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Jon Herington Has Time On My Hands
Jon Herington's current album Time On My Hands is a departure from previous solo albums Like So and Shine Shine Shine, because he decided to make his guitar the centerpiece of the songs. That might sound odd at first, because he is solidly entrenched as one of the music community's most highly regarded guitarists, who has been the guitarist for Steely Dan for the past thirteen years and who also regularly tours with Madeleine Peyroux. Add to his resume past tours with Bette Midler and with The Dukes of September (Boz Scaggs, Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald) and it may sound incredulous that until Time On My Hands his guitar has not played a more prominent role on previous albums.
Jon Herington says, "I got many comments from a lot of listeners, after Like So and Shine Shine Shine saying they were surprised and disappointed that the records didn't sound like typical guitar player records. I think they meant the guitar was less in the spotlight than they expected and there was maybe less of a featured role for the guitar. They were exactly right and that was my intention. I was thinking about the songs and I wasn't thinking about the guitar playing so much. I certainly wanted to play the guitar and I wanted to play well, but the songs seemed to call for a short eight bar guitar solo in the middle, like on a Beatles' song or something like that, so I would do what the song seemed to call for. It seemed like the natural thing to do and to make those records sound good.
I started thinking about it and I wondered could I make a record that people wouldn't say that about it and they wouldn't say this is a guitar player's record. Furthermore, can I do that and not feel like I am compromising in terms of the quality of the song itself. I didn't want to do a record where the songs were compromised in order to feature my guitar playing. I did realize when I started thinking about doing a record like this that the writing was going to have to happen in a different way to get that result.
It felt a little forced at first, maybe because it wasn't natural to me. Because I wanted to make the guitar a bigger deal, I wrote a bunch of those songs after I saw what the guitar could do first. I (decided) that I would do a song when I could play this chord progression or that had this groove. It was not a song idea at all. It was what would be a good vehicle for me to solo on the guitar and that is a very different way to start a song. I had never tried to do it that way before, because I had always looked for a title or looked for music that would support a melody or I would look for lyrics for the melody."
Herington says that one of the interesting aspects to this approach to writing songs was he gained a greater feel for the kind of music that felt right for playing extended solos. He says he also realized that it called for a different approach to his lyric writing.
"These had to be different kinds of songs from the songs that were on those other two records and it seemed to be calling for a much more lighthearted attitude, more irony and more humor. In a lot of cases I didn't find it that easy to do by myself and it led to me collaborating with a couple of different people to come up with a different tone. I am talking about the tone of the (people) singing these songs. I had great luck and a lot of fun collaborating with Jim Farmer and my bassist Dennis Espantman," he says.
Espantman also contributed vocals to Time On My Hands, as did drummer Frank Pagano. Longtime friend and colleague Jim Beard played the Fender Rhodes electric piano and clavinet, Dany Louis of Gov't Mule (Hammond B3 organ), Rob Morsberger (keyboards) and Steely Dan's Donald Fagen on piano.
The amplifiers that Jon Herington chose for Time On My Hands also played a key role in the way the music turned out and he explains why, "I think that I fell in love with the sound of an amplified guitar more than I fell in love with the sound of the guitar itself. The first time that I heard two pretty significant records as a kid, I was probably a high school kid and I went to my neighbor's house. There were two records that my buddy's older brother had brought home and one was a Wes Montgomery record, I forget which one, it might have been Down Here On The Ground or something. It wasn't one of my favorite records, but it was Wes. He was playing Jazz guitar with lots of octaves and with his beautiful warm Jazz sound. The other record was the first Led Zeppelin record (he laughs) and at that age, there was no way that I had any open ears for any of Wes Montgomery's sound on the guitar and that whole music. That sounded like the music of my parents' generation. It just sounded old and it was not at all interesting to me. Of course I learned to love Wes and to appreciate Wes much later when I began to study Jazz. He is still and he will always be at the pinnacle of Jazz guitar, but at that time I had no use for it at all and I was just shocked and thrilled by that Led Zeppelin record. I thought that was the most amazing thing. I was also thrilled and in love with the sounds on Disraeli Gears (Cream) and the sounds on Jimi Hendrix's first record and the Stones, The Who and the Beatles and that whole British Invasion thing. That is when I fell in love with the guitar and it wasn't just the guitar, because in all of those cases it is the guitar through a certain kind of amp and cranked up for the sound that the amp would deliver. It is not an acoustic guitar, it is not a clear, clean Jazz guitar and it is not a Classical guitar. It is the sound of a horn in a way. It is the sound of a voice in a way. Blues guitar through an amp that is distorting and that can sustain like a singer, like Albert King, who was my favorite Blues guitar player at that time and he probably still is. The sound that you are able to get by overdriving the amp is so much more vocal. Getting that sustained, getting that feeling and getting it to sing through your instrument is possible in a way only with an amp. It is not really possible in the same way with an acoustic sounding guitar. The Jazz guitar is typically amplified, but it is a pure guitar sound and certainly Classical guitar is that way, so I fell in love with the sounds of Blues and Rock guitar, which is really the sound of the amplifier as much as it is the sound of the guitar. I am better able to tell you which amp I played (through) on my records than I would be able to tell you which guitar I was using, which is very interesting, because people are always wondering, what year is that guitar? I can usually tell if it is a Fender or a Gibson, but I am not sure that I can always distinguish which Fender or which Gibson, but often I can tell you which amp I am playing through. It is an interesting thing."
Jon Herington was born in Paterson, New Jersey and raised on the New Jersey shoreline in West Long Branch, about an hour from New York City. He refers to it as Bruce Springsteen's old stomping grounds. Herington was one the middle child, with an older brother and a younger sister, the children of Norman and Doris Herington.
Although his parents did not play instruments, his maternal grandmother was a church organist and his grandfather on his father's side was a musician. Both Jon Herington and his brother took piano lessons, but Jon lost interest after a year and stopped in grade five. Instead, he turned to the saxophone through his school's instrument program.
"I was a radio listener, AM radio at that time. I loved The Four Seasons and The Beach Boys, all Pop radio stuff, The Supremes, but I think the real shift was on when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan. That was the defining moment I think. I remember making cardboard guitars that looked like John Lennon's Rickenbacker and going downstairs where my little record player was, and putting my Beatles records on and jumping up and down. (I saw them) the first time they were on Ed Sullivan and it was probably 1964, so I would have been ten. It was pretty clear that something was changing and with all of those screaming fans (he laughs lightly). That has to have been part of the allure of the whole thing. It was so wild. I am sure that Elvis Presley was doing the same thing and James Brown too. There were lots of concerts that predate that phenomenon on Ed Sullivan and the Beatles were doing it in clubs For me it was the impetus for putting bands together.
