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Encore Presentation - James Brown: Say it Proud
Aired November 22, 2007 - 14:00 ET
LEMON: He defined a new sound, a new beat. CHUCK D, RAP ARTIST: Ban, two, three, four. USHER: Good God. LEMON: But for James Brown, trouble was in the wings. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. James Brown had a hair-string trigger of a temper. MICHAEL FRANK, LIEUTENANT, AIKEN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE: Guns, drugs and assaults. LEMON: And even after his final bow, controversy as his family battled over the estate. TOMI RAE, COMPANION OF JAMES BROWN: He would be rolling in his grave right now to know that his wife and child were locked out of their home. LEMON: Still, his music and his message live on. ANNOUNCER: Now, Don Lemon, "James Brown, Say it Proud." LEMON: The memorials were mobbed. REV. AL SHARPTON, FRIEND & CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: We got about 17 blocks from the Apollo. And I saw a lot of people. And I said, "What is that?" They said, "That's the line waiting to go past his casket. People had started lining up since midnight." I remember looking up at the casket. And I said, "Well, Mr. Brown, you're still drawing lines." And I know he would have been happy. LEMON: What an ending to a life which almost never began. It was 1933 in a one-room shack in the backwoods of South Carolina where legend has it James Brown was born dead. BRUCE TUCKER, BIOGRAPHER: There was concern that he was not going to make it. And the family mythology has it that his Aunt Mimi blew breath into him and he emitted his first scream. LEMON: His was a childhood of poverty and loss. At four years old, Brown watched as his mother walked out of his life. TUCKER: He recalls seeing his mother standing in the doorway saying to his father, "Joe, you take him. You can work for him and I can't." And she left. CHARLES BOBBIT, BUSINESS MANAGER: He harbored this, he carried this in him. I think this was one of the reasons why he was so hard on women. LEMON: He was a little boy, spending most of his time alone, playing in the woods, eating out of garbage cans, while his dad was off earning a living, selling turpentine and boot-leg liquor, but there was never enough money. SHARPTON: Finally, his father would come home and see he had not eaten and neighbors had promised to take care of his hadn't. And he gave up. LEMON: Unable to raise his son, Joe Brown and James walked all night to Augusta, Georgia. It was there the father would leave his son to grow up in a brothel run by his aunt named Honey. SHARPTON: And he would go out with the cousin. And their job was to get soldiers to come to the brothel to visit those that were engaged in prostitution. TUCKER: He would do anything he could to bring in extra money. He shined shoes. He would dance for change for the soldiers. Before he was the hardest working man in show business, he was the hardest working kid in Augusta. LEMON: He also would have trouble in school. His shabby clothes were a source of shame. SHARPTON: He was kicked out of school because he couldn't dress. And other kids would laugh at him. LEMON: He never learned to read and years later, he talked about being a seventh-grade dropout. JAMES BROWN, ENTERTAINER: And you won't be able to do nothing unless you have a good education, because I would like to be like you and start all over again. TUCKER: I think it really hurt him. He began stealing things, largely clothes, out of unlocked cars on the street. LEMON: Eventually, he was caught. BROWN: It took me about 300 miles away from home to a camp. I served three years and I was going into my fourth year and I decided that I'd better straighten myself up. I was proud, but I wanted to get out and exercise my pride and my dignity. BOBBIT: When he was in prison, he was well dressed. He used to take water and flour and make it into starch and put it into his trousers and press them so he would have pleats and whatnot in them. LEMON: While in prison, James began singing in a gospel group. Word spread in the nearby town of a particularly talented inmate. A 20-year-old Bobby Byrd went to hear for himself. BOBBY BYRD, SINGER: They told me that there was a young man there that could sing and they called him Music Box. LEMON: After three years, Brown was released, but he kept on singing, now joining up with Bobby Byrd. BYRD: He joined my group, the Gospel Star Lighters," got started and then there was nothing but gospel until, one time, we went to see a rock and roll show. After then, that was it. No more gospel music. LEMON: Until the Gospel Star Lighters became the Famous Flames. Soon, they were tearing up the Chitlin circuit, a series of jute joints featuring black artists because they couldn't play anywhere else. SHARPTON: He would talk about how the Chitlin circuit was humiliating in a sense that you worked every night but you couldn't stay downtown. It was usually a boarding house on the black side of town. LITTLE RICHARD, ENTERTAINER: Well, you know, racism was very heavy back in those days. We would go to places to play and then could dress in the dressing room. LEMON: So they changed outback. To keep the boss warm, Brown's valet, Danny Rae, draped him in a Turkish towel. On stage, Brown would fling it off his shoulders. The audience loved it and the cape routine became legend. But this was the Deep South in the 1950s. Segregation was a way of life. Local sheriffs was suspicious of a car full of black men. BYRD: There were a lot of black folk in a station wagon. And they'd stop you, call you boy, make you get out in the rain and dance and sing. And tell you you'd better not come back this way. LEMON: It was dehumanizing and James Brown hated it. BYRD: We was determined, after that, to make something of ourselves and make folk listen. LEMON: And in 1956, folks did listen when James Brown and the Famous Flames hit the scene with a song that begged for attention. The song would put James Brown on the charts. But as you'll find out when we come back, it almost never happened. TUCKER: Sid Nathan was in his office, and he heard them recording it. And he burst into the studio and said, "What is this noise? Stop it." And coming up, Usher gets on his good foot to honor his mentor and friend. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) LEMON: It was his first real hit. TUCKER: James wrote, "Please, Please, Please." It's an extraordinary record. It begins at a level of intensity that you associate with the climax of the record, not with the beginning. Today, it still has the power to send chills down your spine when James bursts out with those first three words. You realize you are hearing an original American voice. FRED WESLEY, MUSIC DIRECTOR: James Brown put more feeling in his music than anybody else had had. He would crowd up his space and he would scream. SHARPTON: The scream was his way of letting out the agony and ecstasy of his journey. LITTLE RICHARD: You could feel it. I even had to go back and tell my manager, "This guy's got it." It made my big toe shoot up in my boot. LEMON: But it was a record that almost never happened. TUCKER: One very stormy night, the Famous Flames were playing a club there in Macon. And Ralph Bass -- he was a talent scout from King Records -- and he had come down there to sign them. LEMON: No sooner had they signed, they ran into trouble. Sid Nathan, the owner of team records. TUCKER: Sid Nathan was in his office and he heard them recording it. And he burst into the studio and said, "What is this noise? Stop it. That's horrible." LEMON: After a lot of yelling and screaming, the Flames convinced Nathan to release the record nationally. TUCKER: Well, it went to number six on the R&B charts. And Mr. Nathan had to eat his words, not for the first time where James Brown was concerned. LEMON: October 24, 1962, Harlem, the legendary Apollo Theater, James Brown and his band were about to make history with a live recording. But once again, Sid Nathan threatened to douse the Flames. TUCKER: He said, "James, who wants to hear the same songs over again and live and not well recorded?" And James put up the money himself and they recorded an entire James Brown show. BYRD: Boy, we was cooking. We was cooking. LEMON: Once again, James Brown's instinct was right on. The live recording was the second best selling album of 1963. It was a performance as much, as