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17th of February 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Interview and pictures by Marko Syrjala
Robbie Crane, like everyone else in Adler's Appetite, is one of the coolest guys you'd ever hope to meet, especially in the world of rock music. We sat with the bass player for the better part of an hour and discussed his newest band Adler's Appetite, his ongoing involvement with Ratt, as well as his times with Vince Neil. Read on for tales of friends and foes and everything in between…
Metal Rules: Tell me, how did the whole Adler's Appetite project get started and how did you get involved with it?
Robbie Crane: For me it started, in think it was in 2003, when Keri Kelli and I, you know we've played together in a lot of different bands and stuff, and Steven Adler's buddy at the time, Ryan Johnson, who is best friends with Keri Kelli got together with Steven and decided to put a band together for Steven to go out and play his old GN'R catalogue as well as maybe, you know, pursue some new music. He called Keri Kelli and he called me and we decided to work with Steven, and through me we got Jizzy Pearl and he brought in Brent Muscat from Faster Pussycat, so it was just kind of word of mouth, you know, I've known Steven for twelve or fifteen years or something and I've known Keri for six or eight years, so we started as a band just by us knowing each other and getting into a room and playing together, so that took about a week after we got together, and we booked a bunch of gigs and started playing in 2003.
Metal Rules: Do you see this as a serious band or rather just a project?
Robbie Crane: Well, you know, we all are from different bands, although we've all had our collective things that we've done, I think that this is a band we kind of feel that is ours, you know what I mean, although we do play a lot of Guns n' Roses music right now. We've recorded an EP and we've also demoed and gotten together eighteen original songs, so we're hoping to have an LP album out hopefully by summer, but yeah I think this is becoming more of a band for all of us, you know what I mean, maybe not our primary band right now, but it's getting there, I mean Jizzy and I still have Ratt and Brent still plays in Faster Pussycat and Keri still does shows with Vince Neil and stuff, so it's tough because, you know, while we're able to have this band be one of our primary bands, we all other things we do aswell, it's becoming our main focus, yes.
Metal Rules: What happened to Brent, why is he not with you on this tour?
Robbie Crane: Well, during the recording process there were some issues that came up, that in my opinion in the big picture in hindsight weren't valid reasons not to involve him in the recording process, at least the EP part of it. So, he's coming back, we parted ways for a little while, on good terms. Brent, he's a great guy and he's a part of this and he was there from the beginning like all of us. Unfortunately we didn't have him for this trip, which is again, I feel, very unfortunate. He's gonna come back in about two weeks from now, so we'll hopefully have him involved in the actual LP, the CD that we do.
Metal Rules: The record, who's going to release it and what kind of stuff will be on it, any of the songs from the EP or just all new stuff?
Robbie Crane: We have four originals on the EP itself, there are six actual songs on the EP, two are covers, one is 'Hollywood', because we've done it live forever and another one was gonna be a Hanoi Rocks songs, but we opted not to do that. Instead of adding the Hanoi Rocks song we just did an Aerosmith song, which is 'Draw the Line', which we're happy with, but four of the songs that are on the EP are originals that we wrote out of the eighteen songs initially recorded, so we still have another fourteen songs, that haven't even seen the light of day yet, to put on anything. So, it's going to be all originals, maybe one cover as most bands do anyways. Do we have a company to put it out? You know, we have offers from like three or four different record companies, and even to our EP we had offers and we were in a position, we thought, to record it on our own and not to have any label pressure. And to be realistic and honest, we knew we all came from different bands, we all wrote tons of music, but for us to sign a record contract in the States and be committed to that without really having a tremendous amount of songs or something that we've recorded or put out as a band to see if we even gelled together, we though would be kind of stupid. You know, what if we got together in a studio, which in reality is what probably would have happened, and we couldn't write anything? So we thought we would give it a test for ourselves and do the EP on our own. So as far as the label goes, we haven't really decided yet who we're gonna go with.
Metal Rules: How many copies of the EP did you initially produce?
Robbie Crane: The first run was 3000 and was sold out in less than a month, which is pretty quick. And then we just did another 3000 and we're about half way through those in orders. We could see ourselves going anywhere between 5000 and 10000 on the EP, but do we really want to sell that many, I don't know. We did it and we wanted to make it more of a collectible, limited edition kind of thing. And I think that an initial 5000 is a good amount, so we'll probably end it at 5000 and go for an actual LP at that point.
Metal Rules: You mentioned some big companies having made you offers for the album, can you be more specific about which ones those are?
Robbie Crane: Well, I don't really consider them big, we've obviously had an offer from a company called Shrapnel Records. But right now you can't get the EP from stores, but only through our website and our shows, and we've sold them out at the shows. In a lot of ways it's weird, because you can look at it two ways, a financial way, business wise it's a really bad move for us to only do 3000 CDs, but as a band and looking at it from, in my opinion, the fans perspective, there's 3000 fans out there that got the first pressing, and I think that is kind of cool to own that, you know what I mean, to know "Hey man, I got the first 3000." That's great to us. So financially, that's one good thing about this band in particular, that we're not really hurting for money, we all have our own things that we've done in the past, we're all financially in a good position, we don't really have to do anything for money. If we want to sign with a record company, that we all agree we're gonna sign with, them we can sign with them, and if we don't want to, fuck it, we'll pay for it ourselves, we have the money on our own. So there are a few labels that have expressed interest and want to hear more music and I think they want to see what we did with the EP.
Metal Rules: Who did the cover art for the EPs?
Robbie Crane: We had a girl, one of Keri's buddies, called Renata. The EP has two covers, the first one was the stars, which was by Renata, that was gonna be the original pressing of 3000, so the new pressing has a rose on it.
Metal Rules: That's the one on sale on the website right now?
Robbie Crane: Yeah, now that is the new one you can order. I haven't even seen them yet, because we just pressed them. We had some problems initially with the website in getting them out and the problem was that in our pressing they had gotten the artwork late from us and then they ran it wrong, in the wrong colours and we had to send it back, it was such a scene, it actually pushed us back about thirteen, twelve days. So a lot of people were a little pissed initially, but they got their CDs. You know, we're doing them all ourselves, we don't have a manager anymore, mainly because we as a band we wanna have the control for ourselves, and so far it's been great for us. Steven and everybody, we've all been involved in bands where there's management, we wanna do it right now as a band and see where it goes from there.
Metal Rules: Do you think that you're still going to keep the name Adler's Appetite when you release the album and so on?
Robbie Crane: You know, it's tough, touring as Adler's Appetite, I think, gets the point across, that Steven Adler's coming out to play Guns n' Roses songs. Recording under Adler's Appetite makes us sound like we're trying to compete or hold on to the Guns n' Roses mystique or whatever, I disagree with that, I don't think we should do that, I think that we should change the name of the band.
Metal Rules: Any ideas for a possible new band name?
Robbie Crane: No, not right now. When we first got together, we used to call ourselves Suki Jones, Brent Muscat came up with that, well, obviously it's an Aerosmith song, but I thought it was kind of a goofy name, but we just did a couple of shows under it, because it was fun. We literally got together and were like we don't know what's gonna happen, let's just play and see what happens, and we're all friends and we had fun together, so we did it and it was like, it was cool, you know, but I think that more and more… and this is the other thing, we had managers at the time that were like thinking about the money "You're gonna bring more people in if you call it 'Adler's Appetite'. 'Adler's Appetite' that rolls of the tongue and promoters like it." So as most musicians do they listened to the fucking managers and we called it Adler's Appetite and it kind of stuck. So to this point it stuck, but I don't think that we're in a position that we can not change the name, I think we can change the name, and we probably should, we may, because it's not just Steven's band, we're all partners. Focusing on one member, although again it has helped and it has got us some recognize, it's gonna pigeonhole us into being a cover band.
Metal Rules: Has anyone accused you of being just a covers band ripping off Guns n' Roses' legacy?
Robbie Crane: Sure. No, I don't think they ever said that to us, not to my face, but you know, I could see why people would think that, and I think that is a big issue for us. Again, the first time we ever came out to play with this, it was more… you know, Steven had a tough past with drugs and whatnot and we made a decision, and that was very touchy for us, if you notice the people that were picked by the management company and by Steven's handlers at the time were all people that don't do drugs and only drink beer and that's about it. None of us have histories of drug problems. They really wanted to surround him with people that don't fuck around and just play music. And you have to realise we've only played for about a year on and off and although we've done two tours with this, we're trying not to go out and be a Guns n' Roses cover band, we don't have any plans on recording a live Guns n' Roses record and releasing it.
Metal Rules: I was just about to ask about that… Aren't you going to record or film any shows?
