Searching for some energetic tracks to dance your heart out to?
Well look no further, as these 10 upbeat and groovy K-POP jams are the perfect addition to any playlist!
TWICE | What is Love?
Bringing up the energy with their latest comeback, TWICE recently returned with the charismatic sound of What is Love?. Complete with memorable hooks and an upbeat instrumental, this entertaining track was made to move to.
Paired with a heart-shaped point dance and an MV littered with multiple movie references, What is Love? is perfect for those looking for an irresistibly fun single.
OH MY GIRL-BANHANA | Banana Allergy Monkey
Cute and quirky, Oh My Girl’s sub-unit OH MY GIRL-BANHANA made their recent debut with Banana Allergy Monkey. Full of 8-bit wonder, this interesting track about a monkey allergic to bananas is confusingly amazing.
If you’re looking for a song that’s odd yet ultimately addicting, then Banana Allergy Monkey is definitely for you!
SHINee | Married To The Music
With a music video straight out of a horror film and a funky instrumental to boot, SHINee really take the cake when it comes to Married To The Music. The groovy feel of this bouncy, disco inspired tune blends all the essentials when it comes to a danceable track.
Catchy hooks, amazing vocals, and intriguing instrumentation, SHINee show off all their flaming charisma with this fun title track!
Orange Caramel | My Copycat
Another quirky track, Orange Caramel continue their reign as the rightful queens of weirdness with the amusing My Copycat.
Reminiscent of a Where’s Waldo game, My Copycat’s MV takes you on a scavenger hunt while you jam to this wacky track. And you can’t forget the easy-to-follow dance moves that can get any listener up and off their feet!
ZAZA | On The Bus
Bringing it back to the late 90’s, Zaza’s On The Bus is the perfect addition to any dance playlist. Incredibly energetic and unique in its delivery, this retro throwback hypes up the listener and can keep any party alive!
PSY | Napal Baji
An amusing addition to this list, we have the stylish sound of Psy’s Napal Baji. Off of his 7th album, Chiljip Psy-da, Psy spices things up with this funky track all about the glory of flared trousers. Matched perfectly with its own enthusiastic dance, Napal Baji is sure to get you grooving.
EXID | LADY
Fun and funky, EXID’s latest single LADY mixes the right blend of K-POP and retro to create this effortlessely addictive track. With hard-hitting rap verses from LE, beautiful vocals from Hyelin, and Jeonghwa and Hani delivering catchy hooks, LADY brings everything needed for an amazing dance track to the table!
Super Junior-D&E | Can You Feel It?
Back in 2015, Super Junior’s Donghae & Eunhyuk teamed up for Can You Feel It?. Playful and upbeat, this lively track is paired with its own simple yet signature dance to get you up and jumping around.
Even more amazing, D&E got together along with many other SM artists such as SHINee, Red Velvet, f(x), and more, to film a short video showcasing this infectiously fun dance craze. You can dance along with your favourite SM artists in the video down below!
2PM | GO CRAZY!
Staying true to the title of the song, 2PM release their inner craziness with this in-your-face track. Reminiscent of disco and house genres, this powerful jam was written, produced, and co-composed by member Jun.K.
To top off all the craziness, 2PM released their own upbeat and hilarious dance practice to go along with the song. You can check it out in the video down below!
MOMOLAND | Bboom Bboom
Earlier this year, MOMOLAND shook up the K-POP world with the smash hit Bboom Bboom. Complete with memorable verses, a catchy hook, and a fun choreography to follow along to, Bboom Bboom is the epitome of danceable.
If you want to learn how to move like MOMOLAND, take a look at their dance practice for Bboom Bboom down below!


