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Ahoy, Critterfolk!
New entry Dec 07
Critter Notices
Critters is 23!
Yes, 23 years ago Critters was born. Wow! Thanks so much to all of you, who've made it such a resounding success!
Critters no longer accepting European Union members :(It's with a heavy heart that I have to announce Critters can no longer accept people in the European Union as members. This is a result of the "GDPR" privacy laws going into effect. I'm a big fan of privacy, and applaud the general idea behind the GDPR, but the way it's implemented forces me to close the door to EU writers. [read more why...]
Books from Critters!
Check out Books by Critters for books by your fellow Critterfolk, as well as my list of recommended books for writers.
Space Travel for SF Writers
Hot off the presses from ReAnimus Press! Space Travel - A Science Fiction Writer's Guide— An indispensible tool for all SF writers that explains the science you need to help you make your fiction plausible. (Also via Amazon)
The Sigil TrilogyIf you're looking for an amazing, WOW! science fiction story, check out THE SIGIL TRILOGY. This is — literally — one of the best science fiction novels I've ever read.
P&E Has a New Caretaker!
I'm very happy to announce that P&E has been handed off to a new caretaker! Check out the site for news and such. Hurrah!
I'm being interviewed live on public radio for Critters 20th birthday. For those who want to listen, it's on the 10am (Mountain time) show on Thursday, 11/19/16, on Colorado Public Radio - www.cpr.org has streaming on the site or it's 90.1 FM in the Denver area. [Interview is done, you can listen on the site]
Free Web Sites
Free web sites for authors (and others) are available at www.nyx.net.
ReAnimus Acquires Advent!
ReAnimus Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of the legendary Advent Publishers! Advent is now a subsidiary of ReAnimus Press, and we will continue to publish Advent's titles under the Advent name. Advent was founded in 1956 by Earl Kemp and others, and has published the likes of James Blish, Hal Clement, Robert Heinlein, Damon Knight, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and many others. Advent's high quality titles have won and been finalists for several Hugo Awards, such as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Heinlein's Children. Watch this space for ebook and print editions of all of Advent's current titles!
Network speeding up
I'm switching the connection over to a new, shiny 10X faster network because of all the load. There might be bits of downtime as your boxes learn new addresses and things. Should be brief. Let me know of any prolonged outages you see.
Preditors & Editors Changeover
With the very sad passing of Dave Kuzminski, who ran P&E, I've taken over the P&E duties. Lots of what I hope are improvements; check it out at pred-ed.com.
Critters Server
is Dying has been Replaced
See important details here in my blog. Let me know if you find anything that isn't working right. (Manuscripts are now available for this week, FYI.)
Book Recommendation
THE SIGIL TRILOGY: The universe is dying from within... "Great stuff... Really enjoyed it." — SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock
Announcing ReAnimus Press
If you need help making ebooks from manuscripts or print copies—or finding great stuff to read—look no further! An ebook publisher started by your very own Critter Captain. (And with a 12% Affiliate program.) [More]
Crittering Novels
Although you can, if you want, submit chapter groups of a novel through the queue in the "usual" Critters fashion, novelists should consider also doing a "Request for Dedicated Readers." An RDR is like an ordinary entry in the queue (it's often added to a chapter group), but when that entry comes up for reading, it becomes a request for Critters to devote themselves to reading your entire novel. Your RDR generally consists of a description of the novel and any special constraints unique to you (e.g., a publisher's deadline).
Readers communicate directly with you to receive chapters and send critiques. Readers receive generous credit based on the number of words they critique, however, they don't receive this credit until they have completed the novel (or whatever part of it you want done -- in other words, you control when they're finished (within reason, I mean, you can't expect them to read chapters more than once, for example, though you could negotiate this with them)). It's very flexible in that you only accept the readers you want (checking up on them in any way you see fit), and only the readers who are interested in your work will apply. You are in charge of the time schedule (though you need to spell this out in advance).
You can send chapters through the queue like usual (though readers can't get double credit), or, if you prefer, keep the chapters private between you and the readers only. You design the program with your readers.
Does it work? Well, our first test case was a sort of worst-case trial-by-fire: A pro author (David Niall Wilson) with a short deadline. He reported that it worked out "admirably," and we have since had numerous happy customers.
The general process to do an RFDR is to submit either the first few chapters to the queue plus marking the "rfdr" box on the submission form, or just submit a synopsis and whatever verbiage you think will entice reviewers to grab it. (In the first case, of sending part of the book, people will be able to get credit for critiquing just that portion. You can keep sending chapters through if you like. I suggest a max of 5,000 words per chunk.)
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NCLB Update
Business Coalition
Math Panel Reports
Higher Education Activity
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
NCLB Update (http://www.ed.gov/nclb/)
Just one day after President Bush called for Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act in his State of the Union Address (http://www.whitehouse.gov/stateoftheunion/2007/), Secretary Spellings unveiled "Building on Results," a blueprint for strengthening the law's provisions. As articulated by the Secretary and other leaders and detailed in a policy book and fact sheets on various issues, the blueprint has two objectives: (1) to reaffirm No Child Left Behind's core principles (annual assessments, in reading and math, in grades 3-8 and high school; disaggregated test score data; grade-level proficiency for all students by 2014; qualified teachers in core academic subjects; and timely information and options for parents) and (2) to embed current flexibility and insert new flexibility into the law. "If we let this opportunity pass us by," the Secretary said, "the loss will be felt greatest by our nation's young peoplethe very individuals we will be counting on to keep America competitive and secure. Congress has the ability, right now, to put more effective tools in the hands of families and school districts to impact student achievement."
The administration is not submitting "a bill." Also, unlike in years past, proposals are not presented by title. Instead, the blueprint is arranged thematically. Key proposals are listed for each theme. It is up to Congress to approve, reject, or modify each proposal.
Every Child Performing at or Above Grade Level by 2014
- The administration is firmly committed to local control, with states establishing academic standards and assessments. However, to support greater transparency, states would report their National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and their state assessment results on the same public report card.
Flexibility for Innovation and Improvement
- As long as they have robust data systems and well-established assessments and set annual goals based on proficiency (not on student background), states would be able to use growth models to measure individual progress toward grade-level proficiency.
- States would be allowed to prioritize their school improvement activities, based on specific needs of schools. Also, to help states and school districts tailor responses, 100 percent of specified federal funds could be moved among programs.
- As long as they are of high quality and promote challenging instruction, states would be able to tailor assessments to small groups of students with disabilities with modified or alternate achievement standards.
- Schools would be recognized by state accountability systems for making clear progress in teaching limited English proficient students critical English language skills.
Challenging Our Students and Preparing Them to Succeed
- All governors have agreed to use a more accurate graduation rate. By 2011-12, states would report school-level, disaggregated results. Until then, states would report district-level, disaggregated results.
- To ensure students are prepared to enter college or the workforce, by 2010-11, states would develop course-level academic standards for two years of English and math. Then, by 2012-13, states would administer assessments aligned to the standards and report the extent to which students are prepared. The tests would not be part of the state accountability system.
- More students would have access to, and more teachers would be trained for, Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes. Also, to promote participation, states would report completion rates of the courses by subgroups.
- To ensure high schools have resources to help low-income students, there would be a substantial increase in Title I funds for high schools. A corresponding increase would ensure that elementary schools' Title I programs are not negatively affected.
Helping Teachers Close the Achievement Gap
- The Teacher Incentive Fund would provide resources to help states and districts develop compensation systems that reward teachers and principals who make progress in raising student achievement and closing achievement gaps. Educators who choose to serve in the neediest schools would also be rewarded.
