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Inside ASIST
Annual Meeting Coverage
The December/January issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology traditionally contains in-depth coverage of the ASIST Annual Meeting, including reports on major technical sessions, full photographic and textual coverage of the winners of the ASIST awards and news of other relevant activities.
This year, however, the mid-November date of the 2002 Annual Meeting fell outside the production cycle for this issue of the Bulletin. Therefore, the bulk of Annual Meeting News will be included in the February/March 2003 issue.
2002 ASIST Award Honorees
The following individuals and organizations were among those honored at the 2002 ASIST Annual Meeting Awards Banquet and at other venues during the meeting. Details of these honors will be included in the next issue of the Bulletin.
Award of Merit - Karen Sparck Jones
Research Award - Carol Tenopir
ISI Citation Research Award - Chaomei Chen
Best Information Science Book Award - Beyond Our Control? by Stuart Biegel
ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship - Joan Bartlett
UMI Doctoral Dissertation Award - Pamela Savage-Knepshield
Pratt-Severn Award - Elizabeth Zogby
James M. Cretsos Leadership Award - Suzanne L. Allard
ISI Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award - Deborah K. Barreau
Best JASIST Paper Award - M. Kaszkiel and J. Zobel
Chapter Member-of-the-Year Award - Stephen Spohn (Potomac Valley Chapter)
Chapter Electronic Publication-of-the-Year - www.lacasis.org (Los Angeles Chapter)
Chapter Print Publication-of-the-Year - OASIS (Los Angeles Chapter)
Chapter Event-of-the-Year - Fall workshop of the Los Angeles Chapter
New Officers and Directors Join ASIST Board
With the start of the 2003 administrative year, the ASIST Board of Directors welcomed three new members and bade farewell to three whose terms have concluded.
Each of the new members will serve the society for three years. Those elected to the Board during the summer balloting are Samantha Hastings, president-elect; and Allison Brueckner and Beverly Colby, directors-at-large.
As the new members took their seats on the ASIST Board, Trudi Bellardo Hahn, elected last year as president-elect, assumed the presidency from Donald H. Kraft, who now serves as past president for one year.
Hahn is manager of Library User Education Services and adjunct professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland.
Hastings is an associate professor of information science and fellow of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas in Denton. She teaches courses in digital image management, telecommunications, and science and technology reference. Her primary research interests revolve around the problems of digital image storage and retrieval. Currently, she is the principal investigator for the Digital Image Managers Project, funded by a federal grant from IMLS. An ASIST member since 1989, she has organized program sessions, chaired special interest groups (SIGs), served on committees and juries and on the Board of Directors as the SIG Cabinet Director for four years. She believes that the SIGs are the heart of ASIST and has worked diligently to help SIGs meet the challenges of working within a volunteer organization.
Brueckner received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University. She received her Masters in Information Science from Indiana University in December 1999. Since joining ASIST in 1997 as a student member from Indiana University, Allison has exhibited energy, dedication and leadership in several arenas. Allison has served as the Indiana Chapter chair and program chair. She aggressively recruited quality speakers and presenters for chapter programs, initiated joint meetings with the Southern Ohio Chapter, updated and maintained the chapter website, began a review of the chapter bylaws and organized the first virtual meeting of a chapter executive committee. Since moving to Ann Arbor in 2000, Allison organized fellow ASIST members to restart the previously dormant Michigan Chapter, currently serving as chair. At the national level, Allison was a founding member and a driving force behind the creation of Special Interest Group/Digital Libraries, serving as the first chair. She set up the website for this new SIG and worked to get its listserv going. She has also served as a member of the Leadership Development Committee and is the chair of the Digital Libraries Task Force. She received the 2001 James M. Cretsos Leadership Award.
Colby is research consultant with the venture capital firm Flagship Ventures. Previously she was director of research with Battery Ventures. She holds the Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. Her ASIST participation includes both chapter and national activities. She was on the board of the New England Chapter for many years and, in the recent past, has worked with a committee to explore outreach for the chapter. Long active in SIG/Management, she currently serves as chair. She has served on a number of standing committees for ASIST, including Leadership Development, Awards & Honors and Nominations. She was one of the organizers of this year's Knowledge Management Summit which preceded the Annual Meeting.
As the new Board of Directors went to work in Philadelphia at the conclusion of the 2002 Annual Meeting, the service of those leaving the Board was acknowledged. Joseph Busch, immediate past president; and Raya Fidel and Kris Liberman, directors-at-large, were thanked for their distinguished efforts on behalf of the Society and its membership.
News from ASIST Chapters
In October, the Arizona Chapter of ASIST was a co-sponsor of a colloquium entitled Classification: The West and the Rest? Hope Olson, professor, University of Alberta, presented findings from her research project on the cultural construction of classification. Over the summer, the chapter spearheaded a Virtual Community Building effort. The group experimented with various software to build virtual communities ranging from the simple to the complex; they had had fun identifying priorities and learning hands-on IT skills.
In September, the Potomac Valley Chapter of ASIST presented Liane Hansen, on-air host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, in a session titled Information, Accessibility and Terrorism's Impact on the Information Age. Hansen has an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including more than 25 years of work as a radio producer, reporter and on-air host. She shared her views on information dissemination in today's environment, including the impact 9/11 has had on information accessibility and availability.
The Northern Ohio ASIST Chapter (NORASIS) joined with the Cleveland chapter of the Special Libraries Association to present the annual George Mandel lecture, this year featuring former ASIST president José-Marie Griffiths, speaking on Leadership Skills for the Electronic Age. The two organizations then cooperated on a session on Careers in the Information Profession, featuring a panel of speakers talking about their jobs in technical, business and non-traditional research fields and Marty Jaffe from Cuyahoga County Public Library's InfoPlace reviewing the latest resources and trends in job searching.
Meanwhile, the Southern Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (SOASIST) joined the Miami Valley Computing Societies to present their 14th Annual Fall Joint Meeting in September. Disruptive Technology: A Panel Discussion on Innovation and Disorder focused on technological changes that radically alter (i.e., "disrupt") business and societal paradigms.
SOASIST then teamed up with the University of Kentucky Student Chapter of ASIST to present Eric Weig, Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Kentucky, on Metadata and the Digital Library. Weig, digital initiatives librarian at the University of Kentucky, is project manager for the Kentucky Virtual Library's Kentuckiana Digital Library Project.
The Seattle Reading Group of the Pacific Northwest Chapter started its third season in October with a discussion of the question, "What the heck are wikis and blogs?" The discussion articles for this session were "Blogs Take Web Diaries to the Next Level" (www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/05/09/blog/) and "Build Community with Web Logs," (www.clickz.com/tech/lead_edge/article.php/818321).
Then in November, the Seattle Reading Group discussed job hunting, focusing on "The Info Pro's Survival Guide to Job Hunting" and other articles in the July/August 2002 Searcher magazine (http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul02/searcher).
