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Since most of the time I work on a fairly encapuslated subsystem (Python support for KDevelop) and only a smaller part of my contributions goes towards the KDevelop / Kate core repositories, I don't have any world-changing news to announce -- unlike for kate and KDevelop, no Qt5 / KF5 porting is happening yet in Python support. It doesn't make much sense to start porting until all the interfaces have stabilized.
Still, quite some interesting things have piled up in the last few months, and especially during the sprint.
In the following, I want to give a quick summary of those.
News in KDevelop
Abbreviation matching in QuickOpenSimilar to the abbrevition matching feature introduced in code completion recently, this now also works in KDevelop's quickopen.
|Abbreviations can now be used to filter the QickOpen and Outline lists.
Improvements to the Execute Script pluginSome issues were fixed in the Execute Script plugin, which is -- among other things -- used to run and debug Python files. Especially, clicking items now works properly when the output filter is being used; for common mimetypes, a suitable intepreter and output filter is pre-selected; and you can now run scripts directly from the context menu.
You can now also create launch configurations which run or debug the script which is currently active in the editor.
Revamp of KDevelop's Problem AssistantWhen you use KDevelop, you certainly noticed the small assistant at some point which pops up when there's a problem in your code for which the language engine can propose corrections. This assistant was always very useful (not so much for Python yet, but I plan to implement some in near future) but had some problems in its current implementation. Especially, it looked really bad with the default colour schemes in some distributions; and its placement choice, which made it cover toolview controls quite frequently, was perceived as odd by many users I talked to. To make this assistant more flexible and more pretty, the widget was remade in QtQuick; it integrates with your editor colour scheme now and is placed inside the editor.
|New assistant with default colour scheme for the editor
|New assistant with dark colour scheme for the editor. The blue highlight is added while you press the trigger key (default Alt, not currently configurable but could now be changed easily with the new implementation)
There's certainly room for improvement (comments welcome, just post them to the mailing list or the bugtracker), but the new implementation should make it easy to try different layouts and play with what works best.
Code completion item alignmentThe Prefix (left column) of the completion widget is now aligned to the right, to avoid jumping of the text when scrolling through the list. This makes ist easier to find e.g. a function with a specific return type.
|Types in the completion list are aligned to the right now.
Annotations sidebarAn underrated feature is the git annotations sidebar. It has been even more useful since you can bind a shortcut to it (I suggest Meta+A), which makes it very easy to look at who wrote some code, or why, and at which time it was last changed (using a shortcut was possible since the last sprint actually thanks to Aleix whom I annoyed until he implemented it because I couldn't figure out a proper way to do it). In this sprint, I fixed a few small issues with it; especially, it now uses proper colours when you have a dark editor background colour.
|The annotations sidebar now uses properly readable font colors on dark schemes.
Automatic file reloading for git-managed projectsThis feature has been there for a few weeks now but it turned out to be much more useful than I imagined (while other things I implemented turned out to be much less useful than I imagined -- such is life). If you use KDevelop with git, you almost certainly were in the situation that you used e.g. git pull or git checkout while having affected files open in KDevelop, and then got lots of popup dialogs asking "The file was changed on disk, do you want to reload it?". Those dialogs are by themselves a necessary and useful feature; they have protected me from data loss more than once, when I for example redirected the output of my program into its source file or fat-fingered some rm or git reset --hard command. For branch switches or similar operations, though, they are really annoying -- and not only annoying, but dangerous too, since a warning with lots of false positives trains the user to click "ignore" as a reflex, and thus makes it possible that data loss occurs despite the warning. The aim of this feature is thus to attempt to reduce the dialogs to those situations where data loss could actually occur. The basic idea is, "when git has a version of a document in some tree, then the user can always go back there using git, so no data loss can occur". So, when we know that a particular version of a document exists in some git commit, and that particular version of the document is currently open in the editor, and then the file gets changed on disk, it is safe to discard the open version and automatically load the new one.
This is implemented with a combination of git-hash-object and git-cat-file. When an open document changes on disk, KDevelop will take the text which is currently visible in the editor and pass it to git-hash-object. That command simply computes a checksum of the contents, which identifies the data. Then it passes this checksum to git-cat-file, which will tell KDevelop whether a file with this checksum exists somewhere in git's object datbase. If that is the case, the document is reloaded (or closed, if it was deleted on disk) automatically, without asking the user if he wants to keep the old buffer; otherwise, the old behaviour (popup dialog) is applied. The rationale is that the user cannot lose data if the check succeeds, since he can always retrieve the old version from git's object database (for most operations, simply using git checkout on the most recent entry in git reflog is enough).
The interface for implementing this for other VCS is there, but I doubt any of the current supported ones is flexible enough to support this.
News in kdev-python
Item access on unsure typesIn the python3 branch, we can now do this:
|Types are correctly deduced when a subscript is used on an unsure type.
It's a minor improvement, sure, but it didn't work before and caused quite some code to not produce the correct types.
Calltips for constructorsAnother very minor feature, but neverthereless annoying that it wasn't there so far.
|Constructors now have call tips (the popup above the cursor) like all other functions.
Less weird items in the import completion listItems containing dashes are now filtered out of the import completion list. Ridiculous feature, I know, but useful neverthereless ;)
|No more foo-bar.egg items in the completion list.
DebuggerI don't use the debugger much myself, so I didn't notice it was quite broken since the 1.5 release (something about the output view changed in kdevplatform and I didn't adjust the debugger code to work with it). Now it's fixed, though, and I backported the fix to the 1.5 and 1.6 branches. Unfortunately, the debugger is still very hackish; as a user, you will most likely not notice that, but the code is a bit troubling ;) It was originally only meant as a prototype, but worked so well that I didn't yet implement it properly. If you have interest in improving the situation here -- would be great!
Google Code-In: Specifying typesKDevelop's python support also got some cool improvements from Google Code-In tasks this year, of which I want to outline the most noteworthy ones here. There has been a problem forever with libraries like matplotlib, which kdev-python can analyze quite well if you look at the internal code, but on which it still fails to provide proper completion and highlighting in many cases because some small, central piece of information is missing. That is hard to fix; the approach of shipping with a file containing all the function and class signatures from the library (which is e.g. used for PyQt) doesn't scale well and is also very unelegant in this case because it is maintenance-heavy. What we can do now is this:
|Before: the type of the object is unknown.
|Click "Specify type" in the context menu.
|A magic dialog opens. Enter a python expression which evaluates to the type you want the object to have; in this example, [int()] which evaluates to "list of int".
|Confirm the dialog. Tada!
This is an experiment -- we'll see how well it works out in practice.
A prototype for this feature was implemented in a branch a while ago, and as part of Google Code-In, Atanas Gospodinov implemented the actual generation of the hint files from the informaton entered in the UI dialog (which is the key part of making it actually useful for end-users). In the sprint last week, I did some final fixes on it and merged the branch, and now it seems to be working quite nicely. One thing I want to emphasize when talking about this feature is that it is not meant to specify hundreds of types in your source code. If you do that, you will run into problems (consider using things like "assert isinstance(...)" instead -- it makes your code nicer, anyways).
It is meant to make system libraries, especially those for which kdev-python understands almost everything but not a few key wrappers or similar, work better without having to modify those libraries themselves. In matplotlib, if you find the right place (the root cause of a problem in the analysis), often one hint is enough to fix e.g. dozens of function return types. If, for fixing your problem, you need to specify fifty function return types by hand, this is not the right feature to use.
Google Code-In: string formattingAnother Google Code-In task which deserves to be mentioned is the string formatting completion feature. It works like this:
Unfortunately, this feature is one of the things which turned out to be less useful than I expected. That is not Atanas' fault -- his implementation is fine (it even uses kate's awesome template engine!). It's an inherent problem of the feature; you just don't do the task it supports terribly often. For this reason, I disabled its automatic invocation (i.e. automatic popup while typing) in the current master branch; it will only show up when you request it manually using Ctrl+Space. Before doing that, I personally found it getting in my way too much when typing e.g. dict indexes which were strings. And not getting into your way is one of the key design principles of KDevelop.
