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It may seem surprising to old fans that the New York Dolls should feel the need to follow up 2006's One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This when they've been reduced to a mere two original members. But as that album proved, the injection of new blood seems to have given birth to a whole new Frankenstein, filled...
Of course, anyone expecting the girl group homages and sloppy Chuck Berry riffs of yore will be disappointed, with Johnny Thunders long departed. Yet, retaining the same line up as their last album seems to mean that this is now a proper band, reborn and re-tooled for the new century. Recruiting Todd Rundgren, the man ...
Throughout the album there's the expected dollop of Chicago and latino influences, presumably injected by osmosis since Johansen's previous incarnation as R 'n' B shouter, Buster Poindexter. But whereas 35 years ago his bawling seemed just rude and ballsy, now he sounds genuinely immersed in blues.
Of course there are still some trademarks: My World has the jungle rumble from their second album, Too Much Too Soon and the title track is pure haranguing rock. But newer to the table are some great 60s pop tropes. Check the mariachi lament of Temptation To Exist or the simple Merseybeat balladry of Lonely So Long. An...
That's not all: how about some epic raga-inflected psychedelia on Making Rain or Drowning? It's as unexpected as watching Coronation street and finding Laurence Olivier in the cast. For the Dolls to have upped their game this late in the day is frankly baffling, but there it is. They have, and the results are great.
Posted on 09 September 2010.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers won’t immediately name a successor for Deputy Attorney General Monica Marquez, who will join the Colorado Supreme Court on Nov. 30.
Suthers spokesman Mike Saccone said Marquez continues to work in the AG’s State Services Section. “Once we firm up when she will be leaving the office, we then will consider the issue of who will replace her,” he said.
Suthers also is sorting out what changes, if any, will be made to Marquez’s job description in preparation of her move to the high court, Saccone said.
Marquez is one of seven section chiefs working for Suthers, a veteran prosecutor who faces a re-election challenge this fall from Boulder’s new district attorney, Stan Garnett.
The much-anticipated reality show following the Jackson family will premiere Dec. 13 on A&E, the network announced today. The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty will kick-off with back-to-back hour episodes starting at 9 p.m. “This deeply intimate portrait will provide viewers with a raw and honest look inside a musical dynast...
The miniseries centers on brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Tito and Marlon Jackson as they prepare to reunite for a concert tour and cope with the loss of youngest brother Michael Jackson.
A&E originally announced The Jacksons as a documentary special in May, before Michael’s death.
It is unknown whether the King of Pop or his children, Paris, Prince Michael and Prince Michael II (Blanket), will be seen in the shows.
The network said the miniseries will last for six episodes.
Scottish Conservative MPs have written to the European Commission calling for it not to include American whiskey in their countermeasures against the steel and aluminium tariffs imposed by the US.
American whiskey is included on the European Union’s list of US exports that could be targeted with additional duties.
There are fears of retaliation from the US by imposing damaging tariffs on Scotch Whisky.
The US was the largest export destination (defined by value) for Scotch Whisky in 2017, accounting for £922 million in exports.
The industry is concerned about the damage potential tariffs would cause. More than 40,000 jobs are supported by the Scotch Whisky industry across the UK with 7,000 being in rural Scotland.
The Scottish Conservative MPs met with the Secretary of State for International Trade, Rt Hon Liam Fox MP, to raise their concerns for the industry if American whiskey tariffs were to be imposed.
Scottish Conservative Douglas Ross MP, who has 40 percent of all Scotch Whisky distilleries in his Moray constituency, also raised the issue with Secretary of State for Scotland in the House of Commons. The Secretary of State is in contact with the Scotch Whisky Association on the matter.
Commenting, Scottish Conservative MP Douglas Ross said: “Many areas in rural Scotland, such as my constituents in Moray, depend on the jobs that are created from the Whisky industry.
“There is much to celebrate in the industry just now, with significant investment, but the EU could jeopardise the success of Scotch Whisky with their proposal.
“I’m extremely concerned about the possibility of the EU including bourbon in the countermeasures against the United States, as any American retaliation would hit jobs across Scotland that rely on our booming whisky industry.