The Los Angeles & New England Chapters of the American Society for Information Science and Technology are offering the first ASIST chapter virtual program on distance education and e-learning. The free, online mini-course uses Blackboard (distance learning) software to discuss methods, technologies and issues of distance education and e-learning and features online video presentations by Howard Besser, UCLA, and Richard Larson, MIT. The program runs from December 9-20, 2002.
SOASIST Student Scholarship Essay Competition
Kitty McClanahan, a student in the College of Communications & Information Studies at the University of Kentucky, is the winner of the 2002 SOASIST Student Scholarship Essay Competition. The competition encourages students in Library and Information Science & Information Studies programs in Ohio and Kentucky to consider the benefits of participation in professional societies.
Competitors were asked to compose an essay addressing the following question: "What specific benefits do I expect to derive from attending the ASIST 2002 Annual Meeting?" Essays were judged by a panel of SOASIST members. The winner won reimbursement funding up to $1000 for registration, airfare, food and lodging expenses to attend the 2002 ASIST Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
This year's award was funded by LexisNexis.
Kitty's winning essay will be published in the upcoming issue of soasis&t ... on the move (www.asis.org/Chapters/soasis/enews/index.html).
News about ASIST Members
Kevin Rioux, formerly a visiting faculty member in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida, has joined the faculty of the Department of Library and Information Studies, School of Education, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Rioux's research interests are information sharing in electronic environments, information acquiring behavior and human factors in interface design. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin where he recently held the University Continuing Fellowship and the Robert R. Douglass Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship.
Don Kraft, immediate past president of ASIST and editor of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, was elected Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) for distinguished contributions to information science and computer science through research and teaching and as editor of JASIST. This award is for those whose "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished."
Edie Rasmussen, currently professor, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, will be the Director of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, beginning on July 1, 2003. She was the program chair of the recently concluded ASIST Annual Meeting.
Mary Lynn Rice-Lively has been appointed to the newly created position of associate dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Texas at Austin. A former assistant to the Dallas City Manager and, more recently, assistant dean of information technology at GSLIS, Rice-Lively is an expert in management and information technology and has held a variety of management positions during her 25 years of professional work.
Deborah Barreau, assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received the 2002 Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Grant of the Special Libraries Association for her research proposal, "The New Information Professional: Vision and Practice." Barreau also received the 2002 ISI/ASIST Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award.
Saul Herner
Saul Herner, 79, a longtime ASIST member who did pioneering work in establishing chemical information systems, died of kidney failure October 11 at Friends Nursing Home in Sandy Spring. Herner retired in 1996 as president of Herner & Co., a consulting firm in Arlington, Virginia.
Herner, a Washington resident, was an early practitioner in the field of information science, which was fueled in large part by the interests of the federal government, researchers and the defense industry. He wrote about the subject in books and technical journals, defining it as the product of convergences of library science, computer and punch-card science, research and development documentation, abstracting, indexing and other fields and disciplines.
Herner, a native of Brooklyn, New York, moved to Washington in the early 1950s. The firm he started in the mid-1950s specialized in technical libraries, surveys and other information services for the government.
Mr. Herner earned a degree from the University of Wisconsin and took graduate courses in library science at New York University. He was a research chemist with the Army in the mid-1940s and then a chemical reference assistant at the New York Public Library. He was assistant curator and engineering librarian at New York University before moving to the Washington area to be chief librarian at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University. In the mid-1950s, he was head of the technical information and library planning group of Atlantic Research Co. Mr. Herner taught at Drexel Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland library school. He was editor in chief of a technical publishing firm, Information Resources Press and treasurer of Herner Analytics Laboratories in Rockville, which he co-founded with his brother in 1972.
His wife, Mary Alexander Herner, died in 1997. He is survived by his brother Albert E. Herner of Rockville.
Winifred Sewell
Longtime ASIST member Winifred Sewell died recently at her home in Maryland. She was 85. Sewell was senior librarian at Squibb Institute of Medical Research from 1946-1961. Subsequently, she went to Wellcome Research Labs at National Library of Medicine (NLM). She was instrumental in developing MEDLARS as Medical Subject Headings and later served as deputy chair of the Biological Services Division and head of the Drug Literature Program at NLM. Among many honors, she served as honorary president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in its 100th anniversary year, 1999-2000, the first woman and the first librarian to be so honored.
Albert Tabah
Albert Tabah, 51, professor at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI), passed away on September 30, 2002, following a long illness.
After a 15-year career in the medical, science and engineering libraries at McGill University and Concordia University, in 1990 Tabah returned to school in pursuit of a Ph.D. in information studies at McGill, a degree he earned in 1996. In 1993, he joined the faculty of EBSI and became assistant professor in 1996.
Tabah was a great success as a teacher and a scholar. He published notable research in the areas of bibliometrics in the sciences and in collection development. Both the World Bank and the International Development Research Centre sought his expertise, sending him on several missions to Senegal, Guinea and Burkina Faso.
A colleague, Marcel Lajeunesse, professor at EBSI, writes, "In the nine years he spent among us, Albert Tabah became friends with everyone who knew him. He was a highly valued colleague. We miss him."
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Rule 18a. Recusal or Disqualification of Judges (1988)
(a) at least ten days before the date set for trial or other hearing in any court other than the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals or the court of appeals, any party may file with the clerk of the court a motion stating grounds why the judge before whom the case is pending should not sit in the case. The grounds may include any disability of the judge to sit in the case. The motion shall be verified and must state with particularity the grounds why the judge before whom the case is pending should not sit. The motion shall be made on personal knowledge and shall set forth such facts as would be admissible in evidence provided that facts may be stated upon information and belief if the grounds of such belief are specifically stated.
b) On the day the motion is filed, copies shall be served on all other parties or their counsel of record, together with a notice that movant expects the motion to be presented to the judge three days after the filing of such motion unless otherwise ordered by the judge. Any other party may file with the clerk an opposing or concurring statement at any time before the motion is heard.
(c) Prior to any further proceedings in the case, the judge shall either recuse himself or request the presiding judge of the administrative judicial district to assign a judge to hear such motion. If the judge recuses himself, he shall enter an order of recusal and request the presiding judge of the administrative judicial district to assign another judge to sit, and shall make no further orders and shall take no further action in the case except for good cause stated in the order in which such action is taken.
(d) If the judge declines to recuse himself, he shall forward to the presiding judge of the administrative judicial district, in either original form or certified copy, an order of referral, the motion, and all opposing and concurring statements. Except for good cause stated in the order in which further action is taken, the judge shall make no further orders and shall take no further action in the case after filing of the motion and prior to a hearing on the motion. The presiding judge of the administrative judicial district shall immediately set a hearing before himself or some other judge designated by him, shall cause notice of such hearing to be given to all parties or their counsel, and shall make such other orders including orders on interim or ancillary relief in the pending cause as justice may require.
(e) If within 10 days of the date set for trial or other hearing a judge is assigned to a case, the motion shall be filed at the earliest practicable time prior to the commencement of the trial or other hearing.
(f) If the motion is denied, it may be reviewed for abuse of discretion on appeal from the final judgment. If the motion is granted, the order shall not be reviewable, and the presiding judge shall assign another judge to sit in the case.
