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Dennis Hastert received bribes from Turks in return for withdrawing Armenian Genocide Resolution from House floor in 2000.
Original post made by Dr. Ferragamo, Stanford, on Jun 22, 2007
Here's a 10-minute video of Ms. Edmonds discussing the covert relationship between Turkish groups and former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and other US officials:
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And here's Condi "Mushroom Cloud" Rice explaining to Congress why the Armenian Genocide of 1915 where 1.5 million Armenian people were slaughtered should not be labeled "genocide":
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a resident of Midtown
on Jun 22, 2007 at 11:14 am
Genocide ongoing is of greater importance than genocide historical. I believe Dr. Rice was arguing that no present purpose would derive from going further than we have already gone on this issue at this time.
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 22, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Walter, I don't think the world will properly confront ongoing, current genocides if it does not confront its past genocides or denies them.
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 23, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Which is more important? I saw no denial in Dr. Rices' statement, just the need to resolve today's problems first. We can't undo the past. How did YOU vote on slave grown chocolate, the cause Palo Alto dares not mention?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 24, 2007 at 8:31 am
This congressman's whole purpose was to embarrass the US and Rice..pure and simple. He was rude, interrupted her whenever she tried to explain, and was deliberately ( or perhaps wasn't smart enough to understand her) blurring her point. He revealed HIS desire to stir the pot, not try to help resolve the CURRENT problem with Turks and Armenians.
Her point was extremely well taken..what is the purpose of this?
She has to speak as Sec of State, not historian. Of course historians know the truth. We all do. But, this is a matter of the USA mixing itself up in the affairs of 2 generations ago of another country
Compare it to our Congressional proclamations concerning genocides that have happened in OTHER countries where we were not involved. Have we made proclamations about the genocides in China, Russia, Japan when it invaded China, the Ottoman Empire as it spread its wings, the Roman Empire as it spread, the colonializations of Africa? How far back are we to go, and to what parts of the world?
We make acknowldgements while they are ongoing ( and are the leader in this area, frankly) in an effort to bring world awareness and efforts to stop it ( like Darfur). That was the point she was making, in my opinion. We don't involve ourselves in other country's historical disputes. Can you imagine our reaction if the EU decided to make proclamations about us and our history?
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on Jun 26, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Incidentally "Dr." Ferragamo, years ago, Jim Crow rules dictated that Black women of whatever status were addressed by their first name. Educated people have put that little crudness aside. If you are a Doctor, there is no excuse for your failing to address Dr. Rice by her title. You, sir, are an oaf and you owe the Doctor an appology in the same venue as the slur. I hope your mother raised you better.
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How do I get the millennium falcon in the game?
Overall, I found it to be a pretty good game. As for your question about the Falcon, you can find your answer here: http://www.sirstevesguide.com/forums...?threadid=2062
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Original Bioshock currently $5 on xboxlive. For those that wanted to give it a try, your not going to find a better chance. Part of xbox's "weekly deals" but believe this is the final day its on there.
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Going in, I had to question whether Infinite could live up to the BioShock name after having discarded its signature world of Rapture, with its Big Daddies and Little Sisters and warring philosophies, and starting from scratch. On the way out, I'm forced to seriously question which is the better game. In total, BioShock Infinite is a brilliant shooter that nudges the entire genre forward with innovations in both storytelling and gameplay. It trips over itself in a couple of spots, but not in any way that should keep you from embracing it with your utmost enthusiasm.
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If you're on the consoles, Sony is taking $10 off pre-orders via their March promotion, and including the first Bioshock, while Microsoft is including $20 in Microsoft Points. We can only hope this creates a new trend in pre-order bonuses.
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BINGHAMTON, NY -- The Binghamton University Alumni Association will present its annual special recognition awards at a ceremony to be held at 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, in the West Gym.
Judith Bernstein-Baker, a 1966 graduate, will receive the Edward Weisband Distinguished Alumna Award for Public Service or Contribution to Public Affairs. She is executive director of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia.
Anthony S. Kendall, a two-time Binghamton graduate, will receive the Glenn G. Bartle Distinguished Alumnus Award. Kendall is chief executive officer at Mitchell & Titus LLP in New York, a member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. He is immediate past president of the Alumni Association.