By the fifth or sixth grade I was already getting together with guys in the neighborhood who had guitars. One guy had a snare drum and we put a band together. I remember visiting two guitar teachers and one of them an old guy, volunteered to coach us one day. We went to his studio and he did a little evaluation of the guys in the band and he determined that I had to be the singer, which confused me a little bit, because I was the saxophone player at the time. (He starts laughing) how am I going to sing and play the saxophone? This isn't going to work. Over the next few years we would get together to play. My mother was the only one who would allow that kind of racket to happen in her house. Everybody would leave their guitars and drums in my basement and we would get together a couple of times per week to play. Because those guitars were lying down there all week, I would go down there and I started learning how to play the guitar. It wasn't long before I played better than the guys in the band, because they clearly weren't playing their guitars more than once a week and I was playing them every day. I decided to get a guitar of my own and I was probably in the seventh or eighth grade by that time.
By the eighth grade I had a guitar of my own and I was beginning to play it by dropping the needle on all of my favorite records. I was also still banging on the piano a lot and I was playing on the saxophone. I learned whatever was on the record. If it was a saxophone solo I would learn the saxophone and if it was a Leon Russell song I would learn to play the piano part. If it was a Cream or Hendrix record I would settle on the guitar part. I taught myself and I never took a guitar lesson in those days. I am sure I sounded pretty miserable in the beginning, but my ear was good and I was developing my ear by doing this constantly. You couldn't tear me away from it. Over the course of several years I pretty well taught myself and I trained my ear very well for the music that I was interested in playing and for the music that I was interested in writing. I didn't switch to the guitar, but I definitely added the guitar. It became the focus for me, because I liked the fact that you could sing, while you were playing and it was the instrument that was in the center of the music that I liked the most. I was fascinated by harmony and unlike the drums the guitar has all of that in there. It seemed like a good fit for what I was interested in, but I didn't give up on the piano at that point, I was just as interested in playing (the piano and saxophone) then," he says.
Jon Herington's first band that actually got paid for gigs was in high school and it was called Highway. On two occasions they opened for Bruce Springsteen. At the time the guys in the band still had to rely on his father and older brother to drive them to gigs, because they were not old enough to drive and they had a special card so they could play in the bars as underage performers.
"It wasn't until I got to
college at Rutgers that I realized it is a very big world out there and there
were some seriously accomplished players that hadn't existed where I grew up. At
Rutgers I met a couple the first couple of days that I was there. I said Oh Boy
I have to get serious about this. One guy I met who is still a friend, Stan
Harrison who went on to play with Southside Johnny, David Bowie, Diana Ross,
Radiohead and Duran Duran and all sorts of people (Mick Jagger, Stevie Ray
Vaughan, Talking Heads). He became a good friend early on when I got to college,
but I remember the first day that we met, he was so excited when he found out
that I played the saxophone. We got our saxophones out and we started to play. (He
starts to laugh) About a minute later I wanted to put the thing away,
because he had a great sound and I was a hack. Really I was sort of a hack on
the piano too and a little better than a hack on the guitar. It became clear to
me that it was time to get serious and the most likely instrument was the
guitar. It made sense, it was portable, I enjoyed it the most, you could sing
with it and you could write with it. There were problems with all of the others.
From that point on I really got serious and there was a conscious shift," he
When did Jon Herington start paying attention to Jazz?
"Jazz was new to me. By the time I got to Rutgers I was leaning more towards stuff that came from the Jazz world. I was fascinated by Stevie Wonder, chord progressions, harmony and the more harmonically interesting (music) was tickling my ear. I didn't feel well versed in that kind of a thing, but I was attracted to it. I was looking for a way to get more serious about playing my instrument. I had never been serious about practicing. I was always driven by what made music tick, what are those notes. Once I had cracked the code of a song, I could figure out the details. I would never bother to practice and get it up to a performance level, because the fascination was gone. It was like a puzzle that had been solved and then I (moved on) to the next puzzle. I met a few guys like Stan at Rutgers and I decided to do something about it. I became more disciplined at practicing for the first time. I had a choice to do it through the Classical music program there, which I wasn't very interested in. I was interested in a lot of the harmony, theory and composition courses, but I was not interested in history. I was not interested in doing piano practice to pass a proficiency exam on that, which I would have had to do. I wasn't interested in Classical guitar, which I don't think they would have allowed me to study anyway. I decided I wasn't going to do a music major there and I would do something else and take some music courses that I wanted to take.
They were offering a course taught by a guy named Ted Dunbar who was a very good Jazz guitar player. He was a Wes Montgomery disciple and a very good player. I took a guitar workshop course with him and a Jazz improvisation workshop with him.
There was a flood of information that opened up to me. There were all sorts of (things) to learn on the guitar. It was like another language to learn, as I tried to get into the Jazz vocabulary, which was not familiar. I began to listen like crazy to that music and I started digging into it. Dunbar was a good player, but he wasn't a generous teacher. I remember one time he played a really cool sounding chord, but he made sure he did it with his back turned, so nobody could see what it was (he laughs). The nicest thing that he did for me was he refused to teach me private lessons and instead he recommended another teacher, a guy named Harry Leahey with whom I studied off and on for years and he was the most influential teacher I ever met. In east coast Jazz circles he is a legend. He is a fantastic player and he studied with Johnny Smith and with Dennis Sandole who was (a good teacher) and eccentric teacher from Philadelphia, whom I went on to study with for a couple of years, after I studied with Harry. Harry was a gift. He was a great chord player, he was a fantastic reader and he just taught differently on the guitar," he says.
After graduating from Rutgers Jon Herington taught guitar lessons at a New Jersey music store and he did some gigs with old friends. He then took a backpack and his guitar and headed to Europe for a summer vacation. When he returned to America the New Jersey shore somehow seemed too small of a world for him.
"My New Jersey world consisted mostly of following in the footsteps of Harry and as much as I loved Harry's playing and I liked learning from him, I didn't really feel that I wanted to emulate his working style. He was playing lots of little Jazz gigs in little clubs where people mostly weren't listening and he was probably getting $35 a night to do it and it didn't feel like a career to me. I was still in a Jazz mode and I think that I was still looking for something different," recalls Herington.
He met a girl, became involved in a relationship and he followed her to Indianapolis. He was anticipating having to get a job outside of music and because he had been an English major at Rutgers he thought he might look towards a writing career.
