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Publicity, or: What you see is what you get
My label Brassland is 10 years old this year. I'm sure there's an exact anniversary date on which the Dessner Twins and I determined that starting a record label was a good idea – circa Napster and the birth of the iPod, on the cusp of the recorded music industry's decade-long earnings decay, and after the major bummer of 9/11. (One of those is a prime example of understatement.) I don't know the actual date. I'm not keeping that close a track.1
I'm happy to report that, macro-economic trends aside, we're doing better than ever and have left a nice bit of culture in our wake. To jump right into some news you can use, here are some sounds we've put out during that time.
But as much pride as we take in the music we've released, the label has never been strictly about putting out recorded music.2 We've always thought of ourselves as doing something larger. Or maybe what I mean is that we thought of ourselves as something smaller?
In any case, we've always been trying to do something else. Soon after forming Brassland, we published a statement of purpose on our website which phrased that "something" like so:
What got me musing again about this origin myth is a bit of publicity: an article about our anniversary that appeared in The Guardian a few months back. You can click here to read the piece online, or the image below to see it laid out in all its pulp-printed, pre-digital glory.
By and large, the paper got our story remarkably right. Record labels don't generate much commentary so it's nice to see the mission behind Brassland shine through. As I was quoted in the article: "It's gratifying. I feel like we started with an idea, and that idea has become true."
Ten years in, though, I think it's worth wondering: Have we met all our goals? What still needs doing? How should our goals evolve? And, finally, is it worth forging ahead with our bread & butter activity of putting out records, the fate of the recorded music industry be damned?
Today that initial mission statement still sounds about right: that music is not our exclusive interest, that genre is a fool's game, that the group of people we've assembled is as vital to our identity as the products we make. This credo has enabled us to outlast and outgrow many better-funded and over-hyped entities that emerged at the same time we did.
But on this anniversary, I'd like to give a sense of how that mission statement has played out in the real world. First, here's a sense of what we have been for & against.
I know, I know, it's a bit ranty. But it could be worse.3 And even outlining it in bullet point fashion like that, I can't help but think there's something missing…
Intimacy, or: What's missing is what we're after
If the Guardian article and my bullet points omitted something, it's the years of personal connections & interactions that preceded and supported every flash of publicity our artists receive — in brief, what is missing is how shit actually happens. It's what articles about culture, especially popular culture, always miss. To use the architecture of the internet as metaphor, they may capture the network but they overlook the nodes; they'll highlight the strong ties but overlook the weak ones.
I don't fault the media for its inability to understand how culture is made. It's a function of the difference between living and observing, between inside and outside, and the difference between intimacy and publicity. The format that newspaper stories on the Arts typically adopt make true insight into what's being reported on impossible. Take the case of this Guardian article. Several months before it appeared, I spent an afternoon with Laura Snapes, the young British journalist responsible for the piece. Laura is great — an uber-fan of The National, an employee of the long-running British music publication NME, and a self-admitted lover of sad-sack music which, well, it's probably a requirement for fans of Brassland's discography.4 Over the course of a day, we hung out at The National's studio in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn; at Buke & Gass's rehearsal space in Red Hook; at a Clogs concert one night at Merkin Hall in midtown near Central Park. In miniature, it was a fitting map of how culture actually works in New York City today. There are grand displays of art in the center, while the making of things takes place in cozier spaces at the edges, and in the boroughs.5
But there is a difference between a map and the land that it traces.
The activity of promoting artists as individuals, and launching their careers as sui generis stars continues to define Brassland as a business entity. Indeed, some of the artists we've worked with over the years have become critically acclaimed and semi-popular phenomenon: The National and Nico Muhly come to mind most firmly. But the fact is, servicing these public roles is a very small part of what Brassland is and does.
Our more vital role is serving as an informal & conceptual hub for a small but growing community of artists. Our main hope is that during their tenure on the label, we can help them find a comfortable niche within an evolving constellation of co-conspirators. I like to think that we encourage the idea of having peers more than we do individual stardom. We try to create an environment conducive to [blank]-making: be that word before the hyphen music, food, or empire — this last, a word which I'd define positively. Empire is the opportunity to build an infrastructure of one's own.
