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Lawmakers put end to Ohio's 'heartbeat bill'
GOP concerned bill may be unconstitutional
The leader of the Ohio Senate put a stop Tuesday to a bill that would have imposed the most stringent restriction on abortions in the nation.
The chamber doesn't plan to vote on the so-called "heartbeat bill" before the end of the legislative session next month, Republican Senate President Tom Niehaus said, citing concerns the resulting law might have been found to be unconstitutional.
"I want to continue our focus on jobs and the economy," Niehaus told reporters. "That's what people are concerned about."
The bill proposed banning abortions after the first fetal heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks into pregnancy. It had fiercely divided Ohio's anti-abortion community, while energizing abortion rights proponents who protested against it.
Backers hoped the stringent nature of the bill would provoke a legal challenge with the potential to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion up until viability, usually at 22 to 24 weeks.
Ohio Right to Life, the state's largest and oldest anti-abortion group, and many state lawmakers expressed concern the limit would be unconstitutional – jeopardizing other abortion limits in Ohio and expanding access to legal abortions.
The measure initially had stalled in both chambers as leaders sought legal advice as to whether the bill could withstand a court challenge. It passed the House in June 2011 and had remained pending in the Senate since.
Niehaus, who is leaving the Senate at the end of the year due to term limits, said a number of factors went into his decision not to bring the bill to a floor vote during the lame-duck session. He cited lingering constitutional concerns but would not elaborate on other issues he had with the measure.
Supporters had offered various versions of the proposal in recent weeks, Neihaus said. And a new draft had been brought to him as recently as Tuesday morning.
Niehaus wouldn't speculate on whether the bill would have cleared the Senate had he decided to bring it to the floor for a vote.
He said he respected the views of his Republican colleagues, who hold 23 of 33 seats in the Senate. But, he said, "Ultimately it's my decision not to move this bill in lame duck."
The heartbeat bill's demise Tuesday marked the end of one of the noisiest lobbying efforts in recent state memory.
One crowded House hearing featured what supporters called "the state's youngest legislative witness," an in utero fetus. Ultrasounds were performed at the hearing on two women who were early in their pregnancies, so legislators could see and hear the fetal hearts. People whose mothers had sought abortions that failed – labeled "abortion survivors" – were featured at another hearing.
Proponents delivered bouquets of red heart-shaped balloons and teddy bears to lawmakers, flew banners over the Statehouse and eventually turned to angry full-page ads in the Columbus newspaper.
Opponents also grew vocal. They rallied at the Statehouse during key votes, arguing the legislation could endanger the lives of women, forcing them to seek the procedure in unhealthy circumstances.
Janet Folger Porter, president of Ohio-based Faith2Action and the bill's champion, said she was confident the legislation would be upheld in court.
"This is the closest we have ever been to protecting babies with beating hearts," she said when it passed the House. "When this passes, it will be the most protective legislation in the nation."
Porter led a charge to line up a host of high-profile supporters. They included Cincinnati physician Jack Willke, a former president of the National Right to Life Committee and founder of the International Right to Life Federation, and Phil Burress, whose Citizens for Community Values led the charge to ban gay marriage, among others.
But Ohio Right to Life's then-executive director, Mike Gonidakis, called it "the right idea at the wrong time."
Battling negative publicity over its neutrality on the bill, his chapter was selected to launch a 50-state effort to pass informed-consent bills tied to the fetal heartbeat, requiring that pregnant women see and hear the rhythm before agreeing to an abortion.
Supporters of that effort said statistics show women exposed to the fetal heartbeat are far less likely to go through with an abortion.
State Sen. Shannon Jones, a Springboro Republican, said she thought the bill would have passed in the Senate.
"I am hopeful and confident it will come up in the next General Assembly," she said.
That's what the head of one abortion rights group feared Tuesday.
"We don't believe for a second that this threat is over – perhaps delayed, but not over," said NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio director Kellie Copeland.


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Tangerine Dream's wistful, meditative synthesiser sounds inspire the imagination. For many years, the group has also provided hypnotic soundtracks for hit films such as Risky Business and Legend (both featuring Tom Cruise).
Tangerine Dream were formed by guitarist and keyboard player Edgar Froese in 1967 in West Berlin. Their breakthrough came with the album Phaedra (1974), which brought in their first invitations to play abroad. Around the world, the band's name was soon equated with electronic music full of symphonic power and esoteric beauty. In the 1990s no fewer than five of their albums were nominated for a Grammy in the New Age category.
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CARSON, Calif. – Robbie Keane has declared himself fit and ready to play in Saturday's California Clásico against the San Jose Earthquakes.
A day after not being present for the LA Galaxy's on-field training, Keane told reporters on Friday that he missed Thursday's training session due to a nagging neck spasm.
"I had a spasm in my neck so I had to go to the doctor at the hospital to get some stuff done with it. It feels a lot better. I got a couple injections in it, so it feels a lot better today," said Keane. "It was just a spasm. You literally can't do anything about it, you just have to wait for it to get better, and it didn't better. So we went to the hospital and got a couple of injections into it and it feels a lot better today."
The LA captain has the green light from Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena, who revealed that he expects Keane to be in the lineup on Saturday. The presence of Keane will be vital for LA as they take on the Earthquakes in what promises to be a heated match on Saturday at Stanford Stadium.
"It's a rivalry isn't it? They're always tough games against them certainly since I've been here. It's always good to go there because it's a good atmosphere and we certainly look forward to it," said Keane. "The history between both teams has been good. There have been a few tough games and heated games and it's always good to play against them. We're coming off a good win against another rival, so hopefully it can be the same outcome."


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John Shiban wrote some of the most acclaimed X-Files episodes, and then went on to work on Smallville, Supernatural, Star Trek: Enterprise and the upcoming Torchwood: Miracle Day. He also has worked on Breaking Bad from its second season onward.
So it's great news that Shiban is developing a new science fiction show, tentatively named Voyage, probably for AMC. All we know about the show so far is that it's about "the discovery of an alien race that may be interacting with humans." If it manages to live up to AMC's own Breaking Bad, then we could have a new stone classic on our hands. [Variety]


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Sudbury conference imagines mining with no tailings or blasting
Sudburians are used to feeling the shudders from underground blasting and seeing the night sky lit up from slag, but mines of the future could be much more subtle and efficient.
"One of the things we're looking at is mining with no tailings," said Carl Weatherell, executive director of the Canada Mining Innovation Council, at the Beyond Digital Transformation conference on Wednesday.
As well, companies are exploring how to "get rid of drill and blast," he said, which apart from being dangerous is "perhaps not the most effective way to break rock and is not creating value."
An alternative, he said, is to utilize a mechanical cutting machine, powered by electricity, and to move material by rail conveyance instead of rubber-tired trucks.
"It's electric and continuous, and you can put ore-sorting on it," he noted.
To eliminate or at least reduce tailings, mines can also explore dry processing (rather than add water), he said, and look for ways to make comminution — the grinding of rocks into small pieces — more cost-effective.
"It consumes four per cent of the world's energy, but it's about five to 10 per cent efficient," said Weatherell. "So for every hundred million you're spending in energy in this process, you're throwing out at least 90 per cent by design. So that's a huge challenge. Can we find a new technology platform to replace that?"
Weatherell said it's important for the mining sector to look at how technology has revolutionized other industries and to borrow, to some extent, from the playbooks of successful companies.
"True innovation is transformation," he said. "Sears no longer exists because of Amazon, for example. What Amazon did is challenge the very paradigm of Sears and other companies, create a new platform, and basically put them out of business. What we need to do is adopt those business models and innovation models from other industries."
Collaboration is also key, he said, among mining companies as well as suppliers and organizations. "Let's harness innovation potential around the world to solve complicated business problems," he said.
Weatherell was one of several industry leaders to speak at the two-day mining conference, which drew participants from across the continent.
"This is an opportunity for us to showcase the technological advancement that we have here in Sudbury and share that with the world," said conference chair Glenn Thibeault. "We've got folks and speakers here from Nevada and all over the country, and they're coming to Sudbury because they know this is the hub of mining innovation."