"I had never done anything like that or even thought about it, because I had always been able to make money just playing the guitar. It was probably the riskiest move that I ever made (laughs). Within a week of being out there I met a bunch of very welcoming Indianapolis musicians. I had done jam sessions with some of the guys and I even got to do a little Jazz gig. Right away I was welcomed and embraced and I began to work. Over the course of the next two or three years it became an opportunity for me to free myself from the recent habits (from his days in New Jersey and at college). I began to reconnect with some of my earlier playing in high school and playing Blues and Rock. That is when I got into Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills and Nash and interesting tunings on the guitar. I realized that instead of being exclusively into Jazz, I could do the Jazz thing and I could also embrace all of these other styles that I had always loved and that I had spent a lot of time learning. (Also), I could actually be paid for it. There was a local studio that I got to work in a little bit and there were a couple of recording studios that existed, because there were a lot of Christian family singing groups and things like that. There were aspiring Christian artists who wanted to record. There was a whole scene based around that, I guess, because Nashville was too expensive. There were studios that did recordings and at a high level all of the time, some with orchestra. There were a couple of guys who could play the guitar. There was one guy who was pretty good all-around Nashville style. There was another who could play a Rock solo, but he couldn't lead much and there was (someone) who could play a little Jazz, but nothing else. It turned out they were ripe for a guy who could follow a conductor and who had a wide variety of styles that he could play. I started buying guitars, amps and effects and I turned myself into a training ground for being a session player. I don't think I would have ever had the opportunity to do that in New York. In New York the pressure is so much more intense that if I was that green and you asked me to do sessions in New York, I probably would have fallen on my face. In Indianapolis it was a slower pace and they were more forgiving. They were glad to have somebody with my skill set I guess. I was in Indianapolis from '81 to '84.
In Indiana I managed to meet a bunch of guys who were studying at Indiana University in Bloomington and one of them was Jim Beard a lifelong buddy and a musical colleague as well. He and I hit it off as musicians and friends. When I moved back to New York City he followed me a year later and he ended up doing a lot of work for a lot of guys who were electric Jazz innovators, not the traditional Jazz players, but not the Smooth Jazz guys either. It was the Weather Report and Miles Davis herd of players. He did records for Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Bob Berg, Mike Stern and Wayne Shorter. We both worked in Bill Evans' band together. Jim was asked to produce a lot of records and I played on a lot of those. Sometime in the late eighties and the early nineties when we were doing this a Japanese company called Glass House Records, a subsidiary of Pioneer were introducing the twelve inch laser disc, which was a new technology that flopped. They spent a lot of money on a couple of projects that featured the laser disc. I think it was through my connection with Jim that they found me. They gave me a budget to do a record (The Complete Rhyming Dictionary) and I jumped at the chance. I spent a lot of time writing and I carefully chose players for the record. I was really interested in the music of Weather Report at the time, which the record reflects. I am a guitar player and I was trying to grab that genre and to put the guitar in the center. I used guys who had played with Weather Report, Victor Bailey on bass and Peter Erskine on drums. Jim was the co-producer with me and he played of course.
It was interesting, because it turned out to be the end of a musical phase of my life more than it was a beginning. It was a summation of all of the stuff that I had spent a lot of time in. Somehow that music was less marketable and the idea of trying to put a band with it and tour with it seemed insurmountable and not lucrative enough. In spite of the fact that I loved that music and I tried to get it right while recording it. I already had the urge to write songs for a trio of my own that I had been working with. In a way I was getting back to my earlier roots, which in a way probably trace all of the way back to the Ed Sullivan show, but certainly back to high school, which was my initial inspiration for the guitar as well. That was more like Blues Rock, in the song tradition not in the instrumental tradition. That record is more of a closing of a chapter," says Herington.
In 2000, eight years after the debut of his first solo album, Jon Herington returned to the studio and recorded the album Like So. About one-half of the album consisted of songs that Herington had been playing with his trio and the other half of the songs were brand new ones that he had written.
"I remember we were doing mixes and sending Fedexes back and forth with CDs, because you couldn't do that kind of thing online that easily. The engineer was sending me mixes overnight to check and I would comment and send another Fedex from all of the different hotels as we were moving around. It was a time when there was a lot going on," he says.
It was also the year that Jon Herington became a member of Steely Dan. He was playing in New York city and a keyboard player named Ted Baker with whom he had worked, was asked by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen whether he knew a guitar player that he could recommend.
"Ted had a copy of my album The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and he brought it in and he played one track. They listened to the first track and made some wise cracks about its derivative nature, but it didn't discourage them from calling. I got a call from Walter and he said he would like me to come in and play on a tune. I went in there and played on one track. It was called "Janie Runaway." We worked for about three or four hours and it seemed to go smoothly enough. We spent a lot of time on the same tracks and we did a lot of takes. They seemed easy to work with and I was pretty comfortable. I felt pretty good about it. At the end of the day Walter said, are you going to be around next week and I said yes I will. He said he would like to have me come back to do some more. I said that would be great. We said goodbye and I went home. A week went by and the phone did not ring, another week went by and the phone did not ring (he laughs), so I started wondering what is going on with that? About five weeks went by and I didn't hear a thing. I had basically given up all hope. About five weeks later the phone rang and it was Walter. He said do you remember that tune that you came in and played? He said well we aren't going to use anything that you played for that song (he laughs). I said okay, but we would like to have you come and we have a bunch of other tunes we would like you to try to play (he is still laughing). I kind of chuckled and I went in and did it. It is true my work did not survive on "Janie Runaway," and it did not appear on the record, but my work on the next fourteen (songs) that I worked on did. That was my introduction to working with those guys. Somewhere in those sessions they said they had plans to do some touring later that year and asked if I was interested in joining the band to do that. I was a little floored, but I was willing and able. It is thirteen years later now," he says.
His tour with Steely Dan eventually directly and indirectly led to recording two more albums with the band and solo efforts by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, touring with Boz Scaggs, later with Dukes of September, Bette Midler and others. Jon Herington is an equally incredible solo artist fronting his own trio.
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Human Rights Watch in Afghanistan
IRINnews.org, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: KABUL, 11 Jul 2005 (IRIN) – The United Nations and human rights activists in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Monday
welcomed a recent report of Human Rights Watch (HRW), which called on the Afghan government to 'bring war criminals to justice.'
The New York based rights watchdog, in a 133-page report released on Friday, accused some high-ranking officials in the Afghan government of violating human rights and demanded their trial.
While some are dead or in hiding, many of those linked to the carnage that erupted between April 1992 and March 1993 following the collapse of the Soviet-backed Najibullah government, are now defense or interior ministry officials, or advisors to President Hamid Karzai, the report said.
"It is a report that has to be taken very seriously. It raises very important concerns and points a crucial and difficult question to any country emerging from conflict, that is, how to deal with major violations of human rights from the past?" Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the United Nations special envoy in Afghanistan, said.
Edwards maintained the government of Afghanistan was working on a transitional justice plan and the UN had been in contact as to how to develop that plan.
