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Here you will have the unique chance to listen to mostly all interesting renditions of Ray Noble's "Cherokee", the initial one from 1938 when it was part of an "Indian Suite", Bird's "Koko" in various settings, up to Clifford Brown's classic interpretation.
The fastest "Cherokee" ever – too my knowledge – is the one by Don Byas, recorded some months before "Koko". — And Bird's most creative, most daring solo on the changes is the one he played at Carnegie Hall on Christmas 1949. Notice the applause when he played those triad motives through all chords on the last bridge. A magic moment.
A tragic moment is his very last recording of "Cherokee" (with Stan Kenton) when he played the melody all of a sudden, probably just for getting some energy from the audience who recognized the tune, and subsequently applauded, as all US-American audiences do it at the point they'd recognize a popular theme. Doesn't he sound so awfully tired, and exhausted?
Anyway, Ray Noble had no idea, but this piece seemed to be extra created for an ingenious improvisor like Bird. And it really became his leitmotiv through the years, from 1939 on. He owned it so to speak, and he took it to his grave. No one, not even the unique trumpet virtuoso Clifford Brown could play on those changes as convincingly as the one and only Bird.
"Cherokee" / "Koko" was Bird's "Giant Steps": When John Coltrane's LP under this title came out in 1959, it made them other woodwind players sound old fashioned over night. The very same with Charlie Parker's "Koko". — Benny Goodman hastily threw one native girl on the market too, if you allow me this non-pc rant. Brave, but too late. The boppers were possessive towards the swingers; and they prevailed.
Learn more about "Cherokee" HERE or HERE, at Marc Myer's JazzWax.
Blog owner's note: Marc interviewed Mr. Phil Schaap, one of the most illustrious music producers of our time to whom we fans are very grateful, since he discovered, and rediscovered many unpublished, or almost forgotten jazz recordings.
The above is part 1 of the interview, treating Charlie Parker's "Koko"-session, here's part 2; let's see what part 3 will bring: HERE, part 4, and part 5.
— Bridge —
Yours truly posted a speculative question there, on #6 my playlist, "Warming Up A Riff"; a question which probably can't be answered because all of the participants of Bird's initial recording session as a leader have left the world's stage:
(…) — There remains one mystery unsolved though which has again something to do with just another one of Bird's cryptic choice of titles: "Warming Up A Riff".
Questions: What "riff" had to get warmed up? Couldn't it rather be they meant "reed", in the sense of warming up a (new) reed?
This one take – rather kinda jam session, meant as a run-through, as a rehearsal on the changes of "Cherokee" – with no introducing theme, and no out-chorus at a medium-up pace, hasn't it been recorded just accidentally?
I may wildly presume here, but I think the recording engineer asked for the title of this track, and just wrote down what he understood acoustically.
For underlining my above cold-reed theory, I want to add that some of Thelonious Monk's titles have been taken directly from the notes, written down by the particular engineer in charge after he had asked Monk for a particular name of the tune they'd just recorded:
"Worry Later", "Who Knows", "Ask Me Now", or "We See" — This was a common routine, since most jazz composers are more interested in writing / playing their music than in inventing creative titles.
Side note: But not everybody was so patient, and polite like Thelonious Monk. — Quoted dialogue from the famous Benny Goodman rehearsal session, after they'd finally recorded one take of a famous sextet number:
Engineer's question from the control room: "Benny! Do you wanna call it Benny's Bugle?"
Benny's reply: "Let's go. Let's make a record first. Shut up!"
For avoiding the annoying search for titles, some of my colleagues come up with naming their tunes "Work 1, Work 2 …" 😉
This little playlist has been compiled for my students at the Cologne Music College in February. It's more or less my lecture on one of jazz's most played, and most challenging compositions. A lecture without words.
Blog owner's note: The playlist will open in a new window, and so you may read along whilst listening.
01 Cherokee – Ray Noble & His Orchestra, 1938
02 Cherokee – Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra, arranged by Billy May, 1939
03 Cherokee – Charlie Parker Jam, 1941
04 Cherokee – Charlie Parker with Jay McShann, 1942
05 Cherokee – Don Byas (ts), Teddy Brannon (p), Frank Skeete (b), Fred Ratcliffe (d) – May 17, 1945
06 Warming Up A Riff (A Reed?)
07 Koko (aborted)
08 Koko (master) – Charlie Parker's Reboppers – Charlie Parker (as), Dizzy Gillespie (tp, p), Curly Russell (b), Max Roach (d) – WOR Studios, NYC, November 26, 1945
09 Cherokee – Charlie Parker Nat 'King' Cole (p), Oscar Moore (g), Johnny Miller (b), Buddy Rich (d), Hollywood, March-April, 1946
10 Cherokee – Benny Goodman (cl), Red Norvo (vib), Jimmy Rowles (p), Al Hendrickson (g), Harry Babasin (b), Don Lamond (d), Hollywood, June 6, 1947
11 Koko & Anthropology – Fats Navarro (tp) John LaPorta (cl) Charlie Parker (as) Allen Eager (ts) Lennie Tristano (p) Billy Bauer (g) Tommy Potter (b) Buddy Rich (d) – radio broadcast, NYC, November 8, 1947
12 Koko – Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie at Carnegie Hall with John Lewis (p) Al McKibbon (b) Joe Harris (d), September 29, 1947
13 MC, "Symphony Sid" Torin
14 Koko
15 MC, "Symphony Sid" Torin – Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) – "Royal Roost", NYC, September 4, 1948
16 Cherokee – Bud Powell (p), Ray Brown (b), Max Roach (d) – NYC, May, 1949
17 Koko – Charlie Parker (as), Red Rodney (tp), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d) – Carnegie Hall, December 25, 1949
18 Cherokee – Charlie Parker (as), Stan Kenton & His Orchestra, Arrangement by Bill Holman – Portland, Oregon, February 25 or 28, 1954
19 Cherokee – Clifford Brown (tp) Harold Land (ts) Richie Powell (p) George Morrow (b) Max Roach (d) – Capitol Studios, NYC, February 23, 1955
A breakneck P.S. with Clifford Brown (tp) Nicky Hill (ts) Sonny Rollins (ts) Chris Anderson (p) Leo Blevins (g) George Morrow (b) Max Roach (d) – "Bee Hive Club", Chicago, IL, November 7, 1955: Cherokee
My trumpeter colleague and friend Axel Dörner from Berlin sent me this one: Kenny Dorham (tp) George Coleman (ts) Nelson Boyd (b) Max Roach (d) — Nola's Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC, April 11, 1958: Koko
— A prosaic P.S. for the ones who want to learn more about my theory on "Warming Up A Riff" —
The squeaking reed can be heard at the first three takes of "Billie's Bounce" (the first new tune they recorded that day). — Bird went to a saxophone repair shop then, just to come back with a new reed which had to be warmed up. Sounds completely logical to me. —
And if you're listening more closely to that particular recording:
The track is starting right during the 3rd A section of "Cherokee" (last eight bars of the chorus), which indicates that the engineer must have turned on the mike spontaneously, only because he wanted to capture the rest of that great moment when Dizzy accompanied Bird at the piano; and they had a lot of fun as one can clearly notice. Dizzy laughs out loudly about Bird's quotation of "Cocktails For Two", and how he ingeniously made it fit in the changes of "Cherokee".
— Now, back to "Koko" —
They'd played the melody of "Cherokee" at "Koko's" first, but then interrupted take. Whistling, and shouting from the control room — take 2 — perfection — great musical history was made. — It can be as easy as that sometimes. (Miles could play the intro too some years later! — #14 on the playlist proves it.)
What makes me always wonder, is, how quickly Dizzy had managed it to switch from trumpet to piano.
He didn't need more than two seconds for that. It's simply amazing. Diz claimed in his autobiography that one could hear his footsteps as he walked to the piano; I'd rather say he sprinted to the stool, but alas, even with head-phones: I can't hear any footsteps.
So, who is the ghost pianist at the aborted take #1 while they both, Bird & Diz, still were at it, playing the melody of "Cherokee"? — Bud Powell was invited but couldn't make it, 'cause he was in Philadelphia with his mother. So, Bird had to look for another pianist who knew how to play the new music. The only one available was young Argonne Thornton who became a Muslim later on, and is better known under his adopted name Sadik Hakim.
It's questionable though, if Argonne could have properly delivered the Monkish blues chords like Dizzy did it at Billie's Bounce, and Now's The Time. Argonne's uninspired, unimaginative, and strangely phrased solo contributions on Thriving On A Riff (Anthropology) from the same date hint to the fact that he was actually only a stopgap. — So, they still needed a pianist for "Koko", and the two blues numbers right now!
