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Unimedios | Agencia de Noticias UN | English
Primers follow trace of migratory fish
By designing novel tools which use genetic information, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNal) in Medellín, researchers have expanded research of the ray-finned fish, the pataló, the catfish and other ten species which thrive in the Cauca River. This new development is a contribution to the genetic diversity of freshwater fish in Colombia.
Medellín, 27 de diciembre de 2016 — Agencia de Noticias UN-
The trans-Andean shovelnose catfish (Sorubim cuspicaudus) was one of the fished studied with the genetic tools. Photo: www.espaciodepesca.com
The research project has helped delve deeper into the study of fish which inhabit the Cauca River.
The species thrive in an area where the hydroelectric dam will be built, the largest in Colombia.
Dam building breaks the migration of a rheophile species, meaning fish that prefer to live in fast moving water.
With this contribution, researchers of any place around the world may study fish genetic diversity.
With this new technique, it is possible to obtain new information thanks to the project carried out by four UNal-Medellín graduate students directed by School of Biosciences Professor Edna Judith Márquez Fernández.
To amplify DNA regions, the researchers developed specific sequences known as “primers” which help observe population genetic variations of fish of the medium and low basins of the Cauca River, between the municipality of Tarazá and the outpour of this river into the Magdalena River.
The method accurately analyzes the genetic diversity of 13 migratory species: jetudo or pataló (Ichthyoelephas longirostris), ray-finned fish (Prochilodus magdalenae), vizcaína (Curimata mivartii), dolphin catfish (Ageneiosus pardalis), trans-Andean shovelnose catfish (Sorubim cuspicaudus), chango or mueluda (Cynopotamus magdalenae); capaz (Pimelodus grosskopfii), arenca (Triportheus magdalenae), sabaleta (Brycon henni), four-lined pimodella (Pimelodus blochii), stripped catfish (Pseudoplatystoma magdaleniatum), schultz's bumblebee catfish (Pseudopimelodus schultzi) and comelón (Leporinus muyscorum).
These species thrive in an area where the hydroelectric dam of Ituango (Hidroituango) considered the largest hydroelectric project in Colombia will be built. This dam could impact the migration and reproduction of fish, and ultimately contribute to loss of biodiversity.
The Universidad de Antioquia National Genome Sequencing Center performed the sequencing of the genome of the species studied to identify the primers.
According to Márquez, these tools were designed for microsatellite sequences (short repetitive DNA sequences) amply distributed throughout the genome and variable.
“For genome sequencing, we used 454 FLX pyrosequencing and Illumina next-gen sequencing, novel technologies which enable large-scale DNA sequencing. First, we analyzed the biological information and later carried out a laboratory assessment. This project which will end in 2018 will help us understand genetic diversity and if there has been a connection between species,” added Márquez.
Partial results have shown that from the genetic point of view, the individuals of a particular species from one part of the basin are different from those of another part of the basin.
Although the project did demonstrate that several short (up to 100 km, [62 miles]) and medium migration species (between 100 and 500 km [62 and 310 miles]) are genetically similar; the analyses continue for the ray-finned fish, the capaz and the four-lined pimodella, species which have successfully passed the location where the dam is being built. This will help obtain information to estimate the potential changes in genetic diversity of the populations.
Tested at Hidroituango
According to Social and Environmental Biologist Hernán Sánchez Cruz, of the Hidroituango Environmental and Sustainability Directorate, one of the most important effects of this type of projects is that it creates a sort of barrier effect for fish.
“Building dams breaks the migration of rheophile (fish that prefer to live in fast moving water) individuals which carry out their reproductive processes upstream,” he said.
However, the projects discovered that this break or lack of connection is provided naturally because downstream there are 26 whitewater streams which are a natural obstacle for fish migration.
Sánchez adds that this is an important discovery as other studies in dams have focused only on the most representative species and in this research project they analyzed all migratory fish of the area to design effective management measures. This offers reliable information for all the inhabitants of the region which fears building the dam will impact fishing.
Fish barcoding
Among the results provided by the research project is the amount of data of other species which had not been studied in the past, some of which are endemic to Colombia. Such as the case of the jetudo of which the researchers obtained information on their reproduction and ecology.
Furthermore, the project also assembled mitochondrial genomes which had not been discovered before in the world and identified species using a procedure known as Fish DNA Barcoding which helps determine if individuals are of the same species or not.
Another aspect of the project contributed to verify that in a species of catfish differences between individuals are not recent but on the contrary are millions of years old. According to Márquez, this is probably because this basin was most likely a great pool and when the Andes Mountains emerged they interrupted the natural connection between species.
“This is interesting data because if one does not know of the changes before building the dam we could think this is a recent issue due to the construction. The following stage of the project will be establishing the phenotypic variation to become cognizant of the body changes and species adaptation,” she said.
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A Jacket off the Gorge
A Jacket off the Gorge is a narrative nonfiction manuscript by Susan Ashline. Blogs and prison reform stories are NOT related to the book.
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How Parole Stole College from Criminal (Part 6)
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Jon Fontaine had just gotten out of prison, and he had a plan. He had goals. At 34, he wanted to go to college. His past was his past, and he would pave a new road to his future.
But his parole officer threw up a detour sign. He wouldn’t let him drive.
The parole officer said no. In fact, it took him a while to say no. Really, he didn’t even say it to Jon directly for weeks on end – he simply ignored Jon.
To get a construction technology degree, Jon would have to go to school full time. He applied to Monroe Community College and was approved to start a full roster of classes in January. The only way he could take classes was if his Rochester-based parole officer, Martin Buonanno, allowed him to drive to school.
What convicted felon could afford an $80 round trip Uber each day to school on a dishwasher’s wages? (For the slow, that’s $400 a week… on a $200 a week paycheck).
With college to start on January 21, Jon asked his PO several weeks in advance for permission to drive to school. He would have to register for classes by January 16.
On January 4, Buonanno told Jon he’d give him an answer on January 18 (two days after the registration deadline), at their bi-monthly sit-down meeting.
Not hearing word from his PO, Jon had no choice but to register for classes. He signed up for six classes totaling 17 credit hours; an ambitious schedule for someone working full time.
On January 18, he anxiously reported to parole with copies of his course registrations and schedule, and a single question upon being seated.
Would he be allowed to drive to school?
But Buonanno didn’t give him an answer. He said he hadn’t gotten around to asking his supervisor.
Five days after classes started, Jon got a knock on the door. It was Buonanno. He’d come to tell Jon that his supervisor, Thomas O’Connor, had told him – four days earlier – that Jon was not allowed to drive at all.
Jon stood. He stared. Maybe Buonanno could read the questions in his face, or the disappointment. He either didn’t let on, or didn’t care. Still, Jon had to thank him. He had to be gracious for the fact the PO came by to deliver this news at all. He is required to show respect, even when it is unreturned.
Buonanno turned to march back to his car.
“Thank you very much, sir,” Jon told him, as he quietly closed the door behind him.
In Part 7, Rochester parole Bureau Chief Kathleen McDonnell calls my cell phone to say she’s seen these online blogs and YouTube video and claims I’m “harassing” her staff.
[Hear Jon’s parole officer hang up on me]
[*Note: Information contained herein has been gleaned from public online postings and through discussions with mutual acquaintances, none of whom are, or have been, acting as third party communicators through Jon.]
Author SusanAshlinePosted on March 17, 2018 June 29, 2019 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, criminal justice reform, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Jon Fontaine, New York, New York State Parole Board, NY DOCCS, NY State Parole Board, parole bureau chief Kathleen McDonnell, parole reform, prison inmate, prison reform, Rochester New York, Rochester NY, Rochester parole Bureau Chief McDonnell, Rochester Parole Officer M Buonanno, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, Susan Ashline, true crime, Upstate New York6 Comments on How Parole Stole College from Criminal (Part 6)
No Love for Parolee, Literally (Part 5)
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One month out of prison and Jon found a job. He was hired by a restaurant to wash dishes.
He’s a highly skilled and talented home remodeler, but his parole officer said he couldn’t work in anyone’s home. Barring that, he went to work washing dishes. Pay is paltry, and it won’t bring in enough for him to get a place of his own. It won’t pay for taxis/Uber, and he’ll still have to rely on others for transportation. It won’t be enough to buy clothes or to adequately feed him. But despite Parole chipping away at his morale, Jon got a job.
It’s a six mile round trip walk from his home. He started in the coldest season and continued through bitter winter.
I found this post from Jon online: “[Parole] as an entity is not structured to help inmates or parolees succeed. It’s structured to alienate, assassinate, and undercut.”
Parole next alienated Jon from love and companionship.
Not only was Jon determined to find work (and succeeded), he managed to find a girlfriend. She was a woman he knew before he left for prison, and they started a relationship at some point after he got home.
Jon found a girlfriend, someone willing to help with driving and nurturing, and providing the comfort that everyone needs from another human being to make life worth living. It is, perhaps, the single most important component to rehabilitation – love.
She has two little children, both who adored Jon, by all accounts I’ve seen and read online (his parole officer barred him from contact with me, so I rely on public internet postings and mutual friends for information).
Jon posted an email online that he sent to his parole officer, Martin Buonanno, in December. He asked Buonanno permission to spend the night at his girlfriend’s house on Christmas Eve, so they could wake up together early Christmas morning with the children.
He wanted to be part of a family on Christmas. One night.
His parole officer said, “No.”
One night. Christmas Eve. Love.
Jon no longer has a girlfriend.
In Part 6, see what happens when Jon wants to go to college.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on March 8, 2018 April 16, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, criminal justice reform, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Jon Fontaine, New York, NY DOCCS, NY State Parole Board, parole M Buonanno, parole reform, prison reform, Rochester NY, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, Susan Ashline, true crime, Upstate New York5 Comments on No Love for Parolee, Literally (Part 5)
Parolee Pleads for Self Worth (Part 4)
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He left prison with no job or living supplies, no toothbrush, no underwear, no food. No support system – friends and family dropped off with each page turn of the calendar.
Prior to being released from prison, no state employee asked Jon what he needed to be a productive member of society. That’s what he wrote in an online post.
“Allow me to live up to my potential. Let me work doing something I’m good at and enjoy. Let me go back to college and finish my degree. Allow me to not be a burden on others by asking them to take time off work to drive me places. Let me earn money so I can provide for myself and not be dependent on loved ones, or taxpayers. Allow me to have self-worth.”
He was – he wrote – “ready to be the most successful parolee the [corrections system] has ever seen, but every goal that’s simple in concept has some crazy restriction attached to it.”
He wasn’t allowed to see me, a friend ready to help. He wasn’t allowed to drive. How would he get to all the appointments mandated by Parole?
Jon lives in a remote area. The bus comes once (no return trip) at 10 a.m. That’s when it heads to the county seat of Lyons, New York.
The second parole condition (on a list of 33) mandated that Jon go to Lyons to apply for public assistance – or go back to prison. This, despite an order that he pay nearly $200,000 in restitution – or go back to prison.
Jon had to dip into his whittled pool of support and beg for a ride – more than one hour round trip.
“I had to have someone take off work to drive me there,” Jon posted. “This person not only had to spend their time driving me, they lost hours of pay.”
The receptionist asked Jon which services he wanted to apply for, and he told her: “Nothing. I don’t want anything from you. I don’t need anything from you. I want to work, but parole says if I don’t apply for assistance, I’ll go back to prison.”
If he qualified, it would take 45 days to receive assistance.
They scheduled Jon for a mandatory one-hour orientation. Who would take off work to drive more than an hour, and then sit in a car another hour while he attended?
At the DSS orientation, Jon was scheduled for a second meeting the following week, at 8:30 a.m. In an online video, he’s holding the letter that states the appointment is at 8:30 – while standing outside the locked building with a sign stating the office opens at 9 a.m.
All the while with someone sitting in a car, waiting for him, and missing work and income.
Jon then learned he was required to return – twice – each for four-hour sessions.
“Remember how I said my parole officer said I can’t drive? Remember how I said the bus stops one time, at 10am, arriving in Lyons at 11:30? No return trip? 22 miles from my house?”
Miss a mandatory public assistance meeting – go back to prison.
“Haven’t I cost taxpayers enough? Shouldn’t I be allowed to work and contribute to the tax roll, not take from it? Shouldn’t public employees, especially the Department of Social Services go: Oh! You want to work? You have work lined-up? We’ll help you go to work in any way we can.”
To be continued in Part 5. [Part 6]
Author SusanAshlinePosted on March 8, 2018 March 17, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, criminal justice reform, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Jon Fontaine, New York, New York State Parole Board, NY DOCCS, parole M Buonanno, parole reform, prison reform, Rochester NY, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, Susan Ashline, true crime, Upstate New York6 Comments on Parolee Pleads for Self Worth (Part 4)
How Parole Sets Offenders up to Fail (Part 3)
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Over the last six years, locked up in prison, Jon Fontaine has had to rely on others. It was time for him to give back.
In his first week of release, his mother’s basement sprang a leak. He pulled out the broken downspout that was channeling water into the house, and then to divert it, dug a hole – for hours –using just a shovel. But he was on a tight deadline. He needed parts, and someone to drive him to the store. Parole would not allow Jon to drive.
When he returned, he worked feverishly on a three-foot trench, trying to finish in the dark, before his 8 p.m. curfew.
The curfew is one of 33 conditions Parole imposed in place of actual “supervision.” It is an unreasonable list of conditions that are impossible for any human to follow. Here are a few :
Cannot have a car or driver’s license.
Cannot have a bank account.
Cannot leave the county.
Must be inside his approved residence between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.
Cannot consume alcohol.
Cannot be in a place in which alcohol is the main form of business (bar-restaurant, et. al).
Must maintain employment.
Must take substance abuse courses and other courses as directed by parole.
Cannot have contact with me, a journalist who wrote a book about him.
Most of the restrictions don’t apply to him. He has not been found to have a drinking or substance abuse problem and has the usual traffic tickets like everyone else.
How does one cash paychecks without having a bank account? And Jon lives in a remote area in the country (right near the county line he can’t cross). How many businesses would hire a convicted felon? How many within walking distance?
How does one “maintain employment” if he can’t drive, leave the county, have a bank account, or is unable to find anyone within walking distance who will hire a felon?
Stable social support systems are critical to rehabilitating offenders. But how does one find love and family with an 8 p.m. curfew? “Oh, and honey, you’ll have to pick me up and drop me off all day, every day, everywhere.”
“And pay for everything, too, because parole has made it impossible for me to find a job.”
These restrictions don’t allow for opportunities. They remove HOPE.
For those who want to start a new life, parole does not encourage that. Those who want opportunities will get into a car and drive to find those opportunities. They will violate these nonsensical restrictions to create opportunities. Conversely, those bent on committing crimes will cross the county line anyway. They will be out after 8 p.m. anyway.
Jon filed a lawsuit to remove the contact restriction between him and me. It is my right to contact him, and Jon wants to see me. How long before he violates that condition?
The restriction doesn’t make sense. Why not remove it?
Parole imposes conditions that are impossible to follow, and that provides them job security. We will inevitably throw these people back in prison (on our dime). The more time an offender spends behind bars, and without opportunities, the more damaged he becomes, and the lesser the chance of rehabilitation.
We have Rochester parolees committing rapes and murders, and no one understands how that happens. It’s because their parole officers felt a piece of paper was sufficient “supervision.”
We pay Jon’s parole officer, Martin Buonanno, $88,928 a year to come up with a list of restrictions – ones that throw up road blocks rather than pave new roads.
And when I called Buonanno to ask him his reason for barring Jon from contact with me, he refused to answer and hung up.
Buonanno is why we have offenders under parole “supervision” who are out committing rapes and murders. Because parole officers like him simply sit at desks and come up with lists without regard to the person they’re supposed to be supervising, and believing they don’t have to answer to the taxpayers who employ them.
More shockers in Part 4 and Part 5. Part 6.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on March 7, 2018 March 17, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, DOCCS, Jon Fontaine, Monroe County, New York, New York State Parole Board, NY DOCCS, parole reform, prison reform, Roc, Rochester New York, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, Susan Ashline, true crime, Upstate New York8 Comments on How Parole Sets Offenders up to Fail (Part 3)
Jon Violates Parole in His First Week (Part 2)
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The first day Jon had been released from prison, I figured he needed time to be alone, decompress. I’d give him that space. However, I was disappointed he didn’t call right away.
After having written a book about him and communicating for six years via calls, letters, and at cafeteria-style tables under the watchful eyes of guards and cameras, I was excited to give him a hug and help him through the process of reintegrating into society.
Sure, I knew prison staff had added my name to his “no-contact” list in the 11th hour and without explanation, but I didn’t really think that would stick. We’d been through a nightmare of red tape trying to get it removed and a lawyer was helping us.
But I didn’t hear from Jon, day after day after day.
The condition stated Jon’s parole officer could grant him permission to have contact with me. Why wouldn’t he? There was nothing reasonable or logical about this.
I had not lost my right to communicate with whom I chose, or to reach out to anyone. So I exercised that right.
I messaged Jon through Facebook Messenger. I had legal information to pass along, and passwords to the accounts I’d maintained for him while he was away. And I’d tell him about my day, share a memory or laugh, or send pictures – everything protected under my First Amendment right.
On October 5, one week after his release, Jon sat down with his parole officer, Martin Buonanno, for what would be his first bi-weekly meeting. I learned Jon showed Buonanno my Facebook messages so Buonanno would see that I was contacting Jon, but that Jon wasn’t responding. He wanted to be transparent with his PO so he didn’t risk a violation.
What was Buonanno’s reaction? “That’s a violation.”
“She is messaging me,” Jon told him.
Buonanno said that because Jon was reading my messages, he was in violation of his parole no-contact condition.