Robbie Crane: That's a touchy subject.
Metal Rules: Like some bonus live songs for the record or something like that??
Robbie Crane: Well, we've been offered to do a few live records, like "Here's the money, record them and go." So we've been offered to do live records and all this crazy shit… live DVDs, I mean a lot of money, there's a lot of money in it, and we've been smart enough not to do it. It's not even something that half of us are interested in. It's one thing to go out and tour for Steven and do covers for him, but are we profiting of it, a little bit, not a tremendous amount of money, let's be realistic here, but it's enough for Steven to go out and have fun and do his thing. So, that's why we wanted to do an EP, again, so that we had something for ourselves as well. The same thing could be said about Ratt, I've recorded two records with Ratt [Collage in '97 and Ratt in '99], and are we playing Ratt cover songs, yeah.
Metal Rules: OK, about the song writing process, it seems it was Keri who wrote most of the songs for the first EP. How about in the future?
Robbie Crane: Well, the song 'Empty' was written by Keri a long time ago, there was an original version that had him singing on it that's where we got the demo version for that. The other two songs were written and worked up by the band… touchy subject, but it's fine. Steven, Keri and I actually sat in a room together and worked all that music up for those two songs 'Suicide' and '99' and then Jizzy came in an put the lyrics on, so our song writing process for all the 18 songs that we've written has been in that capacity, we sat in a room and worked them up, like "Oh, you've got an idea… OK." I don't know how it's going to go in the future, it's hard to say. It's tough with any band, especially with this band because there are egos involved, it not a bad thing, just common with any band.
Metal Rules: Keri has an interesting history because he's been in quite many bands. Do you know about that record he wrote for Jani Lane, but didn't play on it at all?
Robbie Crane: Well, actually that's not how it happened. He left Ratt and was playing with Warrant for a while and when he was playing with Warrant him and Jani wrote those songs together and then Keri left Warrant and Jani and him didn't talk anymore. So Jani a couple of years later recorded a solo record and included most of those songs, so that how that came about. But Keri still got publishing for it, so as long as Keri agreed, that's fine. I don't know the reality, I just know how it came about.
Metal Rules: Have you had any plans for a video for any of the songs on the EP?
Robbie Crane: No, not right now, I mean we shoot videos if we're having fun, but to make and actual video to play on TV, no. I think the purpose of the EP, again, was more for ourselves to have something out and see if people are interested or not. They could have very easily listened to the sound bytes from the website and said "It's crap, fuck you!", but I think, in our heads, they responded positively. Is it Velvet Revolver? No, I mean Velvet Revolver is Velvet Revolver and they're one of the great rock bands, I think they will be one of the great rock bands, I mean they have an amazing frontman. Scott Weiland, I don't known if Stone Temple Pilots is big here, but they're huge in the States and Scott Weiland, it would be like getting Robert Plant in the '70s to join your band, it's like that big. And Duff [McKagan] and Slash are fucking brilliant, those guys wrote a lot of those Guns n' Roses records.
Metal Rules: A couple of things about Vince Neil. When did you first join him and why did you leave after recording the second album?
Robbie Crane: Actually what happened, I was the third guy that joined the band, he got Vikki Foxx from Enuff Z' Nuff, he [Vince] got kicked out of M?tley Cr?e in February of '92 and I joined the band in March '92, and he had Vikki Foxx and Phil Soussan who is the bass player from Ozzy, and he asked me to join the band as a rhythm guitar player, and so I joined the band, we shot the video 'You're Invited (But Your Friend Can't Come)', I play guitar on the video, and that's how I joined the band and I was never a guitar player, I only play bass, but I was like "Yeah, I can play guitar kind-of, you know, sure, I'll be in the video or whatever."
Metal Rules: That song was on a movie soundtrack too?
Robbie Crane: Yes, an American movie called 'Encino Man' with Pauly Shore. So, I did the video and we needed a guitar player to play the MTV Movie Awards, we had an offer to play, June 6th, and we auditioned Warren DeMartini, he and all these people came down, but we finally ended up settling with Steve Stevens, because, you know, he's an amazing musician and a great guy and so talented, and we though he was the guy that would be great, so we had Steve Stevens play with us and we did the first record and while we were in the process of doing the first record, the bass player Phil Soussan, we parted ways with him, because our producer Steve, our guitar player, didn't really think he fit with what we were doing. So I went back to playing bass and we finished the record. Steve Stevens was so nurturing and such a good friend, he knew and tought me so many things, like a crash course, like "Here buddy, learn this quick or your out.", you know, not in that way, he was very cool about it, you know. I played in Vince's band up until '96. The first record was in '92 and in '93 we toured with Van Halen and we did some stuff and a bunch of tours in Japan, and then I did the second record in '95. That record was tough, Vince's daughter had gotten sick in the middle of the recording of the record and we took 9 months to records that record and Steve Stevens left the band right prior to it, so we had like four different guitar player play the record, and we settled with a guy named Brent Woods, from a band called "Wildside", who was a nice guy at the time. We did that, and I toured with him till '96 until about two months before he went back to M?tley Cr?e. And then when I left the band, Vince and I had a… he is a wonderful person, I don't know if you've met him before, but he is a really good guy, but when he drinks he's a jerk, you know what I mean, as most people can be, and I at the time was drinking and a cocky kid and he was drinking, and he had said something to me I though was disrespectful in front of a bunch of friends, and I didn't take kindly to it, we got into a fistfight. And it was not a big deal at all.
Metal Rules: Who won the fight?
Robbie Crane: I don't think anyone won, he never hit me and he ended up all bloody. But it wasn't so much because of me as he fell and hit he's face on something, he was drunk, you know what I mean. And I take no pride in that incident at all, he was my friend, we had a falling out because of that. We haven't to this day really talked, although we did some shows with him this summer with Ratt, and he shook my hand. You know, he had said some stuff about me that I though was unfair and only because if it was true then I would be a motherfucker, but it's not and I know it's not and he knows it's not. So, I choose, you know, no longer to be friends with him, but I respect him tremendously and I thank him for everything he's done for me.
Metal Rules: I've also met Jamie Hunting, who also used to play with Vince a while ago, and he told me the same kind of stories like that Vince used to nice but then something happened?
Robbie Crane: Yeah, Jamie is a good guy, good friend and a great bass player. But you see, his [Vince's] bands now are nothing like the band we had then, it was a band. With us, with Steve Steven, myself, Vikki Foxx, Dave Marshall and Vince, if somebody was bad that night, we'd yell at each other, it wasn't like "Oh, Vince…" *acts scared* We'd say "Fuck you, you sound like shit, don't drink all night, you can sing better." or he would go "Fuck you, play the bass better." and it would be cool, we were more of a band, you know what I mean. So with James and with Keri and all… and Brent [Woods] it's more of a… it's Vince band and they're hired players.
Metal Rules: Do you know what happened to the rest of the guys from original Vince Neil's band, like Vikki?
Robbie Crane: I don't know. Vikki left the band on bad terms with everybody. He stole a bunch of equipment from Vince and the band. You know, it's still the same old shit, but we don't talk to Vikki, none of us talk to Vikki at all, he did some shit that… you know that's why nobody plays with him anymore, that's why he doesn't play anymore in a band.
Metal Rules: How about the other guys?
Robbie Crane: Dave Marshall, our rhythm guitar player, I don't know what he's doing, he worked for Michael Jackson for a while, something to do with the guitars. I haven't talked to him in a couple of years. Steve Stevens is playing with Billy Idol, and that's it… Vince is in M?tley Cr?e and I play in Ratt and Adler.
Metal Rules: Well okay we all know that? What are your thoughts on the Motley Crue re-union?
Robbie Crane: I love the Motley Crue re-union. I think it's fucking cool. I mean I'm a huge Motley Crue fan, always have been, always will be. My bass tech Darren Meeks works for Nikki [Sixx] now, and so I get to hear some inside stuff, which I think is cool. I mean, Motley Crue is one of the great American rock bands, and as a kid I grew up on Motley Crue and I love Motley Crue, so anytime I heard Motley Crue's back together I'm like "Fucking cool.". They're one of my favourite bands. So I think it?s good!
Metal Rules: Okay, let?s talk about Ratt for a bit. What is the status of Ratt right now?
