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On occasion there comes an event/announcement that takes me aback just enough to warrant a post even though it has almost nothing to do with a score of some sort. This is one of those occasions. Microsoft has announced that their release of HALO 3 is the most successful launch ever. Oh...not impressed? Well, they aren't saying its the biggest, most successful launch of a mere video game only...but of any channel of entertainment! Say wha? Here's the short of it...
"Halo 3 has officially become the biggest entertainment launch in history, garnering an estimated $170 million in sales in the United States alone in the first 24 hours. More than 10,000 retailers hosted Midnight Madness events to celebrate the launch of this third installment in the billion-dollar franchise."
Read the full story here
Considering all of the media launches ever...movies, television series, whatever, it's just staggering to think of what Microsoft and Bungie have done here. My prediction is that the big, movie studios will give way to the indy film industry and throw all of their bucks into the gaming world.....and then produce full length feature cutscenes to augment their game releases. Ok-- maybe I exaggerate...or maybe I do not.
Now just to weave in some score-related-something-or-other, if you didn't know, the HALO 3 Soundtrack will be released in November and will include the score by MARTY O'DONNELL.

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Self confidence:
Songs to build your self confidence and self esteem
Highly recommended: 'How Could Anyone' by Libby
Roderick (Lyrics)
I am worthy
* An Innocent Man (Billy Joel) Lyrics
* Beautiful (Christina Aguilera) Lyrics
* Be Yourself (Melinda Schneider) Lyrics
* Everything's Beautiful (Ray Stevens) Lyrics
* Everybody Is A Star (Sly & The Family Stone) Lyrics
* Greatest Love Of All (Whitney Houston) Lyrics
* How Could Anyone (Libby Roderick) Lyrics
* I Am Beautiful (Barbara Swetin) No lyrics available
* I Am Who I Am (From 'Britannia High') No lyrics available
* I Kinda Like Me (Gloria Gaynor) No lyrics available
* I've Gotta To Be Me (Sammy Davis Jr.) Lyrics
* My Way (Frank Sinatra) Lyrics
Spanish speakers can also check out The Gipsy King version A Mi Manera
* No One (Aly & AJ) Lyrics
* Nobody Does It Like Me (Shirley Bassey) Lyrics
*Remember The Tinman (Tracy Chapman) Lyrics
* That I Would Be Good (Alanis Morrisette) Lyrics
* This Is Me (From Camp Rock) Lyrics
* This Is Me (Climie Fisher) Lyrics
* Ugly Ducking (Danny Kaye) Lyrics
I'd realy like to see someone record a modern version of this aimed at an
adult audience
* Who You Are (Jessie J) Lyrics
I am capable
* Born This Way (Lady Gaga) Lyrics
* A Voice Within (Christina Aguilera) Lyrics
* Hey Self Defeater (Mark Mulcahy) Lyrics
* I Believe I Can Fly ( R Kelly) Lyrics
* I Am What I Am (Gloria Gaynor) Lyrics
* I Go My Own Way (Ian McNabb) No lyrics available
* I Still Believe In Me (From 'Fame') Lyrics
* If You Believe (Lena Horne from 'The Wiz') Lyrics
* I'm A Winner (Jimmy Cliff) No lyrics available
* My Declaration (Eliza Hope Bennett from 'Inkheart') Lyrics
Also look out for
* Consider Me (The Faith Brothers)
* It's My Life (Buddy Greco)
* Me (Faith Hill)
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We rented a car to get to Astrid Lindgrens Värld and had the car for an additional day upon our return to Växjö. Although I can't say that I have missed being without a vehicle for the past 5 months, it did feel really great to have a car for a few days. Tack on the fact that we were driving a brand new Volvo V70 and it was bliss. We were actually sad to return the car.
Since we had a car for a day and our friends were visiting (they drove down from Stockholm), we decided to push the boundaries of our experience of Växjö. So, we drove 10 minutes north to 500-year-old Kronobergs slottsruin (Kronoberg Castle Ruins). The Castle was lively because a scouting troop (Scouts are co-ed by the way) was camping outside the castle walls. There were folks dressed in period attire at different work stations teaching the kids to make candles, mold and fire clay, etc, etc. You can wander around the ruins freely. In addition, the ruins are on a lovely lake. The shoreline was filled with picnickers, etc.
Summer day camps are offered at the castle ruins. How cool would that be?!


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Jack Williams
Between August and November, 2010, "The High Road Home" ranked #3, 5, 12 and 14 of the most frequently played CDs on Folk radio.
The song "The High Road Home was #7, 9 and 14, and "Atlantis Going Down" showed up at #11 and #15.
Among the most-played artists, Jack ranked #2, 3, 6, and 9.
(Data compiled monthly by Richard Gillman from Folk DJ radio playlists. Based on 13436 airplays by 148 different DJs.
Archives at http://nwfolk.com/topfolk/)
"...another stellar release..."
Review - Jim Blum, WKSU "Folk Alley", Kent OH
"...a top-of-the-heap keeper..."
Review - Vicki Ingle for Plank Road Folk Music Society, Downers Grove IL (starts on p. 3)
Order info
Notes from Jack
Song list & Lyrics
15 Songs - 54:08 minutes - $15 plus $3.50 shipping (US); ($10 International shipping)
You can pay by check - make payable to Jack Williams
and send to P.O. Box 846, West Fork AR 72774
Or pay by credit card through PayPal's secure website using the buttons on the Discography page.
Notes from Jack:
'The High Road Home' is a collection of seven relatively new songs, seven older songs - recorded previously and unrecorded - and one song by our friend, Dayna Kurtz. For the first time on a recording, I gave other musicians the freedom to shape my songs. I asked several musician friends for help on various songs, suggesting they take the basic vocal and guitar tracks and add any number of accompaniment parts - vocal or instrumental - which they felt would enhance the songs. These musicians include my regular musical partners, Susan Taylor, Cary Taylor, and Danny Harlow from SC; Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen from VT; Lon and Lis Williamson and Jason Thomas from FL; Kelly Mulhollan and Donna Stjerna of 'Still On the Hill', our neighbors in AR; and Wayne Manning of Auburn CA, whose deep bass voice will be recognizable from the CDs 'Laughing In the Face of the Blues' and 'Don't Let Go'.
The older songs include four which were written during my rock band days and which are the only songs I've found among hundreds I wrote from '70 to '88 which survived the transition from a band setting to solo acoustic performance. These include "Bad Feeling", "When You're Gone", "Cave-Woman Betty" (formerly "As the Rain Begins to Fall"), and "Road Dog Blues #1. I'm happy to have them back in the repertoire. One solo piece included among these older songs is "Hand Me Down", which was written for a play on homelessness and was previously recorded on an early album 'Highway From Back Home'.
Of the newer songs, "Sailing Away" reflects the 2 years of trying to help my Dad and his wife through the ordeal of Alzheimer's. "O Chain Lightnin' - previously released as a single - is one of two songs, along with "Atlantis Goin' Down", which relate directly to the catastrophe of hurricane Katrina. Indirectly connected to this theme is a song written to celebrate what remains of the wilds of Florida: "Song of the 'Glades". "No Longer Headed Nowhere" was written in 1993 and is a song of forgiveness, self-discovery, and recovery. "Invocation", according to Dayna Kurtz, wasn't actually written for her mother, but is an invocation to her creative Muse - whom she feels she abandoned - to let her "come home" and try again.
"Pumphouse Blues", "A Dangerous Thing", and "While the Sun Goes Down" are typical of my right-brain explorations of spontaneous and varied ideas encompassing love, life and religion, and are not easily pigeonholed. The title song, "The High Road Home", was written while contemplating the simplicity and clarity of the music of Tom Paxton, whom I occasionally accompany on guitar, but which, nevertheless, was also born in an attempt to keep my right-brain "rambling boy" on a short leash.
