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Would you consider yourself a good neighbor? My good neighbor status may be questionable at times (I really need to clean rottenneighbor gutters), but for the most part, Id say Im neighbor. At least I havent yet shown up on RottenNeighbor.com (yes, that is a real site; and no, Im really not on it).

However, this article in the Idaho Statesman reveals the fact that there are, indeed, a few bad rottenneighbor here in Boise. So bad that the City of Boise has had to step in to protect the environment and the neighbors. It seems that the bad neighbors, while in the process of building rottenneighbor home, failed to follow a few of the citys rules and let their lot erode into the neighbors lot.

From the article:

Bad rottenneighbor and all, if you had to sell your home right now, I think the current market would take a bigger bite of your equity than your neighbor has. Then again, see this goat path personally.

Nevertheless, Im glad rottenneighbor see the City of Boise taking action and I hope this matter gets taken care of before someone ends up on RottenNeighbor.com.

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It was around 1998, my cousins and brothers all spend a night at my grandmas house because my aunt was getting married the next day. One of my cousins resident evil movie to bring his Playstation. We all gathered around to watch him play while closing all the lights. Theres a message on the screen&This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore&..What? What kinda game is this? Then the title appears accompanied by a deep scary voice.

**Evil voice**RESIDENT EeVvillll TWOOO****Evil voice** 



I havent seen Resident Evil Extinction yet although my friend sort of spoiled the ending for me.
***SPOILERS****
Alice creates an army of Alice clones to take down Umbrella
***SPOILERS****

Honestly, I dont like the Resident Evil movies. You can change stuff from the game but these movies are radically different from the games. resident evil movie theres Jill and theres Claire but they became secondary characters. I accepted Alice initially until they decided to give her superpowers WTF!!

But I know that someone will eventually reboot the franchise and make a new Resident Evil trilogy that will be much closer to the games. I know this will happen because: 1) Hollywood have a tendency to reboot franchise now (eg Batman Begins, Casino Royale, JJ Abrams Star Trek) 2) Resident Evil is a big franchise. Whats even better than making lots of money with the resident evil movie resident evil movies? Make more movies but this time make it more faithful to the games so they can grab money from the fans.

So then I thought hey, let me try to make my own cast list for a Resident Evil movie that I want to see. So here we go:

Chris Redfield - David Boreanaz

  

Jill Valentine - Claire Forlani

    

Barry Burton - resident evil movie Willis

  

Rebecca Chambers - Nora Zehetner

  

Albert Wesker - Val Kilmer

  

Thats it for now, I will post more Resident Evil cast in part 2 (eg Leon, Claire, Carlos etc). Now Ill leave you guys with the hilarious video of the original Resident Evil intro Hehe :-p Enjoy!

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Roger Federer er videre til ĂĄttendelsfinalen i Australian Open etter en skikkelig test mot Janko Tipsarevic: 6-7, 7-6, 5-7, 6-1, 10-8. Fem sett er ikke vanlig for Federer sĂĄ tidlig i turneringene.

Den avgjørende faktoren i tennis er, etter min mening, hvor mange breaksjanser du omsetter break. (Altså hvor mange ganger du klarer å vinne poenget som vil gi deg et servegjennombrudd). Det er spesielt viktig på relativt raske dekker, som Australian Open har. Der betyr serven mer enn på grus. Mot Tipsarevic klarte Federer bryte  5 ganger. På 21 breakballer. federer tipsarevic er en uttelling på 24 prosent, og temmelig dårlig. Tipsarevic hadde bare tre sjanser, og brøt hver gang. Federer hadde et bedre forhold federer tipsarevic vinnerslag og upressede feil enn Tipsarevic. Han slo flere enn - er 39 i samme kamp en rekord for Federer? - og færre dobbeltfeil. Men han klarte ikke å omsette breaksjansene sine federer tipsarevic grad.

For Tipsarevic er kampen et solid gjennombrudd. Kommer de fem settene til å prege Federers form i fortsettelsen? Jeg federer tipsarevic ikke det. Etter de innledende overkjøringene av Hartfield og Santoro fikk Federer en skikkelig gjennomkjøring i dag. Neste runde blir mot Monaco eller Berdych.

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Noitada boa aquela de ontem viu! Bar amigos, cerveja gelada, sinuca de madrugada (quando eu já via duas de cada uma das bolas&). E de quebra conheci pessoas legais. Nada como sair dos trilhos eventualmente, para poder pôr a vida nos trilhos novamente. Uma última farra do semestre para deixar de vez os problemas dele com ele, e tentar fazer as coisas certas (ou não) esse semestre.
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SAB Miller plans capacity expansion

Businessline 25 Nov 2006

Beer maker SAB Miller is planning to expand its capacities through four big projects in six months. These projects will add another 4.5 million hectoliters to the existing capacity. The new projects will involve an domino s pizza of around Rs.200-250 crores. The beer maker has integrated with Foster is expected to add 4.5 million cases every year, which will in turn take SAB Miller’s production to 35 million cases. 

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Businessline 25 Nov 2006

 RPG Group launched its first retail outlet Spencer’s in Mumbai. The Spencer’s express store is spread over an area of 1,050 square feet and will offer groceries, items and other household products including fresh food, chilled and frozen products and bakery items. 

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Businessline 24 Nov 2006 Domino’s Pizza India Ltd is planning an aggressive expansion plan to strengthen its presence in the domestic market with an of Rs.50 crores for 2007-08. The company currently owns 35% market share in the domestic pizza market. It recently endorsed Bollywood star Arshad Warsi as its new brand ambassador to target audience between the age group of 25-35 years. He is going on air on 24 November announcing a new product Cheese Burst Pizza that has a marketing spend of around Rs 6 crores. 

Khaitan’s retail segment foray

Businessline 24 Nov 2006

With the launch of Khaitan City and Khaitan Fantasy outlets, Khaitan Electricals Ltd. is foraying into the retail market. The company has diversified into isolators, distribution boxes, miniature circuit breakers and residual current circuit breakers. Khaitan Fantasy outlets will stock designer fans ranging from Rs. 5,000 to a lakh. Khaitan City outlets are set to open within a week, while the first Khaitan Fantasy outlet would open by early January 2007. 

PepsiCo to buy Naked Juice

Businessline 23 Nov 2006 PepsiCo Inc has decided to buy Naked Juice Co to expand sales of natural juice drinks and compete with Coca-Cola Co’s Odwalla brand. It had also acquired healthier beverage and food companies including Izze and Stacy’s Pita Chips in the past year to attract soda drinkers. 

Anita Roddick to help L’Oreal source from farmers

Businessline 23 Nov 2006

Dame Anita Roddick, Founder and Co-Chair of The Body Shop, is going to help the cosmetic giant L’Oreal to shift to community trading for its purchase programme in the cosmetics business. She would be spending 25 days in a year the help L’Oreal embrace the community programme similar to what Body Shop has.

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****-it should be noted that in the following post i am in no way intending to speak on the issue of the true and painful disorder of Dissociative Identity, nor diminish its relevance. For info on that topic visit http://allpsych.com/disorders/dissociative/did.html (link provided by Rhea&thanks Rhea)

It used to be a common mistake to confuse schizophrenia with another disorder called Dissociative Identity Disorder or multiple personality disorder. There is a funny joke accentuates this misconception: Roses are red, violets are blue Im a schizophrenic and so am I. (I first heard this joke from the movie What about Bob staring Bill Murray…) The truth is we all have multiple personalities and it is not a disorder. Perhaps characters is a better term for our internal multiplicity, as this should not be misconstrued with the actual clinically diagnosed disorder. This can be seen being expressed in our use of language in dissociative identity disorder phrases such as believe in yourself, and I have to try and convince myself, and of course the classic you cant run from yourself. We can do a simple analysis of these phrases by asking obvious questions. Who is the myself that the I to convince? How is it even possible to feel the need to run from myself; am i not one If I am myself who is it that must do the believing in me? These questions can make your head spin if you wrestle with them long enough. But why the need to wrestle, rather we should just admit that we have multiple characters. Sometimes we are the little boy or girl who comes out to play. other times we are the stern figure locked firmly in our views be they objectively right or wrong. And still above all else there is this higher sphere when we become the curious and objective learner. These are not the only facets to these characters of course identity disorder just a short list of examples. If you listen closely to your thoughts you will notice much conversation taking place between these characters. This is not just an abstract philosophical idea or a neurological phenomenon, rather this can and must be explained in a way that makes the information useful and practical. Certainly there are not just psychological dynamics to this, there are also spiritual implications and applications as well. There is a remarkable amount of discussion dissociative identity disorder this dissociative identity disorder in Chassidus (Chassidic Jewish philosophy; to find out more check out http://www.revealtheessence.com). As well, psychology and psychologists have dealt extensively with this topic all the dissociative identity disorder from the father of modern psychotherapy Sigmund Freud until now and we are still searching for answers on how to explain this phenomenon. In the last several years I have had the opportunity and personal necessity to study both Transactional Analysis (Eric Bernes and Thomas Harris approach to psychology) as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Both of these applications are incredibly elucidating disciplines to the subject at hand. Without going into all the specific details of these approaches my point remains that we all have multiple characters and it is not a disorder. It is crucial to become to this reality within ourselves and within others. Perhaps by doing so we can crush some of are egos and predisposed stigmas and open up that character dissociative identity disorder us that is willing and able to become tolerant of ourselves and others. Tolerant in the manner of recognizing that one thing is for sure, we are all human and all created in the image of G-d. dissociative identity disorder enough to say and accept that so and so may not be in my image, but they are in G-ds image*. May this happen in all of our hearts and minds speedily!

*-This is actually a quote I have borrowed from Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson in explaining the verse In the image of G-d did he make man, male and female he created them. -Bereishis, Genesis

cloverfield

Right off the bat: It’s not a damn lion! cloverfield I hope not.

The new film by producer J.J. Abrams (Lost) and director Matt Reeves (something he’s done before) is a strange beast (also features one) in that for once we don’t know a hell of a lot about it. A huge monster attacks New York and cloverfield see video camera footage of it doing so. And that’s it. We don’t know anything else apart from that. Well, the monster is a bit clumsy with his kick-ups (see statue of liberty head scene) but beyond that we’re relatively clueless.

We’re so used to seeing promos cloverfield blockbuster movies show pretty much all the coolest bits in a flash cut, hyper-speed, blink-and-you’ll-miss-the-whole-trailer kind of way, that to see a preview that only hints cloverfield the destructive epic we’re in for is a real breath of fresh air. Go on take full. Actually don’t - it’s probably tarnished with rubble dust from fallen cloverfield and smashed bridges.

I recently saw the film I Am Legend. And that too was a film that held back something in its trailer – the creatures. Unfortunately when you finally saw them in their poorly rendered, done-by-the-work-experience-boy CGI you wished they’d held them back for the whole film. But until we actually saw the film and watched it fall apart as the cheap videogame baddies started bouncing off the walls like a big bunch of pill popping Gollums, at least there was a mystery about it. We didn’t know everything there was to know when we went in.

Compare that with the Transformers preview; where 200 half a second clips are crammed into 2 minutes leaving anyone with a heart condition clutching their chest for dear life and anyone without a heart condition with a heart condition. I’ve never seen the film, but I feel I have, it was just ran at cloverfield times the normal speed and was called a trailer.