Dizzy was also an able pianist who was completely aware of what he was doing. He knew the modern chords, he was the "theoretician" who had extensively practiced, and discussed the new music with Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, and Oscar Pettiford. That's why he eventually got the job. Diz loved to accompany Bird's improvisations anyway, and he was always curiously checking out Miles' new ideas.
As for the (other?) pianist at "Koko":
Both takes have piano accompaniment right from the start of both, the (accidentally played?) theme of "Cherokee", and the saxophone solo of the 2nd take. After even closer listening (I can't tell you how often I have checked that), and reading James Patrick's liners from the "Bird on Savoy" LP-box set, I still can only guess, but it's highly probable that Sadik Hakim played the first two A-parts, and then cleared the way for Dizzy who took over the piano stool for the rest of the solo.
The somewhat more confident, and darker comping on the following bridge, and the rest of "Koko" definitely indicates this, at least for me. Max Roach's flabbergasting drum solo will have served as a break for Dizzy, since he had to play trumpet on the outro again. —
Side note: I can imagine all young drummers listening to that recording with an open mouth, and blushing ears when it came out.
— Announcement —
As soon as I find the time I will post a whole thread about Charlie's other cryptic titles "Ah-Leu-Cha", "Klaunstance", and of course the famous "Klact-Oveeseds-Tene" (which I did, at least about "Klact-Oveereds-Tene").
And so: Stay tuned!
–– Now, what to purchase, and where? —
The complete "Koko Session" in the correct order of the recorded tracks can be found on various CD's, and of course LP's.
Here is a little selection:
The Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings (1944-1948) Just the masters, and no hitherto (1945, 1950's) unissued takes: Bird On Savoy & Dial
Only one website among numerous others which are offering a whole load of LP's: HERE
— An unaltered anonymous quote from ages ago, found somewhere on the internet —
There was the war, when shellac for records was in short supply; there was a self-imposed ban (starting in the summer of 1942) by the American Federation of Musicians on doing commercial recordings, in other words, a strike, over the issue of musician royalties.
So there was little or no official recording activity during those years, aside from V-discs made for the Yanqui troopses overseas and such (plus some late-night scab activity); there are radio broadcasts that are now preserved, but they were never meant to be put on the market as records.
Frank Sinatra had a hit (as the singer with Tommy Dorsey's big band), with "I'll Never Smile Again", sidestepping the ban by doing the song a capella with a vocal group — no musicians. Singers aren't musicians 🙂
The ban was lifted at the end of 1944; some up-and-coming musicians lost out on a possible chance at stardom during the ban years — the Earl Hines band had included people like Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan (doubling as a pianist as well as a singer), Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. If they'd had a recording contract, they might well have been the hippest big band around.
So now it's 1945, Savoy Records has signed Parker to a contract, and he's in a Manhattan recording studio on November 26th for the first time as a leader, with the intention of recording four tunes — the A and B-sides to a pair of 78-rpm discs. It's a quintet — Parker, teenage trumpeter Miles Davis, Bud Powell on piano, Curley Russell on bass, and Max Roach on the drums.
But Powell can't make it to the recording date — he's in Philadelphia with his mother. Argonne Thornton (later to be known as Sadik Hakim) is supposed to be there as Bud's replacement, but he isn't there either; Gillespie, accompanying his friend Parker on this auspicious occasion, will deputise the deputy pianist — he has the chops to do it, despite only being known as a trumpeter.
It's time to start; no sign of Hakim yet. Diz is at the piano, but young Miles is having trouble with the intro to "Cherokee", a furious trumpet/alto sax duet over the drums. So Diz takes over on trumpet, leaving no pianist, but that's OK. The intro is handled fine, with short solos for the two horn players, then they launch into the tune's actual melody. Someone — maybe Savoy's Teddy Reig — brings the recording to a halt after a couple of bars; you can almost hear him leap out of the control room chair and onto the studio floor, whistling the proceedings to a stop.
Reig explains that they can't do "Cherokee", because it means Savoy would have to pay composer royalties to an outside entity — the publisher and composer of the song, which had been a big hit for Charlie Barnet's big band, once upon a time. So "Cherokee" is done sans melody statement; after the horn-duet intro, you can hear Diz miraculously ease into the piano accompaniment, and Parker just cuts straight to the sax-solo part, several choruses of melodic invention at the same lightspeed tempo as the intro.
To the uninitiated or the casual jazz listener, with jazz history having been frozen by the war, the music must have been the equivalent of humanoid beings landing at Area 51. Humanoid, but not quite human enough for comfort. After a brief drum solo, Diz grabs his trumpet, and the duet intro is played again — The End.
The intro is now a theme, the theme to a tune called "Koko", as it was originally spelled that day. Hakim shows up, Miles returns to the trumpet chair, and the quintet finish three more tunes that day — a pair of blues numbers, "Billie's Bounce" and "Now's the Time", and "Thriving on a Riff", an impromptu, themeless improvisation like "Koko" (IIRC, or was "Warming Up a Riff" the themeless one?).
The rest is… …a gas!!! You dig?
— Addendum —
For the completists, a little list of all recorded versions of "Cherokee" or "Koko", played by Charlie Parker in various settings between late 1941 or early '42 & 1954:
1. – Kansas City Band: Cherokee
Charlie Parker (as) Efferge Ware (g) Little Phil Phillips (d) – Vic Damon Studio, Kansas City, KS, September, 1941, 1942 (could be as well from Autumn 1943; but since Bird was born in Kansas City, it all starts here for me.)
2. – Clark Monroe: Cherokee
unknown (tp) Charlie Parker (as) unknown (sax) Al Tinney (p) Ebenezer Paul (b) unknown (d) Clark Monroe (vo) – Clark Monroe's Uptown House, NYC, January-March, 1942
3. & 4. – Charlie Parker Reboppers: Warming Up A Riff & Koko
Miles Davis (tp -2/13) Charlie Parker (as) Sadik Hakim (p -11/13) Dizzy Gillespie (p -1/10,16, tp, p -14,15) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d)
WOR Studios, Broadway, NYC, November 26, 1945
5. – Charlie Parker With Nat King Cole Trio: Cherokee
Charlie Parker (as) Benny Carter, Willie Smith (as -1) Nat "King" Cole (p) Oscar Moore (g -1) Johnny Miller (b -1) Buddy Rich (d) – Los Angeles, CA, March-April, 1946
6. – Charlie Parker Welcome Session Band: Home Cookin' II
Charlie Parker (as); Howard McGhee (tpt); Melvin Broiles (tpt); Harold "Shorty" Rogers (tpt); Russ Freeman (p); Arnold Fishkind (b); Jimmy Pratt (d) – Chuck Kopely's apartment, Hollywood CA, February 1, 1947
7. – Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians: Koko (I), played as radio theme with voice over.
Dizzy Gillespie (tp) John LaPorta (cl) Charlie Parker (as) Lennie Tristano (p) Billy Bauer (g) Ray Brown (b) Max Roach (d) Bruce Elliott, Barry Ulanov (ann) – WOR radio broadcast, "Bands For Bonds", NYC, September 13, 1947
8. – Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians: Koko (II), played as radio theme with voice over.
Dizzy Gillespie (tp) John LaPorta (cl) Charlie Parker (as) Lennie Tristano (p) Billy Bauer (g) Ray Brown (b) Max Roach (d) Carl Caruso (ann) – WOR radio broadcast, "Bands For Bonds", NYC, September 20, 1947
9. – Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Koko
Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Charlie Parker (as) John Lewis (p) Al McKibbon (b) Joe Harris (d) – radio broadcast, "Carnegie Hall", NYC, September 29, 1947
10. – Barry Ulanov and His All-Star Metronome Jazzmen: Koko (III), incomplete version without the famous introduction, but with great solos by the participating musicians. Voice over during Lennie's solo, goes into "Anthropology" then. This is by the way Theodore "Fats" Navarro's only known solo on "Cherokee".