Thibeault pointed to digital innovations at Vale — where a nerve centre has been set up locally to coordinate all of the company's North Atlantic operations — and Goldcorp's use of drones for mine mapping as examples of being on the leading edge.
Technology doesn't have to displace people, however, stressed Thibeault.
"We are going through a transformation that is going to make mining safer, more productive, and still create the good-paying jobs that we all know come from the sector," he said. "I've heard several times today that this isn't about laying off workers. This is about taking the same workforce and training them to do the job."
Weatherell said Agnico Eagle, a Toronto-based miner, is already using a remote-controlled rail-veyor system supplied by a Sudbury company for an operation in northern Quebec.
Machines also exist now that can "do mechanical cutting with small blades or disks, and we're looking at doing a demonstration in Ontario this year," he said.
A rail conveyance eliminates the need for a fleet of trucks, he noted, while a mechanical cutter replaces blasting and drilling. In each case there would be less of an environmental impact and less risk of human injury.
"You're not using explosives, and there's no one at the face drilling holes," he said. "If you are doing mechanical cutting and ore sorting, you are also sending less material to the surface, therefore your tailings are automatically much smaller. You're using less energy, so less GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions. Everything is reduced — water consumption, environmental footprint and energy."
While safety and the environment are always important considerations, the mining sector must also make these changes simply in order to survive economically, according to Weatherell.
"With nickel prices going the way they are, and as mines go deeper, it's becoming more difficult," he said. "It's harder to raise capital, it's harder to make margins, and as social conscience comes into play it takes longer to get permitting done."
He noted two CEOs from different mining companies made a similar point earlier in the conference.
"They said if we don't change the business of mining, we won't have a mining business," he said.


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A 'NOTORIOUS' drug dealer was living a luxury lifestyle while peddling thousands of pounds of cocaine and cannabis.
Businessman Darren Bowling was involved in a conspiracy to supply the drugs which spread across the North West and the entire country, police said.
Investigators said breaking up the gang represented a 'massive dint' in the importation and selling of class A and B drugs in East Lancashire.
Police said Bowling had been living in a luxury €1.5million villa in Malaga, complete with swimming pool and had properties in Bulgaria as well as a converted barn in East Lancashire.
The 48-year-old drove a Porsche Cayenne with a personal number plate 36 BOW and also had a brand new Volkswagen Golf.
He owned his own storage company in Hapton as well as a car sales business in Burnley and had a stake in a popular town centre bar.
But despite all of this, police said they had never seen him do a hard day's work.
Officers said Bowling teamed up with Paul Bell, 49, from Cheadle, and alleged dealer Michael Donnelly, to set up an underground drugs business.
Donnelly has not been seen since he fled the United Kingdom to South Africa via Dubai in September last year.
Bowling, who admitted, conspiracy to supply class A and class B drugs and money laundering, was living the life of a millionaire while organising drug deals police said.
Speaking after the hearing Det Insp Martin Kane, who led the year-long serious and organised crime unit investigation, said: "In my experience of investigating organised crime, Darren Bowling was certainly one of those individuals that lived a fantastic luxury lifestyle from the proceeds of crime.
"From our investigation, we know that he owns property in Spain and Bulgaria and has a converted barn-style house in Barrowford. He owns the Castle Mill premises, Mojitos bar and the Castle Car Sales and he drove around in a Porshe.
"But we never saw him do a hard day's work, despite him owning all these things.
"There is no doubt Bowling has become a very wealthy man over the years from importing and supplying cocaine into the United Kingdom and Lancashire."
Dennis Bury, who co-owned Mojitos bar with Bowling, of Colne Road, Barrowford, said he bought his business partner's share as soon as the allegations against him came to light.
He said: "Mojitos has nothing more to do with Bowling. That company ceased trading and Dennis Bury Ltd bought it.
"I wanted nothing to do with him and I had no idea what was going on."
The police's Operation Victor investigation, which saw officers seize more than 2kgs of cocaine, 15kgs of amphetamine, cannabis and £200,000 in cash, came to a head in January.
They had been monitoring Bowling's activities, which included him frequently heading to his properties in Spain to arrange for cocaine to be imported to the UK.
He would then meet up and talk with his co-conspirators to organise deals.
Also involved in the conspiracy was Mark Waring, 39 of Peel Mount, Blackburn. He was described as a courier for Donnelly and pleaded guilty in December 2013 to possession with intent to supply 2kgs of cocaine and production of cannabis. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
Shaun McDonald, 37, of Colshaw Road, Manchester, was a courier for Bell, who had only been out of prison for a short while after being sentenced to 20 years in 2003 for being part of a gang that imported drugs with a street value of £200million, when he got involved with the conspiracy.
McDonald admitted being in possession with intent to supply 15kgs of amphetamine and money laundering in October 2013 and was sentenced to three years four months behind bars.
Stephen Barton, 42, of Brandy House Brow, Blackburn, was a customer of Donnelly and was found guilty of conspiracy to supply class B drugs at Preston Crown Court. He was cleared of charges of possessing criminal property.
Barton stood trial alongside Melvin Harrison, 52, of Causey Foot, Nelson, who faced two charges of concealing criminal property. He was an employee of Bowling who had worked for the family company for 27 years.
The court heart how he admitted creating a hide from a cardboard box with a metal container inside for his boss at Castle Storage, Hapton but denied he knew or suspected the cash inside to be 'dirty' drugs money. He was found not guilty on both charges.
Det Insp Kane said: "This investigation is another example of Lancashire's serious and organised crime unit's relentless effort to combat the supply of controlled drugs.
"Drugs like cocaine cause misery to communities. The amount of cocaine and the scale of the supply of it on the streets of Lancashire can never be underestimated.
"We are now continuing to investigate the properties and wealth Bowling has amassed over the years to support proceeds of crime proceedings later this year."
The gang will be sentenced on October 10.


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When this piece first posted to the blog in July, 2010, the closing video tribute to Richard Bock and Pacific Jazz Records had not been added. The music on it, bass trumpeter Cy Touff's Octet performing Johnny Mandel's "Groover Wailin'", is but one example of the hundreds of LP's issued by Pacific Jazz that in retrospect provide a basis in documentation for what was then referred to as the "West Coast Jazz Scene.
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A few years ago, thanks to the urgings of a brilliant and witty friend who mockingly refers to himself as "the sage of the Florida swamps," a group of West Coast Jazz fans set out to track down the Pacific Jazz label's sampler LP's and convert them to CD.
The leadership for this task fell primarily to another friend, a kind and gentle man who heads-up a West Coast Jazz internet chat group and who is also an expert of the subject of West Coast Jazz in general and the recordings of Pacific Jazz in particular.
Frankly, without the guidance and knowledge of this quintessential Gentleman, the Pacific Jazz sampler conversion project would have been a non-starter ["today speak" for would-never-have-gotten-off-the-ground].
Some other members of said chat group contributed their expertise and materials to this non-commercial project and before long the digital conversions were taking place replete with scaled down artwork and liner notes from the original LPs.
Until he sold it to
records during the mid-1960's, the "chief cook and bottle washer" at Pacific Jazz was Richard Bock, who had founded the label about ten years earlier. Liberty
I gather from those who knew him personally during the years he owned and operated the label and from those who have subsequently made a study of his business practices that Dick Bock was a very idiosyncratic man who basically viewed Pacific Jazz as his sandbox in which he could build whatever kind of sand castles he chose to build however he chose to build them [I'm sure there is a better metaphor for this, but I can't think of one at the moment].
The following, paraphrased paragraph from
Mosaic Records's founder and President Michael Cuscuna provides us with another view of Richard Bock's entrepreneurial proclivities:
"Dick Bock, owner and producer of Pacific Jazz Records, had some strange habits. Among them were switching takes when a tune went from 10' LP to 12" LP. Often he would gather together anthologies of unreleased material from various artists and various sessions. On occasion, for some sessions an album was never realized. Instead, various tracks would emerge on various anthologies in the late fifties. Releasing these performances in such scattered form over time gave the session a status of almost non-existence. To make matters worse, some tunes kept reappearing on new anthologies in shorter and shorter forms through editing."