Stephanie Skiba, a Class of 2007 graduate, will be the first-ever recipient of the Lois B. DeFleur Distinguished Young Alumna Award. She is a third-grade teacher in the Bronx, where she leads a program that empowers students and faculty to give back to the community.
Sean Hembrick, a 2009 graduate, will receive the Alumni Admissions Volunteer Recognition Award. He has assisted the University's Office of Undergraduate Admissions with recruiting students in the New York City area.
Marilyn Gaddis Rose will receive the Distinguished Service Award. Gaddis Rose is Distinguished Service Professor in Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, and has been a member of the Harpur College of Arts and Science's faculty since 1968.
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Any time we can get on the top , or near the top of a high point , ridge , or hill I think it is to our advantage . We all agree that for some reason the birds come up hill better to a call .
I have very little decoy experience. Also , I prefer to stay away from fields . I'd rather get in the thick woods . I have never been successful in fields . I feel they can put too much space between themselves and my calling position .
In the woods I try to stay high up , with plenty of cover on one side , and the crest of the hill no more than 30 yards , depending on the density of the brush . I don't want it so thick I can't see him at all , or too thick to be able to shoot .
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Binghamton University prepares for Homecoming 2005
Hundreds of alumni are expected to attend Homecoming 2005 at Binghamton University. Highlights include a parade and barbecue, special activities for children, and several panel discussions featuring prominent alumni.
Events begin at 3 p.m. Tuesday, October 17, when the campus community gathers to "paint the paws" on campus walkways. The 2-hour adventure will begin at the West Gym.
Alumni who have developed successful careers in the art world will hold a Alumni Art professionals panel from 2-4 p.m. in Casadeseus hall in the Fine Arts building. Following the discussion, an opening reception for artists whose works are part of this year's Alumni Art Exhibit will be held from 4-6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, in the Art Museum. The show includes paintings, drawings, prints, photography, sculptures and metalwork. The Art Museum will be open from 1-7 p.m. Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday during Homecoming.
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On Saturday, October 22, kids' activities in the Art Museum and alumni athletic events will lead into Baxter's Radical barbecue on the University's Peace Quad.
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I have some comments on the recent http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html article on functional programming, and I decided I might as well post them here and send the author a pointer rather than just putting them in an email.
(You are approaching a skirmish in the language wars! Hit *BACK* now!)
I like functional programming, and I liked the http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html article, but I think he probably should present more disadvantages up front.
One of the reasons that I prefer Common Lisp to Haskell (and why others prefer ML variants to Haskell) is that there are things which are clumsy or slow to express in purely functional form. Okasaki's _Purely Functional Data Structures_ is a marvellous book well worth reading for other good reasons, but one smaller benefit of reading it is that some such things come through there.
One annoying performance issue for me is hash tables; in an imperative language, it's straightforward to use the idiom of hash index into a modifiable collection to get O(1) lookup. Good luck doing this in FP! And, if you tell people that they should rewrite their BDD packages for reliability and clarity and shareability in Haskell instead of C++, and tolerate the extra O(log2 1E7) performance hit of doing all their cache lookups in nice purely functional search trees instead of ugly imperative hash tables, you will encounter some sales resistance --- though perhaps not as much, in the eventual runout, as if you conceal this performance issue from them and let them discover it for themselves.:-|
The issue of making small incremental modifications to large indexed or cross-linked data structures isn't just an algorithms performance issue, it can also make programs difficult to read and think about. I have done a lot of work on programs to play the game of Go, where on each move a player places a stone on one of the 361 points on a board. At various times I have written complete programs in C++, CL, and Haskell. In the imperative languages there is some programming hassle involved in making the changes undoable (so that you can try a variation, then backtrack to the starting point to try another), whereas you get undoability for free in Haskell; but in Haskell I found considerably more hassle in trying to express the small changes without doing a deep copy of potentially very large cross-linked data structures. It seems to me that this is a fundamental issue, not just a symptom of my naivete about functional programming. It might not be a big issue for an Erlang telephone switch, because I expect most of the state in such a switch is tied to an individual call, interacts weakly if at all with the state of other calls, and goes *poof* when the call ends. But if you tried to write, say, a MMORPG server in a purely functional language, I would expect that the ongoing small modifications to the complicated shared global state of the world would be a source of programming pain.
