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PI officials meet with HUNT commander
ROGERS CITY – Presque Isle County's prosecuting attorney and law enforcement officials met with the commander of the Huron Undercover Narcotics Team to discuss the team's future in the county, as well as the prosecutor's concerns about an ongoing drug problem there.
Prosecutor Rick Steiger met with Lt. Frank Keck, HUNT commander, on Feb. 5 to discuss his concerns over whether the team would continue to operate within the county. He also wanted to seek his cooperation in combating a heroin problem in the county that's been going on for several years.
Steiger said he called the meeting after hearing about a statement supposedly made at a HUNT board meeting that counties would have to "pay to play," he said. He wanted clarification on what this might mean.
Keck said nothing to that effect was said at the board meeting. Rather, there was some discussion about the board bylaws stating that people wouldn't get a vote on the HUNT board if their county doesn't provide an officer or money to the team. This is according to interlocal agreements between the team and local law enforcement organizations.
"It had nothing to do with whether or not we're going to work there," he said, adding that no decision was made either way at the board meeting.
HUNT will continue to operate in Presque Isle County even after county officials opted to pull funding from the team, Keck said, adding the team recently executed a search warrant in the county concerning an alleged illegal gun purchase.
Presque Isle County Sheriff Bob Paschke and Undersheriff Joe Brewbaker attended the meeting, as did Rogers City Police Chief Matt Quaine and Onway Police Chief Jim Gibson. Keck confirmed to them HUNT is still a resource they could use.
"The only thing that would be changing, since (the county doesn't) have a man assigned to us right at the moment, there will be fewer people," he said. "It'll be harder to be proactive with investigations."
Steiger said he told Keck about a heroin problem in the county that he believes hasn't been properly addressed. After the meeting, he believes Keck and HUNT will tackle the issue, and said he's available to help in any way.
"I'm optimistic about the direction (Keck) is taking the drug team," he said.
Along with methamphetamine and cocaine, heroin is one of the "big three" HUNT and other narcotics teams strive to eliminate, Keck said.
"If there's people who do have information, I recommend they either give us a tip through the tip line or online, but that's something we certainly don't want to see get a foothold in the community," he said.
HUNT can be reached at 1-800-573-3784 or online at huntteam.net.
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Assignment: Education - Common Core
School is Getting More Rigorous
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- Attending preschool in the La Crosse School District is becoming more common. Currently, about 98-percent of La Crosse families have chosen to send their 4-year-old to the district's optional program. This choice helps lay a solid foundation for what's ahead.
"Learning from the kindergarten teachers what has happened to the kindergarten curriculum, I've decided that I want to offer as much as I can to the preschool children getting them ready for kindergarten, because kindergarten is looking quite a bit different now," said Kylie Burns, Hintgen Elementary preschool teacher.
The reason? The state of Wisconsin has adopted new educational standards called the Common Core.
"The common core was designed, really, to help set targets for our kids so they can become competitive on an international level," said Rob Tyvoll, La Crosse School District supervisor of academic programs and staff development, "and so they can have the skills necessary to succeed in college or a career following high school."9239506
Currently, 46 states have signed on to the Common Core with the hope of lifting up education across the country.
"If a family happens to be mobile, the Common Core will probably provide a little more uniformity across the state; across the country, so that the curriculum will be much the same everywhere that they go," said Mark White, La Crosse School District preschool supervisor.
That's because when you adopt the Common Core you also adopt a national set of learning targets.
"So, what they've developed for us are these new standards that indicate what kids at each grade level should know and be able to do by the time they're through with high school," said Tyvoll.
And these standards are raising the bar for students at every grade level.
"We are going to see some significant bump-ups in terms of the rigor beginning in kindergarten," said Tyvoll. "And I would imagine that in a year or so, when we see the state produce the new pre-k standards, we'll see some significant shifts there as well."
For now, preschool teachers like Mrs. Burns are already doing what they can to integrate basic learning skills through songs, games and play, but the main focus remains.
"Our primary purpose in preschool is still the social development of the child, looking at the whole child and what they're able to do," said White.
"If you look in my classroom right now, some kids are playing Polly Pockets and some are working on their numbers," said Burns. "So, we're never taking away that social component."
And while Tyvoll calls the new standards ambitious, he says they are realistic in today's society.
"It'll be a process of years for all the schools in our state, and around the country really, to reach those bars," said Tyvoll. "So, it'll be a process of some time, but I think we're going to see some real positive gains within the next five to six years."
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Zappa, Frank
Frank Zappa 1940–
American songwriter, composer, musician, filmmaker, record and film producer, and director.
Zappa is a unique figure in contemporary music. Both offensive and appealing, his work merges such seemingly opposite elements as classical music, avant-garde jazz, 1950s doo-wop, and underground rock with bitterly satirical, outlandish lyrics into what is an unarguably original style. Through his band, the Mothers of Invention, he has utilized a purposeful bizarreness to point up the absurdity of contemporary society. The intensity and intellectual complexity of Zappa's work is undercut by ribald, tongue-in-cheek humor, which has helped to make him especially popular with young people.
Zappa began his career by composing orchestral works and chamber music. Until he was twenty-one he listened exclusively to classical pieces and the works of such twentieth century composers as Igor Stravinsky and Edgar Varèse, his biggest influence. It was not until Zappa discovered rhythm and blues that he began developing his songwriting. In 1964 he formed the first in a series of Mothers, and in 1967 they released Freak Out, a double album which both represented and defined the developing counterculture. His other early albums were also iconoclastic: We're Only in It for the Money parodied the Beatles's celebrated Sgt. Pepper; and he released Ruben and the Jets as a classical exercise in doo-wop during the height of psychedelia.
Zappa and the Mothers were the first to effectively blend rock with theater, making dadaist statements on drugs, war, the business world, and, especially, sex. In their concerts they encouraged involvement between band and audience. Zappa used a free-form format, which often included grotesque elements, to shock his audience into understanding the depth of their emotions. In 1969 he disbanded the group due to a combination of expense and public apathy.
After the breakup of the Mothers, Zappa concentrated on record production and film work. Uncle Meat, his first film, was never released, although it did yield a soundtrack album. He also began releasing solo albums such as the instrumental Lumpy Gravy and Hot Rats, which are often considered his best work. In 1970 Zappa formed a new Mothers to play the score for his film 200 Motels, a saga of life on the road. The film received a mixed critical reception, but was awarded cult status by many young people. Zappa also performed with conductor Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in an effort to combine rock and symphony material.
Recently Zappa has been criticized for his lack of fresh ideas, especially on Joe's Garage, a fantasy about the rise and fall of a rock band, and for his overuse of perversity and sophomoric silliness, as in his film Baby Snakes. For many of his critics, Zappa's notorious image has transcended his musical efforts; some, however, have called him a genius who is ahead of his time. Young people have always been Zappa's most faithful advocates, and have recognized the imagination he has consistently brought to his work. "My dreams," he has said, "are limited only by the size of my bank account."
Bertram Stanleigh
No other group of hippy musicians displays the same amount of freedom, variety, invention, and lunatic good spirits as the West Coast group that calls itself The Mothers of Invention. Utilizing a variety of electronic sounds and an agglomeration of strange forms of percussion, they produce musical backgrounds for a vocal message that ranges from the eloquently poetic, to earthy good humor, to embarrassingly unfunny bathroom jokes, to simple high-spirited inantiy….
But thoughtful listening reveals that there is a substantial amount of careful work and genuine sensitivity behind this coarse facade. Music that sounds like little more than a rude joke on first hearing, reveals unexpected inner subtlety and charm after a number of repetitions….
[There] is much of the same feeling of irreverent, zany funmaking about the Mothers that there was about the [Spike] Jones band, and if you don't want to search for the superior craftsmanship and creativity of this new group, you can still enjoy this music on its surface level for its wacky sounds and earthy lyrics….
[The MOI American Pageant on Absolutely Free] deals with drinking, middle-class status symbols, the high-school dance, sex, and the country club dance. It adds up to a pretty cogent picture of the hippy's view of American society, and if it's a distorted view, it's still a pithy and clever commentary that makes some pretty telling digs.