- To strengthen the teaching of elementary and middle school math, Math Now would provide resources to help teachers use scientifically proven practices.
- Beginning in 2008-09, science assessment results at all three grade spans would factor into state accountability calculations. By 2019-20, all students would be proficient in science (the same trajectory used for reading and math proficiency).
- The administration would continue to invest in the Reading First program and expand the Striving Readers program.
Strengthening Public Schools and Empowering Parents
- School Improvement funds would support the implementation of school improvement plans and assist states' efforts to advise on, monitor, and review those plans.
- Today, most schools subject to restructuring are not pursuing the quality of reform that will lead to a turn-around. Therefore, strictly for such schools, the administration would (1) eliminate from the menu of authorized actions under restructuring the ambiguous "other" option; (2) insert the option of turning the school over to elected officials, such as mayors; (3) offer Promise Scholarships, which would permit low-income students to attend a private school or an out-of-district school or receive intensive tutoring (federal funds would follow the child to the new school, supplemented with a scholarship of $2,500, and students attending a private school would take their state assessment or a national assessment but not be part of the state's accountability system); and (4) empower school leaders to remove the limitations on teacher transfers from collective bargaining agreements.
- For all communities that want to expand local options, the administration would provide Opportunity Scholarships. Modeled after the Washington, D.C., program, which has been funded since 2004, students would be able to attend private schools or seek additional tutoring through a locally designed scholarship program.
- The federal Charter School Program would support all viable applications that can improve outcomes for students. Also, local decisions to convert schools identified for restructuring into charter schools would be allowed, even if the state law caps the number of charter schools in that state.
- Supplemental educational services (SES) would be offered to all low-income students who attend a school in need of improvement from the first year forward, one year earlier than before and concurrent with the offer of public school choice. Also, districts would be told to spend all relevant federal funds or risk their forfeiture, eliminating the disincentive to support choice and tutoring programs. In addition, larger SES per student amounts would be provided for students who have limited English proficiency or disabilities or who live in rural areas.
The Secretary is already on the road discussing these new proposals with parents, educators, and community leaders. Yesterday, she was in Chicago. Next week, she will be in Atlanta. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/nclb/buildingonresults.html.
Business Coalition
Business is in! Last week, the Business Coalition for Student Achievement, representing business leaders from every sector of the U.S. economy, issued a set of recommendations to improve and strengthen No Child Left Behind during reauthorizationsome of which are addressed in the "Building on Results" blueprint. "No Child Left Behind provides a solid foundation for improving U.S. education by focusing on increased accountability for the performance of all students," said Arthur Ryan, chairman of Prudential Financial, and one of three co-chairs of the coalition, along with Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, and Edward Rust, chairman of State Farm. "Improving U.S. student achievement is a critical need for our nation's competitiveness and for individuals to succeed in our rapidly changing world." Secretary Spellings, who attended the coalition's inaugural event, praised the business community's ongoing commitment to quality education. "The business community has been a tireless partner every step of the way, playing a key role in the passage of the law, working hard on the President's American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI), and supporting our efforts to renew the law this year." For more information, please go to http://www.biz4achievement.org/.
Math Panel Reports
At its last meeting in New Orleans, each of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel's four task groupsConceptual Knowledge and Skills, Instructional Practices, Learning Processes, and Teacherssubmitted progress reports. Moreover, as required by executive order, the panel will issue an interim report. However, because the panel is still the process of reviewing research, this report will not offer specific recommendations for improving teaching and learning. The final report is due February 28, 2008. The panel's sixth meeting is in April in Chicago. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/mathpanel/.
Higher Education Activity
A few items relating to higher education:
The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education is organizing an invitational summit (March 21 and 22) to engage higher education stakeholders in a discussion of the Secretary's action plan and priorities: aligning K-12 and higher education expectations; increasing need-based aid; collecting and using student learning outcome data; serving adults and other non-traditional students; and expanding affordability through cost-containment. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/.
In response to the College Student Relief Act of 2007, which has since been passed by the House, the White House released a Statement of Administration Policy expressing concern that "reducing student loan interest rates [by 50 percent] would direct federal subsidies to college graduates, not to students and their families who are struggling to meet current and future educational expenses.... Instead, the administration would support efforts to direct savings to additional grant support for low-income students." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/01/
The Department's Office of Inspector General's MISUSED web site, http://www.ed.gov/misused/, has information on scams, suggestions for preventing identity theft, and resources on how to report identity theft involving federal aid.
Quote to Note
"Five years ago, we rose above partisan differences to pass the No Child Left Behind Actpreserving local control, raising standards, and holding those schools accountable for results. Because we acted, students are performing better in reading and math, and minority students are closing the achievement gap. Now the task is to build on the success, without watering down standards, without taking control from communities, and without backsliding and calling it reform. We can lift student achievement even higher by giving local leaders flexibility to turn around failing schools and by granting families with children stuck in failing schools the right to choose someplace better. We must increase funds for students who struggle and make sure children get the special help they need. And we can make sure our children are prepared for jobs of the future and our country is more competitive by strengthening math and science skills. The No Child Left Behind Act has worked for America's childrenand I ask Congress to reauthorize this good law."
|President George W. Bush (1/23/07)
Upcoming Events
The Department's Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is hosting workshops to assist organizations in applying to become supplemental educational service providers. The workshops are free, but pre-registration is required. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/fbci/suppserv-workshops.html.
Details on all four of the Department's negotiated rulemaking teams for Title IV of the Higher Education Act are now posted online. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/policy/highered/
Education Industry Days, the Education Industry Association's annual legislative and business trends conference, will be held March 13 and 14 in Arlington, Virginia. Department Chief of Staff David Dunn is among the keynote speakers. For more information, please go to http://www.educationindustry.org/.
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Hi, Pals. How are you doing now? Do you have a plan to go somewhere in your weekend? Spending weekend can be used to re-decorate some rooms in your house. With the presence of girl feeling, it can make your room be more awesome? Why? Girls are fans of the beauty. So, just look at these pictures, and you will find something amazing.
Here, the first we will see is about bedroom. What a lovely bedroom! The bed, the pillow and the bolster are designed in white theme with a little bit pink touch. The headboard is in love shape. The wall is painted purple. Look at the shelf here. It is attached on the board with pink love shape. The small desk with pink theme and a red desk lamp on it looks so charming. I thing I like most in this bedroom is some red rugs in red theme on the glossy floor.
Let's see other picture. The dining room is just design in minimalist. With white theme of the dining set, it looks so natural. The wall is fancier with the presence of some framed black paintings attached on it. The dining table and some chairs are presented with white theme. The exposed of white theme and wooden floor gives harmonious combination. I like some plants on the dining table and near the windows there. They give fresh nuance.Read more »


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The celebrity backlash over CNN documentary Blackfish has prompted the Beach Boys and Pat Benatar to pull out of shows at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida.
The controversial film, which examines working practises and killer whale treatment at Orlando's SeaWorld themepark, has already led to a series of concert cancellations by the likes of Cheap Trick, Willie Nelson and Barenaked Ladies at the venue, and now another venue owned by SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment is facing a boycott.
A Busch Gardens spokesman has confirmed the Beach Boys and Benatar have scrapped their appearances at the upcoming Bands, Brews & BBQ event in Tampa, stating, "We respect their decision (but) we're disappointed that there is a media controversy enacted by animal activists and based on misinformation."
In a statement to CNN, Benatar reveals she cancelled her 22 February show once she learned that Busch Gardens was affiliated with SeaWorld.