Also, purely functional languages seem to be unusable without laziness (to create cycles) and the purely functional languages people have not convinced me, as a casual user, that their handling of laziness is completely ready for prime time in large hairy systems. The difficulty of debugging lazy code is a minor issue; the difficulty of bounding the performance (especially heap usage) of complicated lazy code is worrisome, a potential showstopper. I would be very nervous about planning to develop a large Haskell system for something complicated and not similar to existing FP software (perhaps the MMORPG server example) without doing some serious investigation into that. I think it might be easy to end up with a server which failed from heap exhaustion when lazy-variable placeholders held pointers into futures which "common sense" shows could never happen, but which aren't manifestly unreachable and so therefore aren't garbage collected. Both my intuition and my superficial reading of the mailing lists suggests that such bugs are not hard to create, and can be hard to test for and hard to debug. The existence of various large FP systems successfully "used in anger" is reassuring, but only incompletely so: it's not hard for me to come up with a story why from the ability of version control systems and telephone switches and compilers to manage this problem it does not follow that it's manageable for all systems.


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...which is winched across the river along a cable by Pedro [2] here:
Here he is in action:
For safety reasons (yes, I know, "safe" is that last word to enter your head when looking at this contraption, but it was actually very solidly built) we were asked to get out of the car - no problems with us as there were many photo opportunities to be exploited, including the lazy iguana who has made his home here, and who we shall see more of later.
There's a small car park with a couple of shops and toilets, then we trudge up the hill a little further. On the way, JP dives off into the trees and comes back with a pair of nuts stuck together: "Horse-balls" he says, for that is what they are colloquially known as. He then shows us why they are useful: He splits the two apart, leaving a wound from which a white liquid not unlike PVA glue seeps. He instructs Margaret to put a little on her finger, blow on it, then place her thumb onto her finger. It sticks. It really IS PVA glue! Or rather, the natural equivalent. And it smells nicer.
This habit of diving into the trees and coming back saying "Look at this..." was a frequent one, and a major contributory factor in what made Javier the excellent guide he was.
A brief stop at the "visitor centre" - a hut with posters, photos and a model (which refused to be photographed due to reflections off its glass case) - and a little further uphill, around a corner and our lead explorer spots the first structure:
Most of the structures still standing (ish) today date from around 600CE, replacing the original, far older buildings.
**Now, a brief disclaimer: JP gave us so much information (and I've had so much from other places since), that I'm not 100% certain of my facts. I've checked existing online material for some bits I couldn't remember, but don't take this as a reliable source!**
There were also buildings surrounding all four sides. (Those mounds are unexcavated buildings. And there's a lot of mounds around the site still.) All of the buildings would have been painted in bright colours - these were very significant to the Maya: reds on the East where the sun rises and life begins; blue in the West were the sunsets - and where the dead go; white in the North, symbolising energy; powerful yellow to the south.
None of this colour can be seen now - it's all been eroded away by nature. But excavations at other sites have proved more fruitful, especially where newer buildings have been peeled off to reveal older, better preserved ones.
There is evidence of earthquake damage on several buildings around the site. However, it wasn't damage to the buildings that lead to the site being abandoned by its people, but damage to the reputation of the ruling class: they held sway over the common people by withholding knowledge (especially astronomical) and passing it off as ability to commune with the Gods. Having your big temple and palace damaged by the Gods was obviously a sign that the rulers weren't so favoured by the Gods after all, so the people started to lose faith in them. It is thought that many families simply drifted away to make it on their own, but some remained and staged an uprising, possibly culminating in sacrifice of a captured ruler.
Now we turn around and face South:
There's another, smaller building on the other side of "Plaza A-II" - a ritual altar - but by far the most imposing structure is the one towering behind it - El Castillo.
JP had already pointed out palm nuts to us on the walk up here, so Xander knew what to look for when asked. While X was foraging, JP picked a random leaf off a tree and presented it to me with the instruction to "nibble a bit off the end". I did so [3]. It didn't taste of anything. He just smiled at me and passed it on to the rest of the family to try.