Bertram Stanleigh, "Jazz, Blues, and the Mothers," in Audio (© 1967, CBS Publications, The Consumer Publishing Division of CBS Inc.), Vol. 51, No. 11, November, 1967, p. 66.
Harvey Pekar
The "underground oratorios" Absolutely Free and The M.O.I. American Pageant by the Mothers of Invention are among the major achievements of experimental pop groups. The Mothers draw on a large number of sources for their music. They are competent rock musicians, as the building Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin demonstrates. However, it is their humor, their satirical gift, that makes the Mothers' two oratorios notable. America Drinks and Goes Home, a selection from The M.O.I. American Pageant, for example, is a marvelous parody of closing time at a less than classy night club ("Oh, Bill Bailey? Oh, we'll get to that tomorrow night. Yeah. Caravan with the drum solo? Right. Yeah, we'll do that.").
The nice thing about the Mothers' humor on the two oratorios is that it is open and democratic rather than aimed at any specific inside group. (p. 39)
Harvey Pekar, "From Rock to ???" in down beat (copyright 1968; reprinted with permission of down beat), Vol. 35, No. 9, May 2, 1968, pp. 39-40.∗
Robert A. Rosenstone
The most successful song depicting the situation of the Negro was "Trouble Coming Everyday," written by Frank Zappa during the Watts uprising in 1965. Though the song does not go so far as to approve of rioting, it paints a brutal picture of exploitation by merchants, bad schooling, miserable housing, and police brutality—all of which affect ghetto-dwellers. Its most significant lines are Zappa's cry, "You know something people, I ain't black, but there's a whole lots of times I wish I could say I'm not white." No song writer showed more empathy with the black struggle for liberation than that. (p. 135)
The image [of inauthenticity, of plasticity,] recurs most frequently in the works of the Mothers of Invention. In one song ["Uncle Bernie's Farm"], they depict the country as being run by a plastic Congress and President. Then, in "Plastic People," they start with complaints about a girl-friend who uses "plastic goo" on her face, go on to a picture of teen-agers on the Sunset Strip—who are probably their fans—as being "plastic," too, and finally turn on their listeners and say "Go home and check yourself / You think we're talking about someone else." Such a vision is frightening, for if the audience is plastic, perhaps the Mothers, themselves, are made of the same phony material. And if the whole world is plastic, who can be sure of his own authenticity? (p. 138)
Robert A. Rosenstone, "'The Times They Are A-Changin': The Music of Protest," in The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science (© 1969, by The American Academy of Political and Social Science), Vol. 382, March, 1969, pp. 131-44.∗
Ellen Sander
[Ruben & The Jets is] an album of The Mothers as mad historians, caricaturing a caricature and making it work. They exult the sexual symbolism of early rock by calling the shots. "Cheap Thrills in the back of my car" wouldn't have gotten by the censors in the old days, but it sounds disconcertingly familiar now. The Mothers camp it up with reconstructed oldies spoofing the elusiveness and the immediacy that brought teeny-boppers out in droves to the Murray the K. rock 'n' roll tours and the American Bandstand.
The Mothers of Invention reign as the prime purveyors of irreverent insight into American culture, and this time around, they are entrenching themselves. And as severe a reflection of the absurdity of itself as it is, Ruben & The Jets is a collection of good tunes…. It tells it like it always was, much to everyone's embarrassment, except theirs, and makes it fun to listen to at the same time. It's patently obscene without containing one dirty word. Now you've got to admit, that's class.
Ellen Sander, "Nostalgia: Oldies but Goodies and a Last Ditch Attempt," in Saturday Review (copyright © 1969 by Saturday Review; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Vol. LII, No. 13, March 29, 1969, p. 51.
David G. Walley
We all live inside a plastic balloon which Frank Zappa is trying to pop….
Zappa is no freaked-out psychedelic acidhead—his band is composed of consummate musicians, and their music is vital, alive, and important. Everything the Mothers do, right down to the multi-tracked belches, has infinite purpose. Zappa is a media master…. (p. 29)
The Mothers of Invention, for all their put-on obnoxiousness (studied, I might add) and healthy disrespect for the Establishment, are very much vital as artists in this culture. Some of their music is in the 50's folk medium (a capella pimple-rock)—what better way to describe a culture than by using the culture's music to do it? (pp....
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Lester Bangs
[Hot Rats] brings together a set of mostly little-known talents that whale the tar out of every other informal "jam" album released in rock and roll for the past two years. If Hot Rats is any indication of where Zappa is headed on his own, we are in for some fiendish rides indeed.
In the past both Zappa's high-flown "serious music" and his greasy Fifties routines grew heavy-handed, but this album suggests he may be off on a new and much more individual direction, inspired by Captain Beefheart, who is featured prominently on Hot Rats…. Beefheart is one of the true originals of our day, and his raffish dadaism is an excellent tonic for a Zappa too often pre-occupied with...
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Alan Heineman
Not much to choose between [Burnt Weenie Sandwich] and Uncle Meat: both are strange, fragmented, wonderful albums. The opening and closing tunes are pretty much throwaways, though perhaps they serve as frames, a way of saying, "This, oddly enough, is where all our freaky music begins." WPLJ and Valarie are black '50s rock epitomized—not very good, but fun. (p. 22)
It may well be that in the year 2000 (we should live so long), the Mothers' music will be considered the highest level of music attained during the present period. This album, despite a few fleetingly dull or repetitive passages, makes a good case for that view. (p. 23)
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Bill Reed
[Weasels Ripped My Flesh is another] nifty collection of music inspired by Frank Zappa's pre-occupation with Edgar Varese, death, bopping and jacking off.
Once I thought that Zappa and his group might be the saviors of pop music. Now after all the music that they've produced since their Suzie Creemcheese period I'm not sure that I don't still feel much the same. This random collection of editing room snippets recorded at Mothers concerts over the last few years finds the group peerless in the field of amalgamating satire, musical adventuresomeness, and flash….
It's all here: more assaults on the calibrated sexuality of early rock, and jousts at the pomposity which musical...
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Lester Bangs
Frank Zappa is a genius. Right. Frank Zappa probably knows more about music than you and I and 3/4 of the other professional musicians in this country put together. Right. Frank Zappa has made an incredible contribution towards broadening the scope of the average American kid's listening habits. Absolutely. Frank Zappa has certain possibly dangerous Machiavellian, manipulative tendencies. Yeah, probably so, but so what? Frank Zappa is a snob who underestimates his audience. Hmmm. Think so, huh?…
The public may not be quite as ignorant or as debased in its tastes as Zappa possibly thinks, and I suspect a lot of them are going to be even more let down by Chunga's...
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Lester Bangs
It may seem a quaint notion now, but there actually was a time when Frank Zappa was considered one of the prime geniuses of rock. Somehow it just didn't seem to matter all that much that those of his compositions which bore any relationship to rock 'n' roll form at all were either sarcastic exercises in calculated banality or self-indulgent parodies of Fifties group harmonies, and at the time we were still largely convinced that his perennial air of snot-mustached condescension was good for us….
[Those] early albums did contain some striking music and lyrics and were exceptionally well put-together, solid collages of satiric vitriol and Mad magazine scatology zappin' straight atacha with aim...
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Jay Cocks
Anyone who enjoys being the target of a put-on will revel in Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. It's an act of undisguised aggression against the audience—rather like a mugging in a movie theater. Zappa makes movies the way he and his group, the Mothers of Invention, make music—wildly, brazenly, eclectically….
If it can really be said to be "about" anything, 200 Motels is about the effect it has on the audience, which is not always pleasant and is occasionally exasperating and even disconcerting. It helps that the movie is sometimes exceedingly funny. (p. 55)
The craziness climaxes, fittingly enough, with full cast and chorus raising their voices in an irreverent anthem:...
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Dan Morgenstern
200 Motels is a very funny, original and entertaining film. It is Frank Zappa's film just as the Mothers are his group, and it is permeated with his personal vision. It is a film of many levels, but his own description, "a surrealistic documentary," is apt.
It deals with life on the road as experienced by a touring rock group, specifically The Mothers, and such real things as sex, food and drink, relationship of performer to audience, getting high, intra-group chemistry, groupies, interviews, etc., but these are not treated in a "realistic" manner….