[All songs written by JW, except for INVOCATION , by Dayna Kurtz; ATLANTIS GOIN' DOWN, by JW & Judy Smith;
and SONG OF THE GLADES, by JW, with prose by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas]
[Jack Williams - lead vocal and guitar, all tracks]
SONG OF THE 'GLADES (by JW with prose by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas)
ATLANTIS GOIN' DOWN (by JW & Judy Smith)
INVOCATION (by Dayna Kurtz)
Kelly Mulhollan - vocal, tenor ukuleles, harmonica, acoustic bass; Donna Stjerna - vocal, fiddle; Wayne Manning - bass vocal
Tell the truth every time
Speak it softly, make it rhyme
Take the high road, the high road home
Lies and secrets fly by night
Let's walk together in the light
Take the high road, the high road home
Who's to say what's right or wrong
It all depends who wrote the song
Take the high road, the high road home
Say today. Say Manana
Play with money. Play piano
Take the high road, the high road home
It's a long way from here to there
Spill your wine or fill your cup
Thank your stars or count your bucks
Take your time or use it up
It's a long way…..
Who's to say what's right or wrong
It all depends who wrote the song
Take the high road, the high road home
Light a fire, let it burn
That's the way children learn
Take the high road, the high road home
Your mother smiles, your sister frowns
You send your love from distant towns
Take the high road, the high road home
If your preacher tells a lie
Keep your faith but say "goodbye"
Take the high road, the high road home
It's your flag, right or wrong
Keep it upright, play along
Take the high road, the high road home
It's a long way…….etc
Pick your friends, pick your clothes,
Pick your demons, heaven knows
Take the high road, the high road home
When the reaper comes to call
Hope I shed no tears at all
Take the high road, the high road home
He'll say "Howdy", I'll say "Hey"
Shake his hand, call it a day
Take the high road, the high road home
It's a long way…….etc
Tell the truth every time
Speak it softly, make it rhyme
Take the high road, the high road home
Fifty black crows on a rich man's tomb,
Howling like the devil by the light of the moon,
I got a bad feeling...
A bad feeling.
I got a bad feeling this house of cards is falling down.
Children laughin' at a man on the street;
Tears in his eyes, no shoes on his feet,
Give me a bad feeling...
A bad feeling.
I got a bad feeling this house of cards is falling down.
Down along the levee there's a rumble goin' down;
Them union (factory) boys are beatin' some poor devil to the ground
I got a bad feeling...
A bad feeling.
I got a bad feeling this house of cards is falling down.
CHORUS Mama told me,
"Look on the bright side,
Always take the bad with the good."
If the world'd stop shakin'
And hearts would stop breakin',
Mama knows I would if I could...
If I could....
There's a lot of angry people on the 6 o'clock news,
The emperor took their money but he'll never stand accused.
I got a bad feeling
A bad feeling.
I got a bad feeling this house of cards is falling down.
Dying man walking down a highway made of gold
He bet his bottom dollar on a game that cost his soul
I got a bad feeling...
A bad feeling.
I got a bad feeling this house of cards is falling down.
Somebody's leavin'- hear the taxi horn blow...
I hope it ain't my baby, lord, I hate to see her go...
I got a bad feeling...
A bad feeling.
I got a bad feeling this house of cards is falling down.
I got a bad feeling this house of cards is falling down.
Cindy Mangsen - vocal, concertinas; Steve Gillette - vocal
There is no Big Rock Candy Mountain
Or golden streets for such as we.
The cards were dealt, I came up empty...
Hand me down easy, if you please.
Old soldiers fallen by the roadside,
Fallen prey to gravity;
Heroes willingly forgotten...
Hand me down easy if you please.
CHORUS Let me lie where I fall,
With my back to the wall.
Close your eyes,
Walk on by,
Go in peace,
And hand me down easy
If you please.
Along the outskirts of the city
Spirits walk down on their knees.
Is there a secret to belonging?
Hand me down easy if you please.
Come here and tell me that you love me.
Lift my head up off my knees.
I am no one if not your brother...
Hand me down easy if you please.
There is a hotel in Miami...
The rooms are cooled by ocean breeze.
It held a lover once who waited for me...
Oh, hand me down easy if you please.
Cary Taylor - acoustic bass; Wayne Manning - bass vocal; JW - back-up vocals
Pumphouse blues. No moon to blame
Thin-soled shoes In the drivin' rain
Time's a beggar on the evenin' train
Pumphouse blues. No moon to blame
9-pound hammer. 3-penny nail
Blind folksinger spent the night in jail
Federal man knows my game
Better shut my mouth. Gotta change my name
Over the land a buzzard flies
Soarin' higher and higher till somethin' dies
Old coyote, lame and confused
Called the buzzard down. He's got the pumphouse blues
Tent revival in the bitter cold
Spent my money to save my soul
Laid it down in Jesus' name
My money's all gone, and I'm lost in the flame
Shall I fade, and so, forget
Debts are paid, and no regret
Shall I dream while dreams remain
Pumphouse blues. No moon to blame
You'll be there in songs I've sung
You'll be there when the bells are rung
You'll be there when the wreaths are hung
You'll be there till kingdom come
Ben Markwell - viola; Laura M. Smith - 'cello; Eric Nordstrom - violin
The woodpile is stacked behind the old shed
Beneath the dried bark her lover is dead
A victim of gender and love for his mate
There's no one to cry for a black widow's fate
That love is so natural, so pure and extreme
A little love like that can be a dangerous thing
A dangerous thing
The edge of the jungle is marked by the scent
Of a noble wild thing whose freedom was spent
Without cages or trainers or lights in its eyes
If you touch what is wild, be wary be wise
That love's an illusion, a claw or a sting
A little love like that can be a dangerous thing
A dangerous thing
You honor your family with loyalty and trust
If favors are given, well serve then you must
You serve without mercy, the deed must be done,
And you serve out your time when the law finds the gun
That love is your secret, your bond and your ring
A little love like that can be a dangerous thing
A dangerous thing
Beloved commander gets sand in his boots
The infidel rises, charges and shoots
The children do battle, their mothers be damned
For the love of the gold in a far away land
That love is betrayal, a lie and a scheme
A little love like that can be a dangerous thing
A dangerous thing
I'll leap when I find it, and speak it out loud
I'll climb to its center and fly through its cloud
I'll beg its forgiveness and laugh in its face
I'll chase it to heaven and dance in its place
For love's the beginning, the spring and the dawn
A little love like that and the danger is gone
For love's the beginning, the dawn and the spring
A little love like that can make the wide world sing
Can make the wide world sing
Cary Taylor - vocal, acoustic bass; Susan Taylor - vocal; Wayne Manning - bass vocal; JW - back-up vocals; Danny Harlow - mandolin
Birds will sing, tears will fall,
The sun will shine and that ain't all
Everything will go on when you're gone
Flowers grow, tides will rise,
The Northern Lights dance up in the skies
Everything will go on when you're gone
Lightning strikes, thunder rolls,
Rivers shatter, lava flows
Everything will go on when you're gone
Rocks are hard, so is love
And hard to make as the stars above
Everything will go on when you're gone
Dandelions, dragonflies
Sweet rain from southern skies
Everything will go on when you're gone
Take the pleasure and the pain
When you're gone the winds of change
Will howl and never call your name
When you're gone
It's 2005, you're dead and cold
The world's still turnin' and your widow's got your gold
Everything will go on when you're gone
The speed of light won't slow down
And if it does, you won't be around
Everything will go on when you're gone
Wayne Manning - bass vocal; JW - back-up vocals
I don't know but I've been told
What Jesus said in days of old
What I've heard's all right with me
Be he man or divinity
I've known Christians, I've known Jews
I've walked miles in many shoes
Muslim, Shinto, meek and bold
Tethered to the ways of old
Who would twist their words so wise
Turn love to hate and truth to lies?
