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Now 0-2 all-time against A-Sun newcomer Northern Kentucky
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 4, 2013) – After leading the game for 39 minutes, the Lady Bucs let the Norse hang around and ultimately paid the price when NKU hit a jumper with three seconds remaining to take a one point lead. A last second, close look at the basket for ETSU caromed off the iron and Northern Kentucky held on to edge ETSU, 77-76, on Monday evening inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletics Center.
With the loss, ETSU snaps its two-game winning streak and drops to 6-12 overall and 4-7 in Atlantic Sun play, while Northern Kentucky improves to 9-11 overall and 6-5 in league action.
"I guess the phrase I can use is a heartbreaker," head coach Karen Kemp said. "I want it every night for this team, but to be without Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.) and Tosha Austin (Chattanooga, Tenn.), two of our starters, this group really, really wanted to do it for them. The game didn't come down to the last minute. If we had made free throws and some of those lay-ups it would not have come down to a turnover in the last 30 seconds."
Early on in the first half, the Northern Kentucky Norse had no answer for sophomore forward Tiana Burley (Camilla, Ga.). Burley scored 16 points in the opening nine minutes of the contest and was outscoring NKU by herself until midway through the period. ETSU used Burley's production as a catalyst to a 17-7 Lady Bucs run from the 14:31 to the 8:36 marks and built up an advantage as large as 14 points. Eleven first half ETSU fouls allowed NKU to get to the free throw line and decrease its deficit to as few as seven points. The Lady Bucs responded and pushed the lead back up to double-digits, taking a 42-32 advantage into the break.
Turnovers and stagnant offense proved costly early in the second half as ETSU allowed NKU to stick around and even cut its deficit to as little as six points with 13:08 remaining. After the Lady Bucs answered with buckets of their own, the Norse fired back and continued to whittle down the ETSU lead. Things began to get interesting with under five minutes to play when NKU cut the Blue and Gold lead down to three points. Misses from inside the paint and from the free throw line reared its ugly head for ETSU as NKU continued to inch closer. Momentum shifted with a Norse three-pointer from Jaimie Hamlet to cut the Lady Bucs advantage to one with three minutes remaining. With one minute remaining, it looked like ETSU was going to hang on and survive with a bucket in the lane from Brianna McQueen (Jonesboro, Ga.) to put ETSU up five. NKU did not quit though and went on a 4-0 run in the final minute, followed by making a jumper with three seconds remaining to take a 77-76 lead. Serena Clark (Tucker, Ga.) got a good look from the base line as time was expiring but the shot was errant and NKU held on to defeat the Lady Bucs, 77-76.
NKU got a game-high 21 points from forward Tiara Hopper, as well as 15 points from forward Melody Doss and 13 from guard Jaimie Hamlet. Meanwhile, ETSU got team-highs of 20 points and 11 rebounds from sophomore forward Tiana Burley (Camilla, Ga.), with 16 of those 20 points coming before the midway point of the first half. Cara Bowling (Elizabethton, Tenn.) had another strong offensive performance with 15 points, as well as nine rebounds, while Brianna McQueen (Jonesboro, Ga.) added 13 points.
The NKU Norse shot 42 percent from the field and 35 percent from three-point range, as well as 64 percent from the free throw line. The Norse capitalized on ETSU's 20 turnovers with 18 points off these miscues and had their bench score 26 points, compared to 22 for the Lady Bucs.
ETSU led the game in many categories, except the most important one; the final score. The Lady Bucs shot a solid 45 percent from the field, but struggled from behind the arc, making only 36 percent of their attempts, and knocked down only 68 percent of their tries from the charity stripe. The Blue and Gold again played strong in the paint, gaining 36 points compared to 26 for NKU. They also once again outrebounded their opponent, 49-30, and scored 15 second chance points off of 18 offensive rebounds. ETSU also held a slight lead, 6-2, in fast break points.
The Lady Bucs will hit the road for Atlantic Sun action when they travel to the Sunshine State to take on the Stetson Hatters on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 1 p.m. inside the Edmunds Center.
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I'm angry, really angry!
There already is a huge illegal Shark Fin trade here in Australia ( e.g. http://www.news.com....5006009,00.html ) but don't be fooled, this isn't an approach of "lets legalise it and therefore control it" this is a politically motivated proposal with complete disregard for the consequences.
Next month I'm off to Sulawesi for a couple of weeks, I'm not expecting to see any sharks because they have finned them out, looks like soon it will be the same on the GBR .....
Can you help? We really need International pressure! Follow this link to the Australian Marine Conservation Society,
for more information, but also note the link at the end of the page to send an email to the Minister and State Premier, I hope you will be telling her that you wouldn't be visiting Queensland if this proposal succeeds.
Thanks for reading....
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Last year, Asian soybean rust was a problem to confront and watch in the Southeast. This year, with ASR overwintering in Mexico and Texas, soybean producers must fret about a second avenue of attack for the disease. ASR could ride in from the Southwest on the Delta's prevailing wind pattern.
"That's a major concern," says Jamie Nielson, Valent's Domark brand manager. "The winds could easily carry ASR into the Mid-South and on into the Midwest, where the majority of soybean acres are. That puts states like Arkansas more at risk for ASR. With that, growers should be as concerned as or more concerned than they were last year. (They need) to have a good plan in place to defend against this devastating disease."
Valent is pushing Domark, currently a Section 18 product, as the prime fungicide solution to deal with ASR. There are three key points Nielson makes about Domark:
It's both preventive and curative.
It's safe for soybeans and, unlike some other fungicides, doesn't cause any phy-to-concerns.
It provides at least 20 days of residual control.
"As part of the residual component, it actually protects the new trifoliates on the plants," says Nielson. "In many regions, new trifoliates pop out after the R-1 stage of plant development. Domark has an ability to move throughout a plant and helps protect those new trifoliates."
Many plant pathologists agree that the two products best for ASR as curatives are tebuconozole (Folicur) and tetraconozole (Domark).
"Those are third generation chemistries — the latest technology in triazole chemistry — the two that producers look to," says Nielson. "In our trials, Domark has provided better frogeye control…Domark is a proven product and has been used in Brazil for over four years."
To fight ASR, the best time to treat soybeans with Domark is first bloom, R-1. Such a treatment would be preventive.
"If you're targeting secondary diseases or looking to go after, say, frogeye, then the best time to spray is R-3."
Does the product do better being applied with ground rigs or airplanes? "We tested both in 2005 and found both very effective. Ground control may have a little bit better effectiveness. But overall, both are effective tools for controlling ASR."
Does Valent have enough Domark in the right locations to deal with a potential 2006 ASR outbreak? "That's a million dollar question. It will depend on how severe ASR is. If it occurs in Texas and Mexico, as it could, and moves through Louisiana into Mississippi and Arkansas (that's a large amount of soybeans to treat). Arkansas is growing around 3 million acres of soybeans alone. If those need to be treated, that's a big chunk."
The big concern is if ASR reaches Illinois and Iowa where, combined, there are some 20 million acres of soybeans. "I think (Mid-South) growers will have good supplies of (Domark). That's because it's highly likely rust will occur there before it hits the Midwest. We have some great customers that cover large regions and we'll be working with them if rust comes. We'll be working with them to move product accordingly."