As the name implies, a "sampler" offers the buyer a variety of audio tracks from the artists and albums available through the Pacific Jazz catalogue.
And while this was generally the case with samplers from Pacific Jazz and other record companies that issued them, with Pacific Jazz, the sampler buyer sometimes got bonus of tracks that had not been previously released or alternative tracks from previous recording sessions.
Such LP's were often sold at a discount price to make them more appealing to the buyer. As indicated on the PJ "Assorted Flavors" cover used as the graphic lead-in to this piece, that sampler was available for $1.98 which is probably today's cost for the ice cream cone the little girl's holding!
If you weren't already familiar with the playing of certain artists or the style of a particular group, samplers were an inexpensive way to get a first hearing.
In the case of Pacific Jazz, Richard Bock was blessed at the outset to have the brilliant photographic work of William Claxton form the basis for most of his album covert art. Ray Avery, a contemporary, once said of Claxton work: "Some of us take photographs of Jazz musicians, but Bill does much more than that: he is an artist with a camera."
In fairness, Dick Bock's Pacific Jazz label gave Bill Claxton a place to learn and practice his art as a photographer so the creative purposes of each were well-served through their business relationship.
Acknowledgement should also be made of the skills of Woody Woodward, who designed many of the Pacific Jazz covers, and without whose logistical and technical contributions, Dick Bock's Pacific Jazz would have been even more disorganized, and of Dotty Woodward, the firm's accountant and the person who managed the royalties for the musicians and composers.
More of the details about the origin and development of Pacific Jazz Records are contained in the reminiscences of William Claxton that conclude this piece.
From a legal perspective, I would imagine that mid-1950's [when most of the PJ samplers were issued] and early 1960's were a much simpler time from a copyright, music publishing and artists rights' standpoint.
While ASCAP and
BMI royalties may have been paid, I doubt that the performing artists received a great deal of additional revenue from these samplers.
And yet, the albums themselves are a treat because they provide more or different music by favorite West Coast Jazz artists and because they often contain musical surprises and revelations such a bass trumpets, cellos and flutes and oboes – all of which are fairly rare in a Jazz environment [with the exception of the flute].
Since many of these Pacific Jazz samplers are difficult to find, the editorial staff at JazzProfiles has created the following YouTube with slides of many of the album covers from the series along with an audio track from the Assorted Flavors of Pacific Jazz: A Hi-Fi Sampler.
Some of this sampler's tracks are combined within a spoken narrative that describes the evolution of West Coast Jazz in the 1950s as represented on Pacific Jazz records.
The audio track on the following YouTube is fairly representative of the music available on these samplers, this one featuring Cy Touff's bass trumpet with an octet arrangement of Johnny Mandel's Groover Wailin'.
In 1992, Hitoshi Namekata engaged William Claxton to co-author Jazz West Coast: The Artwork of Pacific Jazz [
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"It was the winter of 1949. My former high school girl friend, Carol McCallson, had become a top fashion model in
and was coming out to New York , bringing a friend to escape the cold California weather. It just so happened that New York was suffering through its worst cold winter of the century. The good aspect of her trip was that the friend she brought out was the young, somewhat legendary tenor saxophonist, Allen Eager. I was on winter holiday from college. So, the three of us spent two weeks palling around together; I showed them around Hollywood, visiting the jazz clubs where Allen introduced us to the musicians; we would stay up late listening to the records of the young Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie and, of course, Bird. I think that we wore out all of Charlie Parker's Dial recordings. We would drive around late at night in the rain and scat sing Bird's solos. Allen would tell us about Pres and Billie and what it was like playing with Dizzy, Stan Getz, Bud Powell, Tad Dameron and others at the Royal Roost on Los Angeles 52nd Street. It was exciting to listen to this "cool" musician while driving about in a Cadillac convertible with its owner, a sophisticated model.
One Sunday afternoon Allen suggested that we stop at the Roosevelt Hotel on
Hollywood Boulevard to meet a couple of his musician friends. We walked into what turned out to be Woody Herman's large suite of rooms. There were most of Herman's "Four Brothers Band" sitting around casually rehearsing. There in front of my eyes were Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Bill Harris, Jimmy Giuffre and Shorty Rogers. The music was wonderful. And I'll never forget how the gold afternoon light fell across this room full of energetic, young musicians and how the sparkling reflections danced off their shiny brass instruments.
I made a vow to myself: never to be around musicians without my camera again.
We always had music around my house as I was growing up in the 40's and 50's. My mother sang in an important church choir and played piano. My older brother studied piano and would practice while imitating everyone from Eddie Duchin to the boogie woogie piano of Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. The record player (the Victrola) was always playing, as was the radio. I thought the Hit Parade was corny, but I loved the big band shows of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, and, of course, Count Basie. Like most boys, I liked airplanes and automobiles and devoted scrapbooks to my favorites. Later my heroes were singers and musicians: Cab Galloway, Duke Ellington, Lena Home and Billie Holiday...never dreaming that one day I would be photographing them.
While in junior high school, a neighborhood chum introduced me to photography. I had always done well in my art classes, but photography produced a special magic for me. It was through my sister and her collection of fashion magazines, VOGUE and HARPER'S BAZAAR, that I became aware of photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon and their pure but sophisticated images of people, all kinds of people, not just fashion models. Somewhere in the back of my mind I decided that I wanted to photograph my favorite musicians in a similar style.
Jazz became more and more important to me during high school, and I began collecting records of Johnny Hodges, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, and Lester Young. But the skies parted for me the first time I heard Charlie "Bird" Parker. My other high school pals were shocked too, but in an adverse way. I knew Bird was a genius and bought every record he made.
On the weekends, I would borrow my father's car, pack up my 4x5 Speed Graphic camera, and head for some jazz club. I was much too young to be legally allowed in the clubs, but because I was very tall, I was rarely questioned. The clubs that I frequented were Brother's on
While a student at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) studying psychology and art and wondering how and when I would ever be able to make a living with the knowledge I might gain from these two subjects, I photographed some "exceptional" children (special because these children were intelligent but had emotional problems and were failing in their school work). The pictures were purchased by LADIES' HOME JOURNAL magazine, and I was paid rather well. It was then that I decided that photography could possibly become my career.
My passion for jazz and photography grew through my college years, and I continued to visit jazz clubs and occasionally a jazz concert when I could afford it. It was during one of these excursions that I met Richard Bock, and Pacific Jazz Records was about to be born.
In the Fall of 1952, I heard that Gerry Mulligan was going to appear in
. I had heard interesting stories about this composer, arranger, and baritone player. I knew that he had written Jeru, Boplicity, Venus de Milo, and Godchild for Miles Davis and that he wrote for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, but the best story about him was that when he was broke and no one would give him money to rehearse his band, he took the band outside to Central Park in the middle of Manhattan. This event caused a great commotion and did just what he wanted: to call attention to his talent and ambition. Los Angeles
Once again I borrowed my dad's car, grabbed my enormous 4x5 Speed Graphic camera, and pointed the big Packard towards the Wilshire district where The Haig club was located. Why this tiny converted bungalow was called The Haig, I shall never know. It was so small that its capacity was only 85 people. Shorty
supposedly said of the place, "If you took four steps, you had crossed the room." There have been many stories of why there was no piano in the club. One was that Red Norvo had just appeared there and had it removed, having no need for it. Another rumor was that the owner of the club, John Bennett, hadn't paid the rent on it so it was taken back by its owner. Yet one more rumor was that the piano simply was not delivered. So Gerry Mulligan did what he does best: Improvise! So, along with Chet Baker, Chico Hamilton and Bob Whitlock on bass, Gerry created the now famous "piano less quartet." Rogers
It was opening night and I arrived early. After introducing myself to Gerry, I got permission to take pictures. The music was, of course, wonderful and the place was packed. While I was shooting pictures, a young man introduced himself as Dick Bock. He was recording the group and he asked if he could see my pictures as soon as possible. I asked, "Oh, do you have a record company?" He replied, "No, but I will have one by morning." He was so bright-eyed and optimistic. That was the beginning of Pacific Jazz Records.
