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The town of Robinvale is located between the Murray River towns of Mildura and Swan Hill in the north-west of Victoria.
Robinvale is a picturesque holiday spot, situated on a peninsula of land surrounded on three sides by the Murray River. South of the town centre are large irrigated fruit and vegetable farms and vineyards.
The town centre of Robinvale is attractive and well-laid out, featuring wide streets and well-maintained gardens. Its commercial centre is primarily situated in tree-lined Perrin Street which leads to Caix Square - a central park with memorials related to the region's history.
At the corner of the Murray Valley Highway and McLennan Drive is a huge windmill which was erected in 1948 and is claimed to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Following McLennan Drive along the river foreshore passes beside attractive parkland and the historic Robinswood Homestead which is located in Riverside Park and was built in 1926 as the home of the town's founder. Further along the road are various picnic spots, walking tracks and scenic viewing spots.
To the south of town, off Pethard Road, is the Euston Weir and Lock 15, built to store water for irrigation. There are pleasant lawns, shelters and picnic facilities.
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Paschim Durgāpur in Dhaka Division
Destination Guide Bangladesh
Dhaka District
Paschim Durgāpur
in Dhaka District of Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
Dhaka / Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (8 mi)
Agartala Airport (50 mi)
Comilla Airport (51 mi)
Barisal Airport (66 mi)
Khowai Airport (75 mi)
Kamalpur Airport (89 mi)
Jessore Airport (91 mi)
Ishurdi Airport (93 mi)
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (149 mi)
Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat (Unesco heritage, 86 mi)
Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur (Unesco heritage, 129 mi)
23.747 and 90.462 (Lat./Lng.)
N 23° 44' 48" and E 90° 27' 41"
Taka - BDT
Bengali, English
Local Time: 03:44 AM (Thursday)
Timezone: Asia/Dhaka
-33.637 and -78.834 (Lat./Lng.)
Current travel safety evaluation for Bangladesh in Southern Asia
Safety Score: 2,7 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to Bangladesh.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Bangladesh. Last Update: 2019-07-15 07:22:53
Explore Paschim Durgāpur
Paschim Durgāpur in Dhaka District (Dhaka Division) is a city in Bangladesh a little north-east of Dhaka, the country's capital.
Local time in Paschim Durgāpur is now 03:44 AM (Thursday). The local timezone is named Asia / Dhaka with an UTC offset of 6 hours. We know of 9 airports in the vicinity of Paschim Durgāpur, of which one is a larger airport. The closest airport in Bangladesh is Dhaka / Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in a distance of 8 mi (or 13 km), North-West. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are two Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in Bangladesh is Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat in a distance of 86 mi (or 138 km), South-West. If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Dhaka, Agartala, Mymensingh, Barisal and Magura. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info. Let's start with some photos from the area.
Air Pressure 997.4 hPa
Wind Speed Light breeze with 4 km/h (2 mph) from North
General Conditions Broken clouds
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Few clouds, gentle breeze.
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
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107 KAZI NUZRUL ISLAM AVENUE GPO BOX 3595
1215 Dhaka
Checkout: - Checkin: 03:00
The Way Dhaka
10/B/2, Road-54B, Gulshan-2 Dhaka
1212 Dhaka / Dacca
Lake Shore Hotel & Apartments
Road 41, House 46, Gulshan 2
Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden
AIRPORT ROAD DHAKA CANTONMENT
1206 Dhaka Sadar,Dhaka
Sarina Dhaka Five Star Business Boutique Hotel
Plot 27 Rd 17
Six Seasons Hotel House 19 Road 96
House,Road,Gulshan 19,96,2
Amari Dhaka
47, Road No 41, Gulshan-2, Dhaka City
Dhaka Regency
Airport Road,Nikunja 2
The Westin Dhaka
MAIN GULSHAN AVE PLOT 01 ROAD 45 GULSHAN 2
The Olives
House: 3, Road: 126 Gulshan-1
Dhaka / Dacca
Weekday: 0:00 - 0:00 (lunchbreak: 23:59 - 0:00)
Qurbani Eid dhaka, Bangladesh - HD - Komolapure Hariana goru 2013.
Author: Rage Rabbi
Khub iccha boshe aftabnagar e jawar aage, ek chokkor marlam komolapur, shei shomoi er ek nojor.
Qurbani Eid Dhaka, Bangladesh - Komolapure cha khawar shomoi 2011.MPG
Shoni-bar shokale komolapure, video aita cha khawar shomoi tule chelam, tokhon onek goru chelo, kinto raat jeye deklam shob shesh, 05-11-2011.
sheikh ahmed bin yousuf in jatrabari,dhaka 12.2.2015
Author: ashiq mustavi
Blaze at Bashundhara City
Author: Nazmul Haque
アキーラさん市内散策２！バングラデッシュ・ダッカ！Dahka,Bangladesh
Author: 憂国の旅人 アキーラ旅Travel Channel 1
I went around Dahka city in Bangladesh by Rikisha When I visited Dahka on Jun in 2011.バングラデシュの首都のダッカでデモに遭遇！！2011年6月に訪問。 日本の人力車...
アキーラさん市内散策36！バングラデシュ・ダッカ！Dahka,Bangladesh
went around Dahka city in Bangladesh by Rikisha in the night When I visited Dahka on Jun in 2011.バングラデシュの首都のダッカ！！2011年6月に訪問。 日本の人力車が起...
アキーラさん散策47！バングラデシュ・ダッカ・グラミン銀行Dahka,Bangladesh
went around Dahka city in Bangladesh by Rikisha in the night When I visited Dahka on Jun in 2011. This is one of the Hindu temple バングラデシュの首都のダッカ！！ヒンズー教...
Bangabandhu National Stadium
Bangabandhu National Stadium, (Bengali: বঙ্গবন্ধু জাতীয় স্টেডিয়াম) also known as Dhaka Stadium, and formerly known as Dacca Stadium is the national stadium and a multipurpose sports arena in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is located in the Motijheel area in the heart of the city. Its current name was given to honour Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the nation, also known as "Banga bandhu" or "Friend of Bengal".
Located at 23.7278, 90.4134 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
Football venues in Bangladesh, Cricket grounds in Bangladesh, Test cricket grounds in Bangladesh,
Supreme Court of Bangladesh
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ সুপ্রীম কোর্ট) is the highest court of law in Bangladesh. It is composed of the High Court Division and the Appellate division, and was created by Part VI Chapter I of the Constitution of Bangladesh adopted in 1972. This is also the office of the Chief Justice, Appellate Division Justices, and High Court Division Justices of Bangladesh.
Government of Bangladesh, National supreme courts, Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices
Islamic University of Technology
Islamic University of Technology or IUT (Bengali: ইসলামিক ইউনিভার্সিটি অফ টেকনোলজি) is an internationally recognized educational and research institution in Bangladesh. It is regarded as one of the top universities for technical education in Bangladesh. The main objective of IUT is to contribute in developing the human resources of the member states of the OIC, particularly in the fields of Engineering, Technology and Technical Education.
Islamic universities and colleges, Educational institutions established in 1981, Private universities in Bangladesh
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (Bengali: আহসানউল্লাহ্ বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) (AUST) is a private technical university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of the leading private university in Bangladesh. The university was founded by the Dhaka Ahsania Mission in 1995. Dhaka Ahsania Mission is a non-profit voluntary organization in Bangladesh. The Mission was established in 1958 by Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah.
Architecture schools in Bangladesh, Private universities in Bangladesh, Educational institutions established in 1995
Kamalapur railway station
Kamalapur Railway Station is the central railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The station is the largest in the country and the most important terminal for transportation between Dhaka and the rest of Bangladesh. It is also one of the most modern and striking buildings in Dhaka designed by American architect Robert Boughey. The Kamalapur railway station is situated in the north-east side of Motijheel.
Railway stations in Dhaka District
Willes Little Flower School
Willes Little Flower School and College is one of the first English medium school in the heart of Dhaka, Bangladesh and was established in 1956 by Philanthropist Josephine Willes. Willes has a long national reputation for academic excellence. The proximity of University of Dhaka, the National Cultural community, and downtown Dhaka has created a socially diverse community with high academic expectations and a strong belief in quality education.
Schools in Bangladesh, Schools in Dhaka, 1956 establishments in Pakistan
Shapla Square
Shapla Square (Bengali: শাপলা চত্ত্বর, Shapla Chottor) is a huge sculpture at the heart of Motijheel near the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. It depicts a Shapla (water lily, or more commonly referred to as the Lotus flower, since Shapla is the actual blossom and not the lilly pad itself), the national flower of Bangladesh. The sculpture is surrounded by a fountain. The location also marks a mass grave of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
Buildings and structures in Dhaka, Visitor attractions in Dhaka, Outdoor sculptures
University of Information Technology and Sciences
The University of Information Technology & Sciences (UITS) (Bengali: বিজ্ঞাণ ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a university in Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Its vice chancellor is Professor Dr. Muhammad Samad.
Located at 23.7861, 90.425 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
Private universities in Bangladesh, Educational institutions established in 2003
Jagannath University
Jagannath University is a government-financed public university in Sadarghat, Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh. Jagannath University is in the southern part of Dhaka city near the river Buriganga.
Public universities of Bangladesh
Demra Thana
Demra is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Thanas of Dhaka
Motijheel Thana
Motijheel is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Ramna Thana
Ramna is a thana (upazila) of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sabujbagh Thana
Sabujbagh is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sutrapur Thana
Sutrapur is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Located at 23.7, 90.4208 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
Badda Thana
"Badda" redirects here. For the village in Chittagong, see Badda, Chittagong Division.
Khilgaon Thana
Khilgaon is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is bounded by Badda Thana on the north, Motijheel, Sabujbagh and Demra Thanas on the south, Rupganj Upazila on the east, Ramna and Tejgaon Thanas on the west.
Baldha Garden
Baldha Garden is an enriched botanical garden which spans 3.15 acres of land located at Wari in the old part of the city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It has a collection of 672 species of plants. The Baldha Garden is now managed as a satellite unit of the National Botanical Garden by the Department of Forestry. Baldha Garden is one of the oldest Botanical Gardens in Bangladesh. It was established by Narenda Narayan Chawdhury.
Botanical gardens in Bangladesh, Parks in Dhaka
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, or RAJUK literally the Capital Development Authority of the Government of Bangladesh, is a Bangladeshi public agency responsible for coordinating urban development in Dhaka, Bangladesh. RAJUK is composed of various public officials, city planners, urban administrators, engineers and architects. It is the National Authoritative Board on building planning, estates and resources, plot allotment and construction approvals from both public and private entities.
Matuail
Matuail is a village of Dhaka Division, Bangladesh, located on the west side of Dhaka–Chittagong Highway and on the south side of Dhaka-Demra Highway. The village is about 6 km from Motijheel.
Populated places in the Dhaka Division
Motijheel Model High School and College
Motijheel Model High School and College (Bengali: মতিঝিল মডেল হাই স্কুল অ্যান্ড কলেজ) is one of the best schools of Bangladesh.
Educational institutions established in 1980, High schools in Bangladesh, Schools in Dhaka
Dhaka Imperial College
Dhaka Imperial College (DIC) is a co-educational Bangladeshi private College situated in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This college is one of the best colleges in Dhaka city.
Colleges in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Education in Dhaka, Education in Bangladesh
National Board of Revenue
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) (Bengali: জাতীয় রাজস্ব বোর্ড) is the central authority for tax administration in Bangladesh. It is under the Internal Resource Division of Ministry of Finance. NBR is the authority for tax policies and tax laws in Bangladesh.
Government agencies of Bangladesh
Banasree
Banasree is a large residential area or suburb of Dhaka under Rampura Thana in Bangladesh which is developed by Eastern Housing Ltd. The name "Banasree" means "The beauty of Forest". The area is originally built with the purpose of being solely residential beside the Bangladesh Television Center in Rampura. The celebrated scenic view of the area, dominated by the Banasree Lake, is improving due to good urban planning. There are a total of nine blocks in Banasree (Blocks A-H & J).
Matuail Adarsha High School
Matuail Adarsha High School is one of the most prosperous school in Matuail, Bangladesh. It is located near Mridhabari Bus stand, West Matuail. Government Primary High School (no-2) and Matuail Sub post office are situated beside it. It was established in 1985 by some educated youths. It is basically a kindergarten and a higher secondary school. It always cuts a good figure in all types of board examinations (P.S. C, J.S. C,S.S. C).
Dhaka Division, Educational institutions established in 1985, High schools in Bangladesh
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI)
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI), established in 1958, is a large organization for businessmen in Bangladesh according to the Companies Act 1913 (amended in 1994). DCCI has 14800+ members whose are contributing rapidly in business field of Bangladesh. DCCI has mutual trade relation with lots of countries of the world. DCCI also got many awards & recognition for its activities from different organizations.
Organisations based in Bangladesh, Economy of Bangladesh, Non-profit organisations based in Bangladesh
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Paschim Durgāpur.
Netrakona
Purbadhala
Bagerhat
Chhatak
Gaibandha
Mushalpur
Sarpang
Morigaon
Samdrup Jongkhar
Tsirang
Hakha
Pemagatshel
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These are the most popular locations in Bangladesh on Tripmondo.
Tungi
Natore
Kushtia
Narayanganj
Narsingdi
Sirajganj
Puthia
Sherpur
Habiganj
Lalmanirhat
Patiya
Ishurdi
Bhairab Bazar
Sonargaon
Laksham
Feni
Maulavi Bazar
Bandarban
Baniachang
Chak Durgapur
Uttar Durgapur
Gaurnagar
Nandipara
Dakshingaon
Thulthulia
Green Model Town
Meradia
Rajarbag
Damripara
Balu Dhitpur
Purba Durgapur
Payati
Balu Dakshinpara
Keodala
Kahetpara
Mendipur
Gazaria
Puratan Paltanerlain
Manik Nagar
Naraibag
Pubgaon
Paradagar
Paschimgaon
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
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Facebook CEO Details Company Battle with Hate Speech, Violent Content
By Michelle Quinn
FILE - A television photographer shoots the sign outside of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., May 18, 2012.
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook says it is getting better at proactively removing hate speech and changing the incentives that result in the most sensational and provocative content becoming the most popular on the site.
The company has done so, it says, by ramping up its operations so that computers can review and make quick decisions on large amounts of content with thousands of reviewers making more nuanced decisions.
In the future, if a person disagrees with Facebook's decision, he or she will be able to appeal to an independent review board.
Facebook "shouldn't be making so many important decisions about free expression and safety on our own," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a call with reporters Thursday.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote
FILE - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at a Facebook developers conference in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018.
But as Zuckerberg detailed what the company has accomplished in recent months to crack down on spam, hate speech and violent content, he also acknowledged that Facebook has far to go.
"There are issues you never fix," he said. "There's going to be ongoing content issues."
Company's actions
In the call, Zuckerberg addressed a recent story in The New York Times that detailed how the company fought back during some of its biggest controversies over the past two years, such as the revelation of how the network was used by Russian operatives in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The Times story suggested that company executives first dismissed early concerns about foreign operatives, then tried to deflect public attention away from Facebook once the news came out.
Zuckerberg said the firm made mistakes and was slow to understand the enormity of the issues it faced. "But to suggest that we didn't want to know is simply untrue," he said.
Zuckerberg also said he didn't know the firm had hired Definers Public Affairs, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm that spread negative information about Facebook competitors as the social networking firm was in the midst of one scandal after another. Facebook severed its relationship with the firm.
"It may be normal in Washington, but it's not the kind of thing I want Facebook associated with, which is why we won't be doing it," Zuckerberg said.
The firm posted a rebuttal to the Times story.
Content removed
Facebook said it is getting better at proactively finding and removing content such as spam, violent posts and hate speech. The company said it removed or took other action on 15.4 million pieces of violent content between June and September of this year, about double what it removed in the prior three months.
But Zuckerberg and other executives said Facebook still has more work to do in places such as Myanmar. In the third quarter, the firm said it proactively identified 63 percent of the hate speech it removed, up from 13 percent in the last quarter of 2017. At least 100 Burmese language experts are reviewing content, the firm said.
One issue that continues to dog Facebook is that some of the most popular content is also the most sensational and provocative. Facebook said it now penalizes what it calls "borderline content" so it gets less distribution and engagement.
"By fixing this incentive problem in our services, we believe it'll create a virtuous cycle: by reducing sensationalism of all forms, we'll create a healthier, less-polarized discourse where more people feel safe participating," Zuckerberg wrote in a post.
Critics of the company, however, said Zuckerberg hasn't gone far enough to address the inherent problems of Facebook, which has 2 billion users.
"We have a man-made, for-profit, simultaneous communication space, marketplace and battle space and that it is, as a result, designed not to reward veracity or morality but virality," said Peter W. Singer, strategist and senior fellow at New America, a nonpartisan think tank, at an event Thursday in Washington, D.C.
VOA national security correspondent Jeff Seldin contributed to this report.
US Lawmaker Says Facebook Cannot Be Trusted to Regulate Itself
Democratic U.S. Representative David Cicilline, expected to become the next chairman of House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, said on Wednesday that Facebook cannot be trusted to regulate itself and Congress should take action.Cicilline, citing a report in the New York Times on Facebook's efforts to deal with a series of crises, said on Twitter: "This staggering report makes clear that @Facebook executives will always put their massive profits ahead of the interests of…
France to 'Embed' Regulators at Facebook to Combat Hate Speech
Facebook will allow French regulators to "embed" inside the company to examine how it combats online hate speech, the first time the wary tech giant has opened its doors in such a way, President Emmanuel Macron said Monday.From January, Macron's administration will send a small team of senior civil servants to the company for six months to verify Facebook's goodwill and determine whether its checks on racist, sexist or hate-fueled speech could be improved."It's a first,"…
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Research Finds Differential Emphasis in Islamic State Propaganda
VOX-Pol has released its latest report in the VOX-Pol publication series, titled A Tale Of Two Caliphates: Comparing the Islamic State’s Internal and External Messaging Priorities, co-authored by Dr. Dounia Mahlouly and Charlie Winter.
In recent years, the media department of the self-proclaimed Islamic State has proven itself to be highly adept at strategic communication. While much research has gone into the group’s digital and online capabilities, there remains a significant gap in the knowledge regarding its in-country propaganda operations and objectives.
In recognition of this, the following research paper approaches the issue from a different angle, attempting to better understand how and why the group communicates its brand through the lens of two publications – al-Naba’, its Arabic-language newspaper, which appears to be designed primarily for offline dissemination in the caliphate itself, and Rumiyah, its foreign-language electronic magazine, which has only ever appeared online. Using content analysis to identify and compare each publication’s internal (local) and external (global) media priorities over the four-month period between September and December 2016, we develop an empirical evaluation of the group’s recent forays into targeted outreach.
The Islamic State’s publication priorities at the end of 2016 were largely bifurcated—its propagandists seemed to want different
responses from different audiences, and Rumiyah and al-Naba’ were particularly demonstrative of this.
Structurally, the publications bore only partial resemblance to each other, with Rumiyah privileging lengthier, more discursive ideological content and al-Naba’ primarily tending to preference briefer tactical news items.
The publications were also distinct thematically: Rumiyah’s content was significantly more abstract – that is, weighted towards complex political, social and theological issues – than that of al-Naba’, which shed much more light on present-day military matters than anything else.
Al-Naba’’s conception of jihad was distinctly more pragmatic than that of Rumiyah – it focused on real-world concerns rather than ideology, something that could point towards the differing motivations of the Islamic State’s in- and ex-theatre supporters.
There were significant geographic discrepancies between the two publications, with Rumiyah spending more time discussing events and operations external to Syria and Iraq than al-Naba’. This was most apparent in the context of the battle for Mosul, which was entirely absent from the pages of Rumiyah, and regularly front-page news in al-Naba’.
It appears that each publication was carefully tailored to suit its primary consumer audience – in Rumiyah’s case, this was the Islamic State’s diffuse archipelago of global supporters, and in the context of al-Naba’, this was, and continues to be, its in-country rank-and-file.
Accessing VOX-Pol Reports
All VOX-Pol reports are open-access. This report is available for download here. If you would like to receive a hardcopy of the report, please email info@voxpol.eu with your request.
in Home Slider, News, Press Releases, Publications, VOX-Pol Publications ISIS, ISIS Media, Islamic State, Jihadist Propaganda
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The Woman Who Helped Birth a Black Artistic Renaissance in Chicago
In the 1940s, Margaret Taylor Burroughs bolstered the careers of some of Chicago's most iconic artists by holding culture salons in her barn and later starting an African American museum in her home.
by Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
Feb 20 2018, 6:20pm
Illustration by Laura Freeman.
The guests sat on the floor, sipping martinis or coffee and pondering society’s great problems until the wee hours of the morning, sometimes the next afternoon. A gentleman in the corner strummed on a guitar and gave Russian language lessons between songs. Paint and artist tools lay strewn across the floor. Gwendolyn Brooks, a decade before winning a Pulitzer Prize, would hang around, laughing and sharing secrets. At times, soon-to-be civil rights icon Paul Robeson or celebrated sculptor Elizabeth Catlett would swing by. The renowned painter Eldzier Cortor could sometimes be found there as well, alongside luminary poets like Margaret Walker and Langston Hughes.
This was the scene throughout the 1940s at Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs’ old home in Bronzeville on the South Side of Chicago, as described in essays by Brooks and documented by various photographers. These cultural salons, which took place in Burroughs’ barn, helped incubate the creative practices of current day artistic icons, and are one of the reasons that Bronzeville is now known as the birthplace of the Chicago Black Renaissance. And if Bronzeville was the birthplace of that cultural reawakening, then Burroughs—an artist, poet, and educator who eventually founded Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History—is one of the godmothers.
Burroughs was born in Louisiana in 1917 and brought to Chicago by her parents at the age of five. She attended the (then) predominantly white Englewood High School with a number of Black friends, many of whom would eventually become the celebrated artists at her cultural salons. She joined the youth council of the NAACP, and was an inaugural member of an Arts and Crafts Guild with fellow teens interested in furthering the study and creation of Black art. For her and her peers, art making was about more than creative expression—it was about Black people’s ability to define their own narrative, and it was intimately intertwined with politics and activism.
“[I]f all black men and women would mass themselves in solid opposition to war, we would see America really being American to BLACK AMERICANS,” wrote a 23-year-old Burroughs in 1940 in a column for The Chicago Defender. “Fighting for this ideal, black women would be laying a firm foundation for the future of this country lifting ourselves up and off the lowest rung of the economic ladder and insuring that one-third of the nation which is ill-housed, ill-clothed and ill-fed [gets] a new birth.”
That same year, after extensive fundraising, Burroughs and members of her artistic community bought a building across the street from her home to start the South Side Community Arts Center, a three-story mecca for writers and artists. The center’s operations were initially funded by the Works Progress Association, and the opening ceremony was broadcast nationwide on CBS radio and attended by the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt. In fall 2017, it was heralded as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The South Side Community Art Center in 2014. Photo by Alan Scott Walker, via Wikimedia Commons.
Burroughs’ gatherings with writers and artists at the SSCAC and her own home helped forge the Chicago Black Renaissance—the city’s response to Harlem’s own literary and artistic revival in the 1920s—which flourished throughout the 1940s and left an indelible mark on the city. Despite occurring in the midst and aftermath of the Great Depression, the second World War, and the Great Migration, the moment’s creative output was rich with swaggering pro-Black, pro-woman hubris. It was during that fruitful period that Thomas Dorsey created gospel music in Bronzeville, Richard Wright wrote Native Son, and Katherine Dunham opened a school of dance that celebrated the African diaspora. And within this swirling sauna of Black thought and social action, Burroughs produced mini books on Black history and assembled a massive art collection that provided crucial historical underpinnings for Black contemporary art canon blossoming into existence.
Burroughs published her first children’s book in 1947, procured both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago by 1948, and later became known for her block prints and paintings depicting “Negro life” in the city. All the while, she worked as a teacher and collected African masks, fabrics, and historical ephemera while traveling during her time off. In an effort to create more space to show Black art and correct the white-washed narrative of art history, she eventually began displaying those items in the mansion she shared with her second husband, the poet and newspaper man Charles Burroughs.
By the early 1960s, their home became officially known as the Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art—renamed the DuSable Museum of African American History in 1968. As one of the few resources for learning about African American history in the city at the time, the museum drew a constant flow of Black students, artists, and others to 38th and south Michigan Avenue and became a hub for activists who needed a place to gather.
In 1971, the museum moved to a new location in a massive park just south of Bronzeville and now sees hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. Chance the Rapper is among the roster of Chicago’s cultural heavyweights who sit on its board of directors.
Although Burroughs' literary and artistic achievements are many, most agree that starting the DuSable is her greatest. She saw very clearly that art and history are inextricably connected to politics and economics. Slave laws and Illinois’ own “Black Codes,” which were observed until the mid-1960s, made it illegal for Black people to gather in groups of three or more, and very difficult for them to attend colleges. Creating something as simple as an arts club was radical. And telling Black people that their art, dance, poems, and music was valuable countered the prevailing thought that Blacks had no history or culture other than slavery and therefore would always remain second class citizens without rights.
For Burroughs, who died in 2010, preserving and teaching Black history and creativity was an act of resistance against cultural erasure. Perhaps that’s why, in her opening speech for the SSCAC, she was fierce and unwavering in her resolve to uplift. “Now,” she declared, “in this critical wartime period, we have our own plans for defense; a plan in defense of culture."
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Vimarsha: Ensuring Food Security for India
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VIF’s monthly Vimarsha for the month of February, 2018, focused on ‘Ensuring Food Security for India’ through an enlightening talk delivered by Mr. S.K Pattanayak, Secretary to the Government of India (Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare).
VIF’s monthly Vimarsha for the month of February, 2018, focused on ‘Ensuring Food Security for India’ through an enlightening talk delivered by Mr. S.K Pattanayak, Secretary to the Government of India (Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare). The Secretary highlighted availability, accessibility, utility and stability, among various other dimensions, to India’s food security. He underscored that policies on food security are made in accordance with emergent priorities across various dimensions. In 2009, nutrition was added as an integral component of food security during the World Food Summit. He further underscored that India, in recent years, has become cereal-centric, exporting 10 million tons of rice annually. Incidentally, India also stands numero uno in so far as production in milk, cotton, jute and spices is concerned.
With the soaring of pulse prices in 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture turned its focus on production of pulses in the country. The pulses’ revolution bought up a demand of 24 million tons of pulses and the production has gone up from 17 to 23 million tons in the last one year. Dr. Pattanyak, however, suggested that focus should now be on raising the income of farmers while ensuring availability and accessibility of food to all. Access to smart crops and their inclusion into our dietary habits will bring a positive boon to the sector as well as to the individual’s growth, he added.
With the change in climatic conditions and new technologies pouring in, there is need for pro-active policies, to be evolved through better coordination between the Government and the farmers. The Government, on its part, remains committed to the cause of farmers’ welfare. On their part, farmers also need to diversify with changing environment so as to improve their income. For example, farmers can grow bamboo and adopt animal husbandry as measure to supplement their earnings. Loans on easy terms are being provided by the Central and State Governments through various agencies as part of measures to boost up such activities.
Dr. Pattanayak assured the audience that in coming years, India will not only produce for herself but also for countries across the globe. Many Gulf countries are already looking towards India to provide them with the food security, and this opens up a new window of opportunity altogether for the Indian farmers. With the introduction of youth and new skills in agriculture, combined with pro-active policies being thought through by the Government, the future augurs well for Indian farmers, while India can rest assured on food security for all its people, the Secretary concluded.
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Trump Points Finger Back at ‘Fake News’ Media for Stirring Up ‘Great Anger’ in the Country
Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump speaks during an election rally in Murphysboro, Illinois on October 27, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Images)
Published October 29, 2018 at 4:17pm
President Donald Trump repeated his charge that “fake news” is the “true enemy of the people” on Monday and blamed the media for stoking anger in the United States.
“There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news,” Trump tweeted. “The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly.”
There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame…
He added, “That will do much to put out the flame of Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and Harmony. Fake News Must End!”
The pair of tweets followed one Sunday night, in which the president wrote, “The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!”
The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!
Trump’s tweets came in the aftermath of Friday’s arrest of Cesar Sayoc, 56, who has been charged with sending 14 pipe bombs to a number of prominent Democrats including former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Additionally on Saturday, Robert Bowers, 46, was taken into custody and charged in the deaths of 11 people and the injuring of six others at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Sayoc posted pro-Trump messages on social media and had stickers featuring the president and Vice President Mike Pence on his van.
Do you think the media holds responsibility for the nation's current political environment?
In contrast, Bowers posted anti-Trump material online and alleged that the chief executive is controlled by the Jews. In a post on the social media site Gab, he wrote days before his attack, “Trump is a globalist, not a nationalist.”
“There is not #MAGA as long as there is a kike infestation.”
Posts from the suspected Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers. He hated Trump and thought Trump was controlled by Jews. This monster is an unhinged anti-Semitic terrorist. pic.twitter.com/sjb2k6ucwb
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 27, 2018
Two of Trump’s fiercest media critics responded to his claim that “fake news” is partly to blame for the nation’s current climate.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd, tweeted, “If you actually believe media is the problem then the last thing one should do is respond with your own hate and anger… Try leading; try setting an example; Try living by the mantra ‘two wrongs don’t make a right.’ But then that would mean cutting back on stoking the division.”
If you actually believe media is the problem then the last thing one should do is respond with your own hate and anger… Try leading; try setting an example; Try living by the mantra “two wrongs don’t make a right.” But then that would mean cutting back on stoking the division.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) October 29, 2018
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta also chided Trump, writing, “We are not the enemy of the people. I am not your enemy. You are not my enemy. It is wrong to call your fellow Americans the enemy. We are all on the same team. We are all Americans.”
We are not the enemy of the people. I am not your enemy. You are not my enemy. It is wrong to call your fellow Americans the enemy. We are all on the same team. We are all Americans.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 29, 2018
Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro — who strongly defended Trump against the charge that he is to blame for the synagogue shooting — nonetheless, tweeted, “This ‘enemy of the people’ stuff has got to stop, but it won’t.”
This “enemy of the people” stuff has to stop, but it won’t. https://t.co/A6esEQSlDT
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2018
Regarding Trump’s positive treatment of the Jewish people, Shapiro wrote in the Daily Wire, “President Trump’s pro-Israel policy is the strongest in the history of the country. Not only did Trump move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, he has cut off aid to the anti-Semitic, terror-supporting Palestinian Authority, and fought the Obama administration’s Iran deal tooth and nail.”
He added, “Trump’s warmth toward the Jewish community in the United States has been obvious.”
While some liberal Jewish leaders in Pittsburgh have called on the president not to visit the Tree of Life synagogue, its rabbi, Jeffrey Myers, declined to blame Trump or anyone else for the shooting beyond the gunman.
.@CNN asks Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers if @realDonaldTrump is welcome at his synagogue after Saturday's shooting.
Myers: "The President of the United States is always welcome. I am a citizen, he is my president. He is always welcome.”https://t.co/pfSMeNrRdI pic.twitter.com/SiI0xdpGhh
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 29, 2018
Asked by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota if Trump would be welcome at the synagogue, Myers responded, “The President of the United States is always welcome. I am a citizen, he is my president. He is always welcome.”
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Phone: 02 9548 1686 | Address: 153 Woronora Road, Engadine, NSW 2233
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Woronora Road Veterinary Clinic has been providing veterinary care services to the areas of Engadine, Woronora Heights, Heathcote and the Sutherland Shire since 1990.
The surgery has a highly dedicated and skilled team to look after all of your pets' needs, providing professional and personalised animal care trusted by the locals for decades.
Dr Mark Westwood
Mark graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in 2010. He spent 3 years working with small and large animals near Dubbo, followed by a year working and travelling around the UK. Mark has also been involved with the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW, has been an official veterinarian for thoroughbred racing in NSW and is a published author in the Australian Veterinary Journal on tick paralysis in dogs and cats.
Having spent much of his childhood in and around Woronora Road Veterinary Clinic, Mark decided to move back to Sydney and take over the practice from his father (Anthony) in 2015. Mark is pictured with his Labrador, ‘Penny’.
Dr Philippa McGuiness
Philippa graduated from Murdoch University in Perth in 1979. She worked in Perth and Hong Kong before moving to Sydney in 1983. She owned Lakemba Veterinary Clinic until 1991, then worked part time and locum work in small animal practices whilst her children were young. Philippa joined Woronora Road Veterinary Clinic in 1999 and is available for consultations on Thursdays and every fourth Friday and Saturday. She and Jim have 4 children. They live with a ball-obsessed Border collie ‘Bowe’, a Labrador X called ‘Ellie’ and ‘Theodore’ the cat.
Dr Anthony Westwood BVSc
Anthony graduated from the University of Sydney in 1979. He has worked principally in small animal practice in Sydney, and started Woronora Road Veterinary Clinic in 1990. He has lived and worked in the Sutherland Shire since 1982.
Anthony has established a long-standing relationship with many of our patients and their owners over his career. While semi-retired, he still works part-time and brings his extensive experience to cases and the running of the practice.
Tiina Packalen
Veterinary Nurse
Tiina is originally from Finland and is fluent in three languages. After working as a volunteer at Symbio Wildlife Park, she completed her vet nursing training (Certificate IV) and joined Woronora Rd Veterinary Clinic in 2006. Tiina lives with her husband, two children and ‘Toby’ the cat (whose personality reminds her of Garfield). She has a special interest in photography.
Tammilea Clarke
Tammi first started working with animals in 2004 as a volunteer at Symbio Wildlife Park. She later became a WIRES carer and rescuer, and in 2006 joined the Sutherland Shire Dog Training Club, where she trained her 2 Bulldogs in obedience, fly ball and agility. Her vet nursing career also started at this time, but had to be put on hold while she started a family. She joined Woronora Road Veterinary Clinic in 2011 and has since attained her Certificate IV in vet nursing. She has also completed the Hills VNA and puppy preschool courses and a Delta animal behaviour course. In addition to her nursing duties, Tammi also runs the Puppy Preschool classes.
Georgia Pan
Veterinary Nurse
Georgia joined Woronora Road Veterinary Clinic in 2017. Originally from the Shire, she has lived in Wagga Wagga and the South Coast where she has owned a wide range of animals including dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, sheep and pigs. She currently has two dogs (‘Sebastian’ and ‘Skooch’).
Georgia has attained her certificate in animal studies and is currently completing her certificate IV in veterinary nursing. Her hobbies are horse riding, sport, music and traveling.
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Savannah police investigate pedestrian-involved crash on Abercorn Street
by: Danni Dikes
Posted: Jun 29, 2019 / 12:22 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 29, 2019 / 12:23 PM EDT
SAVANNAH, Ga (WSAV) – Savannah Police’s Traffic Investigation Unit is investigating a pedestrian-involved crash on Abercorn Street.
The incident happened around 11:15 p.m. on Friday night. Officers were called to the 11100 block of Abercorn and discovered Robert Lee, 41, suffering from serious injuries.
Investigators said Lee was attempting to cross in the middle of the block when he was struck by a Mercedes Benz traveling east on Abercorn Street. The driver, Kenneth Hylander, 60, claims he did not see Lee and could not avoid hitting him. Lee was taken to Memorial Health.
News 3 will update this story.
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More units from 48th Brigade return home from deployment
by Danni Dikes / Jul 16, 2019
FORT STEWART, Ga (WSAV) - It is a heartwarming week for dozens of families whose loved ones are returning home from deployment.
A ceremony was held Monday night at Fort Stewart for the soldiers of the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and their families. They were returning home from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan.
Watch your speed! Operation Southern Shield to target drivers in five states
SAVANNAH, Ga (WSAV) - Monday is the start of the third annual campaign across the southeast.
Officers in five different states are joining forces this week to crack down on speeders on major highways and intersections as part of Operation Southern Shield.
Barry weakens, but risk of major flooding continues. New Orleans flights return to normal
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tropical Storm Barry's winds weakened slightly to 40 mph (65 kph) as of 11 a.m. Sunday, but the risks associated with the storm - including flooding and tornadoes - are sparking new concerns.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said in its Sunday advisory that the storm's center was located about 50 miles (85 kilometers) south-southeast of Shreveport, Louisiana, and was moving north at 9 mph (15 kph).
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Baby born on 7-Eleven Day at 7:11 weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces
A Missouri woman gave birth at the at the right time on the right date. (Source: Rachel Langford)
By Jordan Smith | July 13, 2019 at 6:14 PM CDT - Updated July 14 at 5:03 PM
ST. LOUIS (Gray News) - Rachel Langford had been seeing the numbers seven and 11 throughout her pregnancy.
She didn’t realize it was foreshadowing.
At 7:11 on the evening of July 11 (7/11), Langford gave birth to J’amie Brown.
Her birth weight? Seven pounds and 11 ounces.
J'aime Brown was born on 7/11, at 7:11 and weighed seven pounds, 11 ounces. (Source: Rachel Langford)
“I thought it was weird at first, and I didn’t know that (the numbers) meant so much,” Langford told CNN. “A lot of the times (during the pregnancy) I would look at the clock and it was 7:11.”
Brown just happened to have been born on 7-Eleven Day, the day the convenience store chain celebrates by giving out slurpees. Langford, who also has a 6-year-old son, plans to tell the chain about J’amie’s timely birth.
Jordan Smith
The Cape and Islands district attorney said Wednesday that they dropped the indecent assault and battery case brought against the actor last year.
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Skateboarding Staff Skips Out on Time Inc.
Matthew RoseStaff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Updated Oct. 1, 2003 12:01 am ET
The offices of Time Inc.'s TransWorld Skateboarding are in a converted warehouse near the beach at Oceanside, Calif. Classic skateboards and other memorabilia hang from the ceiling. One office was built to look like a grass hut, another replicates a barn. When the surf's up, the offices are thinly staffed.
For three years, the magazine has existed as almost an accidental outpost of Time Inc.'s magazine empire, added during an acquisition spree aimed at boosting the company's slow growth. But last week, three of the top members...
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Super Bowl Locations: Which Stadiums Will Host the Big Game in the Coming Years?
For those who have ever wondered what goes into choosing a Super Bowl host stadium, check out this article that explores how a city is chosen for this much sought after financially rewarding honor and read all about where the big game will be played this season and for the next five seasons after that and beyond.
The National Football League Super Bowl is also known as the "big game" because of how many fans tune in to watch.
As exciting as the football action is for viewers, though, the real big game exhilaration is felt directly by the pocketbooks and wallets of the hosting city.
Being chosen as a Super Bowl Host city is like finding a pot of gold at the back of the end zone, and because of that becoming a host city is a long and difficult process.
In this article, we examine what’s considered when a Super Bowl host city is chosen, how a city benefits from hosting the big game and which cities have already been chosen to host future Super Bowls.
Here’s the list of all known future Super Bowl locations:
2019 Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia
2020 Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
2021 Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida
2022 Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, CA
2023 State Farm Insurance Stadium in Glendale, AZ
2024 Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA
And here's a map showing all the Super Bowl locations up to the year 2024:
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Where was the Super Bowl held last season?
Super Bowl LII (52) took place on February 4, 2018 at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The capacity of the U.S Bank Stadium is 66,655.
It was a matchup between backup quarterback Nick Foles’ NFC Philadelphia Eagles and GOAT suspect Tom Brady’s AFC New England Patriots.
The Eagles won 41-33 when Brady’s last minute Hail Mary pass fell incomplete as time expired.
How big was last year’s Super Bowl audience?
Super Bowl LII drew in 103.4 million U.S. viewers on average during the game and $2 billion in broadcasting rights revenue.
The cost of a 30-second commercial was $5 million.
What was the biggest Super Bowl audience ever?
Super Bowl XLIX (49) was the most watched event in U.S. television history.
114.4 million people tuned in to watch the 12-4 AFC New England Patriots beat the 12-4 NFC Seattle Seahawks by a score of 28-24.
The cost of a 30-second commercial was $4.5 million.
Is the Super Bowl the biggest sporting event in the world?
That honor usually goes to the UEFA Champions League final, the last game of a tournament involving Europe's top soccer clubs.
For example, the final of the 2012-2013 UEFA Champions League was the biggest ever.
That match was viewed by an audience of more than 360 million worldwide and had the highest TV ratings to date.
Compare that to the record setting 114.4 million people who watched Super Bowl XLIX and you can see that it’s not even close.
Where was the first Super Bowl held?
Super Bowl I took place on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.
The capacity of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is 78,467.
The 11-2-1 AFL Kansas City Chiefs took on the mighty 12-2 NFL Green Bay Packers in a game where the Packers were favored by 14.
Under the leadership of Super Bowl MVP quarterback Bart Starr, the Green Bay Packers went on to win the matchup 35-10.
What city has hosted the most Super Bowls?
That honor currently goes to Miami, Florida, and New Orleans, Louisiana, both home to ten Super Bowls apiece.
Spoiler alert: Super Bowl LIV will be hosted in Miami, which will bring their total to 11 and they’ll take the lead in most Super Bowls hosted.
Here is a list of all the Super Bowl cities and the number of times each has hosted the big game:
Los Angeles Metro Area (7)
Detroit (Metro) (2)
Minneapolis-Saint Paul (1)
Dallas-Fort Worth (1)
NY Metro Area (1)
Which US state has hosted the most Super Bowls?
Florida has hosted the most Super Bowls with 15:
Miami (10) + Tampa Bay (4) + Jacksonville (1)
Next up on the list is California with 12:
Los Angeles Metro Area (7) + San Diego (3) + San Francisco (1) + Santa Clara (1)
In third place is Louisiana with 10:
What stadium has hosted the most Super Bowls?
Miami and New Orleans have both hosted the Super Bowl ten times, but both of those cities have done it in two different locations.
The Mercedes-Benz Superdome (formerly the Louisiana Superdome) has been the location of seven Super Bowls, in 1978, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1997, 2002, 2013.
The capacity of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome is 74,295.
Spoiler alert, the MBS will also be hosting the Big Game in 2024, bringing the total to eight.
Second on the list is Hard Rock Stadium (formerly Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium and Sun Life Stadium) where 5 Super Bowls have been played in 1989, 1995, 1999, 2007 and 2010.
The capacity of Hard Rock Stadium is 65,326
Another spoiler: the Big Game will be played at Hard Rock Stadium in 2020.
Which stadium is considered the all-time favorite Super Bowl venue?
That’s arguable, but the Orange Bowl in Miami has held five significant matchups over the course of NFL history.
Super Bowl II – Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14
Super Bowl III – New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7
Super Bowl V – Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13
Super Bowl X – Pittsburgh Steelers 21, Dallas Cowboys 17
Super Bowl XIII – Pittsburgh Steelers 35, Dallas Cowboys 31
Two historic notes: Super Bowls II and III are the only two Super Bowls to be played in back-to-back years in the same stadium.
Also, Super Bowl V was the first Super Bowl played on artificial turf.
How much money does a host city typically make during the Super Bowl?
Of course, that varies depending on the city, but let’s just say it’s millions and millions.
Before Super Bowl LII took place at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an economic impact report was done by the Minneapolis Super Bowl Host Committee.
In this report, it was stated that much of the taxpayer investment in the stadium would be recouped by the region during the event.
According to the report, it was estimated that the Super Bowl would contribute $343 million to the region, including $29 million in tax revenue.
Do cities still bid to host the Super Bowl?
NFL owners meet next May to renegotiate how Super Bowl host cites are chosen.
It’s reported that at that meeting, the league will “formally do away with allowing cities to bid for its marquee event.”
A new selection process will replace bidding, one that involves the league negotiating a suitable deal with a hand-picked city, all designed to give the NFL greater control over where its marquee event takes place year after year.
What are the main considerations when choosing a Super Bowl venue?
Currently (until the May NFL owners meeting, at least), it goes like this:
Cities are chosen to host the Super Bowl after placing a bid with the selection committee.
Each bidding city is then put through a rigorous vetting process that takes several factors into consideration.
Due to the huge economic boost the host city will enjoy, bidding cities are very willing to make concessions for the selection committee.
There is a final round, and each city that makes it there gets to present their case for fifteen minutes.
Then each team owner from that city is given five minutes to make a plea.
Other factors that matter when choosing a host city
Warm vs. cold weather
Most Super Bowls are held in warm cities and there’s a reason for that.
It keeps players healthier and happier while keeping travel and game delays to a minimum.
Cold cities are fine (Minneapolis, anyone?) as long as there is a dome stadium involved to keep players and fans warm and dry for the big game.
Stadium quality
The Super Bowl committee loves new stadiums, especially if they haven’t been built yet.
After 2017, four Super Bowls are being held at brand new stadiums which have been built to fit the Super Bowl committee’s requests.
Plus the fans will have a better time in a newer stadium and find a lot more modern ways to spend their money, which benefits everyone involved.
With the Super Bowl comes thousands of people, and they all need a place to stay, eat and drink.
Cities who boast the ability to provide enough quality hotel rooms, restaurants and nightclubs usually have the edge with the Super Bowl selection committee.
Hotels will be booked at least a year out for at least five days by media, sponsors, and fans – plus the teams and their staff who will be playing in the game, so if you’re in the service industry it’s quite a financial boon to be able to count on an upcoming Super Bowl in your hometown.
Where is Super Bowl LIII being held?
Super Bowl LIII (53), the 49th modern-era NFL championship game, will be held on February 3, 2019 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
According to the master plan, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium has a maximum capacity of 71,000, but can expand to 80,000 for special events such as the Super Bowl.
The halftime show for this event is still TBA.
This stadium is a one-of-a-kind venue equipped with a uniquely designed retractable roof and normally home to the Atlanta Falcons.
Not only does it have a Chic-Fil-A, it also powers itself with renewable energy obtained from their 4,000 solar panels and uses 47 percent less water than baseline standards.
And bonus: this stadium can store more than 2 million gallons of storm water on site to prevent flooding in the area.
Have they already picked the sites of future Super Bowls?
Yes they have sites picked through the year 2024.
1. Super Bowl LIV (54) in 2020
This will be the 50th modern-era NFL championship game, so there will most likely be plenty of celebrating that anniversary.
Super Bowl LIV (54) will be held on February 2, 2020 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
The Hard Rock Stadium has a capacity of 65,326 and his home to the Miami Dolphins.
Originally named Joe Robbie Stadium when it opened in 1987, its most recent renovation project was completed in 2016 and features new video boards, suites and seating pods.
2. Super Bowl LV (55) in 2021
Super Bowl LV (55) will be held on February 2, 2020 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
The Raymond James Stadium has a capacity of 65,890 (expandable to 75,000) and is home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Two previous Super Bowls were hosted in this stadium, Super Bowl XXXV in 2001 and Super Bowl XLIII in 2008.
3. Super Bowl LVI (56) in 2022
Super Bowl LVI (56) will be held on February 6, 2022 at the Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, CA.
The Los Angeles Stadium has a capacity of 70,240 but is expandable to 100,240 for big events like the Super Bowl.
Los Angeles Stadium construction delays made a schedule change to this event necessary based on new rules that state a stadium must be open for two full seasons before it can host a Super Bowl, but all has been settled and the date has been set.
This venue is expected to be a masterpiece and will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2028 Summer Olympics.
4. Super Bowl LVII (57) in 2023
Super Bowl LVII (57) will be held on February 5, 2023 at the State Farm Insurance Stadium (formerly the University of Phoenix Stadium) in Glendale, AZ.
The State Farm Insurance Stadium has a capacity of 63,400 but is expandable to 72,200 for big events like the Super Bowl with standing room expanding that to at least 78,600.
Upgrades to the Phoenix and Glendale areas (renovated airport, additional hotels and parking) helped land the Super Bowl for the third time, the others being in 2008 (Super Bowl XLII) and 2015 (Super Bowl XLIX).
5. Super Bowl LVIII (58) in 2024
Super Bowl LVIII (58) will be held on February 4, 2024 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA.
The Mercedes-Benz Superdome has a capacity of 74,295.
This is the eighth time this venue will host the Super Bowl, the eleventh time for New Orleans.
The last time the Super Bowl was held here in 2013, the stadium lights failed during the third quarter of the Baltimore Ravens win over the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 34-31.
What other cities could hold the Super Bowl in the distant future?
The Oakland Raiders' Las Vegas Stadium is not expected to be completed until 2020, but wouldn’t that make a heck of a party?
First things first, though – the stadium has to be built, and the Raiders have to start winning.
Builder Stan Kroenke’s Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, CA was built to host Super Bowls, and Pro Bowls, the draft, and any other major events the NFL has planned.
And with two teams in the city now, the NFL future looks bright for the city of angels.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is anxious to host another Super Bowl at his AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, especially after what happened the last time he tried it.
During Super Bowl XLV, activities were affected by once-in-a-lifetime Texas snow and ice and let’s just say not a good time was had by all.
Top image credit: Charles Atkeison
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Able Seacat Simon – Received Dickin Medal For Heroism On British Ship
Dec 4, 2015 Shahan Russell
Able Seacat Simon was an orphan who grew up on the dockyards of Hong Kong before finding work aboard a British ship. There, he protected the crew and raised morale till his ship was attacked.
The injured were evacuated, but Simon stayed onboard even though he was badly hurt. Upon recovering, he returned to his duties for which he received awards and the gratitude of Britain.
It’s believed that Simon was born on Stonecutter’s Island (now part of Kowloon), sometime in 1947. That’s where Ordinary Seaman George Hickinbottom noticed him in March of the following year.
Hickinbottom was a 17-year-old who had joined the Navy the previous year and felt sorry for the homeless orphan. Unfortunately, the sailor’s rank didn’t entitle him to private quarters, but to bunk right beside the captain’s cabin.
The HMS Amethyst
Stationed aboard the British frigate HMS Amethyst, it was Hickinbottom’s job to make sure the ship was kept clean and that everything was in order. The sailor smuggled Simon aboard by hiding the poor waif in his shirt – for Simon was a cat.
Fortunately, Lieutenant Commander Ian Griffiths liked cats. He also understood the value of keeping the ship’s rat population under control, but the Ordinary Seaman was not off the hook. Griffiths threatened to have the sailor up on charges if he saw any cat poo onboard.
Thankfully, Simon was very likeable. The ship’s crew saw to it that whenever the new recruit made a mess, it didn’t stay visible for long, greatly easing Hickinbottom’s job and stress levels.
Besides catching rats on a daily basis, Simon developed a deep bond with Griffith. All the captain had to do was whistle, and Simon would come running. Then the two would make their rounds of the ship, making sure everything was in order.
Simon and his fellow crew members admiring a giant pie
The cat even gave his captain daily gifts – dumping dead and bloody rats at the man’s feet and even on his bed. And whenever the captain wasn’t wearing his cap, Simon would sleep in it.
But he never forgot his debt to George and the other men, spending time with the lower rank whenever possible. He even entertained them by fishing ice cubes from jugs of water with his paws on command.
In December, however, Griffith was given a new posting and felt it best to leave Simon behind. As luck would have it the new captain, Lieutenant Commander Bernard Skinner also liked cats, even though Simon never responded to his whistles nor followed his new master around the ship.
Everything was idyllic till April 1949 when the Amethyst was ordered to Nanking to relieve the HMS Consort. The Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communists had broken out, so the Consort had to protect the British Embassy and be ready to evacuate personnel if needed.
At 8:31 AM on April 20, they were on the Yangtze River when they came under fire. Not sure who was doing the firing, they hoisted the White Ensign and the Union Jack. Fortunately, the shooting stopped, and they sailed on.
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The White Ensign
Unfortunately, their luck didn’t last. An hour later, as the Amethyst neared Jiangyin further upriver, it was fired upon by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA – the communists). The first missile flew over the ship, but the next hit the bridge, the wheelhouse, and the low power room. The captain and the coxswain steering the wheel were badly hurt, so the ship turned and grounded on a sandbank.
The British tried to fire back, but nothing happened because the low power room was damaged, rendering the gun-firing circuits useless. Though also hurt, First Lieutenant Geoffrey L. Weston assumed command and got a message out before another shell took out the generator.
Sometime after 10 AM, Weston ordered his men to board the lifeboats and make it to shore, but the PLA had no mercy for them, either. Only 64 made it to the south bank. The shooting stopped at 11 PM, leaving 22 dead (including Skinner) and 31 wounded.
Simon in Surrey under quarantine in November 1949
Having become lighter, the Amethyst refloated at midnight of April 21. Several rescue attempts failed and negotiations bogged down because the PLA wanted the British to admit that the Amethyst had fired first. Throughout the negotiations, the PLA forbade the Amethyst from being resupplied, though it relented occasionally, preventing the remaining crew from starving to death.
Simon had been badly hurt during the first shelling but managed to crawl his way up to the deck. It took a while to notice him because priority went to the men. By the time they did, the noticed his whiskers and eyebrows had been burned off, there was dried blood on his back and legs from four shrapnel wounds, but he had no broken bones.
With so many men off the ship, the medical officer was able to treat him but didn’t expect him to survive. He recovered, however, and was allowed to cuddle up to the other injured sailors. In doing so, he helped boost morale during the long siege.
Having recovered from the worst of his wounds, he went back on active duty – and not a moment too soon. In his absence, the rat population was again out of control, threatening their dwindling supplies.
Lt Cdr Kerans makes peace with Simon
The Amethyst finally escaped on July 30, but lieutenant commander John Kerans, the new captain, was no cat lover. Simon tried to win him over by sleeping in the captain’s hat, but Kerans threw him out of his cabin. So Simon gave him a dead rat, but that didn’t go over too well, either.
Then Captain Kerans came down with a virus, and Simon decided to bunk with the new commander till the man felt better. Entente had at last been reached.
The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals’ (PDSA) Dickin Medal, given to animals who showed conspicuous gallantry or devotion to duty while serving in military conflict
Kerans also made Simon a “cat officer” and gave him the rank of “Able Seacat” after he had successfully killed a giant rat called Mao Tsetung which kept escaping traps.
At every port Amethyst stopped at on its route home, Simon was presented with honour, and a special welcome was made for him at Plymouth in November when the ship returned. Simon was, however, like all animals entering the UK, subject to quarantine regulations, and was immediately sent to an animal centre in Surrey.
Whilst in quarantine, Simon contracted a virus and, despite the attentions of medical staff and thousands of well-wishers, died on 28 November 1949 from a complication of the viral infection caused by his war wounds. Hundreds, including the entire crew of HMS Amethyst attended his funeral at the PDSA Ilford Animal Cemetery in East London. His gravestone reads
MEMORY OF
H.M.S. AMETHYST
MAY 1948 — NOVEMBER 1949
AWARDED DICKIN MEDAL
DIED 28TH NOVEMBER 1949.
THROUGHOUT THE YANGTZE INCIDENT
HIS BEHAVIOUR WAS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
Simon’s grave at the PDSA Animal Cemetery in Ilford
Simon is also commemorated with a bush planted in his honour in the Yangtze Incident Grove at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
For his service, he was given the Dickin Medal (the animal version of the Victoria Cross), the Blue Cross, and the Amethyst campaign medal.
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BloombergQuickTake Analysis
How Germany Would Find a Leader If Merkel Steps Down Early
Angela Merkel (Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg)
By Patrick Donahue and Arne Delfs | Bloomberg
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has always said she wants to serve out her fourth term, even after ruling out another re-election bid and stepping down last year as leader of her Christian Democratic Union. Yet health concerns have raised questions of whether she can continue to lead Europe’s largest economy until 2021, when a new German election is due. What happens if Germany’s first female leader, the European Union’s longest-serving head of government, chooses to step down early -- especially with her governing coalition with the Social Democrats fraying? The most likely outcome is an early election, but first the constitutional machinery would be put in motion.
1. Why are there health concerns?
Merkel, who turns 65 on July 17, has had three public trembling spells within a month, drawing attention to her health for the first time in her 14-year chancellorship. She’s said little about the issue in recent days, sidestepping a reporter’s question regarding physical exams she was reportedly given. “Let me just say this on the question of health, you can rest assured that I’m, for one, well aware of the responsibilities of my office and that I will act on questions regarding my health,” Merkel said at a press conference on July 10.
2. What happens if she steps down?
If Merkel were to announce her resignation, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier would have to name an acting chancellor until a new leader is elected by the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag. The likely scenario would be for Steinmeier to name her vice chancellor as caretaker. That’s Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, 61, a Social Democrat who may have his own chancellery ambitions.
3. How would a new leader be found?
Once the caretaker is in place, the Bundestag would seek to elect a new chancellor. It’s the German president’s responsibility to nominate a candidate, but he would do so in close consultation with Bundestag lawmakers and the ruling parties. The candidate would normally be from the ruling coalition or leading party, but can be anybody seen as having a chance to win more than 50% of the vote. Should no candidate win an absolute majority within 14 days of the first ballot, a new vote is held. This time, the candidate with the most votes can be put forward. If this tally-winner doesn’t forge a majority, the president has a choice: appoint him or her as chancellor anyway, or dissolve the Bundestag and call a new election. Once a new election is called, it has to take place within 60 days.
4. What’s likely to happen?
That all depends on whether Steinmeier can name a candidate that pleases both sides of the ruling coalition. Wolfgang Schaeuble, the former finance minister who leads the Bundestag, has been talked about speculatively as someone who could potentially be an agreed-upon steward to lead the government, giving the coalition parties time to prepare for a new national vote. The Social Democrats have ruled out Merkel’s successor as CDU party leader, the 56-year-old Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, to avoid giving her an advantage in the next election and risk further alienating its own supporters. But given the precarious state of the ruling coalition and the fact the CDU-led bloc doesn’t have a clear majority, an early election is the likeliest outcome.
5. Is there any precedent for this?
Sort of. In 1974, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, engulfed in a scandal after his chief of staff was outed as an East German spy, resigned. Then-President Gustav Heinemann charged Brandt’s vice chancellor at the time, Walter Scheel of the Free Democrats, to lead the government in an acting capacity. Meanwhile the Social Democratic-led coalition agreed to name Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt as Brandt’s successor. The Bundestag elected Schmidt as the new chancellor nine days later -- and he went on to serve for eight years.
To contact the reporters on this story: Patrick Donahue in Berlin at pdonahue1@bloomberg.net;Arne Delfs in Berlin at adelfs@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Raymond Colitt, Melissa Pozsgay
Last Updated:11:22 AM 07/17/2019
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Cardinal Dolan supports expanded NYC pre-k
By - Associated Press - Thursday, March 6, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) - New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan is pledging the support of the city’s Catholic schools to create universal pre-kindergarten.
Dolan appeared Thursday with Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH’-zee-oh) at a Bronx parochial school.
The two men met with students. Dolan said that the 1,700 new pre-k seats would be found between the Archdiocese of New York and the Archdiocese of Brooklyn.
The spots would be available to children of all faiths.
But Dolan stopped short of endorsing de Blasio’s plan to fund the program by raising taxes on wealthy New Yorkers.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed finding money in the state budget instead. The tax hike needs the support of Albany.
Dolan said he would leave it to the politicians to determine the funding.
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Fatal stabbing victim identified in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Police say a verbal altercation after hours of drinking led to a fatal stabbing in Sioux Falls.
Thirty-eight-year-old Ronnie Baker was stabbed twice in the chest at a residence Sunday. A 40-year-old suspect was arrested several blocks away. He is expected in court later Monday.
Lt. Mike Colwill says witnesses at the home went to a neighbor’s house to call police following the stabbing.
Jim Hanscom tells KELO-TV he was checking for his Sunday paper when he saw police handcuffing a man in shorts. Hanscom says he didn’t recognize the man. He says he’s lived in the neighborhood for nearly 50 years and usually the biggest problem is speeding.
Information from: KELO-TV, http://www.keloland.com
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19 hurt by falling tree branch at Azerbaijan UNESCO site
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijan’s emergency service says 19 tourists visiting one of UNESCO’s newest World Heritage sites have been injured after strong winds knocked down a massive branch from a nearly 500-year-old Oriental Plane tree.
It says the accident took place Sunday at the Khan’s Palace in the historic city of Sheki, located on the ancient Silk Road that passes through the Caucasus Mountains.
The agency says a branch measuring about 50 centimeters (nearly 20 inches) in diameter fell on a group of tourists, leaving at least four people in critical condition. Officials say the tourists included two Russians, five Syrians and 12 Azeri citizens.
Sheki’s city center and the Khan’s Palace were added to the World Heritage site list just a week ago.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, Britain's former and current foreign secretaries, spoke and answered questions Wednesday in front of hundreds of Tories at a London conference center.
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DAN DAVIAU
Canaccord Genuity Group
Things can change quickly in this business. Just ask Dan Daviau, who was celebrating his promotion to CEO of Canaccord Genuity last October. By February, his mood surely had darkened somewhat when it was revealed that the group had a quarterly loss of $346 million – its worst result as a public company. As a result, dividends were cancelled for the quarter, and 125 people lost their jobs. Announcing the results, Daviau set a clear mandate for change: “The performance we’re reporting today is not what we’re accustomed to seeing for our industry or for our business,” he said. “Our result does not reflect the vision we have for our company going forward.” The considerable task before him now is to turn the firm’s fortunes around and re-establish Canaccord Genuity as the leading independent mid-market investment bank and wealth management business.
Company Canaccord Genuity Group
Website http://www.canaccordgenuitygroup.com/
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Elanco Bolsters Pet Products Pipeline With $234M Deal for Aratana
Colorectal Cancer Data Spurs Pfizer to Pay $11.4B for Array Bio
Polco’s Tools Help Governments Coax Citizens Out of Echo Chambers
Founder and Managing Director of DEV
Alfred Spector
VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google
CEO and Co-Founder, Tamr
Geeks on a Train Coming to NY, Boston on May 24 to Foster Intercity Innovation
Gregory T. Huang
@gthuang
While a good chunk of the startup community is celebrating TechStars Boston demo day with various pre- and post-parties, I thought I’d take the opportunity to think outside the local box for a moment.
I’m talking about Geeks on a Train, and it’s headed our way on May 24. If you’ve heard of Geeks on a Plane, the international exchange program for entrepreneurs run by 500 Startups, it’s kind of like that, only different. For starters, yes, there is a train involved.
Let me start over. Geeks on a Train (aka GOAT) originated in Baltimore. Lest you get all your info on that city from The Wire, I can tell you that the Baltimore-DC area is home to a burgeoning tech startup community. They have a lot in common with other similar-sized cities that have become innovation hubs. And they have a lot of ideas to share with their fellow East Coast brethren.
So on the morning of May 24, a group of them are getting on an Amtrak train in Washington, DC, and heading up the coast. They’ll make quick stops in Baltimore (and possibly Philadelphia) to pick up more people, then on to New York (for a lunch event), and, finally, Boston at the end of the day (for a dinner and networking event). In New York and Boston they’ll make the startup rounds, meet and greet, and connect with local entrepreneurs, investors, and other members of the innovation community. It’ll be like a rolling tweet-up (complete with hashtag #geektrain) mixed with elements of a hackathon.
The immediate goal, as organizer Jason Hardebeck puts it, is that “you’ll know who to call in Baltimore and DC [and other cities] to take you to where the cool kids hang out. This is about making first contact.”
Hardebeck leads the Greater Baltimore Technology Council (gb.tc) as executive director. He knows something about building startups too, having led WhoGlue, a private social-network company, from inception to its sale to Facebook last fall. He has also served as vice president of market development at Ze-gen, a Boston-based cleantech firm.
In his current role, Hardebeck promotes the interests of Baltimore-area tech companies—but with Geeks on a Train, he is looking to build relationships across cities, in the hopes of strengthening what he calls the “innovation corridor” of the East Coast. “There’s a reason this is where the industrial revolution started. We have all of the pieces,” he says.
The longer-term goal, over the coming months, is to encourage cross-city exchanges whereby a contingent of Baltimore-DC entrepreneurs, say, can come visit and share ideas with friendly hosts in Boston and New York—all in order to “get that collaborative spirit going,” Hardebeck says.
A few examples of challenges that East Coast tech communities may have in common: risk aversion (stigma of failure); relatively weak commercialization and spinoff efforts from big research universities; and lack of critical mass in consumer-focused startups. Also, a lack of friendly and constructive collaboration—which is, of course, what the Baltimore project is trying to address.
We’ll be watching to see how much support the project garners across cities. If you’re interested in participating in Boston or New York (both Xconomy cities), please leave a comment or send me a note to the address below.
Gregory T. Huang is Xconomy's Editor in chief. E-mail him at gthuang [at] xconomy.com. Follow @gthuang
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Galileo image of Gaspra (29 October 1991)
NASA/JPL
Table of Asteroids
Asteroid Images
Asteroid News
Asteroids are small bodies that are believed to be left over from the beginning of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. They are rocky objects with round or irregular shapes up to several hundred km across, but most are much smaller.
More than 100,000 asteroids lie in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. These asteroids lie in a location in the solar system where there seems to be a jump in the spacing between the planets. Scientists think that this debris may be the remains of an early planet, which broke up early in the solar system. Several thousand of the largest asteroids in this belt have been given names.
The chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth are very small! But some do come close to Earth, like Hermes (closest approach of 777,000 km).
Last modified February 15, 2001 by Jennifer Bergman.
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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Cartier International A.G. v. Andrey S Kostyuk
Case No. D2015-0953
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Cartier International A.G., Steinhausen, Switzerland, represented by Winston & Strawn LLP, United States of America (the “USA”).
The Respondent is Andrey S Kostyuk of Kaliningrad, Russian Federation, self-represented.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name <cartier.moscow> is registered with the Regional Network Information Center, JSC, dba RU-CENTER (the “Registrar”).
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”) on June 4, 2015. On June 5, 2015, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. On June 8, 2015, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details.
On June 8, 2015, the Center sent an email communication to the Parties in both English and Russian, regarding the language of the proceedings. On June 10, 2015, the Complainant requested English to be the language of proceeding. The Respondent did not comment on this request within the deadline set by the Center. However, on July 2, 2015, the Respondent sent two email communications to the Center, in which it stated that it did not understand foreign languages well and requested an explanation of what was claimed against it.
The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Policy” or “UDRP”), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Rules”), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Supplemental Rules”).
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on July 2, 2015. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was July 22, 2015. The Respondent did not submit a formal Response within the deadline set by the Center. Accordingly, on July 24, 2015 the Center notified the Parties of the Respondent’s default. On July 29, 2015, the Respondent sent an additional communication to the Center, in which it requested that the Registrar be contacted in relation to the proceeding, and made the following statement: “I live in the village and plow the land.”
The Center appointed Assen Alexiev as the sole panelist in this matter on August 3, 2015. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
4. Language of proceedings
In respect of the language of the proceedings, the Panel notes the following: According to the information provided by the Registrar, the language of the registration agreement for the disputed domain name is Russian. Under paragraph 11 of the Rules, unless otherwise agreed by the Parties, or otherwise specified in the Registration Agreement, the language of the administrative proceeding shall be the language of the Registration Agreement, subject to the authority of the Panel to determine otherwise, having regard to the circumstances of the administrative proceeding. The Complainant has submitted its Complaint in the English language, and requests that the proceedings be held in English, pointing out that the review of other “.moscow” domain name registrations owned by the Respondent also contain non-Russian trademarks of third parties, including BOGNER and GARMIN, which shows that the Respondent has the ability to operate in languages other than Russian. The Center has invited the Respondent, in both English and Russian, to state its position on the language of the proceeding, and the Respondent has not submitted any objection to the Complainant’s request that the proceeding be held in English within the deadline set by the Center to do so. The Center has sent all its messages to the Respondent in both English and Russian and has informed the Parties that it will accept a Response in either English or Russian.
In these circumstances, it appears to the Panel that using the English language in this proceeding will be fair and efficient and will not put either of the Parties at a disadvantage, particularly considering that, as communicated to the Respondent in Russian, a Russian language Response would have been considered. Therefore, in exercise of its powers under paragraph 11 of the Rules, the Panel decides that the language of this administrative proceeding be English. At the same time, the Panel will review and take into account all relevant evidence that is available in this case in the Russian or in the English language.
5. Factual Background
The Complainant is a luxury jeweler and watch manufacturer founded in 1847. It designs, markets, and distributes high-end luxury jewelry, timepieces and accessories, including eyewear. The Complainant operates close to 300 boutiques in 125 countries worldwide, and operates its official website and online store at “www.cartier.com”.
The Complainant is the owner of the following trademark registration for CARTIER (the “CARTIER trademark”):
- Word trademark CARTIER with registration No. 46506, registered in the Russian Federation as of July 2, 1973, for goods in International Classes 03, 14, 16, 18 and 34;
- International trademark CARTIER with registration No. IR 307293, registered on January 4, 1966 for goods and services in International Classes 02, 09, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 34; and
- US trademark CARTIER with registration No.1329299, registered in the USA on April 9, 1985 for goods in International Class 9.
On August 3, 2010, the CARTIER trademark with registration No. 046506 was declared a well-known trademark in the Russian Federation as of January 1, 2008.
The disputed domain name was registered by the Respondent on December 2, 2014.
The disputed domain name is not in use.
6. Parties’ Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainant submits that due to the extensive use and registration of the CARTIER trademark around the world, the CARTIER trademark have become famous under the laws of the Russian Federation, Switzerland and the United States, among others.
According to the Complainant, the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the CARTIER trademark, because it fully incorporates the trademark with the addition of the new generic Top-Level Domain (“gTLD”) “.moscow.”
The Complainant contends that the Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. The Respondent has never been commonly known by the CARTIER trademark, and has never used any trademark or service mark similar to the disputed domain name by which it may have come to be known. The Respondent has not operated any bona fide or legitimate business under the disputed domain name, and is not making a non-commercial or fair use of it. The Complainant has not granted the Respondent any license, permission, or authorization to register or use any domain name which is confusingly similar to the CARTIER trademark.
The Complainant asserts that the disputed domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith. The Respondent has registered the disputed domain name with knowledge of the Complainant’s rights in the CARTIER trademark. There is no reason for the Respondent to have registered the disputed domain name other than to trade off of the reputation and goodwill of the Complainant’s CARTIER trademark. The Respondent’s use of the CARTIER trademark in the disputed domain name is likely to mislead or deceive consumers into thinking that the Respondent is affiliated with the Complainant. The Respondent is likely to have registered the disputed domain name to prevent the Complainant from registering it, as evidenced by Respondent’s pattern of registration of domain names containing the trademarks of others in the Registrar’s records.
B. Respondent
The Respondent did not submit a formal Response in the proceeding.
7. Discussion and Findings
Pursuant to Policy, paragraph 4(a), the Complainant must prove each of the following to justify the transfer of the disputed domain name:
(i) the disputed domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights;
(ii) the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the disputed domain name; and
(iii) the Respondent has registered and is using the disputed domain name in bad faith.
In this case, the Center has employed the required measures to achieve actual notice of the Complaint to the Respondent, in compliance with Rules, paragraph 2(a), and the Respondent was given a fair opportunity to present its case.
By Rules, paragraph 5(b)(i), it is expected of a respondent to: “[r]espond specifically to the statements and allegations contained in the complaint and include any and all bases for the Respondent (domain name holder) to retain registration and use of the disputed domain name…”
In the event of a default, under Rules, paragraph (14)(b): “[…] the Panel shall draw such inferences therefrom as it considers appropriate.”
As stated by the Panel in Mary-Lynn Mondich and American Vintage Wine Biscuits, Inc. v. Shane Brown, doing business as Big Daddy’s Antiques, WIPO Case No. D2000-0004: “Here, the potential evidence of good faith registration and use was in respondent’s control. Respondent’s failure to present any such evidence or to deny complainant’s allegations allows an inference that the evidence would not have been favorable to respondent.” As stated by the Panel in Viacom International Inc. v. Ir Suryani, WIPO Case No. D2001-1443: “Since the Respondent has not submitted any evidence and has not contested the contentions made by the Complainant, this Panel is left to render its decision on the basis of the uncontroverted contentions made, and the evidence supplied, by the Complainant […]. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary submitted by the Respondent, this Panel accepts in large measure (but not wholly) the submitted evidence and the contended for factual and legal conclusions as proven by such evidence.”
In this administrative proceeding, the Respondent’s default (the Respondent’s emails disclosed in the Procedural History not being responsive to the Complaint) entitles the Panel to conclude that the Respondent has no arguments or evidence to rebut the assertions of the Complainant. The Panel has to make its Decision on the basis of the statements and documents submitted by the Complainant and in accordance with the Policy, the Rules, and any rules and principles of law that it deems applicable.
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Complainant has provided evidence and has thus established its rights in the CARTIER trademark.
The Panel notes that a common practice has emerged under the Policy to disregard in appropriate circumstances the gTLD section of domain names for the purposes of the comparison under the Policy, paragraph 4(a)(i). The Panel sees no reason not to follow the same approach here, so it will disregard the “.moscow” part of the disputed domain name. Therefore, the relevant part of the disputed domain name that has to be analyzed is its “cartier” section, which is identical to the CARTIER trademark.
On this basis, the Panel finds that the disputed domain name is identical to the Complainant’s CARTIER trademark in which the Complainant has rights.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
The Complainant is required to make at least a prima facie showing that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. Once the Complainant makes such a showing, the Respondent may provide evidence to demonstrate that it has rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. The burden of proof, however, always remains on the Complainant to establish that the Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. See paragraph 2.1 of the WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Second Edition (“WIPO Overview 2.0”).
The Complainant has contended that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name, stating that the Respondent has never been authorized to use the CARTIER trademark, that the Respondent is not commonly known by the disputed domain name, is not making a noncommercial or a fair use of it and is not using it in relation to the provision of a bona fide offering of goods or services. Thus, the Complainant has established a prima facie case that the Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
There is no evidence in the case file that the Respondent is commonly known by the disputed domain name, and the Respondent has not denied the contentions of the Complainant or made any allegations relevant to the issue of rights and legitimate interests. The disputed domain name is identical to the CARTIER trademark, and the Respondent has not denied its knowledge of the Complainant and of the CARTIER trademark, which was declared as well-known in the Russian Federation, where the Respondent is located. In the Panel’s view, this makes it more likely that the Respondent has registered the disputed domain name with knowledge of the CARTIER trademark and of its goodwill, and such conduct cannot be regarded as giving rise to rights and legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
Taking all the above into account, the Panel finds that the Complainant’s prima facie case of lack of the Respondent’s rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name has not been rebutted. Accordingly, the Panel finds that the Respondent does not have rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
Paragraph 4(b) of the Policy lists four illustrative alternative circumstances that shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith by a respondent, namely:
“(i) circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or
(ii) you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
(iii) you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
(iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant’s mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your website or location or of a product or service on your website or location.”
The provisions of paragraph 4(b) of the Policy are without limitation, and bad faith registration and use may be found on grounds otherwise satisfactory to the Panel.
In this proceeding, the Complainant has contended that the disputed domain name was registered with knowledge of the Complainant’s rights in the CARTIER trademark in an attempt to trade off of the reputation and goodwill of the same trademark. As discussed above, the disputed domain name is identical to the CARTIER trademark, and this trademark has gained global popularity and is well known in the Russian Federation, where the Respondent is located.
The Complainant has also submitted that the Respondent is likely to have registered the disputed domain name to prevent the Complainant from registering it, as evidenced by the Respondent’s pattern of registration of domain names containing the trademarks of others in the “.moscow” space. Indeed, in addition to the disputed domain name, the Respondent appears also to be the registrant of the domain names <bogner.moscow>, <garmin.moscow>, and <smirnoff.moscow>, and this has not been denied by the Respondent. The only comment that the Respondent has made about its activities, is [sic] “I live in the village and plow the land.” The Panel does not understand the relevance of this statement to the proceeding, but it appears as an allegation that the Respondent does not understand the nature of the dispute. The Panel is not satisfied that this is so, as it contradicts the conduct of the Respondent, who has decided to register a number of domain names containing trademarks of others – a deliberate and repeated pattern of conduct that shows an understanding of the purposes of domain names and of the benefits of the registration of domain names that are likely to attract attention and traffic. In view of this, the Panel finds that it is more likely than not that the Respondent has registered the disputed domain name in order to prevent the Complainant from reflecting the CARTIER trademark in a corresponding domain name.
The Complainant has further contended that the Respondent’s use of the CARTIER trademark in the disputed domain name is likely to mislead or deceive consumers into thinking that the Respondent is affiliated with the Complainant. Taking into account that the CARTIER trademark has been registered for decades in a number of jurisdictions, including the Russian Federation, where the Respondent is located, and that this trademark has achieved global popularity and a status of well known trademark in the Russian Federation, combined with the lack of authorization from the Complainant to the Respondent to use the CARTIER trademark, the Panel is prepared to accept the Complainant’s contention for the risk of deception of consumers. In light of this and in the lack of any allegation by the Respondent to the contrary, the Panel does not see how the Respondent could use the disputed domain name in a way that would not be illegitimate.
Taking all the above into account, and in the lack of any denial or allegation to the contrary by the Respondent, the Panel finds that the disputed domain name has been registered and used in bad faith.
8. Decision
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the disputed domain name <cartier.moscow> be transferred to the Complainant.
Assen Alexiev
Sole Panelist
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A bar man
A bar and restaurant
Ann Conan Co. Wicklow Citizens Information Service
Complaint(s):
Date of Adjudication Hearing:01/12/2017
Workplace Relations Commission Adjudication Officer: Catherine Byrne
In accordance with Section 39 of the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 – 2014, following the referral of the complaint to me by the Director General, I inquired into the complaint and gave the parties an opportunity to be heard by me and to present to me any evidence relevant to the complaint.
The complainant attended the hearing at the Workplace Relations Commission on December 11th 2017, represented by Ann Conan of the Bray Citizen’s Information Centre. The respondent did not attend.
The respondent’s bar and restaurant in Wicklow closed down in March 2017. The complainant was given notice of redundancy on February 1st. He worked his notice and his employment was terminated on March 10th. Having commenced employment on April 3rd 2010, he had 6.94 years of service. He earned €387.12 per week.
The complainant did not receive a statutory redundancy payment.
The respondent did not attend the hearing and was not represented.
Section 7(1) of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 (amended) provides that;
“An employee, if he is dismissed by his employer by reason of redundancy or is laid off or kept on short time for the minimum period, shall, subject to this Act, be entitled to the payment of moneys which shall be known as ….redundancy payment provided -
a) he has been employed for the requisite period, and
b) he was an employed contributor in employment which was insurable for all benefits under the Social Welfare Acts 1952 – 1966, immediately before the date of the termination of his employment or had ceased to be ordinarily employed in employment which was so insurable in the period of four years ending on that date.”
The complainant had more than two years’ service with the respondent when the business closed down. Based on the information presented to me at the hearing, it is evident that he was in insurable employment and that he was made redundant with effect from March 10th 2017. He is therefore entitled to a statutory redundancy payment.
Section 39 of the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 – 2012 requires that I make a decision in relation to the complaint in accordance with the relevant redress provisions under that Act.
Two complaints were submitted in respect of this matter, the non-payment of statutory redundancy. The other complaint is ADJ-00010534. From the evidence presented at the hearing, and specifically, from information on the complainant’s P45, it is apparent that the correct respondent is cited on ADJ-00010534. Therefore, redress must be sought in accordance with ADJ-00010534 and this complaint fails.
Dated: 25th April, 2018
Statutory redundancy
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Complaint seeking adjudication by the Workplace Relations Commission under Section 8 of the Unfair Dismissals Act, 1977
Date of Adjudication Hearing: 4th January 2018 and 20/02/2018
Workplace Relations Commission Adjudication Officer: Rosaleen Glackin
In accordance with Section 39 of the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 - 2014 andfollowing the referral of the complaints to me by the Director General, I inquired into the complaints and gave the parties an opportunity to be heard by me and to present to me any evidence relevant to the complaints.
The Complainant had been employed with a named Respondent from 10th March 2003 in varied positions. He was appointed Acting Chief Executive Officer by this Respondent at its meeting on 12th December 2013, subject to the approval of the Minister for a named Department. The Complainant was informed of this appointment which had been approved by the Minister by letter dated 3rd April 2014. This letter dated 3rd April 2014 provides as follows – “ for the payment of a single point salary of €96,726 per annum………This sanction is conditional upon a 12 month appointment or up to the date of the proposed establishment of (named) whichever is the earliest. Following this you will revert to your previous salary and duties ( as per your existing contract with (named)”.
The Complainant’s appointment as Acting CEO terminated on 1st October 2015 on the appointment of the (named) CEO of the Respondent Company. He reverted to a position of Director on a salary of €83,5060 and he continued to work in this position for a period of 19 months until he tendered his resignation by letter dated 13th April 2017 with notice to expire on 12th May 2017. This was not the same position he had occupied prior to his appointment as Acting CEO. The Complainant was appointed as Director on the same salary and conditions he previously held but he claimed this position was commensurate with the position he held as Acting CEO. He continued to work as Director for a further 19 months.
The Complainant commenced employment as Chief Executive Officer with another named Respondent on 16th May 2017 on a salary of €120,000. The Complainant referred two complaints to the Workplace Relations Commission on 30th September 2017, one under the Unfair Dismissals Act, 1977 – 2015 alleging he had been constructively dismissed by the Respondent on 12th May 2017 and a second complaint under the Redundancy Payments Act, 1969 alleging he had been made redundant on 1st October 2015 .
The Complainant had lodged a Grievance with the Respondent on his appointment as Director seeking that he be retained on the same salary paid to him while he had been Acting CEO. This was ongoing from October 2015 until the Complainant lodged a dispute with the Workplace Relations Commission on 2nd August 2016 under the Terms of Employment (Information) Act, 1994 which was subsequently resubmitted under the Industrial Relations Act, 1969 on 7th October 2016 in relation to his salary. This complaint was heard on 5th April 2017 and the Adjudication Officer did not find in favour of the Complainant.
The complaint CA-00014711-001 under the Unfair Dismissals Act, 1977 – 2015 was withdrawn at the Hearing.
Preliminary legal Issues – Section 24, Time Limits on Claims for Redundancy and Section 7 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967, General right to redundancy payment.
Section 7 of the Redundancy Payments Act, 1967.
Section 7(1) of the Act provides as follows –“ (1) An employee, if he is dismissed by his employer by reason of redundancy or is laid off or kept on short-time for the minimum period, shall, subject to this Act, be entitled to payment of moneys which shall be known (and are in this Act referred to) asredundancy payment”, provided the employee met certain conditions which is not in dispute in relation to this complaint.
The Complainant argued by way of submission at the Hearing that the Complainant’s role of Development Manager had ceased to exist following the termination of his Acting CEO Position on 1st October 2015 and he was appointed to a position of Director. The Complainant was not satisfied with his salary and raised a grievance that this new role was commensurate with his role and duties as Acting CEO and sought retention of his salary. There was considerable exchange of emails between the Complainant and the Respondent between October 2015 and 2016 – copies provided. The Complainant argued that there was no mention of redundancy during these exchanges despite the fact that the Complainant’s previous job had ceased to exist. Had such a possibility been raised and had the actual position with regard to a redundancy situation been laid out properly and correctly, then the Complainant would have been aware of the fact that he was in a potential redundancy situation. The Complainant’s internal grievance was unsuccessful and he lodged a complaint with the WRC under the Terms of Employment (Information) Act, 1994 on 6th August 2016, later substituted by a complaint under the Industrial Relations Act, 1969 which was heard by an Adjudication Officer on 5th April 2017 who did not uphold the Complainant’s complaint. The Complainant tendered his resignation by letter dated 13th April 2017 with notice to take effect from 12th May 2017.
I find that the Complainant was not dismissed by the Respondent but rather he tendered his resignation from his position of Director, which he had been employed as, from 1st October 2015 to 12th May 2017.
Section 9(2) of the Redundancy Payments Act, 1967 is relevant to this complaint. This Section provides as follows – “ An employee shall not be taken for the purposes of this Part to be dismissed by his employer if his contract of employment is renewed, or he is re-engaged by the same employer under a new contract of employment, and (a) in a case where the provisions of the contract is renewed or of the case of a new contract as to the capacity and place in which he is employed, and as to the other terms and conditions of employment, do not differ from the corresponding provisions of the previous contract, the renewal or re-engagement takes effect immediately on the ending of his employment under the previous contract”. The evidence from both Parties was that when the Complainant was appointed into Acting CEO Position by letter dated 3rd April 2014 it was for a specified period of 12 months and/or for a specified purpose being the establishment of a named Sports Body. His appointment was on the basis that following this he “will revert to your previous salary and duties (as per your existing contract with the (named)”. The CEO OF THE Respondent Company was appointed on 1st October 2015, however at that time the Complainant’s previous position of Development Director was no more but he was appointed to the position of Campus Director on the same salary and conditions of employment he had been employed on as Development Manager and this appointment took effect immediately on the termination of his employment as Acting CEO on 1st October 2015 and he continued to work in this position for a further 19 months before tendering his resignation to take effect on 12th May 2017.
Preliminary Issue – Section 24 – Time Limits.
Section 24 (1) of the Act provides as follows – “ Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, an employee shall not be entitled to a lump sum unless before the end of the period of 52 weeksbeginning on the date of dismissal or the date of termination of employment – (a) the payment has been agreed and paid, or (b) an employee has made a claim for the payment by notice in writing given to the employer, or (c) the question as to the right of the employee to the payment, or as to the amount of the payment, has been referred to the Director General under Section 39”.
Section 24(1)(a) or (b) do not apply to this complaint and the Complainant did submit a complaint to the Director General of the WRC under Section 39 of the Act and therefore Section 24 (1) (c) applies.
However the Complaint was submitted on 30th September 2017 in relation to an alleged redundancy of 1st October 2015. This complaint therefore does not satisfy Section 24(1) of the Act.
Section 24(2A) of the Act provides as follows – “Where an employee who fails to make a claim for a lump sum within the period of 52 weeks mentioned in subsection (1) (as amended) makes such a claim before the end of the period of 104 weeks beginning on the date of dismissal or the date of termination of employment the Adjudication Officer, if he is satisfied that the employee would have been entitled to the lump sum and that the failure was due to a reasonable cause, may declare the employee to be entitled to the lump sum and the employee shall thereupon be so entitled”.
I note that the Complainant in his own submission states that on 1st October 2015 “he was appointed to the position of Director of (named) and expected to carry out the full range of duties and responsibilities that he had done while in the position of Acting Chief Executive”. I further note that the Complainant continued to work in this position for a period of 19 months after 1st October 2015. I note that Section 24(2A) refers to a complaint being submitted before the end of the period of 104 weeks “beginning on the date of dismissal or the date of termination of employment.”
There was no evidence to support the Complainant’s argument that he was dismissed or that his employment was terminated on 1st October 2015.
DECISION. CA-00014711-002
Section 39 of the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 – 2012 requires that I make a decision in relation to the complaint. In accordance with Section 39 of the Redundancy Payments Act, 1967 I declare I do not have jurisdiction to hear this complaint as the Complainant did not advance any evidence to support his argument that he had been dismissed or that his employment had terminated on 1st October 2015 in circumstances where the Complainant continued to work with the Respondent as Director for a period of 19 months after the 1st October 2015.
Dated: 26/04/2018
Redundancy – no dismissal or termination of employment in circumstances where the Complainant continued to work with the Respondent for 19 months after 1st October 2015 the date of the alleged redundancy.
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Baby monitor hack shows danger of default passwords
ABC News ran a story of a hacked baby monitor for the visceral fear it provokes. A more useful interpretation of the events is to warn of the dangers of default passwords.
By Larry Seltzer for Zero Day | August 14, 2013 -- 15:03 GMT (08:03 PDT) | Topic: Security
ABC News is reporting a story of a family in Houston, TX whose baby monitor was hacked. See the embedded video of the story below.
The story describes how the camera began emitting an unknown voice which spoke abusively to the children. The parents expressed relief that the 2-year-old girl in whose room the camera was located is deaf, so she didn't hear the perpetrator yell obscenities at the child.
The ABC News story does not provide a make or model of the camera, nor any details of how it was compromised, but it's not hard to guess. It's unfortunate that the story did not take the next logical step to ask how this happened and how it could be prevented. Instead it paints the attacker as mysterious and powerful, if still a jerk.
The camera is clearly a Wi-Fi device based on the images in the story and almost certainly comes with a default username and password. Anyone on the Internet could easily build a scanner for devices on the default port for the camera and test the camera client software to see if the device opens with the default credentials. This is almost certainly what happened.
The camera itself, based on the images in the story, appears to be a Foscam FI9821P. As detailed in the product FAQ, the default username and password are both 'admin' and default HTTP port is 8090. The software is downloadable.
For those who want to go to the trouble of changing the default security settings, the device supports WPA2 which, with a non-trivial password, would make the device far more difficult to access, and probably too much trouble to bother with. If you want to go even further and make it really hard for attackers, you can change the default port.
Default passwords are still a significant problem and attack vector. Products designed for professionals, like server software, are more likely these days to force (or at least urge) the user to change the default credentials. Vendors of consumer products are more hesitant to do so, fearing that making the product more difficult to use will leave a bad impression on the customer and result in expensive support calls.
This list of default passwords for routers and access points is several years old, but still useful. If you're looking for a particular device, the information is almost certainly available from the vendor's web site.
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A Perfect Storm Is Developing Over Container Shipping
The slowdown in global trade began many quarters before the Trump administration launched a trade war with China last May. The primary cause of the downturn is sharp declines in intra-Asian trade - mostly due to China's deteriorating economy. While equity markets around the world have soared in the last several months from "trade optimism," any deal between Washington and Beijing may not initially trough global trade and could leave the shipping industry in turmoil.
A rapid slowdown in global trade to rising marine fuel to capacity out of step with demand has generated new challenges for container-shipping operators in 2019, hurting the overall prospects for a global recovery in the near term.
The Wall Street Journal says that shipping companies will pass on $10 billion in extra expenses to cargo owners this year.
Container ships are essentially cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. These vessels move clothes, food, furniture, electronics and heavy-industry parts from emerging market countries to the developed world. Pre-2008 financial crisis, these ships fueled globalization, as demand for vessels rose as much as 8% annually and shippers spent billions to increase the size of their fleets.
Now, the industry is plagued with excess tonnage and collapsing freight rates. It is likely that the trade war will continue to push rates below the break-even levels for many companies this year.
With China’s economy faltering and trade volumes declining from the evolving trade war between Washington and Beijing, operators are slashing their full-year forecasts.
“We see clearly a global economic growth that is declining,” Soren Skou, chief executive of A.P. Moller-Maersk AS, the world’s top container operator by capacity, told an investor conference call recently.
“We see weaknesses, in particular, in China and Europe. We expect container demand growth to fall to 1% to 3% this year from 3.7% to 3.8% last year.”
The world's largest shipper, Maserk, said 2019 would be a challenging year due to risks of further restrictions on global trade. It added that new regulations by the International Maritime Organization to cut emissions from ship stacks “will bring significant increases in fuel prices.”
“The fuel price increase is very significant and there will be a premium in freight rates,” Jeremy Nixon, CEO of Japan’s Ocean Network Express, told The Wall Street Journal in a recent interview.
“We are trying to pass on the fuel charge to customers, but we are not doing it very effectively.”
Consulting firm AlixPartners LLP. said in a recent report that ships traveling from Asia-to-Europe trade route would need to boost freight rates by 40%, and 33% for trans-Pacific trades to absorb the extra costs.
Shipping executives warn uncertainty over the availability of cleaner fuels makes freight rates this year little more than a guessing game. “It has turned the shipping market, the transportation market, into a casino,” said Andreas Hadjiyiannis, president of the Cyprus Union of Shipowners.
Freight rates soared in the second half of 2018 as US importers pulled orders forward to get ahead of tariffs. But by late August into September, rates collapsed after the importers were finished.
“We don’t believe a China-U.S. deal will be the last we have heard of trade tensions in 2019,” said Skou.
“There is also clearly an outstanding discussion between Europe and the U.S.”
Faltering global trade is a clear indication that container-shipping operators will have a challenging time in 2019. Compound that with marine fuel rising, new emission standards, and overcapacity in the industry, well, a perfect storm is brewing.
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Shocking! 13-year-old girl raped, set ablaze in Rajasthan
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped and set ablaze by three persons in Sri Ganganagar district here, police said on Saturday.
Jaipur: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped and set ablaze by three persons in Sri Ganganagar district here, police said on Saturday.
The girl suffered nearly 75 per cent burns and is being treated at a government hospital in Bikaner, SP Rahul Katakey said.
According to the victim's statement, Vicky, Sonu and Vijay raped her on the roof of her house on Thursday night and set her ablaze yesterday morning, he said.
The victim's parents were not at home when the incident took place.
A case has been registered against the accused under relevant sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Police have detained Vicky (25) and efforts are underway to nab the other two, they said.
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A critical analysis of james joyces main character stephen dedalus
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Dublinersa group of naturalistic stories concerned with the intellectual and spiritual torpor of Ireland, is the first product of his lifelong preoccupation with Dublin life.
Simon is extremely critical of Stephen. He is an aging, "hale old man with welltanned skin, rugged features and white side whiskers.Stephen Dedalus - The main character of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Growing up, Stephen goes through long phases of hedonism and deep religiosity. He eventually adopts a philosophy of aestheticism, greatly valuing beauty and art. Stephen is essentially Joyce's alter ego, and many of the.
James Joyce Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and critic. The following entry provides criticism on Joyce's works from through Stephen Dedalus Afflicted with poor eyesight and lacking both physical stamina and athletic prowess, Stephen develops an early, introspective, intellectual curiosity.
Like many sensitive young men, Stephen is ashamed of his family's ever-strained finances. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by Irish writer James Joyce.
Stephen Dedalus – The main character of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Growing up, Stephen goes through long phases of hedonism and deep religiosity. Critical Reception. This section needs nenkinmamoru.com: James Joyce. Ulysses study guide contains a biography of James Joyce, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
While Leopold Bloom is the major character of the work, Joyce spends considerable time focusing on Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of his first work.
These papers were. Stephen Dedalus - The main character of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Growing up, Stephen goes through long phases of hedonism and deep religiosity. He eventually adopts a philosophy of aestheticism, greatly valuing beauty and art.
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Billions axed in clean energy: renewable target is next
Published by The Conversation. View original article.
Many long-promised renewable and low-emission energy programs have been scrapped or cut back in the Coalition’s first budget. Lukas Coch/AAP
There are billions of dollars of broken promises in the Abbott government’s first budget for low-emission and renewable energy programs – and wiggle room to break even more in the next few years.
The budget forecasts spending on the A$2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund over the next four years to be more like A$1.15 billion. Click to enlarge
Among last night’s surprises was that government has budgeted to spend just A$1.15 billion, or less than half of its centrepiece A$2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund over the next four years (see the budget excerpt on the right).
Environment Minister Greg Hunt says the full amount could still be spent, with funds to “be allocated flexibly over time”.
But anyone with a long memory will be watching this very closely: under the Howard government, more than $360 million was budgeted but not spent on climate programs.
Gone are the Coalition’s promises for one million more solar roofs across Australia and at least 25 solar towns, for which the Environment Minister was promising A$100 million each as recently as six months ago. Those programs have been respectively abandoned and slashed.
In the case of the Solar Towns scheme, it will offer a total of A$2.2 million over the next three years to community groups, in barely more than a handful of electorates, several of them marginal seats like Corangamite in Victoria and Moreton in Queensland.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), set up to support new and emerging renewable technologies into production and deployment, including funding world-leading solar research, is set to be scrapped, a cut of A$1.3 billion. That’s despite the Coalition’s repeated pre-election promises to keep it.
ARENA’s axing is on hold for now, because that the government needs support from other parties in the Senate to shut it down.
Respected former Reserve Bank board member and Clean Energy Finance Corporation chair Jillian Broadbent says the CEFC has a public responsibility to keep investing in clean energy projects. CEFC, CC BY
The same applies to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, an independent investment body that’s already mobilised A$2.5 billion of mostly private funding for low-emission energy and agriculture projects, which is set to make a profit for the government if allowed to continue.
A bill to close down the CEFC has already been knocked back once in the Senate. But until they are officially axed, the heads of ARENA and the CEFC have pledged to keep working.
Other axed industry and community clean energy programs include the Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund, the National Low Emission Coal Initiative, Energy Efficiency Programmes, the National Solar Schools Plan, Energy Efficiency Information Grants and Low Carbon Communities.
How the world’s electricity supplies would need to change by 2050 to try to limit the rise in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees. International Energy Agency, CC BY
While the axing of so many renewable and low-emission programs was predicted, it is significant. The Australian government cuts to programs driving greater renewable and low-emission energy use come just as we’re being advised to do precisely the opposite by global experts.
As Renew Economy has reported, this week a new report from the traditionally conservative International Energy Agency (of which Australia is a member) shows that the world’s electricity mix needs to switch from 68% fossil fuels now to at least 65% renewables by 2050, if we’re hoping to limit the rise in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees this century.
All eyes on the target
After this budget, all eyes will be on the Renewable Energy Target (RET) review now underway.
At risk are up to 18,400 additional renewable energy jobs and A$14.5 billion of investment, on top of the A$20 billion already invested under the RET scheme. Public submissions on the renewable review close this Friday at 5pm AEST.
There is room to improve the Renewable Energy Target, as I’ll explain. But after this budget, it’s now the last major remaining piece of federal government policy that supports ongoing investment.
As for big power generators’ calls for it to be cut back to a “true” 20% target by 2020 – that’s a stunning reversal from their past position. And I know, because I was there.
Will lobbyists get what they want again?
The Renewable Energy Target has traditionally had bipartisan political support, as a policy started by the Coalition and expanded under Labor. It’s led to A$20 billion of investment, while reducing the greenhouse intensity of the Australian economy and positioning us for future economic success.
The so-called 20% renewable energy target for 2020 is actually 41,000 gigawatt-hours of Large Scale Renewable Electricity (known as the LRET) and a complementary Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) that uses a similar certificate trading mechanism, but actually has no fixed 2020 target.
Big power generators and other industry are now calling for the LRET not to aim for 41,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity, but instead be set at 20% of whatever actual electricity consumption is in 2020 – which is expected to be far lower. They have justified this position by claiming they need “certainty”, and that excess renewable energy generation is cutting into their revenue.
Yet that’s not what they said more than a decade ago.
The original Mandatory Renewable Energy Target was developed from John Howard’s 1997 Safeguarding the Future speech just before the Kyoto Climate Conference. The original proposal was for 2% additional renewable energy (relative to 1997 generation) by 2010.
In intense negotiations, the electricity industry argued strongly for a shift from a percentage target to a fixed amount of generation – 9,500 GWh, in 2010. This rested on their need for “certainty” so they could plan to meet their compliance obligations.
I was involved in these negotiations, and even co-facilitated a four-day workshop in late 1998, in which many issues were addressed. The industry’s underlying reason for the change was that it thought the official electricity forecast on which the 9,500 GWh “effective 2% extra” target was based underestimated likely 2010 consumption. So the shift was likely to reduce their RET obligation.They also recognised that predicting electricity consumption even a year or two in advance is difficult, and would create real uncertainty.
The 2020 41,000 GWh LRET target was based on electricity forecasts of 2007, which were themselves based on data provided by the electricity industry.
But now the industry is seeing unexpected ongoing decline in electricity consumption, so it wants to switch back to a target as a percentage of actual consumption. It argues it needs this for planning “certainty”.
Of course, certainty is a relative concept. For the renewable energy industry, a fixed 2020 generation target does provide certainty, while a percentage target creates uncertainty for everyone, as it is very difficult to predict consumption, even a year or two ahead.
A better plan for the renewable target
The objectives of the Renewable Energy Target are to grow Australia’s renewable energy industry and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A 2012 review by the independent Climate Change Authority found that it was, in fact, doing that fairly effectively.
So if we don’t want to see major new renewable energy projects cancelled across Australia, and lose renewable expertise overseas, the best thing we could do is leave the Large Scale Renewable Electricity Target (LRET) as it is at 41,000 gigawatt-hours of power by 2020.
In contrast, we could improve the complementary Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES).
The SRES has been affected by years of chaotic state and federal government policy on rooftop PV, as well as a complicated revolution related to declining PV panel costs, emergence of new technologies such as storage, and smart demand management.
Solar photovoltaic uptake across Australia.
Going solar in the suburbs: solar PV uptake in Brisbane.
But its cost is declining, and it has been widely embraced by Australians, with research for the federal government late last year showing that outer suburbs and regional areas have led the way in going solar, as the maps of Australia and Brisbane on the right show. (You can see detailed city and state maps at the end of this report.)
With all that in mind, the government should maintain SRES as it is while implementing a more comprehensive, inclusive policy discussion to deliver a predictable, long-term policy for small-scale distributed energy.
As a side note, the Abbott government and the Productivity Commission both support a trend towards privatisation of the energy sector.
And the Renewable Energy Target has actually been a key driver of privatisation already: around 1.4 million Australian households are now private electricity generators, while the renewable energy industry is privately-owned and operated. So the RET should be seen as entirely consistent with the Coalition’s approach to energy.
Why should Australians reward bad business practice?
Australia’s electricity industry is beginning to confront the kind of change that Telstra’s landline business has had to deal with. Electricity consumption is declining. For a capital-intensive industry that has long-lived assets, this is very uncomfortable.
Major coal and gas generators now seem to see the RET as a focus for blame for many of their problems, particularly their loss of revenue.
But as explained on The Conversation before, the biggest factor driving uncertainty in the need for generation capacity is the trend of falling demand, which is not related to the LRET. The electricity industry has failed to invest sufficient effort to plan for and now understand that trend.
I know of no other large industry that knows so little about how its customers think and behave. Power generators got what they asked for more a decade ago with the design of the Renewable Energy Target – and now they want it changed again, at the expense of renewable investors.
As Treasurer Joe Hockey might put it, it’s time to end the age of entitlement.
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NEL 6017, Super deluxe
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Label: NEMS – NEL 6017
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Producer, Written-By, Arranged By – Black Sabbath
All songs by Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.
1. “”Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”” Black Sabbath 5:45
2. “”A National Acrobat”” Black Sabbath 6:16
3. “”Fluff”” Black Sabbath 4:11
4. “”Sabbra Cadabra”” Black Sabbath 5:59
1. “”Killing Yourself to Live”” Black Sabbath 5:41
2. “”Who Are You?”” Black Sabbath 4:11
3. “”Looking for Today”” Black Sabbath 5:06
4. “”Spiral Architect”” Black Sabbath 5:29
Ozzy Osbourne – vocals, synthesizer
Tony Iommi – all guitars, piano, synthesizer, organ, flute
Geezer Butler – bass guitar, synthesizer, mellotron
Bill Ward – drums, timpani, bongos in “”Sabbath Bloody Sabbath””
Rick Wakeman – keyboards, synthesizer, piano on “”Sabbra Cadabra””
Will Malone – conductor, arranger
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in 1973. With this album, the band expanded upon their slow, crunching style of music but incorporated progressive rock elements such as synthesizers, strings, keyboards and more complex, orchestral arrangements.
Following the 1972-1973 world tour in support of their Volume 4 album, Black Sabbath again returned to Los Angeles, California to begin work on its successor. Pleased with Volume 4, the band sought to recreate the recording atmosphere, and returned to the Record Plant Studios with new producer and engineer Tom Allom. With new musical innovations of the era, the band were surprised to find the room they had used previously at the Record Plant was replaced by a “”giant synthesizer””. The band rented a house in Bel Air and began writing in the summer of 1973, but due in part to substance issues and fatigue, were unable to complete any songs. “”Ideas weren’t coming out the way they were on Volume 4 and we really got discontent”” Iommi said. “”Everybody was sitting there waiting for me to come up with something. I just couldn’t think of anything. And if I didn’t come up with anything, nobody would do anything.””
After a month in Los Angeles with no results, the band opted to return to the UK, where they rented Clearwell Castle in The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. “”We rehearsed in the dungeons and it was really creepy but it had some atmosphere, it conjured up things, and stuff started coming out again””. While working in the dungeon, Iommi stumbled onto the main riff of “”Sabbath Bloody Sabbath””, which set the tone for the new material.
Recording was completed at Morgan Studios in Willesden, North London in 1973. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman of the band Yes (who was recording Tales from Topographic Oceans with Yes in the next studio) was brought in as a session player, appearing on “”Sabbra Cadabra””.
Building off the stylistic changes introduced on Volume 4, new songs incorporated synthesizers, strings, keyboards and more complex arrangements. “”Who Are You?”” incorporates a Moog, a common instrument in progressive rock at the time. Lyrics of some songs on the album were written about problems within the band at the time.
“”Killing Yourself to Live”” was written by bassist Geezer Butler while in hospital for kidney problems caused by heavy drinking. Drummer Bill Ward was also suffering from binge drinking, and the song reflects the problems caused by their “”extreme”” lifestyles. An earlier incarnation of the song can be heard on the records Live at Last and Past Lives.
Black Sabbath released Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath on 1 December 1973. For the first time in their career, the band began to receive favourable reviews in the mainstream press, with Rolling Stone calling the album “”an extraordinarily gripping affair””, and “”nothing less than a complete success””. Later reviewers such as All Music Eduardo Rivadavia cite the album as “”a masterpiece, essential to any heavy metal collection””, while also displaying “”a newfound sense of finesse and maturity””.
The album marked the band fifth consecutive platinum selling album in the United States. It reached number four on the UK charts, and number eleven in the US.
In the UK, it was the first Black Sabbath album to attain Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in February 1975.
The band began a world tour in January 1974, which culminated at the California Jam festival in Ontario, California on 6 April 1974. Attracting over 200,000 fans, Black Sabbath appeared alongside such ’70s rock giants as Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, Earth, Wind & Fire and The Eagles.
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Most of the leading cable TV providers also offer certain channels in High Definition to their customers. In addition to that, customers might also get their hands on a DVR, which allows them to record their favorite movies and TV shows and watch them later at their convenience. So, get to know the bonuses and add-ons offered by your preferred cable TV before you subscribe to their service.
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Last year, the company’s VP of customer service, Tom Karinshak, detailed some steps Comcast is making to overhaul its customer service, including; expanding digital care teams, a callback feature that allows you to schedule a time for Comcast to call you (rather than wait on hold), and an ETA feature that messages customers on the arrival status of service technicians (for installation and troubleshooting).
There are also usually "upstream" channels on the cable to send data from the customer box to the cable headend, for advanced features such as requesting pay-per-view shows or movies, cable internet access, and cable telephone service. The "downstream" channels occupy a band of frequencies from approximately 50 MHz to 1 GHz, while the "upstream" channels occupy frequencies of 5 to 42 MHz. Subscribers pay with a monthly fee. Subscribers can choose from several levels of service, with "premium" packages including more channels but costing a higher rate. At the local headend, the feed signals from the individual television channels are received by dish antennas from communication satellites. Additional local channels, such as local broadcast television stations, educational channels from local colleges, and community access channels devoted to local governments (PEG channels) are usually included on the cable service. Commercial advertisements for local business are also inserted in the programming at the headend (the individual channels, which are distributed nationally, also have their own nationally oriented commercials).
Amazon Prime Video has a pretty huge collection of newer movies, and more importantly, exclusive shows that are really well done. It’s now $119 per year, and comes with an assortment of other perks like free shipping, a one million song library and access to free Kindle books. But for me, the value comes with Amazon’s homegrown movies and series. Many, if not all, are shot in 4K HDR (Ultra HD) so it’s nice to have that option without having to pay more for it (like Netflix).
With Spectrum TV, for example, you get access to live TV streams for any of the networks in your tier of service. There's also lots of on-demand content for individual shows and some movies. It integrates channel guides and search for select shows/movies. If a channel (or show on a channel) that isn't available to you shows up on a menu, it's generally grayed out. And you can mark shows as favorites so they're easier to follow. But what's annoying is it takes a lot longer for a show to appear in the on-demand section—three or four days, instead of just one with a show on Hulu or even a network's own app, for example.
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For example, imagine what the science fiction fan of 2019 will need to do to keep up with the genre’s most prominent franchise content. Star Wars will live on Disney’s new proprietary service, but new episodes of Star Trek (both Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming Next Generation sequel) are only available on CBS All Access. Meanwhile, The Expanse is exclusive to Amazon Prime. If fans want to watch DC’s superhero shows, as well, that’ll require a DC Universe subscription — although the CW shows featuring DC characters will only be available via the CW app — or, for patient fans who want a commercial-free option, Netflix. If they want to catch up on classic Doctor Who, they’d better have a Britbox membership.
This is quite unlikely. Because at present, there aren’t a whole lot of areas in the continental United States that don’t receive cable. This wired facility is not only responsible for transmitting cable TV, however. In most locations, cable is also used to provide high-speed internet and digital phone. And many people like it this way. Because cable connections are generally considered to be more reliable than most wireless linkages. Also, they can sometimes be much cheaper. To gain a complete picture of all the cable companies in your area, get in touch with us today. Don’t bother coping with lengthy Google searches. Call our dedicated helpline now, and get some straight-up answers. Because it’s your dollar that’s on the line!
When we went through the ordering process for Spectrum and got all the way to the check-out, we realized we never got to choose which DVR we wanted. Spectrum offers both Motorola and Cisco DVRs (neither of which stand out from competitor DVRs like the Genie or Hopper 3), and as far as we can tell, you get whichever one Spectrum decides to send you.
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Let’s get some of bad news out of the way. If your goal in cord-cutting is to save money — but you’d prefer not to lose access to anything you’re currently watching via your cable or satellite subscription — then you should be aware that the money you save on one bill may be immediately redistributed to another. Additionally, unless you want your “Game of Thrones” episodes to look blurry and choppy, you’ll want to make sure you have the proper internet package.
Talk about getting more bang for your buck! Gaming consoles from Microsoft and Sony can actually stream shows, according to Tom’s Guide. Just install the app for the streaming services you’re interested in and bam—now you don’t have to buy new equipment. There may be some limitations to the services you can watch through these devices, so be aware of those downsides to this cable TV alternative.
Smart TVs are great until they are no longer smart. Not all makers of Smart TVs keep the services updated after the TV comes off the manufacturing line. In addition, Smart TVs contain just a small amount of Flash memory, which means they are very limited to the number of streaming services they can put on the TV. It's possible that the streaming services included with your Smart TV at purchase could end up being the only ones you'll have for the duration of ownership. Since most Americans keep TVs for 7-10 years (longer than we keep automobiles), a Smart TV is not necessarily a "smart" long-term solution for cord cutters.
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Kingston Technical welcomes overhead bridge
BY SHANAE STEWART
Observer staff reporter
stewarts@jamaicaobsever.com
AFTER 16 years of stops and starts, the overhead bridge at Kingston Technical High School (KTHS) is no longer just a dream.
The structure that connects the two compounds on either side of Hanover Street in downtown Kingston was the feature of a ceremonial opening yesterday.
The journey started in 2003, when a past student passed away and willed $15 million to his alma mater. The board at the time decided to use the money to construct a bridge so that students would not have need to venture off the compound during the course of the school day. But hurdles presented themselves every step of the way and postponed the construction for over a decade.
“We have had several hiccups,” Principal Ernest Donaldson said yesterday. “There were issues with the contractual bidding process, and with the nature of the design, which led to several modifications. At each stage we encountered a roadblock. We had an issue with the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) and this caused the process to stall for a very long time.”
He explained that in order for the bridge to be constructed, JPS needed to remove the overhead electrical wires.
“Several letters were sent to JPS; it was a lot of back and forth. When we eventually got through to them we were then made aware that the cost to remove the wires and have them placed underground was hefty. That wasn't accounted for in the budget and so that was another setback.
“Before that could even be completed, the National Works Agency had to give JPS the permission to give the contractor the permission to dig the road, as the road belongs to the road agency. Today, I can prouldy say that we can put all that behind us,” Donaldson reported.
He noted that now that the bridge is in place, the challenges that presented themselves before should now be a thing of the past.
“The students do not always use the pedestrian crossing when going from one campus to the next, and some even use the opportunity to go elsewhere. Now, we will have more control to prevent situations like those,” he said.
Georgette Palmer, former principal of KTHS was also happy to witness the commissioning of the bridge.
“When I was here at KTHS as principal, I knew that the overhead bridge was something I wanted. There were many times when I sat in the office and when I heard the screeching sound of tyres, I was like 'Lord, please don't let any of my children be out there,' because we have had many collisions at the intersection which is outside the school,” the former principal said.
Doran Williamson, a guidance counsellor at the school also shared in the joy and said, “It is a great accomplishment. It will help to alleviate a lot of the challenges with persons and students transitioning from one campus to the next.
“We have had students robbed while moving from one campus to the other and hopefully now that the students do not have to leave the compound the issue will be fixed,” she said.
Robert Gregory, chairman of the board, said the bridge is of great significance.
“This bridge symbolises so many things. We managed to overcome all these hurdles and we are here, and I'm alive to see it.
“I always said that before I leave the board chairmanship, I would have loved to see this bridge and today we are here to celebrate the achievement.
“This bridge symbolises our continued growth and development. Just as how 'Block B' symbolises our beginnings — as it was once the home of the Mico Teachers' College — the bridge symbolises our crossing over into the 21st century,” Gregory said.
Headboy Jordan Gray told the Jamaica Observer that he was overjoyed that the bridge was put in place. He said, however, that he is hoping that it will be covered so that when it rains the students will not be inconvenienced.
The principal, in response to Gray's concern, said that the shed for the bridge was not in the original plan, but will soon be constructed.
“We didn't want there to be any more delays so we decided to go ahead and open the bridge as the shed is the only thing that is currently missing,” Donaldson said.
The initial $15 million donated for the construction of the bridge was supplemented by some $20 million from the Ministry of Education.
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Amazing First Photos of the Pentagon
Written by ccpj
As the events at the Pentagon unfolded on 9/11, a series of photographs were taken by Daryl Donley that recorded the initial moments immediately after the plane impact into the western side of the Pentagon. After taking the photographs, Donley dropped his film off for developing and later called a friend at Gannett (a major newspaper publisher) and informed her of his story and that he had taken photos. Gannett bought Donley's photos and made them available to papers across the country. "I never saw them in print, so I have no idea who used them," Donley said. In April 2002, he learned from a reporter that one of his photos was published
As the events at the Pentagon unfolded on 9/11, a series of photographs were taken by Daryl Donley that recorded the initial moments immediately after the plane impact into the western side of the Pentagon. After taking the photographs he dropped his film off for developing and later called a friend at Gannett (a major newspaper publisher) and informed her of his story and that he had taken photos.
Gannett bought Donley's photos and made them available to papers across the country. "I never saw them in print, so I have no idea who used them," Donley said. In April 2002, he learned from a reporter that one of his photos was published in Life 2002 Album: The Year in Pictures (which contains pictures from 2001). Additionally, others photographs of his were published in Paris Match and in the Daily Mail in London, and the Library of Congress has several of his pictures in its permanent collection. No other photos are believed to have been taken within the same time frame as Donley's.
In the 9/11 literature and websites, Donley's photographs have appeared many times without attribution and without context. For example, in some places his last photos in chronological order are said to be the first photos. To provide the context and a more complete record, he created a website to mark the 10th Anniversary of the September 11th attack on the Pentagon. At that time, most of the photographs had not been available to the public. Reduced quality images are included in this article to provide a catalogue of the photos. Higher resolution photographs on Donley's 911pentagonphotos.com website can be seen by clicking on "Gallery" and then "September 11th Gallery."
The purpose of this article is to place those initial photographs in context using the words of the photographer himself. Hopefully this will help provide a basis for a more accurate discussion of the events at the Pentagon. The following text is taken largely from Donley's Information/About Us section.
The Photographer:
Daryl Donley's editorial, production, and documentary photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, national and international magazines, and books, including Life's 2002 edition of The Year in Pictures covering the events of September 11, 2001. The Discovery Channel featured Donley's photographs in the documentary, Attack on the Pentagon. Additionally, Donley's September 11th photographs have been exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution and appear in the permanent collections of the Newseum and the Library of Congress. One of his photos is on display at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.
The photographer's account of the morning of September 11, 2001:
"I had been driving to work for about 45 minutes in unusually bad bumper to bumper traffic. While I was stopped in traffic, in front of the Pentagon, I heard a loud sound get very loud extremely fast. I ducked down in my car as quickly as I could. I followed the sound as it traveled over me. I looked up to see the entire plane next to my car, through my passenger window a short distance away. I watched the plane fly into the Pentagon. I heard the crunching sound of the plane disintegrating as it slammed into the building at ground level. I screamed as loudly as I possibly could. The plane disappeared into the building as a massive fireball erupted, engulfing one side of the Pentagon; I felt the heat.
I got out of my car. Traffic was completely stopped at that time. Military Police on the north and south end of the roadway in front of the Pentagon were holding traffic in place. I paced back and forth across the road a few times in complete disbelief. I saw one man in the stopped traffic calmly speaking on his cell phone standing next to his car. Another woman near him was screaming hysterically out of control in her vehicle.
As I was pacing, I realized I had all my camera equipment in my car since I was planning on photographing an event later in the day. Initially I dismissed picking up my camera in the midst of something so traumatic and raw but ultimately decided what was happening in front of me needed to be documented.
I went to my car. Although my hands were shaking like leaves in a stiff wind, I managed to load film in my camera and, after a few failed attempts, successfully loaded a new battery. I was photographing within a couple of minutes of the plane crash. As a lifelong photographer, once I engaged with the camera, my instincts took over and I asked myself, 'what will tell the story of this instant?' I continued until the Military Police decided to clear the road.
Even then, as I drove away, I continued to photograph in the very slow stop and go traffic. It took me about another hour and a half until I crossed Roosevelt Bridge and was able to park and get out of my car."
In retrospect, I believe these photographs did capture the moment and they succeeded in telling the story of the initial moments of horror after a large airplane crashed into the Pentagon."
Daryl Donley Gallery
The following 25 images record the events from about two minutes after the plane impact for some unspecified period of time. Larger images of the following photographs can be viewed in the Gallery section of 911pentagonphotos.com.
Below, intermixed with Donley's photographs are three satellite images of the Pentagon. These have additional lines that identify where the first 21 photos were taken and the approximate line of sight. Because Donley had all of his camera equipment with him in his car, he was able to use both zoom and wide angle lenses. All the photos were taken from the vicinity of his vehicle.
The most iconic image is that of a fireball that was captured in image 14. Donley recounts that prior to taking the photograph, he was looking through the viewfinder of his camera when he saw the fireball beginning to erupt. He said, "Through the viewfinder, I could see a circle in front of me." He recounted thinking that there would be four "chunks" of time to click the photo. He waited for the right moment. He waited until the fireball expanded and then took the photograph. He clicked on what he referred to as "the third chunk of time." He said, "Unless you were looking through the viewfinder when it began, there would be no time to bring the camera up to photograph it." He said, "The original fireball following the impact was 3 to 4 times as high as the Pentagon. This fireball was about 40 feet wide based on its size vs the size of the Pentagon. It was definitely an explosion."
The second most iconic image is photograph #23 which was taken from his car's rear-view mirror. According to Donley, "To me, this photograph tells the story of 9/11 like no other... a lost person walking, disoriented and confused with the Pentagon burning in the background. This was 'America' on 9/11." Supporting the iconic status of this photograph, this is Donley's only image that is on display at the 9/11 Museum.
Satelite photo of Pentagon on September 12, 2001, showing approximate locations where photos 1 to 8 were taken. (Source: The Pentagon - September 12, 2001 - IKONOS 1-meter (aftermath image)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 1 (Taken one or two car lengths in front of his car, near intersection with on-ramp)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 2 (Wider view from about same location as Image 1)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 3 (Wider angle view of image 2)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 4 (Same as image 2 taken from along the guardrail)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 5 (Similar to Image 4)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 6 (Zoom into impact area)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 7 (Zoom into diesel generator)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 8 (Arrival of emergency vehicles)
Approximate location where photos 9 to 17 were taken (Source: The Pentagon - September 12, 2001 - IKONOS 1-meter (aftermath image)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 9 (Zoom in of the north corner of the Pentagon)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 10 (Arlington County Fire Department Truck 105 arrives at the Pentagon at 9:41 a.m. per Arlington County After-Action Report Appendix 1)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 11 (Heliport fire house and fire truck with undamaged windshield)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 12 (Wide angle view)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 13 (Wide angle view slightly to the right of Image 12)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 14 (Bright Flash / Explosion in the vicinity of impact zone)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 15 (Wide angle view of impact zone after bright flash)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 16 (Partial zoom-in of Image 15)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 17 (Zoom-in of impact zone after bright flash)
Approximate location where photos 18 to 21 were taken (Source: The Pentagon - September 12, 2001 - IKONOS 1-meter (aftermath image)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 18 (Stopped traffic on Washington Avenue)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 19 (Looking down the road along south side of the Pentagon)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 20 (Zoom-in of impact zone)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 21 (Traffic begins to move again. Note that there are chunks of debris and rocks from the Pentagon in the roadway.)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 22 (Bystanders)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 23 (Pentagon in rear-view mirror)
Daryl Donley Gallery — Image 24 (Pentagon in the Distance)
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Ed Askew – For The World
10/01/2013 in DAVID GARLAND, ED ASKEW, JAY PLUCK, MARC RIBOT, SHARON VAN ETTEN, SPINNING ON AIR, TIN ANGEL RECORDS, TYLER EVANS | No comments
Stream the latest track of Ed Askew, taken from his new full-length album “For the World” (Tin Angel Records). The album was recorded in the summer of 2011, with Jay Pluck, Tyler Evans (of his tour mates The Black Swans), Canaan Faulkner (bass) and Eve Searls (backing vocals), along with Mary Lattimore (Meg Baird, Thurston Moore) on harp. Later on, electric guitar was added by fellow outsider Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and backing vocals on 3 songs by Sharon Van Etten. Produced by Jerry David DeCicca (The Black Swans). Order, HERE.
photo: David Garland
Ed Askew is a painter and singer-songwriter who lives in New York City. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, he moved to New Haven to study painting at Yale Art School in 1963
After graduating from art school in 1966, Askew was called up for the draft. When he moved to New York for a few months in 1967 where he met Bernard Stolman of ESP Disk’ (Pearls Before Swine, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler), who offered him a contract. That year Ed’s first album was released, Ask the Unicorn (on Parlophone in the UK) and it quickly disappeared into folk-psych obscurity.
He then recorded his second album for ESP, Little Eyes, but it sat in the vaults for almost 40 years until it saw a limited release in 2007. Around 1987, Ed moved to New York City, where he continues to write and record songs, and now regularly performs. In the summer of 2011, Ed Askew embarked on his first US tour at the age of 71.– Tin Angel Records
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Ed Askew Q & A
Pianist Thomas Bartlett and string player Sam Amidon, both accomplished songwriters and members of the band Doveman, provide the accompaniment for Askew’s in-studio performances, and David Garland plays 12-string guitar on one song. This show first aired June 1, 2008 (after the broadcast Ed wrote to correct his statement of age; he was 67, not 57, when this session was recorded). – David Garland, Spinning on Air (WNYC)
Recorded live at The Living Room in New York City, September 10, 2011, with Radio Free All Stars David Mansfield, violin; Jeremy Chatzky, bass; Paul Moschella, drums; Mark Spencer, piano; Dave Schramm, telecaster; and with Tyler Evans on the tipple. (via Radio Free Song Club)
Trackback link: http://ashbeesfragments.com/2013/10/ed-askew-blue-eyed-baby/trackback/
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associalisticpress.com© Jan 13 2009
Bush defends presidency in final news conference
By JENNIFER LOVEN
AP White House Correspondent Jan 12, 4:42 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — By turns wistful, aggressive and joking in the final news conference of his presidency, President George W. Bush vigorously defended his record Monday but also offered an extraordinary listing of his mistakes - including his optimistic Iraq speech before a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner in 2003.
(ap) - "Defends" in the Headline... "Defended" in the First Paragraph... And of course the "Mission Accomplished" Banner that the "Free Press" LOVES to continue to bring up. It was the End of the USS Lincoln's LONGEST Mission, and the Mission of Taking Iraq WAS "Complete". We weren't Done in 1945 in Japan, you Dishonest Bastards! Hell we didn't Give the Japanese their Sovereignty back until 1955! I can just Imagine the Mental "YEAHS!" by the other "Reporters" in the Room after that was Asked. I bet a Couple of them even Flirted with Removing a Shoe or Two. - tha malcontent)
After starting what he called "the ultimate exit interview" with a lengthy and personalized thank-you to the reporters in the room who have covered him over the eight years of his presidency, Bush showed anger at times when presented with some of the main criticisms of his time in office.
(He's an Angry, Angry Man who is in Denial... You Know that's EXACTLY what the AP wanted to Print. - tha malcontent)
"I think it's a good, strong record," he said. "You know, presidents can try to avoid hard decisions and therefore avoid controversy. That's just not my nature."
(A Shot @ Clinton... And an Accurate one @ that... WTC Attack #1 in 1993... The Declaration of War by bin Laden on the United States in 1996... The Report in 1999 Outlining al Qaeda's Intentions to Use Planes as Missiles Against Targets such as the Pentagon, and of course the "Free Press" Assisted in the Final Hours by Screaming "Relative Peace and Prosperity for Decades to Come!" as the Stock Market Crashed, Manufacturing Jobs went bye-bye, and the USS Cole was Attacked during the 2000 Election Fall... Exactly what (43) was Referring to. - tha malcontent)
He particularly became indignant when asked about America's bruised image overseas.
("Indignant"... Classic. And of course it's a Matter of Fact that our Image is "Bruised" overseas, so says the AP. I Wonder if they Badgered Clinton about his Attack in the Sudan or Gulf War 1.5 in 1998 during his Intern Scandal?... I Know the Arab Nations were Not Happy with us then, but I Don't seem to A-member the AP giving a Rats Ass about it when their Boy was King. - tha malcontent)
"I disagree with this assessment that, you know, that people view America in a dim light," he said. "It may be damaged amongst some of the elite. But people still understand America stands for freedom."
(It's Damaged among Terrorist Nations and Fart Smelling Europeans... SO WHAT. We don't Govern, nor Protect this REPUBLIC According to the Opinions of other Countries or Terrorist Groups, AP. - tha malcontent)
Bush said he realizes that some issues such as the prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have created controversy at home and around the world. But he defended his actions after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including approving tough interrogation methods for suspected terrorists and information-gathering efforts at home in the name of protecting the country.
(I Doubt the AP and it's Children in the Room Illustrated that the DemocRATS in Congress were Virtually Lockstep with the President just After 9/11, and have Done NOTHING since having FULL Power of Congress in 2006 to Change anything. - tha malcontent)
With the Iraq war in its sixth year, he most aggressively defended his decisions on that issue, which will define his presidency like no other. There have been over 4,000 U.S. deaths since the invasion and toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
(Apparently the only thing that has Happened is Saddam is Gone and 4,000 Americans are Dead According to the AP. - tha malcontent)
But it was in that area that he also acknowledged mistakes. He said that "not finding weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment." The accusation that Saddam had and was pursuing weapons of mass destruction was Bush's main initial justification for going to war.
(We didn't Find Saddam's WMD, which the UN Documented to Existed Months earlier... So the Months we Played Footsie with the French before going in, Saddam Hid or Moved those DOCUMENTED WMD, and that's a "Mistake" on (43)'s Part?... Should he have Ignored the "Free Press" Parroting of the Left to "Wait", and NOT Listened to the French and just Gone in after the Weapons?... I can just Image what the AP's Take on that Cowboy Move would've been. - tha malcontent)
He also cited the abuses found to have been committed by members of the U.S. military at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq as "a huge disappointment."
(The Criminal Acts of Individuals are the Norm and Standard for the Entire Military, and in that the Responsibility Solely of the President... Classic. But Waco was NOT Clinton's Fault... Got it. - tha malcontent)
"I don't know if you want to call those mistakes or not, but they were - things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way," Bush said.
(Ah!... He didn't say they were "Mistakes". So how does the AP Justify Running this Story with the Angle that he was "Listing his Mistakes"? - tha malcontent)
And he admitted another miscalculation: Eager to report quick progress after U.S. troops ousted Saddam's government, he declared less than two months after the war started that "in the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed," a claim made under a "Mission Accomplished" banner that turned out to be wildly optimistic. "Clearly, putting `Mission Accomplished' on an aircraft carrier was a mistake," he said Monday. "It sent the wrong message."
(Well, Apparently that Banner was a Mistake According to (43)... I Disagree, but the President has to Play the Politics... That's the Bone they get from him, and they have Chewed on it Obsessively since he First "Conceded" it, and Probably will for Decades to come. - tha malcontent)
He also defended his decision in 2007 to send an additional 30,000 American troops to Iraq to knock down violence levels and stabilize life there.
(He Defended Success... Classic. - tha malcontent)
"The question is, in the long run, will this democracy survive, and that's going to be a question for future presidents," he said.
(Passin' the Buck... Barry will do Very Little Different, and the Left, being the Obedient Lapdogs to the New POTUS that they are already Proving to be, will Sit and Like it. - tha malcontent)
On another issue destined to figure prominently in his legacy, Bush said he has "thought long and hard about Katrina - you know could I have done something differently, like land Air Force One either in New Orleans or Baton Rouge." Bush was criticized for flying over the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and waiting until four days after it hit to visit the scene.
(A Visit from the President on Day 1, 2 or 3 would have had what Affect?... Honestly AP. - tha malcontent)
But he also said he disagrees with those who say the federal response to the storm was slow.