Valent continues to look at options for mixing Domark with other chemistries. "We're looking at mixes with other fungicides as well as insecticides. There are more insects becoming problematic in soybeans — stink bugs, aphids in the Midwest, mites. So we're studying pre-mix and tank-mix options."


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Three candidates submitted petitions by Monday's deadline to run for the two open seats on the Niagara-Wheatfield Board of Education.
According to District Clerk Robin Vertino, the candidates will be Lori Pittman of the Town of Niagara and Lorna Tilley-Peltier and Amy Deull, both of Wheatfield.
The seats currently held by Kathy Fleming and Pittman will be on the ballot this year.
Fleming, who has been on the board since 2007, will not seek re-election. Pittman, a former board member, was appointed to temporarily fill the seat of Michael Brock when he resigned.
The two candidates with the most votes will each receive three-year-terms ending June 30, 2016. The candidate filling the unexpired term will be installed immediately after the election. The second candidate will take office on July 1, Vertino said.
The school district's annual budget vote and school board election will be held from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, in the Adult Learning Center of the Niagara-Wheatfield Senior High School, 2292 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn.


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The team received the news in the dressing room Thursday night after beating Campbell 69-45 at Allen Arena. It was the largest margin of victory for the Lady Bisons this season and ended a seven-game losing streak. It was the first time this season the Lady Bisons have held an opponent to fewer than 50 points.
"We found out about Trish after the game was over," said Lady Bisons coach Frank Bennett. "It was an exciting night until we heard that. We had the 30-year reunion of the first team last year. A lot of our players met her then. I'm glad we had that. She really enjoyed it."
The Lady Bisons took a 3-2 lead on a tip-in and free throw by forward Cree Nix 41 seconds into the game and never gave up their advantage. Using an up tempo approach and playing under control in all aspects of the game the Lady Bisons led by as many as 14 points in the first half. At intermission they led by 12 points, 31-19.
In the second half the Lady Bisons opened with a 9-2 run. They led by 20 or more points on several occasions in the second half. Campbell trimmed the Lady Bisons lead to 14 points, 52-38 with 6:33 left on a pair of free throws by Whitney Ferguson. That was the smallest lead for the Lady Bisons in the second half.
"It was a much-needed win," said Bennett. "It wasn't just the fact we won, but the way we played. We played a pretty solid 40 minutes. And our bench came in and gave us some consistency.
"We chart hustle plays and we had 36. We had been averaging eight assists a game and we almost doubled that with 15."
The quicker tempo is something the Lady Bisons will continue to use in their game plans.
"We did something a little bit different to pick up the tempo and we did a nice job of executing it," said Bennett. "We were aggressive and made some easy plays. A couple of times we bogged down and forced plays that hurt is. But for the most part we made good decisions."
Nix, hitting seven-of-nine shots, led the way offensively with 15 points, a game-high and career-high. She also led with a team-high seven rebounds.
"Cree was very active the second half," said Bennett. "The first five or six possessions it seemed like she got the rebound or loose ball each time.
"She was scoring efficiently. She was aggressive and she made good shots."
Freshman forward Chelsea Burroughs scored 13 points, her second double figures performance in the last three games.
"Chelsea gave us a lift making some threes early," said Bennett. "She was also looking to feed the post. "She is an extra threat with her outside shooting."
Junior center Miriam McAlister also pitched in with 13 points, a season-high and her second double figures game of the season. Bennett credited Miriam's work with assistant coaches Lynsie Blau and Katie Beth Allen for the improved play.
"Miriam was very effective," said Bennett. "Lynsie and Katie Beth have worked with her a lot on her moves inside. She is going at a controlled pace and finishing her shots."
Bennett started his fourth different line-up combination of the season. Freshman guard Anna Bowers started in place of Miaca Bowman. It was the first start of the season for Bowers. Rounding out the starting line-up were guard Jenna Bartsokas, Nix, forward Jilian Partin and center Clair Waggener.
"I thought Miaca did tremendous job," said Bennett. "She came off the bench and really got some things going running the offense. She also did some good things defensively. She gave us a big lift at the point."
Waggener tied her season high with four rebounds.
The Lady Bisons shot 42.2 percent from the field, hitting 27-of-64 attempts. They held Campbell to 25 percent from the field, hitting 16-of-64 attempts.
On the boards the Lady Bisons also held the advantage, 48-41. They had been outrebounded in their previous six games.
"Stetson had outrebounded us and Campbell had outrebounded Stetson by 20-plus," said Bennett. "Winning the boards by seven was a key area for us."
Forward Lauren Yesh was the only Campbell player in double figures with 10 points. She also hauled down a game-high eight rebounds.
The Lady Bisons, 3-11, 1-4 in the A-Sun, make the short trip to Belmont Monday night for the women's version of the "Battle of the Boulevard". The Lady Bisons have won the last two meetings between the two rivals.
"We needed a win to get a little confidence," said Bennett. "Hopefully this will break the ice and make things a little more natural to us.
"It is always tough playing at Belmont. They have an excellent team. It will be a real challenge for us."
Campbell slipped to 8-6 overall, 1-4 in the conference.


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Jennifer Nettles Calls Her Upcoming Solo Album 'Recreation' and 'Re-Creation'
Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles is currently hard at work on her first solo album, and in a new blog post she explains that the album is both recreation and re-creation.
"Every few years, whether one is aware or not, we humans tend to recreate ourselves," Nettles wrote on her official web site on Tuesday (May 28). "For me, it is some of the most fun 'recreation' that exists. That is why I am singing from the rafters (no pun intended) now that I've announced my new solo project."
The singer has been working with rock producer Rick Rubin on an album she has described as a departure from Sugarland, but one that she feels will still appeal to fans of the superstar country duo. She writes that she has enjoyed working with old friends, new writers, and sometimes by herself.
"In Sugarland, I have learned more of both who I am and who I am not," Nettles recounts. "Even with all of our success, I have had the deep desire to share other parts of myself. To prove some things to myself. And, to just simply shake it up and do something different, perhaps scary, and certainly fresh and new."
Nettles' solo album is tentatively slated for a fall release, but Sugarland fans, never fear. She recently said that she and Kristian Bush are just taking a break, and have no plans to break up.


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One thing for certain about Mel Gibson -- he hasn't lost that edge that made him so appealing in "Mad Max" and "Lethal Weapon." There's just this feeling when he's on the screen that he very easily could go postal at any moment.
That trademark intensity is clearly evident in Gibson's return to the screen in "Edge of Darkness," Gibson's first acting role in a turbulent seven years.
"There's a lot of anger out there," Gibson said in a recent conference promoting "Darkness." This smoldering rage was present in his lesser works, including 1999's revenge fantasy "Payback," and the even more transparent "Paparazzi," which was funded by Gibson's film company (he played an anger management patient in a cameo).
These films and "Darkness" make for a scintillating character study about Gibson's personal demons. That doesn't make them good films.