Another GCI student which deserves to be mentioned is Levente Kurusa, who did some smaller fixes e.g. for binary operators.
Python 3The Python 3 version is in the "python3-nofork" branch and can be compiled against Python 3.4 beta. It works quite nicely, and you could probably carefully start using it for actual work. It is even starting to gain some advantages over the Python 2 plugin, since I do no longer implement all new features in the Python 2 branch (in case ugly merge conflicts seem likely).
An official release will happen as soon as Python 3.4 gets released.
I have investigated making the Python 2 and Python 3 versions installable at the same time. Unfortunately, I currently don't see a proper way to make this work. I'll post an update in case I have an idea. Until that, the only way to get Python 2 and Python 3 support simultaneously (aka, in different KDevelop sessions which run at the same time -- in the same session it's not possible) is installing the two plugin versions into two different prefixes and creating helper scripts for launching KDevelop in those prefixes. I will publish a script which does this automatically in the future if I can't find a better solution.


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LOS ANGELES (CA) - The files released last week by America's largest Catholic archdiocese revealed new and disturbing details about how church officials schemed to protect priests accused of molesting children. But was the scandal in Los Angeles really so much worse than in other places?
Sadly, no. The details emerging from the documents mirror what happened
in archdioceses across the country, as church officials time and again
put their own concerns above the needs of victims.
One of the earliest cases to draw nationwide attention involved Gilbert
Gauthe, a priest who raped dozens of boys in rural Louisiana. By 1984,
when Gauthe was indicted on 34 counts of sex crimes against children,
church officials had been aware he was abusing children for at least a
decade. But instead of reporting his crimes, they transferred him to
another parish, where he continued to have sex with the children in his
charge. He was stopped only after a boy he raped wound up in the
hospital due to his injuries.
In the nearly three decades since the Gauthe case, more than 6,000
priests were, by the church's own definitions, "credibly" or "not
implausibly" accused of raping or sexually abusing children and
adolescents. Lawsuits and criminal charges were brought against nearly
every Catholic diocese in the U.S., and nearly 500 clerics were jailed.
- Los Angeles Times
Medjugorje: Our Lady's Message of Aprl 25, 2018
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GameStop loves its retailer-exclusive downloadable content, but Skylanders Giants DLC all comes by way of toys. What's the world's largest dedicated video game retailer to do? Exclusive toys, of course!
GameStop is now taking preorders for the Golden Dragonfire Cannon Battle Pack. a special package that contains the series 2 version of the Skylander Chop Chop, a new figure named Shroomboom and the Golden Dragonfire Cannon, which when placed on the Portal of Power while playing Skylanders Giants unlocks a special in-game battle arena.
Activision and Toys for Bob have previously released limited edition recolorations of existing toys for Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, but never before has a retailer had a lock on a figure that provides exclusive in-game benefits (except for Toys R Us' Legendary figures, which had slightly better stats) . Pretty sure this will be more of a timed exclusive situation, but collectors might want to head to GameStop and put a little money down, just in case.
Skylanders Giants hits stores on October 21.


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So the Federal Reserve has announced a third round of
rank money printing "quantitative easing," or QE III. The Fed now has more QEs in its history than the House of Windsor. The Fed is going to print $40 billion more a month "indefinitely," until job growth picks up. As I've said before, the various QEs look more like they ought to be known as Titanic easing, as they threaten the value of the dollar on the iceberg of sinking consumer and business confidence.
Rush Limbaugh said this morning (I got to listen driving up the California coast from a fine evening in LA last might with the Friends of Ronald Reagan) that he thinks this is Ben Bernanke's way of assisting Obama's re-election. Perhaps, but QE III won't do much between now and election day (except goose the stock market a bit–see my previous reflections on this) to boost tangible economic growth and jobs. I wonder if the Fed is seeing something not yet apparent to us mere mortals out in the hinterlands beyond the Beltway and Wall Street. Are the banks still in worse shape than we thought? (Friends of mine close to the banking scene tell me the big banks are still using lots of balance sheet tricks to disguise some of their significant weaknesses.) Does the Fed anticipate an even worse economy next year because of the fiscal cliff, and is trying to get out ahead of it? This doesn't seem likely to end well.
Meanwhile, when is the Obama Administration going to apologize to the American people for its abject failure to stand up for American first principles? Secretary Hillary Clinton's renewed apology today for the fact that our free speech means someone might insult Islam is appalling. We should be saying to the Islamic world: Grow up. Any religion that can't take criticism is unworthy of respect. Do Mormons go on a rampage because of the Stone and Parker "Book of Mormon" play that mocks Mormonism? Did any U.S. embassy issue an apology to Arab Christians for Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ," which was, after all, partly funded by the U.S. government? (In fact Serrano did get some death threats, but no embassies were sacked that I know of.)
Someone asked me in LA last night to compare this present moment to Reagan's handling of the Iranian hostage crisis during the transition period after the election in 1980. I recalled the joke that went around widely at the time (including on the "Arab Street"): What's flat as a pancake and glows in the dark? Iran after Reagan becomes president. In his public statements, President-elect Reagan said that the United States should not negotiate with "barbarians." That was the term he used–"barbarians." I am guessing the word has been excised from the State Department's lexicons under the current administration.
Machiavelli taught that it is better to be feared than loved. Reagan knew that the United States would only be loved for its ideals and achievements if the rest of the world also feared our willingness to defend those ideals forcefully. Posting unarmed Marines and apologizing for our First Amendment won't cut it.


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Sources tell us the woman who left the three-page text message on Brown's cell phone is Tina Davis. Davis -- who turns 40 this month -- was rumored to have had a relationship with Brown when he was 16. Brown and Davis have denied it.
Law enforcement tells us the text message to Brown talked about hooking up later -- and it totally pissed off Rihanna. She slapped and hit him and he then brutally fired back.
The detective's affidavit refers to the text message as being "from a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with."
Davis could not be reached for comment.


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The league – which is run by Leisure Leagues, Europe's largest provider of small sided soccer - kicks off on 11th December and will take place at Elmbridge Sports Hub every Monday. Games cost £30 and happen between the times of 8-10pm.
There is free entry to the league for a limited time.
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Customer Testimonials
In the past few years I've had the chance to play many incredible guitars... Fenders and Gibsons from the 50's and 60's. I've gotten to hear and feel what the real deal is. Once you've had a taste it's hard to turn back. But this stuff has gotten impossibly expensive and not really practical to own and play unless you're a millionaire or something. Thank goodness there's someone like Jason Lollar around who is inside of this stuff and totally knows and understands what's happening, and makes it available to everyone. Jason and his pickups are the real deal. Thank you Jason.
Bill Frisell
Seattle, WA
I received my Charlie Christian pickup on Friday, and following your instructions dropped it into a Tele, and have played that guitar ever since.
At the Friday night show, pretty girls sought my attention and laughed at my witty conversation. Even the bass player bought me a drink. My dandruff cleared up during the Saturday afternoon session, and by Saturday night's gig even my wife offered me sexual favours. This morning I realized the waistband of my jeans was much too large, and that I had developed x-ray vision.
Now men no longer kick sand in my face, and it's all thanks entirely to Lollar Pickups.
Very tasty.
Stuart Nisbet
Edinburgh, Scotland
I have started playing steel guitar a way back in 1948. I then went on to Fender Musical Instruments to work as an endorser and sales rep for Fender. It was there I became good friends with Leo Fender whose expertise manufacturing steel guitars basses guitars etc, became known throughout the world. In my lifetime I have seen many come and go, the one person that impressed me as much as Leo Fender is my friend Jason Lollar. Jason is a fine human being and easy to work with, does excellent work and in my opinion is "One in a Million" at his trade. His pickups and rewinding are the BEST. Jason, don't ever stop helping us guitarists all over the World. You are the BEST!!!!
