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Utah Jazz trade Eric Maynor and Matt Harpring
Published: December 23, 2009 12:00 am
Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News
Matt Harpring walks off the floor after crashing into the seats at the final buzzer as the Jazz loose to the Lakers 113-100 in the first game of the Western Conference playoffs in Las Angeles last season.
D-Wade made a living beating Jazz
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MIAMI — The Utah Jazz on Tuesday traded rookie point guard Eric Maynor and veteran forward Matt Harpring's expiring contract to Oklahoma City for the rights to a forward from Germany who has never played in the NBA.
The cost-cutting trade will save more than $10 million for the Jazz, who are well in excess of the NBA's team payroll salary cap and luxury-tax threshold.
"It's good for Oklahoma City, because they get a good young player (in Maynor)," Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor said today. "And it's good for us, because it allows us to address our financial situation.
"Basically the reason we did that was to relieve ourselves of some luxury-tax responsibilities ... and to do that we had to give up an asset," he added. "It was a difficult decision. We're disappointed that we had to do that, but in these economic times we saved a great deal of money and we're able to be aggressive, still, going forward."
The trade — essentially a salary dump of Harpring's burdensome contract, at the cost of 22-year-old Maynor — reduces Utah's roster count from 14 to 12.
But the Jazz do plan to get back to the league-required minimum of 13 by adding another point guard in the near future.
They have two weeks to do so.
Point guards currently available in the open market who could supplement Price on the Jazz bench include former Jazz guard Keith McLeod, who is averaging 19.9 points and 6.1 assists per game for Dallas' NBA Development League affiliate in Albuquerque; just-waived Wilks, a 30-year-old veteran who has played for 10 NBA teams; last season's backup, Brevin Knight, who currently is working Charlotte Bobcats games as a radio analyst; and ex-Jazz point Jacque Vaughn, who last played 30 games for San Antonio last season.
The Jazz, meanwhile, still have a another reserve point on the roster in combo guard Ronnie Price — though the Utah Valley product is just recently back from a toe foot injury that cost him 15 straight games.
Maynor had been backing up starter Deron Williams, but with the Team USA Olympic guard averaging 38.5 minutes per game O'Connor didn't seem to have any great concerns about the club's situation at the point.
"The fact is we've got Deron," the Jazz GM said in a telephone interview.
The Jazz have no plans whatsoever to sign the forward whose rights they acquired — Peter Fehse, a 6-foot-11 big who plays in his native Germany for Mitteldeutscher BC Weissenfels.
Fehse was drafted by Seattle — now Oklahoma City — at No. 49 overall in the second round of the 2002 NBA Draft, but he's spent his entire career in Europe.
Maynor was selected at No. 20 overall by Utah in the first round of last June's NBA Draft.
He appeared in 26 games for the Jazz, averaging 5.2 points and 3.1 assists in 14.0 minutes per game.
The Thunder — who waived both injury-plagued Shaun Livingston and fill-in guard Mike Wilks in order to accommodate the trade — were in need of backup help at the point behind Russell Westbrook, and have been high on Maynor since his days at Virginia Commonwealth.
Oklahoma City was able to absorb Harpring's and Maynor's salaries without sending any back to Utah because the Thunder had enough room under the NBA's salary cap to do so.
Harpring played the last seven of his 11 NBA seasons in Utah, but his career has been cut short by chronic knee and ankle injuries that prevented him from reporting to training camp, practicing or taking part in any games this season.
He recently did a week's worth of broadcasting work for the Jazz, and has interest in a potential broadcasting career beyond this season.
Harpring's partly insurance-protected $6.5 million salary will come off the Jazz's current payroll, which before the trade stood at about $82 million — roughly $12 million over the $69.92 million tax threshold.
The remaining $885,000 of Maynor's $1.32 salary comes off the books as well, but its loss will be partly offset by the signing of a new reserve point.
The dollar-for-dollar tax faced by the Jazz, then, is reduced by the amount their payroll has been trimmed.
All of which, even when factoring the insurance payments on Harpring deal, leaves Utah about $10.46 million or so better off than it was before Tuesday.
In essence, total cost of player salary and tax for this season dropped from about $94 million to less than $84 million on Tuesday — and it could keep falling, because they're now less than $5 million over the tax threshold, and could get completely under, and actually get a rebate from the league for doing so, by making another deal or two by the NBA's Feb. 18 trade deadline.
"You hate to give up any young players, and that's one of the things that's difficult, and it made it doubly difficult because I think Eric was somebody that fit our DNA," O'Connor told media in Utah.
"But with the ability to save the kind of money we did," he added, "we felt that for the financial well-being of the organization we had to make this deal."
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Situational awareness:
Elon Musk's Neuralink unveiled a successful test in mice and plans to implant paralyzed patients with electrodes that will allow them work computers with their minds. (Bloomberg)
Executives from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google faced tough questions from lawmakers during 3 hearings on Capitol Hill yesterday. (NYT)
1 big thing: The inexplicable decline in retail sales growth
Headlines Tuesday painted a picture of a booming U.S. retail market: Amazon's well-covered Prime Day(s) generated an estimated $5.8 billion of sales and the Commerce Department's retail sales report showed an especially strong reading for June.
But a deeper dive into the data shows retail sales growth is slowing, with the all-important online component — the major source of growth, as brick-and-mortar sales struggle — cooling notably.
"While several negative developments in late 2018 ... could have contributed to consumers' skittishness, no single event could explain why shoppers curtailed spending growth in the second half of the year and continue to do so," said Christa Hart, a senior managing director at FTI Consulting.
The big picture: More U.S. companies are doing business online than ever before, but online retail sales growth has been decelerating for 4 consecutive quarters, data from FTI Consulting's 2019 U.S. Online Retail Forecast shows.
FTI's 20-year data set suggests that "online sales growth may have hit an inflection point and may experience decelerating growth going forward."
Online retail sales have pulled back from 5%–6% growth in early 2018 to the mid-3% range so far this year, "for no obvious reason."
Even Tuesday's strong U.S. retail sales report puts growth on pace for just 3.5% year-over-year, well below the pace of the previous 2 years and below the longer-term average.
What's happening: Online sales are taking a larger portion of overall retail, and slowing growth in that segment is reflecting slowing growth overall.