The report entitled "Blood-Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity" is based on two years of research, including interviews with witnesses, survivors, officials and combatants. During the time covered by the report whole sections of Kabul were left in ruins, tens of thousands of civilians were killed and wounded and at least half a million people were displaced, the rights group said.
"This report isn't just a history lesson," said Brad Adams, executive director of HRW's Asia Division. "These atrocities were among some of the gravest in Afghanistan's history, yet today many of the perpetrators still wield power."
The HRW report follows a survey by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC's) on transitional justice entitled "A Call for Justice" released in February. AIHRC's report was based on interviews and focus groups with more than 6,000 Afghans in 32 of 34 provinces. According to the Afghan rights body, all those interviewed wanted those who had committed past criminal acts to be brought to justice.
But transitional justice is a very controversial issue in post-war Afghanistan where there is still much work to do on the issue of legal reform. Analysts in Kabul believe there has not been any criminal justice structure for years and there has been no rule of law in the country for decades, resulting in no prosecutions for war crimes in the past 30 years.
There is no official charge from any court against anyone accused of war crimes, which is another element, hampering the trial of any criminal.
"Every time before the elections such reports or concerns are raised but neither the government nor the UN and international organisations have so far taken any step to open the debate of past criminals prosecutions," said Mohammad Qasi Akhgar, a local political analyst.
Akhgar said the war crimes did not take place only during the 1990s, "but when we say past criminals all the regimes in the last three decades must be included, not just the civil war.
The HRW report has only underlined and mentioned the war criminals of the civil war. It has completely ignored the atrocities of communists," Akhgar noted.
Various groups were fighting for control of the country in the power vacuum that followed the bloody Soviet occupation and the fall of President Najibullah.
Among those mentioned in the report are several former chiefs of the Northern Alliance, which later helped the US-led coalition topple the hardline Taliban regime at the end of 2001, following the 11 September attacks on the United States.
HRW cites the example of notorious warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who now holds a senior post in the ministry of defense and exercises political control of several provinces in the north of Afghanistan.
It also mentions Karim Khalili, a former militia commander and now one of Karzai's two vice-presidents and Abdul Rabb al-Rasul Sayyaf, a radical Islamist commander who currently advises President Karzai and exercises major political power over the Afghan judiciary.
But the Afghan government has termed the report as incomplete and imperfect.
"The report is based on a specific period of Afghan history while in the last three years a lot has been done to respect human rights in Afghanistan," presidential spokesman Mohammad Karim Rahimi said on Sunday.
Ruling out the possible trial of the accused Afghan dignitaries, the spokesman said the people named had significantly contributed to peace and stability in post-war Afghanistan.
In the last three years Karzai's government has avoided pursuing suspected war criminals in the interest of national stability. Indeed, many suspects were co-opted into his interim government. Others accused of war crimes remain powerful in the provinces, with their own private armies and links with the flourishing opium trade. It is the failure to take any action against such alleged perpetrators that has strengthened the culture of impunity in the country, observers say.
"If Afghanistan doesn't begin a process of addressing its history now, the past may repeat itself," the rights group warned, urging the government to accelerate efforts to reform the judicial system and set up special courts to try alleged rights abusers.
"In Afghanistan today, alleged war criminals – Taliban, Mujahideen, Communist – enjoy total impunity in the name of national reconciliation," Adams said. "This is an insult to victims and an affront to justice."
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
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- 'A solid surf beats against the breakwater, swashing spray on the sidewalk vendors and strolling passers-by.'
- 'This may result from drifting spray or a heavy rain that washes recently applied chemicals into the pond.'
- 'The white of the paper looks as though it has been pushed into the liquid spray of charcoal.'
- 'Certainly the story is already clearly for mature audiences, filled with plenty of naked women and arterial spray.'
- 'In truth there are probably only one or two frames where you can see a flash of red spray.'
- 'Evenflow nozzles are used for banding and provide an even amount of spray.'
- 'There's nothing like a good arterial spray to get things going.'
- 'Splashes of ocean spray open the movie, as a fish narrates.'
- 1.1 A liquid preparation which can be forced out of a can or other container in tiny drops.'a can of insect spray'
- 'Like a graffiti artist, he uses paint, spray and acrylic to give it a very contemporary look.'
- 'A job offer, and an edit room that was in a closet that still reeked of the art department's adhesive spray.'
- 'We Floridians know what that means: humidity and lots of bug spray to keep the mosquitoes away.'
- 'I've found it's easiest to glue the pattern to the contact paper while on top of the glass with glue spray.'
- 'When the movie starts, she looks like a clown, with buckets of spray holding her hair in place and makeup caking her features.'
- 'It also comes as a disinfectant spray and as a liquid cleaner.'
- 'Top black celebrities have moved beyond roach spray and brew to endorse a wider variety of wares.'
- 'Electrolyte tolerant, can be used with sprays containing micronutrients or nitrogen-based fertilizers.'
- 'Blood flows as easy as ant spray at the Tavern, but in a really squeamish, sickening way.'
- 'Geisel, who had sold bug spray and motor oil through humor was the prefect recruit for this task.'
- 'Applying liquid sprays to dry feathers often results in loss of some of the insecticide due to runoff.'
- 1.2 A can or container holding a spray.
atomizer, vaporizer, aerosol, sprinklerView synonyms
- 'So basically, if this one goes into deployment, what you're going to have is a bunch of soldiers with a whole load of bees in a jar and a little spray.'
- 'They stock a comprehensive selection of acid-free items, from photograph albums and storage boxes to deacidification sprays.'
- 'I tell Mother all the time that selling some old fashioned spray might not be a bad idea.'
- 'In addition to sprays, dust bags can be used for lice control.'
- 1.3 An act of applying a spray.'refresh your flowers with a quick spray'
- 'The hose extends 30 inches and has a rotating head for spray or aerated water flow.'
- 'A high-tech car wash (all spray, no brush) aims to become the Starbucks of drive through suds.'
- 'However, most calculations can be done once per year; there is no need to recalculate for every spray.'
- 'They used a barrel washer to remove most of the soil from their carrots, followed by a power washer spray as a final rinse.'
1with object and adverbial of direction Apply (liquid) to someone or something in the form of a shower of tiny drops.'the product can be sprayed onto wet or dry hair'
- 'The liquid form is mixed with water and sprayed on the water surface or injected below the surface.'
- 'In order to get the image of the back of the room where there was less light, I had to spray everything in the front of the room with water to darken it so I could hold that area back.'
- 'Between cladding and structure is a sandwich of waterproofing, insulation and concrete, which was sprayed over steel reinforcement and wire mesh stretched between the steel ribs.'
- 'The recently-engaged star had been chatting to journalists when he was suddenly sprayed in the face with water by a man holding a microphone.'