And then I noticed that I couldn't feel the end of my tongue any more. That little bit of leaf was a remarkably effective anaesthetic, and apparently is one that the Mayans used to use - and still do in places - during dental treatment, both for extractions and for cosmetic work: the ruling classes liked to embed gems into their teeth. � la Ugly Betty. Sort of.
By now, Xander has found a selection of nuts. JP takes the best looking one, places it on a rock and takes a lump of stone (first checking that it wasn't a piece of temple) and whacks it. Hard.
After a few thumps it's cracked and the oil is oozing out - Palm Oil, which Margaret was invited to use as a moisturiser. This, says JP, is the secret to Mayan's youthful looks.
And so to the Main Attraction.
We set off at the start of the 130-foot climb...
This was preserved by dint of having been covered by a further building; the Maya liked to improve their temples by building bigger ones on top of existing ones; this one started out about 600CE but was extended up to around 900CE. It originally went right around the building, but now only this and a similar fragment on the opposite side remain. What is visible on the building is in fact a fibreglass replica; the original remains about a metre behind the replica.
Striking resemblance though.
Onwards we go, up the (rather narrow) inner stairs:
...until we get to the top.
Oh my.
I did a nifty panoramic video sweep from up here. I think my camera must have got vertigo, because there's no sign of it on the camera's memory card. We'll just have to go back...
...pursued, unfortunately, by not-very-Eco-Tourists in kayaks.
What with the leaf-o-caine (which was still making the tip of my tongue tingle) and the sauce, I could barely speak.
Helen took the opportunity to continue her search for the perfect Margarita.
(click for map)
I'd been looking forward to this trip for weeks, and was worried that it wouldn't live up to my own hype for it.
It delivered in spades. Being aboard the ferry that I'd seen in so many photos online, then climbing this massive, ancient structure was a truly amazing experience.
And Javier Perez (from belizecruiseexcursions.com) was absolutely brilliant.
[1] Well, I can hardly call myself a "warrior", but I make some effort.
[2] No, not that Pedro
[3] Seriously. I actually ate a bit of leaf. I blame the heat.


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Mercurial, python keyring 3, and mercurial keyring
In an earlier post I documented how to set up an encrypted file store for your keyring. With recent versions of Python keyring (at least 3 and up) the
CryptedFileKeyring backend got removed and replaced by
EncryptedKeyring. So in your
$HOME/.local/share/python_keyring/keyringrc.cfg you need to now have the following:
[backend] default-keyring=keyring.backends.file.EncryptedKeyring
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IDC, the global market intelligence research group released holiday sales news for PCs and it certainly looks bleak as sales slid for the first time in 5 years. The picture being painted here is that PC sales are declining in single digit percentage compared to the year before, but certainly on the decline as tablets, and other alternative computing devices are gaining share. Among the choices consumers now have along with tablets are smartphones, netbooks and the spectrum of devices in between. One curious story by Bill Rigby of Reuters throws this in a bit of haste at Microsoft's doorstep and their Windows 8 campaign. He's not alone, there is no shortage of reporting that is doing exactly the same thing, just look around at the headlines like "Windows 8 fails to lift PC sales". It is pretty interesting that this notion has taken hold, but there's a number of reasons why all these stories show a fundamental lack of understanding of why these statistics have emerged.
New Non-PCs are everywhere
The decline of PCs is not much of a surprise to anyone as the public has plenty of choices like never before – in how they want to consume media, news, videos, and more. From low-cost consumer friendly tablets such as the Amazon Kindle to the leader of the pack, Apple's iPad tablet line and its ecosystem of music, apps, and video – that market has a growing base as the competition and focus certainly vindicates. There's also the smartphone market- with Android and Apple are the dominant mobile OS platforms and are available on a mind-boggling variety of mobile hardware, ranging from low-cost models to high-end feature-rich models. The point here is with so many choices, it is clear the PC market, did not really have a consumer friendly operating system that was truly ready for the emerging touch-interface world that is a hallmark of the tablet market. That was supposed to change with Windows 8.
