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Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Stop the Clocks
This morning I received this message....
Murder by the Book posted the following at Facebook - "It is with deep sadness that we must share the news that David Thompson passed away suddenly on September 13, 2010. David worked at MBTB for 21 years, & he made an indelible impression on the store & everyone who met him. There will be a memorial service, and we will share the details as soon as they are available. In the meantime, David's wife, McKenna Jordan, asks that no tributes be sent to the bookstore for now. We appreciate the loving support that customers have always given the store, and in the difficult days to come we will need it more than ever."
I feel physically sick. David was young. A remarkable man. Not just a supporter of crime fiction, but he'd recently even started his own imprint. He was young. He was an enthusiastic, energetic, kind man. Knowledgeable. Passionate. Effective. Young. But more than any of that, he was a man who loved deeply. And who did he love? His glorious, remarkable bride, McKenna. Together they took over Murder By the Book. And then married, in a true love match, two kindred spirits, just a few years ago.
When Jacques died it wasn't a surprise. We could see that truck coming.
But this has laid me flat. And though I try to imagine how McKenna is feeling I can't. I spend most of my days imagining sudden death - trying to crawl into the hearts of those who lose loved ones suddenly. But when it actually happens, I realize I don't even come close.
And once again, I'm reminded of an Auden poem...and David and McKenna. Stop the Clocks.
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I understand your pain. I just got news a few minutes ago that a friend of ours died suddenly. He was 63 - just a couple years older than my husband so I consider it young.
- 14 September 2010 at 11:28
- Alix said...
I love that Auden poem. My favorite line is "he was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, my Sunday rest".
The thought of losing the person who makes up that other half of your soul... the pain of such a loss is uncomprehendable.
Someone once said that deep mourning is a kind of madness and I completely agree.
My heart goes out to Ms. McKenna as she begins this journey. While, I never met her, I am sure she will come through this painful time stronger and with the blessing of wonderful memories of the man who graced her life for so short a time.
- 14 September 2010 at 11:50
- Margaret J. McMaster said...
So very sad.
- 14 September 2010 at 12:01
- lil Gluckstern said...
I am so sorrowful for this. Death creates its own kind of emptiness. I have investigated books put out by The Busted Flush Press. My heart goes out to his wife, and to you for the loss of friends with whom you shared so much love.
- 14 September 2010 at 12:17
That is so sad. I was thinking yesterday about your friend Jacques, and my friend Jill (from Book Bunch, who died suddenly earlier this year), and trying to decide which was harder - slowly, you you get to say goodbye, quickly, they suffer less (but maybe you suffer more). Either way, it stinks.
- 14 September 2010 at 15:04
- Diane said...
I am so sorry to hear about the loss of two of your friends in such a short span of time. The poem you quoted from is very apt for all of us who face sudden death. Peace.
- 15 September 2010 at 04:53
My dear Louise, I'm very sorry to hear this. Having been through this a couple of times myself, I guess I should have some helpful advice, but I'm not sure that I do. Each person seems to experience the shock in their own way, and what may be valuable to one turns out to be hurtful to another. Some people want to be surrounded with every possible reminder of the person, to keep them there. And some won't be able to stand the reminder of even a hint of them. Adapting to this sudden change in the universe needs to take its own time. Some seem able to believe that it's happened (as opposed to knowing it) very quickly, others need a long time for it. Some get hit with a flood of grief right from the start, and some can seem hardly affected for months. It can be bad for the latter when it finally hits. You will want to help McKenna right away, which will need a close awareness of what her response is; but first, or at the same time, make sure you attend to your own needs.
- 15 September 2010 at 05:52
We share your pain and loss Louise. David, and MBTB, seem to have always been a part of our lives, and it doesn't seem possible that he is suddenly gone. It was David who introduced me to your wonderful writing when your very first book came out. What will we ever do without him?
- 15 September 2010 at 06:55
- JKW said...
I am so sorry. I feel your pain and understand the hole in your life that is there. The first 12 days of August this year, I lost 2 very close friends, suddenly and for no reason I could see. I know how hard this is. The pain is everywhere we went together. I also know the pain of losing my partner/love of my life. Nothing is ever easy. . . but we go on. . . Many Blessings for you, your family and McKenna. Janet
- 15 September 2010 at 08:16
- Marni said...
Auden captured the immense and numbing feeling of sudden grief so a acutely. I send my condolences to McKenna and to you and anyone who knew this fine man.
- 15 September 2010 at 08:51
I am so sorry. Words cannot express the depth of our feelings at this sudden and unexpected loss. My heart goes out to all of you.
- 15 September 2010 at 08:59
- Louise Penny Author said...
Dear Anon - So sorry to hear about your friend. We're feeling the same thing, I suspect.
Jodi - yes! Exactly like losing Jill. A total shock.
Dear all - I have read and re-read your comments and feel so warmed by them. I know it isn't easy to know what to say or write - especially with two deaths so quickly. Thank you for not just shrugging, or running away - both of which would have been understandable!
bless you!
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One of Israel's most influential journalists, Nahum Barnea, has written a groundbreaking interview in which U.S. officials blame the Israeli government for the recent, and expected, collapse of peace talks led by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Larry Derfner at +972 Magazine, who translated portions of Barnea's interview, encapsulated it in this way:
This interview is a comprehensive indictment by the Obama administration of Israel's handling of the peace talks, and an exoneration of the Palestinians' conduct. The Americans won't act on it, of course, but they have set the record straight, they've injected a megadose of truth into the story of Israel's domination over the Palestinians, and thus strengthened the fight to end it.
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During the Kerry-led peace talks, Israel doubled the pace of its settlement construction, and Kerry himself stated in early April that this effectively sank the peace talks. However, what Kerry didn't say is that the Netanyahu government used such construction to intentionally sabotage the peace negotiations.