- 'A thin asphalt-based paint can be sprayed on if a darker colored surface is desired for cosmetic reasons.'
- 'He sprays a huge water gun at dead pigs, to dissolve their blood clots.'
- 'It sprayed me with water and I almost stepped on it.'
- 'While jostling in the drum, they are sprayed with a sugary liquid that hardens into a white candy shell.'
- 'The weedkiller is being sprayed on villages in a concentration 100 times more powerful than is permitted in the US.'
- 'Some were left in ambient room conditions, and others were sprayed with water - both with and without a wetting agent to improve water absorption.'
- 'The mix is then strained, and the resulting tea-colored liquid is sprayed on foliage.'
- 'The insulation can be sprayed in wet or blown in dry, is fire resistant, and comes with a lifetime warranty.'
- 'What's more, because the organics can be sprayed on the plastic, it should be possible to produce the LCDs on continuous roll-to-roll printing presses, similar to those used to print newspapers.'
- 'In comparison to spraying water only, all drift retardants tested reduced volume of portion of small droplets in the spray but at varying magnitudes.'
- 'Materials of various colors or properties are suspended in a solution that is then sprayed or deposited upon the substrate and 'dries' much like an ink on paper.'
- 'Seconds are critical when someone is sprayed with liquid ammonia.'
- 'Their stage shows were infamous for lots of drink being sprayed on the crowd and excessive amounts of swearing.'
- 'Because it can be unpleasant to be sprayed with water, irrigation should be done when people and pets are not present.'
- 'It was just jiggled and had water being sprayed on it for rain.'
- 'As I listened to Dolan explain his methods, I wondered if it had something to do with the chemicals that are normally sprayed on wine grapes or the additives that go into traditional wines.'
- 1.1 Sprinkle or cover (someone or something) with a shower of tiny drops of liquid.'she sprayed herself with perfume'
- 'Scott had not warned the cast what would happen when the creature burst from John Hurt's chest - that they would all be sprayed with pig's blood - because he wanted their reactions to be real.'
- 'Standing on a chair, fully dressed, he sprayed his head and upper body with shaving lather, dowsed himself with rice, and then plunged into a washtub.'
- 'He intermixes shots of neon-lit signs with glossy images of models blithely spraying themselves with perfume.'
- 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction (of liquid) be driven through the air or forced out of something in tiny drops.'water sprayed into the air'
spout, jet, gush, spurt, shoot, squirt, streamView synonyms
- 'Birds have to be removed from the building before spraying.'
- 'The single most effective strategy to reduce drift from aerial spraying is having aircraft operators who are carefully trained to make good decisions on when to spray and when to stop spraying.'
- 'Be sure the entire tank is agitated and mixed before spraying.'
- 'The researchers inventoried the cages for dead sharpshooters at 6 hours and at 1, 2, and 6 days after spraying.'
- 'This is what we call spraying to the point of runoff, that is, until water begins to drip off the leaves.'
- 'The main challenge was to find a simple way to irrigate the planting without resorting to spraying from the front, which the Tokyo authorities would not permit.'
- 'The blood literally comes spraying and pouring out of bodies in this film (the queasy of stomach should take note).'
- 'The tide was in, and it washed under us and around, spraying through the holes in the floor, giving us the rhythm and the flavor of the sea.'
- 'Treat roosts, walls, litter, and equipment by painting, spraying, or dusting.'
- 'Damage ensues, with water leaking in and spraying about.'
- 'There are no punters, just about a dozen staff circulating amiably: spraying, wiping, tightening, bantering.'
- 'The camera twice pauses on a riveting image of a dying knight, blood spraying from his punctured armor.'
- 'By forcing the blood to fly out of the extra hole instead of the end of the tube it sprays out rather than jets out.'
- 'Figures in industrial protective outfits go about their business, cleaning up the mountainous terrain, spraying, collecting.'
- 'Right now, because of safety concerns, workers must wait 24 to 48 hours after spraying before they can re-enter the greenhouse.'
- 'The water domes were to make musical sounds as the water sprayed.'
- 1.3 Treat (a plant) with insecticide or herbicide in a spray.'avoid spraying your plants with pesticides'
- 'Of course if you want the best control you need to spray the weeds before they bolt in the spring.'
- 'We recently turned to trying to spray thinning flowers instead of hand-thinning methods that we used to use, and that is always interesting.'
- 'He tills the ground, plants the sweet corn and pumpkins, sprays the crops, and irrigates the sweet corn with a small center pivot that does 15 acres at a setting.'
- 'So far, the only known treatment to prevent crop loss is to spray soybean plants with a fungicide.'
- 'Crops containing a herbicide-resistant gene will be sprayed to destroy every other living plant in the field, thus destroying all potential feed for insects and other wildlife.'
- 'On yet another front, his team is monitoring how long it takes for it to kick in once the plants have been sprayed and how long it is effective.'
- ''I've sprayed my Roundup beans twice this summer and I can see corn still growing in the fields,' he said.'
- 'Lester says sometimes he'll spray his trees with a little fish emulsion to give them a boost right before they bloom.'
- 'Unlike in 1999, the 2000 soybeans from the early planting dates had to be sprayed for bean leaf beetle.'
- 'Musk thistle should be sprayed before Memorial Day.'
- ''The potted tree is sprayed or injected with an insecticide - inside a greenhouse or warehouse - and then transported to an area believed to be infested,' says Smith.'
- 'Many fields already had significant weed growth and need to be sprayed.'
- 'This year some will need to be sprayed before 30 days.'
- 'Winter annuals can typically be sprayed from late September to early December, weather permitting.'
- 'Match the sprayer air jet (volume and direction) and nozzle system to the trees being sprayed.'
- 'If you are planning to spray the weeds in the spring, you need to do it when these weeds are small, preferably before they start bolting.'
- 'In order to increase efficiency and yields farmers are relying on a whole array of chemical products and are often unwilling to stop harvesting to let workers out of the fields while the crop is being sprayed.'
- ''Sunflowers that people planted this spring looked like they'd been sprayed with herbicide,' Kelly reports.'
- 'Tests showed that mite-infested ferns had one-fourth the growth of plants sprayed with a miticide.'
- 'A small grain is planted solid and later sprayed with glyphosate over the intended row area.'
- 1.4 Scatter (something) somewhere with great force.'the truck shuddered to a halt, spraying gravel from under its wheels'
- 'Just spray bullets everywhere and all of the extras will fall over on cue.'
- 'Everything went on as it had, emotions scattered, crews sprayed turf onto embankments, lights went off remotely.'
- 'With no time to get out of the way, the heroes begin driving over the corpses, spraying the road with body parts, and making 'funny' quips about the situation.'