well as the music, that was driving his fans wild. One of his most electrifying performances was in 1964 on Dick Clark's show. LARRY FRIDIE, BUSINESS MANAGER: And the Rolling Stones and Mr. Brown was on stage together. And Mr. Brown lit the stage up. He'd throw it up so bad. And he hated that the Rolling Stones was behind him, but he had something to prove. And Dick Clark told me himself that they had to pull Mick Jagger off the stage. Because Mick Jagger was so -- he had never seen nobody dance like that, sing like that. And the band was hip. And he just killed them. And a white America went wild for James Brown. TUCKER: At the end, James goes into his dance and it is absolutely extraordinary. SHARPTON: He would be five or six pounds a show. And I would tell him and the audience lost one or two pounds just watching. LEMON: But it wasn't until 1965 that he would break through to a white audience with a song that put him on top. WESLEY: James Brown was telling people that he's going to do something different from now on. Papa has got a brand new bag. Brand new bag was a brand new brand of music. BOBBIT: He felt a new beat. He heard a new sound. CHUCK D: James Brown made sure everybody hit their emphasis on the first beat. BOOTSY COLLINS, BAND MEMBER: He always told me, "Son, you've got to play it on the one." And I was like, on the one? What the heck is he talking about? He said, "On every one, you've got to play a dominant note." USHER: James Brown is the master of the one. CHUCK D: Bam, two, three, four, bam. USHER: "Good God." LEMON: It was the beginning of what became James Brown's enduring contribution to American music -- Funk. COLLINS: Funk was like the way we lived. All of us kids sleeping in one room, it's 105 degrees outside, no air-conditioning. That's funk. SHARPTON: Funk was what's scripted or was not what is accepted. Funk is what is felt. LEMON: When we come back, a new era of black pride. And Usher remembers James Brown. LEMON: Your favorite is what? USHER: "Get up off that thing," "I'm black and I'm proud," "Sex Machine." Get on up, stay on the scene. Get on up like a sex machine. Get on up, get on up. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) JACKIE JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I'm CNN Meteorologist Jackie Jeras at the Severe Weather Center with some very important information. In Kansas right now, we have two tornados very likely on the ground. The first one is for northern Barton, Ellsworth and Russell Counties. Trained storm spotters are reporting a tornado through the town of Great Bend. A tornado emergency was issued at the top of the hour. We have storm spotters out on the scene and they are reporting some damage. At this time, we are not aware of how serious that damage is. In addition to this, another tornado warning has been issued now for Kiowa County and this includes Greensburg. You can see two red blocks here on your screen. It's the one near Mullinville that Doppler Radar is indicating very strong rotation. And this will likely be moving through the town of Greensburg. As we get more information, we will pass that along to you. You need to be taking cover right now. Complete coverage coming up tonight at 11:00. We're going to go to a break and the James Brown special will continue. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) LEMON: The James Brown of the late '60s was a man with a message, from a nobody who dropped out of school in the seventh grade to the somebody he always said he would be. Standing side by side with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, encouraging kids to stay in school. BROWN: And you won't be able to do nothing unless you have a good education. LEMON: He was an accidental politician that people voted for by buying his records. BOBBIT: They started calling him the black president and all this kind of stuff. And he said, "No, no, no, because to be that, you have to be educated and I'm only a seventh-grade education person." But Mr. Brown had a talent that, until this date, has been unequal for any politician. People listened to him. He could talk to the masses. LEMON: And talk, he did. In April, 1968, in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., cities around the country erupted in violence. The day after King's death, Brown was scheduled to perform in Boston, but city leaders feared he might stir up more trouble. TUCKER: The mayor of Boston, Kevin White, was under some pressure to cancel it, but after some tense negotiations in the limo from the airport on the way to the Garden, arrangements were made for WGBH there in Boston to broadcast the concert live to try to keep people home and off the streets. LEMON: But with fewer people showing up at the concert, Brown figured he would lose $60,000 in ticket sales. Ever the businessman, he demanded the mayor pay him. James Brown got his way. KEVIN WHITE, MAYOR OF BOSTON: All of us are here tonight to listen to a great talent, James Brown. LEMON: The atmosphere that night was tense. Towards the end of the concert, many in the audience rushed the stage. Then the police jumped in. BRYD: What folks couldn't see was that they were ready to riot with the police. They were ready to do anything. As a matter of fact, some of it did go on. BROWN: I'll be all right. I'll be fine. LEMON: Brown, unfazed, kept the peace. BROWN: We're black. Don't make us all look bad. Let me finish doing the show. Get off the stage. LEMON: After the Boston concert, it became clear, James Brown had sway with blacks, so-called street cred. It became more apparent in 1968 after the riots. After performing in Los Angeles, back in his hotel room, James Brown saw a disturbing news report about black on black crime. It became inspiration. BOBBIT: He said, "Come to my room. I want to show you something." So I walked up to his room and when I went in his room, laying on the desk on two napkins was "Say it Loud, I'm black and I'm Proud." LEMON: Just 40 hours later, the song hit the air waves and struck a nerve. It was finally okay for black people to say... MULTIPLE SINGERS: I'm black and I'm proud. LEMON: And you didn't have to be black. SHARPTON: He made people all over the world, whites in America, Asians, like black music and identify with it. He had them actually singing "I'm black and I'm proud," people that weren't even remotely black, didn't know what the chant meant to be black in America. CHUCK D: I was an 8-year-old kid. And I was jumping for joy because it was James Brown. We got up, did the Popcorn and yelled to the top of on our lungs that it was great to say black is beautiful, especially when you've got Negro on your birth certificate. So it was definitely a step up. LEMON: But with America's racial tension boiling over, some tried to distort his message. BOBBIT: When he would start singing it, the brothers would stand up. Say it loud, this and that and, you know, it made it look like this was inspiring them to fight or to be violent or whatnot. And that was not what the song was made for. It was to unite, not separate. LEMON: The ultimate display of black pride came late in 1968. James Brown ditched the straightener and hair rollers and grew an afro. COLLINS: That was probably one of the deepest things he ever did in his life, you know, was cut his hair. If he had a choice in going on stage naked or his hair, I think he'd go on stage naked. LEMON: It was a nice nod to black power, but it didn't last. WESLEY: We noticed that it got a little slicker and got a little slicker and then it was back to the do before you know it. But for a long time, he had a natural, an afro, so he could be black and proud. LEMON: A 1969 cover of "Look" magazine would ask, "Is James Brown the most important black man in America?" That superstar status would be tested in 1972. UNIDENTIFIED REPORT: Mr. Brown, why are you endorsing President Nixon? LEMON: He endorsed presidential candidate Richard Nixon against his business manager's wishes. CHARLES BOBBIT, BROWN'S BUSINESS MANAGER: I was looking at it from a business standpoint. Black people did not like Richard Nixon and I knew this would hurt our record sales. LEMON: But he stood his ground. His reasons? His own politics of pride. REV. AL SHARPTON, FRIEND AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: He was the original guy that believed in lift-yourself-up philosophy. He never felt that government owed him or us anything but an equal, even playing field. LEMON: And he liked what Nixon had to say. FRANK "SUPERFRANK" COPSIDAS, AGENT: President Nixon told him, first of all, he shouldn't have to pay taxes, that he was a national treasure and national treasures should be like state parks, nonprofits, they shouldn't pay taxes. LEMON: A message Brown apparently took to heart. BRUCE TUCKER, BIOGRAPHER: The government initiated a tax case against him which dragged on for years and years. LEMON: And as we find out when we return, it wouldn't be his only brush with the law. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BOBBY BYRD, SINGER: She looked at me and that was it. She had to have me. That's the vow we made VICKI ANDERSON, WIFE OF BOBBY BYRD: He charmed me. That's what he did. LEMON: It was a match made on tour. With the James Brown band in 1965, singers' Bobby Byrd and Vicki Anderson fell in love, a rare personal defeat for James Brown. BYRD: He wanted my wife. ANDERSON: But I chose Bobby, you know. And Bobby chose me. BYRD: When we first got together it was hell. There's so many things that was put off on me and so many things that was done to me because of my wife. LEMON: It was the classic James Brown game, play his way or pay. And Bobby Byrd would pay for winning Vicki. He knew the drill. Brown handed out fines with the flick of the wrist. BYRD: Just like that. LEMON: No matter how small the offense. BYRD: No crease in the pants, shoes dirty, coat wrinkled, that kind of thing would cost you $10, $15, $20. LEMON: Even in the middle of a show. BYRD: A lot of times, he would dance over there in the front of you and do that, you know? And dance and slide back across the floor. LEMON: James Brown ruled with an iron hand. It was the price you paid to play with the man who was known as the Godfather of Soul. And the band would take the beating as long as the pay was good, which wasn't always the case. ANDERSON: He really did some good things because I was in Houston, Texas, and very poor, very poor. And he changed my whole life around. And for that, I'm thankful. But then, when I worked -- don't be giving me no peanuts. LEMON: Band members say Brown constantly short changed them or paid them late. So one night in March 1970, they had had enough and refused to play unless Brown paid up. But he had a little something for them. BOBBIT: If I'm not mistaken, I think he said, "Well, you gentlemen can leave my uniforms. Good-bye." And that was it. LEMON: Unbeknownst to them, Brown had sent a private plane to pick up a replacement band. Bootsy Collins and the Pace Setters, teenage musicians from Cincinnati, Ohio. BOOTSY COLLINS, BAND MEMBER: We didn't really believe him, you know? It was like, James Brown? Play with him? No. You've got to be kidding me. Yes, come on. LEMON: The old band members were stunned. COLLINS: The security rushed us on through. We saw some of the looks on the ban members' face and it wasn't a nice look. BOBBIT: They probably were ticked off, but there was not very much that they could do. What are you going to do, fight? If you want to fight, he would fight. No one would go up against him at the time, because at that time, we were armed. LEMON: Without a rehearsal, Bootsy's band took the stage. BOBBIT: All of the sudden, you hear this band hit and these kids hit knew every note. LEMON: And like magic, James Brown played on. WESLEY: The real truth is, any band that James Brown stands in front of, there's a powerful band all of the sudden because the energy fuses the parts together. Everybody knew the parts to play. The band became instantly tight when he stood in front of that band. LEMON: But off stage, his new, young band would begin to rebel against the James Brown system. COLLINS: I think finally it became useless. We came there with nothing. We didn't care whether we had nothing or not. Really, just give us a couple of girls, a couple bottles of wine, a little weed. You know, we was cool. LEMON: The young and cocky Bootsy Collins pushed the limits, even taking drugs before concerts. COLLINS: Purple haze all in my brain. Yes, I did it for the first time on his show. LEMON: Brown was furious. BOBBIT: He didn't last and he didn't play most of the time. He wasn't like that. He was serious. Most people don't know that. He didn't party. LEMON: Brown was beginning to lose control. The good, clean days of shined shoes and creased pants were coming to an end. Band members started to drift away. BYRD: When we left, things kind of fell apart. LEMON: And disco began to drown out the Godfather of Soul. The darkest times were just beginning for James Brown. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: Mr. James Brown. LEMON: Disco burned hot in the '70s. COLLINS: He hated disco with a passion. Oh, man. LEMON: James Brown's signature funk was out, and it spelled the beginning of more trouble for the struggling soul singer. TUCKER: The government initiated a tax case against him, which dragged on for years and years. In 1973, his son, Teddy, was killed in an automobile accident in upstate New York. James was absolutely devastated. LEMON: Teddy was buried in the serene mountains of North Georgia. In grief over the death of his oldest child, Brown reached out to a young New York preacher, Al Sharpton. SHARPTON: I became, I believe, the replacement for Teddy. I became the ambitious young son, who wasn't on stage, but who wanted to be something and wanted his legacy sealed. LEMON: Brown suppressed his grief by working. He hit the road. JAMES BROWN, ENTERTAINER: Everybody want to get funky one more time? SHARPTON: We would go to some city and only sell half the house. And I was like, "Well, you know, Mr. Brown, you're a little older now. And, you know, music has changed. "Reverend, nothing changed. This is just -- there's mountains and valleys." He said, "You just go through the valleys so you can get to the higher mountains." LEMON: A cameo appearance in the 1980 movie "Blues Brothers" put Brown back on the map, and just three years later, a hit" Success did little, however, to heal Brown's pain and his penchant for self-destruction. LT. MICHAEL FRANK, AIKEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: To sum up his involvement with local law enforcement, you could use three words -- guns, drugs and assaults. LEMON: In 1988, wielding a shotgun and high on PCP, Brown led police on a high-speed chase crisscrossing state lines. It ended with police shooting out his tires. And the aging star was taken into custody. COLLINS: My hat goes off to him. He waited until he was, like, 50, you know, he started going crazy. LEMON: For the second time in his life, James Brown was headed to prison. He called out for some old fashioned Dixie help. He called you. And you were at home in Washington is, is that correct? LARRY FRIDIE, BUSINESS MANAGER: Exactly right. LEMON: What did he say to you? FRIDIE: He said, "Mr. Fridie, don't hang up on me. This is James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. I'm down here and I'm incarcerated and it's unjust. And I need your help." He said, "Do you know Strom Thurman?" I said, "Yes, sir, I do." He said, "Well, go tell Strom Thurman to get me out." LEMON: Two sons of South Carolina, the black musical icon and the white former segregationist Senator had struck up and unlikely friendship years before. Did it work? FRIDIE: He actually called and just did a couple of things to help Mr. Brown. But Mr. Brown actually served his time. UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: Mr. James Brown. LEMON: Brown's release didn't stop his tendency towards self- destruction, even on live television. UNIDENTIFIED TV HOST: How did all of this trouble begin? BROWN: "Living in America" alone from night to night you find me. UNIDENTIFIED TV HOST: Your fans will have read all about this, James. Aren't you concerned about that? BROWN: ... muchas. No. Dunkashein. LEMON: More drug charges, more weapons charges and domestic violence. A call to 911 from his wife, Adrienne. DISPATCHER: Have he been drinking anything, Ms. Brown? ADRIENNE BROWN, FORMER WIFE OF JAMES BROWN: He's been taking dope. LEMON: Two years later, a call to 911, this time from Tomi Rae, Brown's last companion. TOMI RAE BROWN, BROWN'S COMPANION: Hello? DISPATCHER: This is 911. What's going on there? RAE: Well, my husband just -- me and him got in a fight. He threw me on to the ground and now I can't move, my whole right arm