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By JÖRG WOLLSCHLÄGER | Tucker Carlson interviewed the beautiful political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek on his Today programme. Tucker astounds her with her descriptions of a bizarre quota system for the skin colour of concert-goers in the Dutch culture industry and the open racism towards her by the media. She describes her search for the truth and how resistance from the system only made her more persistent; she always received unconditional support and strength from her family. The subservience of Europeans to tyranny by their governments upsets her.
The following interview was recorded in the Fox News studio on 18.7. 2022 and transcribed and translated by Our Central Europe, further parts will follow. A short trailer can be seen on Eva’s Twitter account.
Ultra-liberalism led to a radical change in her thinking
TC: Welcome to Tucker Carlson today! Eva Vlaardingerbroek is a lawyer from the netherlands, she’s a legal philosopher. She joined us repeatedly on our nightime of our show. We first met her in Hungary were we were doing a documentary on Victor Orban. She is now in the United States, she is someone who was described by a Dutch newspaper as: -we are recording now- the stylish face of the radical right wing, so of course we wanted to meet her in person. And here she is. Great to see you!
EV: Great to see you! Thank you so much.
TK: I love that. And you are a handmaid of the far right.
EV: Now..a handmaid of whiteness. It’s worse, and then princess of the far right, oh I don’t even know. So many weird things.
TK: Many slurs, so they don’t like you. The media in your own country. Tell us who you are, where you are from, I got to hear!
EV: I’m 25, I’m Dutch, I’m a lawyer as you said. Well, I’m a political commentator, the stylish face of the right wing as they said, radical right win.
TK: Where did you grow up?
EV: I grew up around Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, so very close to the capital.
TK: The most liberal city in the world.
EV: Ja, definitively. And I think that’s why I am the way I am now.
TK: What did your parents do?
EV: My parents are both in the classical music industry. So, very left wing, very liberal.
TK: Of course. You were at odds.
EV: Which was not always easy for them.
TK: How did you wind up different from everybody else?
Quotas by skin colour for orchestra visitors
EV: I think both my father and my mother really appreciate western culture. Because obviously they are so close to it. The greatest things, western art, western culture has produced. So I think they just appreciate it for what it is. They see that these new rules, these new…the way that the government handles subsidizing or orchestras or museums and things with all these rules for how many different sexes you have in there. You know if the city.. all these weird new liberal, left wing identity politics. They really have been against all of that.
TK: They keep track of the skin colour of the visitor?
EV: Oh ja. Oh ja. Not just the people who play, the musicians, but also the audience. They will say you get less money from our funding from the government. If you don’t have a certain quota that you have to reach.
TK: In the audience?
EV: Oh ja. Ja ja.
TK: So its like full Nazi situation where they keep track of everyones race?
EV: They track your race, they track your sex, they track all of that absolutely. That’s also what I have noticed in the public debate. Whenever they talked about me. They always have no trouble talking about my blue eyes and my blond hair when they describe me. No, for sure.
TK: I think we gave that up after the second world war, where it was considered immoral for governments to track peoples genes, their ethnicity. So the Nazis kind of discredited that, that was my view growing up. That has changed. Obviously.
EV: That’s changed. That’s changed. And you can be very critical obiously when it’s white peoples. So when you talk about white people beeing arians. When you talk about minorities being in the front, the forefront that is a good thing. So, it kind of, they talk about it too. Now its time that we turn the table. Right so, thats how its been done before.
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TK: So you grew up in this environment. From a traditional American perspective that’s a conformist society. That’s not an attack, but there a premium placed on cooperation and everyone getting along. Same views. Is that accurate?
EV: No. I wouldn’t say so, although I think that that is something you can still say about the Netherlands and if I see the way that they talk in my coutry about America and about the American debate. It’ s so polarized, you know you have only two parties and you have much more here, if that’s democratic then our country is, because we have- last that I counted we have 37 parties I think, that were on the list for you to choose from. But I don’t find that to be the reality whatsoever. The debate is even more harsher in the US in many ways and the opposition is less visible, less strong. In a way I think the debate at home is even worse, because it has so… people have the idea that they are in this fair balance, where there is really not.
TK: Because you have so many parties that it gives the illusion that there is a diversity of views. Most of the parties are all aligned with each other. They form blocks.
EV: They form blocks. After the elections all these talking points for neo-liberal parties just go out the window, that’s all for show. They go hand in hand with the left, it’s open borders its liberal policies. Of course we also have the European Union and that makes a lot of the laws that we are subjected to. And we can choose any of these people, that is not all of them, that make all these laws for us. They tell us.
TK: Beeing ruled by people you didn’t vote for is now called democracy?
EV: Ja, oh ja, they call it democracy. And people like me and people like you are threats to democracy. Because we are dissident voices. That’s their favourite way of dealing with us of course. They say, you’re not you know not another voice in the debate, no what you say is a danger to democracy, is misinformation. And they use a lot of legal instruments actually to crack down on peole like us. Because we don’t have a first amendment.
TK: How is that noticeable. You don’t have a first amendment.
EV: I think we..
TK: Do get people punished for speaking?
EV: Yes. You see people punished for speaking. I think.For example a very well known politician in the Netherlands on the right wing, Geerd Wilders, I don’t know if you ever heard of him.
TK: Of course.
EV: Ja. He has been convicted of hate speach. So you can see that even the establisment goes after politicians who dissent from beeing left wing, globalist,a rhetoric. When..legal means. And you can see that not just for politicians. But during Covid for example we’ve seen that beeing used against ordinary civilians. Oh yes. They will have task forces even a military task force in the Netherlands that is completely..that has this one job. And that is to crack down on free speech. And they will say that everything that goes against the governments narrative when it comes to Covid for example, forms a danger for society. Therefore its disinformation, we need to take it down. So..
TK: And they use force to do that?
EV: Well not…You probably have seen all the demonstrations that we had where the police used force against protesters. That they have done for sure. But not yet when it comes to freedom of speech, where they crack down on…They haven’t done that with force yet. But..
TK: What they had done is to stop doing something, the threat is inherent.
EV: Ja. And we don’t have guns, because like I said we don’t have a first amendment. But we surely don’t have a second amendment.
TK: So its not a free country.
EV: Its an illusion of a free country. All the things that I find important for a free democratic nation are not real. So if you are going to arrest, as a state arrest distance, you don’t have free speech. If you have politicians, first we had Geerd Wilders for example, but he is protected 24/7 because his live is not sure. Because he is always under threat of radical islamists that are also beeing imported by the same elites. And you have the state that comes after him. And prosecutes him for things that he says. I don’t think that you can talk of a real free nation, no.
TK: So what was is like to grow up with heterodox views, not agreeing with the regime in a country like the Netherlands.
Suppression of dissent in the education system
EV: Oh you notice that very early on. So I think that I have started noticing it from basically halfway from highschool when I started joining things like the debate club. I thought that I was a feminist, because I read a book from … a Somalian woman who was circumcized or mutilated I should actually say. Generically mutilated and I thought well that’s horrible. There are cultures in the world that don’t treat women the way we treat them. So I am not sure…I must be a feminist, 16 year old me thought. That is what feminists should fight against. And I found out very quickly that joining feminists groups that is not something you were allowed to talk about. That the feminists in the media did not think that wearing headscarfs or mutilation was a bad thing. No, you as a white woman have no right to talk about that. So I think..
TK: They said that out lound?
EV: Of course, ja I think throughout my life going to these types of clubs, going to meet feminists, also going to university thinking: now its the time for an academic, free debate and noticing first week basically that my teachers noticing what you’re saying, that’s not science. That is just opinion or that is a dangerous view or that is a dangerous thought. I think I have just gone from disillusion to disillusion.
TK: The people and the whole kind of system that you are describing is conveiing a message to most people that it’s not working. Disagreeing, just be quiet, just get in line.
TK: Because the consequences of being different are tough. So why did you decide not to obey?
EV: I think every single time that I endured that , every single time that I noticed that the system fougth back, it was more of a clou for me that I was on the right track. And I saw and I think someone like you see that all the time. They come down at you so strongly for things that..if you just listen to what they say its actually the complete opposite of what they preach. They say, oh we want a lot of young women come and speak out in the public debate. And to be active and the moment I did for the very first time.
TK: They attack you on the base of your skin colour.
EV: They say you are an aryan princess and you are a far right radical, we need …you pose a danger to society. And I thought to myself well, that can’t be right, so your very right. What they are doing is showing a clear message to the people. Few do this, they show you: this is what we will do to you. You speak out about the things we don’t like you to speak out about, we are going to come after you. And its a very cleat example to other young people or to anyone for that matter. You can go down that road without being reprimanded by the establisment. Ja.
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TK: What did your parents say?
EV: I am very very fortunate to have two parents who support me, no matter what. But I know that’s not the case for a lot of people. So for me, even in the hardest days, when, you know I had basically the entire political establishment come after me or and had friend who said I don’t want to be friends with you anymore for the things that you say. My parents were always there. So to have that save an secure home and foundation is basically what helped me throughout this.
TK: What an imposing attitude. What would be your guess as to the percentage of the Dutch population that roughly agrees with you?
EV: Oh, I think the percentage that agrees is much higher than what is reflected in the way they vote. That. So for example there was this survey I think, conducted in 1999 already. Where the Dutch population was asked about mass migration or immigration. And they said then that.. a large majority said that this is one of the biggest mistakes we ever made in Dutch history. And that was way before the refugee influx.
TK: What would have be a bigger mistake?
EV: Oh you know, they could have talked about a lot. A lot.
TK: Can you think of a bigger mistake.
EV: They are taking up New ….Amsterdam to the Brexit. …New York
TK: Very bright. A new deal on that. I don’t think they want it now though. I haven’t been there recently.
EV: I haven’t been there either, so we ‘re gone..
Mass migration changes country beyond recognition
TK: I am sure you would make your judgements on New York City. But ähem, what. How has mass migration changed society, changed the country?
EV: The Dutch society that has changed as a whole beyound recognition. At some places. So if you go to any major European city, just a little bit ..just outside of the historic center for example. In some of these parts you won’t know that you are in Europe any more. It would be a little Africa. And it has changed to such a degree that a young woman like me wouldn’t.. First of all you ‘re not advised to go out after dark alone. But there are certain area where you should just not go alone. Like whatsoever, because its too unsafe for you to go. And you see it in the way or we see who would inherit the native language in that areas. You wouldn’t hear a Dutch or you wouldn’t hear a Swedish, you would hear Arabic. You wouldn’t see the Dutch or Swedish language written, you would see signs in these languages, because…The government also communicates to these people in their own languages , because they go along with it all. So I would say ja, it really has changed our continent. Beyound recognition, as we made it very unsafe and we have lost in many ways our national and our continetal identity.
TK: So there is a penatly for saying…so why the hysteria, why the.. So living in a cohesive an safe society is the goal of everyone, no matter what colour you are and what language you. Everyone wants to live in a place that’s peaceful, where everyone gets along.
EV: So one should think.
TK: I think that’s German. Nigerias problems .. everyone knows what kind of problems.. but if one lives in a harmonious society. You’re homecountry has become less so, less harmonious, less sav, probably less prosperous too. Why can’t you say that out loud?
EV: You can’t say that out loud, because obviously, they say it goes against the policies that they have that the people who ruled our countries, the liberal elites, that ruled our countries for the last decades that …It goes against those policies. So you’re attacking them and that could threaten their power that’s why I think for sure.
EV: And the other thing is that it goes also against the world view that these people will have. And I think its a sort of an alliance of, a weird alliance you could almost say. between the neo-liberal, capitalist elite of Europe that is pro open borders, but for economic reasons and the left wing that says: Oh we should all live together, one world, one culture, we are all humans, we can handle this, you know dance around… rainbows. So that sort of alliance..
TK: But they don’t actuallly fit together, there is 99 % Han Chinese, Korea is overwhelmingly Korean. Bukina Faso is African. They don’t apologize at all. They are not saying China is too Chinese. They never mention that its fine. It’s only Europa.
EV: I think a lot has to do with the fact that we still live under the curse of the second world war. Evil as gotten a real, visible face in the collective memories of Europeans. It’s obviously under the nazi regime. So the white man is the problem. Patriarchal structures are the problem. Nationalism is the problem. So I think if you are like with me. If you are a blond woman on the right side, you’re immediately in that camp. And thats sort of the only thing people seem to think about our days. Ok, if you are here to represent these values we will have a second world war or a world war on our hands. So its that simple. Really that type of mindset.
TK: Well, that’s so mindless.
EV: It’s very mindless, but it’s a very good means to an end to silence dissidents. So its a very good way to stay in power.
TK: Ah. Was Europe liberated from the Nazis, but not the Chinese?
TK: It wasn’t . So it actually doesn’t make any sense.
TK: But its Europe specific. All counries in Europe and the English speaking world. Is not allowed to have..
EV: Europe for Europeans.
TK: Right. A cohesive society. So ahm.. ha What percentage you said the poll from the 1990s now thinks that mass migration brings peril to Europe?
EV: It depends per country. But in a society like France you would think that, you know, its much higher. There has been huge numbers of terrorist attacks ever since the migrant wave in 2015, that society has really been disintegrating in a way that you almost don’t see in any other country in Europe, maybe apart from Sweden for example. And I really hope this time that Le Pen would win the elections or that someone of her ilk brings about change.
EV: But it hasn’t happened.
Europeans’ docility to state abuse of power
EV: So I’m very worried about that, I think if I had to say one thing, that is the main difference to me at least beween America and Europe: It’s that we live under this type of tyranny and we don’t see it, because we don’t distrust our own governments. The European people are very docile in that sense. And again that’s reflected in our constitutions, no second amendment for us.
TK: Again, I am struck how none- sensical it is. So if you are drawing lessons from the second world war, I think it is worth doing that,sure, from the tyranny that descended over Europe. One of the lessons, the main would be, don’t trust your government. Politicians are not always telling the truth, sometimes they have bad intentions and the second lesson would be, don’t disarm you population, because then you are powerless.
EV: Right. We have the European Union, Tucker, don’t forget. For it’s not just our national governments, we have union of all these countries that came together because we want peace. That was the whole idea, you know behind the European Union and the people still buy that. So even though we have an ever growing union.
TK: Do they probaly think that?
EV: Oh ja, sadly I do. A lot of people when they talk about the European Union they do, even in the center right for example. They think about it in that way. They think that nationalism is a bad thing that needs to be eradicated, that leads to war. The European Union is here to protect us from going into that. Because that’s a lie that has been repeated so often and so loudly throughout the ..well basically all parts of society, especially in academia. That people have really started to believe it, don’t question it. So the idea that the government is not your friend, its not apparent to a lot of people and even during Covid when you could see how badly the government can treat its own citizens. And how soon…suddenly this idea of segregation based on medical records for example was accepted. It baffles me that people don’t see that.
TK: So you went in here for Covid?
EV: Absolutely. Stuck on my own.
TK: Tell us what you saw.
EV: Well we saw a crackdown on our human rights that’s unprecedented I would say since the second world war. Which is also something that is also absolutely prohibited to say. You can’t say that.
EV: Because its all for your safety. It’s all for your health. There is no bad evil plan behind the way governments have treated us during this pandemic.
TK: Calling certain subsets of the population dirty and diseased. We haven’t seen that before in Europe did we? Probably?
EV: No, we haven’t. Macrons perception is that he wants to piss off everyone who wants to decide what they want to do with their body for themselves. No those people are not real citizens. And everybody just seems to glance over that. If you would hear that kind of rhetoric somewhere else in the world you would be sure that amnesty international would be sounding the alarm.
TK: Of course, especially in Europe. Again, if you say this minority of our citizens is dirty.
TK: Don’t touch them.
TK: How would that manifest itself?Were you in Amsterdam, you said Amsterdam…
EV: Yes. It manifests itself in, basically a year of lockdown. So that lockdown, in holland there was a curfew. So you couldn’t basically leave your house after 9 P.M. I’ ve been in Vienna to go to a protest when this was all reaching its peak, when they were trying to introduce mandatory vaccinations in Austria. There it even was so that there was a lockdown for the unvaccinated. I was out in Vienna, protesting against, well, this regime. It was basically illegal for me to be outside.