Robbie Crane: Well, I was fortunate enough to play with Ratt when they first reunited in '97-'99 with Stephen Pearcy, so for me, you know, being a huge Ratt fan as a young kid, I thought those were the coolest years, because I got to see a band that I loved and grew up on, how they worked and got to play with Warren DeMartini, which was amazing and Bobby [Blotzer], who's a great drummer and Stephen, who's an amazing guy, and then, you know, when Stephen left the band, I opted to stay on and we got Jizzy [Pearl] who is a great friend of mine and John Corabi to play second guitar in the band. You know, we've been doing it for five years, but there's been, in my opinion, no commitment to the band yet as a whole. That's kind of hard, because Warren and Bob who are the partners in Ratt are in a position where it's hard for them because they have the legacy of Ratt to live up to. Touring as Ratt as a band and playing the songs, keeping the catalogue alive is one thing, to record another record with a different singer, I think it would be very hard on them. So the status of Ratt right now is that they are a touring band and Jizzy and I tour with them, we're supposed to tour this summer with them and Cinderella in the States.
Metal Rules: Rumours have been going around that Stephen is back in band once again and maybe even Juan [Croucier] is back, and that Warren is out. It's one of those rumours, it's always there?
Robbie Crane: You know, I talked to Warren today and he is, as far as I know, the number one guy in the band, he's the leader of the band, he does all the business in the band and he would be the one I guess to say who comes and who goes. As far as I know, they made an offer to Jizzy and I two days ago and you know I can't speak for anybody in the band other than what I know, and as far as I know we've been offered to do the tour in the summer. And if they do get the other guys back, Stephen and Juan, I encourage it, I mean it's only better for the fans, you know what I mean, but there's a lot of bad blood there, I know because I've been involved with some of that and seen some of it happen.
Metal Rules: By the way, when the album RATT came out, the expectations were very high, and it was supposed to be the album that would bring Ratt back to the top, but it never really happened. It did however, sell quite well, in the region of 160000 copies in the US alone?
Robbie Crane: Something like that, it sold well. I think the problem wasn't so much the market or the fans, I think it was entirely within the band, I mean I was there, so I know. We did one single, and Columbia was ready to do a second single, and Stephen left the band. It wasn't entirely Stephen's fault that he left the band, and I'm not saying he left the band, because there's a dispute about that too, but you know it probably could've done better, I don't think they allowed themselves to get to the next level.
Metal Rules: Still comparing its sales to other hard rock records at the time, it did better than most.
Robbie Crane: Sure. And you know, we did the record with a major label in the States, called Sony Columbia, John Kalodner signed it, and he was so awesome to work with, I mean he's a legend, he's the nicest guy too, he just likes what he likes and knows what he likes and he's got a good ear for music. It was fun recording that record, but there was a lot of infighting in the band unfortunately.
Metal Rules: You also had Keri in the band [Ratt] briefly for the tour?
Robbie Crane: Yeah. I knew Keri via Jani Lane. We were auditioning guitar players [for Ratt] and he got the gig. Then when Stephen left the band, Keri also left to play with Warrant. See, we weren't sure if Ratt was going to stay together in January of 2000, Stephen left, and none of us knew what was going to happen, so it was probably better at point for Keri to move on. But then we decided to get Jizzy in the band and then John Corabi came about three days later and then we just went from there.
Metal Rules: How about John Corabi, how did he come to be in Ratt? I mean, he has a long history of being in bands like Union, The Scream, M?tley Cr?e and so on?
Robbie Crane: Corabi, I've known John since I was seventeen, we've been friends for a long time. It's funny… Union had borrowed a piece of equipment through a crew guy we both knew and John Corabi called me and said "Hey, I'm bringing your guitar case back. Where do you wanna meet?" So I met with him and he said "Hey man, I heard Keri left Ratt and if you need a rhythm guitar player, let me know, cos I'm looking for work." I was on the side of a freeway going "John Corabi wants to play second guitar for Ratt. Are you kidding me, are you serious?" I called Warren DeMartini and told him John Corabi wants to play second guitar in Ratt and he was like "Cool. Wow." So we called his manager, who was Ratt's manager at the time, John Greenberg, and worked the deal out like in an hour or two and then two days later we were rehearsing, with Jizzy and John. It was funny. John's cool, he's fucking amazing musician.
Metal Rules: Do you know what he's up to now?
Robbie Crane: Union. He's playing with Union again with Bruce Kulick.
Metal Rules: He did a couple of shows in Japan with Union.
Robbie Crane: And they will come to play in Europe too.
Metal Rules: Yeah, but I heard that it's not going to be under the name Union, it's just Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer with Chuck Garric on bass, because Jamie [Hunting] doesn't want to do it. Do you known Chuck by the way?
Robbie Crane: Yeah, I've known Chuck forever. Chuck's awesome.
Metal Rules: Being his good friend, could you tell if he [John Corabi] was surprised or pissed off when Vince came back, and he was out of M?tley Cr?e?
Robbie Crane: I think he was surprised. I told him because Vince had been telling me. you know, I was touring with Vince up till August of '96 and the reason we were gonna finish touring was because Vince was going back to Motley Crue and had worked it all out with Motley Crue and they didn't tell John until January of '97 that he was out of Motley Crue. So was he pissed off, I don't know, I think he was more hurt. But when you get into a band like that, like me being in Ratt, you can't, although you can commit as a musician and you can put your heart and soul into it, you can't completely commit your whole heart, because you never know if they're going to bring the original guy back. Especially in his position, and they tried, you know, they did a great record with John, one of the best Motley Crue records ever. They made a valiant effort, but it just didn't pan out financially for the record company or the band, so John being the new guy, they though he was the problem, I guess. I think John Corabi is amazing, great musician and a great guitar player, great songwriter.
Metal Rules: How do you like his old band 'The Scream'?
Robbie Crane: One of the coolest rock bands. LET IT SCREAM was such a badass record.
Metal Rules: Did you ever see them live?
Robbie Crane: Oh, yeah, a bunch, twenty times. I saw them before they got signed, when they got signed and after. Oh man, they were amazing. John [Alderete] on bass, he's an amazing bass player. They were great band, great fucking band. John [Corabi] has been in so many great bands, I was never a big Union fan, I though that was an odd choice of band, because John is such a bluesy fucking hardcore badass.
Metal Rules: Did you by the way ever meet Robbin Crosby?
Robbie Crane: I met him twice. The first time I met him, he was okay, he was cordial, and the second time I met him he was just a wonderful guy, really nice guy. I mean I don't really know the guy and I just thought that it was unfortunate he was in the position he was in. In my opinion, I don't know because I wasn't there, but he had a lot to do with the Ratt mystique as well as with the song writing, him and Warren together and Stephen and Juan.
Metal Rules: Do you know why it is that Warren DeMartini, who nowadays is the heart of Ratt, keeps being rumoured as being the guitarist for Dio, Def Leppard and whichever band every year?
Robbie Crane: You know, he did play with Dio, for a couple weeks, but I don't think it panned out for either one of them. But he's never told me that he's leaving Ratt. Warren played with Whitesnake at one point, years ago. He get's offers to play with everybody, he's a great guitar player, a really good guy. I think Warren sees all of us as musicians and that we can play in Ratt and in other bands too, and in some ways he wants to play and experience other things as well. The only band that I know that he played with is Dio.
Metal Rules: Why is it that Ratt hasn't released anything in the past five years? Are there legal reasons behind that, because that's what I've heard?
Robbie Crane: No, not at all. Whoever says that is a liar. It's a bunch of bullshit. It's posturing. Some people say, they can't release anything, because I'll get a big piece of it. Some people say, we can't release anything because of legal matters. That's a lie, an absolute lie. The name Ratt is owned by a company called WBS Incorporated, nobody's business who owns it, but the corporation is owned by Bobby and Warren, so they can release anything they want under the name Ratt anytime they want. So, the reason, why I feel that they won't record, is because they don't want to ruin the name Ratt, they don't want to fuck with the legacy. I don't think they wanna fuck with legacy. I don't blame them. It is one thing you record a record with me, but it's another thing to record with a completely new singer and everything. Just my bit?
Metal Rules: And for the same reason there are also no live releases or anything?
Robbie Crane: Yeah, the live releases, they could do a live thing, but it's a combination between the fact that they don't wanna mess with the legacy and that it's hard because me, Jizzy and John Corabi are hired players in the band, but in order for us to record something with them, they have to… we won't just let them pay us a little bit of money, we want to be partners in it. So, in order for them to record something and let us be partners that means long terms, so they don't wanna commit and I don't blame them, they are their songs and it's their band. So there's been a bit of a headbutting there.
Metal Rules: Have you ever even had any discussion about a new record?
Robbie Crane: Sure, of course, yeah. We've never written any song together.
Metal Rules: Did you ever make any demos or anything?
Robbie Crane: Never, not with this current band. With Ratt, with me, Bobby, Warren and Stephen we have, but never with Ratt as it is right now, we've never recorded one song together.