Now, U.S. officials' supposed naivete should not be believed, nor taken at face value here. Of course those close to the talks understood the reasons for, and the effects of, continued settlement construction. What they really mean to say is this: there's nothing we could have done, because our political hands were tied by an Obama administration unwilling to force a settlement freeze.
This is code by those who were close to, and invested in, the peace talks: an admittance that the U.S. royally screwed up by "not understanding" that the settlements would sabotage the talks.
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Barnea's piece also has American officials being quite blunt about how Israel's domination of, and disregard for, Palestinians continues to be an impediment to peace:
"In the 20 years since Oslo, a number of facts and rules of the game have become deeply entrenched. This reality is very difficult for the Palestinians and very comfortable for Israel. … One of the Palestinians in the talks said to one of the Israelis: 'You don't see us. We're invisible, we're hollow.' There was something to that. After the second intifada ended and the separation barrier was completed, the Palestinians became ghosts as far as Israelis are concerned – they don't see them anymore."
Barnea's interview goes on to cover a number of areas, from Palestinian concessions and frustrations to Israeli intransigence. But one takeaway is this: U.S. officials have publicly noted that Israel's culpability is real, and that this culpability must be confronted by the Israeli public and the U.S. community.
Another takeaway: U.S. officials also blamed American naivete, meaning American policy, meaning America.
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Dr Grumble did imply that as an election neared this blog would become more political. It has not really been the case so far. For those of us concerned with the NHS the battle between the parties is something of a phoney war. As Dr Aust has pointed out, it is hard to get a cigarette paper between New Labour and the Tories on their attitude towards the NHS. Yet the way forward can seem clear to MPs of all persuasions who examine problems of the NHS dispassionately in committee. But the major parties remain oblivious to the problems and New Labour and old Tory blunder on with their misguided markets. Read the Health Committee's report (pdf) and you will see that there are obvious better ways forward. Publicity about the findings of the Health Committee has been scant. Despite the potential to save enormous sums of money, vital issues are not being discussed. Few of Dr Grumble's colleagues, though they share the views of the Health Committee, are even aware of their latest findings. With an election imminent the mainstream media content themselves with peddling political drivel. There is no focus on the key issues which matter. Journalists and politicians seem in cahoots. Trivia is what they like. The electorate deserves better. And if the public feel the same way as Dr Grumble it is the Tories who will pay the price. They are the ones banging on about change. When it comes to the NHS they are the ones offering more of the same - but worse.
In lieu of policies that matter we are now being fed silly policies that don't matter. The Tories, as we know, are a party in favour of marriage. Being an old fart Dr Grumble does understand the point. He can see the follies of these feckless young people with serial partners instead of a life-long spouse but what has the proposed payment of £3 per week got to do with this? Is it really the job of the state to pay people to stayed married? And will £3 per week do it? How much ironing can you get done for £3 per week?


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Catfish producers are doing whatever it takes to lower their costs of production to survive until fish prices rebound. In many cases that means cutting feeding rates and reducing overhead.
Three catfish producers from Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas compared their survival strategies at the 10th annual Fish Farming Trade Show in Greenville, Miss. While their costs of production varied somewhat, all three repeated the same story of lower inventory numbers and a need for higher prices.
John Grant of Yazoo City, Miss., says his cost of production exceeds 60 cents per pound. "We're getting killed right now," he says. "We're in a very depressed situation, and we're in survival mode. We're selling fish below our costs, and we're trying to cut costs."
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To cut overhead, Grant fed every other day last summer. "We're going to have to raise our volume of production to cut expenses further, so we may have to go back to feeding every day. We've already cut out all excess labor, electricity, fuel and feed — trying to recoup our losses."
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The members of the Portland Youth Wrestling Club put together its most successful season this winter.
The club had 53 wrestlers ranging from Developmental Kindergarten to eighth grade participate this year.
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Two agencies are better than one, at least that is what the Wall Street Journal is reporting about Nokia's decision to utilize creative hotshop Wieden & Kennedy as the lead creative agency with JWT (and their 196-office global network) adapting Wieden's work internationally.
I know that it is padding the bottom line, but that arrangement can't make the creatives at JWT all that happy.
And it doesn't really burnish their brand.
At any rate, the major challenge with a shop the size of the House of Biz is that we do not have the institutional credibility of a bigger name place (not to mention a global reach). There is something to be said about the comfort that bigness gives to clients, especially clients that are big themselves, and Nokia has found a way to feel good about that while harnessing the creative abilities of a smaller, more creative-driven agency.
The Nokia arrangement bodes well for shops like mine.
The real question is the need for global advertising of the type that looks to adapt core creative to different markets around the world: it's not a good idea.
The difference between the positioning and communication needed to succeed in 3G South Korea, for example, is different than in 2G America and different again for sub-Saharan Africa. The consumers are different, the marketplace is different, even the products offered are different. Something more than mere adaptation is needed.
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We had a potluck at work last week, and I made sandwich buns for it. They were nothing special, really -- just my usual sandwich buns -- but some of those people had never eaten homemade bread before. They were so impressed that it amused me. I guess that they previously thought that hot restaurant rolls were the ultimate in "home-baked" bread. (Although, speaking of restaurant bread, I must say that Panera Bread is good.)
Several of the girls expressed doubt that they could ever bake anything that had yeast in it. A few of them said they'd tried baking bread before and it went badly. And a couple of the young girls asked for the recipe and said they'd like to try it.
So tonight, I typed up my "Never Fail Dinner Rolls" recipe for my adventurous young colleagues to try, and I printed a few extra copies in case the previously-disappointed bread bakers want to try again. I'm actually going to offer them two different editions of the recipe -- the short version and a longer version that I wrote with extra instructions to help beginning bread bakers (below.)