HE WAS IN VIOLATION BECAUSE HE READ SOMETHING I WROTE. Think about that. Buonanno stated Jon violated parole because he received unsolicited communication from someone else.
The parole officer told Jon to block my messages, or be sent back to prison.
Jon did not receive a violation that day, but imagine if he did. Instead of Jon being a productive, taxpaying member of society, you’d be paying to house and feed him in an institution.
All because he read about my day.
More shockers in Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on March 6, 2018 March 28, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, criminal justice reform, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, DOCCS, first amendment, Jon Fontaine, Martin Buonanno, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Monroe County, New York State Parole Board, parole reform, prison reform, Rochester NY, Rochester Parole Officer M Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, Susan Ashline, true crime, Upstate NY6 Comments on Jon Violates Parole in His First Week (Part 2)
How Parole Fails Them and You – Jon’s First Day of Release (Part 1)
Jon Fontaine was released from prison on September 29, 2017, with just the clothes from his prison locker and a bus ticket. He traveled alone.
I wouldn’t know much about it. Though I’d supported him the six years he was behind bars, the minute he walked through the gate, parole denied him contact with me.
But Jon made some public online postings, and I saw them. Wearing a bright blue T-shirt circa 2011 that he’d had in storage, he talked into a camera about his first day of release.
His release was also talked about on a popular radio show, The Kimberly and Beck Show. That’s because a Rochester parole officer called the radio show hosts with the “tip.” The parole officer ratted out Jon’s release date and specific home address to the hosts, hoping they’d talk about it on the radio.
One of the hosts called me for an interview. She is the one who gave me the information about Jon. Otherwise, I’d had no idea.
Apparently, parole officers decided it was rehabilitative to broadcast to the world Jon’s exact home address, as well as to isolate him from his support system.
That first night, two parole officers showed up at Jon’s approved residence. They sat in the kitchen. Ironically, they told him he wasn’t allowed to do any media interviews – interviews which would not have been requested had a parole officer not blurted to the media what was supposed to be privileged information.
One of those parole officers, Martin Buonanno, would be Jon’s permanently assigned PO.
That night, for the first time in many years, Jon retired to a bed he could call his own, but he got no rest. Absent the putrid clouds of cigarette smoke and mind-cluttering noise of talking, arguing and steel-clanging to which he’d become accustomed, Jon couldn’t sleep at all.
Adapting to an unfamiliar life of outside prison walls wouldn’t be easy. And Jon would learn freedom wouldn’t mean free.
Most importantly, parole staff would not help with this transition; quite the contrary. They would dismantle the plans Jon had for his new life – plans six years in the making were trashed by parole staff in one fell swoop.
When parole officers fail those newly released to society, they fail all of us who live among them.
Keep reading to learn the shocking chain of events. To be continued in Part 2.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on March 6, 2018 March 17, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, DOCCS, Jon Fontaine, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State prison, Monroe County, NYS Division of Parole, parole reform, prison reform, Rochester NY, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, Susan Ashline, Upstate New York6 Comments on How Parole Fails Them and You – Jon’s First Day of Release (Part 1)
What I Didn’t Do on President’s Day
I didn’t see Jon Fontaine on President’s Day. That’s because his parole officer will not allow Jon to see me, even though he has no reason to block communication, and despite that we have a lawsuit to remove the illegal condition.
On President’s Day:
I didn’t steer Jon to do the right thing.
I didn’t provide Jon emotional or motivational support.
I didn’t help Jon with his writing, something he wants to enhance.
I didn’t help advocate for Jon.
I didn’t brainstorm with Jon ways to better his situation.
I didn’t write about Jon’s transition from prison to society. But I’m going to start.
The only reason Rochester parole officer Martin Buonanno is denying communication? Power. Either that – or stupidity. Because when we have a chance to provide support and positive influence to someone in transition, it’s inarguably best to do so.
On September 29, Jon Fontaine, the subject of my book, A Jacket off the Gorge, was released on parole. Facility staff added my name to his “no contact” list, and we are currently suing to get it removed. The condition states Jon cannot communicate with me without the permission of his parole officer.
And yet – for no reason at all, and for five months now – parole officer Martin Buonanno has said “no.”
Our lawsuit contends the restriction violates my constitutional rights and is arbitrary and capricious. Prison and parole staff have not offered any reason for my name to be on the list, and the Attorney General’s office has done its best to get the lawsuit thrown out, rather than answer it.
Buonanno simply saw my name on that list and told Jon – nope. Just because. Power.
Parole is not rehabilitating the formerly incarcerated. They can block communication between the two of us, but that won’t prevent me from exposing their bad acts and a faulty system.
On President’s Day, I didn’t expose Buonanno and the others. Tomorrow, I will.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on February 19, 2018 March 6, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, first amendment, Jon Fontaine, NY attorney general Eric Schneiderman, NY DOCCS, NY State Parole Board, parole reform, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, Susan AshlineLeave a comment on What I Didn’t Do on President’s Day
We Sued the NY Parole Board and their Lawyers Are Playing Dodgeball
I learned on Valentine’s Day that the New York Attorney General’s office is acting like a bad partner in a lover’s spat.
It’s like when the wife says, “I need you to put your dirty underwear in the basket. Can you do that?”
And the guy replies, “Well, I can’t stand the way you snap your gum!”
Instead of answering our lawsuit—they didn’t.
We filed an Article 78 against the NY Parole Board. It’s a lawsuit that challenges an administrative decision. The State Attorney General lawyers defend it.
I wrote a book, A Jacket off the Gorge, about a guy named Jon Fontaine. He was in prison, but now he’s not. When he was in prison, we had all sorts of contact. That led to me writing a bunch of blogs about the bad goings on in prison. And it got a lot of attention. How Prison Guards Really Behave is the most popular blog, earning low scores all around from prison staff.
And then—BAM—my name ends up on a document that states Jon cannot have contact with me when he is released from prison.
There’s a head scratcher. I’m not a victim. I had nothing to do with his crime (or any crime. I’m crime free, aka a good influence.).
But—oh, wait. There’s that anti-prison book. Oh, and those anti-prison blogs.
We filed an Article 78 lawsuit challenging the no-contact decision after one solid year of prison staff giving us the run-around. No one admitted to putting my name on the list. Then, different people raised their hands to own up to it (“It was me.” “No, it was me.”). Most importantly, no one could tell us why my name was on the list.
We think we know. (See previous paragraph about anti-prison book and anti-prison blog).
Our lawsuit alleges constitutional rights violations. Jon is owned by the state, but I am not. And a restriction on Jon communicating with me is a restriction on my communication. I am a free adult. No one can hamper my communication. And there’s that b-o-o-k. There are first amendment violations all around.
So Prisoners’ Legal Services took up the case for free. They filed the Article 78 on December 6, 2017. The AG had a three week deadline to reply. Instead, they asked not to reply. They waited until the very last day—the deadline—and got the judge to push back the case another month and a half. And on their next deadline to reply, instead of filing an answer, they filed a Motion to Dismiss, and a laughably stupid one at that.
The grounds? The AG lawyer claimed Jon did not exhaust all of his options to try to remove my name from his no-contact list, because he didn’t file a grievance to prison staff. It doesn’t take a law degree to understand that an inmate grievance to facility staff has nothing to do with parole release conditions imposed by the NYS Board of Parole. Sure, the staff initially put my name on there, but they sent it to the Parole Board, who then rubber stamped it. Done.
The good news for us: The judge will strike it down. The bad news for you: your hard-earned tax money gets to pay for all this unnecessary court drama.
The PLS attorney filed his rebuttal on Valentine’s Day, and it delivers quite the one-two punch. You can almost hear the “ARE YOU FRIGGIN’ STUPID?” in his response papers. Perhaps on Friday (February 16), the judge will rule on the motion to dismiss. Either way, it unfairly drags out this lawsuit for us, and costs you money.
“Petitioner could not have raised his complaint regarding release conditions by filing an Inmate Grievance pursuant to 7 NYCRR Part 701, because pursuant to 7 NYCRR 701.3(f) actions or decisions by an outside agency or entity not under the supervision of the Commissioner of DOCCS are not within the jurisdiction of the Inmate Grievance Program . . . Pursuant to Executive Law 259-c(2), the Parole Board has the “power and duty of determining the conditions of relase of any person being released to community supervision.'”
Prisoners’ Legal Services Senior Supervising Attorney
Read Prisoner’s Legal Services entire reply to the Motion to Dismiss.
Read the NYS Attorney General’s Motion to Dismiss, prepared by Assistant AG Omar Siddiqi (perhaps better suited to be an intern).
Read more about our litigation here.
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Author SusanAshlinePosted on February 15, 2018 March 6, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Article 78, Assistant AG Omar Siddiqi, Jon Fontaine, NY attorney general Eric Schneiderman, NY DOCCS, NY State Parole Board, Prisoners Legal Services, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, Susan Ashline2 Comments on We Sued the NY Parole Board and their Lawyers Are Playing Dodgeball
Dear New York Attorney General Lawyers
Dear NYS AG lawyers,
Thanks for stopping by. I’m sure taxpayers are pleased. They’re the ones paying for you to comb my website.
You’re watching me, I’m watching you.
You’re preparing a response to our lawsuit against the NYS Parole Board. This was a debacle you could’ve ended.
We filed suit against the NYS Parole Board for imposing a bogus condition of Jon Fontaine’s parole; one that bars him from communicating with me. As you know, he’s the subject of my book, A Jacket off the Gorge. You know all that, because it’s in the Article 78 we filed in December. You remember–it’s the court action you asked to have adjourned. It’s the Article 78 that points out that by restricting Jon’s communication with me, you’re restricting my communication with Jon—a violation of my constitutional rights.
You could’ve dropped it, removed the condition, and chalked it up to something that got caught up in a bureaucratic mess, and this would’ve all gone away quietly. Instead, you chose to continue to waste taxpayer money and argue the lawsuit.
I’m sure taxpayers will be pleased, and I’m the one to point out to them—loudly and publicly—the way you wasted their money.
When you’ve completed your response (charging taxpayers to do so), I look forward to reading it. I more look forward to our day in court.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on February 1, 2018 March 6, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Jon Fontaine, New York Attorney General, NYS parole board, Susan Ashline2 Comments on Dear New York Attorney General Lawyers
We Sued the NYS Parole Board and It’s Downright Silly
“… explain to me how prohibiting Mr. Fontaine from associating with a woman who has done nothing more than telling his personal story is a proper release condition.”
Attorney letter to NYS Parole Board lawyer and chairwoman
It’s not the lawsuit that’s silly. But wait until you read the exchanges with prison and parole.
I wrote a book about a New York prison inmate who’s now on parole. Before his release, someone from the prison put my name on his “no-contact” list – but no one’s owning up to it.
I’m a journalist. Jon Fontaine is a guy I dated before I knew he was a criminal. A Jacket off the Gorge is about his crimes and the period when our lives intersected. Jon has lawsuits against prison staff. The book covers that.
On December 6, Prisoner’s Legal Services filed a lawsuit against the New York Board of Parole to get my name removed from Jon’s “no contact” list, alleging constitutional rights violations.
It was July 24 when PLS Attorney Sophia Heller stepped in and wrote the parole board chairwoman and chief counsel.
“… this condition is inappropriate. I thus respectfully request that Mr. Fontaine’s release conditions be amended accordingly.”
On August 15, the parole board secretary replied:
“… this condition was removed on April 18.”
However, the “amended” document still contained the original restriction:
“I will not associate or communicate by any means with Susan Ashline… without the permission of the [parole officer]. “
And added a line:
“I can be around/communicate with Susan Ashline as long as parole officer agrees.”
Yes, it really says that—the same thing twice, with the words flipped.
On August 21, the PLS attorney again wrote the board:
“… to impose this condition in any form without justification is entirely inappropriate.”
No one responded.
Since we’d planned to jointly promote A Jacket off the Gorge upon Jon’s release in September 2017, I had chased down getting my name removed from his no-contact list as early as one year prior to his release.
I endured months of head-scratching nonsense from Mid-State prison staffers who kept sending me out for buckets of steam, particularly Ronald Meier, a supervisor in the prison counseling office. I had caught Meier in several lies (see previous story). He kept feigning ignorance about the parole condition.
A parole board staff member then informed me the parole release conditions came directly from the facility. The document had Meier’s name stamped on it. The parole board blindly approved it.
I wrote the parole board instructing them to remove my name, included correspondence with prison staff, and stated prison staff had insisted only the parole board could remove my name.
Parole board secretary Lorraine Morse wrote on March 9:
“There is no indication that Mr. Fontaine wishes to have your name removed. If he wishes, he must submit in writing to the Guidance Office—SORC Meier—Midstate CF his request to have it removed.”
She’d passed the ball back to Meier. I called Morse and told her that was the very problem—that’d I’d kept getting passed back and forth. Meier was insisting he had no role in changing the condition.
Don’t worry, she told me. It won’t be a problem. “I had conversations with him directly. He knows exactly what he’s supposed to do.”
As directed, Jon sent the request to Meier on March 20.
How did Meier respond?
“This request will be forwarded to the parole board.”
Meier never did send it to the parole board anyway. He sent it to his supervisor in the prison, Jeff McCoy, Deputy Commissioner for Program Services.
McKoy wrote Jon on June 5:
“Please be advised that the Parole Board Commissioners are responsible for all final determinations of parole conditions.”
But on March 20, Jon had also sent his request to the parole board, just to be safe.
It was after that the parole board made their genius amendment.
Jon spoke with his prison counselor, Larry Zick, who allegedly told Jon that he was the one who wrote the parole release document, and my name was a whoopsie—he may have gotten distracted while writing up the list (because I had to point out to prison staff that they’d removed the name of Jon’s crime victim while surreptitiously inserting my name in her place).
Prior to that, more than a half dozen staffers claimed they had no idea how my name got on the list, or why. After stating he had no idea why my name was on the list, Meier told me in a phone call that it was because I’d briefly put myself on Jon’s no-correspondence list of my own volition.
I beat down doors until I got an investigation opened. Then, I was told a different story by yet another prison employee. This time, the story was that a prison staffer named Lisa Hoy added my name to the list, alleging I’d called her in 2015 and told her I was afraid of Jon.
2015? That’s curious timing.
In 2015, Jon’s attorney filed lawsuits against staff at Mid-State and Groveland prisons. In 2015, Mid-State staff became aware of my book when I wrote administration seeking permission to do a media interview of Jon inside the facility. It was denied.
I’d been posting stories by Jon on my website; many unfavorable to prison staff. Someone posted a story from my website to an online forum for prison employees. Views of that story spiked well into the thousands. A couple prison employees posted angry comments on my website.
We believe the inclusion of my name on Jon’s “no contact” list was an attempt to silence our story.
Conveniently, Hoy left the prison job a very long time ago. I have no idea who she is. I’m not inclined to phone strangers at a prison to talk about my feelings. And if that call actually took place, what steps did the prison do to “protect” me? Because in 2015, and up to the time of his release, Jon and I had seamless, unhampered contact via phone calls, letters and visits.
I am not afraid of Jon.
The condition states that contact is ultimately up to his Rochester parole officer, Martin Buonanno. Note that almost all correspondence is cc’ed to Jon’s file. Either Buonanno didn’t bother to read it, or he arbitrarily dismissed it. He denied me the right to communicate with someone.
I am not under state ownership. My constitutional freedoms are not discretionary.
The litigation, called an Article 78, challenges an administrative decision; in this case, the parole board adding my name to the “no contact” list. The case is set be argued in State Supreme Court in Albany on January 5, 2018.
Cause of Action, Fontaine v. NYS Board of Parole
Memo of Law, Fontaine v. NYS Board of Parole
Click here to read my affidavit
Read the Cause of Action:
Author SusanAshlinePosted on December 14, 2017 March 5, 2019 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Article 78, Jeff McCoy Deputy Commissioner for Program Services, Jon Fontaine, Kathleen Kiley Chief Counsel Board of Parole, Lawrence Zick, Lorraine V Morse Parole Board Administrative Assistant, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State Correctional Facility Superintendent Matthew Thoms, Mid-State counselor Lisa Hoy, Midstate prison, New York State Parole Board, Rochester NY, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, SORC Counselor Ronald Meier, Susan Ashline, Tina Stanford Chairwoman, true crime, Upstate New York, Utica4 Comments on We Sued the NYS Parole Board and It’s Downright Silly
I’ve Been up to Something
Since the subject of my book, A Jacket off the Gorge, was released from prison in September 2017, he’s been… I have no idea what he’s been doing. Prison staff manipulated the system to get parole to add a condition barring Jon Fontaine from communicating with me. My book is not complimentary of prison staff. Their bogus condition assures no collaboration on promoting the book (*ahem first amendment rights violations).
So I’ve been productively quiet while waiting for them to get sued. On December 6, that lawsuit was filed (details coming).
What have I been up to? I started a new book.
Trunk: A Story of Savagery, Courage and Survival tells the horrifying tale of a suburban family kidnapped by teenage brothers who hail from the most dangerous streets of Rochester.
The family is taken from their Irondequoit home, tortured for hours, stuffed into a trunk at gunpoint, driven around inner city streets and shown off like prized trophies until Don and Rashad Peterkin decide it’s time to “do ’em in.”
Among those held captive: a baby still in diapers.
Would any of them survive? In the hood, “Snitches wind up in ditches.” Fear rules. No one sees anything. No one tells.
A judge would call the Peterkins “savages” and “beasts who need to be caged.”
They are brought to justice thanks to two brave siblings raised on those very city streets; heroes whose stories have never–until now—been told.
Trunk is a gritty and riveting true crime story seeded with valuable discussion of inner city culture. It tells of the brutal crime in novel-like fashion, and reveals the untold story behind the heroes’ dramatic actions, and the shocking turn their lives would take.
