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Manchester Valley High School junior Jenna Klaverweiden said something was missing when school let out on Friday. She had become used to seeing math teacher Devin Spence sending his students off at the start of each weekend with words of encouragement … and a challenge.
"Have a good weekend" she recalled him saying, "and make good choices."
At a memorial service Saturday afternoon for Spence — who died this week in a car accident on his way to the school — teachers, students and family members recalled the choices he had made for himself.
His parents said that while he excelled in college and could have chosen many paths, Spence devoted himself to teaching; to remind those around him of their possibilities and opportunities; and to lift those who needed help, not only with math, but also with life.
"He achieved his greatest goal in life," said Marjorie Spence, his mother, "which was to make a difference in the world, especially for children."
Spence, 24, of Westminster, died Feb. 11 when his 2001 Ford Focus collided with a private school bus on Sullivan Road, between Westminster and Manchester. According to the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, Spence lost control of the vehicle while rounding a corner, most likely due to a patch of ice, and collided with the front of the bus.
No one was injured on the bus, which was transporting students to Delone Catholic High School in Pennsylvania. Spence was declared dead at the scene.
The memorial service, held at Manchester Valley High, packed the school's theater auditorium, so much so that staff set up speakers in the cafeteria so the overflow crowd could hear.
Outside, on the hillside facing Hanover Pike, new snow had been cleared from the ground to show the letters "DS" with a large heart that had been written in the grass.
"I'm not only sorry for our family," said his father, Michael Spence, as he addressed the thousands who attended the service, "I'm sorry for all of you sitting here, because I know you are all in pain, too."
Reflections on Spence recalled his passion for lacrosse, his love of math, his devotion to his adopted school and his affinity for loud and eye-catching sweaters — a running joke that saw dozens of his mourners sporting outlandish designs in his honor.
A native of Towson, Spence and his family moved to Westminster when he was young and he graduated in 2007 from Winters Mill High School, where he won a state championship with the Falcons' lacrosse team — on Saturday, his former coach and teacher there, Sal Picataggi, said the school was retiring Spence's No. 21 in his honor.
He attended Messiah College and graduated with a teaching degree from Towson University, then began his teaching career.
His family shared details of the "bachelor pad" Spence had set up in the family basement, and how he came home every day to share his excitement about teaching — and boasting of his students' accomplishments.
Many also recalled Spence's devotion to a brother, Chase, a special needs sibling who fostered his family's involvement with Special Olympics, and who became well known to the Manchester Valley community.
Though Spence had only worked at Manchester Valley since August 2012, his humor, gregarious nature and positive attitude made him an instant favorite. He was fond of poker, fantasy football and the outdoors, and helped with the school's ski club and was the assistant coach of the varsity girl's lacrosse team.
Kim Pennewell, a teacher in the MVHS math department, drew laughs when she said Spence's arrival prompted something she had never heard before — students using the words "cool" and "math teacher" in the same sentence.
She recalled Spence's energy during his job interview, and said when he left the room, "We looked at each other and said, 'How can someone so young have it so all together?' … I could tell Devin was going to make me a better teacher."
"He helped us in so many ways," said Klaverweiden, who had Spence as an advisor. She said talking to him always gave her "something to be positive about. He was … a selfless, caring and spirited person. He brought us together as a school, as a community and as Mavericks."
Shawn Hampt, a science teacher at the school — who wore a bright white sweater with dark accents that elicited laughs from the crowd — recalled faculty breakfasts at the Dutch Corner Restaurant on Manchester's main street, where Spence shared his appreciation and aspirations for his students.
He told them Spence's enduring message would be to "work your butts off in everything you do."
And to his fellow educators, Hampt said Spence's message would be more specific: "If we want students to want to reach their potential, make sure they know someone cares."
That attribute seemed to rub off. Ryan Day, another junior at the school, said that when talking with Spence, "you knew he believed in you."
In her comments, junior Kristin Wigand offered a somber perspective, describing a "cloud of sorrow that hung over the school" this week, and admitting she had "gotten mad when I've seen people laugh or smile."
"I know it'll be OK," she said, "(but) it's too soon to say it'll be OK."
One speaker noted a math lesson from Spence — that between the numbers zero and one live infinite other numbers. Wigand seemed to acknowledge that while Spence's days at the school numbered far too small, they had countless moments that would endure.
"It didn't take him a lifetime to affect our lives forever," she said.
Spence's father touched on a similar theme when he told the crowd how this past week he had discovered a journal his son started in 2007, shortly after his graduation from Winters Mill. It included subjects fresh in the minds of a high school student — graduation, that lacrosse championship, a cruise he would be taking, his experience on a mission in the Dominican Republic with the group, Young Life, and a direct word of thanks to God he wrote for his family, "his awesome friends and a beautiful life."
The journal also contained a note that included words of inspiration, including one comment that seemed to speak of the quality of time spent on earth, not the quantity:
"There are plenty of people who love you for who you are," Spence had written, "not for how many minutes you play."
Devin Spence is survived by parents Michael and Marjorie Spence, brothers Travis and Chase Spence and sister Aubrey Spence, and numerous aunts and uncles.
Private interment was held at St. Benjamin's (Kriders) Lutheran Church Cemetery, and arrangements were by Pritts Funeral Home & Chapel, Westminster. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested contributions be made to the Special Olympics, at http://www.specialolympics.org


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Presidents Obama and Bush and the U.S. Congress have done all but nothing to forestall another financial collapse. Many economists, including myself, believe another financial crisis is imminent. However, there is a more likely precipitant to a slump, namely the instability and contradictions of the Chinese economy.
China has received enormous attention in the last decade. Many have predicted China will come to dominate the global economy in the next several years. Even more have marveled at China's ability to seemingly avoid severe setbacks from the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-8 and predict that it will be China that will pull the U.S., Europe, and the global economy out of the current slump.
All of these are overoptimistic, exaggerated, and to some degree even illusionary.
It is high time for Americans to begin to understand the contradictions of the Chinese economy and the likelihood these contradictions cause a global economic slump in the near future.
There are several foundational contradictions recently brought to light in a symposium held in the pages of "The International Economy" (Winter 2010 issue). More than 50 economists were asked about the sustainability of Chinese economic growth and its ability to be the engine of global economic activity. There was tremendous doubt expressed.