"Don't tell me the federal response was slow when there were 30,000 people pulled off roofs right after the storm passed. ... Could things been done better? Absolutely. But when I hear people say the federal response was slow, what are they going to say to those chopper drivers or the 30,000 who got pulled off the roof?" he said.
(And I will do what the President won't... "What about the Mayor?... What about the Governor who Refused Federal Assistance for 24 Hours?..." - tha malcontent)
He also defended his record on Mideast peace.
A bruising offensive by Israel in the Gaza Strip has dashed any slight hopes for an accord soon that produces a Palestinian state. But Bush, asked why peace hasn't been achieved, said his administration had made progress. He said he had laid out the vision for "what peace would look like" and got all sides to agree on a two-state solution to the long-running Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
(Fandamntastic... The AP has all but Put the Current Warring on the Jews. A Question for ya, AP... Who Started Lobbing Rockets into the Civilian Populace of the other, AP?... No Mention of the Terrorists Responsibility?... Classic AP. - tha malcontent)
"It's been a long time since they've had peace in the Middle East," he said. "The challenge, of course, has been to lay out the conditions so that a peaceful state can emerge. ... Will this ever happen? I think it will. And I know we've advanced the process."
(Clinton had it all Fixed before he Left Office... It was Perfect, and then (43) came in and Attacked Iraq for no good Reason! - tha malcontent)
He called President-elect Barack Obama "a very smart, engaging person" and said he wishes his successor all the best. He hinted at the enormous responsibility Obama is about to assume, describing what it might feel like on Jan. 20 when, after taking the oath of office, he enters the Oval Office for the first time as president.
"There'll be a moment when the responsibility of the president lands squarely on his shoulders," Bush said.
He gave his view of the most urgent threat facing the incoming president: an attack on the United States. He chose that risk over the dire economic problems now facing the nation.
(He Chose it because it has Happened TWICE now at the Beginning of (2) Presidencies... In 1993 al Qaeda Attacked the World Trade Center Killing Americans on American Soil... Clinton didn't even Visit the Site in 1993, much Less Capture the Guilty Party who went on to Level those Towers on 9/11... Don't even get me Started on that. Actually, you could say something Middle East has Festered for each New President going back to Carter, but I Digress... Something is almost Certainly going to Happen, just ask VP Joe! - tha malcontent)
"I wish that I could report that's not the case, but there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict damage on America - on Americans."
(Fearmongering, Warmongering Tyrant!... If it wasn't for your Interventionism in your First Year, we would NEVER have been Attacked on 9/11, Dubya!... What was (43) doing in 2001 that Justified that Attack again?... - tha malcontent)
He said he would ask Congress to release the remaining $350 billion in Wall Street bailout money if Obama so desires. But, he said, Obama hadn't made that request of him yet.
That soon changed. Shortly after the news conference, the White House said Obama had asked for the request and Bush had agreed to make it.
That will take at least one burden off Obama's shoulders involving a program that is extraordinarily unpopular with many lawmakers and much of the public.
The last news conference of Bush's presidency lasted 46 minutes, and he took questions from more than a dozen reporters.
The last previous time the president had taken questions in a public setting was Dec. 14 in Baghdad, a session that hurtled to the top of the news when Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi threw his shoes at Bush during a question-and-answer session with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
(Put a Smile on every Person in the "Free Press", and will every time they Re-Re-Re-Report it... - tha malcontent)
Bush's last previous full-blown news conference was July 15. He refused to hold another during the final months of last year's presidential campaign, concerned that the questions would be mostly related to political events and determined to stay out of GOP nominee John McCain's spotlight as much as possible. But even though aides had suggested that would change after the election, Bush still declined to participate in a wide-ranging question-and-answer session until now, just eight days before leaving office.
(As Compared with Clinton?... (41)?... Reagan?... - tha malcontent)
He has been granting a flurry of legacy-focused interviews as he seeks to shape the view of his presidency on his way out the door.
He gave advice to both his Republican Party and his Democratic successor.
To the GOP, he said it must be "compassionate and broad-minded" to come back from the drubbing it received in last year's elections, in which Republicans lost the White House and sank deeper into the minority in Congress. He said the immigration debate of two years ago was harmful, because conservative opposition to broad reform made it appear that "Republicans don't like immigrants."
(Sorry, (43), you are Wrong... 2008 was Economy, Economy, Economy... And of course, Terrible Candidate for the GOP. - tha malcontent)
"This party will come back. But the party's message has got to be that different points of view are included in the party," he said.
Bush cautioned Obama not to listen to too much criticism - including from "your so-called friends" - and to focus on doing what he thinks is right. He also said to ignore talk of the isolation of the office.
"I have never felt isolated, and I don't think he will," Bush said. "One reason he won't feel isolated is that he's got a fabulous family and he cares a lot about his family."
(I wonder what Barry has Said of (43)?... - tha malcontent)
He went on to mock the way some describe the job.
"I believe the phrase 'burdens of the office' is overstated," he said. "You know, it's kind of like, `Why me? Oh, the burdens, you know. Why did the financial collapse have to happen on my watch?' It's just pathetic, isn't it, self-pity? And I don't believe that President-elect Obama will be full of self-pity."
Bush seemed to struggle to envision himself on Jan. 21, his first day back at home and without a job.
(Just about every angle Possible to Paint (43) as "Defensive", "Angry", "Evasive", "Indignant" and now "Struggling"... Classic. - tha malcontent)
"I'm a Type A personality. I just can't envision myself, you know, the big straw hat and a Hawaiian shirt sitting on some beach," he said. But, he added, it would probably be a pretty low-key day with him and his wife, Laura, at his ranch in Texas. "I wake up in Crawford on Tuesday morning - I mean, Wednesday morning, and I suspect I'll make Laura coffee and, you know, go get it for her."
(And not Think Twice about you Bastards in the "Free Press" as you Fawn ALL OVER Barry for the Next at least 4 Years. Whatever will the AP do without Dubya to "kick around"?... A Personal Thank you from me, Mr. President. You will be Remembered in History as a Great President, and you Action Following 9/11, as Opposed to Clinton's 8 Years of Inaction, Attack after Attack, will be Viewed as what Settled the Middle East once and for all. But as with all things, it will Take Time, and a the Courage of Future American Leaders to NOT put us right back where we were on 9/10. - tha malcontent)
~ Have an Opinion?... Then e-mail me @ malcontent@associalistpress.com and Sound off like ya got a Pair!
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Overwhelmed by the Complexity of ? This May Help
March 29, 2019 admin Technology
Everything You Need to Know about Christos Lampropoulos
Education is because it makes the life of very many people much better and that is why many people treasure it. These solutions have contributed to making the lives of very many people better and that is why many people like education. There are very many things in the world today that are very broad for example, the very many topics that are there in education. Choosing at least one discipline and not very many others is always recommended because it allows you to concentrate. When choosing the topic that you’re interested in, it’s very important to look at your interests to ensure that you’re on the right road. Solutions in the world have been brought by very many contributors over the years and these are mainly from scholars. One of the biggest scholars that have been there today is known as Christos Lampropoulos North Florida was mainly been focusing on a number of areas in science especially, chemistry. The areas of interest are going to be explained in this article and you’ll be able to understand more about him.
Christos has been one of the biggest contributors and the teachers in the University of North Florida in the chemistry that he has been able to specialize in. He has been a teacher in the area of inorganic chemistry and also physical methods for materials and this is one of the biggest areas. One of the things that you need to notice about him is that he is been able to get quite a lot of contributions coming in especially because of the research that he is done. He is also considered one of the best teachers that has been there in the University of North Florida and has been able to make a lot of contributions. There are a number of this company categories that are considered to have a lot of interest in and it is good for you to know them. He is one of the persons that has been a great contributor in the UNF Chemistry catalytic and responsive properties and here’s a lot of interest in inorganic materials. In addition to that, he has been interested in the synthesisnanomaterialso materials which are also another topic. His interest in x-ray crystallography is also very notable and this is another topic that has been able to bring a number of solutions.
In addition to that, Dr. Christos has also been very important in high-pressure science which is going to include many other functions. He has also been interested in heavy metals and especially the separation of different types of agents and through different other types of processes like synthesis.
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Connections... with Eric Cocks
Original Aired:
Friday, February 5th, 2016 4:01PM
hamsandwich new beatles psychedelic bowie kinks lennon eclectic vinyl dylan wpkn mono connections comedy samphillips frantz chrisfrantz bootleg vintage humor freeform demos beachboys squeaky chairs talkingheads squeakychairs cuttingedge visconti iggy
Episode: Connections with Eric Cocks
Feb 5, 2016 episode of Connections on WPKN with Eric Cocks. New and vintage music on a snow day. Includes new music from Iggy Pop, Courtney Barnett, Hillary Bratton, PJ Harvey, jennylee (from Warpaint), Prix, The Forest Rangers, Wild Nothing, Damien Jurado (from the new movie Tumbledown), Gracie and Rachel, Paper Pilots, Massive Attack & Azekel, Wild Nothing, Man Made and more.
Also a very rare unreleased recording by David Bowie, courtesy of producer Jon Tiven.
Plus rare Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bo Diddley, Brian Eno, The Beatles, Harry Nilsson, Tom Tom Club (who has a rare show coming up at The Fairfield Theatre Company in CT on Feb 12), The Kinks, Dusty Springfield, Sam Phillips, The Dave Clark 5, Bill Frisell, The Coasters, The Blues Magoos, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Dr Fiorella Tirenzi, The Supremes, Lalo Schifrin (from Bullitt), Dion, The Squeaky Chairs and whatever happened in the moment.
Previous episodes of Connections are available in the WPKN archives, including interviews with Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, Producer Tony Visconti (Bowie, T-Rex and many more), New Yorker cartoonist and author Roz Chast, Peppy Castro of The Blues Magoos, Grammy Award winning singer and author Janis Ian and more. Also special features on Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Harry Nilsson, The Beach Boys, Bob Marley and the British Invasion.
Here are some direct links:
Connections: Dylan's Cutting Edge 1965-1966 and more (Nov 4, 2015)
(The first hour and a half explores previously unreleased songs and outtakes):
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/129667
Connections: Dylan's Cutting Edge Part 2, New Music and Tony Visconti Interview (Dec 18, 2015)
Direct link to Interview/Conversation with Producer, Arranger, Engineer and Musician Tony Visconti (Dec 18, 2015):
Connections with Eric Cocks (New and vintage music, plus rare demos by Alan Menken and much more, Nov 20, 2015):
Connections: The Beatles and Dylan in Mono on Vinyl and more…
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/76314
Connections: Dylan's Basement Tapes and other stuff…
May 15, 2015 Bob Dylan Special with Chris Frantz:
Roz Chast: Guest DJ and Interview with New Yorker cartoonist and bestselling author:
Peppy Castro of The Blues Magoos: Interview/Conversation
Janis Ian Interview:
Connections: Beatles, Dylan, Nilsson, Kinks, Elvis, Beach Boys and new music (August 2015):
Connections with Eric Cocks: Odds and Ends, New and Vintage…
Connections at Night (including music and comedy geared for late night listening):
Bob Dylan Special with Chris Frantz and Jeff Slate (May 2014):
Connections: Music of the Heart (Sep 2015):
For more info, updates and occasional videos, please check the FaceBook page: Connections on WPKN
Show: Connections... with Eric Cocks
Explores the connections between songs, songwriters, musicians, producers and people... often in surprising ways.
Vital, intelligent music with true artistic vision. Or just because it sounds good...
Includes extended features on specific artists such as Bob Dylan, The Kinks, The Beatles and far more. Also comedy by Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Eddie Izzard, Paul Krassner and others with a rock and roll renegade attitude. In depth explorations of early electronic music (and how it relates to current music). Vital new music that deserves to be heard. Surf music. Garage bands. British invasion. Rock and Roll. John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Jimi Hendrix, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, The Blues Magoos, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Dr Fiorella Terenzi, Beethoven, Bo Diddley, The Rolling Stones, Alex Chilton, Nilsson, Tom Petty, Lucinda Williams, Jon Brion, Aimee Mann, Tame Impala, Grimes, The Pretenders, Blondie, Caitlin Rose, Juana Molina, Mojo Mancini, Elliott Randall, Marshall Chapman, Jessy Lanza, Big Star, demos, rarities, unreleased new music and far more may be part of any given show. Also live interviews of performers, writers, producers, engineers, session musicians and people behind the scenes. Plus unexpected surprises...
Previous in depth interviews include Sam Phillips, Peppy Castro of The Blues Magoos, author/comedian Paul Krassner, Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, Neil Innes of The Rutles, Tommy James, legendary session musician Carol Kaye, Warren Zanes, Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals, Rod Argent of The Zombies, Oscar Winning Composer Alan Menken, Patty Larkin and more. All are available in archives for about 385 days. (Maybe that'll get extended some day.) Stay tuned for future interviews and special features.
The show will keep changing over time.
Tune in every 1st and 3rd Friday afternoon of each month at the new time of 4 to 7 pm eastern. Also special editions at other times. Available live over the air at 89.5, online at http://wpkn.org, tunein radio or listen later in the WPKN archives.
For further info, updates, news, videos and special features, please check the FaceBook site: Connections on WPKN
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Bambu (The Caribou Sessions)
Produced by Dennis Wilson, John Hanlon & Gregg Jakobson
Except UNDER THE MOONLIGHT, IT'S NOT TOO LATE, CONSTANT COMPANION & ALL ALONE, Produced by Dennis Wilson & Carli Munoz
Released June 17, 2008 - Caribou/Epic/Legacy 88697-07916-2 (Sony/BMG) Disc Two
"It's almost unheard of to be recording your second album before the first one is even released"; David Leaf posed this leading statement to Dennis Wilson in August of 1977, during an interview for the September issue of Leaf's "Pet Sounds" fanzine. In fact, Dennis was already at work on his followup to Pacific Ocean Blue earlier that year, before POB was even finished, let alone released...when discussing his future plans with Jim Girard of Cleveland's "Scene" Magazine back in January, Dennis said, "Also, I'm gonna do my second solo album, Tornado. I'm already working on that album" (Dennis probably got that provisionary album title from the Beach Boys' horn section, The Tornadoes...or they got it from him). In August, he told Leaf, "They (the record company) call it one, two, three. I just don't stop recording. You're talking to, if there ever was, a freak or somebody completely into it, I am home here at the studio or playing music on the road. When I go to the shack that I stay at, I hate it. Music is everything. The stage, recording music, signing autographs, worrying about the airplay, worrying about talking to you, everything. If there was ever a real lover in my life, it'd be Karen Lamm and music. Sounds silly, doesn't it? I just love it. I have so much fun doing it."
One important thing to realize is that the Bambu music is not so much a sequel to POB as it is a continuation of it...Bobby Figueroa says, "While we were recording Pacific Ocean Blue we also started recording tracks for Bambu. It was all intertwined." John Hanlon sheds further light on the timeline: "As more time got spent on Pacific Ocean Blue, he needed to get further away from it, to stay objective. And that's when all this other stuff started happening...everybody thinks 'Oh...here's POB, and this is where he started Bambu'. It was at the same time in that latter half of that year (1976), those things started unfolding...When he was too close to what he was working on, on overdubbing on Pacific Ocean Blue, he'd step away from that and start doing other things, and other ideas and snippets of sounds; those became the starting point of Bambu...everything and anything - and this is what people seem to miss - that Dennis worked on that didn't go on Pacific Ocean Blue or wasn't finished in time for Pacific Ocean Blue was going to be Bambu. Dennis was working in early 1977 - as he was still finishing Pacific Ocean Blue - he was cutting stuff all the time." The way Dennis described it to Leaf, "The next album is a hundred times what Pacific Ocean Blue is. It kicks. It’s different in a way. I think I have more confidence now that I’ve completed one project, and I’m moving on to another." That fall, during a radio interview at KUGN-FM in Eugene, Oregon, Dennis said, "The new album I'm working on now is much more...you could say, 'rock 'n' roll' than the other one." Tracks laid down that year intended for Bambu include "Love Remember Me" with its Spectorian choral section, "He's A Bum" with its playful self-mockery, "Wild Situation" with its slow-grooving funk, and "Time For Bed" with its rollicking New Orleans-styled brass and slide guitar. There's also a good chance that Dennis would've included the POB holdovers "School Girl" and "Album Tag Song" as well as the ballad "Cocktails". By the end of the year, Dennis certainly had enough material for at least half an album, and was apparently telling people he was already on to his third.
When asked in the aforementioned radio interview that fall, "Where do you see your music going from what you've just laid down?", Dennis replied, "I feel it's all in the heart, and expressing yourself, and sharing that with other people, and people sharing, and...maybe just uh, that's all...maybe that's just enough for me to do. Y'know, I am like the one little grain of sand on this planet...just hold(ing) up my little grain of sand!" He went on to talk of his love for the studio: "I am, at this moment, itching to jump on a plane and go there and record...I love it, it's fun. It's like driving to the ocean, and there's a hill, right? And you're in the back seat of the car; Carl, Brian and I used to do this, it'd be almost to the top of the mountain, right there, and we could just see the ocean, it's so much fun...I just try and relate an experience to the feeling that, the closer I get to the studio, the more fun I have, y'know?"
Origins and Concept
Bamboo or "Bambu" (Dennis' spelling, probably inspired by the famous rolling papers) was a name that Dennis had taken a liking to by late '77; the artist name on the session contracts from that period (including rehearsals for his ill-fated tour) is "Dennis Wilson Bamboo", suggesting that was the name he'd given his band. Gregg Jakobson: "Bambu was always one of Dennis' favorite words...It's really a drummer's word - bambu; it's percussive. If there's one word that literally symbolizes Dennis, it's Bambu. It's so present - it's like 'BAM'!" It was also the name of Dennis and Gregg's production company, for which they had big plans, including construction of a state-of-the-art recording complex in Hawaii. Jakobson recalls, "We went looking in Kauai for a studio location. The studio's name was going to be The Sunset. We had architectural renderings with a San Francisco architecture firm. We probably spent at least a quarter of a million dollars on remodeling. We had these things in the studio, like a bed that you could lie down in on the North Shore, it had lights that you could turn up or down, and you could also hear the sound of the ocean. And there was a mirror above the bed, and you could change the position of the mirror so that it would pick up different parts of the sky. A lot of the rooms were going to be treated like the rooms on a boat - small, but very nice and warm. It could have been a wonderful thing, state-of-the-art technology in the studios. My idea was to treat a recording studio just like you would a tennis court or a swimming pool. The idea was to sell these to concert venues. It was an ambitious project...the governor of Hawaii was involved, Fleetwood Mac was involved; it was like we were bringing a new industry to Hawaii...but the plans kind of fell apart at the same time the album did."
While at KUGN in late '77, Dennis spoke of his dedication to music: "I am addicted...I guess that's the true sense...to absolutely being involved in not just the sound of it, and the emotional experience behind it, but the manufacturing of it, the making of it...to sharing some space with you on the radio." When asked how he felt about hearing his music on the radio, Dennis replied "What I notice is different things, like different turntable speeds, different limiting effects, different towers, different amplifiers...y'know, I listen to the station, the programming...I wind up coming from another place there. What I'm doing is, I'm trying to go to every radio station possible, talk with everyone, meet with everyone, 'cause what I want to do is, I wanna develop a radio station in Hawaii, along with four or five major studios altogether, where all the industry, where the radio can be there and work with the artists, right? You could broadcast only to the studio, right? But yet, it's a 'research and development', y'know, for radio and for the artists that record the records, y'know, so we all can be a little closer, 'cause I think we need to be." This led to the inevitable question, "Do you think that sometimes artists are away from what the radio needs...and vice versa?", to which he responded,"Oh, absolutely." Not that Dennis was of a "corporate-rock" mentality in the least...when asked, "What would you like to see happen from the standpoint of radio, what would you like radio to get more in tune with, as far as the artist?", his answer was "Free-form. Total free-form...I think absolutely...absolute freedom..." He was then asked, "How do you think the audience would react to hearing that...do you think they would be that into it?", to which his reply was, "That would be...I couldn't make that judgement...I feel that the audience should be free to make the choice of what radio they should hear, even. This is something different than making a tire and selling a tire that drives (the) car...so freedom is very important to radio, and I think that today, radio (stations) are very competitive with one another...I don't know if they call it 'making book', but uh, ratings are very important, and to have people listen to you...so it's kinda screwed things up." That said, he clearly felt his own group had moved beyond the ratings race: "If we stopped today, and never made another record, they would continue to sell, as long as there'd be a record industry. We're 'over the hump' that way, I think you'd call it...it's beyond the Top 40; Beach Boys are no longer involved in the Top 40 race, or need to be...It's no big deal, what's the Top 40? I mean, Top 40 is abstract...what is it? I see death to the Top 40...soon...I don't mean 'death to the Top 40' in a negative way, I mean that all things change, it may be called something else...there will be something, but it may not be as competitive." Dennis very astutely predicted the growth of independent "free format" radio, but would doubtless be saddened by the rise of the major conglomorations that control most airplay nationwide today. In his conversation with Leaf, Dennis made this clear: "I want to meet with everyone in the field, want it to be different. I think music belongs on a personal level, instead of the mindless corporation ordering the artist, 'do this, do that, do this.' People have to meet, discover, grow, build."
Life Intrudes on Art
Unfortunately, Dennis' ambitious career plans would not see fruition, largely because of his rapidly disintegrating personal situation. By the end of 1977, his planned solo tour was scrapped, his position within The Beach Boys was tenous, and although he was back with Karen, the destructive side of that relationship would soon wreak havoc on Dennis' physical and psychological health, as she persuaded him to try heroin. As 1978 dawned, Gregg Jakobson saw the effect that drug abuse was having on Dennis, and made the decision to withdraw from the project. "When it came time to do Bambu I was not going to do it unless Dennis would come back in...he had gone pretty far out. I said, 'No, Dennis, I'm not going to do this unless you settle down and you clean up. Then let's spend some time in the studio, and then we'll do it right.'" But Dennis could not control his spiraling drug habits, and on The Beach Boys' tour of New Zealand and Australia in February and March, he was nearly kicked out of the band for providing heroin to both Brian and Carl. Things didn't become any calmer back in the States, as Dennis and Karen's always-tumultous relationship reached new heights of drama in April, culminating in his April 23rd arrest in Tucson after a sixteen-year old girl was found in his hotel room following a Beach Boys concert there. Dennis ended up spending nearly $100,000 in legal fees to get out of the jam, yet Karen forgave him and took him back yet again.
With Gregg Jakobson withdrawing from the recording sessions, Dennis turned to another friend for studio support: Beach Boys auxilary keyboardist Carlos (Carli) Muñoz. "We hung out a lot on the road, and in fact we would join suites together and have a piano brought up," Carli says, "and we worked on a lot of stuff." Dennis actually asked Carli to produce his next album, but Muñoz felt he wasn't quite ready for that much responsibility. Nonetheless, Dennis became enamoured of Carli's songwriting, and decided to record several of his compositions (which Carli co-produced with Dennis). As engineer Tom Murphy put it, "Dennis had the greatest respect for Carli. He thought Carli was so talented." The process of recording with Dennis was intense, yet the two always made time to relax out on the open waves, as Carli recalls: "Typically we'd start in the day, we'd take a break; Dennis had his yacht, Harmony and a Ford, a convertible Ford from the 1940's...it had a rumble seat in the back, and we'd take that, stop at the liquor store, fill the rumble seat with beer cases, load into the Harmony, and go out for a sail, come back, and then record until late at night." Carli also reveals that Dennis was considering an alternate (and, in retrospect, appropriate) album title: End of the Line. Although Dennis recorded most of the cuts on his previous album Pacific Ocean Blue piece-by-piece, playing many of the instruments himself and only bringing in other musicians for overdubs as needed, much of Bambu (the latter two-thirds of the sessions, including the Muñoz material) was recorded with a group of players performing real-time in the same room. This seems to be the direct result of the rehearsals Dennis held with a band for the tour-that-never-was in late 1977; playing with a live band full of musicians who supported Dennis' personal musical vision seemed to give him the confidence he needed to try take-after-take in the studio with a group of players, and from that point on this would be his modus operandi. Although both Earle Mankey and John Hanlon had continued on the engineering team during the early days of Bambu, by 1978 Tom Murphy had taken over behind the board for Dennis' sessions. As the quality of Dennis' voice continued to deteriorate, vocal coach Bob Rose (who had helped engineer The Beach Boys' vocal sessions for the M.I.U. Album), was brought in to work with him.
By August of '78, Brother Studio was sold (to a group of investors which included jazz saxophonist Tom Scott and recording engineer Hank Cicalo; some of the equipment was reportedly moved to Santa Barbara). Carl Wilson, who'd owned the studio in partnership with Dennis, felt it was the only choice in light of the spiraling business debt incurred there over the past couple of years. Unfortunately, it left Dennis without immediate access to a creative "safe haven" at virtually any hour of the day, whenever the inspiration struck him...something he had grown used to over the previous four years. Gregg Jakobson: "It kind of left Dennis out wandering around, and he would go to different studios, like Tom Murphy's studio, Track Records, and there was another studio...but so yeah, he lost his home. I mean, y'know Brother was really their home...and in the record business, there's no convenience as great as having your own studio, 'cause the clock isn't running. Y'know, because for somebody like Dennis, and like Brian too (and don't forget Dennis learned so much from Brian), the studio becomes an instrument. Absolutely, the studio is an instrument, just like a guitar or a piano, so sure he missed that. He had to have missed that...mightily, y'know." John Hanlon: "Dennis tended to want to record at a moment's notice at 10 or 11 pm at night. He'd want to get into the studio to record when he felt like it; he wanted to capture a moment." With Brother Studio no longer at his disposal, this became impossible.
Around the same time, Dennis also lost Karen...this time for good. Although they had remarried in July, by the fall of that year they were separated and headed for their second divorce. As The Beach Boys worked to complete their first group LP for CBS/Caribou, L.A. (Light Album), Dennis struggled to maintain focus on Bambu, but it was a losing battle. Without his own studio, without Karen, and without much left of his singing voice, his brief solo career was slipping away from him. At the encouragement of Jim Guercio and Bruce Johnston (who were co-producing the Light Album with the band's members), Dennis donated two planned Bambu tracks, "Baby Blue" and "Love Surrounds Me", to the group. Guercio also tried to persuade Dennis to bring in an outside producer to help him finish his solo album, but Dennis would have none of it. As Jon Stebbins puts it, "Dennis basically told Jim Guercio, who truly loved and loves Dennis' music, to back off...and then he went about recording more, on his dime, on the Beach Boys' dime, on Jimmy G.'s dime, whatever...he didn't care...he was just recording. Lots of work, lots of good stuff, but nothing was getting finished, as in mixed and mastered...he just kept moving on to the next thing. Then he moved on to partying more and working less...and by mid-1979 he just seemed to give up on Dennis Wilson the solo artist." Jim Guercio: "Bambu wasn't finished because, in my opinion, Dennis lost focus. And Bambu didn't get finished because of alchohol and drugs. That would be the right answer."
Downward Spiral
In November of '78, while working on overdubs for the album at the Village Recorders, Dennis met the next love of his life: Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Although their respective bands had played gigs on the same bill earlier in the '70s, the two had apparently never been formally introduced until now (for an eye-witness account of Dennis and Christine's first meeting, see "Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac" by Carol Ann Harris, Buckingham's girlfriend at the time). Dennis' relationship with Christine would last the next two years, during which his drinking, cocaine use, and generally bizarre behavior would increase to unparalled heights. "He was brilliant," Christine recalls, "but the problem was that he was just so helpless. He would get a big, litre bottle of orange juice, tip half of it out, and fill it up with rum. Then he would put in a few ice cubes and carry it around with him all day, and by the evening it would be acrid and he would still be drinking it. The smell was vile. He vanished for days on end, he wouldn't go to bed, and yet when he was straight he was the most charming guy. He was very funny as well, although that was unintentional...Dennis loved Pet Sounds because he had an undercurrent of genius himself, but he couldn't control it." Christine's bandmate Lindsey Buckingham, a huge Beach Boys fan, says, "I knew him pretty well...he was a good guy. He was kind of lost, but I thought he had a big heart. I always liked him. He was crazy just like a lot of other people, but he had a really big heart, and he was the closest thing to Brian there was, too. He was halfway there."
The next few years would see Dennis involved in more professional and personal scandal, as he was repeatedly "furloughed" from the band following one drunken public display after another. With his personal finances in a mess, Dennis lost his boat in a foreclosure. Following his breakup with Christine (she reportedly tired of footing the financial and emotional bill for his many childish indulgences and escapades), he began a relationship with Shawn Love, the 16-year old who was reportedly Mike Love's illegitimate daughter. With his life spiraling off the rails, Dennis' appearance worsened, and those who knew him in his "glory days" often failed to recognize the bloated, pale, and unkempt person he'd become. Marilyn Wilson (now Rutherford): "I don't think I saw him for like the last, uh, year of his life. And when I did it was very sad. 'Cause his voice was no longer...he had this gruffy voice, and horrible wild look...ugh, it was just very sad." In the summer of '83, Dennis and Shawn (who by now were parents of a baby boy named Gage) married, but as was typical with Dennis, they were headed for divorce by that December. Three days after Christmas (following a prematurely aborted attempt at detox), Dennis drowned in the Pacific Ocean (in the slip where the Harmony was once berthed), as he drunkenly recovered momentos of his life with Karen from the ocean floor, where he had thrown them during one of their spats years earlier. Jim Guercio: "...that's why this is so difficult for me to talk about, because I was trying to do an intervention, and uh...I regret it because I didn't get it done." The intervention, planned by Jimmy and Carl, would've involved luring Dennis to Caribou Ranch in Colorado for the New Year, at which point he would've been detained for a thorough detoxifcation and rehabilitation; sadly, this was not to be. Instead, a few days into 1984, Dennis was buried at sea under a special permission granted by President Reagan.
Aftermath and Rebirth
Reportedly, Dennis had talked in the weeks leading up to his death of making an attempt to finish Bambu, as if he knew his days were numbered. He apparently tried to convince Geordie Hormel (owner of the Village Recorders) to help him in this endeavor, but at this point Dennis was in no shape to be tackling any kind of recording project. Over the next several years, the legend of Bambu would grow, especially when bootlegged tapes from the sessions began to turn up on the collectors market. Carli Muñoz: "One thing that Dennis did a lot, he would take a cassette tape, y'know of the rough mix, and to me I knew that was like a loose cannon because then after the sessions, he'd like to go and sort of like, celebrate, y'know, and he would go to Venice and find a buddy, anywhere, and he'd be so excited about the music...and I'd say, "Oh, no", and he'd give him the tape: 'Here, it's yours!' So of course, of course there's bootlegs."
With Pacific Ocean Blue out-of-print and Bambu available only as rough mixes on the black market, public demand for an offical release of the two lost Dennis Wilson solo albums grew over the next two-and-a-half decades (at one point, a fan petition was posted on the internet in an attempt to persuade Jim Guercio and Sony to issue an archival release). What most fans didn't realize was that, behind the scenes, efforts had been underway for some time to determine the legal rights to the music, a crucial first step toward securing its release. Once it was determined that the rights of ownership did indeed lie with Guercio's Caribou label, and once other business obstacles were cleared, work on a Dennis Wilson solo package could begin in late 2007.
Alan Boyd and Mark Linett pulled Dennis' multi-track masters from the Brother Records vaults (where they had resided since the late '70s) and transferred them to digital format. Guercio block-booked time at the House Of Blues Studio (a top-flight, state-of-the-art facility in Encino), and sent John Hanlon in to mix Bambu and a handful of Pacific Ocean Blue bonus tracks. After the first couple of sessions, author Jon Stebbins was invited to observe: "I attended probably 90% of the mixing sessions for the new Bambu and bonus tracks, and everything was done with keeping it as 'Dennis' as possible. A vintage Neve console was used by John Hanlon for the mixing. A lot of the effects were (already) imprinted in the multi-tracks. John employed the usual outboard gear: compression, reverb, delays, that type of thing...real tape delay or slap (echo) was used on some of the vocal tracks...no digital triggering and very minimal Pro Tools was used. Some of the editing was made easier by Pro Tools technology of course, and a few things were repaired that way, but for the most part it was assembling and mixing that brought Bambu into a releasable form. And the question at every turn along the way was...how would Dennis have wanted this to sound? Obviously not an easy one to answer with 100% accuracy, but when you hear it... it sounds like a Dennis Wilson record." The House Of Blues Neve 36-channel 80 series console was fed into a Pro Tools|HD5 rig to create mixes that somehow manage to sound both "vintage" and "modern" at the same time. As Guercio puts it, "I think it's how Dennis would have mixed it."
Bambu was assembled and coupled in a special package with a remastered Pacific Ocean Blue, and the set was issued in both double CD and triple blue vinyl editions, with informative new liner notes by Ben Edmonds, Jon Stebbins, Dave Beard, and David Leaf.
John Hanlon (who had gone on to work with artists such as Neil Young and R.E.M, but had always retained the hope of one day finishing Bambu for Dennis): "It's just amazing, just amazing. I mean I felt really, really fortunate to be able to work on this stuff, 'cause I didn't know if it would ever happen...I had to edit the crap out of it. He had endings all over the place. He'd have four different (alternate) endings (on some of the tracks); it was very, very tricky. It wasn't that Dennis was scattered, I don't think, it was that he didn't have the time or patience to dick around finishing something really, really well - some stuff he did, but he was in a whirlwind of recording and I didn't realize how fractious it was. Bambu was unfinished, but all the parts were there...If I hadn't done it, then Earle Mankey should have done it; it should have been either one of us. Dennis gave me my start. Pacific Ocean Blue was the first record I ever did."
Carole Bloom (Dennis' first wife): "I think that this album is so important to his children and his grandchildren, and that his legacy now will become something more because of all the efforts of everybody involved in this album, to bring his music out."
Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford (Brian's first wife): "I think that it's fantastic. I'm amazed at what I'm hearing. I just love it, there's so many different sides of Dennis that none of us really knew. He deserves it, y'know? He deserves it, because he shoulda been a huge icon, really. He shoulda been. Maybe he will be."
James William Guercio: "I think the second disc is real important; it might be unfinished...but I think it's important to see where he was going and what he was attempting to do and where he came from...Things happen in a spatial world, y'know...it's still there, and maybe people will appreciate it today...This is the commitment I made for Dennis' kids. They should hear what a talent their father was and what his talent promised. This music is really impressive. Dennis was one of the greatest artists I ever had the honor of working with."
SOURCES: "Dennis Wilson: Not Just One Of The (Beach) Boys" by Jim Girard, "Scene" Magazine, Cleveland, OH, January 13, 1977 / "Dennis Wilson: It's About Time" interview by David Leaf, Pet Sounds fanzine, Vol. 1, No. 3, September 1977 / On-air interview of Dennis Wilson, broadcast on KUGN-FM, Eugene, OR, late 1977 / BBFUN Newsletters, February and August 1978 / Endless Harmony Soundtrack CD liner notes - Capitol, 1998 / "Dennis Wilson - The Real Beach Boy" by Jon Stebbins - ECW Press, 2000 / "Dumb Angel - The Life And Music Of Dennis Wilson" by Adam Webb - Creation Books, 2001 / "Endless Summer Quarterly" fanzine, Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2, Issue Nos. 60 & 61, Winter/Spring 2003 / "Endless Summer Quarterly" fanzine, Summer 2008 Special Edition / "Lost Albums: Bambu", BBC Radio 4, May 2008 / Pacific Ocean Blue Legacy Recordings Electronic Press Kit, June 2008 / Pacific Ocean Blue Legacy Recordings Podcast & unedited Radio Promo, June 2008 / "The Making Of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue" by Ken Sharp, Record Collector Magazine, July 2008 / Bob Rose website / comments provided by John Hanlon, Tommy Smith, Bobby Figueroa, Michael Andreas, Ed Tuleja, Jon Stebbins / AFM Local 47 contracts 4913-117858, 7053-117980, 1552-129322, 5792-138003, 6452-133669, 6709-138111, 7194-138094, 7195-138095, 7192-138102, 7193-138104, 7937-3399876, 7938-399877, 797-148781, 2844-124185, 2845-124186, 3304-153692, 3021-153684, 3183-153681, 3182-153682, 3020-153685, 3638-153686, 3844-155595, 3635-153687, 4035-153688, 4038-153689, 4039-153690, 5128-153691, 9068-153368, 7378-140282
UNDER THE MOONLIGHT
Written: Words/Music - Carli Muñoz
Arranged: Dennis Wilson and Carli Muñoz / Horns arranged by Michael Andreas
Electric lead guitars: Ed Carter (solos) / Terry (last name unknown)
Electric rhythm/lead guitars: Jeff Legg and Steve Ross / Ed Carter / Ed Carter
Electric bass guitar: Wayne Tweed
Acoustic grand piano: Carli Muñoz
Tack upright piano: Sterling Smith
Hohner D-6 clavinet: Dennis Wilson ?
Trumpets: John Foss / John Foss, Lance Buller, Richard Hurwitz
Trombones: Lance Buller / Glenn Ferris and Vincent Fanuele
Tenor saxophones: Michael Andreas / Michael Andreas and Joel Peskin
Baritone saxophones: Rod Novak / Rod Novak
Hand claps: ??
PRODUCED BY DENNIS WILSON & CARLI MUÑOZ
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Thursday April 27, 1978, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Lead guitars recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, circa late April-May 1978
Horns recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Monday May 22, 1978, 12:30pm-3:30pm
Additional horns recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Thursday May 25, 1978, 10:15am-1:15pm
Vocals recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Monday June 12, 1978
EDIT & MIX PRODUCED BY JOHN HANLON (with Gregg Jakobson and Jon Stebbins in attendance)
Edited & mixed at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Wednesday November 14-Friday November 16, 2007
ADDITIONAL MIXING BY JOHN HANLON with JAMES WILLIAM GUERCIO (with Gregg Jakobson, Jon Stebbins, and Rob Santos in attendance)
The first of four Carli Muñoz-composed and co-produced tracks intended for Bambu, the bodacious rocker "Under The Moonlight" was written circa 1975 on a transatlantic plane flight (probably returning from The Beach Boys' appearance at the Wembley Festival in London). Carli and Dennis initially held a session for the backing track on April 26, 1978 (11:00am-2:00pm), with a lineup of Jeff Legg and Steve Ross on guitars, Dave Hessler on bass, Gary Mallaber on drums, and Carli and Sterling Smith on pianos. This version apparently was not to their liking, for they re-recorded the song the very next day, with a different drummer and bass player (as indicated in the final credits above). The horns required two sessions to perfect as well (May 22nd and 25th, the second session apparently devoted to doubling the parts recorded on the 22nd, but with a larger ensemble) and coincidentally so did the final mix (see below).
In addtion to the guitars played by Legg and Ross on the basic tracking session, several additional guitar parts were eventually overdubbed by no less than three players: Ed Carter, someone named "Terry", and Carl Wilson (NOTE: the "Terry" in question was not Terry Kath of Chicago, as his untimely death had occurred on January 23rd of that year). The final solo was played by Ed Carter, who also overdubbed two rhythm guitar parts. According to Carli Muñoz, Carl recorded a solo for this song that was "absolutely fantastic", but it was accidentally erased (a track designation for Carl's guitar remains on the track sheet). On June 12th, Dennis overdubbed his double-tracked vocals, while clavinet and two tracks of hand claps were also added at some point to round out the production.
Dennis rocks out in his gruff, road-weary voice, singing of the joys of being "a rock 'n' roll star". Bassist Wayne Tweed recalls "We all dug his voice...I worked with Smokey Robinson, but Dennis' (voice) kicked. The first time I heard Dennis' voice from the vocal booth it was exciting. He impressed me! Dennis' voice was over-the-top for me. His voice was crusty, raspy - like his face. He was the total package." As Andrew G. Doe put it in his review of the Bamboo bootlegs when they first began to circulate (STOMP No. 43, June 1984), "Carl may try to rock but Denny knew how without even breaking sweat."
Hanlon did a preliminary mix in November 2007, and Guercio, a master of horn-rock production from his days of working with Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears, dialed in the brass section to perfection (and also tweaked the pianos) during his visit to L.A. the following January. The final 2007-2008 mix brings out all kinds of instrumentation previously buried on the bootleg, including the barrel-house pianos, multiple lead guitar parts, and the pumping baritone sax.
IT'S NOT TOO LATE
Written: Words/Music - Carli Muñoz; additional lyrics by Dennis Wilson
Arranged: Dennis Wilson and Carli Muñoz
Lead vocals: Dennis Wilson (verses) / Carl Wilson (choruses and final verse response)
Chorus lead vocal double: Karen Lamm
Fender Rhodes electric piano: Carli Muñoz
Hohner D-6 clavinets (one w/harmonizer, one w/Leslie effect): Dennis Wilson / Carli Muñoz
Hammond B-3 organ: Carli Muñoz
Electric lead/rhythm guitar (w/Leslie effect): Steve Ross
Glockenspiel: Dennis Wilson
Violins: Sid Sharp (leader), Joy Lyle, Murray Adler, Henry Ferber, Isabelle Daskoff, William Kurasch, Marilyn Baker, Laury Jarvis
Violas: Herschel Wise, Samuel Boghossian
Cellos: Robert Adcock, Raymond Kelley, Jerome Kessler
Upright basses (arco): Arni Egilsson, Robert Stone
Strings conducted by Michael Andreas
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Thursday May 18, 1978, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Strings recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Wednesday May 24, 1978, 11:00am-2:00pm
Harp recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Saturday July 15, 1978, 9:00am-12:00pm
Mixed at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Tuesday January 1-Friday January 4, 2008
Composed by Carli Muñoz circa 1967-'68; Dennis contributed some lyrics to the second verse when he recorded it (according to Dan Addington's website denniswilsondreamer.com). This touching ballad was given a huge production treatment in the studio by Dennis and Carli, and brother Carl came in to do a lead vocal cameo (doubled in places by Karen Lamm, whom Dennis would marry for the second time on July 28th). The "everything but the kitchen sink" approach to production includes multiple keyboards, harp, a large string section (conducted by Beach Boys horn player Michael Andreas), and a full choir. According to Carli, the string arrangement is just an "on the fly" "pad" part, because Dennis was so eager to record it, there was no time to develop a "full" arrangement. Carli goes on to say there is a "full live tabernacle choir also lurking behind", which he now confirms to be Dennis' frequent guest stars, the Voices Of Inpiration from Compton's Double Rock Baptist Church. There is evidence to suggest the choir replaced a brass and woodwind section which was added the day after the string session...the contract for May 25th's "Under The Moonlight" horn overdub session also lists another title, "Can't Wait Too Long". The latter song may be an alternate title for "It's Not Too Late", or it could be for an entirely different Dennis Wilson song for which there is no other documentation (or it could in fact be a reference to the then-unrelased 1967/68 Beach Boys song of that name...but that's unlikely). The contract for the July 15th harp overdub bears the title "Baby Blue" and wasn't written up until February 5, 1979, but since an earlier contract (dated January 31, 1978) was already submitted for harp (and horn) on "Baby Blue", it seems more likely that someone forgot to pay Gayle Levant for her harp work on "It's Not Too Late" but confused that song with "Baby Blue" when production was wrapping up for L.A. (Light Album), thus explaining the contract drawn up on February 5th of '79.
Carli also speaks of the night Carl came in to record his vocal: "To me, that was so precious, and so, it's like, magical, because Dennis and Carl had been going through turmoil at the time. And they were, almost barely on speaking terms, but not because they hated each other, because...there was a lot of pain going on in-between...a lot of pain that had to do with Brian, y'know the Brian and Dr. Landy situation was going on...Murry had passed away...there was so much, and it was so emotional, that Carl came to the studio, and he was crazy, and everybody was crazy, I mean when I'm telling you everybody was crazy, Dennis was crazy that night (this was done at night), (and) Carl was out of his mind, y'know, a rare thing for Carl." On another occasion, Carli recalled "The most exciting and transcendent moment was when Carl came in and did his vocal on "It's Not Too Late". They had been in conflict with each other and the emotion was profound." Finally, Carli shared with author Ken Sharp his recollections that "the Double (Rock) Baptist Choir was going to sing the part that Carl eventually sang...What's even more amazing is that he did it in one take." Also present that night was Jim Guercio: "I told Carl that he could do a solo album too, but let Dennis do this (first), and Carl then supported Dennis." Wayne Tweed, who played bass on this cut, recalls, "When you went to work for Dennis, you set your time aside. I think I can speak for everyone when I say, 'We always looked forward to working with Dennis.' He was a quiet producer; he let you play."
Fading out slowly to end with a final swrill of harp, "It's Not Too Late" was described by Andrew Doe as "Manna to the faithful...but probably heavy going for the average listener." Of all the tunes that he and Dennis produced together, Carli says "'It's Not Too Late' is the most finished work and representative of what was possible." The released mix brings the strings and choir up to a more discernible level, while scaling back the massive drum reverb that was present on the bootlegged rough mix.
Arranged: Dennis Wilson / Choral vocals arranged by Dennis Wilson and Alexander Hamilton ?
Backing vocals: Karen Lamm-Wilson, Phoebe Noel
Choral vocals: The Double Rock Baptist Church Voices Of Inspiration Choir ?
Mellotron: Dennis Wilson
Electric lead/rhythm guitars: John Etheridge and Ed Carter
Congas: Oliver C. Brown
Shaker: Oliver C. Brown
Choir conducted by Alexander Hamilton ?
Count-in voice: Hal Blaine
Working title: NEW GIRL
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Friday August 20, 1976, 10:30am-1:30pm
Edited & mixed at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Tuesday November 27-Wednesday November 28, 2007
An outtake from the summer '76 POB sessions, this is logged as "New Girl" on the AFM contract, although this could well be someone's mishearing of "School Girl" rather than an actual original, alternate title. Dennis handles the keyboards, Hal Blaine drums (and also adds crash and ride cymbal overdubs in the coda), John Etheridge (from the jazz-rock outfit Soft Machine) is on guitar, while Ed Carter also plays guitar as well as overdubbing the high-register Fender bass notes (played fast with a hard pick) that are enhanced by Dennis' lower Moog bass. The congas in the coda are played by percussionist Oliver C. Brown (not to be confused with Ollie E. Brown, The Rolling Stones' percussionist at the time). Backup vocals are definitely provided by Karen Lamm and Phoebe Noel, along with the choir. Curiously, the released mix is missing the shouted scat vocals (and most of Hal's cymbal overdub) in the coda, but retains two tracks of choir parts, while the bootleg mix contains all of the vocals and cymbal overdubs but is missing the congas. Dennis' lead vocal had been wiped from the multi-track, so Hanlon had to "fly it in" from a vintage 2-track rough mix.
One of the most musically interesting Bambu cuts, it is also one of the most "commercial" sounding, in spite of the lyrical theme. To quote Mr. Doe once again, it is "guaranteed to give any parent hypertension; nor is this a feminist song!" According to Gregg Jakobson, "School Girl" was originally to incorporate the lyrics "I looked at her and thought we should / She looked at me and I knew we would". Interestingly, Dennis began reworking this song in 1977, recording a new tag that ultimately went unused, but provided the compositional foundation for "Baby Blue". NOTE: at the beginning of the released "School Girl" mix we hear drummer Hal Blaine's comical count-in: "Ready - Aim - Unnh".
LOVE REMEMBER ME
Written: Music - Dennis Wilson / Words - Stephen Kalinich, with Dennis Wilson and Gregg Jakobson
"A" Section
Harmony vocal: Dennis Wilson
Backing & Harmony vocals: Trisha Campo Roach, Phoebe Noel, Baron Stewart ? / Billy Hinsche ? / Carl Wilson ? / Gerry Beckley
and Dewey Bunnell ? / Dennis Wilson
Acoustic lead guitars: Ed Carter
Acoustic rhythm guitar: Ed Carter
Upright bass: James Jamerson
Clarinet: Michael Andreas
Flute: Michael Andreas
Tenor flute: Michael Andreas
Alto flute: Michael Andreas
"B" Section
Response vocals: Dennis Wilson
Wurlitzer electric piano (through guitar amp w/fuzztone): Dennis Wilson
Electric lead guitar: John Hanlon
12-string electric lead guitar: Carl Wilson ? or Earle Mankey ?
Drums & tambourine: Hal Blaine
Sleighbells: Hal Blaine
Vibraphone: Dennis Wilson
French horn: David Duke
Flügelhorn: David Duke
Working titles: I DON'T KNOW / SOMETHING NEW TAG
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Thursday March 3, 1977, 2:00pm-5:00pm
Vocals recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, probably early to mid August 1977
MIX & EDIT PRODUCED BY JOHN HANLON (with Gregg Jakobson and Jon Stebbins in attendance)
Mixed & edited at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Wednesday December 5-Thursday December 6, 2007
In March 1977, Hal Blaine commented to David Leaf on a recent Dennis Wilson recording session he had participated in at Brother. Based on the known chronology, the date of this conversation appears to have been Friday March 4th, and the session Hal was referring to was for this song, recorded the day before. Hal said, "You know, Dennis' stuff is great. Great! Dennis blew me away yesterday. He sat at the piano and played like I've never heard him play. And he hurt his back really bad. He had an accident on roller skates on Wednesday. Real bad. He was doubled over; he's in a wheelchair. Hopefully, he's at the doctor now. But he sat at the wheelchair yesterday and started playing. And I'm telling him...he's so prone to accidents. And, you know, I don't know anything about karma and all of that kind of thing, but my only thought was maybe God or somebody keeps laying him up so he has to sit at the piano and practice. He's really playing good piano. To me, the tapes sounded just great. They were gigantic, explosive...the stuff we did."
Recorded in separate sections (labeled as "I Don't Know" and "Something New Tag", and edited together by Hanlon during the mixdown process in 2007), this is one of Dennis' best and most epic creations. Per the AFM contract, Ed Carter and James Jamerson both played double parts, with Jamerson seemingly playing both an upright and an electric bass part. Michael Andreas is logged as contributing four clarinet and flute parts. David Duke played both French horn (an instrument he played on "Surf's Up" from the SMiLE sessions a decade earlier) and flügelhorn. The tambourine sounds as though it was hit in tandem with the snare and floor tom, implying it was attached to Hal's kit. Soon after the initial session, Hanlon overdubbed the wailing electric guitar that comes in toward the song's end, and the descending 12-string riffs were likely added by either Earle Mankey or Carl Wilson. Dennis' lead and harmony vocals were combined onto one track to make room for other parts. Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell of America, who were at Brother Studio in August of '77 to help out on former bandmate Dan Peek's solo album, were drafted by Dennis to sing backup on some of his sessions; based on aural evidence, this song is the most likely example of their contribution to Dennis' work. Dennis had recorded three completely separate attempts at the song's tag (or "B" Section), each of which contained elements unique from the other two (and one of which had leaked out on bootlegs); all three were combined in Pro Tools and mixed together by Hanlon (using a rough mix cassette from the original 1977 sessions as a reference) to create the final version.
This song moves from a gentle, pondering ballad to a thunderous, gigantic Spector-style production, with the full force of the Double Rock Baptist Choir unleashed behind Dennis' growling "C'mon...c'mon...c'mon...C'MON!" recitations. A true gem that was long overdue in seeing the light of day. NOTE: lyricist Steve Kalinich recalls, "It was the only song I ever wrote with Dennis where I didn't write the lyrics first. It was easy to fall into the feeling of the music."
LOVE SURROUNDS ME
Written: Music - Dennis Wilson, with Geoffrey Cushing-Murray / Words - Geoffrey Cushing-Murray
Lead vocals: Dennis Wilson (double-tracked in places)
Backing vocals: Christine McVie, Dennis Wilson
Fender Rhodes electric pianos: Dennis Wilson / Carli Muñoz
Acoustic grand pianos: Dennis Wilson / Carli Muñoz
Oberheim synthesizers: Dennis Wilson / Phil Shenale (cricket & whistle sounds in closing vamp)
Electric lead/rhythm guitars: Ed Carter
Dobro slide guitar: Neil LeVang (in closing vamp only)
Electric bass guitar: Joe Chemay
Drums: Bobby Figueroa / Dennis Wilson (accents only)
Tympani: Dennis Wilson or Bobby Figueroa
Tambourine: Steve Forman
Mark-tree & Bell-tree: Steve Forman
Modern cabasa: Steve Forman (in closing vamp only)
PRODUCED BY DENNIS WILSON / ED ROACH (Seattle session)
Working titles: LOVE SURROUNDS YOU / LOVE'S AROUND ME
Basic Fender Rhodes track recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Wednesday January 18, 1978
Additional keyboards recorded at Kaye-Smith Recorders Studio B, Seattle, WA, Sunday July 16, 1978, post-concert
Piano, original bass, drums & tympani recorded at Criteria Studio C, Miami, FL, Wednesday August 30-Friday September 1, 1978
Final bass track recorded at Sounds Good Recording, West Los Angeles, CA, Monday November 13, 1978, 7:00pm-10:00pm
Engineers: Bill Fletcher, Tom Murphy
Dobro, percussion & Oberheim recorded at Britannia Studio, West Los Angeles, CA, Friday December 8, 1978, 4:00pm-7:00pm and 7:30pm-10:30pm (second session for percussion only)
Engineers: Greg Venable, Tom Murphy
Lead vocal recorded at Crimson Sound, Santa Monica, CA, Tuesday January 2, 1979
Lead vocal in second verse re-recorded (and other unspecified overdubs - possibly Oberheim & Moog - added) at Britannia Studio, West Los Angeles, CA, Wednesday January 3, 1979
Unspecified overdub added at Sounds Good Recording, West Los Angeles, CA, Friday January 5, 1979
Christine McVie's vocals & Dennis/Christine harmonies recorded at Dirk Dalton Recorders, Santa Monica, CA, Friday January 5, 1979
Guitars & additional keyboards recorded at Westlake Audio Studio B?, West Hollywood, CA, Tuesday January 9, 1979, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Unspecified overdub added at Westlake Audio Studio B?, West Hollywood, CA, Saturday January 20, 1979
Unspecified overdub added at Westlake Audio Studio B?, West Hollywood, CA, Sunday January 21, 1979
Engineers: Joel Moss, Tom Murphy
Unspecified overdub added at Kendun Recorders, Wednesday January 24, 1979
Engineers: Tom Murphy, Steve Williams
Edited & mixed at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Wednesday December 19-Thursday December 20, 2007
The Bambu song with the longest documented production history, "Love Surrounds Me" was, of course, also included on The Beach Boys' L.A. (Light Album) in 1979. The tracking and overdub sessions for this song dragged on intermittently for over a year, during which time it grew from a Dennis Wilson track with no lyrics or vocals, to a fully-produced and released Beach Boys cut. During that time, Dennis remarried Karen, filed to divorce her, met and moved in with Christine McVie, and eventually added Christine's vocals to this recording.
The basic track for this song stems from a January 18, 1978 session at Brother, at which Dennis apparently laid down the main Fender Rhodes part accompanied by a click track, although other parts were likely added as well, some of which may have been erased over the course of the production. By the time Brother was sold that July, Dennis was traveling the country (on tour with The Beach Boys), and bringing the master tape along to record overdubs wherever the inspiration struck him. Ed Roach, Beach Boys photographer and Dennis' traveling companion: "As for 'Love Surrounds Me', I had a greater hand in co-producing that track than any other I worked on with Dennis through the years...he worked on that song in probably a dozen studios, all over the country! I carried the 2-inch master with us whenever we went on tour, so if he was inspired, we could book studio time. He actually let me full on produce a session for it in the state of Washington, when we brought a couple of lady friends from the concert to the session with us..." This would be Kaye-Smith (probably Studio B) in Seattle, with Dennis' personal engineer Tom Murphy (also part of the Boys' touring entourage) at the controls. To Ed's recollection, Dennis added some additional keyboard parts to the track in Seattle. The following day at Kaye-Smith, Dennis added overdubs to an unreleased track called "Lord Let Me Out Of Here", and he and Carl taped their final lead vocals on "Baby Blue" either that day or the next.
Built into The Beach Boys' touring schedule that summer was a weeklong layover in Miami, where they had booked session time at Criteria Studios to work on their next album (their first group effort for CBS/Caribou). Although Carl Wilson claimed (in a radio interview promoting the Light Album) that Dennis started "Love Surrounds Me" in Miami, then finished it in L.A., it's obvious that it was already in production by the time the Boys hit Miami in late August - although much of the basic instrumentation was apparently added at that time. At Criteria, Dennis had a smaller studio (Studio C), while Brian produced tracking and vocal sessions for the group across the lot in the larger Studio A (Tom Murphy was engineering for Dennis at Criteria, while the group flew in Chuck Britz to work with Brian). Bobby Figueroa recalls being at the Miami golf resort where the band and their entourage were staying, when he was summonded by Dennis to come down to Criteria: "When I got to the studio, Dennis was already there...it was me, Dennis, Carli Muñoz and Ed Carter...We laid down the basic track for 'Love Surrounds Me'...I was very familiar with the track, so we may have jammed at soundcheck, or previously worked on it at Brother Studio." Ed Roach recalls that Dennis also got into recording extra drums for this tune in Miami, and had him and the roadies carry his drums out to the hallway and help set them up, to get an "echoey" stairway effect (best heard at a couple of points toward the end of the Bambu mix, e.g. following the line "Making the love I've been missing" and again in the tag). At Criteria, Eddie says Dennis "kept coming and dragging me away from the big studio (where Brian was producing), to give him a hand and lend moral support" while working on this song and "Baby Blue". Two rough mixes of the "Love Surrounds Me" instrumental track, evidently originating from the Miami stage of the production, have surfaced on bootlegs; among notable elements there are sleighbells (in the coda) which didn't make it to the final mix, and the early, alternate Ed Carter bass line which was later replaced.
In Billy Hinsche's DVD documentary "Dennis Wilson Forever", Carl's friend and songwriting partner Geoffrey Cushing-Murray states that this song was just a track of "very nice back-groundy" music, pretty well "fleshed out" arrangement-wise, but with only an implied melody and the apparent title of "Love's Around Me" - until Carl and Jimmy Guercio decided to get Dennis more involved in the Light Album (as Cushing-Murray puts it, Bambu was going nowhere "for whatever reason", so Jimmy said they were going to "make Dennis get involved" with the group's album). Jimmy G. gave Geoffrey a cassette of the track and told him to see what he could come up with. Geoffrey wrote the lyrics and developed the melody, which he says Dennis had great reservations about initially, since the result was so different from what he envisioned for the song. In the meantime, Carl produced Dennis' vocal for "Angel Come Home", a song he and Geoffrey had cowritten sometime earlier (while Geoffrey was banished to the hallway outside the studio due to Dennis' overbearing self-conciousness), and upon hearing the results of that song, Dennis became more accepting of Geoffrey and his vision for "Love Surrounds Me".
From November '78 to January '79, there were no less than twelve "Love Surrounds Me" overdub sessions (documented by AFM contracts and CBS Records invoices) held at six different studios, plus an additional seven dedicated mixdown sessions at three studios (including the legendary Record Plant) from January through early February. Despite the long-held assumption by many fans that the "sweetening" of Dennis' track was done under the supervision of Bruce Johnston or the other Beach Boys, it is clear from the documentation and the recollections of those involved that Dennis himself produced nearly all of these sessions. At the first of these Beach Boys-sanctioned, Dennis-produced overdub sessions, Joe Chemay recut the bass part at Sounds Good; at the next session, held at Britannia Studio, dobro and banjo were played by Neil LeVang and Walt Meskell respectively, although the banjo was discarded (LeVang is the smiling guitar player seen in The Lawrence Welk Show, and Meskell played extensively for C.W. McCall and Mannheim Steamroller). Over the course of a double session that day, Phil Shenale added two more tracks of Oberheim synthesizer, and Steve Forman did multiple percussion overdubs. Geoffrey Cushing-Murray was present for the percussion session, and recalls Forman dropping the shaker (which sounds like a modern cabasa) in the coda; Dennis liked the resulting rattling sound so much he left it on the recording. The last "LSM" session of the year saw The Beach Boys (probably just Bruce, Carl and Dennis) add group background vocals to the song in a Bruce Johnston-produced session, also attended by Geoffrey; due to licensing issues, The Beach Beach Boys' background vocals were left off the 2008 Bambu mix of "Love Surrounds Me" ("Baby Blue" was left out of the collection entirely for the same reason).
Geoffrey was also present at the early January '79 lead vocal sessions, which he says involved just Dennis, an engineer, and himself. For the first of these, Dennis returned to the former Brother Studio, which had been renamed Crimson Sound by its new owners - undoubtedly, this was a bittersweet session for Dennis. The following day at Britannia, he redid his lead in the second verse, while also adding some additional, unspecified overdubs; two days later, he returned to Sounds Good for another unspecified overdub. After this, Dennis went in on his own with Christine to add their background vocals (Dennis had reportedly flown back up to Seattle with Christine at some point, for a listening session at Kaye-Smith - however, the background parts she and Dennis sang were actually added at Dirk Dalton's studio in Santa Monica, according to both Tom Murphy and supporting evidence from the CBS files). A January 9th session at Westlake saw Ed Carter add two electric guitar parts, while Dennis put on the finishing keyboard touches. After this, the mixdown sessions began - mostly at Westlake, but also at Kendun Recorders (a Bruce Johnston-produced session) and The Record Plant - and ran through February 5th. Along the way, additional (mostly unspecified) overdubs were tried, including a session at Sounds Good on January 23rd, in which Joel Peskin added three woodwind parts that were eventually wiped from the master tape. Two other rough mixes of "Love Surrounds Me" have made the rounds on bootlegs for several years - both include all of the vocals (Dennis', Christine's, and The Beach Boys'), Steve Forman's percussion, and the Oberheim cricket sound effects - but only one includes the dobro and middle break synth elements, and neither includes the electric guitar parts added at the January 9th session - indicating these mixes probably predate the January 9th overdub session and the start of the official mixdown sessions on January 11th.
Dark and brooding with a slow funk undercurrent, this track paints a bleak picture of Dennis' outlook at the time. Desolate as it may be, it is nonetheless beautiful, and Hanlon's new mix adds clarity to many previously murky elements; especially noteworthy are Christine McVie's haunting background vocals throughout.
WILD SITUATION
Backing vocals: Carl Wilson (falsetto), Bruce Johnston, Dennis Wilson / Phoebe Noel and Trisha Campo Roach?
Dobro rhythm/slide guitars: Dennis Wilson ?
Acoustic rhythm guitars: Carl Wilson ?
Electric rhythm guitar: Carl Wilson
Harmonicas: Dennis Wilson
Violins: Isabelle Daskoff, Ronald Folsom, Harris Goldman, William Kurasch, Joy Lyle, Tibor Zelig
Violas: William Hymanson, Harry Hyams, Linn Subotnick
Cellos: Robert Adcock, Raymond Kelley, Joel Levin
Upright basses (arco): Arni Egilsson, Peter Mercurio
Strings conducted by Jeff Legg
Original title: (I FOUND MYSELF IN A) WILD SITUATION
Basic track recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, circa 1975 ?
Bass recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Monday October 10, 1977, 10:00am-3:00pm
Strings recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Friday February 3, 1978, 3:00pm-6:00pm
Guitars & lead vocal recorded at Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO, circa mid-February 1978
Engineer: Jeff Guercio ?
Backing vocals & harmonicas recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, circa late-February 1978
Engineer: Tom Murphy ?
"(I Found Myself In A) Wild Situation" (as it was originally known) reportedly dates back a few years prior to the Bambu sessions, perhaps even to the early '70s - and according to one rumor was originally about the Manson girls, before Dennis and Gregg revised the lyrics. The earliest master tape for the song could well be 16-track (there is a track sheet for this reel that goes up to Track 16, but this could simply mean that only the first 16 tracks of a 24-track tape were utilized - since 2" tape was used for both formats, it's difficult to tell...all the same, this seems to be a bit too coincidental to be the case). This was a Brother Studio session (piano-bass-drums-fuzz guitar-slide guitar), but it's unclear if any of these elements are the ones used in the final production - Alan Boyd reports that the bass and drums from this early version are "very different", and the tempo of the two takes from this session that exist on a rough mix reel is "substantially slower".
At any rate, Dennis resumed work on the song in the fall of '77: on October 10th, he held two sessions at Brother for overdubs, which included bassist James Jamerson, saxophonists Rod Novak and Michael Andreas, trumpeter Bill Lamb, and someone named James Marshall (instrument unknown). Jamerson's bass was apparently all that was kept from these overdubs. (NOTE: on the relevant AFM contract, below the artist name of DENNIS WILSON, the words PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE can be seen typed over with "X"s...since this session was held in the midst of preparations for Dennis' scrubbed tour, it's possible that he at first intended on calling his road band "Pacific Ocean Blue", before settling on the name "Bamboo", as previously reported). The following February 3rd, a 14-piece string section (contracted by Gregg Jakobson and conducted by Jeff Legg) was added to this song (and to "Baby Blue") at Brother. Curiously, the artist and employer for this session are logged, respectively, as "The Beach Boys" and "Brother Records" on the AFM contract, rather than "Dennis Wilson" and "Caribou Records" as expected - indicating Dennis may have considered at this point donating both songs to the band's upcoming album effort. From there, the 24-track master was taken to Colorado for some sessions at the Caribou Ranch.