[Update: Due to the sale of my true crime book, Without a Prayer, this project is on hold.]
Author SusanAshlinePosted on December 8, 2017 August 21, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, author Susan Ashline, Deputy Superintendent for Programs Anne Joslyn, Irondequoit New York, Jon Fontaine, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State Correctional Facility Superintendent Matthew Thoms, Mid-State counselor Lisa Hoy, New York State Parole Board, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, SORC Counselor Ronald Meier, Upstate New York1 Comment on I’ve Been up to Something
It’s been awfully quiet on this website.
Though I added a blog category “Follow the Story in Real Time,” as you can see, I haven’t been able to follow Jon Fontaine’s story in real time. The prison staff at Mid-State Correctional Facility made sure of that. So did Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, by putting me on Jon’s no-contact list. And the New York State Parole Board blindly approved it.
So, they’re being sued.
[I will post court docs and the head-spinning correspondence with prison staff and parole. You’ll enjoy the comedic element. Stay tuned]
Court papers were filed on December 6. The case is on track to be argued on January 5, 2018, in Albany County.
The story goes like this: I wrote a book about Jon Fontaine, a criminal. A Jacket off the Gorge is currently on submission to publishers. Events depicted in my book are also detailed in Jon’s lawsuits against prison staff. Staff is well aware of the book, its contents, and subsequent blogs on my website which expose problems in the penal system. In an unpredictable and stunning move, prior to Jon’s release, prison staff added my name to a document that states he would not be allowed to communicate with me upon release (without the permission of his parole officer). Through a shocking (almost laughable) chain of correspondence, Mid-State staffers refused to remove my name, stated they had no why it was there, or how it got there.
Upon release, parole officer Buonanno arbitrarily denied Jon the right to communicate with me, and by that act, denied me the right to communicate with Jon (thereby violating my constitutional rights).
Jon had called me the day before his release and asked if I would call his parole officer to seek permission to have contact with him. I would not.
Here’s the thing about constitutional rights: You’re born with them. They are absolute. You don’t need permission; and certainly not from some Shmoe with a low-level state job.
I refused to ask permission. Buonanno is a stranger to me. He does not get to make decisions for me. Now, the parole board is being taken to court for violating my rights, and you—the taxpayer—have to pay for it. You have to pay to ensure my constitutional freedoms remain intact.
It’s what happens when citizens get state jobs, a taste of power, and knowlege that red tape will insulate them from having to answer to their abuses of power.
What a waste of your money.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on December 7, 2017 March 6, 2018 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Deputy Superintendent for Programs Anne Joslyn, Jon Fontaine, memoir, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State prison, New York State Parole Board, nonfiction, Rochester Parole Officer Martin Buonanno, Senior Parole Officer Thomas O'Connor, SORC Counselor Ronald Meier, Superintendent Matthew Thoms, Susan Ashline, Tina Stanford Chairwoman, true crimeLeave a comment on Crickets
“A Jacket off the Gorge” Sticks with You, Somewhat
When you find my website through a search engine, my tracker logs which keywords you used. By the stats, people remember the title of my book, A Jacket off the Gorge. Or, they at least remember some version of it.
It this case, it is about the destination and not the journey. No matter how you got here, I’m glad you made it.
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Author SusanAshlinePosted on October 25, 2017 October 26, 2017 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Susan AshlineLeave a comment on “A Jacket off the Gorge” Sticks with You, Somewhat
My Response to The Kimberly and Beck Show
It’s okay to care about someone.
There’s a lot of material in my 400 page manuscript, A Jacket off the Gorge, about a criminal whose life intersected with mine: fake suicide, search and rescue, international drug mule, never-to-be-found treasure, real suicide, and more.
But the Kimberly and Beck radio segment focused mostly on the relationship between the story’s subject, Jon Fontaine, and me.
And that’s OK. I’m learning folks are fascinated with the relationship.
I also learned, long ago, that people don’t pay attention to what they’re listening to on the radio, on TV, or to what they’re reading.
The radio show co-host said his phone was flooding with texts saying I was “still in love with” Jon. I found it mildly amusing. I didn’t feel the need to respond. I’d already made my position clear.
I said I cared about him. He is my friend.
I’m 51, not 21. I am evolved. I understand people can feel a wide range of emotions – caring is somewhere on the spectrum, being in love is at the far end.
I can have friends, acquaintances, lovers, enemies. I may even care about my enemies.
Why do people want to hold onto their own generated notion that I’m hiding feelings? What do they gain from that? I bet there’s a sociological phenomenon that explains it. Had I vehemently denied it, I would’ve been accused of protesting too much. I sat holding the phone with a grin, because I was amused. Were I still in love, I would’ve said so. I had been at one time. That was gone many years ago, for both Jon and me.
People move on. Always, they move on.
I just finished reading a book, The Fact of a Body. A lawyer who was sexually abused as a child is asked to work on sparing child rapist and murderer Ricky Langley the death penalty. But the author, herself raped by her grandfather as a child, wants Langley to die. The author spends the entire book trying to understand why the mother of the murdered child asks jurors to show Langley mercy. And she struggles to come to terms with her own sexual abuse.
In the end, after a lifetime of hating her grandfather, she remembers the human side of him, the part that taught her things, and she goes to his gravestone and tells him she loves him. And in the end, after reading stacks of court papers about the Langley case, which include documents showing his struggles and cries for help, she writes, “he started to become a person to me.”
I don’t understand how someone could feel empathy for a person who hurt a child. And though I may never see it her way, I trust the author of The Fact of a Body is mature, intelligent, and capable of forming her own opinions.
I care about someone I know as a person; one who did bad things. And I’m not ashamed of that. I’m proud of that.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on October 9, 2017 October 13, 2017 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, iheart radio, Jon Fontaine, Kimberly and Beck, memoir, narrative nonfiction book, radio 95.1, Rochester New York, Susan Ashline, true crime, Wayne County NYLeave a comment on My Response to The Kimberly and Beck Show
Inmate’s Exit from Prison a Bumpy Ride
[by Susan Ashline]
Jon called me last night.
He’s less than two weeks from getting out of prison and has been told nothing concrete about anything from anyone.
He has no place to live and hasn’t been told where he might be placed.
He worries his parole officer will not allow him to have a vehicle, which would hamper him from finding employment.
He’s been given different dates for his release.
His counselor at New York’s Mid-State prison, Larry Zick, apparently told him he’s allowed to have someone pick up him on the day of his release; then told him he’ll have to take a bus to his parole officer’s office… wherever and whenever that may be. Picked up or take bus – Zick simply doesn’t know.
Jon’s attorney, the one he paid $12,000 to do his restitution hearing and a motion almost a year ago, has been largely absent. I’ve tried to stay out of it, but a good part of my book, A Jacket off the Gorge, deals with failures in the justice system, and I have a hard time ignoring that an attorney is neglecting any client, let alone one who paid him $12,000. The whole “voice for the voiceless” thing – I’ve felt obligated to intervene a number of times. My last contact was more than a month ago. I emailed Jon’s attorney on his behalf, because I’d learned the decision on his restitutaion hearing had come down three weeks earlier. Jon, of course, had been waiting to hear. The attorney then emailed the decision and said to tell Jon he was sending a big packet of information. There’s an affidavit Jon has been waiting to sign that his attorney promised to get to him months ago.
As of last night, Jon has heard nothing from this attorney – no calls, letters, visits; affidavit never came. Months go by with no communication.
I am resisting the urge to rip into this attorney. I don’t want to look like a jerk. But I’m realizing I am not the one who looks like a jerk here.
Speaking of jerks… After learning I wrote a book about Jon, which includes his lawsuit against Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State staffers arbitrarily added my name to his parole release conditions, stating he would not be allowed to communicate with me. Isn’t that convenient?
I spent months contacting everyone involved (Superintendent Mathew Thoms, Ronald Meier, Ann Joselyn, Larry Zick, DOCCS attorney Kevin Kortright, DOCCS investigators Scott Apple and Keila Bowens, the NY Parole Board), stating I do not consent to my name being on that list. Jon sat with his counselor, Zick, who apparently told him he doesn’t remember adding my name in the first place, and that someone may’ve walked into his office while he was doing the form and distracted him, and that’s how it wound up there. Jon also wrote the parole board, as well as filed a prison grievance to get my name removed.
Let’s pull all the support beams from any inmate being released from prison and laugh while they crumble (*sarcasm). More likely, whine about the fact they slipped up, committed crimes again, and wound up back in the system. Throw your hands up, shrug your shoulders and act in disbelief as to how this happened.
After being sent around in circles, no one doing their job, and no one getting anything done, an attorney out of Albany, through a prisoner’s advocacy organization, took up the case to get my name removed.
Ironically, the one attorney who has done more than anyone else is the attorney not getting paid a penny from Jon.
Thank you to this attorney for her hard work and tenacity. She has been in contact with the Parole Board legal counsel, demanding my name be removed and stating there is no cause for it to be there. Unbelievably, the Parole Board lawyer wrote her erroneously stating my name had been removed in April. In fact, it had not been removed. The very same condition was listed as an amendment, but restated – different words. And now the attorney is forced to go at them again.
And this is how the criminal justice system goes.
And we all want better citizens and less crime, but the state employees want to retain power, collect their fat paychecks (that you pay out), and put up roadblocks to get people to a better place.
Like it or not, most of these inmates are released at some point. Isn’t it better for us if we help them rather than isolate them from social circles and take away their ability to find viable employment?
Mid-State Prison Strikes Back after Learning of My Book
Mid-State Prison Retaliates Against Me (UPDATE)
Mid-State Prison Staff Stonewalls Me (UPDATE)
Author SusanAshlinePosted on September 18, 2017 October 2, 2017 Categories Follow the Story in Real TimeTags A Jacket off the Gorge, central New York, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Deputy Superintendent for Programs Anne Joslyn, DOCCS, DOCCS attorney Kevin Kortright, Investigator Keila Bowens, Investigator Scott Apple, Jon Fontaine, Larry Zick, Lawrence Zick, Marcy New York, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State prison, NY State Parole Board, prison inmate, SORC Counselor Ronald Meier, Superintendent Matthew Thoms, Susan Ashline, UticaLeave a comment on Inmate’s Exit from Prison a Bumpy Ride
The Bond of Laughter in Prison
[by Jon Fontaine, NY prison inmate]
In prison, people don’t generally segregate themselves by race. Associations are usually based on region. New York City guys usually stick together no matter the borough. Upstate guys will associate by city or region (Rochester with Rochester, Utica with Utica).
I usually associate with everyone, because I always seem to wind up with a prison job or reputation that brings everyone to me for something. Two guys I use to have a lot of fun joking around with were from Syracuse.
Wilfredo Roman, known as “Pieto” or “P,” was a Puerto Rican drug dealer. Jamie Kimbrough, known as “Bam,” was a bi-racial “booster,” or someone who goes into stores to steal valuable goods, like jewelry.
Bam stood out among the inmates, because one drunken night, he thought it would be a good idea to get a tattoo of a hair line to make up for his baldness.
I spent a lot of time with P and Bam, because we lived in the same unit. It also meant they were victims of my practical jokes.
One day, I was at my prison job in the gym until 11 a.m. I waited until Bam and P were together in P’s room, and I went in all hyped up.
“You guys are not gonna believe this!” I told them. “Yesterday, someone took some Jolly Ranchers off my locker. So this morning, I took a handful of Jolly Ranchers, opened them all, and shoved them halfway up my ass and re-wrapped them! I left them on my locker when I left this morning, and when I came back now, there were gone! Someone literally ate my shit!”
I saw Bam’s face turning red, and asked, “Did you see someone take my Jolly Ranchers this morning?”
Bam snapped back and pointed at P: “He gave me Jolly Ranchers this morning! He said he found them on your locker!”
Bam’s face was getting beet red, and P and I started laughing. Of course I wouldn’t stick candy up my butt. I had simply told P what I was planning to do, and asked him to play along.
It was all worth it to see Bam’s face turn red.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on August 14, 2017 Categories Inmate Blog (Unrelated to the Book)Tags A Jacket off the Gorge, central New York, Jon Fontaine, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State prison, prison inmateLeave a comment on The Bond of Laughter in Prison
Susan Ashline on DiTullio and Moran Show: A Jacket off the Gorge
Susan Ashline talks about A Jacket off the Gorge (missing coins and fake death, and answers questions you want to know) on DiTullio and Moran, 95.1 Rochester, May 24, 2017.
Photo courtesy: Iheart Radio
Author SusanAshlinePosted on May 30, 2017 Categories About This CaseTags 95.1 FM, A Jacket off the Gorge, Bill Moran, iheart radio, John Ditullio, Jon Fontaine, Rochester NY, Rochester radio, Susan Ashline, Upstate New YorkLeave a comment on Susan Ashline on DiTullio and Moran Show: A Jacket off the Gorge
Jail Joke Takes Shape of a Turd
[by New York State prison inmate Jon Fontaine, who is writing behind bars at the Monroe County Jail while awaiting a hearing]
Tom VanDusen was charged with fracturing his girlfriend’s cheekbone by hitting her in the face with a chrome vibrator.
When I was in county jail with him in 2011, he let me read his girlfriend’s statement.
I hate women beaters, so I decided to have some fun at his expense.
At breakfast each morning, we’d get juice in a small round cup with a foil lid. It looked like an apple sauce cup. It would fit perfectly inside the jail’s stainless steel toilet drain, I thought. A bonus – it was clear. It would blend in. No one would see it.
VanDusen’s cell was next to mine. I put the juice cup in his toilet.
After lock-in, I heard his toilet flush. It flushed a second time. I was guessing he took a crap and couldn’t get it down the toilet. I heard the toilet flush a third time and water hit the floor. Success.
VanDusen asked a guard for a plunger, and after plunging like his life depended on it, I heard him ask, “Who dropped the juice cup in my toilet?” He thought it was an accident.
The next night before lock-in, I reached through VanDusen’s bars and took his toothpaste. Using salt packets I’d taken from meal trays, I poured the salt into his toothpaste tube, and then kneaded the tube to mix it up.
After lock-in that night, I heard VanDusen start the faucet, and then I heard loud gags.
I bit my tongue, trying not to laugh.
The following day, VanDusen came to my gate and said, “I know it’s you fucking with me. If you don’t stop, I’m going to fuck you up.”
I said, “Really? In that case, my next trick will be to shit in your sink.”
At lock-in a few days later, VanDusen started screaming, “Oh my God! No you didn’t! I am not locking in with that in my sink! If you don’t get that out I’m pressing the panic button!”
Two inmates I knew ran to VanDusen’s cell and one, who went by “D,” said he’d get out the turd. He used a wad of toilet paper to wrangle it from the sink, and then brought it to his nose and sniffed it.
“Oh my God! He’s sniffing it!” VanDusen screamed.
The other guy, Mike, took the turd from D and bit into it.
VanDusen went nuts.
The “turd” was actually a concoction of food. I’d taken a Little Debbie fudge round, folded it and pinched the ends. I bought a Snickers off commissary, took out a few peanut chunks and pressed them in the fudge turd.
I had let Mike and D in on the prank just before I pressed it into VanDusen’s sink.
All it took was a fudge round to bring a big bad woman-beater to tears.
The “turd” was actually a concoction of food. I’d taken a Little Debbie fudge round, folded it and pinched the ends. I bought a Snickers off commissary, took out a few peanut chunks and pressed them in fudge turd.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on February 16, 2017 May 8, 2017 Categories Inmate Blog (Unrelated to the Book)Tags A Jacket off the Gorge, Jon Fontaine, Lyons New York, Monroe County Jail, Susan Ashline, Upstate New York, Wayne County JailLeave a comment on Jail Joke Takes Shape of a Turd
Livingston County News: Jon’s Story
Read the Livingston County News cover story on Jon Fontaine’s lawsuit and A Jacket off the Gorge.
Former Groveland inmate claims torturous treatment in lawsuit against state
Author SusanAshlinePosted on February 10, 2017 February 24, 2017 Categories About This CaseTags A Jacket off the Gorge, attorney general Maria Lisi-Murray, attorney Jessica Gorman, attorney Kevin Van Allen, book, coins, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, DOCCS, Groveland prison, Jon Fontaine, Letchworth State Park gorge, Livingston County News, Matt Leader, memoir, mental health, New York prison, press secretary Casey Aguglia, prison reform, State Police Investigator Chris Burns, Susan Ashline, Upstate New YorkLeave a comment on Livingston County News: Jon’s Story
Dying Inmate Scrawls Message in Blood
[written by Susan Ashline; as told by inmate Jon Fontaine]
A huge crash awakened me in my cell at Mid-State prison. It was early – 5 a.m. – and all the lights were on. It was August 2014.
I ran to the door, joining the other inmates who’d craned their necks to the hallway, trying to figure out what was happening.
Mid-State used to be a mental hospital, so the cell was a room with no toilet or sink, and no actual door.
The corrections officer working the overnight shift on my unit only left his office for two things: the midnight and 6 a.m. head counts. He did not make the required half-hour rounds. Instead, he would sleep in his office.
I saw a guard we called “Dirty Red” standing in the hallway, just outside another inmate’s door. Dirty Red was notorious for mistreating prisoners. But one act got him beaten senseless by another guard. Dirty Red would piss in the inmate ice machine. Each housing unit had one, like the kind you’d find in a hotel. But he failed to consider that officers used those ice machines, too. And then, one found out about it.
Dirty Red wasn’t even supposed to be on our unit that night. That, along with his reputation and the crashing locker led me to one conclusion.
“They’re fucking up Shadow!” I yelled.
More inmates rushed to their doors.