One striking fact is the Chinese economy is nearly 50 percent investment spending, and 34 percent consumption. Comparably, the U.S. is less than 20 percent investment spending and nearly 70 percent consumption. The high level of investment spending is an imminent source of instability. Overinvestment is generating new capital stock that remains unutilized. Economists call this overcapacity. NYU economist Nouriel Roubini states visitors will recognize Chinese overcapacity "in sleek but empty airports and bullet trains" and "highways to nowhere, thousands of colossal new central and provincial government buildings, ghost towns, and brand-new aluminum smelters kept closed to prevent global prices from plunging."
The overcapacity is characteristic of industry after Chinese industry. New capital lies idle. Investment projects fail to realize profits.
China is also radically dependent on its export markets. Exports make China highly dependent on other economies across the globe, especially the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Recognizing this interdependency and the brutal decrease in exports in 2007-8, the Chinese government in November 2008 injected $585 billion stimulant and urged Chinese banks to aggressively loan money at low interest rates. This has led to municipalities in China taking out massive loans, incurring massive debt and engaging in urban expansion and real estate speculation.
In other words, China is currently in a very severe real estate bubble.
The stimulus added to China's overcapacity. This alone should correct any illusions of the Chinese state being economically wise visionaries. The Chinese state has too often been economically irresponsible.
Indeed, the privatization of state production, according to Peter Kwong, has been a practice of pure "cronyism": 90 percent of the richest 20,000 Chinese are "related to senior government or Communist Party officials."
The cronyism is endemic to the Chinese economy. It is horrifically illustrated by the disposition of hundreds of millions of Chinese. According to geographers Richard Walker and Daniel Buck, this disposition of Chinese citizens has occurred via cronyism and the great giveaway of state enterprises to friends and family of Chinese officials. Village enterprises have collapsed. And the great economic expansion has totally transformed countryside farming.
The result has been the disposition of hundreds of millions of Chinese, who have been automatically transformed into a massive labor force who too often suffer extreme exploitation by Chinese subcontractors to Japanese, European, and American companies. For example, PUMA has its workers produce enough sneakers in a mere five days and two hours to pay the entire year of salaries to the factory workers. The remaining 358 days are not pure profit — transportation and marketing costs reduce the profits for PUMA to 50 percent.
Horrendous labor conditions, management brutality, low pay, no benefits have been widely reported throughout China. The recent mass incidences of protests verify the socioeconomic injustices of China. In 2010 and 2011 alone there were more than 400,000 mass petitions, demonstrations, strikes, riots, etc.
The contradictions of the Chinese economy — overinvestment, export dependency, super-exploitation, low consumption, low wages, lack of benefits and income inequality — assure the unsustainability of the Chinese miracle.
When the miracle ends, it is likely the U.S. and global economy will fall into an economic slump.
Hans Despain is chairman of economics at Nichols College in Dudley.

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Buffalo Audubon will continue a landmark habitat restoration project at Joseph Davis State Park in Lewiston throughout the summer. Supported by more than $350,000 in grand funds from federal programs and national funders, this work will provide high-quality habitat for resident and neo-tropical migratory birds.
This project will:
•Enhance and protect approximately 130 acres of critical shrubland and wetland bird habitat along the lower Niagara River corridor, and restore sensitive bird habitat that further improve the ability of the corridor to attract resident and migratory bird populations;
•Enhance and perpetuate the site as a bird conservation area by providing habitats for breeding, shelter, migration and sustenance of resident and neo-tropical migratory wild bird populations;
•Implement an invasive species control and management plan based on site surveys and mapping;
•Benefit priority bird species by improving forested wetland, shrub-wetland and shrub-early successional habitats.
The first phase of the project involves the removal of invasive plant species, including bush honeysuckle, common reed (Phragmites), common buckthorn, and multiflora rose, along with the selective removal of younger trees to promote the development of valuable shrub habitat.
Invasive species, such as bush honeysuckle, provide low-quality habitat for birds. As fields turn into forests, important grassland and shrub habitat is lost. Subsequent work will plant native shrubs and grasses in order to provide high-quality food, nest sites and habitat for birds.
Work on this project has been on hold since June 1, to correspond with the primary breeding season of shrubland bird species. Neighbors, visitors, and community members should be aware that, beginning on July 23, work will resume with the continued removal of invasive species from large areas within the eastern portion of the park.
The Buffalo Audubon Society promotes the appreciation and enjoyment of the natural world through education and stewardship. Founded in 1909, the society is a chapter of the National Audubon Society and represents more than 3,000 members from across Western New York.


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E-MU\'s Emulator X Soundsets
Emulator X is a project that has been in the works for several years at E-MU, and has opened up a world of possibilities. In the past, our goal was to offer customers a comprehensive collection of sounds in 8, 16 or 32 MB soundsets. It was always a balancing act of sampling the right sounds and then compressing them to fit the product\'s memory restrictions, especially for the Proteus sound modules. Although the Emulator IV\'s 128 MB of sample memory offered us greater flexibility when it came out in the mid 1990\'s, we still had to compromise on how many layers we could use, where to loop the samples, etc.
As development started on the Emulator X, we knew that we finally had a platform that would give us almost unlimited freedom in creating huge samples that in many cases didn\'t need to be looped. Sounds like cymbals with long decays would no longer have to be chopped up and looped. Emulator X would also be the first E-MU sampler to feature a 24-bit sampling and playback engine, affording us improved dynamic range. With Emulator X\'s development underway, all sampling sessions were now geared towards the new platform. Starting with E-MU\'s orchestral sampling project in the late 1990\'s (parts of which got crunched down for the Virtuoso 2000 module), we began to sample all of our sounds at 24-bit using multiple microphones and placements. Over the past few years we have assembled an enormous archive of material that has been sampled in this manner.
Our first Emulator X project was to create a \'Production Sound Library\' to ship with the Emulator X Desktop Sampling System. We had just finished sampling acoustic drum kits for the PX7 Command Station, so we decided to create Beat Shop One. This disc has three acoustic kits and six incredible grooves that can be modified on the fly. The 1.45 gigabyte grand piano included with Emulator X features four layers of pedal up and four layers of pedal down. We also included orchestral strings recorded at the Saint Thomas Cathedral, a Hip Hop bank that was source for Mo\'Phatt, and the Proteus Composer bank (Proteus 2000). This is a really nice collection of sounds bundled with the software.