"The key finding relates to multiple periods of e-commerce growth decline, which does not align with what we have seen over the past decade," FTI's managing director of corporate finance and restructuring John Yozzo, tells Axios in an email.
Details: Online sales growth has slowed to an average of 13.3% in the most recent 4 quarters from 16.1% a year earlier. It has weakened further to the low-12% range in the 2 most recent quarters. FTI projects the growth rate will fall to 5.9% in 10 years.
"The degree to which this decrease in online growth manifests itself over the next year is yet to be known," Yozzo said, "but analysis suggests we may be experiencing an inflection point in e-commerce where the overall rate of growth remains in the low double digits."
Bonus: Amazon's growing share of the shrinking retail pie
Data: FTI Consulting; actual data 2013–2018, 2019–2030 projected; Chart Axios Visuals
While FTI's analysts believe Prime Day's big numbers are more smoke and mirrors than substance ("The ability of Prime Day to have a material impact on consumer discretionary spend is unlikely," Yozzo tells Axios), they do expect Amazon to continue to expand its take.
FTI projects Amazon's share of the entire U.S. retail market will nearly double to 12.7% from 6.5% this year, boosted largely by third-party sellers, and its share of online U.S. retail sales will grow to more than 55% from the current 43%.
2. Bottom half of Americans are finally in the black
Note: Not adjusted for inflation; Data: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Chart: Chris Canipe/Axios
The total net worth of the bottom 50% of Americans fell to -$143 billion in the second quarter of 2010 — meaning the lowest 50% of earners had collective liabilities far outpaced their collective assets, largely underwater home and auto loans. Their net worth remained negative until Q1 2013, Federal Reserve data shows.
The bottom 50% of earners' net worth rose to nearly $1.3 trillion in the first quarter of 2019. However, their share of total U.S. net worth has just this year risen above 1% of the total. The top 1% of earners' share is 31.1% as of the first quarter of 2019, according to the Fed's data.
What it means: "The recovery is just now getting to the bottom of the economy," Kevin Barry, chief investment officer at investment manager CAPTRUST, tells Axios. "At the end of 2015 the overwhelming majority of Americans would say, 'What recovery?'"
3. More credit investors see a recession looming
Credit investors in Bank of America-Merrill Lynch's most recent survey say they are growing more worried about a recession. Top concerns among investors surveyed included "Recession/deflation," "Asset bubbles" and "Currency war."
The implied probability of a recession over the next 12 months rose to 20%, the highest level in the bank's survey of investors since September 2016.
4. Powell leans in to greater openness
Axios' Courtenay Brown writes: In one of his final speeches before a major policy meeting this month, Fed chairman Jerome Powell stressed the importance of communicating frankly with the public.
"Gone are the days when the Federal Reserve Chair could joke, as my predecessor Alan Greenspan did, 'If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.' Central banks must speak to Main Street, as well as Wall Street, in ways we have not in the past, and Main Street is listening and engaged."
— Powell's speech Tuesday at G7 Bretton Woods in Paris
Why it matters: The financial markets may have backed Powell into a corner to cut interest rates, but these days Main Street has his ear, too.
In a novel series of public forums held the past few months, community leaders across the country have told Fed officials about the unevenness of the economic recovery.
Since the latest "Fed Listens" event in Chicago, Powell has referenced this grassroots feedback in nearly every single public appearance to underscore the importance of extending the record-long economic recovery.
5. Peru has arrested all of its living ex-presidents
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo was arrested in the U.S. Tuesday, on an extradition warrant stemming from corruption charges in his home country. Prosecutors are requesting 16 years of prison for Toledo and his wife.
Why it matters: Toledo was the last living ex-president of Peru not to have been arrested in connection with corruption charges for taking bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
The last president not sought by authorities for graft was Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who left office in 1985 and died in 2002.
The state of play: Despite the political chaos, Peru's stock market delivered world-beating returns from the start of 2016 to the end of 2017. An ETF tracking MSCI's Peruvian index (EPU) gained 114% during that time, far outpacing the S&P 500's 43% rise and almost doubling MSCI's broader gauge of emerging market equities, which rose 66%, according to data from Yahoo Finance.
It has since underperformed both indexes, and is up just 7% year to date.
Go deeper: Death of Peru's ex-president sheds light on its corrupt politics


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Martha Reeves and the Vandellas – The Definitive Collection – Classic Music Review
By altrockchick on March 14, 2014
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My initial research for the Motown series led me to one inescapable conclusion: I needed to visit my father. He has a pretty extensive collection of soul records including enough 45's to fill a few jukeboxes. More importantly, he experienced the Motown phenomenon first-hand. And yes, I'm always looking for an excuse to pop down to Nice.
That still blows me away—I can "pop down" to Nice! That is so cool!
Once downpopped, my dad and I spent an afternoon and evening listening to dozens of records, primarily focusing on the likely candidates for my Motown series. He helped me think things through and narrow things down to the four finalists. Once all that unimportant stuff was out of the way, we got down to the real reason for my visit: the inevitable argument.
"Martha," I offered.
"Diana," he replied.
"No fucking way! Martha blows her out of the water!"
"You've got to be kidding. Martha's voice could fill the church—Diana's would peter out before it reached the third row of pews."
"Interesting argument for an atheist to make."
"I've got you beat on covers. The Kinks covered Martha. Vanilla Fucking Fudge covered Diana. No contest!"
"By that measure, The Shirelles beat them both. The Beatles covered them twice."
"Out of order! Different era!"
"Fair enough, but I'm sticking with Diana."
"How can you be so goddamned stubborn?"
I spent the next week listening to both The Supremes and Martha and the Vandellas, and my preference for Martha intensified. While I love debating music with my father, arguments are solely sporting events: personal taste is what it is and you have to respect another person's preferences. While music critics, halls of fame and awards shows like to pretend they have the necessary qualifications to discriminate between good music and bad, they don't. The Grammies prove that every year. I am equally fallible. My reviews reflect my preferences and my preferences alone. In this case, I prefer Martha over Diana. My dad feels otherwise and I respect him for that.
The stubborn asshole.