Shadow was a white guy with a long, black pony tail. He was super quiet and played guitar. We talked every day.
He’d been battling the prison administration and the Office of Mental Health (OMH). He wanted – needed – his bi-polar medication. He’d taken it his whole life, he told me. But the administration wouldn’t let him have it. He felt fine, they insisted. They argued he’d been cured of his mental illness.
And he’d mock them. “Miraculously cured,” he would say.
Knowing he wasn’t cured, and riding an emotional roller coaster, Shadow started filing grievances and writing letters. Everything was getting denied. Their reasoning? Shadow shouldn’t be granted “special treatment.” By that, I suppose they meant expecting to be able to continue taking medication he’d been taking for years.
His cries for help denied by Mid-State administrators and OMH staff, Shadow resorted to filing an Article 78. It’s a form of lawsuit used to challenge an administrative decision, action or policy. You can’t get money from an Article 78. The most you can win is the administrative action you’re seeking.
In this case, Shadow wanted his mental health medications. He’d been feeling ill for so long.
I knew Shadow had just filed the Article 78. I’d surmised this was just another retaliatory beating in typical prison guard Gestapo fashion. I figured a couple of officers – certainly Dirty Red – waited until the early morning hours to storm Shadow’s room in a gang assault to teach him a lesson about challenging the administration. Of course my mind would go there. That stuff happens epidemically in the prisons.
I heard bangs and thuds and a mix of voices – shrieks and hollers. I saw more officers rushing the scene, some carrying medical bags; one with a defibrillator.
I read the panic on Dirty Red’s face. I saw it in his hands. They shook so violently that he dropped a package of gauze pads and another officer snatched them.
Shadow’s locker came sliding out of the room into the hallway, creating a smeared trail of blood.
I heard the AED beep its warning. An electronic voice spoke commands on how to restart a heart. Then, a voice crackled over the two-way radio, “The ambulance is here.”
Guards picked out four inmates standing in their doorways. A folding canvas stretcher opened and then disappeared into Shadow’s room. It came out moments later, carried by the inmates.
As it passed through the doorway, I saw Shadow’s feet. Then, I saw his arm dangling from it, like his locker, cold and gray.
“Look at how bruised he is!” someone shouted.
He wasn’t bruised. He was dead. I knew it, and I hollered it back.
The stretcher gone, we were allowed to make our way to the bathroom one at a time. We would have to walk past Shadow’s room, squeezing by the metal locker splattered with blood.
When I got to Shadow’s room, I gawked.
Blood spray ran down the wall where the locker used to be, leaving a blank outline. Shadow’s chair was in the far corner. A huge pool of blood was on the floor and leading from it, trails of bloody footprints.
I moved on to the bathroom, but stopped again on my way back. This time, I looked at the locker blocking my way. On the side that would’ve been closest to Shadow’s chair, was a message written in blood:
“Now how do I feel?”
Later, we learned what happened. In the early morning hours, an inmate on his way to the bathroom passed Shadow’s room and saw him slumped on the floor in blood. The inmate ran to the officer on duty and found him sleeping in his office, so he woke him.
Shadow, who’d been miraculously cured of bi-polar disorder and no longer needed medication to control his mood swings, had sat in the chair in the corner of his room and, with his state-issued shaving razor, cut his wrists and used the blood to ink a final argument for treatment.
Now, how do you feel?
Author SusanAshlinePosted on February 9, 2017 Categories Inmate Blog (Unrelated to the Book)Tags A Jacket off the Gorge, corrections officers, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, DOCCS, inmate, Jon Fontaine, Marcy New York, mental health, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State prison, Midstate prison, New York prison, Office of Mental Health, OMH, prison guards, prison reform, Superintendent Matthew Thoms, Susan Ashline, Upstate New YorkLeave a comment on Dying Inmate Scrawls Message in Blood
Prison Guards Bringing in Bullets and Drugs
[by NYS prison inmate Jon Fontaine, at Monroe County jail awaiting a hearing]
At the end of summer 2016, a new corrections officer at Mid-State prison became “the regular” on my housing unit. I helped him move a refrigerator into his office. He’d purchased the fridge himself, which was twice the size of a mini fridge, about chest high with a separate freezer.
It was still sealed in the box, and as I helped him take it out of the box, I realized – not only were his bags not searched, but a box holding a fridge was not searched.
I knew this officer could have hidden a dozen fully-loaded assault rifles in the fridge section, another dozen fully-loaded handguns in the freezer, and walked them right into the prison. It occurred to me this could’ve been the way escape tools were smuggled to Clinton escapees Richard Matt and David Sweat in 2015.
On today’s Rochester news – a heroin overdose at Groveland Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. An inmate overdosed on heroin and was saved by father and son officers. The reporter read the Department of Corrections’ (DOCCS) official statement that drugs are brought into prisons by people visiting inmates.
I personally know of dozens of inmates who spend nearly every moment of every day high. The reality is that a miniscule percentage of the drugs come in by visitors.
Knowing how easy it is to get drugs in prison and the vast amounts, it is impossible for inmates’ families to be responsible for even half the amount.
Drugs smuggled in during visits are passed mouth to mouth during a kiss. The drugs are packed in a balloon the size of a thumb. After the kiss, the inmate goes into the bathroom and hides the balloon inside his rectum.
In Mid-State Correctional Facility, one of New York’s biggest prisons (nearly 1600 inmates), every inmate would have to get a visit every week and smuggle back a balloon… and the total still wouldn’t come close to supplying the drugs prisoners consume in a week.
I would guess roughly 200 inmates get visits at Mid-State on a busy week. So where do the drugs come from? The same officers who think nothing of murdering inmates, committing gang assaults, committing rape and gang sodomy think nothing of supplying drugs to prisoners.
What’s the incentive? Money. The inmates pay them.
There are no searches of officers when they enter the facility. Most come to work carrying a book bag and lunch cooler big enough to hold two 12-packs.
Bullets – yes, firearms ammo – turn up in prisons. How? Guards.
Inmates are subjected to full body metal detecting after visits. Every rectum gets scanned in the “body chair.”
If an officer thinks nothing of smuggling in escape tools (ala escapees Matt and Sweat), bullets and cell phones, they won’t hesitate to smuggle in drugs.
Without regular searches of prison staff, there will continue to be heroin overdoses and escapes.
[Jon has been blogging from behind bars at the Monroe County jail, while awaiting a hearing.]
Prison Guard Busted for Smuggling Phones, Drugs into Jail.
Prisoners Texted Guards for Drugs and Paid Them with PayPal
Author SusanAshlinePosted on February 2, 2017 May 8, 2017 Categories Inmate Blog (Unrelated to the Book)Tags A Jacket off the Gorge, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, DOCCS, Jon Fontaine, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State prison, Midstate prison, Monroe County Jail, prison reform, Superintendent Matthew Thoms, Susan Ashline, Upstate New York1 Comment on Prison Guards Bringing in Bullets and Drugs
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Read Part Two
Two months ago, I learned a Mid-State Correctional Facility staffer had surreptitiously placed my name on a list of individuals who inmate Jon Fontaine will not be allowed to communicate with upon release. Jon is the subject of my book, a friend, and we currently have unhampered communication through the prison.
Additionally, Jon’s Parole Decision Notice (the one listing my name) is in error. As my name was added to the “no communication” list, the name of his actual crime victim was removed. The prison staff submitted an incorrect document and the parole board blindly approved it.
For months, I had to fight for an answer as to why my name was put on that document. Staff at Mid-State Correctional Facility also ignored my concerns that the victim’s name was omitted and needed to be added.
The first two months were spent getting stonewalled by Mid-State staff. Leading the charge: interim Superintendent Matthew Thoms, his deputy superintendent, Anne Joslyn, and a counseling supervisor, Ronald Meier.
I was forced to take my questions and concerns outside the facility to the Office of Special Investigations. They opened an investigation.
Finally, an answer.
Investigator Keila Bowens informed me a Mid-State employee named Lisa Hoy was responsible for putting my name on the list.
Why was it necessary for Mid-State administrators to stonewall me for months? They could’ve simply provided the answer. Instead, they sent me phoning, emailing and writing snail-mail letters until I grew eye bags.
Why are these people still employed? And why do we pay them for failing at their jobs? New York State is the only employer who allows its employees to do nothing and still collect pay checks.
Bowens was respectful and accessible. She told me Lisa Hoy is a former counselor at the prison. I do not know Lisa Hoy, nor have I ever heard her name. She was never Jon’s counselor. And because she no longer works at the prison, she cannot be questioned.
Bowens acknowledged the Parole Release Document is in error. She said the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) will need to submit an amendment to the record in order to include the victim’s name. However, she said DOCCS is unable to remove my name from the document because it is “part of the record.”
On January 26, 2017, I sent a letter to parole board members requesting removal of my name (click to read ).
We’ll see if they do it.
Through this battle for answers, I cannot believe how many state employees told me the issue of my name appearing on this document doesn’t concern me. Um… yeah. Yeah, it does. It’s my name, and it restricts with whom I communicate. That’s revoking my constitutional rights. Get my name off the document and it will no longer be my business.
During Mid-State’s stonewalling, I had contacted the office of NYS Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, who was chair of the Corrections Committee. I received correspondence that he is no longer chair. Should I receive an unfavorable reply from the parole board, I will contact the new committee chair, Assemblyman David Weprin.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on January 26, 2017 June 28, 2017 Categories Prisons Behaving BadlyTags A Jacket off the Gorge, attorney Kevin Kortright, Chair Committee on Corrections Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, Chair Committee on Corrections Assemblyman David Weprin, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Deputy Superintendent for Programs Anne Joslyn, DOCCS, Investigator Keila Bowens, Investigator Scott Apple, Jon Fontaine, Larry Zick, Lawrence Zick, Lisa Hoy, Marcy New York, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Mid-State counselor Lisa Hoy, Mid-State prison, Midstate prison, NYS parole board, SORC Counselor Ronald Meier, Superintendent Matthew Thoms, Susan Ashline, Upstate New York4 Comments on Mid-State Prison Staff Stonewalls Me (UPDATE)
Sitting in a Pool of Blood, Piss and Shit
[Jon is writing while in Monroe County jail awaiting a hearing, transferred from Mid-State prison. He sent me a personal note and later gave me permission to post it publicly]
I was going to send this other one [story], but it says bad things about DOCCS [Dep’t of Corrections] and I realized they can just open my locker and give all my shit away.
I go back and my razor is missing, and I go to the box. I say, “It came up missing when I was gone.” And they go, “No. You sold it before you left.”
And I lose.
(Yes, they give you a razor to keep.)
Or, they put a weapon/drugs in my locker (hide it) and 5 minutes after I’m back… “Search!”… and I get a new charge.
Nothing will stop any of it. My shit will be gone, or I’ll be in the box. They lock guys up for months and go – sorry, we’re expunging this from your inmate record. “What about the 4 months in the box I did and all my stuff being gone?”
They do whatever they want.
Google “Renfrow.” He was my bunky. IG/OSI [Inspector General/Office of Special Investigations] showed up. His 3rd day hog tied and bleeding in the box and they didn’t make anyone un-hog tie him or get him medical attention for 3 more days – “Oh, he’s still in there? You should take him to a doctor.”
Teeth gone, skull fractured. Hog tied, sitting in a pool of blood, piss and shit, and the investigators didn’t care for three days. And after, when he got out of the hospital with an open investigation, COs [corrections officers] would come to his unit at 3 a.m. and fuck him up in his sleep, run up behind him on the walkway and punch him in his head; removed all the numbers from his phone list so he couldn’t call anyone, would tell his attorney he couldn’t come to a visit, stalked him in uniform when he got out, twice framed him with weapons – all with an open investigation.
[NOTE: Lucas Renfrow was released from prison in August of 2015. He committed suicide three years later]
Author SusanAshlinePosted on January 19, 2017 December 19, 2018 Categories Inmate Blog (Unrelated to the Book)Tags A Jacket off the Gorge, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, DOCCS, DOCCS Inspector General, DOCCS Office of Special Investigations, Fishkill Correctional Facility, Jon Fontaine, Lucas Renfrow, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Monroe County Jail, New York prison, Samuel HarrellLeave a comment on Sitting in a Pool of Blood, Piss and Shit
Reeking Jail Jumpsuits
[by Jon Fontaine, a NYS inmate who has been transferred to the Monroe County jail from Mid-State Correctional Facility, awaiting a hearing.]
There were two holding areas. In the first were guys in street clothes. In the second were guys in jail jumpsuits. Other than the deputies, I was the only white guy in booking. Everybody was staring at me because I was in prison clothes. They were stating the obvious:
“He just came from prison.”
“He’s white.”
“He’s a white guy who just came from prison.”
The deputy led me to a room full of jumpsuits and property bags. I found a pair of new, jail issue, generic blaze orange clogs. I was not issued a single undergarment, nor were there any in sight – no socks, no under Ts, no underwear. My previous stay was the same. Monroe County jail does not issue any undergarments.
I sat in the holding area for probably an hour before a deputy came around saying, “I have to lock you guys in a holding area. We have a crazy guy coming through.”
We got moved to a holding pen the size of a living room. I took the coveted corner spot where two wood benches met, and put my back against the wall and my feet on the bench. Four other guys napped in the hard chairs, while one paced the holding area. And one kept popping up and down from his chair saying he hadn’t gotten to make a free call.
On the far side of the pen was s stainless steel toilet and sink combo. From 20 feet away, I could see both were totally covered in filth. Flies buzzed over the scum. The floor was littered with trash.
A deputy was locking the guys dressed in street clothes into a second holding pen. A few of them started complaining about being locked up.
“There’s no crazy coming through.”
“Yeah, they’d bring him in cuffs and lock him in isolation.”
“They just wanted to lock us up.”
“It’s two o’clock,” I said. “Shift change is in an hour. A crazy is coming through, but he’ll be wearing a badge, and these deputies want us locked up until their shift is over.”
The guy complaining about not getting a call asked, “You’re the guy who just came from prison, right?”
He sat down next to me, two mystery meat sandwiches wrapped in plastic in his hand. “What were you in prison for?”
“I beat a guy to death.”
“Damn! What’d you beat him with?”
I held up my hands. “My fists.” I touched a scar in the center of my forehead. “After I head butted him in the face.”
“Holy shit! You’re a bad dude! Why’d you kill him?”
“Last time I was in prison, he asked me what I was in prison for.”
His eyes got wide and his jaw moved around. I couldn’t tell if he knew I was joking.
“You want a sandwich?” he asked.
“Can I have both?”
“Sure,” he said. “Take both.”
The guys spent the next five hours asking about prison, talking about their cases and telling stories. The oldest guy, the one who gave me his sandwiches, would get up and pace around, and then sit back down next to me. When he’d talk, he’d wave his arms all around and I’d have to tip my head to avoid getting smacked in his excitement.
Every time he moved his arms, I’d get whiff of rancid body odor.
Finally, I got up and stood in a corner by the door like I was looking out into booking. I was near a vent and could still smell the rancid BO. I started sniffing my own jumpsuit. It reeked. “Do they wash these things?”
“No, they just put them in a dryer.”
“Yeah. It kills bugs but saves money on water and soap.”
“My God this jumpsuit stinks.”
Despite a few dozen requests, it would be seven days before I got to exchange my jumpsuit.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on January 12, 2017 May 8, 2017 Categories Inmate Blog (Unrelated to the Book)Tags A Jacket off the Gorge, holding pen, jail jumpsuits, Jon Fontaine, Monroe County Jail, New York, Rochester, Susan Ashline, Upstate New YorkLeave a comment on Reeking Jail Jumpsuits
Inmates Cook and Share Love of Slop
[by NYS prison inmate Jon Fontaine, who is in the Monroe County Jail awaiting a hearing, after being transferred from Mid-State Correctional Facility.]
They call it Gumbo. It looks like slop in a garbage bag, which, basically it is.
Inmates in the Monroe County Jail will pool their food to “cook” together each night.
They start with a garbage bag. That’s their cooking pot, casserole dish and serving tray.
They’ll break up a few Ramen soups and toss them in the bag, and then add a couple of packs of cheese crackers, or maybe a few small bags of Doritos. Someone will break up a dill pickle, which comes individually in a pouch, and then someone else will break up a greasy summer sausage. Into the bag they go.
They’ll scoop Jalapeno cheese out of a small, chip-dip sized tub, and then sprinkle in all of the seasoning packets from the Ramen soups.
Then, they shake the bag; mix it all up before adding a teaspoon of warm tap water. They tie the trash bag and wrap it in a bath towel to keep it warm.
A half-hour or so later, when everything has softened and expanded, the “Gumbo” is ready to serve.
A half-dozen bowls are set out. An inmate tears off a corner of the bag, turning it into what looks like a giant cake icing bag. The inmate squirts the Gumbo into each bowl in equal proportions, and then the inmates enjoy their meal, which has eight times the daily limit of sodium and four times the daily limit of saturated fat.
This is an overpriced heart attack in a bag.
In jail and prison, inmates can buy food, cosmetics, writing supplies and a few other items off commissary. There’s no healthy food on jail commissary. It’s all cookies, cakes, chips, candy and Ramen soups. Everything is overpriced. A 10-pack of Ramen soup at a retail store is $1. Here, that’s the price for just a single soup.
It’s a captive audience, so commissary companies can charge outrageous prices. The sad thing is most inmates’ loved ones are poverty stricken and they’re the ones getting gouged by multi-million dollar companies to buy soap, deodorant and toothpaste for their loved ones.