The new Beat Shop Two is E-MU\'s first Emulator X Sound Product release, offering three more 24-bit drum kits and a collection of grooves. As with any acoustic session, the first key to recording these kits was to pick the right drums to sample, choose the right drummers to play the drums, and decide on the best rooms in which to sample each kit. We brought an assortment of microphones and preamps into each studio, anticipating what results to expect from each piece of gear and approached each kit always keeping in mind the end result that we wanted. We recorded multiple velocities of each drum and cymbal to preserve the realism of a real acoustic drum kit.
The most time-consuming phase is the recombining of all of these sounds and creating the presets. With an enormous amount of sample data recorded, we sort through all of the samples, select the most consistent samples, and then put them together to create playable instruments. The ultimate goal with acoustic instruments is to assemble as accurate a representation of the original instruments as possible, while giving the user as much control over the sound to fit it into their specific project. All of the separate microphone samples must be mixed and balanced through all the velocities, often mixing in different amounts of each microphone. With the drum presets for example, as the velocity goes up, the more room ambience we blend in. At the end of the project, we are trying to create sound libraries that will be usable for a multitude of uses - we hope you agree.


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Age level: 18-over
Affiliation/Organization: Savannah Soccer
Sport: Soccer
News: This talented eight-member women's team, which is one of several squads playing in the large adult soccer organization, recently finished a fine 2012 fall season by defeating the Fire Flies 6-4 in the finals to win the Women's Division's annual postseason title.
Players: Roxy Burton, Lesley Frye, Carrie Graham, Jennifer Grimes, Kayla Haley, Diana Ruiz, Stephanie Todd and Marilyn Vigilant.
Next up: The team is now gearing up for their upcoming 2013 spring league season which is to begin next month.
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The night started with pizza, beer, and nerdy chats with everyone.
Then two lightning talks. The first by @tomviner (Tom), on some funny and useful python modules. `pip install oo && python -moo` Python goes moo (dad joke). `pip install e && python -me 1+2`
Next up was @otfrom (Bruce). He has a cunning plan to work on an engine that could be used later in a cross language dojo to display a game world. @otfrom is trying to see if other language dojos in london are interested in having a bot war tournament in the future. So far the clojure dojo, and perhaps the scala dojo are interested in participating.
@otfrom also announced the London dojos mailing list at: http://groups.google.com/group/london-dojos A group for people interested in programming dojos in london (not just python).
Then 30 of us took an open source game from pygame.org, forked it and hacked on it!
I brought along a big bag of joypad controllers - 30 of them. The idea was to hand out one to each person who turned up. Unfortunately, they were two controllers joined together with one USB cable. Which meant that not everyone got a controller, but 15 people got two!
But first let's rewind to the night before... [[insert tape rewinding sound]] where @ntoll and I were discussing what to do... continue on with the xmas card demo we made last time? Or instead, hack on something a bit more complete?
The more complete game chosen is an over head dungeon crawller type game. It's not at all finished, and is a work progress one. @ntoll selected it from the thousands on pygame.org It seemed to have fairly clean modular code, and be roughly what we were aiming to build.
- @ntoll github crawlr page: https://github.com/ntoll/crawlr
- original crawlr page: https://github.com/axedcode/crawlr
As is usual of the london python dojos, we split up into groups. Five teams of six people this time. 'Pair programming on steroids - and not in a good way' is how the london python dojo has been described. The room was packed, and most teams split up into two groups of three, with 2-4 laptops per group - some laptops hooked up to larger screens so people a bit further away could have a look.
At the beginning we each got 'Quests', which were little tasks made up by @ntoll.
- Add NPC characters that walk randomly around the world
- Add music and sfx for particular events
- Allow the maps to be pre-defined rather than (as is the case) randomly generated each time.
- Add static objects to the game world such as gold or food that get added to the players inventory/energy/score/whatever when they bump into them...
- Two player mode (sharing the same keyboard or with two controllers)
- Menu system (Start Game, Help, Set-up, Quit)
After coding stopped (@ntoll had to turn the lights off a few times to try and get people to stop)... the groups presented their work. It's a time for reflection and to show off what you did.
Each group managed to accomplish something. However some tasks were a bit harder than others - and they turned into reverse engineering tasks.
So by the end, we had:
- joypad control of the main character, starting the game and exiting it.
- A start on multiple player abstraction, from single player. With a small issue that the second player was not displayed on screen for some reason. A separate image is loaded and everything... it's just not displayed.
- An Non Player Character (NPC), that could move and change direction (currently in two separate code bases).
- A start on collision detection of the main character with things on the ground (like mush rooms). As this group was demoing their work, they 'lived coded' up some missing parts of the solution.
- Music, which is different for the main menu screen and the in game music.
- Sound effects, for different actions in the game... and some 'ambient' screams of FEAR and TERROR as the character walks through the forrest.
- Loading and saving of maps into a text based format. Originally the maps are randomly generated, so this needed reverse engineering to figure out how that worked too.
A bloody good result really. Especially since it was code no one there had seen (except ntoll, and me a tiny bit), and the groups only had an hour and a half to hack on things, groups with people they never worked with before, using unfamiliar libraries that some hadn't even installed until the dojo (eg, pygame).
I think some people were a little frustrated with their tasks, especially some which were more of a challenge than others. But most seemed to enjoy it.
Overall I think this Dojo was about something which the organiser didn't intend. It was about quickly figuring out a code base, and modifying it. Reading, and modifying other peoples code is a great skill to master - and if nothing this Dojo gave us some experience with that, and let us see how other people do that too.
I saw some people using class browsers I hadn't seen, some using an API from the interpreter, others weilding their custom made code search scripts - to hunt down variables.
At the end of the dojos we usually decide on what we do next. We decided to continue on with the game idea in future dojos - so we can use it in a cross language dojo bot war. We also decided that 'someone' would try and merge all our bits of code together, and that @tjguk (Tim) would present an over view of the code base if he has time at the next dojo.
Unforuntately I couldn't go to the pub afterwards - hopefully next time.
* Tim wrote about the dojo on his blog too.
* @r4vi uploaded some videos http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=63C1FD922FB37B43


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A lovestruck stablehand bombarded a strapper with texts, phone calls and emails before king-hitting her in the mounting yard on Oaks Day last year, a Melbourne court has heard.
Police allege Ricky Dight, 32, became obsessed with Leah Gavranich after a three-month fling while working with her in NSW in 2011.
He is accused of eventually punching her in the head during last year's spring racing carnival at Flemington.
Dight was arrested in South Australia on Monday and appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday.