Alice from BBFUN (Beach Boys Freaks United) reported in the fan club's February '78 newsletter: "I just talked to Dennis Wilson, and he informs me that, before the concert tour, the Beach Boys next album and also his own next solo album are going to finish being recorded at the Caribou Ranch"; the tour referred to here is the group's trek to New Zealand and Australia, which began in late-February. While at Caribou, the Boys (or at least the Wilson Brothers) apparently worked on overdubs for Brian's "Shortenin' Bread", Carl's "Angel Come Home", and Dennis' "Baby Blue" and "Wild Situation". By the time the tape left Caribou, most of the remaining elements seemed to be in place, including the guitars and Dennis' "guide" vocal (which ultimately became the "master" vocal, for lack of any other being recorded). Back in L.A., the background vocals were added (several tracks of Carl, Bruce and Dennis harmonizing - with Carl singing a great high part similar to his falsetto on "Good Timin'" - plus two distinct female vocal groups), along with Dennis' two harmonica parts. Gregg Jakobson: "He'd grab girls off the street, or he'd go to the restaurant that night, and he'd bring back a couple of girls to sing background parts." It is unknown if the girls who sang on "Wild Situation" were recruited in such a way, or if they were in fact Dennis' regular contributors Trisha Campo Roach and Phoebe Noel.
Carl Wilson plays the distorted "fuzzy" rhythm guitar, and there are also two tracks of acoustic guitar and dobro. Jon Stebbins heard the isolated tracks at the 2007 mixdown session, and believes at least one of these parts is played by Dennis: "...it's a rhythm part, perhaps even chords on a dobro...and we were all sure it was Dennis when we heard it separated on the multitrack...it had that mid-tempo feel and it was part of the early building block of the track."
Lastly, it's worth noting that the infamous "obscene" line - which Dennis is heard singing at the conclusion of a bootleged rough mix - had long ago been erased from the master tape, which is why it is not included on the official 2008 Bambu release. As Stebbins puts it, "Dennis had already gone in and put a harmony stack on top of it. It's obvious he didn't want it on the final version. The boot version comes from an earlier Tom Murphy reference mix. But Dennis worked on it after that." In addition to the rough mix described here, there are also two other such vintage mixes making the rounds amond collectors - one of the instrumental track with no vocals, and the other with harmonica and one set of female backing vocals to the fore, but no lead vocal. With so many contrasting and competing vocal parts going on in the background, it was up to John Hanlon to sort through them and, through Pro Tools editing, create a final chorus and tag section for the song that is worthy of release. Hanlon's mix also brings the appropriate "punchiness" to the guitar and drums on this longtime fan favorite.
Arranged: Dennis Wilson, Tommy Smith, Sterling Smith, and Dave Hessler
Acoustic grand pianos: Dennis Wilson (including backwards intro)
Upright bass (arco): Putter Smith
Electric bass guitar: Dave Hessler
Drums: Tommy Smith
Hammond B-3 organ (pipe organ setting): Dennis Wilson
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Monday April 3, 1978, 8:00pm-11:00pm
Additional parts possibly recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Thursday April 13, 1978, 11:00am-2:00pm
"Common" is a song which was meant to have vocals, but since none were ever recorded, it remains an instrumental track...and a very interesting one, too, as it presents a rare Dennis foray into "space-rock". Sounding similar to something by Todd Rundgren's Utopia, "Common" was recorded by Dennis, Carli Muñoz, and Sterling Smith (all on keyboards), Tommy Smith on drums, onetime Beach Boys onstage sideman Patrick Verne (aka "Putter") Smith - no relation - on arco (bowed) upright bass, and presumably Dave Hessler on electric bass. Tommy Smith describes the basic tracking session for "Common" this way: "That tune was the two of us playing in the studio, Dennis on piano and me on drums. Then we went into the "booth", as the British call it, and ran the Moogs into the board direct to record my brother Sterling overdubbing the bass." From there, Carli Muñoz added some Rhodes electric piano and Putter Smith overdubbed the bowed bass, with a further addition of electric bass likely being made by Hessler. Notations on the track sheet indicate that a click track was also used, probably to keep Dennis on tempo in the intro (prior to Tommy's entrance on drums), and to allow Tommy to easily play the tom fills without having to worry about holding down the tempo. Further notations indicate that more acoustic piano was overdubbed, and that some of the piano tracks contain "leakage" from the drum kit. NOTE: the AFM contract for the April 3rd session omits Tommy Smith's and Dave Hessler's names, however they are added to a contract from April 13th for overdubs on "Common" and "He's A Bum" (the latter being a remake of a song originally tracked in August '77...see below for more info). This could be explained by the fact that Smith and Hesser were still members of the Ohio branch of the AFM (Local 103), rather than the L.A. branch (Local 47, to which Tommy's brother Sterling belonged), and therefore there was a delay in clearing them for studio work in Hollywood...or, it could mean that the omission of their names was a mere oversight, one which was caught and corrected ten days later. But based on the evidence and the recollections of the participants, the drums were recorded on the 3rd and not the 13th, although some additional parts could very well have been added on the later date.
The Smith Brothers (Sterling and Tommy) were members with Hessler of a "prog rock" group called The Load, and friends of engineer Tom Murphy, whom they knew from their hometown of Columbus, Ohio. By the late '70s, they had relocated to L.A. and were playing the club circuit there. Tommy Smith: "Dennis used to come see us play and was blown away by my drumming; he used to say, 'You play rings around me.' I would say, 'Well, you play in the center of the ring'. Dennis was a great drummer. Dennis was, I believe, always looking for some new energy and sound, and The Load had that potential for him." Tommy is quick to add that Dennis' humble comparison of their individual drumming talents stemmed from the difference in their styles, and the technical prowess neccesitated by the kind of music Tommy was playing, rather than any real musical inferiority on Dennis' part: "To my knowledge, Dennis never listened to Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and groups where many notes on all intruments were part of the music. In fact when cruising with him he was either playing his new recordings, POB, or old Beach Boys. I particularly remember riding in his Rolls, and he had the Little Duece Coupe album just BLASTING out of the system, songs like 'The Ballad of Betsy', or whatever that title was. Anyway, here I come into his world, 4 toms across the front, many cymbals, and he is watching me hit all of them fairly quickly!...What we now call "Prog" drumming was new to him, as far as I could tell. All of this is retrospect. I was 22 and 23 years old when I was recording with him, life was still new to me." The close-mic'd drum sound of "Common" and several other tracks on Bambu is indicative of a difference in the engineering approach of Tom Murphy, compared to the room-mic'd ambient feel preferred by Earle Mankey and John Hanlon.
Opening with a quick burst of backwards-recorded piano, "Common" moves through three distinct segments, the second of which borrows the piano arpeggio from Dennis' then-unreleased Christmas song "Holy Evening". The third segment introduces a pipe organ sound, which drones away as the cut fades out. An intriguing musical experiment, even in its unfinished instrumental form.
ARE YOU REAL?
Arranged: Dennis Wilson, Sterling Smith, Tommy Smith, and Dave Hessler
Hammond B-3 organ: Sterling Smith
ARP String Ensembles (sped-up then slowed-down): Dennis Wilson / Sterling Smith
Electric lead guitars: Dave Hessler
Working title: DENNIS ORCHESTRA WITH DRUMS AND GUITAR
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, circa mid-1978
Mixed at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Wednesday December 26-Friday December 28, 2007
Engineer: John Hanlon, assisted by Adam Fuller
Another Dennis excursion into the realm of "prog rock", again recorded with the members of The Load. This song incorporates the bridge progression from the unreleased "10,000 Years", and resides on the same 24-track tape as "Thoughts Of You". However, this does not mean this piece necessarily began life at the same time as that last-named song, as Dennis was known to sometimes use blank sections of a partially-recorded tape from earlier sessions (even years earlier in some cases) to record new music. Additionally, Tommy Smith (who played drums on the cut) recalls "...we never overdubbed something he had already recorded, as far as basic tracks go. My brother Sterling and Dave, sure they would do some overdubs, but that song had to be us playing with Dennis on piano, Sterling on organ, Dave on bass and then guitar...Dave had a double-neck which he built, 6-string guitar and then bass, so he might play bass, then overdub the guitar, and my brother would overdub the bass using a Mini-Moog." The fact that no AFM contract has surfaced for this track is not at all surprising, according to Tommy: "We jammed a fair amount at Brother on 'unofficial time', therefore the tape might have rolled without a union contract."
Tommy emphasizes, "Dennis was so nice to us...I think because we were real...two out of three of us were totally straight, never touched his coke...we weren't into that stuff at all, we were there for music. He had a fair amount of leeches around...and we were just a bunch of guys from Ohio going for the music." The music on this particular piece is a great example of "prog" or "classical" rock, very dark and almost gothic, with intense drumming and arpeggiated organ-playing (reminiscent of "Foreplay" by Boston), and many layers of ARP "violins". After singing "Are you my vision?", Dennis cries out in a voice filled with pain, "Why...did you have to go and run away?". After a long instrumental interlude, the track concludes with an abrupt ending ala "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" on The Beatles' Abbey Road. It's intriguing to think of Dennis possibly continuing in the direction of "Common" and "Are Your Real?", had he kept his life and career on track...but, as Tommy Smith puts it, "Of course...he let everything fall apart slowly but surely."
HE'S A BUM
Harmony & Backing vocals: Dennis Wilson, David Leaf and 6 other rock writers
Electric rhythm guitar (w/chorus or delay effect) (sped-up then slowed-down): Carl Wilson
Ukuleles (sped-up then slowed-down): Thom Rotella, David Cohen, and Fred Tackett
Upright bass (sped-up then slowed-down): Alton Hendrickson
Moog bass (sped-up then slowed-down): Dennis Wilson
ARP String Ensembles (one sped-up then slowed-down, one normal speed): Dennis Wilson
Drums (sped-up then slowed-down): Dennis Wilson
Cowbell (sped-up then slowed-down): Dennis Wilson
Count-in: Dennis Wilson
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, circa late July or early August 1977
Ukuleles & bass recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Thursday August 4, 1977, 2:00pm-5:00pm
Engineers: Earle Mankey. John Hanlon
Vocals recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, early or mid-August 1977
Gregg Jakobson: "Some girl told him he was a bum. Dennis kind of agreed with that. He always related to the homeless and Venice Beach street people as his peers. It's really just a very honest description of Dennis at that time." According to Ed Roach, this song "was recorded originally as a Hawaiian-sounding instrumental, then took a whole different twist when it got those lyrics." The track for this two-part song was built pretty much one-piece-at-a-time around Dennis' piano, with later overdubs including Carl's guitar (smoothly processed with delay and/or chorus effects) and two tracks of three ukuleles strummed mandolin-style, to give it the Hawaiian feel (NOTE: most of the instruments on this track appear to have been recorded at a faster speed, to create a special "drunken" effect when played back at normal speed). A number of other instruments and vocal parts were added, but were later wiped from the tape (including tack piano and a submix of horns - the latter possibly performed by James Pankow, Lee Loughnane, and Walter Parazaider of Chicago, according to Jim Guercio). A rough mix of the track, featuring a different lead vocal from Dennis (which was also wiped and replaced by the vocal on the released version), was leaked and circulated among collectors and bootleggers for years, albeit in very low-fi quality. An alternate take (Take 1) from the same session has also been bootlegged, and this instrumental-only take features a prominent marimba (displaying a definite "Margaritaville" influence), along with electric guitar, bass, and drums. Apparently Dennis decided to reject that earlier, shorter take and add overdubs to the later, longer take, which formed the basis for the "master" version.
In late August of '77, while being interviewed by David Leaf, Dennis managed to trick Leaf (and a number of other rock writers) into singing backup on this tune. As Leaf reported in his "Pet Sounds" fanzine, Dennis said, "I want you to come by the studio tonight to watch me record...it's a new approach...a song called 'He's A Bum'. Even has a nasty line in there - 'he likes to do it on his hands and knees'. I know that's terrible but..." Leaf goes on to describe the session: "It's eight hours later, and I'm sitting on the couch in the control room at Brother Studio. Behind me, at the console, Earle Mankey and Gregg Jakobson are discussing the upcoming session. 'I think Dennis now knows he sings better at night,' says Gregg. 'He sings better when he's not singing for anyone,' says Earle. I wonder if they are trying to tell me something? Actually, they're not. I was just the first arrival. A dozen or so writers, publicists, friends and hangers-on eventually trickle in and are milling around waiting for tonight's master of ceremonies. Finally, Dennis bursts in, grabs a drink and heads for the mixing board. Dennis announces, 'We've got all these writers here, and you're going to help me write the lyrics to this song I'm working on called 'He's A Bum'.' He points a finger at me. 'Are you ready, bad boy?' he croons with a puckish grin. The 'new approach' that Dennis had hinted at earlier in the day was a con job...he's going to get 'the observers' to write the song.
"An hour later, even Dennis is disgusted at our word skills, or lack thereof. This motely crew hadn't even come up with one good line in our exercise in songwriting. Dennis hasn't given up on us yet, though. 'Who can sing?': Dennis has struck a nerve in the crowd. Everybody thinks he can sing. We've been taking too many showers, I guess. At any rate, Dennis takes seven of us into the studio to teach us the harmony lines for 'He's A Bum'. It is definitely put-up-or-shut-up time for seven George Plimptons. Ready or not, we don our headphones and become part of the story. Take after take, line after line, we sing the three-part harmony. Dennis leads the way, constantly pushing us, testing us to see if we have our notes. What had started as a lark has quickly become serious business. There's no fooling around in the studio with Dennis. Music is everything to him, and if we are to be a part of that music, we had better give our all. So we all sing out. 'He's a dog without a bone'...'Some people say he lost his way'...'Wonders 'bout God every single night'. And then three tracks of 'oooooooos'. It's a strange sensation. I've watched sessions and I've been singing along with records (and without) for years, but this is real singing. In this two-hour session, I've gotten more insight into how the Beach Boys make records than from all the articles in the world. Dennis was right when he said at the beginning of the night that people understand something so much better once they've done it.
"I do understand. I now can feel how hard it is to sing, how after ten or twenty takes, one wants to be any place but in front of a micorphone. I'm watching Dennis sing the lead for 'He's A Bum' for at least the fiftieth time. Each take, he's motivating himself, as he pushed us background singers. What he's searching for, I don't know. Each vocal sounds perfect to me. Yet, Dennis keeps erasing one vocal and singing another. I ask him what's wrong with take number 51. 'It doesn't have it. I didn't feel anything,' he explains. 'Let's try it again from the top,' he shouts at Earle. There's a special psychology to studio singing, and it can't be picked up in one night.
"When it was all over, Dennis congratulated me. 'You sang. Didn't think you could do it, did you?' Well, yes. Still, it was a lot of fun. Now, maybe I should let Brian know I'm available..." In a mid-'80s interview with BBFUN, Leaf recounted that Dennis also added a lead vocal to another song before that night's session was complete, starting around 10:00 and continuing for the next three hours (the song in question was likely "Love Remember Me" or possibly "Cocktails", as evidence suggests further work was done on both of those recordings in August). Leaf continued, "That day with Dennis didn't end at the studio. Around 1:00 in the morning, when he quit for the day, he said to me, 'C'mon, let's go.' I didn't know where we were going; I just knew that he wanted to drive my car. I have to admit that made me a little nervous, not only because Dennis was a speed racer, but because on the back windshield of my car, I had a bumper sticker that a friend of mine had given to me. It said, 'Warning - I brake for Brian Wilson'...When Dennis saw it, I was just humiliated. I thought, 'He's going to kill me.' And he looked at it, and got all choked up, like he was going to cry. And he said, 'I know exactly what you mean. Everytime I'm driving in my car and one of Brian's songs comes on the radio, I have to pull off to the side of the road.' To me, the bumper sticker was a mean joke, but when Dennis said it like that, it suddenly took on a whole new meaning. I never knew whether he was serious or whether he was putting me on, but he got pretty emotional about it...Anyway, he drove to his house in Venice, and we spent the entire night talking. He played the piano some, played a new song, and he got me to write lyrics to it. That's another beautiful song that never came out. I think the lyric was something like 'Drink up, the bartender said, the night is long and you've been mislead.' And in the chorus, Dennis sang, 'Did it hurt, did it hurt to love again?'. That was a powerful, emotional experience. And that's what Dennis could do to you. We talked 'til dawn, never went to sleep. We discussed different groups we liked, and it turned out we were both big Bruce Springsteen fans. The next morning, a friend of his visited, and around 10 a.m., I went home and slept. I will never forget that day..."
The following April, Dennis would attempt a remake of "He's A Bum", this time in a more calypso-influenced style, with steel drums tinking away. That unbootlegged version (taped Monday April 10th from 8:00pm to 11:00pm) was recorded with Jeff Legg and Steve Ross on guitars, David Kemper on drums, Patrick Verne (aka Putter) Smith on bass, and Sterling Smith on piano, with additional guitar overdubs added three days later. "He's A Bum", the most legendary Bambu song, was actually the first (aside from "Love Surrounds Me") to see official release, by virtue of a cover version by Irish schoolgirl/singer Cherry (on Crashed Records, 1986).
Written: Words - Stephen Kalinich, Dennis Wilson, and Gregg Jakobson / Music - Dennis Wilson with John Hanlon
Solo vocal: Dennis Wilson
Acoustic lead guitar: John Hanlon
Drums & Roto-Toms w/soft mallets: Dennis Wilson
ARP String Ensembles (sped-up then slowed-down - strings & saxophone sounds): Dennis Wilson
Alternate title: IF LOVE HAD ITS WAY
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Wednesday June 1, 1977-early or mid-August 1977
Engineer: John Hanon
Guitar engineered by Dennis Wilson
Mixed at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Sunday January 6, 2008
A lush, romantic ballad in typical DW fashion, this track survives with what must be a rough "scratch" vocal, but nonetheless it ranks among Dennis' best slow songs. This opens with three tracks of subtle choir vocals mixed deep in the intro, and proceeds through a backdrop of shimmering string sounds from the ARP (the sax part designated on the track sheet is also likely from the ARP String Ensemble), and muffled drum fills. Engineer John Hanlon not only plays the jazzy acoustic guitar on this song, but also receives cowriting credit (Jon Stebbins notes that Dennis engineered Hanlon's guitar part from the booth, indicating the two of them may have been the only people in the studio for this part of the recording). The multiple layers of keyboards nearly drown out Dennis' vocal at points, and he seems to have run out of lyrics to sing, "na-na"-ing his way through much of the final verse. He ends his performance by crying "Why don't you say you love me" in English, as well as its Spanish equivalent, "Porque no dice que me quieres". NOTE: Although left off the songwriting credits upon release, the name Stephen John Kalinich appears as one of the writers for "If Love Had It's Way" in the ASCAP database.
According to Alan Boyd, several takes were attempted at the initial session for this song (which was just Dennis on piano), and the "master" was apparently edited out of the reel and spliced into another 2" tape with the master takes of "I Don't Know" (aka "Love Remember Me") and "He's A Bum", in keeping with the standard working methods at Brother in those days. Interestingly, Dennis' closing question "Why don't you say you love me?" is followed in the album's sequence by a song titled "I Love You"...perhaps not coincidentally.
Choral tag vocals: The Double Rock Baptist Church Voices Of Inspiration Choir ? (backwards in places)
Acoustic grand pianos: Dennis Wilson (one w/VSO in tag section)
Hohner D-6 clavinet: Sterling Smith ? or Carli Muñoz ?
Electric lead guitar (w/Leslie, chorus or phase-shifter effect): Dave Hessler ?
Electric bass guitar: Dave Hessler ?
Drums: Bobby Figueroa ?
Recorded at Sounds Good Recording, West Los Angeles, CA, Sunday October 15, 1978
Engineer: Tom Murphy or Bill Fletcher ?
Additional piano & choir in tag section possibly recorded at The Village Recorder Studio B?, West Los Angeles, CA, Wednesday November 1,1978
Engineer: unknown
Mixed & edited at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Monday December 17-Tuesday December 18, 2007
Engineered by John Hanlon, assisted by Doug Tyo
Previously unbootlegged, "I Love You" is, chronologically speaking, the last song to have been started for Bambu. Dennis recorded the basic track at Sounds Good studio on October 15th, and added additional piano and choir vocal parts to the tag section on November 1st - possibly at The Village Recorder. It was at the Village that Dennis met Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, and soon began a two-year relationship with her. At the time, the Mac were camped out in the Village's Studio D (custom-built especially for them), recording their double-album opus Tusk (released October '79)...a small snapshot of Dennis and Christine, holding a baby, is included in one of the inner-sleeve art collages in the Tusk package. However, while engineer Tom Murphy remembers Dennis visiting the Village around this time, he recalls it was with the sole intention of meeting the members of Fleetwood Mac - especially Stevie Nicks! - and he has no recollection of Dennis actually recording at the Village...which means another engineer may have worked the board for those "I Love You" tag overdubs, if they were in fact recorded at the Village. During the course of their relationship, Dennis and Christine reportedly wrote several songs together, and shortly before their breakup at the end of 1980 they would record a few tracks together at Audissey Sound Studio in Honolulu, which apparently remain in Ms. McVie's possession to this day.
The track sheet documentation for "I Love You" reveals that nineteen tracks of choir vocals were recorded for this song; most likely the final eight tracks of the original 24-track tape, and possibly eleven tracks on a second tape, which were then either bounced into two tracks of the first tape, or left on the second tape, which was intended to be synched-up electronically to the first during mixdown (a technique which began to be utilized around 1978 as a way of obtaining up to 48 tracks total). The fact that these choir parts were recorded individually over nineteen tracks could indicate they are the work of a small group of individuals (possibly even just one male and one female singer), rather than a full ensemble. No AFM contract for this song has surfaced, but the playing style suggests Bobby Figueroa on drums, Dave Hessler on guitar and bass, and either Sterling Smith or Carli Muñoz on clavinet.
The soulful "I Love You" is one of those tunes that is good enough and universal enough to have become a "standard", if only Dennis had taken the time to develop it (for instance, by adding a bridge and two strong additional verses); instead, he let the song trail off way too soon, and added a completely-unrelated tag section as a separate piece (which Hanlon had to edit onto the end). Still, it is nice as it stands...an intriguing example of a great "might-have-been", had the composer had the clarity and focus to bring it to a more logical conclusion. NOTE: a reproduction of the lyric sheet, in Dennis' own handwriting, can be seen in the Legacy Edition inner package artwork.
Written: Music - Carli Muñoz / Words - Carli Muñoz and Rags Baker
Arranged: Carli Muñoz / Choral vocals arranged by Dennis Wilson, Carli Muñoz, and Alexander Hamilton ?
Hohner D-6 clavinets: Carli Muñoz (4 total, including one w/wah-wah & one w/harmonizer)
Mini-Moog synthesizer: Carli Muñoz
Electric lead/rhythm guitar: Richard Chavez
Drums: Bobby Figueroa / Dennis Wilson ?
Maestro Rhythm King programmed by: Carli Muñoz
Brazilian percussion: Manolo Badrena
Shaker: Carli Muñoz
Flutes: Michael J. Turre
Trumpets: John Foss and Lance Buller
Alto saxophones: Joel Peskin and Michael Andreas
Tenor saxophones: Joel Peskin and Michael Andreas
Baritone saxophone: Rod Novak
Whistle: Carli Muñoz ?
Opening voices: Dennis Wilson and Carli Muñoz
PRODUCED BY CARLI MUÑOZ & DENNIS WILSON
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Thursday June 8, 1978, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Flutes and horns recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Wednesday July 5, 1978, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Choir possibly recorded at The Village Recorder Studio B?, West Los Angeles, CA, circa late 1978
Written by Carli Muñoz in 1971, with lyrical assistance from his friend Rags Baker, "Constant Companion" is a spiritual-themed, salsa-styled number vastly different from anything else Dennis ever recorded. Carli: "The first time I played 'Companion' for Dennis he practically wanted to do it the same way I recorded it on my 4-track (in my home studio). It had the horns and all - it was basically the same arrangement. Dennis liked the lyrics and the rhythm too. We always talked about spiritual stuff. Dennis believed that we have spiritual guides" (i.e., guardian angels). For the basic track, guitarist Richard Chavez joined Carli and Dennis' regular sidemen Bobby Figueroa and Wayne Tweed; a total of four clavinet parts were incorporated, along with organ and Moog. Wayne Tweed gets a chance to play some funky "slap" style bass here, while drummer Figueroa plays to a backbeat provided by the Rhythm King, the primitive drum machine used on several Beach Boys productions in the early '70s. Once the basics were commited to 24-track tape, Carli brought in Manolo Badrena from the jazz group Weather Report to add some Brazilian percussion overdubs, with what Carli describes as "bits and pieces of drums that were around the studio." The flutes and horns were added in a separate session almost a month later - possibly one of the very last sessions at Brother before the studio was sold. The choir vocals that come in during toward the song's end were apparently a late addition, and could have been added at another studio - such as the Village - after the sale of Brother.
The 2008 Hanlon mix presents a smooth, clean Dennis vocal, the choir singing background lines in the final verse, and adds more "punch" from the guitar and clavinets (especially bringing the wah-wah part to the fore). The rough mix that circulates on bootlegs includes an extended percussion outro, and on some copies, a lengthy intro as well, but lacks the choir. NOTE: the song title is listed as CONSTANT COMPANION on the June 8th AFM contract, and simply as COMPANION on the July 5th contract. 2017 NOTE: Carli Muñoz has since indicated that Dennis had him teach him the drum part for "Constant Companion", and that he spent "hours at the studio by himself working on it." The track sheet info for the song does include a track or two of tom-tom overdubs, which could perhaps be the work of Dennis - hence the ammended drum credit above.
Arranged: Dennis Wilson / Horns arranged by Dennis Wilson and Michael Andreas
Tack upright piano: Carli Muñoz
Electric rhythm guitar: Steve Ross
Congas: Darrell Harris
Cornet: John Foss
Tenor saxophone: Rod Novak
Baritone saxophone: Charlie McCarthy
Opening voice: Gregg Jakobson
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Tuesday October 25, 1977, 12:00pm-3:00pm and/or Wednesday October 26, 1977, 3:00pm-6:00pm
Mixed & edited at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, circa Monday December 31, 2007
Along with "Love Surrounds Me", "Time For Bed" probably has the longest and most confusing recording history of all the Bambu cuts. It was first tracked in late October '77 over a three-day period during a series of sessions primarily devoted to band rehearsals for Dennis' ill-fated tour. As such, we get an idea of what the tour's upbeat numbers might have sounded like live: rollicking, horn-filled blasts of New Orleans-styled swagger (in fact, for years the instrumental track of this tune has been bootlegged under the title "New Orleans"). Early takes of the song, on a reel dated 10/24/77, were rejected. When the master take was achieved at some point over the next two days, horns were added and it was pulled to a compilation reel with other D.W. master takes. Meanwhile, the outtakes from Oct. 25th-26th were put on a comp reel with "Cocktails" session outtakes. At some unknown point, Dennis added a scratch vocal to the master take which pretty much has to be heard to be believed...undoubtedly it was intended merely for "work" purposes, and not for public consumption (on the track sheet, Dennis' vocal is clearly marked "TBE"..."To Be Erased"). Amongst the outrageous topics Dennis sings of are marijuana, beer, wine, dirty needles, and an urge to commit grand theft auto and vehicular homicide.
Apparently "Time For Bed" was a song Dennis loved to play, as Tommy Smith vividly recalls he and Dennis jamming on it with the other members of The Load. Two alternate versions of the song (one at mid-tempo and the other as a slow blues, and both incorporating modulations from the earlier "San Miguel") were recorded in May of '78 as part of the planned "Mexico" trilogy. That September, yet another attempt at "Time For Bed" (also with the "San Miguel" modulations) was made at a Beach Boys session at Cherokee Studio. The Beach Boys version (produced by Bruce Johnston and James Guercio, and engineered by Chuck Britz) is the alternate "New Orleans" track appearing on bootlegs. With a vocal reminiscent of Keith Richards, careening tack piano, Mardi Gras-styled horns, and off-the-wall slide guitar, this track is a lot of fun, provided one doesn't take the lyrics too seriously.
ALBUM TAG SONG
Written: Music/Words - Dennis Wilson
Intro & Outro
Backing vocal: Baron Stewart (falsetto)
Electric lead/rhythm guitar: Earle Mankey ? or Carl Wilson ?
12-string electric lead/rhythm guitar: Earle Mankey ? or Carl Wilson ?
Moog basses: Dennis Wilson
intro & Outro recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, Tuesday March 22-Wednesday March 23, 1977
Bridge section recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, circa 1978-1979
Engineer: John Hanlon ?
Mixed & edited at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, Tuesday January 8-Wednesday January 9, 2008
The intro and outro of this cut is comprised of an intriguingly progressive experiment in what appears to be 7/4 time, with Baron Stewart singing a wordless vocal part. This was recorded during the tail-end of the POB sessions, but was almost immediately earmarked for Bambu. At the 2008 mixdown sessions, an undated piano/vocal demo found in the CBS vaults was skillfully edited into the middle by John Hanlon, in the process adding so much more value to the piece, and truly turning it into a "song" (by an incredible stroke of luck, the musical keys of the two pieces matched, enabling a seemless edit).
NOTE: the main theme of "Album Tag" was reworked in 1978 and incorporated into another unreleased song called "Lord Let Me Out Of Here", recorded with the Smith brothers and Dave Hessler.
Arranged: Carli Muñoz and Dennis Wilson
Fender Rhodes electric piano or Mini-Moog synthesizer: Sterling Smith ?
Electric lead guitars (w/Leslie, chorus or phase-shifter effect): Steve Ross ? or Dave Hessler ?
Electric rhythm guitar: Steve Ross ? or Dave Hessler ?
Tenor saxophone: Joel Peskin (solo)
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, circa June 1978
The final Carli Muñoz composition included on Bambu, "All Alone" first appeared in 1998 as part of the soundtrack for the VH1 documentary "Endless Harmony". According to Carli, it was composed circa 1970-'71 (not 1968 as the liner notes for Endless Harmony Soundtrack state); Dennis added and changed some lyrics when he recorded it. This is yet another track with a confusing recording history; it was first recorded on 24-track tape at Brother Studio in the summer of '78 (the version appearing on both Endless Harmony and here on the 2008 Bambu collection). The exact date of the basic tracking session is unknown, making it difficult to determine the musician lineup. The liner notes for Endless Harmony Soundtrack credit Carlos Muñoz (piano), Sterling Smith (keyboards), Dave Hessler (guitar & bass), Bobby Figueroa (drums), Tommy Smith (percussion), Dennis (percussion & ARP String Ensemble), and Joel Peskin (sax). The problem with this lineup is that there is clearly no percussion or String Ensemble on this version of the song, but there definitely IS a tenor sax solo. There is an AFM contract (bearing no song title) for a Dennis Wilson session at Brother on June 2nd of 1978; musicians listed as being present are Carlos Muñoz, Bobby Figueroa (drums), Steve Ross (guitar), and Wayne Tweed (bass). It is possible that this contract is for one of two other tunes started by Dennis and Carli during this time period, "Shu-Da-Bop" and "La Plena de Amor", or it could in fact be the session for "All Alone" (no contract with any of these titles has surfaced). However, a strong case can be made for the accuracy of at least part of the credits from the Endless Harmony liner notes, based on the fact that the track sheet for this song indicates that all the guitar parts were overdubbed after the basic session (supporting the theory that Hessler played bass on the basic track, then overdubbed the guitars; if Steve Ross were in fact the guitarist, he probably would've played one guitar part live on the basic session); also, Joel Peskin's name does not appear on the 6/2/78 AFM contract (of course, he could've overdubbed the sax at a later date). It's also worth mentioning that other than the main piano, no keyboard parts are labeled on the track sheet, yet an electric keyboard (probably a Fender Rhodes, but possibly a Moog synth) is audible at certain points on both the 1998 and 2008 mixes (the track sheet assigns no vocal or instrumental part to Track 24, and also documents sax solos on three different tracks; it's entirely possible that this keyboard part could've been recorded onto any of these tracks at a later date, and just not labeled; for that matter, the percussion and ARP String Ensemble mentioned in the Endless Harmony liner notes could also exist on any of these tracks, and perhaps were left out of both official mixes for whatever reason - but that's not likely). Regardless, the credits presented above, although speculative, are based on a comparison of the Endless Harmony liner notes, aural evidence, and the track sheet. 2017 NOTE: according to Ken Sharp's liner notes in the new Record Store Day double-vinyl album release of Bambu, the bassist on this track is Wayne Tweed.
Another version of "All Alone" (the one that first appeared on collector tapes and bootlegs in the mid-'90s) is actually a remake recorded in the summer of '79 at Tom Murphy's 16-track studio in Venice. That version does indeed feature a prominent ARP String Ensemble, but no guitar or saxophone. In that version, the main piano part is played on the Fender Rhodes instead of the acoustic grand, and Dennis' vocal trails off about halfway through, leaving the production decidedly unfinished. For that matter, Muñoz feels the original 1978 version was also incomplete: "The version that came out...was so ridiculously unfinished. It was just a sketch, and he really wanted to do that right." To Carli's point, the lead vocal on this version, while complete, sounds like a "work" vocal that Dennis would have eventually replaced. Nonetheless, of the two versions of "All Alone" that Dennis cut, this is definitely the most finished.
NOTE: another Muñoz song, "I Don't Want To Go", was produced by Dennis and Carli at Brother on April 28th of '78, with a lineup of Carli, Bobby Figueroa, Steve Ross, Sterling Smith, and Wayne Tweed. This track exists in the vaults with only a scratch vocal by Carli.
PIANO VARIATIONS ON THOUGHTS OF YOU
Music - Dennis Wilson
Opening voice: Dennis Wilson
Recorded at Brother Studio, Santa Monica, CA, circa 1976
Opening with Dennis' personal "Thank you" to Jimmy Guercio, this cut is a simply beautiful solo piano piece composed and performed by Dennis, using the same progression as POB's "Thoughts Of You", but in a different arrangement. "I challenge anyone not to listen to 'Piano Variations'", says Guercio. "It's an incredible sound. You can hear the pedals (of the piano). You can FEEL this thing." As Jon Stebbins puts it, "It is rhythmically precise and clear and truly beautifully. He takes the motif into the absolute upper register on the keyboard where it's just gently tinkling in an almost 'Nearest Faraway Place' kind of vibe. There are no flubbed notes or hesitations, it's a perfect performance and it's just stunning. Tears were welling when I heard it." As Dennis plays on, the track gently fades into the distance, leaving the listener with the impression of Dennis playing on into eternity.
This track is the offical close of the Bambu collection, but it is followed by one last incredible gift...
Bambu Bonus Track
HOLY MAN (Taylor Hawkins Version)
Written: Music - Dennis Wilson / Words - Gregg Jakobson; additional lyrics by Taylor Hawkins
Solo vocals: Taylor Hawkins (double-tracked)
TAYLOR HAWKINS VOCAL PRODUCED BY GREGG JAKOBSON and JOHN HANLON
Taylor Hawkins' vocals recorded at House Of Blues Studio-West, Encino, CA, circa Monday January 14-Tuesday January 15, 2008
"I have great faith in life itself," Dennis told David Leaf. "I'm religious, and I'm not religious. I get stoned, and I don't get stoned. I smoke a cigarette, and I don't smoke a cigarette. I live my life, period. I take it as it comes, and I take responsibility for it." In answer to Leaf's question, "Do you see any hope for the world?", Dennis replied, "I don't think I should judge people, but I think it's time for people to stop fighting. It's such a profound question that a master would have trouble answering it. Maharishi would say, 'Meditate.' All I say is: 'Enjoy life, try to be an example.'"
Dennis may have never gotten to put a vocal on this spititually "hopeful" song in his lifetime, but in 2008 it was decided that a track this brilliant really deserved a great vocal performance. To that end, Gregg Jakobson was given the task of finally writing a complete set of lyrics to the tune, a job which had been attempted by many writers back in the '70s, but never accomplished satisfactorily. Gregg describes "Holy Man" as "one of the first songs where Dennis went into the studio and cut a real Spector/Brian Wilson big track, but we could never get the lyrics for it. If you think about 'holy man', it's hard not to be cliche' or trite. I tried to write lyrics for it, Dennis, Carl, Stephen Kalinich, and Jim Dutch all tried, but everything went into the trash. We even wanted to do the choir that went on 'River Song'; (that) was originally intended for 'Holy Man', but we couldn't because we never had a lyric. Dennis kept saying, 'Don't worry about it, it will come. We'll get it.'" The melody that Carl had once hummed over the backing track had long since been erased from the multi-track tape, but fortunately the 1976 rough mix that included it still existed. John Hanlon: "Gregg Jakobson, as Dennis' co-producer - to his credit - always kept a quarter-inch rough-mix reel, and he was very organized..." Because of that, Carl's melodic vocalizing was preserved. The track lay there for three decades, waiting for the right time to arrive, when words would finally be written for a voice to sing. John: "No one had heard from Gregg in forever. I hadn't seen him since 1977, so that was 23 years" (at the time the multi-track was rediscovered in 2000). "I got reconnected with Gregg through his daughter (who was living with Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters at the time) by way of Dave Grohl from his and my work at Neil Young's annual Bridge Concert that the Foo Fighters were playing at."
Once Gregg composed a new set of lyrics (in prose form), he called upon Taylor (who is the Foo Fighters' drummer) to do the vocal honors. Jakoboson's lyric (modified by Hawkins), and Hawkins' vocal itself, both fit the track perfectly. Gregg Jakobson: "Taylor's a drummer, and he belongs to that brotherhood of drummers. Taylor's just a natural, and he came in, did the vocal, and I think he really knocked it out of the park. I really wanted to do that for Dennis. I knew that...that was something that he really wanted to finish." As Jon Stebbins puts it, "The melody is already inherent from Dennis' piano intro as well as the synth parts in the body of the song. Carl and Hawkins both instinctively followed that template. John and Gregg helped Taylor dial it in to a further point than Carl's vocal travels to." For his part, Taylor admits to having reservations about doing the vocal, which is the only posthumous overdub added to Dennis' work in this collection. As he put it to David Beard, "...after I listened to it and got into it - I realized that this was something that people really regarded as a lost treasure and classic. I mean...who the fuck am I (laughs) to go in there and finish something by this guy who is a legend? He really was a great talent who never got his due. I went into the studio and they played what they had for me. There was a guide melody track by Carl...sort of sketchy, nothing major. Gregg gave me the CD, and I took it home and didn't really listen to it because I started thinking about the general fan reacton to me recording a Dennis Wilson song. But Gregg wanted me to get into the studio to work on it. I was like, 'oh fuck'...When I got to the studio, Gregg and John Hanlon were there. Gregg handed me a sheet of prose...not really lyrics; it was stuff that didn't really fit to the music. Within an hour I sketched the prose sections together and added a few lyrics and within an hour I said, 'OK, let's do a couple takes', and I left. I (inititally) listened to it and thought it turned out great! Then, I didn't listen to it for awhile because I was afraid of it. That sounds silly, but it's true. The more I rationalize it, I figure it was an unfinished song, etc. How cool is it that I got to sing on this track when all the music was cut in the 1970's? I don't think of it as a tribute, and I wasn't trying to be Dennis...Appropriately enough, our voices do have a similar quality to them: a whiskey/smoker's gruff style of vocal. I think it fits. I like it. I hope the purist out there can deal with it. If they don't like it, then fuck it, they can listen to the instrumental version...One of the beautiful things about him was his piano playing. I like Dennis' rock and roll songs, but for me the ballads are the best because I really feel like you're hearing the real Dennis...Of all the Beach Boys, I think Dennis was doing the best work in the 1970's...I hope that it will turn people on to it that normally wouldn't have checked it out...I think Dennis is up there smiling. I hope he likes my version. I really wish he was here to finish 'Holy Man' himself, but Gregg was a big part of the music and he asked me to do it."
NOTE: yet another 2008 mix of "Holy Man" exists, incorporating not only Taylor Hawkins' vocal, but also guitar, percussion, and background vocals from Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen. It is hoped that this version might also one day see the light of day.
Legacy Edition CD & LP mastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios, New York, NY, circa February 2008
The Pacific Ocean Blue/Bambu Legacy Edition was finally released on June 17th of 2008, to glowing reviews and, encouraged by a brilliant Sony Music promotional campaign, worldwide sales that exceeded even the most optimistic of expectations: the set debuted at Number 4 on Amazon.com's Rock chart, Number 8 on Billboard's U.S. Catalog Album chart, and Number 16 on the U.K. Album Chart. It was the Number 2 Best Seller at the Los Angeles store of popular independent west coast chain Ameoba Records. Other global placings include Number 71 in Ireland, Number 67 in Holland, and an astonishing Number 5 in Norway. Rolling Stone, Mojo, Uncut, and the London Observer all voted it the best reissue of the year, while Time Out New York ranked it 2008's third best album overall. Nearly a decade after its eventual release, Bambu has re-emerged by itself in a special limited-edition green vinyl double-album release for 2017's Record Store Day, becoming an instant collector's item. "Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen", Dennis Wilson once said. It's gratifying to know that in 2008 and beyond, so many people have come to know this long-lost Beach Boy and music man.
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Graham Nash would like to tell you about a right jolly old elf. Photo from Graham Nash Facebook page.
Couture Cupcake Cafe is having a grand opening celebration for its new location in Palatine tonight from 5:00 to 9:00PM. In addition to a variety of regular, gluten-free, vegan, organic and low-sugar cupcakes, the cafe will offer smoothies, wedding cakes, coffee, espresso, teas, and assorted cold beverages. Part of Couture Cupcake Cafe’s mission is to donate to local churches and charities. It’s currently raising funds to provide cupcakes to young patients in hospitals. It looks like Couture Cupcake Cafe’s Palatine location will be sharing space with the Rock n’ Roll Ala Mode ice cream parlor at 45 N. Bothwell. There’s another new location opening soon in Wilmette, and the original Couture Cupcake Cafe can be found in Kildeer.
Now that he’s covered his career with The Hollies and Crosby, Stills And Nash in his recent Wild Tales autobiography, Graham Nash is ready to tell us about Santa Claus. He joins Emma Thompson, Jamie Oliver, and some successful Penguin Books UK authors in reading Clement Clarke Moore’s ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas as part of the publishing company’s holiday promotional film.
Speaking of Christmas, here are a few more gift ideas:
The official Fender website has some fun gift ideas for musicians or people who enjoy music. One of my favorites is the Fender Custom Shop lunchbox. I saw one through the window at The Music Room in Palatine, and immediately knew it had to be on my wish list this year. You can also buy a guitar shaped cutting board at The Music Room, or find it and other instrument-related accessories and trinkets online at Fender.
The Hard Rock Cafe Shop on Michigan Avenue has a new limited edition t-shirt that honors John Lennon with its “Imagine There’s No Hunger” slogan, and will help fight child hunger around the world through the Grassroots Solutions organization. It was made with permission from Yoko Ono. The design on the dark chocolate colored t-shirt also features a hand flashing the peace sign and the Hard Rock Cafe logo.
Singer-guitarist Madeline Adams will be performing original songs, including tracks from her 2006 album, The Slow Bang, at Café Mustache on Thursday, December 12th. Originally from Athens, GA, Adams is also a graphic artist, and is currently offering a special package deal combining a vinyl edition (with download code) of The Slow Bang, her long-out-of-print ’zine What The Devil Don’t Know, and a custom-designed pillowcase for $25. The Slow Bang is also available by itself in CD or LP format for $12. Bill Tucker and blues rock singer-songwriter Shaina Hoffman will also be on next Thursday's bill at Cafe Mustache.
Kim Shattuck may have been pushed out of The Pixies, but she’s rebounded nicely with her original band, The Muffs. The trio has a gig at The Satellite in Los Angeles on December 21st. Peach Kelli Pop and honeychain are also on the bill.
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Charles Koch Fancies Himself to Be a Modern-Day Martin Luther King Jr.
August 4, 2015 12:50 pm Paul ConstantPaul Constant
Economics, Minimum Wage
The Koches, with MLK’s words.
Matea Gold at the Washington Post says “Charles Koch on Sunday compared the efforts of his political network to the fight for civil rights and other ‘freedom movements,’ urging his fellow conservative donors to follow the lead of figures such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr.”
This doesn’t mean that Koch suddenly started caring about racism, sexism, or income inequality. Instead, the billionaire who helped fund some of the most reactionary Republican candidates of the last decade thinks that conservatives should steal from the playbooks of Douglass, Anthony, and King. “History demonstrates that when the American people get motivated by an issue of justice that they believe is just, extraordinary things can be accomplished,” Koch explains.
“Look at the American revolution, the anti-slavery movement, the women’s suffrage movement, the civil rights movement,” he said. “All of these struck a moral chord with the American people. They all sought to overcome an injustice. And we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.”
Some of this is true! As America’s extraordinary push for same-sex marriage demonstrates, the American people do care deeply about justice. But I’m not convinced the American people are concerned about tipping the scales even more in the favor of wealthy people. I haven’t run a poll or anything, but I don’t think the majority of American households consider fewer regulations and lower corporate taxes to be the definition of “justice.”
However, Koch is 100 percent right about one thing: “If we cannot unite the majority of Americans behind the vision, then we’re done for […] So that, to me, has to be our number one objective.” He correctly understands that he needs the American people on his side to win, and that he can’t just buy his way to victory.
But holy cow is Koch tone deaf about all this. Does he have any understanding of what Martin Luther King actually said? Does he know King was a passionate advocate for income equality? Does he understand that King would very likely be standing against Koch’s drive to disenfranchise the poor through absurd economic policies and shifty attempts to keep people from voting? Does Koch, who has proposed eliminating the minimum wage, know that Martin Luther King Jr. marched in support of a minimum wage increase that would have amounted to $15.27 per hour in today’s money?
In an attempt to educate Koch about the awkwardness of his examples, I’ve illustrated photos of the Koch brothers with actual MLK quotes about income inequality. Good luck finding “justice,” Charles. A great man—maybe you’ve heard of him—once said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Frankly, I’d be curious to see whether Koch could recognize justice if it bit him on his pasty white posterior.
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Browse Our 2018 Physics & Astrophysics Catalog
January 5, 2018 by Matthew Taylor
Our new Physics & Astrophysics catalog includes two new graduate-level textbooks from Kip S. Thorne, Co-Winner of the 2017 Noble Prize in Physics, as well as a look into the physics behind black holes.
If you plan on attending AAS 2018 in National Harbor, MD this weekend, please stop by Booth 1003 to see our full range of Physics and Astrophysics titles and more.
Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality—a viewpoint many shared. This all changed in the 1960s and 1970s, when a deeper conceptual understanding of black holes developed just as new observations revealed the existence of quasars and X-ray binary star systems, whose mysterious properties could be explained by the presence of black holes. Black holes have since been the subject of intense research—and the physics governing how they behave and affect their surroundings is stranger and more mind-bending than any fiction.
The Little Book of Black Holes takes readers deep into the mysterious heart of the subject, offering rare clarity of insight into the physics that makes black holes simple yet destructive manifestations of geometric destiny.
Modern Classical Physics is a long-awaited, first-year, graduate-level text and reference book covers the fundamental concepts and twenty-first-century applications of six major areas of classical physics that every masters- or PhD-level physicist should be exposed to, but often isn’t: statistical physics, optics (waves of all sorts), elastodynamics, fluid mechanics, plasma physics, and special and general relativity and cosmology. Growing out of a full-year course that the eminent researchers Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford taught at Caltech for almost three decades, this book is designed to broaden the training of physicists. Its six main topical sections are also designed so they can be used in separate courses, and the book provides an invaluable reference for researchers.
First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein’s general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course on the physics of gravitation. Upon publication, Science called it “a pedagogic masterpiece,” and it has since become a classic, considered essential reading for every serious student and researcher in the field of relativity. This authoritative text has shaped the research of generations of physicists and astronomers, and the book continues to influence the way experts think about the subject.
Filed Under: Astronomy and Cosmology, Physics Tagged With: Astrophysics, Gravitation, Kip Thorne, little book of black holes, Modern Classical Physics, new catalog, Physics
Browse Our 2018 Ancient World Catalog
Our new Ancient World catalog includes a major new history of archaeology—its sites, its discoveries, its practices, a unique anthology presenting the largest collection of legends and folktales from Ancient Greek and Roman life, an examination of the environmental factors that lead to the collapse of Rome’s power, and a new economic history of the Ancient Mediterranean world to name but a few of the many great titles published this year or forthcoming early next.
If you plan on attending AIA/SCS 2018 in Boston this weekend, stop by Booth 103 to see our full range of Ancient World titles and more.
Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Three Stones Make a Wall traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries, from Pompeii to Petra, Troy to the Terracotta Warriors, and Mycenae to Megiddo and Masada. Cline brings to life the personalities behind these digs, including Heinrich Schliemann, the former businessman who excavated Troy, and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries advanced our understanding of human origins. The discovery of the peoples and civilizations of the past is presented in vivid detail, from the Hittites and Minoans to the Inca, Aztec, and Moche. Along the way, the book addresses the questions archaeologists are asked most often: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old something is? Who gets to keep what is found?
Taking readers from the pioneering digs of the eighteenth century to the exciting new discoveries being made today, this is a lively and essential introduction to the story of archaeology.
This unique anthology presents the largest collection of these tales ever assembled. Featuring nearly four hundred stories in authoritative and highly readable translations, this is the first book to offer a representative selection of the entire range of traditional classical storytelling.
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. This is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition.
A poignant reflection on humanity’s intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history’s greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature’s violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit—in ways that are surprising and profound.
Filed Under: Archaeology and Ancient History, History Tagged With: ancient world, greek and roman folktales legends and myths, new catalog, The Fate of Rome, three stones make a wall
Browse Our 2018 Literature Catalog
Our new Literature catalog includes an unguarded look into the mind of Vladimir Nabokov, an examination of simultaneous absorption in and critical distance from a work of art, a study of poetry and community through the use of the word “we,” and much more.
If you’ll be at MLA 2018 in New York this weekend, stop by Booths 122-123 to see our full range of recent literature titles. We will toast new publications and award winners at a booth reception on January 5th at 4:30pm.
In October 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions he found in An Experiment with Time by the British philosopher John Dunne. The purpose was to test the theory that time may go in reverse, so that, paradoxically, a later event may generate an earlier dream. The result—published in its entirety for the first time—is a fascinating record of sixty-four dreams (and subsequent daytime episodes) that afford a rare glimpse of the artist at his most private.
Insomniac Dreams also includes previously unpublished records of Nabokov’s dreams from his letters and notebooks, and explores important connections between his fiction and private writings on dreams and time.
When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, at once interacting and drifting away, and how it affects our ideas about aesthetics. John Plotz focuses on Victorian and early modernist writers and artists who understood their work as tapping into, amplifying, or giving shape to a suspended duality of experience.
In a time of cyber-dependency and virtual worlds, when it seems that attention to everyday reality is stretching thin, this book takes a historical and critical look at the halfway-thereness that artists and audiences have long comprehended and embraced in their aesthetic encounters.
The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet’s use of the first-person plural voice—poetry’s “we.” Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden along with other major poets, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought and feeling carried in this small word. While lyric has long been associated with inwardness and a voice saying “I,” “we” has hardly been noticed, even though it has appeared throughout the history of poetry. Reading for this pronoun in its variety and ambiguity, Costello explores the communal function of poetry—the reasons, risks, and rewards of the first-person plural.
Filed Under: Literature, New Catalog Tagged With: Bonnie Costello, insomniac dreams, John Plotz, literature, Nabokov, new catalog, semi-detached, the plural of us
Browse Our 2018 Jewish Studies Catalog
December 15, 2017 by Matthew Taylor
Our new Jewish Studies catalog includes an in-depth history of Judaism from its beginnings to the present day, a comprehensive look at how Hasidism helped shape modern Judaism (and how modernity has shaped Hasidism), and an examination of the development of a right-wing strain within modern Zionism which continues to exert influence today.
If you’ll be at AJS 2017 in DC this weekend, please join us at Booth 116, or stop by any time to see our full range of Jewish Studies titles and more.
We’ll also be holding a reception with the University of California Press to celebrate the new books by David Biale and Samuel Heilman. Join us in the Archives Room, on the 4th floor of the Marriot Marquis in DC, on Monday, December 18th to take part in the festivities. The reception will run from from noon until 1:15 p.m.
In this magisterial and elegantly written book, Martin Goodman takes readers from Judaism’s origins in the polytheistic world of the second and first millennia BCE to the temple cult at the time of Jesus. He tells the stories of the rabbis, mystics, and messiahs of the medieval and early modern periods and guides us through the many varieties of Judaism today. Goodman’s compelling narrative spans the globe, from the Middle East, Europe, and America to North Africa, China, and India. He explains the institutions and ideas on which all forms of Judaism are based, and masterfully weaves together the different threads of doctrinal and philosophical debate that run throughout its history.
A History of Judaism is a spellbinding chronicle of a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition that has shaped the spiritual heritage of humankind like no other.
This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book’s unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement’s leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world.
Written by an international team of scholars, Hasidism is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movement.
By the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism. Poland was not only home to Jabotinsky’s largest following. The country also served as an inspiration and incubator for the development of right-wing Zionist ideas.
Recovering the voices of ordinary Betar members through their letters, diaries, and autobiographies, Jabotinsky’s Children paints a vivid portrait of young Polish Jews and their turbulent lives on the eve of the Holocaust. Rather than define Jabotinsky as a firebrand fascist or steadfast democrat, the book instead reveals how he deliberately delivered multiple and contradictory messages to his young followers, leaving it to them to interpret him as they saw fit. Tracing Betar’s surprising relationship with interwar Poland’s authoritarian government, Jabotinsky’s Children overturns popular misconceptions about Polish-Jewish relations between the two world wars and captures the fervent efforts of Poland’s Jewish youth to determine, on their own terms, who they were, where they belonged, and what their future held in store.
Filed Under: New Catalog Tagged With: a history of judaism, Daniel kupfert heller, hasidism, jabotinsky's children, jewish studies, Martin goodman, new catalog
Browse Our Religion 2018 Catalog
November 17, 2017 by Matthew Taylor
The offerings in our new Religion catalog include an in-depth investigation of the philanthropic projects of the billionaire evangelical owners of the craft chain Hobby Lobby and their plans to make America a “Bible Nation” once again, a new historically-grounded critique of the religious nationalism and radical secularism found on both sides of America’s culture war, and an examination of the key cognitive process that makes religion possible.
If you’ll be at the joint Annual Meetings of AAR-SBL in Boston this weekend, please join us at Booth 2627 in the Exhibit Hall. Stop by any time to see our full range of religion titles.
Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded as a Christian nation, based on a “biblical worldview.” But the Greens are far from typical evangelicals. As America’s biggest financial supporters of Christian causes they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible’s influence on American society. The crown jewel of their efforts, the lavishly-appointed Museum of the Bible, is opening this weekend in Washington DC around the corner from the National Mall. In Bible Nation, Candida Moss and Joel Baden provide the first in-depth investigative account of the Greens’ sweeping Bible projects and the many questions they raise.
Was the United States founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither,argues Philip Gorski in his new history of “civil religion” in the United States, American Covenant. What the founders actually envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision of the Hebrew prophets and the Western political heritage of civic republicanism. In this ambitious book, Gorski shows why this civil religious tradition is now in peril—and with it the American experiment.
Religion remains a crucial influence in the world today, yet as sociologist of religion Christian Smith argues, the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. Building on recent developments in social science theory and philosophy, this book advances an innovative theory of religion that addresses key questions about the nature, powers, workings, appeal, and future of religion.
Filed Under: Religion, Uncategorized Tagged With: american covenant, Bible Nation, Candida R. Moss, Christian Smith, Joel S. Baden, new catalog, Philip Gorski, religion
Browse Our 2018 Brain & Behavior Catalog
Our new Brain & Behavior catalog includes an examination of the science behind first impressions, an analysis of the problems plaguing psychology today, and a unique look at the role social communication played in evolution.
If you plan on attending the Society for Neuroscience in DC this weekend, please join us at Booth 114, or stop by any time to see our full range of brain & cognitive science titles and more.
We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second—and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions. For example, politicians who simply look more competent are more likely to win elections. Yet the character judgments we make from faces are as inaccurate as they are irresistible; in most situations, we would guess more accurately if we ignored faces. So why do we put so much stock in these widely shared impressions? In this book, Alexander Todorov, one of the world’s leading researchers on the subject, answers these questions as he tells the story of the modern science of first impressions.
Drawing on psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and other fields, this accessible and richly illustrated book describes cutting-edge research and puts it in the context of the history of efforts to read personality from faces. A fascinating scientific account of first impressions, Face Value explains why we pay so much attention to faces, why they lead us astray, and what our judgments actually tell us.
The Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading authorities on the study of emotion, this accessible and original book recasts the discipline and demonstrates that in order to understand emotion, we need to examine its biological roots in humans and animals. Only through a comparative approach that encompasses work at the molecular, cellular, systems, and cognitive levels will we be able to comprehend what emotions do, how they evolved, how the brain shapes their development, and even how we might engineer them into robots in the future.
The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alexander Todorov, brain, brain & behavior, cognitive science, David J. Anderson, Dorothy L. Cheney, face value, Michael L. Platt, neuroscience, new catalog, Ralph Adolphs, Robert M. Seyfarth, The Neuroscience of Emotion, The Social Origins of Language
Browse Our New Politics Catalog
August 28, 2017 by Matthew Taylor
Our new Politics catalog includes a comprehensive look at human rights laws and institutions, an examination of the role social media plays in our democracy, and a guide to forming opinions on some of the most controversial topics currently under the spotlight.
If you’ll be at APSA 2017 in San Francisco, please join us at Booth 511, or stop by any time to see our full range of politics titles and more.
Kathryn Sikkink makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Drawing on decades of research and fieldwork, this book provides a rigorous rebuttal to pessimistic doubts about human rights laws and institutions, demonstrating that change comes slowly and as the result of struggle. Evidence for Hope looks at how these essential advances can be supported and sustained for decades to come.
As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. In his revealing new book, Cass Sunstein shows how today’s Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism—and what can be done about it. In addition, Sunstein proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation. Once finished, readers will understand why #Republic need not be an ironic term.
Let’s be honest, we’ve all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without always thinking them through. With so much media spin, political polarization, and mistrust of institutions, it’s hard to know how to think about these tough challenges, much less what to do about them. One Nation Undecided takes on some of today’s thorniest issues and walks you through each one step-by-step, explaining what makes it so difficult to grapple with and enabling you to think smartly about it. No other book provides such a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible analysis of these urgent social controversies.
Filed Under: New Catalog, Political Science, Political Theory, Uncategorized Tagged With: American Politics, Cass Sunstein, Kathryn Sikkink, new catalog, Peter H. Shuck, politics
New History & Philosophy of Science Catalog
May 13, 2016 by Stephanie Rojas
The History and Philosophy of Science 2016 catalog is now available:
In Strange Glow, Timothy Jorgensen relates the story of radiation, including how it helps and harms our health.
Sean B. Carroll changes the conversation about biology in The Serengeti Rules by describing how life works from the smallest cell to the largest ecosystem.
Finally, Oliver Morton makes the case for geoengineering as a solution to the many challenges posed by climate change in The Planet Remade.
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Filed Under: Math & Science, New Catalog Tagged With: history of science, New books, new catalog, Philosophy of Science
New Economics & Finance Catalog
January 4, 2016 by Stephanie Rojas
Our Economics & Finance 2016 catalog is now available.
In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning authors George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller reveal the dark side of the free market, including the role that manipulation and deception play in it.
Robert J. Gordon explores the period of economic boom following the Civil War and the impact it had on society in The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Then, he argues that this era has now come to a close, analyzing the causes and effects of economic stagnation.
Check out Europe’s Orphan by Martin Sandbu, a defense of the beleaguered euro and an analysis of what must be done to achieve prosperity in Europe.
Nobel prize-winning author Angus Deaton analyzes the remarkable progress that some nations have made over the course of the past 250 years and addresses what steps ought to be taken to aid those nations that have had less success in The Great Escape, now available in paperback.
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Finally, if you’re in San Francisco for the Allied Social Science Associations Meeting, visit PUP at booth #205.
Filed Under: Banking, Business, Economic History, Economics, Finance, New Catalog Tagged With: Econometrics, economics, New books, new catalog
New Mathematics Catalog
December 9, 2015 by Stephanie Rojas
We invite you to browse our Mathematics 2016 catalog:
In his forthcoming book, Roger Penrose makes the case that physicists are just as prone to be influenced by fashion, faith, and fantasy as anyone else. Sometimes, these forces can be positive, he argues, but they often lead researchers astray. Pick up a copy of Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe to learn more.
Interested in numbers? Then Summing It Up by mathematicians Avner Ash and Robert Gross is for you! Ash and Gross have written an accessible book about current mathematical research that can be enjoyed by those with a casual interest and college math majors alike.
Paul J. Nahin explains how physics can be found in everyday situations in In Praise of Simple Physics. You’ll be surprised at how often you use it!
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Finally, if you’re going to be in Seattle for the Joint Mathematics Meeting from January 6 to January 9, visit PUP at booth #105 or follow it online using #JMM16.
Filed Under: Mathematics, New Catalog Tagged With: Mathematics, New books, new catalog
New Earth Science Catalog
We invite you to scroll through our new Earth Science catalog:
Oliver Morton explores the uses of geoengineering in addressing the problems posed by climate change in The Planet Remade. This is necessary reading for all those concerned with the health of our planet.
In The Serengeti Rules, Sean B. Carroll describes how the rules of regulation apply to all of life, from the number of zebras in the African savanna to the amount of cells in our organs. Read it to understand how life works!
Be sure to check out Life’s Engines. Paul G. Falkowski explains how life is supported by microbes, organisms that have existed on Earth for billions of years.
For more information on these and many more new titles in Earth Science, look through our catalog above. If you would like updates on new titles emailed to you, subscribe to our newsletter.
Finally, if you’re going to be at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting from December 14 to December 18, visit PUP at booth #920 and/or join the conversation using #AGU15.
Filed Under: Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, New Catalog Tagged With: earth science, new catalog, new in print
New Anthropology Catalog 2016
October 22, 2015 by Stephanie Rojas
We invite you to scroll through our latest Anthropology catalog.
Check out The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, an investigation of Matsutake, the most valuable mushroom in the world and its amazing ability to survive and, indeed, thrive in human-disrupted landscapes. Using the mushroom as an example, she sheds light on the relationship between the darker side of capitalism and collaborative survival.
In Righteous Transgressions, Lihi Ben Shitrit examines how women in conservative religious societies find ways to circumvent strict ideas about their role to engage in the political arena using four groups as examples: the Jewish settlers in the West Bank, the ultra-Orthodox Shas, the Islamic Movement in Israel, and the Palestinian Hamas.
Finally, Avi Max Spiegel examines the competition among established Arab Muslim groups to gain the support of the growing population of youths among their ranks in Young Islam. He focuses not only on the work of established Muslim thinkers, but also the growing body of writing from the younger generation to make the case that the nature of Islamist movements is changing.
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PUP will be at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting from November 18 to November 22 in Denver—visit us at booth #310!
Finally, for a limited time we are offering 30% off on select print titles.
Filed Under: Anthropology, Asian and Asian American studies, Economics, Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, New Catalog, Political Science, Religion, Sociology Tagged With: anthropology, New books, new catalog
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April 17, 2017by Local FuturesNo CommentsGeneral
Will the Poor Always Be With Us?
Originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
It’s a familiar story. On his final journey toward Jerusalem, Jesus stops in Bethany to eat at the home of Simon, a leper. A woman enters with an alabaster jar of expensive ointment; she breaks the jar and pours the ointment on his head. Her gesture invokes the fury of some of those present. The ointment was worth a year’s wage, they grumble. It could have been sold, and the money given to the poor.
“The poor will always be with you” was Jesus’ righteous and innocent enough reply. Jesus clearly did not pretend by his remark to be shedding new light on the problem of poverty. And when we remind ourselves, as we so often do, that “the poor will always be with us” (as they always have been), we are merely borrowing a manner of stating a fact we all accept without a second thought. It was a fact as unquestioned in Jesus’ time as it is today. But it is not exactly a fact about the poor – that they always have been (and always will be) with us. It is one of those collectively held assumptions that constitute the mythology of our culture, the culture of what has become our global civilization.