The actual company was created by Dick Bock with partners, drummer Roy Hart and accountant-sometimes-recording engineer, Phil Turetsky. Dick Bock liked my pictures of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and put them on the record cover. After that I shot a photograph of Harry "Sweets"
The first Pacific Jazz offices opened in a small above Roy Hart's Drum Shop on
Santa Monica Boulevard in . The one employee at that time was Dotty Woodward. She took care of the books, the accounts, and the royalties for the musicians and song writers. We all did a little bit of the chores, wrapping and shipping orders, etc. Later on, Dotty's husband, Woody Woodward, joined the group and became the manager and Dick Bock's right-hand man. Woody became an accomplished photographer and designer and took over much of that work when I left the group several years later. Hollywood
The Gerry Mulligan records were very successful, but during the following year, Chet Baker was being looked at and listened to as a star in his own right. With his boyish good looks and his honest and direct trumpet work, he was beginning to win all the jazz polls and the popularity polls of that time. He quit Gerry's group and formed his own quartet in the Spring of 1954 with Russ Freeman on piano, Carson Smith, bass, and Bob Neel on drums.
Russ Freeman was an accomplished and well-educated musician. Chet Baker was not. He was considered a "natural." Russ became his teacher and professional musician friend. Russ was responsible for much of Chefs growth as a musician.
It was during this period that Dick Bock said to me one morning, "Guess what Chet wants to do now? He wants to sing. What's more he wants me to record him!" So, he did and I photographed the event. Well, the rest is history. Chefs voice was just like the voice of his trumpet: sweet, gentle, simple, and honest.
The first Chet Baker Sings album was very popular and was followed by two more vocal albums. Chet Baker was being pursued by movie producers and television companies to star in shows. But Chet had a drug problem, so he did not take many of his offers seriously or just ignored them.
Dick Bock was beginning to discover other new artists and to record them. Bud Shank, with guitarist Laurindo Almeida, produced some of the first Latin guitar and jazz music before bossa nova. Chico Hamilton formed his own quintet featuring Jim Hall and cellist Fred Katz. Pepper
Adams did his famous Critic's Choice album for Pacific Jazz. In those early days of Pacific Jazz, Dick Bock produced some of the first and best recordings of such artists as Art Pepper, Bob Brookmeyer, Cy Touff and Richie Kamuca, Lee Konitz with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, and The Mastersounds with the Montgomery Brothers.
During much of this same period, 1954 to 1956, a few miles west of the Pacific Jazz offices, Les Koenig was recording artists for his Good Time Jazz label (mostly Dixieland) and his Contemporary label. Koenig saw my photographs and began hiring me to shoot and design his record covers for artists like Barney Kessel, the Lighthouse Allstars, Hampton Hawes, Shelly Manne and Sonny Rollins. The albums I designed for the Poll Winners series (Shelly Manne, Barney Kessel and Ray Brown) proved to be very successful, as much for the cover jackets as for the music inside. The cover for
Sonny Rollins Way Out West won several awards.
Back at Pacific Jazz, Dick Bock formed a publishing company, Linear Productions. For his first effort he wanted to publish a book of my jazz photographs. It was to be a portfolio of photographs with short articles or pieces by writers Will MacFarland, Nesuhi Ertegun, David Stuart, Woody Woodward and Herbert Kimmel, who later formed his own recording label, Jazz West. I called this first book
. Dick Bock decided then to release an album to accompany my book. It would be a collection or anthology of recordings of Pacific Jazz artists. We decided to give it the same name as my book. It was such a hit that it was followed by Volumes 2 and 3. The news media picked up on the title Jazz West Coast and it became "West Coast Jazz." At first, many critics and musicians on the East Coast said that there was no such thing as "West Coast Jazz." Which in a sense was true at that time. Many newly arrived jazz stars like JAZZ WEST COAST Dave Brubeck in San Francisco, Gerry Mulligan in Los Angeles, Shorty Rogers, and Clifford Brown were from other parts of the country but happened to be in the right place at the right time. But the name "West Coast Jazz" did not go away.
In our book
, writer Will MacFarland stated: "The chances are, history will reveal that there is a JAZZ WEST COAST : a group of musicians playing calmer, gentler jazz, placing at least as much emphasis on writing as on soloing." During this period the new young arrangers, writers, players like Shorty West Coast School Rogers, Bill Holman, Jimmy Giuffre, Jack Montrose, Johnny Mandel and Marty Paich blossomed into what became a whole new fresh sound. Call it what you want.
Those early days in the 1950's around
My photographic covers were very successful on the Pacific Jazz, Contemporary, Good Time Jazz and Fantasy labels. But I was also shooting for the major labels like Capitol,
, Decca and RCA Victor, and the dozen or so small recently formed companies that sprang up overnight. Regarding my photographic equipment, I did, indeed, graduate from that first old 4 x 5 Speed Graphic to a Rolleiflex camera to use available light. No more flash bulbs or cumbersome strobe equipment for me. In the mid 1940's, the work of Herman Leonard impressed me with its strong, crisp images and smoke everywhere. He must have used strobe lights. The musicians looked to me a little posed, but very dramatic. I wanted more freedom and never wanted to intrude on the performer. I have often wished that I could photograph someone without a camera-to use only my eyes and brain to record the image and not have that mechanism between us. Using the Light available at the time was as close as possible to my wish. But I needed faster lenses than the Rolleiflex offered, so I changed to 35mm Nikon cameras with their fast fl.4 lenses and relatively quiet focal plane shutters. There were times in the recording studios when I would shoot during the actual "takes," so I would try to click the shutter "on the beat." Columbia
Dick Bock of Pacific Jazz pushed me to come up with more and more new ideas for the record cover designs. I put Chet Baker and his quartet on a boat for Chet Baker and Crew; I shot Bud Shank and Bob Cooper with children and Bud Shank with the funny papers; I mounted Shelly Manne, Barney Kessel and Ray Brown on carousels of a merry-go-round; I put Shorty
Rogers in a space helmet and up a tree house; and I shot musicians on the sandy beaches and in vintage cars... It became my signature to photograph jazz musicians in unlikely places. But what to do next ?
Photographs of jazz musicians in hot, smoke-filled clubs and studios with perspiration running down their faces were, in my mind, too stereotypical and not even honest anymore, certainly not on the West Coast. So I began to shoot clean, distinguished, rather sedate portraits of stars like Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes, Art Pepper, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer, John Coltrane, and John Lewis with his Modern Jazz Quartet looking even more elegant than usual in a ballet rehearsal hall.
Around 1957, the record company executives and their advisers noticed that competition was getting out of hand. There were just too many LP records being produced. It was time to rethink package design. It was decided to put sex on the covers: beautiful females, models, and girl friends to help sell the records. Pacific Jazz was no different. Contemporary Records and everyone else did the same thing. I liked unusual looking girls, so I photographed a young dancer friend of mine named Lelia Goldoni. Lelia graced the covers of many albums, including one of the Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank covers and a Jack Sheldon cover. In the latter part of 1958, I met a young actress named Peggy Moffitt. I photographed her in an exotic costume for the Mastersounds recording of the Broadway show Kismet. Stereophonic sound became the next new technical gimmick to inundate the LP record market. Pacific Jazz sent out a demo record to demonstrate its own brand of stereophonic jazz sound. It was called "In Both Ears!" I photographed Peggy looking very chic holding two old fashioned hearing aid "trumpets" plugged into each of her lovely ears. Peggy was photographed for several more covers before I suggested that she should become a fashion model. She began working with the fashion designer Rudi Gernreich-together they made fashion history. Peggy and I were married in June of 1959.