Riyadh: The UAE and Saudi Arabia have discussed economic relations and ways to boost trade, business and investment cooperation, according to a statement from WAM released on Saturday.
During a bilateral meeting held on the sidelines of the second Saudi-UAE Business Forum, between Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, UAE Minister of Economy, and Dr Majid Bin Abdullah Al Qasabi, Minister of Commerce and Investment, Saudi Arabia, both countries reviewed the latest economic developments and followed up on the ...
They also discussed possible opportunities for new partnerships in tourism, infrastructure, transport, shipping and logistics, and reviewed the main projects being implemented in the two countries.
The role of the private sector in the development and strengthening of economic relations also came under discussion.
A coordination meeting for undersecretaries of the ministries of economy of both countries was also held on the sidelines of the forum, where both countries discussed the most important recommendations from the business forum, and possible ways of coordination in relation to organising joint foreign trade and economic ...
The second Saudi-UAE Business Forum focused on highlighting the economic diversification in the two countries and the ongoing efforts to develop the national economy in the non-oil sectors as well as enhancing the contribution of non-oil GDP, stimulating the business environment and empowering the private sector.
If you’re wondering what’s going to go wrong next in your household - it might be the freestanding cooker you bought ten years ago.
Consumer organisation Which? has surveyed its membership and tracked how long home appliances last before owners start experiencing problems. The survey found the kitchen hob to have the longest life expectancy out of everyday home appliances.
With nine in ten hobs still fault free after ten years, hobs are front runners in Which?’s latest product survey which collected 8, 469 responses in September and October 2016 to find out how long your home appliance will last.
However, in contrast to the success of the kitchen hob, freestanding cookers were found to be the least reliable type of appliance with more than a third of freestanding cookers are expected to develop a fault in the first ten years. This increases to nearly half for the least reliable brand of freestanding cooker.
The top three most reliable appliances also includes cylinder vacuum cleaners and tumble dryers whereas the least reliable includes washer dryers and fridge freezers.
“We conduct a large reliability survey each year so we can tell you the most and least reliable domestic appliance brands in 16 product categories, including washing machines, vacuum cleaners, fridge-freezers and many more,” reads their report, published today.
The report also notes large differences between the best and worst-performing brands.
To read the full report, graphic and see results by brand, head over to the which? website.
Health & Fitness My son may have a rare genetic disorder. What happens now?
My son may have a rare genetic disorder. What happens now?
Question: My son has a host of health problems and is also developmentally delayed. One of the doctors who examined him thinks he has a rare genetic disorder. What can we expect going forward?
Answer: In recent years, major advances have been made in identifying the causes of rare diseases, thanks to a huge drop in the cost of doing genome sequencing – from millions of dollars per individual to just $1,500.
There are an estimated 7,000 rare diseases linked to mutations in the genome, which includes all of a person’s inherited genetic instructions encoded in DNA.
The World Health Organization defines a rare disease as one that strikes less than one out of every 2,000 people. But some are ultra-rare, affecting only a handful of people worldwide.
Patients suspected of having a genetic disorder are usually sent to a geneticist who will order tests based on their symptoms and appearance.
If these tests don’t provide any answers, the geneticist may seek the help of Care4Rare Canada, a national research network led out of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa.
In certain cases, Care4Rare will arrange for the patient to undergo genome-wide sequencing, in an attempt to identify mutations in any one of the 20,000 genes responsible for producing proteins.
“This method will diagnose anywhere from 25 to 40 per cent of patients in which we have a high suspicion of a genetic disease,” says Taila Hartley, operations director at Care4Rare.
For those who remain undiagnosed, Care4Rare may use newer technologies to re-examine the genome.
Being able to put a name to a disorder can provide some comfort to patients and families, says Dr. Alex MacKenzie, a professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa.
But, unfortunately, a name alone doesn’t automatically lead to a clear treatment path, he says.
That’s because doctors still don’t know how to fix most of these genetic conditions, although it’s hoped that more research will produce effective therapies.
For now at least, patients and their family members “have to live our lives as best we can,” says Isabel Jordan, chair of the Rare Disease Foundation.