(g) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may also appoint and assign judges in conformity with this rule and pursuant to the Court Administration Act.
(h) If a party files a motion to recuse under this rule and it is determined by the presiding judge or the judge designated by him at the hearing and on motion of the opposite party, that the motion to recuse is brought solely for the purpose of delay and without sufficient cause, the judge hearing the motion may, in the interest of justice, impose any sanction authorized by Rule 215(2)(b).
Amended by order of July 15, 1987, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.
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DETROIT (AP) Detroit offensive tackle Jeff Backus has left Sunday's game against Green Bay with a hamstring injury and will not return.
Backus did not start Detroit's first possession of the second half after appearing to hurt his right leg. The veteran lineman was playing his 186th career game, passing Hall of Fame cornerback Dick LeBeau for fourth place on the franchise's career list.
Backus also holds the franchise mark with 186 consecutive starts.
His injury put rookie tackle Riley Reiff, the team's first-round draft pick this year, on the spot.
The Lions don't have much time to recover from any injuries after this game. They play again on Thanksgiving against Houston.
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Car News
Honda Recalls V6-Powered Accords
- Recall affects 2003-2007 Honda Accords with V6 engines.
- The power steering hose could leak, potentially causing a fire.
- 573,147 vehicles are included in the recall.
Honda expanded an existing recall of the Acura TL to include more than half a million Accord models. The effort is aimed at inspecting and replacing power steering hoses that, after prolonged exposure to high heat, might deteriorate and leak. Due to limited parts availability, the latest Honda recall might take until early next year to resolve.
Earlier this year, Honda began an investigation to determine if the power steering hose in the Accord might suffer the same, heat-related issues that plagued the Acura TL. During the time of the investigation, an engine fire in an Accord was determined to have been caused by a power steering fluid leak. With an analysis by its parts supplier, Honda determined that premature deterioration of the power steering hose caused by exposure to high temperatures was to blame for the fire and that sample hoses from other Accord vehicles were also faulty.
Honda then expanded the recall to include 573,147 V6-powered Accords. Model years from 2003 to 2007 are affected. Dealers will inspect and repair the hoses at no charge. The automaker will begin the initial notification of owners later this month.
Due to the limited availability of suitable replacement parts and the long-term nature of the problem, Honda's remedy will occur in two phases. Honda dealers will immediately replace hoses in vehicles that are leaking fluid already but will use a component made with the original material. When a suitable replacement part is available early next year, those hoses will again be replaced but with a component that is not susceptible to premature deterioration. Honda will wait until the long-lasting hose is available to remedy those vehicles that are not currently leaking power steering fluid.
Used car shoppers who intend to purchase a 2003-2007 V6-powered Accord should be sure that the vehicle has been inspected under the recall. Even if no leak is present, affected vehicles should be taken in to a Honda dealer to have the repair performed once the second notification is underway early in 2013.
Automotive recalls help to keep drivers, passengers and others on the nation's roads safe. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) handles all automotive recalls. More information about this Honda recall is available on the NHTSA website, SaferCar.gov. Alternately, owners may call Honda at 1-800-999-1009 and reference campaign S59 for inspection or S60 for remedy.
What it means to you: Used car shoppers interested in 2003-2007 V6-powered Accords should be sure that inspections and repairs recommended under this recall have been performed. If not, a Honda dealer can handle the work at no charge.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A balanced scoring attack coupled with 14 unanswered points in the second half helped power the MIT women's basketball team past Wheaton College, 62-50, in a NEWMAC game on Wednesday night. Senior Lauren Sascha Burton (Seattle, Wash.) racked up eight points, five rebounds, four assists, and two steals for the Engineers (11-12, 7-10 NEWMAC). Sophomore Abbie Brickley (Sandy, Utah) registered 16 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the free throw line and hauled in a game-high 12 rebounds for the Lyons (8-16, 5-12).
With the game tied at five, a three-point play by Burton sparked a string of eight straight points that put MIT up 13-5 at the 12:22 mark. Wheaton stayed within striking distance as it narrowed the gap to three on four occasions, the last on a Brickley layup that made the score 21-18 with six seconds left in the half.
Sophomore Michelle Battipaglia (Katonah, N.Y.) registered five of the first seven points of the second stanza to give the Engineers some breathing room. However, the Lyons continued to attack as they came within one on three occasions as a basket by freshman Rebecca Arnone (Litchfield, N.H.) trimmed the deficit to 28-27 with 15:22 on the clock. A three-pointer by Battipaglia coupled with a steal and three-point play from freshman Sabrina Drammis (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) ignited the Engineers' pivotal run that resulted in 44-29 advantage midway through the frame.
The Cardinal and Gray maintained a comfortable cushion but Wheaton whittled the lead down to nine (54-45) courtesy of two Brickley free throws with 2:37 remaining. A layup by freshman Durva Bhandare (North Brunswick, N.J.) on MIT's next possession thwarted the comeback attempt and was also the final field goal of the game as both squads combined for an 11-of-14 shooting performance from the charity stripe down the stretch.
Drammis finished with 16 points and nine rebounds while Battipaglia tallied 15 points and five rebounds. Bhandare totaled 10 points, three assists, and two steals as sophomore Mari Kordell (Ijamsville, Md.) tacked on nine points and three assists.
Freshman Kiley Shoemaker (Fayetteville, N.Y.) totaled nine rebounds and eight points while sophomore Kenzie Kuhn (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) chipped in eight points, five rebounds, and four assists.
The Engineers recorded an 18-6 advantage in points off turnovers while the Lyons finished with a 49-29 margin on the boards,
Both squads conclude NEWMAC regular season play on Saturday, Feb. 16. MIT will travel to Clark University while Wheaton will host Mount Holyoke College.


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The Minister Louis Farrakhan's son, Mustapha, is making headlines in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs after some intriguing claims were made in a Chicago Sun-Times article on Sunday. A registered police officer with the Harvey Police Department in Harvey, Illinois, Mustapa allegedly hasn't worked a shift in more than four years. However, that's not what's raising eyebrows.
According to state records, a lack of employment activity with the police force hasn't stopped the man, known as "Supreme Captain" of the Nation of Islam (a title that means he could one day take his father's place) from purportedly exercising police duties. Mustapha, 52, apparently still has a badge, drives an unmarked police car and he's registered with the state as a gun-carrying cop in the city of Harvey.
Certainly, these elements are odd for an officer who reportedly hasn't worked in years, but the Sun-Times' account provides additional details that may cause some head-scratching, specifically considering the alleged "off-duty" work that Mustapha does for the Nation of Islam:
Officer Farrakhan does, though, appear to do "police work" off-duty, more than a dozen miles outside Harvey city limits, in Chicago, where he uses his Harvey squad car's lights to stop traffic and escorts his father's unofficial motorcade, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.
The unusual arrangement that allows him to carry a concealed gun into places where regular citizens can't, and to drive a police car, despite apparently failing to do regular police work for the suburb that employs him, may be especially useful to the man who leads the Nation of Islam's "Fruit of Islam" security detail.