- 'Seconds before it hits the ground it sprays a watery mix of ammonium nitrate and aluminium over the target area and then ignites it in a massive explosion.'
- 'In the next lot, the Audi TT sprayed two white jets of nitrous oxide out of vents just below its headlights.'
- 'Four abject stereotypes with guns chase him down corridors, spraying bullets and whooping with redneck glee.'
- 1.5 Fire a rapid succession of bullets at.'enemy gunners sprayed the decks of the warships'
- 'In January, assailants sprayed the building with bullets, shattering doors and windows.'
- 1.6 (of a male cat) direct a stream of urine over (an object or area) to mark a territory.
- 1.7 (in a sporting context) kick, hit, or throw (the ball) in an unpredictable or inaccurate direction.'he began his round by spraying his fairway shots'
Early 17th century (earlier as spry): related to Middle Dutch spra(e)yen 'sprinkle'.
1A stem or small branch of a tree or plant, bearing flowers and foliage.'a spray of honeysuckle'
sprig, small stem, twig, branchView synonyms
- 'In the watercolor and gouache of Joel with Roses, a spray of ripe blooms nearly fills the picture.'
- 'At the end of that painting, she thought it needed a spray of leaves going up one side, the right side of the picture.'
- 1.1 A bunch of cut flowers arranged in an attractive way.
bouquet, bunch, posy, nosegay, corsageView synonyms
- 'The body of the guglet is also scattered with floral bouquets and sprays and its pouring rim is banded with acanthus scrolls.'
- 1.2 A brooch in the form of a bouquet of flowers.
Middle English: representing late Old English (e)sprei, recorded in personal and place names, of unknown origin.
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We've updated PhyloSift to include a new mode: test_lineage. This allows users to conduct a Bayes factor test, a statistical method to test for the presence/absence of a specific taxon amongst the input data (e.g. whether a species might be present in an environmental metagenome). Because the summary files report probability masses for sequences over a reference guide tree topology, not every reported taxon represents a true biological signal (for example, branches where placed sequences have very low probability scores). In conjunction with guppy tree visualizations, the Bayes factor test will help users determine if a specific taxon of interest is likely to be present in their metagenome sample.
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Get a Life - Again!
Marilyn Schoeman Dow
It's true. Lots of bad things happen to lots of good people. Nothing new about that. However, we can make matters worse by continually focusing on it. Life isn't so much what happens to us as what we DO about what happens to us.
So what do we do? What action do we take? Grief can be lightened or intensified. Sorrow can be an escape from life or a normal part of adjustment. Anger can be debilitating or harnessed to power great causes. Uncertainty can leave us paralyzed, forever on edge. Or it can prompt us to take new paths, to discover what would have been missed, to make connections we would have overlooked. We choose whether we wake up with the proverbial "Good morning, God!" or "Good God. Morning!"
We decide, consciously or not, thoughtfully or not, to make a good day - or complain about a bad day. Those who make the most of whatever life hands them use the Green Light� style. They make the best of every situation. They can also guide others who want a better way. Their Green Light thoughts lead to Green Light words and then to Green Light ACTS. Like a magnet, they draw out and bring together the best of everyone.
|Red Light
|Green Light�
|Short-term view
|Long-term view
|Survival mode
|Success mode
On the short term, it's often easier to give up, to think red, speak red, act red. On the long term, it's a life sentence of hard labor - short on laughs and long on gripes, short on relationships and long on loneliness. We get our teeth drilled not because it's fun but because it's wise. It's tough. We do it anyway.
|Red Light
|Green Light �
|Worst Case Scenario
|Best Case Scenario
|Can we...? NO!
|How can we�?
|Will it work?
|How does it work?
|Status Quo
|Status? GO!
Do we want to be in charge of our life or host our own pity party? Many will join the Poor Me Parade - but no one will march to Sousa. No one will wear a grin, let alone a big red clown nose. Crowds won't line the streets to see who floats by.
Red Lighters, like Chicken Little, continually sound the alarm, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Green Lighters concoct sky hooks and hold things up. They determine, as best they can, what the reality of the situation is. Then they take the ACTION they believe produces the best outcomes. They also put on a happy face - or at least a stiff upper lip - and carry on.
With incomplete information, with no crystal ball projecting a view into the future, they make the best decisions they can at the time. As new data, new circumstances, new options appear, they readjust and again take the best ACTION they can at the time. Action uplifts and encourages. Inaction fosters a feeling of being helpless, discouraged and adrift.
Green Light� action draws us into a positive upward spiral.
Red Light action pulls us into a negative downward spiral.
Many of us now make much better health advocates for ourselves, no longer expecting the medical profession to do it all for us. We must also be our own life advocate, our own decision-maker, designer of our future. It never was a good idea to trust it to some person or program. Inventive, creative, designing and directing our destiny - that's the Green Light style. (Green Lighters pull themselves up by their light bulbs!) We can always give up. We can't always change our mind, say, "Oops. I want my life back," and thus undo the damage.
What information do I need?
What shall I ignore? Forget?
What perceptions need to change?
What are the odds I'll face a major disaster?
What can I control? Influence?
What is my focus?
Green Lighters ask
the questions that:
1. Prompt the thinking.
2. Force the discoveries.
3. Propel the ACTION.
Auto accidents kill fifty thousand people a year, yet people don't abandon their cars. Remaining in the driver's seat means more control of the destination. Turning the wheel over to fear leads to dead-ends. Fear will never take us where we want to go.
So DO something. Not only will it feel good. It will achieve good - at least for ourselves, often for others. Inaction leaves us even more vulnerable - victims in waiting. Vulnerability isn't new. It's just more obvious. Apply thought, not just reflexes. It rarely makes news when things go well. We never know what nasties we prevent - by our careful choices, kind concern, wise actions. Commend yourself for them anyway.
We possess the power of choice. Every day, every moment, we can choose to be fearful or confident, to worry or to do the best we can - and relax. The more we worry, the more we have to worry about. We increase our stress and decrease our health. We perform a disservice to ourselves, to those who love us - and to our world as well. Choose to be strong, caring, generous, unified people, not angry cowards, mindless followers or fool-hardy revenge-seekers.
What am I undervaluing, misunderstanding or not communicating?
What people, priority, conflict or legacy needs attention?
How might I maintain a sense of optimism, control, normalcy, future?
How might I best serve my family, group, society?
What are the things I need to do, to not do?
What is my best balancing act between inertia and frenzy?
Many things are still right with the world. We won't often find them featured in the media or rising from the masses. Know who to have faith in, to count on for a boost, for ideas and options, for a nudge in a better direction.