This may sound idealistic, but in large part the focus on the creative network is practical. It is a fact of life in the arts that behind every "overnight success" are dozens of lesser-known but much beloved men & woman who supported that instant sensation. Even after success comes for an individual artist, those men & women continue to help make new work happen. Every year spent building a foundation for one's art in these private communities will strengthen it, and allow the art more time as a viable economic and creative force. Artists who truly embed themselves among their network of collaborators are far more likely to enjoy long-term success and, by extension, sell more records; thereby, Brassland's focus on the creative network over the superstar could even be construed as self-serving (in the sweetest and most humane way possible).
To transform the metaphor about internet architecture into one about physical architecture, let's imagine our most popular artists as skyscrapers. A strong foundation, a strong system of support in the urban jungle, is what allows that artist's aspirations to reach farther into the air, and what allows a thriving ecosystem of supportive businesses to exist in the neighboring buildings and on the lower floors.
It's easy to overlook how our greatest successes are bound up in the lives and art of our (as yet) less popular groups. If you pay little or no attention to our specific milieu, you can probably tune out the rest of this paragraph. If you do pay attention, here are some examples: That one of our most forgotten artists, Baby Dayliner aka Ethan Marunas, was a major inspiration to The National's Matt Berninger as he was learning to be a frontperson for a rock'n'roll band. (Interestingly, the descriptors one would apply to Baby Dayliner's performances — brave, funny, curious and intellectual — are the same ones you'd apply to Matt's; the difference being that Ethan's one-man karaoke-style approach is braver still.) That we discovered Buke & Gass when the sister of Aaron & Bryce Dessner from The National booked them at a small club in Ditmas Park. That Padma Newsome — the driving force behind Bryce's other group Clogs — was in part responsible for the great leap in arrangement & sophistication between The National's first and second albums, joining the group as an associate member though the completion of Boxer. That Doveman (aka Thomas Bartlett) contributed key riffs and ideas to that same album in more or less anonymous fashion — a favor repaid when The National played a major performing role on his album The Conformist. That Nico Muhly was a major presence on that same Doveman album — an outgrowth of their relationship as co-conspirators in the social whirl of New York's music scene, a relationship that's offered a number of our artists entrée into past and future projects well outside of the label's immediate orbit.
Finally, Brassland prides itself less on sales figures than this daisy chain of intimate relations. These relationships are what allows careers and the people who have them to grow, and grow strong.
At the best of times, Brassland's artists just keep growing & growing & growing.
That's a picture of Madison Square Garden, soon after a management client of mine had left the stage. The National have had the honor of playing that same arena. It still strains my imagination to contemplate that I've had not one but two artists play such a venue. But the thing to remember about Brassland's artists as they've grown in the world is that what impresses most is not the grandiosity of display but the ways they've made these grand displays…smaller. Maybe that's not the word, but certainly the intention has been to make art in the world more about connection than spectacle.
Two examples: Here is Matt from The National at their recent show at the Hollywood Bowl, on the tenth anniversary of September 11th, literally reaching out and touching the crowd.
And here's the whole band at a recent show of theirs in Philadelphia a week earlier, my first in-the-flesh opportunity to see their new end-of-set tradition of singing "Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks" unplugged, the audience as loud as the band on stage.
I'll readily admit, I've yet to sit down and talk to The National folks about what each of these nightly rituals signifies to them. (You'll probably see both events play out no matter where you've seen them on their current tour cycle.) But I couldn't help but hope & wonder that they've internalized a certain concept about what it is to be a star — a concept that considers not only the light that is cast, but the dimmer, darker, high pressure quadrants of the universe that birth them.
I'll probably never ask them. Part of the secret of creative relationships being that you don't always ask; sometimes you just dream your own crazy dream.
So, okay, there are some deep thoughts for you on the gulf between publicity and intimacy. Next up, a brief consideration of the function of community and the entities that propel creativity.
1. I did look up some actual dates after finishing this short essay. I found this fall 2011 tour schedule for The National particularly evocative for the way it portrays a band either oblivious to the events of that September, or intent on getting on with things tragedy aside.