Neither Farrakhan, his close pal, Harvey Mayor Eric J. Kellogg, nor the Nation of Islam responded to requests last week to discuss it.
Harvey Police Chief Denard Eaves also declined to answer detailed questions about Farrakhan's hire, his use of the city-owned squad car, or his security work for the country's leading radical black Muslim.
Among National of Islam followers, Mustapha's police experience is apparently one of the characteristics that some believe should bolster his chances at taking over the religious sect in the future.
Rather than commenting on the questions posed, the Sun-Times claims that Eaves issued a statement that called Mustapha a "volunteer" police officer, a designation that the police chief defends. The outlet notes, though, that Eaves fails to mention the fact that Farrakhan's son lives a half hour away from Harvey.
"Officer Farrakhan assists the Police Department with community relations, in its quest to strengthen ties between police and the community," read Eaves' statement to the Sun-Times.
And while the statement, itself, may have been an attempt to temper media questions, it seems the situation may get more interesting, as the Illinois Police Standards and Training Board has announced an investigation into Mustapha.
The outlet also reports that Mayor Kellogg's relationship with Mustapha is especially close. The mayor enlisted him as a cop on Jan. 14, 2006 and his car, a black Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, was purchased from Palatine Police Department in 2008. At the time, he apparently signed the car over to the city of Harvey. A Sun-Times photographer photographed the vehicle outside Mustapha's home earlier this month.
Last year, the car was reportedly used in processions, leading Louis Farrakhan's motorcade. Sun-Times notes, "Officer Farrakhan is then shown in at least one of the videos using the squad car's police lights to stop traffic and help his father's motorcade make a dramatic exit." The outlet continues, explaining the issues at hand:
Official Chicago Police escorts are normally reserved for high-ranking public officials and foreign dignitaries. They typically have to be cleared by the Department's Special Events and Liaison Unit, according to Chicago Police spokesman Adam Collins. But "the CPD does not provide Louis Farrakhan with a motorcade," Collins said, and it "doesn't have any record of such a request."
Illinois law does allow police officers to use their powers anywhere in the state, according to John Millner, a former Republican state senator, Elmhurst Police chief and head of the Illinois Police Chief's Association.
But by custom, cops are supposed to use their powers outside their jurisdiction only in an emergency, in areas immediately contiguous to their jurisdiction, or at the invitation of the department whose area they're in, he said.
Read the Sun-Times report here.
Other Must-Read Stories:
- Saudi National Questioned in Boston Bombings Was Allegedly Flagged on Terror Watch List
- New Alleged Details About Boston Bomber Suspect's Wife and Child Emerge: 'Brainwashed by Her Super-Religious Husband'
- Police: Boston Bombing Suspects Didn't Have Gun Permits
- 5 of the Most Cryptic and Bizarre Elements of the Boston Bomber Case


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Mind Over Miller: A tribute to an old dog
Pit Stop lives up on the hill behind my place, and he is such a special dog that I feel compelled to devote a column to him. I've dedicated this page to dogs before, but they were always my dogs. Pit Stop may not be my dog, but he owns a piece of my heart.
As a result of his diabetes, Pit Stop is blind. When Norman drives him in his utility vehicle to see me, the old dog sniffs the air until he recognizes me. Blind and hard of hearing, the old nose still works fine and as soon as I put my hand to it, the vigorous tail wagging begins. "Doc! My neighbor! My friend! I haven't seen you since yesterday!"As his neighbor, I guess the best way to describe Pit Stop is to say he is good-natured. My own dogs always welcome his visits.
I've reached a point in life where I make it difficult for airport security personnel: titanium hip, titanium knee, titanium ankle. They're souvenirs of a life spent skiing and working with horses. Once I was a gymnast and I pole-vaulted. I'm still riding horses when I'm not going to the cabinet for NSAIDs. So, when I see this old, blind dog and his love of life and the joy he finds in friendships, it heartens me.
With age and illness, his hair has grayed, especially around his face and that once plump face is now emaciated and thin. But he personifies the qualities I admire most in dogs: loyalty and love for his family.
I know that Pit Stop won't be around too much longer. He has really aged, but he just keeps hangin' on. So we had to get some photos to always remember him by.
Pit Stop is an inspiration. He is all that a dog can be, a true companion.
Robert M. Miller, DVM, is an author and a cartoonist, speaker, and Veterinary Medicine Practitioner Advisory Board member from Thousand Oaks, Calif. His thoughts in "Mind Over Miller" are drawn from 32 years as a mixed-animal practitioner. Visit his Web site at http://robertmmiller.com/.


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The Argentine has been linked with several Premier League clubs, including Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Newcastle United, but could be interested in linking up with his compatriot, Pochettino, at St Mary's.
Biglia has been on strike in his attempts to force a move to England during the January transfer window and it remains to be seen what his future holds.
But he was expected to return to Anderlecht this week when discussions are likely to take place.
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Mickey had gotten a three-record deal from Joe Smith, and Rolling Thunder gave him the means to improve the barn's equipment. ... This gave Mickey a chance to step much, much further out on the edge. His next album, Fire On The Mountain, began with the song of that name, and then moved into Hartian (as in Martian) percussion/electronica space. One piece, "Marshmallow Road," was written by Mickey and Barry Melton in Hart's mother's home in Sunrise City, Florida. Their means of inspiration was to lock themselves in a room with eight or ten cartons of marshmallows. After two days the LSD, the Florida heat, and the marshmallows combined into a nasty goo, and they fled the room and jumped into the nearest swimming pool. In Joe Smith's opinion, the album was as gooey as the Marshmallow Road, and he rejected it.The tracklist for the album seems to have been as follows - though I wonder if some of the tracks from Area Code 415 might have been intended for this album as well.
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Species AbstractThe Northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), is a very large cetacean, in the family of Rorquals (Balaenoptera). The Minke is a baleen whale, meaning that instead of teeth, it has long plates which hang in a row (like the teeth of a comb) from its upper jaws. Baleen plates are strong and flexible; they are made of a protein similar to human fingernails. Baleen plates are broad at the base (gumline) and taper into a fringe which forms a curtain or mat inside the whale's mouth. Baleen whales strain huge volumes of ocean water through their baleen plates to capture food: tons of krill, other zooplankton, crustaceans, and small fish.
The smallest of the rorqual whales (and the second-smallest baleen whale), the minke whale is also the most abundant. Two species are now recognised, the northern hemisphere minke whale (the subject of this species page) and the southern hemisphere Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). Minke whales are slim in shape, with a pointed dolphin-like head, bearing a double blow-hole. The smooth skin is dark grey above, while the belly and undersides of the flippers are white, and there is often a white band on the flipper. When seen at close quarters, minke whales have variable smoky patterns which have been used to photo-identify individuals.