Windows 8 Ups and Downs
Microsoft has been waving the flag of sales and product success on a number of fronts and the platform certainly has a number of things going for it. Just this week Microsoft announced it had hit 60 million licenses sold since Windows 8's release. This puts it on pace with Windows 7, a resoundingly popular and successful operating system. Also news from CES had a number of intriguing Windows 8-based system releases that illustrate the partners are hitting the market with fresh, compelling options. Looking collectively at these factors, a strong case can be made that Windows 8 has not really been the issue with PC sales at this point. Sure, there was always going to be a worthwhile challenge in getting adoption of the Windows 8 experience out there, but this falls predominantly on devices that have not yet captured imaginations and have not found their market. This includes the mediocre reports we're starting to see about Windows 8 RT. There are also indications that there have been product supply issues as Rigby's article states:
Tami Reller, chief financial officer of Microsoft's Windows unit, said sales of Windows 8 PCs may have been held back by shortages of the most popular touch-screen machines.
Windows 8: A TouchScreen OS
Windows 8 is all about the touchscreen. Save for a fair amount of changes the full Windows 8 environment is built around maintaining Windows 7 compatibility. That was always a big part of the sell, that this is a touchscreen OS that will work with devices that feature this in mind. Many users still run Windows 7 comfortably and have no reason to migrate to Windows 8 other than the touchscreen capabilities. You should see the system I'm writing this on. So when you look at the fact that a significant number of people out there are nowhere near a hardware refresh or need an OS refresh, you're predominantly left with new licensing for new PCs and touchscreen devices. The enterprise by nature largely takes a while to make the jump and that has never changed in the history of any OS- it's not in their nature to make a quick run for shiny objects like consumers do.
It takes Two: Onus on the Partners to sell Windows 8
One thing Rigby is right about is that there was once a correlation where a new operating system release meant a boost in PC sales, however this is not that type of market anymore due to all that was stated above. Consumers want additional choices. In order to save the PC market, it is up to the partners to take up the Windows 8 vision and release innovative products that go beyond PCs. When Steve Ballmer appeared unannounced at this weeks CES keynote it was quite telling of the importance of these partner relationships as they apply this partnership relations strategy across their mobile and OS initiatives. Microsoft is notably taking up the charge themselves with their own Surface Pro device and is getting some attention for the prospects on that. It could be the one shiny object for the enterprise that bucks the trend as there has long been a need for a true business level tablet system. They are also reportedly on track for a major yearly refresh schedule for Windows 8. Throughout, while there may have been a remote possibility and wishful hope that Windows 8 would be a breakout hit, it is way too early to call Windows 8 a disappointment as they are just getting started.


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just woke up to snow on the ground here in Edgewood.....AGAIN! Jeez, is this weather ever going to end and start acting like real spring or what? I'm glad I am tagged out and not going out tomorrow morning. My first year turkey hunting and had great success due to a large amount of help from my friend Jim in NC (Cut N Run) and also reading a bunch of posts here at T&TH forum. Two beautiful Merriams last Sunday morning.
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The city's unofficial slogan is 'Keep Austin weird' it prides itself on its diversity. It is also the Music Capitol - home to over 1900 groups, anything from Jazz to Country and everything in between. More than 200 venues have live performances every night. www.ironworksbbq.com/about-us.asp do look if you have time. The map pin for this entry is "on the roof"
You may not be aware but Malc has a thing about hats...not many of you will have seen him wear many its true, but he does love buying them! So it was with a little trepidation that I persuaded him to step inside the 'Hat Box' a shop that looked too interesting to pass by.
Again a veritable gem, small but so interesting. They too have a web site this quote from it kind of says it all about Austin...
"Austin is: conservative. Liberal. Old fashioned. Modern. Good ol' boys and hip young things. Rock and Roll. Rockabilly. Honky-tonk. Austin is the Live Music Capitol of the World. Austin is limestone and redbrick. Austin is the neon lights of Sixth Street. Austin is Texas. Austin is more than Texas. Austin is a bustling city. Austin is the rolling hill country. Austin is all things to all people. No matter who you are and no matter what Austin is to you, we've got your hat. We're Austin, we're Hatbox and we've got you covered."