I don't know but I've been told
What Buddha said in days of old
Tell me who would make these halls
Where liars stand and gamblers fall
Tell me who would sow these fields
Where warriors ride on armored wheels
Tell me who would weep for all
Severed heads on hunters' walls
I don't know but I've been told
What Mohammed said in days of old
Let's sit and talk of many things
Maybe we can laugh and sing
While the sun goes down
While the sun goes down
Why create a lovely land
For one to own and one be banned?
Why create a mockingbird
For one to kill and not be heard?
Why create your lovely eyes
To never see a moon arise?
Why create a golden moon
To only shine on palace rooms?
I don't know but I've been told
What Jesus said in days of old
I don't think he'll come again
To share the blame for the shape we're in.
Kelly Mulhollan – tenor ukulele; Ben Markwell - viola; Laura M. Smith - 'cello; Eric Nordstrom - violin
You've got reason - to be cross
Ordinary – things get lost
Words of love – grocery list
Bedroom shoes – goodnight kiss
Favorite colors – Autumn skies ?
Afternoons – alibis
You've got reason – to be cross
Ordinary – things get lost
I can't blame you – when you cry
Just because you - cannot fly
When you're feeling - free again
And a memory – barges in
When a strange – and empty space
Fills an old – familiar face
I can't blame you – when you cry
Just because you – cannot fly
At the end of the day…
You're sailing away
Sailing away
Looking through me – at the wall
You don't know - your child at all
Elvis songs – dog your mind
Silly poems – childhood rhyme
Christmas carols – Baptist hymns
Shampoo jingles – growing dim
Looking through me – at the wall
You don't know – your child at all
You don't know me – I can tell
There's no bottom - to your well
Cary Taylor - electric bass; Wayne Manning - bass vocal; JW - back-up vocals
Cave woman Betty
Hair down over her eyes,
Is starin' in your window,
She's got a very big surprise...
She says she knew you when
The years were not so well defined,
You oughta drop back to see her...
If only you can find the time.
She says you're not so smart
For turnin' human after all,
And she hopes you can recover
As the rain begins to fall.
Cave woman Betty
Can look down into your soul.
She sees there's nothing happening there
Inside that gaping hole.
She talked at length with Stalin
With Hitler, Bush, bin Laden, too
But they're all in the seventh circle
And she's got a lot to ask of you
She says if you're so wonderful,
Then why are you so small?
And your world grows even smaller
As the rain begins to fall.
As the rain begins to fall... As the rain begins to fall...
As the rain begins to fall… As the rain begins to fall.
Cave woman Betty
Is cursing as she cries
She's starin' into your waters
And the colors in your skies.
She tried her hand at Facebook
Tried the roller derby, too.
She said, "Too bad your world is empty
I gotta go now. There's nothin' I can do."
And she left me here a-bleedin'
With my back against the wall...
Miscalculating everything
As the rain begins to fall.
Kelly Mulhollan - vocal, mandolin, acoustic bass, percussion; Donna Stjerna - fiddle
Windshield wipers crappin' out
Cryin' in the rain
Halfway through Missouri
Think I'm nearly gone insane
Followin' your footsteps,
gotta get back home to you
There's a full moon on the highway
And the pilot's got the Road Dog Blues
I got Conway Twitty singin'
"It's only Make Believe"
I see him on my radio
He's got somethin' up his sleeve
He writes those songs for money, baby
Somethin' 'bout it don't ring true
My speakers sound like thunder
Howlin' with the Road Dog Blues
Well, there's just 900 miles
to the Carolina line
If I had a jet plane, I'd make it home on time
But I'm an I-tinerant picker
with a guitar in the sack
I left crazy ways behind me, baby,
I'm never turnin' back
I got feathers on the wind-shield
And butterflies on my grill
Love-bugs on my headlights
Now, what else have I killed?
I'm dodgin' mama possums
Raccoons, deer, kangaroo
There's a full moon on the highway
I'm howlin' with the Road Dog Blues
My eyes are getting' heavy
My body feels like lead
I'm weavin' down the freeway wishin'
I was in your bed
Need one more cup of coffee
And a piece of pie will do
Now, caffeine's ridin' shotgun
I'm howlin' with the Road Dog Blues
Well, I used to look for trouble
But that was in my youth
I'd turn around and follow
'Bout any Baby Ruth
I /pass up someone thumbin' cause she
Don't look enough like you
Yeah, Lady Luck is smilin'
The pilot's got the Road Dog Blues
There's a full moon on the highway
I'm howlin' with the Road Dog Blues
JW - vocals, percussion
O chain lightnin'
Great storm arisin'
Shook my nation's foundation
And now I can't go home
Rain fallin' steady
Wind howlin' heavy
Crack in the levee, children
Hear the awful truth
God made an oak tree
God made my eyes to see
Mother and my family
Torn from my arms
I had a country
I had a family
I had a great city
Older than the sea
Flyin' over Poncha'train
Flyin' over hurricane
High above the simple man
Your flag's forgotten me
Who's that standin' in the wings
With bread, water, and my dreams
Them for whom freedom rings
Who slept right through the storm
They lied to their brethren
Lied up to heaven
Lied to their children, Lord
Cryin' from the roof
[by JW, with prose by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas]
Lis Williamson - vocals; Lon Williamson - electric bass; Jason Thomas - mandolin; Ben Markwell - viola; Laura M. Smith - 'cello; Eric Nordstrom - violin
On a wide oak hammock with a low shell mound
There's no human voice but life abounds
God's Little Boy rests on the ground, sleeping
Out over the glades, a thunderstorm
Starts a fire and the birds all swarm
The boy awakens but he fears no harm
He's been dreaming
Snail kite, egret's flight
Alligator rests on the old shell mound
Cypress knees, a warm Chokoloskee breeze
The clouds above the glades don't make a sound
Pink sky, spoonbills fly
Water catches fire through the red mangrove
Full moon, in the eyes of a big raccoon
The old cat moves through a twilight no man knows
Lay me down where the sawgrass blows
Let Okechobee's waters roll my bones
Lay me down with the apple snail
Where the sunlight glints on the ripples
And the limpkin wails
Cattails, clapper rails
Flamingos flock a thousand islands long
Manatee, floatin' in the slough by me
Where the clear Caloosahachee rolls along (check sp)
The clear, burning light of the sun
Pours day-long into the sawgrass and is lost there
Soaked up, never given back
Only the water flashes and glints
The grass yields nothing
The truth of the river is grass
Gamble rambled
From the prairie to the isles of Florida Bay
Oh, man, clearing out the great oak stands
Don't haul the rest of Florida away
[by JW & Judy Smith]
Cary Taylor - acoustic bass; Bryan Cumming - cornet, c-melody sax; Steve Carruthers - trombone; Wayne Manning - bass vocal; JW - back-up vocals
Down where the Mississippi meets the Gulf of Mexico,
They raised a mighty city 'neath the levee, don't you know.
People came to Louisiana, bringing music to the night -
Africano, Espanol, Francais, rich and poor and black and white.
Then there came a great commotion from the Gulf of Mexico.
Water rose above the city – cracked the levee, don't you know.
Everybody ran for cover, losing everything that day
If they couldn't leave their homes,
the water rose and swept them all away
A hard rain fallin' - Pensacola to New Orleans
Hear the sound, hear the sound
Like the Incas [Easter Island] and Pompeii, they all blew away
Like Atlantis….
Like Atlantis goin' down
Then the terrible wind subsided and the sun returned to shine
We saw a great destruction and we were praying for a sign
But there was no help provided from the mansion on the hill
So the poor and downtrodden went away,
but return they never will
Then the secret doors were opened at the mansion on the hill
There were words of resurrection, and the levees they would build
There'd be music in the quarter, and dancing in the night
And you're welcome to return,
if you're white and wealthy and you're one of them
I confess my obsession,
I relinquish all control,
I throw caution to the wind
And lay bare my awkward soul.