Since the name West Coast Jazz had become so firmly entrenched with the music media, I came up with an idea that would further the importance of an art movement that was going on in the Los Angeles area at that time. The art galleries were flourishing with the talents of local artists. Monday nights on
La Cienega Boulevard were the showcase nights when the works of the new, young artists could be seen. Dick Bock and I commissioned several of these artists (Bob Irwin, Keith Finch, Sueo Serisawa, and John Altoon). We would either give the artist a recording of a specific jazz artist or group to work with, or we would actually have the group play for the artist at his studio to "inspire" the painter. This became known as the "West Coast Artists Series." It received a great deal of attention. And it produced some very interesting record cover art that was a departure from the well-known and successful photo-graphic covers of that period.
By the Spring of 1958, I was photographing for virtually every record label, and I was also branching out into other fields, doing special photography on major movie productions for the major magazines. Dick Bock offered to buy my part of the partnership, and I agreed. Dick became more and more interested in the mystical aspects of East Indian philosophy. My only interest in that subject was the recordings of Ravi Shankar. I photographed him for his first two World-Pacific recordings.
The art of the LP cover, I'm afraid, has pretty much vanished with the arrival of the Compact Disk (CD) product. It is a bit more difficult to make an exciting package with that small 5x5" format. I long for that big 12x12" space where an exciting visual image could be put that would do justice to the artist on the recording and "turn on" the potential buyer.
I've never given up my love for jazz and, of course, for photography. The international language of jazz has delighted and moved me, and it has allowed me to speak to people all over the world through the international language of photography.
William Claxton
Bass trumpeter Cy Touff's Octet is comprised of Harry Edison and Conrad Gozzo, trumpet, Richie Kamuca, tenor saxophone, Matt UTal, alto and baritone saxophones, Russ Freeman, piano, Leroy Vinnegar, bass and Chuck Flores, drums.


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Friday, April 8, 2011
Series 5: Halve a Circle #3 - Dragon Tail Necklace
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Its totally cute...not just dragon tail,it looks like petals of a plant(i forgot the name of that plant),very nice tutorial..thanks for sharingReplyDelete
I think this is the most gorgeous necklace I've seen!! I absolutely love how it looks and how easy it is to make it!!ReplyDelete
I am also playing with faux leather and having tons of fun!
Neat idea! Looks great! I imagine it being the tail from the adorable "Naugahyde", or pleather monster from the 60-70's ads. ;)ReplyDelete
Over here we've been working more and more with real leather scraps for steampunk. I'm finding it's definitely a different beast entirely. :)
I bow down to your creative supremacy. Honestly. Every visit here amazes me!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM
incredible work! really! sorry for my silence, i´m crazy busy, but i doný forget you, i admire you. kissesReplyDelete
This is awesome, and I had forgotten all about those half circle butterflies.. I must schedule those in to make with my kids..ReplyDelete
beautiful, congratulation!!!!ReplyDelete
Very cool - perfect for going to the Renaissance FestivalReplyDelete
Wow! Impressive. I really want to see it on!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2011 at 10:50 PM
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [09 Apr 01:00am GMT]. Thanks, MariaReplyDelete
Seu blog e sua criatividades são demais. Parabéns pela por ser genial.
Fabulous! You have such a talent for design and creation. Ann :-)ReplyDelete
Whoa! Love this so much, Michele! Puff the Magic Necklace? I really like the simplicity of the spring-load fastener. Why have I never thought of that??? Genius, perfect for this bold architectural beauty.ReplyDelete
Oh Julita, I'm blushing... You're very kind!ReplyDelete
How fun is this?!? It's beautiful, Michele.ReplyDelete
This is amazing. I think I may replicate it in copper.ReplyDelete
Cavalaxis, that sounds very intriguing!ReplyDelete
I think I may try this with plastic bags! Or old book pages as a garland! I don't have a working sewing machine in the how...so that will be a interesting challenge....lots of gluing or fusing.ReplyDelete
Love your blog Michelle.
Super joli! Je vais faire en cuir pour moi aussi. Bravo!ReplyDelete
AWESOME! It looks exactly like a dried fern frond, is it boston fern?Or maybe a dragon tail, lol!ReplyDelete
Very clever!! One wonders if the dragon's head might be lurking around the back!ReplyDelete


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Pharrell, Drake, Shakira, Kendrick Lamar, Pitbull, Thirty Seconds to Mars and Blake Shelton are among the artists set to perform at the first iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Other A-listers scheduled to make an appearance include Lady Gaga, Lorde, Katy Perry and Coldplay's Chris Martin. The inaugural music special is scheduled for May 1 and will air live on NBC (8-11 p.m. ET/PT) from the Shrine Auditorium.
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"Mirrors" – Justin Timberlake
"Radioactive" – Imagine Dragons
"Stay" – Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko
"The Monster" – Eminem ft. Rihanna
Best Collaboration: (Most voted on category with more than 3.9 million votes cast to date)
"Holy Grail" – JAY Z ft. Justin Timberlake
"Stay" – Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko
"Suit & Tie" – Justin Timberlake ft. JAY Z
"The Monster" – Eminem ft. Rihanna
"Timber" – Pitbull ft. Kesha
Best New Artist:
Florida Georgia Line
Icona Pop
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Country Song of the Year:
"Boys 'Round Here" – Blake Shelton
"Highway Don't Care" – Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift
"It Goes Like This" – Thomas Rhett
"Mine Would Be You" – Blake Shelton
"That's My Kind of Night" – Luke Bryan
Hip Hop/R&B Song of the Year:
"Blurred Lines" – Robin Thicke ft. T.I. & Pharrell
"Hold On We're Going Home" – Drake ft. Majid Jordan
"Holy Grail" – JAY Z ft. Justin Timberlake
"Pour It Up" – Rihanna
"Started From The Bottom" – Drake
EDM Song of the Year:
"Get Lucky" – Daft Punk ft. Pharrell
"Stay The Night" – Zedd ft. Hayley Williams
"Summertime Sadness" – Lana Del Rey ft. Cedric Gervais
"Sweet Nothing" – Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch
"Wake Me Up" – Avicii
Alternative Rock Song of the Year:
"Demons" – Imagine Dragons
"Do I Wanna Know?" – Arctic Monkeys
"Pompeii" – Bastille
"Royals" – Lorde
"Safe And Sound" – Capital Cities
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"Wake Me Up" – Avicii (Vocals by Aloe Blacc)
"I Love It (ft. Charli XCX)" – Icona Pop
"Say Something" – A Great Big World
"Same Love" – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
"Wrecking Ball" – Miley Cyrus
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Arianators – Ariana Grande
Little Monsters – Lady Gaga
Lovatics – Demi Lovato
Mahomies – Austin Mahone
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Fourteen year old Alma is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Her mother is translating a book called "The History of Love" and Alma goes on a quest to find the author.
Leo Gursky is an old man just trying to survive. His life has been a series of losses. Although he doesn't know it yet, the book he wrote so long ago has survived, crossing oceans and changing lives…
Nicole Krauss often has writers as characters in her books. I've also read her most recent book 'Great House' which was nominated for the Orange Prize (see Archive May 2011). She uses many of her own family details in her stories. 'History of Love' is dedicated to her grandparents. She is married to author Jonathan Safran Foer who wrote 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' (see Archive January 2012). There are some striking similarities between their books which were both published in the same year (2005). Both stories feature a young precocious child on a quest, both have old men mourning the loss of sons, both have painful reverberations from the war in Europe, and both authors use some of the same unusual typography.
Krauss writes beautifully. Her descriptions are evocative and her characters are well portrayed right through to the soul. She captures the complexity of relationships and crafts a good story, although at times I find the thread in her books confusing and hard to follow. (When this happens a quick consultation on wikipedia is enough to keep me going; I'd rather put up with a spoiler and know what's happening). She uses a common technique of alternating sections authored by different characters and what was helpful and enjoyable were the little icons at the start of the chapter indicating which narrator was coming up. In the end the pieces do come together. The final words of the novel are haunting, "He was a great writer. He fell in love. It was his life." The book begins with the same thought in the dedication, "For my grandparents, who taught me the opposite of disappearing and for Jonathan, my life." This book is a celebration of life and love, which to quote Leo Gursky are "words for everything".