And the Beach Boys have also issued a statement, which reads: "The Beach Boys have cancelled their performance on February 15, 2014. The band regrets any inconvenience this may have caused their fans and they look forward to returning to Tampa soon."
Heart, Trace Adkins, Trisha Yearwood and Martina McBride have also scrapped 2014 dates at SeaWorld due to the fall-out following the release of Blackfish.
When Nelson scrapped his concert in December, he said, "I don't agree with the way they treat their animals."
The celebrity backlash over CNN documentary Blackfish has prompted the Beach Boys and Pat Benatar to pull out of shows at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida.


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An introductory photo course. Field Guide I and Field Guide II or Digital Photo I is recommended.
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After approaching 2 months in orbit, we have enough FC data to do some longitudinal looks. I noticed the other day that the max temperatures of the MSE panel bars had gone up about 5 degrees, that prompted me to look at the rotation rate, and I noticed a dramatic decrease in the rotation rate. From about day one, the satellite went from a rotation rate of 2.5 minutes per revolution down to about 1.45 minutes per revolution on December 28th...about 37 days on orbit, but then after that the satellite rotation rate has really taken a nose dive and today the rotation rate is at about 5.5 minutes per revolution. If you would like to see the graphic of my data, contact me a email@example.com. Are others seeing the same thing?
Did something happened around December 28th to cause the rotation rate to decrease? I have no idea why, I don't see any reported solar activity around that date that could cause this to happen. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future. The rotation rate is getting to the point that it is hard to determine using the high resolution data and I have had to switch over to the WOD to pull the numbers.
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This particular situation is why the FUNCube telemetry can be such a powerful educational tool. I would like to hear more about schools that are analyzing the FC data in their classroom students.


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No Nukes? Or More Nukes? As the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit Begins (REPORT)
(HN, 3/25/2012) - World leaders including US President Barack Obama Monday will launch the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit a meeting on the threat from nuclear-armed terrorists, but the atomic ambitions of North Korea and Iran are set to feature heavily.
Leaders or senior officials from 53 nations will attend the Nuclear Security Summit, with Interpol, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the European Union and the UN also taking part.
Participating countries, which also gathered at the 1st Washington Nuclear Security Summit in 2010 include: South Korea, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK, Ukraine, USA and Vietnam.
Though not at the summit, next -door, North Korea's upcoming rocket launch has overshadowed the run-up to the two-day meeting in Seoul, which seeks agreement on locking down fissile material that could be used to build thousands of terrorist bombs.
The nuclear-armed North says its rocket will merely put a peaceful satellite into orbit. The United States and others believe next month's launch will test a long-range missile which could one day deliver an atomic warhead.
Gary Samore, coordinator for arms control at the US National Security Council, warned that North Korea would face a "strong response" from Washington and its allies if it goes ahead with the launch. "We will be working with other countries, when President Obama is in Seoul, to try to discourage North Korea from going ahead with the proposed satellite launch," he told South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Friday.
Obama will hold talks on the launch plan and other issues with leaders of China, Russia and host South Korea during his visit.
The IAEA, while worried about nuclear proliferation by North Korea, also suspects that Iran is bent on making nuclear weapons. Iran says its uranium enrichment activities are peaceful. Neither Iran nor North Korea are on the formal agenda in Seoul.
But leaders of five nations involved in stalled nuclear negotiations with the North — the United States, South Korea, China, Russia and Japan — will all be present, offering an opportunity for consultations.
Pyongyang sees the summit as a chance for Washington and Seoul to gang up on it. Any South Korean move to address the North's nuclear program at the summit would be seen as a "declaration of war", it said.
Seoul says the formal event is not about nations but "non-state actors" such as al-Qaeda, Nigeria's Boko-Haram terrorist group, and others groups which it fears could lay their hands on loose nukes as proliferation continues.
(via PressTV)
Obama in a 2009 speech described nuclear terrorism as "the most immediate and extreme threat to global security", and announced a drive to secure all vulnerable nuclear material worldwide within four years, a process which led to the first nuclear security summit in Washington in April 2010.
Since then, according to a joint report by the Washington-based Arms Control Association (ACA) and the Partnership for Global Security (PGS), which campaign against nuclear proliferation, acknowledged major progress since then.
Former Soviet republic Kazakhstan secured over 13 tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium, while Chile eliminated its entire HEU stockpile, the report said.
The United States and Russia signed a protocol under which each will dispose of 34 tons of plutonium — enough for 17,000 nuclear weapons.
Russia ended plutonium production. Ukraine eliminated two-thirds of its HEU and was expected to dispose of the rest by the Seoul summit.
But experts say much more must be done to end an apocalyptic threat.
"The commitments on the books will not get the job done," said Michelle Cann of PGS, the report co-author. "To prevent nuclear terrorism in the years ahead, the global nuclear security system must grow and adapt to new threats," she said.
"There is a danger that early successes of the summit process will lead to complacency."
The ACA says there have been 16 confirmed cases of unauthorized possession of HEU or plutonium documented by the IAEA since 1993, mainly in the former Soviet Union. Alexandra Toma of the Connect US Fund, which promotes nuclear non-proliferation, said a sophisticated extremist group could plausibly take advantage of such lapses.
"It takes only 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of highly enriched uranium to make a crude nuclear bomb" the size of a grapefruit, she told a Seoul forum Thursday.
The summit agenda has been expanded to cover the securing of radioactive material, freely available from hospitals and other sources, which Stanford University expert Siegfried Hecker told the forum Thursday would be the most likely nuclear threat as a "dirty bomb... a weapon of mass disruption" since radiation sources were everywhere.
The meeting will also discuss the link between nuclear security and nuclear safety after Japan's March 2011 Fukushima disaster. Experts say the accident showed terrorists could create the same conditions as a tsunami did, by damaging cooling systems and cutting off power.
-- HUMNEWS. An abbreviated version of this article originally appeared in The Arab Times
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Shaping up as a prime 1984 election issue is ''industrial policy'' - a hot debate over to what extent, if at all, the government should meddle in the workings of the vast United States economy.
Democratic aspirants for the presidency, backed by the AFL-CIO and many lawmakers, want to create a government apparatus analagous to Japan's famed Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). The Reagan administration wants no such thing.
On Sept. 30 the Monitor published a forceful argument against an industrial policy in an interview with Charles L. Schultze. Today's interview with another distinguished economist, Nobel Prize-winner Lawrence R. Klein, explores a different point of view.
Even with full economic recovery, says Professor Klein, the US economy will suffer from structural problems that the private sector by itself cannot handle.
Some form of industrial policy, says Dr. Klein, will be needed - government programs tailored to help specific sectors of the economy, including unemployed workers in declining industries and young people unable to get a foothold in the job market. Government intervention in the economy, he says, should aim at restoring America's competitive edge in world markets.
Klein is Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School. He also chairs the scientific board of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates.
Excerpts from the interview follow:
Q What is meant by an industrial policy?
It means getting economic policy beyond the macro level into the sectoral level and making policy for sectors - not only for industries, but for age groups, dealing with youth unemployment; or for productivity groups, the retraining of displaced workers. It means having a series of economic policies that impact on specific sectors of the economy.
Q What are the basic premises that underlie proposals for a US industrial policy?
What has people worried is the answer to the question: Are we competitive? The basic theme is that we have lost our competitive edge and we cannot compete effectively with other countries, particularly Japan. Other concerns are to improve productivity, to lower American costs and make us cost effective - also to take care of the structurally unemployed, and deal with other problems that persist.
Q Is the American manufacturing sector declining, causing the US to deindustrialize?