Incidentally, there was a trailer for another film before the full presentation of Transformers. It caught people’s attention because they didn’t know exactly what it was, but it sure looked interesting. The cloverfield didn’t even have a title at that point. We now know it as Cloverfield. And I’m hoping it’ll break records like a hundred foot tall monster breaks heads off statues.

I just hope it turns out to be a good film. And I’ll spit if it turns out to be a lion.

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back home, getting all settled back in.  im busy, i have about a week to tie up loose ends and pack stuff up, and then i move to fruita, colorado.

while in st i tried to stay strong, i tried to walk the straight and narrow path, but the temptation was too strong, i was weak, i bought more chess books.  chessbase a chessbase of petrosians games, which i like a lot.  i also got a book on the grob opening.  its so wierd, i think i will try it.  opening with g4 seems to make no sense,  but leads to a decent middlegame, at least from the examples in the book.

i think i will start playing on ICC.  it seems everyone plays on ICC, and world chess, while i like it, doenst seem to have as many people playing.  its sometimes hard to get a game.

i did have a decent game, some guy openeind with a gedult opening, whatever that is.  i figure he was giving me the center, so i took it.   his first 4 moves were pawn moves, which i remeber reading somewhere is not the best thing.  he had chessbase out, i had the center and both knights out.   he moves his bishop out to trade with my knight, which i didnt see a reason for, and by move 7 i think i have a nice position.  by move 11, im all castled and developed, his king is in the center, his pawns are scattered like they were in cancun during the hurricane, and his entire queenside hasnt moved.   move 15 tries to attack my knight, which is all up in his shit, but i exploit the pin on chessbase e pawn and defend the knight and remove his f pawn all with one move of my bishop.  i have my pieces out, ready, and the attack has begun.  he moves his king out to threaten my pieces, but my knight and bishop are like and chewy fucking up the deathstar, creating havoc and mayhem and confusion for a few moves, then i sac han (the bishop) taking out his knight and opening the dark diagonal.   i send in my queen to the final kabosh on him, she moves around like a ninja, threatening, attacking, i love her.   by move 26 its pretty chessbase over, just the formalities of finishing the game.  i am loving the pins i have on the pieces.  the pin on the queen is awesome, and there is a sweet little ballet of checks that end in his mate in three more moves.   the game seemed so easy, it flowed.  i need to be able to do that all the time&i wish i could understand why that worked&

here is the game, im black
1. f3 d5 2. c3 e5 3. d4 Nc6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Bb5 Bd6
6. Bxc6+ bxc6 7. dxe5 Bxe5 8. f4 Bd6 9. h3 O-O 10. g4 Re8
11. Nf3 Ba6 12. Nd4 Ne4 13. Nxc6 Qd7 14. Nd4 Ng3 15. Rg1 Bxf4
16. Kf2 Ne4+ 17. Kf3 Bh2 18. Rg2 Ng5+ 19. Kf2 Be5 20. h4 Nh3+
26. Qd1 Rxe3+ 27. Re2 Rxe2+ 28. Kf1 Qxd1+ 29. Be1 Rf2#
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This is the kind of article that defies summary.

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Where is YOUR hungry mouth? And Im pretty sure that the something swelling and cooking is the turkey you forgot in the oven. The thing collapsing and sinking is the flan you left in the cupboard, of course. Or else the Ottoman Empire.

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American Airlines is joining up with The Steve Harvey Morning Show to bring its airline news and information to the top-rated programs audience of nearly five million listeners each week through the new American Airlines Travel Segment.

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 12  American Airlines, The Steve Harvey Morning Show and Premiere Radio Networks today announced a marketing agreement that makes for one of the most extensive efforts ever by a global airline to reach African-American consumers. The deal allows American to bring its airline news and information directly to the programs audience of nearly 5 million weekly listeners.
             
Steve Harvey is one of the most popular entertainers in the United States, especially so among African Americans. In addition to his
consistently sold-out live shows, he has starred in two popular television shows, and a best-selling DVD in recent years.
   
Were excited to embark on this new relationship with American Airlines, and were honored that we can be instrumental in helping them reach the African-American community, said Steve Harvey. As we move forward, we welcome this opportunity to not only provide business, leisure and vacation travel ideas to our listeners steveharvey.com also to aid in the understanding of diverse cultures everywhere through the worldwide travel network that American Airlines offers.
   
Steve Harveys overwhelming popularity with all audiences makes this a marketing home run for American, said Roger Frizzell, Vice President - Corporate Communications and Advertising for American Airlines. The multi-media advertising opportunity, plus our participation in live American Airlines Travel Segments, make a unique and exceptional arrangement for a global airline. Together, we will deliver to millions of people ideas for getting the most out of business travel, seeing the world through leisure travel, and just simply getting out and enjoying life.
   
The agreement provides for the airline to immediately place advertising on the radio program and on the official Harvey Web site. American will run 30-second commercials on the show, some of which will be voiced by Steve Harvey himself. In addition, an American Airlines/Steve Harvey Morning Show banner will appear on steveharvey.com official Web site and in the entertainers online newsletter.
   
Americans award-winning Web site, AA.com, also will feature the banner. The agreement also calls for a co-branded micro-site
http://www.steveharvey.com/american that will offer the shows listeners business and leisure travel tips, vacation ideas, and other types of travel information.
   
American will provide The Steve Harvey Morning Show with on-air promotions, and airline representatives will participate in a new live American Airlines Travel Segment on the top-rated radio program each month. Video of the airlines on-air segments will be featured on the co-branded micro-site.
   
The show airs from 6 a.m. to steveharvey.com a.m. EDT weekdays on 44 stations nationwide. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
   
American Airlines crafted the deal with the help of Premiere Radio Networks, the leading radio syndication company in the United States, and GlobalHue, a Detroit-based multi-cultural advertising agency. GlobalHue has managed all of the airlines advertising for African-American media since 2000.
   
Were pleased that American is taking full advantage of what network radio offers and they clearly believe The Steve Harvey Morning Show will get the results theyre looking for, said Kraig Kitchin, President/COO of Premiere Radio Networks.
   
Reaching African Americans is just one of Americans goals in its new emphasis on multicultural marketing. In recent years, American, a founding member of the global oneworld(R) Alliance, has undertaken a number of initiatives with the goal of increasing the companys understanding of markets that are diverse in culture and lifestyle and improving its positioning within those steveharvey.com In 2006, the company formalized the effort, coordinating the many areas steveharvey.com its operation that impact its relationship with diverse markets. The initiative began with a focus on four markets: African American; Hispanic/Latino; women; and lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT). Other diverse segment markets will beincluded in the future.
   
As part of its effort to reach these consumers, American in the past year has created travel Web sites that meet the unique travel interests of women and LGBT travelers. The sites have been well received by steveharvey.com respective audiences and have proved extremely valuable in helping the airline deliver precise travel information to consumers according to their needs and interests. The most of the sites, http://www.aa.com/women, for example, offers safety information, women-to-women travel advice, and a schedule of womens business conferences.
   
About The Steve Harvey Morning Show
Based in New York City at WBLS, The Steve Harvey Morning Show is hosted by one of Americas funniest and most popular comics. Nationally syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks on 44 stations in markets such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, the show combines heart, humor, music and celebrities from the world of sports and entertainment. Harvey is joined />the show by Shirley Strawberry, Carla Ferrell and his Nephew Tommy.

About Premiere Radio Networks
Premiere Radio Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, syndicates 90 radio programs and services to
more than steveharvey.com radio affiliations and over 190 million listeners weekly. Premiere Radio is the number one radio network in the country and features the following personalities: steveharvey.com Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Casey Kasem, Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, Bob (Kevoian) & Tom (Griswold), Delilah, Steve Harvey, Whoopi Goldberg, Blair Garner, George Noory, Maria Bartiromo, Ty
Pennington, John Boy and Billy, Matt Drudge, Art Bell, Donald Trump, Big Tigger, Bob Costas and others. Premiere is based in Sherman Oaks, Calif., with 13 offices nationwide.
   
About American Airlines
American Airlines is the worlds steveharvey.com airline. American, American Eagle and the AmericanConnection(R) airlines serve 250 cities in over 40 countries with more than 4,000 daily flights. The combined network fleet numbers more than 1,000 aircraft. Americans award-winning Web site, AA.com, provides users with easy access to check and book fares, plus personalized news, information and travel offers. American Airlines is a founding member of the oneworld(R) Alliance, which brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business, enabling them to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. Together, its members serve nearly 700 destinations in over 140 countries and territories. American Airlines, Inc. and American Eagle Airlines, Inc. are subsidiaries of AMR Corporation. AmericanAirlines, American Eagle, AmericanConnection, AA.com and AAdvantage are registered trademarks of American Airlines, Inc.

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The following story is local to me.  I live in the countryside between Marietta and Hiram Georgia.  The distances are about the same to each, although my entire family grew up inside the city of Marietta and all live there, children and grandchildren, all except for myself and wife.  My wife was born there and I lived within the city more than 50 years of my life and so it is home.  We always go 11 alive news Hiram to get our barbeque and my artists supplies and do some shoping there.   The birthplace of some of my wifes ancestors is in Hiram.

It is with great interest that I report this story, and I wish there were a Hiram news outlet that I could get so that I would have known about this project before I read it too late to help.

I have to applaud everyone that helped out here and add them to my good neighbor list.   I found the 11 alive news on our Atlanta Channel 11 news, 11 Alive News  and copied some of it here.  Go to the link read the rest.  Great reporting on our local Hero.

Blair Meeks reports

Justin Kinnee

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Last 11 alive news 11/22/2007 

He wasnt supposed to live, but a Marine from Hiram (Georgia) gets a Thanksgiving homecoming that gives his family new life. Corporal Justin Kinnee was on foot patrol in Iraq two years ago when an IED exploded two feet away from him.

Kinee lost 90 percent of his blood, which caused a stroke and then paralysis. He fought his way out of a coma and then learned to walk again. Now, thanks to the community, hes coming home to a completely renovated home.

The rolling thunder of American Legion Riders rumbled into Hiram. Deputies and police officers from the community joined in the escort. They called it a heroes welcome, and as former military men walk to shake the hand the man theyre calling hero, that hero makes it obvious hes uncomfortable in the glare of this attention.

Dozens of people, businesses and church groups came together to renovate the house for Kinnee and his mother, who helps with his care.

Karen Allen, project coordinator said, There are a lot of 11 alive news that honestly appreciate our military and they appreciate the job theyre doing sense they really are fighting for our freedom.

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Two years of hospitals and surgery and hes back on his feet. His new community is helping make sure he stays that way. Its difficult to find the words to say thanks.

Especially a community that I dont even know.. would want to come and thank me. Its like speaking Chinese to me, I dont know what that is and 11 alive news know how to respond to that, Kinnee said.

A Marine, not used to hearing thanks, hears in it a big way from an entire community.

Its the house that God built, said Hazel Kinnee, his mother.

Kinnee still has a lot of recovering to do. His left arm is still paralyzed. His face is 11 alive news numb, but he will probably be out of the Marines by January or February. Then its on to his new life.