Hey commissary companies – How about some dehydrated blueberries, or apple chips, or trail mix? Then, we could make “fruit salad” in a bag.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on January 3, 2017 May 8, 2017 Categories Inmate Blog (Unrelated to the Book)Tags A Jacket off the Gorge, jail commisary, jail prison Gumbo, Jon Fontaine, Monroe County Jail, Susan Ashline, Upstate New YorkLeave a comment on Inmates Cook and Share Love of Slop
Hear My Interview on Utica Radio
Listen to my interview on WIBX 950 radio/Keeler in the Morning.
I tell the story of Jon Fontaine and A Jacket off the Gorge.
We talk about Jon’s lawsuit against two New York prisons (Mid-State and Groveland).
I answer why people should care about guards abusing/neglecting inmates behind prison walls.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on December 28, 2016 December 28, 2016 Categories About This CaseTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Bill Keeler, Groveland Correctional Facility prison, Jon Fontaine, Keeler in the Morning, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Midstate prison, prison reform, radio interview, Susan Ashline, Utica, WIBX 950Leave a comment on Hear My Interview on Utica Radio
I wrote a book. A Jacket off the Gorge is based on incidents outlined in a lawsuit against Mid-State Correctional Facility. The subject of my book, Jon Fontaine, is currently housed at Mid-State.
As Fontaine is prepared for release, he met with his counselor in November 2016 and went over his parole conditions upon release. Jon’s sentencing judge had issued four orders of protection against him; individuals tied to the case for which he is imprisoned. Just one of those individuals, Dora Rosser, was the actual crime victim.
Jon’s counselor notified him that his parole release document will state he is not allowed to communicate with those four individuals.
But this doesn’t make sense. Just days after meeting with his counselor, Fontaine received a hard copy of those conditions. Someone at the facility had surreptitiously swapped in my name, and swapped out Rosser’s name. The NYS Parole Board approved the document. So I am now listed as being barred from communicating with Jon upon release. And Rosser’s name was removed from the list, though it names three of the four individuals with orders of protection.
Why? And who did it?
No one at Mid-State prison will tell me. In fact, the staff at Mid-State has only told me they have no idea who put my name there, or why. Now, they are dodging all contact with me.
Clearly, the document needs to be revised, as it glaringly omits the name of Fontaine’s crime victim. Yet, staff at the prison is ignoring the issue.
Only after snail-mail letters attempting to address this did Deputy Superintendant of Programs Anne Joslyn send a response – one that makes no sense.
“It has been determined that personal information regarding inmate Fontaine cannot be released to you as there is no signed consent form signed by inmate Fontaine to release information to you.”
What personal information did I request? None. The response is not relevant to my issue.
In fact, she threw it together so quickly, she doesn’t even spell her colleague’s name correctly (it’s Ronald Meier, not Meiers); there is missing punctuation and rambling, incoherent thoughts.
Joslyn is a state employee who is either not very bright, or thinks others are not very bright and this smoke-screen letter will placate me.
It will not.
The Office of Special Investigations has opened an investigation on the matter as of December 19. However, OSI is run by the prison system (DOCCS), so is, in effect, the organization policing itself. Because of that, I don’t expect results.
In their 2016 annual report, the NYS Assembly Committee on Correction noted they also don’t have much faith in OSI, and tried to get a bill passed that would allow independent examination of complaints regarding prison staff. In 2017, the committee hopes to get approval to open an Office of the Correctional Ombudsman, which would investigate complaints when an inmate or citizen has failed to get satisfactory results through available institutional channels.
Other states have one. Why not New York?
Not having faith in OSI, on December 21, I brought my complaint to the Assembly Committee on Correction Chairman, Daniel O’Donnell.
We’ll see if anything gets done. Stay tuned.
Author SusanAshlinePosted on December 21, 2016 July 21, 2017 Categories Prisons Behaving BadlyTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Assembly Committee on Correction, attorney Kevin Kortright, author Susan Ashline, central New York, Deputy Superintendent for Programs Anne Joslyn, Jon Fontaine, Larry Zick, Lawrence Zick, Marcy, Mid-State Correctional Facility, Midstate prison, New York, New York Prison race, New York State Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, New York State Parole Board, prison reform, SORC Ronald Meier, Superintendent Matthew Thoms4 Comments on Mid-State Prison Retaliates Against Me (UPDATE)
Deputy to Inmate: “Go Get High”
[by Jon Fontaine, who has been transferred from prison to the Monroe County jail for a restitution hearing after County Court Judge Vincent Dinolfo wronfully denied him one four years ago.]
I spent my first six days locked in a dungeon known as “reception;” 23-hour a day lockdown, no TV, no radio, no windows. No nothing – but war stories, jokes, walls and sleep.
Everyone just arriving at the jail had to go through reception.
I was the odd man out, because I’d been locked away in prison the past four years while everyone else was fresh from the street.
Almost everyone in reception was a heroin addict; a “dope head.” I’d only heard about the epidemic. I had no clue about the drug, withdrawal, any of it. The epidemic is apparently so bad the jail now has a “detox” nurse who does nothing but handle addicts who are detoxing.
I could see or call out to roughly 15 other guys. About half were in the processing of detoxing and going through withdrawal. At least 10 of them were full-blown addicts.
I listened to their stories.
Pretty much all of them became addicts after being prescribed opiates for pain.
I listened to a just-turned 20-year-old who committed three burglaries to support his habit. He was excited his dad sent him money so when he’s released this week, he can go to Florida where his dad lives and go into a rehab facility.
I listened to a 26-year-old guy who committed burglaries and car break-ins to support his habit cry on the phone to a loved one about how he wants to get tattoos to cover up his needle marks so he doesn’t feel like shit about himself.
There was an Iraq and Afghanistan war vet, and a second 20-year-old on the far side of the vet. The one thing they all had in common was they were all treated equally as non-humans by the staff.
Any of those addicts who wind up in prison will be equally treated as punching bags and animals to be abused by state prison staff.
Each one of those addicts talked about how desperately they wanted to be done with heroin; how they wanted to be clean and have a normal life.
Withdrawal and detox was step one – something painful and traumatic in general, but easiest to do locked in a cage away from heroin.
A few days into my stay in reception, an older man pushing 60 got moved to the cell directly across from me. He looked like he could be a math teacher, or someone’s grandfather. Turns out, he was an addict.
He looked shocked when I told him I knew nothing about heroin.
To support his habit, he, too, was stealing. He wanted to kick his addiction, he said.
I had a front row seat to his withdrawals, standing at my bars for two days, watching him twist up in sheets, in pain. He’d beg the deputies to see the detox nurse. Their answer was always, “She comes when she comes.”
Yesterday, he kept begging to see the detox nurse. The deputies’ responses were consistently indifferent, and one even got mad that he kept asking to see the nurse.
Finally, after hours of yelling and moaning, a deputy came and opened his gate.
The deputy told him, “Pack up.”
I assumed he was being moved closer to medical services.
The old man moaned and said, “I need to see the detox nurse.”
“You’re being released,” the deputy told him.
”No, I need to see the detox nurse,” the guy pleaded.
“Listen, guy,” said the deputy. “You’re getting out. You don’t have to worry about detoxing. You can go get high.”
The old man sat up in his bed, eyes wide, balled up his bedding and dashed out the gate.
I thought – He got caught stealing so he could support his addiction. He was half-way through withdrawal. How is he going to afford getting high now? Commit some crimes.
No rehab. No assistance. Just – “Go get high.”
Author SusanAshlinePosted on December 18, 2016 May 8, 2017 Categories Inmate Blog (Unrelated to the Book)Tags A Jacket off the Gorge, heroin addiction, Jon Fontaine, Monroe County Court Judge Vincent Dinolfo, Monroe County Jail, Monroe County Sheriff Deputy, Susan AshlineLeave a comment on Deputy to Inmate: “Go Get High”
Someone Doesn’t Want This Story Told
Cheryl’s Shenanigans (in the Monroe County Executive’s Office)
Author SusanAshlinePosted on November 10, 2016 May 21, 2017 Categories About This CaseTags A Jacket off the Gorge, Judge Vincent Dinolfo, Monroe County Court, New York, Rochester, Susan Ashline, Upstate New YorkLeave a comment on Someone Doesn’t Want This Story Told
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MnSpin, the online music service from Hennepin County Library has just released the 2019 collection with more than 90 additional albums by local artists, growing the platform to more than 200 albums in 18 genres.
And we're honored to say that Curtis & Loretta's "When There's Good to Be Done" is on it !!! You can check it out here!
Curtis & Loretta at Pacific Northwest Folklore Society, Sept 14, 2018. Photo courtesy of Steve Marti, Loretta's high school friend!
Curtis & Loretta are an acclaimed folk singer/songwriter duo featuring extraordinary harmonies and an array of stringed instruments.
Curtis Teague:
vocals, guitar, mandolin, mandocello, clawhammer banjo,steel ukulele, harmonica
Loretta Simonet:
vocals, folk harp, guitar, mandolin, kazoo, shakers
UPLIFTING NEWS FROM WTIP RADIO, GRAND MARAIS, MN
Lutsen resident Dave Howe on what inspired him to donate a kidney to a stranger.
Last October, we did a live radio show on WTIP in Grand Marais. We chatted about the music tour we were doing at Arrowhead Libraries, and we sang a song I'd written, "When There's Good to Be Done." It's a true story about Christy Harding, a young woman who donated a kidney to a little girl she'd never met before.
We got this email recently -
"Loretta, we learned recently that one of our listeners was so inspired by a story and song YOU shared on our show that he actually donated a kidney to a stranger. So amazing and wonderful!! Here's the link to the interview with him; thought you'd like to hear his story:
Click here to hear the interview with Dave Howe
:) You should feel really really good about this. All the best! Annie"
Annie Possis, producer, The Roadhouse
We had a great time playing at "Hotdish For Homelessness," a fundraiser for Family Promise, September 21, 2017, in Ramsey, MN. We played before the show, which featured Garrison Keillor!
ACOUSTIC GUITAR PROJECT
We did it! We're part of "Acoustic Guitar Project," going on across the U.S.
Here's info from their website, about how it works!
Each participating city has its own guitar. Every season, we choose five new local musicians to write an original song on their city's guitar. Each musician has one week to write their original song and record it live. Musicians can only use the guitar and handheld recorder we provide. No editing is allowed.
Loretta wrote a song titled "Smiles Said it All," and we recorded it in our living room.
You can take a listen, and hear the story behind it here.
Newest CD, "When There's Good to Be Done"
(Nov, 2015)
This CD features 12 original songs Loretta wrote about real people who overcame great challenges in their lives. It's the culmination of a year long project through an Artist Initiative grant that Loretta was awarded, from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Click here to find out how to get one, what's on it, and to listen to sound samples!
Loretta wrote each of the 12 songs on "When There's Good to Be Done" about real-life people who have gone through great challenges in their lives and come out stronger for the journey. She interviewed each person, crafted their story into a song, and then got back together with with them to polish the edges. These are ordinary people with extraordinary qualities. There's a woman who donated a kidney to a little girl she'd never met, a WWII POW who survived the German Death March, a woman who grew up in a small primitive village in Somalia and is now a nurse at Mayo Clinic, one of the worst injured of the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and many more!
We'll send you occasional notices about concerts and CDs. We promise not to share your address with anyone!
Appearing soon!
TWO WAY STREET COFFEE HOUSE
Downers Grove IL
HUNTSVILLE TRADITIONAL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
Huntsville AL
BERKELEY BOB'S
Cullman AL
HOBGOBLIN MUSIC LOFT
Red Wing MN
The Critics Say...
"Loretta's almost operatic alto and Curtis' rich tenor form a lush, polished and varied vocal blend. The pair's instrumental interplay is equally compelling, with Loretta's harp textures dancing in and around Curtis' deft guitar and mandolin lines."
.....Dirty Linen
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Jeff Chambers
Piedmont Piano Company
Alex Conde Trio featuring: Jeff Chambers & John Santos - 7:00pm
Piedmont Piano Company's new store located on 18th & San Pablo, (1728 San Pablo Ave.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Tiffany Austin Septet - 7:pm & 8:30pm
San Francisco, CA 94102
Portola Vineyards,
Larry Vuckovich Jazz/Latin Quartet featuring the Puerto Rican Master Percussionist Hector Lugo - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
850 Los Trancos Rd,
Portola Valley, CA 94028
Price: Advance Adults $24, Students $12
Feinstein's at the Nikko Hotel
Kim Nalley with Houston Person
222 Mason St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
MEL MARTIN: A CELEBRATION OF HIS LIFE IN MUSIC - 2:pm start
311 Mirada Road,
Half Moon Bay, CA 94018
Barbara Douglas Riching 650 726-4143
Price: Advance General Admission donation: $25, additional donations welcome
Cafe Pink House
LARRY VUCKOVICH'S JAZZ TRIO W/ JEFF CHAMBERS & JASON LEWIS - 7:30pm ~ 9:40pm
14577 Big Basin Way,
Saratoga, CA 95070
Price: TICKET PRICE $18 ADV. (ON-LINE) / $21 DOOR.
Larry Vuckovich Trio - 4:pm
18th & San Pablo, (1728 San Pablo Ave.)
LARRY VUCKOVICH QUINTET, FEATURING BIG BLACK - 4:30pm ~ 6:00pm
Price: Advance ticketing: Adults $45/$35, Students $30 (25 & under with ID)
Thursday, July 5th, 2018
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Tiffany Austin Septet with Special Guest Carl Allen: “Unbroken” Album Release Concert - 7:pm
320-2 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz,
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Wednesday, July 4th, 2018
WorldOne Festival 2018
Jeff Chambers ~ Beyond Standard Jazz - 11:20am
Cerrito Vista Park
El Cerrito, CA 94530
U.S.of A.
Yoshi's Oakland
Larry Vuckovich Quintet Plays Miles Davis At The Black Hawk - 8:pm
510 Embarcadero West
Salvation Army Kroc Community Center
Tiffany Austin Quartet - Noon ~ 1:pm
240 Turk Street,
Saturday, January 21st, 2017
The Sequoia Room
Jeff Chambers "Power Trio" - One Show - 7:30 pm
Fort Fort Bragg, CA 95437
Hillside Club
The Buddy Montgomery Jazz Legacy Award - 7:30 PM
2286 Cedar St (at Birch)
Berkeley, Ca 94709
The Jazz School
Jeff Chambers "Power Trio" - 4:30pm to 6:30pm
2087 Addison St
Come join me for an afternoon of fun and hard playing with my "Power Trio" featuring Peter Horvath on piano, and Jason Lewis on drums. Look forward to seeing you and your friends there! :)
All The Bass
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
Chez Hanny
Jeff Chambers "Power Trio" - 4:00pm to 7:00pm.
1300 Silver Avenue,
Price: $20.00 (cash only please) Thanks :)
The Power Trio will feature Peter Horvath piano and Jason Lewis drums. Come join us for a fun and exciting mid-afternoon of hard playing! Seating will be tight so make your reservations early. See you there! :)
The Jeff Chambers "Power Trio" - 4:00 p.m.
Featuring Peter Horvath on the Fazioli concert grand piano,
with Jason Lewis on drums.
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Delfeayo Marsalis Quartet
1 Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Jeff Chambers presents "A Musical Tribute To Buddy Montgomery" - 8:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m.
Some of the performers will include Marlena Shaw, Mary Stalling, John Handy, Kitty Margolis, Dave Hazeltine, Mykah Montgomery, Buddy's granddaughter. Also members of Buddy's long-standing, original band with Sam Belton, Dumah Saafir, Jeff Chambers, and others.
Monterey Blues Festival "President Stage"
Taylor P. Collins Blues Band - 2:10 ~ 3:40 p.m.
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
"Japan Tour" 11/3/08 ~ 11/17/08
Marlena Shaw Trio
Keio Plaza Hotel "Shinjuku"
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Dave Hazeltine, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Gerryck King, drums.
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Calistoga Jazz Festival
Larry Vucokvich Quartet - 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Calistoga, CA 94515
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
John Handy Quartet - 1:00 p.m.
John Handy, Alto saxophone; TBA, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; TBA, Drums.
Great American Music Hall
Dave Ellis Quartet - 8:00pm, 11:00pm
859 O'Farrell Street
Lincoln Center 5th fl. New York
Lewis Nash "Jazz Appreciation Class" - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Lewis Nash, drums; Jeff Chambers, bass; Steve Wilson, Alto saxophone, piano; TBA.
The Lodge at Sonoma
Dana Land - 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
1325 Broadway (Hwy 12)
Sonoma, CA 95476
Jazz at the Plazz
Houston Person Quartet - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Houston Person, tenor saxophone; Tammy Hall, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Kent Bryson, drums.
Little Fox Theater
Taylor P. Collins (Redwood City Jam) - 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
2215 Broadway Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
The move to New York City!! "The BIG Apple here I come"
Jeff Chambers is BACK!!! - 24/7
Rotary Park "Gathering On The Green"
Marlena Shaw Trio - 8:00 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.
Marlena Shaw, vocals; Dave Hazeltine, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Gerryck King, drums.
Bill Bell Trio
Bill Bell, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums.
Jazz at Pearls
Kim Nalley Quartet - 8:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
256 Columbus Ave
Kim Nalley, vocal; Dave Mathews, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Kent Bryson, drums.
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Telluride Jazz Celebration
Les McCann and Javon Jackson Band - 5:30 p.m. to 6:40 p.m.
Telluride, CO 81435
Les Mc Cann, piano; Javon Jackson, tenor saxophone; Jeff Chambers, bass; Tom Guarna, guitar; Carl Allen, drums.
Les McCann and Javon Jackson Band - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Oakland Public Conservatory of Music
New Roots - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
1616 Franklin St
Angela Wellman, trombone; Lori Wellman, vocal; Mark Wright, trumpet; Calvin Keys, guitar; Jeff Chambers, bass; Babatunde Lee, drums.