I don't think we have lost in the long run. That's the whole point of industrial policy, to get us back on a natural track. I think the energy turbulence of the '70s got us off the track for a good long while. This was quite important in slowing down productivity growth and in exposing our lost edge. I think we have overcome that problem - we became energy-efficient.
At the same time, I regard our economy as having gone into a setback on research and development, beginning in 1968, with the expenditure limitation and tax surcharge act of Lyndon Johnson. From that point forward I believe we paid insufficient attention to basic research and to research and development effort.
Q In restoring the US competitive edge, should we distinguish between the old-line smokestack industries and high-tech industries?
Probably, but I do believe that that problem is exaggerated. A better mix of fiscal and monetary policies - that is, macroeconomics - will help the smokestack industries, there is no doubt. But even with a better-than-expected macroeconomic performance, we still will not get back to where we used to be on employment and level of production in some of those industries. There remains the need to deal with the residue of structurally unemployed people.
Q Recently, Philip Caldwell, chairman of the Ford Motor Company, said that the US automobile industry of today, far from being an old-line industry, is a leading high-tech industry.
The product that the automobile industry makes is not so much high-tech, but the techniques they use to make that product are high-tech. It is a leading case of the application of automated processes.
Q Did the '81-'82 recession change this situation in any structural way, or was it simply a cyclical feature?
Mainly a cyclical feature. The whole trouble with '81 and '82 was a bad fiscal and monetary policy mix. That can be undone. These problems of reindustrialization, or restoring competitiveness, are longer-range problems that transcend the '81-'82 recession.
Q To what extent is an industrial policy responsible for Japan's economic success?
I think to a large extent. (Japanese experts) say that MITI consciously chose certain areas for expansion and that there was an enormous use of national consensus to agree to do these things. Professor (Michio) Morishima (with the London School of Economics), in a book entitled ''Why Did Japan Succeed?'' says it really is something inherent in the national character - the philosophy of putting the corporation ahead of self, the government ahead of self, the work team within the corporation ahead of self. Having centuries of that built into a culture made it possible for a coalition of industry, government, trade unions, and ordinary workers to go ahead with a very conscious, deliberate industrial policy.
When I was a student, the Japanese slide rule was the one-dollar cheap version and inaccurate. The German slide rule was expensive and correct. Now the Japanese product is high-quality and inexpensive. They had to have a conscious policy to overcome all this.
The revolving door between Japanese industry and Japanese government is very important. The exploration of foreign markets and producing exclusively for foreign tastes, foreign needs, and foreign sizes was very consciously done in terms of an integrated policy.
Q What about the argument that a good part of Japan's success is due to a high savings rate and capitalizing in the early years on technology already developed elsewhere?
Some people say the success of Japan was due to the corporate structure, including lifetime employment, and the high ratio of debt to equity capital. Some say it was income distribution and the high savings rate. That's a complicated story. And we're not going to handle the problem of industrial policy by that story.
Such explanations will tell you how Japan grew in the last hundred years. And particularly how it grew in the last 30 or 40 years. But that isn't going to tell you what the Japanese did to make the surge during the 1960s when they really turned on the steam, when they changed from this concept of cheap, inferior products to high-quality products underselling the market.
Q Now that the Japanese have caught up technologically, is government intervention in Japan better equipped to foster industrial policy than would be the case here?
I have just come back from a visit to Japan, particularly to Tsukuba University, where high-technology efforts are centered. They told me that Japan did have an industrial policy in the '60s that was successful, but it was like a piece of cake. Almost anything they touched worked out pretty well. Now all the choices are tougher. It isn't so certain they are going to be successful. The competition from other countries wanting to do the same thing is much fiercer.
Q For an industrial policy to be successful, it must be able to pick winners and protect losers. Is a US government agency better able to do that than the private sector?
The government is not now better able because it is not gearing up to (do) it. The effort has to be in the hands of a sympathetic administration, or it won't work. (A government agency) has to be dedicated and needs to have dedicated civil servants to make the right kind of studies. Those studies are not presently being made.
Q Does the US political system allow the government to favor one industry or one group of workers or one region over another?
Maybe, and maybe not. We have already started to implement some aspects of industrial policy. That required getting permission to do certain things - easements, so to speak. We have some trading companies. A trading company is an essential part, one little cog, in the wheel of industrial policy. To get a trading company into operation, we had to make sure we could circumvent the antitrust laws. We had to make sure we could circumvent some banking laws and have banks engaged in close association with nonbank business activities.
For that particular piece of industrial policy, we had to do something special for the banking sector and for the industrial sector. Those were done. We now have three or four trading companies in operation. People say they are doing well, but we have to wait and see what the results are.
Q What are trading companies and how do they work?
One trading company is General Electric. Another is Sears Roebuck. They buy masses of goods and sell them in foreign countries. They acquire masses of (foreign) goods and bring them to the United States. They don't bring only their own goods. They have to arrange the financing, so they need a bank. They have to arrange shipping. They need market research teams.
Also, the National Science Foundation is making grants to business to enter new high-tech activities, requiring venture capital. That's a part of industrial policy - small scale, but I think it is a change in practice from what the National Science Foundation used to do.
Q What about government help to save Chrysler as an example of industrial policy?
I don't know if you'd call the Chrysler bailout successful or unsuccessful yet. I'm not sure you would say that that was really good industrial policy, but it seems to have been capable of being implemented under American conditions.
The Chrysler bailout cannot be considered costless, even though the government did not shell out cash. It had an effect on capital markets. If you did such things on a bigger scale, it would have a bigger effect on capital markets. Somebody has to pay for that activity.
Q Is there a danger, since the pool of capital available for intervention would be limited, that it would be channeled in the wrong directions - protecting losers rather than picking winners?
My former student, Prof. Jim Ball, who is principal of the London Business School, says that to him industrial policy means picking the winners, not in the sense of a day at the races, but in the sense of improving the breed. And that is exactly the way I would put the situation.
I'd channel money into R&D, channel money into basic scientific research, restore research to the position it held at the end of the 1960s, before it started to slip in real terms. Secondly, approach the retraining (of workers) more carefully and have it a much more cooperative venture between the private sector and the public sector.
I would give much more sympathetic treatment to R&D expenditures in the private sector, through tax treatment and the fostering of venture capital. All these things we would want to do, and that, I think, would reduce the danger of picking individual losing companies or individual losing industries.
Q Are we beginning to see a better climate for industrial cooperation, in terms of labor-management relations?
The answer is yes. The fact that we had a labor representative on the Chrysler board, that in a few cases we've seen people willing to take wage moderation to protect their jobs, all point to a somewhat better climate.
Q Did the productivity decline of the 1970s reflect structural problems in the way the US economy works, which might be benefited by an industrial policy?
The decline was both structural and cyclical. The principal structural problem was a long-term shift in the terms of trade vis-a-vis energy-supplying (oil-exporting) areas of the world. But there was also a long-term increase in the industrial cost of protecting the environment. This brought down some of the productivity gains of the past. Out of that we have learned how to live and deal better with both the environmental and energy issues.
We are on the threshold of starting progressive productivity again. In the early stages, as we come out of the recession, we will see cyclical gains in productivity. Then in the later stages I think there will be a follow-through with the new technologies and we will see some trend gain in productivity.


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A good friend sent this along today. It's a valuable reminder for all, regardless of electoral fortunes, of Who is the true hope:
Dan and I are sending this Psalm to those whom we love on this election day. ... to remind us in whom we should trust, no matter the outcome of this election.
Ps 145 (146)
Praise the Lord, my soul;
While life lasts, I will praise the Lord;
Of him, my God, shall my songs be while I am here to sing them.