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What do you think?
The device will have a 13 MP camera, a new quad-core Exynos 5450 processor, clocked at 2 GHz. It will boast 2GB or RAM, with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean running out of the box.
The S4 will feature full 1080p HD, with a 4.99 inch AMOLED screen, which is about 35% more than the iPhone’s 326 pixels.
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For its part, the Trump Organization noted that the contribution was made voluntarily.
The Trump Organization tallied the earnings using an industry standard, Sorial said, and in accordance with the company's internal guidelines.
"It would be nice if President Trump would be transparent," said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight. "A list of properties, the foreign governments involved and the benefits surrendered would help ensure that the President is making good on his promise and honoring the anti-corruption protections created by our founding fathers."
Amey added that the donation may resolve the constitutional dilemmas -- though others disagree.
The President's pledge to forgo foreign government profits from his hotels has been controversial since he announced it.
In January 2017, just before taking office, Trump tried to address concerns over the possibility of foreign influence. During a news conference, one of his attorneys said Trump's business would voluntarily donate all profits hotels derived from foreign governments to the US Treasury.
"This way, it is the American people who will profit," said Sheri Dillon, Trump's attorney from the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
But months after that, the plan to donate those profits faced renewed scrutiny by watchdog groups when the Trump Organization conceded it was difficult to determine whether certain payments were attributable to foreign governments.
At the time, the company also said it was "impractical" to require all guests to identify themselves -- a policy that would "impede upon personal privacy and diminish the guest experience of our brand."
That's just one example of foreign government spending at the hotel. There's also a lobbying firm for Saudi Arabia, which paid the hotel more than $270,000 from October 2016 through March 2017. Last year, an industry group with ties to the Turkish government held its annual conference at the property.
The Attorneys General of Maryland and the District of Columbia cite Trump's DC hotel in their lawsuit against the President for allegedly breaching the Constitution. When asked about the Trump Organization's donation to Treasury, a spokesperson for DC's AG said it won't impact their case.
"With this announcement, President Trump's businesses seem to confirm that they accepted payments from foreign governments in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause," said the spokesperson. "Whether the Trump Organization donated the proceeds from those foreign emoluments is irrelevant to our case, but we would certainly be interested in learning more about which foreign governments have paid the

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Fantasy Football DE
What is DE in Fantasy Football?
A defensive end is a player who plays on the line of scrimmage defensively on either end of the line. This includes the right end and left end. Their primary job is to rush the quarterback as well as contain the running back by keeping them from going outside.
Defensive End's Fantasy Value
Compared to other defensive positions, the defensive end finds itself right in the middle in terms of fantasy value. It is higher up than defensive tackles and cornerbacks but behind linebackers and safeties.
Defensive End Scoring
Given the versatility on the field of some defensive ends, there are a variety of possible ways for them to earn points. Sacks are the most common way a defensive end to score as they are usually the league leaders in that category. With those sacks, forced fumbles are also common as well as tackles for a loss.
Defenders are all scored with the same point system, but below is a chart depicting the most common ways defensive ends score points.
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The biggest thing to note is that four tackles are equal to a sack. The problem with this is that tackles are far more common than sacks, making them the most beneficial stat to a defender in fantasy. If you're playing in an individual defensive player league (IDP) those with more tackles are better choices.
How to Draft a Defensive End
In most cases, using an early round pick on a defensive end is not worth it. Their sack numbers are impressive, but tackles are far too valuable in an IDP league. An early pick is better spent on a linebacker or safety. If you are set on taking one, draft the ends with the highest tackle numbers in previous years.
With defensive ends, it is also better to focus on high upside guys in later rounds. Outside of the obvious top defensive ends like TJ Watt, Joey Bosa, and Danielle Hunter, look to take rookies or up-and-coming players.

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there is so much going on already.
a North Idaho Stamp show here in Coeur D ALene the first weekend in April.
Chris Cozen and Teesha Moore are coming to teach this year At the main store in Spokane. More info on these events coming soon, very soon!
This coming weekend I am doing a class on Encaustic art Sat only $45 at Spokane Art Supply on Monroe call to join in 509-327-6622