“People with rare diseases can get lost in the cracks of the health-care and social-service systems,” says Jordan, whose son Zachary was diagnosed with a rare connective-tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Patients often go from specialist to specialist seeking help for inscrutable symptoms and frequently end up in hospital emergency departments.
However, she says, patients and families can benefit from sharing their experiences and passing on the knowledge they’ve gained through trial and error.
Based in British Columbia, the Rare Disease Foundation helps groups set up local resource networks in communities across Canada. “You might not have someone with the same rare disease near you, but there are people with other rare diseases all around us,” she explains.
Sharing tips can make a big difference. Jordan notes that, under certain circumstances, a companion of a disabled person can fly for free on some domestic airlines.
“No one at an airline is volunteering that information, even when you show up at the check-in with a loved one in a wheelchair,” Jordan says . She says that she took many flights with her disabled son before a family member of a rare-disease patient told her that she was eligible for a discount.
Julie Drury, chair of Ontario’s Patient and Family Advisory Council, agrees that peer support is crucial.
Drury lost her eight-year-old daughter, Kate, to a rare disease affecting mitochondria – the power centres within the body’s cells.
“When you have a child who has a rare or undiagnosed disease you really have to become the quarterback for their care,” Drury says.
Ask a member of the medical team to write a detailed summary of the condition. This document can then be used if the patient has to visit an emergency department and electronic medical records are not available.
Don’t rush into treatment decisions. “You really need to weigh advice thoughtfully.” Seek second and even third opinions.
Drury says it’s important to build support networks. For instance, social workers can often lend a hand.
“They understand the system and can help connect you to the appropriate community resources – and lobby on your behalf,” says Lina Gagliardi, professional leader for social work at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
“You learn as you go and look for allies along the way,” Drury says.
Paul Taylor is a patient navigation adviser at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He is a former health editor of The Globe and Mail. Find him on Twitter @epaultaylor and online at Sunnybrook’s Your Health Matters.
If you’re looking to do something fun this weekend, look no further than the 27th annual White Beach Festival!
The weekend of fun - open to everyone, from SOFA status personnel and Japanese nationals – will be held 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. on both April 14-15.
There be 20 food and game vendors, plenty of festival-style entertainment, Kiddie Land full of bouncy houses and Adventure Land with rock wall and monkey jump.
Since White beach is on the water, water activities such as kayaks, paddle boards and jet skis will also be available. Military static displays will include both American and Japanese equipment and vessels from the land, sea and air.
And if you have never seen a dragon boat race, come on Sunday to check one out. And for all you car enthusiasts, a show featuring more than 80 vehicles will also be held on Sunday only.
If you haven’t been to White Beach, this is the perfect time the visit this beautiful location.and so much more!
Find more info, go to www.navymwrokinawa.com.
Last month, the Oakland Education Association (OEA) declared an impasse in contract negotiations and told teachers to prepare for a strike when school resumes in August. The district is demanding an increase in special education class sizes and the hours all teachers work, without a commensurate rise in teacher pay.
Oakland teachers are increasingly outraged over the district’s poor pay, immense turnover, large class sizes and dilapidated facilities. They are inspired by the wave of teachers struggles that broke out in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona and elsewhere against chronic underfunding of education, and are looking for a w...
Teachers should not assume that just because the OEA has told them to prepare for a strike, that the union will actually call one. Once an impasse is declared the Public Employee Relations Board assigns a mediator. If mediation fails, a fact-finding panel is appointed, and after its results are made public the union ca...
Any organization that accepts budget cuts as necessary while the government spends trillions on wars and corporate tax cuts is incapable of defending public education. Public education in California and across the country is under bipartisan attack. Any serious struggle immediately involves a political fight against bo...
The union bureaucracy, however, is entirely integrated into the Democratic Party machine. Both the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are major cogs in this corporate-controlled party, with AFT President Randi Weingarten serving as a member of the Democratic National Comm...
To prevent teachers from waging a political fight against the Democrats, who have attacked public education just as savagely as the Republicans, the NEA and AFT have isolated educators and worn down their resistance against decades of budget cutting by both parties.