Martha and the Vandellas hit the big time a year or so before Motown began its ascent to household word. At the time "Heat Wave" burst into the top 10 in 1963, they were just another girl group of the early 60's. They made regular appearances in the top 10 through the end of 1966, then began a slow decline, primarily due to crappy material. Some people blame Berry Gordy for channeling most of his attention on Diana Ross; others cite the departures of Holland-Dozier-Holland and producer/mentor Mickey Stevenson as the cause behind the shortage of decent songs. There were also problems in the group, including onstage spats. Whatever the reason, an opportunity was lost. Martha Reeves proved again and again that she was a great R&B and soul singer with tremendous power. Although she was not the first employee to suffer from dumb-ass management, she deserved a better fate.
Oh, well. No use crying over spilled milk! Do you know why you shouldn't cry over spilled milk? Because the fairies come and lick it all up! And speaking of obscure folkloric references, what the fuck is a Vandella, anyway? You have two choices: a.) it's a hybrid of Van Dyke Street in Detroit and Martha's favorite singer, Della Reese or b.) it's an Amharic word for dream-invading demons. While you're pondering that conundrum, I'm going to get on with the review. Please note that The Definitive Collection fails to sync the track order to the release date (grrr!) and I will ignore that unconscionable decision by presenting the songs chronologically.
"Come and Get These Memories": The group's first top thirty hit came from Holland-Dozier-Holland and clearly distinguished Martha Reeves from other singers of the time. Like The Shirelles' "Soldier Boy," the song opens with the refrain, with Martha and the Vandellas (Annette Beard and Rosalind Ashford) united in harmony. When Martha takes the stage, her voice sounds much fuller than the lead singers of other girl groups of the day, who favored a more subdued approach (or simply weren't capable of producing much in the way of wattage). Martha doesn't sound like a girl—she sounds like a fully-formed adult woman, though she was only twenty-one at the time. Her phrasing is marvelous and her diction exceptionally clear without sounding labored. Martha was a reverend's daughter, and as noted in my debate with dad, I have no doubt her voice could fill the church up to the rafters. Even with all that power making it easy for her to engage in histrionics, Martha consistently showed the ability to temper that power over her career. Even when she's allowed to do some vocal riffing on the fade-out in this song, you don't get the sense that she's showing off or trying to knock you out with her gifts. She's just singing naturally, and it sounds fantastic.
"(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave": Oh, baby! That's what I'm talkin' about! This iconic single is exceptionally well-designed and executed, taking advantage of an irresistible groove, the infectious simplicity of hand-clapping, the spirit in the Vandellas' backing vocals and omigod, Martha. The extended rhythmic introduction is the musical equivalent of a strip tease, letting your heat rise along with the theme until Martha enters and brings you to a boil. She takes full command of this song without hesitation or apology; at times you feel she's reliving a particularly intense act of seduction. In the third verse, Martha's voice seems to soar to the heavens like the great gospel singers, and her phrasing escapes the steady rhythm as her voice succumbs to the feeling and she sings behind and ahead of the beat:
Sometimes I stare in space, tears all over my face
I can't explain it, don't understand it
I ain't never felt like this before
Now that funny feelin' has me amazed
I don't know what to do, my head's in a haze
It's like a heat wave, burnin' in my heart
Diana Ross never came close to reaching this level of passion and intensity. Nuts to you, dad!
"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)": An unusual arrangement marked by piano, organ and what may be a celeste or a glockenspiel set the tone for this gorgeous Holland-Dozier-Holland composition designed to let a singer show his or her stuff. The song, rather complex in chord structure for the time, has been covered by several artists, including Dusty Springfield, Manfred Mann and Cher. Martha's rendition is superb, somewhere between soul and spiritual, and is a delight despite the spoken word lines that tend to make me cringe. Although the quality of the recording fails to clarify the low end of the spectrum, this is one of James Jamerson's early bass contributions that drew attention to his exceptional skills. The Vandellas are absolutely solid on background and harmonies, and though the tempo is a bit too fast to quality as a slow-dance number, it has a nice swaying rhythm that makes you feel good inside and out.
"Quicksand": This follow-up hit has a similar dance-song feel to "Heat Wave," but is even more oriented to the American Bandstand crowd with an equally long rhythm section intro, a long rhythmic break and another brief pause for the drums to pound away. The groove is so dominant that you're not even sure if the first verse has begun or the girls are simply riffing along with the band. It's a great dance song, not a great soul or R&B song like "Heat Wave." This would be Annette Beard's last appearance with the group, as she apparently got caught in the quicksand of pregnancy and left to marry and raise a family. Betty Kelly would jump over from The Velvelettes (a group that also deserved a better fate) to join Martha on her rise to stardom.
"Live Wire": A cheesy Liberace-esque piano intro failed to disguise this song as yet another dance number by Martha and the Vandellas. Motown had the annoying habit of sticking to a formula until the blood ran out, as The Four Tops often demonstrated with follow-up hits that sounded eerily similar to the original hit. This is no exception: it's a pale imitation of the two stronger numbers. If I'd been alive back then I would have picketed Motown with a sign that read, "Let my Martha go!"
"In My Lonely Room": This isn't exactly what I had in mind—an oddly upbeat dance number set to lyrics describing a woman locking herself in her room so she can cry. It's like Holland-Dozier-Holland tried to improve the recipe and added the wrong ingredients. The recording engineers even managed to make Martha's voice sound thin and reedy, an accomplishment that I didn't think possible. Let my Martha go!
"Dancin' in the Street": Fuck yeah! That's what I'm talkin' about! Despite their impressive resume, Holland-Dozier-Holland weren't getting the job done, so producer Mickey Stephenson stepped in and enlisted Marvin Gaye's help with a song he was writing after watching kids in the Detroit streets trying to blast away the summer heat by opening fire hydrants. Stephenson thought he had a ballad, but Marvin heard it as a dance number, so they spruced it up and played it for Martha. Her reaction was that the song was too repetitive and she'd like to do her own vocal arrangement. Smart girl! All this collaboration resulted in an endlessly exciting number with a strong bottom, pounding beat, growling saxophones and a key that syncs with Martha's sweet spot. The intense rhythm of the song is courtesy of Marvin Gaye (who beats those drums like there's no tomorrow) and James Jamerson, whose moving bass runs must have pushed those mid-60's speakers to the limit. The horn section is on fire, filling this intensely rhythmic number with memorable and melodic counterpoint fills. The song was released in 1964, during the first summer of major rioting in the African-American ghettoes, and the sensationalist press attached a sinister, revolutionary meaning to it. "My lord, it was a party song!" said Martha, recalling all the hoo-hah. Her command of the vocal is deeply impressive—if you ever want to hear what it sounds like when a singer owns a song, "Dancin' in the Street" ranks right up there with "Walkin' After Midnight," "Fever" and Jo Stafford's "Long Ago and Far Away." The song is absolutely relentless, never easing up on the powerful beat and collective intensity.