Jody Carver
Musician and Former Fender Sales Representative
The Knight of Fender Tweed
I just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for building such phenomenal pickups. I purchased a Collings 290 with a set of your P90s in it and it sounds fantastic. I have read about you in many publications and a friend has a Collings CL with a set of Lollars in it. The sound of that guitar is pretty special and even though my 336 is a small size, semi-hollow body guitar, not a solid body, I decided to try a set of your humbuckers. After speaking to you, I settled on the Imperials and had them installed by RS Guitar Works along with a set of their pots, caps, etc... All I can say is WOW! The tone is so much better than the original Gibson's. The tone is now balanced across the strings and between the neck and bridge pickups. The original pick ups were either muddy, or clanky depending on the amp and tone settings, but now, the tone is just smooth, clear and clean.
Again, thanks for chasing the dragon for the rest of us.
Sure, go ahead and use my comments. I still stand by them too. My 336 sounds fantastic and it may just keep me from buying a Collings I35, hence keeping my marriage intact.
Jon Wardell
McKinney, TX
Now, I have been all around with pickups (I just sold a pair of PAF's) both original and replacement. My '50's Les Paul conversion has a pair of double white PAF's and they are arguably the best pickups I have ever heard but that is a very unique guitar that produces a rather identifiable tone. It is one of the best and I am very lucky to have it. But your Imperial Humbucker is the stuff! That is the best sounding PAF replacement pickup I have ever heard. I was shocked, as was the guy in the room with me during the replacement. That Max Les Paul just came to life and it became a completely different guitar. This is a tremendous improvement in tone. I know you are tops in the P90 market but your Imperial humbucker is its equal. Your products are the best.
John Heuring
Rochester, NY
Thanks so much for the pickups. They just arrived. I ordered them about 22 hours ago...
That is incredible.
Saul Koll Guitars
Portland, OR
I purchased a set of '52 pickups from you about two years ago and just want to let you know that I have been doing studio work and sessions for 40 years this year and have never in my life heard anything like your pickups. I completely customized a '68 Tele that was worn to crap. It was done in pristine condition with no compromise. I use a 1958 Fender Tremoloux for this guitar and turn many heads much less bodies. I wish you the best of success and a great outlook for the future with your products. If I can do anything to help you through your career, as I see many people in the recording business, please do not hesitate to let me know. I spread the word as often as I can. I am considering a Hahn model 228. Nothing I ever heard compares to it with swamp ash and your pickups. In my opinion you have found glory. God bless!
Paul M. Cambre
Mr. Lollar, this pickup of yours is nothing short of amazing!
Clean, clear tone with a lovely, great low end. Simplify wonderful!
Thank you for all your hard work & effort!
Matthew Landry
Seattle, WA
I was able to play it last night through my home-built 5E3 and Marshall 18-watt clones. My goal for this acoustically-bright guitar was a Telecaster on steroids, so I used my Telecaster to calibrate my ears before auditioning your pickup. With your pickup in the Epiphone, I was immediately hearing the exact sound I was after! It has the output and push of a humbucker with the twang and articulation of a single coil. The grunt deficiency in the midrange is totally cured. Pick squeals are effortless. I really like how it cleans up from the guitar's volume being rolled back, as none of my amps are channel switchers.
I usually like to wait a few weeks before I make a final judgment on a piece of gear, but there is no need to do that in this case; this pickup is fabulous and does exactly what I want it to!
Thanks a heap!
Drew Ballantyne
Independence, MO
The pickups give nice crunchy rhythm tones and compress nicely when digging in on single note runs. I am typically a fender guy and I mostly play strats with 57/62 pickups. But these P 90's are killer. I just wanted to say thank you for making a wonderful pickup and I am proud to have them as a wonderful asset to my Chaz DePaolo Wicked Instruments signature model. Thank you once again and keep up the good work!
Chaz DePaolo
Bayonne, NJ
I received the imperials and installed them. Exactly what I was looking for! I had a '59 ES-345 with zebra bobbin PAFs that I had to sell a few years ago to get a mortgage down payment together. Now I've fully got the tone of that guitar coming out of this $370 Epiphone Dot! That's a beautiful thing.
Awesome pickups. Thanks again,
David Rogers
Brooklyn, NY
I wanted to drop you a line and tell you how jazzed I am with your P90s. I have to sit on a towel now when I play because I frequently wet myself over the tone. After playing stock humbuckers for 20 years, it's like playing a whole new guitar. The clarity is incredible up and down the spectrum on both pickups. I'm playing better because I can hear all the nuances of each note! I just love that 'sproing' sound of the pick attack. I could never bring that out with the old pickups. And man are these things quiet! No hum here. I was somewhat afraid to install the P90s because I thought I might be disappointed. Wow, no worries! I'm in Black Sabbath, Santana and Allman Brothers heaven each time I plug in.
Doug Gordon
St. Louis, MO
Thought I would drop you a line to say that I have installed a set of your P-90 pick-ups in my gold top Epi as well as one of your Vintage-T Tele pickups in my overseas Tele.
I also—as per your instructions—changed the pots, caps and output jacks that I also purchased from you in each guitar. The best way I can describe the sound without getting an X rating on this message is that it was like getting your first deep kiss ever. The sound was that unbelievable.
My amp that I thought was always a bit on the muddy side cleaned up and never sounded better and all was well with the world.
I just placed an order for the matching neck pickup for my tele and I plan on changing the pickups in some of my more expensive guitars because if your pickups can make my knock around instruments sound that good I can only imagine what they can do for a more expensive guitar.
Thank you for all the good advice and for such a great product.
Thank you,
Robert Berardi
Howell, NJ
I bought a set of your strat specials about 2 yrs. ago. I've been playing damn near 40 yrs., and a whole lot of that as a pro. I own several strats, and other pickups, & teles of course. However, after nearly 2yrs. living and working with your specials, I feel that I've got a good handle on them. They are inspiring to play, so "toney," so ugly, so smooth, so everything. I cannot imagine working without them, and the strat that houses them has become my favorite, getting used about 75% of stage time. No, my dandruff hasn't cleared up, and women still think I'm ugly, but I had to tell you how much I love these p.u.'s. I don't sound like Phil Brown, but I hear some of that beautiful high end, and guttural bottom end, when I listen to his cds. I can tell at once when he is using the specials. I'm not trying to blow smoke up your skirt, I'm just a working musician who isn't led by the latest trend, just tone. I know you are busy, so thank you for these pickups, they make my others sound lacking, and they are decent p.u.'s, but the specials are truly special, probably the best set I'll ever own. My Lord, what tone.
Jim McArthur
Radcliff, KY
Had them installed yesterday worked on them for a few hours last night - they sound fantastic!! Incredible - My long out-of-favor Tele is back in The Fold again!!! Thank you, thank you!!!!
Daniel Jans
Vancouver, BC
The low wind Imperials sound unreal! The stock pickups sounded pretty good but these are just awesome. Warm, dynamic, smooth, clear and all the other clichéd adjectives. The bridge pup sounds like a great rock & roll PAF, the neck pup sounds smokey and great for jazz & blues and both pups together sound perfect for rockabilly. Great, great set up. Could not be happier.
Billy Penn
Toms River, NJ
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I received my Lollar P-90 today and it kicks ass! It destroys ass. It lights ass on fire and roasts weenies over the flames! As soon as I pulled it out of the box I could see the quality workmanship, heavier and better looking than my original Gibson. You can count on another 5 star review on Harmony Central. Great pick up and a very fair price! Thanks guys!!!
Brian Yamato
Prague, Czech Republic
PS—Even though I want to sound better than everyone else, I'll let the secret out.
You must hear this all the time but your pickups are unreal. I have never, ever heard such an expressive sound out of pickups. You have a gift.
Tim Drnec
Placentia, CA
So amazed about your jazz master and jaguar pickups...I had to write you about it.