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Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast With ... Joel PeresmanJanuary 13, 2014 12:00 AM
He started his career in the music industry as a security guard during concerts at the old Syria Mosque and other venues. Pittsburgh native Joel Peresman knew from a very young age that he wanted to be part of the music world, even learning to play the guitar. From the mail room at the William Morris Talent Agency to CEO and president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, Mr. Peresman attributes his success to hard work and a few breaks. Rich Engler, formerly of DiCesare-Engler, was one of those who gave the young Peresman a break. He will be in Pittsburgh Jan. 23 to honor Mr. Engler as the first inductee into the Pittsburgh Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. The celebration begins at 5:45 p.m. at the Hard Rock Cafe, Station Square. For tickets ($200 VIP, $150 general admission), call 412-622-1212. Proceeds benefit the Cancer Caring Center.
You grew up and worked during the heyday of local rock, so was the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll thing wilder then than it is now?
[Laughs.] You know, I have no idea. There are different levels of debauchery, I guess, depending on the age of the group. The artists I grew up with in the '60s, '70s and '80s aren't kids anymore. The things you do when you are 22 or 23 aren't the things you are going to do when you are 52 or 53. I am not out representing a lot of the younger bands touring today. I am not out on the road like I used to be, so I really don't honestly know.
If you could, who would you choose to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who isn't in now?
I can't really — That's not a good question for me. There are so many bands that are out there that are eligible who a lot of people think deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The definition of rock and roll is really broad. It means different things to different people. There are people who felt that Madonna should be in, and people who felt Madonna and Donna Summer are not rock and roll. That hip-hop isn't rock and roll. There are people who say unquestionably it is. Frankly, once you are eligible to be in, you are eligible.
People are very passionate about the subject of who is in and who gets in.
Of course. People are passionate about rock and roll. This is what has fueled this business for the last 50 years. People love it. People have their favorite act. People have their favorite song. People have the moment they remember hearing a song for the first time and where they were and what they were doing.
So do you think it is more difficult doing a hall of fame for an art form versus a sport?
Look, they have the same issues, too. Every year the Baseball Hall of Fame or Football Hall of Fame announces a class and there are always people saying, "How come this one isn't in? How come that one isn't in?" Baseball is going through this whole issue now of players who were in the steroid scandal. Should Pete Rose be in? He had the gambling issue, but he was an amazing player. You are going to have those issues no matter what genre of entertainment, and I am looping all this into entertainment. No one is wrong, and no one is always 100 percent right.
What was it about music that sparked your passion?
The songs. It is probably what draws most people in the beginning. You hear a song that is just "Wow, I love that." You are a little kid and maybe it is a song like "Puff the Magic Dragon" or "Leaving on a Jet Plane." I had two older sisters, five and 10 years older. I remember my sister watching The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and going crazy in front of the TV. I remember my mom taking us to the Hollywood Theater in Dormont when "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help" came out. I remember being in the theater and seeing these girls go crazy, and the music was just fabulous.
Pittsburgh had such a vibrant music scene and great radio stations, whether it was WYDD or WDVE, and you could pick up the stations from Wheeling and have the country influence. You could pick up the Detroit radio stations so you got some of the Motown sound. It was a real interesting conglomerate of influences that kind of converged on Pittsburgh.
Like many kids at that time, you tried to play the guitar.
It would have been great to be in a band. But I just knew that wasn't going to happen. But I liked going to buy music. We had a record store, Heads Together, that used to be in Squirrel Hill. I learned so much about music from that record store. You would go buy something you wanted, but they always had this half-off special. You got the one they featured for half off after you bought the one you wanted. It was great because I learned about Journey and Bob Marley and the Wailers and lots of bands by buying that record.
I liked going to concerts. Frankly, it was more of an effort of "How do I get in the concerts for free?" [laughing] That is what inspired me to look in the paper and see who was promoting these concerts. At that point, DiCesare-Engler [Productions] and Danny Kresky were the two promoters in town. I called them and was asked by DiCesare-Engler to come out for a meeting. I got a job as a security guard. You had a crazy mix of great music coming into town. I thought there has to be a way to stay in this business.
It's great you knew what you wanted to do and went for it.
It just takes … you have got to speak up in any business if you want to do something you like. You have to say something. My parents were always hard-working people. My dad worked at Gimbels [department store] for 35 years, and my mom worked hard raising us. It's the Pittsburgh work ethic, frankly. Pittsburgh is a fabulous town. People don't necessarily give you things. You've got to take it. But Rich [Engler] was the guy who kind of gave me a shot. He really provided me with a couple of great breaks. Everyone needs a break and a push in the right direction. He was even helpful with me getting the job at William Morris because he gave me a good recommendation.