In "Darkness," Boston homicide detective (Thomas Craven) is already a pathetic, angry character before his beloved, but estranged, daughter is gunned down next to him on his front porch. The assassins yell out the name "Craven" before opening fire, something that is clearly only practiced in Hollywood Hitman School.
Craven assumes they were shooting for him, but missed. He soon finds out that his daughter was messing around with some dangerous, powerful men who weren't happy with her. He follows the trail of clues vowing a revenge that will not require handcuffs.
The convoluted plot is so jawdroppingly preposterous at times that it's probably best just to sit back and enjoy the car crashes. Even the appearance of the eminently watchable Ray Winstone as some kind of shadowy international fixer cannot save the day. Gibson huffs and puffs, but mostly comes across as crazed. To be fair, the script has him drinking very bad milk.
Gibson is at his most compelling in a quiet scene where he pours himself and Winstone a glass of whiskey and doesn't touch it during the conversation. Once again, it's the real Mel Gibson, whose public struggle with alcohol is well-documented, who causes the most profound thought. You want to know what Mel Gibson is thinking at that moment.
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I have a 69 Nova SS L78. When I pull out on the light switch, the dash lights, tail lights, and side marker lights go OUT. When I push the light switch down to just the park lights, obviously the headlights go out ... but the tail lights, dash lights and side marker lights also come back on. I'm not sure if I have a switch problem, a fuse problem, or a ground problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much. Tom
ground issues are an issue.. here is a diagram that shows which wires go where on your headlight switch..please print this chart below.. its an image like a photo...run at least the lower half of the test... 1, 2, 3, 4... and post your results... if you have a bad ground.. you will find it this way... the headligthts have to be on.. for this to work properly...
Welcome aboard CorvetteTom:Tom: Is there anyway you can spray a contact cleaner in the switch while you are working it in and out. I would try that first. If that helps even a little, guess what you need to get a headlight switch.Does the Headlight switch get very hot to touch? Replace the switch!I would get a switch. After rereading your post, the switch does know what it's doing. If you turn the (fader or dimmer switch) does anything change other then the dash lights going dimmer? Good Luck...Bob
Tom Have you ever tried to track down a bad ground in a 43 year old car? Unless the wire harness has been changed good luck. Because when you even touch an old system that is original the Positve wire will react the same way. Been there and done that. For Example: Todays circuts if the bulb is GOOD and glowing,you can remove the complete socket of the tailight for instance, and it will still be Glowing GOOD! Circuts of yeaster year if you remove a bulb that is glowing in the socket of a tailight and take it from it's socket it will go out. You will have to run a seperate ground wire to get it to light outside its socket. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack... If that switch is reacting like you say replace the headlight/dimmer switch and enjoy your ride!!!Bob
Thanks so much for the diagram. I will do this and then post the results. With this being Thanksgiving week, my time is all but consumed. It may be a week or so until I can dig into it. I appreciate your willingness to help me. I hope you and yours have a happy Thanksgiving as well. Tom
Thanks Bob and Pepsi1. Looks like the switch might be the way to go. Yes, I have tracked down grounds ... and it is like a needle in a haystack. As I told the other guy, this is Thanksgiving week and things are nuts around here. It may be December before I get to this ... considering holiday stuff, honey-do lists, work, exhaustion, and all the other stresses of life. Thank you guys again. Tom
Covette TomHave a safe Holiday and thank you.Bob
Alas! I took your advice from these posts. I started with the most simple first. I got out my handy-dandy dental mirror and looked up in the switch box and noticed a little bit of oxidation on some of the contacts. At the same time, I looked at the quality of the wires, fuses, etc. I thought to myself "I'll bet anything this oxidation is interfering with that light switch." So, I got out my CRC aerosol contact cleaner spray and "fired away" and the subject spots. I worked the headlight switch in and out for about ten times. I sprayed a little bit more and let it sit for awhile. I drank a cup of coffee and came back out and worked the switch, and Here We Go ... I had lights at all places on the switch where I was supposed to have them. You guys saved me a bunch of time, effort, and money. Thanks much and have a blessed Thanksgiving. Tom


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i live in irvine sand canyon/irvine blvd, and can play weekday evenings 530 to 730....909-997-7533, nitesh
Great! How does tomorrow evening sound? 6:00 pm @ Heritage Park? Or if you know a better place let me know.
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[AL] Graham/Hatcher-Dallas County
Researching great-grandparents, Dennis Graham & Ida Hatcher. I located them in the 1900 Census in the River District Beat in Dallas County, Sardis, Alabama. Dennis & Ida were the parents of Henry Graham (aka Dan) and Madora Graham (aka Dora). In the 1910 Census, the family has moved to the Pine Flats District of Selma in Dallas County. Dennis Graham appears to be elusive and I cannot locate him in any census record prior to 1900. Dora Graham married James Dawson (aka Braman or Britt) and had one son by the name of James Dawson (aka Shade). Dora, James and Shade are deceased. Henry Graham married Carrie Collins and had 14 children, 10 of which are deceased. Is anyone else researching this line?


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The second half of the previous week brought interesting pieces of economic data and disturbing geopolitical news.
On Wednesday, weekly inventory data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed that crude oil inventories declined in line with forecasts. Traders had expected inventories to decline by 1.5 million barrels, while the actual decline came in slightly lower – at 1.428 million barrels. Taking into account another weekly inventory decline, current crude supplies are at their lowest level since Aug. 31 last year.
At the end of the previous week, the combination of positive global economic data, which improved the outlook for oil consumption, and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East fueled oil prices. Light crude extended Thursday's gains and climbed above $106 per barrel on an intraday basis.
According to Reuters, manufacturing data for the two largest oil consumers, the U.S. and China, showed that both nations were regaining momentum. U.S. PMI data showed that the nation's manufacturing activity rose at its fastest pace in five months. In China, a PMI reading of 50.1 for August was a four month high and a huge jump from last month's disappointing 47.7.
As we all know, the markets have been speculating for months now that the Fed might trim its stimulus by September and it seems that recent positive economic data have raised such fears. Keep in mind that any reduction in quantitative easing will cut the flow of cheap central bank money that has boosted market liquidity and bolstered riskier markets like commodities.
Taking this into account, investors are probably asking the same questions: What impact have these circumstances had on light crude's chart? Have they changed the outlook for oil? Where are the nearest support zones and resistance levels? Can oil climb above $110 in the near term? Or maybe the oil bears will return and trigger a deeper correction?
To have a more complete picture of the current situation in the oil market, we take a look at the charts from different time perspectives. Let's start with a look at the monthly chart of light crude (charts courtesy by http://stockcharts.com).
On the above chart, we see that in June the price of light crude increased above the long-term declining resistance line based on the July 2008 and the May 2011 highs (bold red line). In the following month light crude continued its rally and climbed above the next resistance line based on the September 2012 and March 2013 highs (the upper black line). Since then, light crude remains above both previously-broken resistance lines and the breakout hasn't been invalidated.
When we take a closer look at this chart, we see that the black declining resistance line is also the upper line of a large triangle. If the oil bulls do not fail, the rally will likely be continued.