It is not an idle myth, that the poor will always be with us, but a vital myth, a powerful and essential means of sustaining our culture and the business of it as usual. It is a myth that has haunted me throughout my two and a half decades of feeling and actively expressing both compassion and indignation in relation to the persistence of hunger, homelessness and poverty in our affluent nation and abroad. Most of this time I have spent working in a soup kitchen and homeless shelter, trying, I suppose, to escape my own affluence and privilege as well as meet basic human needs and challenge the political powers.
The cultural ‘purpose’ of the myth is as clearly straightforward as it is debilitating to the caring activist: there’s no sense in trying to end poverty, except in our dreams. The dreams are reflected in our rhetoric, but under the surface we realize that the prize we can reasonably strive for is amelioration.
Consider, on the other hand, that poverty as we know it is not and has never been the fate of humanity, but instead is largely a product of civilization, as we know it. Columbus and other European explorers and colonists, for example, did not discover poverty here in the Americas; they created it. Defined in terms of security, control and access to life-sustaining resources, poverty and affluence take on a meaning apart from our conventional ‘standard of living’ measure. This reinterpretation prompted anthropologist Marshall Sahlins 50 years ago to identify tribal hunter-gatherers as the “original affluent societies”. He recognized a kind of wealth enjoyed – and enjoyed equitably – by tribal people that far surpassed in value the benefits we associate with having wealth in our culture. Perhaps because we have begun to change our own conventional measures of wealth, hunter-gatherers are beginning to be perceived by us in a more favorable light. My students do generally pause to consider if the Native Americans were ‘poor’ when encountered by European explorers, but then uniformly insist that they were not.
And although scientists discovered over a century ago that humans lived in this hunter-gatherer way for hundreds of thousands of years before the ‘Agricultural Revolution’ spawned our civilization and culture a mere 10,000 years ago, our history and our collectively held and lived mythology reduce the human experience to civilization-building. Our collective frame of reference not only omits the vast human experience prior to our history, it excludes the experience of humans flourishing in egalitarian tribes concurrent with our history. There are still today scattered pockets of tribal people who have never known the kind of poverty we take so for granted. This vast experience suggests that poverty is a function of culture, not of nature, which is relatively immutable.
So one way we perpetuate the myth of never-ending poverty is by continuing to believe, against the facts, that our history, the history of our culture, our civilization is the history of humanity itself and that anyone outside or predating this history is a poor, half-human savage. Many of us individually will nod to the facts when confronted by them. This matters little, because mythology is something a culture of people buy into together and give expression to in the way they live as a group.
In the same vein, a second and more recent source of fuel for the myth is that, in an important sense, we really don’t want poverty to go away. It is therefore convenient to believe that the poor will always be with us (as they have always been). We don’t want poverty to go away for at least two broad reasons.
The first is that our economic system necessarily generates poverty; but more specifically, our own employment increasingly depends on it. One day at Amos House, a young man was ejected from the soup kitchen for a rule infraction. On the curb outside, he shouted back at our social worker, “you know, if it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have a job!” I still ponder that remark 10 years later.
Automation and cheap foreign labor have challenged our economy to find new ways to sustain growth and keep people busy, and our economy has responded brilliantly. The service ‘industry’ has taken up the slack. As the Agricultural/Industrial Revolution displaced not only laborers, but also the life-sustaining role of small communities (tribes and then villages), it created tremendous neediness and marginalization, adding to the effects of automation. The demand for services to address mounting social problems provided the new raw material. Private and public service programs nicely fit the bill because they ease the pain and give the appearance of an effective response without actually solving the problem. Indeed, the kinds of short-term, palliative interventions provided by services often permit the problem to worsen long term. Additionally, this neat economic solution has inspired the cultural fabrication of more frivolous needs and wants to which an infinite number of new services can be introduced to stoke the furnace.
A second reason why we cling to the continuation of poverty, and also to marginalization more broadly, is that many of us, at least, need a place to actively express our care and compassion. We need people – beyond our immediate family members – to care for in the absence of the tribal context within which we once freely shared our care with other members in a mutual support network. I’m like my dog, Pearl, who without the opportunity to hunt instinctively, finds herself playing out the hunt in our house or backyard (sometimes in absurdly comical ways). I can’t say that humans are instinctively compassionate or that we were meant by God or anything else to live in tribes. But there is clearly a compassionate streak in us, expressed more in some people than in others, and humans have lived tribally for 99% of our time on earth. Tribalism is a way of life that has tested out, notwithstanding its relatively recent setback in the face of our own civilizational expansion (Despite how the balance of this competition appears to us, it is too early to call the match.)
Mutual care, generated more by survival needs and self interest than by altruism, is the basis of support in the tribe. In our world, this support has been supplanted by services, mainly professional services working within a service system. Service, in fact, is simply the attempt to meet needs outside the context of community. Just as we do not use the word ‘service’ to label the care we provide within our families, likewise there is no equivalent concept of ‘service’ among tribal people. For individuals with an especially caring disposition, the service system provides the only available outlet, other than the care provider’s own family. The weakening nuclear family, however, like the extended family, clan, village and tribe before it, has increasingly surrendered its support function to professional services. Following this trend, we could all soon find ourselves supported by service providers alone.
John McKnight makes a compelling case that the professional service system is a poor substitute for the kind of support system only a genuine community can provide. It is inferior on many counts, not the least of which is that it frustrates the caring service provider who enters the field of teaching, health care or social work in order to give care only to face one systemic obstacle after another. McKnight insists that the professional service system and its network of private and public institutions and agencies are not geared to providing care, only professional services. To give and receive care, there is no substitute for community. I consider the tribe to be the archetype of community in this sense.
So far I have identified our collectively held assumption that “the poor will always be with us” as a tragic, self-fulfilling prophecy based on mistaken assumptions. I have also named four factors contributing to the perpetuation of the myth and the consequent perpetuation of poverty:
1. We collectively believe that human poverty is an inevitable part of the natural order in general and of the nature of humans in particular.
2. We understand that, in fact, the poor have always been with us.
3. An increasing number of jobs and institutions (and the economy itself) depend on the continuation or worsening of poverty and marginalization.
4. The marginalized provide caregivers somewhere to direct their compassion.
A revised understanding of the inevitability of poverty lends itself to at least two general change strategies. Although activists like myself tend to favor more action-sounding suggestions, the first and perhaps most radical thing we can do is help surface our cultural mythology and replace it with principles of living that will work better for us – and possibly lead to the elimination of poverty. For “the poor will always be with us” we might substitute something like: “The universe consists of cycles of creation and destruction, birth and death, but within this framework, the earth will provide.” Our planet and its abundant and richly diverse community of life offer an adequate and acceptable support system for us, as they do for all other species. No one should languish in the kind of marginal destitution we commonly call ‘poverty’. This strategy is one of learning and relearning.
The second avenue is building community – finding small and more ambitious ways of reintegrating ourselves into small-scale economies of support founded on trusting relationships. In ‘My Ishmael’, Author Daniel Quinn distinguishes between a tribal economy founded on the exchange of human energy and our economy that is founded on the exchange of products, including service products. To the extent that we can transfer our faith and reliance from the products system to the communal support system, we contribute to the atrophy (and eventual elimination) of the products system, its institutions and political structures and jurisdictions. The kind of poverty we are familiar with has been with us through the emergence of our civilization because it is inherent in the culture of our civilization, if not in civilization as a mode of social organization in general. Poverty can be eliminated, but it will require a fundamental break from the way we have been thinking and living.
Our current worldview, allegiances and psychological attachments strongly favor the prevailing way of life, as does the usual default assumption that the world is simply going to continue on its trajectory toward a ‘more and bigger’ version of what we have today. But like a recessive gene, our capacity to trust the earth and live by each other’s support and unique gifts lies within each of us, dormant for the most part, but ready to surface and engage after an initial adjustment process. Many disaffected youth, still partially dependent on the products system, have nevertheless chosen to live tribally simply to support their refusal to eke out a living in the usual way, preferring the freedom and vitality of life on the outside. Less dramatic experiments, ranging from intentional rural communities to urban block association activity, point in the ‘give support/get support’ direction.
By the standards of tribal wealth, even our financially well off are quite poor. In my facilitation work with the materially comfortable in churches and nonprofits, I find a surprising receptivity to this disturbing message. A million dollars, for example, is not enough to insure against having to spend the last decade of life in a nursing home. One source of hope for me – as distant as it appears – lies in the potential for defection within the middle and upper classes. As ‘winning’ the products contest rewards us with a life that is increasingly accelerated, virtual, alienating and superficial – as well as ecologically perilous – the rewards of abandoning the game we play for life with the trees and sky – and each other – will prove increasingly irresistible. The ‘simple living’ trend of the past decade may portend a shift that is deeper and more widespread; this shift could provide a catalyst for the cultural break necessary to end poverty.
It certainly lies outside the box to imagine rich people releasing their hold on product wealth and the means of creating it, but this will be a natural side effect of their shifting attention in the direction of acquiring a different kind of wealth. The marginalized poor would then have a better chance of reestablishing access to land resources. Unfortunately, the prevailing models of development in poor communities and countries are the models offered by the products system, which the poor themselves generally look to as the only way out. Alternatively, organizations committed to reducing poverty should emphasize strategies that regenerate the kind of self-reliant, give support/get support community life that can regenerate the kind of wealth we have paved over with a product-driven culture of winners and losers.
NOTE: This essay is adapted from Jim’s new book, Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: https://jimtull.com/. A somewhat different version first appeared in The Other Side, May-June 2002, Vol. 38, No. 3: http://futurepositive.synearth.net/2002/06/27/.
Jim Tull teaches Philosophy, Community Service and Global Studies at the Community College of Rhode Island, Providence College and Rhode Island’s state prison. He is also the co-founder of Listening Tree Cooperative, a community-based permaculture homestead. For much of his work life, he served as the co-director of Amos House, a homeless shelter and soup kitchen on Providence’s south side, while organizing dozens of campaigns promoting peace and justice.
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If properly designed and constructed, Concrete Block Paving will last for decades with little or no maintenance being necessary.
Which thickness of paving should I use?
As a general rule use 50mm-60mm for domestic use, and 80mm for industrial use.
Should plastic sheeting be used over the bedding sand?
The use of plastic sheeting is NOT recommended. The sheeting can inhibit drainage and lead to excessive efflorescence.
Should cement be added to the jointing sand?
Cement should not be added to the jointing sand as this converts a flexible surface into a rigid surface not able to accommodate flexural or thermal movement stresses. Also cement tends to discolour the paving and is difficult to remove afterwards
What maintenance needs to be carried out?
Jointing sand should be replaced if necessary during the first months. Weeds originate from wind blown seeds lodging in the jointing sand and should be sprayed with a suitable herbicide. Oil stains should be scrubbed with a hard bristle brush and strong detergent and washed down with water.
What is efflorescence?
The most common form of efflorescence is lime bloom and it is particularly noticeable on coloured pavers. It is a white deposit which is apparent as white patches or as an overall lightening in colour. The latter effect is sometimes mistakenly interpreted as the colour fading or being washed out. The cause of lime bloom lies in the chemical composition of cement. When water is added to cement, a series of chemical reactions take place, which result in setting and hardening. One product of these reactions is lime in the form of calcium hydroxide. Calcium hydroxide is slightly soluble in water and, under certain conditions, can migrate through damp concrete or mortar to the surface and there react with carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to produce a surface deposit of calcium carbonate crystals. This deposit is similar to a very thin coat of white-wash and gives rise to the white patches or lightening of colour mentioned previously. The surface deposit is normally extremely thin and this thinness is demonstrated by the fact that, when the concrete is wetted, the film of water on the surface usually makes the deposit transparent and the efflorescence seemingly disappears. The occurrence of lime bloom tends to be spasmodic and unpredictable. Nonetheless an important factor is the weather. Lime bloom forms most readily when concrete becomes wet and remains damp for several days, and this is reflected in the fact that it occurs most frequently during the winter months. Extended periods of rain and cold weather in particular are conditions most likely to precipitate a severe manifestation. Concrete paving is normally only prone to lime bloom in the early stages of its service life. In general concrete, which has been in service for a year without being affected, can be considered immune. Lime bloom is a temporary effect and, given time, usually disappears of its own accord. It is purely superficial and does not affect the durability or strength of the paving.
How can efflorescence be removed?
Lime bloom is a transient phenomenon and can be expected to disappear with time. It typically disappears within a year. If immediate removal is required, this can be achieved by washing with dilute acid. This is a relatively simple operation, but care should be taken on two counts. Firstly, acids can be hazardous and appropriate safety precautions must be taken. Secondly, acid attacks concrete and over applications to a concrete surface can result in acid etching altering the texture and appearance.
Generally a 5% solution of hydrochloric (pool) acid is used. Before the acid is applied, the surface should be dampened with water to kill the initial suction. This prevents the acid from being sucked into the concrete before it has a chance to react with the surface deposit. The acid is applied by brush or spray and a typical application rate is 1 litre of acid solution to 5-10m². Following the acid application the surface of the paving should be allowed to dry out and is then inspected. Often one wash with acid is sufficient but in more stubborn cases the treatment is repeated as necessary until the lime bloom disappears. Finally it is normal practice to give the paving a final wash with water. When carrying out acid washing, always test the effect on an inconspicuous area. Protective clothing should be worn at all times when working with acid.
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Joseph Bedford
B.A., Cambridge University
B.Arch., The Cooper Union
Rome Scholar, The British School at Rome
M.A., Princeton University
Joseph Bedford is a historian, theorist and architectural educator. He was trained in architecture at Cambridge University, The Cooper Union and Princeton University, and is the holder of the 2008-2009 Rome Prize at the British School in Rome. His research focuses upon the intellectual history of architectural education in the later third of the twentieth century. His current work explores the role that the relationship between the teaching of history and theory and design studio in schools of architecture played in the postwar transformations of modern architecture. His Ph.D., titled “The Seminar, the Studio and the Curriculum: Phenomenology and Pedagogy in the Essex School (1968 - 1989),” investigates the way that phenomenology facilitated a new relationship between history and studio teaching in architectural education in the context of its broader cold-war transformations.
In addition to his research, Joseph develops new media projects in architecture from documentary film, to audio podcasts, to video-exhibitions and live-streamed events as tools of collaboration and exchange in architectural culture. His recent documentary film “The Domain of the Real and the Universe of Signs” on the architecture of Stirling and Gowan’s Leicester Engineering Building was presented as a video-exhibition at The Architecture Foundation in London in 2011. He is the founding editor of the audio journal Attention, which offers an online platform for critical and historical debate and conversation on architecture, and is the co-founding editor of The Architecture Exchange, an event, online and print platform dedicated to advancing intellectual exchange between architecture and contemporary theory.
He has worked in practice and taught architecture in London and New York, for Edward Cullinan Architects and Architectural Research Office and at Pratt Institute, Columbia University and Princeton University. He is the author of numerous articles in journals such as Architecture Research Quarterly, Log and AA Files. He continues his own speculative practice of architectural drawing, alongside publishing, teaching, documentary-film making, podcasting, curating and events organizing.
jtb@vt.edu
Links to ongoing projects:
www.thearchitectureexchange.com
www.attentionjournal.com
Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center
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Visit this page on the web at http://archdesign.vt.edu/faculty/bedford-joseph
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Published: Wednesday, 17 September 2014 10:00
Dovetail Games. The latest contender trying to make move to take over the flightsim throne from FSX. Can they do it? Do we even care? I think we should care. And I think they can.
If you haven't already read it, read part 1 first: Future Flight Simulator: Part 1 - P3D
At this point we're all basically cheering for anybody trying to make it to the top, because we need a new king. While diversity is great and keeps everyone on their toes, we also need one sim to rule them all.
There have been a lot of rumors and discussions about Dovetail Games, their plans and licensing deal with Microsoft. I'm not privy to the specifics of their deal with Microsoft, but from what I have read in the various discussions and press releases, I'm optimistic and excited about the Dovetail deal. This deal seems to be very similar to the type of deal Lockheed Martin has. LM has created their own simulator; P3D. Dovetail has also "acquired a global licensing deal with Microsoft, granting us the rights to develop and publish all-new flight products based on Microsoft's genre-defining flight technology", according to a press release by DTG, which means they will also be making their own sim based on FSX. Just like LM with P3D. Same thing.
Yes, I’m assuming the new sim by DTG will be based on FSX. Why not MS Flight? Because Microsoft literally could not give that sim away. It was available as a free download and Microsoft, with all their marketing power, could not give it away. MS Flight was available on the market for only 13 months before it was shut down. Why would anyone want to license a product with that kind of a track record? FSX is the current king of flight simulators and LM has proven with P3D that you can license FSX, make a great new sim from it, gain a following and make money. Which one would you license?
If Dovetail can take FSX and do for the consumer market what Lockheed Martin has done with FSX for the commercial use, military and academic markets, then I think we may possibly have a winner in the form of a new leading sim and a future for our hobby. But it all comes down to one thing; backwards compatibility with FSX addons. I believe this is the foundation of P3Ds success so far, and it will be the make it or break it point for Dovetail as well.
Backwards compatibility for addons is truly the blessing and the curse of flight simulators today. It's the reason P3D has shot past an establish sim like X-Plane even though XP has been in the market much longer. But on the other hand, backwards compatibility was probably a major factor in the downfall of the MSFS franchise as well. Going from FS9 to FSX there wasn't 100% backward compatibility and it made a lot of simmers sit back and hold out on buying FSX. FS9 is still the second largest sim around with a 4:1 margin down to P3D in third place. Ultimately, I think FSXs failure to sway all those FS9 simmers to make the switch made a huge impact on the money MS made, and it was a part of the reason why they quit. That's how much backward compatibility means.
Backwards compatibility, in terms of addon portability, is also the reason X-Plane hasn't been able to capture any sizable market share at all from FSX even though development of FSX ended years ago. Even if XP is a great sim, you lose all your FSX addons switching to XP. And over the years we have all accumulated quite a few of them. The sim itself is now by far the cheapest part of your flightsim setup. With all those addons in your hangar you can't afford to switch to another sim! And we all have too many addons we can't live without.
I think LM has done a great job with P3D. All Dovetail has to do is follow in LMs footsteps and make the new sim backwards compatible for old FSX addons – and then of course market it to the consumer entertainment market. I'm hopeful. Because it really is their only choice. If they don't, they're dead in the water. Unless they can come up with something truly revolutionizing - they're dead in the water without backwards compatibility.
But on the other hand; why else would Dovetail license FSX if they don't intend on making the new product backward compatible? They already have in-house world simulation technology which they currently use for their train sim. Might as well make good use out of what they already have and develop a flightsim out of that instead of giving all their money to Microsoft. I think there is only one reason they're not doing that and licensing MSFS technology instead; backward compatibility for old FSX addons. It's coming. That's my prediction.
Anyone hoping to knock FSX off its throne has to come up with a solution for the addon market - or do something revolutionizing for the flightsim world. Truth be told; either one will work for me. I just want a new sim. A market leading sim that people want to buy addons for. I think we all do.
I'm excited about the announced 2015 release by Dovetail Games. It could be another MS Flight, but it could also be something big if they do it right.
We’re seeing light at the end of the tunnel, but is the light coming from a sunrise or a sunset?
I would love to hear your comments about what I have discussed here. Talk to me on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or the support forum.
What do you think about Dovetail Games and the future of flight simming?
I was recently ask why Coolsky doesn't develop for and support Lockheed Martin's Prepar3D flight simulator. The discussion quickly turned into one about the future of flight simming since P3D is often held up as the future of flight simming. I will try to explain here why I don't develop for or support P3D, and why I don't think it is the future of flight simming.
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Mendocino voters may decide on local ban of altered crops
(Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 -- CropChoice news) -- Mike Lee, Sacramento Bee, 11/19/03:
Voters in Mendocino County will have a chance to be the first in the nation to ban the raising of genetically engineered crops.
Mendocino elections officials said Tuesday that backers of a biotech crop ban have submitted enough valid signatures to earn a spot on the March ballot.
The announcement marked a victory for a handful of organic enthusiasts who started building support months ago, hoping to energize Northern California anti-biotech activists and to draw out opposition on a topic of worldwide debate.
The Mendocino Organic Network proposed the ban as a way to protect the purity of the county's large and growing organic wine-grape industry from genetic contamination. The nucleus of the signature drive was a couple who run Ukiah Brewing Co., one of the nation's few all-organic brewpubs.
"It's very exciting to set the pace and not only protect our own county but maybe set a precedent for other counties to follow," said Allen Cooperrider, one of the owners.
The initiative is largely symbolic because no biotech crops are currently grown in Mendocino, nor are there commercial genetically modified versions of Mendocino's major crops, which include wine grapes and pears.
It's no surprise that the initiative took root in Mendocino, given the county's history of organic farming, its large Green Party registration and the pride many residents take in bucking corporate-driven movements.
"I think it will spawn other efforts in the state," said Dave Henson, director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, a Sonoma County-based environmental organization.
"People will see that there is an opportunity to take this issue into their own hands," said Henson, who is working with environmentalists and farmers to shape Sonoma's response to genetically engineered crops.
Even though Mendocino's signature drive succeeded, a vote might be delayed until next fall if county supervisors decide at their Dec. 2 meeting to further evaluate the impact of the proposed law. Supervisors could enact the initiative themselves, but that seems unlikely at this point.
While county lawyers and politicians assess the initiative, opposition is forming. The Mendocino County Farm Bureau has come out against the ban, saying that it's bad policy for the county to undermine a technology regulated by the federal government.
It's still not clear whether the biotech industry will try to defeat the measure, as it did last fall when Oregon citizens unsuccessfully tried to force labeling of biotech foods.
At the Sacramento-based California Plant Health Association, a large association of fertilizer and pesticide companies, and at the Biotechnology Industry Organization in Washington, D.C., officials are monitoring the Mendocino initiative, but no action is planned.
The main concern of both organizations is that the initiative could limit farmers' crop choices.
Genetic engineering involves moving genes among species in ways that can't be done with traditional cross-breeding.
Studies show that Americans are largely ignorant about the use of biotech ingredients in an estimated 75 percent of all processed foods. So far, their inclusion has not proved harmful.
Sporadic opposition to biotechnology has surfaced in the United States, including a protest that shut down Sacramento streets last summer and spirited campaigns from Hawaii to Vermont to keep out biotech products. None, however, has led to a ban on the growing of genetically engineered crops.
Opposition is stronger in the European Union, where the government has approved a strict labeling policy for genetically engineered foods, and in developing countries. A few developing countries have refused biotech grain donated by the United States.
Major concerns include the environmental and human risks inherent in tinkering with nature. Proponents say the technology offers a way to reduce pesticide use and, potentially, a way to grow healthier foods.
In a sign of the increasing import of the worldwide debate, the Vatican last week convened a panel of experts on biotechnology to help shape church policy.
Closer to home, Bay Area anti-biotech activists are watching to see if Mendocino's landmark ban prevails.
"I think it would be pretty inspiring," said Devi Peri of GE-Free Marin in Fairfax.
"It seems like in a place like Marin, which is pretty progressive, it's got a lot of possibilities."
Even if all Bay Area counties followed Mendocino's lead, however, it would have little immediate effect given that major biotech crops -- corn, soybeans, cotton and canola -- aren't agricultural staples in Northern California.
But genetically modified fruit and nut trees are being developed, and the ecology center's Henson said Mendocino's initiative could generate important discussion before they arrive.
"We need literacy," he said. "Our task is to keep it in the public eye."
Source: http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/7812501p-8753480c.html
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Text and Textile
The Culture Mill Lab 1616 Jordan Dr. Saxapahaw (map)
As a part of Culture Mill’s Open Space Policy, local artist and researcher Sarah George presents a pop-up art installation bringing together books and fabric, art and craft, writing and making, text and textile. Visitors will be able to walk through immersive spaces created in response to three narratives that heavily feature textile work, sewing, and weaving.
Saturday, March 30th: 2pm to 8pm
The Culture Mill Lab (1616 Jordan Dr., Saxapahaw, NC)
A native Midwesterner, Sarah George-Waterfield has been circling her way to Chapel Hill. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, she joined the Peace Corps and served in Mali—an experience that sparked a love of textiles and those who work with them. She has since completed a master’s degree in English from Southern Illinois University. Currently a doctoral candidate in English at UNC-Chapel Hill, her research focuses on the relationship between narrative, memory, and textile work in contemporary novels. Her artistic work is ultimately a part of her dissertation project, and conveys the ways that memory and narrative reside in the warp and the weft, in the feel of the fabric on the fingers, in the taste of string in the mouth. She lives and works in Hillsborough, NC, and you can follow her alternative dissertation process at fabricthinking.wordpress.com.
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Writeup of the Author Event at UMass O'Leary Library
We had a fun book signing event at the UMass O'Leary Library in Lowell. Attending were local authors with books to sell to the public.
Many thanks to Sara Marks for setting this up (and cookies and water), and to the library for hosting us. The students were hard at work studying for finals, and they probably couldn't hear us with their ear buds in.
Beth Logan, who's written tax guides
Donna Marie Rucinski Harrington and Laura
Kameryn James, with a shining halo!
Laura Marshall, who also runs the Society of Independent Publishers and Authors
My setup. Love the new bookracks!
Paul Marion, poet and more
Richard Howe
Sara Marks (Twitter: @sara_marks) and Matthew Jones
They both work on The Mill Pages Magazine, seen here
Steven O'Connor
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Local Author Book Signing at UMass Library
Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 26th, come on down to the UMass Library from 7 to 9 for a book signing by local authors.
We'll be at the O'Leary Library on the Mezzanine level.
See you there. There might even be local celebrities!
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Wicked Cozy Authors at Nashua Barnes and Noble
So we had a great book event at the Nashua Barnes and Noble- one of the rare gatherings of the Wicked Cozy Authors. Six great writers (and wonderful people) came to answer questions and chat with fans old and new. They write fun, classic-style, traditional mysteries: the ones without all the graphic blood, sex, and gore on the page. They've been nominated for a slew of writing awards, and combined, have written over 40 novels in just the past 4-5 years!
They're also fellow members of Sisters in Crime, a great organization for mystery writers, and some, if not all, are also in the Mystery Writers of America.
R to L: Edith Maxwell, Barbara Ross, Julie Hennrikus, Sherry Harris (who flew in to be with the group!), Jessie Crockett, and Liz Mugavero. (Note: some of them have pen names, so many I can't list them all here!)
To see an interview with Edith, click here.
To see an interview with Barbara, click here.
You know you've made it when they have a printed sign with pictures!
Here they get introduced, with a note about their titles, awards, and alternate names.
Some of the fans- it was an enthusiastic crowd
People asked the authors how they create their works, how they get inspired, whether they plot everything out or just start writing, and much more. When curiosity had been satisfied, it twas time to get up and chat with the authors one on one.
The bookstore staff were professional and nice- they even brought out tea and scones, as cozy mysteries should have cozy treats!
Some friends of the authors showed up
And here's two other authors, Lisa Haselton (L) and Peggy McFarland. Lisa was waving, but looks like she's warding off the photographer!
And then the signings began, as readers picked up a lot of good new books.
Great night with a talented bunch. We hope they'll make more area appearances.
You can find them all on Facebook and Twitter as well as the website links with their names here.
Labels: Author Spotlight, Barbara Ross, Big Author Signing, Books, Bookstores, Edith Maxwell, Reading, Sisters In Crime, Writers
For Those Who Love Truth- Interview with Lee C. McIntyre- with update
Yes, we've been doing a lot of interviews here, because there are so many cool writers doing great work! Here's one that's a bit different, as Lee is publishing so far in the non-fiction world.
But we'll be talking about fiction- specifically why so many people believe in things that aren't true, even when shown the truth.
Disclaimer- those who are offended by facts, and prefer their opinions over verified science and reality should not read further. They are likely to have some beliefs challenged by a rational thinker.
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He has taught philosophy at Colgate University, Boston University, Simmons College, Tufts Experimental College, and Harvard Extension School.
His most recent book is Respecting Truth:Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age (Routledge, 2015)
in which he explores the problem of why people sometimes refuse to believe something even when they have good evidence that it is true. In a forthcoming book, Post-Truth – which will be part of the “essential knowledge” series at MIT Press – he explores the recent attack on facts and truth since the 2016 Presidential election.
Q. Lee, you wrote this book well before the current climate of a mass disbelief in facts. Did you see all this coming? Please tell us a bit about the origin.
A. I wouldn’t say I “saw it coming” because I had hoped it wouldn’t get to this point, but the idea of “denialism” was certainly out there and I was fighting against it. One of the most maddening things is that the tactics which were successfully used to obfuscate the truth about things like evolution, climate change, and vaccines have now made the jump to ALL factual topics. It used to be that political ideology was keeping people from believing the truth about science. Now it’s about things like whether it rained during Trump’s inauguration or whether the murder rate is going up. This is distressing because we’re moving in the wrong direction.
Q. For some of us, it's frightening and impossible to understand how millions of people can just choose not to believe in reality, and still function. Tell us how this comes about.
A. It’s pretty frightening to me too, even though I’m trying to understand it better. In my new book Post-Truth, I’m examining some psychological research that has explored the question of disbelief in the face of evidence. What they’ve found is that we are wired with cognitive biases that can smooth the path toward irrationality. I don’t think anyone can really explain how evolution allows this (what’s the reward for disbelieving in truth?) but it is there, at the neural level. Of course, we’ve known for years that emotion, desire, and motivation can color our beliefs. Way back in the 1950s Solomon Asch was doing work that showed that if you put someone in a room with others, and they all gave the wrong answer to a factual question, he’d do it too. These were situations where it was easy to tell that the answer was wrong, but there is a strong human desire to conform. Unfortunately, this is exacerbated by getting positive feedback for your mistakes, so when people hunker down in a news silo or a chat room where they are believing in wild things but everyone around them is too, they don’t get the kind of negative feedback that is necessary to change their beliefs. Belief becomes tribal. More recent psychological work has shown that once we get to this level, it is very hard to convince someone to change their mind, even when the facts are in their face. They just don’t see it. It’s not that they are being stubborn: they literally can’t see the truth anymore.
Q. Can you give an example?
A. Sure. During the 2016 election, conservative voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin were targeted with a deluge of fake news in their Facebook feeds. This was a coordinated attack by Russia, where they hired thousands of hackers to produce ridiculously false and horrible stories about Hillary Clinton. You’d hope that people would be able to apply some critical reasoning skills and know that these weren’t true, but when your friends are passing the same stories back and forth, one might begin to wonder: “Does Hillary have a brain tumor?” “Did she organize a child sex slave ring out of a Washington DC pizza restaurant?” This sounds absurd, but in politics you ignore absurd stories at your peril. Remember the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” during the 2004 election, who were trying to make the case that John Kerry was a coward in Vietnam? He didn’t want to “dignify” it with a comment for two weeks. By then it was too late. When people hear false stories over and over again, and their friends are talking about them, they are more likely to believe it.
Q. What do you feel is the main reason people believe something obviously untrue?
A. It’s called motivated reasoning. In short, they want to believe it. If someone wants to believe something then there is an easy pathway in their brain to try to make it true. Daniel Kahneman talks about this in his wonderful book Thinking Fast and Slow. When we hear something that we want to be true, we engage in something called “confirmation bias,” which is when we go out and look for reasons to think that the belief is right. But the problem is that if you’re on the hunt for reasons to believe something you’re probably going to find it, even if the belief is wrong. This is why science has so much invested in testing a hypothesis – in trying to disconfirm a theory. You don’t learn much by examining evidence that one of your beliefs is true, you learn by trying to find evidence that it’s not. But who is going to take the time to do this? When we all got our news from the same media sources, there was more opportunity to work from the same set of facts. Now a lot of the alternative media are simply making things up, and no one can tell what the facts are anymore.
Q. Why is this mindset dangerous?
A. The main reason is that it’s so easy. Like I said, it’s wired in. Whether we’re liberal or conservative, our brains are set up to engage in a process that feels a lot like thinking, but it really isn’t. In the past, it may have felt safe to dismiss the kind of people who believed in conspiracy theories about climate change or government surveillance. Now those people are running the White House. And it’s dangerous at a general societal level too. Remember that fake news story about Hillary Clinton running a child sex slave ring? A deranged man read the story and showed up at the pizza restaurant where it was allegedly taking place and fired off a few rounds from his shotgun. An even better example occurred a few weeks later when the Pakistani Defense minister read a fake news story that said that Israel would nuke Pakistan if they sent any ground troops to Syria. He immediately threatened nuclear retaliation against Israel. Fake news can get people killed.
Q. When public officials go on record with "alternate facts," do they know they're lying, or are they blinded by their ideology?
A. That’s a good question and it’s hard to know. There is a long tradition in American politics of “spinning,” which is putting the most favorable face on a set of facts. But I think we’re way beyond that now. It’s not necessarily that they know they’re lying, but maybe they’re not really sure what’s a lie and what’s the truth anymore. When you watch Kellyanne Conway , I think that most of the time she’s lying and she knows it. She’s too good at what she does to avoid the truth so assiduously. It must be a deliberate campaign of obfuscation. That said, some have argued that the best way to deceive others is to deceive yourself first. We saw this back on election night in 2008. Remember when Karl Rove was doing the color commentary for FOX News and he just wouldn’t accept that Obama had won the election? Even though FOX had already called it, he kept insisting that the numbers were wrong and that when a few more counties came in from Ohio, Romney would win “in a landslide.” That is delusion. That is someone who is so deep into their ideology that they can’t see the facts anymore. The goal is to stop people from getting to that point. Every lie has an audience. Even if you can’t convince the liar, what about the people who are listening? If we can stop someone before they make that slide from ignorance to “willful ignorance” to full blown denialism (or delusion), then we’ve done a good thing. But Karl Rove? I think he’s a lost cause. Kellyanne Conway too, because even if she’s aware of what she’s doing, she’ll never admit it.
Q. Tell us what rational, thinking people can do to counter this mass hysteria.
A. Fight back. Don’t let a lie go unchallenged. Keep relentlessly pushing the truth. The problem occurs when people are only hearing one side of the narrative. Propagandists have known this since Joseph Goebbels and probably before. It’s called the “reiteration effect.” If you hear something over and over you are more likely to believe it’s true. There is also something called “source amnesia,” which is when you remember the message, but forget whether it came from a reliable source. People who want to get others to believe their lies capitalize on this and they have to be fought. One of the most encouraging things I’ve read recently comes out of some of psychological research which shows that if you just keep hammering people “right between the eyes” with the facts, eventually is has an effect. At first they resist and it may even backfire, but you can also break through. Also, remember that if someone hears the same facts from more than one source it will help them to believe it. The reiteration effect works both ways. Truth is a powerful weapon. And remember: all of these “irrational” people don’t think that they’re being irrational. In their mind, they’re looking for the truth too. (We know this from fiction right? The villain is the hero of his own narrative). We can capitalize on this. Give them some facts that challenge the narrative of lies they’re being fed by the ideologues and the propagandists.
Q. Is there anything we can do to keep this from happening in the first place?
A. Teach critical thinking! And teach it early. I just read about a 5th grade teacher in California who was teaching his students how to spot fake news. He made a game out of it. He gave them a rubric such as “look for copyright” and “look for a date on the story.” Simple things. Things a fifth grader could do. And they LOVED it. He said he can’t get them to go out for recess now until they play “the fake news game.” That is the right track. Also we forget that the expectation of objectivity in a news source is a fairly recent luxury. The concept of objectivity didn’t even exist for American news until about the 1830s and didn’t really catch on until the scourge of “yellow journalism” in the 1890s. People need to learn how to be skeptical of what they are reading again. We need to engage our brains and expect to question things. And if we want more objective, fact-checked, double-sourced, investigative journalism we should darn well be prepared to pay for it. I bought a subscription to both the New York Times and the Washington Post just after the election. I hear a lot of other people had the same idea.
Q. If someone came to you for advice on how to deal with the current political situation, how would you help?
A. This is a tough one, because I’m a philosopher and not a political activist. But the one thing I’d say is don’t give up. Stand up for what you believe in and make sure your elected representatives know how you feel. Truth matters. Facts matter. But your voice matters too. If you don’t make a statement about your beliefs they will get drowned out.
Q. Give us a bit of hope, some good news about all this.
A. It may seem that we have given up on truth, but that is not true. Even when people are going to be personally hurt by something that is true, they are reluctant to destroy it. Nixon kept the Watergate tapes. Criminals keep souvenirs. Why do we do this? Because I think that at some level people have a deep desire to know that the truth exists, even if they want to ignore it for a while. It’s like taking a kayak out into the ocean. It’s fun and exhilarating, but you want to make sure to keep the shoreline in sight.
Q. When you wrote Respecting Truth, did you map a good deal out in your head (or even outline) before crafting, or did you piece together ideas until a form came about?
A. I had been working on the issue of science denial for quite some time, so a lot of the outline was already there. But then I had to really dig into the examples and figure out how to make them accessible for a general audience. Another challenge was to figure out how to write a book where I was offering some perspective on the topic, while still telling a story. Philosophy is so argument oriented that we sometimes forget people are more convinced by an example or a story than a syllogism. I always outline. I can’t help it. But when I sit down to write it’s an act of pure serendipity. I’ve got all of these sources and pieces of things I want to say and I just draw on them and put them together. I guess it’s sort of like quilting (though I’ve never done that). You have the pieces but you have to be ready for snags and surprises along the way.
Q. What would you want a reader to take away from reading this book?
A. That it is possible to understand why science denial is happening and that we can do something about it. My goal in writing these days is to engage the general reader. I still write some technical philosophy that’s primarily for my professional colleagues, but I enjoy the challenge of trying to reach a wider audience as well. In Respecting Truth, I want to think clearly about issues that are important to all of us, and draw the public into debates that might have seemed closed off. Truth and reason have been the subject of philosophy for the past 2400 years. All of a sudden they’re sexy topics. I think we need to embrace that.
Q. Who should we be reading and listening to now? Are there writers with similar themes to yours? Who are your influences (can be writers, or even artists, musicians, or others) and what is it about their work that attracts you?
A. Everyone who is interested in the story of how we came to be at a point where facts and truth are in question should read Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s book Merchants of Doubt. It is a devastating history of how denialism over scientific topics (like smoking, acid rain, ozone, and climate change) has been manufactured by those who had money at stake. Ideology often has deep roots in economic interests. I don’t write about that aspect of it myself, but this book is great background for anyone who thinks it is all ideology. One of the most profoundly important books I’ve read in recent years is Robert Trivers’s The Folly of Fools, which talks about the role of deception and self-deception in human behavior. Trivers is a biologist, but he writes like a dream, and his insights are marvelous. In philosophy, I enjoy the work of Michael Lynch, Noretta Koertge, and Alex Rosenberg. In social science, there’s been some stunning work done by Sheena Iyengar, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, Daniel Kahneman, and Cass Sunstein. Some of my favorite “general audience” writers about similar topics are Robert Wright and Michael Shermer.
Q. Any goals you've set for yourself, professionally or personally? What's the next step in your writing world?
A. In addition to Post-Truth, I’m currently working on a book about scientific reasoning. At heart, I’m a philosopher of science and I have a theory of what’s so special about scientific reasoning. That’s not quite a general audience issue, but I’m writing it as clearly as possible, because I think that these days especially it’s an important issue for all of us. Post-Truth is a book that I’m really excited about. It’s short, pointed, and goes right to the heart of what I think is the main threat to our society today. But it’s also much more political than anything I’ve ever written. I’ve joked with my wife that if they ever start having political prisoners in the USA, they’ll have a cell waiting for me. I’m also an aspiring novelist. I love to read Joe Finder, Harlan Coben, and Linwood Barclay. I remember sitting on a beach one day reading John Grisham saying “I’ll bet I could do that…how hard can it be?” That was in 2004.
A. I once sat in the cockpit of an F-15 Eagle and got a perfect score on the Secret Service test to detect counterfeit money (not on the same day). I’ve also had a painting rejected by the Museum of Bad Art (not because it was too good, I can assure you).
Addendum: Lee now has a piece that has been accepted into the the permanent collection of the Museum of Bad Art.
Congratulations! Keep after your dreams to make them happen!
A. I believe that reading is our strongest weapon against tyranny.
Web page: leemcintyrebooks.com/
Where to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Respecting-Truth-Willful-Ignorance-Internet/dp/1138888818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492098049&sr=8-1&keywords=lee+mcintyre
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Interview with Maine Author Vaughn C. Hardacker
Howdy folks. Today we've got an interview with Vaughn C. Hardacker, an author of thrillers.
Vaughn's part of the Maine Crime Writers, a group who blog about living and writing in the great state of Maine.
Now I wrote Shadow of the Wendigo, a supernatural thriller set in Canada. So when I saw this come up (to be released July 11, 2017), I said "Hey, I know that legend."
Furthermore, Vaughn set the book in Aroostook County, where I grew up. So it's chillingly familiar, and he gets it all right.
Q. So how did this novel come to be? Was it envisioned from the start as a bigger canvas, or did it expand organically out of an idea? Please tell us a bit about the origin.
A. The origin of Wendigo is very unusual. I had just finished a novel, THE WAR WITHIN (still unpublished) which was a combination crime and war novel (awarded second place in the 1989 International Literary Awards) and wanted to start something new. I was an avid reader of horror stories and never missed seeing a single B horror movie during my pre-teen years. I still recall reading my first two horror novels, DRACULA, and FRANKENSTEIN. By the time that I graduated high school, I had read all of Poe’s short stories and now wanted to write a horror novel of my own. I picked up my copy of Roget’s Thesaurus and looked up monster. One of the words listed was Wendigo. I had never heard of it, so I did some research, and was immediately hooked.
Q. Did you start with the germ of an idea and start writing to see where it went, or did you map a good deal out in your head (or even outline) before crafting?
A. I’m strictly a seat-of-the-pants writer. Learning that the Wendigo was an Algonquin god made me think of the north Maine woods of my youth (I was living in the Chicago suburbs at the time). I started with a single plot line: A Native American trapper finds a body while tending his traps and believes he has stumbled across a victim of a Wendigo. He races to the nearest phone (keep in mind this was 1989 and cell phones were still in the future) and reports the finding to local authorities and when they return to the scene, the body is missing. Only he suspects what the killer is.
The novel went through numerous rewrites until it was finally worthy of submission to my editor at Skyhorse Publishing. The editor, Jay Cassell, also edited books on the outdoors (The Shooter’s Bible among others—many are sold at Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops). He immediately accepted the manuscript.
Q.What do you feel is the main theme(s)?
A. I believe the main theme, although it’s never actually spoken, has its roots in my childhood. I grew up in an environment where children were to be seen but seldom heard. I still get very frustrated when I feel that people are not listening to me or are unwilling to at least acknowledge that I have a valid argument. Throughout the novel, John Bear (who, after several iterations was no longer a trapper, was now a game warden) has to deal with the frustration of knowing that regardless of how much evidence he presents, no one believes that they are dealing with an extraordinary and horrific monster.
Q. Why do you feel this is important, and what would you want a reader to take away from reading this book?
A. I hope that the reader will walk away thinking about the affects of not respecting the opinions and beliefs of other people can have.
A. I believe there are three things that make a story engrossing:
1. Characters who are interesting, yet realistic. I have a hard time reading a book in which the protagonist is a super-human hero. There is one very popular author whose main character was an All-American quarterback in college and lives in an aircraft hangar filled with antique cars and airplanes and affords all this while living on a government paycheck. Needless to say regardless of how popular this author is, I will not read anything he has written.
2. The scene must have an effect on the story. In WENDIGO not only is John Bear tasked with tracking a supernatural killer but he must do it in a hostile wintry environment that negates all but the most rudimentary forensics. The killer’s trail will be obliterated by the next snowfall or by drifting snow pushed along by frigid winter wind. John Bear has to deal with all of this, along with disbelieving colleagues and superiors (Did I mention the below zero temperatures?).
3. The plot should be interesting. Periodically, I watch suspense movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Modern film seems to be one chase scene after another with a lot of explosions and stunts. Hitchcock mixed physical and psychological action and did it while presenting the viewer with interesting and realistic characters. I wonder what he’d think of the current mindless action films of today if he were alive.
In closing, the writer must respect his reader’s intelligence. They are highly intelligent—they’re reading your book aren’t they?
A. If, by similar themes you mean the Wendigo, there are many. I have recently read Dale T. Phillips’ SHADOW OF THE WENDIGO and the creature (?) has appeared either overtly or covertly in a number of other writer’s work (i.e. Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY).
I’ve been influenced by many writers. There are the obvious ones: Poe and King as well as some who are not so obvious. I was a freshman in high school when I first read Mickey Spillane’s classic I, The Jury and became hooked on the mystery genre. While in the U. S. Marine Corps, I became an avid reader of Louis L’Amour, I still read many of his short stories (I have always been impressed by his ability to write in multiple genres—about ten years ago, Bantam books published many of his short fiction in a series entitled The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour the sixth volume was his crime stories—prior to purchasing the set I had no idea that he’d written mystery/crime) while best known for his westerns (the Sackett books) he also wrote thrillers and the aforementioned crime stories.
Q. Is storytelling mostly entertainment, or does it serve other functions? Do you have particular goals other than telling a good story?
A. Without a doubt stories have many functions. For many years I taught business management as a member of the adjunct faculty at a community college in the Chicago suburbs. The most effective way to get a point across to students is to link the subject you want them to understand to an anecdote or story. The anecdote should be interesting and reinforce the point you are making. The concept of using stories to illustrate a particular point that goes back to Aesop’s Fables.
Q. Any other goals you've set for yourself, professionally or personally?
A. I only have one goal and that is to write. I was told by an editor (who was a member of a writer group to which I belonged) that even if I never published I’d write. I believe this to be true; possibly because of my need to be heard (mentioned earlier). However, I do enjoy having readers tell me when they enjoy something I’ve written.
A. Sooner or later every writer will be asked: What is your writing style? My response: “I wouldn’t recommend my style to anyone—it’s prolonged periods of procrastination interspersed with frenetic periods of writing. My first two books, Sniper and The Fisherman, were both started in 2002 and completed in 2013. I started WENDIGO in 1989 and have recently finished reviewing the ARC and it is scheduled for a July 2017 release. On the other hand, Black Orchid was completed in a five month period (in the forward of one of his novels, Stephen King said—and I’m paraphrasing here—some books write themselves and others have to be ground out) Orchid wrote itself.
I don’t think I’ve every been either happy with or tired of any book I’ve written. I have one goal: To get the story written and then let the editors help me tweak and smooth the manuscript.
A. My experience with the editors at Skyhorse Publishing has been very favorable. Sniper, The Fisherman, and Black Orchid were edited by Constance Renfro, who has since left Skyhorse and opened her own editorial business (http://www.constancerenfrow.com/). Although she is young enough to be my granddaughter, she was firm and when she believed I was wrong (Who would have thought that would happen?) stayed firm and convinced me to make the edits she wanted. I have just finished working with a new editor, Maxim Brown who quickly spotted inconsistencies in WENDIGO. To summarize, my experience with these editors has been positive and has helped me to become a better writer.
A. I have assisted writers in numerous ways:
1. Have reviewed your work reviewed by published writers and listen to them, don’t take what they say personal and while you may not agree with their assessment, try what they recommend—you may be surprised to learn that they are right.
2. Develop a tough skin. You are going to receive a lot of rejections, we all do (at least until we reach the height of Stephen King, Michael Connelly, or Robert B. Parker.
3. Join a writer group and then refer to #1 above. Ensure that the people in the group are serious about honing their craft and can help you get better. Joining a group who are either not serious writers or is comprised of your family and friends will usually not be of much help. Never forget that Your best friends are those who tell you what you need to hear; not what you want to hear.
4. Read the successful writers who write books similar to theirs. Review the bestseller lists and keep abreast of what readers are buying.
5. Learn the business of writing and always remember that it is a business. You may not like speaking in public or becoming a salesperson, but they are required skills. If you don’t feel comfortable about your abilities in these areas, start developing them.
6. Last, but not least, I always emphasize (especially to young writers) that they do not quit their day job.
Q. Stories can be told by using a different medium. Can you see your book as a film, audio, etc.? How would that alter the telling?
A. My books are available in audio (Audible and MP3) and I’ve had readers express that they felt they would be great movies.
The audible and MP3 productions are true to the book. It’s well known that once you sell the film rights to a production company, they can change things in any way they’d like. We’ve all heard someone say: “I liked the book better.”
A. Currently, I am working on a new crime/thriller and am between agents. In the fall I expect to be finished with the novel and doing an agent search.
A. My first writer group consisted of three women (all published authors and two of which were professional editors) and myself. The first night I was certain that I was going to dazzle them with my exquisite prose. The reality: They chewed me up and spit me out.
I went home that night madder than a hatter. I vented on my wife telling her how they didn’t understand what I was saying, blah, blah, blah.
She listened quietly and then said: “Why don’t you stop whining and try what they told you.”
The next evening I was in the kitchen, staring into the open door of the refrigerator. She walked in and asked, “What are you doing?”
My reply: “I’m looking for some crow.”
She laughed: You tried what they said, didn’t you?
“Yeah . . . they were right—now I’ve got to eat some crow.”
A. Finally, I’d like to quote a friend, Hallie Ephron who once said: “To write is heavenly; to rewrite is divine.”
Web page: http://www.vaughnhardacker.com/index
Where to buy: Skyhorse Publishing books are available at bookstores and online.
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Two Upcoming Anthology Releases With My Stories
Hello there- I've got stories in two different collections with other authors coming out soon.
They're both great, and worth checking out.
Busted! Arresting Stories from the Beat from Level Best Books will be released April 25, 2017.
It's a collection of law enforcement stories.
Level Best Books also produces the annual Best New England Crime Stories, and I've been in the collection every year for the past three years: Windward, Red Dawn, and Rogue Wave.
Next is the new collection from the Horror Writers of Maine, Northern Frights.
From Grinning Skull Press.
If you like it scary, this one's for you!
No date for release yet, but it's coming soon!
Labels: Books, Latest Publication, New Story, Publishing, Writers
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Alan raises another $45 million for its health insurance product
Paris-based startup Alan has raised a Series B round of funding of $45 million (€40 million). Index Ventures is once again leading the round, with partners of DST Global also participating. The company had raised a $28 million funding round only 10 months ago. Alan is a software-as-a-service startup tackling a very specific industry: the…
Paris-based startup Alan has raised a Series B round of funding of $45 million (€40 million). Index Ventures is once again leading the round, with partners of DST Global also participating. The company had raised a $28 million funding round only 10 months ago.
Alan is a software-as-a-service startup tackling a very specific industry: the health insurance market in France — and soon across Europe. The company wants to create a well-designed insurance product with transparent pricing and policies to make healthcare more accessible. And it isn’t just a marketplace — the startup has obtained an official health insurance license and is the first new health insurance company in France in 30 years.
Alan raises $28.3 million for its health insurance of the future
In France, every employee is covered by the national healthcare system for basic reimbursements, as well as a private insurance company for more expensive treatments. In addition to that, legacy insurance companies have neglected those products as they usually don’t generate a lot of margins on that segment. It creates a huge market opportunity for Alan.
With today’s funding announcement, the startup has shared some numbers. In 2018 alone, the company grew from 5,000 insured people to 27,000, and revenue jumped from $4 million to $25 million (€3.5 million to €22 million). Alan has been focused on freelancers as well as small and medium companies, such as My Little Paris, Le Slip Français, Ledger and Converteo.
More interestingly, Alan is close to break-even right now with 64 employees. That gives you an idea of Alan’s margins.
Following today’s funding round, the company is going to hire a lot more people. There should be around 175 people working for Alan by the end of the year.
On the product front, the company is always looking at ways to make the experience as seamless as possible. “We’re trying to make the insurance process instantaneous, from quotes to coverage and reimbursements” co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian told me.
But Alan has always been about healthcare at large, not just insurance products. So let’s see how they can use this influx of funding to simplify healthcare in general.
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Hopes Dashed As Orange Objects Turn Out to be Fishing Equipment
Potential leads on the missing Malaysian jetliner keep coming. So do the setbacks and frustrations.
Four orange objects spotted by aircraft searching for the plane in the treacherous Indian Ocean turned out to be fishing equipment, Australian officials said Monday.
Flight Lt. Russell Adams had described the objects found Sunday as the "most promising leads."
But on further analysis, they turned out to be fishing equipment, once again dashing hopes of finding the jetliner that vanished March 8.
"We are searching a vast area of ocean, and we are working on quite limited information," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters Monday. "Nevertheless, the best brains in the world are applying themselves to this task. ... If this mystery is solvable, we will solve it."
The area of the search is 254,000 square kilometers (98,069 miles) that 10 planes and 11 ships were searching Monday. It's the most vessels to comb the search area so far.
Search crews from various nations have found an array of potential leads, only to later shoot down any links to the missing plane. They've included dead jelly fish and other garbage floating in the southern Indian Ocean.
Race against time
With every passing minute, it becomes harder to find the flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders. Batteries on the "pinger" - the beacon that sends a signal from recorders - are designed to last about 30 days.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared 23 days ago en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
An Australian ship fitted with a U.S. ping detector is set to join the search Monday in a desperate race against time.
The focus is on helping find the flight recorders. Find the pinger and you find the recorders. Find the recorders, experts say, and you are steps closer to solving the mystery of Flight 370. Flight data recorders capture a wide array of information, including altitudes, air speeds and engine temperatures.
Crews loaded an American pinger locator and undersea search equipment onto the Ocean Shield, an offshore support vessel of the Australian navy. The ship was originally set to depart Monday morning, but authorities said it would be delayed by several hours for an inspection.
It will take the ship up to three days to reach the search area.
But that's just one of the many hurdles.
Oceanographer Erik Van Sebille weighs in on the possibility of finding the data recorder for Flight 370.
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Australia: New Search Area for Flight 370 is 'Most Credible Lead'
Nearly three weeks after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the focus of the hunt for the missing passenger jet has moved yet again.
Search teams have shifted to a different part of the southern Indian Ocean after Australian authorities said they received "a new credible lead" about the jetliner's most likely last movements.
An analysis of radar data led investigators to move the search to an area 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast of where efforts had been focused previously, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said Friday.
It described the new information, which indicated the errant jetliner didn't fly as far south as previously thought, as "the most credible lead to where debris may be located."
That means the huge, isolated areas of the ocean that ships and planes had combed for more than a week - and where various satellites detected objects that might be debris from the missing plane - are no longer of interest.
"We have moved on from those search areas," said John Young, general manager of emergency response for the Australian maritime authority.
The new search area is "considerable" and conditions there "remain challenging," acting Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters Friday.
The sudden change of geographic focus is the latest twist in an investigation that has so far failed to establish why Flight 370 flew dramatically off course or exactly where the plane and the 239 people it was carrying ended up.
"To me, it's not a game changer, it's a reset," David Gallo of theWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution said of the shifted search.
'We have not seen any debris'
Australian officials also played down the significance of hundreds of possible objects detected by satellites in the previous search region, some of which had been described by authorities as important leads.
"In regards to the old areas, we have not seen any debris," Young said at a news briefing in Canberra, the Australian capital. "And I would not wish to classify any of the satellite imagery as debris, nor would I want to classify any of the few visual sightings that we made as debris. That's just not justifiable from what we have seen."
Officials had repeatedly cautioned that the objects seen in the satellite imagery could just be flotsam that had fallen off cargo ships.
But Hishammuddin said the new search area "could still be consistent" with the idea that materials spotted in recent satellite photos over the previous search area are connected to the plane. The materials could have drifted in ocean currents, he said.
Some analysts raised their eyebrows at the search coordinators' readiness to move away from the satellite sightings.
"Really? That much debris and we're not going to have a look at it to see what that stuff might be?" said Gallo, who helped lead the search for the flight recorders of Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.
Others lamented the amount of time, money and resources that were spent sending planes and ships out to the now discounted areas for more than a week.
"This is time that has been wasted, there's no question," said CNN aviation analyst Miles O'Brien.
But Young disputed that suggestion, saying the previous searches were based on the information authorities "had at the time."
"That's nothing unusual for search and rescue operations," he said "And this actually happens to us all the time - that new information may arise out of sequence with the search itself."
Posted by Jethro Mullen
Flight 370 Pilot's Son Dismisses Speculation About His Father
A son of the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has defended his father, rejecting speculation about his possible role in the plane's disappearance.
"I've read everything online. But I've ignored all the speculation. I know my father better," Ahmad Seth Zaharie, 26, said in an interview published Thursday by the New Straits Times. He is the youngest son of the 53-year-old pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
Investigators have so far been unable to establish why the passenger jet flew far off course on the night it vanished from radar screens almost three weeks ago.
Malaysian authorities say the jetliner and the 239 people it was carrying ended up in the southern Indian Ocean, where a multinational search is trying to locate traces of the plane.
The search efforts were severely hampered by bad weather Thursday, while Thai authorities reported detecting hundreds more objects that could be related to the plane in satellite images.
'I understand him'
The pilot and first officer of the plane have come under particular scrutiny, with a range of speculative theories proffered for why one or both of them might have diverted it from its scheduled flight path to Beijing.
Some of the wilder speculation suggested Zaharie might have hijacked the plane as a political act.
"We may not be as close as he travels so much. But I understand him," Ahmad said of his father in the interview, which was conducted Tuesday.
Ahmad is the first member of the Zaharie's close family to speak publicly to the news media about the plane's disappearance.
No 'smoking gun'
Comments from government officials on the investigation so far support the young man's view.
A senior Malaysian government official on Wednesday told CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes that authorities have found nothing negative in 19 days of investigating the two pilots that leads them to any motive, be it political, suicidal or extremist.
And an ongoing FBI review of the two pilots' hard drives, including Zaharie's flight simulator, has not turned up a "smoking gun," a U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
"They have accessed the data," the official said. "There is nothing that's jumping out and grabbing us right now."
Officials have so far not reported anything suspicious in their investigations into the 10 other crew members and 227 passengers on board the plane.
American investigators continue to be baffled by the plane's disappearance, with one U.S. official saying, "I don't think there is a prevailing theory. There are counterarguments to every theory right now."
Air search halted
With little sign of progress in the investigation on land, search efforts at sea were hampered Thursday by another bout of bad weather.
The conditions brought an early end to the day's aerial search for the plane in the southern Indian Ocean, but five ships in the area are trying to keep up the hunt for debris despite the difficult conditions.
All the planes that had flown out to the search zone are returning to Perth, the western Australian city where they set out from, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said. It initially reported that the ships were leaving the search area, too, but later said they would stay.
The search teams that have been out over the remote area of ocean Thursday have been "beaten up," said Lt. Comm. Adam Schantz of the U.S. Navy.
The visibility is almost zero, with clouds reaching down to the surface of the water, as well as severe turbulence and icing, he said.
"It's very cold," said Capt. Allison Norris, who is in charge of the HMAS Success, the Australian navy ship in the search area. "We rotate the lookouts through every hour and make sure that they are appropriately dressed to combat the very cold conditions down here."
Early Thursday afternoon, more than 60% of the search area was experiencing a mixture of low visibility, strong thunderstorms and powerful winds, said CNN International Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri.
Hopes of resuming
Flight crews hope to be back in the air Friday if the weather clears, Schantz said. But the Australian maritime agency said it expects conditions to remain bad for another 24 hours.
This is the second time this week that operations have been hampered by harsh conditions in the isolated patch of ocean roughly 1,500 miles southwest of Perth. No search missions took place on Tuesday because of stormy weather.
The delay is likely to prolong an already protracted hunt for the missing Boeing 777, which disappeared March 8 over Southeast Asia with 239 people on board.
Citing an analysis of satellite data, Malaysian authorities say the plane ended its errant journey in the southern Indian Ocean. But they still haven't been able to establish why it lost contact with air traffic control and flew so far off course.
The suspension of the aerial search dims hopes that the teams might soon be able to pinpoint objects spotted in satellite images of the ocean captured over the past two weeks.
On Wednesday, Malaysia said it had received satellite images showing 122 potential objects floating in the ocean, not far from other satellite sightings that could be related to the missing passenger jet.
Adding to the list, a Thai satellite spotted 300 "pieces of floating objects potentially linked" to the missing plane in broadly the same region of the southern Indian Ocean, a Thai official said Thursday.
The Thai satellite captured the images on Monday, but it took several days to process them and pass them on to the Malaysian government, said Kampanart Deeudomchan, an official at Thailand's Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency.
Analysts have said the detection of possible objects is an encouraging sign, but so far nothing conclusively linked to the plane has been found.
"The type of wreckage or object that we're looking for is so close to the water line that now radars would not be able to pick it up," Norris of the HMAS Success told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "So we are very reliant on lookouts who use binoculars and night vision glasses to scan the horizon and scan the area around the ship while we conduct our search pattern."
The forecast from Friday morning through Saturday shows much improved conditions in the search zone, CNN's Javaheri said.
"Scattered clouds should be expected," he said. "But the winds and seas will both calm considerably, giving a rare a stretch of generally favorable conditions for this region during this time of year."
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More Debris Spotted, But From MH370?
Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA) received new satellite images from France that were taken on March 23.
The images showed 122 potential objects in one area of the ocean. Some of the objects were as much as 23 meters in length.
Some appeared bright, possibly indicating solid material. They were located about 2,500 kilometers from Perth.
"This is another new lead that will help direct the search operation," said Acting Minister of Transportation Hishammuddin Bin Hussein on Wednesday.
Officials say they can tell you how Flight 370 ended. It crashed into the Indian Ocean, they'll say, citing complicated math as proof.
They can tell you when it probably happened - on March 8, sometime between 8:11 and 9:15 a.m. (7:11 to 8:15 p.m. ET March 7), handing you a sheet with extraordinarily technical details about satellite communications technology.
What they still can't tell you is why, or precisely where, or show you a piece of the wreckage.
See story as it updates on CNN.com.
Posted by Early Start staff, Jethro Mullen, Sara Sidner
Filed under: Malaysia • Malaysia Airlines • Malaysia Flight 370 • Malaysia plane crash • Plane • Plane Crash • World News
2 Shot Dead at Va. Naval Station
A sailor and a civilian died after a shooting at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia late Monday night, the U.S. Navy said.
The incident took place at Pier 1 around 11:20 p.m., according the station's Facebook page.
No other injuries were reported.
Naval Station Norfolk was briefly locked down before the restriction was lifted.
Authorities did not release details about the shooting. But spokesman Jim Moir said the civilian suspect was shot and killed by Navy Security Forces.
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Chinese Plane Spots 'Suspicious Objects' in Search for Flight 370
The crew of a Chinese plane searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 spotted "suspicious objects" in the southern Indian Ocean on Monday, the latest lead in a long and often frustrating investigation.
But a high-tech U.S. search aircraft that followed up on the sighting couldn't find them again, Australian authorities said.
A reporter on board the Chinese plane for China's official news agency Xinhua said the search team saw "two relatively big floating objects with many white smaller ones scattered within a radius of several kilometers," the agency reported.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said on Twitter that a U.S. Navy P8 Poseidon aircraft that was tasked to investigate the objects was unable to relocate them.
The IL-76 plane that reported the objects is one of two Chinese military aircraft helping scour a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean on Monday for traces of the passenger jet, which disappeared over Southeast Asia on March 8 with 239 people on board.
With the search in its third week, authorities have so far been unable to establish where exactly the plane is or why it flew off course from its planned journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
China has a particularly large stake in the search: its citizens made up about two thirds of the 227 passengers on the missing Boeing 777. Beijing has repeatedly called on Malaysian authorities, which are in charge of the overall search, to step up efforts to locate the plane.
A Chinese icebreaker in the region, the Xuelong, has changed course and is headed toward the area where the objects were seen by the Chinese plane, Xinhua said.
Satellites focus search
Recent information from satellites identifying objects in the water that could be related to the plane has focused the search efforts on an area roughly 1,500 miles southwest of the Australian city of Perth.
Eight other aircraft - from Australia, the United States and Japan - are also tasked with combing the search area over the course of Monday.
The two Chinese aircraft are now heading back to base, Xinhua reported. The crew that spotted the objects has asked Australia authorities to send other planes to the area of interest, it said.
The aerial searches have been trained on the isolated part of ocean since last week, when Australia first announced that satellite imagery had detected possible objects that could be connected to the search.
Since then, China and France have said they also have satellite information pointing to floating debris in a similar area. The Chinese information came from images, and the French data came from satellite radar.
But Australian officials have repeatedly warned that the objects detected in satellite images may not turn out to be from the missing plane - they could be containers that have fallen off cargo ships, for example.
The investigation into the passenger jet's disappearance has already produced a wealth of false leads and speculative theories. Previously, when the hunt was focused on the South China Sea near where the plane dropped off civilian radar, a number of sightings of debris proved to be unrelated to the search.