We are used to your very fine products, but we are very happy to discover you can surprise us even more. We had the chance to listen to a Jazz Master of one of our customers we just put on your pickups and we got astonished about the beauty of the tone you achieved. Furthermore one of our costumers from Pamplona wrote us about the Jaguar ones in the same way. Please never give up doing the things the way you do.
Best Regards.
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Greetings Lollar Guitars,
I just received and installed the two Fender Trapezoid pickups that were repaired for my old Dual Professional, and they sound better than I've ever heard them! I wanted to send an extra "thanks-a-million" for the incredible service. I'm well aware that you went out of your way to get the pickups repaired sooner than you usually do them. Also, thank you for keeping me informed and updated, which in the area of guitar repair, is very rare compared to my past experiences. I will certainly recommend your company to everybody and anybody in need of pickup repairs, replacements, etc. I will also look to your company first whenever I need anything in that area.
Thanks a lot,
Sean Ziegler
Austin, TX
Jason and everyone,
A note to say thank you, thank you, thank you for your outstanding pickups. As you know, Jason, when it comes to old Fender pickups I split hairs...until you came along it has been impossible to find someone who makes pickups that actually sound like those old greasy beasts....Recently I have started listening again to Robbie Robertson, Albert Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson, got knocked out again by that tone and tried to find something that actually sounded like a warm, fat, sprongy bridge pickup...the sound of bacon fat armed with an icepick and out for murder...
You've nailed it. I threw in your Vintage T tele bridge pickup and it made my hair stand on end...in a GOOD way. That's THE sound, man, of those old overwound pickups, the more I turn it up the fatter it gets...the top end is NEVER unbalanced or harsh, and the mids just sing and the lows sound like Jimmie Vaughan trapped in a Folger's coffee can...clanky, woody, fat and warm.
Thanks again, Jason, and feel free to pass my comments along to your customers. You are the MAN!!!
Tim Sherman
Seattle, WA
Not only are your pickups the most badass there is, your service is amazing!!!
Just received order!!!
Tonight is gonna be so sweeeeet. Unskinny Bop will have never sounded so good!!!
Trent Crawford
East Gosford Music
Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
Just felt compelled to write a quick note to say thanks!! I am blown away by these pickups! I am 56 years young and have been playing since I was 15 so I have had many guitars.....My tone search is over. Thanks for the time and effort you have put into your craft. These pickups are truly more "musical" than any I have had in any guitar ever. Much respect and gratitude,
F. David Will
Crawfordsville, IN
I just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how much I like my new Lollar P-90s that I purchased a few weeks ago. I had picked up a cheap Gold top reissue with a great neck, fret board, etc., but with all the cheap parts that come with it. I completely gutted the thing and put in all new pots, jacks, switches, wiring, and capacitors along with my new Lollar P-90s. Wow! This thing is an animal now and will hold its own against any stock Gibson with P-90s without a doubt and I think might even be better. A buddy of mine that normally says he doesn't care for P-90s was amazed at the smooth creamy tones you can get out of the neck pickup and was totally impressed with the mean, nasty (in a good way) sounds you can get out of the bridge pickup. I'm an extremely satisfied customer and will have no problem at all letting everyone know, when I'm asked, "Damn--what kind of pickups are those?" that they are Lollars. And me, I'm smiling because this is exactly the result I was looking for.
Thanks a bunch,
Tim Nolte
Chesapeake Beach, MD
I just sent this tonight to one of my students, it explains my excitement and appreciation for your artwork. I got the Jason Lollar blondes, they are the best sounding, feeling pickups I've ever laid my hands on. I didn't know that pickups could make such a change. They are stunningly soft, poppy, toneful, soul machines. Incredibly responsive, this guy is the Stradivari of the pickup. Ordered a set for my tele a few days ago. Forgot to mention what no one else seems to have noticed, they are very quiet too.
I play guitar for a living and since childhood I've had a hunger and curse of always trying to achieve a better sounding and FEELING guitar, amp, pedal combination. I've never felt and heard such drastic change and improvement as when I installed your Blonde model strat pickups. They sound great with one of the best sounding guitar amps ever made; a narrow panel tweed super, (I have two of them) and also just as wonderful; a narrow panel tweed deluxe. (I have three of these) Thanks so much. May you have as happy and productive a life as Mr. Stradivari (he is believed to have made about 1200 violins, violas and cellos, worked into his 90's).
D. Trainer
Just installed the Jazz Bass neck and bridge pickups in my 2003 Fender Highway One Jazz Bass. Wow—what a difference! Just the tone I was looking for without the need to invest in a new instrument. While I'm sure you receive lots of letters from those who have installed your pickups in expensive instruments, I wanted you to know that those of us with more modest instruments appreciate your efforts as well.
All the best,
Mike Borkum
Hello Mr. Lollar,
I am sure you get emails like this every day, so there is no need for you to respond, but I would be remiss if I didn't write you. I bought a Nash telecaster last week and it arrived yesterday, equipped with your pickups and it is the best sounding guitar I have ever owned, and I have owned a lot. I have a lot of telecasters, some sounding better than others but I had given up ever having a great tele tone and chalked it up to operator error. Yesterday I saw what a truly great pickup can do for a guitar. Your pickups make all the other pickups I own sound like something coming up from under the water.
I could go on forever, but you've heard all this before from much better players so I'll conclude with saying your work is astonishing and the glowing Tone Quest recommendations don't go far enough. Thanks for such great tone.
Charlie Lacy
Rochester, MN
Hello Jason,
The Charlie Christian pickups for telecaster you made for me (neck and bridge) are still the "toniest" (is that a word?) pickups I have laid hands on. Admittedly I am a recreation player and someone more capable than myself could more than likely push the tone further, but I am so damn impressed every time I play through them.
My whole focus has changed to playing clean and hearing the notes. I started picking up pre-war blues, Charlie Christian, swing and jazz; it simply knocks me out. Thanks for all your hard work!
Tim Smith
I've been a fan of your pickups for a while, and recently had the chance to install a set of your Imperial humbuckers for a customer. I have to say I was very impressed. I have another manufacturer's humbuckers in two of my guitars, and thought I was pretty happy. But the Imperials, at least in the guitar I was working on, really had a different character and musicality that I can't get out of my head. I hope to be getting a set for myself soon. I already own a set of your mini-humbuckers and love them. My coworker is an Epiphone Wilshire/Coronet fanatic, and the other day we happened to have 4 of them in the shop—a '64 and a '68 with original Gibson/Epiphone mini-hums, a '66 with a Lollar p-90 in the bridge, and another '66 with Lollar mini-hums. All of them sounded great, but I was thrilled to find that the Lollars were my favorite of the bunch. All the character of the old ones, but slightly brighter and tighter, with better definition throughout. We would be excited to become a Lollar dealer based on these experiences.
Brian Watson
Portland Custom Shop / Sick String Guitar Repair
Portland, OR


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Best Mascaras for Longer, Thicker, Blacker Lashes
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MAC Plushlash ($11.00) is my all-time favorite mascara. It's exactly what it says: plush. I always get ultra black, thick lashes with this mascara. No matter how many mascaras I try, I always end up coming back to Plushlash. I think, ultimately, I might make the switch to Chanel Exceptionnel if it weren't so pricey (and not 2.5x better than Plushlash). MAC's Zoomlash is another good one, though I feel it's a little more prone to clump, though it has the super black color I love.
Givenchy Phenomen'Eyes ($28.00) is one of those new-fangled mascaras, because it has a crazy mascara "wand" which looks more like a spiky ball. This works best without a primer, as when I used it with MAC's Prep + Prime, I found it smudged.
Dior DiorShow Iconic ($27.00) beats out the original DiorShow for me, because Iconic doesn't smudge or flake like DiorShow (the original) did for me. DiorShow is a classic mascara, known for its dramatic lengthening, thickening, and ultra rich pigmentation of black.