is jammed up. LEMON: Married at least three times, James Brown had a violent history with women, perhaps a reaction to the trauma of being abandoned by his mother. ANDERSON: Can you imagine growing up thinking that his mom didn't want him? I think he was a friend of the way that he was treated. And to love made you be weak. He didn't want to drop his guard, even with his women. SHARPTON: I remember one night we was talking. And he said, "I've had to say good-bye more than I've had to say hello in life. I got used to saying good-bye to people." VENETIA BROWN, DAUGHTER: I hope I didn't keep you too long. LEMON: Venetia and Darrel Brown knew how guarded their father was. V BROWN: My dad was a very private man. DARREL BROWN, SON: Very private. D. BROWN: And a lot of times when it was issues to dealing with his feeling feelings, you know, he would shut down on you. D. BROWN: But there were some beautiful times though. There were some times when he let his guard down, if it was only for five minutes. But then he would catch himself and it was like, "OK, that is enough of that." LEMON: Do you believe in what he said, it's a man's world? V. BROWN: But it would be nothing without a woman or a girl. LEMON: James Brown had at least six children, but in truth, music was always his first child. By age 70, James Brown had managed to beat back most of his demons and was ready to head back up to the mountain one last time. COPSIDAS: His one wish was to play in front of 10,000 more people in his life. And in the summer of 2005, he played to crowds of almost 2 million. COPSIDAS: He said he would be doing this for at least another 20 years, if not until when he was 100. LEMON: While he didn't make it to 100, even in death, James Brown managed to draw a crowd and controversy. RAE: I was expecting to go home and be able to hold my own things and be able to be with my son and lay in my husband's bed and just enjoy that moment. And they stole it from me. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) LEMON: You can make it here, right? USHER, RAP ARTIST: If you could make it here, you'd make it anywhere. LEMON: To R&B star Usher, James Brown had been a mentor. Both from George, they found fame in New York City. LEMON: You performed at the Apollo, not that far from here. What is it like walking out onto that stage? USHER: So many major artists who have graced the stage, you share the spirit of each and every one of them every time that you walk in there. LEMON: James Brown said it was a pivotal moment for his career and for his life when he recorded at the Apollo. Even though New York was special to him, he never really felt at home. To James Brown, home was always Georgia, and that's where he took his last breath, early Christmas morning in Atlanta. The news was instant and crushing. ANTHONY KEIDIS, ENTERTAINER: He was magic. He was just pure magic. SMOKEY ROBINSON, ENTERTAINER: He was just a bundle of dynamite. QUINCY JONES, ENTERTAINER: James Brown has it. Whatever it is, he has it, you know? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Put your hands together. COLLINS: What made it real for me was when I actually went down to Augusta and went up to the coffin and actually seen him laying there. When I touched him, that's when I realized he was dead. LEMON: But nearly three months later, James Brown had still not been buried. Lying in the same coffin, as family members and lawyers battled over a burial sit he inherited, and whether Brown was legally married to his last companion, Tomi Rae. RAE: I'm his wife. He calls me his wife. He insists that they call me Mrs. Brown. If they call me Tomi Rae or Miss Rae, they stand to get fired. Mr. Brown was a very strict man. And it was all about Mr. and Mrs. to him. And I was Mrs. Brown. LEMON: DNA was collected to help resolve future paternity actions. Finally, on March 10, 2007, 75 days after his death, James Brown's body was placed in a temporary crypt. Reverend Al Sharpton, Brown's surrogate son, says once estate claims are settled, Brown will be interred in a public mausoleum, a Graceland, James Brown style. So your favorite is what? USHER: Man from "Jam" to "Get Up Off that Thing," "I'm Black and I'm Proud," "Sex Machine." Get on up, stay on the scene. Get on up like a sex machine. Get on up. LEMON: Funk. USHER: Funk, the most important ingredient. LEMON: Usher honored Brown at the 2005 Grammy Awards. USHER: I gave 100 percent of myself when I did my solo. I came off the trampoline, did a little lock in, I did a little footwork. I made a split and came back up, touched myself and put my handkerchief back in. And then, now you see from which he comes. James Brown, he comes down in ceremony. And it's history. That's history for me, man. I'm so happy that I was able to share it with him. LEMON: I can see that it's real because your face is lighting up when you're talking about this man. USHER: Yes. Just to be able to get that close to him and see him move was amazing. LEMON: What did he talk to you about? USHER: He talked to me about putting a positive message in the world for our youth. I had to get real close to him in order to hear each and every word. I was like what is he saying. Because you know -- we have to teach the kids. He used his music truly to speak to the masses. LEMON: Let's talk a little bit more about his contribution. At one point, his face couldn't even be on the records. USHER: Black faces, period, couldn't be on records at one point in time. There was something different in the way he conducted his business that made him different. He would have the leverage to say, "If you want me to give you my music, then you're going to have to put my face on the front of this album cover." LEMON: He's the most sampled artist in history. Surprising? USHER: No. LEMON: Have you ever sampled him? USHER: Have I ever sampled him? LEMON: Recorded one of his songs? USHER: Stay tuned. Can you get on a good foot? LEMON: I can't dance like that. Usher is asking me how to dance. If you have ever, as an R&B artist or pop artist, moved your feet and got on the good foot, you need to give it up for James Brown because my man definitely made it possible for us to do what we do, all right? BROWN: Georgia, oh, Georgia LEMON: At the House of Blues and elsewhere, Brown always recalled his beginning. SHARPTON: I would always get teary-eyed when he would sing "Georgia," because I would always think about, he wasn't thinking about Georgia the way others would think about Georgia. He was thinking about where he had come from and how far he had come. LEMON: In the end, he traveled far beyond Georgia to become a national treasure, inspiring generations to come. Eleven-year-old Whitney Johnson lives in Brown's hometown of Augusta, Georgia. Do you know who James Brown is? WHITNEY JOHNSON: I know that he was the Godfather of Soul. 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Pie time!
I am posting this recipe for my friend Sarah. I have a few recipes back logged in my recipe file that I could post, but everytime I see or talk to Sarah she says "Are you going to post the Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie recipe?" After seeing her this weekend I decided I would not make her wait any longer. I made this pie for Zack's birthday since I knew he would love the the flavor combination and he did...in addition to everybody else at the party. This pie has several components, so it is not as quick to make as some of the other pies I posted, but it is just as easy and just as delicious!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Pie
recipe from Baked Perfection
16 Oreo cookies
1/4 cup unsalted peanuts
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
Peanut Butter Layer:
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 of an 8oz package of cream cheese, softened
3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
Chocolate Layer:
6 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 cups heavy cream
1/8 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 small bananas
In a food processor or blender, combine the Oreos and the peanuts. Process until finely crumbled. Place the crumbs in a bowl and drizzle with the melted butter, stirring until moistened. Press the crumb mixture into a 9-inch pie pan, covering the bottom and sides evenly. Chill the piecrust in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes while preparing the other ingredients.