Metal Rules: OK. Thank you very much for the interview.
Robbie Crane: That's cool. Thank you so much.
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Sioux Falls Students React to the Deadly School Shooting [VIDEO]
Like all of us, I was shocked and saddened by the deadly Connecticut school shooting. The same is true for children throughout the country, including Sioux Falls. That's what prompted me to go to Faith Temple Church in Sioux Falls. The Sunday service was conducted by the church's youth group.
Prior to the service, I visited with three young people: Brooke Murray, Tanner Weidenbacher and Bryanna VanBockern. In the attached video, they talk about the tragedy and its impact in their lives.

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Bull Street Gourmet & Market will close at 60 Bull St. in downtown Charleston's Harleston Village neighborhood on June 29 after 10 years in that spot.
"We will be reopening soon at a new and improved spot that we are sure our loyal customers will love," the food merchant said on its Facebook page. "Until then, stop in and show some love to the shop that started it all."
The newer location at 120 King St. near Broad Street will remain open.
Anew strip shopping center in Summerville has been leased, and its shops should open over the next few months.
Azalea Station, a 12,700- square-foot project of Gramling Brothers Real Estate Development of Charleston at the entrance to Azalea Square Shopping Center, will feature restaurant chain Newk's Express Cafe, Jos. A. Bank clothing store, Smashburger restaurant and European Wax Center, according to Gramling's Mikell Harper.
The center is behind the proposed new Mellow Mushroom taking over the space once held by Perkins Restaurant on North Main Street.
Newk's, a salad shop with other fare, occupies the largest space at 4,521 square feet. It's set to open by July 4. Jos. A Bank will take over 4,211 square feet. Smashburger will occupy 2,068 square feet, and the wax salon will fill 1,600 square feet.
The Palmetto Store at 10086 U.S. Highway 17 at the blinking light in McClellanville recently opened in the former Bull's Bay Supply store. Owner Emmett McCrea said groceries have been supplied by Piggly Wiggly, and the shop has a line of sporting goods. Hardware items have been moved to a separate building. It also sells Shell gasoline.
Filling up with gas can soon be done with a smartphone at Spinx convenience stores.
The Greenville-based company, which has several stores in the Charleston market, is adding NCR Corp.'s ConvenienceGo mobile shopping app. The retailer, which operates stores in North and South Carolina, will roll out the "C-Go" program at 57 of its 69 stores. C-Go allows shoppers to initiate a fuel transaction, select the amount of gasoline they want and pay with their smartphones.
Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524 or twitter.com/warrenlancewise.


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Thanks, I will look into the ashawagandha.Do you have a brand you like?
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The harmonia has a few avoids for me, do you think Live Cell might be a good sub?
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Last month, I had some bloodwork done which showed I have adrenal fatigue. Doc is recommending a product called Adreset, by Metagenics. It would run about $2/day.The three ingredients don't seem like a great match for me. Cordyceps and Rhodiola are recommended for other blood types in the BT Encyclopedia, and Panax ginseng is recommended for men, in LR4YT. For $2/day, I'd like to think I was getting my money's worth.Any insights from the forum would be most welcome!
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Ok, thanks. The harmonia has a few avoids for me, do you think Live Cell might be a good sub? I really do not want to loose weight, but I can see that if my metabolism was optimal, my gut could benefit.


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Editor's note: Photojournalist Kael Alford spent 10 months covering the invasion of Iraq and its immediate aftermath in 2003-2004. She returned this summer to see what has and hasn't changed as the U.S. prepared to withdraw its troops.
By Kael Alford
Former Iraqi National Police Col. Ihsan Ali Ibrahim has the bearing of a man accustomed to giving orders. Even wearing his long white dishdasha and playing with his children, he's got the presence of the most popular boy on the playground, the guy everyone wanted to please. Which is why he's so uncomfortable in his new role as a recluse.
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Col. Ihsan Ali Ibrahim sits at home with his young son and daughter, June 2011. Since his dismissal from the Iraqi National Police, he fears straying too far from home in case he is recognized by the members of Al-Qaeda or other armed groups that he helped to combat during his time on the force.
"I keep myself here in the house. I can't do anything outside," he says.
A career soldier and once one of the most feared law enforcement officials in the toughest neighborhoods of Baghdad, Ibrahim is now a man with nowhere to hide. Even in his own town of Dujail, he's not really safe. He says his brother and brother-in-law were both killed by al-Qaida-affiliated groups here. His brother's wife now lives under his roof according to Iraqi custom.
During his career including the time he worked in tandem with US troops during the surge, he made enemies. Serving as law enforcement in Iraq is one of the most dangerous jobs. Revenge for grievances is status quo, the code of the street that challenges formal institutions. While American troops can leave, Iraqi law enforcement officials stay and expose themselves to continuous threats. "I worked against many kinds of criminals and gangs or other militias … so of course, I have to avoid them, because if I see them anywhere, maybe they'll kill me," he says. "Now I'm without guards or guns, protection or anything." Now that Ibrahim can no longer work in law enforcement, he says he'd consider leaving the country for a life somewhere else. But with the American military apparatus gone, he has no one to ask for help.
Photo courtesy Ihsan Ali Ibrahim
Colonel Ihsan Ali Ibrahim, seen here in a Nov. 2009 photo, is a career soldier who served in the Iraqi National Police in West Rasheed from 2004 - 2011.He was dismissed in March of this year under accusations of ties to the Ba'ath Party.
His life is limited to the new two-story house he built just before he lost his job. He also feels safe nearby on the family farm full of date groves, vineyards and wandering chickens. But he can't risk going much farther afield.
As the U.S. withdrawal progresses, the intensity of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's far-reaching campaign to purge Iraq's government and security services of any traces of Ba'ath party affiliation has been increasing. Talented and experienced people are barred from public service, leaving them few other options. The tendency may reflect Maliki's anxious grip on control in a country with a history of coup attempts from within. But it's also an indication that Iraq's sectarian and political rifts in Iraq are far from bridged. Wikileaks documents released in February this year contained U.S. diplomatic cables that indicated a systematic effort by Maliki's government to stack the security services with Shiites, regardless of their qualifications.
Some observers have noted that Maliki's purges border on paranoia, with citizens who obviously pose no threat being dismissed from their jobs or arrested.
Ibrahim's fortunes have mirrored the recent convulsive history of the military and security services in Iraq, including the recent, ham-fisted "de-Ba'athification" efforts.
As a child, he started out on the wrong side of the law in Dujail -- a predominately Shiite city south of Baghdad, famous for its palm groves and an assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein by gunmen who hid in the lush orchards and attacked the former president's motorcade in 1982.
In one of Saddam's most violent acts of retribution, he sent his security guards to round up more than 600 men, women and children from Dujail, many of whom were executed. Others were imprisoned and tortured. The Dujail massacre was the primary crime for which Saddam was tried and hanged by an Iraqi court in 2006. After the purges, anyone from Dujail was blacklisted from holding official positions in Iraqi government.
Ibrahim hid that he was from Dujail and enlisted in the Saddam Fedayeen, the elite paramilitary organization of Saddam's Baath Party, after graduating from military college in 1989. After two years of training with the Fedayeen, his commanders discovered he was from Dujail and had been arrested as a boy. He was immediately dismissed and imprisoned again.
After serving time, he was permitted to join the regular Iraqi Army as a major.
Fast-forward to the U.S. invasion. Ibrahim was fired from his Army post, this time at the behest of Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator to Iraq, who dismissed the entire Iraqi military in the early days of the occupation. When Iraqi forces were reorganized in 2004 as the country appeared to be spiraling into civil war, Ibrahim was recruited to join a new elite paramilitary unit, the Iraqi National Police, charged with countering terrorism.
In 2007, U.S. military units began partnering with the INP on joint patrols to tackle sectarian violence in Baghdad's West Rasheed district. The sector alongside the Tigris River was one of the most violent districts in the capital, with both Al-Qaida affiliated fighters and Shiite militias using it as a corridor to reach Baghdad from the south, leaving civilian carnage in their wake.
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Iraqi Col. Ihsan Ali Ibrahim, center, is seen with U.S. Gen. Raymond Odierno when he was U.S. Joint Forces Commander in Iraq.
Taking part in the U.S. strategy known as the surge, Ibrahim finally got a chance to prove himself, helping to clear the sector of insurgents and make the streets livable again.
"We collected illegal weapons from the area, searching houses and bringing displaced people back," he recalls with obvious pride. "We even closed and blocked the streets so people could enjoy themselves in the amusement park. This made us happy."