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As of October 1, 2019 we are located at:
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Our clinic is located in the Upper Kirby/River Oaks/Montrose district, on Richmond Avenue conveniently located between Buffalo Speedway and Kirby. We are one block north of US-59.
Ample parking is available in the front, side, and back of the building. In the main lobby take the elevator to the second floor. We are located in Suite 202, across the hall from the restrooms.
For patients visiting us from Montrose, take Richmond west.
From patients coming from the West University area, take Kirby or Buffalo Speedway north to Richmond.
For patients visiting from the Heights, we recommend taking Studewood/Studemont/Montrose south to Richmond to avoid the train intersections.
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“He was as happy as a 12-year-old, trying to see what Mother Nature does there and then work it into a design … Science has kind of divorced itself from spirituality and emotion, but Darrel cultivates that experiential side of what landscapes evoke in us.”
~ Ulrich Lorimer about landscape architect Darrel Morrison
Nature likes a mess, but we humans continue to try to tame it into some ordered, orderly composition. Garden writer Margaret Roach notes, “Ecological landscaping is the merging of environmental science and art to create evolving compositions, not something we can restrain.” She quotes landscape designer Morrison, “Painting is two-dimensional; architecture and sculpture, three-dimensional … But landscapes are four-dimensional, with time being the fourth dimension.”
Every gardener knows that their garden shifts and changes over the seasons. We time our planting to the early, mid-, or late season fruiting or flowering. Each year we try to plan the gardens to take advantage of local variations in shade or moisture and patterns to entice us.
Twenty-five years ago, when we had major construction on our backyard, we moved the vegetable garden and added some trees to the landscape, including a limber pine. Over time the pine grew well, but it seemed lonely in that part of the yard, so we found and placed a boulder next to the trunk. They got along well, and I believe are now fast friends.
Roach continues, “The design process Morrison taught students has an ethereal, luminous quality to it, as well. The creative spark for a landscape design could come from a painting — the energy of a vintage 1914 Kandinsky or ‘the swirling strokes of Van Gogh that conjure movement’ — or even from a piece of music … Music is so good at getting you out of a rut … What I like to do, and have students do, is have overlays over their base map of a site and let flowing music carry them, especially in the very early stages of a design — a freeing up of one’s mind.’”
Morrison’s four characteristics of a successful landscape design:
First, “… it must be ecologically or environmentally sound, meaning that it has a level of natural diversity that will provide resilience against climate change.”
Second, “… a landscape must also be experientially rich, beyond the visual dimension. That means considering ‘the nonvisual aspects: the feel of the wind, the aroma of prairie dropseed grass that permeates the air … And the other forms of life, too: the bees and butterflies that move through it.”
“A design must, likewise, be of the place — ‘A native landscape gives you a clue of where you are. You should know if you are in Des Moines or Connecticut.’”
“Last, a landscape must be dynamic, changing over time. ‘We spend all kinds of effort to keep our landscapes looking the same, mowed and clipped and unchanged … You are missing out by doing that, missing out on the change from one growing season to another, and over time.’”
Plants grow and thrive or die. We look at a part of the garden to see what is missing and what is out of place. Our old house (~150 years old) sits on an old yard with “heritage” plants that just crop up in odd places from time to time. The immediately previous occupant had six coon hounds that had worn the backyard down to packed dirt and mud when I moved in. We sodded and I cleared a space for a vegetable garden, but once we began watering, strange (to us) plants kept appearing — roses in the middle of the veggies, shrubs amidst the lawn, strange plants that could be weeds or become flowers. We transplanted the roses to a better bed, somewhat successfully, and moved the chokecherries to the fence line. Some plants we just dug up or let be. They seemed to know where they wanted to grow.
Most of the relocated roses did okay for a decade or two, and the chokecherries loved it wherever they ended up. (Perhaps too much?) We left the lilacs to their own devices and they thrive, still. An ancient pear tree looms more than 25 feet over the yard and bears an enormous amount of inedible fruit each year, but its companion apple tree collapsed in a huge wind several years ago. Old Man’s Beard vines still decorate one fence line, and several areas host Virginia Creeper. I believe the birds and squirrels eat the small creeper berries and spread them around the yard, so you never know where they’ll show up next. Same with the Sweet Pea vines that seem to magically materialize anywhere that is watered or tended.
There’s a line from “Out of Africa” about trying to control a flooding stream that I relate to, “This water, she lives in Mombasa, Memsahib.”
After years of futile battle, I have learned that there are places that plants want to be, and it may not be worth trying to change their mind.
I guess it’s just in their nature.
Margaret Roach, Your Garden May Be Pretty, but is it Ecologically Sound?, August 11, 2021, New York Times


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ATLANTA - This morning I have a story, which which I hope you will read, that centers on Jarvis Jones and Manti Te'o, and why the latter if getting way more buzz for the Heisman Trophy.
It's a question that's been voiced by more than just Georgia fans, with Scott Wolf, the L.A. Times beat writer for USC, chiming in the other day: "As a Heisman voter, I think Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones has the strongest case of any defensive player."
That point was basically echoed by Chris Huston, who follows the Heisman race year-round for both his Heismanpundit.com web site and CBSsports.com. His comments are in the above-linked story.
Te’o is a 7-2 pick to win the Heisman, second after Johnny Manziel, according to odds posted Thursday by Bovada. Jones is considered out of the running.
But what about Aaron Murray? The junior quarterback may have as much of a chance as Jones, if not more - which is to say not much, but with a huge game against Alabama, he could make a late run to at least be invited to New York for the ceremony.
“Aaron especially probably has the best chance of the two to make a late push for it if he has a huge game," Huston said. "He obviously has the great season credentials."
Huston then cited Murray's stats, and Georgia being in position to play for the national title.
"I'm a little surprised, actually, that there hasn’t been more buzz for him as the season has gone on," Huston said. "I think if there had been more buzz for him this would be a good set-up for him to clinch a trip to New York.”
It helps Jones and Murray that there aren't more noteworthy candidates who are playing this weekend: Huston said it's pretty much just Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein and the Georgia guys.
But there aren’t many noteworthy candidates playing this weekend: Pretty much Collin Klein and the Georgia guys. In addition - and I mentioned this in the Jones story - the recent trend is that voters hold their votes until after championship weekend.
On a personal note, I'm a voter too, and I'm holding my vote too. The Heisman Trust has asked voters this year to not publicize their votes until the announcement, and I'll respect that. But let's just say I'll be keeping my vote in mind as I watch Saturday's game here in the Georgia Dome.

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Frankel, Laurie. This is How it Always Is. New York: Flatiron Books, 2017.
Emergency room doctor Rosie and novelist Penn live a busy, happy life with their five rambunctious sons in Wisconsin. When their youngest, Claude, puts on a dress and doesn’t want to take it off, the family takes it in stride, encouraging his imaginative play and supporting his right to be who he is. But just before Claude starts kindergarten, he announces that he wants to wear dresses and bring a purse to school. He isn’t a boy after all; he wants to be a girl when he grows up.
This is How it Always Is follows the family as they struggle with personal fears and societal expectations, learn about transgender identities and unlearn previous misconceptions, and love and support Poppy, their daughter and sister.
There is a lot to like about this novel. The practicalities of childhood transition are remarkably detailed; Frankel describes parental discussions with teachers and principals, Poppy’s hair and clothing changes, school bathroom issues, and the frantic research undertaken by both parents. The character building is exceptional, too. Each member of the family has a distinct and interesting personality that is gradually revealed as the audience gets to know them, and each character’s strengths and flaws are portrayed in an empathetic way.
One of my favorite things about this novel is a metanarrative told by Penn. Each night, he tells his children a new installment of an ongoing story that has been created over several years. It’s a fantasy story that reflects the children’s lives and the lessons he wishes to impart. The central character, a prince, has pieces of each child’s personality, and the character is used to explore the everyday challenges each child faces. When Poppy articulates her desire to become a girl, a fairy is added to the story; and as Poppy struggles with fears of peer exclusion, the fairy character undergoes a similar ordeal.
Unfortunately, there are also some problematic aspects to This is How it Always Is. The only two nonwhite characters are painfully two-dimensional and only serve as providers of helpful guidance to the main character, Rosie (veering uncomfortably into Magical Negro territory). Mr. Tongo, a social worker at Rosie’s hospital, is described as being so ethnically ambiguous he could be “at least half a member” of any race or nationality (67). Although he’s purportedly a friend of the parents, they never refer to him by his first name and they only speak to him when they want advice about their transgender daughter. And during a work trip to Thailand, Rosie meets K, a medic who teaches her about the Thai-specific gender identity kathoey. Kathoey is “one of the thing (sic) K stand (sic) for” (288). To provide a comparison, this would be like an American trans woman naming herself T for transgender.
Additionally, there is a strong moralizing tone throughout the novel about the dangers of secrets (read: nondisclosure of transgender identity). Soon after Poppy expresses her identity, Rosie treats a gunshot victim at the hospital. When the patient is discovered to be a transgender woman, Rosie has a vivid mental image of what happened: Jane Doe trying on a skirt and finding the one that’s “tight enough to be feminine but loose enough to hide her secret” (108), heading out to a frat party, and being attacked when her secret is discovered. The word secret is used a lot throughout the novel, specifically in reference to Rosie’s and Penn’s decision to allow Poppy to transition and not come out to her peers.
There is much foreshadowing about the perils of secrets: when the family moves to Seattle to provide a safer environment for Poppy, the eldest boy asks why they had to move if they were keeping Poppy a secret. Rosie (as narrator) muses that this was foresight “that secrets are miserable things, that secrets, be they deliberate or accidental, will out, and then it won’t matter where you live, for no place anywhere can protect you from the power and fallout of a secret once exploded” (140-141).
Of course, Poppy is eventually outed and suffers a great deal. Her friends are confused and upset that she didn’t confide in them; some of her peers are mean; and Poppy shaves her head in grief and tries to go back to being a boy for a time. After a period of crisis, the family heals and learns together that keeping secrets leads to pain and fear, but telling your story is the right thing to do: “You find out you’re not alone. And so does everyone else. That’s how everything gets better” (312).
The idea that nondisclosure of trans identity is secretive and therefore bad is deeply flawed. Sure, if every trans person in the world came out, many trans-ignorant people would learn and grow, and society might improve more quickly for trans people. On the other hand, many people would be murdered, imprisoned, fired, excommunicated, cast out of their families, ostracized by peers, and denied medical care. Coming out is a personal choice and is not objectively bad or good. I wish that this novel had treated coming out as a choice rather than a moral obligation.
I had complicated feelings about this book. As a trans person, I had trouble empathizing with Rosie, the main character. Rosie continuously misgenders Poppy, both in conversations and internal dialog. Poppy is referred to with he/him pronouns until Part II (page 119); and through the rest of the book, Rosie switches back and forth between pronouns, uses Poppy’s deadname several times, and questions whether Poppy is a real girl.
That said, Rosie’s reaction is normal for a parent. When a child transitions, the parents have a transition as well—they have to rethink everything they thought they knew about their child; they have to train themselves to use a new name and pronouns; they have to do a lot of learning very fast; and they have to come to terms with the potential violence their child may face. Even the best parents stumble, and accidental misgendering is very common. Many parents do not ever accept their trans children; Rosie never stops loving her child and does her best to learn and grow.
This is How it Always Is is a beautifully written, realistic novel about parenting a trans child. Although Poppy’s identity and experiences are a central focus, this book isn’t really about her; it’s about Rosie’s experience as a parent. Although I personally found it challenging as a trans reader, I do think it might be useful for parents of trans children—with the caveat that disclosure of trans identity is not a moral imperative.
Author Laurie Frankel is herself the parent of a trans child, and although this novel is not about her family, some of her experiences are undoubtedly reflected, particularly the conviction that hiding trans identity is dishonest.
I received a complimentary copy of This is How it Always Is in exchange for an honest review.