Lancome Oscillation ($34.00) is a moving mascara. Oscillation doesn't come cheap, but it really does work well to give you long lashes without clumping them up. It does take several applications to get the hang of it, and you'll have to figure out what technique works best for you. You can read my full review if you please.
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ROCHESTER — After an end cap burst in Restaurant 103's sprinkler system Tuesday morning, owner Steve Moody says the restaurant is back up and running with little impact to the Mexican smokehouse establishment.
Shortly after the restaurant reopened following months of repairs in the spring of 2011, when a heater malfunction led to a burst water pipe then, too, the staff referred to themselves as "underdogs" for enduring the event.
Moody, a Rochester native who has worked for the restaurant for the last 26 years and took over as owner last summer, said that theme hasn't changed since he took the North Main Street location over.
"We've been through quite a bit," he said. "…(But) we never let that get us down."
Firefighters were on scene for about an hour Tuesday using vacuums to suck up water that was seen flowing out onto the sidewalk from the sprinkler break. Moody said there was minimal damage and even though his office flooded, the restaurant was reopened later that night.
Moody added restaurant chefs smoke all of their meats every morning. He fondly remembers working as dishwasher when he attended Spaulding High School, noting he has held every position in the building. He said he jumped at the opportunity to actually buy the restaurant and take it over in July 2012.
It's not typical for the department to assist with every flooding issue, but Assistant Fire Chief Mark Dupuis said his crew wanted to help Moody get to a point where he could continue the rest of the cleaning up on his own.
Regarding Tuesday's incident, Moody said he couldn't thank the Rochester Fire Department enough for their help.
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A New Tavern in the Town
Another reason to visit Uptown Kingston: the Stockade Tavern
Old-time ambiance at the brand new Stockade Tavern
Last week, gadabout that I am, I was at the soft opening of a new watering hole in Kingston's historic district: the Stockade Tavern — a "classic American drinking establishment," as the owners, Giovanna Vis and her husband, Paul Maloney, call it. This is not your ordinary bar. "We're taking our cocktails very seriously," says Vis ("Jenny" to her friends). "Cocktails were invented in the 1800s," she continues, "and, like all our food, they've become processed. So we're doing traditional, well-crafted cocktails that you don't find in bars around here."
Maloney, 48, is a painter, and Vis, 38, has a Masters in museum studies, which makes them ideal bar owners. But to be thorough, Maloney took an intensive course from Dale DeGroff "and learned the history of alcohol" and everything about cocktails, Vis says. (DeGroff, aka King Cocktail, Wikipedia reveals, is the man who triggered the world-wide cocktail revival in the late '80s when he was mixologist at Manhattan's Rainbow Room — and got a James Beard award last year for his efforts.)
"Let me tell you about the ice machine," Vis says. "This is a little esoteric, but if you're a real cocktail drinker, ice is important. Our ice cube is a perfect one-inch cube. The ice cubes with the big dimple, those melt so quickly that if you shake the drink long enough to make it cold, it waters it down. With our ice, only the appropriate amount of water melts into your drink."
With that much devotion to ice cubes, you can imagine how delicious the cocktails are. The pours are measured, so the drinks are consistent, and the recipes are from the golden days and made with high-quality ingredients and fresh juices. Check out the Ward Eight (Old Overholt rye, lemon juice, and house pomegranate grenadine) or the Airmail (Rhum Barbancourt, fresh lime juice, honey syrup and cava). "One of our favorites is the 20th Century," made with Beefeater gin, Lillet Blanc, white crème de cacao and lemon juice, Vis says. "The combination sounds insane, with that chocolate element in the crème de cacao, but it's surprising how it comes together, it's very balanced."
If you're not in a cocktail mood, there are a few wines, including some sparkling ones; 20 bottled beers and four on tap, including Yuengling from America's oldest brewery; a stout; and a couple of regionals, none of which you're likely to find at the next bar down the block, she adds. "We'll have Bud in a can, but it's really just because we want everyone to feel comfortable."
Delicious cocktails, unusual brews, and a friendly vibe
Simple savory nibbles might be grilled sausage; smoked cheddar cheese with fresh onion, stone-ground mustard, and wheat crackers; a pickle plate with hot-baked pretzels; and sardines in the tin. "We want the drinks to be highbrow and the food to be a little bit sophisticated but not complicated," says Vis.
The Stockade Tavern is in the old Singer sewing machine building (you may remember the other half of the ground floor — now a gallery — was once a notions and fabric shop with an entrance on Wall Street.) The ornate tin ceiling and the diamond-paned, Tudor-style windows are original, but the interior is otherwise new, even though it looks old. Vis masterminded the Federal-style design, adding paneled walls to disguise cracked plaster, deep crown molding, a curved bar and angled banquettes. She and Maloney did a lot of the work, and her father and brother, Jerry and Ben Vis, are master carpenters who did the hard parts. "We left the Singer emblem on our door, and our tables have iron sewing-machine bases, to give a nod to the history," she notes. "We're trying to keep a convivial atmosphere — a nicer, quieter place to go. No TV or pool table, and the music will be low. We don't want anyone to have to yell."
Maloney is on record that the couple hopes to attract everyone "from a politician to a drag queen," which these days doesn't sound like a very broad range, so let me add that it's inviting for any imbiber. Vis, Maloney, and sculptor Don Johnson, who owns the building and is a partner, hope the tavern will bring more life to Kingston's Uptown. There are cute shops and some terrific restaurants nearby (Elephant and Le Canard Enchainè, to name but two). Go have a drink, and celebrate the revival of the great American cocktail.
» Stockade Tavern, at 313 Fair St., opens on Saturday, May 29 without fanfare, unless you count a heads-up from the Accidental Foodie. Thereafter, you can go on Thursdays through Sundays, from 4 p.m. to closing.


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In January 2009, about 100 south Palo Alto residents met inside Palo Verde Elementary School to discuss, and possibly shape, the future of their neighborhood.
The meeting focused on an effort by Palo Alto officials to revamp the zoning laws in this portion of the city to accommodate a recent crop of large residential developments. Planning staff and consultants solicited suggestions from residents, who happily obliged. A few lobbied for a new footbridge to span U.S. Highway 101; one proposed a sandwich shop; several lobbied for a bike path and park space.
Participants did agree on one thing: The last thing the neighborhood needs is new housing. One resident, Ben Lerner, won nods of approval from other attendees when he complained about changes in Palo Alto always entailing the city becoming "bigger, taller, more crowded, more dense and with more stories."
The demographic data that the U.S. Census Bureau released Tuesday is likely to confirm and quantify the observations of residents in Palo Verde and other south Palo Alto neighborhoods. Over the past decade, Palo Alto has become more populous, adding nearly 6,000 residents citywide but particularly impacting the south. It also became more diverse, with the city's Asian population going up by 73 percent, or about 7,000 people. An analysis of census tracts indicates that Palo Verde and the neighborhoods next to it are at the forefront of these changes.
The census showed the city's population growing by 9.9 percent between 2000 and 2010, from 58,598 to 64,403. The city's Asian population, meanwhile, grew from 10,090 to 17,461 residents. While the city's Asians made up 17.2 percent of the city in 2000, they comprised 27.1 percent in 2010. The city's white population, meanwhile, dropped by more than 3,000 over the past decade. White residents made up more than three quarters of the city's population in 2000. Now, they make up less than two thirds.
City officials, much like residents, view the new census results as not so much a revelation as a pretext for a larger conversation with the community. They praise the increased diversity, while acknowledging the need for "smart growth" and transit-friendly developments to accommodate the overall population increase.
"I think this region in general expected this type of growth," Mayor Sid Espinosa told the Weekly. "We knew that the city has seen growth, and the numbers aren't shocking.
"The good news is that Palo Alto has done a good job in planning for this type of growth and working to do it in a smart way."
Espinosa said the city is already addressing the recent population spurt by using zoning regulations to encourage housing and mixed-use developments near transit corridors -- encouragements that they hope will promote vibrant neighborhoods near train stations and mitigate some of the traffic impacts.