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Jim Otis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
I am board certified as a chiropractic neurologist and provide drug-free treatment for children with learning difficulties, and for people with brain injuries and chronic pain. I get referrals from other chiropractors as well as parents and patients.
I am changing my web site and practice name from Jim Otis DC to East Bay Chiropractic Neurology.
My target audience is parents of children with learning and attention difficulties, and people with brain injuries and chronic pain who are looking for effective, drug-free treatment of their conditions.
I get referrals from chiropractors and other health care providers who want support with their difficult cases. I will use the logo on stationary to communicate with other professionals.
I am looking for a simple, clean design that is easy to read and view. I will use the logo on an updated web site, and for cards and stationary. In all cases the background will be white or lightly-colored and I would like the logo to have high contrast for easy viewing.
I am attaching some brain images that might work as part of the design, as well as an image with lower case text that seems simple to me.
Thanks for your help!
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The Student and the Stopwatch
February 05, 2014
In this era of results-based academic accountability, teachers and their students spend class time taking—and preparing for—standardized tests. But just how much time? An inordinate amount? Does it vary by locale? What is the ideal amount of prep time? What are the policy implications for districts and states? The curricular and instructional implications? And what are the consequences for children, especially disadvantaged students?
In the largest study of its kind, Teach Plus brings empirical evidence to the table with its new report, The Student and the Stopwatch: How Much Time is Spent on Testing in American Schools? The report examines district- and state-required testing in more than thirty urban and suburban districts nationwide, featuring input from more than 300 teachers.
Join the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Teach Plus for a discussion on time-on-testing in American classrooms.
Panel I
Joseph Espinosa - Instructional Coach, First Street Elementary, Los Angeles, California
Joe Gramelspacher - Math Teacher, Crispus Attucks High School, Indianapolis, Indiana
Christina Lear - English and Journalism Teacher, Herron High School, Indianapolis, Indiana
Dr. Joy Singleton Stevens - Third-Grade Teacher, Double Tree Montessori School, Memphis, Tennessee
Panel I Moderator
Alice Johnson Cain - Vice President for Policy, Teach Plus
Panel II
Celine Coggins - CEO and Founder, Teach Plus
Dave Driscoll - Chair, National Assessment Governing Board
Andy Rotherham - Co-founder and Partner, Bellwether Education Partners
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Michael J. Petrilli - Executive Vice President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute


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Bateaux London Dinner Cruise
Bateaux London Dinner Cruise
See London pass you by on this amazing Bateaux London Dinner Cruise. Treat yourself to an unforgettable evening with someone you love. Enjoy a lovely dinner and live entertainment on this wonderful evening cruise through London.
- Enjoy an evening cruising through London
- Start off with a welcome cocktail
- Enjoy a lovely 4 course dinner
- Dance under the stars or just listen to the live band
Cruise through London under the stars
Get on board and enjoy a wonderful evening while cruising through London's beautiful landmarks. Once on board you'll get a welcome cocktail, before dinner is served. The kitchen offers a mouth-watering 4 course á la carte menu, all of which is prepared on board.
After dinner you can dance underneath the stars or just relax while enjoying the live band.
You can choose between two menus:
Classic Dinner Cruise:
- Welcome drink
- Four-course á la carte menu
- Fairtrade coffee or tea
Premier Dinner Cruise:
- Welcome drink
- Four-course á la carte menu
- House red or white wine served with your meal
- Mineral water served with your meal
- Fairtrade coffee or tea
How do I get my tickets?
Shortly after your booking is complete your e-ticket will be sent directly to your email, just print it out and bring it on your tour.
Where does the cruise begin?
The cruise starts at Embankment Pier. Please be there 15 minutes before the tour starts.
How long does the tour last?
The tour lasts 3 hours.
Is there a dress code?
Yes, the dress code is casual and business casual. Tie, suits or dress are optional. Jeans, shorts, sneakers are not permitted.
Are children allowed?
Children under age 13 are not permitted on this tour.
- On rare occasions boarding time may be delayed up to an hour also with very short notice. However boarding time will never be earlier than 6:45 PM.
- Departure time is around 30 minutes after boarding.


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I love fingernail polish. It's cheap. Comes in every color. There are so many possibilities. So many moods.
I recently ordered nail wheels on ebay so I could swatch my nail polish collection. You can get a better sense of the color on a fingernail as opposed to simply looking at the bottle.
Here is my nail polish collection. You can view larger photos of the wheels on my flickr page and you can read my spreadsheet to get the names of the colors.
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The glitters are shown by themselves and then I painted them over black nail polish.


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Mayor Don Wesely today released Lincoln sales tax figures for November showing that net sales tax collections are up seven percent compared to the same month last year and up 17 percent for the first three months of this fiscal year, which began September 1.
"The sales tax revenue reports continue to be well above last year's numbers, indicating that Lincoln is rebounding from the economic slowdown of last year," Wesely said. "We are cautiously optimistic. We projected that sales tax revenue would rise 4.9 percent, and so far it is averaging well above that level. This verifies that our revenue projections are sound." Sales tax revenues fund about 42 percent of the City's tax-supported budget. Property tax revenue funds about 27 percent of the budget, with the remainder coming from fees and interest income.
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Fourteen people reportedly were killed Friday in a shootout between Malaysian commandos and a Filipino clan that has holed up in a Malaysian coastal village for weeks, claiming the land belongs to them.
The lengthy standoff turned bloody after members of the clan started shooting at troops, who were tightening security around the village of Lahad Datu, a Malaysian police official told reporters. Twelve clan members and two Malaysian commandos were reported dead in the gunfight.
"We don't want to engage them but they fired at us," said Hamza Taib, police chief of Sabah state, in an interview with the Associated Press. "We have no option but to return fire."