Peanut Butter Layer:
Using an electric mixer, combine the peanut butter and cream cheese. Mix on low until creamy. With the mixer still on low, gradually add the powdered sugar, mixing until combined.
In a separate bowl beat the cream on medium-high until stiff peaks form to make whipped cream. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter mixture, adding the whipped cream a little at a time, careful not to overmix.
Peel and slice the bananas, about 1/4 inch thick. Lay the half the banana slices in an even layer in the bottom of the chilled piecrust.
Spoon the peanut butter filling into the piecrust over the bananas and smooth the top with the back of the spoon. Lay the remaining half of the banana slices in an even layer over the peanut butter filling. Place pie in fridge while you prepare the chocolate layer.
Chocolate Layer:
In a microwave safe dish combine the chocolate chips and 1/2 of the cream. Cook on high for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until smooth. Cool to room temperature. Stir in sugar & vanilla. Set aside.
In small bowl, beat the rest of the cream until soft peaks form. Beat in chocolate mixture on high speed 1/3 at a time. Mix well and gently spoon into pie over the bananas.
Garnish as desired. I drizzled melted chocolate and melted peanut butter over the pie. Feel free to sprinkle some crushed Oreos or peanuts.
Place in freezer for 30 minutes. Remove from freezer and cover with plastic wrap. Freeze at least four hours before serving.


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Braised Pork Belly with Tofu (Hong Bak Tahu) in Pressure Cooker
5 comments :
- Page Daily said...
Very cool. I had this dish at a modern asian cuisine restaurant in new york city a few weeks back and I absolutely loved it. Now I get to try it on my own.
- November 23, 2010 at 3:23 PM
- Restaurant I said...
Very cool. I had this dish at a modern asian cuisine restaurant in new york city a few weeks back and I absolutely loved it. Now I get to try it on my own.
- November 23, 2010 at 3:25 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
What a feast. I adore pork belly and your recipe sounds like a wonderful way to use it. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings...Mary
- November 25, 2010 at 9:22 AM
- vincent said...
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Thank you Mary.Hope you like it! have a good one!☺
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How to accessorise this autumn
With the last summer days behind us, celebrate the start of the cosy season with pieces you'll be excited to pull out on chilly mornings. Aside from this being a great time to do a bit of an "autumn clean", ridding yourself of clothes you haven't worn in some time (or maybe ever), it's also the perfect moment to see what outfits you can simply freshen up with a new accessory or two.
Drawing inspiration from Milan and Paris Fashion Week's, we single out some of the key accessories that have been popping up again and again on the runways as well as on chic show-goers snapped on the streets. You can see how the addition of an elegant hat, or a chic pair of glasses elevates a classic outfit, transforming it into a downright seasonal sensation.
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A favourite of Gigi and Bella Hadid, this season it is the smaller the better when it comes to eyewear. Pair it with a tough biker jacket, some slouchy jeans and a pair of crisp trainers for a stylish off-duty look.
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Pet-facilitated therapy appears to help children and families deal with the pain and emotional trauma associated with hospitalization or a traumatic event. Visits from volunteer animals may help those who have pets at home maintain a more normal living during their hospital stay. In addition, playing with the animals often helps people to take a much-needed mental and physical break from the stresses of what they are going through.
Studies have shown that PFT can help to improve social interaction, psychosocial function, life satisfaction, social competence, and psychological well being, while reducing depression in adult home residents. It is also thought that interaction with these animals can help break the cycle of loneliness, hopelessness, and social withdrawal that is often seen in older adults. Many nursing homes and adult home-visit services will use companion animals as a means to promote interaction between the residents. PFT has been shown to be beneficial in elderly adults with schizophrenia.
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- THE ACT—The Metropolitan Water District Act. State legislation signed into law by the governor on May 10, 1927, effective July 29, 1927. Metropolitan incorporated Dec. 6, 1928.
- ADJUDICATION—A court determination of water rights for a groundwater basin or a stream; adjudication sets priorities during shortages.
- AQUIFER—An underground geologic formation of rock, soil or sediment that is naturally saturated with water; an aquifer stores groundwater.
- CONJUNCTIVE USE—Storing imported water in a local aquifer, in conjunction with groundwater, for later retrieval and use.
- CUBIC FOOT—A frequent water industry term of measurement, as in cubic feet per second. One cubic foot (cf) equals 7.48 gallons. A cubic foot per second is 450 gallons per minute.
- DISCHARGE—the amount of water flowing past a location in a stream/river in a certain amount of time – usually expressed in liters per second or gallons per minute.
- EIR—Environmental Impact Report; a state-mandated written summary of the positive and negative effects on the environment caused by the construction and operation of a project.
- GROUNDWATER—Water that has percolated into natural, underground aquifers; water in the ground, not water puddled on the ground.
- GROUNDWATER RECHARGE/REPLENISHMENT—Pumping or percolating storm water runoff or imported water into an aquifer to replenish its supplies.
- IRP—Integrated Water Resources Plan. The district's plan to ensure reliable water delivery to its customer member agencies despite population growth, dry spells and droughts. The IRP resources mix includes water storage, conservation, best management practices (BMPs), recycling, desalination, and groundwater recovery, among others.
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1961 Born Stuttgart, Germany to Spanish parents
1981 Completed Fine Arts Course, School of Arts, Sydney
1982 Completed Graduate Course – Fine Arts
1983 Completed Post-Graduate Course- Fine Arts
Whenever I face a blank piece of large, good quality paper I know right away that I need to touch it and feel the quality – open the palettes, squeeze the paint tube and watch the vibrant, muted oils, acrylic or just pastel chalk in my hand, and know that this beautiful piece of white paper will soon come alive in the form of a drawing or painting.
I've been painting since I left school, where immediately after, I attended art school and thought what a wonderful place this is. I knew right away that this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life – paint and create.
I experience both beautiful and sad things through everyday life and these experiences generate a strong need to paint. Using colour through this wonderful medium, I express what I see and feel, and in turn I learn and discover new ways in which to express what I feel and the ideas that enter my mind.
When I start a painting, I focus on an idea or experience I once encountered, and let my feelings take control. At times the reaction I get is that the painting starts to take on a completely new direction to the initial one I had in mind. It takes on its own character as it were, however I am its creator and to this extent I have complete control over the end result. Because I detect this 'character', I'm able to detect the new direction that the painting is taking and stay in complete control of its final outcome. I feel this is important to an artist. I can honestly say that when I paint a painting based on a sad feeling, I can always look at it and find it very beautiful and rewarding.
I'm content in the realisation that everyone that sees one of my works, do so through different interpretations, thus giving it a new 'feeling' to the original that I intended. I love the sense of knowing that my work takes on different interpretations and appearances when hung in unknown homes and offices. It becomes more a child born to me.
The sources that inspire me are usually found all around us – nature being the main one. During my development, I have been able to focus on nature and the incredible sensation I get from being able to transfer the feelings I encounter and the inspiration that which drives me to transfer these feelings onto virgin paper. Because at times these inspirations come to me when I'm unable to paint, I have developed a sense whereby I 'store' these ideas and at times I find that when I do this I have the ability to expand on the initial idea and I feel that this sometimes take on the form of the 'new direction' within my painting that I sometimes encounter.