Charlie Parker (as); Theodore "Fats" Navarro (tpt); John La Porta (cl); Allen Eager (ts); Lennie Tristano (p); Billy Bauer (g); Tommy Potter (b); Buddy Rich (d); Bruce Elliott (ann); Barry Ulanov (ann) – Mutual Studios, NY, WOR radio broadcast, November 8, 1947
11. – Dixieland vs. Bebop All-Stars: Koko
Charlie Parker (as); Charlie Walp (tpt); Earl Swope (tb); Ben Lary (ts); Sam Krupit (p); Mert Oliver (b); Joe Theimer (d); Art Phipps (b); Buddy Rich (d); Wild Bill Davison (cornet); Benny Morton (tb); Tony Parenti (cl); Jackson Lowe (ann); Willis Conover (ann) – Washington Music Hall, Washington DC, May 23, 1948
12. – Charlie Parker Quintet: Koko
Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) – "Royal Roost", NYC, September 4, 1948
13. – Jazz At The Philharmonic All Stars: Cherokee
Charlie Parker (as); Theodore "Fats" Navarro (tpt); Tommy Turk (tb); Sonny Criss (as); Flip Phillips [Joseph Filipelli] (ts); Coleman Hawkins (ts); Hank Jones (p); Ray Brown (b); Shelly Manne (d); Ella Fitzgerald (voc); Mario Bauza (tpt); Frank "Paquito" Davilla (tpt); Bob Woodlen (tpt); Gene Johnson (as); Fred Skerritt (as); Jose Madera (ts); Leslie Johnakins (bs); Rene Hernandez (p); Roberto Rodriguez (b); Jose Mangual (bgo); Luis Miranda (cga); Umbaldo Nieto (timbales); Frank "Machito" Grillo (maracas); Norman Granz (ann) – Carnegie Hall, NY, February 11, 1949
14. – Charlie Parker Quintet: Koko
Charlie Parker (as); Kenny Dorham (tpt); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (d) – Pershing Hotel Ballroom, Chicago IL, March 28-April 10, 1949 (?)
15. – Charlie Parker Quintet: Koko
Red Rodney (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Roy Haynes (d) – "The Stars Of Modern Jazz", "Carnegie Hall", NYC, December 24, 1949
16. – Apartment Jam Sessions: Cherokee
John Nielson (tp) Jimmy Knepper (tb) Joe Maini, Charlie Parker (as) Don Lanphere (ts) Al Haig (p) unknown (b) Frank Isola (d) – probably NYC, circa 1950
17. – Stan Kenton & His Orchestra With Charlie Parker: Cherokee
Buddy Childers, Vic Minicheli, Sam Noto, Don Smith, Stu Williamson (tp) Joe Ciavardone, Milt Gold, George Roberts, Frank Rosolino (tb) Charlie Mariano, Charlie Parker, Dave Schildkraut (as) Mike Cicchetti, Bill Perkins (ts) Tony Ferina (bars) Stan Kenton (p) Bob Lesher (g) Don Bagley (b) Stan Levey (d) – "Civic Auditorium", Portland, OR, February 25, 1954
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Round and Square Dance will be held at the Wysox Fire Hall, Saturday, Oct. 19, 7 until 11 p.m. Music by Sara. Refreshments available. Benefit Wysox Fire Company.
The worship committee of the Skinners Eddy United Methodist Church is hosting a free "Senior Luncheon" on Oct. 8 at noon in the social hall of the church. The menu for October is homemade soup, sandwich, dessert and beverage. The entertainment is Kelsey Mills. She will sing a variety of songs, both sacred and secular. The luncheon is for any senior, regardless of religious affiliation or not. Call either Theresa at 570-869-1153 or Bonnie, 570- 8691938 before Monday, Oct. 7.
WVVFD Appreciation Dinner, Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Wyalusing fire hall. Happy hour: 6 - 7 p.m., dinner, 7 p.m. An awards ceremony will follow. This dinner is held for the volunteers who helped during the Wyalusing Firemen's annual celebration. Reservations are required. Please call 570-746- 4904 and leave a message of who and how many will be attending.
Free soup suppers are back at Hollenback United Methodist Church. They will be held on Oct. 9, Nov. 13 and Dec. 11. The suppers will be from 5 to 6 p.m. with a Bible Study from 4:30 until 5. All welcome.
Dupont Retirees' Luncheon will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 11:30. They will meet at the Blue Dolphin on Route 434 in Apalachin, NY.
Turkey Supper, Oct. 5 at St. Paul's Church, Overton, beginning at 4 p.m. R40c
Wysox Sewing Society will hold their monthly dinner at noon, Tuesday, Oct. 8 in Ferguson Hall of the Wysox Presbyterian Church, Rt. 187N, Wysox. Roast beef will be featured with mashed potatoes, gravy, cole slaw, assorted vegetables, gelatin salads and a delicious variety of homemade pies. Takeouts upon request, call ahead. Call 570-265-6119 and leave message for reservations. R40c
Beef Dinner: Friday, Oct. 11 from 4 to 7 p.m. in St. Basil's Hall, Dushore. Roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetable, cole slaw, applesauce, dinner roll, homemade desserts, coffee, tea, milk and water. Adults, $8; children, 6-12, $3.50; under 6, free. Proceeds benefit local activities. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus, Dushore, Wyalusing and Mildred Council 12406.
Singing in the Barn, Sears' Melody Mountain, 487 Tiffany Road, Kingsley on Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. Call 570-289-4172 for more information.
Stamp Exhibit and Bourse - Oct. 18 and 19 at the American Legion Post, 45 S. Olcott Rd., Big Flats, NY (just off I-86, Exit 49). Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Exhibits, 10-15 area stamp dealers. U.S. Post Office, Pictorial Cancel and show cachet. Junior activities. Sponsored by the Elmira Stamp Club. Free admission and parking.
For Your Information
Fall has come again, so has the Candy Corn Contest at the Monroeton Public Library. Guess the correct number in the pumpkin and win a $50 gift card from Kmart. Tickets are 50¢ each or 3 for $1.
The Bradford County Library in West Burlington will be closed on Thursday, Oct. 3 for a staff training day.
The LeRaysville Minstrel practices will be held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the Community Social Hall. Shows will be Nov. 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 7 p.m. Please note time change. All are welcome. Chorus members needed.
A Ceremony for Remembrance is scheduled on Sunday, Oct. 13 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital's Sumner Lobby, located at One Guthrie Square in Sayre. The event is free and open to individuals and families who have experienced the loss of a child during pregnancy or shortly after birth. To share a personal story, contact Sue Selker, Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital Director of Obstetrics, 570-887-5036.
Salt Springs State Park Happenings: Oct. 5, Movie Night, 7 p.m.; Oct. 6, Pictures in Park, 2 to 5 p.m.; Oct. 11, Game On, 7 to 8:30 p.m.; Oct. 19, Full Moon Hike, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 2, Movie Night, 7 p.m.; Game On, Nov. 8, 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, email Debra Adleman email@example.com.
Gospel Jamboree
Gospel Jamboree at Transue Community Church on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. All are welcome.
Halloween Events
Laceyville's Annual Scarecrow Contest starting Oct. 5. Laceyville area businesses, organizations and residents are encouraged to decorate lamp posts with a scarecrow. Contact Carmen at Eb's Market for further information. Sponsored by Laceyville Business Assoc.
Health Care
American Red Cross Courses to be offered: CPR/AED for Rescuers and Health Care Providers Review, Oct. 13, 5 to 8 p.m., Wyoming Co. 911 Center; Oct. 16, 6 to 9 p.m., Bradford Co. Emergency Operations Bldg. To register, visit http://www.redcross.org/take-a-class or call 1- 800 Red-Cross (1-800-733-2767).
Meeting Notices
S.O.S. Al-Anon — Family Group will meet on Fridays at 7 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Hopkins Street, Sayre.
Recovery House Meetings — AA Group of Towanda meets Mon.-Fri., noon; Mon., Thurs., Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. NA meetings are held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Speaker meeting every first Sunday, 8 p.m. All meetings at 205 Main St., Towanda (please use rear, lower entrance).
Compassionate Friends — of the Endless Mountains will hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Endless Health Community Center, Montrose. TCF is open to all families who have lost a child from any cause at any age. There are no membership dues or fees of any kind. For more information, call 965-0901 (evenings) or 278- 1658 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Al-Anon meetings in Tunkhannock: Endless Serenity Al-Anon Family Group on Monday, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, 7 p.m., Saturday, noon. All meetings are held at the Tunkhannock UM Church Education Bldg., second floor.
Diabetes Support Group - meeting the first Thursday of every month at the Guthrie Clinic office in Towanda beginning at 5:30 p.m. There is no charge and all diabetics and family members are welcome. For more information, call Dawn at Guthrie Clinic at 570- 265-6165 during regular business hours.