200 Motels is an "experimental" and offbeat film of a type rarely touched by major studios….
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David Reitman
The Mothers new album, Just Another Band From L.A. seems to capture the spontenaity of the early albums, like Freak Out, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For the Money, better than any other recent one….
Much has been made (by Zappa) of the Mothers being labelled a "comedy" group. Well if he thinks that's ironic, or he doesn't like it, tough shit, because this record is one of the funniest he has ever done. Zappa still pokes fun at the country he lives in, the West Coast culture, even (especially) the people who come to listen to him…. The humor is very adolescent (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan only encourage this) but I like sophomoric humor when it comes off…....
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Mike Bourne
In his inexorable odyssey toward gesamtkunstwerk (the Wagnerian "total" artwork), Just Another Band is the most perfect example of the synthesis of theater and music in the art of Frank Zappa.
Billy the Mountain alone is exemplary…. Up front, the narrative is bizarre—and at least not about genital size, the Mothers' too often prevalent theme. But above all, the music is the energy of the piece, reinforcing and contributing to the comedy throughout.
On the other side, the reverse is somewhat evident, with the music more to the fore…. Magdalena for once integrates their bawdy burlesquing (this time about incest) with the music, without their...
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David Walley
Freak Out was a conceptual masterpiece…. [It] served as a living testament to L.A. freakdom, a truly honest work…. It captured the essence of the American Experience with songs like "Who Are the Brain Police."… (p. 60)
Freak Out also had some outrageous parodies of Fifties rhythm and blues tunes with "Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder."… The songs on the first record dealt for the most part with common reality. The pieces of extended music on the second record were unheard of during that impoverished period of rock and roll imagination.
Side Three of Freak Out contained two memorable compositions: "Trouble Coming Every Day," a song about the Watts riots...
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Arthur Schmidt
[Zappa's] formula is wearing thin—or perhaps this Brucean music of disgust suffers in the current buyers' market for outrage. Only one song [on Over-Nite Sensation], "Montana," approaches parody, and that of an indefinite genre…. One of Zappa's most persistent themes and/or subjects, silly hippies, though it provides the best cut ("Camarillo Brillo") seems, well, dated.
Except that this is close to a good record, one would be tempted to compare Zappa to Henry Miller, with whom the former shares a vision of sex as rancid, dumb and funny: Like Miller getting older, he is less shocking, tapeworming himself, and overwriting.
Even if the lyrics are jokes, this is machismo rock...
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Peter Kountz
Zappa [is] an extremely creative and highly proficient composer and performer of truly serious contemporary music, whose musical and artistic perception clearly transcends the narrowly defined limits of pop and whose breadth of musical experience outstrips the boundaries of all forms of American music, not simply pop.
By "serious," I mean a learned and studied writer of music; one who has studied the traditional techniques of theory, harmony, counterpoint, and composition; one who is aware of the history of Western Music especially and who can both appreciate and appraise contemporary music and its materials; one who has both a personal vision and aesthetic and who has the training to be, in Charles...
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Alan Niester
Roxy & Elsewhere is about as close to a traditional musical form as the Mothers are ever likely to come. There's bound to be lots of strangeness—long, spoken raps (preambles), Zappa's own weird form of humor, post-acid fairy tale lyrics and a lot of just plain wasted vinyl—on any double album from the Mothers. But in between there is actually lots of solid and inventive jazz-rock.
Alan Niester, "Records: 'Roxy & Elsewhere'," in Rolling Stone (by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. © 1975; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Issue 177, January 2, 1975, p. 68.
Zappa for the life of him can't seem to...
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Eric Salzman
Frank Zappa, the Franz Liszt, Jonathan Swift, and Spike Jones of the pop avant-garde, is the standard bearer of whatever is left of that theatrical school of rock music which is at once commedia dell'arte zaniness, social critique, and high-class musicianship on a low-brow trip. Zappa has perfected a kind of rock-and-roll tone poem, with a surrealistic text scraped off the soft underbelly of American life—a dippy blues riff, some elaborate jazzy musical developments, and a rousing return to cap it off. (pp. 85, 87)
A good deal of [Roxy & Elsewhere] is taken up with funny business…. The meat of the album lies in the half-dozen tunes and a couple of good-sized instrumentals that...
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JOHN SWENSON and BART TESTA
Freak Out and its follow-ups, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For the Money, became legend primarily for the visual images superimposed on the music; Zappa's ironic critique of society…. Zappa seems to have no limit of contempt for aspects of Ugly Americana, including his audience (and, perhaps even himself).
But what may have seemed hostile in '68 (say, for example, the parody of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the inside cover of We're Only In It …) turns out to make good sense in retrospect. In fact, Zappa was a very earnest humanist: "Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre education system. Forget about the...
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Lester Bangs
[Frank Zappa] ran out of topical relevance even quicker than most of his musical contemporaries, largely forfeited lyrical cogency early on, and has for several years been recycling adolescent grossout yuks interspersed with random verbiage…. Zappa's lyrics only begin to work [on One Size Fits All] when they redelve into the Southern California greaser suburb murk-Montclair mentality …, and even then whatever possible effectiveness they might have is usually obscured by his … melodic quirks which tend to keep the vocalist gibbering like a Pachuco on whites humping the glory hole of a pinball machine. (pp. 65-6)
[Frank] loots enough styles to make music that sounds complicated, throws in...
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Robert Duncan
With regard to poo-poo, snot, vomit, depersonalized sex, booze, zoot suits and the banality of mainstream rock, Frank Zappa, one of rock's original angry young men, remains vehement. And Zoot Allures is his latest blow against the Empire. You do remember the Empire?
In other words, there are few moments of musical interest on this album, and nearly all are marred by a lyric text that is alternately mindless and condescending, always unfunny.
Robert Duncan, "Records: 'Zoot Allures'," in Rolling Stone (by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. © 1976; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Issue 229, December 30, 1976, p. 70....
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Andy Doherty
Zappa in New York sounds as much like formula work as anything this character has ever foisted upon his public….
At its most pedestrian, this album offers "Titties and Beer," yet another Zappa attempt to secure the affections of the sophomores in the audience by reviving the crudest elements of vaudeville. The song centers on a locker-room dialogue between Zappa and the Devil …, who has eaten Frank's girl and beer. Sound familiar? It should—the routine aims for the same sleazy places Flo and Eddie (to cite the obvious example) explored years ago…. Being predictable is bad enough; "Titties and Beer" is that and mild, a far greater sin.
"The Illinois Enema...
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Tim Schneckloth
Studio Tan is one of the most satisfying Zappa releases of the decade. It's a well-balanced sampler of Zappa's unissued '70s work, including two major instrumental compositions, a hilarious parody of Southern California beach music, and a fully orchestrated, characteristically strange operatic piece.
The narrative line of Greggery Peccary, the side-long "opera," follows the misadventures of the title character, a suave, hip young "pig of destiny" engaged in the heinous practice of "trend-mongering." The story leads us into some social commentary that seems rather heavy-handed and dated by now, but a lot of it is genuinely funny, especially if the listener happens to be a sucker for...
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David Fricke
[Sheik Yerbouti] reaffirms (at least for the faithful) Zappa's chops as a bandleader and rock & roll wit who doesn't have to be socially relevant to get a laugh. The opening salvo, "I Have Been in You," is a marvelously snide sendup of Peter Frampton's wimpiest hour ("I'm in You") that does for putzy love songs what "Dancin' Fool" does later for uncoordinated nerds with fatal John Travolta complexes. Indulgent scatological exercises like "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes" and "Bobby Brown" (in which the artist unleashes a few zingers at record companies) continue to raise the question of Frank Zappa's lyrical gift and just what's left of it. But even when Zappa and crew come on like the avant-garde answer to...
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Peter Reilly
Introducing his own label [with Sheik Yerbouti] gives Frank Zappa the opportunity to deposit several giant do-do's on your carpet and then, in an equally infantile way, wait for you to tell him what a good boy he is. He giggles and pants and shouts through such things as the swinish Wild Love, the repellent S & M, pansexual excesses of Broken Hearts Are for Assholes, and the childish exhibitionism of I Have Been in You with all the gleeful abandon of one of Rodney Laing's patients smearing his feces on the wall to prove his essential "health." The all-time low point (one must hope) is plumbed here in Jewish Princess, a belligerent, incredibly gross piece of hate-filled crap that...