Do not put your trust in princes;
They are but men, they have no power to save.
As soon as the breath leaves his body, man goes back to the dust he belongs to;
With that, all his designs will come to nothing.
Happier the man who turns to the God of Jacob for help.
Puts no confidence but in the Lord his God, Maker of heaven and earth and sea and all they contain;
The God who keeps faith for ever,
Who redresses wrong, and gives food to the hungry
The Lord, who brings release to the prisoner,
The Lord, who gives sight to the blind,
The Lord, who comforts the burdened,
The Lord, who befriends the innoncent!
The Lord, who protects the stranger, who defends orphan and widow,
Who overturns the counsel of the wicked!
The Lord, reigning for ever,
Thy God, Sion, reigning from age to age!
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February 1, 2002 - JoongAngIlbo: Careful, Moody's credit raters sending guys who know Korea
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Careful, Moody's credit raters sending guys who know Korea
by Cheong Chul-gun February 01, 2002
"It is wearisome because they are too familiar with Korea," said a Finance Ministry official about planned visits by representatives of Moody's Investors Service.
Ministry officials are on high alert for the visit scheduled on Feb. 25. This is partly because the U.S.-based Moody's Investors Service has been stricter than other credit agencies, and some of the representatives are said to have resided in Korea before and to be well aware of Korea's economic situations and problems.
Thomas J. Byrne, vice president and senior analyst at Moody's sovereign risk unit, will lead the delegation. He lived in Korea for two years in 1970s as a member of the Peace Corps. Brian Oak, a Korean-American and senior analyst in the banking unit, speaks fluent Korean and worked for the Finance Ministry as an English editor and translator in 1992 and 1993.
Their familiarity with Korea may help the country receive a high sovereign credit rating, but ministry officials think that since they are familiar with Korea's problems, it would also be hard to sway them.
Mr. Byrne is said to have a history as a tough rater. Before the 1997 financial crisis, he downgraded Korea's rating while other credit rating agencies upgraded it. Mr. Oak submitted a pessimistic report on the Korean economy two years ago, saying that Korea's reform was still far from complete, even though its economy was on the rise.
Nonetheless, the ministry forecasts that Moody's is highly likely to upgrade Korea's sovereign credit rating. Its economy is in a more favorable condition than those of other countries, and domestic banks' performance has improved.
Fitch IBCA, a London-based credit rating agency, adjusted Korea's sovereign rating to BBB+ in March 2001, and the U.S-based Standard & Poor's followed suit in November, but Moody's has kept the rating one grade lower, at Baa2, since December 1999.
"The ministry will thoroughly prepare to effectively explain Korea's reform efforts and accomplishments," said the ministry official.
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The other day, I raced out of my office on my way to the airport and traffic was a mess. I realized I had not left enough buffer time to get to the airport and check in before running to security. Well, sitting in the taxi, I reached for my smartphone, went online and checked-in to save myself the check-in line at the airport. I managed to make my flight, albeit a little more stressed than usual.
I sat on the plane and reached for my laptop only to realize I left it at my desk. What a disaster! Well, not quite, I happened to have my tablet and smartphone with me – enough to do my work while I traveled to visit a customer. This wouldn't have been an option five years ago and it became very clear to me at that moment that the Internet has gone completely mobile.
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It all started with those kitschy toilet-paper cover dolls:
I think every grandmother was required by law to make enough of these things for her family to cover a mountain of TP. (My personal favorite was our red-dressed flamenco dancer. You?) After this was done, those dear crafty souls had to come up with new ways to use their stockpile of doll torsos.
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback leaves nothing to fate. When his chief counsel was passed over not once but twice last year for a spot on the Kansas Court of Appeals, the governor was not interested in seeing if the third time might be a charm. Similarly, Brownback was not willing to try, try again if at first he didn't succeed.
Instead, he simply changed the rules of the game. A compliant Legislature approved the plan to eliminate the role of a lawyer-dominated nominating commission and let the governor choose whomever he saw fit.
To nobody's surprise, Brownback's first judicial appointment to the appellate court is none other than Caleb Stegall -- the aforementioned chief counsel. The Kansas Senate will consider the nominee when the special legislative session convenes Sept. 3. Given the composition of the Legislature, Stegall likely will be donning the robes as that court's newest judge.
"I picked the most qualified person," Brownback said in describing the 41-year-old former Jefferson County attorney.
We'll likely never know that, as the governor has indicated no desire to disclose the names of the other applicants. Not that we would have expected many liberal lawyers or judges even to submit an inquiry to the extremely conservative Brownback. Most people wouldn't waste their time applying for a job they have zero chance of obtaining.
While the selection process is flawed, Stegall has the potential to be a good choice. Several prominent Kansas Democrats have publicly supported the selection, including former Attorney General Steve Six and Lawrence attorney Dan Watkins. The governor said House Minority Leader Paul Davis has described Stegall as "well-qualified" for the bench.
Davis' official reaction Tuesday didn't renounce that description, but definitely went in a different direction: "The Kansas judiciary should be a pillar of independence and transparency, not a parking lot for Gov. Brownback's well-connected, partisan pals," Davis said in a statement.
Stegall will be confirmed under that cloud, although he has the capacity to surprise. As a columnist for KansasLiberty.com, Stegall once wrote a piece praising Democrat Joan Finney as the most conservative governor in state history: "The lesson remains that power corrupts, and distributing that power as widely as possible is the only remotely satisfying response. How conservatives today wish for Finney's initiative and referendum to overthrow the growth of state power in our courts, at Cedar Crest, and in the statehouse!"
Time will tell whether Stegall attempts to minimize that power. In the Brownback administration, the three branches are becoming increasingly like-minded with the governor pulling the strings.
We will monitor closely whether Stegall follows his boss' bidding or legal principles. Key indicators will be cases involving school finance, abortion rights and the constitutionality of voting laws.
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NEA Jazz Masters 2010: Behind The Scenes
By Joe Alterman, 1/19/2010
This past Tuesday, January 12, I had the unique opportunity in taking part in the 2010 National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters Presentation Ceremony.
The ceremony was a day filled with festivities (a banquet in the morning and a concert in the evening), and my part was that of a volunteer. Apparently the NEA contacted NYU to find some students who might want to help out with the day's events.
I arrived with only a slight idea of what was to come; that is, I knew who was on the guest list, I knew who I'd probably say hello to, but I had no clue how long I'd speak to the guests, how much actual contact we would have, or who would actually show up.
The lunch banquet took place at 12PM. I arrived at 11AM and was given the job of greeting everyone who arrived off of the elevators and pointing them in the right direction. Every jazz master would walk off the elevator; that meant that I would greet all of them.
The banquet took place on the third floor. I can't describe how exciting it was to watch the arrows on the elevator rise from floor 1 to floor 3, watch the doors slowly open, and eventually be revealed to me who it was on the inside.
I was greeted by some truly charming and gracious individuals. I recognized nearly everyone, but didn't want to make them feel that way. I greeted them with a smile and a "welcome," sometimes an "I'm Joe."
"How you doin'? I'm Ramsey Lewis," one man said.
Another, "I'm Annie. Nice to meet you." (Annie Ross, a 2010 NEA Jazz Master).
Dr. Billy Taylor and I had a nice conversation as I greeted him and reminded him of some lessons I took with him at his summer jazz clinic, Jazz In July, a few years back. It was quite an honor that he seemed so interested in what I was up to, who I was studying with and what I was studying, even as people like Candido and James Moody were walking by.