Police allege he began harassing Ms Gavranich several months before the assault in November 2013, often approaching her at work and asking her out for while also bombarding her with texts and calls.
Sometimes Dight would wait outside Ms Gavranich's Melbourne residence and email her to say he was there, the court heard.
The king-hit on Oaks Day took place after Dight entered the mounting yard and asked Ms Gavranich out for dinner, the court heard.
He allegedly hit her when she walked away, later telling police he was still in love with her and went to the track to seek closure but "just snapped", the court heard.
Mr Dight did not enter any formal plea on Friday.
Legal Aid solicitor Sarah Westwood said he was "immensely remorseful" and would plead guilty to some of the charges, but there was some issue about the nature of an assault charge.
The case was adjourned until Monday with Dight remanded in custody.


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Eden Lake (UK - DVD R2)
Scott McKenzie has watched a good film but recommends that no one watches it
Young couple Jenny and Steve think they're going to have a nice romantic weekend together as they head off to the countryside for a camping holiday. Unfortunately for them, the idyllic part of England they have chosen is also home to some very undesirable people. When Steve confronts a group of kids, the intimidation escalates until the couple find themselves fighting for their lives. Stuck in a forest with no car, no phone and a rabble of hoodies on their tail, who (if anyone) will survive?
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but in the UK the newspapers are regularly overflowing with stories about how evil and out of control our kids are. Eden Lake unashamedly draws on the Brits' fear of hoodies and the action on screen definitely delivers Daily Mail readers' worst nightmares. James Watkins has progressed from a writer of horror movies to director and here he delivers a well-structured genre movie that delivers Texas Chain Saw Massacre-style shocks. However, be warned—with the tone as bleak as it is here, Eden Lake is no first date movie.
The world of Eden Lake is one where Jenny and Steve are the only two good people. As the movie progresses, it's clear that everyone else is either pure evil or weak enough to allow the bad guys to stop them doing good. Suspension of disbelief is also required to allow the main characters make some key decisions. I watched this movie with my fiancée and we both agreed (while shouting at the TV) that Steve did some truly stupid things. One scene at the kids' house in particular does nothing for the story apart from adding a bit more edge-of-your-seat suspense at the expense of logic.
While I may have a problem with the actions of the central characters, the actors who play them both do a good job. However, it's Jake O'Connell as Brett, the ringleader of the bad guys, who steals the show. He embodies the fears of everyone who has ever crossed the street to avoid a hoodie. The intensity of his performance grows as the violence escalates and he's the main reason you'll be squirming in your seat and talking about Eden Lake long after it's finished. Thomas Turgoose also shows up in Brett's gang, but his role is smaller than his relatively high billing suggests.
So do I recommend Eden Lake? Part of me says yes, but part of me says no. The film scholar in me recommends the movie as a decent example of exploitation filmmaking because it contains everything you expect from that genre. If you're a fan of Texas Chain Saw Massacre, you'll know exactly what to expect and will probably get plenty of kicks out of Eden Lake. Unfortunately, the overriding feeling I was left with was that I never wanted to see the movie again. With the tone as bleak as it is here and an ending that does nothing to restore your faith in the human race, this is a movie that'll keep you talking but it was one of the least enjoyable movies I've watched in a long time.
Eden Lake is presented in anamorphic 2.35:1. From the first moments of the movie, you know something bad is about to happen to the nice happy couple, but the early scenes are bright and colourful. When the tone turns darker, so does the picture on screen and the colours didn't seem as bright, even in daytime scenes. There were patches of grain in the darker scenes but certainly nothing significant enough to detract from the viewing experience. I have no complaints about the detail of the picture either. Well, other than the fact that there's nothing to get in the way of you seeing all the horrible things that are going on in the movie.
This disc comes with two audio options: Stereo and Dolby 5.1 surround. Music is important to setting the tone in Eden Lake and this transfer does its job of making it loud enough to make an impact. As you might expect from a movie set in a forest, the surround channels contain some subtle effects from time to time but on the whole there's not a huge amount going on in the soundtrack. There's nothing here to get in the way of your 'enjoyment' but there's also nothing to write home about either.
The disc opens with skippable trailers for Donkey Punch, Somers Town and Elite Squad and a Snickers ad with Mr T. The extras are very interview-heavy and making up the lion's share of the menu is a set of junket interviews with the writer-director James Watkins, main stars Kelly Reilly and Michael Fassbender, producer Christian Colson and flavour-of-the-month Thomas Turgoose. Watkins talks in detail about his idea for the story, which supposedly came to him long before the British tabloids started filling up with stories of evil hoodie kids running amok. The actors talk about the difficult physical shoot and even touch on the odd decisions their characters make.
Colson gives us his opinion on Watkins' transition from writer to director and Thomas Turgoose discusses the fact that he auditioned for the role of the main bad guy, but found he was more suited to the role of Cooper. Jake O'Connell is a main topic of conversation throughout the interviews, but unfortunately he doesn't show up to give us his thoughts on the movie and his character. There is also a Q&A with the director, but it covers similar ground to his interview. The behind the scenes clips show us the cast and crew preparing for and filming key scenes. There is no narration or common thread to this featurette and be warned—here be spoilers. Finally we get a set of TV spots and trailers.
Eden Lake is a tough watch. It's a gripping movie but I thought it was ultimately hampered by bad decision-making by the central characters and I'd describe the resulting violence and gore as 'compellingly repulsive'. I've given the movie six out of ten, but that's not really my final score. If this type of movie is your cup of tea, you can add an extra point or two. If it's not, I'd take a couple of points off and steer well clear.
Review by Scott McKenzie
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Jake O'Connell can now be seen in the third season of Skins. I have to admit, he scared the s**t of me in this film!
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It's scarier that Skins got to three series.
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I loved this movie. I watched it twice . The ending was so horrifying.
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I doubt I could watch it again tbh, it was good but not my idea of entertaining, at least with the way it ended.
I didn't realise that was the lad from Skins either, it's nice to see he hasn't been typecast, oh wait.
I didn't realise that was the lad from Skins either, it's nice to see he hasn't been typecast, oh wait.
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Extras: Interviews, TV Spots, Trailers, Behind the Scenes
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Cast: Kelly Reilly, Thomas Turgoose, Michael Fassbender
Genre: Drama, Horror and Thriller
Length: 88 minutes
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RENO, NV - About 60 wild horse advocates showed up to the scheduled meeting of Nevada's agriculture board Wednesday morning.