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May 10, 2014, 2:05 AM EDT
Losing in the playoffs can come with consequences. Gary Agnew, an assistant coach with the St. Louis Blues for two years, found out all about that.
The Blues were defeated in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The club gave head coach Ken Hitchcock a one-year contract extension, but parted ways from Agnew and goalie coach Corey Hirsch. The decision to let Agnew walk was one that Hitchcock, it appears, could not offer influence on.
“There was no sign of extensions for anybody,” Agnew told Syracuse.com. “Nothing was happening. Something was amiss. When we lost to the first round to Chicago, it fueled the fire.
“Hitch and I are thick as thieves. He couldn’t do anything about it.”
But where one door closes, another is surely to open in the National Hockey League for Agnew, who spent six previous seasons as an assistant coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
- Two down, one to go: Wings ink Tatar to three-year deal 2
- Cashing in: Rangers sign Brassard to five-year, $25 million deal 54
- Subban not eager to discuss contract talks 33
- Leafs re-sign Reimer — two years, $4.6 million 22
- Gorges still can’t explain falling out of favor in Montreal 13
- Eller, Habs agree to four-year, $14 million contract 10
- Cory Sarich hospitalized following cycling accident, expects ‘full recovery’ 7
- Stamkos shrugs off talk of LeBron-like homecoming to Toronto in 2016 31
- Avs and O’Reilly agree on two-year deal, but questions remain 45
- Rangers and Kreider avoid arbitration, agree on two-year deal 39
- NBC Sports to air over 100 NHL regular-season games in 2014-15 (69)
- Vanek connected to federal gambling investigation (61)
- Report: O’Reilly wants $6.7M deal, Avs counter at $5.5M (58)
- Cashing in: Rangers sign Brassard to five-year, $25 million deal (56)
- Return that toaster: Ovechkin-Kirilenko engagement broken off (54)


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In “Islamic Geometric Patterns: Their Historical Development and Traditional Methods of Construction,” author Jay Bonner takes the reader on a profound journey into the heart of Islamic art and architecture, focusing on the intricate world of geometric patterns.
At the core of Bonner’s work is the detailed exploration of the polygonal technique, a foundational method in creating these ornamental designs. Through meticulous study, he resurrects this nearly lost art form, offering rich historical evidence of its use and shedding light on a vital aspect of Islamic ornamentation.
Islamic Geometric Patterns does not merely catalogue patterns but delves deep into the development of these intricate designs over time. Bonner examines their significance amid the broader spectrum of Islamic arts, discussing the intertwined relationship of geometry with Islamic calligraphy, floral motifs, and domed decorative elements.
With over 600 captivating color images, Bonner’s scholarly endeavor is both an intellectual treat and a feast for the eyes. The visuals work hand-in-glove with the text to illustrate the complex beauty of Islamic geometric patterns and the sophisticated understanding required to create them. The book achieves a rare balance—it is both aesthetically pleasing and inherently educational.
As an architectural ornamentalist, scholar of Islamic design, and a veteran contributor to significant architectural endeavors in the Islamic world, Bonner’s authority on the subject is clear. With a comprehensive background that mixes practice and theory, he provides insights that only a few can offer.
His commitment to the teaching and preservation of traditional methods is palpable throughout the book. For practitioners and enthusiasts alike, Bonner’s work is a thoughtful guide intended to inspire and educate the next generation of artists and designers in the realm of Islamic ornamentation.
Islamic Geometric Patterns is not merely a visual directory; it is an expansive resource for students and scholars of mathematics, Islamic art, and architecture. It also serves as an invaluable reference for artists, designers, and architects keen on integrating historical and cultural accuracy into their modern works.
“Islamic Geometric Patterns” stands out as an exemplary model of how passion, scholarship, and the desire to preserve cultural heritage can come together in an engaging format. Bonner has crafted a work that is as informative as it is inspiring, ensuring that an ancient art form receives the attention and continuation it rightfully deserves.
In conclusion, this book is an exceptional addition to the fields it touches upon, offering a bridge between the past and present, between academic study and practical application. For anyone interested in the intricate beauty of Islamic geometric art or the complex interplay between culture and design, Jay Bonner’s work is a must-read.

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Mirrorless cameras have gained popularity recently. Olympus is one of the best and most well-known designers of digital and optical equipment, especially in the mirrorless industry. Additionally, we have a comprehensive selection of the best Olympus cameras here to help you in your search.
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As we previously mentioned, the majority of people associate Olympus with the Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera. Micro Four Thirds cameras are smaller and lighter than APS-C cameras since their sensor size is smaller. Together, Olympus and Panasonic developed the distinctive Micro Four Thirds technology. As a result, the cameras and lenses produced by both firms are compatible.
The majority of Olympus' models have been made available under its OM-D, PEN, and Tough series, which are the company's three primary product categories. The OM-D line of professional mirrorless cameras stands in contrast to the PEN series, which consists of compact cameras. Cameras in the tough series are robust and suitable for outdoor use.
Olympus Mirrorless Cameras have introduced new levels of speed and accuracy, which have significantly improved your photography. Olympus offers some of the fastest and most dependable cameras ever created, designed to be more powerful and portable than any DSLR.