I'll put down all the tools of my trade,
And make good all the promises I've made.
I've gone face to face with demons,
Rejected angry ghosts.
I've rattled the bones of devils past,
The ones I feared the most.
I will lay all my secrets open wide,
Till the past will have nothing left to hide.
I'm coming to a place I've only dreamed about.
I've turned away from anger and despair.
This could be the hardest road I've traveled, babe,
But I'm no longer headed nowhere...
I would never have found you there.
All my labors now are pleasures.
All my fears are tinkertoys.
You offered me the future
With forgiveness in your voice.
I have come to believe in myself,
And I know you believe in me as well.
[by Dayna Kurtz]
Kelly Mulhollan - vocal, banjo, mandolins, harmonica, acoustic bass, pump organ, percussion;
Donna Stjerna - vocal, fiddles; Wayne Manning - bass vocal;
Cary Taylor, Susan Taylor, Danny Harlow, Judy Smith, JW - back-up vocals
Would you even know me since I've been away
I wake with my eyes closed and sleep through the day
But I'll open my heart and I'll learn how to pray….
If Mama, you let me come home
I've snuck into Eden in the hours before dawn
I've stolen the apples that dropped on your lawn
My spirit, my pride, and my innocence gone….
Please, Mama, let me come home
Oh Mama, let me come home
I've strayed far from you for too little, too long
I know I been hard-headed, selfish and wrong…please
Mama, let me come home
I'm shut out of heaven and decades from hell
Passed out in the shrines where the beautiful fell
I've burned down the silo and poisoned the well…
Please, Mama, let me come home
I made back-alley deals that were forged in your name
I was dazzled by gold and the shimmer of fame
And you knew all the time but you never complained…
Please, Mama, let me come home
I'll do all the dishes and clean out your shed
I'll bring you the paper and coffee in bed
I'll tell you great stories right outta my head….
If Mama, you'll let me come home
I'll be a great sage or a fabulous liar
I'll hammer a truce or wage war in your honor
Follow every spark rising up from your fire…
If Mama, you let me come home


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The Engineering-Public Works Department wants the public to be aware that access to Schultz Park will be limited beginning Tuesday, May 28. MAC Construction & Excavation, Inc. will begin mobilizing equipment and initiating the construction of the project to create the breakwater, also known as the bump-out, along Paducah's riverfront. During the 180 day construction period, vehicles will have limited access to Schultz Park. Traffic will be able to enter the park through the floodwall opening at Jefferson Street but must exit next to the Farmers' Market at Monroe. The contractor will be using the Harrison Street floodwall opening. That opening in addition to the city-owned land where the former Executive Inn hotel used to stand will be blocked to through traffic.
This $4.49 million phase of the Riverfront Redevelopment Project involves the installation by barge of approximately 230,000 cubic yards of stone fill in the Ohio River to create a land mass, the installation of 12 guide structures to support a gangway, and the removal of existing concrete rip-rap. Once the fill is in place, it will need to settle for nine to 12 months before further work can commence.
City Engineer-Public Works Director Rick Murphy says, "The fleeting of barges loaded with stone from Lafarge Three Rivers Quarry in Smithland, Kentucky will begin late next week. The work involves the unloading of boulders from the barges to build a new land mass which will eventually become a new park."
Murphy adds that the project also involves the installation of 12, 36-inch diameter pilings that will provide the support structure for the gangway that will lead to a transient dock. Each piling is set 40 feet into the bottom of the Ohio River. The pilings will be as tall as the floodwall and will allow the gangway to rise and fall with the level of the Ohio River. The dock, gangway, marina services building, and park amenities will be constructed in the next phases of the project.
City Manager Jeff Pederson says, "Paducah has an incredible natural asset, the Ohio River. Communities across Kentucky and surrounding states know the value in investing in their riverfronts." Pederson adds, "Paducah has made a significant investment in this project. Since 2008, the City has invested $1.26 million for the engineering design, legal fees, and mussel relocation costs."
The majority of the project is funded by a $2.97 million Neighborhood Initiative Project Grant by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grant funds are to be used on this project only. Proceeds from the June 4 auction of the city-owned property on Sheehan Bridge Road will be used for this project.
Murphy also wants the public to be aware that the utility relocation on Burnett Street has begun for the Ohio River Boat Launch Project. Burnett Street is being improved from North 8th to North 6th Streets over the floodwall. The project adds a boat ramp, courtesy dock, and parking area at the end of Burnett. The City has a nearly $2.59 million contract with Jim Smith Contracting Company, LLC of Grand Rivers, Kentucky. The City has a $2.254 million Federal Highway Administration grant designated for the boat launch project.
For more information about the Riverfront Redevelopment Project, visit www.paducahky.gov.


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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Not 'business friendly' - Post #11: too many day cares?
Yes, that's correct. According to Brown, there are too many people providing day care in their homes and the city needs a moratorium on them until council can come up with some regulations to limit them.
Apparently, the NEED for such places completely escapes this council member - for if there wasn't a NEED, they'd be out of business. Of course, the fact that this is a way for individuals with limited work skills to actually earn money and support their families must have been overlooked as well.
I'm certain that, in addition to creating zoning regulations to try and limit the numbers of these types of businesses, there will also be some kind of registration fee to increase the revenues to the city of Toledo. After all, you can't have some types of regulation without a corresponding fee - and there are soooo many things the city wants to spend money on.
It's stuck on stupid ideas like this that continue to drive people and businesses away from our city.
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- navyvet said...
Wilma..Wilma...what are we going to do with you?
This is so bad...it is funny...in a sad sorta way...
- bobthedad said...
I don't know, maybe Wilma is on to something. This winter every time it snowed I think I had at least 3 kids on my doorstep (some older than 40) asking me to hire them to shovel the walk. That's just way too many. We could require them to register with the city and obtain a license, then have a city inpector come by when they are done to OK the work. Of course they can't perform the work for less than a living wage and the required number of breaks and sick days and should probably require union representation as well. Yeah, that's the ticket...
- Robin said...
Some of the corporate run day care centers must have been complaining. Or maybe there are plans to build a corporate day care center in her district.


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Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! The haze is extremely mad today. View from 17th floor is just pure grayish stain outside the window. Madness and in office it's the smell that's crazy.
Anyway apart from the haze I was totally shocked by what I got to know earlier today.
I, I mean my blog was featured with 4 others bloggers on page 136 of InTrend magazine. How cool is that? If its not cool then I'm ok with it. Shoo shoo. I've never in a million years would imagine writing crappy stuff would even get anyone's attention. Let alone a mag. Well I'm pretty excited from it since its a first for me.
Here's the page ;)
Here's the feature.
It's pretty small but I feel speechless. Quarter page. Sorry I'm just excited. Don't get mushy.
I'm guessing they wrote the article sometime in early May since the pic in the feature was back in April. Or they chose that as the rest was not quite appropriate. Too much camwhoring?
Something about the mag, well InTrend is a local fashion and lifestyle mag. Been around for years and they've got good followers. Bought the mag like literally. Self obsess?
But the header in there is different from the current. How?


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FRANKFORT, Kentucky - Hundreds of people were standing as the tower came down and change Frankfort's skyline.
It was the moment hundreds of people had gathered in downtown Frankfort for 28 stories, destroyed in just a few seconds.
"We just want to watch the building, brought the kids with us they seem to be really excited about it," said Erin and Ryan Root.
"We've seen videos on buildings getting destroyed so we thought it would be interesting seeing it in person," said Collin Moore.
The festival-like atmosphere stretched from the Transportation Building.
"In some measure, it will be the thrill of seeing a building come down but another measure as well it's just a chance for us to come together as a community," said Matt Bevin.