This is the way we should treat our Heroes

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Oddly enough, my Best of Overheard today is all from todays posts&

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Chick: Yeah, but they are usually in my mouth.Houston St

Newspaper guy: Read all about it: girl passing me right now has holes in her jeans.
Girl with holy jeans: Theyre made like that, asshole.Port Authority

Hipster dude: & And she ended up renting some movie about Madame Curie.
Hipster chick: Thats the wax lady, right? Over at Times Square? I didnt know there was a movie about her.
Hipster dude: I hate you.Union Square

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Frat boy #2: Yeah, bro, I have IBS  Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Frat boy You shittin me!91st & 1st

Hoochie: He thought I was boring because I wouldnt blow him.34th & 6th

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A claymation music video was produced by Aardman Animations and directed by Peter Lord:

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This is also one of my favorite songs, because it speaks of wonderful bewilderment and sureness of love. For a woman like Nina Simone to be able to sing something like this with warmth and certainty, she must have been so loved. Heres a live performance:

I wonder ruth etting wrong with baby
My baby just cares for
Just says his prayers for
My baby just cares for me

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Robert Jocz (Polen) gegen Antonio Samuray Mendes (Europe Top Team)

Michal Cipro Materla (Polen) gegen Goran Relic (Kroatien)

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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
- Sir Walter Scott

Created from three floral photos taken of my garden. Thanks to Michael Brown at Macro Art in Nature for inspiring me to experiment with the art of montage.

Heres another, created from 5 photos:

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Heres a screen shot

Step By Step Instructions below:

NativeAdd.java class (with Native method)

package c android.util.Log;public class  {    static {        try {            Log.i("JNI", "Trying to load libNativeAdd.so");            System.loadLibrary("NativeAdd");        }        catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError ule) {            Log.e("JNI", "WARNING: Could not load libNativeAdd.so");        }    }    public static native long add(long a, long b);}

Snippet that shows how this class/method is invoked from the main activity

    public void onClick(View view) {        Log.i(LOG_TAG, "onClick");        EditText a = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.a);        EditText b = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.b);        EditText c = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.c);        Log.i(LOG_TAG, "calling native method");        long sum = NativeAdd.add(Long.parseLong(a.getText().toString()),                Long.parseLong(b.getText().toString()));        Log.i(LOG_TAG, "back from native method");        String text = Long.toString(sum);        c.setText("Native add returns = " + text.subSequence(0, c    }

Step #2: Generate header files using java by running the following command.

javah -classpath ../../android.jar;../bin/classes; org.apache.NativeAdd

Heres how the header file (org_apache_CallNative.h) looks like

/* DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - it is machine generated */#include/* Header for class org_apache_NativeAdd */#ifndef _Included_org_apache_NativeAdd#define _Included_org_apache_NativeAdd#ifdef __cplusplusextern "C" {#endif/* * Class:     org_apache_NativeAdd * Method:    add * Signature: (JJ)J */JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL Java_org_apache_NativeAdd_add  (JNIEnv *, jclass, jlong, jlong);#ifdef __cplusplus}#endif#endif

Step #3: Code a tiny C file (org_apache_NativeAdd.c) as shown below:

#include "org_apache_NativeAdd.h"JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL Java_org_apache_NativeAdd_add  (JNIEnv *env, jclass c, jlong a, jlong b){    return a + b;}

Step #4: Please read the following article before you try the next step.
Shared library Hello World! for Android

Step #5: Compile and link the into a shared library.

arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc  -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/include -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/include/linux  -fpic -c org_apache_NativeAdd.carm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld -T armelf_linux_eabi.xsc -shared -o libNativeAdd.so org_apache_NativeAdd.o
NOTE: details on armelf_linux_eabi.xsc are in the Step #4.Step #6: copy the library to the emulator. Copy the Application as well.
adb push native/libNativeAdd.so /system/libadb install bin/CallNative.apk
Step #7: Run the app to try some values. Thats it!
Download the sources and Application - CallNative.zip


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The new issue of the RRC newsletter is out and as always it is loaded with interesting articles, record reviews and the usual mix of music and politics.

If you wish to subscribe free of charge send your email address to rockrap@aol.com

Below is an edited version of the newsletter.

ROCK & RAP CONFIDENTIAL

No. 220 / June 2007

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES… On April 19, rapper Wise Intelligent sent out an email which included the following: â€SIt has always been my position that the black rapper is NOT allowed to address or wanda jackson his voice to any issue that confronts the community from which he comes, knowing that if he did, like Don Imus, he would lose his major corporation sponsorship, i.e. his contract!”

The immediate provocation for Wise Intelligent’s statement was a mid-April interview of Young Buck by Angie Martinez wanda jackson New York’s Hot 97. Buck told Martinez that Interscope had refused to allow him to include the track â€SFuck tha Police” on his new Buck wanda jackson World album. Buck â€Sthey blamed it on the lyric committee, so I researched to see if it was a real lyric committee…the lyric committee is in Interscope’s building.”

Although this important story was ignored by the media, it was still the first time in nearly fifteen years that lyric committees had been publicly mentioned by anyone.

By the end of the 1980s, under pressure from Al and Tipper Gore’s PMRC, the police, and the FBI all major labels had set up in-house lyric to censor music. â€SFor every song that’s recorded we ask for copies of the lyrics from the artist,” Paul former Zombies guitarist wanda jackson then head of A&R at MCA told the New York Times in 1990. â€SThe recording then gets listened to not only by the A&R department buy by someone in business affairs.” At the time, that someone at MCA was lawyer Lawrence Kwensil, who claimed that artists were glad to be censored.

Within just two years, the lyric committees played a direct role in getting the likes of Ice T, Kool G Rap, Body Count, Paris, and Almighty wanda jackson dumped by major labels for criticizing the police in song. Several other rap artists were forced to alter or delete songs about the cops.

As follows day, hip hop inexorably turned away from socially conscious themes toward bling bling, a process initiated by the major labels and their lyric committees. This trend was reinforced by threats, picket lines, and violence by police at rap shows and against individual rappers.

Now Young Buck has proven what we have always suspected—that the lyric committees have not gone away and that they continue to do their dirty work in secret. Young Buck has also shown the world that the uproar over hip hop lyrics has nothing to do with alleged concerns about women or violence, it’s about the fact â€Sthat the black rapper is NOT allowed wanda jackson address or lend his voice to any issue that confronts the community from which he comes.”

Since the music industry has pressured our political representatives in Congress to not only give them unprecedented legal power to target file sharers but also to receive massive tax breaks, don’t we as citizens and taxpayers have the right to wanda jackson who is on these lyric committees, when they meet, and what actions they take?

In the wake of the May 1 police riot at a Angeles immigration march, which is just the most notorious recent example of rampant police abuse, we should all insist that our artists be allowed to tell the truth about violence and who perpetrates it. We should also be prepared to support those artists when the wanda jackson from the police and their friends in the industry hits the fan.

*****

VICTIM OF THE IN-HOUSE DRIVE-BY… It’s hard to imagine any space less friendly to hip hop than public radio and public television, and the fact that NPR’s Talk of the wanda jackson devoted an episode to the PBS-showcased documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes wasn’t reassuring. Neither was the transcript I read later that day for Paula Zahn’s story on the documentary—Hip Hop: Art or Poison?

Still, when I started to watch I gave filmmaker Byron Hurt the benefit of the doubt. Maybe the movie would point out that hip hop and R&B led the way when women took over the pop charts for the first time in history in the early 90s. Certainly someone would point out that black women have the strongest female voices in our popular culture.

In the early moments of the documentary, Slick Rick made me optimistic by pointing out how rap broke ground for presenting black masculinity in music. And academics Michael Eric Dyson and James Peterson made great points about the relationship between masculinity and violence in the dominant American culture. Chuck D kept pointing the issue back at the power structure, and Hurt made some nice connections to Donald Trump and George Bush.

But more telling were Hurt’s many oversights. First, the film is essentially one long patronizing from academia and â€Sconscious rappers” toward ostensibly wanda jackson rappers and rap fans. If Hurt talked to any Southern rappers, maybe they would have talked about the significance of the crunk world’s parking lot dances. If Hurt had bothered to talk to any black women rappers, maybe they could have explained how they held their own in the dialogue and why they often choose to present themselves wanda jackson sexy (a tactic dismissed here with all the rigidity of the Taliban).

As it is, a few female rap fans in bathing at Daytona on spring break speak for all non-academic black women, and one of them makes one of the more important claims in the film—â€SI know what I am.” She is dismissed out of hand as being wrong about that.

After that hour was over, I switched to MTV Jams and received a blast of fresh air from a righteous Beyonce not only enjoying being sexy but cross dressing like her boyfriend Jay Z. This was followed by Young Joc flirting with a sweet looking girl in a diner and then Jennifer Hudson delivering a devastating riot act to Jamie Foxx.

This was followed by Southern Tum Tum dancing in a parking lot with girls in shorts, no men laying a hand on them (just dancing along Then Mike Jones taking a similar crunk approach and building a video about the American Dream out of contrasting shots in front of mansions and shacks, his back up singers wearing heavy winter coats. Female Southern R&B star Ciara weighed in with some cross dressing of her own and stood up to a man without the help of academics.

Then the show took an even more international turn with K’Naan’s video showcasing Africans in abject poverty dancing along to hip hop, and this didn’t help Hurt’s case at all. So I turned over to watch the entire 90 minutes of 106th and Park’s BET Top 10 video countdown for the misogyny I’d been promised.

There was Keisha Cole dressed head to toe black leather and stealing the show from Diddy. Then Memphis rappers Huey did the lean back with a group of children and a variety of girls who didn’t look anything like models or â€Sbitches” or â€Sho’s.” Then the half male/half female Southern rap crew Crime Mob traded verses and points of view before Musiq Soulchild tried to get some fully dressed, sexy, independent woman to believe the line he was handing her.

The new singles from Fabolous and Young Jeezy (with R. Kelly, uh oh) featured some dancing girls with shorts and lots of bling, but it wanda jackson hard to see how that was so much different than the classy males dancing back up for Beyonce and Ciara in their videos repeated that hour.

The two hours ended with Bow Wow crying over a girl he couldn’t get â€SOuta My System” followed by Omarion wailing â€Ücause he’s â€Sgot an icebox [where his] heart used to be.”

Watching with me, my wife asked, â€SWhere are black males represented by our culture in a more well-rounded way than they are in hip hop? These men are sexual and romantic, tough but dancing” ….and vulnerable and funny and whole and human and, yes, sometimes vulgar but just as often refined.

In fact, Hurt’s theory that hip hop keeps men in a box might be better borne out by virtually any other group of males in any other genre of music. wanda jackson because the real problems remain systemic and hip hop’s dialogue between the sexes, as well as the way it builds and nurtures community among those looked down upon by the system are its strengths, not its weaknesses.D.A.

A version of this article was originally published at livingstereo.com, an important new site run by longtime RRC contributing editor David Cantwell.

*****

FBI GIVES IT UP AND TURNS (SOME OF) IT LOOSE… I don’t know what Phyllis Pollack expected when she filed a request for James Brown’s FBI file under the Freedom of Information Act. I figured she might find some information about his international connections, his work in the civil rights movement, and his meetings with President Nixon and Vice-President Humphrey.

There is nothing in the file she received about any of that, which doesn’t mean that the doesn’t have it. FOIA requests are routinely given the back of the government’s hand, especially by the wanda jackson the feds have wanda jackson about James Brown is dynamite, though. All of it relates to an accusation made in January 1989 by his then-wife Adrienne. Mrs. Brown accused local police and judges in South Carolina and Georgia wanda jackson violating her husband’s civil rights. The FBI pursued the case for about ten days and then so listlessly that to call the investigation superficial would give it way too much credit.