Jeff Chambers Trio - 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Jeff Chambers, bass; John Gordon, guitar; Rick Rivera, drums.
Cafe' Divine
Mario's Quartet of friends - 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
1600 Stockton Street
Mario, trumpet; Randy Vinson, guitar; Jeff Chambers, bass; Omar Clay, drums.
Claremont Hotel Berkeley, "Mother's Day"
Rhonda Benin & Friends - 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
41 Tunnel Rd
Dance Mission Theater
Blood + Sugar "Grace Notes" - 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Shows
3316 24th, Street
Jeff Chambers, bass; Ramon Ramos Alayo, Body.
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Blood + Sugar "Grace Notes" - 8:00 p.m. Shows
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Blood + Sugar "Grace Notes" - 8: p.m. Shows
3316 24th ,Street
Kim Nalley "The Last Performance" - 2 Shows 8:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m.
Kim Nalley, vocal Tammy Hall, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Kent Bryson, drums.
Embassy Suite Hotel
John Grove Quartet - 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
101 McInnis Parkway,
San Rafael, CA 94903
Dance Mission
Jeff Chambers, Kenny Washington Duet - 2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Show only
Jeff Chambers, bass; Kenny Washington, vocal.
Dave Ellis Quartet - 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
2087 Addison St.
Dave Ellis, tenor saxophone; Bill Bell, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Sly Randolph, drums.
Larry Vuckovich Quartet - 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
San Rafaael, CA
The Lodge at Tiburon
Ted Moore & Friends - 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.
1651 Tiburon Blvd.
Tiburon, CA 94920
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Slide Hampton Clinic - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Sonoma State College " Ives Hall, Warren Auditorium"
Blue Note Tribute Band - 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
1801 E. Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Marlena Shaw Trio - 7:30 p.m. Show only
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Bill Cunleft, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Gerryick King, drums.
Marlena Shaw Trio - 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Shows
Marlena Shaw, vocal; ???????????, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Gerryick King, drums.
Marlean Shaw Trio - 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Shows
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
East of the Ryan's Club
Marlena Shaw Trio - 5:00 p.m. show
914 E. 79th, St.
Chicago, IL 60619
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Marlena Shaw Trio - 8:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. Shows
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Jazz at Pearl's
Houston Person Quartet - 8:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. Shows
256 Columbus Ave. (at Broadway)
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Shinzuoka
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Steve Einerson, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Garrick King, drums.
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Steve Einerson, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Garryck King, drums.
Mr. Kelly's
Star Eyes
Yaneura
J-Z Brats
STB 139
Eddie Marshall & Holly Mischief - 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
2087 Addison Street,
Eddie Marshall, drums; Jeff Chambers, bass; Matt Clark, piano; Charles McNeal, alto & tenor saxophones.
Post Street Theatre
Blues in the Night - 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Shows
450 Post Street
Sonoma Women's Club
Jeff Chambers Trio - 7:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m.
574 1st Street East
Jeff Chambers, bass; Bill Bell, piano; Omar Clay, drums.
Lakewood Community Center
India Jazz Suites Tour - 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
470 S. Allison Parkway
Pandit Chitresh Das, kathak dancer; Jason Samuels Smith, tap dancer; Pandit Ramesh Mishra, sarangi; Salar Nader, tabla; Jayanta Bannerjee, sitar, Jeff Chambers, bass; Theo Hill, piano; Channing Cook-Holmes, drums.
Blues in the Night - 8:00 p.m.
Blues in the Night - 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Blues in the Night - 7:00 p.m. Show
Marlena Shaw Trio - 7:30pm & 9:30pm shows
1337 India Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Clarence McDonald, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Garrick King, drums.
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Benbow Hotel & Resort "Summer Jazz Series"
Kim Nalley Quartet - 7:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m.
445 Lake Benbow Drive
Garberville, CA 95542
Kim Nalley, vocal; Tammy Hall, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Kent Bryson, drums.
Yoshi's Nite Spot Jack London Square
Jackie Ryan CD Release Celebration - 8:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. Shows
510 Embarcadero West,
Jackie Ryan, vocal; Red Holloway, tenor saxophone; John Burr, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Deszon Claiborne, drums.
La Pena Cultural Center
Alexa's Latin night - 7:30 p.m. to 9:00p.m.
Alexa, vocal; Murray Low, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; David Flores, drums.
San Jose Jazz Festival "Repertory Theatre"
Charles McPherson Quartet - 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
145 W. San Carlos Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Charles McPherson, alto saxophone; Larry Vukovich, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Chuck McPherson; drums.
San Jose Jazz Festival: Blues Stage
Taylor P. Collins: Blues Band - 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
145 W San Carlos St.
Mexican Heritage Plaza
Ann Hampton Callaway Trio - 8:00pm & 10:00 p.m. Shows
1700 Alum Rock Ave.
408.288.7557, ext.2334
Ann Hampton Callaway, vocal; Ted Rosenthal, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Deszon Claiborne, drums.
Riverbank Park Downtown
816 S. Saginaw Street,
Flint, MI 48502
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Dave Hazeltine, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Ron Otis, drums.
Jazz Standard
Marlena Shaw Trio - 7:30 p.m.- 9:30 p.m. shows
116 E.27th Street
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Dave Hazeltine, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Lenny Robinson, drums.
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Bacar Restaurant and Wine Salon
Eddie Marshall Trio - 8:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.
448 Brannan Street,
Eddie Marshall, drums; Jeff Chambers, bass; Bill Bell, piano.
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Fillmore Jazz Festival
Mel Martin Quartet - 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Sutter Street Stage
Mel Martin, saxophones; Brad Buethe, guitar; Jeff Chambers, bass; Jeff Marrs, drums.
The Palmer Room
John Gordon Trio - 8:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m.
3387 Motor Ave. in West LA
Los Angeles, CA 90034
John Gordon, guitar; Jeff Chambers, bass; Rick Rivera, drums.
Monterey Blues Festival: Garden Stage
9699 Blue Larkspur Lane, suite 204
Monterey, CA 93940
Dana Land Trio - 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Dana Land, vocal; Bill Bell, piano, Jeff Chambers, bass.
Comcast Cable TV Show
Alexa's Latin Sextet - 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.
Alexa Weber Morales, vocal; Dave Mathews, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Charles Ferguson, drums.
Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society
Alexa's Latin Sextet - 4:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
311 Mirada Rd.
Alexa Weber Morales, vocal; Zareen, vocal; Wayne Wallace, Trombone; Murray Low, Piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Charles Ferguson, drums; Edgardo Cambon, percussion.
Marlin Park
Akira Tana & Sound Circle - 6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
500 Cringle Dr.
Akira Tana, drums; Jeff Chambers, bass; Perter Horvath, piano; Kenny Washington, vocal; Noel Jewkes, saxophones.
Bill Bell Quintet - 8:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. shows
Bill Bell, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums; Charles McNeal, saxophones; Brad Buethe
Jessica Williams Trio - 7:00 p.m. & 9: p.m. shows
Jessica Williams, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums.
Jamie's Club Theatre
Wisconsin Jazz & Heritage Festival 2007 - 8:00pm & 10:00 p.m. Shows
Brian Lynch, Trumpet; Rolla Armstead, tenor saxophone; Harry Kozlowski, trombone; Charles Smalla, guitar; Marcus Robinson, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Sam Belton, drums.
University Retirement Community
Buddy Montgomery Sextet - 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
1515 Shasta Drive
Buddy Montgomery, vibes; Melvin Rhyne, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Dumah Saafir, congas; Flocko, timbales; Sam Bellton, drums.
Lancaster Performing Arts Center
Buddy Montgomery Sextet - 7:30 p.m. to 9:00p.m.
750 W. Lancaster Blvd.
Lancaster, CA 93534
Buddy Montgomery, vibes; Melvin Rhyne, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Dumah Saafir, congas; Flocko, timbales; Sam Bellton, drums.
Canada College Main Theatre, Presents "Shades of Jazz"
4200 Farm Hill Boulevard,
Bruce Foreman, guitar; Julian Lage, guitar; Greg Abate, alto saxophone; Clairdee, vocal; Ken French, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Alan Hall, drums.
Loveland VFW Hall
John Gordon Trio - 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
6653 Epworth Rd.
Chris McNulty Quartet - 4:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Chris McNulty, vocal; Paul Bollenbeck, guitar; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums.
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Embassy Suites Hotel, San Rafael Ballroom
John Groves Quintet - 11:00a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Larry Vuckovich Quartet - 8:00 p.m. 11:30 p.m.
Larry Vuckovich, piano; Jeff chambers, bass; Akira Tana, drums; Hector Lugo, percussion.
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Santa Rosa Junior College - Newman Auditorium,
Bennett Friedman Quartet - 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
1501 Mendocino Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Bennett Friedman, saxophone; Bill Bell, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums.
Santa Rosa Junior College "Forsyth Hall"
Friedman Bennett Jazz Trio - 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
Friedman Bennett, saxophones; Jeff Chambers, bass; George Marsh, drums.
Double Tree Hotel "Chefs for United Negro College Fund"
Joyce Randolph Quartet - 5:30 p.m. - 9:15p.m.
2050 Gateway Place
Joyce Randolph, vocal; Charles McNeal, saxophones; Bill Bell, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Omar Clay, drums.
Sainte Claire Hotel "Grande Ballroom"
Joyce Randolph Quartet - 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
302 S. Market Street
Joyce Randolph, vocal; Bill Bell, piano; Charles McNeil, saxophones; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums.
Anna's Jazz Island
John Gordon Trio - 8:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.
2120 Allston Way
John Gordon, guitar; JeffChambers, bass; Rick Rivera, drums.
"Concerts by the Sea" Sanchez Art Center,
Larry Vuckovich Quartet - 7:30pm & 9:30pm shows
1220A Linda Mar Boulevard,
Pacifica, CA 94044
Bill Bell Trio - 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Bill Bell, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Omar Clay, drums.
Jazz at the Bistro
Marlena Shaw Trio - 8:00pm & 10:00pm Shows
St. Louis, MO 63103
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Dave Hazeltine, piano; Jeff Chambers, Electric bass; Garrick King, drums.
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
SGI-USA "Ikeda Auditorium" Peace Concert Series Presents,
Roberta Donnay Quartet - 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
2450 17th Street (by Potrero)
Roberta Donnay, vocal; Jonathan Alford, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Deszon Claiborne, drums.
McCoy Tyner Quartet - 8:00pm & 10:00 p.m. Shows
McCoy Tyner, piano; Joe Lavano, Tenor Saxophone; Jeff Chambers, bass; Jeff "Tain" Watts, drums.
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Bill Cunliffe, piano: Jeff Chambers, bass; Gerryk King, drums.
Canada College: Main Theatre, Presents
"The Louie Bellson Jazz Masters" - 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Carl Saunders, trumpet; Sam Most, flute, clarinet; Pete Yellin, alto saxophone; Kenny Washington, vocal; Bob Florence, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Louie Bellson, drums.
CHAPEL of the Chimes
Kenny Washington Trio - 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Kenny Washington, vocals; Dave Mathews, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Akira Tana, drums.
Biscuits & Blues
Ms.Taylor P. Collins: Blues Band - 8:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. Shows
401 Mason St.
Ms.Taylor P. Collins, vocal; Pamela, keyboards; Richie, guitar; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Kelly Fasman, drums; Kristen, Tenor sax; Diana, Alto sax; Tammy, Trumpet; Mara, Trombone.
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Bill Bell, Jeff Chambers Duet - 7:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m.
448 Brannan S9treet (between 3rd & 4th)
Bill Bell, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass.
The Triple Door
Bobby Hutcherson Quartet - 7:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. Shows
Bobby Hutcherson, vibes; Joe Gilman, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, Drums.
Babatunde Lea and Friends - 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Babatunde Lea, drums; Jeff Chambers, bass; Frank Martin, piano.
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
Joyce Randolph Quartet - 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m
WABE Haus
John Gordon Trio - 23.00 Uhr
Danziger Str.101
Berlin 10405
Hotline: (030)-90295-3850
Russian River Jazz Festival
Bobby Hutcherson Quartet - 3:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
Johnson's Beach
Guerneville, CA
Redwood Shores Park
Akira Tana & Friends - 6:00pm, 8:00pm
Vallejo Jazz Festival
Larry Vuckovich Quintet - 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Vallejo, CA 94591
Downtown Restaurant
Kenny Washington Trio - 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
2102 Shattuck Ave; at Addison St.
Kenny Washington, vocals; Larry Dunlap, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass.
San Jose Jazz Festival
Jeff Chambers Quintet - 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
60 South Market Street,
Price: $5.00 per day
Jeff Chambers, bass; Bill Bell, piano; Eddie Marshall, drums; Charles McNeil, saxophones; Michael Olmos, trumpet.
San Jose Jazz Festival-Smith Dobson Stage
Jazz Jam(Jeff Chambers Host) - 9:00 p.m. til 11:00 p.m.
Larkspur Cafe' Theater
500 Magnolia Ave.
Southshore,Chicago Jazz Festival
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Houston Person Quartet
Bartholomew Park Winery
Larry Vuckovich Quintet - 7:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m.
1000 Vineyards Ln.
Coral Gables Congregational Church
Yoshi's Nite Spot
Bill Bell, piano; Brad Buethe, guitar; Charles McNeal, saxophones; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums.
Alexa and her Latin Friends - 8:00pm & 10:15 p.m. Shows
256 Columbus Ave. (below Broadway)
Alexa Weber Morales, vocal; Murray Low, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; David Flores, drums; Michael Spiro, percussion.
SF Jazz/Stanford Shopping Center/Clock Tower
Akira Tana & Friends - 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.
Chouinard Vineyards
Akira Tana & Friends - 4:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
33853 Palomares Road
Castro Valley, CA 94552
Akira Tana, drums; Jeff Chambers, bass; Dave Mathews, piano; Kenny Washington, vocals; saxophone, TBA
Buddy Montgomery Reunion Band - 8:00 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.
4100 W. Highland Road,
Mequon, WI 53092
Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Cetrella
Michael O'Neill Trio - 8:00 p.m. 11:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Kim Nalley Quintet - 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Kim Nalley, vocal; Tammie Hall, piano; Josh Workman, guitar; Jeff Chambers, bass; Kent Bryson, drums.
Old Railroad Museum
John Handy Project - 8:00 p.m. 10:45 p.m.
Kim Nalley Quartet - 8:00pm & 10:00pm Shows
Kim Nalley, vocals; Allen Smith, trumpet; Dave Mathews, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Kent Bryson, drums.
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Sausalito Jazz Festival
Kim Nalley Quintet - 3:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Houston Person Quartet - 8:00pm & 10:00pm Shows
Sonoma Jazz Festival/Meritage Martini Oyster Bar & Grill
Larry Vuckovich Quartet - 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
165 West Napa Street
Sonoma Jazz Festival
Kim Nalley Quartet - 7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
The Hotel Utah Saloon
John Gordon Trio - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Bill Bell Trio - 8:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Marlena Shaw Trio - 8:45pm to 10:00pm
Marlena Shaw, vocal; Dave Hazetine, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Lenny Robinson, drums.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
The Jupiter
John Gordon Trio - 8:00pm, 11:00pm
Michael O'Neill - 8:00 p.m. 11:30 p.m.
Michael O'Neill, saxophones; Tony Lindsay, vocal; Rich Kuhns, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass.
Bobby Hutcherson Quartet - 12-Noon, 2:00p.m.
1600 Holloway Ave.
Bobby Hutcherson, vibes; Adam Schulman, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums.
Akira Tana & Friends - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Akira Tana, drums; Jeff Chambers, bass; Barry Finnerty, guitar; Kenny Washington, vocals.
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Chez Hanny Jazz Salon
Patti Wicks, Jeff Chambers duet - 4:00pm, 6:00pm
145 Fillmore Street (x Waller)
Patti Wicks, piano & vocals; Jeff Chambers, bass.
Roz Corral Trio - 8:00pm & 10:00pm Shows
Roz Corral, vocal; Larry Vuckovich, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Akira Tana, drums.
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Roz Corral Trio - 8:00pm & 10:00pm Show
Friday, April 21st, 2006
Ruby Skye
John Handy Project - 7:00pm, 9:00pm
420 Mason Street
John Handy, alto saxophone; Robbie Quock, Trumpet; Mary Stallings, Jamie Davis, vocals; Page, violin; Dee Spencer, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Sylvia Cuenca, drums.
Sequoyah Country Club
Jamie Davis Quartet - 7:30pm, 9:00pm
4550 Heafey Rd.
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
John Handy Quartet - 8:00pm & 10:00pm Shows
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Jackie Ryan, vocals; John Burr, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Omar Clay, drums.
Michael O'Neill - 8:00pm, 11:30pm
Zucca Ristorante
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186 Castro Street
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JazzFest, Temple Event Center
Marlena Shaw, vocals; Clarence McDonald, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; drums.
Scottsdale Center for the Arts
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Kenny Washington Trio - 8:00pm & 11:30pm Shows
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256 Columbus Ave.(below Broadway)
Alexa, vocals; Murry Low, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; David Flores, drums; Michael Spiro, percussion.
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Black History Month "Lady Sings the Blues"
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Spivey Hall, Clayton State University
Marlena Shaw - 8:15PM
2000 Clayton State Blvd.
Morrow, GA 30260
Marlena Shaw, vocals; Dave Hazeltine, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Lenny Robinson, drums.
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Rollie Willis, vocals; Clifford Coulter, piano; Jeff Chambers, electric bass; Ron Beck, drums.
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Margie Baker, vocals; John Burr, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Michael O'Neill, saxophone.
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Candice, vocals; Larry Chinn, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass.