Minke whales feed on fish and various invertebrates; like all baleen whales they filter their food from the water using their baleen plates like sieves. Although largely a solitary species, when feeding minke whales can often be seen in pairs, and on particularly good feeding grounds up to a hundred individuals may congregate. A number of feeding techniques have been observed, including trapping shoals of fish against the surface of the water. After a ten month gestation period, births occur in mid-winter, at birth the calf measures up to 2.8 metres in length. It will be weaned at four months of age, and will stay with its mother for up to two years, becoming sexually mature at seven years of age. Minke whales have an average life span of around 50 years. Minke whales are rather inquisitive and often swim by the side of boats for up to half an hour.


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I could tell the masses were getting annoyed with our reporting on the #4GWars so I took a break, but the carriers have continued to battle it out. T-Mobile's latest ad takes a direct shot at AT&T and Verizon by saying their 4G HSPA+ network is faster. "There's no fun in having a great device if it is running on a slow network." Check out the full video after the jump and let us know what you think of T-Mobile's latest efforts.
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First off, the logo should be modern and professional - but should also appeal to our target audience. While we don't want anything overly trendy, we definitely want something that will be engaging to 14-18 year old eyeballs. It would be great to put an emphasis on being the 'fun' or 'hip' way to cram for your tests - but this needs to be balanced with both credibility and professionalism. A team of highly experienced academic professionals has designed top-notch curriculum, so we definitely want the program to be taken seriously - without taking 'ourselves' too seriously. Does that make sense?? Bottom line - test prep doesn't have to be boring to be effective!
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Where Will Consumers Spend Their Holiday Money?Monday, November 30th, 2009
As the Thanksgiving holiday comes to a close, businesses are preparing for the winter shopping season. Last year consumer holiday spending was at a record low. This year is forecasted to have a slight improvement but businesses should be aware that this increase doesn't guarantee to get them out of the red. So with little valuable room for mistakes, find out where and what consumers are planning to spend their money on.


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1. Re: LrKeyword getAttributes not returning all datajohnrellis Feb 26, 2012 8:31 AM (in response to jimkeir)
Yes, others have observed the same symptoms. In general, the SDK LrKeyword API is incomplete:
- You can't get Export Containing Keywords and Export Synonyms.
- You can't set those attributes for new or existing keywords.
- You can't change the name, parent, or children of a keyword.
Many users have complained about the limited ability in LR 3 (and now 4) to manage large keyword hiearchies, and a couple of plugin authors have observed that the incomplete API makes it impossible for a plugin to fill in that missing functionality.
The SDK hasn't received much attention from Adobe since LR 3.0. The LR 4 beta doesn't seem to have many SDK changes, but there's no documentation for it yet, and it could well change before the final release (one can always hope).
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2. Re: LrKeyword getAttributes not returning all datajohnrellis Feb 26, 2012 1:09 PM (in response to johnrellis)
Just tested LR 4 beta, and keyword:getAttributes() still doesn't return the additional attributes.
3. Re: LrKeyword getAttributes not returning all datajohnrellis Jun 15, 2013 5:06 PM (in response to johnrellis)
In LR 5, keyword:getAttributes() correctly returns "keywordName", "includeOnExport", and "synonyms".
keyword:setAttributes() is able to set those attributes as well.
Unfortunately, you're still not able to get or set "exportContainingKeywords" or "exportSynonyms".


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Featuring all-new game tests, the 3DMark Vantage benchmark is for use with Vista based systems. "There are two all-new CPU tests that have been designed around a new 'Physics and Artificial Intelligence-related computation.' CPU test two offers support for physics related hardware." There are four preset levels that correspond to specific resolutions. 'Entry' is 1024x768 progressing to 'Extreme' at 1920x1200. Of course, each preset can be modified to arrange any number of user designed testing. For our testing, I will use the four presets at all default settings.
- Settings (each preset): Default Testing
- Entry: 1024x768
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Book on health care is springboard for discussion in midstate libraries
Public libraries in nine midstate counties are partnering with Aligning Forces for Quality - South Central PA and WITF to encourage residents to discuss health care in their communities and generate ideas for improvement.
To help jump-start the conversation, the public is being asked to participate in "A Summer Reid," a special program that invites residents to visit local libraries to borrow "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care," by New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid.
Readers are invited to hold discussions on the book with their book clubs, friends, family members and co-workers.
In the book, Reid explains the handling of health care in other countries, including France, Britain, Germany and Japan, and shares the details of his tour of universal health care systems.
Those who read the book have the chance to win a copy of it, attend a private book signing with Reid and enjoy a dinner where he will be speaking on Sept. 11.
Readers are asked to complete a survey on the book by Aug. 30, from which 30 winners will be chosen. The reader's guide and survey are available online here.
"Libraries are very well equipped to help our communities improve health literacy and the quality of health care. We are delighted to be part of this partnership," said Trish Calvani, president of York County Library System.
"The Healing of America" is available for loan at libraries in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties.


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(00) FOREMOST 2: MINDFULNESS (Be FOCUSED) is the KEY no. 2 (traditionally knows as TAQWA/CONSCIOUSNESS), 00. FOREMOST: Understanding the LOOPHOLES (the drainage), 98:7 A Muslim is the BEST of all CREATURES, A Muslim shows STRONG adherence and LOVE to the TRUTH and strong REJECTION and HATRED to the FALSEHOOD, A Muslim's BLOOD is more SACRED to Allah than Baitullah (Ka'aba, the house of Allah), Do Muslim pray the SALAH of Rasulullah sallillahu alaihi wa sallam?, DUA: Seeking GUIDANCE in each PETTY ISSUE, Even Rasulullah would've been MISGUIDED without Allah's MERCY, GIBOT (ILL SPEECH open/Behind - The cause of BANKRUPTCY), How to become BELOVED by Allah?, How to get BLESSINGS (صَلَوَاتٌ) from Allah, If Allah WANTS good He will give you knowledge to UNDERSTAND the Deen, Islam is a STRANGE thing: a GOOD DEED never in any standard be treated as BAD but in Islam it could be, Islam is a STRANGE thing: A MANUAL is never meant to be MISGUIDANCE but in Islam it might, KNOW what brings SHAME and REGRET being a Muslim, MINOR SIGNS of the end of the time, Much Negative ASSUMPTION, Muslim by Name, Scholars are worst, Rasulullah recited 60 Ayat in the FIRST Rakah and 30 Ayah in the second, Rasulullah used to PAUSE after EACH Ayah, not combined, Rasulullah used to PAUSE after reciting Fatiha (before starting Sura), Rasulullah used to PAUSE before going to RUKU'A, Rasulullah used to PAUSE in Ayat of Jannah and Jahannam and made DUA, Rasulullah used to SHORTER the SECOND Rakah than the first, RECOMMENDATION: Be PATIENT when Allah TESTS with HARDSHIP, RECOMMENDATION: Believe, Hijra (Migration to the LAND of Islam) and FIGHTING (Jihad), RECOMMENDATION: Have PATIENCE when DISASTER strikes (Allah's TEST), REGRET on Qiyamah for NOT REMEMBERING Allah while SITTING, LIEING, Remember Allah Most, REWARD: Allah maintain relation who maintains blood relationship, RULE (System) of ACCOUNTING of DEEDS (Good or Bad), Sign No. 1, START EVERYTHING with the NAME of Allah (Bismillah), That there are ENEMIES (KUFFAR) who set an ENVIRONMENT of KUFR, SHIRK and CORRUPTION to MANUPULATE your HEARTS and MINDS, That there's 2 WRITERS writing your Actions, words, thoughts and your feelings, That there's a SATELLITE watching and listening your ACTIONS, WORDS, THOUGHTS and FEELINGS, That there's an UNSEEN ENEMY who is WATCHING you and knows what you THINK, FEEL and it has POWER to MANUPULATE with your WORDS, THOUGHTS and FEELINGS, The SCALE (The Final Balance Sheet - Left Side), The SCALE (The Final Balance Sheet - RIGHT side), The SHIELD of Muslims was LOST only after 30 yrs, The SINS that keeps ADDING even AFTER DEATH, The time of WORST FITNAH, The UNPAID DEBT that has to compensate on QIYAMAH, The WEALTH acquired UNJUSTLY has to REPAY on QIYAMAH, UNFORTUNATE is he who Allah BLESSED with by putting in a MUSLIM FAMILY but he ended up in JAHANNAM (Aujubillah) with those unfortunate ones!, WARNING: DEPRIVE of Allah's Rahma for CUTTING TIES with family & relatives, WARNING: If YOU'RE NOT merciful to MANKIND Allah WON'T have mercy on YOU, What a SHAME it is that the DESTINY of a MUSLIM and an ATHIEST is same! JAHANNAM! (Aujubillah), What a SHAME it is to be in JAHANNAM (Aujubillah) with those who doesn't believe Muhammad (sallillahu alaihi wa sallam) as RASULULLAH!, What a SHAME it is to be in the SAME PLACE, JAHANNAM (Aujubillah) with the KUFFAR!