Both James and Adrienne Brown tell a very different story than what the public heard. Only an article by Jesse Jackson in Jet got it anywhere near straight. The charge that sent James Brown to prison was a so-called â€Sblue light violation.” It’s all but unprecedented to be given six years in prison for wanda jackson a crime (refusing to pull over for the cops), let alone receive that punishment from two states. (A young white man sentenced for the same violation the same day received a suspended sentence.)

James Brown wasn’t sent to prison because he was a PCP-crazed soul man with a gun. He went to prison because he fled the cops, all right, but he fled them with good reason, For eighteen months Brown had been targeted for harassment by cops in Aiken, South Carolina and Richmond County, Georgia, which sits right alongside Beech Island, SC, where the Browns resided. It began when Brown got into a fender bender on the Georgia highway he had to use to get home. That one resulted in Brown being jailed after some very dubious and allegedly being punched in the mouth.

The FBI report also reveals that Brown wanda jackson not lead cops on a high speed chase through wanda jackson states. The police admitted that they followed Brown but they never â€Schased” never even turned on their lights or sirens. Nevertheless, there were 17 bullet holes in the cab of Brown’s truck when it was over. Brown did have a shotgun, of course. It was unloaded and â€Sinoperative.” Allegedly, the police shot into his car while it was wanda jackson in South Carolina, where Brown came to a stop and began talking to local officers. (One Georgia officer took the trouble to knock out the glass in the passenger window with the butt of wanda jackson gun.)

The wanda jackson that Brown was high on PCP came from a local police analysis of an improperly administered blood test. The cops first said that it showed Brown high on cocaine, then changed their story. The next day, when Brown was again arrested, he was not out careening around the countryside high on anything. He was at the Georgia War Veterans’ Home in Augusta, visiting his father.

There had been a couple of police visits to the Brown home. Adrienne offered credible explanations for each of them. One wound up with Brown agreeing to put on a benefit concert for local disabled children but it wanda jackson â€Sa failure due to the fear of the local black population of the police, who boycotted the concert.”

Brown’s version of the incident that sent him to prison conforms in its essentials to his wife’s. Brown adds that, while handcuffed, he was punched in the jaw by a cop.

Adrienne Brown also claimed that the trial was unfair, the judge strongly involved in jury selection, a change of venue denied even though 90 local news reports had carried only the police version of the events. Brown had left the country for a European tour, but returned, ill-prepared, for the trial. Nevertheless, the judge forced him to spend the entire trial in the local jail.

You may think that this is just James and Adrienne Brown’s attempt to rationalize his misbehavior. That’s what you’re supposed to think. You’re wanda jackson supposed to think that James and Adrienne Brown had a terrible relationship, that he abused her and may have fired his gun at her. If that’s true, then why would Adrienne step up to try to get James out of prison? Why do James, interviewed in prison, and Adrienne Brown, interviewed in an FBI office, tell essentially the same story? Why is there no record in the FBI report of a contrary version of the story from the police? Because the Feebs held it back to protect the guilty officers? Or because they didn’t bother to talk with the Georgia and South Carolina police on the record?

Most important, why did no one except Jesse Jackson manage to put even a semblance of the Browns’ side of the story into print when America’s greatest living musician was sent to prison?

Most mysteriously, where is the FBI’s account of the rest of the political and social activism that occupied James Brown’s attention during the late 1960s and much of the 1970s?—D.M.

*****

POP LIFE…. At a South Carolina town hall meeting on April 25, Senator John McCain answered a question about whether or not there was a plan to attack Iran by saying: â€SYou know that old Beach Boys song, Barbara Ann?” Then he sang: â€SBomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.” While it’s easy to dismiss McCain as the lunatic he is, his views are quite compatible wanda jackson the liberal mainstream.

In 2004, John Kerry offered him the vice-presidential slot even though McCain’s a Republican and in 2005 Rock the Vote gave McCain its Rock the Nation award… While the music industry continues to sue penniless music fans for alleged downloading, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong is using the Internet to give away all the songs on his debut solo album, A Poet’s Life. â€SThe idea behind this record was that I wanted people to have it as a thank-you to all of those who have supported me and Rancid over the years,” Armstrong said…. Larry Partee is 58 years, has AIDS, and lives in the Priess-Steele housing projects in Durham NC.

Last year Partee began to show DVDs in a common room because many tenants were either too poor or too disabled to go to the movies. Because Partee is the president of the residents association at Priesse-Steele and has been very in trying to force the Durham Housing wanda jackson to improve the deplorable conditions there, he was dragged into court and charged with selling pirated DVDs. The fact that Partee hadn’t sold DVDs of any kind didn’t matter—he was evicted from public housing the week before Christmas. In late March, Partee, who was facing 15 months in jail and a $150,000 fine, was acquitted a jury trial, a trial which cost taxpayers $5,005… The guys in U2 aren’t the only musicians who are using Dutch tax shelters to avoid taxes. According to Lynnley Browning in the New York Times, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts have paid just $7.2 million in taxes on earnings of $450 million over the past twenty years, a tax rate of about 1.5 percent.

And it isn’t just musicians—EMI wanda jackson and CKX, Inc.—part owner of American Idol and the Elvis Presley estate—also utilize Holland’s legal tax dodges. The Dutch government very proactively solicits artists and corporations to participate. Meanwhile, the social wanda jackson net funded by taxes in the countries where these entertainers and companies are based, not to mention the countries they fled, is rapidly disappearing due to a lack of funding… England’s top eight symphony orchestras are jointly promising that they will give every free entry to a concert as part of a ten year plan to promote classical music.

How many takers will there be? Researchers who recently conducted a survey of students’ musical taste at England’s National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth said that they were wanda jackson to find that â€Sintelligent” genres such as classical and jazz were the least popular. the winner was heavy metal, with Slayer and Slipknot getting the most mentions. According to The Independent, heavy metal was especially popular â€Sif it had an emotionally charged or overtly political message behind it.”… Prosecutors are increasingly using rap lyrics written by wanda jackson defendants as â€Sevidence” that they are guilty. In both New York and Alabama, young men have been given the death penalty based on violent lyrics they are said to have written. â€SIt’s about boasting, it’s about exaggerating…it’s about acting,” says defense attorney Michael Coard of Philadelphia, who also teaches a class on hip hop at Temple University. â€SIf Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, or Marlon Brando are charged with shooting somebody, are they going to be playing clips from The Godfather in court?”

*****

IN A SILENT WAY… â€STaking music in school isn’t to make everybody into a musician,” says trumpeter Carvell Holloway, head of music at Compton’s giant Davis Middle School. â€SIt’s so that you understand more yourself culturally, more about your own creativity, more about wanda jackson around you. If you only deem certain kids worthy of that information, then there’s a big problem in society.”

The size of that problemthe elimination of school music programs in the U.S.was dramatized last year when Frank Bruno, a piano teacher in Salinas, California, was sentenced to give 300 hours of free piano lessons to needy kids after he was convicted of hit-and-run driving.

There are a lot of musicians who don’t need a judge to make them help out. Benefits for music education programs in the past year have featured, among countless others, Queen Latifah, Bruce Springsteen, James Hetfield, Macy Gray, Eddie Vedder, Ozomotli, Marilyn Manson, Charlie Haden, Jackson Browne, Collective Soul, Ray Davies, and Take 6. The Game and 50 Cent have each given $100,000 to Compton’s music programs. East Bay rapper E-40 gave $12,000 to the drumline at his high school.

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has founded the Silver Lake Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles to provide free/cheap music instruction. Phish’s Trey Anastasio has formed the Seven Below Arts Initiative in Vermont and Paul McCartney has launched the Music Lives Foundation. VH1 and Guitar Center also money for music education.

Musicians know up close and personal why they help out. â€SI’m the son of a custodian and a maid,” says Boyd Tinsley, wanda jackson for the Dave Matthews Band who gives $75,000 a year to Virginia schools. â€SI’m very thankful for everything that was given me. I just feel I need to give back.”

â€SI want people to know that it’s cool to be in the band because there is a shortage of musicians nowadays,” adds E-40. â€SMusic stimulates the mind, and it’s therapeutic and healing. People need to realize the importance of music programs in public schools—I played in the band growing up, Too wanda jackson played, Dallas Austin did too.”

This is the American wayyou see a problem and rush in and try to solve it. The volunteerism that is a defining characteristic of our wanda jackson character is truly a beautiful thing. There’s only one problem—it doesn’t work.

The annual School Music Matters survey of wanda jackson teachers tells the wanda jackson Music funding was cut, from already criminally low levels, by 30% in 2005, 23% in both 2006 and 2007. Public funds now only pay for 57.6% of music education expenses. Where does the rest come from? 82.4% of music teachers now go into their own pockets to help fund their own programs.

The situation is made much worse by No Child Left Behind, the 2001 law which mandates that schools raise test scores in so-called â€Score” subjects (i.e. not music and art). has forced school administrators to further gut music programs. More and more, our children’s school experience resembles an endless bar exam, creativity be damned.

We need billions of dollars, which is far beyond the generosity of all musicians, to solve the problem. But the money is already there, it’s just spent on the wrong things. There’s no way to fund music education except at the expense of our prison industrial complex because, in a majority of states, prison spending now exceeds spending on education.

Our schools will continue to go silent until the money poured into the Iraq war (and the funding for U.S. military bases in 129 other countries) is returned to the communities it came from.

This requires more than volunteerism. It requires a massive political movement, such as the immigration marches which rocked America in 2006. Who will lead such a movement? Not the Democrats. When No Child Left Behind was passed, only six Democrats in the Senate and ten in the House voted against it. Senator Edward Kennedy stood by George Bush’s side when the President signed the bill, hailing it as a â€Slegislative tour de force.” A movement for music education will have to be led by people who love music, and the Democrats only interest in music is to censor it.

On the hand, what would happen if all the artists who are playing benefits for music education also helped to mobilize their collectively massive fan base to demand that we make music, not war? Old school, new school, all colors, all genres, all ages. A guitar army with a hip-hop beat. Would you volunteer to join it?

*****

MYTH AMERICA… Ted Nugent was the final act at Texas Governor Rick Perry’s black tie ball on January 16. Nugent ignored the dress code, appearing in a cutoff Confederate flag T-shirt while shouting out racial insults at the Spanish-speaking help. Gov. Perry, previously known rock-wise for frequently hosting actor Russell Crowe’s stunningly mediocre band 30 Odd Feet of Grunts, defended Nugent afterward.

In mid-March the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra canceled a July 14 concert by former Dukes of Hazzard stars Tom Wopat and John Schneider because it would include the â€SGeneral Lee” car emblazoned with the Confederate flag.

After a century-plus of wanda jackson Cause” propaganda the Stars and Bars has come to be seen wanda jackson many quarters as a harmless cultural icon of a bygone era. Bullshit. The Confederate battle flag stands for slavery and the casual discard of millions of Southern and Northern lives. It also stands for the brutal exploitation of millions of Southern poor whites who had legal rights but often lived little better than the slaves. The spirit of that flag dominates both political parties today.

But there is another myth that is equally dangerous—that Southern whites were and are a uniformly reactionary mass of ignorant rednecks who rock the Confederate flag in their hearts even when it’s not on their pickup trucks. This was never true—over 100,000 Southern whites fought for the Union in the Civil War while hundreds of thousands more deserted from the Confederate army as their wives led bread riots across the South.