To defend public education and win gains for teachers and students, Oakland teachers must take the conduct of this struggle out of the hands of the unions by forming their own, independent rank-and-file committees. These committees should establish direct connections with educators in Los Angeles, San Diego and nearby ...
It is no accident these struggles erupted in states where the NEA, AFT and their state affiliates had the weakest hold over teachers. Educators used social media to circumvent the unions, which were more than willing to accept rotten deals with Republican governors and state legislators.
In West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona, teachers essentially launched wildcat strikes and then initially defied back-to-work orders by the unions. However, without any genuinely independent rank-and-file committees, the unions were able to reestablish control, end the strikes and sign sellout deals that ignored teacher...
Speakers at today’s event include Rebecca Garelli, a leader of Arizona Educators United (AEU), which played a key role in the betrayal of the Arizona strike. The AEU, which functioned as a front group for the Arizona Education Association, called off the strike and presented Republican Governor Doug Ducey’s funding pla...
Throughout the strike, the AEU and AEA did everything to prevent Arizona teachers from linking up with striking teachers in Colorado (controlled by the Democratic Party) and other states. Instead they limited teachers to impotent appeals to Republican legislators for increased funding. When the legislature predictably ...
By demobilizing the teachers, the unions have given the Trump administration a free hand to escalate its assault on public education, with threats by the president’s billionaire education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to push school vouchers for private and parochial schools and back Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Nothing has been resolved in any of these states and after the summer break a new wave of struggles will reemerge. That is why the real lessons of this year’s teachers strikes must be absorbed. What are they?
1. Teachers must break the stranglehold of the corporatist trade unions, which do not unite educators but divide them. Oakland teachers should use the summer months to build new organizations of struggle, rank-and-file committees based in every school and neighborhood, to prepare strike action when schools reopen. The ...
2. Teachers must reject the subordination of their struggle to the union’s maneuvers with the Democratic Party. Democrats like Governor Jerry Brown who run states like California, Colorado and New York, just like President Obama before them, back corporate-driven “school reform” schemes. Instead of bowing before the tw...
3. Teachers must reject the lie that there is no money for raises and funding education. Both parties squander trillions of dollars on corporate tax cuts, criminal wars and other measures that benefit the rich. While public education is starved, just three billionaires—Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates—have mor...
4. The fight for high quality education and other social rights is above all a political fight. If the needs of society are to take precedence, then the working class, the vast majority of the population, must fight to take political power in its own hands and put and to the dictatorship of the banks and big business. ...
There is growing support among workers and young people for a socialist alternative. In the recent midterm elections, the Socialist Equality Party’s state legislature candidates—David Moore and Kevin Mitchell—won over 15,000 votes. This takes place amid a rising tide of working class struggles, particularly by educator...
The SEP will do everything to help Oakland teachers set up rank-and-file committees and link up with teachers and other workers throughout the country to build a powerful political movement to defend public education. We urge teachers to contact the SEP to begin this fight.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear Sudan’s appeal of $314.7 million in damages awarded in a lawsuit seeking compensation for American sailors injured in 2000 in the deadly al Qaeda bombing of the Navy destroyer USS Cole in Yemen.
The damages were levied by default because Sudan did not appear before a lower court to defend itself against allegations that it provided support to the Islamist militants. Sudan contends that it had not been properly notified of the lawsuit, in violation of U.S. and international law.
Fifteen sailors injured in the attack and three of their spouses sued the government of Sudan in 2010 in Washington, accusing it of providing material support to help al Qaeda carry out the bombing in the southern Yemeni port of Aden.
On Oct. 12, 2000, two men in a small boat detonated explosives alongside the Navy guided missile destroyer as it was refueling in Aden, killing 17 sailors, wounding more than three dozen others and blasting a gaping hole in its hull. The vessel was repaired and later returned to full active duty.
Sudan contends that the lawsuit had not been properly initiated because the notice of the claims was sent to its embassy in Washington rather than directly to its minister of foreign affairs in Khartoum, violating both the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a U.S. law governing when foreign governments may be sued in Am...

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