Slowly, as patrols cleared the neighborhoods of insurgents, secured the markets and erected blast walls to protect civilians, residents who had fled the violence began to return.
But when U.S. forces ended combat operations in Iraq in 2009 and withdrew to their bases, Ibrahim's past found him again.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki began a fresh round of "De-Baathification," gutting Iraqi institutions of qualified people for any actual or imagined connections to the now defunct Baath Party of Saddam.
On March 29, Ibrahim received a perfunctory letter of dismissal from the Ministry of Interior.
Ibrahim was baffled and crushed. He said he never even made it out of training for the Fedayeen 10 years earlier before being imprisoned for disloyalty to Saddam's regime. Given his loyal service with the national police, he finds it hard to believe that he would be seen as a threat.
"If they really wanted to fire us, why did they … let us join in the beginning?" he asked. "All this fighting, risk and sacrificing for nothing?"
Ibrahim has sent formal appeals to the prime minister's office and the national police commander. He says he was told by an official in Maliki's office that he'd need to pay a $30,000 bribe to have his dismissal reconsidered.
Like a museum to a bygone era, enlarged glossy photos of Col. Ibrahim in his blue fatigues, presiding over neat rows of caches of mortars, RPGs and Kalashnikov rifles, line the pink and yellow walls of a spare bedroom in his home. Framed letters of praise from American commanders serve as testament to his competence.
One letter from Lt. Col. Matthew Elledge of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Division names "Col. Ihsan" as part of the team that detained over 900 insurgents and discovered and destroyed over 800 weapons and ammunition caches. The letter reads:
"The aggressiveness of the Brigade is only shadowed by their compassion for the citizens of West Rashid (cq). … "As the Coalition Force commander of this area, I leave with the greatest confidence that W. Rashid will be the shining light for all Baghdad to follow in their efforts to take back their neighborhoods and provide a peaceful coexistence for all Iraqis."
Kael Alford / Panos Pictures
Col. Ihsan Ali Ibrahim spends time with his son in a spare bedroom he uses as an office and museum to his accomplishments, June 2011.
The day before our interview, a bombing had rocked a West Rasheed market, the first major attack in the area in months. Ibrahim heard about it from some former colleagues, who called him to say civilians in the area were asking for his help.
"It really hurt a lot because they're all my friends, you know, my people," he says. "…Terrorists don't recognize that this is innocent blood of kids or women or anyone else."
Seated on a plastic chair beneath vines heavy with grapes, Ibrahim says the attack adds a fresh sting to the steady pain of forced inaction.
"I lost all those people precious to me, and now I lost my job," he says. "What else can I do, be a farmer?"
More from the series:
Introduction: As U.S. withdraws, the people speak
For 'the Sheik,' U.S. pullout is cause for alarm
Patchwork electrical grid a symbol of country's disconnects
A new day for culture and consumer goods
For women, freedoms under fire
Suspicious minds in a squatters' camp
Colonel helped with the 'Surge,' then his past came calling
Related stories:
Analysis: Welcome to Shia-stan
Troops come home to families' delight
Koppel: Is the U.S. really leaving Iraq?
Engel: A look at the US bases, Iraqi troops and other legacies of the US presence


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A QUEENSLAND couple unfamiliar with the layout of the central business district made the wrong decision when they attempted to elude police by running down the laneway leading to Old Dubbo Gaol.
The former high-security prison is surrounded by 3.6 metre high brick walls and has only one entry and exit point. With no place to go and few places to hide, the 23-year-old man and 31-year-old woman were quickly arrested.
The couple had earlier aroused the suspicions of staff at Priceline Pharmacy in Macquarie Street.
Police said the woman had presented a prescription for the opioid prescription painkiller Oxycodone during the busy lunch-time rush.
The drug, commonly known as hillbilly heroin, is sought after for unauthorised and criminal use throughout Australia and overseas.
It is highly restricted under Schedule 1 of the Misuse and Trafficking Act and Schedule 8 of the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act.
Without valid and legitimate prescription the possession, supply and use of Oxycodone is a criminal offence. Pharmacist Mark Rugendyke said the woman appeared pleasant and well-dressed.
The man, described as being "skinny with a dodgy haircut", waited outside the pharmacy before sitting on the steps of a nearby building. "As soon as I saw the prescription I knew something was wrong,'' Mr Rugendyke said.
"It was hand-written by a doctor in Victoria. Oxycodone tablets had been added to the bottom. The entire prescription had been traced over with another pen in a badly executed attempt to disguise what I considered to be a fairly obvious forgery.
"I rang the doctor to confirm the prescription and he said Oxycodone had not been ordered.
"It was a typical golden triangle of prescription forgery with the patient, doctor and pharmacy all in different locations.''
Mr Rugendyke contacted police and asked the woman to wait while the prescription was processed.
The pharmacist went into Macquarie Street to check the man's movements before returning to the dispensary.
"The man was keeping an eye on a car parked in a loading zone,'' Mr Rugendyke said.
"The woman got sick of waiting for the prescription and left the pharmacy to join the man in Macquarie Street.
"I kept an eye on them and pointed them out when police arrived.
"The man and woman ran into the laneway near Old Dubbo Gaol. The man was taken into custody near the entrance. The woman disappeared inside and was located after about five minutes.
"They were both arrested and the car was impounded. Police told me the car had stolen number plates and forged cheques were found inside.''
Police confirmed the man and woman were arrested. The woman was charged with forging a prescription for a prescribed restricted substance and having goods in her custody suspected of being stolen.
She was granted conditional bail to appear in Dubbo Local Court on January 6. Further details about the man were not available.
Mr Rugendyke described Oxycodone is a much abused drug.
"A lot of work has been done to crackdown on its supply,'' he said.
"The introduction of computer generated prescriptions has reduced the number of forged prescriptions being presented to pharmacies but offenders continue to try to obtain Oxycodone illegally.
"This latest attempt was a funny sort of incident. The prescription had clearly been altered and the people involved obviously didn't know anything about the layout of Macquarie Street or the Old Dubbo Gaol.''
Old Dubbo Gaol began as a courthouse lockup in 1847. It was proclaimed a gaol in 1859. A new gaol was built in 1871. It was closed in 1966 and reopened as a tourist attraction in 1974.


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The recent attempts in the Senate to reduce gun violence have failed thanks primarily to the National Rifle Association's rejection of any new rules or laws regarding guns, even though Wayne LaPierre and the NRA supported universal background checks back in 1999.
Assuming we all agree that a good goal is to reduce gun violence, it is time for the NRA's leaders and the supporters of unrestricted gun rights to step up and give suggestions for how to reduce gun violence. Please provide specifics, e.g., it is not sufficient simply to say "enforce the existing laws," but please name what existing laws need to be enforced better and what steps should be taken to do so. If you propose new ideas such as putting armed guards in every school, it would be helpful if you could reference supporting research and evidence that they will reduce gun violence.
Since the NRA has opposed all ideas so far, hopefully the suggestions they propose will provide new starting points for discussions and actions to reduce the number of gun-related murders and accidental deaths.


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John Grochau, a lanky, wire-framed guy in his 30s, was busy on a forklift moving barrels around his small winery when I arrived for a visit.
"His winery" meaning the place he makes wine for his label Grochau Cellars. It's really the site of Aramenta Cellars, here on Lewis Rogers Lane in the heart of the new Ribbon Ridge AVA of Oregon's northern Willamette Valley
John describes the arrangement as a "collaboration," where he helps the owners of Aramenta make their wine in exchange for space to do his thing.
I've written before about loving John's 2004 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir, so I was excited to learn more about his project. It doesn't hurt that he's doing exactly what I'd like to do. If I wanted a model of a low-cost, start-up winery, this is it.
We quickly got to tasting, and I ended up sampling pretty much everything he has from the 2005 vintage. How are the wines? Good to very good, not overwhelmingly great but more than simply competent. John isn't the self-promotion type, but he's quietly putting together a very nice mix of classic Willamette Valley wines with a growing share of bottlings from southern Oregon. The biggest lesson – don't read too much into barrel samples, especially what you see how different (and better or more complete) things can taste once you do some blending.
We started with the soon to be bottled Chardonnay, a blend of Willamette Valley and Columbia River Gorge fruit. The former comes from the Eola Springs vineyard and an unusual clone I'd never heard of – Mendoza – that John says gives a minerally wine. Blended with the riper fruit from above White Salmon, WA (across the Columbia from Hood River, OR), this is nice, somewhat toasty and tropical fruited chardonnay with a green apple finish.