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The FSM is my Shepherd, I shall not want extra helpings
He maketh me lie down in durum pastures
He leadeth me beside the Olive Garden
He refilleth my bowl
He leadeth me in the path of www.venganza.org for his angel hair's sake
Yeah! though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Intelligent Design
I will fear no dogma; for thou art with me
The sauce and thy antipasto, they comfort me
Thou preparest a huge-ass table with lambs, and sloths, and
carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and
fruit bats, and some of that smelly chese whose name escapes me at the moment, in the presence of mine enemies
Thou annointest my plate with parmesan; my belly bulges over
Surely pirate and meatballs shall follow me ther rest of my life
and I will swell in the house of the noodle forever.
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SEEMP microfilmed the years 1971–88 of the Zagreb edition of Borba from the collection held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The resulting 63 reels of microfilm are now available for lending from CRL.
This is a significant run of the rare Zagreb edition of the official daily Party newspaper of former Yugoslavia. Although the main Belgrade edition was published in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic or with alternating Cyrillic and Roman pages), the Zagreb edition is entirely in Croatian.
The University of Illinois was the only subscriber within the PL-480 program to the Zagreb version of Borba, although other participants received the Belgrade edition. The PL-480 program authorized the Library of Congress to use US-owned foreign currencies, acquired from the sale of US agricultural products to developing countries, to purchase books, periodicals, and other materials for other libraries and research centers in the United States. After the Yugoslav PL-480 program ended in 1972, the University of Illinois continued its subscription through 1988, to maintain stewardship of this rarely held title.
Analyzing the differences between the Zagreb and Belgrade editions of Borba has been fruitful for linguists and students of Yugoslav language policy, media scholars, and students of politics and social policy, especially in Croatia. Although limited access to the scarce Zagreb edition (compared with the general availability in North America of the Belgrade edition) has hampered the potential for such studies, this acquisition should help remedy this imbalance.


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The interaction between two strong business trends -- security services and cloud services -- made 2012 a strong year for startups combining aspects of both industries. Companies offering cloud security services were expected to accumulate $1.9 billion in revenue this year, a figure that is expected to grow to $4.2 billion in 2016, according to business-analysis firm Gartner.
Using cloud security gateways to manage identity and mobile users, as well as threat analysis services, were among the strongest trends this year, says Lawrence Pingree, research director at Gartner. Companies such as PwnedList and WWPass focused on protecting identity, albeit in different ways, while CrowdStrike, Lastline, and SecurityStarfish focused on threat intelligence and gaining information on attackers. Such services -- security information and event management (SIEM) and security intelligence engines -- top the list of services that companies plan to adopt in the next 24 months, Pingree says.
A number of companies that were focused on the same trends didn't make this list, because they did not qualify as startups, did not announce services, or were focused strictly on consumers. Six-year-old OpenDNS, for example, launched its Umbrella service to help secure nomadic workers, while secretive BlueBox plans to unveil its own service -- likely next year -- to help companies lock down mobile devices. And Jumpshot, a service funded through Kickstarter and started by two security researchers, aims to simplify IT for consumers.
Another area to watch: Cloud-service brokerages. In the near future, cloud-service gateways will become a key way that CIOs can manage their company's use of cloud services, reigning in the shadow information-technology that undermines companies' security, says Pingree.
"Business groups are swiping their credit cards and going around IT, and they represent risk to the organization," he says. "Anything that helps the CIO gain visibility into that ... companies are looking at."


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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2006 Media Releases
"I am pleased to be here today with Mayor Fahey and Senator Beutler to discuss an issue of critical importance to the State of Nebraska. Nebraska's cities are facing an infrastructure crisis that threatens our State's economic growth.
"Infrastructure is key to attracting jobs. The City of Lincoln has an estimated shortfall of about $135 million for street needs. While Lincoln is growing and adding jobs now, we know the looming shortage of street funds will hamper our growth, our job creation and economic development. The only thing that holds Lincoln back is a shortage of street money.
"The current distribution of gas and motor vehicle sales tax revenue adds to the problem. Cities like Lincoln and Omaha and many other communities contribute far more in gas and motor vehicle sales taxes then we receive back in road construction money. Lincoln gets back only 29 percent of the money that Lincoln drivers contribute to the highway fund. By contrast, the State of Nebraska receives back from the federal government's gas tax formula more than 90 percent of what it contributes.
"Cities fuel the State's economic engine. If the cities' economic development begins to suffer because of a lack of infrastructure, the State also will be hurt from drops in sales and income tax receipts.
"We will ask the Revenue Committee to begin to address this imbalance by passing LB 935. The bill will bring new roads monies to Lincoln, Omaha and all Nebraska cities by providing a higher return of what we contribute in roads taxes. The bill will not increase taxes. It will boost the economy. It divides the money using a simple and fair formula based on population.
"LB 935 restores some fairness to our state system of funding local streets. It will help our local governments build roads to encourage growth and attract new jobs across the State.
"LB 935 is simple, fair, and will create economic growth in our communities."


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I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.
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Monday, December 3, 2007
Funk For the Folks: The Story of Sequence
In the dawn of recorded rap music three chicks from the Dirty South mixed gospel flavored R&B harmonies with rap and rocked stadiums full of fans when SWV and Xcape were toddlers and they did their thing long before Lil' Kim, Shaunna, Eve, Foxy Brown and Trina ever dreamed of spitting erotic verses.
And barely anyone remembers them.
For all of those that think that the South just got into the game yesterday: Surprise, one of the first rap records was made by a group of girls from Columbia, South Carolina. From time to time their music ('Funk You Up', 'Tear the Roof Off the Sucker', 'Monster Jam' and 'Let's Dance') pops up as samples in hits by En Vogue, Dr. Dre, Coolio, Erykah Badu, Tupac and many others.
They called themselves Blondy, Cheryl 'The Pearl' and Angie B (now Angie Stone), however collectively – they were known as Sequence. In the early 80's they held their own and shared stages with the most prominent groups of the time: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Funky Four Plus One More, Spoonie Gee, Treacherous Three and the Sugar Hill Gang.
In 1979 King Tim III's 'Personality Jock' and the Sugar Hill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight' were released to an unsuspecting world. They literally took the country by surprise. They were gobbled up and digested very quickly. The world wanted more. And they got it from the Funky Four Plus One, Spoonie Gee and Lady B from Philly. But there was something else on the horizon.
One Night At the Township Auditorium
From the outside the big red building with huge white pillars on the corner of Taylor St. looks like it could've been used as a courthouse at one time or another. But it wasn't, it's the cornerstone of entertainment in the capital city of one of the oldest towns in South Carolina. It's called the Township Auditorium.
In the weeks following the release of 'Rapper's Delight' the Sugar Hill Gang did one of their first concerts in Columbia, SC. History was made at the Township Auditorium one October night when three CA Johnson High School students got invited backstage on a humbug.
There are a lot of things that Gwendolyn 'Blondy' Callis (formerly Chisholm) can't remember, a lot of it is due to the passage of time, but then again there are certain things that she just chooses to remain mum about. She has a down to Earth, easy-going personality with a husky kuntree accent – in normal conversation she sounds like the chick on the records. But what she will never forget is the night that she and her friends were discovered.