– 2001-08-10 – New York, NY – Brownies
– 2001-08-12 – Arlington, VA – Galaxy Hut
– 2001-08-15 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe
– 2001-08-15 – Philadelphia, PA – Khyber Pass
– 2001-08-25 – Brooklyn, New York, NY – North Six
– 2001-10-18 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
– 2001-10-20 – Buffalo, NY – Hallwalls
– 2001-10-27 – Brooklyn, New York, NY – Galapagos
– 2001-11-03 – Raleigh, NC – King's Barcade
– 2001-11-04 – Mobile, AL – The Splash
– 2001-11-06 – New Orleans, LA – Mermaid Lounge
– 2001-11-07 – Athens, GA – Caledonia
– 2001-11-08 – Atlanta, GA – Echo Lounge
– 2001-11-09 – Bloomington, IN – The Space 101
– 2001-11-11 – Evanston, IL – WNUR 89.3 FM Taping
– 2001-11-11 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
– 2001-11-12 – Columbus, OH – WCBE 90.5 FM Taping
– 2001-11-12 – Columbus, OH – Little Brothers
– 2001-11-13 – Louisville, KY – Barretone's
– 2001-11-14 – Oberlin, OH – Oberlin College
– 2001-11-15 – Newport, KY – Southgate House
– 2001-11-16 – Morgantown, WV – 123 Pleasant St.
– 2001-11-17 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Roboto Project
Lots more memories are attached to some of these shows. But in any case, I'd say autumn 2001 stands as a fitting anniversary date for us all.
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2. I always correct people when they refer to us as "Brassland Records." I mean, ick! Who would want to run the Wild West Horse Buggy Company just as the railroad was being introduced?
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3. Have you read about hedge fund manager Ray Dalio's Principles yet? You can do so in The New Yorker or Dealbreaker. Crazier still, you can read the thing itself. Go for it.
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4. I prefer the term "thoughtful" to "sad-sack" though, at our current cultural moment, I think those two words have become largely become synonymous in most people's lexicon. Let's leave the unpacking of that thought to a future BLOG, k?
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5. One thing Laura missed: I'd have liked her to include the detail that, on the weekend of her visit, I was staying at an apartment once rented by legendary Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren while he lived in New York attempting to pen a never-published memoir. I don't quite fancy myself an impresario, but any portrait of a music scene would not be complete without the schemer off dreaming in the background.
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Tags: 9/11, Aaron Dessner, Alec Hanley Bemis, Anniversaries, Baby Dayliner, Brassland, Bryce Dessner, Buke & Gass, Clogs, Doveman, Good Music, Laura Snapes, Matt Berninger, New York City, Nico Muhly, NME, Padma Newsome, September 11, The Community Function, The Guardian, The National, The Problem with Capitalism, The Problem With Nostalgia, The Problem With the Avant Garde, TL;DR, Too Long; Didn't Read


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Manitobas win over Quebec had some wondering if curling needs a mercy rule. It was Quebecs worst beating since a 13-1 setback to Alberta in 1991. A rule obliges teams to play at least eight ends no matter how badly theyre trailing. "Im not so sure I believe in the eight-end rule," said Manitobas McDonald. "If things arent going well, the other team should be able to get out when they feel its time. "Theyre a good team. Theyre much better than that. But theyre just having a tough go. When things go sour, they go sour." Ross had plenty of support among the 1,790 spectators at the Maurice Richard Arena, but her squad has been off the target consistently all week. She was also missing second Brittany ORourke to the flu bug that has sidelined several players and officials during the week. "Todays game was tough for sure," said Ross, whose team also lost 6-5 to B.C. in the morning draw. "We didnt play well at all." Flaxey turned around what had been a dismal week with her win over Alberta. 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Husband pleads guilty in death of Officer Jennifer Sebena
Ben Sebena shot his wife, a Wauwatosa police officer, on Christmas Eve
An Iraq veteran accused of killing his wife, a Wauwatosa police officer, pleaded guilty Wednesday as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
Benjamin Sebena, 30,was scheduled to face trial next month on a charge of first-degree intentional homicide. But his defense attorney sought a plea hearing Tuesday, and a judge scheduled one for Wednesday afternoon.
Sebena had originally pleaded insanity. But two doctors who agreed that he has mental-health issues said those issues don't rise to the level of supporting an insanity plea.
"You did cause the death of Jennifer Sebena, another human being, with the intent to kill that person, contrary to the Wisconsin statues. What's your plea to that charge?" Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Borowski asked
"Guilty, your honor," Sebena said.
Sebena's lawyer, Mike Steinle, said Sebena reached the decision over the last month.