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Jon Pareles
Frank Zappa's attitude runs so thick you could smear it on sidewalks. For a decade, his name has conjured a rude blend of cynicism, scatology, and conceit, and until seven years ago he was entitled to all three. Zappa's scabrous all-Americanism, as promulgated on the first half-dozen Mothers of Invention albums, was enough to nurture the Tubes, the Residents, and others; his shifty-meter tunes, tape tricks, and rock-jazz arrangements would be revered and revived by Tin Huey, Hatfield and the North, the Residents, and many others. Yet his best work (the Mothers' Freak Out! and Weasels Ripped My Flesh, and Zappa's solo Hot Rats) went unbought….
His response was so cynical it...
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Karl Dallas
[What] we have [on Joe's Garage Act One] is just another set of songs on the sort of subject that seems to have occupied [Zappa's] forebrain for the past decade now, as the titles indicate: "Catholic Girls", "Crew Slut", "Wet T-Shirt Nite", etc., etc. The narrative structure seems to have been imposed on them after their composition, so it's hardly surprising that it fits rather loosely. Worse, very little of it grabs the short hairs at the back of the neck like "Concentration Moon", putting the Seventies to rest as definitely as "Money" did the illusions of the Sixties.
Musically, of course, it is as impeccable as ever, though the emphasis seems to be upon overall surface polish rather than...
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Shel Kagan
Though the title song [on Joe's Garage, Act 1] is a delightful history of every garage band that ever came out of rock & roll, the album is marred by a fault that has dogged Zappa's career since its beginning: sheer overindulgence. The narrative, otherwise perceptive and satiric, is weighed down with an overtext supplied by a computer voice dubbed The Central Scrutinizer, an icon which represents the establishment.
In both the album notes and the spoken narration, Zappa uses the Scrutinizer to say that higher authority is trying to a) do away with music; b) enslave the population through use of music. Forget the paradox; despite the pun (the Scrutinizer is screwing us, see?)...
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Cole Springer
Although it is certainly not being hyped as such in this day and age, Joe's Garage is nothing less than a rock opera. It has distinct scenes, a large cast of characters and, best of all, a storyline that is actually easy to follow….
Zappa narrates his satire in the guise of the Central Scrutinizer…. It's all very tongue-in-cheek, but—lest anyone miss the point—Zappa spells it out in his liner notes: "If the plot seems preposterous, just be glad you don't live in one of the countries where, at this very moment, music is either severely restricted, or, as it is in Iran, totally illegal."
The overall concept is, in the main, well executed, but there are some flaws. The...
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Tom Carson
Baby Snakes isn't the longest rock-star self-indulgence ever put on the screen ([Bob Dylan's] Renaldo and Clara still holds that title) nor is it the most pretentious (ditto). It's an ego trip, all right, but on a picayune, low-rent scale; its intermittent stabs at higher meaning come mostly in the form of gnomic inside jokes, meant for the exclusive consumption of Zappa's ever-shrinking cadre of hard-core devotees. It may be the first rock-star movie ever designed from the outset as a cult item….
Clearly, the movie is a labor of love—but for what? You'd expect a cranky pedagogue like Zappa to at least pretend to some sort of big thematic statement, and he does; but the substance of...
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Jon Pareles
Unlike 200 Motels, Zappa's first film, Baby Snakes doesn't pretend to have a plot, and it is edited percussively, for maximum disorientation.
For die-hard Zappa fans, there are a few illuminating sequences. It's fascinating to watch Zappa conducting at close range; his band translates his hand motions into sound with telepathic precision. But those scenes are separated by tedious stretches of Zappa's cold-eyed, unfunny "comedy," which seems to be aimed primarily at socially retarded twelve-year-old boys. His staples are dirty-word jokes, outdated rock satires and disturbing antigay slurs….
The concert footage is competently shot, but [Bruce] Bickford's animation is...
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Don Shewey
Frank Zappa's satirical rock opera, Joe's Garage [Act I and Acts II and III] is ambitious and mad, brilliant, peculiar and incoherent…. As a music maker and recording artist, Zappa has always cultivated two warring images—the serious composer with a social satirist's sense of irony versus the smutty crowd pleaser with a puerile sense of humor….
Joe's Garage ties the dual extremes of Frank Zappa's sensibility closer together than ever. An attack on authoritarianism in which fascist governments, self-help pseudoreligions and the music industry are inextricably linked, the opera simultaneously tells the tale of a boy and girl….
As a stage musical, Joe's...
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Larry Birnbaum
Abandoning his middle period flirtations with jazz improvisation and contemporary orchestration, [on Joe's Garage (Act I and Acts II & III)] Zappa has reverted to the conceptual doo-wop format he last employed on the Mothers' Kafkaesque exercise in cosmic paranoia We're Only In It For The Money. Joe's Garage is similarly premised on the imminent prohibition of music … as it traces the journey of protagonist/guitarist Joe through the travails of the robot age…. [The] greater portion of this extravaganza is of no more substance than hamburger helper…. [Frank's] purulent invective oftener-than-not degenerates into the most putrid scatological doggerel, lacking, however, the power to shock...
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Paul Tickell
A decade ago his satirical, nihilistic humour and scatological obsessions hurt. But Zappa's themes have worn thin, and his targets grown easy. It's rather like watching a '60s underground mag turn yellow and date. This lessens the impact of the music [on "Wembley Arena"], however brilliant: it comes over as pastiche (mere imitation) rather than parody (imitation with something to say).
Zappa has always avoided the laughable spiritual commitments which musicians of this calibre often take on. But he pays a price for his flippancy. As the musical expertise grows and the wit declines, the effect becomes strangely syrupy and operatic. Frank, ever scornful of rock 'n roll values, has merely ended up as...
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About the Show
From Emmy Award-winning producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz of Magical Elves ("Top Chef" and "Project Runway") comes "America's Next Great Restaurant." In this delectable new alternative series, people from every walk of life will vie for the opportunity of a lifetime to see their original restaurant concept spring to life - starting with the opening of a restaurant chain in three locations - Hollywood, Minneapolis and New York City.
Funding the restaurant concepts are four accredited investors: Bobby Flay, distinguished restaurateur ("Iron Chef America: The Series," "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay"); Curtis Stone, internationally renowned chef (NBC's "The Biggest Loser," "Take Home Chef"); Steve Ells, founder, chairman and co-CEO of Chipotle; and Lorena Garcia, executive chef and restaurateur.
Flay, Stone, Ells and Garcia not only serve as investors who put their money into the winning restaurant idea, but they also serve as mentors. They will be working side by side with the competitors to further develop their concepts and put each competitor's restaurant concept through rigorous business and cooking challenges to determine which idea has what it takes to become America's next great restaurant.
After a nationwide search, the top 21 competitors will present their restaurant concepts to the investors and 11 will be quickly eliminated - leaving the top 10 competitors to battle it out over the course of the season. The investors will determine which competitor's concept has the greatest potential for success, and those who do not rise to the challenge will be sent home.
In the final episode, someone will fully savor his or her great American dream of launching his or her own restaurant chain, and viewers will have the opportunity to experience it for themselves.
"America's Next Great Restaurant" is produced by the Emmy Award-winning Magical Elves. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Ross Jacobson, Nan Strait, and Amy Chacon serve as executive producers. Casey Kriley and Gayle Gawlowski serve as co-executive producers.


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Room101 | John Picard and His Green Mission. Plus Insight About BP the Oil Giant
Contributing Monkie Sarah Backhouse
Topics of Interest Architecture, BP, Greensberg, Nike, Oil, Oprah
Published on May 26, 2010
Section Architecture / Interior Design, Green Report / Media, Room101 Show / G Living News
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Here is a very interesting interview we did with John Picard, one of the Advisors for the BP Oil company. His job was to help them go green. See how he explains their thinking at the time and how they changed the companies name for British Petroleum to Beyond Petroleum. A name they thought would announce their new direction as world leaders in the new clean renewable energy market. Clean and green, is what BP wants to present, but reality is a whole other thing. Just ask the people living in the Gulf Coast.