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- Traditional Animation
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
- Cartoon Characters: Dinky Dog, Monica, Uncle Dudley, Sandy.
- Voice Actors: Frank Welker, Frank Nelson, Jackie Joseph, Julie Bennett, John Stephenson, Jean Vander Pyl.
- Directed By Ray Patterson, Carl Urbano, Chris Cuddington.
- Produced By Alex Lovy, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Neil Balnaves, Iwao Takamoto.
- Animated By Susan Beak, John Burge, Martin Chatfield, Dick Dunn, Gairden Cooke, Don Ezard, Peter Eastment, Luis Garcia, Arthur Filloy, Gerry Grabner, Peter Gardner, Athol Henry, Eva Hellischer; more Animators ...
- Written By Doug Booth, Tom Dagenais, Willie Gilbert, Jack Hanrahan, Don Heckman, Andy Heyward, Chris Jenkyns, Mark Jones, Glenn Leopold, Jack Mercer; more Writers ...
- Music: Hoyt Curtin, Paul DeKorte.
- Editor: Peter Jennings, Robert Ciauga, Larry C. Cowan.
- First Aired on October 28, 1978.
- Originally Aired on CBS-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 11 minutes.
- Season: 1
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
participation & parts...
29 comments:
- sue said...
It's nice to see you in a book. I think Tammy Tutterall is in there too.
- June 15, 2011 at 8:40 AM
- Noreen said...
How cool - to be featured in someone else's book, as well as your own books! I couldn't quite focus on the art parts in your photo! :0)
- June 15, 2011 at 10:24 AM
- Debby said...
Congratulations on being included in a book! Way cool. It will be fun to see all of the new stuff soon.
- June 15, 2011 at 10:49 AM
- Chirpin Is Fun said...
Very funny! You need to zoom that camera back a little! lol
- June 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM
- Cim Allen said...
Can't wait to see the new book and all the art parts and stamps !! Thanks for the tease :) Have a great day Wendy
- June 15, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- Gillian .... said...
Oh you are such a tease! Roll on July that's all I can say. Congrats on being in this amazing book.
- June 15, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- Vic said...
You are a tease! I'm sure the wait is hard for you, too.
I put the book on my wish list. Congrats!
- June 15, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- Larissa Heskett said...
OH YEAH!! That looks like a FABULOUS book!! I can't wait to get my hands on one!! THANKS for sharing it with us!!
I also can't BELIEVE how
DARN ORNREY you are!! =)
Teasing us with that photo!! =)
I can't wait for the REAL SNEAK PEEKS!! Have a FABULOUS DAY!! =)
- June 15, 2011 at 12:05 PM
- Tona said...
I can't wait to get my hands on that book!
- June 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM
- Unknown said...
You wouldn't be you if you weren't a teaser! lol that book is already on my wishlist since Nathalie Kalbach talked about it. And your dining room table looks... hum... awesome! Seriously, can't wait for the new stuff!!!
- June 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Melody (lacyquilter) said...
- June 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...
Thanks for teasing LOL. Looking forward to the new art parts. Must admit like you I have not done much tea making, art is so much more fun. Tracy x
- June 15, 2011 at 2:15 PM
LOL! I'm glad to know you're in that book too...it was already on my list, because Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, a wonderful NY artist is in it. Now I have another good reason to get it!
- June 15, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- grandmabertie said...
Not fair! We want a real look at the new art parts! I cannot wait until they come out. I just love them. Thank you for letting us know about the book. I have put it on my wish list so I will not forget the purchase it. Looking forward to seeing new art soon! Have fun!
- June 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- slbt17 said...
Sandra ltb
- June 15, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Heidi said...
Nice close up!!! Lol
- June 15, 2011 at 9:45 PM
- Candy C said...
Okay Wendy...YOU are a TEASE!! I want to see the new Art Parts! Not Fair that you can see the and we can't. Oh wait...YOU designed them! Guess that give you an "edge". haha Hey, congrats on being featured in that amazing looking publication! Well deserved!!
- June 15, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- Cher said...
oh what a brat! ohhh gosh...did I just type that lol...we shall wait n see AS USUAL lol...congrads on being in the book..looks like a good one.. any word on more stains? LOL
- June 15, 2011 at 11:42 PM
- Diana said...
too funny!!! love the sense of humour!!!!
- June 16, 2011 at 5:51 AM
- Art By Wanda said...
You are too funny!!!!!!!!!! Congrats on the inclusion in the book... woohoo!!!!! Looking forward to July :-) And this weekend... I get to take Tim's classes at Stamper's Ink.
- June 16, 2011 at 6:57 AM
I am looking forward to seeing what you have coming! I find that I am swamped at home and work and haven't had time to "make art" lately... I am taking a Tim Holtz inspired class on Sat so I can learn new stuff and have time set aside! Thanks for your inspiration!
- June 16, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- texasbarb said...
what a stinker you are!!! guess I' have to wait with everyone else.
congrats on being in the book, too!
- June 16, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Nurse Ratchet said...
Sneak peeks on the horizon...yippee!
- June 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM
- Bethan said...
ooooh naughty !! you're such a tease!
lool forward to seing your inclusion on the book
- June 16, 2011 at 3:27 PM
- Karen Goulet said...
Congratulations Wendy!
As for the closer look...very funny! I am looking forward to the unveiling of your new products...yeah for you!
Karen :)
- June 17, 2011 at 12:12 AM
- Barbara said...
You were sure in a silly mood with this post. Lovely shot of your table top - NOT!
Can't wait to see the new Art Parts and Stamps. You'll share soon, I hope!
- June 17, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Julie said...
Great tease! Very Clever!!
- June 17, 2011 at 8:09 AM
Love the close up of the new stamps - love it and love you!! Funny gal!!
- June 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM
- lois Skiathitis said...
How cool to be in someone else's book. I also might add that you are such a tease. LOL!!! TFS!!! :-D
- June 17, 2011 at 11:26 AM


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METRO VANCOUVER -- Transit police will consider new measures to prevent SkyTrain passengers from illegally popping open train doors and walking along the electrified tracks during a shutdown of the system.
The move comes as scores of stranded passengers ignored warnings from TransLink Monday to stay put after a computer glitch halted all the trains along the Expo and Millennium lines for at least four hours. The stoppage started at 12:30 p.m. and resulted in significant delays through the afternoon rush hour.
The shutdown was the second in a week for the SkyTrain system — passengers were stranded for three hours last Thursday. But while a handful of passengers forced open the doors and bolted in last week's shutdown, Monday's situation was much worse, said Transit police spokeswoman Anne Drennan.
Plus, she said, the exodus occurred despite two warnings from TransLink that passengers could risk death or injury by forcing open the train doors and walking along the 600-volt powered guideway.
"Obviously we're sympathetic to the frustration levels these people are enduring (but) it appears it was at a more extreme level. We're getting reports that many more people are exiting the trains and prying multiple doors open," Drennan said. "That's something we're going to have to talk about."
Droves of passengers carrying everything from babies to boxes could be seen walking the guideways near Main and Stadium stations, shortly after TransLink tweeted that the system had been shut down.
Although Transit police and security staff were able to escort some of those passengers along the tracks, many others refused to wait, Drennan said. Doors on at least two train cars were damaged so significantly that they wouldn't close, which meant the cars couldn't be moved and resulted in further delays on the system, she added.
In one case, a SkyTrain security officer struggled to keep passengers on board a train. "He was frustrated and afraid for these people but he couldn't hold them back," she said.
Part of the problem, it appears, was the computer glitch prevented any communication between SkyTrain officials and the trains or platforms. Most of TransLink's correspondence with the public was on its website or by tweets, including its requests asking passengers to stay put until staff could manually drive the trains back to the station and evacuate the stations.