At the same time, Espinosa said the city still has plenty of work to do to address the city's most dramatic demographical shift -- the sharp increase in its Asian population. The trend has already been documented in school data, which shows an influx of students of Asian descent. One of every three high-school students in Palo Alto is Asian, and in eight schools in the city, Asian students make up more than 40 percent of the student body.
At Hoover Elementary School, which is located on East Charleston Road in south Palo Alto, Asian students comprise 78 percent of the student body.
Some members of the Asian population have recently become involved in civic life. Yoriko Kishimoto became the first Asian mayor in Palo Alto's history in 2007. Vice Mayor Yiaway Yeh is slated to become the second next year.
But most members of Palo Alto's growing Asian community have been far less visible in civic affairs. Espinosa said he hopes that trend will change.
"While we've seen that increase in the school-district data, we haven't necessarily seen a broader integration of the Asian community across the different traditional groups and agencies," Espinosa said. "We're talking about active involvement in neighborhood associations, serving on the board of nonprofit organizations, taking on business leadership in the Chamber of Commerce and having a greater representation on boards and commissions.
"I think it behooves us as a city to really have an open dialogue about the changing demographics of our community and how we can make sure that everyone is made welcome in our community."
Both trends have been particularly visible in south Palo Alto, where several large housing developments opened their doors over the past decade. In the census tract that includes Palo Verde and the area around East Meadow Circle, the overall population went up by 17.5 percent (787 people) over the past decade. That area accommodated four new developments: Altaire, BRIDGE Housing, Vantage and Echelon. At the same time, the proportion of white residents in this tract fell from two-thirds in 2000 to half in 2010 while the Asian population nearly doubled, going from 1,069 to 2,045.
A nearby tract that includes Ventura and Charleston Meadows neighborhoods experienced a similar shift. The long and narrow tract, which is bounded by El Camino Real and Alma Street and which stretches from Oregon Expressway to Adobe Creek, saw its Asian population spike by 92 percent, from 928 to 1,785, while the overall population grew by 13.5 percent.
The area, much like the neighborhood around East Meadow, has been a magnet for new housing and the new anxieties that accompany this housing. Recent projects include 181-home Arbor Real development, which went up on the site of the former Hyatt Rickey's hotel, unleashing a wave of criticism from area residents and land-use watchdogs about emerging parking and traffic woes.
The demographic changes in south Palo Alto could, in some ways, be epitomized by an October 2008 public hearing on a then-proposed (now approved) development for low-income residents on West Charleston Road. At that hearing, Arbor Real resident Jenny Zhang brought in a petition signed by 75 neighbors who expressed concern about the new project's potential traffic impacts.
"We really have to consider our children's safety," Zhang said at the public hearing -- the same concern other area residents shared several years prior, when Arbor Real was receiving its own approval.
A tract-by-tract analysis of census data showed more measured growth in Palo Alto's northern neighborhoods. The tract that includes Downtown North (north of University Avenue) and University South (south of downtown) grew by 5.8 percent overall, with its Asian population increasing by 89 percent. Just east of Middlefield Road, in the affluent Crescent Park neighborhood, the overall growth was 3.9 percent. Its Asian population went up by 74 percent.
At the opposite end of the scale is Old Palo Alto, which did its name justice by remaining virtually frozen in time. The population remained flat over the past decade (increasing by 34 people), and white residents continue to make up more than 80 percent of the affluent neighborhood between University South and Midtown. By comparison, white residents constitute 64 percent of Palo Alto's overall population.
The Midtown neighborhood, meanwhile, stood out as a demographic microcosm of the city as a whole. The new census showed that white residents made up 61.8 percent of Midtown, while Asian residents made up 28.8 percent. The neighborhood grew by 7.2 percent over the past decade, according to the census.
Matthew Snipp, a Stanford University sociology professor who focuses on demographic changes and who lives in Palo Alto's Barron Park neighborhood, said the new census was consistent with the trends he has personally observed around the city. Though he noted that California's overall population growth fell to its lowest level in the last decade than in any other decade since World War II, growth was stronger in Bay Area.
In many cases, people come for jobs, Snipp said. Not surprisingly, cities like Palo Alto, which have a wealth of high-tech jobs, tend to attract more people, he said. It also helps that Bay Area has traditionally been a popular destination for Asian immigrants, particularly since American immigration laws were relaxed in 1976, he said.
"If you look at the new housing that has become available and the number of new businesses and industries and the fact that Asians are a fast-growing segment of the American society, it appears that many of the people are coming here for jobs," Snipp said.
The influx of Asian residents isn't unique to Palo Alto. Statewide, the Asian population grew by 31.5 percent, and its share of California's total population went from 10.9 percent to 13 percent. California's Hispanic population also went up by 27.8 percent over the past decade, from 10.9 million to 14 million. That trend has been a bit less dramatic (though no less true) in Palo Alto, where Hispanic residents now make up 6.2 percent of the population, compared to 4.6 percent in 2000.
Snipp said these California trends could ultimately extend to other parts of the nation.
"The state is become ever more diverse and, in some ways, I think California is leading the nation in terms of the turnover in the demographic composition of the country," Snipp said. "The rest of the country will most likely catch up to where we're at."
• Census 2010: Quick facts about Palo Alto
• By the numbers: Tract-by-tract race and housing figures
View the map for the location of each tract.


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Request - Creating the Environment to Write... Part 1
Some good questions came through my email last week about writing environments.
Because I am someone who is interested in these questions and may ramble on about them, I may break it down into two or three posts....
Here are the questions I'll be responding to--
Over the years, what tricks or rituals have you tried to set the tone or mood in your mind to start writing? What has worked and what hasn't?
For a while, I would light a candle or incense on desk before writing to *inspire* me. The problem with this is I have cats and it ended up being a bit of a hazard as they walked by. I didn't want anyone's tail aflame, so I stopped doing that. (It really did become more of a distraction than a help.)
I would also allow myself 20 minutes to play around on email or check blogs and websites before writing. To me this was similar to a dog circling before it settled down and I too was circling before the big-deal of writing. This worked well until 20 minutes became 40 minutes and then sometimes 90 minutes of wasted time before beginning. I abandoned this technique for that reason.
Now I have an easier ritual for writing.
I write down on my daily to-do list what project I want to work on and a time limit.
Non-fiction project: 45 minutes
Write a poem: 15 minutes
The funny thing here is that I *always* spend more time on the project than I write down, but giving myself a time limit makes me begin because I can see it as a small step I can complete. Anyone can write for 15 minutes, you just have to sit down and write (as I've said, If you can speak, you can write.)
Sometimes I will schedule an exact time: 9:30 am - revise poems.
When that time comes around I make sure I start.
Much of writing is tricking yourself to begin. If it means, a cup of coffee (something I always have when I begin) and putting a flower on your desk will make you start, then do it.
I find that something that works and then I do it until it doesn't work and try something new. Mostly, it's about showing up. And staying off of email or websites that can get me lost in something unproductive.
Email is a classic time waster. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I love receiving emails, but I despise the feeling of "chore" they give me. As someone who doesn't like clutter, seeing a full email box kind of overwhelms me. So I allow myself email time write when I first wake up and have my cereal just to get it over with. (And I find if I check email on my iPhone I can delete faster and answer faster because responses tend to be shorter because an iPhone has a tiny keypad that isn't fun to type on.)
So for me, just beginning is all I need at this point in my life. Writing down what I'm going to do and for how long and showing up.
But if there's a ritual that helps you write, do it! I might start one in the fall when I return daily to my writing shed. I'll let you know if I do.
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The Massachusetts Gaming Commission could decide as early as next week whether to begin soliciting applications for a commercial casino in southeastern Massachusetts, where the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe hopes to build a tribal casino in Taunton.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission could decide as early as next week whether to begin soliciting applications for a commercial casino in southeastern Massachusetts, where the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe hopes to build a tribal casino in Taunton.