"Wild One": This was a pretty weak and derivative follow-up to "Dancin' in the Street," with a much thinner mix. The story line of giving one's heart to the bad boy in town had been done a hundred times anyway.
"Nowhere to Run": Holland-Dozier-Holland must have learned something from Mickey Stephenson, coming back with a solid R&B song that gives Martha plenty of room to maneuver. The partial stop-time sections are exquisite and The Vandellas do a super job on spot harmonies and a smörgåsbord of background vocal effects. Martha is at her best, gliding through the melody with utter confidence, occasionally reaching for a higher note that she seems to pluck out the sky. The rhythm is intensified by the use of snow chains, an innovative thought if there ever was one. The groove is mesmerizing; this is the perfect song for lovers who want to shimmy the night away.
"Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things):" Martha and the Vandellas did surprisingly few ballads given Martha's versatility. The passion she brings to this performance is intense, in luscious contrast to the softness of the background music. The balance she achieves here is special, for the ballad form is an easy one to ruin with either excessive or inadequate emotion. There are lines where she sounds more mature and life-wise; others she delivers in a state of full longing tinged with a sense of defeat and self-deprecation. Needless to say, she dominates the track in a way that few singers can.
"You've Been in Love Too Long": Ooh—I love the way this song begins: a Funk Brothers duet with bass and low-end piano accompanied by a simple drum beat. The flip side of "Love" takes a darker, tougher view of the downsides of loving a man with other interests on the side. Martha turns the song into a proto-feminist message that warns girls not to turn themselves into co-dependent losers who need a man to survive. You go, girl! You can see Martha shaking her head sadly but insistently as she recounts each indicator of unrequited masochism:
When his wrongs look right
Though he always treats you bad
When you find little excuses
For all the sadness and abuses
Don't you know, girls
You're in love? Oh, no
You're just a fool for your baby
Girls, you've been in love
Too long, poor fool
When my dad played both sides of the single back-to-back I had the urge to stand up and applaud, throw roses, shout "Bravo," . . . you know the drill.
"My Baby Loves Me": Sometimes Motown's commitment to formula really pisses me off. "My Baby Loves Me" also begins with a low-register piano run for no other reason than the last hit began the same way. Jeez! Bring back the snow chains while you're at it! Once I got over that I had to get over Martha leaving feminism behind and surrendering herself to her destiny as bagged game. The juxtaposition is rather jarring, but I'm sure the audiences of the time weren't as hyper-sensitive as I am. The Four Tops drop by to provide background vocals along with the Motown studio group The Andantes. The track is Vandella-free and interest-free. Not my favorite.
"I'm Ready for Love": Sometimes Motown's formulaic approach works—especially when the singer grabs hold of the material and really feels it like Martha does here. The formula is the regurgitation of the bass line that opened The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" a few months before. Martha sings with sincere but restrained joy on this track and the effect is engaging and uplifting. The tone is, "I'm happy and I can't believe it," a much more common feeling than truly believing that one has found Nookie Nirvana. Great arrangement, sweet background support and Martha on her game. Yeah!
"Jimmy Mack": Their last record to reach the top ten in the Billboard 100 is something of a throwback song that could have easily been covered by any number of girl groups in the early 60's. "Jimmie Mack" is much more of a group effort, as The Vandellas sing harmony on the majority of lines. It's a damned catchy number with an easy groove, and it's too bad Berry Gordy held it back for two years in case The Supremes needed it. This song is definitely more 1963-64 than 1966, and would have been a much better follow-up to "Dancin' in the Street" than "Wild One." The video shows to what extent television producers would try to come up with new angles for songs, and while not as outrage0us as Frankie Avalon presenting The Hollies as college football stars on Hullabaloo, it's pretty bad. They obviously forgot to find out whether or not any of the girls knew a fucking thing about baseball.
"Third Finger, Left Hand": Even more dated than "Jimmy Mack," Martha and the Vandellas sound positively bored while trying to get through this pathetic song about the realization of girl's dreams of fulfillment in marriage. Marcie Blaine should have done this one as a follow-up to "Bobby's Girl" and retitled it, "Bobby Gave Me a Ring! I Can't Fucking Believe Bobby Would Marry a Dipshit Like Me!"
"Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone": Apparently there was a love bug epidemic at Motown during this period. "The love bug done bitten me," crooned Diana Ross, and now Martha devotes a whole number to this pesky little insect, one that has the effect of a listening audience repellent. Martha gives a gamely performance, but the love bug symbol is a non-starter for me. Note the introduction of strings and a fuzz tone guitar in this early 1967 release: Motown was trying to cover all the angles in a period that exploded with musical diversity.
"Honey Chile": A no-bullshit song about the lazy good-for-nothing that Martha can't live without. Huh? What's wrong with that picture? Whether the guy is hung like a horse or we're dealing with another woman suffering from low self-esteem, I would have preferred lyrics depicting a woman holding her ground. Personal preferences aside, the song works due to Martha's presence and power, so she must have had a high level of skill in cognitive dissonance.
This would be Martha and the Vandellas' last trip to the Top 20 for a few years. The greater part of the problem was weak material, but this period included one song that has been identified as Motown's first protest song, the late-1969 single, "I Should Be Proud." Martha gives a strong performance while playing the role of a young woman who has lost her man to the nightmare of Vietnam. She refuses to be comforted by the insanity of patriotism:
And they say that I could be proud; he was fightin' for me
They say I should be proud, those too blind to see
But he wasn't fightin' for me, my Johnny didn't have to fight for me
He was fightin' for the evils of society.
The anti-patriotism message in the lyrics might have killed the song commercially, but it's just as likely that fans didn't want Martha singing anything but party tunes. It certainly didn't come back to haunt her forty years later when she was elected to the Detroit City Council.