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LOUDON, N.H., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Mark Martin won Sunday's Sylvania 300, the first race in the season-ending "Race for the Chase," which decides the 2009 Sprint Cup champion.
Martin, 50, the oldest driver in the Chase and the current points leader, won for the fifth time this season and the first time in his career at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.
He won after dropping a lap behind the field but then reclaiming the lead with 28 laps to go as the rest of the field required late pit stops.
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After topping out while soloing Cinema Gully I did some 3/3+ 50-60 foot route directly above. Any word on this, it is not in any of the guide books (any of the volumes). PROB done, but just curious. I would call it WHATEVER, if it is new.
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How do I disable ACPI when booting?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit from a USB created in Windows using the recommended software from pendrivelinux. The USB is tested on two laptops and works fine.
The install does not work on my desktop PC, it either hangs with lots of text on the screen, or it just gives me a screen with garbled colors. Right now it hangs on "[3.925311] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...", but it hangs on different spots every time I try.
I know that acpi=off will fix this.
On older versions, there used to be a pink screen with the icon of a keyboard, at that screen I could press ESC, and I would then get a long list of languages, I could choose English, and then I would get options for setting acpi=off, then install without any problems. This new install menu does not have those options.
The (now black and white) "Installer boot menu"'s advanced options is blank. There simply are no advanced options. If I go to help, then press F6, I get to a help screen describing the different boot parameters. I see examples of writing "Install acpi=off" However, writing "install acpi=off" it gives an error saying "could not find kernel image: install".
How can I install Ubuntu 12.04 with acpi=off?
(Oh, btw, nothing happens if I press F6 in the "Installer boot menu")


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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt's Wedding Guest List Had 22 People!
More details are emerging about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's surprise wedding over the weekend and now we know how many people were in attendance – just 22!
"The only guests were Brad's family from the states," a source told E! News. "His mom and dad, Bill and Jane Pitt; his brother, Doug; sister Julie; and their kids, so it was no more than 22 people in total."
Brad and Angie's six children were of course all in attendance, but her father Jon Voight was not there, though he was invited to join the celebration.
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Flaming Lips - The Terror
has there been a thread on this yet?
I'd basically lost interest after most of the garbage they put out last year, but this is unexpectedly brilliant. Really bleak as well.
Fav track at the moment is 'try to explain', and I get the feeling that this is only going to get better with more listens.
I have a fucking podcast to edit, I don't have time to listen to this :(
Are we listening to this...
... via a 'safe for work' source?
High-ish hopes for this album
as everything they've released since Yoshimi has been patchy/dull/self-indulgent or a combination of. I mean, I respect them for trying different things but it's been over a decade since they put out something genuinely amazing.
Oh, and read in MOJO that Wayne's broken up with his missus and been dabbling in substances. Feel sorry for the guy (but hopefully this will make the music better, like when the drummer was a smackhead).
I reckon War with the Mystics was a fairly accessible, carefree album
though half of it was indeed 'dull'. The odd album track off it comes on rotation at work on the company installed hard drive.
The drummer?
You mean the multi-instrumentalist musical genius in the band?
I've been kind of put off
by all the arsing about they've done over the last few years
while the idea of a band free to explore whatever comes to them is appealling I really can't be fucked with some of the shit that it results in
I would like it to be good
thought i'm not sure i'm holding out a lot of hope
I'm guessing there's no thread because it is still a few weeks from release
I would have started one myself as I've had it on constant rotation, but it still hasn't sunk in properly. Nevertheless, some thoughts:
It's funny how, like The Soft Bulletin before, Embryonic has already embodied the style they are going for right now; both Heady Fwends and this mainatin(ed) the heavy/fuzzy psyche vibe from that album. So naturally if you hated that style, this won't be for you, but there are also a few reasons why The Terror is an improvement on Embryonic. Rather than constantly-shifting jammy structure of Embryonic, the songs on The Terror are based upon and built upon single motifs, so it holds together much better. It is also a much more manageable length.
The comnparative viewpoint is a bit reductive though. In reality, it is becoming clear that this is a truly exceptiuonal album. It is strangely melancholy and harrowing, a dimension they have only touched upon in previous releases. Try to Explain really is a highlight, especially when it all reduces to the mechanical hum and Wayne's sighing. It reminds me of Amnesiac. I'd also say the last three songs are a strong point, things get decidely ominous on Turning Violent.
I could write all day on it, tbh. It is really quite stark and glaring, much like the cover, I'd say.
really love this
didnt expect the new flips to sound like this but its a pretty astonishing listen overall.
'you lust' was the standout track for me with that really creepy vocal sample. the last 3 are pretty magnificent too.
i read that their next tour is gonna do away with all the confetti and stuff. really pissed i missed out on tickets to their roundhouse shows, sounds like theyd be seriously impressive/scary.
found it a slog....
and love the flaming lips.
I listened to the first half, up past "You Lust"
I had to go to bed, or else I woulda finished.
I think it's tremendous. I really enjoyed Embryonic a lot. I think that fuzzed-out psych sound that they're going for now really works well for them.