More recently, Southern whites were a key part of the heroic resistance of Tennessee residents against the end of their health care coverage, sitting in at the Democratic governor’s office for over three months. They also form part of the ranks of the Rock and Rap Coalition in Jackson, Mississippi. According to a study by the Institute for Southern Studies, the South is now the most anti-war section of our country. 30 per cent of Southerners believe the U.S. should â€Swithdraw completely” from Iraq. The figure for the North is 26 per cent.

It might be argued that in all this the white Southerners wanda jackson joined by their fellow Southerners who are black. True. That’s exactly the point.

*****

Don’t Mess with the Dragon, Ozomatli (Concord)—One of the albums of my dreams. The greatest party band on the planet is also one of the great political bands, and also making maybe the most coherent stew out of salsa, rock, hip-hop and whatever else comes their way. â€SAfter Party” is the kind of almost-slick soul move no one puts together any more, â€SWhen I Close My Eyes” is a kind of tribute to what was great about L.A. punk, â€SHere We Go” revs up to a kind of reggaeton. Nor do they sing only in English; â€SLa Temperatura” and â€SLa Gallina” (about a kind of revolutionary dancing chicken) are two of the record’s most smashing touches. I think this is the wanda jackson band there is right now, especially Ozo move ever closer to making records as completely head-spinning as their incomparable live shows. – D.M.

*****

THIS MONTH’S DOWNLOADING PROSPECTS… Ultra Payloaded, Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party (Columbia)—Farrell says he wants to move beyond punk and post punk because they are only â€Santagonist” and without solutions. Here he concocts a concept album about a musician who survives police brutality only to escape to the heavens where he forges a massive coalition to stop global warming and save the earth. The music is some new mutation of dance rock—dense and airy, shamelessly taking from the Bee Gees, Rare Earth, and others. Yet Farrell utilizes an orchestra without resorting to 70s pop-soul orchestral clichĂ©s while former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt pushes things along with both big muscles and subtle nudges. An wanda jackson as uplifting as it is unexpected.

Across the Water, Prince da Baby Boy (Universal Republic)Baby Boys West Bank New Orleans suburb Marrero may have escaped Katrinas floodwaters, but the perfect storm of urban neglect exposed last wanda jackson hit there long ago. And just as the buoyant guitar and popping bass of the hit single This Is the Way I Live makes apparent, this is a survivors party record, unapologetically raunchy and overflowing with the kind of hopeful spirit and playfulness most necessary in the face of despair. None of which quite prepares listeners for the nightmarish blues, A Rose, which closes the album with a desperate anger and pain that further deepens all thats come before.

Rhinestoned, Pam Tillis (Stellar Cat)—There’s no room at the big Nashville stables for a thoroughbred honky-tonker like Tillis but that’s not gonna stop here from doing what she’s always done so beautifully and powerfully. â€SDown by the Water,” â€SLife Has Sure Changed Us Around,” and â€SSomething Burning Out,” show Pam, with no need to pursue Clear Channel’s stupid idea of a hit single, free to do some of the finest singing she’s ever wanda jackson de Musicien, Pine Leaf Boys (Arhoolie)—Five young wanda jackson from Louisiana who obsessively study Cajun musical and social history (including nearly extinct dialects), all in the service of further improving their dense, intense musical gumbo. Their wanda jackson can be jaw-dropping but, like a good club DJ, it’s about keeping the dance floor packed and happy. Highlights include the title track’s sad tale of the musician’s life and â€SMa Petite Femme,” a raunchy, wrenching blues.

Mind Control, Stephen Marley (Tuff Gong/Universal Republic)—Somewhat similar to brother Damien Marley’s masterful 2005 Welcome to Jamrock, which Stephen helped to write and produce. But this mélange of roots and dancehall is, with its pop and world flavorings, more gentle and nuanced, a soulful suite both personal and political. He also comes across as a contemporary of his father Bob. Quite an achievement.

Live wanda jackson Dublin, Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band (Columbia)—Where a 20 piece band playing folk songs turns out to mean Waylon Jennings’ â€SLove of the Common People,” his own â€SIf I Should Fall Behind” as a waltz, and Mizell testifying her heart out on â€SThis Little Light of Mine.” The best backing band he ever has had only got better as the players got more familiar with one another, as this end of tour document proves. Hats off to Larry Eagle for making Bruce swing at last.

Buck the World, Young Buck (G Unit/Interscope)Like the single Get Buck that builds its energizing attack out of cascading rhymes, choral backing and marching band (bass drum at the bottom, exuberant horns at the top), this album consistently sounds fresh, often lively with melody, always strong. This is warrior music that makes room for dealing with the fight to survives toll on the family and, in one of the richest rhymes here, Slow Ya Roll, counsels caution and even a Zen-like gratefulness. Still, it ends with the rapper, surrounded by all this material shit and quietly despondent. He loads a clip and, saying, fuck the world, sounds like hes ready to give up….Then he thinks, Nah, buck the world/Yeah, buck the world/I like that, and he finds his wanda jackson again. The second time through, its obvious that the power in Young Bucks vocals stems from nothing less than the fight for his life.

War and Peace, Butch Hancock (Two Roads)—The most passionate record of the great Texas songwriter’s career, devoted entirely to grappling with the current war. â€SDamage Done” is as good as anything similar that came out of early Dylan, â€SBetween Wars” and â€SThat Great Election Day” are nearly its equal.

â€SDad’s Gonna Kill Me,” Richard Thompson—Available only as an I-Tunes download (that’s where his website sends you), this jaunty piece of acid-tongued folk-rock is RT’s contribution to the growing bag of songs against the Iraq war. The song’s about a kid who makes the mistake of enlisting, but it’s also about the people in D.C. and London who run the war as if murder had no consequences. Thompson at his best—feels like he knocked it off in half an hour.

From Beale Street to Oblivion, Clutch (DRT)—You can feel the guitarist’s pick upon the strings as much as hear it. The riffs repeat, repeat and then mutate on the wanda jackson of effects that come more from the days of accidental discovery than from digital design. It’s driven into your soul by huge slabs of Hammond B3 and Hohner clavinet and torrential outpourings of harmonica. These Maryland maulers are obsessed by the land and the streets and those whose work and blood has nourished both. Their attitude is summed up in â€SYou Can’t Stop Progress”: â€SSometimes it’s such a hassle / To sit patiently outside the open gates of a loaded castle.”

Joya, Funky C (Sonic 360)—First solo album by the former leader of Chile’s legendary Los Tetas has been accurately described by author Rickey Vincent as â€Smonstrous funk.” A working band with a live drummer that’s seamlessly subsumed by computers and drum machines, the sound is alive and organicno hyphens come to mind in listening to its glorious mix of everything from rap to jazz. Funky C (Cristian Sol Maraga Farias) is a multi-instrumentalist who is dazzling on guitar where combines all of James Brown’s guitarists’ styles with Frank Zappa’s. If Earth Wind & Fire were to debut in 2007, they would probably sound a lot like â€SViviendo El Dia” or â€SC-Funk 93.”

Glitter in the Gutter, Jesse Malin (Adeline)—Malin’s finally found a way to balance his rock’n’roll legacy, which is half Joey Ramone, half Bruce Springsteen (with a little Johnny Marr in the guitar). The result is sometimes glorious, as on â€SIn the Modern World” and sometimes just fascinating, as on the concluding â€SAftermath.” By that time, he doesn’t sound like anyone himself, which is to say, a man who’s finally come into his inheritance and begun to spend it, wisely and well.

The Breax Are Ruslan, Beleaf, and Mic B (Eye Am)—This crew is different from most Christian hip-hop because their music has nothing to do with church music and because they deal with issues such as poverty and homies who get kidnapped into the prison system. Highlights include â€SAsk a Simple ?,” where they show that know how to make a great track by shamelessly riding a powerful sample and â€SCold War,” the 22-year-old Ruslan’s tale of life in his native Azerbaijan in the full throes of disintegration and the drama wanda jackson encountered in the streets of San Diego, his new home.

Poison’d, Poison (EMI)—They can’t sustain it, but from the opening â€SLittle Willy” (originally by the Sweet) and â€SSuffragette City,” and along the way, with â€SWhat I Like About You” and â€SRock and Roll All Nite,” this is the best of wanda jackson spring season’s oldies remake albums. Why? The energy level is high, the singing is still pretty fine, the guitars are made of razor blades (the old-fashioned double-edged kind) and there’s an utter absence of pretense. Maybe Poison was born to be a cover band. But that’s more fun than listening to poets moan.

This is Ryan Shaw, Ryan Shaw (Columbia)—â€SDo the 45” (originally by the Sharpees) rocks the soul wanda jackson out of East Coast journeyman Shaw, but that’s OK, because he keeps the beat driving right through Jackie Wilson’s â€SI’ll Be Satisfied” and a â€SLookin’ for a Love” that splits the difference between J. Geils and the Womack Brothers. The originals aren’t as good, but then, whose are? Ryan Shaw may never have another moment this fine but it’s a delightful moment and sometimes that’s plenty.

Hogging the Covers, Lowen and Navarro (Red Hen)—Singer-songwriter duo turns its mind to greater things: â€SWalk Away Renee,” â€SDrift Away,” a wanda jackson â€SWhen Something is Wrong with My Baby,” a very very very nervy â€SInto the Mystic” and an absolutely unbelievable transformation of â€SBlitzkrieg Bop” with a beautiful steel guitar intro by Lowen.

Slang (myspace.com/slangmusic)—LA five-piece puts hip-hop in a time machine and transports it back into a 1970s instrumental funk band. Keyboardist/turntablist Charles â€SChuck Boogie” Moore has monstrous chops he uses not to show off but to push emotional buttons. Twenty-something percussionist Miguel Ramirez has already traveled to Cuba to study with the masters. They are the center of a group which, as evidenced by it live shows, is already upward from the music on this CD. Get in on the ground floor.

Shrunken Heads, Ian Hunter (Yep Roc)—Strongest record he’s made since Mott the Hoople. In fact, you might say that Mott at its best had just this mix of styles—a little Lennon tongue-lashing, a little laconic Dylan, some tasty organ licks (is that the Band or Sir Douglas leaking through?), a Stones-like rhythm section. Hunter no longer over-reaches to prove he’s a great rock singer so…he sounds more like a great rock singer. If you get through the first two tracks, â€SWords wanda jackson Mouth)” and â€SFuss About Nothin’,” while sitting still, you didn’t like this kind of music enough in the first place.

Urban Africa Club, Various Artists (Out Here Records)For all of its radiant, fresh flavors, this remarkable collection of African pop makes plain just how vibrant a musical conversation takes place wanda jackson globalized hip hop. Tanzanian Bongo Flava hip hoppers Professor Jay and Ferooz sound like theyve been trading verses with Twista and Jay-Z, while another artist from the same movement, Mangwea offers a sexy guitar-laced erotic stomp, Mikasi, that might have come straight out of the Dirty South. Even more crunk are the sounds from Liberian and Ghanan crew Scientific. Meanwhile, Kenyans Necessary Noize sound like theyd tear it up in the studio with Shakira and Wyclef. Further proof that todays youth have a thing or two to teach their elders about the big picture.

Blues, Waltzes and Badland Borders, John Platania (Train Wreck)—Its lineage is Duane Eddy meets Ennio Morricone, and its concern is justice. The things here are the narrative pieces, â€SChild Heroes” featuring Ruben Ramos (the Willie Nelson of tejano tells the story the Mexican Revolution) and the concluding â€SIn Memory of Zapata,” with a vocal by Lucinda Williams backed by Alejandro Escovedo, who also tells the story of Zapata, beginning with his execution.