Being an artist is my life, and in no way could I imagine being, or doing, anything else.
Conchita Carambano's style is highly recognisable and yet profoundly enigmatic. There is an elegance and a maturity in Conchita's abstract paintings infused by an instinctive gift with colour, line and form. The Australian landscape, our earth, have been a constant source of inspiration. It has fuelled her exploration andcreativity.
Her vehicle for expression has been boundary-less, and the potency of her work has fuelled an extraordinary career that continues to gather momentum. Awards, acquisitions, civic and corporate commissions, solo exhibitions and the attention of private collectors in Australia, Asia and the Middle East punctuate Conchita's burgeoning 30 year career.
Group Exhibitions
Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Seaforth
Bonython Meadmore, Darlinghurst
The Rocks Gallery Argyle Centre, The Rocks
Eaglehawke, Glebe
Istral , Woollahra
Old Baker's Gallery, Sydney
SOHO Gallery, Sydney
Quadrivium, Sydney
Art Images, Adelaide
Mahoneys Gallery, Melbourne
Gallery 482, QLD
Holdsworth gallery, Darlinghurst
Gallery 368, Crows Nest
Salmon Gallery, McMahons Point
Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
Gallery One, Petersham
Holdsworth Gallery, Darlinghurst
Bonython Meadmore, Darlinghurst
The Rocks Gallery, Argyle Centre, The Rocks
Native Gallery, Woollahra
Eaglehawke, Glebe
Istral, Woollahra
Art Gallery Ethel Street, Seaforth
Hester Gallery, Newtown
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Salmon Gallery, McMahons Point
Art-Frame, Double Bay
Mahoneys, Melbourne
Art Images, Adelaide
SOHO Galleries, Sydney
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Grand Hyatt Melbourne
Duxton Hotel Melbourne
Macquarie Town Windsor
Camden Awards 1991
Camden Awards 1992
David Jones Sydney
Veritas Corporation
David Jones South Australia
BMC Software
Duxton Hotel Sydney
Sheraton Noosa Day Spa
Hyatt Hotel Canberra
Western Hotel Taipei Taiwan
Sheraton Hotel Darling Harbour
105 Pitt Street Sydney
Blessington Judd Solicitors Sydney
Sheraton Hotel Puong China
Bangkok Hotel
Marriott Sydney
David Jones Sydney
Amadeus group
Lang Walker Corporation
Shangrila Sydney
Magenta Shores
Quay West
Shangri-La Sydney
National Library Canberra
Hayman Island Resort
Walker Corporation
ANA Hotel Sydney
Royal North Shore Hospital
Regent Hotel Sydney
Meridian Hotel Sydney
Wentworth Hotel
Bond Street Apartments
Flinders Apartments
Mosman Medical Centre
Stamford on Kent Hotel
Bennelong Apartments and Penthouse
St John of God Private Hospital Perth
Celsius at the Radisson Hotel Sydney
Kingston Apartments Canberra
Hunt & Hunt Lawyers
St.Vincent's Hospital
Marriott Sydney
Maccau Resort China
Regent Apartments
Amadeus Group Sydney
Shangri-La China
Four Seasons Sydney
Magenta Shores
1987 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize
1988 Open Section Winner, Camden Art Prize
1990 Acquisitive Award, Hawkesbury City Council
1991 Open Section Winner, Camden Art Prize
1991 Winner Camden Art Prize
1992 Highly Commended, Hawkesbury City Council
1993 Highly Commended, DMAS Award
1994 Highly Commended, Hunters Hill
1995 Highly Commended, Hunters Hill
1998 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize
2001 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize
2002 Highly Commended Works on Paper
2003 Open Winter Camden Art Prize
2004 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize
2005 Highly Commended, Waverley Art Prize
2005 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize
2005 North Sydney Art Prize Winner
2006 Finalist Blake Art Prize
2013 Finalist Paddington Art Prize
Australian Interior Vol.17 no.13
The Sydney Weekly Jan 27-Feb 2 1998
Instyle Magazine February 1998
Look Magazine NSW Art Gallery 1999
Art in Australia Magazine 1999
New South Wales Gallery 1999
Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia by Michael Berry Published 2003


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Would finishing an entire course about C# at HomeAndLearn.co.uk and then jumping into XNA be a wise path to take?
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Would finishing an entire course about C# at HomeAndLearn.co.uk and then jumping into XNA be a wise path to take?
Ultimate goal is to create a multiplayer 2D game.
Since I have never taken those courses, I can't speak for that site. However, I can tell you that no amount of classes or lessons will compare to experience. The best way to learn is to jump in and do stuff.
C# is a pretty easy language to pick up. There are plenty of sites that offer tutorials free. Also, XNA is just a library that sits on C#. There really isn't any reason why you can't learn C# by making simple games.
Start by making something simple. Maybe a static sprite that moves across the screen when you press certain buttons. Add some objects to play with collision. Then when you feel comfortable with that work on sprite animations, and a simple camera. It really isn't hard.
If you want a jump start, look at something like Flat Red Ball. It is simple 2.5D game engine that might help. If you want to make your own, look at this tile engine series. It will show you stuff like how to make a camera, animations, collision, and the rest. There is also this 2d tutorial series. I don't have a nice playlist for it so you will have to search youtube for the different parts. For even more resources, check out the ever-growing list of samples on the App Hub site.
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When in doubt, come back here and ask questions. The people here are very responsive and helpful. If you need help on general C#/programming concepts try http://stackoverflow.com. It is another wonderful resource.


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Somebody has an idea for a new ministry, for a new way to bring the "Kingdom of Heaven to Richmond, Virginia." She tells a few close friends who encourage her to "go for it." The next thing you know she's got a booth at the annual ministry fair, telling people how much fun it is to "bake and take cookies" to our neighbors here in the Fan.
It can happen just like that, and for Vicky Nicholau—it did. Take a look at this email I got from Vicky on Sunday.
Hello Everyone,
Thanks for stopping by the "Bake and Take" table at the Ministry Fair this morning and for signing up to volunteer, it is so exciting to have more hands to help with this ministry.
As stated in the handout, we gather every other month at the church to assemble the baked goods we make at home. Once they have been bagged/boxed, we will take them to our neighbors in the Fan or surrounding areas.
In December we were able to deliver 35 dozen cookies to our neighbors on West Grace Street along with a copy of our Advent Calendar. On February 10, we will meet again to package muffins or cupcakes (your choice) for distribution to the Ronald McDonald House, the Women's Emergency Shelter and the Men's Emergency Shelter. I will forward more specific information no later than Wednesday, February 6th.
Let me know if you are able to participate this month for either the baking, taking or both. Our next gathering will be Saturday, April 6.
Again, thanks for your support and I look forward to spending time with you as we help bring KOH2RVA.
Blessings and Joy,
Vicky Nicholau
Doesn't that sound like fun? And even if you didn't make it to her booth at the Ministry Fair, I'm sure Vicky would be glad to have your help. Just send an email to email@example.com and let her know how you would like to participate.
Me? I'm thinking about volunteering for quality control.
Somebody's got to taste those cookies.