For me the second half is even better
So you've got it all to come.ThisTemporaryLife this'd this
TBH had written them off of late
Will definately give it a go
Can't wait to hear the album properly.
The rip I have sounds like someone chucked a blanket over my speakers. April 2nd can't come soon enough.
At the risk of not being cool
I have to say this is a terrible record
Let's have a full on barney then
Terrible eh? Are you a fan of their previous stuff? Just what to know what you are comparing it to hear to use the word "terrible". And I'd say you run the risk of not being cool if you say you like something, on DiS at least.
I've deleted it on the grounds that....
I now know it's excellent and it'll be nice to pick up when it comes out. Don't understand at all how it's terrible. It really comes to life on decent speakers too.
Well, i have all their records from Soft Bulletin to Embryonic
and i enjoy them a lot, but this one (as someone has mention before) sounds like that really obtuse track on the last Of Montreal record. Is like Embryonic with longer songs and less tunes, at least thats my opinion after three listens.
That track is Exorcism Breeding Knife, yeah?
I mean that was really obtuse to the point of being unlistenable. I don't get that feeling for any of the tracks here, I'd say theyre no more difficult than Convinced of the Hex. There ARE less tunes than Embryonic, but I see the change as a positive one, as they've really taken care of the emotional impact. I like that many songs repeat one motif as well, it's like watching something grow slowly.
Overall it must be disappointing to be a modern Lips fan then to find this terrible.
Fair enough, I guess this new direction doesn't appeal to me
Still i can take my fair share or 'difficult records' but i found that this one is very dark and claustrophobic, without the will to let you in.
It's still a month away from release right?
Is the quality of the leaked version really bad?
192 Kbps
Which is classed as bad, yeah. I mean it'll be discernibly better on release, but it's good enough for me to know I like it.
I can tell it's a good album (not their best but very enjoyable) but I want to hear it when it's released. Very excited about this.
192 isn't bad.
It's past the point where the human ear can hear compression, unlike 160 or lower. 192 is the sweet spot for mp3 ripping in general if VBR isn't an option.
Not a fan of Embrionic
Directionless and vague, far too self indulgent, can never remember a single damn song off it.
I thought Heady Fwends was a step in the right direction but still felt hollow compared to Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi and to a lesser extent, half of Mystics. And obviously still missing the batshit old magic from the pre-Bulletin days. It felt like a side-step of sorts.
How am I going to find The Terror?
It is more focused than Embryonic and Heady Fwends
Now I'm a fan of all three but from your pointers you'll probably prefer this. They haven't had this cohesion since Yoshimi but also, it is neither as mad as their early stuff nor as kaleidoscopic as The Soft Bulletin. Whether you really like depends on if you like the quite heavy/melancholic style of the record (I love it).
I loved Embryonic.
The best thing they made since The Soft Bulletin and it's definitely in my top five favourite albums of theirs'. The Terror isn't as good but I'd say it's close.
Given this a fair few listens now
I'm really loving it, it's got an amazing dark, dirty psychedelic feel to it. Probably my favourite of theirs in a good few albums (though Embryonic is great too).


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My boys are having a great school year so far. Here is Connor on his first day of third grade.
And here is Zachary on his first day of sixth grade! When did this happen?
One of the big changes at our house is that I am now working 5 days per week at preschool. It is a bit of an adjustment as I was only working 3 days last year but so far it is working out. Everyone is realizing mom can't do everything she used to do and they are pitching in to help! The great thing is I get killer vacation time and my schedule is the same as the boys.
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A sense of curiosity and wonder shoots through the layers of Villagers' new album {Awayland} like radiant lightning. It provides illumination and starkness, a clash palpable on a song like 'Earthly Pleasure', with its furious percussion and splintered-sounding guitars, or 'Grateful Song' which begins delicately, tentatively, before building up to a release of howls. This howl is present, but tempered on 'In a Newfound Land You Are Free' - a different kind of lullaby sung to a "newborn child", the child that is all of us, with the song, heavy with regret, containing a promise not to "betray" the child's "gentle repose", it is a song full of rich conflation, as all of {Awayland} is.
"I tried to write everything from the perspective of a newborn baby; given the gift of language, what would he or she say? For a while I thought the record would be called Birth, and the album cover is an image of a little boy looking out to sea, but I think that the album is about reclaiming that sense of curiosity and wonder which we have when we are children and we often lose over the years," says Conor J.O'Brien.
"I felt like I needed to flip on its head the idea of what music is for myself, if I was going to continue making it, and I didn't know that I would. After two years of touring I recognised the cycle, so I sat down and thought about that, and I started feeling like the worst writer in the world. I felt like I was lying to people - there is no way you can sing "my love is selfish" a hundred times in a year and it continue to feel pure and true - it seemed somehow performative. I started writing on the acoustic guitar and it sounded terrible, so I began to make musical landscapes, and listened to lots of widescreen instrumental music like Lalo Schifrin, David Axelrod and Jean-Claude Vannier and lots of krautrock and funk music - there is something about the repetition of rhythms that really hit me - 'Passing a Message' came from one of those soundscapes, as lots of the songs did. The lyrics were very much secondary in creation of this album; they were a servant to the music. I think they benefit from this.
Yet the language O'Brien uses retains its poetic reach - on 'Nothing Arrived' he sings "Savanna scatters and the seabird sings / So why should we fear what travel brings? / What were we hoping to get out of this? / Some kind of momentary bliss? / I waited for Something, and Something died / So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived / It's our dearest ally, it's our closest friend / It's our darkest blackout, it's our final end". This paradoxical way of living and seeing is something O'Brien continues to explore, and while there is a simplicity of language, he imbues it with a poetic clarity, a willingness to sing what cannot perhaps be spoken. "For me, 'Nothing Arrived' is a joyful song, but it is presented in a downbeat manner. I felt like I wanted to write something that was secular yet spiritual, because I've been gravitating gradually towards both of those things in my general outlook on life, I guess".
This spiritual curiousity ("And we've got to keep the wheels in motion / And we've gotta get the kids before they grow / God forbid they retain their sense of wonder" he sings on the jangly, satirical 'Judgement Call') permeates the whole record, breathing through every note, containing an even greater searching quality than Villagers first record Becoming a Jackal. This is partly because, unlike the previous album, the collection of musicians; O'Brien, Cormac Curran, Danny Snow, James Byrne, and Tommy McLaughlin had a greater sense of collaboration on this record, a record which swells with each listening.
"We had toured together so much that it felt completely natural to record the album together. I sent them my finished demos, so they all learnt the parts initially, but after that we all went to Tommy's place and kicked the songs around a little bit. It felt really good. The first record is a strong album, but with this record, I can feel how much it has benefited from the band being involved. Cormac's orchestral arrangements really came to the forefront this time round as well. The whole trip was exciting, and very obsessive. I suppose that's why it is coming out two and a half years later."