TOPS PA #1134 — Laceyville, meets each Tuesday evening at the Braintrim Baptist Church in Laceyville. Weigh-ins from 5:15 to 6 p.m., meeting from 6-7 p.m. For more information, call 965-2493 or 869-1834. Toll-free 1- 800-932-8677.
AA Meeting — Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
MOPS — Mothers of Preschoolers meet every first and third Wed. of the month from 9 to 11 a.m., September through May. Meetings are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 5 Court St., Towanda. All mothers of preschoolers are welcome. Child care is provided for children, ages infant through five years old. For more information, contact the church at 570-265-5575.
Towanda-Wysox Kiwanis Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the Weigh Station Café at 7:30 a.m. in Towanda. They find ways to help the children in the community. Contact Eileen Sheets at 570-265-2350 for more information.
Addictions to Victory. Faithbased support for addictions. Program will be held the first and third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at New Generation Church, Milan, 570-888- 1967.
The Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Lodge Hall, 158 Church St., Wyalusing. For more information, call 570-721- 0008.
AA meeting, Friday evenings at 8 p.m. at the Standing Stone Vesper Church spiritual building, River Road, Standing Stone Township. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
Grief Support Group: Jan.- Dec. 2013. A bereavement support group meets monthly, the last Tuesday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m. This group is open to those who have experienced loss and is facilitated by Trudy Ventello, LSW, a social worker with Memorial Hospital's Hospice program. The meetings are located in the library in the lower level of Memorial Hospital in Towanda. Any questions, call 570-268-2233.
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Church, Tunkhannock. For more information, visit www.mops.org or www.stpetestunkhannock.org. Call 570-836- 2233.
Endless Mountains Railroad Club will meet Saturday, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. at the club building, 7837 Route 29, Dimock. Visitors and new members welcome. All club members available for a work session, should meet at 4 p.m. to load up modules for show at Radisson on Sunday the 27th in Scranton. For more information, see the website at http://emmrrc.wix.com/trains.
Painless Perspective presented by Diane Stizza, local artist and teacher at the upcoming Hill Country Artists meeting on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Claverack Building just outside of Montrose.
Caregivers' Support Group sponsored by the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman and the B/S/S/T Area Agency on Aging meets at noon the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Library at Memorial Hospital Personal Care Home in Towanda. Anyone taking care of a family member or loved one, be it at home or as a resident of a long term care facility welcome. For information, call Donna Benjamin at the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman, 570-746-3844 or Carol Dieffenbach at Area Agency on Aging, 570-265-6121. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, Oct. 8.
The October members' meeting of the Oldest House will be Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. at the house in Laceyville.
PARSE: The Endless Mountains Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of the State Employees will meet at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the American Legion at 912 Main St., Towanda. The speaker will be from the Area Agency on Aging. Call Bernice Landmesser, 570-265- 8812 or John Benio, 278-2380 for reservations.
Penny Socials
Penny Social, Saturday, Oct. 5 at Windham Twp. Vol. Fire Co. Hall, Rt. 187, Windham. Doors open 5 p.m. and drawings start 7 p.m. Food available. Benefit Windham Twp. Dept. 19 Fire Co.
The annual Repsher Reunion will be held on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 1 p.m. at the Tri- County Sportsmen's Club outside of Silvara. Bring a dish to pass, your table service and beverage. We will be playing bingo, so bring your quarters for lots of fun. Come share the memories.
Lucky X Shoots at the Wyalusing American Legion Post 534 on Oct. 13, 27 at noon.
Last Antique Tractor Pull of season on Saturday, Oct. 5 (weather permitting) at Rome. Pull as many times as you want if you are a member. 3500 lb. to 7000 lb. Weigh-in at 8:30 a.m., pull at 9:30. Call 570-637-1311. Sponsored by Twin Tier Antique Tractor and Machinery Assoc.
Vendors Wanted
Vendors Needed. Festival of Crafts, Laceyville Fire Hall, Dec. 7. Call or email Melissa Kunkle, 570-240-1411 or Kunkle_ email@example.com.
Northern Tier Hardwood Assoc. will hold a seminar on establishing Golden-wing Warbler Habitat. Oct. 26, 2013, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Wayne Conservation District office, 648 Park St., Honesdale, PA. Free event. Space is limited so please register early. This event qualifies for SFI continuing education credit. Lunch provided. To registration write to: NTHA, 200 Lake Road, Suite C, Towanda, PA 18848. For questions, please contact Connie Ridall at 570-240-1436;or email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Books and Articles On the Enola Gay Controversy (Updated 6/2006)
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Aborn, Lyn. "American Civic Nationalism and the Enola Gay Controversy." B. A. Thesis. Williams College, 1996.
Air Force Association. "The Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War." Washington: Air Force Association, 1995. (first script for the Enola Gay exhibit, with images)
---. Enola Gay Coverage 1994. Washington: Air Force Association, 1995. (Television and radio coverage bibliography in Course Documents)
---. Enola Gay Coverage 1995. Washington: Air Force Association, 1995. (Television and radio coverage bibliography in Course Documents)
---. The Enola Gay Debate: August 1993 -- May 1995. Washington: Air Force Association, 1995.
Alexander, Mary. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present, at the National Museum of American History." Technology and Culture 40 (1999): 861-65.
Bernstein, Barton J. "The Struggle over History: Defining the Hiroshima Narrative." Judgment at the Smithsonian. Ed. Philip Nobile. New York: Marlowe, 1995. 127-256.
Bird, Kai, and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds. Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy. Story Creek: Pamphleteers Pr, 1998.
Boyer, Paul. "Whose History is it Anyway? Memory, Politics, and Historical Scholarship." History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Ed. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. New York: Metropolitan, 1996. 115-39.
Braden, Donna R. "Whose History Is it? Planning Henry Ford Museum's Clockwork Exhibit." Technology and Culture 39.3 (1998): 489-98.
Bryan, C. D. B. The National Air and Space Museum. New York: Henry Abrams, 1979, 1982.
Campbell, Richard H. The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs. Jefferson: MacFarland, 2005.
Capaccio, Tony, and Uday Mohan. "Missing the Target: How the Media Mishandled the Enola Gay Controversy." American Journalism Review 17.6 (July/August 1995): 18-26. [SFX]
Coox, Alvin D. "The Enola Gay and Japan's Struggle to Surrender." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 4.2 (1995): 161-67.
Correll, John T. Revisionism Gone Wrong: Analysis of the Enola Gay Controversy, March 1994 -- December 1996. Washington: Air Force Association, 1996.
---. Revisionism Gone Wrong Part II: Documents and Clippings. Washington: Air Force Association, 2000.
---. Revisionism Gone Wrong Part III: Supplementary Documents. Washington: Air Force Association, 2002.
---. The Smithsonian and the Enola Gay. Arlington: Aerospace Education Foundation, 2004. An Air Force Association Special Report.
---. "The Smithsonian and the Enola Gay" (Remarks to Delta Phi Epsilon, Georgetown University, March 4, 1996.) Unpublished essay, 1996. (Course Documents)
Cripps, Thomas. "So Their Eyes Won't Glaze Over: How Television News Defined the Debate over the Smithsonian's Enola Gay Exhibit." Wide Angle 20.2 (1998): 77-104. [SFX]
Dower, John W. "Three Narratives of our Humanity." History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Ed. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. New York: Metropolitan, 1996. 63-96.
---. "Triumphal and Tragic Narratives of the War in Asia." Journal of American History 82.3 (1995): 1124-35.
Dubin, Steven C. Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum. New York: New York UP, 1999.
Eatherly, Claude, and Gunther Anders. Burning Conscience: The Case of the Hiroshima Pilot, Claude Eatherly. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1962.
Engelhardt, Tom. "The Victors and the Vanquished." History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Ed. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. New York: Metropolitan, 1996. 210-51.
Frame, Tasslyn L. "History and the Authority of Experts: The Enola Gay Example." Master's Thesis. Hamline University, 1996.
---. "'Our Nation's Attic?' Making American National Identity at the Smithsonian Institution." Material History Review [Canada] 50 (1999): 57-66.Giangreco, D.M., and Kathryn Moore. "Are New Purple Hearts Being Manufactured to Meet the Demand?" History News Network 12/1/03 http://hnn.us/articles/1801.html
Gieryn, Thomas F. "Balancing Acts: Science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian." The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture. Ed. Sharon Macdonald. New York: Routledge, 1998. 197-228.
Goldberg, Stanley. "The Enola Gay Affair: What Evidence Counts When We Commemorate Historical Events?" Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory. Ed. Pnina G Abir-Am and Clark A Elliott. Ithaca: Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, 2000.