They had their signs and their buttons and waited patiently for the public comment to start. At issue: the Department Of Agriculture's practice of trapping horses on private property, and then sending them to auction in Fallon.
"A poorly managed auction process is nothing more than a quick dirty solution that aims to recoup costs with little concern for the fate of the animals," testified Henry Kimbell from Spanish Springs.
"My 8 year old daughter has lovingly named one Rosie. And Rosie is gone," said Mary Ann Olsner from Steamboat..
Just two weeks ago, three wild horses were killed near Steamboat on old U-S 395 early in the morning after a convertible collided with them.
The driver got away with minor injuries, but the Agriculture Department and others believe this is just the first of many accidents as the horses work their way down from a parched Virginia Range.
While some in the area are actually feeding and encouraging the horses to stay in neighborhoods, other homeowners want the horses to leave because of property damage.
"I thought that the Virginia City Range horses were safe. The cooperation agreements before with the state and with the advocates were superior in every way," said Terri Farley, an author of wild horse books for children.
The agriculture department worked with wild horse groups until 2009.
That's when the director at the time Tony Lesperance believed the unions were non-productive.
The current director Jim Barbee has decided not to re-negotiate with the fewer than a dozen groups.
We don't know if Wednesday's testimony will make any difference.
The board was instructed to simply sit and listen, and with this controversial issue, some believe that may be a good start.


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Wright admires pros at BMW Charity Pro-Am
GREER — Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright airmailed Thursday's final green after a miscommunication regarding the required yardage, before sporting a wide grin with a shake of his head.
"I think that energy drink just kicked in," Wright said. "These pros out here reminded me very quickly that I need to keep on being sheriff for a few more years."
Even while acknowledging he was keeping any professional aspirations on hold, Wright was having a blast at Greer's Thornblade Club during the opening round at the BMW Charity Pro-Am, where a potpourri of pros, amateurs and celebrities converge to produce the Web.com Tour's most unique event.
It's a tour that crisscrosses the nation with a few early stops abroad where dreams can start, be rejuvenated or simply spend their final act.
There are 40-somethings such as Woody Austin with $15.7 million in career PGA Tour earnings, or 2002 PGA Championship winner Rich Beem, who has totaled just under $10 million, refusing to give up. Then there are guys in their early 20s just starting out and others who have been at it for a few years, such as 28-year-old Texan Franklin Corpening, who holds a surprising share of the first-round lead in just his ninth Web.com outing.
There are the celebrities, such as television star Patrick Warburton ("Seinfeld," "Rules of Engagement"), who muscled up over a shot only to see it dribble about 15 yards ahead as a photographer snapped away. "Did you get that?" Warburton jokingly asked as he threw his arms in the air.
Then there are the amateurs such as Wright, who was soaking in every moment with professional playing partner Randall Hutchison. Wright spent time studying the habits of the guys who play for pay and wasn't a bit concerned about the unusual happenstance of placing his skills up for public display. The biggest thing for Wright was a nice five-hour-plus respite from the rigors of his occupation.
"It's very different when a lot of people are watching every shot you make and everything you're doing while they are following the pros around," Wright said. "It's just a great opportunity to get out here and learn about this wonderful game of golf. I like the sport very much because it takes my mind of off some of the work I have to do. I don't see dead people on the golf course and I don't see people being victimized on the golf course. It's just a very nice break, and it is a gentlemen's game and I had a great time out there."
Wright said he spent zero time watching any of the leaderboards stationed throughout the course, even as his name continued to appear near the top of the amateur team portion with Hutchison, a 25-year-old Michigan State product playing just his eighth event on this tour. The duo completed Round 1 tied for fifth after a 12-under 59 left them two behind the lead.
"I'm competitive every time I pick up a golf club," Wright said. "I want to just do the best I can do; and I don't worry about what club the pros are hitting, I just worry about what I'm trying to do. I'm not thinking about any of that stuff, I'm thinking about keeping my head down and moving around and swinging through the golf ball. I'm a hacker that just tries to keep it simple and small. It's great fun."
Wright is listed as an 18-handicap due to lack of playing time, although he acknowledges when he has a chance to play more he's closer to a 10 or 12. He said he shot no more than 10 over on Thursday. All the while, Wright tried to take advantage of what he termed a free golf clinic.
"You look at this field and you're seeing some guys that the Golf Channel is probably going to talk a good bit about the next couple of years," Wright said. "They know precisely what the ball is going to do about every single shot. It's great to be able to watch and learn from the pros. They don't hit at it hard and instead have such smooth tempo swings. They're good athletes and good people, too."


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Functional Dependencies
- Brief Explanation
- References
- Tickets
- Use Cases
- Pros
- Cons
- Original Proposal
- GHC and Hugs
- Proposed Fixes
Functional Dependencies
Brief Explanation
Functional dependencies (borrowed from relational databases) restrict the instances of a multi-parameter type class, e.g.
class ... => C a b c | a -> b
says that any two instances of
C that agree in the first parameter must also agree in the second.
They are a partial solution to the following problems with MPTCs:
- ambiguity
- imprecise types and late error reporting, arising from deferred context reduction (see FlexibleContexts).
- Type Classes with Functional Dependencies by Mark P. Jones, in ESOP 2000. A semi-formal description of a more restricted system than implemented by GHC and Hugs.
- Simplifying and Improving Qualified Types by Mark P. Jones (extended version of an FPCA'95 paper), provides background and theory on "improvement" of types.
- Understanding functional dependencies via Constraint Handling Rules by Martin Sulzmann, Gregory J. Duck, Simon Peyton Jones, and Peter J. Stuckey, September 2005. This paper explains explores the restrictions required to guarantee sound, complete and decidable type inference in the presence of functional dependencies.
- Multiple parameter classes in the Hugs 98 User Manual
- Problems with functional dependencies (email) by SPJ + paper. See also.
- AssociatedTypes are an alternative solution.
Use Cases
- Edison data structures library
- Monad Transformers library
- possible use in Hat tracer thoughtsOnMixing.ps
- In GHC and Hugs for a long time.
- Used in important libraries, notably monad transformers.
- MultiParamTypeClasses are of limited use without functional dependencies or something equivalent.
- There are (at least) three different versions of FDs, none of which is satisfactory:
- Mark Jones's original proposal. Problem: It excludes some uses of FDs (see below).
- GHC's implementation. Problem: It makes type checking undecidable (see below).