I watched and greeted Yusef Lateef, Kenny Barron, Jimmy Heath, Nat Hentoff, Cedar Walton, George Avakian, Billy Taylor, Randy Weston, Candido, Joe Wilder, Gerald Wilson, the ultra-hip Roy Haynes, Dan Morgenstern, almost anyone you could think of.
James Moody greeted me with a hug and a kiss on each cheek (apparently a sign that he really knows you and likes you, so that was very special).
I watched as these giants greeted each other, so happy to see one another. For some it had been a very long time.
I watched as these giants became humans too. I'd show them to the restroom ("I need to see Mr. Pickle," Jimmy Heath said.) I saw some of them struggle to take off their coats, struggle to walk, use the bathroom more than three times during the meal...I saw them have conversations, take seating assignments, listen to speeches, look for their jackets, walk around looking for someone to talk to...
As the bruncheon neared it's end, I was greeted quite enthusiastically by Cedar Walton, with who, just a few weeks prior, I had had a nice conversation in the Village Vanguard bathroom. Having just come from the library where I had been studying, I had my book-bag on. After we had talked for about ten minutes, one of the Vanguard's employers came in the bathroom looking for Cedar. Immediately seeing my book bag, he yelled something to Cedar about us being up to no good (he must've thought we were doing drugs). Cedar told him to get out; that we were just talking.
As people started to exit, I helped two of my heroes to their town cars: Nat Hentoff and Billy Taylor.
During a restroom visit I introduced myself to Nat and reminded him of whom I was (he had recently listened to my album, loved it, and might want to write about my upcoming Preservation Hall performance - but we had not met, since then, in person). He seemed excited to see me and was very thankful for my helping him to his car. On the way down he spoke to me about going to see "the most happy sounding musician he's ever heard" at Preservation Hall long ago. His enthusiasm for the music is really inspiring.
When I asked him if it was nice to see everyone today he said, "It's really like a family reunion."
He reiterated what he has told me before: to write everything down. He's interested in reading what a young musician like myself would make of playing in such a historic venue like Preservation Hall. (He previously mentioned that he might want to write a piece about me writing a piece on it).
As Mr. Hentoff got in his car I asked him if I'd see him at the show that night. "No," he said. "I've got to work."
Next was Dr. Taylor. Ever since our first run-in that morning, we really formed a bit of a rapport, greeting each other with loud "Hey's" and big smiles every time we'd run in to each other.
As my friend and I walked Dr. Taylor to his car, I asked him if he still participated in Jazz In July.
"No," he said. He had been having some issues with the program and thought there was some things that needed to be worked out involving the process with which things were run. Either way, I took that as an opportunity to really develop a conversation with him.
I told him that I really learned a lot from the program. It was the first time I had realized how hard playing duo piano could be. He agreed and I told him that I love his duo piano stuff, especially the videos on his website.
He seemed to really be enjoying the conversation and went on to tell me how much he enjoyed playing duo with people like Ramsey Lewis and Tommy Flanagan.
"Dick Hyman," I suggested too. I had recently been watching some of their duo videos.
"Oh yes," he said.
As we waited for his car to pull up, I mentioned something about his amazing three-piano video that featured him, Duke Ellington, and Willie "The Lion" Smith.
"That really was one of the highlights of my life," he said. "I mean they really just laid it down for me. I mean listen, they didn't really even solo you know. They were just mostly playing chords and letting me solo. It was really such a thrill."
I mentioned how I thought the introduction was hilarious, when Duke Ellington pretends to forget Billy's name.
"Oh yes," Billy said, laughing. He told me the story of how that came to be: Basically Billy brought Duke on this show, kind of a strange show, and when Duke arrived he couldn't believe that Billy had persuaded him to coming to such a show. So, in a sort of funny retaliation, Duke acted like he forgot Billy's name in the introduction to the piece.
Dr. Taylor's car was lost or something and hadn't yet come. We walked back inside as the wind was almost unbearable outside.
"You know who I've really been listening a lot to lately?" I asked.
"Dave McKenna."
Dr. Taylor's face lit up. "Oh yes, Dave had it all. And he was one of the most melodic players..."
I asked if he'd read the new Thelonious Monk biography, knowing full well that Dr. Taylor was all over that book.
"Yes," he said. "I'm in it."
"Oh I know, I've been reading all about you." We laughed. Hoping that he'd tell me personally one of the coolest stories in it, I told him I'd just finished the part about where he played at James P. Johnson's house. Easily my favorite story I'd read thus far in the book, I hoped Billy would tell it to me.
Lucky me. He did. And what a version he told! Whereas in the book, I could only imagine the feelings of shock and embarrassment Billy must've felt when he realized what he'd been conned into, in person, I could see Billy's enthusiasm, his shock, and the humor with which he looks back on it all now. To paraphrase the story, Billy had been playing piano in a restaurant soon after arriving in New York. A family friend introduced him to a man who said he loved Billy's playing and offered to take him to a friend's house who, the man told Billy, loved piano jazz and would certainly love Billy's playing. The man took Billy to a man's house in Harlem. There were about fifty people in the room and the man introduced Billy to the room as a pianist. "Oh playing something for us," they yelled. "So I got up there and started playing all my Teddy Wilson shit, trying to show off, you know," Billy put it to me. "I got through about 8 bars before a man tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'That's nice. Let me try.'" To put it lightly, the man proceeded to build on what Billy played, but just knocked him out. That man was Willie "The Lion" Smith, and before long Billy realized that everyone there was a pianist, and everyone there was a famous pianist whose playing he knew; he just didn't know their faces because he hadn't seen picture of them before! In fact, he had been taken to James P. Johnson's house!
Billy said that they just knocked him around and tore him up. "They had such unbelievable left hands. I couldn't play like that, and neither could Monk, and that's how we bonded and got so close."
"There's only a few recorded instances of such – you can hear it on some of his versions of 'Round Midnight'"- but for the most part it wasn't recorded," Dr. Taylor said. "But Monk could really play like Tatum. He really had all the technique and he could really play like Art."
He told me about learning from Art Tatum. One of Tatum's protégés – Oscar Peterson being one of the others – he told me about sitting down at the piano with Tatum. Tatum showed him a pattern or a piece and Billy went home and learned it, copying it note for note. When he went back to Tatum and showed it to him, Tatum simply said, "Man, I've already heard that. I played that. Now do something with it."
A few minutes later Billy's car arrived and he was whisked away into the car. I got the feeling he could've gone on and on, and how I wish he did!
(It reminded me of the days of Jazz In July, when sometimes he'd tell us stories for an hour or so after class ended. Once such story: Billy had recently started working with Atlantic Records, who were, at the time, looking for some sort of new sound. Every day Billy would come in and they'd give him some music and he'd play it, and they'd say, "No, that's not it." This went on for a while until one day when he walked in and they told him that they'd found the sound they were looking for. When Billy asked who it was, they said it was a blind pianist named Ray Charles.)
"See ya tonight!," he said as he got in his car.
After the brunch ended, us volunteers were given a little break. We were told to meet back at the Sheraton Hotel at 5PM where we would help the Jazz Masters board the bus to Lincoln Center around 5:30.
When we walked into the hotel lobby, it seemed that every jazz master was already there, just sitting around and hanging out. The bus ended up being about an hour late, which worked out great for me, because it really gave me a chance to really talk with some of my heroes.
As I walked to the bathroom, I saw Mr. Moody sitting down with his wife and I yelled out, "Mr. Moody!" He quickly got up and started conversation with my friends and I.
"You been practicin' he asked?"
"I have, Mr. Moody."
"Good." He said. "It seems that the more you practice, the more you realize you don't know. You know what I mean?"