Greene, Bob. Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War. New York: William Morrow, 2000.
Gross, Alan G. "When Nations Remember: Hiroshima in the American Consciousness and Conscience." Prospects 27 (2002): 467-88.
Harden, Victoria A. "Museum Exhibit Standards: Do Historians Really Want Them?" Public Historian 21.3 (1999): 91-109.
Harwit, Martin. An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the Enola Gay. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996.
---. Letter to the Editor. Journal of American History 83 (June 1996): 307.
Hayashi, Yoshikatsu. "'Enora Gei Ronso' To Rekishi No Kioku." Rekishigaku Kenkyu [Japan] 9 (1998): 29-38, 64.
Hogan, Michael J. "The Enola Gay Controversy: History, Memory, and the Politics of Presentation." Hiroshima in History and Memory. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. 200-32.
Hubbard, Bryan, and Marouf A. Hasian, Jr. "Atomic Memories of the Enola Gay: Strategies of Remembrance at the National Air and Space Museum." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1.3 (1998): 363-85.
---. "The Genetic Roots of the Enola Gay Controversy." Political Communication 15 (1998): 497-513.
Kingseed, Cole C. "Enola Gay: Paul Tibbets of the Army Air Forces." Old Glory Stories: American Combat Leadership in World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Kishimoto, Kyoko. "Apologies for Atrocities: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of World War II's End in the United States and Japan." American Studies International 42.2-3 (2004): 17-50.
Kohn, Richard H. "History at Risk: The Case of the Enola Gay." History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Ed. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. New York: Metropolitan, 1996. 140-70.
Krauss, Robert and Amelia. The 509th Remembered: A History of the 509th Composite Group as Told by the Veterans Themselves. Buchanan: 509th Press, 2005.
Kurin, Richard. "Exhibiting the Enola Gay." Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. 71-82.
Laird, Pamela Walker. "The Public's Historians." Technology and Culture 39.3 (1998): 474-82. [SFX]
Leff, Mark H. "Revisioning U.S. Political History." American Historical Review 100.3 (1995): 829-53.
Linenthal, Edward. "Anatomy of a Controversy." History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Ed. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. New York: Metropolitan, 1996. 9-62.
---. "Can Museums Achieve a Balance Between Memory and History?" Chronicle of Higher Education 10 February 1995: B1. [SFX]
---. "Remembering Beginnings and Endings: The Fiftieth Anniversary at Pearl Harbor and the Enola Gay Controversy at the National Air and Space Museum." America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory. Ed. Philip West, Steven I. Levine, and Jackie Hiltz. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 17-26.
---. "Violence and the American Landscape: The Challenge of Public History." Magazine of History 16 (2000): 10-13.
Linenthal, Edward, and Tom Engelhardt, eds. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. New York: Metropolitan, 1996.
Little, Monroe. "Remembering Hiroshima: Cultural Politics, World War II and American Consciousness." Western Journal of Black Studies 21.1 (1997): 34-41.
Luke, Timothy W. "Displaying the Enola Gay, Hiding Hiroshima." Arena Journal 22 (Annual 2004): 73.
---. "Nuclear Reactions: The (Re)Presentations of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum." Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002. 19-36.
MacDonald, Heather. "Revisionist Lust: The Smithsonian Today." The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. 117-43.
Maley, Leo, III, and Uday Mohan. "Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima." History News Service 4 August 2005. http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2005/080405b.html
Mayr, Otto. "The Enola Gay Fiasco: History, Politics, and the Museum." Technology and Culture 39.3 (1998): 462-73. [SFX]
McMahon, Michael. "The Romance of Technological Progress: A Critical Review of the National Air and Space Museum." Technology and Culture 22 (1981): 281-96.
Michio, Saito. "Yomigaeru borei Enora Gei: Sumisonian tenshi ronso." [Reviving the Dead Spirit of the Enola Gay: The Controversy over the Smithsonian Exhibit.] Chuo Koron (January 1995): 44-55.
Mohan, Uday, and Leo Maley III. "Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent." History News Service 26 July 2001. http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2001/072601b.html
---. "Journalists and the Bomb." History News Service 1 August 2000. http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2000/080100a.html
Morris, J. F. "Genbaku Toka To Amerika Ni Okeru Rekishi Ninshiki -- Sumisonian Koku Uchu Hakubutsukan Genba Tenji No Chushi Mondai O Megutte." [American historical consciousness concerning the dropping of the atomic bomb: problems concerning the cancellation of the atomic bomb exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.] Rekishigaku Kenkyu [Japan] 8 (1995): 43-50, 61.
Newman, Robert P. "Causerie at NASM: Must We Deconstruct the Enola Gay Narratives Forever?" Rhetoric & Public Affairs 3 (2000): 277-83.
---. Enola Gay and the Court of History. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
---. Letter to the Editor. Journal of American History 83 (June 1996): 305-6.
Nobile, Philip, ed. Judgment at the Smithsonian. New York: Marlowe, 1995.
O'Reilly, Charles T., and William A. Rooney. Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Institution. Jefferson: MacFarland, 2005.
Pleasant, Joanna E. "Remembering American Wars in Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, the Enola Gay, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center." M.A. thesis. William and Mary, 2001.
Polmar, Norman. The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. Dulles: Brassey's, 2004. A Smithsonian Institution publication.
Post, Robert C. "A Narrative for Our Time: The Enola Gay 'and after that, period.'" Technology and Culture 45.2 (2004): 373-95.
Post, Robert C., and Arthur P. Molella. "The Call of Stories at the Smithsonian Institution: History of Technology and Science in Crisis." Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology [Germany] 3 (1997): 44-82.
Pressler, Michael. "Atomic Warfare and the Nuclear Family: Domestic Resistance in Hollywood Films about the A-bomb." Film Criticism 27.3 (Spring 2003): 40-53.
Pretzer, William S. "Reviewing Public History in Light of the Enola Gay." Technology and Culture 39.3 (1998): 457-61. [SFX]
Pyenson, Lewis. "Western Wind: The Atomic Bomb in American Memory." Historia Scientiarum [Japan] 6.3 (1997): 231-41.
Rogin, Michael. Independence Day, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Enola Gay. London: BFI, 1998.
Roland, Alex. "Celebration or Education? The Goals of the U.S. National Air and Space Museum." History and Technology 10 (1993): 77-89.
---. "Voices in the Museum." Technology and Culture 39.3 (1998): 483-88. [SFX]
Seltz, Daniel. "The Enola Gay Exhibition and the Challenge to American Memory." B.A. Thesis. East Asian Studies, Brown University, 1996.
Sherry, Michael S. "Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline." History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Ed. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. New York: Metropolitan, 1996. 97-114.
Smith, Geoffrey S. "Beware, the Historian! Hiroshima, The Enola Gay, and the Dangers of History." Diplomatic History 22.1 (1998): 121-30.
Smith, Jim B., and Malcolm McConnell. The Last Mission: The Secret Story of World War II's Final Battle. New York: Broadway Books, 2002.
"Special Section: The Last Act." Technology and Culture 39.3 (1998): 457-88. See articles by Pretzer, Mayr, Laird, and Roland.
Straubel, James H. Crusade for Air Power: The Story of the Air Force Association. Washington: Aerospace Education Foundation, 1982.
Thomas, Gordon, and Max Morgan Witts. Enola Gay. New York: Stein and Day, 1977.
Tibbets, Paul W. The Flight of the Enola Gay. Reynoldsburg: Buckeye Aviation, 1989.
---. Return of the Enola Gay. Columbus: Mid Coast Marketing, 1998.
---. The Tibbets Story. New York: Stein and Day, 1978.
Todd, Ellen Wiley. "Visual Display and Exhibition Politics in the Smithsonian's Between a Rock and a Hard Place." Radical History Review 88 (Winter 2004): 139-62.
Tota, Anna Lisa. "Collective Memories at 'Work': The Public Remembering of Contested Pasts." Comparative Social Research 21 (2003): 63-85.
Walker, Stephen. Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Wallace, Mike. "The Battle of the Enola Gay." Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996. 268-318.
---. "Culture War, History Front." History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Ed. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. New York: Metropolitan, 1996. 171-98.
Warren, Robert Penn. "The New Dawn." New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985. New York: Random House, 1985.
White, Geoffrey. "Museum/Memorial/Shrine: National Narrative in National Spaces." Museum Anthropology 21.1 (1997): 8-27.
Wittner, Larry. "The Enola Gay Exhibits, the Hiroshima Bombing, and American Nationalism." Social Alternatives 24.1 (2005): 38-42.