At one point in your career you were signing acts. Were there any you regret not signing?
There were a lot of acts you went after that you didn't always get. It was a competitive landscape. You had other agents going after bands. I remember getting a tape from an attorney about this band, Blue Angel. It had a female lead singer. She was fantastic. The songs were great. I went to a club to see the band. I thought they were terrific, but there was this agent named Frank Barsalona — legendary agent, actually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He represented The Beatles and The Who and all these big acts. He showed up that night and loved the band and signed them. They dropped the name, and the lead singer went out on her own. It was Cindy Lauper.
Do you still get excited to meet some of these artists?
Yeah, because I guess the underlying thing is I have an incredible respect for what these people do and how they do it. It takes guts and incredible talent. I just have such admiration and such respect and jealousy, I guess, a little bit. I would have loved to be able to do that. I have been lucky to work with a lot of people that I saw as a kid and got to know and be involved with their shows. I have such admiration for what they do. It's a gift. It's truly, truly a gift.
Why is the fan vote such a hot topic concerning the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
They don't make the entire vote. They get a vote. It is no different than the Heisman Trophy, where fans can vote and their total counts for one ballot that gets added in with all the others. We are in the second year of being able to have the fans get a ballot. It's only one vote, but one vote can really make a difference.
Patricia Sheridan: email@example.com or 412-263-2613. Follow her on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/pasheridan.


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2013-14 Herder Memorial Trophy champion Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts.
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Their opponents made a series out of it, but in the end the Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts capped off a tremendous season by winning the team's second modern-day Telegram Herder Memorial Trophy Championship Series Saturday night.
The Cats defeated the Clarenville Caribous 3-2 in overtime of Game 6 in front of a packed house at the Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium in Grand Falls-Windsor to take the best-of-seven final 4-2.
"Whenever you win a championship, it's hard to describe the feeling," said Cataracts' defenceman Luke Gallant. "To do it on at the senior level, it feels just as good as the other two national championships that I won (with the University of New Brunswick) and the other three (Atlantic University Sport) championships.
"I'm pretty fortunate to play with such a great group of guys and to do it for this team, because you can see how much it means to everyone.
"We didn't get the job done last year, but it feels pretty good to get it done this year for everyone."
Most people expected this celebration would have occurred last Saturday in Clarenville with the Cataracts holding a 3-0 lead into Game 4 after embarrassing the Caribous at home in Game 3. But the Herd rallied for back-to-back 5-2 wins to send the series back to Cats' barn.
"The last three games of this series, it was almost like it was two different series where the first three games were not even close to the pace of the last three games," Cats' coach Shane Lukinchuk told the Telegram.
"I think that's a huge credit to Clarenville. There's a lot of pride in that room, they brought an effort and they pushed us hard. Our guys are gassed, there's not a lot left in the tank.
"We knew if we had to play tomorrow, it would have been difficult, so we're fortunate we got it done here tonight."
Caribous' coach Ivan Hapgood said his team showed they were up to the task of skating with the Cataracts, but a 3-0 hole was simply too much to overcome.
"it's like being down 3-0 in the first period of a game, everything has to go in your favour in order to come back and win that game," Hapgood added.
Cataracts import Rob Hennigar scored the winning goal a little over two minutes into the extra frame with the Caribous' Jeremy Kavanagh in the box for hooking.
After a scramble in front of the net, captain Mike Brent found Hennigar at the side of the net and league's regular season MVP and top scorer made no mistake sending the puck into the yawning cage.
Brandon Street and Cam Fergus also scored for the Cats' whose AJ Whiffen stopped 21 of 23 shots and took home the Cliff Gorman Memorial Award as Herder MVP. Gallant collected two assists, his 11th and 12th points of the series.
Mitch Oake had both Caribous goals, with captain Dustin Russell assisting on both. Jason Churchill made 36 saves.
It was the 12th Herder trophy for a senior team playing out of the former mill town. The All-Stars won in 1953, followed by five-year (1955-1959) run of titles by the Andcos. Cataracts teams won back-to-back in 1971 and 1972 and again in 1981 and 1982. The team last won the title in 2011.
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