Respond to a question posed here. Choose an action - one that seems especially important right now. Take a few moments to think deeply about it. Notice what you feel about it. We tend to either totally avoid action or charge into things without thought. That can lead to unintended outcomes and unexpected consequences, painting our world a deeper Red. Think new thoughts. Convert them to new Green action.
How might you give someone a laugh? A break? Hope?
Who might give you a lift? A smile? Comfort?
When the going gets tough, the tough - and the wise - go Green. Okay, it may sound trite. If you read this far, you know a Red Light flicked on. (Red: the quick, unwise reflex, the rush to negative judgment.) Switch to Green and tweak the ideas to make them work for you.
|Red Light
|Green Light�
|I'm terrorized.
|I'm streetwise.
|I can't quit thinking about this.
|I direct my thoughts constructively.
|I don't feel safe anywhere.
|I am well prepared and moving ahead.
|I heard another awful rumor.
|I select helpful information.
|I look at everything and worry.
|I choose my view and face it confidently.
|I'm a victim. Life's a drag.
|I'm a victor. I make the best of everything.
Choose your dominant style. Think, "In what ways, places and situations might I Green Light� things?" Put your Green glasses on and look around. Find the good news, great role models, superb creativity, stunning courage, amazing selflessness. Discover and address community needs. Notice new possibilities, opportunities and urgencies. Everyone is Green some and Red some. How might we promote more of the good (Green) stuff and diminish more of the other (Red)?
Take action. Take care of yourself so you can better take care of others. Make a list of:
- 7 things you want to read.
Read them.
- 6 people you want to meet. Meet them.
- 5 interesting places you've never seen. See them.
- 4 positive experiences you've never had. Have them.
- 3 favorite childhood activities you still like. Do them.
- 2 people you want to know better. Reach them.
- 1 new quality you'd like in your life. Grow it.
So you may not do it all. So you may only do one. Do one. It's worth a salute. You chose a constructive act and did it. ACTION - Green Light ACTION - one of the best ways out of the dumps and into the mounds - of joy.
What we see is what we get. So what do we look at? Is it the upbeat or the downer? The disaster or the good deed? The failure or the breakthrough? The terrible stuff we won't affect or the need we can address? Red or Green? It's our choice. It's always been our choice. What color life shall we choose? Every day presents another chance to get a life - again. Take a deep breath, go out and Green it up.
Owner of ThinkLink and past-president of the American Creativity Association, Marilyn promotes innovative action, teambuilding and managing change in keynotes, coaching and seminars. Her products include BOFF-O!� (Brain On Fast Forward) problem solving deck/system.
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Josephene T.M. Kealey addresses the idea of "knowing" in her essay on Joyce Carol Oates's Marya: A Life, published in Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies.
"Joyce Carol Oates's Preface to the Franklin Library 1st Edition of her 1986 novel Marya: A Life is a theoretical reading guide. In her explanations for the possible autobiographical components discernible in her book, Oates challenges readers to question their ability to know a character, to know an author's intentions, even to know the self. Oates's ideas about the fluidity of identity and the dangers of claiming "to know" an other or the self are explored in this story."
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I'm sitting in the officer lounge, and it most certainly is quiet. Most of the officers have gone out for one reason or another, and I'm just chilling watching the Avengers.
I'm unsure yet as to how I feel about this summer. While a lot of the people are friendly and awesome to talk to, I don't really have a lot of good/close friends here. I'm hoping I'll manage to get by.
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Organisation, is it all that it's cracked up to be? Are you an organised person?
Are you an organised person?
If you're not sure, take the following quick quiz:
Did that help you sort things out (sorry, really bad pun)?
So what does an organised person look like?
I have worked with people who, on the face of it, are the most disorganised folks. A former colleague comes to mind. He has an office and work desk that would be completely at home at the local tip. No really, manky cups and paperwork are strewn with careless abandon. There are piles of paperwork filling every horizontal surface, remnants of last week's lunch is usually prominent and marketing paraphernalia is hanging off sets of drawers. In order to have a productive meeting with this fellow I had to set meetings in neutral meeting rooms, so I didn't get distracted (or aggrieved). He would often turn up to a planning meeting with a piece of paper that looked like a Jackson Pollock painting.
My brother has what he proudly refers to as his floordrobe. Literally, he doesn't hang anything up and his clean clothes just go on the floor. As a nod to family visits, he will occasionally move his floordrobe to an available chair or couch. We don't visit much; we tend to opt for dinner out. Also, he is not in his teens or twenties.
Can disorganisation work for you?
What both of these fellows have in common is that despite their particular way of organising their space, they both manage to pull it together when it counts. My brother arrives at work every day dressed and pressed for a corporate job. My colleague, who had a very project driven job, managed to get his work delivered on time, and, often with success.
On the face of it, both of these fellows are incredibly disorganised. Both of them seem to lurch from one activity to another. In my head, my brother spends lots of time searching for a specific shirt. It feels wasteful.
Good at different types of organisation?
You know of my love of planning, this also extends to organisation. I love being organised, I actually get satisfaction from cleaning out my wardrobe. But I am not always very good at it. I am hopeless at diaries (hard copy ones). I can't seem to keep them in a consistent notebook. It's a bit like yoga. In my head I want to be good at it, but I suspect that all I can achieve is poor interpretation of a downward dog. Please note, I talk about yoga, because I want to do it all the time, and be good at it, but I have only been once in the last month.
I am also terrible and cryptic in my note taking. I am currently looking at my work notebook and I have a list of items. The first two are:
- Reporting Protocols
- HR progress
I have no idea what these are for.
Do you love to be organised?
I love organisation, and am particularly organised in certain aspects of my life (I have an all-inclusive holiday packing list for example). However, I am not sure that being organised is all that it's cracked up to be. My comprehensive research says that being organised is something that works for some and not for others. What works for you? Are you a very organised person? Do you have a floordrobe?
P.S. I have recently purchased an Erin Condren life planner. It is lovely. I am planning to transfer all of my planning documents for this blog into my life planner (I love saying life planner). I will let you know how I go with it. If you want to take a look, they are at https://www.erincondren.com/lifeplanner. Not an affiliate link. I just like them.
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I have been taking lessons with Celine Gaurier-Joubert at London Piano Institute since May 2013. Although I took lessons when I was very young, I had basically forgotten everything, and so I was quite worried I would not be able to pick up piano again. Although it hasn't been easy, Celine Gaurier-Joubert and the staff at London Piano Institute have been very patient. Celine Gaurier-Joubert has structured my lessons in a way that makes it fun and allows me to learn at the same time. I strongly recommend London Piano Institute. – Nigel
My experience at London Piano Institute has been a joy! What has impressed me the most about Celine Gaurier-Joubert and London Piano Institute is the focus on learning piano for adults. She understands my lifestyle and the amount of time that I can devote to practice each day.