TransLink spokeswoman Jiana Ling said Monday afternoon it was too early to know what had caused the system-wide shutdown. The Canada Line was not affected.
Bill Stenner, who was on a train from Waterfront when it stopped with a thump near Science World, throwing his young son forward, said the passengers in his car became increasingly frustrated after they repeatedly pressed the red emergency button and got no response or announcement from TransLink about what was going on.
The passengers remained in the train for about a half an hour, he said, before a woman pulled the emergency strip on the doors and walked out. Everyone followed, including a woman with a stroller and a baby in her arms.
Stenner said he could see SkyTrain staff opening the doors in the other trains. "We saw people leaving the train ahead of us," he said. "It was a question of 'do you really want to sit there for hours?'
"It was pretty frightening. I had a two-a-half-year-old, there was a lady with a stroller. I was telling everybody 'don't touch anything,' " he said.
Stenner said he expected the tracks would be safe because the system had been shut down, but Drennan maintains a system shutdown doesn't necessarily mean the power to the rails has been disconnected.
"As soon as we hear people have popped open doors and are on the track we head to that spot right away," she said. "We try to move around as quick as we can … if they can hold on and if this happens again, we'll get there."
Transit police have the authority to charge passengers with mischief if they force the train doors open, but Drennan said instead of tickets, TransLink will focus on educating passengers not to step out on the tracks without a Transit police officer or SkyTrain staffer.
"We know it's unfortunate and inconvenient but it's much safer," Ling said. "We really want to advise people not to do this. It's life-threatening really."
Tannis Steele, 18, who was on the same train as Stenner, said she and her sister, just "followed the crowd and went with everybody."
The shutdown didn't just affect those stranded on the trains. Amarjit Rattan, a driver for Checker Cabs, said all of his afternoon customers were SkyTrain casualties who resorted to paying for a taxi when service went down.
He said he spent two hours driving passengers from station to station. He hopped from Waterfront to New Westminster to Scott Road to Surrey Central then took fares all the way back to Metrotown.
"They were just desperate," he said.
At Main Street-Science World Station, commuters trying to head east watched as bus after bus passed by, their displays reading "sorry bus full." Ramona Formaneck and her son Sabri had expected to spend their afternoon shopping but instead found themselves watching traffic grind through the intersection of Main Street and Terminal Ave. She estimated at least five packed buses passed them by before the pair hopped in through the back doors of a passing No. 19.
Darren Davies waited even longer — by the time seven buses had passed him by he had started trying to figure out an alternate route home. The problem was, he was trying to get to King George Station in Surrey where his bike was parked, some 25 kilometres away.
"Trying to get information has been a challenge," he said, adding that not a single TransLink employee had arrived at the stop to help stranded commuters figure out how to get home. "There's a lack of communication."
While some commuters gave up on taking a bus and instead jumped into cabs or started walking out of the downtown core, Burnaby resident James Gruetter had the opposite idea. He had watched packed buses roll by on Main Street for about a half-hour before he started walking deeper into the city. The strategy made sense, but by the time he made it to Pender Street and watched as another 30 minutes ticked away, he still hadn't caught a ride home.
Worse yet, he hadn't seen a single person in line ahead of him make it onto a bus.
Alex Willemsma decided to just walk to Renfrew Street after three packed No. 135 SFU express buses passed him by at the corner of Granville and Hastings at 4 p.m.
"I've done it before," he said. "It's not so bad."
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Angus MacKay 1927-2013
Saturday, 22 June 2013 - Reported by Marcus
The actor Angus MacKay has died at the age of 86.
Angus MacKay appeared in five episodes of Doctor Who.
He played Chancellor Borusa in the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, the first time the Doctor's old teacher was seen in the series. He returned to the show in 1983 alongside the fifth Doctor playing the Headmaster in the story which introduced Turlough, Mawdryn Undead.
Away from Doctor Who he had numerous television credits in productions such as One Foot in the Grave, Only Fools and Horses, Howards' Way, The Professionals, Steptoe and Son, The Sweeney, Minder and Z-Cars.


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By Jason Buch and Lynn Brezosky
San Antonio Express-News Staff Writers
Ask the president of the United States and the governor of Texas, and the 1,200 border miles that stretch from Brownsville to El Paso are either "among the safest in the nation" or "not safe" at all.
In a speech this past spring to pitch comprehensive immigration reform, President Barack Obama declared southwest border cities relatively peaceful and peril-free. Gov. Rick Perry, meanwhile, in both his capacity as Texas' tough-talking chief executive and now frontrunner among the GOP's 2012 presidential nominees, ridiculed the assertion, calling Obama in a nationally televised debate this month an "abject liar."
And while Obama touts the doubling of Border Patrol agents to more than 20,000, as well as a drop-off in immigration detentions and low crime rates along the border, as evidence that the area is secure, Perry disagrees, claiming that he has been forced to spend state money to secure a violence-ridden region.
Turns out, neither man is quite accurate.
Fact is, more resources are indeed being devoted to the southwest border, and last year, you were more likely to be slain in Austin, considered among the safest large cities in the country, than in El Paso, across the river from one of the most dangerous cities in the hemisphere.
"Brownsville all the way to El Paso, we're always getting the bum rap…..just simply for being on the border," said Gilberto Salinas, vice president of the Brownsville Economic Development Council, sighing at the perception that Mexican cartel operatives can easily cross the narrow Rio Grande and open fire near schools, supermarkets and town squares, as they do in Mexico.
"People still think that we're walking around with six-shooters," he continued, "that the U.S.-Mexico border is still the Wild Wild West."
Instead, the border centers of Brownsville, Laredo and El Paso have recently recorded low homicide figures, even as populations of those cities ballooned.
According to crime statistics analyzed by the Express-News, El Paso, the safest, had less than one homicide per 100,000 residents last year. Laredo had 3.81, and Brownsville had four. All had homicide rates lower than Houston, San Antonio and Austin, which last year tallied a homicide rate of 4.8 for every 100,000 residents.
"I think the stats speak for themselves," said Raul Salinas, the city's mayor and a former FBI agent.
At the same time, the cities saw tremendous growth over the last decade: Laredo and Brownsville surged nearly 34 percent and 25 percent respectively, while El Paso grew by about 15 percent to 649, 121, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
"It's not a coincidence that we are on steroids when it comes to growth," said Salinas of Brownsville, citing a lengthy list of Fortune 500 companies that have moved to the area, bringing jobs to both sides of the border.
Rumors persist in rural areas near the border that drug traffickers are targeting and intimidating ranchers, but confirmable incidents are few and far between. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, insists the government has "lost operational" control of rural areas.
Traffickers, meanwhile, continue to fund their criminal enterprises, he said, making it more dangerous for U.S. citizens in Mexico and allowing the cartels to expand their influence in Texas.
And they have become increasingly confrontational with law enforcement officials.
"When they're confronted by law enforcement, they run," McCraw said of the traffickers. "They throw spikes. They have blocking vehicles. And they have drug cartel boats on our side and they have cartel operatives on the other side of the river."
Perry — who has cast himself as a border hawk — regularly decries what he has said is a lot of spillover violence into the U.S., citing examples that, it turns out, are rare.
A look at drug-related killings in border cities during the four years since Mexican President Felipe Calderón came to power shows no relation between a rise in homicides in Mexican municipalities and the number of killings in their U.S. sister cities.
"There's a lot more awareness and the efforts are a lot better coordinated intelligence wise and operationally," said Gilberto Navarro, an assistant police chief in Laredo.
Brownsville has seen incidents described as spillover, such as the September 2010 double homicide of two alleged cartel operatives less than a mile from a Border Patrol station and the shutdown the year before of the University of Texas-Brownsville campus after stray bullets from Mexico struck a building, an incident Perry mentions in his book, "Fed Up!"
But the city's murder rate, anywhere from five to 10 slayings a year, is in line with other cities of its size, said Brownsville officials.