- Chameleon's implementation. Problem: Needs type inference based on constraint handling rules (not just HM). Doesn't support separate compilation atm.
- Including the dependent type parameters makes types more cluttered, and prevents hiding of these types (see AssociatedTypes).
- AssociatedTypes seem to be more promising.
Original Proposal
This is the system proposed in the original paper, with names according to the FD-CHR paper.
Suppose a class C has a functional dependency X
Restrictions on instances
The original paper imposed two restrictions on instances of the class C (sect. 6.1):
- Coverage.
For any instance
instance ... => C tany variable occurring free in tY must also occur free in tX.
- Consistency.
If there is a second instance
instance ... => C sthen any substitution unifying tX with sX must also unify tY with sY.
Haskell 98 requires that the context of an instance declaration use only type variables that appear in the head. It was originally thought that this could be relaxed (original paper, sect. 6.3), to variables determined by those in the head, but this can lead to non-termination (CHR paper, ex. 16).
Improvement of inferred types
"Improvement", as used by Mark Jones, means using information about what instances could match a predicate to instantiate its type variables, or to fail. Note that since context reduction is deferred (see FlexibleContexts), this refers not to what instances are available, but what instances are possible.
A functional dependency X → Y allows two improvement rules:
- FD improvement. If a context contains predicates C t and C s such that tX = sX, infer tY = sY.
- Instance improvement.
Given a predicate C s and an instance declaration
instance ... => C tsuch that sX = S tX for some substitution S, infer sY = S tY. (This rule is justified by the above "consistency" condition.)
Interaction with superclasses
The original version makes no changes to the treatment of superclasses, so given the classes (sect. 7)
class U a b | a -> b class U a b => V a b
the constraint set
U a b, V a c is irreducible.
(Adding a dependency to V does not change this.)
In GHC and Hugs, and the system studied in DF-CHR, the improvement rules are applied to the closure of the constraint set under superclasses.
In this example, that is
U a b, U a c, V a c, so the functional dependency implies
b = c.
(This example can also be rearranged to show nonconfluence for the original system.)
- With FlexibleInstances and no OverlappingInstances, this system is coherent and decidable (CHR paper, corr. 1).
- Unfortunately the "coverage" condition rules out instances like the following, from the monad transformer library:
class (Monoid w, Monad m) => MonadWriter w m | m -> w instance (Error e, MonadWriter w m) => MonadWriter w (ErrorT e m)
GHC and Hugs
GHC and Hugs implement the following relaxed version of the above "coverage" condition:
- Dependency.
For any instance
instance ctxt => C tany variable occurring free in tY must be dependent (using dependencies of classes in the context) on variables that occur free in tX.
They thus accept instances like the above
MonadWriter example.
Unfortunately, this relaxation breaks the guarantees of termination and coherence.
Loss of termination
The following instances (CHR paper, ex. 6) seem reasonable:
class Mul a b c | a b -> c where (.*.) :: a -> b -> c instance Mul Int Int Int where (.*.) = (*) instance Mul Int Float Float where x .*. y = fromIntegral x * y instance Mul a b c => Mul a [b] [c] where x .*. v = map (x.*.) v
and yet instance inference fails to terminate for the following (erroneous) definition:
f = \ b x y -> if b then x .*. [y] else y
Loss of confluence
The following instances (adapted from CHR paper, ex. 18) are sensitive to the order in which rules are applied:
class B a b | a -> b class C a b c | a -> b where f :: a -> b -> c -> Bool instance B a b => C [a] b Bool
Given the constraint
C [a] b Bool, C [a] c d
- if we apply the dependency first, and then reduce using the instances, we obtain
b = c, B a b, C [a] b d
- if we first reduce using the instances, we obtain
B a b, C [a] c d
(GHC and Hugs yield the former, because they defer context reduction: see FlexibleContexts).
Proposed Fixes
The following are alternatives, based on different analyses of the above confluence problem.
Modified coverage condition
The following complex relaxation of the "coverage" condition is safe (CHR paper, sect. 6), and allows the instances in the monad transformer library:
- For any instance
instance ... => C teither
- any variable occurring free in tY must also occur free in tX, or
- the functional dependency is full (involves all the arguments of the class), and the arguments tY are distinct type variables determined by the free variables of tX.
The fullness condition restores confluence, while the variable argument condition restores termination (by making instance improvement trivial).
Note that functional dependencies corresponding to associated type synonyms are always full.
Modified instance improvement
Assume the dependency condition in place of coverage. For an instance
instance ... => C t
if tY is not covered by tX, then for any constraint
C s with sX = S tX, there cannot be another matching instance (as it would violate the consistency condition).
Hence we can unify s with S t.
Local confluence is straight-forward.
(In the above confluence example,
d is instantiated to
Bool and both alternatives reduce to
b = c, d = Bool, B a b).
To guarantee termination, we would need to require that for any instance C t, each argument is either covered by tX or is a single variable.
Modified instance reduction
Another possibility is to modify instance reduction to record the functional dependency on the constraint being reduced (see http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~cr3/chr/Tc2CHR.hs).
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[Those curious about the history of the Victorian Web (which began years before the WWW in another hypermedia system) might be interested to learn that this document was one of the very first written specifically for what became this site by someone outside Brown University. (The materials on public health that Professor Wohl also contributed came from his previously published book [GPL].]
The early- and mid-Victorian years saw a quickening of interest in the whole concept of race. One thinks, for example, of Matthew Arnold's controversial works in the 1860s on the Teutonic, Gallic, and Celtic races. This interest in race accompanied a definite development of racist attitudes by contributions of some men of science. Eighteenth-century English writings, most notably those of James Cowles Pritchard, had taken as the basis of their thought St. Augustine's view that "whoever is anywhere born a man, that is a rational, moral animal, no matter what unusual appearance he presents in colour, movement, sound, nor how peculiar he is in some part, or quality of his nature, no Christian can doubt he springs from one protoplast . . . if they are human, they descend from Adam" (quoted by Nancy Stepan, The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1982, 1).