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New England Code Camp 15is this Saturday! Code Camp is a free day filled with technical (no marketing fluff) sessions given by and for the area developer community.
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Developers in the Streets!
Saturday, May 7th
8:30 AM to 6:40 PM (Doors at 8 AM)
Microsoft, 201 Jones Road (6th Floor), Waltham, MA
Register at http://codecamp15.eventbrite.com
Details at http://TheDevCommunity.org
It's a Saturday very well spent!
CC15 Contributors
Thanks to the contributing companies for supporting this event!
- Lunch is being provided by Telerik
- Morning coffee & doughnuts provided by Wintellect
- …and venue courtesy of Microsoft
CC15 Speakers
Thanks also to the 30 speakers volunteering their time and expertise to share with the community!
The "Draft – Will Change" Schedule
CC15 will feature 40 sessions in 6 rooms! The draft session grid is below.
TheDevCommunity.org will be the definitive source for the schedule and session details (as of later tonight), so please check there for the latest.
Please consider this a preview version – chances are this schedule will change,but hopefully not terribly much. Again, follow http://TheDevCommunity.org for details and updates.
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The Rising Star Bonus is designed to help you build a solid foundation for your business. There are quite a few terms at play here, so we're going to do a quick overview…
PV: Personal Volume – how much you purchased
OGV: Organization Group Volume – the total amount your team purchased that month
Leg: Someone on your Level 1 and everyone under them
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So that's the Rising Star Bonus! One good thing to know: The legs can change. Meaning – what starts out as your legs 1-3 can later be leg 5 or eventually leg 7 (and then back again). RSB is set up so that you GROW and your team is setup to grow strong as well. This setup, when you're building this way, gets you in place to achieve the rank of Executive and grow far beyond that as well!
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Those expecting new revelations as to where Federal Reservepolicy is heading when chairman Ben Bernanke delivers his semiannual monetary policy report to Congress Tuesday may come away disappointed.
With the U.S. economy languishing and job creation anemic, Fed watchers and investors alike will be keen to hear what it will take for the central bank to ease monetary policy further in an effort to spur economic growth.
"Investors will be looking for signs that (Bernanke) is considering more QE," Lawrence Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors said.
QE refers to quantitative easing where the Fed buys bonds outright in order to inject more money into the economy and bolster growth.
"I think he has been doing an excellent job of speaking softly and carrying a big stick and that strategy has worked well for him," Creatura said. "The fact that he has the ability to do (QE3) will keep investors hopeful. The Fed only has one bullet left in the gun and incremental rounds of QE are less effective…so being able to have the same effect verbally is valuable."
But others don't expect Bernanke to reveal too much tomorrow or when he testifies again on Wednesday.
John Brynjolfsson, Armored Wolf CIO, told CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report" that the "market seems to be pricing in an announcement by Bernanke tomorrow and I simply don't expect that to happen."
Nonetheless, Brynjolfsson expects another round of quantitative easing later in the year before the election. (Related: Stocks Might Be 50% Lower Without Fed).
There is speculation that Bernanke will discuss more Fed asset purchases during his speech at the annual central bank confab in Jackson Hole in late August.
Tomorrow's June reports on industrial production and consumer prices will give additional clues as to the state of the overall economy.
Earnings announcement will also be coming fast and thick tomorrow. Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson and Mattel report before the opening bell. Intel, Yahoo and CSX will report after the close.
A complete earnings calendar can be found here.
"Earnings are somewhat exceeding expectations so far early in the quarter, but that's also based on expectations which are extremely low." David Fleisher, president of Firstrust Financial Resources, told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Monday.
(JeeYeon Park contributed to this report).


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Microsoft has a two-game deal with Comedy Central for its South Park license, which implies that another Xbox Live Arcade game could be on the way, following 2009's South Park: Let's Go Tower Defense Play!
Joystiq uncovered that nugget in a discussion with Prithvi Virasinghe of 345 Games, which is the games production arm of Comedy Central and Spike TV. Asking if his studio would be doing anything with South Park any time soon, Virasinghe explained the show was currently tied up in a first-party development agreement with Microsoft.
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I just saw a subscription fail because of my credit card, odd, I had funds in it, I use PayPal and buy stuff through it on an almost daily basis, but the cost they tried charging me was alright I thought at $60 -
But when I tried buying a subscription through the website the cost was actually $25, BARGAIN! Since I get more than $25 of value out of this site, possibly special?
But, for long-time subscribers like me who just try and get it to come straight out each year we miss out on these specials, I'd say there are possibly other old subscriptions floating around waiting to be renewed but at old pricing.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Hot and Fresh! New book trailer for Fateful by Claudia Gray
It's been awhile since I made one of these, and although it took me longer to create this, it felt like an old blanket. Enjoy!
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Infographic: Make the most of your library
Smore.com is super new, super fun and super easy! Here's one I created in about an hour :)
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Two Paths Down the Dystopian Road - Safekeeping and Legend
Putnam, 2011
The year is 2130, and the Republic with its Elector Primo is now in control.
The citizens of the different parts of the new Los Angeles must fight against two fronts – the colonies trying to destroy the regime and the terrible sickness that decimates the poorer sectors of this new nation.
June doesn't know about this struggle.
She and her brother Matias live in a high rise, literally above all the chaos the Republic tries to hide.
She and Matias are some of the precious few to receive the vaccinations to ensure their health.
Although her parents died when she was little, Matias takes more than excellent care of her.
In fact, June is the only one to go through the Trial with a perfect score, leading her into the ranks of those loyal to the Republic.
Day lives a life of theft, deceit and invisibility.
Lurking in the shadows of the poor sectors, he sees the lack of food and healthcare take the population into despair.
The only way he knows how to alter the situation is to fight against the Republic and steal what should be shared with all citizens – the vaccinations needed against this new outbreak.
The Republic knows about him, but his elusiveness has created a shadow figure for them.
They know he's there, but not what he looks like, where he lives, or how he manages to do the things he does.
June and Day's lives will emerge one fateful night that will send them both on a quest for revenge…
Marie Lu writes an excellent dystopia novels that fans of this genre will fly through.
Her characters are colorful and jump out of the page, but it's the future of the world as we knew it that permeates the reader's emotional response.
Told in two voices, the reader gets to intimately know both sides of society as well as be privy to each character's thoughts and personal lives.
If you have readers who clamor for more dystopia titles, hand them this one....
Fiewel and Friends, 2012
Radley remembers her parents dropping her off at the airport so she help with relief work for the children of Haiti.
It's a passion of hers and has decidedly changed her life, but not as much as when she returns back to the United States.
Upon arrival, she knows something is wrong.
First of all her parents are nowhere to be found.
Secondly, the way the soldiers treat her after she lands is beyond the typical TSA thing most passengers coming back from overseas deal with.
There's a sense of urgency, danger.
Radley returns to a different United States than when she left.
The American's People's Party has taken over the country.
With the assassination of the President, the United States is left in turmoil with a renegade government trying to take control through force.
Radley realizes this right away.
Now there are curfews, bank accounts are drain
, people are missing, and travel restrictions are tight.
There are also APPs everywhere, catching those that break the rules and beating them.