"But now, somebody gets shot, automatically everybody will say it's cartel related or it's border violence," said Salinas, with the economic development council.
Shoring up the southwest border remains a priority for the administration. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees international bridges and the Border Patrol, has a budget of $57 billion for 2012, the largest since the agency's creation in 2003.
And Texas regularly takes the bulk of the department's Operation Stonegarden grant that provides funds to local law enforcement agencies along the border, $17.77 million of the $54.89 million spread over 18 states this year. The feds, too, have dispatched two drones to patrol the Texas-Mexico border, with a third on the way.
In addition, according to Perry's office, Texas has spent $400 million in the last five years on border security, including grants for local law enforcement agencies and deploying Texas Rangers to the Rio Grande.
For years, Perry has used the border and illegal immigration as a campaign tactic. But during last week's debate, he was on the defensive as the other GOP candidates attacked his record, in particular his statements that the border fence is not an effective way to stop smuggling.
All the rhetoric about the border has officials in El Paso fuming.
Bob Cook, president and CEO of El Paso's Regional Economic Development Corporation (REDCO), said he called Perry's head of economic development the day after the Sept. 7 debate to again share data about the safety of El Paso. Of the five homicides in that city last year, three were attributed to domestic violence and the remaining two were a murder-suicide.
"We sure need his help along the Texas-Mexico border to share factual information," he said.
There are more than 6,500 state, local, and federal law enforcement personnel in El Paso, officials said, and 3,400 people cross the border every day to work in Mexican factories.
But Perry, during the Sept. 7 debate, targeted that city, saying Obama, in calling the area among the safest, "either ….. has some of the poorest intel of a president in the history of this country, or he was an abject liar to the American people. It is not safe on that border."
So why the apparent disconnect in the governor's message and the crime statistics?
"You'd have to ask the governor that," Cook said. "I was in Austin and met the governor's staff and gave them much of the information I gave you. It was before the debate."
El Paso Mayor John Cook, who is not related to Bob Cook, calls it flat-out politics.
"It's partisan politics at play," Cook said. "Your party becomes more important than your country. In the case of the Texas leadership, your political party becomes more important than the success of the cities that are part of the state."


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EDMONTON — As longtime roommates on the road, Kevin Bieksa and Ryan Kesler had a routine and it went something like this:
Bieksa was always up first and would hit the shower, then head downstairs to order breakfast. Not just for himself, but for Kesler as well.
So when Kesler walked into the hotel restaurant each morning after his shower, his breakfast was on the table waiting for him.
"We had a great routine going there," Bieksa says, almost wistfully. "He got oatmeal with a side of berries. We both basically got the same thing, the only difference was I'd get rye toast and he'd get wheat toast. He would like orange juice and water. I'd like orange juice and coffee."
Sadly, those days are over now. Kesler has to order his own breakfast.
"I kind of miss it," he said right after finishing breakfast Tuesday in the Canucks' Edmonton hotel.
The players made some concessions in the latest collective bargaining agreement that was hammered out after a lengthy lockout. But one of their wins was a stipulation that all players, except the young greenhorns on entry-level deals, get their own rooms on the road. Previously, that luxury was only afforded to players with 10 years in the league or 600 games, as well as goaltenders.
"It figures it finally comes along when I am less than two seasons away from actually earning it," laughs Canucks winger Chris Higgins. "I wasn't too psyched about that. I'd like to see the younger guys earning it a little bit more, but maybe that's only because I'm in the position I'm in."
As much as they are enjoying their new single digs, there are things that some of the players miss.
Alex Burrows, for example, misses his alarm clock, otherwise known as Mason Raymond.
The two Canuck forwards were roomies for the past three or four years and Burrows says Raymond saved him from being late for many team buses and meetings.
"Mason's a farm boy and I'm more of a city kind of guy who likes to go to bed a little bit later and get up a little bit later, where he likes to go to bed pretty early and wakes up at the crack of dawn," Burrows says. "We had some moments on days off when I'd like to sleep in at least past 9 o'clock and he's up at 7:30 and he's ready to go and saying, 'let's go for breakfast right away' and I am still feeling tired from the night before."
Without Raymond to rely on, Burrows has had to make some adjustments.
"Mason was my alarm clock," he says. "You could never be late for anything. We'd always be early for meetings or the bus. Now I have to make sure I've got a wakeup call set up, I've got my phone set up, I even have my wife sometimes calling me to make sure I don't miss a meeting or something."
Raymond smiles when Burrows' comments are relayed to him.
"I was definitely always up before him and we would always have some good jokes," he says. "I would have to open the blinds on him or something to get him out of bed. He would sleep 'til noon if he could."
The fact that pro athletes, many of them making millions of dollars a year, shared rooms on the road always seemed a tad strange. But having a roomie was just part of the life of a hockey player, something that started back in their junior days.
Finding a good roommate was almost as important as having a reliable linemate or defensive partner on the ice. There were some simple rules to follow.
"They don't snore, that's probably the biggest thing," says Dan Hamhuis, who spent the past couple of seasons rooming with fellow defenceman Alex Edler. "And the second thing is just being on the same schedule, you fall asleep around the same time, wake from your naps at the same time. That's a big part of it and then, of course, just having a guy you get along with."
Higgins acknowledges he has not always been a good roommate. It's not that he snores, but he has been known to sleep-walk. He spooked former New York Ranger teammate Marc Staal so badly that they only lasted as roomies for one night.
"Everyone has got a couple of bad stories," Higgins says. "I've probably been the bad one for some guys. I have scared a couple of guys sleep-walking. I remember my first road trip in New York I started sleep-walking and I was rooming with Mark Staal and that was the end of that. One night. I never roomed with him again."
Most of the Canucks acknowledge they are enjoying their new 'single' life. Even the Sedins, who have always seemed inseparable and have roomed together since breaking into the league in 2000.
"It's nice that you can be on your own schedule and sleep whenever you want and not get disturbed by a guy who wants to watch TV or stuff like that," says Daniel.
But Daniel also hinted that he and Henrik might be roomies again in the not too distant future.
"We might go back next year."
None of their teammates figure to follow suit.
"It's nice just being on your own schedule," says Hamhuis. "When you're tired you can go to sleep and don't have to worry about the TV being on or having to leave lights on or turn them off. It's nice to cater to your own needs. As an older guy, I enjoy it. If you want to Skype with your kids or something it's nice to have that privacy."
Still, the new road perk has been an adjustment.
"You know what, it's lonely at times, for sure," Bieksa says. "But we kind of made a little bit of a pact among the D-men that we watch out for each other and we have already met in each other's rooms a bunch of times just to kind of keep that contact, just little hot stoves to get together and discuss things so you are not sitting in your room by yourself all night."
And if that sounds a little like a defensive slumber party, you'd best not mention it to defenceman Keith Ballard.
"Don't be too creepy," says Ballard.


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US actor Denzel Washington has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2012 in Quigley Publishing Company's 81st annual Poll of Motion Picture Exhibitors.
Exhibitors felt Washington was responsible for more traffic to movie theaters than any other Hollywood star this year based on his performances in "Flight" and "Safe House." This is the star's eighth appearance in the Quigley poll, but his first win.
Coming in at No 2 on the list is Anne Hathaway, followed by her "Les Miserables" co-star Hugh Jackman at No 3, "Ted" actor Mark Wahlberg at No 4 and "Dark Shadows" vampire Johnny Depp at No 5.
Rounding out the top tier are current James Bond portrayer Daniel Craig at No 6, "Lincoln" leading man Daniel Day-Lewis at No 7, "Killing Them Softly" star Brad Pitt at No 8, "Django Unchained" villain Leonardo DiCaprio at No 9 and "Sherlock Holmes" and "Iron Man" actor Robert Downey Jr at No 10.
Recognized as Stars of Tomorrow are Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who headlined "Looper" and had memorable supporting roles in "Lincoln" and "The Dark Knight Rises" in 2012, as well as Jennifer Lawrence, star of this year's "The Hunger Games" and "Silver Linings Playbook." –UPI