He said, "As a matter of fact, my wife called Hank Jones the other day and he didn't answer. He called back a little while later and apologized for missing her call; he had been practicing, he said. Now Hank's 93 and if he's still working on getting better, that's really saying something."
And then in his classic Moody tone (which can only be described as pure Donald Duck) he said, "Pwactice, pwactice, pwactice.."
Getting to know Mr. Moody a bit this past year through the Blue Note internship I've realized that many of the things he says may sound funny at first – you may even laugh at them-, but when you take a second and really think about what he just said, you realize just how deep what he said truly is.
"Beware of those people who call a television set an air conditioner." We laughed. He stopped us. "No, seriously," he said. "Think about it." We all stopped and thought, and then Moody explained: "People can give labels to anything, but always try to find the truth."
He then gave me another thing to think about. "Think about this," he said. "Imagine that every time you play your instrument for the rest of your life you can only play 'Happy Birthday'. Now that song is not happening, right?"
"Right," I said.
"But I guarantee you, that if you only play 'Happy Birthday To You' for the rest of your life you are gonna find some good shit on it."
I asked him if it was nice to see everyone today. "Oh yes," he said. "But man, I mean it's kinda depressing too. I mean look at Candido, right there. He used to have these big, bulging muscles, and he was a real tough guy. It's sad watching him, and a lot of these guys. It makes me want to go home and bend over and lift some weights. I don't want to get like that."
Somehow the topic turned to race relations. Moody told us about many of the hard times he'd been through. He said he did a tour down south once where he was on the bandstand and the dance floor was divided in half. He said he would never hurt an American or America, but he doesn't pride himself on the flag. America's hurt him. He didn't get treated with respect until he went to Europe, where he lived for three years, in Paris. He said that he has learned to take each person as an individual, not as a part of a group. He did say that racism still exists. Even though it's much subtler that it used to be, he said it still hurts. He said that he often goes out with his wife (who is white) and often, the waiter or waitress will bring the meals' check straight to her, or ask if the two are together, or ask, "separate checks?"
Right about then Gerald Wilson came over and the two embraced. It seemed like they hadn't seen each other in a while and they began reminiscing, including my friends and I in the stories.
Moody started cracking up. He looked at my friends and I and said, "Man. Dizzy used to mess with me. He used to do this to me (Moody sat down and ran his fingers slowly up his legs - imitating Dizzy, who would run his fingers slowly up Moody's legs), and ask me, 'Moody. You nervous?' I'd push him off and say, 'Diz, get off of me!' Then I'd try to get him back and do the same to him. I'd say, 'Diz, you nervous?' And he'd quickly say 'No!', and spread his legs wide open." Moody and Wilson were cracking up.
Moody then stood back up. He asked my friends how old they were and then he asked me.
"21," I said.
Then he looked at Gerald Wilson. "How old are you?"
"92," Wilson replied.
Then Moody looked me in the eyes and said, "Boy, you may be 21 today but you'll be 92 tomorrow. Make it count."
We talked for a few more minutes before being called over by our boss for the afternoon. We helped him for a minute before joining in conversation with Jimmy Heath.
Jimmy was telling a story about having recently gone out to dinner with Randy Weston and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar. Now both Weston and Abdul Jabaar are both at least close to seven feet, while Jimmy may be somewhere close to 5. He said, "Someone asked to take a picture of us. Now listen," he said. "I'm standing next to Kareem Abdul-Jabaar and Randy Weston, right in the middle of them. It's like I'm standing next to the twin towers. And I'm like, damn, I thought they tore those down already."
I asked him about my teacher Don Friedman, with whom I knew he played. He said he had a funny Don Friedman story. "I'll never forget we were on one of those cruises and Don starts playing "How Deep Is The Ocean," (Jimmy starts cracking up) and I'm Iike, "Don, we're in the middle of the ocean and I can barely swim. I don't want to know how deep it is from out here."
As we began to slowly make our way to the busses I watched as Moody, Gerald Wilson, and Jimmy Heath reunited with Roy Haynes. Roy approached Moody from behind, grabbed his shoulders and started singing into his ears, first very quietly and then louder and louder, the word's to Moody's hit, "Moody's Mood For Love." "Where I go where I go where I go now," he started singing. Before long they all joined in and eventually ended in full-fledged laughter.
We started walking to the bus when I noticed 93-year-old Yusef Lateef walking with one or two horns on his back and a suitcase on the ground that he was also carrying. I asked if he'd like some help. He laughed, thanked me, and said, "I'm okay as long as my wheels don't break.
We helped the jazz masters board the bus, and then, with a few extra seats in the back, my friends and I hopped in. Jimmy Heath and James Moody greeted us loudly. Moody pounded my fist as I walked back. I sat right behind Randy Weston and right by Roy Haynes. It was most definitely the coolest bus ride in my life.
When we got to Lincoln Center we helped the artists get up to the "Jazz" level, the fifth floor. Myself, a few of the volunteers, Randy Weston, and Gerald Wilson's beautiful granddaughters got off at that wrong floor. We were lost for about ten minutes before someone showed us the way. We walked in to the room where all the Jazz Masters (2010 and previous years) who were in attendance that evening were being photographed all together. What a joy it was to watch this. I've seen pictures like this before, but there's nothing like being there, realizing that they're all just clowning around. Frank Foster kept making funny faces and everyone was yelling things at one another. It was quite a scene.
After a thirty or so minute dinner where I shared a few words with Kenny Barron, we went backstage to where we'd watch the show. We opened the backstage doors and were greeted by a loud trumpet blowing fast scales – obviously warming up – in a room where the sound of the room made the trumpet echo beautifully. The sound was unmistakable. Wynton Marsalis.
His whole band was warming up. They were all walking down this large hall blowing their instruments. They were laughing and joking with one another.
We made our way backstage and Wynton came up to us, starting some conversation, asking us our names and such, and made a few jokes here and there. As the concert was about to start, the MC for the evening told Wynton to get on stage. Wynton said jokingly "Fuck you. I don't want to go on." The M.C. told him to go on stage; the show was being broadcast on the radio. Wynton kept saying "Fuck you man. Not now." They were joking around and before long the M.C. basically grabbed Wynton and told him to go on stage. It was a funny bit.
The actual show was very long. I think it ran nearly four hours. For each honoree a video was shown, an introduction speech was given by a previously named Jazz Master, then the honoree spoke, and then he or she performed a piece. While it was very long and did bore many in audience after a while, it was proved to be fascinating to me, sitting backstage.
What really proved to be fascinating were the things that the audience didn't get to see, the things that only I and a select few could see from backstage. I looked into Cedar Walton's eyes as a video was being shown about him in front of the entire audience at Lincoln Center. I wondered if he was contemplating just how far he'd come; if he was pondering the significance of this moment. I watched as Kenny Barron prepared to go on stage and receive his award. I watched as Annie Ross prepared her makeup and took deep breaths before taking stage.
It was interesting to me to look into the faces of these newly named jazz masters just before they took the stage, as their own heroes were speaking about them, honoring them. It was interesting to watch, say Kenny Barron's facial expression as James Moody spoke so highly about him in front of the entire audience. "I've never heard Kenny make a mistake," Moody said. It was amazing to me how straight they kept their faces, never smiling at the accolades that were being spoken about them, only laughing at the funny stories told about them (Mr. Moody talked about rooming with Mr. Barron during a stint with Dizzy Gillespie and said, "I remember he used to wake up every morning in his underwear and make a big peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then eat a banana." After a long pause, Moody said something like, "I don't know why I told y'all that."). It was fascinating to watch these artists collect their thoughts. It was hard to tell if Cedar Walton was focused on or even paying attention his accolades, the video, the speech before-hand; he looked utterly serious and focused, yet I couldn't tell at all what was on his mind.