The London Piano Institute gives me an opportunity to participate in a concert each quarter. In only 5 months, I have had the chance to perform in two concerts – an amazing accomplishment I would never have believed possible!
Celine Gaurier-Joubert is a brilliant teacher who has given me fantastic and quite practical tips to overcome the difficult technical aspects in my pieces. London Piano Institute gives me confidence to learn how I can make it better. I always come out of my lesson at London Piano Institute ready to tackle new challenges! – Diane Alagar
Since I have been taking lessons at London Piano Institute, I can really say that my piano skills have really taken off. I really enjoy my lessons and look forward to them. Stefan is really great, really fun. We have jamming sessions, which I never thought possible. I always have my lessons at London Piano Institute on a Friday and have always begun the weekend in the right frame of mind. It's been great. I've been to the first party and concert. Had my first performance for the first time which was great and I really enjoy it all. – Lourdes


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- Aldermen Gossett, Gard and Stokes . . . vote to protect the builder
- Mayor Guccione, Aldermen Kross and Hayes . . .assisted [homeowners] to come to a favorable compromise with the builder
You hit the nail right on the head. I will not vote for Forrest. I've seen him in action. My vote is for Robert Hussey!ReplyDelete
I don't see it as three against three...Cheryl Kross sold her own subdivision down the road when the hba came in and wanted smaller,smaller, smaller. I have heard that both her and Stokes were "influenced" by the hba in exchange for certain "favors". Both need to go in my opinion.
Sykes this year and kross next!
This is an opinion piece or letter to the editor, that doesn't make it fact but an opinion. I am so happy we have BOTH the New and Old Wentzvillian. The New seems a little less attack dog, but I like the info in each. I am an adult and can separate the wheat from the chaff. Thanks CarterReplyDelete
I couldn't agree more with this letter. Our neighborhood is being held hostage by the builder who still has lots, leaving the residents without a voice on critical, money costing issues, like our absurd pool. I bought in Wentzville because it was to be a safe investment. I'd like to protect that investment and am utterly sick of special interest groups getting their hands into all levels of Gov. Usually there is a money trail back to these organizations which is likely what is happening here. Paybacks instead of good honest decisions for the citizens.
I've been very happy with our Mayor, he has the back of the people. I'm going to do my homework, if Stokes is involved with any sort of home builder, my vote goes to Wright. Our homes our the biggest investment we will make and the reason we're all in Wentzville. Wonder where the home builders live?
Here's to a good election, one for the people. Thanks for bringing this issue up, happy to have discovered this website.
We Allow All Posts Umless Cussing Or Vulgar. Anything Posted Stays Up!!! Hope every single reader thoroughly appreciates unfettered discussion. No biases hereReplyDelete
This town needs to get rid of the whole regime starting at the top mayor.ReplyDelete


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The liberation of sexuality and lust from the prison of traditional rules has resulted in the current situation. The brunt is borne by the gender whose capacity to contain and avoid exploitation by the opposite gender is limited by its sheltered upbringing, inexperience and vulnerability.
Cases of rape and molestation have increased. The issue is not just of couples in the same age group but of older men imposing their desires on young girls. The horror is that the ages of some of these unfortunate girls are in the single figures. A new barbarism is descending in the country, both in urban and rural areas. We may become a wealthy and politically strong nation but without a social order that makes life livable for everyone, present and future achievements are pointless. What is to be done?
The restoration of polite speech, reasoned dialogue, sympathetic understanding, toleration of diversity between individuals and groups, individual and group responsibility for their actions, discipline in all activity and honest and fair treatment of each other are some of the things individuals and groups should do. The government can make a new set of laws that ensure compliance even before enforcement. Is this too much to ask?
Gautam Pingle
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Effective Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Management Techniques
This synthesis the first in the Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) series summarizes commercial truck and bus safety management techniques. The problems fleet managers confront and methods to address these problems are the focus. The problems include driver safety knowledge, skills, and behaviors and vehicle-related problems. Major safety management approaches addressed include driver recruiting and selection, carrier-based training, management-driver communications, safety incentives, and others. The synthesis is based on a literature review and a survey of 139 commercial motor vehicle safety managers and 57 experts in motor vehicle safety.
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- Status: Completed
Contract Numbers:
Project MC-01
Sponsor Organizations:
Department of TransportationFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis ProgramTransportation Research Board
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Vlasak, Donna
- Start Date: 20141201
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- Source Data: RiP Project 37957
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Buses; Fleet management; Truck drivers; Trucking safety
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- Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors;
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Waterfront Philippines, Incorporated
|Waterfront Philippines, Inc. (WPI) was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 23, 1994 as an investment holding company for hotel, leisure, and tourism businesses. WPI is 46% owned by The Wellex Group, Inc.
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The Company has seven other subsidiaries namely, Waterfront Hotel Management Corporation; Mayo Bonanza, Inc.; Waterfront Entertainment Corporation; Waterfront Food Concepts, Inc.; Waterfront Wellness Group, Inc.; Grand Ilocandia Resort Development Incorporated; and Waterfront Promotions Limited.
Source: SEC Form 17-A (2016)
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Hialeah mayor tries to pay county's $4K ethics fine in pennies
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez finally decided to pay the $4,000 fine the Miami-Dade County ethics commission imposed earlier this year on his business dealings with Ponzi schemer and one-time jeweler Luis Felipe Pérez.
On Thursday, Hernandez sent the commission a truck stacked with 28 buckets filled with pennies to cover the fine. But his payment wasn't accepted. Apparently the commission accepts only checks.
Univision 23 reported that commission officials asked Hernandez's emissaries to leave with the buckets — and threatened to call police if they didn't. Commission members declined comment, according to Univision.
"They don't want to take our money...Cash," Hernandez told Univision. "I paid it with American money, of the United States, and I have the right to do that."
The mayor has called the ethics case against him a political "circus."
In July, the commission found Hernandez guilty of "knowingly" lying to the community — in English and Spanish — about receiving high-interest payments of 36 percent from Pérez on $180,000 in private loans. He was penalized with a $3,000 civil penalty plus $1,000 to cover investigative costs, as well as a letter of reprimand.
Pérez conned several people out of some $40 million — including Hialeah political figures such as Hernandez. As part of the Ponzi scheme, according to authorities, investors received interest payments of 36 percent, which is considered loansharking. The case erupted in 2010.
During his 2011 mayoral campaign, Hernandez assured reporters in a news conference that he never received interest payments from Pérez. But last year, when he testified as a federal prosecution witness in the case against his predecessor, Julio Robaina, Hernandez said he received more than $100,000 in interest payments, contradicting his prior statements.
The 28 penny-filled buckets ended up back at Hialeah City Hall on Thursday.