To the YMCA, just a few hundred yards away from the implosion.
"Fantastic, I'm a civil engineer training, been retired. It was marvelous I don't know any other way to say it," said Darrell Mach.
Most of the people I spoke to were from fairly close, but there were a few travelers, like this man who came from Ohio.
"That was really cool, actually it was better than I thought, I didn't know it was going to be that quick coming down. All that power and energy to it was really neat," said Brian Gibson, a man who drove from Ohio.
It went off without a hitch, but not without kicking up a mess.
Most of the crowd outran that cloud, and within a few minutes, the pile of rubble that was all that remained of the Capital Plaza Tower was clearly visible.
The building that will replace the tower is set to open in January of 2020.
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EU EU assistance achieved some of the expected improvements in basic education in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but less than intended, according to a special report published today by the European Court of Auditors.
Through the Education for All movement and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the EU and the international donor community at large have committed themselves to support developing countries to achieve a multitude of objectives, including ensuring primary education for all children, eliminating gender inequalities and improving education quality. The Court's audit assessed whether EU development assistance in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia has helped achieve these three objectives and to what extent shortcomings in the European Commission's management can explain the shortcomings in the results observed.
The Court concludes that, overall, significant progress has been made, although only 45 % of the targets in the audited financing agreements were fully achieved. For the goal of ensuring primary education for all children (MDG 2), only some of the intended improvements were achieved and progress has in general been too slow to ensure that targets for 2015 will be met. Most of the countries examined have registered progress in enrolment since 2000 but completion of the full cycle of primary education remains an issue for all of them. For the objective of eliminating gender inequalities in education (part of MDG 3), the EU's interventions contributed to enabling the beneficiary countries to achieve some of the intended improvements. But significant inequalities persist within particular regions and social groups. For the third priority goal, improving education quality, few of the intended improvements were achieved.
The Court concludes that the Commission's management did not consistently ensure appropriate programming and implementation of aid. Where sector budget support was used this choice generally conformed with the Commission guidelines. The increasing use of general budget support in sub-Saharan Africa has much reduced the extent to which detailed targets and indicators are set for basic education and sector dialogue is less intensive. The Court finds that the advantages of the measures for mitigating fiduciary risks such as those used in pooled funding were not fully considered by the Commission. Generally the indicators used were found to have an appropriate focus on the MDGs, although insufficient attention is paid to indicators for education quality. However, the national education management information systems that the Commission relies on do not consistently provide sufficient, reliable and timely information. Coordination with other donors has generally improved although it entails compromises which sometimes affected the Commission's own management or priorities. The Court finds that education expertise is not optimally assigned and developed in Delegations, which reduces the Commission's ability to maintain sector dialogue. It also finds that the EU provided capacity development support although in most cases it did not work as intended.
On the basis of the above observations, the Court makes a set of recommendations with the aim of improving the Commission's management of EU development assistance to education.
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Autopsy results showed that Shiryl Saturnino died of multiple organ failure secondary to complications from cosmetic surgery, the Mandaluyong Police said. The results were presented during the case conference of Special Investigation Task Group Shiryl on Thursday.
The 29-year old businesswoman died on Sunday while undergoing three cosmetic procedures at The Icon Clinic in Mandaluyong City.
Authorities are contemplating to file a criminal and administrative cases against The Icon Clinic, Drs. Samuel eric Yapjuangco and Jose Jovito Corder, nurses Virgil Alec Ongleo, Alvin Carl Genove, and Audrey Michelle Santos, if Saturnino's death is proven to be the result of their neglect. They maybe charged of reckless imprudence resulting to homicide, according to SITG Shiryl Commander P/Sr. Supt. Marcelino Pedroso.
"Nakikita kong may negligence on part of The Icon Clinic, considering na yung initial requirements para mag-exist ang isang medical clinic ay hindi nila nasunod," Pedrozo said.
A histopathological examination will be performed at the PNP crime lab to further the investigation and charge medical personnel involved in her fatal surgery.
The Philippine Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (PAPRAS) will also investigate Saturnino's death. They are also eyeing neglect on the part of the medical team and if precautionary measures were done prior to the surgery.
"Even a minor surgery under local, even in a medium surgery, there will always be a complication. And that complication is usually minimized by having exams na fit ang patient. Miniminimize but it may still happen," Dr. Briccio G. Alcantara, PAPRAS Vice-President for Internal Affairs said.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health (DOH) temporarily closed down The Icon Clinic while awaiting results of the investigation.


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Lake Villa is a village in Lake County, Illinois United States. The population was 8,741 at the 2010 census, up from 5,864 in 2000. Lake Villa lies within Lake Villa Township.
Lake Villa is located at 42°25′3″N 88°4′56″W (42.417546, -88.082360).
According to the 2010 census, Lake Villa has a total area of 6.994 square miles (18.11 km2), of which 6.19 square miles (16.03 km2) (or 88.5%) is land and 0.804 square miles (2.08 km2) (or 11.5%) is water.
The village lies in a gently rolling moraine landscape, dominated by lakes of glacial origin. Among these are Cedar Lake, north of the village center, and Deep Lake, to the east. There are several smaller lakes and ponds, along with a complement of wetlands. The lakes and ponds have been important in Lake Villa's historic tourist industry, and over the years led to a small ice industry.
Drainage is ultimate to the Des Plaines and Fox rivers, both of which flow to the Illinois River and ultimately the Mississippi.
The Wisconsin Central Railway runs through the village center. This is a heavily used freight line which also carries Metra commuter rail traffic from Antioch, Illinois to the Chicago Loop.
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Jack Strabo is a man with a mission. The Landon junior showed he meant business today by picking up his fourth invitational win of the season, with a time of 16:56 on the 5-kilometer course. Strabo is in the middle of a breakout season, having lost to only two athletes this season- Solomon Haile of Sherwood and Robert Patterson of DeMatha- and his goal of winning the IAC title is looking more and more obtainable with each race. He is clearly in a league of his own, but that's not to say no one else is worth mentioning.
The varsity girls' race saw St. Andrews win with a mere 24 points, earning them their fourth consecutive title at the Landon Invitational. They were led by Yaa Addison, who led the race early on as a pack of about six runners followed closely behind. As the pace continued, however, the pack began to dwindle, and by two miles, Addison saw herself followed by only one other runner, Lauren Police of Flint Hill. It wasn't long before Police took over the lead, opening up a ten meter gap on Addison which she never relented for the remainder of the race. The Flint Hill sophomore kicked it home for a winning time of 21:48, four seconds ahead Addison, and twenty-six seconds ahead of third place finisher Nina Roumell of the Bullis School. After that, St. Andrews showed its dominance as a team thanks to Hannah Hastings, Megan and Lisa Nash, Charlotte Kiernan, and Elana Taub placing 4th, 6th, 7th, 10th, and 12th, respectively, giving St. Andrews a huge margin of victory over second place Holy Cross. Speaking of Holy Cross, those hoping for a Chiny Asher sighting were disappointed, as she will apparently be focusing on soccer, not cross country, for the remainder of the season.
As expected, Jack Strabo led from the gun in the boys' varsity race, but that's not to say he wasn't alone. A sizeable chase pack dwindled after the first half-mile, leaving only two runners, Tim Hadley and Tim Vaughan of the Heights School, following closely behind. Jack and the Tims passed through the mile in a relatively pedestrian 5:40, but over the next mile the pace quickened and Vaughan fell off, leaving Strabo with only Hadley to deal with as they passed through two miles together in the 11:30s. Strabo used this opportunity to increase the pace yet again, creating a gap on Hadley that would only grow for the remainder of the race. For the last five minutes, Strabo flew, as he covered the final mile in well under five minutes for a 16:56 win, while Hadley brought home the silver sixteen seconds back in 17:12.