A clan spokesman insisted to reporters in the Philippines that Malaysian commandos had fired the first shot. The Filipinos had "no recourse but to defend themselves to their last breath," spokesman Abraham Idjirani told the Philippine Star.


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Like its close cousins garlic, chives, scallions, and leeks, onion is a member of the lily family (Liliaceae). It is native to Eurasia but now grows all over the world, due mostly to people bringing it with them as a staple food wherever they migrated. The French explorer Pere Marquette was saved from starvation in 1624 by eating wild onions near the present site of Chicago—the name of the city is derived from a Native American word for the odor of onions.1 The bulb of the plant is used medicinally.
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Beaufort County is hoping the third time is the charm for its land preservation efforts and we concur.
There's no doubt that the ability to preserve land is an important step in having a say in how and where our community is developed. Voters on Nov. 6 will have an opportunity to continue to support a successful program in Beaufort County - and the nation - that gives us that flexibility. The Beaufort County Rural and Critical Land Preservation program has existed since 2000.
County Council voted nearly a year ago to include a referendum question on the November ballot asking voters to approve a $25 million bond for land purchases. If approved, it would be the third time county voters have supported the idea of buying land to prevent development and improve the quality of life in our community.
We support the referendum and urge voters to pass it - again. We understand the importance of the program and we also think that there is no need to tinker with such a successful way to protect land.
If history is any indication of how Beaufort County voters feel about the program, we feel good about its chances in garnering support at the polls.
A $40 million land preservation referendum in 2000 passed by a 2-to-1 margin and in 2006 another $50 million one passed by a 3-to-1 margin.
Last December, County Council released the final $10 million of the total $90 million and several acquisitions have been made since. The latest was last week when County Council spent $1.5 million out of the fund to buy 99 acres along the Okatie River. The land is valued at about $4 million, according to the county. This is a good example of how the program actually saves taxpayers money. But without a successful referendum vote, the rural and critical land program will run out of money.
The program has preserved more than 21,000 acres for parks, conservation, buffers and for valuable economic and natural resources. The county has acquired land which often allows the property owner and family to remain on the land and use it for farming, hunting, fishing or other historic purposes agreed upon at the time of sale.
Beaufort County's program was the only recipient of federal land preservation money in South Carolina in 2011 and if it is not spent here, it goes back to Washington. That's even more incentive to continue using the successful program.
The economic benefits of the program have not really been explored. There is plenty of opportunity for those in our opinion. Most people think of the environmental, historic or cultural aspects of the program.
County Chair Wes Newton summed it up nicely last week after the county approved its latest land acquisition using the program and we agree with Newton.
He said: "Protecting the lands and waterways of Beaufort County not only secures habitats for natural wildlife, but it's paramount for the future of Beaufort County residents."
Our community's future is critical to the region and that's why we support the $25 million referendum and the rural and critical land preservation program. Show your support at the polls for the referendum on Nov. 6.


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Who May Apply: (by category) State Education Agencies (SEAs)
Who May Apply: (specifically) The SEAs for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) may apply.
Eligibility for a State Assessment grant is determined for each State Educational Agency based on each State Agency's share of the total number of students ages 5 through 17 nationally. Congress has appropriated $400 million for Title VI State Assessment Grants for FY 2005.
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Adele Trademarks Her Name
Adele has trademarked her name to ensure it cannot be used for
any unaffiliated products, according to a report.
The Someone Like
You singer allegedly took the decision to protect her name and prevent it being
used to stop fans being tricked into purchasing goods they mistakenly believe
she has endorsed.
The move makes it
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Alto saxophonist, Phil Woods calls him Jazz's Boswell. Phil ought to know as he has been around long enough to have been involved in over half of the history of Jazz.
Most of us know said Boswell as
Bill Crow - bassist, author and all-round good guy. And if Bill has a rule-to-live-by, one which he stresses over-and-over again, it's that "Jazz is supposed to be fun."
To my ears, no one better exemplifies this approach to Jazz than pianist
Roger Kellaway. But please don't misunderstand this to mean that Roger isn't serious about his music or that he is in any way belittling Jazz.
In another of his compilations,
Gene Lees tells the story of how when pianist Alan Broadbent first encountered the music of Bill Evans as a young boy growing up in his native New Zealand, he burst into tears at the sheer beauty of it.
The first time I ever heard the music of
Roger Kellaway as a young man, I burst out laughing. It was the laughter of delight based on the thrill and disbelief of what I'd just heard him play.
Roger soloed during this first hearing, it was the musical equivalent of "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" - Walt Disney's famous cartoon adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in The Willows.
The Power of Positive Swinging [Mainstream 56054; Mainstream Legacy JK 57117] was the source of my initial Kellaway encounter. The album also introduced me to the Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer quintet which featured the trumpet-flugelhorn sound of the former blended with the valve trombone tone of the latter.
Brookmeyer had played with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet in the late 1950s so I was not surprised to find bassist
Bill Crow and drummer Dave Bailey from Geru's quartet continuing with Bob in the new group that he had formed with Clark. Roger Kellaway joins in as the piano player on the album. It was a name I had never heard before, but one that I would never forget after hearing him perform on this LP.
The shock was immediate. It began on the opening tune. With a title like Dancing on the Grave, I should have guessed that something unusual might be going on.
In a band led by Terry and Brookmeyer, two of modern Jazz stalwarts, I'm listening to this ultra hip, slick and cool arrangement when quite suddenly, its piano player begins to interject licks made up of an admixture of stride, honky-tonk and boogie woogie styles!
I couldn't believe my ears and found myself laughing at the sheer boldness of expression. It was almost the musical equivalent of the verbal idiom: "Wait a minute, you can't do that" or "Did you hear what he just did?"