Plane said to have flown low
The sighting of the objects of interest by the Chinese plane came after a weekend during which other nuggets of information emerged about the movements of the errant jetliner on the night it vanished.
Military radar tracking shows that after making a sharp turn over the South China Sea, the plane changed altitude as it headed toward the Strait of Malacca, an official close to the investigation into the missing flight told CNN.
The plane flew as low as 12,000 feet at some point before it disappeared from radar, according to the official. It had reportedly been flying at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet when contact was lost with air traffic control.
The sharp turn seemed to be intentional, the official said, because executing it would have taken the Boeing 777 two minutes - a time period during which the pilot or co-pilot could have sent an emergency signal if there had been a fire or other emergency onboard.
Authorities say the plane didn't send any emergency signals, though some analysts say it's still unclear whether the pilots tried but weren't able to communicate because of a catastrophic failure of the aircraft's systems.
The official, who is not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that the area the plane flew in after the turn is a heavily trafficked air corridor and that flying at 12,000 feet would have kept the jet well out of the way of that traffic.
Malaysia disputes reprogramming
Also over the weekend, Malaysian authorities said the last transmission from the missing aircraft's reporting system showed it heading to Beijing - a revelation that appears to undercut the theory that someone reprogrammed the plane's flight path before the co-pilot signed off with air-traffic controllers for the last time.
That reduces, but doesn't rule out, suspicions about foul play in the cockpit.
The new details give more insight about what happened on the plane, but don't explain why the plane went missing or where it could be.
Analysts are divided about what the latest information could mean. Some argue it's a sign that mechanical failure sent the plane suddenly off course. Others say there are still too many unknowns to eliminate any possibilities.
CNN aviation analyst Miles O'Brien called the fresh details about the flight a "game changer."
"Now we have no evidence the crew did anything wrong," he said. "And in fact, now, we should be operating with the primary assumption being that something bad happened to that plane shortly after they said good night."
If a crisis on board caused the plane to lose pressure, he said, pilots could have chosen to deliberately fly lower to save passengers onboard.
"You want to get down to 10,000 feet, because that is when you don't have to worry about pressurization. You have enough air in the atmosphere naturally to keep everybody alive," he said. "So part of the procedure for a rapid decompression ... it's called a high dive, and you go as quickly as you can down that to that altitude."
Flight makes emergency landing
Adding to the negative publicity that has blighted Malaysia Airlines since news of Flight 370's disappearance, one of the carrier's passenger jets made an emergency landing in Hong Kong on Monday.
The plane, scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Incheon, South Korea, was diverted to Hong Kong after its main electrical generator stopped working. Electrical power continued to be supplied by the plane's auxiliary power unit, Malaysia Airlines said
The Airbus A330-300 landed safely at Hong Kong airport around 3 a.m., and the 271 passengers on board have been transferred onto flights with other airlines.
New Search: Nothing Yet
Despite better weather, the first of five search planes dispatched to look for floating debris that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 returned to base Friday without spotting anything of note.
The surveillance planes are looking for two objects photographed by a commercial satellite on Sunday bobbing in the remote and treacherous waters of the southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia.
Aircraft and a merchant ship scoured the area Thursday, but found nothing in a search hindered by poor weather.
Flight 370 vanished 14 days ago with 239 people aboard, and the announcement Thursday by Australian officials that they had spotted something raised hopes of a breakthrough in the frustrating search.
On Friday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott defended the decision to announce the find, saying that Australia owes it to families f those missing "to give them information as soon as it's to hand, and I think I was doing that yesterday in the Parliament."
But he reiterated a warning that two objects spotted by satellite in a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean, which are now being sought by aircraft and ships, may not be related to the search for the plane.
"It could just be a container that has fallen off a ship," he said during a visit to Papua New Guinea. "We just don't know."
His words have focused worldwide attention on Australia's part in the massive international hunt for the jetliner, which disappeared March 8 over Southeast Asia with 239 people on board.
Almost two weeks after the Boeing 777-200 dropped off radar screens, authorities still don't know why it veered dramatically off course or where it ended up.
Because of the "anxiety and apprehension" experienced by relatives of the people aboard the plane, Abbott said
Search teams that flew over the area where the two objects are thought to be located drew a blank Thursday, with poor visibility reported. Flights to the zone by long-range reconnaissance planes resumed Friday, Australian authorities said.
The search area, thousands of kilometers southwest of Perth, the main city on Australia's west coast, is "about the most inaccessible spot you could imagine on the face of the earth," Abbott said.
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Objects Spotted in Indian Ocean May Be Debris From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Two objects spotted in the southern Indian Ocean may be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian authorities said Thursday, fueling hopes of a breakthrough in an international search of unprecedented scale.
The objects are indistinct but of "reasonable size," with the largest about 24 meters (79 feet) across, said John Young, general manager of emergency response for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
They appear to be "awash with water and bobbing up and down" in an area 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) southwest of Australia's west coast, he said.
"If that piece of the plane is that big, maybe it's the tail section" said David Gallo, one of the leader of the search for Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. But he warned that the size gave him a degree of concern.
"It's a big piece of aircraft to have survived something like this," he said.
The tail height of a Boeing 777, the model of the missing Malaysian plane, is 60 feet.
The announcement raised the prospect of finding parts of the plane amid a huge search that is now in its 13th day. The plane vanished over Southeast Asia on March 8, and previous reports of debris found in the sea have turned out to be red herrings.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott first announced the discovery to the House of Representatives in Canberra on Thursday. Australian search teams have been at the forefront of the hunt for the missing plane in the remote southern Indian Ocean.
"There have been so many false leads and so many starts and changes and then backtracking in the investigation," said Mary Schiavo, a CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation. "He wouldn't have come forward and said if they weren't fairly certain."
But officials cautioned that there were no guarantees that the objects now being investigated would prove to be from the missing plane.
At the Lido Hotel in Beijing where family members of some of the passengers on the missing plane have waited for news for days, relatives gathered around a large screen television watching the Australian news conference. They leaned forward in their chairs, hanging on every word. Some sighed loudly.
Malaysia Airlines said it won't be sending representatives or family members to Australia unless the objects are confirmed as plane debris.
'The best lead we have right now'
The images of the objects were captured by satellite and were being assessed by the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation. The images were taken near the area of the southern Indian Ocean that has been scoured by search teams in recent days.
Although the total search area for the plane spans nearly 3 million square miles, a U.S. government official familiar with the investigation said the missing plane is most likely somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.
"This is an area out of normal shipping lanes, out of any commercial flight patterns, with few fishing boats, and there are no islands," the official said.
Young cautioned that the images may not be from the plane. There can be other debris out there, like containers that have fallen overboard from ships, for example.
The objects were seen in the heart of what is known as the Indian Ocean Gyre. There is little to no oceanic current movement in the region and the area is notorious for trapping debris. It's one of the five major gyres in the world's oceans and is known to contain a "garbage patch."
"It is probably the best lead we have right now," Young said. "But we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them to know whether it's really meaningful or not."
The visibility in the area is poor, Young warned. "The weather is not playing the game with us," he said.
Planes arrive
A Royal Australian Air Force Orion aircraft has already arrived in the area, Young said, and three other planes are being sent there, including a New Zealand Air Force Orion and U.S. Navy P8 Poseidon.
The flight crew on the Poseidon say they're getting radar hits of "significant size," indicating something lying below the water's surface, ABC News reported Thursday.
ABC's correspondent David Wright, who is on board the aircraft, says the crew told him that the radar indicates that "there is something down there." But ABC cautioned that it is still too early to tell if the radar hits are related to the missing plane.
An Australian C-130 Hercules plane has been tasked by Australian authorities to drop marker buoys in the area, Young said.
"The first thing they need to do is put eyes on the debris from one of the aircraft," said aviation expert Bill Waddock. The buoys will mark the place and transmit location data.
A merchant ship helping Australian authorities in the search was also expected to arrive in the area Thursday.
'Every lead is a hope'
The Malaysian Navy has six navy ships with three helicopters heading to the southern Indian Ocean to take part in the search, a Malaysian government source said.
"Verification might take some time. It is very far and it will take some time to locate and verify the objects," the Malaysian government source said.
See updates on this story at CNN.com.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Some Data Deleted From Flight Simulator
Some information has been deleted from the flight simulator found at the home of the pilot, Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said. Forensics is trying to recover it, he said.
At Wednesday's news conference, he also said:
- Malaysian authorities have received background information from all countries with passengers on board the plane except Russia and Ukraine. So far, no information of significance has been found, he said.
- Malaysia has received some radar data, but "we are not at liberty to release information from other countries."
- Reports that the plane was sighted by people in the Maldives are "not true."
"I can confirm that the Malaysian Chief of the Defence Force has contacted his counterpart in the Maldives, who has confirmed that these reports are not true," Hishammuddin said.
Former accident investigator Steven Wallace speaks to the report that the pilot's simulator was found with data missing.
SEE FULL INTERVIEW ABOVE
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What Happened in Cockpit of Flight 370?
Former accident investigator Steven Wallace speaks to circumstances if flight path was pre-programmed into the computer.
The pilot and first officer of the missing plane, both of them Malaysian, have come under particular scrutiny in the search for clues. Investigators say that whoever flew the plane off course for hours appeared to know what they were doing.
But officials have so far reported no evidence to tie the pilot and first officer to the plane's disappearance.
Supporting the case that whoever took the plane off course had considerable aviation expertise, The New York Times reported that the aircraft's first turn to the west was carried out through a computer system that was most likely programmed by somebody in the cockpit.
An aviation expert, writing an op-ed for CNN.com, floated the idea last week that whoever changed the plane's course was an expert.
The person who programmed the change of course would have been somebody "knowledgeable about airplane systems," The Times reported, citing unidentified American officials.
The information has increased investigators' focus on the pilot and first officer, the newspaper reported. CNN wasn't immediately able to confirm the report.
Asked about the report Tuesday, Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said: "As far as we're concerned, the aircraft was programmed to fly to Beijing. That's the standard procedure."
But he didn't rule out the possibility the flight path had been reprogrammed.
"Once you're in the aircraft, anything is possible," he said.
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Officially opening a cadet centre in Alvaston
126 (City of Derby) Squadron after the Birmingham Military Tattoo
The new cadet training centre in Alvaston that is used by Air Cadets from 126 (City of Derby) Squadron is set to be officially opened at an event next week.
Although cadets from 126 (City of Derby) Squadron moved in to the new building in November last year – to give the youth organisation time to settle in to the new training facility an official opening event was scheduled for May 2018.
The centre, that includes modern classrooms, a canteen and radio room will host a variety of guests at the event including Air Commodore Dawn McCafferty CBE who will officially open the building.
Cadets on parade at their new base
A variety of activities will be on offer on 10 May for invited guests to see and get involved in such as taking to the skies in the flight simulator and seeing a First Aid demonstration.
The new training facility was delivered both on time and on budget and was constructed on the same site as the three former 1970 modular huts that the cadets previously trained in.
Senior Adult Volunteer Squadron Leader Ian Marshall, from 126 (City of Derby) Squadron, said: “We are delighted with the new building and are looking forward to welcoming our invited guests at the official opening event. The unit is a thriving hub for young people in Derby and we are hoping that our new modern training facility will encourage more potential cadets and adult volunteers to join us from the surrounding area.”
Martin Capewell, Head of Estates at East Midlands Reserve Forces and Cadets Association (RFCA) project managed the development of the new building. He explained: “It’s great to see cadets and adult volunteers enjoying the new state of the art training facility. There are lots of opportunities in the air cadets from learning about aviation to taking part in a variety of adventure training and sporting competitions. I’m sure the new building in Derby will be enjoyed by those who train within in for many years to come.”
126 (City of Derby) Squadron is recruiting. To find out more about volunteering with the unit as a cadet or adult volunteer call 01332 754721 or visit www.126derbyatc.co.uk for further details.
The squadron meet on Monday and Thursday evenings from 7pm to 9.30pm at the centre on Curzon Lane.
“We are delighted with the new building and are looking forward to welcoming our invited guests at the official opening event."
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Assessing US Drug Policy in the Americas
Time to Revisit Goals and Strategies
Statement before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
The growing realization that we and our neighbors in the Americas are not well-served by the status quo U.S. policies presents the opportunity to re-examine old premises and modernize our goals and strategies. Better to make real progress in reducing drug-related harms than to persist with policies that have failed to meet their own basic goals even as they have generated immense collateral damage.
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The U.S. drug policy debate has long been paralyzed by a discourse that highlights two extremes – no-holds-barred “drug war” and nothing-less-than “legalization” – as if they were the only options. As a consequence, U.S. drug policy has largely been on auto-pilot for nearly three decades, without ever revisiting the basic assumptions behind our goals and strategies. Beyond waging a “war on drugs” by trying to suppress production in Latin America, the United States has also promoted aggressive drug enforcement and incarceration as the model for the region. But even as incarceration rates have climbed – up 40 percent on average in Mexico and South America over the last decade – illicit drug markets have not only persisted, they have thrived, and the havoc they wreak has been spreading, in the Americas as much as anywhere.
The growing realization that we and our neighbors in the Americas are not well-served by the status quo U.S. policies presents the opportunity to re-examine old premises and modernize our goals and strategies, so that our aims are at once worthwhile and achievable. In the past, the evident failures of our traditional drug control strategies prompted the escalation of essentially the same approaches. Set against the evidence, our goals have increasingly come to resemble wishful thinking, not serious policymaking. We cannot afford to repeat the same mistakes now.
Fortunately, the drug policy debate itself is becoming more open and more interesting, with promising approaches like harm reduction helping to frame our drug policy choices. Similar debates are also developing in other countries across the Americas, where drug trafficking and the “war on drugs” are both exacting an enormous toll in human suffering and weakening of democratic institutions.
This is not to say there will be easy answers, much less perfect solutions; drug policy is generally a matter of choosing the least bad options, and trade-offs abound. But better to make real progress in reducing drug-related harms than to persist with policies that have failed to meet their own basic goals even as they have generated immense collateral damage.
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Raine Hamilton Joins us for The Prairie Songbook
January 21, 2019 /in Camerata Nova Blog, News, Uncategorised /by Roland Descambault
Camerata Nova is excited to have 2018 Canadian Folk Music Award Winner for Emerging artist of the Year, Raine Hamilton, join us for our March 9+10 concert The Prairie Songbook. The concert takes place March 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm and March 10, 2019 at 3:00 pm at the Park Theatre. Tickets for individual concerts are available through our website, by phone (204-918-4547), or at the door.
Raine Hamilton – Resonant, acoustic chamber folk with an otherworldly edge, and a lyric presence that cuts deep. Prism-clear vocals and strings; A combination of vocal agility and power.
Raine Hamilton‘s new album, Night Sky, tips between the earthly and the otherworldly; it is anchored in relatable lived experience, while reaching into the space just beyond, thinning the veil between here and there, affording safe passage to the rough and beautiful places.
Raine’s ethereal voice and lyrics are at the forefront of these powerful and relatable tunes, written both in English and in French. Alongside cello + double bass, and with Raine on violin or guitar, these songs have a moving string quartet feel with a cosmic reach.
Raine is also a charming and funny storyteller, pairing her vulnerable tunes with engaging story intros. Raine believes that music is for everyone, and that we all have something to share. An experienced educator, Raine offers workshops in songwriting and fiddle tune writing (EN/FR). Raine also offers concerts with American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, to help make live music and the community that comes with it accessible to the Deaf community.
Raine has toured Canada extensively, driving, flying, and floating her way coast to coast. Highlights include: Performing songs with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (3 times!), playing a concert in a cave (10 stories below the earth!), playing festivals across Canada (Home County, Filberg Fest, Lilac Fest, The Works, Harvest Sun, Harvest Moon, Trout Forest), playing for her passage on Via Rail, and meeting so many amazing humans along the way. She reports a full and smiling heart <3.
Raine Hamilton’s new album, Night Sky, was released in March 2018
Check out and follow Raine on her socials: Website, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Spotify
The Prairie Songbook takes place March 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm and March 10, 2019 at 3:00 pm at the Park Theatre. Tickets for individual concerts are available through our website, by phone (204-918-4547), or at the door.
Every few years, we kick back to just have fun with friends and fans. For this special Park Theatre event, Camerata Nova will present a great selection of songs from prairie artists arranged by Manitoba composers/arrangers. From the Wailin’ Jennys to The Guess Who, from Joni Mitchel to Royal Canoe, from KD Lang to JP Hoe, we’ll celebrate our “wheatfield soul” in all its diversity.
Led by Mel Braun and Vic Pankratz and featuring a 4-piece house band of talented musicians, Camerata Nova will turn the Park Theatre into your favourite coffee house. Come join us and blow away your winter blues!
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Video excerpts from Notinikew by Andrew Balfour
This past November 2018, Camerata Nova performed Fallen, the second concert in our Truth and Reconciliation series. Here’s what Camerata Nova’s Artistic Director, and Fallen composer, Andrew Balfour, had to say about it.
Artistic Director, and Fallen composer, Andrew Balfour
About three years ago, I became fascinated with the idea of marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with a mini-opera on the founding of the 107th Timber Wolf Battalion in 1915. It’s an amazing story about 1000 men, half settler and half indigenous, who fought together in some of the most famous battles of the Great War.
I Went to War / Poni pimacisiwin (the end of living) is an excerpt from Notinikew (Going to War) by Andrew Balfour with soloist and narrator Andrew Balfour, traditional Ojibway drummer-singer Cory Campbell, cellist Cris Derksen and the Winnipeg Boys’ Choir
At the same time as this was percolating, Camerata Nova decided to create a Truth and Reconciliation concert series, lasting over a number of years. Each concert has a theme that resonates with Canadian indigenous experience and, over the series, we are inviting a range of incredible indigenous artists to collaborate with us. Our first T&R concert was Taken, performed in Winnipeg and Ottawa in 2017, featuring Cree hip hop artist Lindsay Knight (Eekwol) and recent Polaris winner Jeremy Dutcher.
Fallen is our second. It has evolved in a fascinating way. On one hand, I have been delving into the other-world, terrifying experiences that Cree and Ojibway warriors in the Timber Wolves must have experienced in WWI, having no idea what it meant to enlist or why or how they came to be in the midst of the mud and gas in Europe.
On the other hand, as I read literature and poetry from ordinary individuals in Europe at the time, I was also deeply touched by the profound helplessness and sadness they felt as their sons, brothers – and themselves – fell victim to such prolonged, useless and outrageous slaughter.
Fallen is a deeply felt anti-war concert, not just focussed on “the war to end all wars” but on those before, those after and, tragically, on the wars yet to come.
Kakichiwewan is an excerpt from Notinikew (Going to War) by Andrew Balfour with soloist and narrator Andrew Balfour, traditional Ojibway drummer-singer Cory Campbell, cellist Cris Derksen and the Winnipeg Boys’ Choir
There is no better way to open this concert than with a traditional Prayer Song from Ojibway friend and Song Keeper, Cory Campbell. He performs with a straightforward purity, humility and strength that grounds and guides me as I straddle settler and indigenous worlds. Thank you, Cory, for your openness, your help with language and the example you set for how I should approach my music and my life.
Notinikew: I wrote this work over the summer while I was in St. John’s Newfoundland, then Toronto, then Temagami in Northern Ontario and, finally, in the Herdsman House Artist Retreat in Neubergthal, south of Winnipeg. It’s been quite a journey – in all senses. My original idea was to write a partly fictional mini opera about the story of the Timber Wolves, but this morphed into a more abstract choral drama. Scored for adult choir, treble choir, baritone solo/performance artist, cello and traditional drummer-singer, Notinikew is an anti-war piece, an indigenous identity piece – a tragedy that speaks not just about World War I, but all wars and all indigenous soldiers.
Why did these Indigenous warriors leave our forests and plains to enter a totally foreign military world and end up fighting in the midst of a true hell on earth? It’s very difficult to find good source material. I’ve been studying old pictures and gleaning the odd article, but I’ve also used my imagination to express the experience/feelings of people I’ve never met with as much integrity and respect as I can. I think of the shock, disorientation and horror that would have marked these men for their entire lives. I think also of their re-entry to Canada. As skilled sappers and snipers, they were accepted and respected by their white counterparts. When they returned home, they went back to the degrading label of “Indian”, receiving none of the benefits or recognition of other Canadian soldiers. Plus, they were often ostracized by their own communities because they had taken the side of the government. As the Narrator says near the end of Notinikew: “Where is our place in your history? Where?”
Notinikew was difficult to write but also magical and important. It is an honour to try, in my own way, to tell the stories of our people. In addition to Cory, my guide and compass, I want to thank Cris Derksen who is so talented and creative – this collaboration has been so much fun, and I think it’s just the start… Also, I could not do these ambitious projects without Mel Braun. He “gets” me and what we are trying to do and has respect for all around him. He is not afraid of experimentation and undefined elements and magically, calmly pulls it all together.
Finally, Notinikew is dedicated to my partner, Sara Roque, and her Richardson family. You have opened your doors and opened up my life. You have given me a new, powerful understandings of what it means to be indigenous. Best of all, you have given me patience and love. – Andrew Balfour, October 27, 2018
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Upcoming Concerts – The Prairie Songbook and Death by Chocolate: The Life and Death of Henry Purcell
January 8, 2019 /in Camerata Nova Blog, News, Uncategorised /by Roland Descambault
The Prairie Songbook
March 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm and March 10, 2019 at 3:00 pm at the Park Theatre
Every few years, we kick back to just have fun with friends and fans. For this special Park Theatre event, Camerata Nova will present great folk and pop standards as well as recent tunes by cool, local artists. From the Wailin’ Jennys to The Guess Who, from Joni Mitchell to Royal Canoe, from KD Lang to JP Hoe, we’ll celebrate our “wheatfield soul” in all its diversity.
Death by Chocolate: The Life and Death of Henry Purcell
May 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm and May 5, 2019 at 3:00 pm at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church (Pre-concert talks at 6:45 pm on Saturday and 2:15 pm on Sunday)
In this concert curated and conducted by John Wiens, Camerata Nova seeks to showcase choral works by Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and to explore the life of this composer, arguably the greatest of the English Baroque period. Join us to find out how cocoa can kill…
Death by Chocolate offers top quality performers and powerful repertoire – a rare musical treat. Four Winnipeg vocal soloists: Dayna Lamothe, soprano, Jane Fingler, soprano, James Magnus-Johnson, tenor, and Jereme Wall, bass will be joined by early music instrumentalists Claudine St-Arnauld, violin, Jeremy Buzasch, violin, Greg Hay, viola, Yuri Hooker, cello, Andrew Goodlett, bass, and Michael McKay, organ continuo. To add a star attraction and flair to the concert, we are also bringing in the exciting young Canadian countertenor, Daniel Cabena, who specializes in early and contemporary performance. The countertenor voice has a caché and curiosity that is sure to send many a heart afflutter. Repertoire will include: Rondeau from Abdelazar; O Sing unto the Lord; My Heart Is Inditing; Hear My Prayer, O Lord; Te Deum and Jubilate in D; plus Three Funeral Sentences.
Tickets for individual concerts are available through our website, by phone (204-918-4547), or at the door. Two-concert mini-packages are also available ($35, $30, $20, or for two, $65, $55, $35). Individual ticket prices available on our website.
Camerata Nova is a registered not-for-profit charitable organization. Exploring, taking risks, and developing exciting new programming, takes time, energy, and money.
Click here to find out more about donating.
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Château de Grignan et La collégiale Saint-Sauveur (Grignan, France) : General view of the Renaissance facade
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Grignan, Rhône-Alpes, France
castle; 1250-1690 (inclusive); church; 1535-1539
Construction on the site of Grignan's present castle was originally begun in the 12th century, but it wasn't until the 13th century that the Adhémar family expanded it into a mighty fortress. Louis Adhemar, governor of Provence, remodelled the medieval castle from 1545 to 1558. In the 1600s, François Adhémar de Monteil transformed the fortress into a luxurious residence. From 1668 to 1690, Francois de Castellane-Adhemar turned it into a sumptuous Renaissance palace. Reduced to ruins in 1773, it was reconstructed in the early 1900s by Madame Fontaine who spent her entire fortune to restore the castle to its former grandeur. Located under the castle terrace, the collegiate church was constructed between 1535 and 1539 at the request of Louis Adhémar. The Renaissance façade is flanked by two square towers and a beautiful Gothic rose window. Inside is an impressive 17th century altar and organ loft. On the floor in front of the altar is a marble funerary stone marking the sealed entrance to the tomb of Madame de Sévigné. Presently, the castle belongs to the Drôme département and is a major tourist attraction.
Grignan Castle and Collegiate Church of the Holy Saviour
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Estimating the country risk premium in emerging markets: the case of the Republic of Macedonia
Aleksandar Naumoski, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Faculty of Economics, Department of Management, Skopje, R. Macedonia
Estimation of the cost of capital is difficult in developed markets and even more difficult in emerging markets. Investments in the emerging markets are more risky than in the developed markets but return is also higher. The key question here is whether the return on investments in emerging markets should be rewarded by compensation in excess of that provided by an equivalent investment in a developed market. Contemporary literature provides alternative ways for calculating the cost of capital invested in emerging markets. In general, it can be concluded that it is widely accepted that country risk matters when investing in emerging markets and it is a key component in the estimation of the cost of capital for those investments. Country risk is non-diversifiable, which will be argued in this paper first, after which an alternative approach will be provided for quantification of country risk in the risk premium measure, which is integral component in the models for estimating the cost of capital.
Keywords: multinational companies, country risk, country risk premium, emerging markets, default spread, sovereign rating, country risk score, Macedonia
Petra Posedel, Marko Primorac
Modelling local government unit credit risk in the Republic of Croatia
Mihaela Bronić, Katarina Ott, Ivica Urban
Local budget transparency: the case of 33 Croatian cities
Vjekoslav Bratić
(In)efficiency of corporate income tax expenditures on underdeveloped areas of special tax treatment in Croatia
Nataša Erjavec, Boris Cota, Saša Jakšić
Sign restriction approach to macro stress-testing of the Croatian banking system
Aleksandar Naumoski
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Memo to Hollywood: Female Journalists Don’t Sleep With Their Subjects
buzz | By Elisabeth Donnelly | January 5, 2015
In Chris Rock’s genial, three-fourths of a pretty good film Top Five, Rock is playing a washed-up comedic actor who’s being trailed by a New York Times journalist (Rosario Dawson) during the grind of a press day. Dawson makes a smart, canny foil for Rock, and as the day goes on, and the interview gets more personal and rooted in “rigorous honesty,” the reporter/subject lines get blurred. And blurred. I mean, in this case, it was expected — it’s a romantic comedy, Rock is meant for Dawson in this film, it’s not a surprise on a plot level.
But on another level, it bummed me out, as it was just another movie where the female journalist’s interest in a topic wasn’t for the sake of her work or her career — it was for the sake of her lovelife, so she could unethically fool around with or bang the subject. In Top Five, it’s unnecessarily complicated by unrealistic plot twists — Rock’s character has a nemesis, see, a “critic” at the very same paper, hmmmm — that can be summed up with this tweet from the New York Times‘ film critic A.O. Scott:
By the end of the movie, as Rock and Dawson were sailing into happiness, I had more questions about what happened to the profile of Rock’s character, and what this ethical break would mean for the weirdo journalism career of Dawson’s character and her many, many pseudonyms. (In the run-up to the film, Rock did make the point to say that Dawson, a goddess on earth to be sure, was one of the few actresses who could convey the “intelligence” of this character; a neg to most actresses.) Sure, it’s just a movie, but the problem is that when it comes to the portrayal of female journalists in both film and television, it’s depressingly typical.
More often than not, when there’s a film featuring a female journalist, her sexuality, and what she does with it is part of the plot. All too often she’s just a cipher saddled with a “smart” job, sometimes glasses, and she’s required to sleep with the lead character.
In Crazy Heart, Maggie Gyllenhaal is a music journalist sent like an angel above to sleep with and inspire drunk Jeff Bridges to get his life back on track. In the first season of Nashville, when a female music journalist appears to write a story on a country band, it cuts to the next scene and she’s sleeping with the guitarist, Deacon Claybourne (Chip Epstein). House of Cards is about a bunch of venal, unethical jerks, but it’s particularly cruel when it takes its female reporters (Constance Zimmer and Kate Mara) to task, the women bantering back and forth about sex for sources. It inspired the Slate headline “House of Cards Thinks All Female Political Reporters Are Mean Sluts.”
Satire or comedy or drama, Hollywood portrays the female journalist as a ticking time bomb of questionable ethical choices. In David O. Russell’s Three Kings, a comical portrayal of a Christiane Amapour-type is balanced out by another journalist whose one scene consists of her fucking George Clooney on a chair. Fluff like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which features a central character who wants to write “more important” work, has that writer, played by Kate Hudson, taking on seducing, destroying, and falling for Matthew McConaughey, all for a piece. Even classy flicks like Adaptation, His Girl Friday, and Broadcast News all hinge on the female journalist’s lovelife. Scroll through this list and find the female journalist characters who are real, complicated women and not just the protagonist’s foil.
It’s bad enough so the films that feature female journalists not sleeping with the leading men — think Rachel McAdams in 2009”s State of Play — feel like outliers. There’s also terrifically creepy scenes, like in this year’s Jake Gyllenhaal film Nightcrawler, where the high-charging, ambitious female journalist (Rene Russo), is manipulated into sleeping with Gyllenhaal’s ghoulish striver. At least in the case of Nightcrawler, the scene is meant to be awful and violating, an exhibit of the venal appetite of Gyllenhaal’s nightmare millennial. The film doesn’t linger on their “deal,” either. But it makes a character who’s mostly complicated and interesting into another accident on the side of the road.
Perhaps female journalists should be grateful that occasionally, Hollywood alights on their profession and makes it into entertainment. But it’s not easy to be a female journalist — I can tell you stories about pitching in my twenties, where editors would actually imply that I only wanted to write about a topic because I had a “crush,” in cruder terms — and it feels like Hollywood’s missing out in telling interesting stories about women who are drawn to this infuriating, fascinating, and ultimately very human art. Playing a character who’s a female journalist, ready to sleep with the main character and ethically compromise their story, just isn’t a very interesting subject, in all honesty. Where’s the Nellie Bly biopic that female journalists deserve?
female journalists representation Top Five
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Heritage » War of 1812
The War of 1812 wrought massive changes to the lands surrounding the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area, transforming it from a lightly settled frontier into a bustling commercial and agricultural region. Only several thousand Americans lived on the eastern shore of the Niagara River, mostly clustered at Black Rock and Buffalo. Almost as many Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, resided at Buffalo Creek and the Tuscarora reservation near the small hamlet of Lewiston. The United States defended the river’s northern mouth at Fort Niagara, which Great Britain had only returned to the U.S. in 1796. British forts at the river’s northern and southern outlets represented the British empire’s continued presence in North America.
Massive invasions of tens of thousands of soldiers—American, British, Canadian and Indian—made the Niagara region one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in the War of 1812; almost half the war’s battles were fought nearby. The failed American invasion at Queenston Heights in 1812 was followed by ill-fated crossings at Fort Erie and Fort George, both of which ended in American retreat. The British captured Fort Niagara and burned most of the American settlements as far south as Buffalo in the winter of 1813-1814. Epic battles at Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane in the summer of 1814, both within sight of Niagara Falls, failed to change the border between the two nations. Tragically, the Haudenosaunee were forced to choose sides in the war, with some Iroquois siding with the British and others with the Americans; the spilling of fellow Haudenosaunee blood marked an important loss of unity among those people. The U.S. took much of their land and autonomy in the war’s aftermath, as American settlers streamed into western New York and the Erie Canal brought large-scale commerce to the region. Securing the border and ensuring peace between Great Britain (Canada’s ruler at the time) and the U.S. meant that Indian peoples no longer posed a major threat to American settlers, and commercial and agricultural development followed. Tourists now came to Niagara Falls in great numbers, attracted by the natural beauty and power of the falls, as well as the famous battlefields from the War of 1812.
Village of Youngstown
Tuscarora Heroes Monument
Niagara Arts & Cultural Center
War of 1812 Trading Cards
Collect all of the War of 1812 cards commemmorating the hereos of the time.
Tuscarora Heroes Webcam
Take a live look at the monument remembering the brave acts of the Tuscaroras.
The Niagara Falls are visited by around 30 million people every year.
Betsy Doyle, War of 1812 Heroine
New York Power Authority Power Vista
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George Harrison's Album to be Reissued
Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing announced the reissue of George Harrison's Living In The Material World album on September 26, 2006. The CD will be issued in two formats. Both packages will contain the album, which has been re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios from the original analog tapes. The new version also includes two additional tracks, "Deep Blue" (originally a B-side from 1971) and "Miss O'Dell" (the B-side to "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)"). The single-disc package's jewel case will contain a 12-page booklet with lyrics and extra photographs. The special limited edition package will house the CD and a companion DVD with an expanded 40-page booklet. The set's exclusive DVD features:
Rare footage of George performing "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" from his 1991 Japanese tour with Eric Clapton; A mini-feature edited from film commissioned by George in 1973 of the album's production in Britain and America. Previously unreleased versions of "Miss O'Dell" and "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" set to visuals of unseen archival material.
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Philippines elections: Duterte faces key poll test
Philippine (HRNW): Voting is under way in the Philippines, in mid-term polls seen as a popularity test for President Rodrigo Duterte after his first three years in office. Gaining a Senate majority would allow him to push for constitutional changes and restore the death penalty. Some 61 million people from more than 7,000 islands are registered to vote in provincial, city and national polls. Voting began at 06:00 local time (2200 GMT Sunday) and polls will close at 18:00. Several of Mr Duterte’s children are standing for regional offices, including his daughter Sara who is seeking re-election as mayor of Davao. Her father governed the city for much of the time since the late 1980s, before becoming president in 2016.
Sara Duterte is tipped by some as her father’s potential successor in 2022. One of the president’s sons, Sebastian, is running unopposed for vice mayor of Davao, while his eldest son Paolo is seeking a seat in the House of Representatives. The key battle on Monday is for control of the Senate, the upper house of Parliament, where Mr Duterte does not currently have a majority. Independent surveys suggest that is now within his reach, however. The Senate has often served as a check on the president’s more controversial policies, and half of its 24 seats are at stake. The opposition has been campaigning against Mr Duterte’s war on drugs, which is thought to have killed thousands of drug users and alleged dealers and is widely condemned by rights groups.
Despite international condemnation of President Duterte’s bloody war on drugs he remains incredibly popular in the Philippines. A recent opinion poll gave him a 79% approval rating, a figure Western politicians can only dream about halfway through their term in office. To understand Mr Duterte’s appeal I recently travelled to his political power-base Davao City in the far south of the country. All across the city are Big Brother-style posters warning criminals and wrong-doers of the heavy-handed response they can expect from the authorities. Locals tell me they like the president’s iron-fisted style of rule because it scares people into complying with the law. On a national scale, his senatorial candidates are campaigning for a return of the death penalty for drug traffickers and lowering the age of criminal liability to 12 years old.
The liberal opposition are aghast at such proposals and the direction of the country. If they fare badly in Monday’s vote, Mr Duterte will gain total control of congress and the ability to pass any legislation he wants. The country’s leading opposition is the Liberal Party-led alliance which is campaigning on a progressive stance against the president. They have been vocal in their opposition to the war on drugs and what they say is Duterte’s pursuit of a close relationship with China which they fear could come at the expense of cementing relations with the country’s traditional ally, the United States. They have put forward eight senatorial candidates and branded themselves Otso Diretso or Straight Eight. While the focus of their campaign is a rejection of Mr Duterte’s values, they also highlight economic issues such as jobs and education. Nonetheless, opinion polls suggest Monday’s elections will strengthen Mr Duterte and his political allies and that only one of the 12 senate seats up for grabs will go to the opposition. Results are expected on Friday or next week.
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4 Interesting Announcements from Google I/O
Posted on July 19, 2012 by Marc Henderson
Recently Google held their annual Google I/O developer’s conference in San Francisco and at the keynote for that event there were 4 very interesting things that were announced indicating a new focus by Google; a focus likely to have significant impact on the mobile landscape.
Jelly Bean and Project Butter
It should come as no surprise that the first big new thing Google wanted to announce was Jelly Bean, the next latest and greatest version of the Android operating system. Google referred to the UI enhancements made in this version as “Project Butter” and proceeded to demonstrate a smooth, flowing, super-responsive UI experience that was designed to “feel” as smooth as butter. If anyone remembers the first version of Android released by Google, it’s amazing how much of a transformation Google as a company has gone through and how much more focused they are now on consumer-oriented design. Google is an engineering company, founded by engineers and run by engineers. It is no small feat for a company with their background to become so design focused in such a short period of time but over the last few years they have made significant investments and organizational changes in order to deliver consumer ready products. The first version of Android was almost universally panned for its lack of a cohesive design and Google relied on its hardware partners to “skin” Android with a more aesthetically appealing look and feel that could be dropped on top of the core OS. That strategy had limited success while exacerbating the fragmentation problem Android now faces. Fast forward and now we see Google announce Jelly Bean with accompanying Nexus hardware (both tablet and phone), taking direct responsibility for providing a first class user experience that matches or betters anything Apple is doing with iOS. It’s a remarkable shift, not to mention a nod to the success of Apple’s strategy, seeing Google emulate Apple with a product focus and focused design.
Of course Google still has that fragmentation problem I mentioned. Apple provides OS updates, either over the air (OTA) or through iTunes, regardless of whether your device is locked or unlocked, was purchased through a telco or purchased from the Apple Store. The result of this is that iOS users upgrade quickly and consistently to new OS versions. With Jelly Bean, Google is set to push OTA updates to owners of unlocked hardware, but many Android device owners find themselves dependent on their mobile carrier or hardware manufacturer to provide them with OS updates and often these updates simply aren’t made available. (It’s not necessarily in the best interest of the telco’s to provide customers with OS updates since they need to continually push customers into new subsidized hardware as a way of locking customers into long-term contracts. Nor is it in the best interest of hardware manufacturers to provide OS updates since they want to move customers into the latest hardware for sale.) How does this end up playing out? In roughly the same timeframe, Apple saw 61% of iOS users upgrade to iOS 5.1 while Google had only 2.9% of Android users in that time adopt Ice Cream Sandwich.
What does this mean going forward? Just as Google started to take more control over how manufacturers could skin Android, look for Google to start taking more control over how and when users get OS updates for their device. Google is keenly aware of the fragmentation problem. And as we saw Google proudly display their new design chops at Google I/O this year, look for them to continue to emulate Apple’s success to address other problem areas in the Android universe.
In addition to bringing a new design focus with the launch of Jelly Bean, Google is also bringing to the game the core things they do well and attempting to leverage their strengths in the mobile space. Google is great at search. Google is great at big data and cloud computing. Apple may have shown the Google the way with Siri, but Google is taking the lesson to the heart of Android. At its core, Siri is voice activated search. Every time you ask Siri a question all you’re really doing is a voice activated search against Apple’s servers and, let’s face it, no one does search better than Google so it was natural for Google bring that same kind of voice activated functionality into the core offerings of Android. First we saw Apple launch their new map service for iOS and then a couple of weeks later we saw Google launch their answer to Siri. It’s going to be interesting watching these two giants slug it out. Consumers are the real victors in this battle.
Google Play and the Nexus 7 Tablet
The second interesting thing announced at Google I/O was around the new Google Nexus 7” tablet and, equally important, it’s integration with Google Play. Google Play is a rebranding of the Android Market and Google Drive, Google’s answer to the iTunes store. It’s your one stop store for renting and buying movies and tv shows, downloading music and books and of course finding apps for your Android device. What’s significant here is how important the content side of the equation has become. Android tablets have failed to make the same in roads in the tablet market that Android phones did in the phone market, however the Kindle Fire recently showed the way. Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, a 7” Android powered tablet, as their counter to the iPad and the Kindle Fire has quickly become very popular, in large part because Amazon, like Apple, has a tight integration between the hardware and the content making is very easy for consumers to get content onto their device. The Kindle brand is all about easy access to books and periodicals. With the Kindle Fire, Amazon is expanding their offering by giving consumers a device that can also browse the internet and play movies and tv shows. In fact, the success of the Kindle Fire has sparked a flurry rumors that Apple is preparing their own answer to the Kindle Fire in the form of a $199 7” iPad. However Apple is not the only one who noticed the success of the Kindle Fire and the new 7” Google Nexus tablet with Google Play is clearly aimed at competing with the iTunes/iPad Apple juggernaut.
Google in the Living Room
With content playing such an important role it should also come as no surprise that Google sought to provide customers with a means of enjoying Google Play content in the living room. Let’s face it most of time when you download a movie or tv show the place you really want to watch that content is on the big screen tv in your living room. Apple has Apple TV and Airplay to solve this problem. Download a movie to your iPad and easily stream it to your television. Start watching a movie on your tv and finishing watching it on your phone. Apple’s super slick advertising campaign shows us how easy it all can be which brings us to the third really interesting thing announced at Google I/O, the Nexus Q. The Nexus Q is a tiny little Android powered media Orb that streams Google Play content direct to your tv and lets you control everything from your Android powered phone or tablet. The announcement and demo was a little like watching an Apple commercial or keynote, showing us again how Google is taking a page out of Apple’s playbook and providing their customers with a deeply integrated experience where hardware and software and content all work together in a cohesive fashion to deliver a simple unified user experience. The lesson here is that winning market share in the mobile OS space is about providing people with a means to get the most out of their device and that’s about apps and that’s about movies and tv shows and that’s about music and books and delivering all of it in a simple, easy, fun and flexible manner. And it’s not just Apple and Google who will be playing this game. Microsoft will need to bring the same level of content integration to their products as they fight to establish themselves in the mobile and tablet space. They have the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 Tablet edition so Microsoft has all the pieces; it’s just a matter of putting them together.
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple the company was in serious trouble,Jobs faced the daunting task of finding the way forward. He did this, in part, by giving the company a new focus on a trimmed down product line and, in part, by guiding the company to release the iPod. Jobs led Apple to help create the digital music market by ushering in the development of iTunes and the iPod. The iPod put a thousand songs in your pocket and became a huge success for Apple. The iPhone came into being because as Apple sought to retain market share control of the digital music market Jobs worried about what new product could possible cannibalize iPod sales and the answer he came up with was the mobile phone. He worried that a phone with the same ability to store a thousand songs would mean an end to iPod sales and that is the reason why Apple developed and ultimately released the iPhone. The iPhone has indeed cannibalized iPod sales. Luckily for Apple they make the iPhone and thus they’ve cannibalized iPod sales with sales that contribute even greater profits to Apple’s coffers. What does this have to do with announcements at the Google I/O conference? Google Glass has to the potential to be, to the iPhone, what the iPhone was to the iPod. If Google Glass can deliver on its promise, why do I need a phone in my pocket anymore? Until recently Google Glass had seemed like a very cool yet very far off concept but the fourth really interesting announced at Google I/O was that attendees could pre-order a developer’s version of Google Glass. The fact that a developer version is ready to ship tells us that Google Glass is a lot closer to being a real product, ready for real consumers, than we may have originally thought. This should be worrying news for Apple. I suspect Apple has their own plans for the future and has already anticipated some of the ways the iPhone or iPad markets can be cannibalized. If they haven’t they may be in trouble because Google has definitely stepped up their game in a number of areas.
From Sony to Apple to…
Once upon a time Sony was the premier consumer electronics brand. Sony changed the world more than once with their products. They changed the way we listen to music. They changed the way we watch movies and play video games. Today Apple is the premier consumer electronics brand. Apple is what Sony was, a company whose products have changed the world more than once. The question is whether Google is now positioned to dethrone Apple? A couple of years ago I would have laughed at the suggestion. I would have laughed because Google is not an electronics company. They make their money from search, not from selling Nexus hardware manufactured by Asus or Samsung. And I would have laughed because to be a premier consumer brand means have a focus on design and Google has always been an engineering company with little focus on design. However this year’s Google I/O keynote showed a new focus at Google. There is an opportunity for Google to be more than a search engine. The question is where they go from here, how Apple responds and whether any other players are going to step up and get in the game.
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HealthSystems Leadership Team
Since 1998, HealthSystems has represented GE as the exclusive value-added reseller for Centricity Practice Solution in Georgia and Alabama. Our leadership team and entire staff are dedicated to providing hands-on customer service. We are always available to provide insight or answer questions.
Maurice Rosenbaum
management@healthsystems.net
Highly respected in the industry for his healthcare technology expertise, Maurice founded HealthSystems in 1998. He provides overall leadership and vision for the company, and customers and colleagues enjoy his enthusiasm and helpfulness. Maurice knows the ins and outs of Centricity Practice Solution and frequently weighs in with GE on technical topics.
Maurice’s background includes 20+ years of experience in information systems and the launch of several successful companies. Before founding HealthSystems, he was vice president of Channel Marketing at Technology Solutions International (TSI). His responsibilities included ensuring overall client and customer satisfaction and maintaining strategic relationships.
Earlier in his career, Maurice founded a personal consulting, tutoring, and software development business. He developed a software application for Tulane Medical School doctors that enabled them to manipulate physical data from a spectrophotometer.
A frequent speaker on technology topics, and enthusiastic advocate for healthcare technology innovation, Maurice earned a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from Tulane University in New Orleans, where he also studied biomedical engineering. Active in many community organizations, Maurice also serves on the board of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Healthcare Society.
www.linkedin.com/in/mauricerosenbaum
Larry Stoumen
As COO, Larry focuses on enhancing the client experience at HealthSystems by building processes and infrastructure to support the company’s growing client base. He oversees a range of our company’s internal functions, from sales and implementation to training and support, and also works closely with customers to ensure their satisfaction with our service and the Centricity Practice Solution product. Larry is committed to ensuring that our customers enjoy the highest quality experience in the industry.
Larry joined HealthSystems in 2004. His background includes 25+ years of experience in technology management, support, sales and training at software and technology companies in Atlanta, including ten years at Informix Software. He began his career as a programmer analyst at BellSouth.
A graduate of Emory University with a degree in mathematics and computer science, Larry is active in the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and is on the board of the Men’s Health and Wellness Center.
www.linkedin.com/in/larrystoumen
Thom Cook
Vice President, Client Services
Overseeing HealthSystems’ training, support, implementation and technical teams is the perfect job for Thom. His insistence on providing outstanding customer service is evident in all the groups he supervises.
Prior to joining HealthSystems, Thom worked in technical support and operations for several medical software companies. His introduction to the healthcare technology industry came as an EDI specialist, technical support, and programmer. Thom also served in the Navy as an electronic technician supervisor for 10 years on a submarine crew. He is known for his problem-solving skills, his attention to detail … and his unfaltering memory.
At HealthSystems, customer satisfaction is Thom’s number one goal. His diligence in hiring, training and mentoring teams of seasoned professionals ensures that all HealthSystems customers are well taken care of from the moment they choose Centricity. Thom’s hobbies include hunting, fishing and playing golf. www.linkedin.com/pub/thom-cook/4/446/724
Lisa Bonner
Director of Implementation & Training
Since 2003, Lisa has been helping HealthSystems’ customers do more with their PM and EMR systems — first in the support arena, then as a trainer and an implementation specialist, and now as director of implementation and training. Lisa’s dedication to quality is appreciated by customers and coworkers alike.
Lisa has experience in many aspects of healthcare. She started her career 29 years ago as an office manager in an orthodontic practice and a few years later began working for a medical software company. It was there that she learned the ins and outs of implementation and the importance of exceptional customer support. At HealthSystems, her patience and insistence on getting things done right lay the groundwork for thorough training and smooth implementations.
In her free time, Lisa is an active member of Therapy Dogs, Inc., a pet therapy organization. She also participates in the Turner Syndrome Society and is on the board of directors for No Place Like Home, an after school program for foster children.
www.linkedin.com/pub/lisa-bonner/4/81b/82b
Sharon McKnight
Support Team Supervisor
Enthusiastic and results-driven, Sharon sets the tone as leader of the HealthSystems support team, which helps customers efficiently resolve their PM and EMR issues, large and small.
Prior to joining HealthSystems in 2011, Sharon was a customer support manager for another Atlanta-based medical software company. With more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare technology industry, Sharon has done it all, from account management to implementation. Early in her career, Sharon served as assistant office manager for a family practice in Florida.
Sharon was born in Great Britain and relocated to Florida at the age of 15. Sharon enjoys watching football (especially the Florida State Seminoles), playing racquetball and other forms of exercise. Sharon is a graduate of the University of Central Florida. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sharon-mcknight/a/6a0/249
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Wormwood Scrubs, Hammersmith & Fulham
‘The Scrubs’ is an open space with neighbouring institutional facilities, located to the north-east of East Acton
First recorded in the late 12th century as Wormeholte, then Wormholtwode, then Wormewood, the name derived from the Old English words wyrm and holt, probably indicating a thicket or wood infested by snakes (rather than ordinary worms).
The wasteland created by the felling of trees had poor soil that was suitable only for grazing. Wormholt Scrubs (‘scrubs’ meaning an area of stunted trees and brushwood) formerly stretched north as far as the Harrow Road.
In 1801 the Paddington branch of the Grand Junction (now Grand Union) Canal cut off the northern section, which by that time had been mostly enclosed. From the late 1830s railway lines detached other parts of the common, which were later built on except for an area to the east, known as the Little Scrubs.
After 1859 volunteer forces conducted rifle shooting exercises on the Scrubs and in 1879 the Wormwood Scrubs Act formally created a “metropolitan exercising ground” for the armed forces, but also made the space available for “perpetual use by the inhabitants of the metropolis for exercise and recreation” when not in military use.
Shown in the photograph above,* Wormwood Scrubs prison was built using convict labour to the designs of penal reformer Sir Edmund du Cane. The prison replaced Millbank Penitentiary and opened in stages from 1874 onwards. A model institution at the time of its creation, it subsequently gained a reputation for low standards of sanitation and poor prisoner–staff relations, exacerbated by problems of overcrowding.
The main entrance to Hammersmith Hospital*
Hammersmith Hospital (as it is now called) was built next to the prison in 1905 and has since been joined on the site by Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital.
South of the Westway, Hammersmith council laid out the Wormholt estate on garden city principles in the early 1920s.
Located at the corner of Wood Lane and Du Cane Road, the Burlington Danes Academy has evolved out of two schools that came to Wormwood Scrubs between the wars.
The West London stadium opened in 1967 at the end of Artillery Lane. It was renamed in 1993 after the most famous member of host club Thames Valley Harriers, Linford Christie.
Covering 165 acres, Wormwood Scrubs open space is the largest such amenity in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. In addition to the more conventional play areas and sports pitches, the leisure facilities include a model aircraft runway.
In October 1966 the British spy and Soviet double-agent George Blake escaped over the wall of Wormwood Scrubs prison and fled to Moscow. He had served just over five years of a 42-year sentence for passing on secrets to the Russians – the longest jail term ever imposed by a British court.
Further reading: Angela Levin, Wormwood Scrubs: The Inside Story, self-published, 2014
and Jocelyn Lukins et al, The Scrubs, Shepherd’s Bush Local History Society, 1998
Web page: Linford Christie outdoor sports centre
See also: White City
* The picture of Her Majesty’s Prison, Wormwood Scrubs, at the top of this page is adapted from an original photograph, copyright Dr Neil Clifton, and the picture of the main entrance to Hammersmith Hospital is adapted from an original photograph, copyright Marathon, both at Geograph Britain and Ireland, made available under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Licence. Any subsequent reuse of either image is hereby freely permitted under the terms of that licence.
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People attend the burial of Aura Yolanda Perez Paz, 17, who died in San Miguel Los Lotes during the volcanic eruption, in the municipality of Alotenango, Department of Sacatepequez, Guatemala, 12 June 2018. EFE
The Central American country continues to grieve and grapple with the aftermath of the June 3 volcanic eruption, which to date has left 114 people dead, with 197 still missing.
by Emily Neil
Guatemala continues to bury its dead while the...
Guatemalans on Tuesday bid farewell to their relatives and friends who lost their lives during Fuego Volcano's eruption on Jun. 3, one of the most violent in recent years.
Although no search and rescue work was carried out in the area on Tuesday, heavy equipment did enter the affected area to clean the mud, stones and ashes that the Fuego Volcano, located only 50 km west of Guatemala City, unleashed during the last hours.
The volcano also released a new column of ash up to an altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level, which moves towards the northwest and north and causes ash fall not only in the ground zero area but also in other communities such as San Miguel Duenas, Ciudad Vieja and La Antigua.
Recent torrential rain and the subsequent lahars have further complicated the situation in areas devastated by Fuego Volcano's eruption on Jun. 3.
The death toll currently stands at 114, while 197 people remain missing and more than 1.7 million Guatemalans are affected, many of whom have lost everything.
In the municipality of Alotenango, in the department of Sacatepequez - one of the most affected - neighbors and mourners buried the remains of Aura Yolanda Perez Paz, 17, who died in San Miguel Los Lotes during the eruption.
The international community continues to offer aid to the country. The European Union announced that it will donate more than $11.7 million for emergency response and recovery and for reconstruction in a new location.
Volcán de Fuego
State of emergency in Guatemala after volcano eruption
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Wealthy Seminole Tribe receives federal funds
The Seminole Tribe of Florida still relies on federal funding despite claims of being more self-reliant, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.
In the five-year period ending in 2005, the tribe received $80 million in federal funds, the paper said. The tribe's gaming operation took in more than $3.2 billion during that period.
Council member Max Osceola Jr. said the tribe should be able to receive federal grants like anyone else. But Chairman Mitchell Cypress recently said the tribe's successful gaming operation "kind of got us away from the government handout."
The Sun-Sentinel is running a series about the tribe and its finances.
Despite its wealth, the tribe continues to get lots of federal help (The South Florida Sun-Sentinel 11/29)
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Grants continued despite rule violations, records show (The South Florida Sun-Sentinel 11/29)
FEMA paid tribe's hotel tab (The South Florida Sun-Sentinel 11/29)
Seminole Tribe - http://www.seminoletribe.com
Seminole Tribe keeps business deals in the family (11/28)
NIGC investigates Seminole use of gaming funds (11/27)
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Immport
The Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort) system was developed under the Bioinformatics Integration Support Contract (BISC) Phase II by the Northrop Grumman Information Technology Health Solutions team for the NIH, NIAID, and DAIT. The principal investigator of the BISC project is Dr. Richard Scheuermann at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The list of immunologically related genes in ImmPort is a collection of ~6,000 human genes, which was formed with the goal of retrieving all genes that have immune system-related functions. This list was generated using automatic searches of EntrezGene and Gene Ontology records using immunology-related keywords. The list was then manually curated by immunology experts examining various literature sources.
InnateDB currently contains 4,815 genes from this list (December 7, 2014).
Immunogenetic Related Information Source (IRIS)
This gene list, of 1,535 immune genes (December 7, 2014), is derived from the IRIS online database of known human defense genes (note that the IRIS database does not seem to be available anymore).
These genes were curated by IRIS from the literature where an immune gene was defined as a complete gene that produces a functional transcript and demonstrates at least one of the following defense characteristics: (i) Known or putative function in innate or adaptive immunity, (ii) Participates in the development or maturation of immune system components (iii) Induced by immunomodulators, (iv) Encodes a protein expressed primarily in immune tissues, (v) Participates in an immune pathway that results in the expression of defense molecules, (vi) Produces a protein that interacts directly with pathogens or their products.
Septic Shock Group
This gene list is derived from the Septic Shock group which is a collaboration between ISB, TSRI and Rockefeller University research groups.
The list includes 1,448 genes with potential relevance to macrophage response to microbial stimulation (December 7, 2014). The list combines genes with significant expression changes under stimulation with LPS, and genes coding for proteins known to interact in the TNFa/NF-kB signaling pathway.
MAPK/NFKB Network
This gene list was derived from in house curation of the p38, ERK, JNK signaling pathways (Raymond Lo and Fiona Roche) and the NFKB transcriptional regulatory module (Jenn Gardy). It contains 761 genes (December 7, 2014); members of the TNF-alpha and IFN-alpha signaling pathway derived from Transpath data were also included.
Calvano et al., Nature 2005
This study used microarrays to analyse changes in blood leukocyte gene expression patterns in human subjects receiving an inflammatory stimulus (bacterial endotoxin). Here they evaluate the genome-wide response to systemic inflammation in the context of a fully predictable recovery. Gene expression in whole blood leukocytes was determined immediately before and at 2, 4, 6, 9 and 24 h after the intravenous administration of bacterial endotoxin to four healthy human subjects. Four additional subjects were studied under identical conditions but without endotoxin administration. A total of 3,714 unique genes that were significantly perturbed after bacterial endotoxin administration were identified using significance analysis of microarrays (SAM) (multiclass response), with an estimated false discovery rate of <0.1% on the basis of 1,000 permutations. Genes showing significant transcriptional changes were verified in another microarray study where an additional six healthy subjects (one female and five males) were administered 2 ng kg-1 (body weight) endotoxin, and blood samples were collected before (0 h) and after (2 and 6 h) endotoxin infusion.
InnateDB currently contains 3,183 genes from this study (December 7, 2014).
Immunome Database
Immunology-related genes were collected from research articles, textbooks and electronic information sources. The list contains genes that are directly involved in immunological processes. In addition to clearly defined groups, such as clusters of differentiation (CD) molecules, chemokines and their receptors, other essential genes were included. Genes were included when they are undoubtedly needed for immunity. Immunodeficiency-related genes were taken from the ImmunoDeficiency Resource and IDbases. Proteins that are expressed in nearly all cells were excluded, although their functions may also be needed in immunity related cells and tissues. Only full-length genes were included; thus, the gene segments of immunoglobulins, B and T cell receptors and major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) were excluded. In the case of signaling molecules, only those involved in immunity-related cascades were included. Altogether, 844 genes were selected for InnateDB (December 7, 2014).
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Dr. Angel
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Совершенствование системы подготовки психиатров в медицинских вузах
Improving the Education in Psychiatry Experience in Medical School
On May 25th 2016, the Russian Federation Ministry of Health, Moscow Health Department, and the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology of Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU) held the first All-Russian scientific conference with international participants: “The University Clinic of Psychiatry: Alliance of Science and Practice.” The Conference was devoted to the 110th anniversary of RNRMU and the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology.
As the Organizing Committee of the conference explains:
“University Clinics have made important discoveries in the field of practical and fundamental medicine as well as formed progressive ethical and social norms.” Topics covered included history, research, the clinical challenges of modern practice, social aspects of the reform era, and questions related to education. More information can be obtained at uni-cinic.ucoz.com or via e-mail at psycho.rnrmu@gmail.com
Driven by the desire to rise to today’s challenges in health care and a mission to improve human health, many medical schools worldwide are undertaking initiatives to optimize medical school education.
The growing “dehumanization of medical practice” erodes public trust. A concerted effort to align medical education to current and future societal needs is needed now more than ever.
The process by which medical students acquire clinical competency has long been my interest. As a former student at RNRMU and a former preceptor for students at the Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (CIC), I have had an opportunity to review CIC with a global network of colleagues and share my insights into how a longitudinal supervisory relationship between clinicians/ preceptors and medical students can transform medical students educational experience.
The Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (CIC) continuity-of-care curriculum, first described in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007, emphasizes holistic patient care as a model for optimizing medical education. According to David Hirsh, MD, its Director and Co-founder, “We created the CIC because the patient must be our center — we seek to master science in order to serve patients. Traditional block rotations do not allow students to connect to, know, and serve their patients the way master clinicians and scientists should.” “The goal of the CIC,” he notes “is to return to our highest ideals in all fields—to foster the excellence that patients rightly expect of us….The program seeks to inspire greatness in service to patients and to scientific discovery. We intend to prepare leaders who will use their gifts to relieve human suffering. The CIC model makes a difference to our students and to our patients.” Backing this sentiment, co-author Malcolm Cox, MD, and former Dean of Education at Harvard Medical School observes that, “What is most important about this new model of medical student education is that it gets at the very heart of professional identity formation—forging and maintaining relationships among patients, learners, and teachers.”
Researchers who have compared the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of students completing the CIC with those of students completing traditional block third-year clerkships have found that CIC students performed as well or better than did their peers at academic and clinical tasks while also expressing a stronger sense of connection with their patients. The students also enjoyed substantially higher satisfaction with their medical training.
Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs) are now rapidly growing in size, number, and diversity, both nationally and internationally. As one medical student reflected on challenging moments during her clerkship, “During those moments of low-morale and exhaustion it was these relational memories and continued feeling of gratitude and closeness that served to propel me forward.”
Similarities exist in the values of both educational models: the CIC and the Russian National Research Medical University. The curriculum of both systems was designed with great care, combining art and science with a humble respect for human nature beneath an umbrella of trust and mutual respect.
Both systems offer multiple opportunities for creating an interpersonal context that fosters learning rather than the “downloading” of content to students. Learned ideas add deeper meaning to previous experience and knowledge and thus better prepare students for future independent learning. A mentor-student relationship is established and nurtured by both programs. In the words of Richard Tiberius, “Relationships are as essential to teaching as the flour in the cake. The reason that we often fail to appreciate the importance of relationships is that we have inherited misconceptions about teaching, about learning and about the nature of the mind. For thousands of years people have theorized about the mind and about learning and drawn conclusions about the nature of teaching. The earliest concepts we have of mind are of psyche, a Greek word for breath, because of the observed relationship between breathing and life.” (Essays on Teaching Excellence. Toward the Best in the Academy. Volume 5, Number 8, 1993-1994. The Why of Teacher/Student Relationships. Richard G. Tiberius, University of Toronto).
My hope is to engage in a dialogue on disseminating the best ideas that the international education community has to offer and to facilitate interaction among colleagues abroad by sharing novel and meaningful insights that could harness powerful lessons and strengthen medical culture.
Book time with Dr. Angel
As a physician working primarily with children for more than two decades, I fully understand that children’s health is more than just a medical issue. I feel privileged to be a doctor and, at the same time, I feel a deep sense of responsibility to work towards making a better health care system for this vulnerable part of our population.
There is drastic shortage of child psychiatrists for our nation’s 75 million children and teens. Currently there are only 8,300 child psychiatrists nationwide, some 30,000 short of what is needed. In Massachusetts, waits of four to six weeks for a child psychiatry appointment are common, and several community mental health centers report three month waits.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has worked hard to make the government aware of the crisis of limited access to child psychiatrists. I was inspired by AACAP’s legislative program to get involved in persuading policymakers to address the shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists.