All Radley wants is to go home and find her parents.
But her path leads to even more devastation, both emotional and physical.
Everyone is desperate, and personal survival above others is dominant.
Little food, roaming soldiers, broken homes.
Radley has heard Canada is a place of safekeeping, so that is where she begins her trek…and also where she encounters people and places that will change her life.
Karen Hesse is a beautiful writer and this is more than apparent in this YA dystopia novel.
Her words blend with the personal photographs she uses that are scattered throughout the book.
This book is also unique in its genre.
Hesse centers her book around the journey and how the main character changes emotionally through it from the people she meets and the places she stays.
While other dystopian books have a flair of action-packed situations with daring and fearless characters, Hesse's book takes a gentle approach, looking more at the weakness of her character and how she becomes stronger.
It will take a different reader who can adjust to this change in genre to enjoy this pictorial novel with
a nearly poetic flair
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Cool Book Display!
Collaboration can create amazing things. You can share, contribute, throw out ideas and brainstorm. There can be nothing better than working with colleagues that could be miles away or just down the road.
So, when I was thinking of a display, this collaborative list of titles came into play. There are at least six displays in the library and on the door, each book cover has been printed in color with "I FEEL LIKE" centered in the middle. Did this to the coffee shop windows attached to the library as well :)
And a well-deserved kudos to my library assistant who helped me with this display and all the other ones as well :)
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Fateful by Claudia Gray
HarperTeen, 2011
Tess knows she wants more out of life, but also knows there's a slim chance that will ever happen. So she's content for now with her position at Moorcliffe as an attendant to Irene, the only daughter of the wealthy Lisle family. But one errand will open the door to another life, one more dark and sinister than Tess could have imagined.
Trying to get back to the manor as quickly as she can, Tess realizes something is following her, but the intervention of a handsome stranger creates a barrier that saves her. When she turned around, she saw the feral eyes of a large black wolf, ready to hunt....
For days afterward, all Tess can think about is the handsome stranger who saved her life. His cryptic warnings of danger cannot overcome the thoughts that lurk in Tess's mind. But the drudgery of her job working for the terrible Lady Regina dispels those thoughts....until Tess realizes she'll be part of the Lisle family going to America.
Tess's excitement at the prospect of traveling by ship to America is full of promise, as well as the hope she can escape her servanthood and find herself in a new country. The excitement grows even more when she also spots the handsome Alec, who saved her that fateful night. But there is another sinister, dark man also watching her every move....
And so everyone prepares to board the Titanic one very fateful day.
I picked this book up from a recommendation of a student, who loved this book. So I set aside the analytical librarian book reviewer part of it and ready it like a teen girl. Then I understood why she loved it so much.
The characters Gray creates are vibrant, but more than that, the relationships, both troubling and romantic, draws the reader in. What a genius idea of pairing supernatural beings like werewolves with a historic disaster like the Titanic. It's a supernatural historical fiction plot I've never heard of. And that's what the hook is....The reader is left with the question of who survives and who dies. Teens who enjoy supernatural romance will eat this book up and would be a nice addition among all the vampires, ghosts, angels and ghouls.
: Iceberg Right Ahead!: the tragedy of the Titanic by Stephanie McPherson. Minneapolis: 21st Century Books, 2012
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
What is Digital Curation and How Do I Use It?
Most of us have done it, but didn't know it. Do you have a Pinterest account? How about Diigo or Delicious? Ever created a Livebinders or Scoop.it? How about Flipboard for Facebook and Twitter? If there's a site you've joined that allows you to store information "database style" then you have curated. I'm beginning to see more potential in this newest virtual tool, not only to collect and arrange online data, but also using the search bar to find more information as well as interact with colleagues online and see what their curation is that I can benefit from.
Today I started Scooping and I'm loving it! I have two that I'm curating right now. (interestingly enough, two days ago I realized I already had an account, but never used it!) I also created a Pearltrees account about 6 months ago, but now I think I understand the concept more....
And what created this spark? Seeing these ScoopIt links on Twitter from colleagues, which prompted to me start playing and learning it. I've definitely scooped me some curating love!
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Brian Taylor appointed Dean of the UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and TechnologyUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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KAPOLEI, Oʻahu — The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) approved the appointment of Brian Taylor as dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Taylor's appointment is for three years, effective July 1, 2006.
Taylor has served as acting dean of research at SOEST since 1994 and has been a faculty member at UH Mānoa since 1982. He has extensive knowledge of the sciences, credentials as a researcher and educator, has authored a broad list of publications, and has been an integral part of the SOEST leadership team.
Taylor's expertise in marine affairs is his major focus at SOEST where he has successfully secured more than $8 million in grants and contracts. He oversees a number of areas including Ship Operations, Marine Technicians, Oceanographic Instrumentation, Shipboard Scientific Equipment and Seafloor Mapping.
Active in extramural research affairs, Taylor serves on the Board of Governors for the Joint Oceanographic Institutions and the Consortium of Oceanographic Research and Education. He has also exhibited scientific leadership with the western Pacific ALVIN submersible dive program, the continental MARGINS program, the Ocean Drilling Program and the decadel program of RIDGE 2000 integrated studies in the Lau Basin.
"Leadership at SOEST is of critical importance to the success of our research enterprise," said Mānoa Chancellor Denise Konan. "In Brian Taylor we have someone who knows SOEST and can move easily into the dean's office."
Prior to joining the faculty at Mānoa, Taylor served as an adjunct research scientist with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a visiting researcher with the Départment de Géotectonique at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and with the Départment de Géologie at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Taylor received his doctoral and master's degrees in marine geology and geophysics from Columbia University, and a bachelor of science degree in geology and geophysics from the University of Sydney.


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You are entitled to a return within 14 days of your receipt. After this point, we cannot offer you a refund.
To return an item, you first need to be issued an official Return Authorization number. No returns will be accepted without an assigned Return Authorization number.
Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item, and will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund. If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days (shipping costs will not be refunded).
You will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item. Shipping costs are non-refundable, neither the original shipping cost nor the return shipping cost will be repaid. We recommend using a trackable shipping service or purchasing shipping insurance. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that we will receive your returned item. Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
You will be responsible for the package until we receive it so please make sure your item is insured and/or able to be traced.
email us within 48 hours --------------> we'll issue you a return authorisation number --------------> put return authorisation number on package --------------> we'll receive your package and review your claim --------------> refund issued = happy customer :)
Nice Digs offers high quality lifestyle goods for the discerning modern dog owner. Combining durability and contemporary design that complement the home. Our philosophy is to combine a unique design approach with a strong commitment to hand crafted goods. Our beds are proudly designed, printed & made in Australia and are pretty good looking too if we don't say so ourselves! Our vegetable tanned leather and fabric accessories are all handmade in house, while our nappa leather range are made in Europe by highly skilled artisans.
Creating products that make living with pets easier and more attractive is what we do. Evolving with the seasons, we offer unique products that are inspired by current trends. Every print is a NICE DIGS exclusive.
Nice Digs ships Australia wide, internationally, or down the street to the dog house. Anywhere your pup goes, we go.
|Georgia is the founder and director of NICE DIGS, a dog obsessed fashion and textile designer from Melbourne, Australia.