Early nineteenth-century British thought followed this monogenist doctrine (belief in a single, unified creation), but polygenism (belief in separate or unequal creations) gained ground. According to Stepan, "the story of racial science in Britain between 1800 and 1850 is the story of desperate attempts to refuse polygenism and the eventual acceptance of popular quasi-polygenist prejudices in the language of science" (30). Polygenism was a revolt against the liberal, evangelical, humanitarian spirit exemplified by the motto of the Aborigine Protection Society (which inspired the later Ethnographical Society): Ab Uno Sanguine -- From One Blood. The polygenists stressed that, unlike the abolitionist evangelicals, they were scientifically observing nature as it was, placing man in nature and viewing him primarily as a biological entity. In particular, they claimed they were returning British science to its pragmatic, Baconian traditions and rescuing it from the idealism and wishful thinking of the monogenists who viewed all mankind, optimistically, as social beings.


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Organic Foods Help Environmental Responsibility
Another reason to reformulate for organics: environmental responsibility.
Lynn Gordon, founder and CEO of French Meadow Bakery, has a passion for organic baking that began before organic was popular, back when you were considered a "nut" or a "kook," she says, for seeking out organic ingredients at small farms and tiny health food stores. It was a time when gas was cheap and environmentalists were called "tree huggers."
French Meadow Bakery (www.frenchmeadow.com), Minneapolis, still backs several environmental causes (including the Sierra Club and Heifer Intl.) and sells Healthy Hemp and other innovative breads. But now those products are going nationwide to mainstream supermarkets, co-ops and health food stores. One early client, Whole Foods, is no longer a small, niche chain.
French Meadow Bakery has grown up, in a manner of speaking, and so has the organic movement. While it's long been associated with social causes, the organic movement's evolution now is linking it to environmental concerns. Therein lies another foundation for its continuing growth – and a significant marketing opportunity for those processors willing to reformulate a little to capitalize on this association.
"Consumers purchase organic foods for different reasons, and health is certainly on the top of the list since organic foods do not have many of the additives conventional foods contain," says Kent Spalding, vice president of marketing at Weetabix/Barbara's Bakery. "There is also a general commitment by those that supply organic foods to support sustainability, fair trade and the environment."
Know the rules
USDA allows three labeling categories for organic products:
- 100% Organic — made with 100 percent organic ingredients
- Organic — made with at least 95 percent organic ingredients with strict restrictions on the remaining 5 percent (no genetically modified organisms, or GMOs)
- Made with Organic Ingredients — made with a minimum of 70 percent organic ingredients with strict restrictions on the remaining 30 percent (including no GMOs).
The Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (www.ams.usda.gov/nop/archive/OFPA.html) and the National Organic Program (www.ams.usda.gov/nop/FactSheets/ProdHandE.html) outline organic production and handling standards. Any product that bears the USDA Organic seal must be verified, inspected and certified by independent state or private organizations accredited by USDA.
Certification includes inspections of farms and processing facilities, detailed record keeping and periodic testing of soil and water to ensure growers and handlers are meeting the U.S. standards. Certifiers inspect and verify there is an audit trail tracing all organic ingredients back to the organic fields from which they were grown.
The regulations on organics are stringent, but more than the rules regarding organic claims are at issue. Organic foods have integrated into the greening of America, and those who showcase their organic products are often equally passionate about promoting sustainability.
"Organic food represents a thorough process that considers every aspect of production from soil to finished product in the light of the organic principles," says George Siemon, CEO of Organic Valley (www.organicvalley.coop), a farming cooperative based in LaFarge, Wis. Many organic marketers have implemented environmentally friendly practices such as green buildings, alternative energy, local production and sustainable investments in manufacturing efficiencies.
"Organic brands like Organic Valley broaden the process to include other criteria not covered by the USDA organic [rules] such as environmental footprint, minimal processing and animal husbandry," adds Siemon.
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In 1983, Stonyfield Farm co-founders Samuel Kaymen and current president/CEO Gary Hirshberg wrote the company's enduring mission statements, among which was, "to serve as a model that environmentally and socially responsible businesses can also be profitable." Stonyfield (www.stonyfield.com), Londonderry, N.H., has accomplished both – and, in the process, had 85 percent of its stock purchased by France's Groupe Danone. Still, Stonyfield Farm remains a leader in corporate and environmental responsibility.
Stonyfield's web site has as much about organics, wellness and the environment as it does about the company's products. Its environmental mission is at the core of the company's activities, and has been the catalyst for several high-profile projects, the latest being Climate Counts, a collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change.
In 1997, the company became the first U.S. manufacturer to offset 100 percent of its facilities emissions. New Hampshire's largest solar electric array sits atop the roof of its Yogurt Works. Stonyfield has invested in wind energy, reforestation, methane recovery, energy efficiency projects and solar energy and created the first "how-to guide" showing other companies how to offset their emissions. The company's award-winning program to minimize solid waste has prevented over 16 million pounds of materials from going to landfills or incinerators (equivalent to taking more than 1,400 cars off the road for one year).
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I've only had fish tacos once before. It's taken me awhile to warm up to the whole idea of fish in a taco. But I love them! They are nothing like the Tex-Mex tacos I've known my entire life. But they are every bit as delicious and that's all that matters.
You can use these recipes to make tacos or you can deconstruct them and eat the fish as is with the pico de gallo on top. Each component works by itself.
The tacos are layered in corn tortillas with smoky, spicy coleslaw that gets a kick of flavor from cayenne, lime juice, fresh cilantro, and toasted coconut flakes. The slaw tastes even better the second day after the flavors have time to develop. The tilapia fillets are crusted with a mixture of chopped almonds, coconut flakes, Chile powder, and panko. I baked them but you could pan fry them in shallow oil. They are finished with a Pico de Gallo speckled with bits of avocado, tomatoes, onion and fresh corn right off the cob seasoned with cilantro.
I was shocked when after eating his first fish taco, ever, my Dad proclaimed it to be just as good as eating a burger. Being a dedicated burger lover it was the ultimate compliment.
The cold, juicy coleslaw is a nice contrast to the hot and crispy fish and the mild, buttery Pico de Gallo. Insanely good. Yes, there is a fish taco heaven.


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Despite being denied by executives after rumors originally surfaced, the stock, Nexus Experience HTC One "Google Edition" is making headlines again today, after the source who originally leaked information on the Samsung Galaxy S4 with stock Android is saying a "Senseless" One is on the way.
Russell Holly of Geek.com is reporting that sources tell him the launch of a Senseless HTC One, complete with stock Android, is "imminent." Apparently, the chatter that has been getting louder surrounding the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android was the final push needed to get HTC on board with the idea. HTC's Senior Global Online Communications Manager, Jeff Gordon, reached out to Android and Me to say that, "HTC is not currently planning a 'Nexus Edition' of the HTC One," shortly after the original rumor on the such a device was started on Twitter, but things can change.