Then a single barrel of Viognier from the Pompadour vineyard 2,200 feet above Ashland in southern Oregon. There were "issues" with this wine, with a stuck fermentation that never really finished until this spring. Nicely floral on the aroma, very true to the variety, but reduced and a little rubbery. Needs some airing.
These were the only whites tasted, but John also makes Sauvignon Blanc that I've enjoyed before, aside from a little reduction that I think should resolve itself with time.
With the reds, we began with a variety of Pinot Noir from around the Willamette Valley. The Pommard clone from the Vidon vineyard in the Chehalem Mountin AVA has a fruity aroma but is very toasty and finely tannic from a new barrel. The same wine with slightly different treatment at the crusher showed more complexity on the aroma and a more creamy texture. 777 clone from Vidon from a Gillet barrel was dense and thick as you'd expect from this Dijon clone. John calls it good blending materials.
Then on to a sample from the Monk's Gate vineyard off Abbey Road near the Dundee Hills but on Willakenzie soils and from the Wadenswil clone. Lighter aroma, peppery with an ashy quality I tend to get from some sedmentary soils. Then to the Dundee Hills proper, with 667 clone from the Anderson family vineyard, lots of toast, bacon, and coffee aromas, pungent with tight flavors from a new barrel. Older oak gives a lighter color, not so rich with a slightly gassy, reduced aroma.
So far, the 2005s from Grochau taste fairly ripe and rich, not showing the cool October that gave lower overall ripeness and challenged winemakers more used to, and more interested in, higher sugar levels in their grapes. Now, we get to vineyards from the cool McMinnville Foothills AVA.
First, Pommard clone from Meredith Mitchell vineyard, picked on October 16th at 22 brix and soaked up overnight to 22.5. Bright aroma, grapefruit and some gassy smells, then light caramel hints. This from a "cool" ferment peaking at 88F, a lighter but pretty and fragrant wine. Same vineyard and clone from a "hot" ferment peaking at 94F gives a slightly bigger flavor, but still the coolness of the harvest shows.
Then Momtazi vineyard, not far from Meredith Mitchell, this 115 clone picked on October 18 at 22.5 brix and soaking up to 23. I found this sample the most complete of the barrels we tried, nicely perfumed with good fruit and spice. In comparison, the "best barrel" of Meredith Mitchell shows nice bright cranberry fruit but not quite the depth of the Momtazi. These are not blockbuster wines, but I really like the lower brix perfume and lack of jamminess so prevalent in the riper fruit people around here seem to love.
John will blend these lots into a Willamette Valley bottling and a Reserve Pinot Noir. A hypothetical "Reserve" blend was outstanding;. John mixed bits of maybe a half dozen barrels, and the result is a lesson in winetasting. Bright like most of the samples, the blend showed richness that the individual wines lacked and a more complete flavor that immediately stands out from the rest. That, and the fact that these are wines are still developing, make me think 2005 will be a nice year for Grochau Cellars Pinot Noir.
So are we done? No. I was fascinated to find out how interested John is in other varieties from southern Oregon. Not simply Syrah and who knows what else from the ubiquitous Del Rio vineyard that everyone here in Oregon seems to make wine from. Rather, Tempranillo and Syrah from the Umpqua Valley and, most interestingly, Syrah from Pompadour above Ashland where John got his Viognier.
The Tempranillo from the young Upper Five vineyard has a nice bitter chocolate aroma with very fine but substantial tannin. From McQuorkadale, another Umpqua vineyard, more floral with leather and fruit aromas and even more tannin. These wines will stay in barrel for nearly another year, so it's very early here. Same with the Syrah, first a sample from Upper Five that's a warmer site than Pompadour, showing a little stinky and tight. This wine will be racked soon to give a little air to help resolve the reduction notes.
Finally, impressive Syrah from Pompadour. First, Syrah co-fermented with 2% Viognier, brightly aromatic with floral and coffee notes, chewy in the mouth and impressive. Then a sample with 4% Viognier added at the crusher, truly inky and a little grapey, but bright, full, and rich. Both of these wines show Rhone-like flavors, not simply oakiness that most new world producers rely on for complexity. John describes the Pompadour site as a rocky hillside, like a little Hermitage in southern Oregon. We'll have to check that out – if there are truly great sites here in Oregon to grow Syrah, that would be exciting.
For now, I wrap up my visit peppering John with questions about how he got started in wine (though Higgins restaurant where he still works part-time), in winemaking (working up the road at Brick House), and most importantly, how much debt he's in so far (not so much, actually, so there's a glimmer of hope for me yet). John's also working on long-term lease to plant and farm a nice hayfield just down the road. I'm excited enough to offer to help out at harvest a little, and we'll see how that plays out. It's not everyday you get to see someone living your dream, and doing it well. I'll make a point to stay in touch with Grochau Cellars. You should too.


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Self-hacking is about self-awareness, pattern spotting and behaviour change. It focuses on the end result of data collection: understanding and action. As important is "data literacy" i.e. data expertise at individual level, not just for businesses and institutions. Uncovering hidden cause and effect in one's behaviour increases individual's autonomy. To self-hack, we need to have access to analytical tools and raw data. Current 'info-graphics' are a far cry from the power a sophisticated data analysis could give to an individual user. What if I want to analyse my data differently to the analysis, let's say, Withings scales app provides, cross-analyse it with my travel data from Tripit to see if my weight is related to change in my diet during travel. Or any other activity I care to track. The possibilities are endless, if only individual users had access to their data and to far more sophisticated tools for data analysis and visualisation.
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Nottingham Forest approach Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink after exit of Alex McLeish
Nottingham Forest have approached Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink following the exit of Alex McLeish, Sky Sports understands.
Last Updated: 06/02/13 5:04pm
It is unclear whether the 40-year-old former Chelsea striker has been contacted regarding the role of manager, caretaker manager or coach.
McLeish departed the City Ground by mutual consent on Tuesday having only taken the reins on 27 December following the departure of Sean O'Driscoll.
The Scot was reportedly unhappy with Forest's transfer dealings ahead of the closure of the January window when they failed to bring in any new players, the deal to bring in Peterborough winger George Boyd falling through at the last minute on Thursday because of an issue with the player's eyesight.
McLeish, 54, remained in charge for Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Birmingham - his fourth loss in seven matches since being appointed - but left the Championship club after just 40 days at the helm following talks with Kuwaiti chairman Fawaz Al-Hasawi.
McLeish said: "I am extremely saddened to be leaving after such a short period but even so it has been a privilege to be manager of such a fantastic football club."
Former Forest manager Billy Davies and ex-Southampton boss Nigel Adkins have also emerged as possible candidates.
Hasselbaink was brought to Forest by Steve McClaren in 2011 and then worked under O'Driscoll this season as first team coach, but departed last month after terminating his contract by mutual consent.


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can u arrange for those 2 black guys who killed the soldier to be tied up on that shit ?
would be fun for shits n giggles to watch them be eaten alive.....
A ghost ship filled with cannibal rats may be headed straight for Britain
A ghost ship filled with cannibal rats may be headed straight for Britain
(Credit: J.Schelkle/Shutterstock)Well, here?s a story that sounds made-up. According to ?experts,? a 1,565-ton cruise liner carrying disease-ridden rats is out there, somewhere, and could very well be headed for Britain.
The ship, which went missing a year ago, has presumably been drifting across the North Atlantic ever since. The Independent?s account of what happened next is based in some true facts, and then fluffed up with a lot of conjecture. Here?s what appears to be going on:
Not made-up: ghost ships. That?s just the term used for ships with no living crew aboard, and according to Quartz, they?re not that rare ? sailors have spotted at least seven such ships in the past 15 years.
It?s possible that this specific ghost ship, the Lyubov Orlova, sank ? which would pose environmental problems of its own. But its lifeboats are designed to send off signals when they make contact with the water. Only two such signals have been received, presumably from lifeboats that fell off the ship?s side. The rest haven?t been heard from; ergo, the ship may very well still be out there.
Also not made-up: Canada did it. The Lyubov Orlova was seized by Canadian authorities after its owners racked up $250,000 in unpaid debts. En route to being sold for scrap in the Dominican Republic in January 2013, a storm snapped her tow line. Transport Canada decided not to pursue the ship, declaring that it ?no longer poses a threat to the safety of [Canadian] offshore oil installations, their personnel or the marine environment.?
Also not made-up, probably: cannibal rats. ?Experts? believe the ship could still contain hundreds of rats, which naturally would only have been able to survive this long by feeding off one another. ?There will be a lot of rats and they eat each other,? Belgian salvage hunter Pim de Rhoodes explained. ?If I get aboard I?ll have to lace everywhere with poison.?