Yakel, Elizabeth. "Museums, Management, Media, and Memory: Lessons from the Enola Gay Exhibition." Libraries & Culture 35 (2000): 278-310.
Yoneyama, Lisa. "For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres: The Smithsonian Enola Gay Controversy." Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Ed. Takashi Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama. Durham: Duke UP, 2001. 323-46.
Young, Marilyn. "Dangerous History: Vietnam and the 'Good War.'" History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. Ed. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. New York: Metropolitan, 1996. 199-209.
Zolberg, Vera L. "Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance: The Enola Gay Affair." Theorizing Museums: Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World. Ed. Sharon MacDonald and Gordon Fyfe. London: Blackwell, 1996. 69-82.


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One of the chief charges against Christianity is the problem of evil. One of the ways I have answered this objection is to simply point out that the problem of evil is not just a problem for Christians, it is a human problem. The question is, who has the best answers to this problem?
I encourage you to go and read this post by Petar Nenadov on a recent Tony Blair / Christopher Hitchens debate. These two sentences need the context of the whole blog post to make sense, but I'm going to post them here to highlight them and to encourage you to go and read the whole thing:
"If good means nice or safe, then none of these topics is good for the world. If good means true or real, then we must address them."


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AIDS 2010 Roundup: Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM)
August 10, 2010
Since the HIV/AIDS epidemic first hit the U.S., it has deeply and disproportionately impacted the gay community. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), men who have sex with men (MSM) account for nearly half of the more than one million people living with HIV in the U.S.; they account for more than half of all newly infected people in the U.S. each year; and they're diagnosed with HIV at a rate more than 44 times that of heterosexual men.
This year, at the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna, the MSM community -- both U.S.-based and globally -- was a topic of serious conversation. However, there were complaints from leaders that it was not enough. According to George Ayala, executive officer for the Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF), MSM-related presentations took up a measly 2 percent of all presentations given at AIDS 2010. That's better than four years ago when MSM were almost invisible, he said, but clearly not nearly enough presence given how disproportionately the epidemic affects this group of men.
That said, a number of important stories related to MSM did come out of this conference, including:
- Be Heard, Speak Up: The Global Forum on MSM and HIV
- Human Rights, Homophobia and the African Diaspora
- Transmission, Testing and STIs
In 2012, the XIX International AIDS Conference will be held in Washington, D.C., the epicenter of HIV in this country, especially among black MSM. Hopefully, conference organizers will listen to this criticism and do the necessary community outreach to ensure that there will be more MSM-focused presentations and events at AIDS 2012. These sessions should also include presenters from different ethnicities from all over the world discussing a diverse array of topics, strategies and research. There really is no excuse for this not to happen -- the gaps in research have been clearly stated. Now is the time to start following through.
Be Heard, Speak Up: The Global Forum on MSM and HIV
The day before AIDS 2010 began, around 650 people attended Be Heard, a pre-conference event hosted by MSMGF -- an organization that works to promote sexual health among MSM. The day featured presentations, workshops and panels about government neglect; AIDS denialism; funding woes; barriers to prevention, treatment and care; human rights abuses; and AIDS-related deaths.
Leaders (such as Michel Sidibé, the executive director of UNAIDS; Joel Nana, the executive chair of African Men for Sexual Health and Rights; and Joseph Akoro, the executive director of the Independent Project for Equal Rights in Nigeria) spoke about a range of issues, including what the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has done to fight homophobia; the lack of a MSM presence at AIDS 2010; and the work that still needs to be done.
George Ayala described the event as a means for LGBT advocates, researchers, care providers, artists, media folks and allies from around the world to come together.
TheBody.com's community manager Olivia Ford was on the ground in Vienna and reported on the event. Ford noted that this networking reunion was especially important for those who lived in areas where stigma and homophobia were profoundly oppressive:
To better undestand what many participants in MSMGF do, imagine this scenario: You're gay and HIV positive -- already not a walk in the park in most societies. Now imagine you live in a country where there's no effective HIV treatment available; your condoms regularly tear from lack of lubricant; and what HIV prevention messages there are shut you out completely, because sex between men is a legally punishable offense. Now go out, raise your voice and fight for your rights -- without a salary, because the notion of being paid for working as an activist for MSM does not exist in your area.
Hence the importance of a worldwide association of people in similar situations and their allies -- and of a gathering every two years to learn from, network with, and occasionally hug those like-minded people.
Related Media:
- AIDS 2010: Concerns for Black Gay and Bisexual Men Raised to National and Global Platforms (From Black AIDS Institute)
- Where the Gay Men Roam: At Pre-Conference Event, Leaders Discuss Gay Response to HIV (From Mark S. King's "My Fabulous Disease" video blog on TheBody.com)
- Global Health Leaders to Sound Alarm on Dual Crises of HIV, Discrimination Among Gay Men During Vienna Press Briefing (From the Global Forum on MSM and HIV)
- Vienna AIDS Pre-Conference on Men Who Have Sex With Men a Great Idea -- But Also a Missed Opportunity (From Xtra)
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First of all: I am not a console guy, nor am I one of the 9Gag populating "PC Master Race!!!1!11" trolls. I just prefer PC gaming for various reasons, modding being the prime example (more on that in another article). But what I really enjoyed is the battle between Gran Turismo and Forza. Both franchises had to improve and deliver new, better content to keep ahead, the PC Modding community profited and I could watch the game unfold from the sideline.
One of the positive attributes I associated with the Gran Turismo series was the immense amount of cars. Sure, there were and are about 40³ x Pi variations of the R34 Skyline, but still, 700 cars ranging from the first Benz, fascinating concept cars to Pikes Peak runners and F1 cars. Forza finally drew even with Sony when FM4 featured 671 cars including all the DLCs. Adding to that, the quality was far better, including a detailed cockpit view and a detailed model of the car's body for every car, not a two-class system as introduced since GT5. Take a look at the numbers: a Shift 2 model for example consists of about 65k polys, while a FM4 model is about three times that or more (speaking of the highest available Level of Detail).
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Then Forza 5 came along, first showing video scenes of great graphical value. A McLaren P1 racing through downtown Prague. All very nice and well, but not really revealing. What was shocking was the amount of cars available from the start: 213, including Limited Edition and VIP cars. Sure, right now a whole lot of DLCs brought the count up to 314 again, but still, currently FM5 is offering less than half the amount of cars as its predecessors.
And for what? For engine bays, detailed exhaust tips and thoroughly replicated hood straps.
Don't get me wrong, that attention to detail is impressive. But what is it good for in a racing game that takes place predominantly on closed circuits? Look, there is a feature that allows players to paint the engine bay of the R34 Skyline. Nice. Can you actually see the engine bay? No, unless you crash off the hood first or prefer to look at it in the studio mode. It's a work intensive feature to implement that is limited in terms of usability. And is that kind of knick-knacks worth dropping half the car selection?
Or take a look at this promotional picture, showcasing hood straps of a Pagani Huayra. Fascinating, definitely. But how long, and how often, would you start your X-Box and say "huh, I'm lusting for some action – thank god I can zoom in on the leather strap to take it in in all its glory."? It's a nice thing to do precisely once and the second time to show it to your non-believing friend, but ultimately, when it comes to racing a great car on wonderful roads, the difference between a nicely textured or a laser scanned, high poly bolt on an engine cover becomes marginal.
A game in which I would totally understand this new approach is Forza Motorsport 5's open world cousin and spiritual TDU2 successor: Forza Horizon 2.
In TDU and TDU2, driving around the islands of Ibiza and Hawaii online was a great opportunity to present one's personal favorite vehicle, be it a bike, a muscle car or Europe's finest exotic machinery. Color, trim and wheels could be varied for individualization. And here, insane details start making an impact if they allow for custom work. Speedhunters has described numerous times how important the little touches are on the show aspect as they finish off a certain look and set cars apart.
The whole tuning aspect could be brought up to the next level if engine modifications would be actually visible, if body parts were detachable to showcase the internals, if even a small detail like a Ferrari stroke on an engine cover could be recolored to match what the gamer imagines his car to look like. A "custom Mustang" shouldn't have to be limited to new bumpers and lowered rim/tire combinations, but be allowed to go as far as this:
At this point, virtually taking the car out for a cruise evolves into a proper show run in which everyone can take inspiration and admire a player's passion to a specific vehicle style. Meanwhile, beautifully modeled tow straps in FM5 rot mostly in ignorance, because let's face it: when attacking a difficult circuit in full tilt, perfect details aren't necessary, and the action out on track is what Forza 5 is about.