Did I get a prize because I had found this musical anachronism? Didn't I just find the transistor radio in full display next to the driver on the buckboard wagon?
And if
Roger was stylistically "all over the place" on the first tune, he didn't let up on the second one – Hymn of the Republic. Battle
On The King by Count Basie he plays the most marvelous straight ahead solo with some phrases ending in train wrecks [clusters of notes that sound as though their crashing into one another] in the upper and lower register before closing out with licks from the Dixieland anthem - 12th Street Rag - played in a ragtime style. Who was this guy?
Dissonance and rhythmic duets with himself on A Gal In Calico, the most sublime and swinging introduction on Brookmeyer's original Green Stamps with a marvelously sustained tremolos in the left hand that becomes another delightful surprise during a piano solo that creates the feeling of riding on a cloud, followed by blurted tonal clusters and more unexpected diversions in his solo on Just an Old Manuscript: who was this guy?
In his liner notes to the album, Nat Hentoff quotes Bob Brookmeyer "… in a rare surge of adjectives," as saying: "
Roger is one of the most impressive, versatile talents I've heard in recent years. He can play any way; and no matter what way it is, it's clear he's not jiving. He really is able to become part of a wide range of contexts."
Well, that cleared that up; if Brookmeyer says Kellaway's "not jivin'" then at least I could be reassured that this wasn't a put on.
But with
Roger resident on the east coast in a group that didn't travel to the west coast [my home was in ], this was the extent of my exposure to California Roger and his music.
That is until he showed up a couple of years later on the West Coast!
Along the way I had also gathered-up his earlier trio recording for Prestige and some sides he did with guitarist Jim Hall.
Being already predisposed to
Roger's distinctive pianism, I next heard him on Spirit Feel [ ] an LP for Pacific Jazz he recorded in 1967 on which he is joined by Tom Scott [soprano & alto saxophones], Chuck Domanico [bass], Johnny Guerin [drums]. On some tracks Paul Beaver adds musique concrète effects through the use of a tape recorder. ST- 20122
Spending time with this album, it wasn't long before I recognized that I was in the presence of a unique, musical mind; a mind that would have to encompass genius to know all the things that
Roger demonstrated in his music and put them together as well as he did.
Many years later, I encountered the following writings by the late
Gene Lees and the late Richard Sudhalter that confirmed my original assessment of Roger's genius. It was comforting to have my opinion of Roger's exceptional and extraordinary talents be in such good company.
At the conclusion of these narratives, you will find a video tribute to
Roger that was developed by the ace graphics team at CerraJazz LTD and features as its soundtrack, Roger's trio performance of Milt Jackson's Spirit Feel replete with Paul Beaver's tape recorded musique concrète effects.
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"No one has had as much influence on my musical thinking as
Roger Kellaway. When you write songs together, and Roger and I have been doing that for nearly twenty years, you get to know how your associate's mind works.
Once we were at a party at Henry Mancini's house.
Roger was playing piano. Hank listened, shook his head in admiration of Kellaway's protean and unorthodox gifts, grinned, and said, " Roger, you're crazy."
No one I know can work in so many styles. He's recorded with everyone of note in jazz. One song
Roger and I wrote had a simple country and western style melody. Yet Roger is an established and highly respected symphonic composer.
His jazz playing can be poignantly lyrical or rhythmically powerful, and when it's the latter there is a certain wildness in it, for
Roger has a taste and talent for polytonality. His hands have an astonishing rhythmic independence.
For all the scope of his accomplishments,
Roger sometimes has attacks of the uncertainty that plague all artists. Once we attended a rehearsal of the music he wrote for a George Balanchine ballet. He asked me to tape it for him. Later we sat in his car and listened, and at the end he said with a sort of sigh, 'Well, I guess I do have some talent.'" [Jazz Lives: 100 Portraits in Jazz, : Firefly, 1992, p. 144]. Buffalo, NY
© -Richard M. Sudhalter, copyright protected; all rights reserved.
"My first realization that
Roger Kellaway might be something out of the ordinary came, I think, because Bud Farrington left his drums in my basement.
It was 1954, or thereabouts. We were high school students, crazy about listening to, and playing, jazz. Bill Haley and the Comets might be the frisson du jour on the pop charts, but as far as we were concerned they might have been active on Mars; our world consisted only of Lester Young, Bobby Hackett, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and other major jazz figures.
We'd had a weekend jam session, a regular event in our tight little circle in suburban
, just outside Newton, Massachusetts . I played cornet in a self-consciously Bix Beiderbeckish manner; Boston Dave Shrier brought his tenor sax, Don Dygert his trombone. Frank Nizzari, our 14-year-old prodigy, was on clarinet, and Fred Giordano was the pianist.
Bud - now Gen. Anthony j. Farrington, USAF, ret. - had left on a two-week family vacation directly after the session. Seeing the drums there, set up and begging to be played, was too good a chance to pass up. I phoned Kellaway.
"Hey, Rajah," I said, using a nickname whose full genesis would only be comprehensible to a fellow-New Englander, "want to have a crack at Bud's drums? All the cymbals are here, and he's even left sticks and brushes. Come on over." Within half an hour he did just that, and we set to work jointly unraveling the mysteries of jazz percussion.
I went at it with more enthusiasm than skill, gradually working up an energetic (if home-cooked) simulacrum of George Wettling's Chicago-style ensemble shots and devil-take-the-hindmost approach to four-bar solo breaks. (It was to serve me well some years hence when, through a chain of accidents not worth repeating here, I found myself playing drums on a rockabilly record date in pre-Olympic
). Atlanta, Georgia
But never mind.