"I said I gotta get to that concert," remembers Blondy, who, earned her nickname as a teenager because she dyed (and still does) her hair blond, "They were coming on October 20th – which is my birthday. I went through a lot that day."
Determined to break the grip of an overly bearing mother Blondy devised a scheme to go to the show. The plan was simple: stay at her best friend and neighbors house Cheryl 'The Pearl' Cook. Cheryl's mother was far more permissive than Blondy's mother was. Despite being twenty years old at the time, Blondy's mother would not allow her to go anywhere.
"My mother was very strict", Blondy said to me while recalling her stern upbringing. "I wasn't allowed to go outside when she wasn't home. I wasn't allowed to have friends over when she wasn't home. She was always like that. Cheryl and I lived in the Saxon Homes. I was the only girl in the projects that had to talk to her friends through the window. That's how strict my mother was. I don't know why she was like that but she was."
On the night of the Sugar Hill Gang concert Blondy had had enough. "I knew my mother wouldn't allow me to go the concert, so I figured if I said I was spending the night at Cheryl's house, it would be all right. But she said no. I said that I was going anyway. It wasn't right. I was twenty years old. She said if you walk out that door – don't come back. And I didn't, not to this day."
With nowhere to go Cheryl's mother offered to take her in.
The night of the Sugar Hill concert Blondy's employer – who used to also get them booked at local shows performing at roller-skating rinks and talent shows, promised the girls tickets to the Sugar Hill gig. But there were none waiting for them. And then fate intervened.
It just so happened that the Sugar Hill Gang's road manager was outside the venue, "Harold [a much older man] was trying to talk to Angie. He had a thing for dark-skinned girls." Blondy remembers. "He said he could get us backstage. But Angie said we all had to go. So he took all three of us back there. Once we got back there we started talking our shit. We said we can sing and rap better than the Sugar Hill Gang. He said, 'you can?" We said, "Yeah".
"So we get back there and he says [to an older woman sitting backstage], "Hey, I've got some girls here who say that they can sing and rap better than the Sugar Hill Gang."
Neither Cheryl, Blondy nor Angie knew anything about the record business. And they knew absolutely nothing about the origins of either Sugar Hill Records or the group of rappers called the Sugar Hill Gang. So they definitely had no idea who the nice older lady was sitting backstage.
"Ok, let's hear what you got", the lady said to them. And then an impromptu audition took place.
The girls had been working on routines for weeks – singing routines that is. Every song they performed that night the lady would smile and say 'That's nice, that's nice." Blondy recalls.
And then just as they were about to leave Cheryl 'The Pearl' remembered something…
"Hey, we forgot to do 'Funk You Up'. That's when then the trio launched into the only rap routine they had the one that would change the course of their lives forever. Luckily the lady allowed them to continue.
"We're gonna funk you right on up. We're gonna funk you right on up. I said get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, getup, get up, get up, get up – sit back down."
"That's when she said 'Stop', both Cheryl and Blondy recalled.
"She then said, "Doug [Wimbish] go get your bass and play along with them." She started directing us right there on the spot. She told us when to come in and had Skip [McDonald Sugar Hill session guitarist] come backstage. Doug made up that bass line right there on the spot. She delayed the concert for an hour and a half so that she could direct everything. Once we were done she asked us if we wanted to make a record. We were so excited. She said, "Ok, I'm going to call you and send for you guys. We said, "Yeah sure."
That night the girls impressed their friends by appearing onstage with the Sugar Hill Gang. After the show was over they all had doubts as to whether they would cut a record or not.
What they didn't know was that the nice lady backstage was Sugar Hill Records boss Sylvia Robinson. They had no idea that night that Mrs. Robinson's career went all the way back to the fifties as a member of the duo Mickey and Sylvia, and that their hit 'Love is Strange' is an American classic. Without a doubt they had heard the song 'Pillow Talk' before – but they had no idea that the lady backstage was the one who sang it.
"About a week after the concert I got a call at work, "Blondy, this Sylvia Robinson, are you girls ready to record yet?"
"I said, "Yes".
She said, "Do you want me to call the other girls and tell them?"
I said, "No, that's all right, I'll call them."
"How do you want to get here?" She asked.
By the end of the week there were airline tickets waiting for them and with that their journey began
Funk You Up
When they arrived in Englewood, New Jersey they were in awe of the sights and sounds. After all they were just girls from the south who had never been anywhere before. "When we saw the house [the Robinson's mansion] we were like 'Damn' Blondy remembered, "we had never seen a house that big before. They had maids and a chef and a big ass German Shepard that patrolled the grounds. That dog used to scare the shit out of us."
They were naïve country girls in a world they had never dreamed of before. "Everybody in New York was walking fast and whatnot, we were like: 'What in the hell are ya'll walking so fast for?" Blondy joked.
In the record industry in the 70's and 80's Joe Robinson, Sr. was a man to be feared. He was said to be of medium height with a stocky build and a gruff, rough and tough disposition to go along with it. However, neither Cheryl nor Blondy remember Joe Sr. that way, "He was a nice man that liked to laugh and tell jokes." They told me. I told them about his reputation for being a Suge Knight/Big Red (from the movie The Five Heartbeats) type character to which Blondy suddenly got quiet and said, "He could be no nonsense now", in her husky down home voice, 'but he wasn't that way with us."
From the very beginning the Robinson's were endeared to the girls, they took them into their home and looked out for them like surrogate parents. Blondy remembers "When we got there Joe and Sylvia talked to us about the city and what to look out for. They told us how people were going to offer us things and that we should avoid it. They said people are gonna offer you stuff to put up your nose… and alcohol – and watch out for guys don't trust them. They told us that we had to be really careful."
Unlike any other Sugar Hill act the girls lived in the mansion for a while. They were like three fish out of water "Our first night there we heard some strange sounds. They had these things in every room –what are they called? Oh yeah intercoms, we got on that and told Sylvia that there was something down here. And then we heard the sound again, Cheryl grabbed a straightening comb – and threw it at the door just as it was opening – and almost hit Sylvia!"
When they recorded the song 'Funk You Up' they knew it was a classic. Cheryl 'the Pearl' recalls that it was a member of the Whatnots who engineered the session, but it was Sylvia that did everything else. "Sylvia always said that you know that a song is a hit within the first eight seconds of the record."
All three of the girls wrote the song together, however, it was Cheryl 'The Pearl' who came up with most of the hook. "I was a cheerleader who was heavily into the funk back then." Cheryl tells me over the phone, 'everything was all about the funk for me, so that's why you hear all of the Parliament-Funkadelic influences, I loved the hell out of P-Funk." Cheryl's writing skills would later be finely honed under Sylvia's tutelage.
The song 'Funk You Up' was an instant hit securing airplay on both of the top Black radio stations in New York at the time WBLS and WKTU. In their hometown of Columbia, SC Cheryl and Blondy recall Big DM radio jock Vanessa Pendergrass as being the first to spin their record at home.