"Bless You": After three long years on the fringes of the charts, this little number managed to reach the mid-fifties in the USA and the top 30 in Britain. It's a pleasant pop number with a mild imitation of the lead guitar of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" thrown in for the hell of it. Martha's performance is more than competent, showing she's much better than her material.
In addition to "I Should Be Proud," The Definitive Collection is missing two other songs of note that are included in The Ultimate Collection package (when they run out of superlatives, I'm sure we'll see "sponsored by" versions like Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé Bring You The Consummate Collection of Martha and the Vandellas). Those two songs are the early tune "Motoring" and the 1972 R&B funk number, "Tear It On Down." Both feature vocals that are much more R&B than pop, and the latter hints at serious potential as a blues/jazz singer, which is what Martha was doing when she was discovered.
Martha Reeves clearly had the gift and is most definitively one of the great voices of soul and R&B.
Diana? Nah. Martha!
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Olivier March 14, 2014 at 10:17 am | Reply
This group is my favorite thing to ever come out of the USA.
They are the absolute perfect blend of pop and soul that defines Motown, unlike the Supremes whose pop is mostly soul-less to me ("Come see about me" being an exception, by far my favorite song by them too).
And Martha's voice! this thing is just a thrill down my body.
Hard to pick a favorite, probably "I'm ready for love".
This compilation lacks a few 45 gems though : "I tried", "Sweet darlin'", "In and Out of My Life",…
Try to get "The complete Motown singles" for the 60s, yeah it's all of Motown but it makes it even better. And IS in chronological order.
Stats March 14, 2014 at 5:32 pm | Reply
Martha or Diana ?
Always Martha …
A song not on this album, Forget Me Not , and knowing Reeves
Brother died in Vietman should be mentioned .
How to explain the parallel up and down staircase for Reeves and Ross
That seemed more than coincidence ?
I have always thought Spike Lees's School Daze dramatized in a unique way
What that issue may have been .
Steve March 16, 2014 at 5:49 pm | Reply
I've been giving this a lot of thought. Not that I am on the fence regarding the Diana vs. Martha debate, but why. I'm with your father on this one and it wasn't a difficult decision for me. To me, Diana Ross and the Supremes were an indispensable part of the 60's experience. Not that I'm a particularly big fan of theirs, which I'm not, but I am full of admiration for their accomplishments and their presence in 1960's America. Did they really have 12 #1's? That is astonishing if you consider their career popularity exactly tracked the Beatles. There cannot be another American group that matches their success in that period – not even close. And they were women. And they were black. Again, astonishing. You can talk about all of the professional advantages they had over Martha and the Vandellas, Aretha, or whatever other American group you can name from this period, but there was some serious talent involved, too. They were, indeed, supreme. But why? I don't really buy that Diana Ross' vocal style can be described as kittenish; I don't think she made it on sex-appeal. There was something very regal about her bearing and style. I don't know how else to describe her. Her vocal talents do not overpower you, but she was a stylized singer, much like Dionne Warwick, and she could not be mistaken for anyone else. Her performance on "You Can't Hurry Love" is a high point for me. They way she describes the "soft voice" to talk to her at night – that is so Diana and so personal. "The Happening" making it to number one is easier to understand if you saw the Supremes perform it on Ed Sullivan. I can still remember it over 45 years later because it was a happening. I'm not being very convincing, am I? Let's try another tack. I think Buster Keaton, based on his body of work, was a much greater movie comedian than Charlie Chaplin. I can back it up pretty convincingly, but its a silly argument. Charlie Chaplin is one of the most famous movie stars ever and is still an icon today. Keaton, though talented, had some bad fortunes and mess ups in his career and, though undeniable talented and still very famous, no contest. The same goes with the Beatles and the Kinks. Though talent might slightly bend in the Kinks favor as time goes by, there is absolutely no contest regarding who was greater. The same goes for Martha and Diana. martha had great success and has left a wonderful legacy, but she was not a household personality in the 60's and never quite took the world by storm like the Supremes did.
Stats March 16, 2014 at 10:09 pm | Reply
I would like to believe that The Supremes were carried along by the currents of
the popular and political culture of the day.
The Supremes appeared on the Ed Sullivan show many many times.
Sullivan ; was a theater reviewer and had a column in the NYD
Stats March 16, 2014 at 10:25 pm
A column in the NY Daily News for years; before the onset of television
when he made that transition as well.
the point is that Sullivan was the anointer of the acts that appeared on the
stage…he secured the Beatles for the show and in effect told America …i crown them kings of pop.
I saw the terrible movie The Happening to which the Supremes song is the title track.
it was on a double bill with another Columbia Pictures produced product ;To Sir With Love.
I would imagine that song was listened to in hundreds of theaters .
I have agreed with ARC; pretty and packaging took the prize.
Martha and her crew simply didn't pass the final audition so to speak.
Time has a funny way of folding over things….
Dancing in the Streets is an anthem of sorts ; as Mark Kurlansky's recent book
is on point with…
and Martha….appears at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer…
quite remarkable
altrockchick March 16, 2014 at 11:08 pm
I'd like to read a bio on Sullivan . . . but thanks for the tip on the Kurlansky book. It's been challenging enough to keep up with the music scene since the move, but life without the NY Times Book Review has been difficult.
altrockchick March 16, 2014 at 11:06 pm | Reply
Good points all! I did forget to give Diana credit for her elegance, but it does come down to personal preference in the end, and Martha just tickles my fancy in all the right places. Thanks for the "you were there" perspective—I love that.
ARC post on The Temptations is quite complete in itself .
A comment on the Temptations is best placed here.
I would certainly agree , the Temps voices were grand and a great listening
……..and grooving experience .
However when the FourTops came on the radio, or their albums played I
Literally turned to the voice of Levi Stubbs.
No Kendicks , or Ruffin….or anyone else singing for Motown for that matter.
Levi Stubbs was a secular squall singing about desire and the pain of love.
A tsunami that in his best songs….I CANT HELP MYSELF, BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING
ASK THE LONELY , SHAKE ME WAKE ME WHEN ITS OVER , SEVEN ROOMS OF GLOOM
SAME OLD SONG, STANDING IN. THE SHADOWS OF LOVE….and what was his signature song..BERNADETTE…
….spoke to hope and hopelessness in a way few others for Motown could.