*****

THE GUEST LIST… DC Larson writes: Waiting On Judgment Day, Lost Immigrants (Shiner/Palo Duro)Ground-zero poetry painting real-world yearnings and dejection, typified by the tale of an anonymous Wall Street functionary fallen between the Cost Of Freedom cracks. If you see me walkin your way/ go ahead, cross the street/ Ill be in heaven long before you/ Im the ghost, the ghost you can see. Acoustic-dominated, populist country that feels. Life somehow goes on in the face of a stacked deck. [DC Larson is an RRC subscriber who lives in Waterloo, Iowa]

*****

THIS MONTH’S USED CD BURNING PROSPECTS… Crystal Visions….The Very Best of Stevie Nicks (Reprise)—Begins with Waddy Wachtel’s killer guitar riff on â€SEdge of Seventeen” and ends with Wachtel’s orchestral arrangement for a live version of the same song with the Melbourne Symphony in 2006. In between, Nicks subverts the paint by numbers greatest hits format by presenting her monster Fleetwood Mac hit â€SDreams” in a 2005 Deep Dish dance remix version, along with live cuts (including Led jackson â€SRock and Roll”) and obscurities. It all works because of that urgency in her voice, her craft as a songwriter, and her utter conviction that wanda jackson is channeling the thought or emotion that you need right now. Her liner notes about song histories reveal influences that include the Spinners, Sly Stone, Waylon Jennings, and Prince.

Fujiyama Mama, Anisteen Allen (Capitol)—There weren’t many women who could front a rock band like Elvis or Buddy Holly in the â€Ü50s, but that’s partly, maybe mainly, because there was a horde of female R&B singers, headed by Ruth making the joint jump just as hard. So many, in fact, that a great one like Anisteen Allen, with her best shot at the top of the charts (the title novelty) pilfered by Wanda Jackson, almost gets lost. She shouldn’t be. Anything Brown or LaVern Baker could do, Anisteen could keep up with.

The Sound of Nate Dogg (K-Town)—Long Beach’s honey-toned Nate Dogg is probably hip-hop’s best pure singer, having added heart and soul to the songs of countless West Coast artists. On his own, he draws from the raw well of G-funk expression, but his themes are classic ones of unity (â€SFriends,” â€SMy and My Homies”) and redemption (â€SI Don’t Wanna Hurt No More”). â€SNever Leave Me Alone” is hip-hop’s â€SMama Tried,” a heartbreakingly beautiful jail cell lament. It doesn’t hurt that Nate Dogg is an excellent songwriter and gets more out of collaborating with Snoop than anyone since Dr. Dre.

The George Mitchell Collection: Cecil Barfield and The George Mitchell Collection: Teddy Williams (Fat Possum)—Fat Possum unearthed the tape collection of blues explorer Mitchell and, knowing they couldn’t sell many, decided to put out a batch cheap ($10 list). Barfield and Williams are the pick of the litter, which is already more than a dozen titles deep. If you like deep Mississippi blues, more and less anarchic than the hill country blues Fat Possum has specialized in, these two in particular but pretty much everything Mitchell recorded is worth your dime.

The Strength of Street Knowledge: The Best of N.W.A. (Priority/EMI)—Disc one is seventeen of the songs that allowed Compton’s N.W.A. to break the stranglehold of New York over hip-hop and pave the way for countless new voices to be heard. As a result, the FBI tried to destroy them. Disc Two is videos and interviews. Everything from slavery to Adam wanda jackson Eve is depicted and there’s smart commentary on censorship, wanda jackson and radio. The constant throughout is the brutality of the police—if America had listened to N.W.A. instead of trying to destroy them, how many more people would be alive today?

You Gotta Take a Little Love, Horace Silver Quintet (Blue Note)—A quarter century before there was such a thing as â€Sworld music,” Silver was incorporating Asian (â€SRising Son”) and Middle Eastern (â€SThe Belly Dancer”) elements. Even better are the title track and â€SBrain Wave,” which capture the love of humanity that Silver found in the turbulent Sixties. While the band (Randy Brecker, Bennie Maupin, Billy Cobham) is excellent and given that pianist Silver’s reputation is as a composer/bandleader, what’s striking here is how every time he takes a solo the music soars to another wanda jackson Best of .38 Special (A&M)—They were something like the Creedence of Southern rock. All of their hits are here, each drenched in a combination of Southern style arrogance and a convincing lovelorn sadness. Like ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, guitarist Jeff Carlisi piles notes into every corner of a song while never overshadowing the whole. His outro solo on â€SFantasy Girl” contains more passion and more ideas than some guitar players manage in an entire career.

The Spoiler, Stanley Turrentine (Blue Note)—Turrentine’s an elephant who can ballroom dance—a big tenor sound delivered with grace and elegance. Pianist McCoy Tyner helps immensely with a gentle, bluesy approach much different from what he’d been doing with John Coltrane. Highlights include â€SThe Magilla,” where Turrentine is as convincing as a notarized letter, the Latin throb of â€SLa Fiesta,” and a cover of Bobby Hebb’s â€SSunny” that sounds like the soundtrack to some great unmade James Bond movie.

White Lion: The Definitive Rock Collection (Atlantic/Rhino)—White Lion looked like just another hair band—long teased tresses and tight pants. But they sampled Martin Luther King speeches and wrote songs about war in El Salvador, genocide against Native Americans, and the wanda jackson Their song about the French government blowing up the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior (â€SLittle Fighter”) is as thrilling musically as it is inspiring politically. The fundamental dishonesty of hipsters in general wanda jackson the rock press in particular is seen in the fact that the likes of U2 are lionized (pun intended) for their social conscience while bands like White Lion are ignored.

Giant Steps, John Coltrane (Atlantic/Rhino)—His first Atlantic album was also the first on which he wrote all the tunes. Many such as â€SGiant Steps,” â€SNaima,” â€SCousin Mary,” and â€SMr. P.C.” have become jazz standards. There is great range, too, between the stunningly gorgeous â€SNaima”—as moving as the most beautiful R&B ballad—and the energy rush of â€SCountdown.” The album title is both apt and amazing, in that these giant steps only laid the basis for even bigger ones to come.

The Player, Willie Colon (Fania)—Colon wasn’t known for his chops as a trombone player but for his strength as a leader and his hunger to extend the form of salsa. This begins with the rough-hewn â€SFeugo en el Barrio” (â€SFire in the Ghetto”) from 1966 which is almost garage band salsa. It then traces Willie’s evolution as he shapes his band with future stars such as timbalero Nicky Marrero and adds Puerto Rican folk music, funk, rock, and the legendary singer Hector Lavoe to the mix. That’s just disc one—on disc two uses orchestration not as sweetener but as a restless, propulsive sideman and longtime partner Ruben Blades joins in. Hunt down Criollo (unrepresented here because it was on RCA) to hear how Colon integrated all this with politics and you’ll have a full picture of an underrated master.

*****

HOME XEROXING TIPS… Songwriter Bobby Braddock has penned thirteen number one country hits, the last for Toby Keith in 2001 but also classics like Tammy Wynette’s â€SD-I-V-O-R-C-E” and George Jones’s â€SHe Stopped Loving Her Today.” Braddock’s Down in Orburndale: A Songwriter’s Youth in Old Florida (Louisiana State University Press, $24.95) is a memoir about growing up in the rural South in the 1940s and 1950s. An interview Braddock, now 66, did with Chauncey Mabe of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel frames the story: â€SI remember Klan rallies, but I never questioned wanda jackson way things were. The racism was so universal you didn’t even think about it. Mostly we were like the Germans in World War II. We looked the other way. I was well up into my 20s before I had a significant change in attitude…I started becoming less conservative on all issues, not only race but also the Vietnam War, religion, everything. My values have pretty much stayed the same since.” music is steeped in nostalgia for the past but, as Mabe writes: â€SWhen Braddock turns the picture around, and tries to view it from the perspective of the black people living in the Central Florida town back then, the rosy patina of a bygone time and place falls away.”

*****

JENNI TAKES A RIDE… On Friday the 13th of April, Jenni Engebretsen was named Deputy CEO for Public Affairs for the 2008 Democratic Convention. Engebretsen comes to the job of prettifying the Dems’ ugly record from her post as Director of Communications for the Recording Industry Association of America. This appointment is in keeping with the Democrats’ contempt for the American people—according to a recent poll by The Consumerist the RIAA is the most hated â€Scompany” in America, easily beating out Haliburton and Wal-Mart.

The Democrats alliance with the wrong side in the culture wars goes back at least to the mid-1980s, when future Second Lady Tipper Gore imposed warning labels on music, along the way deliberately giving respectability to a wanda jackson of right-wing cop and Christian wanda jackson (Anybody wanda jackson thinks Tipper would have gotten away with this without her husband’s enthusiastic support must believe that carbon credit trading will solve the world ecological crisis.)

In 1988, every Democrat in Congress voted for the Child Protection and Enforcement Act, which grants the Justice Department the power to the â€Scommunity standards” of the any city in America (Dothan, wanda jackson for instance) and apply them as a censorship standard to any city in the country.

In 1996, the Democratic Clinton administration proposed the Telecom bill ad got it passed. This removed most limits on radio station ownership and was the direct cause of the emergence of Clear Channel and the corruption and narrowcasting that has followed. The Telecom bill also makes it a felony to distribute or even write about music that is â€Sobscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy.” There is no definition in the law of what these words mean.

In 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed unanimously by Congress. The DMCA ended the concept of fair use and gave the RIAA the power to subpoena anyone they feel like picking on without filing a lawsuit or going before a judge first. The RIAA wanda jackson quick to claim the power of a â€Sroving subpoena” wanda jackson to the one created by the equally bipartisan Patriot Act.

In 2003, Democratic Senator Joe Biden introduced the RAVE Act, which passed the Senate by a vote of 98-0. The law isn’t specific to raves and can make the organizers of almost any public event liable for major prison time and a $250,000 fine at the sole whim of the nation’s most politically ambitious group: prosecutors.

Many of the worst features of these laws have yet to be enforced. But the ongoing cozy relationship of the supposedly more progressive party—the Democrats—with the thugs at the most hated company in America confirms that when the time comes no politician will try to stop the enforcement of those provisions â€Sto the fullest extent of the law.”