It wasn't a completely unhappy ending for Hadley, though. The Heights eeked out its first major invitational win of the season thanks to strong finishes by Tim Vaughan (3rd), Greg Hadley (5th), Sebastian Lulli (11th), and Phillip Allen (27th) for a total team score of 48, a mere three points ahead of host school Landon.
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When Commonwheel Artists Co-op first formed in 1974, it counted about 50 people, many friends of one another, who dabbled in counterculture, made art and performed street theater. And though it's hard to imagine today in a town that touts its peculiarity, all those "hippies" weren't immediately welcomed.
"I think we may have seemed like something of a threat to the business community," says Roger Tolzman, one of the founding members. "But then in time we all bought houses and were upstanding citizens, and now we're quite accepted."
He's right, of course. When once there was little support for Commonwheel's annual art festivals — in the early days there were fests on Memorial Day and Fourth of July, in addition to the Labor Day festival — businesspeople last year mourned when summer floods forced the Labor Day event away from the town center and east to Fields Park.
It was in the Aug. 9 flood that the gallery suffered its greatest blow. Waters rushed into the basement, destroying computers and paperwork and leaving gallery scrapbooks in terrible shape. Commonwheel closed for almost three weeks, and the festival suffered a 25 percent drop in sales and attendance. On the heels of the closure of the Dulcimer Shop, another Manitou institution, there was talk the co-op was finished just as it approached its 40th year.
Not so.
"At this moment, we're not going anywhere," says festival coordinator Julia Wright. The building landlord has shored up the walls, the co-op offices have relocated into member homes, and now Commonwheel is celebrating its anniversary with an art show devoted to the work of its members — former and current, numbering over 40 — that Wright is curating with Tolzman. Called Old Spokes, the name references the group's title and mission, that each member (as an artist and a shareholder) be a spoke in a common wheel.
Torrential rains aside, the challenges Commonwheel faces going forward are about the same as they've always been. The co-op's 35 members have equal say in all affairs, and rarely will it be easy to get everyone united on issues big and small. But Wright still embraces the model, saying that "the co-op has thrived."
"I don't think we had any sense that it would be as ongoing as it has been," Tolzman adds. "But there's been so much dedicated work over the years ... that has kept the machinery running."
This is, after all, the same institution whose members started Clayfest, Carnivale and a scholarship program for Manitou Springs High School students. It even helped a start-up arts incubator 25 years ago that is now the Manitou Art Center. As with anything it does, Old Spokes, Wright says, is really not about Commonwheel, but Manitou at large: "It's a celebration of how the arts keep the community together."


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Today in Japan (12.31.17)
SNA (Tokyo) — The following stories were reported today by the Shingetsu News Agency.
—Some in the Party of Hope want a unified parliamentary caucus with the Democratic Party to be conditional upon Katsuya Okada and Yoshihiko Noda being excluded. They don't want to associate with well-known and failed opposition leaders of the past.
—Executives of the Party of Hope and the Democratic Party to meet in Nagoya on January 3rd to discuss the formation of a unified parliamentary caucus.
—Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga waves around the carrot of economic incentives upon his visit to Nago, Okinawa: "The government will see that the residents' living environment is protected and that measures are taken to promote the regional economy."
—An aide to Shinzo Abe tells Jiji Press, "It is now impossible for the prime minister to visit South Korea" after President Moon Jae-In cast doubt on 2015 Comfort Women agreement. (Of course, it would be possible if Abe wasn't wedded to the rightwing ideology of denying history.)
—Most of the board members of Reconciliation and Healing Foundation, charged with using Japanese money to aid surviving Korean Comfort Women, resign their posts. This might represent a full breakdown of the 2015 Japan-South Korea Comfort Women agreement.
—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe taking personal charge of leading government discussions on Japan's military response in the event a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula. Why not? He clearly enjoys such subjects much more than thinking about economic policies.
—Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai breaks ranks with the Abe government and insists that direct talks with North Korea are needed. Nikai is a consistent advocate of repairing Japan's relations with mainland Asia, the opposite of his party leader.
—Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) to select Hiroaki Nakanishi of Hitachi as its next chairman, replacing the incumbent Sadayuki Sakakibara. Both men are mainly noted for their close ties with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
—Today is the final day of operations for Space World, the theme park in Kitakyushu city that opened in 1990 and had been considered one of the city's main tourist attractions.
—A fire broke out in the shopping district of Shibuya. No one died in the blaze. Two men were injured, including a man in his 60s who was forced to jump to the rooftop next door and broke a bone in his shoulder area. Fire started on second floor in bar owned by a man in his 30s.
Note: There was no "Today in Japan" report issued on December 30.
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Reprinted from the February 2016 issue of Gospel Advocate Magazine, this article discusses the fact that a crucial part of the Christian life is getting along with the brethren.
Mark Twain once said, "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." For most, the term "sacred cow" has come to represent a stubborn loyalty to a long-standing tradition or institution that impedes natural processes. For as long as the church has existed, differences have existed among the brethren and will continue to exist among the brethren until the Lord comes back. How we handle these differences is the key to church unity. A crucial part of the Christian life is getting along with the brethren.
Unity did not come easily in the Lord's church of the first century, and it certainly doesn't come easily in the Lord's church today. People fill our auditoriums every Sunday and Wednesday with all sorts of personalities from a variety of backgrounds with many personal scruples.
There is a wide variation from one brother or sister to another. Some have been Christians for many years, and others are babes in Christ. Some have deep biblical knowledge, and others have much to learn. Some tightly cling to certain sacred cows because to let go of them would violate their conscience. And some see these sacred cows as, perhaps, silly or splitting hairs.
Personal opinions are not always wrong. Everyone holds opinions, and everyone is entitled to do so. But when it comes to opinions and the Lord's church, some guidelines have to be set.
Many opinions have absolutely nothing to do with biblical truth. They are personal opinions. Many who hold these views do so with such deep conviction; they become matters of salvation in their own minds. When this happens, opinions are forced on others within the congregation. What was once a personal religious opinion becomes a matter of life and death spiritually and, in turn, a source of contention among the brethren for all those who refuse to accept the scruple as absolute truth.
As a minister of the gospel for 14 years, I have come in contact with many individuals who promoted their personal sacred cows. Sadly, these sacred cows became a point of contention and threatened to divide the congregation. Opinions such as the King James Version of the Bible as the only valid translation or men wearing a tie and women wearing dresses to worship are just a few of the issues I have witnessed threaten the unity of the local church. This should never be. There is nothing inherently wrong with many of the scruples people adhere to; however, we are wrong to bind these opinions on the brethren.
Paul approached the subject of religious scruples in Romans 14 where he discussed the contrast between the weak and the strong brother. The weak brother is not as mature in the Christian faith. He has some doubts (v. 1). He sees meat and wine as a stumbling block (v. 21). His conscience is not ready to accept certain things God has allowed. Paul characterizes the weak brother as being unable to clearly discern between matters of faith and matters of opinion. Paul exhorts the weak brother not to violate his conscience; however, he is not to sow discord among the brethren either.
It would be easy for one to make the passing judgment that the weak are the ones who need to step it up. After all, they're weak. They need to get stronger. They need to get over their little hang-ups, move past them and get with the program. But notice that the bulk of Romans 14 is not focusing on the weak brother but, rather, the strong brother.
The strong brother is confident that God has accepted him (Romans 14:3). He is strong in the faith. He is a Christian who enjoys the freedom of being in Christ without violating his conscience. Paul admonishes the stronger brother to accept his weaker brother. He is not to despise him (v. 3). He is not to show contempt (v. 10). He is to get along with his brother, even though they differ on matters of opinion (15:1). The stronger brother should not destroy his brother with his liberty (14:15, 20).