A baritone who reached up into some tenor he imparted the few songs that
HDH or Ivy Hunter or Mickey Stevenson gave the Tops with a special urgency.
The Temptations were great….no disagreement there….but IMO Levi Stubbs was special .
Thanks for the Temptations review
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Monarch Airlines Finalizes Summer Schedules from Birmingham and East Midlands
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Monarch Airlines has expanded its flight program for summer 2012, introducing new scheduled flights to Barcelona and Nice from Birmingham Airport. Monarch has also...
UK carrier Monarch Airlines has expanded its flight program for summer 2012, introducing new scheduled flights to Barcelona and Nice from Birmingham Airport.
The airline has also launched its first program of flights from its newest UK base, East Midlands Airport, operating to key leisure destinations across the Mediterranean.
Monarch Airlines has a number of Airbus A320s in its fleet. One of the A320s it has operated is registered G-OZBJ
Monarch Airlines flights for summer 2012 from East Midlands Airport (IATA code EMA) will start on August 31 and include daily services to Malaga, Alicante, Faro in southern Portugal and Palma de Mallorca. All flights are available to book via www.monarch.co.uk.
New and additional flights from Birmingham Airport (BHX) will start on July 20.
They include daily flights to Nice; four additional weekly flights to Malaga (on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays); flights to Barcelona on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays; three more flights each week to Palma de Mallorca, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; and three additional weekly flights to Alicante, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays.
Four Airbus A300-600Rs remained in service with Monarch Airlines through the 2012 summer season, but all were due for retirement from the fleet by the end of summer 2014
Also additional from Birmingham are two more weekly flights to Faro, on Thursdays and Saturdays; two additional flights each week to Rome, on Mondays and Wednesdays; one more weekly flight to Dalaman, on Fridays; one additional weekly flight to Ibiza, on Wednesdays; and one more flight a week to Tenerife, on Saturdays.
"The launch of operations from East Midlands accelerates the strategy we announced last year to focus on the development of our scheduled operations into key leisure destinations across the Mediterranean, the Canaries and North Africa," says Kevin George, managing director of Monarch Airlines.
"The addition of new daily services from Birmingham Airport to Nice, a new scheduled destination for the airline, and the new services to Barcelona supports our determination to deliver an all-encompassing proposition; offering choice, value and superior customer service from all of the major gateways in the UK," adds George.
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Two leading oncology groups will receive $5 million from the Australian Brain Cancer Mission to undertake 5 year programs designed to improve outcomes for children and adults with brain cancer.
The Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology Oncology Group (ANZCHOG) and Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO), will each receive $2.5 million to improve access, and raise participation in international trials.
The funding will enable ANZCHOG to open 5 high quality, international brain cancer clinical trials, with a target of 90% of eligible children with brain cancer enrolling in these trials. COGNO will be funded under the Australian Brain Cancer Mission to expedite start-up of international trials in Australia and increase recruitment by up to 25% in these trials for adults with brain cancer.
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L.A. Noire: First Thoughts
One title I only passed by during my time at PAX East this year was Rockstar Games L.A. Noire. Are murder mysteries not my thing? Of course they are. I spent more time in the 80's watching TV shows like Murder She Wrote, Columbo, and Perry Mason than I probably should admit. Did I bear some kind of grudge against Rockstar Games? Hardly. Rockstar publishes a few of my favorite titles, with Grand Theft Auto IV ranking pretty high up on my "favorite games of all times" list. So then, what could my reason be?
The line was always too damn long.
I mean look at all those people. I never was able to get an appointment setup to go hands on with Noire and it was just so damn popular that I found other things to do during the show. (Like lose my Looxcie cam, sigh.) But Noire did interest me. It had since last year's E3 event.
In fairness, I really hadn't followed the games' development until the 2010 E3 event. I typically lose interest in titles that do the off-again-on-again dance - you know, "it will be out this quarter...oh wait development has been halted...but we really believe in this project so we will work on it again" type thing. (I call it Duke Nukem's Disease). Noire had been doing this dance since 2004 really, which is - unless my math is off - over 7 years ago, but seeing people get hyped about it again at E3 and checking out the screens the Rockstar Games group was sharing at the time reminded me of why I was interested in the title to begin with.
Film noir has been something I've enjoyed most of my young adult and now adult life. Movies like Sunset Boulevard, Mildred Pierce and The Third Man to this day are some of my more favorite films to watch, and not just because they are classic movies but they have this great balance of sadness and authenticity that makes for captivating storytelling. When done well, video games can do the same thing so using the video game as the mechanic to tell the noir story not only makes sense but excites me.
Solitary in the darkness of L.A.
Set in L.A. circa 1947, with its swanky jazz background music, big cars and rampant corruption and drug culture, Noire sets out to recreate the feel of detective films from the early to mid 1940's and only time will tell if it does it well.
In the game, the main character is Cole Phelps. According to the website for the game, Phelps is an LAPD detective that,
"...must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, racketeering conspiracies and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department to uncover a secret that could shake the city to its rotten core."
One look at some of the existing screens and trailers for the game has definitely convinced me that the game is worth an in-depth look, so I'll be anxious to get my hands on the game when it comes out in May. Visit the games' website and share your thoughts in the comments below.
Is L.A. Noire an interesting blend of the old (feature film type storytelling) and the new (pushing pixels at 1080p) or is it something else entirely? I'm not sure, but May is just around the corner.
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Mining. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday asked the international community to help his country get rid of mines and other unexploded devices, which he said infest an area equivalent to that of Cambodia or Uruguay.
"To date, 174,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory are infested with mines or other unexploded devices"Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address to the New Zealand Parliament. "There is no real peace for any child who might die from a hidden Russian anti-personnel mine"he insisted, asking New Zealand, whose army is experienced in the field, to lead efforts to demine and mitigate the environmental consequences of the conflict.
Children. Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska, Brigitte Macron and Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye met with Ukrainian students attending school in Paris on Tuesday, testifying to their "solidarity" and their wish to "accompaniment to the best". To date, 20,000 Ukrainian children are educated in France, including more than 2,000 in the academy of Nice, more than 1,700 in that of Versailles or 500 in the academy of Paris. This Tuesday, Pap Ndiaye, Olena Zelenska, and Brigitte Macron went to an elementary school in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris which welcomes six Ukrainian children from families who fled the war.