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The consequences of U.S. withdrawal are a strategic boon to enemies of both India and the United States.
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Afghanistan’s new rulers, the Taliban, unfurled their flag over the presidential palace in Kabul, slaughtered men and women in Panjshir Valley, and released a video of al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri declaring that “Jerusalem will not be Judaized.” The Biden administration’s retreat from Afghanistan last month has left U.S. allies alarmed and bewildered; Quad members England, India, Japan, and Australia watched in horror as Biden handed the Taliban $85 billion in U.S. weaponry, Bagram Air Base, and intelligence dossiers on Afghans who worked with the Quad. As Biden was censured in the U.K. parliament, a retired Indian diplomat posted from New Delhi: “We were not consulted, we were not warned, now we must ask, can we ever trust America again?”
Of all the members of the Quad, it is India, Afghanistan’s regional neighbor and the dominant power in South Asia, that faces the greatest peril from the new terrorist superstate. India invested $3 billion in Afghan development projects, granted scholarships to Afghan students, and for decades granted sanctuary to Afghan refugees. But now India’s status as Kabul’s leading regional partner has been obliterated, and India’s security is threatened by the newly emboldened Taliban, who stated that India will “soon be defeated by Kashmir’s holy warriors.”
U.S. media downplayed the Taliban’s massive victory parade on September 4, whereas Asian news was filled with images of Taliban soldiers flaunting U.S. machine guns, driving Humvees, and flying Black Hawk helicopters over Kandahar. The Taliban announced that their new strategic partner in Asia will be Communist China, which is reportedly considering a takeover of Bagram Air Base, located 400 miles from the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where China incarcerates over a million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps, tortured and enslaved with methods of cruelty that would make a Nazi proud.
The supreme victor in this debacle is China. Its alliance with the Taliban will greatly enhance China’s capacity for power projection on the Asian landmass. Afghanistan borders Tibet and shares the deep veins of mineral riches that span the vast Tibetan Plateau into Afghanistan and nations in Central Asia, where China has established partnerships with its Belt and Road Initiative. In the past 20 years India helped build trade routes to Afghanistan and was part of a consortium planning a 4,400-mile rail network linking Afghanistan with Europe. Now those roads and railways will be controlled by India’s antagonist, Communist China.
India must now defend its sovereignty on two fronts: Afghanistan and Pakistan to the west, and China to the east. In 2020 China invaded the Indian region of Ladakh, a former Buddhist kingdom that joined the state of Kashmir when India won its independence from Britain in 1947. In recent months China has quadrupled troop deployments along India’s border with Tibet. At 2,167 miles, it is the longest militarized border in Asia. The Tibetan Plateau gives China the strategic advantage and a launching pad for missiles and drones that can strike the capitals of South and Southeast Asia in short order. As Genghis Khan once observed; “He who controls Tibet controls the world.”
After the 1962 India–China War, in which Chinese troops routed India in one month, Mao stated that his victory had laid the groundwork for China’s future annexation of “Tibet’s Five Fingers”—the Hindu-Buddhist states in the Himalayan Belt. In the past decade China has installed a Maoist government in Nepal, planted the Chinese flag on Bhutanese territory, and encroached on the Indian states of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, shipping weapons and cash to Maoist insurgents throughout India.
President Biden has treated Communist China with favor by reversing multiple executive orders that protected U.S. security, giving China access to the U.S. power grid, and dropping charges on Chinese spies, while punishing democratic India. Biden’s State Department recently blacklisted India for currency manipulation and suppressing religious freedom, alarming many in the Indian government who noted the hypocrisy of ignoring China’s persecution of Christians and Buddhists and the genocide of the Uyghur Muslims. The government of Narendra Modi built military ties with the U.S., but with the fall of Kabul, India is pivoting back to Russia, which supported India after Henry Kissinger’s “Tilt to Pakistan” during the 1972 Bangladesh War of Independence.
The U.S.’s pusillanimous retreat from Kabul is feverishly mocked and jeered in Chinese state media as proof of America’s “declining power,” says Gordon Chang of the Gatestone Institute: “The withdrawal from Afghanistan signaled to Beijing a complete failure of the U.S. intelligence community, the Pentagon, and the White House national-security apparatus. Chinese exercises in areas adjacent to Taiwan and a simulated attack on Taiwan with a short-range missile are, in this context, ominous.”
If the mission of the Quad was to contain Chinese aggression by strengthening democratic alliances, America’s failure in Afghanistan has put this mission in grave danger. The Indian military is now on high alert, while the Biden State Department expresses concerns about the Taliban government’s “inclusivity.” In an interview with India’s Usanas Foundation, posted on September 11 of this year, Dr. Cleo Paskal stated: “The U.S. has lost legitimacy as a security partner in a way that is ‘cataclysmic.’ . . . There is no Indo-Pacific without India, and there is no Quad without India.”
George Orwell once wrote; “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Let us hope that Washington will listen to New Delhi before it is too late.


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Background: The demand for ECMO support has grown. Its provision remains limited due to several factors (high cost, complicated technology, lack of expertise) which increase healthcare cost. Our goal was to assess if an ICU run ECMO model (without continuous bedside perfusion) would decrease costs while maintaining patient safety and outcomes.
Method: We performed a retrospective review that analyzed the cost and safety benefits of a newly implemented ICU-run ECMO unit from 2011-2012. The program consisted of a dedicated ICU involving multidisciplinary providers (ICU RN, mid-level providers and intensivists). In year one, we introduced an education platform, new technology and dedicated space. In year two, the multidisciplinary providers (MDPs) adopted continuous bedside perfusion support. New management algorithms designating MDPs as first responders were established. The primary end point included total cost, while the secondary end points were the RN ratios and patients’ safety. We compared these parameters with the previous model.
Results: During the study period, 75 patients were placed on ECMO (mean days: 10). The total hospital expenditure for the previous ECMO model was $623,070 compared to $302,328 respectively, showing a 46.8% decrease in cost. This cost decrease was attributed to a decreased utilization of perfusionist services and the introduction of longer lasting and more efficient ECMO technology. We did not find any significant changes in RN ratios or any differences in outcomes related to ICU safety events.
Conclusion: We demonstrated that the ICU run ECMO model managed to lower hospital cost by reducing the cost of continuous bedside perfusion support with no loss in safety or outcomes.
Recommended CitationHong, En Yaw; Wallace, Suzanne; Tropea, Amy; Byrne, MSN, RN, Jaime; Hirose, MD, PhD, Hitoshi; Pitcher, MD, Harrsion; and Cavarocchi, MD, Nicholas C., "A cost reducing ECMO model: a single institutional experience." (2013). Department of Surgery Faculty Papers. Paper 103.

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17 (Youth Lagoon Cover)
Astronauts, etc. - 17 (Youth Lagoon Cover)
Astronauts, etc. has really made a lovely cover of Youth Lagoon’s 17. This track is the kind of song you can listen to over and over again when you are tired out of your mind and it will soothe you like a full brain massage through your earlobes. The raw vocals and live sound make the impact of this song far more immediately emotional than more polished recordings.
Just like Tim Fitz, this DIY musician has shown a proficiency dubbing over the top of the tracks he has laid down to essentially play the entire song solo.
You can check out more of Astronauts, etc.’s work on his Soundcloud page which includes plenty more free downloads. Enjoy.
Download - 17
Wrapped in Piano Strings
Radical Face - Wrapped In Piano Strings
One song I know I will never tire of hearing is this one. Ben Cooper uses accordion, strings, guitar and yes, piano strings to pull at your heartstrings. Gothic subject matter is in its abundance on Radical Face’s debut concept album where narratives are told from the perspective of a ghost.
The 2006 album Ghost is not short of its fair share of classic songs. Welcome Home and Glory are just two other highlights worthy of a listen if this type of chill is up your alley.
Twice (Black Room Session)
Little Dragon - Twice (Black Room Session)
Little Dragon have gradually been emerging into the social conscious through their genre-defying music. They have continued to break new ground with each subsequent release and with luck, they will continue to win over fans worldwide.
The Swedes released their self-titled debut album in 2007. Twice is the opener.
Beginning your album with a song like Twice is setting the bar high. Its deadpan melody and sparse production brings out the rawness of Yukimi Nagano’s vocals. That piano riff is contemplative and has been sampled to great effect by hip hop artists A.Dd+ on Under and Zion I & J. Period’s Likwid (Dubplate).
Perhaps one of the most impressive things about this song is that it is a live rendition of Twice. You can watch Little Dragon’s performance of this on Youtube.
Ain't The Blues
Intuition & Equilibrum
Intiuition & Equilibrum - Ain’t The Blues
Californican emcee Intuition is no stranger to the ill chill pill, having come to our attention back in 2011 when he released his free mixtape, I Ruined These Songs For You Too.
He recently released this new track with Equilibrium presumably on production duties and the subject matter is melancholic, introverted and thought-provoking. Check it out and enjoy.
Frank Ocean - Pink Matter Remix (Featuring OutKast)
Okay, okay, okay. This feature spot on Frank Ocean’s Pink Matter probably isn’t the type of collaboration most OutKast fans are looking for. It’s not upbeat, it’s not radio friendly or crunk and it is emotionally heavy. But that won’t stop me getting excited.
Frank Ocean’s signature melancholic crooning is dark. At times it is detached, at times it is despairing and vacant and all of these textures are observations made without really trying to decipher the ambiguous intelligent lyrics. Big Boi’s verse is straightforward, vividly depicting voyeuristic perversion and André 3000’s is somewhere in between the other two artists.
For the moment, this track is still available for free download by following the link below and navigating the (downward arrow) link.
Download - Pink Matter Remix
Laura Veirs - July Flame
I have been searching for a song like this for a long time.
By that statement, I mean I have been looking for some slower tempo, introspective singer/songwriter material and Laura Veirs’ July Flame has certainly satisfied the above criteria.
The only problem is that the fact it’s taken me so long to find her 2010 single is a worry. Download from the link below before it’s taken down and enjoy.
Download - July Flame (control-click & save file)
Sodom, South Georgia
Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine - Sodom, South Georgia
Sam Beam aka the frontman of Iron & Wine is one of the singer/songwriters of our generation for the following reasons:.
- His introspective lyrics are witty and poignant.
- His hushed singing voice is evocative, distinctive and totally unique
- His music is not only thought-provoking, profound and affective but also beautiful to listen to.
Sodom South Georgia is a story about Beam’s father passing away. Whether it is fictional or not, I’m not sure. Although the topic is dark, Beam manages to tell it in a way that is not depressing, but rather enlightening. His matter-of-fact depictions of scenery and a township at the time of his passing is vivid. By the end of the song, we are shown that life moves on - which reflects the theme of life on the album Our Endless Numbered Days, from which this song appears.
Ben Kweller - In Other Words
The baby-faced Ben Kweller is one talented musician. His music is largely indie acoustic/rock based and Ben released his fifth solo studio album earlier this year.
I don’t have a large amount of Ben’s music, although I’ve always admired his work. The track In Other Words appeared on his debut album Sha Sha in 2002 although I was originally introduced to it through another artist. Brooklyn emcee Talib Kweli brought my attention to In Other Words in 2005 when he sampled it on his track Ms Hill. Ms Hill is an ode to the talented Lauryn Hill who had ceased recording and music and fell out of the spotlight due to personal issues.
Like Ms Hill, In Other Words’ strength lies in the melody. In particular the chorus carries the understated message of the song:
Another night slips away, in other words I should say,
there are no words, he should say there are no words.
These lyrics are delivered powerfully by Ben Kweller’s simple singing. There is a kind of resigned understanding shown towards a mutually lost communication with a loved one. While Ben’s lyrics are cryptic, Talib Kweli builds on this theme to discuss his fallout with Lauryn Hill and laments over how he wishes he could reestablish their relationship and metaphorically “pick up the load” for her. Both versions are definitely worth a listen.
Click here to hear Ms Hill otherwise, enjoy the original.
Download - In Other Words (control-click & save)