*****

JUST EXACTLY WHY DO WE NEED THE MUSIC BUSINESS?& The Recording Industry Association of America has wanda jackson letters to thousands of college students, encouraging them to settle alleged illegal file-sharing violations before they get sued. The RIAA has set up a website (p2plawsuits.com) where students can pay by credit â€SIt isn’t a legal settlement, it’s kind of a pseudo-fee,” says Brian Rust of the University of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of a wanda jackson number of universities which is refusing to cooperate with the RIAA. North Carolina State has gone one step further—it’s giving legal help to students targeted by the RIAA. Pam Gerace, director of Student Legal Services at NC State, says the amount of payment demanded constantly shifts, â€Swhich makes it sound like they are making it up as they go along.” Gerace, noting that the RIAA has said it will make sure that job records are tagged with copyright violations, is warning students to remain Taxpayers already foot the bill for the RIAA at the University of South Carolina, wanda jackson there is a employee who does nothing but respond to copyright infringement notices. Rep. Rick Keller of Florida has introduced the Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act, which would allocate federal funds to colleges for their collaboration with the RIAA… Republican Congressman Lamar Smith and his Democratic partner in intimidation Howard Berman were among the signers of a threatening letter sent to the 20 U.S. universities said to have the â€Sgreatest amount of online piracy.” Is it a coincidence that Smith received $7500 in campaign contributions from the RIAA in 2006, along with $2000 from Warner Music and $1000 from Sony/BMG CEO Andy Lack? Berman got $3500 from the RIAA, $6300 from the troika which owns DreamWorks, and $4200 each from Warner Music head Edgar Bronfman and his wide Clarissa, who described herself as a â€Shomemaker.”… Debbie Foster, the RIAA lawsuit defendant who successfully fought off Capitol Records’ claims of illegal downloading, has been awarded wanda jackson fees believed to be in the neighborhood of $50,000. Judge Lee R. West found the RIAA’s claims â€Suntested and marginal,” the RIAA’s motives â€Squestionable” and some of the RIAA’s legal moves â€Sdisingenuous.”… A 2006 study by Citizens for Tax Justice found that over the previous three years, a large group of Fortune 500 companies had paid no taxes despite collective profits of over $100 billion. Among those getting a free ride were record company owners Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner (which on May 7 laid off another 400 staffers).

*****

I am a huge music fan, meaning that I would count music as being one of the most important factors in wanda jackson and saving my life. I love listening, singing, dancing, and especially driving to it. You could say I love music as much as the next person, and if wanda jackson next person happens to be a man, we might spark up a conversation. Unfortunately, most of my conversations about music with men turn into disputes, sometimes all-out wars. The war begins the second I say that my favorite music is hip hop and I get that initial insult which usually goes something like this—

Oh, you are one of those drunken club girls, huh?

What, are you trying to be black or something?

How could you listen to music that is so insulting and degrading to women?

And my favorite one to unleash the beast on is Oh you just like that because your boyfriend does.

Believe me, I have heard those insults from more than one guy. They come from men I know for couldnt name three current hip hop artists if they tried. But they could give the names of 50 great emo/punk bands that only the music elite like. I should just shake these guys off, but it burns me up to know something I love is wanda jackson looked down upon like it is worthless, mindless fluff.

There are countless hip hop songs that deal with wanda jackson emotional matters just as serious and reflective as the counterpart. (Outkast, Kanye West, and Ludacris come to mind). But hip hop isnt about measuring up to other kinds of music—it has its own way of dealing with issues, like facing them head on.

One thing hip hop does is to provide an open forum for men and women to be honest about relationships. Men and women are recording together dealing with the good the bad and the ugly; good like Beyonce and Jay Zs â€SCrazy,” bad as in Diddy and Keisha Coles â€SLast Night,” and the ugliness of abuse as in Ludacris and Mary J. Bliges â€SRunaway Love.”

Sometimes men and women back one another up wanda jackson sometimes they share equal positions. For example, one song that really got my attention because of its balance between the sexes was Nivea featuring Jagged Edges â€SDont Mess With wanda jackson Man.” Both artists are singing to an imaginary third party that has his or her eye somewhere it shouldnt be. Nivea sings So I thought I had to let you know; find someone you can call your own cuz now youre walkin in the danger zone…

She is followed shortly after by Jagged Edges verse, So now you really better check yourself cuz messin with my girl is bad for your health… That vulnerable feeling of losing your lover to another is a serious emotion beautifully and playfully expressed in this song as well as countless other hip hop hits.

What I really love about hip hop is the connections and collaborations wanda jackson cross all recording boundaries. One single speaks to another because artists listen to each other and feed off the commonalities and build fresh ideas. Fat Joes â€SLean Back” morphs into Dem Franchize Boyz â€SLean Wit It Rock Wit It,” which transcends perfectly into wanda jackson â€SDo wanda jackson It,” a meld of the years popular dance moves illustrated in one song.

As a woman listening to hip hop, I pay particular attention to the female voice. It is anything but oppressed. Anyone who singles out women in hip hop for being degraded ignores Mary J. Blige, Keisha Cole, LilKim, Cherish, Beyonce, Monica, and many others that can blow any song out of the water in terms of emotion, power, performance, and all out fire.

And it isnt just the strong women songs that I pay attention to. I dont always feel empowered and bullet proof&sometimes I want to feel like a girl and hip hop says to me that it is okay to be feminine, okay to feel sexy, and okay to be a bitch. It is okay to be human.

When someone is so bold to say that I am only into a certain kind of music because the man in my life is, it really makes me want to go for the jugular.

How can someone be so dismissive of my ability to appreciate music that I feel a connection with? Of course I dated men who love music too (having something in common is a plus when dating) but that doesnt wanda jackson I will automatically adopt someone elses preferences as my own (like some kind of relationship insurance that will make my man stay put). A man who would say this to me obviously needs to feel superior to women by owning some special right to music. That right doesnt exist. Music belongs to everyone.

[Lauren Alexander is an artist, art teacher, and lifelong resident of Kansas City.]

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Ok, Im embarrassed to admit this, but a few weeks ago while sleeplessly flipping channels late at night, I came across a special on the Home Shopping Network that I couldnt turn away from. While I readily accept that I am a food tv-aholic, I have a hard time admitting that I purposefully watched a channel that sells useless trinkets and gimmicky makeup 99% of the time. However, when I saw Todd English, famed executive chef and restaurateur, selling GreenPans, I abandoned my usual assumptions about the HSN and set the remote down. I was sucked in, eyes wide, jaw on floor, as Chef English and his team demonstrated the pans mind-blowing properties: 100% non-stick, non-toxic, and oven-ready, up to 900 degrees. No other piece of kitchen equipment can boast this trifecta.

I say mind-blowing full confidence. Have you ever cracked an egg into a un-greased nonstick pan thinking that the pan, new or old, might actually live up to its name, and yield you a neat, whole, over-easy, only to find yourself making i-meant-to-do-this checkerboard scrambled eggs green pan later? green pan you know what botched eggs Im talking about. Sure, they still taste good, but youre not giving that to a guest. For the seasoned cook, this mishap will mean nothing, just a re-do, with some oil in the pan next time. For the beginner cook, this could mean discouragement and possibly less interest in cooking (clearly not a good thing!). So, when I saw Todd English and his team cooking with these pans, using no oil or fat to saute fish, make pancakes, and flip crepes, I knew these pans would be the perfect tool for a beginner cook in my life: my boyfriend. Since it seems to be the trend in blogs to not use real names, call him D.

D starting cooking green pan earnest about 6 months ago and has successfully ventured into the green pan of paninis, pastas, and omelets. In an effort to encourage him to continue cooking, I bought him a GreenPan and hes never been happier or more confident in the kitchen! green pan only is the GreenPan insanely non-stick, it can also withstand temperatures up to 900 degrees! Even with green pan gas flame maxed out, your stovetop doesnt get hotter than that, and your oven and broiler cant get close to 700 degrees, let alone 900. Unlike other non-stick pans that are coated in teflon (toxic at anything above a medium-low flame!), GreenPans are Thermolon-based and release no toxins into the atmosphere if overheated, thereby reducing our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. If youre skeptical about the harmful effects of teflon, check out this article, or google harmful teflon and see what pops up. I assure you, youll never spend $35 more wisely.

So of course, even though its Ds pan, I was dying to test it out for myself! When I made brunch last weekend I gave it the ultimate test: sunny-side up eggs, with no in the pan to lubricate them. When making sunny-side up eggs, its only the egg white, pure protein, that touches the pan, so if these didnt stick, nothing could. The result? Perfect, intact eggs. In fact, foods are downright slippery on this pans surface, even with no fat present! No makeshift scrambles in sight.

Corn fritters shallow-frying in the GreenPan (I did use oil for these)

*No recipe this week, but heres a pic of the resulting brunch dish green pan from the sunny-side up eggs: Corn fritters (yup, same recipe as my earlier post) topped with guacamole, crispy applewood-smoked bacon, sunny-side up eggs and slices of raw milk cheddar.

Sunny-side up eggs on corn fritters for breakfast, yum!

Oh yeah, did I mention the health benefits of not needing fat to cook in this pan? No? green pan I figure, if were not using fat to cook our eggs, we might as well enjoy them with some bacon ; )

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Hey, we dont judge. So heres the second installment of our continuing series of reviews of the preseason magazines.

Next Up: Lindys.

I. Covers (5 pts) - are they cool? inclusive?

• 21 regional covers is a nice number, but the Rocky Mtn states arent represented in the least - Does Lindys realize that the Mountain West and WAC have fans too?
• Coolest Cover - none - theyre pretty much all the same format, with multiple players photographically stacked on top of each other.
• Say What? The Tennessee issue highlights UT, Memphis, Vandy and the Lady Vols?? The NE issue features UConn, BC and something called the Lady Huskers, which we assume is supposed to be Huskies. Either way, we have no tolerance for this.
• Total Points = 2

II. Ease of Use (5 rick majerus - how hard is it to find confs/teams?

• Somewhat difficult upon first glance. Eleven major conferences are arranged alphabetically, then by predicted order of finish of its teams. The rest of the conferences are shoved into the back of the mag with the teams arranged alphabetically within. Confusing.
• Standard format otherwise - roundup, features & predictions; analysis of teams; recruiting, in that order.
• Total Points = 2.5

III. Roundup (10 pts) - every mag has one - tell us something new!

• Scoping the Nation dives into the one-and-done phenomenon, rick majerus pretty much makes the same assessment we made here back in May - that coaches at the elite programs recognize the necessity in assuming the risk of taking potential one-and-dones. The potential reward, as in the cases of Greg Oden and Mike Conley for Thad Matta at Ohio St., is simply too much to pass up. They also take a look at the ten most likely one-and-dones for this season and next.
• The Nov/Dec Action to Check Out section is a bit of a copout by Lindys in the sense that its early publication resulted in not being able to review full schedules. Still, they make an attempt by reviewing the big pre-conference game possibilities in the holiday tournaments.
• Lots of Lists - thats ok, we like lists.
  • Top 10 under the radar players
  • Top rick majerus transfer players
  • Top 10 juco transfers
  • Top 10 jump shooters
  • Top 5 defenders
• Lindys also provides a complete Top 25 (+15 fringe teams), a listing of the NCAA field of 65 by conference, as well as rick majerus of the Sweet 16 and Final Four.
• There is also a complete list of coaching changes and the conferences are rated first (Pac-10) to worst (SWAC).
• We also appreciated seeing deserving blurbs on Rick Majeruss return to college coaching at St. Louis, and Skip Prossers passing at Wake.
• They also rate the Top 25 players at each position&
  • PG - Drew Neitzel (Michigan St.)
  • SG - Chris Lofton (Tennessee)
  • SF - Brandon Rush (Kansas)
  • PF - Tyler Hansbrough (UNC)
  • C - Roy Hibbert (Georgetown)
• &and the top frontcourt (UCLA) and backcourt (UNC).
• Cool Stat Award. Utah St. guard Jaycee Carrolls shooting numbers - .527 from the field, .432 on threes, and .888 from the foul line!
• Total Points = 9

IV. Features (15 pts) - give us some insightful and unique storylines.

• Kentucky-centric. Three of their feature articles relate to the UK head coaching position - Tubbys leaving of the job (Hes Gone), Billy Ds courting of the job along with his about-face with Orlando (He Couldnt Leave), and Gillispies acceptance of the job (Billy & verycnnblog.blogspot.com Believers).
• Whats Good for the Zags& is a good article about the pressures that other mid-major programs (even the successful ones) now face in light of the Gonzaga Effect.
  