John Picard is a name that you may not be familiar with… yet. This pioneer in sustainability has been quietly revolutionizing homes and businesses across the country. Here's a brief history of his achievements:
– He started out as a builder and entrepreneur and is now a renowned building efficiency and sustainability expert.
– He was a core member of President Clinton's "Greening of the White House" team.
– He's president and founder of E2 Environmental Enterprises, whose clients include Microsoft, BP, eBay, Sony, Ford, The Gap, MGM, CAA and Live Earth, to name a few.


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The Destruction of Traditional Biblical Worldview Beliefs in our Culture
In today's culture we find our traditional Biblical world view being challenged on every front at all levels of government from the president all the way down to our local city councils and school boards. Every day we and our children are bombarded with messages from celebrities about how old-fashioned and outdated our traditional views are, specifically when it comes to traditional marriage and "tolerance".
There are a number of issues that are currently at the forefront of the battle where traditional biblical beliefs are being challenged. All of these issues seek to enact or bring about change that will weaken both the institution of traditional marriage and the presence of a biblical worldview in our government and culture.
Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Ordinances
First and most prominent in Kansas at the moment is the effort to assign special civil rights to individuals based upon sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a movement initiated and perpetuated by the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender LGBT community. LGBT activists learned a long time ago that their efforts to pass these radical changes at the federal level were not going to work when in the late 90's they failed to get Congress and the Clinton Administration to enact the Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA) at the federal level. Since ENDA has failed, the LGBT community has turned its focus on individual cities and local governments to enact its troubling agenda often by working behind the scenes before anyone knows about it.
In early 2011, the City of Manhattan Kansas enacted this troubling ordinance. However a number of churches and individual citizens rose up and organized an effort to replace a number of City Commissioners in the April elections. They were successful and in May of 2011 the radical ordinance was repealed in Manhattan.
Since that time, four other cities in Kansas have been targeted by LGBT activists with this ordinance; you can read about each of them by clicking on the individual cities listed on the left side of this page.
Sadly, one of the problems facing our school children today has been co-opted into the homosexual agenda. Bullying is a real problem that has lead to very tragic consequences for children and their families all across the nation. While bullying is certainly nothing new, it is something that deserves our attention and needs to be addressed. Indeed with the advancements in technology that we have at our fingertips today the reach and extent of bullying among school-aged children is much more widespread and damaging than ever before.
Bullying has however become a political term used by the LGBT lobby to force their agenda into our school curricula. National groups like GLAAD and GLSEN have actually written lesson plans for teachers to begin indoctrinating our children about the homosexual lifestyle at their most impressionable years. Click on "Bullying" on the left column to read more.
Preservation of Religious Liberty
The assault on religious liberty in our culture has gotten so bold and aggressive, it has become necessary to enact laws just to preserve what has been traditionally and constitutionally established in our nation. There is example after example of situations in which religious liberties of both individuals and organizations have been trampled. Each time it happens somewhere in our nation it creates yet another legal precedent that can then be cited by subsequent challenges to our most very basic liberty.
In Boston, Massachusetts the Catholic Charities Adoptions Services voluntarily closed its doors rather than being forced to perform adoptions to same-sex couples. This decision was the result of a deeply held religious belief conflicting with state nondiscrimination laws. Catholic Charities of Boston would rather cease operations rather than abide by a law that would have forced them to violate their own religious liberties.
In New Mexico, a photographer was sued when she declined to avail her services to a same-sex couple for their commitment ceremony. Regardless of the fact that the couple found another photographer and regardless of the fact that the State of New Mexico did not recognize same-sex unions, the couple filed a claim with the New Mexico Human Relations Board and was awarded nearly $7000 in damages. Because the photographer chose to run her business according to her beliefs she was sued. Her religious liberties were violated.
Numerous bed-and breakfasts around the country have been targeted for lawsuits when the proprietors decline to rent their facilities to same-sex couples. Some of these bed-and -breakfast facilities are in their owners' homes, yet they are facing legal action due to nondiscrimination laws.
The message is simple. While many Christians would take a live-and let-live approach to the LGBT community, the LGBT community is not content to do the same. They LGBT community has in its aim the mission to force everyone to become complicit in their chosen lifestyle or face legal action and ostracization. While many of us can be tolerant, there is a marked and litigious intolerance presented by the LGBT community.
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Museum making updates to storage area, exhibits
Call it the domino effect.
A single decision to create a new permanent exhibit at the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan is mushrooming into facelifts to two other permanent exhibits. Added to the mix is a major upgrade of the facility's collections area.
Museum staff recently decided to move a popular animal exhibit from its temporary home in Wilson Gallery to a more permanent location in the lower level natural history area. That in turn impacted where to put logging artifacts that will be displaced by moving the animal mounts downstairs.
The logging artifacts will then be either incorporated into the museum's Avenue of Shops or stored. Artifacts destined for storage will end up in one of the museum's collections storage rooms, which recently was updated to bring it up to accredited museum standards while also creating more storage space.
It all started with the donation last fall of a collection of animals mounts from Cranbrook Institute of Science. Exhibits/Facilities Manager Randy Shultz put together an exhibit of the mounts in Wilson Gallery, a space used for changing exhibits.
"The whole domino effect started because of the animal collection," Shultz said. "It's turned out to be so popular with the public that we couldn't put the animals into storage when the exhibit is finished in May."
The museum looked at converting the entire lower level into a natural history area. That area already features a number of high quality taxidermy mounts of animals and fish as well as framed leaves indigenous to Michigan. The only space on the lower level that didn't fit in with the natural history concept was a room used for a permanent logging display.
"As it currently is, the story of the logging industry is incomplete," Shultz said, adding that the logging exhibit has remained unchanged and static for many years. The decision was made instead to convert the logging exhibit area into the new animal exhibit space.
A section of the Avenue of Shops, another museum exhibit that also has remained virtually unchanged since it was installed many years ago, will be used to better tell the story of the importance of the logging industry to the people of the area.
"From a standing tree to touching on lumbering camps and the mills in town to finish work done at places like Gebhardt-Morrow Lumber, the exhibit in the Avenue of Shops will better tell the complete story," Shultz said, adding that he is excited about the prospect of freshening up two permanent exhibits to make the spaces more interesting for the public.
At the same time these plans have begun to take shape, the staff installed new raised platforms in the collections storage room. That project was made possible through a grant from The Home Depot that covered the costs of the $780 worth of materials needed to construct the platforms.
"We raised the floor in the collections storage area for the protection of our artifacts," Shultz said. "New standards for accreditation by the American Museums Association is to have artifacts stored six inches off the floor. The previous standard had been four inches."
Prior to the newly installed platforms, items were stored on pallets at a high of four inches, which Collection Manager Danyeal Dorr said was the old AMA standard.
Putting in the new raised platforms necessitated moving a large amount of artifacts temporarily of the storage room. Doing so is enabling Dorr to better inventory and catalog each item.
"We've stepped into the 21st century from where we were," Dorr said. "The previous pallets were in rough shape. Replacing them has given us the opportunity to organize and inventory as it really should be done."
Because of how the artifacts previously were packed into the space, Dorr and Shultz both discovered a couple of items among the museum's holdings that surprised them, including several antique bicycles and portable embalming tables. While the room was vacated in preparation for installing the new raised platforms, Shultz and fellow staff member Matt Klimczak scraped and bleached the walls, and scrubbed and sealed the floors.
"This is what you would expect museum storage to look like," Shultz said. "Before, we always dreaded coming into this room."
Shultz also said the staff is very grateful to The Home Depot for making the grant funds available and for delivering the needed materials free of charge to the museum. Several volunteers from The Home Depot also helped to unload all of the materials which the grant covered.