According to Holly, the stock HTC One could be announced as soon as the next two weeks. The device could see a summer release, right around the time production of the One is scheduled to double, and an update to Android 4.2.2 is delivered to the original handset.
As for how this device would be sold and updated, that's still a mystery. One of the big selling points of the Nexus Experience Galaxy S4 is that it will be sold unlocked through Google Play, and updated directly by Google. We'll be keep our ears to ground for more information.
In the meantime, which would you pick: a stock Galaxy S4, or a stock HTC One? Let us know in the comments.


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We would like to call special attention to the following stories published in 2006. These are 25 stories that we found of particular interest but could not include in the anthology itself. Congratulations to all of the writers and publications.
"Stab" by Chris Adrian
Zoetrope: All-Story, Summer
"Dominion" by Calvin Baker
One Story, no. 75
"The Creation of Birds" by Christopher Barzak
Twenty Epics edited by David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi
"Inheritance" by Jedediah Berry
Fairy Tale Review, The Green Issue
"The Duel" by Tobias Buckell
Electric Velocipede, no. 11
"The Life of Captain Gareth Caernarvon" by Brendan Connell
McSweeney's, no. 19
"The Paper Life They Lead" by Patrick Crerand
Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter
"The Alternative History Club" by Murray Farish
Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter
"Night Whiskey" by Jeffrey Ford
Salon Fantastique edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
"thirteen o'clock" by David Gerrold
Fantasy & Science Fiction, February
"Lucky Chow Fun" by Lauren Goff
Ploughshares, Fall
"Letters from Budapest" by Theodora Goss
Alchemy, no. 3
"Galileo" by John Haskell
Public Space, Spring
"The Marquise de Wonka" by Shelley Jackson
Sex & Chocolate edited by Lucinda Ebersole & Richard Peabody
"Irregular Verbs" by Matthew Johnson
Fantasy Magazine, Fall
"The Mysterious Intensity of the Heart" by Jeff P. Jones
Redivider, vol. 4 issue 1
"Bainbridge" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
"A Secret Lexicon for the Not-Beautiful" by Beth Adele Long
Alchemy, no. 3
"A Change in Fashion" by Steven Millhauser
Harper's, May
"Robert Kennedy Remembered by Jean Baudrillard" by Gary Percesepe
Mississippi Review Online, Summer
"The Man with the Scale in His Head" by Eman Quotah
Pindeldyboz Online, August 23
"Magnificent Pigs" by Cat Rambo
Strange Horizons, November 27
"Swimming" by Veronica Schanoes
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, no. 18
"Mountain, Man" by Heather Shaw
Long Voyages, Great Lies edited by Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro, and Kristin Livdahl
"Snow Blind" by Bridget Bentz Sizer
Kenyon Review, Summer
03 March 2007
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- Ellen said...
A gorgeous collection right here! Now where do I go to find out what you published in the actual volume...?
- March 5, 2007 at 4:23 PM
- Matthew Cheney said...
We're not quite ready to release the whole table of contents yet, because we're waiting to make sure all the contracts come in, all the i's are crossed and all the t's dotted, etc. We hope to be able to release it by the end of March. (A few authors and publishers have begun to announce our selection of their stories in cases where we're all set, though.)
- March 6, 2007 at 10:59 AM
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The biography of indie musician Paleface reads like something that's too good to be true.
The biography of indie musician Paleface reads like something that's too good to be true.
Among the fascinating tidbits of information:
Paleface was first schooled musically by singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston and soon discovered by legendary music executive Danny Fields (The Stooges, The Ramones, MC5); he was once a close friend of popular musician Beck, who has called him "a big influence on my early work"; and he's collaborated and performed on three albums by the Avett Brothers.
All that, plus an enigmatic image cultivated by his unfathomable-in-the-Internet-age ability to keep his real name a public secret. Even his girlfriend/drummer Mo Samalot refers to him simply as "P.F."
Born in Hartford, Conn., and having begun his music career in New York, Paleface now resides in Concord, N.C., where he continues to create a joyful blend of folk, pop and rock 'n' roll.
"Time goes by fast, I'll tell you that," Paleface said of his longevity as a musician. Since the early 1990s, he has released more than a dozen albums, including two major-label efforts.
His latest album, "One Big Party," was released by Ramseur Records, the Charlotte, N.C.-based label that famously launched the Avett Brothers.
"When we first started making that record, we were doing all these shows (traveling) in a Buick," Paleface said. "Mo and I were just driving around, playing wherever, and the only thing we had was an AM/FM car radio. We didn't have CDs, (and) we didn't have an iPod or a cassette player — none of that stuff.
"So, all we could listen to was (expletive) pop music, or we could listen to oldies or classic rock. … It's funny because I drove around for two years in a Buick and was driven insane by classic rock, and without knowing it, I made a classic rock record."
Although a few such influences might subtly seep through, to call "One Big Party" a classic rock album is a misnomer. Instead, it's the same kind of lo-fi anti-folk that has made Paleface a cult figure among indie music fans.
Paleface said he was just "plinking around" on guitar before he met Johnston, who later became the subject of an acclaimed film documentary called "The Devil and Daniel Johnston."
Johnston "had just come to New York and he was working with Sonic Youth and was like this cool, hip songwriter dude," Paleface said. "And I got to meet him, and he actually stayed with me for like a week and a half. … I was just a kid, so I was totally star-struck. I had heard his music, and I just thought it was the coolest thing.
"… He just gave me a lot of advice about 'You should tape yourself and write songs — write about yourself and what you experience and things that appeal to you.' And once I started doing that, I just went whole hog with it and never really wanted to do anything else."
Paleface said that his friendship with Beck began years before Beck achieved mainstream success with such mid-'90s albums as "Mellow Gold" and "Odelay."
"I just saw him on the street and said, 'That dude looks cool. I'm going up to him and talk to him,' " Paleface said. "…. He had this old guitar, a little Gibson, and I just said whatever I said and he started playing, like, Woody Guthrie songs or whatever.
"We became buddies and would go around playing the open mics and just hanging out together. We'd play in the subway for nickels and dimes."
When the Avett Brothers played in New York for the first time, Paleface was among just a handful of attendees and was able to forge a lasting bond with the now-famous band.
"They're just a great grassroots success story and a good example of what you can do if you have talent and you have the nerve to work hard and put yourself out there," Paleface said.


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