When they were introduced to the New York audience they were called the 'Sugar Hill Gang Girls'. Over the powerfully funky Positive Force track Cheryl 'The Pearl's light as a feather stroke of a voice intimated that "the only difference between you and me and that is that I'm sexy…" Blondy was big, bad, bold and aggressive on her parts: "Don't ring my bell saying please if you cannot fulfill my needs."
"I need to set the record straight about something", Blondy says to me in a serious tone, 'Blondy was just a character I made up for records. I was nothing like what I said on records. That wasn't me at all. At that point in my life I had never done anything whatsoever, so all that stuff I used to talk on records, was just that stuff."
The first time the girls met the Sugar Hill Gang they didn't like each other. The Gang (Master Gee, Wonder Mike and Big Bank Hank) according to Cheryl and Blondy came off as arrogant. "They used to say things to us like 'Damn, not only do ya'll talk slow but ya'll walk slow too!" And for good measure according to Blondy they would provoke the fellas by "walking even slower just to piss them off."
With the success of both 'Rapper's Delight' and 'Funk You Up' Sylvia rushed both groups into the studio for a collaboration entitled 'Rapper's Reprise'. Once again it was Cheryl Cook that came up with the songs hook: "Jam-jam-da-jibbit-da-jam-da-jibby-jam-jam-come on."
Gradually a friendship was struck up between the two groups; with Blondy dating Master Gee.
One Night At the Fever
In the middle of the South Bronx damn near smack dab in the heart of it there once stood a club on 167th and Jerome Ave. The name of the establishment was called Disco Fever, but to the eager attendees who regularly worshipped at the Shrine of hip-hop it was simply called 'The Fever'.
"I'll never forget going to the Fever", remembers Blondy "that's when we got to see all of the big New York groups upfront and personal for the first time. I had never been anywhere like the Fever before the things that they were doing in there!"
"I take it you got to see the 'get high rooms' up front and personal, huh"? I ask her.
"Child," Blondy says to me in her down home accent, "When I saw all that was going on back there, I made so much noise that they couldn't wait to get me outta there! Lemme tell you something: If you ain't no big girl you ain't have no business being back there."
Fever owner Sal Abbatiello set the get high rooms up as a discrete place where hustlers and celebs could snort coke and drink champagne in private but mostly out of view of the police.
The naïve country girl says she "had no business being back there."
So out of place was she that she fell down the full flight of steps of the club to where the club's main bouncer, an awesome force of nature, an ex-con and hardened street vet named Mandingo stood. Dingo, as those that knew him called him was 6'8 and three hundred pounds of muscle.
"Dingo must've looked down at me 'like are you okay? While everyone else was laughing at me. I was so embarrassed."
Both Cheryl and Blondy have fond memories of their nights in the Fever when the Sugar Hill acts would practically take over the place. "We used to all get on the mic and rap while Junebug or Flash or whoever was mixing. You'd find everybody in there; all of the groups would be there from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Cold Crush all of them. Sal, used to really look out for us too."
The Sugar Hill Tours
Like the old Motown Revue Sylvia and Joe Robinson would pack their groups up in buses and criss-cross the country to sold out venues. The Sugar Hill tours were the first all rap concert tours that people from outside of New York got to see.
"We toured with some of the best like the O'Jay's, the Gap Band, the Jones Girls, Kool and the Gang, Con Funk Shun, Ohio Players, Cameo and Ray, Goodman and Brown to name a few
"All of the groups were cool, we were cool with everybody", Blondy tells me, "We all got along. My favorite group of all though was the Funky Four Plus One, they could rap real good and they put on one helluva show."
But it was the backstage behavior of some of her fellow acts that makes Blondy laugh the loudest. "Wonder Mike and Master Gee were gentleman, but Hank was rowdy – he was from the Bronx, so he carried himself differently from them. Rahiem was a gentleman as well, but trust me there was a nasty one in every group."
"A nasty one? How so?" I ask.
"There were certain people that were really wild about what they were doing", Blondy remembers, "they used to have sex with the girls on the bus – the girls couldn't wait to have sex with a rapper and they would do it anywhere. Some of them dudes were real nasty. Like I said now, a lot of them were gentleman: like Wonder Mike and Master Gee. I'm not saying they were saints; they probably were just as wild as some others were but they were quiet about it. You wouldn't know what they were up to. Rahiem was the same way."
"But some of the other guys were really wild. I never knew any group of guys as wild as them. You have to understand: girls used to see Cowboy on stage in that white leather and with them bowlegs and go crazy!"
"They used to bring girls on to the bus and be having sex with them on our beds. We used to get pissed off and be like 'hell naw, ya'll ain't bringing them broads on here and having sex on our beds, ya'll need to take that shit somewhere else! The sheets would be messed up and funky and shit like that. People would rather sleep on the floor them sleep on them nasty ass beds after those guys had sex with them girls in 'em."
The Sequence Meets the Cold Crushing Lover
Of all of the Sugar Hill acts the collaboration they most remember is when Sylvia paired them up with Spoonie Gee for a cut called 'Monster Jam'. Named after the location of Sugar Hill's studio on 96 West St in Englewood, NJ the group was called the West Street Mob.
'We weren't a group called the West Street Mob that was something that Sylvia and Joey came up with." Cheryl recalls. "Really the West Street Mob was Joey and his friend Warren, but they didn't really do anything on those records. On some of them it's me and Angie singing not them."
"Joey had no talent." Cheryl stated flatly.
One of the cuts that Cheryl is referring to is the smash hit 'Let's Dance' which was a cover of a break-beat classic by jazz-funk fusion group Pleasure. "That's us, yep uh huh, sure iiiis", Cheryl says confidently
"Sylvia came up with this track that was based on the bass line to 'Good Times' by Chic and thought that it would be a good idea to get Spoonie involved in it." Blondy recalls.
The girls really looked up to Spoonie Gee, 'He was master rapper', both Cheryl and Blondy recall. Cheryl remembers him as being a really nice easygoing guy whose records she really enjoyed, "But he was so shy. He used to be so scared to perform back then. He used to keep his eyes closed when he was on stage." Blondy agrees adding, "I don't know where he performed at around New York. Maybe he was more comfortable being in smaller clubs. But when he got into big concert venues, poor Spoonie would come off the stage practically shaking to death!"
But he showed no signs of fear on record. "Monster Jam" was a departure for all of them. They all sound relaxed, confident and mature over Wood, Steel and Brass's hard-hitting funk track.
Over Doug Wimbish's thumping funk-style of plucking Spoonie and the Sequence flirted with each other in a smooth rap style.
"Well I'm a cherry piece on top caramel plum,
Sweet as sugar baby come on get some
Of what you've been waiting for my dear
That month by month year-by-year,
And that day by day
And week by week
Now you got the chance girl I'm at my peak.
"Gotta a special rap to do it all ring a ding ding a telephone call,
Spoonie you can call me anytime of the day,
Cause I always have something to say,
Like Spoonie what's happenin'?
You Angie baby I gave you the ring…"
You see I got you in my arms and I'm squeezin' you tight,
You melt from my might like dynamite."
"When the time comes around and ya say you're not ready,
Well all you gotta do is close your eyes and rock steady.
Time for love no time for hip-hoppin'
Cause once I'm gone girl it ain't no stoppin'
So think it over Cheryl tell me what you're gonna do,
Cause I got lovin' just for you."