"It's on the agenda for next week," Commissioner Jim McHugh said during Thursday's weekly meeting.
The Gaming Commission met last week to discuss whether to begin soliciting applications for a commercial casino in southeastern Massachusetts, or Region C, but did not make a decision at that time. The Mashpee hope to build a tribal casino in Taunton under federal law and have an application pending with the federal Department of the Interior to have land taken into trust to establish a reservation, a requirement for opening a casino under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
An attorney representing the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe claims the Massachusetts Gaming Commission currently lacks the authority to consider opening southeastern Massachusetts to commercial casino applications.
"The Commission's authority with regard to Region C is expressly limited to taking action only when, and if, the Secretary of the Interior determines that she 'shall not' take land into trust for the Tribe," Attorney Howard M. Cooper wrote in a letter sent Thursday to the Gaming Commission. "This legislative intent was reaffirmed when the General Court approved the July 2012 Compact, and will be confirmed again when it approves the new Compact."
McHugh said Thursday that he disagrees with the tribe's attorney and maintains that the panel does have the authority to solicit commercial applications in Region C.
Concerned that the Mashpee have stalled out and face a dead end on their quest to meet the federal requirements for opening a tribal casino, several state legislators and local officials have urged the Gaming Commission to open the southeastern region to commercial casino license applicants.
The tribe and a number of Taunton officials say the Mashpee are well on their way to satisfying the federal requirements to have land taken in trust and have asked the commission to keep the tribe's regional exclusivity intact.
A central issue in the tribe's pursuit of reservation land is the Supreme Court's 2009 Carcieri v. Salazar decision, which suggests that the federal government cannot take land in trust for a tribe that wasn't under federal jurisdiction at the time of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
The Mashpee, who were federally recognized in 2007, claim they were under federal jurisdiction long before 1934.
A grassroots group opposing the tribe's plan to build a casino in Taunton, however, has found several federal records and letters from both before and after 1934 that state the federal government did not consider the Mashpee to have been under federal jurisdiction.
Attorney Adam Bond, a former Middleboro selectman representing the group, referenced the documents during last week's Gaming Commission meeting and sent a letter to the Department of the Interior urging them to reject the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's land-in-trust application.
"It is beyond dispute that the Department of the Interior has held firm, since as early as 1899, that the Mashpee Wampanoag were not under federal jurisdiction both prior to and after 1934 — a fact that deprives the Department of jurisdiction to grant the currently pending application," Bond said in the letter.
Cooper, the tribe's attorney, asserts that interpretation is incorrect and that the Mashpee have documented that they were under federal jurisdiction before 1934.
"Such statements to Native Americans from a federal government then seeking to disclaim its responsibilities are common and do not determine the inquiry," Cooper stated. "Interior has taken land into trust in situation where similar erroneous correspondence from the federal government exists."


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It's right that Americans love grasses. The extent to which grassy plains once stretched across the country -- from Denver east almost to the Appalachians -- stuns the mind. One of the great natural endowments of this land, these grass plains are now devoted mostly to other kinds of grass, corn in particular.
If this natural-looking sweep of grass is something you'd like to incorporate into your landscape, consider planting a section to native meadow grasses and flowers. More like gardens than lawns, these meadows or mini-prairies are usually restorations of the grasses and flowers that grow naturally in the area (or close approximations of that ideal), made for viewing, walking through and enjoying. These plantings are quite dynamic, especially in the first few years. And they require far less weekly attention than the traditional manicured lawn.
American meadow grasses are grouped by height: tallgrass, midgrass and shortgrass. Native to the Midwest and mountain states, any of these are worthy of serious consideration for planting in these sites. In other regions, these grassland types can serve as models for planting other, more locally adapted species. The height is important for the visual impact as well as the uses of the meadow area. It's easier, for example, to walk around on a shortgrass meadow than on a mid- or tallgrass meadow, and it is easier to see across a short or midgrass meadow than a tallgrass type.
Before planting your meadow, it's well worth taking the time to till the area, water it, wait for weed seeds to germinate, then till again. Tilling under the undesirable species will eliminate most of the troublesome plants. For really difficult perennial species like smooth brome (Bromus inermis) and Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), however, it may be necessary to consider an herbicide like Roundup. A bit of pioneering spirit and some perseverance helpful, too -- meadow landscaping is much less familar to most gardeners than traditional lawnscaping."
Shortgrass meadows tend to grow ankle-high or lower and are the predominant grasslands of the western high plains, where the Rocky Mountains rain shadow results in the driest conditions on the Great Plains.
Dominant grasses of these regions are buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis). Buffalograss is a vigorous, spreading grass that chokes out many wildflowers. On the other hand, blue grama grows in non-spreading tufts so is much less competitive with wildflowers. In order to successfully incorporate wildflowers into a shortgrass meadow, either plant the entire meadow area with blue grama or plant only blue grama where wildflowers are desired.
A few of the most reliable flowers to plant in shortgrass meadows include chocolate glower (Berlandiera lyrata), dotted gayfeather (Liatris punctata) and poppy mallow (Callirhoe involucrata).
Shortgrass meadows grow best on very warm, dry sites. In Colorado, elevations above 6,000 feet are usually too cool and moist to remain pure blue grama and buffalograss, and tend to evolve toward midgrass meadows.
These meadows need occasional mowing, particularly during their first season, to keep cool-season grasses and broad-leaved weeds from growing too tall during cool, wet periods.
Midgrass meadows grow knee- to waist-high, often in or near ponderosa pines, and on the Great Plains between the eastern tallgrass and western shortgrass prairies. The natural precipitation in these areas is between that of the drier shortgrass and the wetter tallgrass regions. Midgrass meadow areas are common along the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. Boulder, for example, has many areas of this grassland type extending from the mountain backdrop into residential areas. Midgrass meadows often continue indefinitely without mowing or burning. How specific maintenance depends on the site.
Dominant grasses include little bluestem (Andropogon scoparius), sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) and western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii). Little bluestem and sideoats grama are bunchgrasses that won't spread and crowd out wildflowers. Western wheatgrass forms stands that are thin enough that many wildflowers can compete successfully.
Other useful grass species include bluebunch wheatgrass (Agropyron spicatum, syn. Elymus spicatus). This attractive grass is often difficult to establish, however. Crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum) is a Eurasian introduction, but is perhaps the easiest midgrass to establish. It usually creates the appearance of the midgrass meadows faster than the native species. This bunchgrass doesn't self-seed significantly, so won't invade surrounding areas.
Attractive flowers to add to your midgrass meadow include gaillardia (Gaillardia aristata), Lewis' flax (Linum perenne var. lewisii) and Mexican hat coneflower (Ratibida columnifera).
There is some fire danger from the ponderosa pines, junipers and pi-on pines that may grow in this grassland. The grasses contain little fuel, but can carry a fire to the trees and shrubs. In dry conditions, mowing defensible" space adjacent to buildings creates very effective fire breaks. Removing lower limbs on ponderosa pines, and maintaining a reasonable distance between buildings and the woody plants are good tactics as well.
Tallgrass meadows grow from waist- to more than shoulder-high. These grasslands occur commonly on the eastern Great Plains, where precipitation is relatively high. Tallgrass areas also occur in floodplains and irrigated areas farther west. Tallgrass areas are wetter, so they are more likely to require periodic mowing or burning to keep woody shrubs and trees from taking over.
The dominant grass species include big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). These three grasses each develop strikingly beautiful fall colors. Examples of flowers that combine well with these tallgrass types are Maximilian's sunflower (Helianathus maximiliani), monarda (Monarda fistulosa) and purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea).