A strong brother must care more for his brother than for meat. He must care more about the Lord and His church than for trivial scruples. In short, he must care more for the brethren than for himself. We must be prepared to restrict our rights or our freedom for the benefit of others. We may have to give up personal freedom to do things that are unimportant in the grand scheme of things but may negatively impact others. The goal is unity. That is the thrust of Paul's admonition to both the strong and the weak.
When all was said and done, Paul's resolution to the matter was to accept one another in spite of scruples. Paul was not only suggesting that strong believers accept weak believers but also commanding it. To accept or receive them means to treat them as a brother or sister in Christ, to swallow our pride and to set aside our petty differences for the sake of the church.
We must not be stricter than God is. If God has accepted a brother or sister, so should we. We cannot unite on falsehood. We must be united in the truth, not opinions.
Here's a truth we all need to see when it comes to scrupulous matters that often divide us – somebody doesn't have to be wrong. Seeing things from two different perspectives doesn't necessarily mean that one person must be wrong while the other must be right. Opinions should never be bound on another or present a stumbling block to fellow Christians.
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LONDON — I LEFT London and moved to India in August 2008. Four weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, and the global economy went into a tailspin. People who had known the word "derivative" only as an adjective in book reviews were now using it as a noun; "subprime" entered the vocabulary of the uninitiated. The City of London seemed to be at the heart of this disaster whose effects were surging out over the cobbled streets of the Square Mile and into the farthest corners of the world, including my new home in the small southern Indian city Mysore.
Since then I have returned to London once or twice a year, emerging from the sliding doors at Heathrow with a feeling of evermore imprecise familiarity. What exactly happens when you leave a city and then return year after year, still not prepared to call yourself an ex but increasingly bewildered, like a tourist?
Some of the changes I can see only as benign. As I walk around the city, I look up rather than straight ahead. Sights I'd never glimpsed before crowd into view: the strange crenelations at the top of a wall behind Guy's Hospital, the branches of a bowed lime tree in St. Paul's churchyard, an elegant hand holding a cigarette out of a top-floor window in Arlington Square. It seems absurd to admit that in the whirl of daily life I missed so many small particularities of the place I called home for over 13 years. And yet I did.
When I now visit London, I adopt new lines of inquiry. While I lived in the city, it never occurred to me that I might be interested in the history of some of its striking street names: Birdcage Walk, Bleeding Heart Yard, Hanging Sword Alley, Cold Blow Lane. Now, after years of absence, I can't stop imagining the scenes behind the names: the Royal Aviary, say, or the beating heart ripped out of a body in a sunless passage.
In some respects I have not changed: Making eye contact with other passengers on the Tube still is repugnant. But I no longer hiss and tut at people who stand to the left on escalators. When a group of tourists on Regent Street suddenly stop to rummage in their rucksacks and force me to slacken my pace, I do not fill up with a murderous rage. A lady in the line at the bank strikes up a conversation, and I do not recoil. Rather than doing everything possible to avoid Leicester Square, I now amble across it, even pausing in front of one of the souvenir shops. Briefly.
Yet some aspects of my transformation are more than a little disquieting. One evening I find myself in Soho at a junction that I must have crossed a thousand times over the years. Suddenly my journey turns into a series of stop-motion frames. I step off the pavement. I step back on to it. I look in every direction, at the street names, at the awning over a restaurant, at a sign above a theater's stage door. There is a remembered flash of neon and a suggestion of a well-worn shortcut down an alley. But then my mind goes blank, and I realize I no longer know which road to take.
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In his essay "London," Henry James writes, "It is a kind of humiliation in a great city not to know where you are going." But how much more humiliating when it's a city that you once roamed, sometimes in a frenzied rush, sometimes in a slow haze, but almost always with a sense of possession.
The wallet dropped on a street corner, the elderly man bursting into his rendition of "Forever and Ever" on that snowy stairway, the date that ended badly in front of the convenience store. The memories remain, but the landmarks are lost. Where does this imprinted knowledge go? And what do you do with the slow sense of panic that results? Suspended somewhere in a fade to black is the realization that you are incrementally losing the city where you spent most of your adult life.
Most jarring, I've lost my old relationship with the map of the Tube. Its lineations, loops and hard angles had always seemed to provide as recognizable a connection as the grooves on my palms. The progression of stations, the interchanges, the locus of destinations — none of these required thought: I had internalized them. But on my last visit, as commuters surged around me at Westminster station, I could no longer quite remember what "eastbound" meant, and as I stood in front of the giant map in the ticket hall for a few seconds, the lights seemed to dim.
In "The Lonely Londoners," Sam Selvon's seminal novel about post-World War II immigration to the city, London is harsh and elusive, a place that simultaneously delivers a feeling of propinquity and a feeling of dislocation to men recently arrived from the West Indies. Some of the novel's descriptions could just as well apply to London as experienced by a former resident: "with a fog sleeping restlessly over the city and the lights showing in a blur as if it is not London at all but some strange place on another planet." Mr. Selvon's Londoners mark urban boundaries through their sense of security, community and language — "the Gate" for Notting Hill, "the Arch" for Marble Arch, "the Water" for Bayswater. We all create our own personal geography to help explain who we are, where we've come from and why. What happens when those coordinates come unmoored?
The refectory-style restaurant near the Barbican, where once the helpings were enormous and the air was filled with the scent of stewed cabbage, is now a smart dining club with a giant stone urn on each side of the door. As I pressed my nose against its plate-glass window, small personal changes seemed all too evident — the haunts that have disappeared, the friends who have moved away. But in the amber corona of the new pendant lights I perceived larger changes, too: neighborhoods that have been cored out, the proliferation of food banks and the homeless, the elderly and the disabled marooned at home.
On my last day in London I received an old gas bill that had been redirected twice and was paid several years ago. The postal code was legible, but most of the rest was a dark blue smudge.
There will be new maps and compasses for those of us who leave, new points of departure that will eventually become wholly real. But at the end of my most recent visit, as I flew out of Heathrow, over the tower blocks and the discs of green parkland and the sweep of the motorway, I caught a glimpse of a bend in the Thames, so familiar and so alien, and I wondered if it had all been a trick of the light.


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The drip irrigation model of Jain Irrigation has turned Jalgaon into the banana bowl of the country. It has a lesson for the govt in handling agribusinesses
If the Jalgaon district in Maharashtra were a state, it would rank fifth in the country in banana production, thanks to a company whose growth is intricately tied to the fortunes of farmers—its customers. While Jain Irrigation's practice of collecting subsidy payments on behalf of farmers after installing drip irrigation systems on their fields had severely choked its cash flow because of delayed disbursements, its business model creates shared prosperity. Faced with the challenge of relieving rural distress, it is an example that the government could encourage, along with crop insurance, to make agriculture a paying activity.
India is the world's largest banana producer, at 101 million tonnes in 2012, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and Maharashtra is the second-largest producer in the country. Within the state, Jalgaon accounts for 72% of the production, much of it concentrated in a couple of talukas such as Raver.
Jalgaon has been growing bananas for a long time, being the gateway to the north India market, but it is the Jain Irrigation Systems that has boosted its capacity by introducing a precocious variety, supplying high-yielding clones, teaching farmers effective nurturing practices through research, and selling micro-irrigation equipment that deliver water and fertiliser to plants in required doses and frequency.
Founder Bhavarlal Jain, who qualified for Maharashtra's civil service but quit to pursue entrepreneurship, regards his business as a social enterprise. His elegant, cool and well-lit office atop a leafy hill in Jalgaon has the stillness of a library where he spends retirement in rumination, drawing unkind comparisons with indigent cattle doing likewise in a goshala a little distance away. The choice of icons displayed on the wall—Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and JRD Tata—acknowledge qualities he appreciates: harmony with nature, grandness of vision and bold execution.
Further uphill is a multimedia homage called Gandhi Teerth, a museum and research institution, which must find place in a tourist's itinerary to the town.
