on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10-11 a.m. at the McAbee Center, Dockery Pool. The cost is $30 per person, per month.
Aqua Flex Plus classes: Aqua Flex Plus classes are designed to increase range of motion and stamina for participants with all types of arthritis. Classes are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 8-9 a.m., at the McAbee Center, Dockery Pool. The cost is $30 per month, per person.
Aqua Power and Flex classes: Aqua Power and Flex classes provide cardio circuits and increased range of motion and overall fitness for participants with all types of arthritis. Classes are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9-10 a.m. at the McAbee Center, Dockery Pool. The cost is $30 per person, per month.


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New Programming Languages – What May Shake Up Modern Development?
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