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James Wimberley says:
The EU Council has agreed on a binding 2030 target for renewables in energy supply of 32%: up from the previously mooted 27%, less that the 35% the Parliament was asking for (and could still put up a fight for, it's not final yet). Not exciting but there is a review ratchet in 2023. 32% will become a floor that investors can rely on. The certainty should push deployment higher. (****theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/14/eu-raises-renewable-energy-targets-to-32-by-2030)
The EU is SFIK still using the misleading metric of final energy consumption, with does not properly reflect efficiency gains. The emissions target cut is accordingly higher, at 40%. The increase of 5% overall for renewables does not look much, but it's +18% on 27%. The impact on electricity supply – a third of all energy – will be more dramatic. Renewables will have to provide the majority of all electricity in the EU, and governments will have to push the accelerator on electric transport and buildings.
The UK only wanted 30%. We'll see if the higher target gets baked into the Brexit deal, assuming there is one: by no means certain given the resolute ostrich policy is London over the commitment to no hard border in Ireland. Simon Wren-Lewis is splendid on this.
Ken Fabian says:
Does anyone know what the $87Billion in "off budget investments" is invested in? Does that represent a backhanded form of support for chosen businesses?
PS: the deal (which involved negotiators from the Parliament, which is therefore likely to stick to it) also included a 14% target for electric transport, and recognition of a citizen's right to produce, self- consume and sell renewable energy, meaning solar. This was a key feature of the pioneering German EEG round 2000, and will become European law too.
Visigothkhan. says:
Didn't they make some excuse to take the national broadband network off-budget? I don't know the details but I think having anything off-budget is really dishonest and gives us a bad idea of the size of the deficit. If they wanted to have a second set of figures where investments were slowly recognised as expenses (via depreciation like the private sector) they could do that, but not as the first headline set of figures. I guess I have a bit of an axe to grind on this matter because the NBN was a great idea. But it ought to have been a strictly communist undertaking, and invested out of a surplus budget. It drives me nutty these hybrid undertakings where instead of being strictly private, or strictly public they make it cronyist and bankers are falling over themselves to get their snouts in the trough, spreading red ink everywhere.
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Skyguide plays a major role in safeguarding the sovereignty of Swiss airspace. The company provides military air navigation services on behalf of the Swiss Air Force. And aerial policing and guiding military aircraft on training exercises from its Air Defence & Direction Centre are among its daily tasks.
Supporting the Swiss Air Force's mission
The protection of the Swiss air space is guaranteed in collaboration of the Swiss Air Force. When an unknown aircraft penetrates Swiss airspace, the air police is immediately on the spot under the guidance of skyguide's military air traffic controllers. These also deploy military aircraft from the air force airfields and help the military pilots with their tactical air combat exercises.
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Skyguide supports Swiss authorities and Air Force to put in place a 24 hour Air Police.
Air policing is currently the prime mandate of the Swiss Air Force. Any unknown aircraft entering Swiss airspace must be swiftly identified – even in adverse weather – and intercepted if necessary. This air policing secures the integrity and sovereignty of Swiss airspace, and supports the country's air traffic management – skyguide – where necessary.
To perform this mandate, the practice to date has been to take patrols from ongoing exercises and turn them into live or hot missions. No permanent "quick reaction alert" capability has been available. Starting from 2017, skyguide will also provide services to the Air Force over the weekend. In the framework of the project LP24 (LP for Luftpolizei or Air police) the time of operations will stepwise be increased to 24 hours per day until 2020. Training activities for military air traffic controllers are therefore at full capacity.
LP24 missions are highly complex since preparation is short but coordination needs with different stakeholders very high. Most missions occur in the civil airspace and are managed by military skyguide ATCOs.
Skyguide is affected here at the Payerne, Emmen, Meiringen air force bases and at its Air Defence and Direction Centre (ADDC). The various processes involved here have been reappraised in close collaboration with the Swiss Air Force and modified where necessary. The greatest challenge for skyguide in all these developments will be to ensure that it has the personnel numbers needed to provide the services that the Swiss Air Force will in future require to perform this air policing function.
Our air traffic controllers are assigned to:
either tower and approach control duties at seven military airfields: Alpnach, Dübendorf, Emmen, Meiringen, and Payerne aerodromes, as well as at Locarno and Sion airports, where the air traffic is both civil and military,
or to fighter control duties in the military Air Defense and Direction Center (ADDC) located in our air navigation service center in Dübendorf.
Air traffic control service
Air traffic controllers in the tower and approach control ensure the safe and fluid handling of air traffic at military airports. They monitor and coordinate arriving and departing aircraft and helicopters as well as taxiing operations.
Military air traffic controllers in the tower regulate air traffic that is very fast, on short notice and unpredictable.
Military fighter jets, training aircraft and helicopters must be integrated with one another and with any civil air traffic, such as overflights, heavy transport flights and paragliders. The complexity can therefore increase dramatically in a short period of time, which demands rapid comprehension and a high level of concentration. For military approach control, the many different approach types, including radar, military instrument landing system or GPS-based approaches, are an exciting and constantly changing challenge.
Air Defense & Direction Center (ADDC)
When working in the ADDC, air traffic controllers are called "fighter controllers" and use their highly-specialised expertise to support air force pilots in tactical air combat exercises. They also manage all military aircraft in transit flights within Switzerland. Like civil air traffic controllers, fighter controllers monitor the airspace on radar consoles.
The ADDC also helps the air police with the critical task of recognising aircraft with a questionable identity. The visual representation of the air traffic – the so-called "recognised air picture" – is precisely drafted in the ADDC. This visual overview shows the sovereign airspace with all aircraft moving within it, and is produced with primary and secondary radar equipment.
Specific deployment procedures are used in air defence training, such as the protection of a given area during a specified period, e.g. the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Russian Intelligence attacks UK, Canada, & the USA
by WCSF | Jul 20, 2020 | Cyber News | 0 comments
After an alleged cyber stint by China in gathering coronavirus related data by conducting massive cyber-attacks on countries like Australia, Russian intelligence agencies are now being accused of the same.