Dr. David Potter Stepping Down as President of North Georgia College & State University
Atlanta — September 9, 2010
Susan Herbst, executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer of the University System of Georgia (USG), announced today that she has accepted the resignation of North Georgia College & State University (NGCSU) President David L. Potter, which will occur by the end of the year.
Dr. Potter, who has served the University System in this role since January 1, 2005, also announced the news today to faculty and staff during the university’s annual convocation ceremony. Herbst noted that Potter had indicated in communications to her a desire to move out of the presidential role and return to scholarship.
“Dr. Potter has been a wonderful president for North Georgia and a significant contributor to the Board of Regents’ strategic efforts for the entire University System,” said Herbst. As one example, she noted Potter’s leadership of a system-wide task force to review philanthropic giving at all 35 USG institutions and recommendations to help increase private giving.
Since the beginning of Potter’s presidency, the university has seen record growth in student enrollment and its Corps of Cadets. Preliminary enrollment numbers for fall 2010 indicate the university could have almost 6,000 students, which would mark an 8.5 percent increase over the previous year. The university’s Corps of Cadets, with nearly 800 cadets, is at its strongest point in the university’s history.
Consistent with the university’s mission, Potter directed a strategic planning process designed to help provide students with an educational experience that prepares them for life and leadership in a global community. Also, he has led efforts to create educational and community collaborations that help meet the region’s needs for higher education and economic development.
North Georgia is one of six senior military colleges in the United States and is uniquely designated as the Military College of Georgia and as a state leadership institution for civilian and cadet students.
Herbst said that a national search will be conducted for Potter’s successor. Details on the search process, which will include the campus and the local community, will be announced at a future date. The Board of Regents will make the final decision on North Georgia’s next president.
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[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”HSSrVW_zYK4″ width=”640″ height=”390″ anchor=”https://www.perlacoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PositivityInTheWorkPlace-600.jpg”]Research shows that when we can maintain a ratio of 3 (positive emotion) : 1 (negative emotion) in the work place we show up more able to make and maintain productive relationships, have more effective team interactions and more successful client interactions. Maintaining this ratio is challenging given the negative bias of negative emotions on the brain: we are biologically hard wired to pay more attention to negative emotion. Often stated: positive emotion is like “teflon” on the brain and negative emotion more like “velcro” on our brains.
So what to do?
These resources offer brilliant ways to practice increasing positive emotions and thinking to get to the tipping point each day at work of 3:1:
Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity, Three Rivers Press, 2009: This book, now available in paperback, is written by an award winning social scientist. Dr. Fredrickson not only explains her research but gives poignant examples from her own life of how she maintains positivity. The book also lists exercises and methods to practice daily to maintain the 3:1 ratio at work and in life. Also, check out Dr. Fredrickson’s website: www.positivityratio.com to test your positivity ratio each day.
Lynn Johnson, Enjoy LIfe: Healing with Happiness-available on his website and on Amazon. The subtitle of this book is: How to harness positive moods to raise your energy, effectiveness and joy. Dr Johnson gives really practical suggestions to maintain the positivity ratio as well as clear descriptions of relevant social science research.
Barbara Fredrickson and Marcel Losada, “Positive Affect and the Complex Dynamics of Human Flourishing”, American Psychologist, October 2005. For those interested in reading the research data.
Martin Seligman, Flourishing and Authentic Happiness. Dr. Seligman is considered the Father of Positive Psychology. He is a must read if you are interested in studying Positive Psychology and applying the findings to your own life. He posits that in order to flourish in life (and to increase positive emotion) we need: Positive relationships, Engagement or flow, Relationships/social connnections, Meaning or Purpose and Accomplishment in our lives.