In the spirit of doing my part to address the crisis in access, I have also signed up to volunteer with the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics to provide free care to homeless women and chidren in greater Boston area and I have created my website as a place where stakeholders can interact and come together on behalf of our children.
contact@ivangelmd.com
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Jeff ament hat
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Khám phá Jeff Ament nasceu em Havre (Montana) e cresceu na cidade de Big Sandy, no mesmo estado, que conta com menos de 7000 habitantes. Not that it matters or anything, but check out this t-shirt Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament is wearing in the undated photo below. JAA is a fan-based, grassroots organization (& division of the Montana Skatepark Assoc. With Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore. These recycled jackets come in navy blue with the Juice logo on front and one design on the back of your choice: Ace of Spades, Keep Skateboarding A Crime, Build X Destroy, Skateboard Criminal or Pools, Pipes & Punk Rock for $49. RNDM featuring Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam,Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA, Sun. 1 Penn State comes to College Park. The band, which then consisted of Eddie Vedder (Vocals), Stone Gossard (Guitars), Mike McCready (Guitars), Jeff Ament (Bass) and Dave Krusen (drums), released their multi-platinum debut album, Ten, in 1991, and they were soon ruling the airwaves with hook-laden tunes such as "Jeremy," "Evenflow," and In the early ‘90s not only were the Sonics and Kemp hugely popular, but so, too, was the Seattle-based band Pearl Jam. Jeff Ament is the son of a barber/farmer/Mayor of Big Sandy, Montana, a lifelong skater (he built his first skateboard ramp in Big Sandy in 1976) and founding bassist for Pearl Jam. Jeff Ament Fic CHAPTER THREE!! sorry this chapter is short i got some good stuff coming and wasnt quite ready with a few pieces that i wrote before so I quickly put this chapter together and am saving Capturing music's "in-between" moments. Jeff Ament Country is Havre. Pics: 'Bachelor' couple vacation in Vegas. 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Born on March… August 11 saw the opening of Pearl Jam: Home and Away at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), a comprehensive exhibit that goes back to the days of those 1990 shows and tells the band’s story through a wealth of artifacts (over 200 of them), ranging from bassist Jeff Ament’s hat collection to the backdrop used for the cover of the So I'm a REALLY RECENT fan of them and I already know the story about how they got their name. View John Ament’s full profile. The idea for Jeff Ament's new band, Three Fish, took root on a trip to California's Big Sur. Jon Tester Donald Trump Own a piece of rock/campaign history. His hat game was always on point. He serves as the bassist for American rock band Pearl Jam. You searched for: ament! Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and one-of-a-kind products and gifts related to your search. 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For me, it is a tip of the hat to some of my guitar-building heroes—and to the Ventures model guitar I dreamed of owning when I first started playing guitar. Sections of this page. Jeff has taken 10 years worth of potential Pearl Jam tunes, chosen 10 of the best and is It’s not every day that a founding member of Pearl Jam turns 50 years old. A love story. 8, Pearl Jam bassist, Jeff Ament, will stop by to chat about the agony of being a Seattle 5. 99 BUY Mr Spock Leonard Nimoy he did Billboard Tribute T Shirt Starts at $20. Ritchie Blackmore’s pilgrim hat Jeff Ament, Soundtrack: Out of the Furnace. Tour 2016 Pearl Jam Jeff Ament Baby Onesie Romper Jumpsuit Newborn Baby Clothes. Nghe bài hát Nothing As It Seems chất lượng cao 320 kbps lossless miễn phí. Some Ament’s teammates who finished shots were junior Mac O’Keefe, putting five of his 10 shots in the back of the net. Gossard is also known for his work prior to Pearl Jam with the 1980s Seattle, Washington-based grunge bands Green River and Mother Tour 2016 Pearl Jam Jeff Ament Quality Snapback Baseball Hat: Amazon. On May 2, 1985, a Wednesday afternoon, a very strange event occurred that involved the Top Hat, a violently schizophrenic man, a fellow pharmacy student scheduled to take a polygraph test, and possibly Jeff Ament. 0 comments. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Temple Of The Dog which featured Chris Cornell (Soundgarden), Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard (Mother Love Bone), Mike McCready and Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), and Matt Cameron (Soundgarden) all came together to pay tribute to fallen Mother Love Bone vocalist Andrew Wood who passed away on March 19, 1990 from a heroin overdose. March 10th In Pop Culture History. PROPERLY RATED. 101 likes. I bought that hat in Jeff Ament's RNDM new band 6/13/2014. Go Redshirt junior Matt Florence registered a hat trick with three goals, while freshman Grant Ament (Haverford School), junior Nick Aponte and junior Brian Prestreau added two goals apiece. 7k Followers, 141 Following, 3,424 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jeff Ament's Army (@jeffamentsarmy) Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Jeff Ament - While My Heart Beats at Discogs. Ament spoke briefly about the need to acknowledge a wider crop of stars in his speech, but his shirt spoke way louder. Along with Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the band's founding members, and is also known for his work prior to Pearl Jam with the 1980s Seattle-based grunge rock bands Green River and Mother Love Bone, and is Jeff Ament's Hats. Jump to. There are plenty of bands that don't make records very often that I will go see at the drop of a hat. Score another win for the Sunset Strip. Penn State may be the top team in the country right now, but a gauntlet lies ahead. Jeffrey Allen Ament (born March 10, 1963) is an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Nor will they give me access to the one other person who CAN'T lie to my face, Jeff Ament. Toggle navigation. Jeff Ament Nickname is Jeffrey Allen Ament, Ament, Jeff, Al Nostreet, Pearl Jam. The management will never acknowledge any of this. A Pearl Jam egy amerikai rockegyüttes, amely az 1990-es évek elején Seattle-ben alakult. The awesome hat days. the whole world, world over Jshon Nerwrove one of the skaters there said, "I met Jeff Ament and he gave me a hat and a shirt. Boys attending a music camp at the Zootown Arts Community Center on Monday got a special treat – a live performance by Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and Fitz and the Tantrums drummer John Wicks Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament On New Album, Three Fish Project PJ’s bass player has a new band, Three Fish, while his old one preps a new record for late summer/early fall KING 5 Seattle — “That hat right there was in the ‘Alive’ video,” points Pearl Jam bass player Jeff Ament. The latter two went on to form Mudhoney. I wonder how many of the "haters" have the same credentials The latest Tweets from Jeff Ament's Army (@JeffAmentsArmy). Contact Jeff Ament's Hats on Messenger. Stone Carpenter Gossard (born July 20, 1966) is an American musician who serves as the rhythm and additional lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. apart from "Wherever I Lay my hat" I also really liked his Eddie Vedder, Jason Sudeikis, Olivia Wilde, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament attend 2015 Global Citizen Festival to end extreme poverty by 2030 in Central Park on September 26, 2015 in New York City. Starting at 12pm PST, Ames Brothers will be offering signed copies of the Berlin II poster at their website . 95 plus shipping. MEDIUM: MPS Original Art Skateboard Donated by Jeff Ament. A girl never forgets their first crush:) btw he's bald now and still hot! Pearl Jam bass player, Jeff Ament sits down with Peter to reflect on his 30 + year path to creating and maintaining his successful career in music. The pie makes the rounds before winding up in the hands of Jack Irons who, true to form, exhibits an endearing moment of team spirit when he slams the rest into his own face. Jeff Ament - Fenway Park, 2018 III Mike McCready - Hat - Fenway Park, 2018 Purchase Print Pearl Jam - Group Shot - Fenway Park, 2018 Purchase Print Tip: If you suit hats, or you’re into hats, grabbing a piece of Jeff Ament-style headwear will not only turn heads, but it will make you stand out from the crowd in an undeniable way. 1). He gave an update to fans about the band’s upcoming new album. Following the formula. 3 Maryland (8-2, 0-1 Big Ten). “I think that hat was in the ‘Evenflow’ video. Az eredeti felállásban Eddie Vedder (ének), Jeff Ament (basszusgitár), Stone Gossard (ritmusgitár), Mike McCready (szólógitár) és Dave Krusen szerepeltek. 00. Jeffrey Allen Ament, better known as Jeff Ament, is the bassist and one of the founding members of Pearl Jam. Dieser Katalog enthält nur Filme in voller Länge, die von Jeff Ament verübt wurden, kleinen Aufführungen sind nicht enthalten. Stone Gossard (guitar), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), and Jeff Ament (bass) All played in a band called Green River which fell apart in 1987-88. What are some good fretless bass songs. How much is a signed hat by Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon worth? Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament recently chatted with Rolling Stone about the Seattle rockers’ upcoming plans and more. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along. In unserem Online-Kino-Guide es gibt, so weit, 5 Film und/oder Kurzfilm im Zusammenhang mit dieser Person. It’s just hours before Jeff Ament’s birthday, and the PJ bassist takes the cream dessert right between the eyes. ’ When they released their debut album, Ten, in August, 1991, Pearl Jam were a band of young unknowns to anyone not from Seattle, Washington. Mike Lull Custom Guitars is a luthier and custom guitar maker in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington. Jeff drew from his experience in team sports to Pearl Jam bass player, Jeff Ament sits down with Peter to reflect on his 30 + year path to creating and maintaining his successful career in music. He is married to Pandora Andre-Beatty. " [3] Ament tem um irmão, Barry. Catalogue number "EM 69752" appears on the inlay spines and on the spine of the mindisc media itself. jeff ament hat Alternative Nation says that Ament told fans that he hopes for the band to get back to working on the record soon, because it is only halfway finished. Quintessential 90s alt rock bass Discussion in ' Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam. Jeff s pedalboard includes two MXR M-108 10-band EQs: One is dialed in for a bright sound, and the other has the high end rolled off and the lows boosted for a thicker tone. 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Meredith made reference Boys attending a music camp at the Zootown Arts Community Center on Monday got a special treat – a live performance by Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and Fitz and the Tantrums drummer John Wicks Along with guitarist Stone Gossard, bassist Jeff Ament was a member of three of Seattle's most celebrated and admired bands of recent times -- Green River, Mother Love Bone, and Pearl Jam. jeff ament hats? Jeff Ament Net Worth is . They then recruited Greg Gilmour (drums) and vocalist Andy Wood and the new band was formed. Take a look below: Fortunately, unlike every other celebrity, politician, or spineless idiot out there, they The Sundogs Present: The Tom Petty Show, 11/30 at Terminal West, w/ special guests Pony League. Complete your Jeff Ament collection. When he's not touring, recording music or spending time at his other home in Seattle, he lives just outside Posts about Jeff Ament written by Headbangerwoman. Ament was born in Havre and grew up in a small town called Big Sandy, in the state of Montana. Things to Read . Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. If you have ever heard anyone speak of a religious experience, be it a healing miracle, vision or other such fanatical behaviour, it will not have escaped your notice that what they speak of was probably experienced by no-one else. It's free! Your colleagues, classmates, and 500 million other professionals are on LinkedIn. They sat at a picnic table on a rooftop patio, and discussed the art of career Ethan Keller is a bassist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with 7 songs and 12,700 views on Fandalism No. When he's not touring, recording music or spending time at his other home in Seattle, he lives just outside The Seattle rockers Pearl Jam have sparked the ire of Republicans with their ‘gory’ anti-Trump poster depicting a burning White House, which they used ahead of their Rock2Vote concert in Montana. 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Other members of Pearl Jam include or have included Dave Abbruzzese, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder. plus their guitarist was always wearing a top hat Volcom’s Don Pendleton collection includes nine pieces: 3 T-shirts, 2 woven tops, a sweatshirt, boardshorts, a bucket hat and a wallet, all featuring exclusive artwork and Don’s unique Volcom Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament released a song under his solo moniker Ament last week entitled “Safe in the Car,” featuring Angel Olsen on backing vocals. Jeff Ament was born on 10 March, 1963 in Havre, Montana. They looked like Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament, only even more But the 1992 movie’s as much about the highs and lows of love as it is about the grunge movement taking place in the city at the time, where alternative rock music was thriving: Pearl Jam’s lead singer (Eddie Vedder), bassist (Jeff Ament), and lead guitarist (Stone Gossard) even make cameos as members of Cliff’s band, Citizen Dick. Jeff Ament’s Biography. (Jeff Ament has some awesome fretless stuff on this album. Jeff Ament was born on March 10, 1963 in Havre, Montana, USA as Jeffery Allen Ament. on April 21, 2018, 1:55pm. Vedder, the bassist Jeff Ament and the drummer Matt Cameron. Along with Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam. Oh, and Jeff has recently been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so he’s the real deal. • Backward cap while testifying before Congress. 3 Maryland men’s lacrosse knows it has its biggest game of the season — its first matchup with a top-five opponent — coming up Sunday, when No. " It comes out of the mouth of a shirtless guy, who is No. The bass player and drummer go Vest Out Chest Out, while baby Jeff Ament dons his knockoff Slash hat and flowy Muskateer shirt, and the singer’s white slacks guarantee him a ride aboard the Catamaran headed for the Catalina Wine Mixer. Mike Lull basses and guitars are exquisite instruments, each hand-built to exacting specifications by Mike himself. Jeff drew from his experience in team sports to Last Friday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Pearl Jam was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. THIS is why a real movie needs to be made. Jeff is the son of Penny Jo (Wynne) and George Joseph Ament. Ament added five assists and three groundballs “We’re thrilled,” head coach Jeff Tambroni said. Learn more or change your cookie preferences. The second session was with the rest of the band, Mr. Jeff Ament keeps traveling a circular route, from his home state of Montana to arena-sized concerts around the world and back. com Ament did not play in today’s game, so he did not get a chance to extend his 38-game point streak or his record for assists in a season, which will stay at 46 for the time being. Jeff Ament has been known to play everything from a Fender Precision to a Music Man StingRay, as well as a Modulus Jazz Bass. It was a joke with consequences. Within the interview, Ament was asked about the unpredictability of Pearl Jam Visually, the band really is caught between hair metal and grunge. One of his most famous bass sounds -- on "Jeremy" -- is done with a While My Heart Beats is the second studio album by the American musician Jeff Ament. Informations There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. TEN begin. The band later posted a close-up picture of Ament’s shirt on Instagram, both suggesting that the other members endorsed his message, and giving the rest of us a chance to actually read it. Jeff Ament, the bassist for Pearl Jam, recently sat down for an interview with station 103. In fact, today (March 10), which is Jeff Ament’s birthday, is the first day that a founding member of Pearl Jam has hit the big 5-0. Obviously a high percentage of these turds (especially Jeff Ament) wear these silly things in a sad attempt to fool the audience* into thinking a wild mane of thick, luxurious hair is waiting to spring forth from its hat cage. Pearl Jam Missoula Montana MT official concert poster. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s Looking for Andrew Ament ? PeekYou's people search has 18 people named Andrew Ament and you can find info, photos, links, family members and more Bassist Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam - 42 Actress Jasmine Guy ("A Different World", School Daze, Harlem Nights) - 41 1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy 1983 9th People's Choice Awards Filmographie von Jeff Ament - Liste der Filme, in denen er Jeff Ament handelte hat. Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard (is there a douchier name?) played in a group called Green River alongside Mark Arm and Steve Turner. Chechik. I bought that hat in Jeff Ament’s Hats • Classic “puffy rasta outclassing Eddie Vedder” hat. View John’s Full Profile The religious affiliation of the 100 greatest rock and roll musicians. Let TEN VS. After Pearl Jam finished a European tour in July, they jumped in a Search query Search Twitter. March 10th Trivia, History and Fun Facts. It was brought to our attention by a TLO commenter: I don’t know about you, but I liked Jeff Ament better when he wore flannel, stupid hats and rode Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready’s coattails. ) dedicated to supporting Jeff Ament's charitable & artistic activities. The Weekend Reset: Killer Klowns, killer rock and a buzz-kill courtesy of Adidas. A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton. It is his second solo album apart from his main band, Pearl Jam, preceded by 2008's Tone. Members include; Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese, Jack Irons. Jeff Ament's Hats A blog that can only hope to be as good at reviewing music as Jeff Ament is at wearing hats. In just one month, we- The Sundogs- will play our annual Tom Petty Show, this time at the beautiful and fabulous Terminal West, located just West of downtown Atlanta in the King Plow Arts Center. UNDERRATED. Description provided by Wikipedia under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 4. Gossard is also known for his work prior to Pearl Jam with the 1980s Seattle, Washington-based grunge bands Green River and Mother Love Bone, and he has made contributions to the music industry as a producer and owner of a record label and a recording studio. 3 The Trail in Montana. 9 Penn State men's lacrosse will look to go 4-0 to open the season for the first time since 1992 on Saturday morning, as the Nittany Lions get set to face the Villanova Eager to start playing again, Arm andTurner teamed up with drummer Alex Vincent, who had played with Turner in a short-lived band called Spluii Numa, and bassist Jeff Ament, who had recently arrived in the Northwest from Montana. He starts playing bass when he is a teenager, being inspired mainly by bands like The Clash, The Police and Iron Maiden (especially Steve Harris). We have no idea what you call these hats, but there is no denying their 90’s cool-ness. pictures of Jeff Ament's fine headwear. Jack Kelly led the way offensively with a hat trick while Mac O’Keefe, Nick Spillane NY Football Just endure the suffering T Shirts T Shirt Starts at $19. Eddie Vedder's Grandma Pearl made really good jam, hence the name. Jeff Ament Date of Birth is 1963-03-10. Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) & Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) by Eva that long hair he tucked up in his hat until he shook it off! Mookie Blaylock Jeff Ament Pearl Pearl Jam is undoubtedly one of the most popular rock bands to emerge during the early '90s. Khám phá Jeff Ament has been known to play everything from a Fender Precision to a Music Man StingRay, as well as a Modulus Jazz Bass. Remove; In this conversation. Also see Camelot, duration, release date, label, popularity, energy, danceability, and happiness. The Nittany Lions made a huge statement with a 13-10 victory in College Park, MD. Unfortunately we all know the truth. Seattle — “That hat right there was in the ‘Alive’ video,” points Pearl Jam bass player Jeff Ament. And their Cat in the Hat threads and polka dots looked a little silly on MTV next to Nirvana and AiC. Their meta-pop – pop songs written about pop songs, with a pervasive sense of irony and a sense that they weren’t taking any of this too seriously – just didn’t catch on. "69752" appears on the minidisc face label, the underside of the minidisc media below the tracklisting and on the booklet. Ament, the bassist for Pearl Jam, met singer-instrumentalist Robbi Robb of Tribe After Tribe several years ago when Robb's group opened for the Seattle rock band. Does anyone know what the style of hats are called that Jeff Ament used to wear in the early 90's? I have spent my whole life searching the world for a hat like Jeff used to wear, the ones that are like kinda puffy and look Jamaican? But I don't know what there called or where to find them?! Welcome to The Show! Have we got another great musical interlude for you or what? On Wednesday, Dec. They describe this as "very Spinal Tap of us". Hat Tricks is bringing the best Grunge Music DFW has to offer with the tributes to Pearl Jam, Sound Garden and Alice In Chains! $45: VIP Stage Table Reservations (includes admission up to 4 guests) $10: General Admission Tickets 21+ Event Click here to purchase tickets! Jeff Ament Temple Of The Dog Pearl Jam Eddie Vedder Meditation Music 90s Grunge Love Rocks My Rock Man Candy Soundtrack. Alongside Stone Gossard, he is known as being part of bands that made big contributions to the cultural and musical movement that occurred in Seattle in the late 80's to mid 90's. The unwieldy tune–a weird bromide of Jeff Ament is an American musician and songwriter. Try Prime Clothing & Accessories. 4. "69752-S1" appears on the sticker affixed to the front of the minidisc case. mavery designs Ament/Klausen Signed Poster Starting in about three and a half hours, you'll have another opportunity at a great signed poster. You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. Accessibility Help. • The red “MT” truck hat he wears in Pearl Jam Twenty. Peal Jam’s Jeff Ament announces new solo album, Heaven/Hell Ament's third full-length to date arrives is out in May . jeff ament hat. Verified account Protected Tweets @ Suggested users Verified account Protected Tweets @ Although Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament made some impressive songwriting contributions to the band - Nothing As It Seems, Jeremy etc - it turns out Ament didn't solicit all his creations to Eddie Vedder and co. Religion is the usual cause of wars, political uprising and genocide. Jeff Ament: Fuck Yeah! Jeff Ament Chester Bennington Music Is Life My Music Music Love Scott Weiland Kurt Cobain Nirvana Grunge. Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament, airborne. The unwieldy tune–a weird bromide of It’s not every day that a founding member of Pearl Jam turns 50 years old. Their new In the Pearl Jam documentary Pearl Jam Twenty, the members jokingly refer to the fact that while the core lineup of the group has remained unchanged (singer Eddie Vedder, guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, and bassist Jeff Ament), the band has had five drummers. [1] Ament descreveu sua família como "muito pobre" [2] e "extremamente Católica. • Quasi-beret worn in Singles. Jeff Ament's Bio. During the Ten period, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament used to sport some cool, huge hats. ca: Clothing & Accessories Skip to main content. Find Weed Deals Near You! Art and Performance Spring 2019 Happy Hour Guide UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. If I had long hair again, I’d want one of these hats. People don't like bass players who wear hats? Uh oh
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EPISODE #70: National Soccer Hall of Fame Coach Al Miller
In February 1973, the suddenly ascendant North American Soccer League hurriedly awarded a new franchise to Philadelphia construction magnate Thomas McCloskey, despite the league’s fast-approaching season start date of May 1st. The result of some Super Bowl VII arm-twisting by Kansas City Chiefs (and NASL Dallas Tornado) owner Lamar Hunt after helping McCloskey secure last-minute tickets, the team that would soon become the Philadelphia Atoms had only three months to move from birth to first game.
In desperate need of a head coach, McCloskey and GM/soccer novice Bob Ehlinger turned to a bright young Hartwick College coach named Al Miller to hastily assemble a roster and a playing style, which Miller quickly achieved with a handful of English lower-division journeymen married with a bevy of hungry, underappreciated American players from the college ranks – rapidly gelling into an NASL championship team that stunned the pro soccer pundits (including the editors of Sports Illustrated), and became a Philly fan sensation.
The immediate success of the Atoms and its decidedly American-style approach to the world’s game quickly thrust Miller into the US soccer coaching spotlight and set in motion a standout pro career that traversed the NASL, MISL and indoor NPSL (not to mention a brief stint helming the 1975 US Men’s National Team), and, ultimately a red jacket into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2008.
In the first of a two-part interview, Miller joins host Tim Hanlon to reveal some never-before-heard stories from the front lines of his pioneering coaching career, including the Atoms, the Dallas Tornado, the one-year Calgary Boomers, the Tampa Bay Rowdies, the MISL Cleveland Force, and the three-time NPSL champion Cleveland Crunch.
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EPISODE #69: The “Rebel” World Hockey Association with Ed Willes
Fresh off of kicking pro basketball’s establishment in the teeth with the launch of the upstart American Basketball Association in 1967, inveterate sports entrepreneurs Dennis Murphy (see also: World Team Tennis, Roller Hockey International) and Gary Davidson (World Football League) turned their attention to an even riper target of opportunity in 1971 – the monopolistic and monochromatic 12-team National Hockey League.
Their broadside against the NHL was the audaciously aspirational World Hockey Association – a seven-season 1970s-era wonder that brought a rollicking brand of ice hockey to no fewer than 27 markets across North America (not including four announced teams that relocated before even playing a game) – leaving in its wake a bevy of bounced checks, fractious lawsuits, and defunct franchises from San Diego to Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Amidst the league’s traveling circus of the weird (the Chicago Cougars’ 1974 playoff run ended by Peter Pan), and wonderful (the Houston Aeros’ Gordie, Mark and Marty Howe teaming for the first-ever father-son[-son!] combination in pro hockey), the WHA undeniably became the vanguard that dragged the sport kicking and screaming into the modern age by: ending the NHL’s monopoly grip on the pro game; freeing players from its reserve clause; allowing 18-year-old players to be drafted; introducing top-tier hockey to the US Sun Belt and the interior Canadian provinces; and opening up rosters to an exciting array of European talent in numbers previously unimagined.
And, by the end of its run in 1979, ushering four new clubs – the Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers, and Hartford Whalers – into a merger-expanded NHL.
Sportswriter Ed Willes (The Rebel League: The Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association) returns to the podcast to discuss the brief but impactful legacy of hockey’s “rebel league” that gave up-and-coming stars their big-league debuts, others their swan songs – and provided high-octane fuel for some of the most spectacularly memorable moments in the history of professional hockey.
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EPISODE #68: The Birth of Major League Baseball’s World Series with SABR Historian Steve Steinberg
At the beginning of the 20th century, the professional game of baseball had already taken on much of its modern shape – where pitching and managerial strategy dominated, and “manufactured” offense meant taught and tense contests, albeit often with limited scoring. Stretching roughly from 1901-19, the period dubbed the “Deadball Era” by baseball historians saw teams play in expansive ball parks that limited hitting for power, while featuring baseballs that were, by modern-day comparison, more loosely wound, weakly bound and regularly overused.
Against this backdrop, the established National and upstart American Leagues hammered out their seminal “National Agreement” in 1903, which not only proclaimed the competing circuits as equals, but also mandated a season-ending (and aspirationally titled) “World’s Championship Series” to determine annual supremacy in the sport – now known more simply as the World Series.
Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) historian Steve Steinberg (The World Series in the Deadball Era) joins the pod this week to discuss the October Classic’s eventful first years, as seen through the dramatically-licensed written journalistic accounts (featuring literary luminaries such as Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, and Damon Runyon, among others), and revealing black-and-white (and often uncredited) photography of the leading newspapers of the time – a media environment devoid of Internet, social media, television, or even radio coverage.
Of course, we discuss the bevy of previously incarnated teams that featured prominently during the period, including the first-ever World Series champion Boston Americans (now Red Sox), the “miracle” Boston Braves of 1914, the Brooklyn Robins (later Dodgers, both in Brooklyn and then Los Angeles) – and the two most dominant clubs of the era: John McGraw’s New York (now San Francisco) Giants and Connie Mack’s Philadelphia (later Kansas City, and ultimately Oakland) Athletics.
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EPISODE #67: Behind-the-Scenes Tales from the Front Office with Thom Meredith
Our World Cup fever has yet to break, and we spend this week reveling in some of the heretofore unexplored (at least on this podcast) nooks and crannies of modern-day American pro soccer history with one of its most unsung front office heroes.
In a career spanning over four decades, sports PR and event management executive Thom Meredith has proverbially “seen it all” across some of US sports’ most remarkable leagues, franchises and governing bodies – including remarkable (and sometimes dubious) assignments like handling press for the woeful NFL expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers of 1976-77, managing communications for Lamar Hunt’s World Championship Tennis circuit of the early 1980s, and directing a litany of events for the fast-growing (and World Cup USA-fueled) US Soccer Federation of the 1990s.
But it’s Meredith’s work across some of the most exciting (and exasperating) teams of the late 1970s/early 1980s North American Soccer League – the Tampa Bay Rowdies, Washington Diplomats, Philadelphia Fury, and Dallas Tornado – as well as the enormously well-funded, but ultimately ill-fated Women’s United Soccer Association of the early 2000s, that really piques our obsessive interests.
In this episode, we journey back with Meredith – the consummate professional soccer management insider – as he recounts priceless moments shared in the trenches with a veritable Who’s Who of the modern American game’s most indelible personalities: Shep Messing, Francisco Marcos, Al Miller, Phil Woosnam, Jim Karvellas, Seamus Malin, Alec Papadakis, John Hendricks, Timo Liekoski, Dick Berg, Tony DiCicco, Pele – and, of course, the incomparable investor-patron Hunt.
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In soccer Tags NASL, North American Soccer League, Washington Diplomats, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Philadelphia Fury, Dallas Tornado, Women's United Soccer Association, WUSA
EPISODE #66: Sports Broadcaster JP Dellacamera
Fox Sports soccer play-by-play broadcaster extraordinaire JP Dellacamera joins the podcast this week to discuss a pioneering career in sports announcing spanning over 30 years – including calling this year’s 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia – his ninth consecutive men’s quadrennial assignment since Mexico ’86.
Widely acknowledged as the original voice of US Soccer, Dellacamera’s calls have become synonymous with some of modern-day American soccer’s most indelible moments – including his accounts of the US Women’s National Team’s dramatic penalty kick shootout victory over China in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup, and Paul Caligiuri’s historic “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” against Trinidad & Tobago in the final game of 1989 CONCACAF qualifying that punched the US Men’s National Team’s ticket for Italy ’90 – ending a 40-year World Cup finals drought, and reorienting the sport’s trajectory in the ‘States for decades to come.
The road to broadcasting global soccer’s marquee events has by no means been a straight and narrow one, however, and we (of course) chat with Dellacamera about some of the more memorable “forgotten” stops made along the way, including:
Talking his way into his professional debut calling local TV games for the 1978 NASL expansion Detroit Express;
Handling radio play-by-play for the American Soccer League’s ALPO dog food-sponsored Pennsylvania Stoners;
Parlaying years of minor league hockey broadcast experience into lead announcing duties for indoor soccer’s Pittsburgh Spirit of the fledgling MISL;
Cementing his stature as the voice of US women’s soccer as the play-by-play lead for the 2001 launch of the WUSA; and
Returning to his first love of pro hockey – finally at the NHL level – with the short-lived Atlanta Thrashers.
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EPISODE #65: The CFL’s American Expansion Experiment with Sportswriter Ed Willes
As Johnny Manziel’s pro football comeback journey wraps up a promising pre-season with the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats, we take a moment this week to reminisce on the approaching 25th anniversary of the CFL’s bold, but ultimately ill-fated attempt to bring its exciting brand of pigskin south of the border in 1993.
When the NFL put the brakes on its two-year World League of American Football experiment in the summer of 1992 (which included a franchise in Montreal, dubbed the “Machine”), an economically wobbly CFL sensed an opportunity to fill the gap in US markets newly comfortable with the notion of pro football, as well as a potential growth path for the tradition-rich Canadian game to expand outside the Provinces. In fact, two WLAF owners, Fred Anderson (Sacramento Surge) and Larry Benson (San Antonio Riders) "crossed over" to the Canadian League and were awarded newly rechristened franchises for 1993 – Anderson’s Sacramento Gold Miners and Benson's San Antonio Texans.
While the Gold Miners were the only ones to make it into the following season’s expanded CFL schedule (Benson literally – and ominously – left the league at the altar by bowing out the day of the league’s press conference announcing the expansion), the door was open to a wild three-season adventure that brought the wide-open Canadian game to far-flung American outposts in Baltimore, Las Vegas, Shreveport, Memphis, Birmingham, and, ironically (via eventual relocation from Sacramento), San Antonio.
Longtime Vancouver Province sportswriter Ed Willes (End Zones and Border Wars: The Era of American Expansion in the CFL) joins the podcast to discuss the league’s short-lived American expansion effort, which then-commissioner Larry Smith had hoped to eventually encompass ten US teams in a fully expanded 20-team league.
Among the misadventures, Willes recounts: the 1995 champion Baltimore Stallions (who operated as the nickname-less “CFLers” the previous season in a trademark dispute with the NFL over the “Colts” moniker); the woefully attended Las Vegas Posse (who practiced on the Strip in the Riviera Hotel’s parking lot and were forced to play their last “home” game in Edmonton); the Memphis Mad Dogs’ unique approach to fitting the longer/wider CFL field into the Liberty Bowl; why football-mad Birmingham couldn’t draw flies for Barracuda games once college and high school seasons started; and the “Great Tucker Caper” – featuring the infamous brothers Glieberman and their attempt to steal away the Shreveport Pirates to the greener pastures of Norfolk, VA.
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EPISODE #64: American Soccer’s “Dark Ages” with Writer Michael J. Agovino
It wasn’t easy being a soccer fan in the United States in the 1980s.
While the 24-team North American American Soccer League ushered in the decade with an air of stability and momentum (the NASL even sold a pennant labeling the game the “Sport of the 80’s”), it wasn’t long before big-time American pro soccer was dangerously on the ropes (the NASL shrank to just nine franchises by 1984) – and then seemingly gone for good when the league officially sank into oblivion in early 1985. For a nascent generation of US fans newly hooked on the world’s “beautiful game,” it felt like an abandonment – and an air of disillusionment beset the American soccer scene in the immediate years that followed.
For Bronx-born writer Michael J. Agovino (The Soccer Diaries: An American's Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game), the demise of the NASL and its global flagship New York Cosmos franchise was simply the last nail in the coffin of his soccer “coming of age” during the early 80s – the conclusion of an arc of tragedies: the US Soccer Federation’s unsuccessful bid to replace Colombia as host of the 1986 World Cup; the US national team’s failure to even qualify for the quadrennial event; and the unfathomable death of 41 fans in a riot at the 1985 European Cup Final in Brussels’ Heysel Stadium.
As Agovino framed it: “Soccer – my new friend – was dead.”
Undaunted, Agovino’s love affair with soccer persisted, while Americans slowly got wise – qualifying for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, hosting the event in 1994, and re-birthing the pro game with Major League Soccer in 1996 – and ultimately turned it into one of the most popular sports in the country.
We chat with Agovino about US soccer’s mid-1980s “dark ages” and subsequent phoenix-like rise from seeming oblivion, including memorable stops like: New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal; the NASL’s Trans-Atlantic Challenge Cup; the 1991 Cosmos Reunion Game; Tony Tirado’s lyrical Spanish (and broken English) SIN-TV broadcasts; “Soccer Made in Germany;” and the legacy/enigma of Giants Stadium.
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In soccer Tags NASL, North American Soccer League, New York Cosmos, Major League Soccer, MLS, NY/NJ MetroStars
EPISODE #63: Baseball’s Federal League with Author Dan Levitt
In late 1913, the newly formed Federal League of Base Ball Clubs – more simply known as the “Federal League” – declared itself a third major professional baseball league in competition with the established circuits of organized baseball, the National and American Leagues.
Led by inveterate baseball promoter John T. Powers, and backed by some of America’s wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the Federal League posed a real challenge to baseball’s prevailing structure at the time – offering players the opportunity to avoid the restrictions of the organized leagues' oppressive and despised reserve clause. The competition of another, better-paying (though detractor-labeled “outlaw”) league caused players' salaries to skyrocket, and quickly demonstrated the bargaining potential of free agency for the first time – seeds first sown two decades earlier by the similarly-intentioned Players’ League in 1890.
For the next two seasons, NL and AL owners fought back furiously in the press, in the courts, and on the field – while the Federal League drew substantial fan attention with its high-quality play and superior stadia across its mix of directly competitive (Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh and St. Louis), and underserved (Buffalo, Indianapolis [later Newark, NJ], and Kansas City) markets.
After sustained behind-the-scenes interference by owners of the senior leagues, the Federal League folded after the 1915 season, but not without leaving lasting marks on America’s Pastime that still define the sport today – including a landmark federal lawsuit (Federal Baseball Club v. National League), in which the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply to Major League Baseball; and the construction of one of baseball’s most iconic and enduring stadiums (Chicago’s Wrigley Field), originally built for Charles Weeghman’s Federal League Chicago Whales.
Award-winning author Dan Levitt (The Outlaw League and the Battle That Forged Modern Baseball) joins the podcast to discuss the history and legacy of the last independent major league outside the established structure of professional baseball to make it to the playing field, and the last serious attempt to create a third major league until the abortive Continental League of 1960.
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EPISODE #62: The Whaler Guys
It’s been 21 years since the National Hockey League’s Hartford Whalers abruptly bolted for the (supposedly) greener pastures of North Carolina and a rechristened life as the Carolina Hurricanes, but don’t tell that to superfans Peter Hindle and Jerry Erwin – the self-professed “Whaler Guys” – who have made it their personal mission since 2011 to keep the memory of the franchise they love alive, and, with any luck, bring top-tier pro NHL hockey back to the Nutmeg State.
As the hosts of their eponymous weekly Hartford Public Access TV show, Hindle and Erwin are not only passionate about remembering what the Whalers used to be, but also relentlessly focused on virtually every aspect of local civic development that might help someday return the city of Hartford to the ranks of “major league” status once again.
We get into all things Whalers past (the legendary “Brass Bonanza” theme song, the iconic logo); present (XL Center renovation updates, the Guys’ Whaler-themed Connecticut state license plate initiative); and future (what current NHL markets are prime candidates for relocation, where Hartford stands against other potential franchise cities like Quebec, Houston, Kansas City, or Seattle) – as well as the Guys’ thoughts on the Hurricanes’ sudden rediscovery/re-embrace of the team’s heritage in its previous incarnation.
PLUS: why the Coyotes, Panthers and even (ironically) Hurricanes would all do better in Hartford; why Whaler jerseys remain so popular; the vision of original (WHA New England) team owner Howard Baldwin; and the two most unsung heroes in Whaler history – Peter Good and Jacques Ysaye (aka Jack Say).
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EPISODE #61: Sports Promoter Doug Verb
If someone ever decides to build an American sports promotion Hall of Fame, the inaugural class will undoubtedly be led by this week’s special guest, Doug Verb. In a career spanning more than 40 years in professional sports management, Verb’s remarkable career has included spearheading marketing, promotion, publicity, and television for some of the most innovative and memorable leagues and franchises of the modern era.
One of the founding executives of both the pioneering Major Indoor Soccer League (along with sports entrepreneurs Earl Foreman, Ed Tepper, and previous podcast guest Dr. Joe Machnik), and the frenetic Arena Football League (with the sport’s inventor [and past two-part guest] Jim Foster), Verb additionally served as president of pro soccer’s legendary Chicago Sting from 1982-86 – which, incredibly, drifted between playing in two separate leagues during his tenure (for one year, simultaneously) – the outdoor North American Soccer League and the indoor MISL.
In our longest and more anecdote-filled episode to date, Verb vividly recounts the highs and lows of launching new teams, leagues and even sports themselves from whole cloth – with nary an operational blueprint or career roadmap to be found. Buckle up for a wild ride through the woeful 1976 NASL Philadelphia Atoms, the “Rocket Red” pinball-like MISL, soccer for all seasons in the Windy City, and birthing indoor football.
PLUS: Kiddie City to the rescue; Earl Foreman’s “Brother-in-Law Effect;” getting paid in soybeans; and the curious one-game history of the Liberty Basketball Association!
AND: Verb reveals plans for a first-ever Major Indoor Soccer League reunion later this year in Las Vegas!
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EPISODE #60: Baseball’s League That Never Was: The Continental League with Professor Russ Buhite
By the summer of 1959, the absence of two former National League franchises from what was once a vibrant New York City major league baseball scene was obvious – and even the remaining/dominant Yankees couldn’t fully make up for it. Nor could that season’s World Series championship run of the now-Los Angeles Dodgers – a bittersweet victory for jilted fans of the team’s Brooklyn era.
Fiercely determined to return a National League team to the city, mayor Robert Wagner enlisted the help of a Brooklyn-based attorney named William Shea to spearhead an effort to first convince a current franchise to relocate – as the American League’s Braves (Boston to Milwaukee, 1953), Browns (St. Louis to Baltimore, 1954), and A’s (Philadelphia to Kansas City, 1955) had recently done. When neither Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, or even MLB Commissioner Ford Frick, could be convinced by the opportunity, Shea and team moved on to an even bolder plan – an entirely new third major league, with a New York franchise as its crown jewel.
Financial backers from not only New York, but also eager expansionists in Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver, Toronto, Atlanta, Dallas-Ft. Worth, and Buffalo joined in the effort – christened the “Continental League” – and recruited longtime pioneering baseball executive Branch Rickey to do the collective’s bidding. In preparation for an inaugural 1961 start, Rickey immediately preached the virtues of parity, and outlined a business plan that included TV revenue-sharing, equally accessible player pools, and solid pension plans; properly executed, it would take less than four years for the new league to be a credible equal of the National and American Leagues. His plan: poach a few established big-league stars, and supplement rosters with young talent from a dedicated farm system that would quickly ripen into a formidable stream of high-caliber players and, in turn, a quickly competitive “major” third league. That, plus an aggressive legal attack on MLB’s long-established federal antitrust exemption – designed to force greater player mobility and expanded geographic opportunities.
Suddenly pressured, MLB owners surprisingly responded in the summer of 1960 with a hastily crafted plan for expansion, beginning in 1962 with new NL teams in New York (Mets) and Houston (Colt .45s) – undercutting the upstart league’s ownership groups in those cities, and promising additional franchises in the years following. Within weeks, the Continental League was no more, and the accelerated expansionary future of the modern game was firmly in motion.
Original Continental League minor leaguer Russ Buhite (The Continental League: A Personal History) joins host Tim Hanlon to share his first-person account (as a member of the proposed Denver franchise’s Western Carolina League Rutherford County Owls in 1960) of both the build-up to and letdown of the “league that never was” – as well as the broader history of the unwittingly influential circuit that changed the economic landscape of modern-day Major League Baseball.
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EPISODE #59: Pro Soccer’s Dean of Media Relations, Jim Trecker
With a career spanning more than four decades, the National Soccer Hall of Fame’s 2017 Colin Jose Media Award-winner Jim Trecker has been part of the American sports media relations landscape since the late 1960’s. After a chance part-time undergrad job in Columbia University’s modest sports information department, Trecker traded his initial career ambitions in French language education for what ultimately became an unmatched professional journey in public relations at the highest levels of international sports.
After cutting his PR teeth with various post-grad pro sports gigs around New York (including work for the Madison Square Garden-owned New York Skyliners [actually Uruguay’s C.A. Cerro] of the 1967 United Soccer Association), Trecker helped manage media relations for the “Broadway” Joe Namath-era AFL-then-NFL New York Jets – a whirling dervish of major league sports information management that transfixed both the Gotham and national press corps, especially in the wake of a surprising Super Bowl III championship.
But it was the arrival of international soccer superstar Pelé to the fledgling New York Cosmos in 1975 that ultimately took Trecker – and the steeply ascendant North American Soccer League – into a stratospheric professional orbit, as the increasingly star-studded team, league and sport exploded onto the local, national and global sports scenes during the latter half of the decade. Soccer’s first true international “super club,” the Cosmos became nothing short of an international sports and cultural phenomenon, and Trecker’s job was to manage all of the media’s intense interest in everything related to them – no easy feat.
Trecker joins host Tim Hanlon to recount some of the most memorable events during the heyday of the Cosmos, as well as his subsequent PR leadership roles with the NASL’s Washington Diplomats, the league office itself, and his mega role as head of media relations for the wildly successful USA-hosted 1994 World Cup. PLUS: we discuss Trecker’s role behind the upcoming NASL 50th Anniversary, to be held in conjunction with the re-launch of the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Frisco, TX on October 16-18, 2018!
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Bashkir State University won grants totaling over half a million rubles
Bashkir State University won two grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the press-centre of the university reports. The first grant for the work of young scientists headed by Professor Vadim Zakharov "Mathematical modeling of ion-coordination polymerization of dienes based on heat and mass transfer in turbulent microreactor" received 280,000 rubles.
Rustem Khamitov met with UNESCO delegation
On July 10, Rustem Khamitov met with a delegation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headed by Mr. Stefano De Caro, the press service of the head of the region informs. "For more than 15 years Bashkortostan has been actively involved in the UNESCO activity. We are engaged in the implementation of international projects in the field of education, preservation of natural and cultural monuments. Among them there is a program "World Heritage", "Man and Biosphere" project, "Associated Schools" program, UNITWIN program of UNESCO department. We create conditions for the development of talented youth, promote student exchanges, we welcome students from overseas in our universities", Rustem Khamitov said. He also stressed that "due to fruitful cooperation with the Directorate of UNESCO, the Russian Committee, due to signing a communiqué, and an active presentation, we were able to consider the preservation of the Shulgan-Tash Cave and the Ural-Batyr epic at the world level. Two years ago, the mixed natural and cultural reserve "Bashkir Urals — Ural Batyr Land" was included in the provisional list of UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was a great event for us, the starting point for further work".
Slava Zaitsev’s Fashion House opens sale of collection created at Ufa knitting factory
Clothing manufactured at Ufa knitting factory (Tricardo trademark) will be sold at the Fashion House of Slava Zaitsev in Moscow. The fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev told about it at the presentation of the new autumn-winter collection created in collaboration with the Ufa knitting factory, which was held in Ufa.
Bashkortostan is the eighth in the Russian project "Universal Electronic Card"
Bashkortostan took the eighth place in Russia in the project "Universal Electronic Card" (UEC). The first place went to Tula Region. Ratings are based on a number of key indicators, including the number of applications accepted, cards issued, operating points for submitting applications with regard to the number of inhabitants of the region, as well as other indicators. Currently in Bashkortostan almost 30,000 applications are submitted and more than 26,000 cards are issued, the press service of the Agency for Information Technologies of the Republic of Bashkortostan informs. There are 23 points for receiving applications and UEC issuing. UEC includes a transport application — unified social ticket (UST). 1,536 people are active users of UEC unified social ticket. Number of trips is 277,620. It also includes discount application valid in the territory of Bashkortostan and can be used in the unified republican discount-bonus system. 1,980 inhabitants are active users of discounted apps. For example, today the sum of transactions with UEC discount application exceeded 7 million rubles in the republic, and the sum of bonuses — 113 thousand rubles.
Rustem Khamitov met with the Deputy Minister of Communications RF Alexei Volin
On June 17, Rustem Khamitov met with the Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Alexei Volin at the House of Republic. Prospects of television and radio broadcasting and print media development in the country, issues relating to postal services were discussed there, the press service of the head of the region informs. Rustem Khamitov marked the need to preserve and develop local television stations, especially broadcasting in native languages. “In this regard, the ministry's position and the position of the head of the region completely coincide”, Alexei Volin told reporters after the meeting. The Deputy Minister of Communications also informed the head of the republic that it was decided to retain analog broadcasting in the Russian Federation. Thereby five hundred regional and local broadcasters will be able to continue their operation. The head of the republic noted that all post offices in rural areas should be preserved. He underlined that in any case the number of rural post offices should not be reduced that they, in fact, represented the centres of social life for many local people.
First plane departed from Ufa to Simferopol within the subsidy program
Flights from Ufa — Simferopol began on Sunday, June 8. Transportation is carried out by RedWings company. The flights will be operated twice a week, on Fridays and Sundays. Departure from Simferopol is at 12.05, arrival in Ufa at 17.25 (local time). Departure from Ufa is at 19.05, arrival to Simferopol at 19.05. Flights will be operated by Russian Tu-204. Sales on the flight Ufa – Simferopol were opened on May 26 at 22.00. A discount ticket cost 3025 rubles one-way, full fare (without subsidies) was 7300 rubles. The airline independently establishes a quota for discount tickets. 50 discount tickets are provided per one plane. The discount tickets for the summer months have been sold out for less than two days. 679.8 million rubles are allocated for the program of air transportation subsidizing to Simferopol and in the opposite direction in the federal budget. The subsidized air transportation will be executed from June 1 to October 31, from 17 Russian cities located in North-Western, Volga, Ural and Siberian Federal Districts.
Rustem Khamitov visited a concert of jazz band from Korea
Rustem Khamitov with his wife Gulshat Khamitova attended a concert of jazz band "Stone Jazz" representing its program to Ufa audience during a visit to Bashkortostan the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea in the Russian Federation, M-r Wi Sung Lac.
Bashkiria population has increased by 1438 people since the beginning of 2014
The overall result of natural movement and migration of the population was positive and amounted to 1438 people in January-April. According to Bashkortostan Statistics Agency, migration loss (minus 355 people) was compensated by the natural population increase (1793).
Rustem Khamitov participated in the All-Russian meeting of MIA Directorates on public order maintenance
The IV All-Russian seminar — meeting with the deputy police chiefs on public order maintenance of the regional MIA Directorates and the Main Directorates is held in Ufa. For the first time, the meeting was attended by MIA employees of Crimea and the MIA Directorate of Russia in Sevastopol. Rustem Khamitov, the head of the republic, welcomed the attendees. He wished policemen success and appreciated their contribution to social stability. The head of the region spoke about the situation in the republic focusing on the economy and prospects for economic development. Khamitov praised the work of the Bashkir police in the sphere of public order maintenance: "Thanks to you lots of the highest level events — sports, cultural and political ones are conducted safely. Next year the biggest event will be the SCO and BRICS Summits. About 15 heads of member-states will arrive in Ufa. You will have to ensure their safety and public order. Current tasks should be performed too. On September 14 elections of the head of the region will be carried out. Equal conditions for all candidates should be ensured. You should prevent destabilization and deliberate unrest provocation".
Bashkortostan representatives participated in the XI TURKSOY Photographers' Gathering
In the Turkish city of Isparta the XI Photographers' Gathering of TURKSOY was held, organized jointly with Suleiman Demirel University. According to the press service of TURKSOY, the event was first held on a grand scale. 30 photographers from 20 countries and regions of Eurasia: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Bashkortostan, Khakassia, Tatarstan, Sakha (Yakutia), Kabardino-Balkaria, Tuva and Gagauzia (Moldova), Albania, Iraq, Belarus, Austria and Italy participated in the event.
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About Leading a Business in Anxious Times
Leadership in Burma/Myanmar
November 20, 2012 10:46 am ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅ lfox
I recently presented a paper on a political leader from Burma/Myanmar at a family systems theory conference in Worcester, MA. This topic might seem far-fetched for an audience of family therapists, but I thought they would be interested in the qualities of leadership that transcend culture and are, to some extent, universal throughout the human species. When I heard that President Obama would soon be traveling to Burma/Myanmar, the paper seemed as though it would be even more timely, since people would surely know where Burma is and might even be interested in learning about one of its famous political leaders.
The leader I focused on was Aung San Suu Kyi who was born in Burma in 1945 after her father had led the country to independence following sixty years of rule by the British Empire. While her father was working to establish a viable democracy in Burma, he was assassinated by ethnic radicals in 1947 and, after a brief experiment with democracy, the country was taken over by a military dictatorship that maintained power for fifty years.
Aung San Suu Kyi was the oldest girl and third of four siblings, two of whom died during childhood. She was raised by her widowed mother first in Burma and then in India, where her mother served as ambassador from 1959 to 1967. So Aung San Suu Kyi was educated in India and later went to Oxford for university training. She married an Englishman in 1972; they had two sons and lived a comfortable, academic life in Oxford. In the summer of 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi received a call from Burma telling her that her mother had suffered a severe stroke, so she packed her bags and flew there to care for her mother during the final months of her life.
While she was in Burma caring for her mother, a student strike erupted, and revolution against the military dictatorship broke out. Aung San Suu Kyi was persuaded by the dissidents to become a leader of the resistance because she was her father’s daughter, and her only surviving brother had emigrated to the United States, refusing to become involved in the crisis enveloping Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi stepped up, spoke eloquently on behalf of the movement for democracy, and traveled around the country promoting the idea of a multiparty system, as well as non-violent resistance to the military regime. Ultimately the dictatorship brutally suppressed the uprising, renamed the country Myanmar (in 1989), and Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest, where she remained for 15 of the next 20 years.
While under house arrest she led a disciplined, orderly life, reading extensively, writing essays, practicing the piano, and connecting through the wider society of Burma/Myanmar through meditation. Her husband and sons were not allowed to visit her, and her husband died of cancer in 1999. She received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. When she was released from house arrest in 2010, she was welcomed back into the leadership of Burma by millions of her countrymen. The military dictatorship had softened, elections were held, and Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to parliament. Since then she has traveled widely, received the Congressional Medal of Honor while in the U.S. in 2012, and reunited with her adult sons.
What are the factors that made it possible for a person like Aung San Suu Kyi to function so solidly and consistently while under extreme duress? Much of her personal strength comes from her family: the legacy of her charismatic father, the founder of modern Burma, and her mother who raised her to be a disciplined, orderly, and well educated woman. In addition, her deep personal connection with the country of Burma/Myanmar sustained her during her years of isolation. Although she had not been raised as a religious person, she began to meditate daily while under house arrest, as a way to connect with the Burmese Buddhist spiritual tradition. I believe that Aung San Suu Kyi is high on the scale of differentiation of self, as her functioning remained balanced and stable throughout her years in public life even when she lived under extreme stress. She consistently articulated her values and beliefs in the public arena, and strove to live by them even when cut off physically from her family members. She was committed to non-violence while leading resistance to the military regime in Burma. She reported low levels of anxiety and reactivity that might have impaired her ability to keep herself on course.
The leadership challenges faced by Aung San Suu Kyi are far beyond those that most of us face in our families, work, and community lives. However, we can learn from studying people whose functioning rises to the highest levels, especially when under stress, and identify the universal strengths that all humans can draw upon to some extent.
– Katharine Gratwick Baker, PhD
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Jenny Brown on November 25, 2012 at 4:02 pm said:
Very interesting to reflect on what high differentiation looks like…Not so much the leadership achievements in the public domain but the ability to maintain functioning in dialy life when facing challenge. -in Aung San Suu Kyi’s case- extraordinary sustained challenge.
thanks Katherine for this interesting piece.
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Lecturer reflects on social change and reframing conversations on race
Lecturer on Law Alan Jenkins shared ideas for reframing conversations on race and social justice at a talk at Harvard Law School on Jan. 12. The talk was moderated by Clinical Professor Dan Nagin, vice dean for experiential and clinical education at HLS.
Jenkins is the executive director and co-founder of The Opportunity Agenda, a communications, research, and policy organization. He said he founded his organization as a social justice communications lab, using communications and culture for transformative change.
Before joining The Opportunity Agenda, Jenkins was director of human rights at the Ford Foundation; he served as assistant to the solicitor general at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the government in constitutional and other litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court; and he was associate counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where he defended the rights of low-income communities suffering from exploitation and discrimination.
Jenkins said that his previous work focused on the pursuit of greater and more equal opportunity and human rights protections, but there were some things missing. They related to "culture, communication, and connection when it comes to social change efforts."
On the communication front, he said, "we would win law suits or public policy efforts, for example on criminal justice and race in California, and they would be wiped away by a ballot initiative like 'Three Strikes,' because we hadn't explained to voters in that instance why those reforms mattered, why they were the right thing and the thing to do for safety."
Jenkins answered questions from the audience on topics, including the applicability of a human rights framework, social justice issues in the U.S., strategies for effectively talking about racial justice in more conservative areas of the U.S., and the experience of HLS student activists in conversations with the administration.
During the winter term at HLS, Jenkins is teaching Communications, Law and Social Change, a course designed to introduce students to the role that written, oral, and visual communications play in the development of American law and policy, with a focus on social issues and movements.
In addition to his J.D. from HLS, Jenkins hold an M.A. in media studies from the New School University, and a B.A. in psychology and social relations from Harvard College. He also served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and to U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Carter, and coordinator of the Access to Justice Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E
missmusical12
Father's Little Vixen
Favourite Character: Father and Numbuh 1
Favourite Episode: G.R.O.W.U.P, D.A.T.E.,U.T.O.P.I.A., T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G, G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S, C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E, G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N.D, P.A.R.T.Y, E.N.G.L.A.N.D, and L.O.V.E (Because who doesn't like a good musical!)
Favourite ships: (In No Order): 3x4, 2x5, 1x362, 1x5, 1xLizzie, ChadxCree, Fatherx362,60x86, 83x84, FatherxMrs.Thomspon, 13xLeaky Leona, Delightful Buttons (FatherxOther Mother)
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Jan 26, 2014 0:57:40 GMT
Post by missmusical12 on Jan 26, 2014 0:57:40 GMT
The fifth saga in the CAKED trilogy and the eighth episode in the fifth season. This episode is also a spoof of the movie "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"
My Favorite Parts In The Episode:
*Numbuh 4 being left in charge of the "fake cake." And him during the credits.
*Numbuh 86 beating the snot out of Numbuh 19th Century after being called a "sissy girl."
*Father and Numbuh 86 laughing over the Numbuh 19th Century lack of knowledge of the present world
*"No one likes sherbet! It's like fruit and ice!"-Numbuh 86
*When Numbuhs 86 and 19th Century kiss......yeah....
*"First let's destroy all the ice cream in Texas just for fun!"- Father (Oh, Father....)
*Father and Numbuh 1's epic "Star Wars-esque" fight. (Except using candles in place of light sabers)
MY FAVORITE PART:
Henchman: Hey! They're having a party down on cell block!
Henchmen: YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!
Father: -angrily- Hey! I didn't give permission for a party! -feeling rejected- What? No one invites me? I may be evil but that doesn't mean I don't like to party down once in a while.....
(Seriously, I really just wanted to give Father a hug there.)
DISCUSS!!!!
Soopreme Leaduh
It lives! (mass screaming ensues)
Favourite Character: Numbuh 86
Favourite Sector: Moonbase
Favourite Episode: Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R
Favourite ships: MOONBABES (86x362), HMS Matthew (haha get it?)
Favourite Villain: Mr Boss probably
Pronouns: He/him or they/them
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Jan 26, 2014 1:00:59 GMT numbuh4 likes this
Post by Kitten on Jan 26, 2014 1:00:59 GMT
I loved this one (maaybe because of the large amount of Fanny)
But i didn't like that 19th century kid like no unattach that boy from Fanny's lips they are not a good match she'd end up killing him eventually (I know I would)
Getting back out there!
Jan 26, 2014 1:00:59 GMT Kitten said:
I don't support 19th Centuryx86, but it's hilarious how they did that. I felt it was the most shocking part of the episode. Fanny kept yelling at him and beating him up and then all of a sudden that happened. I was like "What!?!?" when I saw that.
I can see why she kissed him but it's like oh fanny Hun don't do that don't kiss him kiss someone else
If she REALLY loved him she would have cared about decommissioning him u 3 u
That was the irony. She kissed him (or he kissed her), and then at the end of the episode, she STILL decommissioned him.
But anyways, as I was saying,
Get that wrench and pull them apart get that beef jerkface off of fanny
Numbuh 777
Favourite Character: Rachael, Nigel, Grandfather, Father, Kuki, Wally, Hoagie, the "kid", Heinrich/Henrietta
Favourite Sector: Moonbase, Sectors: V, X, W, and Z
Favourite Episode: Operations: It, Fountain, Zero, Caked 5, Zoo, Training, Future, Graduates, Pool, Snowing, Diaper, Canyon, Awards, Holiday, Hotstuff, White House, Zero
Favourite ships: 1/362, 86/60, 3/4, 5/9, 2/5, 83/Tommy, 83/84, Grandma Gilligan/Spankulot, David/Ashley, Constance/Lenny
Favourite Villain: Grandfather, Count Spankulot, Father, Chester
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Jan 26, 2014 1:51:13 GMT via mobile
Post by Numbuh 777 on Jan 26, 2014 1:51:13 GMT
I laughed so hard when I saw them kissing... But not as much as I did when 3 and 4 kissed in zero
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Oct 31, 2014 21:48:41 GMT
Fanny's true love is found. XDD And the DC scolding Father at the end! XOXO
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Nov 1, 2014 16:52:04 GMT Kitten likes this
Post by globalofficer on Nov 1, 2014 16:52:04 GMT
More like short lived love never to be seen again and I'm grateful for that. Because honestly, Fanny can do a heck ton better than him. And she does. She moves on, because it was some dumb crush.
She's got more important things to do, like decommission teens and gain Rachel's praise.
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Jul 27, 2015 7:07:56 GMT via mobile
Post by Numbuh 777 on Jul 27, 2015 7:07:56 GMT
Rewatching this I realized that the annoyingly cute triplets mansion, the alamode, not only teaches kids about the 19th century kids. It also teaches them about Nigel's family history a bit too.
#1 Sonia, Trophy Gatherer
KIDS NEXT DOOR RULES!!!
Favourite Character: Abigail Lincoln tbh
Favourite Sector: sector v, sector w
Favourite Episode: Idk there's so many good ones
Favourite ships: 3/4, 86/362, 5/Henrietta, 83/84, 1/Lizzie,3/dcfdtl
Favourite Villain: Dcfdtl, Cree
Nonbinary gender option: Demigirl
Pronouns: They/them or she/her
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Aug 31, 2015 1:07:56 GMT via mobile
Post by Sonia on Aug 31, 2015 1:07:56 GMT
I wanna know who Numbuh 86 considers to be the three greatest female operatives in the 50 states
Prettywitchiusaka
Favourite Character: Numbuh 362, Numbuh 86, Numbuh 60, Numbuh 20,000, Cree Lincoln
Favourite Episode: IT, LICE, SPINACH, ZERO, MAURICE, PARTY, CRIME, FUGITIVE, SLUMBER, TRAINING, SCIENCE, THE-FLY, CLOWN, CAKED FIVE
Favourite ships: 60/362, 3/4, 1/Lizzie
Favourite Villain: Grandfather, Cree Lincoln
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Aug 31, 2015 22:12:29 GMT
Post by Prettywitchiusaka on Aug 31, 2015 22:12:29 GMT
Aug 31, 2015 1:07:56 GMT Sonia said:
I don't know, but I'm gonna guess that Rachel's in that roster, somewhere.
Alliecat
Favourite Character: Numbuh One & Mr. Lincoln
Favourite Episode: END.
Favourite ships: 2/5; 1/OC; Knightbrace/Soccer Mom
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Aug 31, 2015 22:39:40 GMT Numbuh 777 likes this
Post by Alliecat on Aug 31, 2015 22:39:40 GMT
She's numbuh one died from pun.
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Sept 1, 2015 21:49:17 GMT via mobile
Post by Sonia on Sept 1, 2015 21:49:17 GMT
No, fanny mentioned Rachel, and then mentioned the three girls like separately
Op. C.A.K.E.D.F.I.V.E Sept 2, 2015 0:51:16 GMT
Post by Prettywitchiusaka on Sept 2, 2015 0:51:16 GMT
Sept 1, 2015 21:49:17 GMT Sonia said:
I know. But considering how much Fanny admires Rachel, it wouldn't surprise me if she mentioned her twice in her little speech.
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Long Island Sound Study > Media Center > Latest News > $2.04 Million in Grants Will Improve the Health of Long Island Sound
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$2.04 Million in Grants Will Improve the Health of Long Island Sound
$1.05 million awarded to support 15 projects benefiting New York
Mike Smith, NFWF, 703-623-3834
Jennifer May-Reddy, EPA, 212-637-3658
Village of Old Field, NY (Dec. 4, 2017)—Today, top federal and state environmental officials from New York announced 31 grants totaling $2.04 million to local government and community groups to improve the health and ecosystem of Long Island Sound. Fifteen projects, totaling $1.05 million directly benefit New York. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator, Pete Lopez, joined U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin, Carrie Meek Gallagher from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and Amanda Bassow from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) at the Childs Mansion and Flax Pond Marine Laboratory to highlight how the grants will benefit people who live, work and play around Long Island Sound.
The projects highlighted today are funded through the Long Island Sound Futures Fund (LISFF) and show how relatively small projects, with participation from local groups and communities, can make a very big difference in improving water quality and restoring habitat throughout the Long Island Sound watershed. This grant program combines funds from EPA and NFWF.
“Throughout my career in public service, I have seen time and again how effective local actions can be in solving daunting problems,” said Regional Administrator Lopez. “Engaging the people who are most connected to the Long Island Sound is the most effective way to work toward the Sound’s recovery – evidenced by the tremendous success we have already enjoyed in restoring this world-famous jewel.”
The Long Island Sound Futures Fund 2017 grants will reach more than 870,000 residents through environmental and conservation education programs. Water quality improvement projects will treat 439,000 gallons of water runoff reducing more than 15,600 pounds of nitrogen and collecting 2,800 pounds of floating trash. The grant funds will be matched by $3.3 million from the grantees, resulting in $5.3 million in funding for on-the-ground conservation projects in both states. In New York, the $1.05 million in grant funds will be matched with $2.58 million from the grantees, resulting in $3.63 million in community conservation.
“The Long Island Sound is a precious feature of our life, culture, and economy, one that affects the livelihoods of thousands of Long Islanders, as well as our local recreation and tourism industries. Protecting and restoring this critical waterway, which has suffered from pollution and overdevelopment over so many years, is so important to improving our area’s water quality, restoring our area’s natural habitats, and improving Long Islanders’ quality of life. These grants, totaling $2.04 million, are a critical component of preserving the Long Island Sound for generations to come,” said Congressman Lee Zeldin.
“One of the greatest environmental challenges facing our nation and its communities is the protection and restoration of highly productive estuaries,” said Jeff Trandahl, Executive Director and CEO, NFWF. “This year, funded projects will help youth become stewards of the outdoors and introduce them to wildlife in their schoolyards. Additionally, work will help restore the health of our rivers, coastal marshes, forests and grasslands for the benefit of fish and wildlife and to enhance the strength of coastal communities.”
The Long Island Sound Study initiated the Long Island Sound Futures Fund in 2005 through EPA’s Long Island Sound Office and NFWF. To date, the Futures Fund has invested $17 million in 380 projects. With a grantee match of $33 million, the program generated $50 million for locally based conservation. The projects have opened up 157 river miles for fish passage, restored 1,090 acres of critical fish and wildlife habitat and open space; treated 202 million gallons of pollution, and educated and engaged three million people from communities surrounding the Sound.
NYSDEC Commissoner Basil Seggos said, “The Long Island Sound Futures Fund has effectively leveraged $50 million to accelerate implementation of the most innovative, sustainable and cost-effective strategies for improving water quality and protecting vital habitats throughout the Long Island Sound watershed. This funding complements key local projects supporting the Long Island Nitrogen Action Plan and Governor Cuomo’s aggressive actions to restore and protect this vital ecosystem.”
Long Island Sound is an estuary that provides economic and recreational benefits to millions of people while also providing habitat for more than 1,200 invertebrates, 170 species of fish, and dozens of species of migratory birds.
Each of the grant projects contribute to a healthier Long Island Sound for everyone, from nearby area residents to those at the furthest reaches of the Sound. All nine million people who live, work and play in the watershed impacting the Sound can benefit from and help build on the progress that has already been made.
The Long Island Sound Study, developed under the EPA’s National Estuary Program, is a cooperative effort between the EPA and the states of Connecticut and New York to protect and restore the sound and its ecosystem. To learn more about the LISS, visit www.longislandsoundstudy.net.
Chartered by Congress in 1984, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation protects and restores the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants and habitats. Working with federal, corporate and individual partners, NFWF has funded more than 4,500 organizations and committed more than $3.8 billion to conservation projects. Learn more at www.nfwf.org.
Long Island Sound Futures Fund 2017 Projects Benefiting New York
CLEAN WATERS AND HEALTHY WATERSHEDS PROJECTS
Project WASTE (Waterway and Street Trash Elimination) (NY)
Bronx River Alliance
Project Area: Bronx River, Bronx and Westchester, New York
LISFF Funds: $34,712; Matching Funds: $41,286
Project WASTE will collect and analyze the sources of floatable trash on the Bronx River, sharing those results with the public and public officials. The project engages students to reach out to local businesses to help reduce trash in the Bronx and Westchester County, New York. The goal of the project is to reduce by 2,000 pounds the trash that would enter Long Island Sound. The group will also educate 140 students in seven schools grades K-12 about the impact of litter on waterways and the Sound.