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Zyxin antibody
Principal name
Zyxin antibody
Alternative names for Zyxin antibody
Zyxin-2, ZYX
Gene ID
Ncbi ID
Available reactivities
Available hosts
Available applications
Enzyme Immunoassay (E), Immunocytochemistry/Immunofluorescence (ICC/IF), Western blot / Immunoblot (WB), Paraffin Sections (P), ELISA (detection) (E(detection))
Background of Zyxin antibody
Focal adhesions are actin-rich structures that enable cells to adhere to the extracellular matrix and at which protein complexes involved in signal transduction assemble. Zyxin is a zinc-binding phosphoprotein that concentrates at focal adhesions and along the actin cytoskeleton. Zyxin has an N-terminal proline-rich domain and three LIM domains in its C-terminal half. The proline-rich domain may interact with SH3 domains of proteins involved in signal transduction pathways while the LIM domains are likely involved in protein-protein binding. Zyxin may function as a messenger in the signal transduction pathway that mediates adhesion-stimulated changes in gene expression and may modulate the cytoskeletal organization of actin bundles. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants that encode the same isoform. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008].
General readings
Beckerle MC Zyxin: zinc fingers at sites of cell adhesion. Bioessays. 19:949-57 (1997). PubMed PMID: 9394617
Nix DA & Beckerle MC Nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of the focal contact protein, zyxin: a potential mechanism for communication between sites of cell adhesion and the nucleus. J Cell Biol. 138:1139-47 (1997). PubMed PMID: 9281590
Macalma T et al. Molecular characterization of human zyxin. J Biol Chem. 271:31470-8 (1996). PubMed PMID: 8940160
Crawford AW & Beckerle MC Purification and characterization of zyxin, an 82,000-dalton component of adherens junctions. J Biol Chem 266:5847-53 (1991). PubMed PMID: 2005121


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Keep Family, Friends' Loans Strictly Business
First, you must state how much money you need, what you'll use it for and how you'll pay it back. Next, draw up the legal papers -- an agreement stating that the person will indeed put money into the business.
|Too frequently, business owners fail to take the time to figure out exactly what kind of paperwork should be completed when they borrow from family or friends. It can result in tension and squabbles.
Too frequently, business owners fail to take the time to figure out exactly what kind of paperwork should be completed when they borrow from family or friends. "Often small-business owners put more thought into figuring out what type of car to buy than how to structure this type of lending arrangement," says Steven I. Levey, of accounting firm GHP Financial Group. Unfortunately, once you've made an error in this area, it's difficult to correct it.
Your loan agreement needs to specify whether the loan is secured (that is, the lender holds title to part of your property) or unsecured, what the payments will be, when they're due and what the interest is. If the money is in the form of an investment, you have to establish whether the business is a partnership or corporation, and what role, if any, the investor will play. To be sure you and your family and friends have a clear idea of what financial obligations are being created, you have a mutual responsibility to make sure everyone is informed about the process and decide together how best to proceed.
Most important, McKeever says, "Outline the legal responsibilities of both parties and when and how the money should be paid back." If your loan agreement is complex, it's a good idea to consult your accountant about the best ways to structure the loan.
Whichever route you take, make sure the agreement is in writing if you expect it to be binding. "Any time you take money into a business, the law is very explicit: You must have all agreements written down and documented," McKeever says. If you don't, emotional and legal difficulties could result that end up in court. And if the loan isn't documented, you may find yourself with no legal recourse.
Tax considerations
Putting the agreement on paper also protects you and your lender come tax time. Relying on informal and spoken agreements results in tax quagmires. "In these cases, you have a burden of proof to show the IRS that


text: I've always really liked the looks of the Vmax and would love to take a test drive. Anybody have any experience with those? --- On Wed, 5/6/09, Jeffrey Markham <automan25 at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Jeffrey Markham <automan25 at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: 2009 Honda DN-01 To: "Dave King" <oldfr8dog at yahoo.com>, "GPz List" <gpzlist at micapeak.com> Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 3:23 PM I recently upgraded to a Honda Blackbird. I liked the GPZ and all, but really, there is no comparison. The Blackbird is an amazing bike. The best this is how much less it weighs; and all the weight is down low. I still have the GPZ in my garage, but I'm selling it. Two things I'll miss: the factory saddlebags and the good gas mileage. Jeffrey R Markham ________________________________ From: Dave King <oldfr8dog at yahoo.com> To: GPz List <gpzlist at micapeak.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 12:18:38 PM Subject: Re: 2009 Honda DN-01 I've still got mine. I finally got around to putting some SS brake lines on it. Man, what a difference! I should'a done that a long time ago. The clock on mine is just coming up on 20K miles so it's just broken in. I know that's gotta be way on the low side of average, so I'm just wondering, how many miles do you guys have on your bikes? The GPz is still the only bike in the garage but I'm looking for a dual sport to park next to it. I'd like to get something that's more dirt than street oriented, something like a Honda XR 650L or Suzuki DR 650. I don't know which one I prefer so it'll probably just be the first one that I find that I can steal. Dave King, '96-Black is Beautiful. --- On Tue, 5/5/09, William K Denton <wkdenton at verizon.net> wrote: ... am I the only one who still actually owns a GPz?


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Troopers search Clayton storage unit for stolen property
CLAYTON, Wash. - The Washington State Patrol followed up their Wednesday auto theft raid on a Spokane home with a second raid Friday on a storage unit in Clayton in search of stolen property.
State troopers conducted the raid at a storage unit at the intersection of Highway 395 and Williams Road late Friday morning.
According to authorities on the scene, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office was serving eviction papers of a renter on a farm south of Clayton. While serving the eviction papers, the deputies noticed there were way too many cars here for just one tenant, ran the plates of some of the vehicles they saw there and they came up stolen. The deputies notified the WSP auto theft unit.
"[They] ran a couple of license plates and found one that was stolen. Subsequently called the WSP auto theft detectives to come up and check the rest of the property. Six vehicles and a stolen motorcycle were recovered from that location," WSP Trooper Jeff Sevigney said.WSP auto theft bust
The landlord arrived at the property and told deputies he had taken some of the renter's property and locked them in a nearby mini storage unit, which is where the WSP executed a search warrant Friday in search of more stolen property.
The tenant was evicted for non-payment of his rent and so detectives are suspicious how he could afford to own the more than two dozen guitars found in the storage unit.
"There's a lot of stuff in there," Sevigney said. "[We're] working with the different communications centers to check all the data bases for stolen property."
This is the second raid executed by the Washington State Patrol this week. On Wednesday, troopers executed a search warrant on a Spokane couple's property and recovered several stolen vehicles and a significant quantity of methamphetamine.
One side effect of the auto theft raids is that the State Patrol impound lot -- nicknamed the bullpen -- was full of cars earlier this week. By Friday however, six of them had been returned to their rightful owners.
- Update: Northern Idaho authorities clear deputy in fatal crash
- One person killed in early morning house fire
- Viral video features Spokane area airmen being blocked by protesters
- 92-year-old man attempts snow shoeing for first time
- Thousands participate in Spokane Women's March
- Thousands turn out for Women's March on Spokane


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Thiesse hits GW for MCW vs. A-C
TRIMONT – Martin County West junior forward Kate Thiesse sank a jump shot in the lane with seven seconds remaining in regulation to propel the Mavericks to a key 55-53 Valley Conference basketball win over the Alden-Conger Knights on Tuesday night in Trimont.
The Knights were 7-0 against league opponents entering the conference clash, while the Mavericks were 7-1 against Valley foes.
Thiesse scored 12 points, including the game-winner, and made three steals for MCW.
Taryn Tumbleson also scored in double digits, netting a team-best 18 points to go along with seven steals for the Mavericks.
Reilly Geistfeld led the rebounding effort with 12 of the Mavericks' 31 boards in the win.
Martin County West made 23 of 67 shots from the floor, and went 6-for-15 from the charity stripe.
Taylor Martin scored a game-high 24 points to pace the Knights' offensive efforts, while Karina Skov and Brittany Waters each recorded 11 points.
The Knights made 10 of 19 free throws and pulled down 30 rebounds in the game.
Martin County West (12-2, 8-1 Valley) travels to Cleveland for a 7:30 p.m. conference game on Thursday.
Alden-Conger (10-3, 7-1) hosts Martin Luther in a 7:30 p.m. conference game on Thursday in Alden.
Granada-Huntley-East Chain 44, North Union 29 – Rachel Shumski scored 17 points and pulled down five rebounds to help the Mustangs cruise to a 44-29 non-league victory over the Warriors on Tuesday night at East Chain School.