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View Full Version : Was thinking of trying left hand shooting
06-23-2012, 12:59 PM
I have been tossing around the idea of shooting left handed for awhile now, beacause of the damage to my right hand.
I have been back shooting just about 2 years now and have been fighting my anchor, not being able to lock it down and not having it float arond on my face.
Well a good friend of mine has a Shadowcat that shoots left handed let me shoot it yesterday out at the range.
Well I can tell you this.... DANG it was awsome, within about 15-20 min. I was shooting it just like my Shadowcat, same gaps and everything. I was shooting it 3 fingers under and my point on was 50 yards instead of 40 yards. If I cut the arrows a bit longer it will bring my point on back to 40 and I will be good to go.
Bill my buddy gave me one of his old Pro Vantage Hoyts to play around with and I shot it about 2 hours yesterday afternoon and a coulpe of hours today. Give me another week and I will be ready for my first 3-D shoot.
Who would of though it would be that easy to switch from right to left handed non-sighted shooting?
06-23-2012, 01:25 PM
If the need is there I would change. Unfortunately I tried it last year and it didn't work well for me. I can draw more weight left handed, but just can't hold as steady, but then I don't have a bow I can shoot for extended periods to become accustomed to it. It sounds like your case is different so I'd go with it for a while and see what happens.
To tell you why I contemplated the change, over the years I have become left eye dominant. When I pull up and draw to aim I'm about 3' left at 35 yards. I know to float to the left to find the target and it's fine if I'm aiming at a defined spot, but 3D targets in dark settings can be quite troublesome sometimes. And over the years I've developed a shot sequence that when I come to full draw the shot is gone in about 5 seconds. Therefore I can't waste time moving to the left to find the vitals on a 3D target. It's either that or let down and start over. Couple that with a case of target panic and dark targets can become a real bear.
06-23-2012, 03:35 PM
I just finished up some more shooting, I would shot one arrow left handed then shot one right handed. LOL it was fun and I was shooting almost every shot in the 9 ring at 20 yards. The gap between my Shadowcat and the Hoyt is like night and day. The tip of the arrow with my Shadowcat is about 1/4" below the target and with the Hoyt it's in the dirt about 3 feet in front of the bales. I kind of cheated with the Hoyt though, I placed a lemon on the ground out in front of my bales and then just put the point of the arrow on the lemon while looking at the spot....LOL
I can't wait tell Sunday, I will be shooting a local 3-D shoot, 42 targets,one arrow unmarked yardage. I have a friend that will be shooting in my group that is left handed. Once we start the shoot I will say, let me see your bow for a sec. and fling an arrow at the target when it's my shot and tell them...dang it's not hard to shoot left handed and hand the bow back. We are always joking around with eachother about whats better, being left handed or right.....lol
06-25-2012, 08:06 AM
Yesterday I shot a local 3-D shoot.
It was 42 unmarked targets. I ended up shooting a low for me 318, but I did take first place.
I shot half right handed and half left handed, it was alot of fun.
Now I need to find me a left handed Shadowcat.
06-25-2012, 08:46 AM
What eye dominant are you? Which are you using?
06-25-2012, 08:55 AM
I am right eye dominant, but when I shoot left handed it's weird because I aquire my sight picture as soon as I come to full draw without closeing my right eye. I can pull right up and shoot.
I can shoot right and left, back and forth one arrow after the other with no problem, it's kind of fun....lol
06-25-2012, 01:52 PM
Sounds like you're having fun learning a new way to shoot.
06-25-2012, 04:05 PM
I shoot left handed or right handed even though I am left handed. Been doing it for years and enjoy the challenge.
06-30-2012, 08:38 AM
Well I did it. I ordered a left handed riser for my backup Shadowcat. It should be in today.
Martin had 10 raw risers on the shelf in the machine shop. I was hopeing that sense they dropped the Shadowcat line they might of given a bit of a price break on the riser, wishfull thinking on my part.....lol
I have my first 3-D shoot next Saturday and hope to be shooting it left handed.
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1)(a) prepare down the difference between Analog and Digital Communication by providing appropriate exs illustrating in which conditions Analog is better and in which condition Digital is better.
(b) Design a comparison between FDM, TDM and STDM Multiplexing Techniques.
2)(a) Compute the hamming distance for the following codes:
(b) We require to send 265 kbps over a noiseless channel with bandwidth of 20 kHz. How many signal levels do we require?
(c) We have a channel with a 1-MHz bandwidth. SNR for this channel is 63. What are the suitable bit rate and signal level?
3)(a) A system has the n-layer protocol hierarchy. Applications generate messages of length M bytes. At each of layer, the h-byte header is added. What fraction of network bandwidth is filled with the headers?
(b) Design a comparison between circuit, packet and message switching techniques.
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Los Angeles Central Library
The last work of the major American architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, the 1926 Los Angeles Central Library is an architectural treasure beloved by countless Angelenos. Today, it's hard to believe the building could ever be threatened with demolition.
Yet, despite its undeniable importance and its status as a designated local landmark (Historic-Cultural Monument), the Central Library was threatened with demolition and insensitive alterations starting as early as the late 1960s.
The long-standing threat to the Central Library, along with threats to other important Los Angeles landmarks, spurred the creation of the Los Angeles Conservancy in 1978.
After years of advocacy by the Conservancy and other preservationists, and with the support of government, business, and community leaders, the building was saved through a creative solution that changed Los Angeles’ skyline. Click the Issue Background tab for details.
In the mid-1960s, plans were already being considered to demolish the Los Angeles Central Library. The functional problems with the forty-plus-year-old structure were mounting, including inadequate space, outdated electrical and mechanical systems, deferred maintenance, and limited onsite parking.
Despite its architectural and historic significance to Los Angeles, which was recognized when the Central Library was designated a city Historic-Cultural Monument in 1967, the demolition threat remained into the 1970s. Members of the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (today’s AIA-LA) formed a study group to offer possible alternatives to rehabilitate and expand the library. Yet the City continued to study options for building a new library at the same Fifth and Flower Street site, or elsewhere downtown, to encourage development and investment in the declining central city.
As proposals and funding for solving the library’s functional needs came and went, growing resistance to the loss of this and other important Los Angeles landmarks eventually spurred the founding of the Los Angeles Conservancy in 1978.
The Conservancy’s founders, supporters, and other preservationists strongly believed that the Los Angeles Central Library was a civic landmark of local and national significance.
As a masterpiece of architectural design, the library attested to both the cultural achievements and the historical developments of the City of Los Angeles. The Central Library not only defined the sense of space in the downtown area, but it also contributed to its unique identity, as one of the only remaining buildings of its type and importance on the West Coast. We strongly believed that the Los Angeles Central Library deserved the sensitive attention of the City of Los Angeles.
By 1981, a plan emerged that would trade development rights on the current library site to a private developer in exchange for a new central library facility “at little or no cost to the taxpayer.” The plan would likely mean the demolition of the Central Library. The nascent Conservancy organized a highly successful telephone campaign to reach Mayor Tom Bradley and Councilmember Gilbert Lindsay.
The Conservancy also spearheaded a Citizens’ Task Force for Central Library Development to seek a viable solution that addressed the functional needs of the library and the cultural significance of the historic building. The task force included representatives from downtown corporations such as ARCO, as well as librarians, developers, architects, and city officials.
As the assessment progressed, common ground was found between the librarians and preservationists, and the task force reached a broad range of agreement. In 1983, the City Council directed the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency to make the project happen.
The architectural firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer and Associates was retained to add a wing to the Central Library that would complement and be compatible with the landmark. A financing package was brokered with Maguire Thomas Partners, in which the developer contributed more than $125 million through a combination of density transfer, land purchase, incremental tax financing, and in-kind contributions. In exchange, the developer received the air rights to the library building, which allowed them to develop what would become Library Tower (now US Bank Tower) and the Gas Company Tower, two of the tallest buildings in Los Angeles.
Other components of the project, known as Library Square, included the Lawrence Halprin-designed Bunker Hill Steps and a return of a landscape area to the Flower Street side of the library.
With funding in place for a design that preserved the historic structure, the Los Angeles City Council approved the Central Library project in 1985 with the Conservancy’s support. Yet a series of disasters, including an arson fire in 1986 and the Whittier Narrows earthquake in 1987, delayed the renovation plan until 1989.
The careful conservation of the original Central Library was researched extensively, and the library was rehabilitated with high standards of workmanship. Many art and architectural conservators wrote detailed specifications on methods and materials for cleaning and restoring all historic surfaces, and the individual subcontractors then performed tests and created mock-ups to make sure that all work was done properly and professionally.
On October 3, 1993 -- more than fifteen years after the building was first threatened with demolition -- the Central Library re-opened in a grand community celebration. Angelenos were again able to experience and use the rehabilitated landmark as envisioned by Goodhue. The new expanded East Wing more than doubled the library’s size, and the re-established historic West Lawn became the Maguire Gardens.
The Los Angeles Central Library was the first victory for the Los Angeles Conservancy, and it symbolized the founding tenets of the Conservancy -- Awareness, Assistance, and Action.
Today, it's hard to imagine downtown Los Angeles without the Central Library. It remains a prime example of how vulnerable our treasured landmarks can become, and why their preservation is worth the effort.


Following on from a successful first season, the FIA Formula 3 European Championship has announced an 11-round calendar for 2014, kicking off at Silverstone in April. The series schedule also includes the return of the Pau Grand Prix, as well as new circuits in the Hungaroring and Moscow Raceway.
The 33-race calendar will run in conjunction with seven DTM rounds, along with two further rounds with other FIA championships – the WTCC round at Spa-Francorchamps and the WEC round at Silverstone. A standalone event at the famous Italian circuit of Imola is scheduled for October 11-12.
The return of the Pau Grand Prix is a welcomed addition among the teams after the success of the event in 2012, which paired the British and European championships together. Along with the Macau Grand Prix and the Norisring, the Pau Grand Prix has become synonymous Formula 3 with past winners, including the likes of Formula One drivers Lewis Hamilton and Romain Grosjean, as well as this year?s European Formula 3 champion Raffaele Marciello.
?The calendar we have succeeded in putting together for 2014 will enable drivers to continue their apprenticeship of topflight racing at several leading Formula 1 circuits, as well as at two venues that have played an important part in the history of Formula 3,? said Gerhard Berger, President of the FIA?s Single-Seater Commission.
The addition of the new circuits means that the championship will not return to Brands Hatch, which had been dropped from the DTM calendar along with Zandvoort. The teams and drivers will still return to the latter during the Masters of Formula 3 event, scheduled for the first week of July. Also off the calendar was the round at Vallelunga, which was brought in as a replacement for Paul Ricard.
2014 also marks a change in the engine regulations of Formula 3 with the introduction of new-specification engines into the championship. Spike Goddard shook down the first of these new engines, this one having been made by British engine makers Neil Brown Engineering. The first Volkswagen produced engine was given its first test this week at Silverstone by Carlin with Tom Blomqvist and Jordan King getting the track time. The first of the Mercedes-Benz produced engines is expected to be unveiled in two weeks time during a private test in Valencia with Prema Powerteam and Mucke Motorsport set to share the duties.
April 19-20: Silverstone (United Kingdom) [WEC]
May 3-4: Hockenheim (Germany) [DTM]
May 10-11: Pau (France)
May 31-June 1: Hungaroring (Hungary) [DTM]
June 21-22: Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) [WTCC]
June 28-29: Norisring (Germany) [DTM]
July 12-13: Moscow Raceway (Russia) [DTM]
August 2-3: Red Bull Ring (Austria) [DTM]
August 16-17: N?rburgring (Germany) [DTM]
October 11-12: Imola (Italy)
October 18-19: Hockenheim (Germany) [DTM]


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What is elwood?
Elwood Blues is the taller and thinner brother of "Joliet" Jake Blues. Together they are The Blues Brothers, a classic rhythm and blues band popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Elwood has tried several times to rebuild the band in the years since, with little success. Jake's whereabouts are unknown.
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