What's your opinion on this? Is the reduction in vehicles combined with the new details just the logic start of the Next-Gen racing games? Or do you also see the obsession with detail as unhealthy if the diversity is sacrificed in return? Feel free to express your opinion in the comments.
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Dyllis Baptist Church, Harriman, will celebrate its 130th anniversary with a homecoming on Sept. 23.
Activities will begin with Sunday school at 10 a.m. Evangelist Jeff Myers will deliver the message for the 11 a.m. service; The Promise Trio will present special music.
A potluck dinner will be served in the church's fellowship hall at noon.
The church is at 530 Dyllis Road.
• Rockwood First Presbyterian Church will have an open house and neighborhood block party from 5 to 8 p.m. at the church at 429 W. Rockwood St. Food, games, prizes and Christian fellowship are among the attractions; those attending will have opportunities to visit the city's oldest church and hear about the Presbyterian denomination.
Chad Morrison is the new pastor at Clymersville Baptist Church in Rockwood.
His first Sunday in the pulpit was July 29.
"This is my first pastorate. It's exciting, but I'm very nervous," he said.
Morrison, 29, comes to Rockwood from Louisville in Blount County.
He and his wife Melissa have a son, Levi, 3.
Over the past nine years, Morrison has served as youth and family pastor at three different churches in Maryville and Kingston.
An original Christian drama will tackle the issues of Christians who live one way Sunday and a completely different life the rest of the week.
"Mistaken Identity" is a drama written and produced by a Roane County production, DouHar, created as a result of a partnership between childhood friends, Mary Alice Douglass and Alicia Harris.
It will be presented at Jamieson Community Development Center on Margrave Drive, Harriman, at 6 p.m. Sept. 1. A $5 donation will be taken at the door.
Exactly 45 years after his first sermon at Clymersville Baptist, members of Charles Kelley's congregation gathered to wish him a happy 86th birthday and recognize four decades of service to the Rockwood church.
Kelley preached his first sermon there on Aug. 13, 1967, when Clymersville was a mission of Rockwood First Baptist Church. Back then, there were nine members in the congregation. Today, Clymersville Baptist has around 300 members.
By Julia Hopper Daniel, For Roane Newspapers
Mamie Louise Harper was born Sept. 12, 1915, in Oliver Springs, and died Oct. 8, 1990, while on a visit for the funeral of her sister, Josephine, in Los Angeles.
She was the daughter of the late Minnie Mae Crozier and William Julian Hopper Sr. She spelled her last name as "Harper," instead of Hopper, along with her brother Samuel.
Harper left her mark on society through her work in the church, the community, and the education system.
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"Amazing Wonders Aviation" is the vacation Bible school theme at Central Baptist Church, Kingston. Classes for ages 3 (potty trained) up to teens will be offered July 23-27 and will begin with supper at 5:30 p.m.; worship and activities will follow from 6 to 8:45 in the church at 245 Bailey Road. Call 919-5115 to preregister.
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Shiloh Baptist Church, Kingston, displays 50 flags in its Fourth of July display at the church at 4242 Decatur Hwy.
Flags in honor and memory of veterans and Armed Forces members currently serving were also on display in the special holiday showing of patriotism.
"Members and friends of the church contributed to make this display possible," church member Cindy Jones said.
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The skipper is smiling, cautiously.
The first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1), the USS Freedom, is pushing off from a U.S. Navy pier in San Diego a few minutes before schedule, and Cmdr. Tim Wilke, the ship's commanding officer, knows that the early departure is a big deal.
"We finished everything on time," he says. "We got underway on time. Those are the highlights."
When it left the pier Nov. 26, the Freedom had just finished an extensive repair period, and it is difficult to get any ship back to sea on schedule after such an overhaul. But the first-of-class LCS Freedom has had a history of troublesome restarts in similar situations, so this was an understandably tense time for officers and crew.
Adding even more pressure was the fact that the Freedom and Wilke's "gold" crew team were steaming out of San Diego harbor for a week of trials and tests to certify the ship, sailors and officers for a planned deployment to Singapore early next year that the Navy's top brass has made a public priority.
"This is our Super Bowl," Wilke declared to the crew over the ship's intercom as the Lockheed Martin-built vessel headed out. "This is where we figure out how to fight [with] this ship in an integrated task force environment."
This, though, is more than a saga about the race for certification for Wilke and his crew. This is a story about the Navy's desire to rebrand and restore the reputation of what is arguably its most important surface-vessel program, which has faced mounting doubts and criticism, especially in the halls of Congress. As part of that effort, Aviation Week was granted exclusive interviews with top Navy officials and unique access to the Freedom, its officers and crew during the first days of November's certification exercises.
LCS officials are now quite upfront about the problems with both the Freedom class and the other LCS seaframes, based on the LCS-2 USS Independence built by Austal USA and General Dynamics, as they work to make the vessels deployable and, more importantly, prevent possible injuries or even fatalities related to fleetwide design issues. Odd-numbered LCS seaframes are being provided by an industry team led by Lockheed, while Austal/GD are building the even-numbered ships.
For the most part, the remaining problems are elemental shipbuilding and combat system development issues that should have been addressed in the earliest phases of the program, acknowledges Vice Adm. Richard Hunt, who leads a council of top admirals charged with shepherding the Freedom to deployment.
"It's as though the ship designers didn't know what the ship operators would use some of this equipment for, or how they would use it at sea," Hunt said during a Nov. 14 interview with Aviation Week. "It wasn't 'sailorized,' if you will." Council members will be providing that kind of real-sea experience in LCS designs and changes from here on out, he says.
Most of those priority-list items, Hunt says, appear to be relatively quick and easy fixes.
Thus far, the LCS program has managed to weather a string of storms—dating back to its inception—including busted budgets and dashed deadlines. Through it all the Navy brass has forged ahead with plans for a 55-ship LCS fleet worth an estimated $30 billion that will account for about half of the service's surface vessels. Envisioned as a major element of U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere, it literally anchors the future of American maritime security. The ship is becoming the Navy's forward-presence poster ship, to be deployed like an ultra-sophisticated corvette that can switch out mission module packages—allowing it, for example, to perform anti-submarine warfare missions one day and allied training exercises the next.
By all accounts this is not the ship the Navy—nor the nation—initially expected. But the potential the Navy sees in both the ship itself and its modules will likely cause the vessel's concept of operations (conops) to grow beyond what was thought possible, Hunt says.
There have already been "a couple hundred" changes to the hull between the Freedom and LCS-3 Fort Worth, and another 30 or so from the Fort Worth to LCS-5, Hunt says. The LCS troubleshooter sees the fleet developing along the lines of the F-18, which went from the early model Hornets to advanced later-model Super Hornets, which are essentially completely different aircraft.
In turn, the first two vessels are now termed operational R&D ships, Hunt notes, a unique designation for U.S. naval vessels. "We've never done this before," he says. While the Navy was clear up and down the ranks about its plans to build the first two as operational R&D ships, he asserts, the brass was not effective in communicating this to lawmakers and the public.
Over time, with several LCS iterations, the ship could evolve into a different vessel, bearing as much resemblance to the production-level ship frames as the Super Hornet does to the original F/A-18, he says.
The Navy is now focused on addressing other problems with the initial LCS hulls, many of which have been noted in earlier Aviation Week reports. Those reports prompted proposed congressional legislation calling for a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation into the LCS program. Hill sources familiar with the situation say GAO's probe already has started.
A tour of the Freedom provided by Wilke during the certification exercise, and information provided by Hunt and other Navy officers, show that most of the items have been or are being addressed.
There also is a list of LCS "priority" issues the Navy wants handled now, according to an Oct. 23 report obtained by Aviation Week that was prepared by a Navy Operational Advisory Group (OAG), separate from the LCS Council. That document provides fleet input on surface combatant needs.
The report had this to say about one of the major proposed LCS operational capabilities—launching and retrieving small boats: "The boat deck configuration and boat size are very unsafe for both classes of LCS and have the strong potential to lead to an LPD-17-type mishap where sailors are injured or killed."
On Feb. 4, 2009, in the Gulf of Aden, one of the LPD-17 USS San Antonio's rigid-hull inflatable boats (RHIB), occupied by three sailors, flipped over in moderate sea conditions. Two were recovered with no injuries, but the body of the third sailor was never found.
Hunt is adamant: "We have to stand on this and fix it," he says.