Anna Balcom scored 11 points to add to the Mustangs' 18 of 50 shooting effort.
Amanda Cegelske doled out four assists, made four steals and grabbed six boards for GHEC, while teammate Mariah Jensen pulled down five rebounds and made four steals.
The Mustangs went 9-for-14 from the charity stripe on the game.
Sarah Rolling tallied eight points and grabbed six rebounds for North Union, while Cheyanne Boland and Dena Looft each scored six points.
Looft and Madison Bollig each garnered five rebounds, while Jasmine Clausen distributed four assists and made three steals for the Warriors.
North Union went 4-for-15 from behind the 3-point arc and made just 8 of 32 from 2-point range.
Granada-Huntley-East Chain (6-6) hosts Maple River on Thursday night at East Chain School.
North Union (9-5) travels to Graettinger, Iowa, for a 6 p.m. Corn Belt Conference game against Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire on Friday.
Martin Luther 56, Maple River 33 – Hunter Payne and Catie Sherman each turned in double-figure scoring clips to guide the Knights to a 56-33 Valley Conference victory over the Eagles on Tuesday night in Northrop.
Payne tallied a game-high 14 points to go along with six rebounds and three assists, while Sherman netted 11 points, five rebounds and four assists to the triumph.
Kayley Shoen made six steals and scored nine points for Martin Luther.
The Knights made 16 of 48 shots inside the arc, while hitting 3 of 6 from 3-point range.
Amber Schulz grabbed nine boards for the Knights, who sank 15 of 26 free throws in the game.
Jozie Ostermann tallied a team-high 10 points for the Eagles, while Emily Spear scored six points.
Martin Luther (8-5, 5-3 Valley) travels to Alden on Thursday for a conference game against Alden-Conger.
M. Luther 32-23-56
M. River 17-16-33
Boys Basketball
Truman/Martin Luther 51, Madelia 39 – Sam Geistfeld recorded a double-double performance of 18 points and 12 rebounds to lead the BluejayKnights to a 51-39 Valley Conference victory over the Blackhawks on Tuesday in Truman.
Cade Ekstrom scored nine points and made four steals to go with three assists for TML.
The BluejayKnights made 21 of 52 from the floor and sank 8 of 12 free throws.
Madelia shot 14 of 49 from the floor and went 5-for-11 from the charity stripe.
Truman/Martin Luther (7-6, 3-3 Valley) travels to Cleveland on Friday night, while Madelia (2-9, 1-6 Valley) hosts St. Clair.
Granada-Huntley-East Chain 54, North Union 48 – Konnor Kristenson recorded a double-double effort of 10 points and 13 rebounds to help pace the Mustangs to a 54-48 non-league victory over the Warriors on Tuesday night at East Chain School.
Ryan Shumski scored a game-high 17 points to lead the Mustangs, while pulling down six boards.
Josh Johanson also scored in double figures, tallying 12 points for GHEC, Logan Pytleski pulled down six boards, while Trent Stensland doled out five assists.
The Mustangs made 17 of 31 shots from 2-point distance, 3 of 12 from 3-point range and 11 of 27 at the free throw line.
Shane Mills scored a team-high 16 points, grabbed five boards and made three steals to lead the Warriors.
Colton McConnell poured in 14 points and pulled down four caroms, while Alex Krantz tallied eight points to aid the 17-for-45 shooting effort.
The Warriors shot 50 percent from the free throw line, making 9 of 18 shots.
Matt Adams made three steals for the Warriors, while grabbing five boards.
Granada-Huntley-East Chain (4-8) hosts Martin County West in a conference game on Friday at East Chain School.
North Union (2-13) travels to Graettinger, Iowa, for a 7:45 p.m. Corn Belt Conference game against Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire on Friday.
No. Union 25-23-48
Blue Earth Area 71, LeSueur-Henderson 68 – Dallas Barslou exploded for a game-high 24 points and Steven Plocker had a double-double of 13 points and 11 rebounds to pace the Bucs to a 71-68 nonconference victory over the Giants on Tuesday in Blue Earth.
Colin Squiers and Brandyn Olsen chipped in 13 and 10 points, respectively, while Olsen added six rebounds for the Bucs.
Blue Earth Area went a perfect 14-for14 from the free throw line, and made 24 of 51 shots from the floor in the three-point victory.
Cody Wirt scored 16 points and Ty O'Brien tallied 15 to lead the Giants' 21 of 40 shooting effort.
O'Brien also had six rebounds in the game.
Blue Earth Area (5-4, 1-2 South Central) hosts Fairmont in a 7:30 p.m. conference game on Friday.
LeSueur-Henderson (2-10) plays host to Mayer Luther on Thursday night.


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Almen Wong, a former Hong Kong actress-model and now yoga instructor, teamed up with her sisters Jade, Edith and Stephanie to create the fashion brand Almaz.C in 2007. The Wong sisters developed a yoga-inspired line of casual womenswear combining comfortable fabrics and flattering silhouettes for the feminine form. Distributed in Asia, Australia and the USA, the yoga-inspired Almaz.C Fashion apparel collection includes sleeveless jumpsuits and tops, draped cardigans, open-front vests and fold-over skirts.
In 2011, the sisters launched the Almaz.C Yoga active wear brand. The label carries a variety of camisoles, tanks and yoga pants of all lengths made from durable materials ideal for the workout regimen of today's active women.


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Topic: Plugins as git submodules
I'm using git submodule approach to track plugins in a test project. But I don't know how to install the plugin itself, in those required cases.
For instance, I use localized_dates plugin
git submodule add git://github.com/clemens/localized_dates.git vendor/plugins/localized_dates
Can anybody tell me how to do this.


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UPDATE: We finally get to catch our first glimpse at the royal baby, the Prince of Cambridge. Prince William and Kate debuted their son to the press, revealing that his name is Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge!
The royal baby has arrived!
After the world has been on baby watch for what seems like forever, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has welcomed their first child and it's a boy!
Related Article: 5 Reasons Why Kate Middleton is the Raddest Royal!
The official statement from The Palace confirmed the exciting news, saying, "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4.24pm. The baby weighs 8lbs 6oz. The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth. The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry and members of both families have been informed and are delighted with the news. Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well and will remain in hospital overnight."
Prince of Wales had this to say about the exciting moment: "Both my wife and I are overjoyed at the arrival of my first grandchild. It is an incredibly special moment for William and Catherine and we are so thrilled for them on the birth of their baby boy. Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future."
Kate went into labor just before 6 AM London time after being one week overdue. No word on the name of the little Prince just yet, but stay tuned! Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess!
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An Atlanta FBI task force has arrested a man suspected in at least three bank robberies in metro Atlanta. David Conn, 30, was arrested on July 14 in Decateur by the FBI-led Atlanta Metropolitan Major Offenders unit, based on investigations by Sandy Springs and Atlanta police. Conn was arrested for a July 1 robbery of a Wachovia bank in North Fulton, the June 25 attempted robbery of a Bank of America in Sandy Springs, and the June 10 robbery of a Wachovia in Atlanta, Sandy Springs spokesman Lt. Steve Rose said.
Sandy Springs and AMMO officers were able to track Conn by a note he used to rob one of the banks which he left at the scene. The note said he had placed a bomb in the building and was demanding money, and when Conn fled, he left the note behind. Because the note had been written on a loan-for-title document from Title Max, investigators were able to form a list of potential subjects through the company, and then were able to identify Conn himself by comparing bank surveillance photos with those of the potential subjects. …Read More →


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Topic: is there a way to validate a date as being real?
hello there all,
I am looking for a way to validate a date as being a real date.
if someone tries to enter something like February 31, it crashes my app.
is there a simple way to do this? i could not find anything in the validations stuff for it.


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Hibernate is a collection of projects that enable developers to utilize POJO-style domain models in their applications in ways extending well beyond Object/Relational Mapping. For more information refer to Hibernate official home page.
Currently CUBRIDDialect.java file is in Hibernate Github repo of master branch only. Therefore your Hibernate ORM Pakage may have an old version of CUBRIDDialect.java file. We encourage you to override the older CUBRIDDialect.java file to the latest version and recompile it first.