Building Clean Water: Demonstrating Sewage Treatment & Water Conservation Strategies (NY)
Matinecock Court HDFC
Project Area: Town of Huntington, New York
LISFF Funds: $250,000; Matching Funds: $1,750,000
The Matinecock Court HDFC will install a wastewater harvesting system at an affordable housing development in the Town of Huntington, New York. The project will result in the annual recapture of treated sewage effluent for reuse as on-site drip irrigation, and prevent nitrogen, total suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand from discharge into the Long Island Sound watershed.
Planting for Clean Water Communities (NY)
Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District
Project Area: Village of Bayville, New York
The Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District will assess priority areas and choose three sites for green infrastructure projects. As part of the project, the soil and water conservation district will hold educational workshops for residents about the value of green infrastructure to improve water quality in Long Island Sound in the Village of Bayville, New York. The project will bring visible green infrastructure projects to community centers, local parks, schools and businesses creating a model for future projects in this and other communities surrounding the sound.
Hempstead Harbor 2018 Water Quality Monitoring Program-X (NY)
Incorporated Village of Sea Cliff, New York
Project Area: Outer and Inner Hempstead Harbor and Glen Cove Creek, located on the north shore of Nassau County, Long Island, New York
The Village of Sea Cliff will monitor water quality, including physical, chemical and biological indicators of pollution, in outer and inner Hempstead Harbor and Glen Cove Creek, Nassau County, New York. The monitoring data will help inform the management of Hempstead Harbor, an embayment of Long Island Sound.
Unified Water Study Equipment Loan Program: Collaboration in Embayment Monitoring (NY, CT)
Earthplace – The Nature Discovery Center, Inc., Harbor Watch
Project Area: Long Island Sound Embayments in Connecticut and New York
LISFF Funds: $99,971; Matching Funds: $118,153
Earthplace – the Nature Discovery Center and Harbor Watch will manage an equipment, supplies and technical resources loan program for up to 20 embayment groups and 200 citizen science volunteers to support the Unified Water Study for Long Island Sound embayments in Connecticut and New York. The project will result in a greater number of embayments being monitored, providing important information from the first areas affected by pollution sources that impact the health of Long Island Sound.
Collaborative Watershed Planning for the Ten Mile River (CT, NY)
Housatonic Valley Association, Inc.
Project Area: The Ten Mile River watershed: Eastern Dutchess County, New York; and western Litchfield County, Connecticut
The Housatonic Valley Association, Inc. will develop a watershed management plan for the Ten Mile River in eastern Dutchess County, New York, and western Litchfield County, Connecticut. The watershed management plan will help inform restoration and water quality activities focused reducing on nitrogen loads from the Ten Mile River to the Housatonic River and Long Island Sound.
Unified Water Study: Long Island Sound Embayment Monitoring (CT, NY)
Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Save the Sound
Project Area: Long Island Sound Embayments in Connecticut and New York.
Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Save the Sound will implement their water quality management program, the Unified Water Study (UWS), in two Long Island Sound embayments. The groups will also work with five water quality monitoring groups in nine embayments providing them with technical support as participants in the UWS in Connecticut and New York. The project will coordinate efforts to collect data on the health of bays and harbors to synthesize information about water quality issues affecting Long Island Sound.
THRIVING HABITATS AND ABUNDANT WILDLIFE PROJECTS
Phillips Mill Fish Passage Project (NY)
Project Area: Nissequogue River, Town of Smithtown, New York
The Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Save the Sound will engineer a fish passage plan at Phillips Mill Pond Dam on the Nissequogue River, Town of Smithtown, New York. The fish passage plan will restore native migratory fish runs from Long Island Sound to upstream spawning habitat in the Nissequogue River for the first time in 300 years.
Coastal Wetland and Forest Restoration Planning Project (NY)
City Parks Foundation
Project Area: Hammond Cove and Harding Park, Bronx River, New York
City Parks Foundation will produce restoration plans for tidal wetland and coastal forest in Hammond Cove and Harding Park, Bronx, New York. The foundation will identify new restoration and stewardship opportunities at small neglected salt marsh sites as well as at adjacent upland and connected tributaries throughout the western Long Island Sound.
EDUCATING TO ENGAGE SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES PROJECTS
Be a Good Egg- II (NY)
National Audubon Society, Inc. – Audubon New York
Project Area: Centre Island, Stehli Beach, Sands City/Hobart, West Meadow Beach, and Sunken Meadow State Parks, New York.
The National Audubon Society will provide a multifaceted education program that includes public and school programming and direct on-the-beach public outreach, delivering stewardship projects on the coast for birds, and securing pledges from people committing to share the shore with shorebirds on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. The project will reduce threats to coastal habitats and shorebirds including piping plover, least tern, common tern and American oystercatcher.
Septic Change-Out Education Program (NY)
Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment, Inc.
Project Area: Towns of Huntington, Smithtown, and Riverhead, New York
Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment will educate homeowners about the importance of upgrading their onsite septic systems and provide tools and information to allow them to more easily apply for assistance grants to fund these upgrades in the Towns of Huntington, Smithtown and Riverhead, New York. The project will help homeowners switch to new and innovative alternative septic systems that reduce nitrogen into Long Island Sound.
Sound Gardening: Why Your Grass Choice Matters (NY)
Project Area: Nassau and Suffolk County, within the Long Island
Sound watershed, New York
LISFF Funds: $9,996; Matching Funds: $7,500
Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment will educate homeowners about the types and correct grass seed to use on lawns in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York. The project will provide homeowners with tools to reduce their impact on the Long Island Sound and to encourage practices to reduce nitrogen (from fertilizers) and pesticides from entering the Sound’s river, streams, tributaries and embayments.
SOUNDoff Event! Creating Long Island Sound Stewards–III (NY)
The Whaling Museum Society, Inc.
Project Area: Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
The Whaling Museum Society, Inc. will hold a one-day public event, called SOUNDoff!, to educate, inform and build awareness in local communities about conservation of Long Island Sound in a hands-on, accessible way in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The project will reach 300 visitors who will leave the event with a stronger understanding of their relationship to the Sound and with practical ways to contribute to a cleaner Sound.
Long Island Sound Fresh Pond Festival (NY)
Salonga Wetland Advocates Network, Inc.
Project Area: Hamlet of Fort Salonga, Town of Smithtown, New York.
The Salonga Wetland Advocates Network, Inc. will conduct a festival and shoreline cleanup in Fort Salonga, New York. The event and hands-on cleanup will increase public awareness of and commitment to restoration and protection of the environment of Long Island Sound.
Identifying Ecologically Significant Areas for the Blue Plan (CT, NY)
The Nature Conservancy of Connecticut
Project Area: Long Island Sound Watershed, Connecticut and New York
The Nature Conservancy of Connecticut will actively engage scientists, technical experts and the interested public in identifying Ecologically Significant Areas for the Long Island Sound Blue Plan in Connecticut and New York. The project will develop one of the foundational elements of a plan to protect important aquatic habitats of Long Island Sound.
Long Island Sound Futures Fund press release for Connecticut projects
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Nick Matthew Is March Player of the Month
Following a thoroughly dominant streak on the PSA World Tour over the course of the last six weeks, in which he claimed three back-to-back tour titles in empathic fashion, 34-year-old Nick Matthew has been named the March 2015 PSA Player of the Month. For further information, visit: http://www.isportstore.com/Squash-Magazine/News.aspx
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Ah, yes, the silence. It is such a powerful thing. When Maddie is trying to explain her presence in his room, David seems to have a huge question mark on his face - "what is she doing here?" "why did she come?" Maddie's spontaneous trip to NY is so out of character that he is baffled.
In the next scene, Maddie asks the simple question, "What happened?" As David reveals the details of his past, Maddie says nothing, but her face is full of compassion. When David says, "the baby didn't make it", she is visibly moved. Her last words, "I'm sorry" are truly heartfelt.
It seems that David's silence causes Maddie to ramble on and probably say more then she intended. Maddie's silence, on the other hand, shows her concern for David and her genuine interest in his past. It allows David to bare his soul and open up to her - to trust her with this piece of his heart.
11. In the hotel argument, Maddie shouts, “I was looking forward to this funeral!” One of the classic lines of the series.
What do you think were her expectations?
I think by this point Maddie was back into full curiosity mode, wanting to know more about the ex and this was her only chance, or so we thought, to find out.
What is at stake for David in going alone vs. taking her?
I also think by this point Dave had decided he wasn’t going anywhere near that place. If he was going to go, he would have taken Maddie, for support, thinking that he could keep up the story about Tess bailing for another dude. That was pretty certain, unless, of course, Tess was there with her significant other.
(Brings up a timing issue here, of which there are numerous posts on the main episode thread. Census are done after the turn of a decade. Dave says this was the early 70s and they split 9 years ago, making it the mid-late 70s. I wonder what kind of census was actually going on!)
Gray, I don't remember what I felt then but now, I totally agree! When Maddie said "it's not like we're...", (I can definitely fill in the blank) that was an opening baby!
I love the way she backs away when David is going down to get her room released. Maddie sat there and awaited his return in the same spot...ON THE BED! (deep sigh)
By the way, gray, LOVE your avatar. Keep 'em coming!
David from early on was a responsible guy when it came to family matters. He proved this by marrying Tess, and staying with her when the baby was lost.
Maddie, ever the control freak, totally lost it when she faced the same situation. Well, maybe not the same, but she proved throughout that she just did not like things to not go as planned or predicted. And this was a whopper!
Interesting though, how in both instances, they decided to go ahead with the pregnancy. Tess didn’t go to the home for wayward girls and Maddie didn’t take any other actions, although she DID go to Alex and Virginia’s Boarding House for a few months.
Thanks Lin, I'm full of them. Yeah, I could photoshop my noggin in there a bit better with closer color and contrast, but that would defeat the purpose. I WANT folks to see how silly I am!
Yeah, I'm a 14 year old kid in a body rapidly heading to 50! But what a ride!
11. In the hotel argument, Maddie shouts, “I was looking forward to this funeral!” What do you think were her expectations? What is at stake for David in going alone vs. taking her?
Maddie's expectations may have not been the purest, LOL. I think Maddie was overwrought with curiosity about David's wife, his life during that time and basically marking her territory.
Maddie going to this funeral with him would allow her to meet his friends, maybe hear some childhood stories from another person's point of view and get an honest background on David; thus the angst to better understanding his inner workings.
David would have only benefited from taking Maddie with him. I agree with Gray, he had already decided he wasn't going and he knew Maddie wouldn't have just let that fly. Maddie had come all that way too, he knew this was an argument waiting to happen...although an argument ensued, it still ended more abruptly than if he would have said, "lets go to the museum instead".
A side comment about this scene...did anyone else notice how long David looked at her at one point during the argument...waiting for her to turn around and look at him?
I tell ya, that just did something to me, the silence between them...the look of anxiety on David's face because Maddie won't look his way...the disappointment and hurt Maddie displays....just awesome performances as a whole!
LOL, I just noticed it, the questions have me geeky and distracted! Too dam cute Gray!!!
Last Edit: Mar 3, 2009 21:53:39 GMT -5 by sinceifell4u
IMO, the tone in which David responds after Maddie says his name with that child like twinge, let's her know he doesn't want to talk about it anymore. This does mark a change, if even for a short while for Maddie because she respects his wishes by not going further.
Mar 3, 2009 21:39:12 GMT -5 sinceifell4u said:
I agree with both of you! That pause, after she says, "It's not like we have that kind of relationship. It's not like we're..."--she looks up at him, and it's SO obvious she's waiting for him to jump in--to acknowledge that there's something between them. When he doesn't, she sort of nods to herself, and announces that she should really go home instead...and you can see how disappointed she is.
Then, he says "Don't go" and she STANDS THERE, so close to him...Man, he is missing the signals right and left! I think he's just so overwhelmed with the fact that he was thinking of her, calling her, and then she appeared--kismet, baby!
Didya notice that jpen is now a 2nd level member.
Couldn't have said it better, gray. This scene is so sweet. IMO, Maddie's love for David is so evident in her eyes as she glances up at him. She doesn't want to cause him any pain by rehashing this part of his past. This is the soft side of Maddie that we don't see very often.
Last Edit: Mar 3, 2009 22:23:10 GMT -5 by lin212
Good call, gray. Hip Hip Hooray, Jen!!
Thanks, guys! Just like American Express--"Essing" has its privileges, doesn't it?
Well cats and kittens, I have to finish up a presentation for tomorrow, so I must bail. But I will check back later and of course, respond to any attacks upon my character, upbringing or unflinchingly insightful posts.
Until then......au revoir.
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A Public School System on death-row…
Posted on August 20, 2013 by maJ77
I have been a reluctant fan of Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) for several years (I like his meticulous approach to research and the writing of ancient Roman-Greece military and political history; but don’t always like his modern comparative conservative analysis.) However, yesterday in an excellent interview on CSPAN, he made several points that connected (Students should be taught to approach video in the same way they approach literature.) so well when I read the Aaron Kase’s article on the Philadelphia School System in Salon magazine. VDH said:
“..Most people don’t have deep beliefs, they simply respond to winners…”
“..We are who we were 2500 years ago; we react to the same stimuli…”
“..We study the past because it keeps telling us that there are a small number of people who are absolutely no good, and when they get into positions of power, they will take things that are not logical; and you can’t explain to them that it is not in their interest to take that piece of land…”
“..Culture determines the way people fight or not fight…”
“…As I get older I understand that the mind of one person can get a lot of people killed, and (or) a lot of people saved..”
“…The victory is going to the people with the greatest morale, the greatest conviction in their cause…”
“…In June of 1940 in Germany we couldn’t find a German who didn’t agree with Hitler, after his stunning victories in France and Poland. If we had this conversation in March of 1945, we couldn’t find a German who would say they were for Hitler. What had changed? Not their ideology, and not Hitler, he was in fact even more devious. We keep thinking that people are ideological, or that they are political, or that they have deep seeded opinions based on convictions and principles; as I get older, I think that this is true of only 20% of the people…”
“..They (‘Savior Generals’) believe that: “most people won’t do what I will do.” They don’t have a lot of confidence in human nature; and yet they were mature enough not to have contempt for the people..”
When I think about public education in places like Philadelphia, New York City and Washington DC; you wonder if asking the parents of these students, and the communities in which the students live, to see the inferior mis-education given these children, as an intellectual and emotional death sentence. Is it simply a case of just asking too much……Describing a crisis that does not objectively represent itself as a crisis to those most affected? The ability to live in a “separate peace”, as a vicious war of destruction is waged against your children….. The standard has been so reduced for many children, such that all that is required is to: Just open school, and give them lunch, a desk and a chair….In many ways this is a new and insidious expression of separate and unequal. This form of inequality is much more subtle and lethal because, often it is fashioned in the minds, and with the hands of people with whom the children have a cultural link. In a strange sense, I understand the immoral rational for Gov. Corbett’s mean and harmful actions; And yet I don’t understand the absence of a dramatic mass reaction in defense of those children…but then again, maybe I do.
“Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell
Pennsylvania’s right-wing governor drains public schools of basic funds — and the sickening details will shock you
By Aaron Kase/Salon
Want to see a public school system in its death throes? Look no further than Philadelphia. There, the school district is facing end times, with teachers, parents and students staring into the abyss created by a state intent on destroying public education.
On Thursday the city of Philadelphia announced that it would be borrowing $50 million to give the district, just so it can open schools as planned on Sept. 9, after Superintendent William Hite threatened to keep the doors closed without a cash infusion. The schools may open without counselors, administrative staff, noon aids, nurses, librarians or even pens and paper, but hey, kids will have a place to go and sit.
The $50 million fix is just the latest band-aid for a district that is beginning to resemble a rotting bike tube, covered in old patches applied to keep it functioning just a little while longer. At some point, the entire system fails.
Things have gotten so bad that at least one school has asked parents to chip in $613 per student just so they can open with adequate services, which, if it becomes the norm, effectively defeats the purpose of equitable public education, and is entirely unreasonable to expect from the city’s poorer neighborhoods.
The needs of children are secondary, however, to a right-wing governor in Tom Corbett who remains fixated on breaking the district in order to crush the teachers union and divert money to unproven experiments like vouchers and privately run charters. If the city’s children are left uneducated and impoverished among the smoldering wreckage of a broken school system, so be it.
To be clear, the schools are in crisis because the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania refuses to fund them adequately. The state Constitution mandates that the Legislature “provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education,” but that language appears to be considered some kind of sick joke at the state capital in Harrisburg.
It’s worth noting that the state itself runs the Philadelphia School District after a 2001 takeover. The state is also responsible for catastrophic budget cuts two years ago that crippled the district’s finances. And in a diabolical example of circular logic, the state argues that the red ink it imposed, and shoddy management it oversees, are proof that the district can’t manage its finances or its mission and therefore shouldn’t get more money.
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Singer and Cody of Cushman & Wakefield lease space to DYLANLEX
September 18, 2018 - Shopping Centers
Brandon Singer,
MANHATTAN, NY According to Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate services firm has arranged a new lease for a popular jewelry designer, DYLANLEX, at 252 Mott St. This will be the brand’s first ever brick-and-mortar location.
A Cushman & Wakefield brokerage team consisting of managing director Brandon Singer and senior brokerage coordinator Michael Cody represented the tenant, DYLANLEX, in the transaction. 9300 Realty, Inc. represented the landlord, M&E Mott LLC, in the transaction.
“We were very excited to assist DYLANLEX in entering the New York market with its first-ever physical store,” said Brandon Singer of Cushman & Wakefield. “Their pop-up at 252 Mott will beautifully showcase their brand.”
The pop-up opened on September 13 and is set to run through mid-October. In 2013, founder Drew Ginsburg launched DYLANLEX, which specializes in ornate jewelry that is handcrafted in New York City. DYLANLEX’s jewelry was featured prominently in Beyonce’s “Formation,” a Grammy nominee for Best Video of the Year. The brand’s Instagram account has over 250,000 followers, due in no small part to the brand’s popularity amongst celebrity tastemakers like Rihanna and Kendall Jenner.
Located in the trendy neighborhood of Nolita, the property is situated near many high-end restaurants and retail stores. The easily accessible property is near the Spring Street, Prince Street and the Broadway-Lafayette subway stations.
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Report says nine British medical students have joined ISIL in Syria
in: Europe, News
Nine British medical students have traveled to Syria to serve at field hospitals run by the ISIL Takfiri terrorists, a report says.
The team of medical students comprises four female and five male students, according to a report by the Observer on Saturday.
The students flew from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to Istanbul in Turkey on March 12, and headed for the border with Syria by bus a day after.
The students have been identified as Maumoon Abdulqadir, Nada Sami Kader, Rowan Kamal Zine El Abidine, Tasneem Suleyman Huseyin, Ismail Hamadoun, Tamer Ahmed Ebu Sebah, Mohamed Osama Badri Mohammed, Hisham Mohammed Fadlallah, and Sami Ahmed Kadir.
“We all assume that they are in Tel Abyad now, which is under ISIS control. The conflict out there is fierce, so medical help must be needed,” the Observer quoted Turkish opposition politician Mehmet Ali Ediboglu as saying on Saturday, using the alternative for ISIL.
The Turkish opposition figure made the remarks after a meeting with the families of the medical students at the Turkey-Syria border.
The families are reportedly making a desperate effort to persuade the students to come back home.
“They have been cheated, brainwashed. That is what I, and their relatives, think,” Ediboglu said, adding that three of the students, who are all in their late teens or early 20s, had been graduated and the others were medical students in Khartoum.
“These kids were born and raised in England, but they were sent to Sudan to study at medical school,” Ediboglu said.
The students may have been accompanied by two Sudanese classmates, Ediboglu said.
The Turkish opposition figure also criticized the Turkish government for being indifferent toward the issue.
“The kids are sending messages to the families every day saying, ‘Don’t worry about us, we are working, we are fine.’ It shouldn’t be hard for the Turkish National Intelligence Service to track their phones. But they are taking things slow. Unfortunately we haven’t seen any support from our government yet. They didn’t help and I have the impression that they don’t care at all. But we are not going to give up looking for them, especially me,” Ediboglu added.
At least 600 Britons are estimated to have slipped into Syria to join the ranks of foreign-sponsored militants operating against the government of President Bashar al-Assad since 2011.
Turkey has been accused of failing to control its 901-kilometer (560-mile) border with Syria and allowing terrorists easy passage. Ankara has in turn complained that European police forces have been slow to share information on extremists traveling through the country.
Meanwhile, Ankara is widely believed to be facilitating the flow of foreign nationals into neighboring Syria and Iraq, where they join the ranks of terrorist groups.
ISIL, with members from several Western countries, controls parts of Syria and Iraq, and has been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.
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The History of Saint Denis Basilica in Paris City
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September 20, 2018 ParisToursNow.com Staff Paris City Tour
The Basilica of Saint Denis in Paris is the final resting place of French queens and kings. This beautiful Basilica gets the name from the cemetery on which it was constructed, which holds Saint Denis’s tomb. He was allegedly Paris’s bishop and France’s patron saint. Legend has it that Romans beheaded him before sainthood on the Montmartre hill, and that he walked with his head in the hand from the top to downhill.
Saint Denis Basilica is also a cathedral. Generally, the status of a basilica is accredited to a big and important church, which has been given rites of a ceremonial nature by the Pope. It may or may not be a cathedral. While a basilica’s status will remain to be so forever, the same is not applicable to the latter.
The Queens and Kings of France
For many centuries, the Basilica was the final resting place of queens and kings who sought Saint Denis’ eternal protection. Therefore, it is also called “France’s Royal Necropolis”. Much difficulty went into making sure that just about all French monarchs from the 10th Century until the 18th Century were not laid to rest in the Basilica’s site. They were Louis I of France, Louis II of France, and Louis XI of France. The mortal remains of other French kings, who were actually laid elsewhere, like that of Clovis I, were exhumed and then moved to here.
During the revolution, the Saint Denis Basilica became a target. Under revolutionary officials’ orders, workers destroyed statues and tombs and left the church. The monarchs’ mortal remains and those of their families were exhumed and then dumped in pits nearby them. During the 19th Century mid, the French architect named Viollet-le-Duc worked on this monument’s restoration and returned it to its actual glory.
The Reburial of Queens and Kings
During Louis XVIII’s reign, many of the corpses were found from mass graves and they were placed inside an ossuary within the vault. You can find plaques with each monarch’s name in Saint Denis Basilica.
Much of the beauty of the Basilica comes from the abbot of Saint Denis named Suger. He was a statesman who reconstructed the abbey into an early Gothic Art masterpiece. Suger’s reconstruction and fresh architectural techniques lead to the Rose-tinted windows as well as cross-ribbed crypt, which bathe the structure in light.
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More from May 2010
An Archaeology of Posing: Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality
Sarah Free
Communal Roots
Meet Barb Carey, creator of Wisconsin Women Fish—a popular source of education, events, and networking for female anglers from our state and beyond.
OurLives Magazine 2014-12-11T06:08:36+00:00 Image by Amber Sowards
Print issue May 2010
I was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and have lived in Madison for 20 years.
How did you come to start Wisconsin Women Fish?
I have been fishing all my life and started hosting ice-fishing outings with my friends in 2003. In the early days, it was more about partying because not everybody fished. About five years ago, I started meeting women from all over the state who also loved to fish. We had a few conversations about getting a bunch of women together to fish, and it grew from there. It has now become an educational resource as well as a social one. Everyone involved loves to fish—that is the common denominator.
What is the best part of your fishing events?
At first for me it was about catching the fish, but that has totally changed. I have had so many moving experiences at these. One was when I handed out the “Most Determined Angler” award to a woman who had been fighting cancer and was in poor health. She attended the Fall Fish Camp and she had the time of her life. Her dedication in trying to fish even though it was really cold and she was weak earned her that award. She was so moved by it that she cried. Recently, another woman who has had MS for over 20 years and can barely walk attended an ice fishing class. To see these women have these opportunities, make lifelong friends, and share a common passion is better than any fish I could ever catch.
How has Wisconsin Women Fish benefitted our community?
There is no other organization that provides these opportunities for women. Fishing is a back-to-nature experience, and I am thrilled to provide a supportive group for women of all abilities to be a part of. I am the only woman on many of my sponsors’ pro staff, and hopefully I can break down some of these barriers for the women who come after me. Initially, I was trying to connect with other Madison women who fish, but at our last Fish Camp, there were women from five states who attended. Many of those who meet at these events become very close friends.
What is your hope for the future of Wisconsin Women Fish?
I would like to see it become more of a club with the organizational responsibilities shared among its members. I have spearheaded this, and done all of the creation of the events and structure. I would like to see it live beyond me and belong to all the women anglers who want to be a part of it. It’s really about being part of a team and forging new adventures. This has become very popular, and I could really use some help.
When you’re not fishing, where can we find you?
I am a very social person and have some of the greatest friends who have supported me through all my big ideas. If I am not fishing, I am connecting with friends at the Harmony Bar or in someone’s house playing cards.
What’s your next event, and where can readers learn more about it?
The big event for the summer is the Women’s Fly Fishing Clinic to be held in Avalanche, WI. For this event, we have the support of Trout Unlimited, allowing us to create a top-notch program and offer it at a low cost to women. Our signature event has become our Fall Fish Camp. That camping/fishing weekend has become very popular. My personal favorite is the Lake Superior Ice Challenge. Many women have dreamt of fishing on Lake Superior, and this event is a great angling adventure. All the events are posted on the website at wiwomenfish.com. If people sign up to be on the mailing list, or better yet a club member, they can be notified of new events as they are posted.
In the Community Social Sports
Avalanche Barb Carey Fall Fish Camp Lake Superior Upper Peninsula WI Wisconsin Women Fish Women’s Fly Fishing Clinic
permalink http://ourlivesmadison.com/article/school-of-fish/ Meet Barb Carey, creator of Wisconsin Women Fish—a popular source of education, events, and networking for female anglers from our state and beyond. Life in the Middle Publishing, LLC 2014
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About our Director
Affectionately known as "thBoss," Master Director Ozzi Mask supports and challenges Potomac Harmony Chorus to be the best we can be.
Ozzi is a charter member of Potomac Harmony Chorus and was a member and director of the former Arlington Chapter. By International appointment, she served the Blue Ridge Region #14 of Sweet Adelines as the Director of Musical Activities (DMA). She also served as editor of the regional bulletin, the "Add-A-Line," and is currently a member of the Education Faculty for
Region #14.
She is a popular quartet and chorus coach. She shares her musical skills and experience with numerous quartets, including the current Region #14 champion quartet, Sound Advice. At the International level, she has retired as a Certified Judge in the Sound Category, and has been granted Judge Emerita status. She sings Lead in the "Midnight Special" quartet and enjoys status as a Master Director. Ozzi is a former English and journalism teacher for Fairfax County, Virginia.
The highlight of our 2013 contest weekend was seeing Ozzi recieve the Region 14 Lifetime Achievement Award!! We are so proud of her and all she has done for Region 14!!
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Radio Interview with Leigh Kenworthy, Radio 7BU 558AM
Subject(s): Cradle Mountain; Tasmanian infrastructure funding; Citizenship
LEIGH KENWORTHY:
Sorry about that issue there with the phone system between here and there, the reason being, is because you’re currently travelling through to Cradle Mountain as we speak.
That's right, we’ve just got up onto the high country and we can see Mount Roland and suddenly all the bars on the phone lit up. So we’ve got some good connectivity for a while.
We’re very fortunate to have a beautiful place like our Cradle Mountain. So many great sites around this great state of ours isn't there?
There sure are, there sure are.
You know when I was a kid, when I was actually - just after I left school – in my final year at school - I went for a very long hike, for about three weeks up in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair, did that hike and also hiked around the walls of Jerusalem. It's one of my most cherished young memories, spending time up there. It's a beautiful part of the world.
It sounds like you’re no stranger to our part of Australia.
And you’ve come here because you've got some money as we speak, and that’s good we always like it when Prime Ministers visit our neck of the woods with some cash. You’re armed with $30 million of federal funding for this Cradle Mountain Cable Project. And we're talking about you know our beautiful sites because tourism is so important to Tasmania and also a boost to jobs and this is going to go a long way.
Well it will. It’s going to support the $60 million cable-way up to Dove Lake; which is of course, the top tourist attraction there at Cradle Mountain, the one that everyone wants to see and walk around and so forth. And that’s a $60 million project so we’ll be funding half of it and I’ll be up there with Brett Whitley our candidate and former member for Braddon, Senator Steve Martin, the Independent Senator who’s been a strong advocate for this and I thank him for his support. And of course, Will Hodgman the Tasmanian Premier who’s doing a phenomenal job here.
Now we did say $30 million of federal funding because Will Hodgman and the State Government have chipped in the other half haven't they?
That's right, they have indeed yeah.
And we put some money in - $1 million - for the business plan. Because it’s a bigger project than just the cable-way, there’s a visitor centre, a hotel, that is part of the master plan and obviously the state will be looking for private sector partners. So the idea is to have it as a public private partnership overall.
But I think the cable-way is going to be very important, because it's designed to be low impact from an environmental point of view. And obviously will relieve a lot of the traffic pressure so that people will be taking the cable-way up to Dove Lake and they'll be able to take - the cars will be able to accommodate hiking equipment and so forth, so that there won't be the need to have so many vehicles going into the park there.
So many things you've got to have them ticked off beforehand. So $160 million all up and I take it you've seen that master plan draft, the draft itself?
Yes I have, I've read it. Yes I have indeed and it's still being, it's still being finalised. But it looks, it’s got a lot of promise. It is an incredibly beautiful part of the world and one of the great scenic spots of Tasmania.
I think that it is expected to create somewhere in the vicinity of about 150 jobs during construction and 50 ongoing jobs as well?
And that's very important isn’t it the ongoing jobs to our construction workers? And also you know with our situation with the roads as well.
Yeah well it is indeed. We're putting a lot of money into roads. $400 million for the Strategic Roads of Importance, that's in addition, right across the state, that's in addition to the funding on the Midland Highway of course, the work there and of course down further south on the Bridgewater Bridge. So we're putting over $900 million into infrastructure in Tasmania at the moment.
It's vital to have those good roads. We want people to get home, to get to their destination whether it is a tourist destination or school or work sooner and safer and that’s vitally important right around the country.
And in the seat of Braddon of course we will have a by-election coming up. No date is set yet, Mr Turnbull on that one, I think that's a matter for the Speaker is that right?
It is yes the Speaker will set that. He’ll consult with the electoral commission and have regard for all the usual factors, school holidays and things like that.
You must go to bed at night and put your head on the pillow and think “oh this citizenship fiasco will it ever end.” Because it’s been the talk, hasn’t it over the last 12 months or so?
Well it has been but I mean the reason for Justine Keay, it should have ended last October. I mean the High Court made it very clear in October in the first of the big citizenship cases that if you are a dual citizen at the time you nominated you weren’t eligible. In other words they’ve said you have to get your act together and your citizenship sorted out before you nominate. Well she hasn’t done that, she's stayed in Parliament [inaudible], Parliamentary expenses [inaudible] until the High Court repeated itself last week. I think it’s disappointing that Bill Shorten [inaudible].
Well it appears like we are having a few issues.
[Inaudible] Barnaby took the matter to the court, referred himself to the court [inaudible].
Mr Turnbull it appears that we are having some phone trouble again with here to there so we might have to leave that discussion. I thank you very much for your time this morning on 7BU Breakfast. We might have to push on.
The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull there speaking at Cradle Mountain with that announcement there of $30 million from the federal government for that Cradle car project which is happening there and the other half of course from the state government.
Really wanted to have a little bit of a chat to him about the heightened security, tough new measures around our airports but unfortunately we won't be able to because of phone line trouble between here and Cradle Mountain.
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Monasteries and churches >> Dryanovo Monastery
Dryanovo Monastery
The ecclesiastical establishment was founded in the time of Tsar Kaloyan. While moving the relics of St. Mihail Voin from Potuka to the town of Tarnovo (1197-1207), the procession spent the night by the Dryanovska River, under the fortress Grada. According to the Christian custom, a monastery was erected at the sacred place.
During the April Uprising the monastery played an important role in its preparation in the First Tarnovo District. It stored food and weapons reserves. On 29 April 1876 the first revolutionary detachment in the Tarnovo region and Northern Bulgaria, led by priest Hariton, entered the monastery. Surrounded by the Turks, the revolutionaries carried on a 9-day battle and most of them died. The burnt down and ruined temple was partially restored in 1877. It had no murals but a bullet-pierced chalice and holes in the walls from the Turkish shrapnel.
The modern monastery is a national monument of culture and is enlisted as one of the ten most revered holy places of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church and is one of the favourite tourist sights.
Interesting in the region Gabrovo
“Bacho Kiro” cave
Uzana
The Batoshevo monastery
The Etar Open-air Ethnographic Museum
Architectural and Historical reserve - Bozhentsi
Sevlievo
The “Assumption” monastery of Sokolski
Dryanovo
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Financial Filings
TSX-V: RMD
Completes $332,887 Non-Brokered Private Placement
30 NovCompletes $332,887 Non-Brokered Private Placement
Written by admin-dev
Categorised Uncategorized
Richmond Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: RMD) (“Richmond“) is pleased to announce that, further to its announcement on October 24, 2017, it has completed a non-brokered private placement for aggregate gross proceeds of $332,887 (the “Offering“). The Offering consisted of the sale of 1,656,448 hard dollar units (“Units“) at a price of CAN$0.06 per Unit and 2,918,750 flow through units (FT Units“) at a price of CAN$0.08.
Each Unit consists of one (1) common share in the capital stock of the Richmond (“Common Share“) and one common share purchase warrant (a “Warrant“). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share at a price of CAN$0.10 per common share until the date which is two (2) years following the closing date of the Offering, whereupon the Warrants will expire.
Each FT Unit consists of one (1) common share in the capital stock of the Richmond that is a “flow-through share” within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (“Common Share“) and one-half (½) of one common share purchase warrant (a “FT Warrant“). Each whole FT Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one common share at a price of CAN$0.10 per common share until the date which is two (2) years following the closing date of the Offering, whereupon the FT Warrants will expire.
A cash finder’s fee equal to 7% of the total proceeds raised by finders pursuant to the Offering was paid and a total of 122,500 broker warrants (“Broker Warrant“) were issued as part of finders fees in connection with their involvement in the Offering. Each Broker Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Common Share at a price of CAN$0.10 until the date which is twenty-four (24) months following the closing date of the Offering, whereupon the Broker Warrants will expire.
Richmond intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to fund “Canadian exploration expenses” (within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada)) and for continued exploration on Richmond’s assets and for general working capital purposes. Richmond will ensure that the proceeds received from the amount allocated to the Common Shares comprising part of the FT Units sold will be used to incur expenses which qualify as Canadian Exploration Expenses and Flow-Through Mining Expenditures for purposes of the Act, and will renounce such expenses with an effective date of no later than December 31, 2017.
The securities issued and issuable pursuant to the Offering will be subject to a four month and one day statutory hold period.
The securities offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”), or applicable state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold to persons in the United States absent registration or an exemption from such registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT: Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release contains forward-looking information which is not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward looking information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, Richmond’s objectives, goals or future plans, including successful completion of the Offering. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, changes in general economic conditions and conditions in the financial markets; changes in demand and prices for minerals; litigation, legislative, environmental and other judicial, regulatory, political and competitive developments, and those risks set out in Richmond’s public documents filed on SEDAR. Although Richmond believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Richmond disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.
SOURCE Richmond Minerals Inc.
For further information: please contact: Warren Hawkins, P. Eng., Exploration Manager, E: warren@richmondminerals.com, Tel: 416-603-2114
Richmond Minerals Inc. Completes $102,500 Non-Brokered Private Placement
Richmond Minerals Inc. Provides Update on Non-Brokered Private Placement
Richmond Minerals Inc. Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement
Richmond Minerals Inc. – New Western Targets Discovered at Aguara Zone, Ridley Lake Project, Swayze Greenstone Belt, Ontario
120 Adelaide Street West, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario M5H 1T1
warren@richmondminerals.com
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Allied TRAILER
Brad Pitt, Jared Harris, Jason Matthewson, Lizzy Caplan, Marion Cotillard
Action, Drama, Romance
(United States), 2016, November 23
Graham King, Robert Zemeckis
Allied is a 2016 World War 2 romantic thriller movie that has been directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight. It stars Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard who are an intelligence officer and a resistance fighter who fall in love during a secret mission to kill a German official.
ABOUT Allied
The Storyline
An intelligence officer in North Africa meets a female resistance fighter in 1942 on a deadly mission behind the enemy lines. They reunite in London and the war pressure once again tests their relationship. The whole story is about the two and how they can stay together in spite of the World War and how they both separate as Marianne dies at the end keeping behind her little daughter Anna.
The Plot of the story
In 1942 during World War 2 Canadian Air Force Office Max Vatan travels to Casablanca to assassinate the German ambassador. During the mission, he meets a French Resistance fighter named Marianne who has escaped from France after her group was killed. They pose as a married couple and fall in love as they have the same focus. Both of them befriend the German and receive an invitation where they plan to assassinate the ambassador. The mission goes well and both escape. Both of them marry and have a baby girl. Ax then learns that Marianne is a German Spy who has not revealed her identity and the real Marianne has been killed. A Blue dye operation is conducted where Marianne is tested. Ax is told to execute her or be hanged him. The whole story is about how they disbelieve each other and then they reunite once again and how Marianne kills herself after her identity is revealed.
Allied is a movie that received mixed reviews from critics? This is a classic tale with a strong aura of romance and betrayal and heart breaking death at the end.
The Storyline An intelligence officer in North Africa meets ...
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Nancy Clark Award
A $1,000 award for a deserving student who has completed a year of full-time study in any regular program at the Salmon Arm Campus of Okanagan College.
The Association des etudiantes et etudiants francophones Scholarship
Value: $500. Recipient: a full-time student, member of the AEF, enrolled in a program offered entirely in French. The student must have a min. 75% average in an Ontario...
BC Hydro Endowment Award
1 award, $600; available to continuing students with a disability; for scholastic achievement, community involvement, knowledge of and commitment to the protection of the...
McGill Alumnae 75th Anniversary Scholarship
Established in honour of the Alumnae Society's 75th anniversary. Awarded to a distinguished woman student in the Faculty of Engineering including Architecture. Value: $2,000.
Duncan Campbell Memorial Award
Established in 1996 by family and friends of Duncan Campbell, a highly esteemed graduate of the Faculty of Music and a multifaceted musician, who played a leading role in the...
The M. Banker Bates Scholarship (B)
To be awarded to the student who has completed Level I and an additional 60 - 75 units of a program in Commerce and who attains the highest Sessional Average.
Canadian Federation of University Women - Penticton Bursary
The Canadian Federation of University Women - Penticton provides two annual awards of up to $750 each to assist mature female students who are entering the first year of...
BC Hydro Award
Award Criteria: full-time female student enrolled in Vocational or University Transfer (science) studies good academic (75%+) standing for 1st semester...
Harcharan Kaur Mann Memorial Scholarship in Punjabi Studies
The award is made on the recommendation of the Department of Asian Studies to a student studying Sikh scripture and Punjabi.
Gordon Merritt Shrum Memorial Scholarship
The scholarship is made on the recommendation of the Department of Physics to a student entering the final year of study in the Honours Physics program or the Engineering...
Louis Lipsey Toohill Scholarship
Scholarships totalling $6,600 have been endowed through a bequest from Louis Lipsey Toohill. The awards are made to students in the Faculty of Medicine. Where possible,...
Mary Elizabeth Simpson Scholarship
Two scholarships of $3,300 each are awarded to students in the Ed.D. or Ph.D. programs. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Education in consultation...
Mabelle Andison Prize
The award is made to a student in the field of French Language and Literature with high scholastic standing, promise and deserving of financial assistance.
R. R. Smith Bursary in Education
Bursaries totalling $2,400 have been endowed by the R.R. Smith Foundation for students in good academic standing who have previously earned an undergraduate degree and are...
Naomi Grigg Scholarship
Scholarships totalling $9,600 are awarded to undergraduate and graduate students in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration. The awards are made on the...
Language and Literacy Education Prize
A $600 prize has been endowed by alumni and friends of the Department of Language and Literacy for a masters or doctoral student in the Faculty of Education who is focusing on...
The Hyman I. Jacobson Scholarship
Under the will of the late Hyman Isaac Jacobson a bequest of $5,000 was given to the University to benefit the Humanities and Social Sciences. Application not required.
The Shaw Group Scholarship in Civil Engineering
Since 1999, The Shaw Group Limited has awarded annually a one-year scholarship for the student who achieves the highest GPA within Civil Engineering studies and who has...
Criteria: -Returning hockey players to Trojan Men's team -Team leadership -Community service -Acceptable athletic and academic performance
Stuart Olson Construction 50th and 60th Anniversary
Criteria: -Third Semester -Academic achievement -Student leadership -Financial need -Alberta resident -Canadian citizen
Dr Manmohan Singh Prize in Economics
Conditions: To be awarded annually to a student with superior academic achievement in the Faculty of Arts majoring in Economics. Recipients will be selected on the basis of...
Scholarship Application: Nancy Clark Award - Scholarships
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Bullying weakens the body
Harassment, social isolation or intimidating abuse in the workplace is not only psychologically destructive – it’s also stressful physically. Symptoms are similar to posttraumatic stress.
Keywords: Diseases, Health, Psychology, The Body, The brain
By: Sybille Hildebrandt
Workplace bullying is a common cause of sickness absence. The victims have the same symptoms as those who suffer from posttraumatic stress. (Photo: Colourbox)
Bullying doesn’t just hurt inside – it also causes physical damage by slowing the body's ability to release energy from its depots.
So concludes a Danish new study, which has just been published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
“Our study confirms our suspicion that bullying not only stresses the body mentally but also physically by inhibiting the body’s ability to kick-start the production of the stress hormone cortisol in the mornings, says Professor Åse Marie Hansen, of the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen, who’s also affiliated with the Danish National Research Centre for The Working Environment (NFA).
Hansen and her colleagues believe this is a worrying discovery, given that the body needs cortisol to release energy in the form of fat and glucose into the bloodstream from the body’s depots.
“The consequence could be that the bullying victims don’t get their daily energy needs covered and thus eventually become unable to solve routine tasks,” says Annie Høgh, an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at Copenhagen University, who was also involved in the study.
Questionnaire combined with saliva samples
Their conclusion is based on a survey from 2006 in which 1010 employees in 55 Danish workplaces took part.
These people were asked individually if, in the past six months, they had experienced being bullied, had bullied others or if they had seen others engaging in bullying. To ensure that everyone agreed on what bullying is, the respondents were given the following definition:
Our study confirms our suspicion that bullying not only stresses the body mentally but also physically by inhibiting the body’s ability to kick-start the production of the stress hormone cortisol in the morning.
Åse Marie Hansen
"Bullying takes place when employees are exposed to negative and offensive actions, repeated over an extended period, which the employee has difficulty defending themselves against."
The respondents were asked to rate each question on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = never, 2 = occasionally, 3 = monthly, 4 = weekly, 5 = daily). Those who said they had been bullied were asked to specify how long this had been going on for.
Three saliva samples were also taken from each of the employees. Two of the samples were taken in half-hour intervals in the morning, with the last one being taken in the evening. Based on the responses, the researchers could answer the following questions:
Whether the person had been exposed to bullying
If yes, what kind of bullying? (Social isolation, harassment, intimidating behaviour, demeaning of one’s work)
The degree of psychological stress
The degree of physiological stress, measured by the amount of cortisol in the saliva.
The survey showed that all forms of bullying not only induced physiological stress responses in the form of reduced levels of salivary cortisol, but also psychological stress reaction such as discouragement, depression, anxiety and a tendency to withdraw into oneself.
The body can’t keep up in the long run
The discovery doesn’t come as a big surprise because it sits well with the researchers’ hypothesis about what effects bullying has on the victim: it affects some very basic human needs.
The need to maintain one’s self-esteem
The need to feel that one has control over one’s own life
The need for a meaningful existence
According to the researchers’ theory, the lack of control over one’s own life plays a particularly important role in the development of stress because it prevents the person from being able to predict how a given situation will unfold.
“The theory is a good explanatory model for how the negative acts in the workplace can affect health: after a while, the bullying victim will automatically start expecting the worst-case scenario, which provokes stress, and that prevents the victim from performing his or her duties optimally,” says Høgh.
First study of its kind
We don’t know yet exactly which long-term consequences the lower cortisol levels have on the body, but one thing is certain: bullied people have more sickness absence from work.
Annie Høgh
The new study is the first one of its kind, as previous studies have focused on identifying either the physiological or the psychological effects of bullying.
“Our study is special in that we examined both factors at the same time,” says Hansen.
Previous studies have for instance revealed that bullying victims show signs of posttraumatic stress (PTS), while other studies indicate that people with PTS have lower concentrations of salivary cortisol.
"In our study we show that some bullying victims exhibit obvious signs of mental as well as a physical stress, which may indicate a posttraumatic stress reaction in which the person may experience nightmares and flashbacks, where they re-experience what they have been exposed to,” says Høgh.
“We also noticed a tendency to cower in fear, become irritable, have difficulty concentrating and problems sleeping, which in itself can cause problems at work.”
Bullying goes through several phases
The ratio between the two forms of stress depends on what kind of bullying the person has been exposed to: social isolation, for example causes the greatest degree of psychological stress, while harassment and intimidating acts primarily provoke physical stress.
One explanation for these differences could be that bullying usually goes through several stages and matures over time. It begins with social isolation, in which the victim is implicitly excluded from the community. Over time, however, the bullying becomes increasingly overt, aggressive and direct, with the victim for instance being exposed to people’s bursts of anger, humiliation and ridicule.
Many bullying victims go on long-term sick leave
Harassment occurs when one or more colleagues create a bothersome or stressful situation around a particular person or group of persons with the deliberate purpose of causing trouble.
Intimidating behaviour takes place when employees violate a colleague’s personal boundaries and become too intrusive.
Social isolation occurs when a person is being kept outside the community, for instance by the use of unsympathetic body language
Intitially, the bullying has an acute stress effect on the body, similar to the effects of hard physical training. This causes the body to increase the amount of cortisol for a period in order to counterbalance its increased energy needs.
But when the bullying persists and its character starts to change, the body ends up in a state of chronic stress exhaustion. It reacts by slamming on the brakes and starts to reduce its cortisol production.
”We don’t know yet exactly which long-term consequences the lower cortisol levels have on the body, but one thing is certain: bullied people have more sickness absence from work,” says Høgh.
“A series of studies have shown that bullying creates a greater risk of long-term illness than violence, threats and sexual harassment, and that many of the victims end up leaving the workplace.”
Read this article in Danish at videnskab.dk
Dann Vinther
New method gets staff to discuss workplace bullying
“Exposure to negative acts at work, psychological stress reactions and physiological stress response,” Journal of Psycosomatic Research, doi: 10.1016/.jpsychores.2012.04.004
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About workplace bullying (Wikipedia)
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Hocking Hills State Park
Location: Hocking County, near Logan.
From Columbus, I-270, use Lancaster Exit, U.S. 33 East to Logan, Exit on 664 South.
Open: no restrictions.
Fee: free.
Classification: Erosional cave, recess caves, Blackhand sandstone
Light: none, bring torch
Dimension: Ash Cave: L=30m, H=27m, W=213m.
Address: Hocking Hills State Park, 19852 St. Rt. 664 South, Logan, Ohio 43138, Tel: +1-740-385-6842 (Park office), +1-740-385-6841 (reservations), 1-866-644-6727 (camping).
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7,000 BP inhabited by the Adena culture.
~1750 inhabited by Wyandot, Delaware and Shawnee.
1818 Hocking County organized.
1835 powder mill built near Rock House.
1835 16-room hotel built near Rock House by Colonel F.F. Rempel.
1870 caves well-known as scenic attractions.
1877 excavation of Ash Cave.
1924 first land purchase by the state including Old Man's Cave.
07-JAN-1998 flash flood destroys bridges and trains in Old Man's Gorge.
Hocking Hills State Park is located in the picturesque sandstone region of southeastern Ohio, a landscape of towering cliffs, waterfalls and deep hemlock-shaded gorges. Rock outcrops are sculptured by the forces of erosion, especially rivers and frost, and form shelters and caves. Such sandstone caves are rare and generally very small. This ones are not small, and there is even a "real cave" called Rock House, which means it is not just an overhanging cliff face, but a passage with walls on both sides. All the caves at Hocking Hills State Park are well developed in terms of picknick areas. However, they are not at all developed as show caves. This is not necessary, as generally a torch is not needed, and hiking shoes are a good idea anyway in a park with so many interesting trails.
The gorges and caves are carved into the Blackhand sandstone, 350 million years old delta sediments of a river. At this point a huge river met the warm shallow sea which covered most of Ohio at that time. The river brought sand with him and deposited it in its estuary. This formed a layer which is today 50m thick.
Old Man's Cave is located in Old Man's Gorge, a 500m long sandstone gorge. This gorge starts with the Upper Falls and ends at the Lower Falls, with many nice spots in between, like Devil's Bathtub, the lookout at Sphinx Head or, of course Old Man's Cave. There is a round trip trail on top of the cliff and a trail along the bottom, a frame bridge across the gorge and varios tunnels leading down into the gorge. The Visitor Center is located at Old Man's Cave and is the obvious starting point for hikes.
Old Man's Cave was obviously first known to the native Indians who lived here. Two brothers, Nathaniel and Pat Rayon came to the area in 1795. They built a permanent cabin 10m north of the cave entrance, both are buried in or near the cave. The cabin was later relocated on the nearby Iles farm to be used as a tobacco drying house. Later Richard Rowe lived in the gorge. His family moved from the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee to the Ohio River Valley around 1796 and established a trading post. He was hunting with his two dogs along the Scioto River, and discovered the Hocking Region on a side trip up Salt Creek. Rowe lived in the area and is buried beneath the ledge of the main recess cave. While he lived here, the cave was named Old Man's Cave because of him.
Ash Cave contained a strange heap of ash, when it was first discovered by white settlers, hence the name. There were several heaps of ash, the biggest was 35m long and 10m wide, 1m high. It is not clear where those ashes originated from, but there are several theories. Some say it were accumulated ashes of Indian campfires, other say the results of smelting silver or lead by the Indians. Another theory say that its a result of making saltpeter in the cave. An excavation of the ash in 1877 revealed various Indian remains like arrows, animal bones in great variety, bits of pottery, flints and corn cobs.
Ash Cave looks very impressive, and is the largest recess cave in the state. It is reached through a 400m long narrow gorge, which suddenly opens up. The cave is a huge ledge forming a shelter, 30m deep and 27m high, continuing for 215m along the gorge wall. Today the floor is level and covered with sand. The concave geometry of the cave does a special accoustic trick: there are two distant points in the cave where you can talk to someone in the other point by whisper and be understood. This so-called whispering gallery is a result of of sound waves being reflected and concentrated, similar to a lens.
Rock House is said to be the only true cave in the park. It is not a recess cave, but a straight underground passage, 7.50m high, between 6m and 9m wide, and 60m long. It was formed by water leaking through a joint running parallel to the cliff face, which is visible in the ceiling of the passage. Orthogonal joint, between the cave and the cliff face, resulted in huge window-like openings. The seven windows look Gothic-arched and the massive sandstone columns inbetween support the roof.
The Rock House was used as a shelter for a very long time. Troughs or holding tanks were chiseled out of the stone floor to collect ground water pouring out of the sandstone. Small recesses in the back wall were used as ovens. Later it was frequented by robbers, horse thieves, murderers and even bootleggers, which resulted in the name Robbers Roost, at least according to local legends. In the 19th century it became a famous tourist destination, which resulted in a development of the area. In 1835, Colonel F.F. Rempel erected a 16-room hotel where the picnic shelter is today.
The early tourists left numerous dated carvings in the soft rock. The most interesting one is an open book with the letters ITFBRAR - ITFFAWMTAW written on its pages. This is the abbreviation of In the fall, Buck Run bananas are ripe - in the frost fall, a wise man takes a wife. Buck Run banana is a local slang term for the fruit of the pawpaw tree.
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Food and the Sustainable Development Goals
Food and agriculture feature prominently in many of the Sustainable Development Goals, because they are interconnected with almost all aspects of economy, environment and society, from hunger, malnutrition, desertification, sustainable water use, loss of biodiversity, to overconsumption, obesity and public health.
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty and hunger, protect the planet and ensure inclusion, peace and prosperity for all. Food and agriculture feature prominently in many of the Sustainable Development Goals, because they are interconnected with almost all aspects of economy, environment and society, from hunger, malnutrition, desertification, sustainable water use, loss of biodiversity, to overconsumption, obesity and public health.
SDG 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. In order to achieve it, we must also address underlying structural problems tied with poverty, lack of access to education, employment and health care, climate change, water and resource scarcity and others.
Naturally, eliminating hunger is inextricably linked to eradicating poverty (SDG 1). To end poverty, we must increase access to basic services and support people in disaster-stricken areas. We must also expand social protection schemes to the poor and vulnerable, including school feeding and food assistance. Programmes such as providing daily meals for schoolchildren in underdeveloped regions improve learning, attendance and enrollment in primary schools, which is essential in achieving inclusive quality education for all (SDG 4). Improving food security is also essential in reducing inequalities (SDG 10), because malnutrition disproportionately affects the most vulnerable, such as women, children, elderly, people with disabilities and the migrants.
Only access to safe and nutritious food will ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all (SDG 3). In developing countries in particular, hunger and malnutrition are linked to a number of illnesses, high levels of child mortality and long-term developmental impacts. On the other hand, obesity, diabetes and other diet-related conditions, have become epidemic in developed countries. Tackling overconsumption and food waste is essential in ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns (SDG 12). Approximately one-third of all food produced for human consumption in the world is wasted. The food wasted in Europe alone would be enough to feed all the hungry people in the world two times over (European Commission 2015).
Reducing food waste would also minimize environmental impacts generated by the agriculture. The production of wasted food uses around 1.4 billion hectares of land (28% of the world’s agricultural area) and a huge amount of surface or groundwater, known as “blue water”, 38 times more than US households (Feedback Global). More responsible use of resources in the agri-food industry would help protect life below water (SDG 14) and life on land (SDG 15), promote healthier ecosystems and halt biodiversity loss. Given the complexity of issues surrounding food and agriculture, a holistic and interdisciplinary approach seems to be the only way to achieve a truly sustainable and inclusive global food system.
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The SDGs and Business: New Horizon or New Smokescreen?
The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by 193 countries in September 2017, are very fashionable now – especially among big companies. But are they really changing the way that business does business? Or are they little...
Orange Is the New Green: From Citrus 'Pastazzo' to Catwalks
The idea of Adriana Santanocito and Enrica Arena, founders of Orange Fiber, answers the new innovation and sustainability needs of the fashion industry: Orange Fiber is in fact an Italian start-up which develops sustainable...
Sustainable Consumption and Recycling of Products in Transport Industry
Based on data from the Paris Conference on Climate Change, transport is responsible for 23% of global indirect emissions. New initiatives for improving urban transport and accelerating the deployment of electric vehicles have been...
Changing Mobility Habits for a Healthier Life
Contributing to the third Sustainable Development Goal capital city of Lithuania is creating a sustainable urban mobility plan (SUMP) for its inhabitants. SUMP has to encompass various mobility modes and variations and one of the themes of the city strategy is to plan how to change people’s behaviour in mobility...
SDG 11 calls for making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. But why do sustainable cities matter? This is the topic a group of researchers will be...
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LGBTQIA+ Student Resources
Pride Western | Contact: pridewestern@westernusc.ca
Runs events, discussion groups, and has office hours.
Spectrum UWO : A newer group that aims to create an LGBTQ+ social community on campus.
UWO Psychological Services:Professional and confidential services, free of charge, to students needing assistance to meet their personal, social and academic goals. Services include consultation, referral, groups workshops, as well as brief, change-oriented psychotherapy.
Equity and Human Rights Services: Equity and Humans Rights Services (EHRS) provides information on the University’s discrimination and harassment policies, employment equity and diversity and other human rights related issues. We are here to help you, whether you are a student, staff or a faculty member. We are dedicated to making Western an equitable, safe and supportive environment for all members of the University community. Our service is confidential except in specific circumstances. Learn more at
Pride Library: The Mandate of the Pride Library is to acquire, preserve, organize, and give public access to information and materials by and about lesbians, gay, bisexual, trans and queer communities (LGBTQ). Pride Library is located in the D.B. Weldon Library.
Sexuality and Gender Research Group: The Sexuality and Gender Research Group brings together researchers form the Faculty of Arts and Humanities with scholars in other disciplines from around the University to discuss questions of sexuality and gender from a variety of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Every year, the Sexuality and Gender Research Group, in conjunction with the Western Queer Caucus, hosts a number of academic talks and organizes Queer Research Day, a full-day event involving both papers and poster and presentations. Queer Research Day is normally held on the third Wednesday in April. Membership in the Sexuality and Gender Research Group is open to faculty and graduate students. However, all of our events are free and open to all members of the Western community.
Trans Care Team: Recognizing the unique needs of gender-diverse students, the Trans Care Team comprises a group of clinicians from Student Health Services and Psychological Services who work together to provide specialized psychological counselling and medical care to students in an LGBTQIA2S+ affirmative environment. Physicians at Student Health Services have received training from Rainbow Health Ontario in the realm of counselling, hormone prescribing/maintenance, injections, surgical referrals, and post-operative care. We are able to refer to endocrine specialists and/or psychiatrists if there are complex needs beyond the scope of our primary care providers. Clinicians at Psychological services offer both individual counselling as well as the UniQ Support group that runs each semester.
Western Queer Caucus | Contact: queer-caucus@uwo.ca:
The Queer Caucus was founded in 2007 as a group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited, questioning, and queer faculty and graduate students and their allies, as well as for people engaged in various forms of queer academic work. The caucus links people across faculties, schools, and departments and is intended to help forge community, facilitate academic alliances, promote scholarship, provide a venue for activism, and encourage discussions and practices of diverse forms of queer pedagogy.
Alphabet Community Centre | Call or text at (519) 765-5000: Facilitates weekly support groups for trans and questioning youth (ages 12-20), medical/legal accompaniments, social service referrals, employment programs.
Coming Out Over Coffee: Support meeting every 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month from 6:30p.m.-8:00p.m. at Family Service Thames Valley. Learn more at www.familyservicethamesvalley.com/
Forest City Queerios: A social group for LGBTQ+ identified people. Events range from pub nights, dinners, board game nights, festivals in the park, movie nights, and more.
Spot of Delight: A source for gender identity products and inclusive sexual health workshops. Located at 426 Richmond Street in downtown London.
London Middlesex Health Unit: Sexual health services and education, with referrals to LGBT2Q+ Network approved social service providers. Learn more at www.healthunit.com/lgbtq-resources
London InterCommunity Health Centre: Provides health and social services in a welcoming setting to those who experience barriers to care. Learn more at www.lihc.on.ca
Canadian Mental Health Association: A source for mental health services, education, and support. Learn more at www.ontario.cmha.ca/documents/lesbian-gay-bisexual-trans-queer-identified-people-and-mental-health/
LGBT Youth Line: Confidential, non-judgemental & informed peer support from Sunday to Friday between 4:30 p.m.-9:30p.m. Contact us though toll free at 1(800) 268-9688 or chat online at
Phone Lines (24/7).
PFLAG: PFLAG Canada is a national charitable organization, founded by parents who wished to help themselves and their family members understand and accept their non- heterosexual children. The “coming-out” process can be a critical time for families. When the adjustment period is particularly long or painful, relationships can become permanently damaged, resulting in a lifetime of emotional scars. People cannot always rise above the challenge of accepting themselves or their family member, and the results can be devastating, even fatal. We support these families through today, and give them hope for a better tomorrow. Contact us at 1 (888) 530-6777 ext. 224 or on our website.
Western Pride Initiatives
Gender Inclusive Washrooms
Western International welcomes LGBTQIA+ International Students
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Peter Weyl
Peter Weyl studied French literature in college, taught in German schools and somehow ended up with a long career in TV news.
These days, he spends a lot of fine daylight time in darkened movie theaters to write his reviews. Among Peter's favorite flicks are "All About Eve," "Some Like it Hot," "Goodfellas," "Children of Men" and "The Wild Bunch." Go figure.
Peter lives in Portland with his wife Terry, who also loves books and movies.
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Movies: My Favorites of 2013
posted on Thursday, December 26, 2013 - 5:37pm
This will be my final movie review for wcsh6.com. For the past three years I’ve greatly enjoyed many hours in darkened theaters and my efforts to explain to you precisely why I did or did not...
Movies: "American Hustle"
posted on Friday, December 20, 2013 - 4:48pm
With its clever script, terrific cast and 1970s vibe, here’s a movie to put a spring in your step and a song in your heart (maybe by America or Steely Dan), even if it is all about corruption.“Some...
Movies: "Dallas Buyers Club"
posted on Monday, December 2, 2013 - 5:02pm
In his earlier film career, Matthew McConaughey seemed lazy and laid-back, letting his well-toned body do most of the acting for him. But with this year’s “Mud” and now “Dallas Buyers...
Movies: "12 Years A Slave"
posted on Friday, November 22, 2013 - 5:04pm
“The past is never dead,” wrote William Faulkner. “It’s not even past.” That old Southerner’s observation certainly holds true for this movie, in which we are called upon to witness...
Movies: "The Counselor"
posted on Sunday, November 3, 2013 - 4:51pm
Dark doings south of the border. Fast cars, guns and snazzy parties. A big drug deal goes awry and the naive man in the middle finds himself the target of a vengeful and remorseless...
Movies: "The Fifth Estate"
posted on Friday, October 18, 2013 - 3:38pm
The trouble with this newfangled computer age is it just doesn’t make for very compelling cinema. Hey, if you want to see a bunch of people tapping away at their keyboards, just look up from...
Movies: "Short Term 12"
posted on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 9:24pm
Snuggled into the cineplex opposite such monster hits as “Gravity” and “Captain Phillips” is this small slice of reality, written and directed by 30-year old filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (“I Am...
Movies: "Captain Phillips"
British filmmaker Paul Greengrass brought a visceral documentary style to such powerhouse movies as “Bloody Sunday” (2002), “United 93” (2006) and the best of the Jason Bourne adventures (“The...
Movies: "Enough Said"
posted on Sunday, October 6, 2013 - 4:10pm
I love Autumn. The weather turns crisp, the lawn doesn’t need mowing every week and the movies become so much better. Case in point: “Enough Said,” a sweet, funny film about adult...
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Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol.
Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chull in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following Lee's death in 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since the 1990s Samsung has increasingly globalised its activities, and electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, has become its most important source of income.
Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's second-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 15th- and 63nd-largest construction companies). Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest life insurance company), Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea), Samsung Techwin (an aerospace, surveillance and defence company) and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 16th-largest advertising agency measured by 2011 revenues).
Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture, and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River". Its affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea's total exports. Samsung's revenue was equal to 17% of the South Korea's $1082 billion GDP.
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Superyacht Investor wins Queen’s Award
By alexbaldwin April 24, 2019 14:14
Superyacht Investor’s parent company Specialist Insight has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade 2019.
The Awards are the most prestigious award a UK company can receive. Her Majesty The Queen personally approves the winners and they are designed to reward companies of all sizes.
“We are delighted to have been chosen,” says Louisa Whyte, managing director, Specialist Insight. “When we launched in 2010, we never expected to be recognised like this and it is great achievement for our fantastic team, who just found out today.”
Specialist Insight was launched in 2010 by Louisa and Alasdair Whyte from their garden shed. It is based in Reigate Surrey and employs 15 people. The company runs Corporate Jet Investor, Helicopter Investor, Superyacht Investor and Revolution.Aero.
“When we launched in the shed it was really exciting as one of us would often run across the lawn saying we had just got a new customer,” says Louisa Whyte. “The downside was when you were on a call to a CEO and you could see one of the kids racing towards you before they started banging on the door.”
“Apart from adding a phone line and wifi, we did not invest a lot in the shed. That included the windows – which were broken,” says Whyte. “At the time people often spoke about the economic climate – we were far more worried about the real climate – it was a freezing winter that year.”
“Being international means long days dealing with different time zones and a lot of travel, but it also gives us some diversity – when the US business aviation market was down in 2012, China was growing fast for example,” says Whyte.
The 15-person team also includes staff from five different countries (UK, South Africa, Romania, Poland and India) and speaks more than 10 different languages.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the most prestigious business awards in the UK. The awards were first established in 1965 and since then over 7000 companies have achieved a Queen’s Award. There are 1.9 million companies trading in the UK.
The awards celebrate the success of exciting and innovative businesses which are leading the way with pioneering products or services, delivering impressive social mobility programmes or showing their commitment to excellent sustainable development practices.
This year 201 UK businesses have been recognised for their contribution to international trade, innovation, sustainable development and promoting opportunity (through social mobility). Some 129 companies have won awards for international trade.
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