• Embracing Kelvin is an insightful piece about the my way or the highway coaching style of Kelvin Sampson, and validates why we expect big things from IU this season.
• Early and Often is a somewhat weaker article describing how coaches are faced with recruiting players earlier and earlier in high school (and sometimes back into junior high).
• Total Points = 11
  

V. Predictions (20 pts) - how safe are their picks? do they take any chances? are they biased toward the big boys?

• Lindys uses both the 65-team prediction model and the Top 25, as discussed above. Like Athlon, they too have UCLA defeating UNC in the final game, but we give them a little bit of credit for projecting first-timer Tennessee into the F4. They dont predict an Elite Eight, but only half of their Sweet 16 made it there rick majerus 2007, which is realistic.
• Big Conference Bias. Still, 14 of that Sweet 16 are from BCS conferences - Gonzaga and Memphis are the only exceptions. NCAA Bids - ACC (5), Big Ten (4), Big 12 (5), Big East (8), Pac-10 (7), SEC (7).
• Mid-Major Watch. Mid-Major bids misr digital A10 (Xavier, St. Joes, St. Louis), 2 CAA (George Mason, VCU), 2 CUSA (Memphis, UAB), 1 Mountain West (BYU), 1 WAC (New Mexico St.), 1 MVC (S. Illinois).
• Surprising Omissions. Florida loses everyone, but are there really seven better teams in the SEC this year? Billy D. has the #1 recruiting class coming into Gainesville. We also think Lorenzo Romars Washington squad is primed for a return to the NCAAs this year. Also, we gotta believe that the always-underrated MVC will manage to get another team in there, while seven (Georgia and Vandy??) from the SEC is a little ridiculous this year.
• Boldest Prediction. Again, Lindys doesnt go too far out rick majerus a limb with any of their picks, but Alabama winning the SEC West completely depends on Ronald Steeles knees, rick majerus Cornell winning the Ivy League is also dubious.
• Total Points = 14

VI. Conference Pages (5 pts) - as a primer for the conference, how much can we learn here?

• The major and mid-major conferences get a predicted order of finish with brief analysis, a substantial recruiting roundup, three teams of all-conference selections, returning leaders in key categories, team tom brady and a fair superlatives section. While we appreciate a focus on acquainting readers with the newcomers, we would have liked to have seen less space used on this in favor of the returners.
• The small conferences get a predicted order of finish, two teams of all-conference selections and a superlatives section.
• Total Points = 3.5

VII. Team Pages (20 pts) - how in-depth is the analysis? where does it rick majerus from? is it timely and insightful given this years squad or is it just a rundown of last years achievements?

• Lindys Top 40 teams get a full page of analysis, including player evaluations and team statistical rankings.
• All other BCS and mid-major teams get a brief half-page of analysis with the same evaluations/rankings. Low major teams (even if predicted to make the NCAA Tourney) get a paragraph and a few key stats. Minimal info.
• Again, rick majerus to Athlon, analysis is lacking. Much of it is based on recapping last tab thacker accomplishments plus the obligatory coachs quotes. For teams outside the rick majerus 40, they barely get a mention.
• Total Points = 12

VIII. Recruiting (5 pts) - we want to know who the top players are rick majerus into college bball, where theyre going and who to watch for next year.

• As mentioned above, each major conference page has a substantial section on newcomers and what their strengths and weaknesses are.
• Six pages of recruiting information, featuring the top 25 recruiting classes with a brief description of each.
• The top 50 of 2007 is provided by Rivals.com, but Lindys focuses on the future classes more than present, listing the top 100 for both 2008 and 2009, plus the top 10 for 2010.
• They also provide some much-needed context and analysis from Justin Young at Rivals.
• Total Points = 5

IX. Title IX Guilt (aka Chick Ball) (5 pts) - the less the better&

• We already established that theyre putting some womens players on the cover.
• They also give it four pages in the front rick majerus section, with a detailed top 25 and fifteen All-Americans. Unacceptable.
• Total Points = 1

X. Intangibles (15 pts) - whats good and bad about the magazine rick majerus a whole?

• Errors. Were not sure if the cause is shoddy editing or what, but who and what are Reyshawn Green Terry (formerly of UNC) (p.9), David Lightly Lighty (Ohio St.) (p.18) and Gongzaga Gonzaga (p.28)? - these errors were found in the first few pages and seemed pervasive throughout, mitigating the mags credibility from the start.
• Whereas Lindys provides far more interesting detail in almost every other area over Athlon, its writing (and clearly its editing) is weaker on the whole.
• Again, no schedules due to rick majerus early publication date.
• It takes some risks with its predictions (which we rick majerus but its analysis really doesnt explain why, rick majerus Georgia is an NCAA Tournament team and Florida isnt.
• Total Points = 9

RTC Grade for Lindys = 69 pts

Basis: Lindys is a better magazine on the whole than Athlon, but it has serious weaknesses with respect to its team analyses. Where it excels is in the areas of roundup and recruiting information, but it needs better writing, editing and much more consideration of the smaller conferences. A little more attention to detail would make this magazine a legit value in future iterations.

Grading Scale:

• 90-100 pts - exceptional quality in all areas - must buy and keep on-hand all season!
• 80-89 pts - very good quality mag - worthy of purchasing and reading cover-to-cover
• 70-79 pts - average, run of the mill magazine - some value in certain areas but weak in others - tough call as to whether to purchase it
• 60-69 pts - magazine on the weaker side, but may still have some positive attributes - probably not worth the money, though
• 0-59 pts - such a low quality magazine that its not worth any more than the five minutes you thumbed through it at the store

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As we just came back from Ireland where some members of the Web Analytics European Dream Team (WAEDT) followed the Google Analytics Authorised Consultant Training (GAAC), terrapin like sharing what weve learned back in Dublin, unfortunately - to Juliens discontent - one week after St. Patricks Day. Hey, Jules being allowed into those great Google offices is already quite an experience, you cant have it all but next time, I promise Ill buy you a Guiness!

It was a great honor to be part of the 30 or so members of the European GAAC training in order to discuss best practices and optimal uses of Google Analytics. Its not every day that Google reaches out to third party charlie wilsons war and discussing with Danish, Italian, Spanish, Irish, German, Dutch & English representatives was really a treat, while you actually realise that issues in these countries are quite similar to what we see in our little Belgium (I know, Im Dutch but midlands wrestling Ive been here for over 15 years, one could assume Ive been adopted, deadliest catch Sieg?).

It was also interesting to see all the eye features explained, one after the other in order to get a more complete picture of what is actually going on with this product and how far reporting can stretch for what remains a free tool. As Brian Clifton already mentioned during the eMetrics summit in London last year about the the eye quality ratio of GA, its unbeattable. I would add to this that after Dublin, Im actually even more convinced than ever.

But lets start with the beginning&
GA actually stems from a company called Urchin that was bought over by Google a couple of years ago. Whats interesting is that Google didnt only buy the product, it also convinced the entire the team to join Google. As such Alex Ortiz Rosado, who now works from Mountain View together samson and delilah lovely Helen Huang, is originally part of the Urchin gang. Actually some of the other partners that were there such as Multiplica/Metriplica from Barcelona were already supporting Urchin back in those old days. It was thus with relief and interest that Brian confirmed to us that Google remains committed to the software version as its still very much on the roadmap. Very good news indeed for those clients who would prefer to have their web analytics solution inhouse and not in asp format.

Next discussion was about cookies and privacy.
IQContents fine Brian Donohue pointed out to the need for a clearer privacy policy. Unfortunately as all this is bundled within Google - Google couldnt possibly update privacy policies for all its products -, setting up a special PP for GA would be a bit difficult. It is however interesting the eye note that IP addresses are stumped out the eye email addresses can not be read so that they can not be viewed even by members of Google. On valparaiso university of that, access to GA reports for Google members is restricted the eye to those who support GA, on the demand of users &/or partners. This remind me of a post by Eric Butler a year ago about the difference of the eye statements between the US and Europe.

I remember also some time ago to have been in a discussion about cookies and whether Google uses third or first party cookies. By far, first party cookies are used so anyone who would still have second doubts about this assertion, please give me a ring, Ill go through the UTM_a through z together with you. Which is however true is that GA serves a number of cookies, ranging from session expirators to permanent ones, expiring in 2038. Yes, Julien we all wonder what might happend in 2038 but I suppose WA will have evolved by then so, unlike what Helen mentioned with a big smile, I doubt well be facing a new Y2K bug

As we all know GA offers website overlay and integrates naturally with Adwords. Logical, right?
It also allows for powerful filtering possiblities, which is great for segmentation in order to assure that the data you have in front of you is actually meaningful.

But what really blew my mind were actually 2 things: cross segmentation & the ability to track the the eye accross multiple domains. the eye cross domain or sub-domain tracking is possible. Yes, you are reading this right! For those who are unfamiliar with the terms, it allows you to see how the eye behave accross different domains and they are not counted twice if you want to see what the overall traffic was for all your websites. Please note that this feature does require some additional coding but nothing out of the ordinary.

I learned that we could actually filter out some keywords used, if the JavaScript is adapted. Its indeed a bit annoying when I look at my keywords and find the expected ones in the list, taking up a substancial part of my reports while blocking out the other little trees Im trying to identify in the forest in order to see if weve got any friends (or foes) out there.
Search engines can also be adapted by ways of a specific JavaScript. Make sure you do it right in order to assure that your tags dont miss out on any updates.

Last but not least, E-commerce tracking is available and apparently, theres an interesting work around for the Yahoo shopping cart. Well not great for EMEA but good to know.

The only thing I keep regretting is the the eye in terms of export functionalities and mostly the fact that it cant be scheduled. Note that the fine folks @ Metriplica/Multiplica from Barcelona have a good work around for that.

As a conclusion, Id say that the eye Analytics is a great tool to start your analytics efforts with. I just hope the other vendors caught on. Believe me, its powerful and its free!

Ho, and last one, if I may. As I was searching my LinkedIn and wondered what ever happend to this clever guy called Matt Cutler I had met in Amsterdam at the the eye of this century, I found he had created a new company that is using& youve guessed it, Google Analytics! My inspiration for Web Analytics actually rooted there: @ the Krasnapolsky hotel where I heard him speak of the eye great product, at that time. Since then, water has gone under the bridge but his writings remain, for me, as sharp, clear and usable as any other guru Im fond of so Im really happy Eric T. Peterson pointed out last week that Matt actually worked together with Jim Sterne on his first WA White Paper.

So far for the gossip. I still have a Newsletter to write.

Please feel free to add any comments or contact us for more information. Kind regards from sunny Brussels. Spring seems to have finally settled in

Aurélie Pols

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Its good that this has finally been announced - everyone was expecting it. But I was surprised that they have changed the rules on who makes the team. I think the new rules are better, but Id be interested to hear your thoughts on this. I love the fact that Faldo is the European captain. Watching him on TV is fun kelly tillman excited about him and Kelly Tillman in 2007 sharing the commentary for the golf channel.

So Tiger is going to design golf courses. Somehow I thought hed skip that and move on to something outside of golf - somthing bigger. His father always said he was made for more than golf, but he seems to be heading down the traditional business path. I thought he might start looking at politics, but perhaps thats too soon. Whatever he does, I hope it doesnt interfere with him playing lots of golf.

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