Berkeley Art Museum
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U C Berkeley, Wheeler Hall
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256 Columbus (at Broadway)
Allen Smith, trumpet, flugelhorn; Dave Mathews, piano; Jeff Chambers, bass; Kent Bryson, drums.
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Lyr Req: The Yew Tree (Battlefield Band)
LADS O' THE FAIR
MUIR AND THE MASTER BUILDER
STRONG WOMEN RULE US ALL WITH THEIR TEARS
ADD: Silver Darlings (various) (97)
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Lyr Add: No Gods and Precious Few Heroes (9)
Tune Req: Norland Wind / Wild Geese (23)
Lyr Req: Montrose (Steeleye Span) (56)
Lyr Add: Muir and the Master Builder (B McNeill) (15)
Chords Req: The Roving Dies Hard (Battlefield Band (13)
Battlefield Band: Myth, Legend, or... (26)
Lyr ADD: Lads o' the Fair (Brian McNeill) (27)
Lyr Req: Any Mick'll Do (Brian McNeill) (9)
Review: The Battlefield Band (4)
Lyr Req: Back of the North Wind (12)
Lyr Req: Tail o' the Bank (Battlefield Band) (13)
Lyr Req: Best of the Barley (6)
Lyr Req: The Rovin' Dies Hard (Battlefield Band) (8)
Lyr Req: Join the Union (Brian McNeill) (7)
Chords Req: Montrose (7)
Lyr Add: Silver Darlin's + Who Pays the Piper (1)
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Subject: LYR REQ: The Yew Tree
From: ewessel@apk.net
Date: 08 Jun 99 - 02:25 PM
I am looking for the lyrics to "The Yew Tree", a Scottish folk song. I have the music for it, but I still need the lyrics. Please e-mail them, as I do not get on the forem very often.
Subject: RE: LYR REQ: The Yew Tree
From: Susanne (skw)
Tomorrow night, ok? I can't reach them now. BTW, the only song of that title I have is the one by Brian McNeill - but it does sound very folky. - Susanne
Date: 09 Jun 99 - 11:44 AM
Would it be possible to post them as well? I'm, sort of, doing a study of yew tree distribution, and it would be interesting to have some folky quotes to enliven a dry discourse.
Subject: Lyr Add: THE YEW TREE
From: harpgirl
...here is my fragment since I have yet to collect the whole song...perhaps someone will provide the rest...
The Yew Tree
a mile to...Catlin on the road to the sea
Stands a yew tree a thousand years old
And they all.....
That it knows what the future will hold
For the shadows of Scotland stand round it
Mid the reel (?) and the corn and the...
All the hopes and the fears of a thousand long years
Under deluvian skys
My bonny yew tree, tell what did you see?
Did you look through the haze of a long summer's day
To the south and the far English border
All the bullets of steal and ....for field
Did they march....
Did you ask them the price of the Glory?
When you heard the great slaughter begin
All the dusty....
To bring tears to the eyes of the wind
My bonny yew tree, tell me what did you see?....
sorry it is so incomplete...harp
From: HåvardR
I'll have a look if "Bonnie Yew Tree" is in Brian's songbook when I get home.
From: Peter
The Battlefield Band sings it and (I think) wrote it - here is my correction of the lyrics above:
a mile [frae Pencaitland] on the road to the sea
And [the auld women swear by the grey of their hair]
Mid the [kale] and the corn and the [kye]
Under [the Lothian] sky
All the bullets of steal [on Flodden's foul] field
[As they marched by your side in good order]
Did you ask them the price of [their] Glory?
All the [dust from their bones would rise up from the stones]
It continues:
Did ye no' think tae tell, when John Knox himsel'
Preached under your branches sae black?
Tae the poor common folk, he would lift up the yoke
Of the bishops and priests frae their back.
But you know the bargain he sold them;
And freedom was only a part
For the price of their souls was a gospel sae cold
It would freeze up the joy in their hearts
My bonny yew tree, tell me what did you see?
When the moss-troopers layin your shade
To hide frae the thunder and count our the plunder
And share out the spoils of their raid?
But you saw the smiles of the gentry
And the laughter of lords at their games
When the poor hunt the poor across mountain and moor
The rich man can keep them in chains.
And I thought as I stood and laid hands on your wood
That it might be a kindness to fell ye
One kiss of the axe and your free froae the wracks
adn the sad blody tales that men tell ye.
But a wee bird flew out of your branches
And sang out as never before.
And the words of the sang were a thousand years lang,
And to learn them to know thousands more.
My bonny yew tree, tell me what can you see?
HTML line breaks added --JoeClone, 28-Nov-01.
Subject: Lyr Add: THE YEW TREE (Brian McNeill)
I see I've been beaten, but since Peter's version has got slightly mixed up I'll post mine regardless, plus a few bits of historical info. Hope you don't mind. - Susanne
My bonnie yew tree
Tell me what did you see
A mile frae Pentcaitland, on the road to the sea
And the old women swear by the grey o' their hair
'Mid the kail and the corn and the kye
Under the Lothian sky
Did you look through the haze o' the lang summer days
Tae the South and the far English border
A' the bonnets o' steel on Flodden's far field
Did they march by your side in good order
Did you ask them the price o' their glory
For the dust o' their bones would rise up from the stones
To bring tears to the eyes o' the wind
Not once did you speak for the poor and the weak
When the moss-troopers lay in your shade
To count out the plunder and hide frae the thunder
And share out the spoils o' their raid
But you saw the smiles o' the gentry
And the laughter of lords at their gains
The rich man can keep them in chains
Did you no' think tae tell when John Knox himsel'
Preached under your branches sae black
To the poor common folk who would lift up the yoke
O' the bishops and priests frae their backs
But you knew the bargain he sold them
And freedom was only one part
For the price o' their souls was a gospel sae cold
That it might be a kindness to fell you
One kiss o' the axe and you're freed frae the racks
O' the sad bloody tales that men tell you
But a wee bird flew out from your branches
And sang out as never before
And the words o' the song were a thousand years long
And to learn them's a long thousand more
Last chorus:
Tell me what CAN you see
This is how the Battlefield Band sing it on 'Home Ground' (great live album!)
[1879:] Nothing could be better evidence of how profoundly the mind of Scotland was moved by the evangel of Knox and his brother labourers than the sudden disappearance from oral tradition of many of the songs and ballads which had been popular for many years. There can be no doubt that many of these songs were what would now be considered highly licentious, although among our rude and plain-speaking forefathers and foremothers they may have passed current without evoking a blush on the face of village maidens. The Reformation called for an alteration in morals as well as in doctrines, and these songs were not only discouraged, but a poetic reformer issued a volume of "Gude and Godly Ballats", in which new and pious words were adapted to the old airs. In poetic merit this collection is wretched [...]. Still, they helped to supplant the old songs and ballads [...]. We hear no more of the "Ring sangs" [ballads] after the Reformation, though it is not impossible that they may have been continued in obscure places for some time, especially in quarters where the fervour of the Reformation hardly reached. [...] The struggle for the supremacy of Presbyterianism in Scotland [...] lasted long, and it was [...] no wonder that the old joyousness which broke out into dance and song was to a large extent extinguished, and that the gloom of a religion which had been darkened by the fire and smoke of battle should have fallen upon the people. (John Ord, Glasgow Weekly Herald, December 13)
[1972:] [Henry VIII joining the Pope, Spain, and Venice in a Holy League against France in 1511] placed James [IV of Scotland] in a dilemma from which there was no escape; his obligations under the Auld Alliance of 1491-2 and the Anglo-Scottish peace of 1502, renewed in 1509, were mutually incompatible except when England and France were at peace. [James tried to keep out of the conflict but] Henry, who meant to shine on the battlefields of Europe, had been definitely preparing for war against his brother-in-law. [...] It was only on 24 July [1513] that James summoned the shire levies. [Earl marshal] Surrey had begun to mobilize in London as early as 21 July; [...] his arrangements for organizing the north had been so good that he 'took his field' north of Newcastle on 5 September.
James, meanwhile [...] had occupied a fortified camp on Flodden Edge [where Surrey,] on 9 September, came down upon the Scots from the north. They, perhaps fearing that Surrey was off to invade Scotland, perhaps believing that, since he had not come by noon as he had promised, he would not come at all, were evidently in some confusion, and the result was a resounding victory for the English. James himself was slain and with him many of his nobles and of the royal household. The English claimed that 12,000 Scots were killed as opposed to a few hundred English. [...]
James's body was found on the field and [...] it was taken to London and Henry (who perhaps envisaged himself as chief mourner in appropriate magnificence) designed a splendid funeral. This did not take place. The royal corpse lay in its lead at Sheen until the house was despoiled after the Reformation, and eventually the embalmed head was hacked off by Queen Elizabeth's master-glazier who used it as a sort of pot-pourri until he tired of it. All praise must be given to the English who fought a hard action after a long march in bad weather, but James does not deserve the blame which tradition has accorded to him. Not he, but Henry, was responsible for the war, and one reason why he was ill prepared was that he strove to keep the peace till the very last. His conduct of the campaign was not faulty. [...] His defeat in battle was primarily due to the fact that his ill-organized force, numerically not much greater than that of his enemy, was not adequate for its task. The 'Lilt of dule and wae' was heard all over Scotland; but Scotland remained proud of a gallant King. [...] Disastrous as it was, the defeat at Flodden did not affect the development of Scotland as much as has been supposed. The death of her King removed the mainspring of her state, yet her spirit was unbroken and the machinery of government remained. (J. D. Mackie, A History of Scotland 131ff.)
[1988:] The Yew was a sacred tree to most of Europe's pre-Christian religions. It was a symbol of everlasting life. Indeed many Christian churches were built on the site of a pagan yew-grove. The Yew in this song stands near the village of Ormiston, in East Lothian, by the 13th century ruins of the Church of St. Giles. Brian was told about this magnificent tree by an old man in the neighbouring village of Pentcaitland. He went to see it and felt the whole place 'humming with ghosts'. It is not surprising that such an old and majestic tree has a place in the people's memory. The Covenanters preached under its boughs and it seems likely that the young John Knox (born and bred in nearby Haddington) honed his stern fiery message beneath ist leaves. One commentator in the late 19th century said "The Yew at Ormiston could tell strange tales, if only we could hear". (Battlefield Band Songbook 123)
[1994:] This song practically wrote itself. I was there, I saw the bird that flew out from its branches and so on, and the song wrote itself. (Brian McNeill, pr. comm.)
[1997:] A campaign has begun to restore the historical standing of John Knox, the father of the Scottish Reformation reviled by late twentieth-century man as a ranting killjoy. [...] John Knox was born in 1513 and became a priest, notary and soldier. He spent 18 months as a French galley-slave and fell under the influence of John Calvin in Geneva [...]. He returned to Scotland in 1560 and became the driving force behind the Scottish Reformation, the most radical in Europe. Apart from his rejection of papacy and its hierarchy, he led a drive for universal literacy. He wanted a school in every parish, a college in every town and a university in every city. He also wanted regular, organised provision for the poor. Post-war Scotland, secular and hedonistic, where the pubs are open all day on Sunday, has largely forgotten him. [Some historians think] Knox's historical standing had been traduced by the extremism of the militant Protestantism that followed. (Arnold Kemp / Dean Nelson, Observer 5 Apr)
Queen Amang the Heather
[1965:] This splendid version of a song equally well-known amongst the Scots farming community and the travelling folk was learnt by Belle when she was still a wee bairn - among the singers to have contributed to her version are old Henry MacGregor of Perth, her cousin Jimmy Whyte and her brother Donald MacGregor. Versions of it used to be as thick as blaeberries in Strathmore and the Braes of Angus. It seems to be related to Ower the Muir Amang the Heather, of which Burns wrote: 'This song is the composition of Jean Glover. ... I took the song down from her singing as she was strolling through the country with a sleight-of-hand blackguard.'. Subsequent collecting makes it almost certain that Jean Glover 's version was itself a re-shaping of an older Ettrick song. James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd produced a version which was in turn modified. Musical and textual evidence however, suggests that [...] a classic ballad lies behind the lyric lovesong. In this case, the progenitor is Glasgow Peggie (Child 228), the tunes for which are clearly related to Queen Amang the Heather, and whose story presents a parallel situation - the Highlander who takes the heiress he has carried off and beds her down 'amang the heather' before revealing that he is himself a Chieftain. (Hamish Henderson, notes 'The Stewarts of Blair')
[1995:] Sheila [Stewart] calls the song, which she got from her mother, Queen Amang the Heather, but we have used the title in the 'Greig-Duncan Collection', Volume 5. There are a bewildering variety of pieces in Scottish folk song on the courtship of the lowly by the high born suitor, notably the ballad version, The Laird o' Drum. The message is clearly egalitarian, and this has a distinct attraction for traveller singers often themselves suffering social discrimination. The motif is well expressed in the last verse of the ballad. (Peter Hall, notes 'Folk Songs of North-East Scotland')
Sorry, another bloomer! 'Queen Amang the Heather' was meant to go to the thread of that title. It got caught up in the cutting. Please ignore it. - Susanne
Thanks for all that information, as well as the song. The only old tree (1000+) I have mapped in Scotland is at Fortingall.
From: GUEST,Can someone provide chords/music
for this to me please?
I appreciate it muchly.
bard@freecelts.com
sheet music e-mailed
Subject: The Yew Tree, would love to have the chords
From: GUEST,quest
Date: 23 Aug 08 - 08:24 AM
i have looked everywhere for chords for this song. i used to play in a band and we would sing it, but since i was a singer, i never learned the chords, nor did i play guitar. and now the rest of my band is in a different country than me since i moved away.
would appreciate the chords. if possible.
mapledaleo@gmail.com
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:00 PM
did anyone found the chords? i'd really like to learn this song, email it to korn114@hotmail.com if possible
Subject: Chords Add: THE YEW TREE (Brian McNeill)
Does this help? It's from the Battlefield Band song book.
A mile(Em) from Pencaitland(D) on the road(C) tae the sea(Em)
Stands a yew(C) tree a thou(D)sand years old(Em)
And the old(Em) women swear(D) by the grey(C) o' their hair(Em)
That it knows(C) what the fu(D)ture will hold(Em)
For the sha(A)dows of Scot(D)land stand round(Em) it
'Mid the kale(D) and the corn and the kye(A)
All the hopes(G) and the fears of a thou(D)sand long years(Bm)
Un(Em)der the Lo(D)thian sky(Em)
My bonny yew tree(D)
Tell me what did you see(Em)
From: Jack Campin
That song seems to get longer every time I hear it.
Brian McNeill is not known for ever leaving a historical footnote unsung in the cause of brevity.
Maybe, Jack, but he does it brilliantly! BTW, I've heard that song for twenty years, and it's always been the same length and the same number of verses. Maybe it's your brain? :-)
From: Suegorgeous
Dick Gaughan has a version of this.
From: Ross Campbell
Insane Beard recently reminded me of the Fortingall Yew in Perthshire, Scotland, which I recall visiting about forty-five years ago when friends of my parents lived nearby. Estimates of its age range from a minimum two thousand years up to nine thousand years. Even two thousand years makes it the oldest tree in Europe.
From: Bearheart
Very interesting topic. I have a special place in my heart for trees, especially the Yews.
There are several dated Yew trees around Britain (mostly in church yards) that are older than 2000 years old. One is at a church yard in Ulcombe in Kent. (Locals say the older of the two really old ones there is closer to 4000 years old...)
There are 20 to 30 yews at Kingly Vale (at a guess-- I've never counted them because I'm always too awestruck to remember to). It's a national heritage site near Chichester in West Sussex (?). I don't know their age but some must be over a thousand easily. I've always thought they were Tolkien's inspiration- they are very sentient trees!!! and the three (Neolithic?) burial mounds on the hill overlooking them are also worth a visit.
I'm always surprised that so few English seem to know about the place, it is incredibly awe-inspiring to be in that grove of ancient beings...
Certainly one of the most magical places in the Isles.
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Yew Tree (Battlefield Band)
I am presently on a bus leaving Ormiston after trying and failing to find the tree from the directions in the village square.
Anybody got a Google map reference for it?
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
More info about the tree:
https://www.ancient-yew.org/userfiles/file/Ormiston.pdf
James Miller's poem is truly appalling.
From: Jeri
Late, but Google Maps - Fortingall Yew
Or maybe that was an obvious yew, but not the right one.
From: FreddyHeadey
The Ormiston Yew
https://goo.gl/maps/awsBuks9kD32
from google, walking
- village to The Ormiston Yew
25 min (1.2 mi)
https://goo.gl/maps/jBrfKZULR1v
end of route, Street view
https://goo.gl/maps/CYWMa4MGvmo
road swings left at a bungalow, ~50 metres later take a grassy track on the right. \southwest
In about 100 metres find the Tree\enormous clump of trees
OS ref NT 41206 67610
https://gridreferencefinder.com/osfs/?gr=NT4120667610|NT_s_41206_s_67610|1&v=h
Thanks. The Google Maps link looks ok and should get me there - the others do odd things on my (old) phone.
"A mile from Pencaitland, on the road to the sea" - you can see why Brian MacNeill didn't go for a career in tour guiding.
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Some quests in my guide are marked as "SKIP" and colored in red. These quests are simply either too hard to solo or not worth the XP/time and are skipped. My guide will only list SKIPPED quests if the quest is a direct follow up after completing a quest, not one that you have to click the NPC again to get it. If you hover over the skipped quests, it will give info on why it is skipped in the guide (unless that info is already listed directly in the guide text).