There are several tallgrass preserves on the Great Plains that are worth visiting. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, prairie restoration work dates back to the 1930s. The Morton Arboretum in Illinois has been working on prairie restoration since the early 1960s, and the center of the proton accelerator ring at the Fermi Laboratory in Illinois is a 650-acre prairie. One of the most striking examples of modern tallgrass landscaping is at a General Electric headquarters facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Adding wildflowers I advise clients to wait until the second year before planting wildflowers. Mowing the first year controls weeds while the grasses become established, but also eliminates desirable wildflowers. Leave patches of meadow free of competing grass for wildflower seeds or transplants. The flowers will eventually naturalize if they are well adapted. Blue flax (Linum perenne) is one wildflower that competes well when sown with grasses.
Optimum planting time for wildflowers is short. Many wildflower species need to be planted in early spring or be exposed to simulated winter in your refrigerator. Fall planting is risky, because the seed is vulnerable to wind and water erosion for such a long time.
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What's that? You say you wanted more sandbox-style games? Activision has you covered with the release of Protoype on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC this Summer.
New York Comic Con attendees will have a chance to go hands-on with the game at the show this weekend and we recently got to see the game in action at CES. But I played through an early level at an Activision event earlier tonight in advance of the show.
What It Is
Prototype is an open-world action game that takes place in a decimated New York City. The protagonist, Alex Mercer, has awoken to a pretty large problem. Not only has his memory been erased, but he also has these crazy shape-shifting powers. What is one to do? Why, go on a rampage of course!
You'll fight hoards of militants and enemy mutants by flinging cars, people, or by using any one of your many shape-shifting powers. Radical Entertainment is developing the game, who may be best known for their sandbox-y action games like Scarface and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.
What We Saw
I saw an early preview level from the game for the Xbox 360 that I managed to complete in about 15 minutes. Overall, there were 4 mission objectives given sequentially, mostly involving killing someone or something before advancing to the next. I played this demo at an Activision party, meaning I did have an Activision rep on hand to highlight some of the elaborate looking move sets, but I mainly completed it myself without any help.
How Far Along Is it?
I was told it's still in pre-beta. Its expected release date is June.
What Needs Improvement
While I wasn't given the option to fiddle with every feature of the game, from my initial impression I'd like to see a few minor touch-ups to the camera positioning. During busy fights you can lose sight of what you're doing.
The civilian A.I. didn't seem to really react to anything going on in the environment. They were always just running around in panic mode (which could be understandable). At times, I felt like I could simply button-mash my way to victory.
Oh, and it would be nice to have multiplayer co-op, but that's not happening any time soon.
What Needs To Stay The Same
The controls. Performing high-profile acrobatic moves never seemed easier. Holding the right-trigger while running allows Alex to automatically leap over debris. The controls themselves take very little time to get used to.
Final Thoughts
While the game is an original I.P., I'm not sure about how much different of an experience this will be from the Incredible Hulk games they made. The demo I played looked extremely polished, save for a few minor bugs, like cars getting stuck in the street pavement. The framerate, overall, was solid. I'm also interested to see where the story goes throughout the rest of the game.
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MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- Laura Saravia Bott wanted to bring a bit of Brooklyn to Westchester.
And so, after experimenting with a pop-up in November 2015, T he Bott Shoppe, which provides art-based goods, services and events, is now a permanent fixture; a combination design studio, gift shop, art gallery and events space all rolled into one.
To that end, the store is all about being a community-based retailer that not only provides goods, but offers a multi-revenue stream for the creative arts.
The shop boasts graphic design services, hosts art shows, sells handmade goods from local makers, features art supplies and provides affordable workshops for artists and small businesses.
And, they put on events at other locations, including the Food Truck & Makers Market on Sunday, April 30; go HERE for details.
If that's not enough, Bott, who lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn, is also entrenched in area groups.
"We believe it's extremely important to give back as business owners so we volunteer our time and efforts to local organizations, including the local schools," she explained.
New for spring: Young Artists' Art & Design Classes focused on fundamentals and techniques.
And, with Mother's Day approaching, there's plenty of gift options to consider including Gratitude Gardens, terrariums with a crystal for extra holistic meaning. You'll also find Everything Soulful, essential oils with healing crystals, new pillows to freshen up your living space as well as an expansion of art supplies.
The Bott Shoppe is at 606 Mamaroneck Ave., (914) 630-4234, www.bottandco.com/bottshoppe/ .
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I am, as I may have mentioned, a junkie for news and politics. Not in the "my extreme views are more correct than your equally extreme views" kind of way. I believe that Fox News and MSNBC are equally full of shit. But I love the theater.
You can probably imaging how hooked I am on the phone hacking scandal. It's got everything! Old, rich, white guys! Royalty! Cell phones! Death to a 168 year old newspaper! Special sessions of Parliament! High end executives being toppled left and right! What's not to love? It's like a Michael Mann film! (Sadly, Sean Hoare, one of the first to come forward, was found dead this week. That tempers the enthusiasms, while being a reminder that powerful people very often play for keeps. And the police statement that his death was being treated as "unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious," should give everyone a chill.)
But, as an HR practitioner, there are a couple of points in the larger story that make me scratch my head. Nick Davies, reporter for the Guardian UK, has done a nice job of chronicling the timeline, if you are interested.
Clive Goodman
Clive was the royal editor (whatever that means…sounds important, though) at News of the World. Clive was arrested with two others for hacking the phones of the royal family in 2005. Was convicted and spent four months in jail. Not surprisingly, he was let go.
Then he filed a wrongful dismissal charge against the paper, claiming the practice was widespread. The investigation and review of thousands of emails did not turn up any supportive evidence, but the paper settled with Goodman on the basis that they had violated contractual employment law procedures.
Jonathan Rees
Good old J.R. is a private detective from Surrey. He was first arrested on suspicion of (but not charged with) murder in 1987. He was charged in 1988, but the case was dropped. He was investigated several times over the intervening years for things like robbery, corruption and drug trafficking. In the 1990's, we find our friend pulling down £150,000 a year as an "investigator" for News of the World, including duties such as phone hacking. In December of 2000, he was convicted of conspiracy to plant cocaine on a woman to damage her standing in a child custody case and sentenced to seven years in jail. A stand up guy.
Skip ahead a bit, and we find Rees released from prison and re-employed by News of the World, doing the same type of work as before. Plus some work with corrupt police officers, said some.
You've got an employee dismissed for what amounts to gross misconduct, but is paid a handsome separation sum because they couldn't properly execute a dismissal?
You've got a career criminal sent to jail for framing an innocent woman who finds a well paying gig waiting for him when he gets out?
I often believe that the two jobs of HR are really just to manage talent and keep your employer out of jail. Whoever runs the HR department at News of the World failed at both. Oddly enough, no one on LinkedIn claims that title.


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Location: South Philadelphia Tap Room, 1509 Mifflin St., Philadelphia, PA 19145
Protein: Rineer Family Farms Grass Fed Beef
Bun: Baker Street Snowflake Bun
Toppings: Smoked cheddar, lettuce, beer-braised Country Time bacon, red onion, secret sauce
Burger to Bun Ratio: Perfect
Accompaniments: Fries, pickled vegetables, housemade ketchup
Price: $13.00
Notes, etc.: This burger has been on my list to try for some time now. Fellow blogger Albert Yee (Messy & Picky) told me that SPTR makes his favorite burger and when I finally get to try it, to order it rare. To be honest, I was a little hesitant to order a burger rare, especially since many places can't even sear a medium-rare burger properly enough and it just falls apart. Trusting Albert's recommendation and having had Chef Scott Schroeder's food before, I figured it was in my best interest to order it rare.
Talk about a flavor punch… this thing was incredible. From the moment the plate hits your table you can smell the smoke of the bacon. The cheddar was super melty and managed to make it onto every bite. The bacon was some SERIOUSLY thick cut bacon, but yet it was easy enough to bite off without a fight and packed a ton of flavor. The burger itself was very juicy and cooked right. That cross section is sure messy, but the Baker Street bun held together well to all the juices and weight.
I am now a believer in rare burger eating. This was one of the best burgers I've ever had.Tagged: bar, burger, philly, south philadelphia tap room, south philly


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