Roger tinkered with the set for about an hour, figuring out how every element worked; suddenly, it seemed, he was quite at home, playing along with - was it a Basie record? He just had it down: elegant time, light touch, Jo Jones-like use of the cymbals. With or without technique, he could easily have fit into most anybody's rhythm section then and there.
Bud came home, reclaimed his trap set, and life went on. I heard
Roger play drums a couple of times after that, usually sitting in for a number during the last set of a dance gig. My abiding sense of it is that, had he so chosen, he could have made himself a quite respectable career as a drummer.
But that's the way it's always been with Kellaway. He listens, watches, has a go and he's got it, now and forever. We often played tennis on Saturday afternoons: all it took was figuring out how the various strokes worked, and all at once he was Jimmy Connors, mopping up the court with me. Sure, I won one now and then -- but even now, all these years later, I can't escape a hunch that he let me cop a few just to keep me believing I could do okay against him.
He'd picked up bass that way, too, when we were both at
. The bandmaster, one Vincent J. Marrotto, needed a bassist for the school orchestra. Kellaway, in turn, needed little persuasion: he just took the damn thing home one day, figured it out, practiced himself into some technique, and -- Shazam! He was a bassist. And it was as a bassist that he went on the road for the first time, as part of a band cornetist Jimmy McPartland was taking to Levi F. Warren Junior High School . Canada
But it soon became obvious that piano was his major instrument, and had been all along. It remained the locus of his creativity, and over the following decades he became one of the most versatile and inclusively creative pianists on the
jazz scene. I say "inclusive" because stylistic categories and distinctions seemed to mean little to him: he was equally at home, equally comfortable, playing for Don Ellis or Bobby Hackett, Tom Scott or comedian Jack E. Leonard; or accompanying Joni Mitchell or Bobby Darin. Whatever the setting, Kellaway was - as Ian Carr put it in The Penguin Rough Guide to Jazz – 'a technically brilliant and often exceptionally adventurous pianist as well as an excellent composer.' New York
So it has remained. Mark well the word "adventurous": part of what makes
Roger special is his willingness, even ardor, in accepting challenges. Whether composing a ballet for Balanchine or knocking off a raggy closing theme for the eternally popular TV sitcom All In The Family, he's forever in control, forever fresh -- and never, ever, predictable.
For awhile he and Dick Hyman appeared at Michael's Pub and various jazz events as a piano duo. That the two of them should have taken to one another comes as no surprise; they learn the same way, figuring out how something works, how a sound is produced, then just wrapping it into an ever-expanding arsenal of skills. Hyman has worked duo with many pianists, some of them - Derek Smith and Roland Hanna, for example -- his technical peers. But it's no disservice to any of them to say that
Roger may have been the only one who both matched him technically and teased (some would say bullied) more out of him, forcing him to burrow beneath his own glossy surface to find richer stuff.
An album of Kellaway-Ruby Braff duets not long ago resulted in some of that cornetist's most inspired playing -- again, playing up to and beyond his own rigorous standards. Kellaway's own "Cello Quartet" --cello and rhythm section -- produced composition and playing of a rare beauty.
But you can read all that and more in any jazz reference book. What's significant here is that, one day in 1987,
Roger accepted my invitation to play a solo piano recital at 's Vineyard Theatre. Fortunately the concert was recorded, and appears in its entirety on this CD. Beginning to end, he plays with wit, style, consummate skill. And -- perhaps most important - there's not a moment when he loses the quality that lies squarely at the core of his work: a deeply felt sense of melody. New York
'I think there'll always be people around who gravitate toward a melodic ability,' he said in a between-sets conversation. 'There will certainly be all the others - those people who do the flash-and-dazzle and tap-dance, and can play a skillion notes, and maybe impress you on the surface.'
'But, looking at my life and getting older, [I'm] realizing how important it is to play a melody and a ballad, until you finally reach a point of understanding where you say, "Oh, yeah -- that's what music is about."'
A visit to
some years ago resulted in a deep-going study of Jewish history, philosophy and law (which led him at one point to contemplate conversion). The Endless Light, his trio for piano, violin and cello, came out of a sojourn in Israel ; one movement, David Street Blues, was played by the National Symphony Orchestra on the 40th anniversary of the state of Jerusalem . Further plans envisioned a large piece, perhaps a cantata, to be performed at the Citadel in the Israeli capital by orchestra, jazz quartet and up to 100 voices, with libretto in English and Hebrew. 'I'd want that to be a glorification of man's relationship to God,' said Kellaway. 'Not fear -- there's plenty of that around already -- but the glory. Consider the psalms, and the majesty they contain.' Israel
Roger sees it, a life in music must be one of universality, of interconnectedness.
Consider this recital: whether in the romanticism of Johnny Mandel's Emily or the gentle self-mockery of You Took Advantage of Me the roll-and-rumble of Ellington's early Creole Love Call (which is a blues) or trombonist Charles Sonnastine's Blackwall Tunnel Blues (which isn't), he finds new and poignant things to say. He can stride, as he shows on a playful When I Grow Too Old To Dream, then explore the light-and-shadow of Hoagy Carmichael's brooding
. And, ending the program, tender his own heartfelt plea for world understanding, in the new-age accents of "Un Canto Per La Pace," A Song for Peace. New Orleans
In a sense,
Roger Kellaway remains the same kid who mastered Bud Farrington's drum kit in my basement more than four decades ago. Musically omnivorous, intellectually tireless, energy undiminished, he's sui generis, his spirit growing and deepening by the day.
'What's happened to me, I think, is that I've renewed what I can call my sense of spiritual responsibility: responsibility to myself to grow spiritually, and have that effect everything in my life. Now, when I sit at the piano, I never waste time. If I'm here it's to play, to get to the heart of as much music as I can, and to share it, communicate it.'
Which is, beyond any doubt or argument, precisely what he does here."