APT29 are known to have attacked Britain, Canada and U.S.A. to gather coronavirus vaccine related data for Russia, an accusation strongly contended especially by British Foreign Secretary Domnic Raab. In the meanwhile, Russia's U.K. ambassador Andrei Kelin has denied all allegations.
Canadian Communication Security Establishment (CSE) and UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) stated that APT29 had a clear intention of stealing vaccine data and that, the group was a part of Russian Intelligence agencies. Although, the involvement of Russian high-ranking officials is still unclear.
APT29 or Cozy Bear are known for the cyber threats they pose to organizations globally. They were previously known to have been associated with 2016 US Presidential election and 2017 attack on Norway governmental institutes.
As a matter of fact, Russia is already set to table its coronavirus vaccine for public by next month. Therefore, the claims made by the said three states seem baseless. Russia has denied all possibilities of involvement. The Russian spies were earlier involved in poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter using a nerve agent and a cyber-attack does not seem like a farfetched theory. UK is also set to publish its Russia interference report soon.
Since the lockdown began in major countries, the cyber threats have become menacing since the world seems to have come on a standstill with its massively increased dependence on the internet.
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Wall Sims research argues the documentation suggests the women consented to the surgeries, as the women were motivated to have their fistulas repaired, due to the serious medical and social nature of vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistulas.
There are other consequences too. The distention inspired him to investigate fistula treatment. Marion Sims statue in Columbia, South Sims research A bronze Sims research by Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller the youngerdepicting Sims in surgical wear, [25] was erected in Bryant Park intaken down in the s amid subway construction, and moved to the northeastern corner of Central Parkat rd Street, inopposite the New York Academy of Medicine.
During this lecture, Sims said that he never used anesthesia for fistula surgery "because they are not painful enough to justify the trouble and risk attending their administration". When you speak too fast, you do the same thing with your spoken words.
They returned to their plantations. For this purpose [therapeutic surgical experimentation] I was fortunate in having three young healthy colored girls given to me by their owners in Alabama, I agreeing to perform no operation without the full consent of the patients, and never to perform any that would, in my judgment, jeopard life, or produce greater mischief on the injured organs—the owners agreeing to let me keep them at my own expense till I was thoroughly convinced whether the affection could be cured or not.
Lift your whisper over your throat. People interpret fast talking as a sign of nervousness and a lack of self-confidence. Sims Speculum Experimental subjects[ edit ] In Montgomery, Alabamabetween andSims conducted experimental surgery on 12 enslaved women with fistulas in his backyard hospital, [10] who were brought to him by their masters.
It is a form of generalised tetanus that occurs in newborns. He contributed significantly to the field of gynecological surgery. Because a continuous stream of urine leaks from the vagina, it is difficult to care for, creating personal hygiene issues that may lead to marginalization from society for the woman, and vaginal irritation, scarring, and loss of vaginal function.
In this work, the MIT Libraries serve as a crucial partner and a source of important research in their own right. Sims took responsibility for their care on the condition that the masters provide clothing and pay taxes. Here he performed operations on indigent women, often in a theatre so that medical students and other doctors could view it, as was considered fundamental to medical education at the time.
Give your lips and tongue the assignment of shaping every lovely syllable. Sims alluded to the idea that sanitation and living conditions played a role in contraction. Sims research me know if it works.
He had just visited a patient with his son, H. Sims later wrote of his early school days there. At the time, these were believed to be caused by disorders of the female reproductive system.
He repaired the fistula successfully in Anarcha. They did not see their first actual cases of women in need until beginning their practices. Whenever there are poverty, and filth, and laziness, or where the intellectual capacity is cramped, the moral and social feelings blunted, there it will be oftener found.
Also, take deep pleasure in enunciating each resonant vowel and delicious consonant. I raise my arms up to address the crowd, speak in a loud voice, and pretend I have to spoon out each phrase very slowly because there are 60, people in the stands, and my voice has to travel a long way to reach their ears.
His technique using silver-wire sutures led to successful repair of a fistulawhich Sims published in his surgical reports of Rather, I am suggesting that you use this exercise as a tool to teach your mind and body how to slow the heck down.
I like to do this exercise as though I were standing on second base in Yankee Stadium. He caused the deaths of babies on whom he operated for the trismus nascentium condition. Together, they are tackling cancer with a blend of medical, scientific, and engineering know-how.
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Felix Godoy, 33, shot to death on house step
A man was executed in his yard, at the corner of Doris Brooks Street and Boots Crescent in the city's southside, and his family is mourning his death and trying to understand why he was killed.
Felix Godoy, Jr., 33, was sitting on the back step of his family's house around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 19, when a gunman ran into the yard and shot him in his head and body, killing him almost immediately. The gunman then ran out and escaped into the surrounding area.
Police were called by the alarmed neighbors, and after processing the scene, Godoy's body was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival. He was then taken into the morgue, where he is now awaiting a post-mortem.
The murder occurred shortly after a meeting was held by the police with men in the area, called after the murder of Kirk Hemmans, 16, which occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, August 13. Police had declared that the shooting was gang related.
Godoy's friend who lives in the upper flat of the house told Amandala that they had just come from playing football and he was sitting on the step cooling off when the gunman ran in and shot him. During the day he had not shown any fear or nervousness that his life was in danger, he said.
Godoy worked in the Ministry of Works Poverty Alleviation Work Program, and his friend said that he was cool and not a troublemaker.
His brother Arlon said that he saw Felix yesterday and he was alright. He was at the St. John's Primary School compound looking at carnival practice, when he saw his brother going home after a football workout.
Arlon said that shortly after, around 7:30 p.m., he got a call saying that his brother had been killed. Arlon said that he did not believe it, and thought that it was a joke, because he had just seen his brother. He then went to his brother's house to see if there was any truth to it, and on his arrival, he saw his brother laid out on the stairs, bleeding. Police were already there processing the scene. He identified his brother to them, and after the scene was processed, police took his brother to the morgue.
Arlon said that he is at a loss as to why his brother was killed.
Police have detained a man who they believe can assist them in their investigation. They cannot say if the execution was gang-related.
Felix Godoy is survived by his mother, Dawn Moguel, his father Felix Godoy, and two brothers, including Arlon.
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