As for it being ?about to make land on Britain?s shore?? This part is mostly conjecture. The last time anyone heard anything from the missing ship was last March, when those two lifeboat signals were picked up. Around the same time, a radar just off the coast of Scotland picked up an unidentified object that seemed like it could have been the Lyubov Orlova. Search planes were never able to locate it, but according to the Independent, this all suggests that the ship had made it two-thirds of the way across the Atlantic and was headed east.
The head of the Irish coast guard, Chris Reynolds, sees this as reason enough to keep his guard up. ?There have been huge storms in recent months but it takes a lot to sink a vessel as big as that,? he said. ?We must stay vigilant.?
can u arrange for those 2 black guys who killed the soldier to be tied up on that shit ?
would be fun for shits n giggles to watch them be eaten alive.....
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.... ~ Shakespeare
Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results
Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem
- Appollo Creed
Last week there were new images released showing images of deep space that were spectacular
how can we not use a satellite and find this ship?
Tied to this stinking ship with 'no like button' & 'no stars'..... just saying
boats n hoes
having abs because you are skinny is like a women having tits because she's fat
From Britain many thanx Canada.
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IT WAS the day authorities had predicted New South Wales could burn. And it did.
More than 135 fires were burning in NSW on Tuesday night, threatening homes and injuring firefighters as regional communities bore the brunt of the ''catastrophic'' conditions of 40-plus temperatures and high winds that emergency services had warned about.
The fires claimed their first home last night - one property was confirmed to have been lost at Jugiong near the NSW-ACT border.
Power to almost 10,000 homes in Sydney, the central coast and the Southern Highlands was also cut for a time, because of widespread equipment failures.
One of the NSW fires temporarily cut the Hume Highway at Tarcutta about halfway between Melbourne and Sydney.
As night fell, the worst fires continued to burn in southern parts of the state, around Bega, Cooma, Wagga Wagga and Nowra in the Shoalhaven region. The Hume reopened late in the evening as the direct threat to Cooma abated.
By late Tuesday night, more than 60,000 hectares had been razed across the state but there were no reports of loss of life.
Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons praised the ''extraordinary'' effort of the 1600 firefighters in the field that was taking place in NSW in ''dirty, hot difficult conditions''.
Mr Fitzsimmons said a large amount of damage had been done to infrastructure in pasture country across the state, with 1000 head of stock lost.
''We've still got many hours of very difficult conditions being faced for NSW. That's tonight alone, let alone looking into tomorrow,'' he told ABC television.
''Particularly as this southerly change moves northward, we can expect some fairly intense and erratic weather behaviour,'' he said.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was among those waiting to help if a fire broke out in bush in Sydney's north, joining his local fire brigade where he volunteers.
Sydney recorded a peak temperature of 42.5 degrees.
By early evening, the biggest threat was at Deans Gap, in the Shoalhaven region, where fires were fuelled by strong, hot wind gusts.
The fire at Tarcutta, near Wagga Wagga, burned through hundreds of hectares of land, isolating residents in properties to the north-west.
They were warned to stay and protect themselves from radiant heat because it was too late to leave.
Police in western Sydney arrested three juveniles over what they believed was a deliberately lit fire in Shalvey, in the west. Up to 15 fire crews and five police cars battled for two-and-a-half hours to bring the blaze under control, with 10 hectares affected.
All NSW national parks, reserves and state forests were closed to the public due to the fire risk, while the total fire ban has been extended into Wednesday.
A man was charged for breaching the total fire ban in the Illawarra region after he allegedly lit a cooking fire, and tried to prevent police from extinguishing it as hot ash fell to the ground.
The 70-year-old property owner is due to appear at Port Kembla Local Court on April 4.


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McHENRY – Gary Lang Chevrolet Buick GMC Cadillac is reconfiguring, remodeling and expanding its showrooms and customer service areas – just in time for its 30th anniversary.
Gary Lang Auto Group was founded in 1983, and moved into its current location at 1107 S. Route 31, McHenry, in 1995.
"There were some things that we decided to change based on customers' needs," said Gary Lang, dealership owner. "We've grown 300 percent since we moved into this building. We're handling a lot more volume in our service department, and handling more volume in our showrooms than ever before," he said.
Some of the work – including a huge arch being installed at the entrance – is part of the General Motors Imaging program. But changes at Gary Lang Chevrolet Buick GMC Cadillac go beyond a change in facade.
"The customer waiting area has been increased three-fold," Lang said. "We've also reconfigured our customer write-up areas to make them more efficient. Making it easier, more efficient for the customer – that was the key," he said.
"We were able to take the existing space and just make it more efficient rather than enlarge it," Lang said.
The interior includes a more modern look with light wood furniture, a greeter station and new sales offices. Customer lounge areas feature free Wi-Fi, kids play area, computer work station and a coffee bar. New restrooms are under construction.
"For over 30 years we have been committed to providing the very best customer experience, and this remodel continues that commitment," Lang said.
Lang said employees like the changes going on at the dealership. "The staff has really pitched in, making sure that although we have some dust customers still can get the car they want and experience all Gary Lang Auto Group has to offer."
Gary Lang Auto Group also carries other brands including Subaru, Kia and Mitsubishi. The 25,000-square-foot import building was completed in April 2011.
The Buck GMC Cadillac showroom was completed recently. Remodeling of the Chevrolet and Chevy truck showroom is under way, and scheduled to be completed in April.
Lang said a 30th anniversary celebration is being planned for May.


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It's summer and the art is easy to come by. It's a great time of year to steal some air conditioning time by strolling through the local galleries. Just because you don't want to buy doesn't mean you can't look.
After all, you may want to just educate your eye for art you can love before plopping down the plastic, or you want to check out all the small nooks and crannies that Charleston art galleries are tucked into.
For instance, I love to walk the French Quarter when there aren't art walks going on. You can see the works in peace and talk with the gallery owners or managers about each artist that interests you.
Many collectors started just this way, often buying a small print to remind them of their summer trip to the Lowcountry. Passions have grown from far smaller encounters than that.
If you are shy, though, you might try going to the main branch of the Charleston County Public Library downtown.
They have a small exhibit room there, and new artists that aren't represented by a gallery can get a show.
Right now, the exhibit is "In Carolina Time," a show of more than 20 acrylic paintings by Brenda Gilliam. She uses simple moments and pattern and texture to give an impression of a music festival, a walk in the city or a farmers market.
She uses a muted palatte, showing that shape and repetitive form is important.
Gilliam is new to the area and this is her first solo show. The exhibit is at the Saul Alexander Gallery in the main library and it's free. The show runs through June 30.
Celebrity gossip always is fun, and Charleston Stage has announced that Patti LuPone of Broadway fame will be the star of its fall gala at the Dock Street Theatre on Oct. 10.
LuPone will be bringing her new concert "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" which is all the songs she sang, the ones she should have sung and the ones she wants to sing.
She's won Tony and Olivier awards for her work, and you might know her from "Evita" and "Gypsy." Think a modern-day Ethel Merman who can belt out the tunes.
The list of shows she will be drawing from includes "Hair," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Funny Girl," "West Side Story" and "Peter Pan."
The proceeds from the gala go to Charleston Stage's New Horizons Initiatives, which secures guest actors from New York, guest scenic and costume designers from around the country and helps expand Stage's professional acting company.
To find out more about the gala, go to www.charlestonstage.com or call 577-7183. Packages of tickets are on sale now, and individual tickets go on sale Aug. 1. Prices vary.
Another celebrity of sorts that will be here in July is Mark O'Connor, the violinist who is making waves with his new teaching method for beginners. Suzuki watch out. O'Connor has created musical compositions and methods for teaching children as young as age 3, with the notion that by age 12 they are up to practicing an hour a day.
He uses updated American music compositions to teach, many of which he has written himself, with the belief that you learn to play as much by humming familiar music as you do from playing an instrument.
He's been here holding a musical summer camp for several years, and this year, a new feature will be his "Fid-o-Lin Festival," which is a series of concerts before the camp starts that feature his instructors.
While that may not sound exciting, he has some very interesting "fiddlers" coming, including Riverfire, The Joe Pye Band, Stardust Duo and The Kickin Grass Band.
There will be a range of music covered from classical to just plain fun and the concerts are $25 for adults for concerts at 7 p.m. July 26 and 2 and 7 p.m. July 27 at Gage Hall at the Unitarian Church, 4 Archdale St., downtown Charleston.
Now that's a summer deal that anyone interested in music can enjoy.
For more on the concerts, locations and the camp, contact www.oconnormethodcamp charleston.com.