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Landmark Aviation, which operates a network of FBOs across the country, has been acquired by The Carlyle Group, which identifies itself as a "global alternative asset manager."
The Carlyle Group agreed to acquire Landmark Aviation from GTCR and Platform Partners. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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China's Communist Party embraces widespread reforms to make its market economy stronger
Analysis: Having your cake and eating it
Beijing: China's top leaders have concluded a landmark four-day conference by promising wide-ranging reforms that will give markets a "decisive" role in the economy.
They have also signalled plans to establish a new state security committee to ensure national security.
The moves were among the first reported by state media in a communiqué and a lengthy broadcast on prime-time television news after the closed-door meeting ended on Tuesday.
The ruling Communist Party said in its communiqué that it aimed to achieve "decisive results" by 2020 – with economic reforms at the centre of its focus.
"The core issue is to straighten out the relationship between government and the market, allowing the market to play a decisive role in allocating resources and improving the government's role," the party said in its statement.
President Xi Jinping and other senior leaders had billed the gathering, the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee, as a key milestone in the next stage of China's economic growth, promising profound and ambitious economic and social reforms.
Much of the information contained in the early reports was ambitious in tone but skint on detail, with a detailed report on policy measures expected in the next week.
Among the key highlights were highly-anticipated comments around more land rights for rural residents, and hukou, or household registration, reform – both the source of major social problems in China. "Land in cities and the countryside, which can be used for construction, will be pooled in one market," official news agency Xinhua reported.
There were also signals toward significant judicial and social reforms and the building of a "fairer society", including the "legal authority to uphold the constitution" and "improving human rights legal protections".
Among other economic changes included financial and tax reform and improving the relationship between the government and the markets.
The detailed policy measures will also be closely scanned for any mention of changes to China's long-standing one-child policy.
The core issue is to straighten out the relationship between government and the market
Speculation has mounted in the lead-up to the plenum that China will relax the population control measure to allow those who are only-childs themselves to have a second child.
Existing rules allow couples who are both only-childs to have a second child.
The ageing demographics and shrinking workforce of China, exacerbated by the existing one-child policy, has been just one headache in China's slowing economy.
China is under pressure to replace a growth model heavy reliant on investment and exports, which has seen its economy grow exponentially in the past three decades to become the second-largest economy in the world.
Advocates of reform have called on Beijing to open up a number of state-dominated sectors to competition.
The tone of the outcomes of the plenum appear to support this, but any moves to curb the privileges of entrenched vested interests benefiting from the status quo is likely to be met with strong resistance.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The international media clearly and repeatedly paints a picture of Israeli soldiers as heartless killing machines who mercilessly assert the claims of an evil regime and violate international law in the name of democracy.
This is nothing less than a smear campaign against these soldiers, their army and, ultimately, the entire Jewish state.
The latest example of this attitude is the one-sided coverage by respected news agency Reuters regarding a confrontation between Israeli soldiers and a French diplomat.
Reuters reported that Israeli soldiers "throw sound grenades at a group of diplomats, aid workers and locals in the occupied West Bank, and yank a French diplomat out of the truck before driving away with its contents." The diplomat, Marion Castaing, was quoted as saying, "TThey dragged me out of the truck and forced me to the ground with no regard for my diplomatic immunity. This is how international law is being respected here."
The truth is that the foreign diplomats in support of Palestinian squatters were attempting to set up tents in the area, after Israel's Supreme Court had ruled that the land did not belong to those claiming it.
If the rulings of a supreme court are to be so easily disregarded, what is a state to do? Every nation in the world must be able to enforce the local law.
And the Israeli soldiers present, many of them just 18 or 19-years-old, were just doing their job. What wasn't reported by Reuters was that these soldiers were attacked by the so-called "peace activists" and diplomats. The soldiers fought back, and Reuters had its next headline. A little too convenient, perhaps?
Reuters likely assumed that no one would fact check specific points of the story, such as a claim that an Israeli soldier purposely aimed his gun at Castaing's head. But the soldiers were ready, the IDF having outfitted each unit with digital video equipment. The footage provided by the soldiers showed they had offered no such threat, and rather that it was the diplomat who was by far the more aggressive party, striking one soldier in the face.
Castaing is now being recalled to France following stern protest over the incident by Israel.
The double standard of news agencies like Reuters is clear. When Israeli soldiers are killed in unprovoked attacks or Palestinian rioters attack Jews in Jerusalem, the media only provides passing coverage. But when a Palestinian is killed, or even just when Israeli soldiers uphold the decisions of their Supreme Court and defend themselves from aggression by foreign activists, well, that is the stuff of front page stories.
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As human beings, as Floridians, as Americans, we have a choice: to live in a democratic nation, or to live in a nation run by multinational corporations and a few wealthy individuals? If you choose the democratic republic that our forefathers created and others have fought to protect, it is time to take your citizenship seriously.
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I'm sitting in a casino in Boulder City, Nevada. It's nine in the morning and I have a drink in my hand. The dregs of society surround me. So does the tintinnabulation of 300 slot machines. No, I'm not on some two-day gambling jag. Although from the looks of it, some of the other patrons have been here longer than that.
No, I'm having a beer this early in the morning because I'm still a little shaken over the morning's events. While traveling at incarceration-worthy speeds in a modified version of Ferrari's new 458 is an exhilarating experience, it can be a little harrowing, especially when the state patrol shows up and you have evidence inside your camera.
The bartender's raspy voice breaks my daydream: Hey, you're that guy who takes pictures of cars, aren't you?
Just outside Boulder City lies an expansive dry lakebed with mountains surrounding it. Every year in early November, dozens of photographers descend at dawn the morning after the SEMA convention ends in search of the perfect light and backdrop.