One of the most poignant moments of the show, for me, took place just before Yusef Lateef walked on stage to receive his award.
Each honoree was led to the stage door about a minute before they were supposed to walk onstage, accept the award, give a speech, and perform.
Mr. Luteef, 93 years old, an extremely mysterious man, walked to the stage door very slowly. Then he stopped and stood very still, arms crossed, eyes closed, face down.
While it is impossible for me to know what he was truly thinking of that moment, something hit me hard.
They always say that right before you die your life flashes before your eyes. I got this strange feeling that, Lateef was reflecting over his entire life at that exact moment, not dying at all, but feeling some sort of strange relief. He seemed to be inside his mind replaying how he had gotten from A to B and from B to Z.
It seemed that, just possibly, he was thinking that, somehow, everything he had fought for all his life had arrived; everything he had worked for throughout his entire existence had been building to that one moment. Finally, he was being honored by the United States Government for a music that he - and countless others who hadn't the chance to receive the proper recognition- spent his whole life fighting to legitimize (especially in the United States, the land of jazz's creation!). I watched him stand there, overwhelmed with emotions, knowing full well where this man must have been and knowing too where he had arrived, and also very thankful that he, and especially he (an often underappreciated and under-recognized, yet more than deserving jazz master) specifically received this award before it was too late.
Whether or not that's how it actually happened to him, that's how it hit me, and it was a really powerful emotional experience.
The show ended eventually and we were led out to a reception where everyone mingled. A good friend of mine introduced me to Marc O'Connor, the fabulous violinist, and we had a wonderful conversation. What a truly wonderful guy he is. Throughout the day, it hit me hard that these giants are just people, and O'Connor was really exemplar of that. When I asked him how last week's Blue Note gig went after telling him I would've been there (being the Blue Note intern) had I not been home for break, he said, "We missed you."
The reception eventually ended and we made our way down the elevators where many of the Jazz Masters boarded the bus to take them back to the Sheraton.
A friend of mine was on the elevator with Jimmy Heath, who apparently had something to say about the no-shows. "Ornette Coleman didn't show up. George Coleman didn't show up. Heck, even Coleman Hawkins didn't show up."
I had been on the elevator before that one. Standing behind me was Cecil Taylor. Not really a fan of his music, but in the presence of such an icon, I knew I had to say something.
When the time seemed right, just as we were about to exit the Lincoln Center doors onto Columbus Circle, I approached him. "Mr. Taylor," I said. "I don't mean to interrupt. I just wanted to tell you that I'm a pianist and that your music has been very inspiring over the years."
In response (or I should say, in lack-of response), Mr. Taylor just looked at me, dead serious, right in the eyes for about ten seconds. Finally he broke the silence by asking in a deep and heavy, yet totally fake, British accent, "What is your name, Sir?"
As strange as it was, I realized walking home that night that, after getting to know Taylor's music, that is exactly how I'd expect Cecil Taylor to react.
The case was the same with nearly everyone I met:
Yusef Lateef, even in conversation, seemed mysterious and even a bit protective. You could never tell what he was really thinking, but you could always tell that he was thinking. And James Moody is extremely happy and he quickly draws you into the conversation, which can turn from absolutely hilarious to very deep, emotional, and even dark at times, in a matter of seconds.
It's true what Charlie Parker said about one's music being the sum total of one's experiences. Being behind the scenes at the NEA Jazz Masters Awards day really showed me that this is absolutely true.
It was an honor to spend the day with my heroes and to watch them receive the deserved recognition that they've been denied for way too long.


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The Annual Elmore County Teacher of the Year Reception was held Monday, March 26, 2018, at 4 PM in the boardroom. We want to congratulate all of the school winners.
Congratulations to Sallie Pendergast recognized as Elmore County Elementary Teacher of the Year
Congratulations to Jennifer Daniel recognized as Elmore County Secondary Teacher of the Year
Both ladies will compete at the state level.
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QVC host Dave Venable has no problem getting cheesy, on air or in his cookbook.
QVC host Dave Venable has no problem getting cheesy, on air or in his cookbook.
"Forgive me for getting a little 'cheesy' here, but that's just what this one-dish wonder is all about: cheese," Venable writes in his just-released cookbook, "In the Kitchen with David."
"Everything we love about melted cheese — rich, ooey, gooeyness — is right here in this cheeseburger casserole. It's easy to make, can be put together ahead and frozen, and it's kid-friendly. For kids of all ages, that is."
Cheesy Cheeseburger Casserole
Start to finish: 1 hour; serves 6
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon kosher salt
16-ounce package elbow macaroni
2 pounds ground beef
1 large yellow onion, chopped
2 cans tomato sauce, 8 ounces each
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 cup (8 ounces) ricotta cheese
1/4 cup (2 ounces) sour cream
1/3 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/3 cup chopped scallions
1/2 cup (2 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
1/4 cup (1 ounce) shredded mozzarella
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add 1 tablespoon of the salt and the macaroni and cook until tender but still firm to the bite, 7 to 8 minutes. Drain well.
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the beef and onion and cook, stirring, until the beef is well browned. Carefully drain the fat from the skillet, then stir in the tomato sauce, the remaining 1 teaspoon of salt, and the black pepper. Bring to a simmer over low heat while preparing the remaining ingredients.
In a medium bowl, combine the ricotta, sour cream, bell pepper and scallions. Spread half of the pasta in the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Top with the ricotta mixture, then the remaining pasta. Pour the meat mixture over the top. Sprinkle with the cheddar and mozzarella.
Bake the casserole until the cheese is melted and lightly browned, about 20 minutes. Sprinkle with the parsley before serving.
Nutrition information per serving: 700 calories; 230 calories from fat (33 percent of total calories); 25 g fat (12 g saturated; 1 g trans fats); 130 mg cholesterol; 67 g carbohydrate; 4 g fiber; 8 g sugar; 51 g protein; 1280 mg sodium.


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Located 50 mi/80 km west of Cologne, near the borders of Belgium and the Netherlands, Aachen, Germany, gained prominence as the capital of Charlemagne's empire. From 936 to 1531, it served as the coronation city for German kings, many of whom are depicted on the facade of the Town Hall.
The most impressive sight is the Aachener Dom, a beautiful cathedral. (Its oldest part, Charlemagne's octagonal domed palace chapel (Pfalzkapelle), was completed around 800 and is a splendid example of Carolingian architecture. Note the magnificent wheel-shaped chandelier, donated by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in the 12th century, and the copper pulpit decorated with precious stones and donated by Henry II (11th century). The high altar has a gilded panel relief depicting the Passion of Christ (around 1020). A hand-worked gold and silver reliquary called the Karlsschrein (1200-15) behind the altar contains Charlemagne's remains. The medieval marble throne in the upper gallery (guided tours only) was used as the coronation throne of 30 German kings. Highlights of the rich treasury (Domschatzkammer) include several major silver and gold reliquaries including the bust of Charlemagne (1349) and the Lothar Cross (c. 1100).
Today, Aachen is a lively university town. It's fun to spend a few hours strolling the streets of the Old Town and lingering in the shops, quaint restaurants and historical sights. Particularly enjoyable is the venerable Alte Aachener Cafe, which has superb printen (a locally made gingerbread) and an interior out of the Brothers Grimm.
Other attractions include mineral baths and year-round casino gambling. The Ludwig Forum, housed in a former umbrella factory, is an international art gallery and a performing-arts venue.
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