You may find the old dialect file in your Hibernate package at:
In case you are using 3.6.x versions of Hibernate,
In case you are using 4.x versions of Hibernate,
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (326 votes).
In short: Mud Mud glorious mud! What more need I say apart from MUD, oh and a few hills!!!!!!!Date of review: February 25, 2007
In short: Who ordered all that mud.Date of review: February 25, 2007
In short: This is how a multi terrian race should beIn full: Did this race 4 years ago,(that's how long it takes to recover!!),they have lengthened the course to about eleven and a half miles, included more off road,(and mud!),and ironed out previous bottle necks. I think think it is now just about perfect, if you have done the tough 10 challenge at w.s.m. and thought it was tuff, try the terminator and find out what a real race is like.Date of review: February 25, 2007
In short: Loads of mud,rivers and hills fit for a mountain goat!In full: Well organised a huge thank you to the marshalls especially those on top of the hills who must have been freezing in that cold wind.Date of review: February 25, 2007
In short: Excellent morning out - challenging, wet & muddy; what else should you be doing on a Sun?In full: First event ever entered; certainly has encouraged me to enter some more races over the year. The course was fun and challenging. I ran in ASICS 2110s and found it difficult to get ant traction on large parts of the course. I will be investing in some proper offroad shoes for next year. Probably worth up to 10mins on the time Date of review: February 25, 2007
In short: TerminatEDIn full: Nothing else to add !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Date of review: February 25, 2007
In short: Thick mud, cold river, fabulous & encouraging marshallsIn full: Thickest & deepest mud I've ever had to get through, felt sorry for those trying to become re-acquainted with their shoes within the 1st mile..Bit concerned when I saw the survivial tent on the top of one of the hills but given the wind up there it was probably a good idea.Cracking race, didn't stop smiling but occasionally questioned my sanity, after all I'd done the race last year & still came back. Definitely much tougher underfoot and got a personal worst for the distance - a tad over 11 miles again, never believe those friendly marshalls when they say there's only 2 to go :-)Thanks to all involved: organisers, marshalls, participants, spectators & especially the cake bakers.Date of review: February 25, 2007
In short: Hills, mud, views, river crossing, What moer could you want on a Sunday Morning. Well marshalled and well organised. Well done Pewsey RCDate of review: February 25, 2007
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Golf News: PGA Championship at Sunriver Resort
The 46th PGA Professional National Championship begins Sunday at Sunriver Resort, and the property is buzzing with activity.
Players and their entourages, staff, volunteers, and media members have descended upon our Central Oregon resort, as 312 Professionals prepare to compete against Defending Champion Matt Dobyns through four rounds of play for the Championship. The emerging Champion will be presented the coveted Walter Hagen Cup, and a $550,000 purse. Also at stake for the top-20 finishers is a berth in the 2013 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York in August.
There are many ways and mediums to follow the activity throughout the event June 23 – 26, so here is a quick list to help you navigate your options:
- For video updates on all of the tournament activity, visit the PGA Digital Media Center which currently includes updates from:
- Scott Ellender, PGA director of golf, Sunriver Resort
- 2012 National Champion Matt Dobyns
- Tim Feenstra, PGA assistant professional, Issaquah, Washington
- Scott Erdmann, PGA assistant professional, Lake Oswego, Oregon
- Jerrel Grow, PGA assistant professional, Bend, Oregon
- The Championship will also air live on Golf Channel
- Follow the action at PGA.com
- View our live scoring feed on Sunriver Resort's website
- Join the conversation on Twitter, using the hashtag #2013PNC
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SlientSipper wrote:Okay.
As a former Teavana Employee I can honestly tell you that buying a cup of tea over the counter increases the taste of the tea (its psychological)
AdamMY wrote:SlientSipper wrote:Okay.
As a former Teavana Employee I can honestly tell you that buying a cup of tea over the counter increases the taste of the tea (its psychological)
While different people may have different psychological effects, I will say that I only ordered a cup of tea over the counter from Teavana and other places after I knew a bit or two about brewing tea, and often found that I produced better results personally. One notorious time is my favorite at the time which was from Teavana Assam Golden Rain, seemed a bit lackluster when they brewed it.
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the majority of people who order over the counter tea at teavana
have never brewed it themselves before. also
"The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded."
In this case, Teavana's Pizazz can buy favor in the uneducated masses.
AdamMY wrote:Yeah, I agree. I feel tea is something so personal that when you know enough about brewing rarely does tea brewed by someone else taste better or as good as we would make it for ourselves when someone else brews it.
mrshill9310 wrote:I have no problem getting the taste I want when I steep it on my own. I'd just like to be able to make the actual blend of tea/spices to get a very similar taste from those teas. It would save me so much money. I buy most of my tea from a local health food store except those 2 obviously.
iannon wrote:I attempted to mirror the same tea actually..My daughter had sampled that Teavana White Ayurvedic Chai walking thru the mall one day and really liked it. I went onto their website and saw what they listed for ingredients and then actually went to adagio's site and made a blend of lemongrass and "white tropics" and also got a bag of the green chai then blended them together. came out to my daughter and wifes liking anyway But im sure you could also do it on your own outside of adagio too
skilfautdire wrote:There's seemingly a lot of what's called 'ayurdevic chai' recipes out there. Substitute black tea for white tea. If you can't have black tea and coffee, then green tea packs a lot more punch than many black teas. Unless the green tea is not very good/fresh. So if it has to do with the boost associated with black tea and coffee, then green tea would be out of the picture also.


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nTelos Wireless Pavilion Portsmouth is an outdoor venue located in Portsmouth, VA. When the weather improves, the venue attracts some of music's biggest acts and is a popular destination for fans looking to take advantage of long summer nights.
For most shows, seating is split up into 3 distinct seating zones. Each of these areas has a list of pros and cons, including unique sitelines and sound quality differences. One of the most popular locations is Orchestra Seating. Most seats in this zone offer impressive views and a good angle towards the stage. On the other end of the spectrum is Lawn Seating where views of the stage are not as ideal and ticket prices are obviously less expensive.
nTelos Wireless Pavilion Portsmouth does feature lawn seating.This is far and away the most polarizing seating option in the venue. Some fans will rave about seeing live music outside and feeling the grass underneath you. Others will complain that the grass is wet or the lawn is too steep (or not steep enough).
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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: BrilliantIn full: I thought Cardiff was the best half marathon that I had done but this beats it - loved it, and, no, I didn't get a PB !!Date of review: September 8, 2015
In short: excellentIn full: Organsiation was fantastic with loads of encouraging marshalls on the course. Very impressed!Date of review: January 27, 2013
In short: excellentIn full: As usual - perfect organisation and super marshalling.Date of review: August 14, 2011
In short: Lovely friendly raceDate of review: February 14, 2010
In short: marshalls brilliant but very much a club runner's raceIn full: Marshalls were brilliant, but not a beginner's race, they were already giving prizes out when I arrived back, plus the after race drinks had gone. I would do it again mainly because of it being a 10 mile race and therefore good training for my intention of running a half marathon. Please be aware that some of us are old and slow but without us there is no variety. Very much a club runner's race. Disappointing that there were no momentoes.Date of review: September 1, 2008
In short: organisation excellent, parking easy and directions first classIn full: I agree that smaller events are better (and not so expensive!) and the organisation and friendliness of marshalls etc was excellent. Definately worth a repeat visit. Date of review: August 17, 2008
In short: excellent value and organisation, only one bad hill!In full: Very well organised - full marks to marshalls and excellent number of water stations. Plenty of food available if required and good seating for visitors. Nice to have indoor loos!Date of review: August 3, 2008
In short: Good training run but don't wear new trainers!Date of review: December 10, 2006
In short: Being an older runner, I would have preferred an earlier start to avoid the worst of the heat.Date of review: July 2, 2006
In short: Worth enteringIn full: Didn't see any loos to comment about, didn't know about certificates and bananas had run out! But no objection to cost of entering the race as it is for charity, perhaps because it's only my second race - if I was doing one every couple of weeks it would probably feel expensive.Date of review: February 11, 2006
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