Jon Oakley of Oakley Design said that he thought I was sauced when I said I needed to meet him there at four in the morning.
I really thought you had been drinking when you asked me to start cleaning the car in the pitch black. I thought about looking for some trick camera, Oakley said. I felt like I was in Norway, not Las Vegas, cleaning the car in near-freezing weather.
Things went as planned for the statics, and then it came time for the action shots. We did a couple passes at 80 mph or so. Then I decided to get into the Ferrari for a couple of driver close-ups. And this is when the shenanigans and skullduggery started.
Actually, it started a week earlier when we took notice of the car at HRE's booth at SEMA. For those of you born under a rock, SEMA stands for Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association and is the organization that puts on one of the biggest modified car shows on earth. If you're a tuner, you're there, as is everyone else in the industry. HRE was there. ec was there, as was Jon Oakley. His limited version 458 (there's eight made now) comes equipped with a set of 20-inch rims that weigh a scant 22 pounds per. That's a savings of over 11 pounds per wheel on the important kind of weight to save, rotating mass. The rims are also slightly offset, thus filling out their arches a little more. This, along with an inch drop in the suspension, provides a positively menacing stance.
HRE gave Oakley only about three weeks to get a car together for the show. As shipping would have been outrageous from the UK at that short of notice, Oakley bought a car in the States and then had parts sent to Arizona. They assembled the car in four days and Oakley flew in to drive it from Phoenix to Las Vegas in the nick of time. I have a feeling he broke the speed limit on that trip as well.
The new 458 is so stable that I didn't even think we had been going that fast when Oakley asked if I knew how fast we were going.
That was 180, Oakley said mischievously. This is a pretty good road for this. I think we could max it out here. Shall we give it a try?
Now, I like top-speed runs as much as the next guy. Before this I had routinely hit 165 on various superbikes but I have to admit I was a little nervous about the prospect on a public highway. I thought of my little blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter singing a requiem at my service. Screw it. I have life insurance. She'll be fine. Besides, I'm with a professional racecar driver.
I'm game if you are, I said as I framed up and got an exposure on the speedometer. If I was going to join the 200-mph club I wasn't going to come back without proof.
Oakley looked for a gap in the traffic and we got underway. It was hard to tell, but figuratively speaking the car would have at first accelerated slightly slower than stock as some low-end torque was sacrificed due to the exhaust modifications. But peak power is increased to 644 hp at the wheels thanks to the various upgrades including, but not limited to, a carbon-fiber airbox that has two liters more intake capacity. The intake pipes that feed it have also increased in size to keep the ram-air effect at high speeds. And we were about to hit a few of those.
By now a number of people, photographers and subjects alike, had gathered at the side of the highway. Not only to see what was happening but to hear it. At 6.6 pounds, the cat-back titanium exhaust not only saves a whopping 77 pounds, it wails like a wounded banshee thanks to titanium's deeper sonic signature.
If the exhaust configuration hampered acceleration under 3000 rpm it certainly was hard to tell. Oakley snicked up through the lightning-fast gearbox, bringing us up to 150 in about the time it took you to read this paragraph. Assuming you are even reading this and not drooling over the 458's slightly enhanced stance and shape. It is at around 150 mph that Oakley's fully functional, wind-tested, carbon-fiber aerodynamic additions come into play. The front spoiler adds about 55 pounds of downforce while the rear spoiler/gurney adds 50.7 pounds. Combine this with the enhanced side skirts and the slightly longer rear diffuser and there is a combined 116.8-pound increase of downforce. Take into account the 116.8-pound weight savings and the power increase and it seems John Oakley has indeed improved upon Ferrari's perfection.
The red sled barreled across the desert to 180, 190, then 200, then past 200. At that speed, no amount of aerodynamic manipulation could have kept us completely stable. Thus, pictures of our final top speed of 214 came out too blurry to publish. Although, come to think of it, it could have been my nerves. After the ceramic brakes brought us to a halt I asked Oakley, You know that's straight-to-jail speed here, right?
Oakley said he found it funny how nervous I looked as we got up past 190--this coming from a guy who has done 235 mph on the autobahn. But that's another story altogether. This one isn't over. We got back to the starting point to collect our thoughts, and sure enough, a state patrol pulled up hollering about how he had heard that someone was out racing around at 130 mph. The Camaro we were shooting with had a cold engine, so they had him put his hand on the hood to prove we weren't racing. Just then, another more aggressive member of Nevada law enforcement showed up and proceeded to give everyone a lecture. In other words, Oakley ended up with what they call, where he's from, a good bollocking for snapping the speed limit in half and crapping all over it.
And I ended up in a slummy casino staring out across the dry lakebed, a location that has always been majestic, even spiritual with its awe inspiring setting and iridescent purple light. Now this place and the adjacent road took on a new meaning. I would probably never travel at that rate on land again. Maybe I should have a t-shirt made, my mind raced. I could have gone to jail today. Maybe I should have another beer and hole up in this dive. See how my luck turns out.
Naaah. If I can go 214 mph before 9 a.m. and get away with it, just imagine how good the rest of the day is going to be.
Oakley Design Ferrari 458 Italia
Longitudinal mid engine, rear-wheel drive
4.5-liter V8, dohc, 32-valve. Titanium cat-back exhaust, carbon-fiber airbox, enlarged air intakes, carbon-fiber engine covers, remapped ECU
Seven-speed automated manual
Wheels and Tires
HRE alloys, 9x20 (f), 11x20 (r) Michelin Pilot Sport, 235/35 (f), 295/35 (r)
Carbon-fiber front lip, side sills, rear spoiler/gurney, rear diffuser, roof, front bumper vents, mirror covers, lower engine cover, side sill kick plates
Peak Power: 644 hp
Peak Torque: 462 lb-ft
Top Speed: 214 mph