In these two and a half years, O'Brien has been nominated for a Mercury Prize, won an Ivor Novello Award, shared the stage with artists like Neil Young, Tindersticks and Fleet Foxes, and contributed to A Harbour of Songs, a record and project curated by The Unthanks pianist, producer and arranger Adrian McNally - which is the most natural of projects for O'Brien, growing up, as he did, in the coastal town of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, with the nautical world as a natural touchstone of inspiration and imagery. It has always been there, but on this record emerges through the deep tones of the piano on 'The Bell', which register like a submarine foraging through azure coloured waters, or through the spare beauty of 'My Lighthouse', with the harmonies as a soothing response to the "violent moonlight" O'Brien sings of.
'The Waves', a coda of sorts to 'My Lighthouse' with its driving beats and lush soundscapes, brings to mind that rhythmic, constant lope of nature. The song is as epic as the sea and just as mysterious; folding in beautiful "invented words", talk of "well-insulated dignitaries screaming of / the memory of a human love" into an electronic musical landscape that takes in brass and driving beats, immersing you through its traveling nature. And yet, while O'Brien continues his search for a "rounder, more deep" feel to render nature true, 'The Waves' filters an appreciation of electronic music to reach its own understanding.
"I felt like I was reintroduced to electronic music in the last year and a half. When I was a teenager I was obsessed with artists like Aphex Twin, Portishead, ADF, Tricky and Björk - she was a huge influence when I was growing up and I listened to all of that alongside guitar-based music, I guess. Then I got much more into songwriting in the traditional sense and still am, but a night out dancing in Berlin inspired me to listen exclusively to techno for a couple of months - Plastikman, Drexciya, that early Detroit sound. I liked that aesthetic for a while. Then I heard Nosaj Thing and through him Flying Lotus and Caribou - just music which is really imaginative and forward thinking. Then I moved onto more minimal ambient/glitchy stuff like Oval and Monolake. It just really appealed to me. I think I was attracted to being emotionally gratified by something that was less about the expression of the individual ego, and more about the textural sensation of having a collective experience."
There is definitely a different kind of movement on {Awayland}, perhaps borne out of the necessary stillness after relentless touring and traveling, an exploration of what O'Brien felt was most important, yet not immediately obvious. Trees, birds, the sea - all recurring images in O'Brien's work that provide a kind of metaphor for living and dying, that sense of soaring otherness, with his own understanding gaining greater depth with this record, buoyed by his acute sense and interest in the natural world - its beauty and instability.
"When I was writing the album, it was around the time of the T?hoku earthquake in Japan, and was some of the most terrifying footage I have ever seen. Beyond the absolute powerlessness and sadness you feel when you see something like that, it also serves as a reminder that we are not as important as we sometimes think we are. But when you say an absolute truth like that and tackle ideas of scales of importance, then its opposite must also true; you come full circle. I have been reading a bit of Carl Sagan's writings on the evolution of human intelligence. He condenses history of the universe into one day, so he takes billions of years, and puts them into a calendar year - on the 24th of December the dinosaurs appear, with humans appearing at 10:30pm on December 31st. It is an amazing way to look at it, because it starkly shows that we have only been on this planet for such a small amount of time, and when you are writing it is a very helpful and inspiring thing to keep in mind. I wish I had a scientific mind but I really don't, so I write songs instead".
O'Brien's songs become the lighthouse he sings of; a way to navigate, using a deeply philosophical impulse to uncover truths. "I am singing the things I am not able to say, yet I think that my favourite song on the album is the one with no words - '{Awayland}', because it is the purest thing I have ever written". Indeed, it possesses a beautiful echo that emerges as if from the sea; '{Awayland}' like a lost, sad, mermaid - lost, but full of wonder.
"I always end up writing with an imaginary person in mind, and they always end up being the most pummelled one. 'Grateful Song' is about going through tough times; though you might be at your lowest, you really can take a lot out of that - in fact, they can be the most fulfilling moments in the great scheme of things, if you're strong enough to stay off the crutches".
This heavy weight is tempered by a record that is as possessed with a playful joy as it is with devastation, with layers of surprising instrumentation that include more full-sounding string arrangements and dreamy, shapeshifting percussion; as well as a filtering of disparate influences - the quiet elegance of Nick Drake, and the sensuality of Curtis Mayfield. It is, as Kurt Vonnegut might have put it "intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and absurd" (Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 6)- life, in other words.


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I'm a devoted fan of the TV show "Parenthood," about an extended family living in Berkley, CA. I started watching in the first season because the family includes a now-teenaged boy, Max, who is on the autism spectrum. It is a somewhat realistic portrayal of the family's struggles with ASD. (Though it almost lost me when, soon after Max's diagnosis, the family found a perfect therapist, who came to the house and performed seeming miracles with Max. Practically a live-in therapist. Riiiiiiight. It's that easy.)
But eventually the pretty young therapist slept with Max's ne'er-do-well Uncle Crosby, causing a big family stink that made her quit the job with the Braverman family. Now they seem to make do like the rest of us, without a nearly live-in therapist. There's a lot of other family drama to keep me interested, like the recent marital troubles of Max's Aunt Julia and Uncle Joel. But it's still Max's immediate family that interests me most.
Anyway, while Reilly was home for winter break, he started watching with me, and decided he likes the show. He watched the episode in which Max's deepening social isolation at school becomes apparent to his parents. And in which an adult character, Hank, who used to date Aunt Sarah, realizes he, too, has Asperger's. Hank has a photography studio, and Max is obsessed with photography and has begun to hang out at Hank's.
I was curious about how Reilly related to the show, and decided to interview him for this column. I knew he probably wouldn't share his feelings about the show if I just asked casually. I thought he would cooperate more fully if I put it in the context of writing about the show. It didn't work out as well as I'd hoped, partly because Reilly's Dad interrupted, feeling left out of the conversation over dinner, since he doesn't watch the show. Or maybe the whole discussion made him uncomfortable, or he sensed Reilly's discomfort. At any rate, I gave up fairly quickly.
I didn't get much. But it was still sort of instructive. I asked Reilly if he knew that Max has Asperger's. He said he did, and I asked if he knew what that meant. "It's like autism. People who have trouble with social cues."
What did he think of Max? "Max is kind of awkward. His only friend is a 35-year-old guy."
"You're aware that you have been diagnosed with autism, like Max?" I asked. "Yeah," he replied. "And how does autism affect your life?" I wondered. His somewhat surprising reply: "It doesn't. I feel just like a normal person. I have a lot of friends."
Indeed, he does. This conversation made me glad that we had made the decision to take Reilly out of public school and send him to a Special Ed high school beginning with his freshman year. I remembered middle school, where we were starting to see the isolation that I thought would be worse in a big public high school. Instead, Reilly went to school with a lot of kids like himself, where he was "popular."
He's in a postsecondary program with students like himself, and he is happy. But, this can't last forever. He might transfer to a bigger school where he will have to find his own community. And he will have to live in the real world eventually, where he will need to find a community. These are worries that keep me awake at night.
Meanwhile, on "Parenthood," Max's parents are thinking of starting their own school for kids like Max. Maybe I should start writing for the show. Or maybe "Parenthood" writers could start scripting our life.