The LCS configurations result in "unsafe boat deck operations," the Navy's Oct. 23 report states, while also warning of a troubling "warfighting capability impact: size of boat deck limits RHIB size, which limits rescue boat ops to Sea State 2 or less." The conditions for Sea State 2 include a light breeze, small wavelets with unbreaking crests, wave heights of 5 ft. and a wind speed of 4-6 kt.
The report also states that the "lengthy sea painter"—the line connecting the RHIB to the ship—and the location of the "bitts," where the line is secured to the vessel, "limit control of an already unstable RHIB."
"I get white-knuckled every time we use those boats because RHIB operations, whatever the sea state, are dangerous evolutions in general," Wilke says.
The Navy says it needs to "modify boat deck design (to include a 7-meter RHIB) and camera placement for boat deck visibility," and "modify design for new construction and backfit existing hulls."
The No. 1 OAG-noted priority for the LCS program now, though, is to add port and starboard bridge wings to the Independence-class design, either by building them on new vessels or backfitting them on earlier ships. Officers step out on bridge-wing walkways to better control the ship, especially when docking or going through locks or narrow waterways.
"Lack of bridge wings severely limits visibility during maneuvering," the report states. This also "adds significant risk to shipboard evolutions and tactical situations [such as underway replenishment], pier work, RHIB operations [and] small boat defense," the OAG reports.
"If a surface warfare officer had designed this, bridge wings would have been part of it from the start," says Cmdr. Dave Back, commanding officer of the USS Independence. Nonetheless, he emphasizes that the ship has been able to conduct operations for the past couple of years safely.
Another major OAG LCS priority is to redesign and install stern door ramps through newbuild modifications and backfits of previous Freedom-class hulls.
The ramp on Freedom-class ships, the Navy says, is unable to store 11-meter RHIBs because it is "not strong enough" to store the inflatables "for extended periods" without warping.
"The designers thought the sailors would put the boat on the ramp and launch it," Hunt says. "But the sailors needed to launch the boat fast, so they decided to leave the boat on the aluminum ramp. It wasn't made for that. We're making a steel version."
The effect on warfighting capability, the OAG says, is that, "surprise is lost" when conducting some of the most important missions the ship is built to do.
There also are major concerns about the related ship launch, handling and recovery system (LHRS). "If LHRS fails (it frequently does)," the Navy says, the ship is unable to operate any 11-meter RHIBS."
Stern door problems have plagued the Freedom for years. The doors are supposed to mate with the deck plate at about water level to form a watertight seal, but as noted in previous Aviation Week reports, there is a significant gap between the doors and deck running across most of the width of the stern. Indeed, water can be seen and heard sloshing in and out of the gap and along the bottom of the floor, especially during high-speed operations.
"I really would like to see that fixed," Cmdr. Wilke says.
Hunt says problems related to the stern door represent the Navy's major concern for the Freedom-class ships. The goal is to make the seal watertight.
For the Independence class, the Navy has identified several communications issues associated with the ship's four AV-2075 antennas used for UHF satellite communications; overall satellite communication limitations; and "limited UHF communications."
Also, the Navy says it needs to "add an SPS-73 or commercial S-band navigation radar positioned to mitigate existing blind zones" in newbuild ships, as well as to backfit the equipment in already built vessels.
One of the most critical questions the Navy is trying to answer with the Freedom is how many crew will be needed to run the ship. Manning is a touchy subject for LCS. "Manpower is a constraint," the LCS conops says.
The manning for a frigate—one of the ship types the LCS is supposed to replace—is about 200 sailors; the core LCS crew numbers about 40 to run the ship alone, with dozens more to run mission systems. This comparatively low staffing has been one of the ship's major selling points, since manpower is one of the biggest cost drivers for the Navy.
More sailors also means more weight, which, according to defense analysts and other sources familiar with LCS ship design and operations, could make it more difficult to reach the vessels' high burst-speed requirements. Nonetheless, the Navy plans to increase the core crew size to 50, according to Hunt, although he notes that the issue is still being studied and the number and crew composition could change. Indeed, he says, the Navy is mulling adding more automated systems to the ship to cut down on some of the more routine, manpower-intensive activities aboard.
Hunt says the additional weight from the extra sailors and accompanying equipment should not be enough to make a difference to the ship's ability to meet its speed and other performance parameters.
The Freedom will be carrying more than extra sleeping berths when it makes its way to Singapore in 2013. The ship has new piping, renovated computer and other systems, and innards scrubbed free of the rust that Aviation Week noted on a previous visit earlier this year.
The service is just about ready with Freedom, which recently passed its sea trails following its second dry-dock shakedown repair availability. "We're pretty close," Hunt says, adding that the ship still needs some relatively minor "tweaks" and combat system fixes, as well as another paint job, which should be done during a pending short dry-docking period in January.
Freedom—and the Navy—will be ready for the planned Singapore deployment, says Vice Adm. Thomas Copeman, commander of Naval Surface Force and the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
And, as he acknowledges, "Seeing is believing."


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Could you live on $1.25 per day? In parts of India — specifically the less developed states of the Indo-Gangetic Plains — living on less than $1.25 per day per capita is a harsh reality. People in this region face problems of hunger, poverty and child malnutrition.
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The consortium will strengthen the capacity of state agricultural universities by revising university curricula to include important issues such as market-led demand and the potential impact of climate change on agriculture. The consortium will also develop and pilot innovative Extension models to improve the expertise of agricultural graduates in their provision of management and agri-technology support to farmers as they move away from subsistence farming.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for our Illinois faculty to be actively involved in this project," said Prasanta Kalita, lead faculty member for the U of I on this project and professor of soil and water resources engineering. "Our main involvement will be to help develop new-generation academic curriculum for Banaras Hindu University that will be transferred to other similar universities in India while actively engaging in research and Extension initiatives for managing and utilizing natural resources, and providing guidance in establishing a center for teaching excellence."
More than half a century ago, the U of I began a long-standing educational partnership with Pantnagar University in India — creating the land-grant model in India and laying the foundations for feeding a hungry country. Most recently, members of U of I's ACES Global Academy took part in a 14-day immersion experience in India to study the food value chain systems there. Three of the academy's members — Mary Arends-Kuenning, Hao Feng, and Mindy Mallory — also met with faculty at BHU.
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I would like to watch a movie about mathematics/mathematicians (english/french language is OK, italian would be the best! Both real and invented stories are OK, maybe I would prefer something based on a real story). Well, I know maybe just the most famous ones:
A beatiful mind (who doesn't know it?!)
The proof (by the way, do you know whether or not it is based on a real story?)
Will Hunting
"Morte di un matematico napoletano" (I am sorry, I don't know the english name. It's the story of the Italian mathematician Renato Caccioppoli)
Are there any other? Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Frederik Andersen made 32 saves to stay perfect in four NHL games, and Corey Perry and Kyle Palmieri scored first-period goals to lead the road-weary Anaheim Ducks to a 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Monday night.
The Ducks finished a season-high, eight-game road trip 5-2-1 ? including 5-0-1 in the final six games. Perry and Palmieri staked Anaheim to a 2-0 lead just 9:09 in, and the 24-year-old Andersen did the rest.
In four NHL games, all this season, Andersen is 4-0. He has allowed a total of five goals, and only defenceman Michael Del Zotto got a puck past him in this one.
Ryan McDonagh pressed for the tying goal with 6:00 remaining in the game, and was twice denied on hard shots. Benoit Pouliot then had an in-close backhander stopped with 5:17 left, but drew a penalty.
The Rangers received their third power play with 3:26 remaining, but that advantage was cut short when Pouliot took New York's first penalty of the game. Another came moments later for too many men on the ice.
Henrik Lundqvist stopped 23 shots for the Rangers, who had a three-game winning streak snapped and dropped to 2-1 on a homestand that ends Wednesday against Pittsburgh.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) ??? Matt Halishuck scored the winner with his first goal with Winnipeg and the Jets snapped a three-game losing streak with a win over Detroit.
Bryan Little, Michael Frolik and Andrew Ladd also scored for the Jets (6-8-2).
Henrik Zetterberg scored his eighth of the season for Detroit (9-5-2), and Danny DeKeyser scored his first NHL career goal.
The Jets took it to the Detroit net in the first period, outshooting the Red Wings 14-9 and scoring with just a minute left on a breakaway. They ended the game ahead 47-28.
Little opened the scoring when he got the jump on defenceman Kyle Quincy, who fell and left Winnipeg's leading scorer to go in alone against Jimmy Howard. It was Little's team-leading eighth goal of the season. Howard finished with 43 saves.