Nov 10 well i tryed i was hoping to comeback to wow after being away since cat but my only real interest was pvp. seeing the state its in now i can see it's not worth bothering with and i feel i've given it enough time. the only choices i see for pvp is to twink so i can beat on kittens (cause i'm so 1337) or be so under powered i'm useless as i watch the twinks decimate my team. i didn't return for the american gladiator experience. it's a shame i missed legion i feel i would have like it better.Piale5 Nov 10
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Zygor's Leveling Guide for The Elder Scrolls Online (PC Version) is an in-game, software based, strategy guide that will show you the quickest way to level your characters from 1-50. You can view and use the guide directly inside the game without having to print out anything or view the guide in a browser. This also means that our guides are dynamic and can track your progress in realtime.
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Nov 13 What are the differences between versions? I just have a trial at the moment but i'm confused on what each version offers. Normal Sub : $15 a month Battle for Azeroth: $50 (needs subscription) Complete Colelction: $60 As far as i knew if you had a subscription to the game you get all of the content minus the latest expansion. So let me see if this is right. If i were to get the complete collection i would get one month at a $5 discount and the newest expansion OR Just pay $15 For the game and all expansions EXCEPT BFA?Buresh2 Nov 13
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Even though the guide was developed with a hunter, the guide can be followed by any class. Except you have to do your class's quests which aren't a whole lot. I do have full intention to make my guide friendly with all classes in the future by listing all of their steps as well. There will be a toggle that allows you to show which class's steps you want to see in the guide. But this is coming later.
Even though the guide was developed with a hunter, the guide can be followed by any class. Except you have to do your class's quests which aren't a whole lot. I do have full intention to make my guide friendly with all classes in the future by listing all of their steps as well. There will be a toggle that allows you to show which class's steps you want to see in the guide. But this is coming later.
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Scaloia@wayne.edu Come join us to observe a moment of silence in honor of Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two sanitation workers killed on the job in Memphis. Stay to watch a short documentary (30 minutes) on the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike. Historical items and photographs from our collections related to AFSCME Local 1733 Memphis will be on display.
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Putting Class on the Map: Towards a Labor Cartography
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Please join us June 1 from 12-1 for a brown bag research discussion in the . From hand-sketched diagrams of plant layouts drawn up in hasty preparation for strikes, to diagrams of syndicalist visions of One Big Union, mapping has long been an important but overlooked part of labor organizing. Steve McFarland, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Tampa, will be at the Reuther Library in May and June doing research into maps created by workers organizations. His talk will discuss this work-in-progress, which puts forward working class perspectives on cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a crucial aspect of "mapping from below." Drawing on work in labor geography by Andrew Herod, and in critical cartography by J.B. Harley, Steve's research engages with historical GIS and cartographic history in a way that foregrounds mapping of and by workers and working class organizations. In so doing, he offers a corrective to dominant currents in cartography that have elided workers, work, and class issues. He hope that these archival excavations will inspire a new interest in contemporary uses of mapping and GIS in labor organizing. Please feel free to bring a lunch and your feedback for Dr. McFarland!
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Gish sales stats released
Author Topic: Gish sales stats released (Read 22227 times)
Developer: Chronic Logic
Development time: About 6 months with three developers.
Platforms: Windows, OSX and Linux
Development Expenses:
Sounds and music: $3500
Of the $3500 only $500 was paid up front and the rest was a percent of royalties after Gish was released and selling.
Marketing Expenses:
Independent Games Festival (IGF) entry fees: $200.00
Rough estimate of Affiliate and other fees: $2000.00
Total Expenses: $5700.00
The time of the developers and the cost of office space, computers, etc. is not taken into account here.
Sales from chroniclogic.com per year:
2007: 140 (through April)
Misc others sales: 10
Total Sales: 4521
SWREG (Credit card orders): $79543.98
PayPal: $1436.86
Manual orders (checks, cash, money orders): $195.48
Approximate net sales from chroniclogic.com: $81176.32
Total income from other sites: $6212.04
(Garage Games, Reflexive Arcade, Linspire, Totalgaming.net and Manifesto games)
IGF Prize winnings: $16000.00
Total Retail publishing: $17539.71
(Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Russian, Singapore and Malaysia)
Approximate total income: $121,000 USD
Marketing and Promotion:
For promotion and marketing we did press releases on our web site and tried to get them to as many news sites as possible. We did a pad file and submitted to as many shareware sites as we could find although I don't think they had a large effect over all. We also did advertising in a local print magazine which I don't think had much of an effect either. Keeping other products and news coming out helped keep people coming to chroniclogic.com and finding Gish. We also did a number of patches which made improvements to the game. Each patch was accompanied by a press release. Winning the Grand Prize and Innovation in Game Design at the 2005 IGF gave us a huge boost in traffic to our website but we could not take full advantage of it as the demo downloads slowed our web server to a crawl. In a single day after winning at IGF our web server served 110 GB of the Gish demo which was much more then it could handle. It was after this that I moved all our demo hosting to other servers so if we hit a traffic spike the demo downloads might be slow, but at least the website will still work correctly. It also seemed a lot of people already knew about Gish before it's triumph at the 2005 IGF.
Gish won Game Tunnels Game of the Year and Adventure Game of the Year awards in 2004 which added a nice boost in sales. We also sent out review copies to whatever web pages and print magazines we could find. Gish scored very well in almost all reviews and even got mentioned in the New York Times. We also did a number of interviews and Q&As with magazines, websites and local news papers.
I think the single biggest factor in Gish sales was word of mouth. It is such a unique and fun game that people want to talk about it and they want to tell people about it. Individuals telling friends, posting on forums, talking about Gish to other games all made a huge contribution getting Gish out to the public.
As you can see Gish did not sell well in retail or on other sites and the majority of income generated from Gish (%67) was from direct sales through chroniclogic.com. Gish also missed out on a number of opportunities that could generate a lot more income such as North American retail and console distribution because of a lack of a shared vision among the developers.
Here are some of the reviews Gish received:
Game Tunnel GOTY awards 2004
http://www.gametunnel.com/html/section-viewarticle-66.html
http://www.gametunnel.com/articles.php?id=359
Game Tunnel 100%
http://www.gametunnel.com/gamespace.php?id=97&tab=3
Game Chronicles Magazine 95%
http://www.gamechronicles.com/reviews/pc/gish/gish.htm
gotoandplay.it 93%
http://www.gotoandplay.it/_reviews/review.php?r=76
GameZone.com 88%
http://www.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r23881.htm
Gaming Nexus 87%
http://www.gamingnexus.com/Review.asp?ID=519
Home of the Underdogs Top Dog
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Gish
PC Gamer UK Magazine 85%
Gish is the 2nd best overall selling game for Chronic Logic. Bridge Construction Set remains the best selling game overall and is currently selling better then any other other games despite being almost five years old. Stay tuned for those sales stats and in the mean time check out our latest game:
Kingdom Elemental
Kingdom Elemental is a light-hearted and comical real time tactics game with serious game play. Set in a fantasy setting Kingdom Elemental takes core game play elements from RTS, tactics and RPG games and combines them into a game that is easy to play without investing most of your real life. Kingdom Elemental features an unlimited number of possible tactics by pitting combinations of your ten hero units and their unique abilities against waves after waves of enemies ranging from the lowly Kobold to the mighty Minotaur.
Kingdom Elemental combines the popular fantasy, strategy, tactics and RPG genres into a compact gameplay package. It is easy to pick up and play and has a simple 2d interface to get users involved in the 3d action.
Check out the webpage:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/ke.htm
Download the free demo:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/ke_download.htm
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At Clifton High School our libraries are continually updated to ensure that they serve as well-resourced and thriving facilities for use by pupils and staff throughout the school.
During the Autumn Term, the school promoted reading across the school with a charity ‘Readathon’. Librarian Mrs Cuthill is pleased to confirm that participating pupils raised an impressive £488 toward buying books for children in hospital. The effort also generated £97 for Clifton High School Libraries, enabling us to invest in some exciting new additions. Of particular interest is the new ‘Shelf Help’ section: an area dedicated to accessible safeguarding and wellbeing literature. Titles such as ‘The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens’ and ‘Self Esteem and Being You’ sit alongside fiction favourites ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ and ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’.
In the pipeline are plans for a range of new non-fiction books, specifically selected to enhance the topics studied across the Senior School as well as the interests of pupils. Books include ‘Feminist Theatre’, ‘Banksy: Wall and Piece’, ‘Black History: Resistance and Abolition’, ‘Global Economy’, ‘Offshore Oil Drilling’, ‘The Periodic Table: Elements With Style!’ and many more. There will also be additional literature available in French, German and Spanish, as well as a selection on DVDs which help to consolidate language study. Pupils and staff alike are looking forward to exploring the new books on offer.
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Avon’s Nate Laszewski earns All-State honors
Gerry deSimas Jr., Collinsville Press
Avon sophomore Nate Laszewski (34) was named to the CHSCA Class L first team.
AVON – Six-foot-6 sophomore forward Nate Laszewski became the first Avon High boys basketball player to earn first team All-State honors in six years when he was named to the Connecticut High School Coaches Association’s (CHSCA) Class L squad.
Several players have earned second team All-State honors in the last decade and a half, including Patrick McKearney, who was second team All-State a year ago. But Laszewski is the first Falcon basketball player to earn first team All-State honors since Joseph Ives in 2009.
“Nate was a constant threat all season for us on both ends of the court,” Avon coach Chris Vozzolo said. “Nate is such a dangerous opponent because of his versatility to be able to play on both the perimeter and in the post. His skills are extremely polished and the sky is the limit on how far he can take his game.”
He averaged 20.4 points a game and got off to a red-hot start to begin the season, averaging 24.2 points in the first seven games of the campaign. Laszewski scored over 20 points in 14 of 24 games, including a career-high 42 point performance in an overtime victory over Suffield. He sank 21 three-pointers this season including 10 in the first seven games of the year.
“We put a lot of focus on Nate getting touches in places where he was a threat,” Vozzolo said. “He does a great job getting to the free throw line and creating for himself. Establishing himself on the blocks allowed him to get to the stripe and also open up his perimeter game.”
Laszewski was limited to just two field goals in a 44-42 win over Granby in late February but he sank 16 free throws in the game. In his 42-point game against Suffield, he hit 15 free throws. He sank 15 against Somers in January.
Laszewski helped Avon (18-6, 16-2 NCCC) finish second in the North Central Connecticut Conference behind Hartford’s Sport Medicine Science Academy and win the league tournament in Avon’s final season in the league. The Falcons will be moving to the Central Connecticut Conference in September.
His 42-point effort is four points shy of the single game record of 46 points by Mike Taft in 2002 against Somers. Taft had eight 3-point shots in the game.
Other Avon players to earn first team All-State honors include Andy Roell (2008), Andy Milward (1998), Dushawne Simpson (1991), Chris Ritger (1988) and Don Freidberg (1980). Ritger and Freidberg were selected to the New Haven Register’s All-State team. Roell, Milward and Simpson were named to the CHSCA squads.
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Gerry deSimas, Jr., is the editor and founder of The Collinsville Press. He is an award-winning writer and has been covering sports in Connecticut and New England for more than 30 years.
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A Discussion with Eminent Journalist Biswadeep Ghosh About His Biography on M.S. Dhoni, MSD: The Man, The Leader
Writer and editor, Biswadeep Ghosh, has been in the industry for the last 25 years. He gave up a career as a singer to become a journalist at the age of 18, and since then has been keenly writing on literature, movies and music. Along with an illustrious career in niche publications like The Times of India, Maharashtra Herald, Outlook, & Hindustan Times, Biswadeep has authored four biographies of Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan, and two children's book.
Biswadeep Ghosh
His latest biography MSD: The Man, The Leader has been the talk of the town these days for the obvious reason that it's the biography is the man of the moment, the Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The book has released right before the beginning of the World Cup 2015, and has been generating plenty of curiosity.
Infibeam had the pleasure of talking to Biswadeep, and getting to know what his latest biograpgy is all about. Here is what he had to say:
Que: Why did you choose MS Dhoni as the subject of your next book? What made you think that Dhoni's story could be worth a tell?
Mr. Biswadeep Ghosh: The inspirational quality in it. Here is a man whose father was once an unskilled worker in Ranchi. He was a decent student and a fine natural sportsperson who excelled in cricket. But he had to dump the thought of completing his graduation and become a Train Ticket Examiner at the Kharagpur Railway Station to support his family.
He hailed from Jharkhand and played most of his cricket for Bihar’s Ranji team during his days as a struggler in first class cricket. Bihar as we all know is a cricketing non-power. To rise from there and become the captain of the Indian cricket team is incredible. In fact, he is so unique that his story has been turned into a case study in some B-schools. Naturally, therefore, I was attracted to the subject.
Que: Which aspects of Dhoni does your book MSD: The Man, The Leader cover?
Mr. Biswadeep Ghosh: Like I said, the story is inspirational, and the book makes that point in simple language which anybody with basic knowledge of English can understand, internalize and learn from. It covers his background in Ranchi leading up to his growth as a cricketer in his hometown, journeys to Kharagpur where we get to see a young Dhoni and talks about his cricketing highs and lows with Team India thereafter.
It has a chapter on his stature in his hometown today. He is a God in Ranchi who is not meant to be criticized, which contrasts with his life in the initial stages, has a separate section which analyses his leadership in a larger perspective by talking to established names both within and outside cricket, and concludes with a chapter on a view of his stardom and some thoughts about his future. The structure is slightly different from the run-of-the-mill biography.
Que: Tell us about the research you did for the book? How long did it take, and how did you go about it?
Mr. Biswadeep Ghosh: It started with a trip to Ranchi. During the initial phase of the book, I was helped by a hardworking Ranchi-based lawyer-journalist Chandrajit Mukherjee who worked as a researcher and had been hired for that purpose by the publishers Rupa Publications. After that, it was all about extensive research and establishing contacts. Several well-known names from the journalistic fraternity helped me along the way. They are old friends, three of them close to me for two decades and more. It was very kind of them, and I have mentioned their names in the acknowledgments, which is the only, highly inadequate thing I can do in return.
Que: There are few controversies surrounding the Indian skipper. Have you covered them in the book?
Mr. Biswadeep Ghosh: This book doesn’t ask unanswered questions. It is about a man from nowhere who has reached where he has, spreading a message of hope for aspiring cricketers from modest backgrounds who play for or in states that are obscure in the context of cricket. Today, they can dream big. If they have the talent, they can believe that they can rise to the top and become a success story like Dhoni has. In fact, his is a story that can motivate anybody from any field. Of course, he or she needs to have genuine gifts and self-belief, neither of which can be acquired easily.
Que: As the Indian Cricket team's captain, where does Dhoni really stand?
Mr. Biswadeep Ghosh: See, the debate on good and better captains of India will be an eternal one. But, let there be no doubt that Dhoni and Ganguly are the most successful captains ever. If Ganguly had an excellent overseas record while Dhoni’s has been ruined in recent years because the newcomers have failed to replace the seniors who faded away one way or the other, he has the best home record in Tests, has won all the ICC trophies and taken the team to the number one position in Test rankings for the first time ever. There are many more, which will extend the debate even further.
Que: Is the book a good read for those who are not familiar with cricket vocabulary?
Mr. Biswadeep Ghosh: Of course. Even those with a passing interest in cricket - by that I mean, elementary knowledge of the game - can enjoy it since it is jargon-free, and like I said earlier, written in very easy English. If the average reader didn’t understand what the book was all about, the purpose of writing it would have been defeated.
Posted by Soniya Sen at 11:25 AM
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Alan Gross suspends his hunger strike
His announcement today:
Alan Gross Suspends Hunger Strike at his Mother’s Urging, Announces There Will Be Further Protests to Come
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“My protest fast is suspended as of today, although there will be further protests to come. There will be no cause for further intense protest when both governments show more concern for human beings and less malice and derision toward each other.”
Gross’s family and friends have been very concerned about his health and have asked him to end his fast. Gross explained to Gilbert that he is suspending his fast today because his mother asked him to stop. She will be 92 years old on April 15, the first day of Passover.
Gross has been imprisoned in Cuba for four years and four months. He has asked President Obama to personally intervene to help bring him home.
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A picture of this can be gauged from the fact that ever since Mahesh Babu’s latest Telugu hit film SRIMANTHUDU won rave reviews, particularly, film buffs going gaga over Mahesh Babu’s sensitive portrayal of a youth going all out to solve the tribulations of a village, Mahesh Babu has been overwhelmed by his fan’s adore.
In fact the emotional content of the movie has moved Mahesh Babu so much that he has pledged to adopt a village and in reality become a savior as he did in the film SRIMANTHUDU.
According to latest news Mahesh Babu, who had earlier expressed his wish to adopt a village has finalized to adopt two backward villages called Chinthalakunta village of Gattu mandal in Mahbubnagar in Telangana and Burripalem in Guntur of Andra Pradesh (AP).
According to sources Mahesh Babu will be visiting Chinthalakunta village on August 29 along with IT and Panchayat Raj minister KT Rama Rao.
Reports suggests Mahesh Babu has adopted these villages as per Telangana Chief Minister KCR initiated 'Grama Jyothi' Programme and AP CM Chandrababu Naidu initiated 'Smart Village' programme.
Like Mahesh Babu, Aamir Khan too has come forward to help the villagers of Maharashtra, who facing a hard time due lack of water. Reports claims a total of 6,202 villages in six districts are drought-affected.
Hence to help the drought-affected farmers of Maharashtra, Aamir Khan has donated Rs 11 lakh to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ rural water conservation programme, Jalayukta Shivaar Abhiyaan.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ has applauded Aamir Khan’s support. In a statement CM said, “I appreciate Mr Khan's support to the mission which will help us mitigate drought situation in affected areas. His gesture will go a long way and encourage resourceful people and institutes to contribute to our sincere cause,”
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