The end of the song is like a scene out of the 1973 classic 'The Mack', with Spoonie giving Don Magic Juan like instructions to the girls making them respond to each and every word as if it was a verbal pimp contract.
"Say I will not stop
Say I must keep on rockin'
Say I will not stop…
I must keep on rappin'
Say he's a cold crushing lover,
And you know there is no other.
He's MC Spoonie Gee
Ain't no man quite like he…
Pure pimp shit.
The Eighth Wonder
By now everyone has heard the tale of how Big Bank Hank borrowed a book of rhymes from Cold Crush Brothers frontman Grandmaster Caz. But what few are aware of is the fact that it was Cheryl 'The Pearl' that wrote much of the Sugar Hill Gang's hits 'Apache' and 'Eighth Wonder'.
"They were having trouble writing to the track", Cheryl remembers, "Sylvia called me in and I helped them out."
"They had a lot of it written out but they just needed some help
"Which parts did you write?" I ask.
"I wrote Master Gee's part. It originally went: "You see I met this boy and I said to him honey, if you wanna be my baby, you got to give me money." That was a rhyme I wrote for myself but we changed it around for him so that it would say 'I met this girl'. Wonder Mike had written some parts and I came along with more stuff."
The song 'Eighth Wonder' was the Gang's last big hit it climbed the charts and got them booked on 'American Bandstand', 'Solid Gold' and 'Soul Train'.
Early on in their careers at Sugar Hill Sylvia noticed that Cheryl the Pearl had a unique knack for songwriting. "I sat in a lot of sessions," Cheryl told me. "I sang background and wrote on a lot of songs too.
" I swear sometimes we were the dumbest three women on the face of the Earth." Blondy laughs.
Their friendship stretched back to church with Blondy being the oldest and Angie the youngest. They were inseparable as kids and it was a bond that carried over to their careers.
"There was this one time when Angie put a perm in my hair", Blondy remembers, 'now you're not supposed to perm your hair when it's dyed, because all of the pigmentation is gone. Well, I really wanted my hair done bad so I decided not to wait. So Angie puts the perm in and I'm sitting there and all of a sudden…my hair starts coming out. I mean I was bald. Cheryl's sister was there and was laying on the floor laughing her ass off at me. I was so upset about my hair that I went and got a wig. I can't remember what record we had to make the next day, but I damn near didn't go. There I was in the studio trying to lay my vocal down when I had to run out of the room crying. Sylvia Robinson followed me into the bathroom and asked me in this sweet concerned voice, "Oh Blondy, what's wrong?"
"So I told her in between trying to stop myself from crying: Angie put a perm in my hair… and now all of my hair is gone."
"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that." She said.
"And then she said: Blondy…can I see?"
"So I took my wig off and the next thing I know Sylvia is laughing her ass off at me. She said I looked just like a boy with my hair looking like that ."
All Funked Out
Like any group – even groups consisting of lifelong friends, nothing lasts forever. Distrust soon set in.
"We stopped recording because Sylvia and them were not paying us." Blondy says.
When the subject of the Robinson's and money is broached Cheryl 'the Pearl' loses her cool. "They are lowdown, rotten no good thieves", Cheryl says on the phone as her blood pressure starts to skyrocket out of control. "Those mother fuckers owe us money and they know it."
"Cheryl, Cheryl, Cheryl babe…calm down." Blondy implores her life long friend.
"Ooooh, those mother fuckers pull so much shit to not pay you…"
"So I take it you haven't seen a royalty statement in sometime?" I ask.
"No", Blondy says quietly, 'they haven't paid us."
Blondy says that they get statements from BMI [for radio play] but that they have never received any of their mechanical royalties. "Hell, I didn't know what mechanical royalties were until I was working for Angie a few years ago."
The group has a class action lawsuit against the Robinson's for failure to pay royalties.
In the Robinson's defense they have always maintained that they have paid all of their former artists.
"But why did you all stop recording together though?"
"People started whispering in our ears saying this and that; we saw that Cheryl and Sylvia were close and we were thinking that Cheryl was getting paid and we weren't. It was a divide and conquer thing. You know when you can't pay your rent and bills and your calling them begging for your money and by the time the money arrives you owe even more money for rent – that shit gets old quick." Blondy tells me.
"There started to be a lot of mistrust between us. Angie went on and did the group Vertical Hold. Cheryl went her separate way. And I stayed at Sugar Hill Records and became the office manager."
A few years back Blondy was Angie Stone's personal assistant, office manager and road manager – today the two aren't speaking. Cheryl 'the Pearl' is still writing and producing songs. Cheryl and Blondy got together in 2007 and recorded a Sequence track called 'Going to the Movies' which samples the Staples Singers 'Let's Do it Again.' Even though the two women are twenty years removed from their Sugar Hill heyday they still have the magic.
"We want people to know that we were before Salt and Pepa, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Roxanne Shante and all of them." Blondy informs me, 'Please be sure to mention that – we were before all of them, we are the original Queens of Rap!"
To contact Blondy email her: email@example.com
1 comment:
- EyeGetzRaw said...
Great piece, as usual skillz!!!
These ladies were unquestionably the first female stars of post-vinyl Hip Hop.
They also brought more than a passing influence of the durty durty with them...the funk infused in much of their work was NOT typical of what NYC was generally working with. The influence of P-Funk would not be so acute again in Hip Hop until the rise of the West Coast...so in that sense, they were certainly ahead of their time.
They also were the prototype for groups like TLC, Bell Biv Devoe and others who rapped AND sang full-time.
Eye have always felt that they deserve far more recognition than they have been given over the years.
Your story just reaffirms that for me.
Thanks for that...
...and nuff respect due to the ladies of Sequence!
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From Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin comes this key piece of Revelation of the Method. It shows that until a few days ago, the recent rocket attacks on the Israeli state were largely the work of Salafist (Saudi and western-intelligence-connected, Al Qaeda-style) groups who oppose Hamas. Mr. Baskin reveals that it was the chief Hamas negotiator on preventing rocket attacks, Ahmed al-Jabari, who the Israelis assassinated in a Barzini gambit. Jabari was one of the few Hamas enforcers with the power to stop the renegade Salafist rocketeers in Gaza. He was considering an apparent Israeli proposal for a ceasefire, which had been brokered by Egypt, when the Israelis terror-bombed the car he was riding in, killing him and his son.
Recall in the "Godfather" movie that a rival mobster named Barzini wanted to take over the Vito Corloene family by starting a war. Sonny, Vito's hot-headed eldest, was lured into an angry reaction when Barzini paid Sonny's brother-in-law Carlo, to beat Sonny's sister. In response, Sonny thoughtlessly jumped into a car to get revenge. On his way to administer a beating to Carlo, Sonny is cut down in a hail of bullets at a thruway toll booth. The war begins in earnest and tit-for-tat violence becomes the order of the day.
In the latest Gaza version of this blood theatre, the part of Sonny's sister is played by Jabari, who is suckered into believing he will help bring about a ceasefire and is instead murdered. Hamas is the stand-in for Sonny. Their use of rockets against Israeli cities is tantamount to Sonny roaring off in his automobile to vengefully beat Carlo.