Being from a state where more than 80% of cultivated land is rain-fed, the idea of drop-by-drop irrigation clicked with Jain while at a trade exhibition in the US in the mid-1980s, resulting in business collaboration. Those were days of import substitution, when foreign exchange was regarded as precious, so he was not surprised when a trade official asked why the technology fee payment of $30,000 should be permitted, when the country was not importing the item he sought to conserve?
The company reckoned that Jalgaon farmers would invest in drip irrigation if it paid for itself. They had to regard it not just as a water-saving device but a productivity-enhancing tool. Banana is a high-value crop compared to the district's staples, cotton and jowar, but was regarded as a sponge. It was grown in pits into which farmers would channel water by blocking or opening furrows. The rhizomes or suckers used as planting material varied in age, weight and genetic make-up, and this told on the output.
Three banana varieties were imported in the early 1990s from an Israeli company specialising in plant propagation and tissue culture, and one of them, called Grand Naine of Honduran origin, was selected for its appealing golden yellow colour, fruit yield within a year (18 months for traditional Indian varieties) and the tendency of secondary shoots to give two more harvests (called ratooning).
The company produces 60 million tissue culture Grand Naine plants now, which take 10 months to transit from the lab to farmers' fields. These are sold for R13 each and, despite being around three times costlier than their country cousins, are unable to keep up with demand.
Jalgaon has the right soil and heat, but its dry weather does not have the humidity of 65% that bananas require. Drip irrigation compensates by keeping the surface always wet. The dense canopy created through close planting arrests evaporating moisture. Hot air from outside, with humidity less than 20%, is blocked with tall leguminous plants grown around the periphery, which can be ploughed into the soil to improve fertility. The same purpose is served by shade nets with dripping water around the perimeter, which act like desert coolers. Farmers are advised to provide chemical fertilisers through the year and increase the frequency and dosage of micro-nutrients in summer so that plants can cope up with heat stress. Another recent innovation—planting in late-March instead of June—keeps plants short, leaves small and water need low in peak summer months.
"Because of micro-irrigation, Jalgaon has become the banana bowl of the country," says Kalyansing Baburao Patil, who is the vice-president for tissue culture and agricultural services and has a doctorate in banana cultivation. His enthusiasm for banana farming does not seem to have dimmed over the 22 years he has been with Jain Irrigation. Talking to him about the fruit is like setting off a perpetual motion machine, the reason why his initials are teasingly twisted as standing for Kela Becho Patil.
Patil's passion and Jain Irrigation's engagement with banana cultivation have produced prosperous farmers, some of whom make more than R1 crore in profit annually. Laxman Onkar Chaudhuri, 63, better known a LO, wanted to be a school teacher after obtaining a diploma in education. From three own acres when he started, he now leases in 200 acres and reaps 39 tonnes an acre against the state's average productivity of 23 tonnes. At R7 a kg, he earns more money than most Indians do.
Tenu Dongar Borole, 61, also of the same village, sold tea in the village central jumble, after schooling. With 72,000 plants, his annual earning is in the range of R1.5 crore. Drip irrigation not only allows him to calibrate the supply of water and fertiliser, it also frees him from being dependent on workers as large stretches can be watered during the short window when power is available.
Avinash Patil, 32, of Shingadi village, turned to banana farming when three years of search could not fetch him a job after the completion of BSc in computers in 2005. Over the objections of his father, who feared getting deeper into debt, he tried out tissue culture. He grows bananas on 10 acres, and earns about R20 lakh a year. His example has been emulated by others in the village. Some are wondering whether it is worthwhile pursuing studies, he says, a comment both on the quality of education and the prospects of horticulture.
Bananas are grown over 1.18 lakh acres in Jalgaon, according to official statistics. Cotton and jowar are the main crops, but even their farmers use the drip system, says KB Patil. He asserts that the water table has risen. Even farmers like Avinash, whose plot is on the banks of the river Tapi, use drip irrigation, so that the soil is well aerated. This is a change from traditional thinking.
"We are in the business of changing mindsets," says joint managing director, Ajit Jain. India's area under micro-irrigation (both sprinkler and drip) was 8% of the irrigated land at last count, against the US's 57% and Brazil's 61%. That is a lot of unfinished business for Jain Irrigation, but the biggest challenge is to change the thinking of our political establishment about agribusinesses.
The author is consulting editor to www.smartindianagriculture.in
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The London Stock Exchange said that it is unlikely to receive regulatory approval for its merger with Deutsche Boerse, due to European antitrust requirements that LSE sell electronic fixed-income trading platform MTS. That likely means that the proposed $31 billion deal is dead.
Why it's the BFD: This merger would have combined stock exchanges in the UK, Germany and Italy, plus many of Europe's largest clearinghouses. But now it appears that the deal is dead, which also scuttles a €510 million sale by LSE of LCH Clearnet's French arm to Euronext (which was contingent on LSE/DB going through). This had been the third time that the two exchanges have tried to tie the knot since 2000.
Bottom line: "When the London Stock Exchange trumpeted its merger with Deutsche Boerse last year, the chairman, Donald Brydon, was remarkably relaxed about the Brexit vote. He and his German counterparts said the deal would go ahead regardless of the outcome. What they didn't know was that it would eventually fall foul of another aspect of the single market - Brussels' control of competition laws." ― Dominic O'Connell
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• Alteryx Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of data blending and analytics solutions, has filed for a $75 million IPO. It plans to trade on the NYSE under ticker symbol AYX, with Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan serving as lead underwriters. The company reports a $24 million net loss in 2016 on around $85 million in revenue. Shareholders include Insight Venture Partners (27% pre-IPO stake), Sapphire Ventures (13%), Thomson Reuters (13%), Toba Capital (6%) and Iconiq Capital (5.6%). http://bit.ly/2lKk5wg
• Gardner Denver, a Milwaukee-based maker of industrial machinery, is prepping an IPO that could value the company at between $6 billion and $7 billion (including debt), according to Reuters. KKR bought Gardner Denver in 2013 for $3.9 billion. http://reut.rs/2mkyZLg
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• Presidio, a New York-based IT services provider owned by Apollo Global Management, has set its IPO terms to 16.67 million shares being offered at between $14 and $16 per share. It would have an initial market cap of approximately $1.33 billion, were it to price in the middle of its range. The company will trade on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol PSDO, with J.P. Morgan and Citigroup serving as lead underwriters. www.presidio.com
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• DWS (ASX: DWS) has agreed to acquire rival Australian IT services group SMS Management & Technology (ASX: SMX) for approximately A$124 million. http://bit.ly/2mkFT33
• ESI Group (Paris: ESI) has acquired Scilab, a Norway-based provider of open source software for analytical numerical solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. www.scilabtech.com
• F.N.B. Corp. (NYSE: FNB) has received Federal Reserve approval for its $1.4 billion purchase of Raleigh, N.C.-based commercial bank Yadkin Financial (NYSE: YDKN). http://reut.rs/2loWKO6
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It was great getting to catch up with both family and friends out in Colorado. This doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of all the photos that were taken during the visit but I thought I'd share some of my favorites. There was lots of activity everywhere including whitewater rafting, paintball, frisbee, hiking, paddle boarding (not even sure it that's what it's called) and, one of my favorites is the expression on my parent's and R's faces as they headed down the gondola into Telluride.
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My friend, Molly, rented out the most fabulous house in Telluride, Colorado last winter for the ski season. There are so many things that I loved about this kitchen from the stained glass transom window and the tin ceiling to the open shelving (of course, the best thing to come out of this kitchen is Molly's amazing cooking!). I loved the look and I notice as I flip through saved cuttings from magazines in years gone by that it's a look I have always loved as I have about a gazillion photos with a similar approach. There's just something very confident about a kitchen that doesn't hide behind doors. Here's another example from Design * Sponge of a kitchen make-over. I have about 100 more which I'm sure I'll throw in from time-to-time…


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