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Stephen Hough's strange sonatas
The British pianist gave a spectacular recital at St George's, Bristol, writes Rebecca Franks
A welcome day of sunshine in Bristol didn't stop a good turnout for Stephen Hough's recital last Friday. And the glorious sunlight coming through the round-arch windows of St George's didn't detract from the moody nocturnal atmosphere being conjured up on stage.
The British virtuoso began his recital of 'strange or unusual sonatas' with Beethoven's 'Moonlight' in C sharp minor. The poet Ludwig Rellstab might have been behind its nickname – he imagined the first movement to depict 'a boat by moonlight, crossing to the wild parts of Switzerland's Vierwaldzee' – rather than the composer but Hough's serenity, those left-hand dotted figures diving into the piano's deeper waters, made it seem more than apt enough.
Rellstab didn't go so far as to suggest that the rest of the Sonata represented the wild parts of the Vierwaldzee but it'd certainly be a tumultuous place if Hough's whirling dervish of a finale, complete with its startling accents, was anything to go by.
Between sonatas, Hough took a moment to explain his choice of theme to the audience. 'Strangeness', he explained, linked these works by Beethoven, Janáček, Scriabin and Liszt. It made for an intriguing programme – though I wondered if really it was the sense of improvisation that characterised the five Sonatas? Beethoven, after all, preferred the description 'Quasi una Fantasia' for his Op. 27 No. 2; while the Janáček, Scriabin and Liszt Sonatas which followed all have spur-of-the-moment qualities.
Janáček's remarkable 'From the Street' Sonata, inspired by the tragic shooting of a young Czech man in 1905, was rapidly written in passionate response. The free rhapsody of the first movement is followed by a static, obsessive second movement in which the pianist seems constantly to be trying out new harmonic escape routes, but always coming back to the start. In his darkly hued performance, Hough brought out the Sonata's intensity, its portrayal of the troubles of a mind going in questioning circles.
A pair of Scriabin Sonatas, Nos 4 and 5, bookended the interval. Hough had, he told us, had a change of heart about the programme order: Scriabin's Fourth Sonata, swapping places with the Fifth, would now preface Liszt's Sonata in B minor so that the latter's structure seemed less odd and more 'Classical'. Full of improvisatory flourishes, glimpses of light and colour, Scriabin's Sonatas are, as the programme notes suggested, 'dreamlike ramblings', after which Liszt's fiendish Sonata in B minor seemed if not Classical, at least grounded in human whims and moods. Hough balanced its complex, ambiguous architecture with perfectly-judged detail, giving an unforgettable performance of this Sonata.
And the overwhelming emotion after such an accomplished recital was admiration – a near-standing ovation saw him come back for Debussy's La fille aux cheveux de lin – played with a beautiful liquid tone – and a Lisztian rendition of L'Isle Joyeuse. By then, it seemed the audience was reluctant to leave, the lure of Stephen Hough's astonishing pianism stronger than that of the sunshine…
James Naughtie talks to Stephen Hough in the July issue of BBC Music Magazine - out now.
Rebecca Franks is reviews editor of BBC Music Magazine
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LOS ANGELES, May 13 (UPI) -- "Avengers" racked up another $103.2 million at the North American box office in its second weekend of release, Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.
The superhero ensemble picture passed the $1 billion mark worldwide in 19 days, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Coming in at No. 2 at the domestic box office is "Dark Shadows" with $28.8 million, followed by "Think Like a Man" at No. 3 with $6.3 million, "The Hunger Games" at No. 4 with $4.4 million and "The Lucky One" at No. 5 with $4.1 million, Exhibitor Relations said.
Rounding out the top tier are "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" at No. 6 with $3.2 million, "The Five-Year Engagement" at No. 7 with $3.1 million, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" at No. 8 with $2.7 million, "Chimpanzee" at No. 9 with $1.6 million and "Girl in Progress" at No. 10 with $1.4 million.


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Marc Bartra has been handed a start in defence for Barcelona's Champions League semi-final first leg against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena on Tuesday.
With Carles Puyol and Javier Mascherano ruled out through injury, coach Tito Vilanova has shown supreme confidence in the 22-year-old by choosing him to partner Gerard Pique at the back ahead of Alex Song and Eric Abidal.
Lionel Messi also takes his expected place as the spearhead of the Barca attack after the club declared him fit to play earlier on Tuesday, with Pedro and Alexis Sanchez flanking the Argentine in the front three.
Elsewhere, it is an expected line-up from the Catalans, with Victor Valdes in goal, Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets making up the midfield trio, and Dani Alves and Jordi Alba assuming the full-back spots.
Meanwhile, captain Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Javi Martinez all return to Bayern Munich's XI after being rested for Saturday's 6-1 win over Hannover.
With Mario Mandzukic suspended, Mario Gomez lines up as the lone centre-forward for the home side, with Arjen Robben, Thomas Muller and Franck Ribery playing as an attacking midfield trident behind.
Coach Jupp Heynckes' back four is as anticipated, with David Alaba, Jerome Boateng and Dante joining Lahm in defence, while Manuel Neuer begins in goal.
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1): Neuer; Lahm, Boateng, Dante, Alaba; Martinez, Schweinsteiger; Robben, Muller, Ribery; Gomez.
Subs: Starke, Van Buyten, Rafinha, Shaqiri, Gustavo, Tymoshchuk, Pizarro.
Barcelona (4-3-3): Valdes; Alves, Pique, Bartra, Alba; Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta; Pedro, Messi, Sanchez.
Subs: Pinto, Montoya, Abidal, Song, Thiago, Cesc, Villa.


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Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth, 1993 (ICPSR 6367)
Published: Aug 21, 2006
Principal Investigator(s):
Lloyd D. Johnston, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; Jerald G. Bachman, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; Patrick M. O'Malley, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center
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This is the nineteenth annual survey in this series that explores in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. The students are randomly assigned one of six questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions but all containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are about 1,300 variables across the questionnaires. Full details on the research design and procedures, sampling methodology, content areas, and questionnaire design, as well as percentage distributions by respondent's sex, race, region, college plans, and drug use, appear in the annual ISR volumes MONITORING THE FUTURE: QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM THE NATION'S HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse
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1993 (Spring)
Data Collection Notes
MTF does not release detailed geography codes in its public use files because of the disclosure risk it would cause. The MTF sample is drawn to generate representative samples of the four Census Bureau regions of the country (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West), but it does not generate representative samples of smaller geographic areas such as states, counties, or cities. For additional information about data that is withheld from the public use files please contact MTF directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
(1) Percentage distributions provided in the codebook were generated using full weights, which are not available on the public use files. Therefore, these results cannot be replicated using the public use files. The differences between results produced using the full weights and those produced using the sampling weights available on the public use files are estimated to be below 1 percent. (2) To protect the confidentiality of respondents, all variables that could be used to identify individuals have been collapsed or recoded on the public use files. These modifications should not affect analytic uses of the public use files.
Multistage area probability sample design involving three selection stages: (1) geographic areas or primary sampling units (PSUs), (2) schools (or linked groups of schools) within PSUs, and (3) students within sampled schools. Of the 69 PSUs, 16 were selected with certainty and 53 were selected with probability proportionate to size based on the size of the senior class. In schools with more than 400 seniors, a random sample of seniors or classes was drawn. In schools with less than 400 seniors, all seniors were asked to participate. Each school was asked to participate for two years, so that each year one-half of the sample is replaced. Schools refusing participation were replaced with similar schools in terms of geographic location, size, and type of school (e.g., public, private/Catholic, private/non-Catholic). The participation rate among schools has been between 66 and 80 percent since the inception of the study.
High school seniors in the contiguous United States.
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self-administered questionnaires
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The overall student response rate for 1993 was 84 percent.
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2006-08-21 The third edition of this data collection corrects a few missing value assignments in Part 1: Core Data. This changed the logical record length of the data file. Accordingly, the new setup files should only be used with the newly released data file. The new column location specifications are documented in the revised codebook under "UPDATED COLUMN LOCATIONS". Also note, the column specifications in the codebook frequencies reflect the 1st ICPSR edition.
2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
2004-11-11 The second edition of this data collection corrects errors in column locations for several variables, which were previously misspecified in either the data definition statements or the codebook. Additionally in this edition, missing data and undocumented codes were recoded to -9 and labeled as "Missing". These recodes changed the logical record length of the data files. Accordingly, the new data definition statements should only be used with the newly released data files. The new column location specifications are documented in the revised codebook under "UPDATED COLUMN LOCATIONS". Also note, the column specifications in the codebook frequencies reflect the 1st ICPSR edition.
1995-06-06 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
This study is maintained and distributed by the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP). NAHDAP is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).