Our script might be dismissed as far-fetched were it not for the fact that the Israeli government's own negotiator has confirmed the details. His revelation consists in the fact that every four years or so, the Israelis decide to "mow the lawn" in Gaza -- i.e. as a matter of routine -- destroy dozens or hundreds of buildings and kill dozens or hundreds of Palestinians, as was accomplished the last time this occurred, in "Operation Cast Lead."
To slaughter the requisite number of Palestinians and fulfill the quota for the destuction of the infrastructure in Gaza, Ahmed al-Jabari, the Hamas leader most likely to control renegade rocket attacks, was assassinated last week. Rockets were then launched, Sonny Corleone style, by Hamas, in revenge, and it is only at this point, and not before, that Fox News, the Protestant Fundamentalists and the Catholic neocons begin their account of what has happened: poor little "Israel" -- only defending itself against intolerable rocket attacks by Arab terrorists.
Israel's Shortsighted Assassination
By Gershon Baskin • New York Times
November 16, 2012
JERUSALEM -- Ahmed al-Jabari, — the strongman of Hamas, the head of its military wing, the man responsible for the abduction of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit — was assassinated on Wednesday by Israeli missiles. Why?
Israel's government has declared that the aim of the current strikes against Gaza is to rebuild deterrence so that no rockets will be fired on Israel. Israel's targeted killings of Hamas leaders in the past sent the Hamas leadership underground and prevented rocket attacks on Israel temporarily. According to Israeli leaders, deterrence will be achieved once again by targeting and killing military and political leaders in Gaza and hitting hard at Hamas's military infrastructure. But this policy has never been effective in the long term, even when the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was killed by Israel. Hamas didn't lay down its guns then, and it won't stop firing rockets at Israel now without a cease-fire agreement.
When we were negotiating with Hamas to release Mr. Shalit, members of the Israeli team believed that Mr. Jabari wouldn't make a deal because holding Mr. Shalit was a kind of "life insurance policy." As long as Mr. Jabari held Mr. Shalit, Israelis believed, the Hamas leader knew he was safe. The Israeli government had a freer hand to kill Mr. Jabari after Mr. Shalit was released in October 2011. His insurance policy was linked to their assessment of the value of keeping him alive. This week, that policy expired.
I believe that Israel made a grave and irresponsible strategic error by deciding to kill Mr. Jabari. No, Mr. Jabari was not a man of peace; he didn't believe in peace with Israel and refused to have any direct contact with Israeli leaders and even nonofficials like me. My indirect dealings with Mr. Jabari were handled through my Hamas counterpart, Ghazi Hamad, the deputy foreign minister of Hamas, who had received Mr. Jabari's authorization to deal directly with me. Since Mr. Jabari took over the military wing of Hamas, the only Israeli who spoke with him directly was Mr. Shalit, who was escorted out of Gaza by Mr. Jabari himself. (It is important to recall that Mr. Jabari not only abducted Mr. Shalit, but he also kept him alive and ensured that he was cared for during his captivity.)
Passing messages between the two sides, I was able to learn firsthand that Mr. Jabari wasn't just interested in a long-term cease-fire; he was also the person responsible for enforcing previous cease-fire understandings brokered by the Egyptian intelligence agency. Mr. Jabari enforced those cease-fires only after confirming that Israel was prepared to stop its attacks on Gaza. On the morning that he was killed, Mr. Jabari received a draft proposal for an extended cease-fire with Israel, including mechanisms that would verify intentions and ensure compliance. This draft was agreed upon by me and Hamas's deputy foreign minister, Mr. Hamad, when we met last week in Egypt.
The goal was to move beyond the patterns of the past. For years, it has been the same story: Israeli intelligence discovers information about an impending terrorist attack from Gaza. The Israeli Army takes pre-emptive action with an airstrike against the suspected terror cells, which are often made up of fighters from groups like Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Committees or Salafi groups not under Hamas's control but functioning within its territory. These cells launch rockets into Israeli towns near Gaza, and they often miss their targets. The Israeli Air Force responds swiftly. The typical result is between 10 and 25 casualties in Gaza, zero casualties in Israel and huge amounts of property damage on both sides.
Other key Hamas leaders and members of the Shura Council, its senior decision-making body, supported a new cease-fire effort because they, like Mr. Jabari, understood the futility of successive rocket attacks against Israel that left no real damage on Israel and dozens of casualties in Gaza. Mr. Jabari was not prepared to give up the strategy of "resistance," meaning fighting Israel, but he saw the need for a new strategy and was prepared to agree to a long-term cease-fire.
This war is being presented in Israel, once again, as a war of "no choice." The people of Israel are rallying around the flag as would be expected anywhere in the world. The United States government has voiced its support of the Israeli operation by stating, "Israel has the full right to defend itself and protect its citizens." It certainly does, but we must ask whether there is another way to achieve the same goal without the use of force.
Israel has used targeted killings, ground invasions, drones, F-16s, economic siege and political boycott. The only thing it has not tried and tested is reaching an agreement (through third parties) for a long-term mutual cease-fire.
No government can tolerate having its civilian population attacked by rockets from a neighboring territory. And the firing of thousands of rockets from Gaza into Israel must end. There was a chance for a mutually agreed cease-fire. The difference between the proposal I drafted in cooperation with my Hamas counterpart and past proposals was that it included both a mechanism for dealing with impending terror threats and a clear definition of breaches. This draft was to be translated and shared with both Mr. Jabari and Israeli security officials, who were aware of our mediation efforts.
In the draft, which I understand Mr. Jabari saw hours before he was killed, it was proposed that Israeli intelligence information transmitted through the Egyptians would be delivered to Mr. Jabari so that he could take action aimed at preventing an attack against Israel. Mr. Jabari and his forces would have had an opportunity to prove that they were serious when they told Egyptian intelligence officials that they were not interested in escalation. If Mr. Jabari had agreed to the draft, then we could have prevented this new round of violence; if he had refused, then Israel would have likely attacked in much the same way as it is now.
The proposal was at least worth testing. Moreover, it included the understanding that if Israel were to take out a real ticking bomb — people imminently preparing to launch a rocket — such a strike would not be considered a breach of the cease-fire and would not lead to escalation.
Instead, Mr. Jabari is dead — and with him died the possibility of a long-term cease-fire. Israel may have also compromised the ability of Egyptian intelligence officials to mediate a short-term cease-fire and placed Israel's peace treaty with Egypt at risk.
This was not inevitable, and cooler heads could have prevailed. Mr. Jabari's assassination removes one of the more practical actors on the Hamas side. Who will replace him? I am not convinced that Israel's political and military leaders have adequately answered that question. (Emphasis supplied).
Gershon Baskin is a co-chairman of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, a columnist for The Jerusalem Post and the initiator and negotiator of the secret back channel for the release of Gilad Shalit.
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GAZA CITY — Israeli forces killed at least 11 people, including several children, in a single airstrike that destroyed a home here on Sunday, as Israel pressed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip for a fifth day, deploying warplanes and naval vessels to pummel the coastal enclave.
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