"This is his decision, judge," Steinle told the court.
"He's not an unintelligent person. In fact, he's very intelligent, and he understands what 'intent to kill' means," Steinle said later.
The criminal complaint said Sebena acknowledged ambushing his wife in Wauwatosa while she conducted a predawn patrol alone.
The charge carries a mandatory life sentence; however, the District Attorney's Office will recommend that Sebena become eligible for parole in 50 to 60 years.
"In each case, we consider all of the circumstances relating to the case and consult with the victim's family, and under these circumstances, this was an appropriate resolution from our standpoint and we support it fully," Milwaukee County Chief Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern said.
He is scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 9.
After the hearing, the Wauwatosa Police Department issued this statement: "Wauwatosa Police are pleased that Jennifer's family, and by extension, her friends and family here, will be spared the difficulty of a trial. "
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Fortunately the physical reactions are lessoning and within that I'm realizing just how strong and capable who I am as my Physical body really is. Our Physical Body is constantly ingesting and processing all the physical and mental input that WE are constantly providing for it. We just haven't quite grasped what goes on within our physical body for it to be able to reach a point of proper chemistry and balance.
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I forgive myself that I haven't accepted and allowed myself to consider how it is the emotional nature of worry is produced in the mind-physical relationship.
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Biden took on critics who call the stimulus a "grab bag" of too many programs. "It doesn't reflect a lack of design," Mr. Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution. "That was the design." Mr. Biden said that the stimulus law was not a "single silver bullet" but rather "silver buckshot."
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The battle between Coles and Woolworths has escalated with Coles using an elaborate tax haven structure to conceal its purchase of one of Woolworths' most profitable stores.
Fairfax Media has obtained documents that reveal Woolworths' arch rival Coles is now the landlord of its Neutral Bay supermarket.
The move has blindsided Woolworths, which was unaware that one of its most profitable stores was bought by Coles for $40 million.
''This is a surprise, and it's not common practice by any means. I'm not going to commentate on what Coles' motivation is, that's for them to answer,'' a Woolworths spokeswoman said after Fairfax informed the group.
Coles concealed its involvement in the deal by using a $10 company ultimately owned in the British Virgin Islands tax haven to purchase the 4282 square metre site in the well-heeled lower north shore suburb.
Internal Coles documents show the purchase price was $40 million, which is a record price for a freestanding supermarket in Sydney. Coles is believed to have paid a premium of as much as 30 per cent above its value to secure the site.
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Five days before the property was bought a handful of Coles property executives were instructed to investigate whether the company would open itself up to retaliation from Woolworths when their own property leases expired.
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The supermarket giants have been locked in a vicious battle for market share since Coles was bought by listed conglomerate Wesfarmers five years ago. It has resulted in price wars including $1 a litre milk and steep discounts on bread, petrol and beer that have antagonised suppliers and resulted in an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
The property fight is believed to have been sparked after Woolworths turfed Coles out of its Katoomba store in the Blue Mountains in 2012 after more than 30 years in the spot. Woolworths had bought the site in 2000 and Coles had been forced to spend millions of dollars building a new centre down the road. The exercise took almost a decade.
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Sino Ace Investment is registered to Bernard Chiu, a Sydney lawyer who listed a "palatial" home in Sydney's lower north shore for $13 million four months after the Neutral Bay deal with Vanbridge. The company is ultimately owned by a similarly named entity in the British Virgin Islands.
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Christmas Cranberry Rolls
Cranberries are one of my family's favorite foods, and this is a much-requested recipe. I've been making these pretty sweet rolls for almost 3 years. —Margery Rice, Bedford, New Hampshire
Total TimePrep: 40 min. + rising Bake: 25 min.
Makes2-1/2 dozen
- 3-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/4 cups milk
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons corn syrup
- 1 cup fresh cranberries, halved
- 1/2 cup chopped citron or mixed candied fruit
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- In a large bowl, combine 1-3/4 cups flour, sugar, yeast and salt. In a saucepan, heat milk and oil to 120°-130°. Add to the dry ingredients; mix well. Add egg; beat well. Add enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, melt butter in a small saucepan; stir in brown sugar and corn syrup. Spread into two greased 9-in. round baking pans; set aside. Combine cranberries, citron, pecans and lemon zest; sprinkle over brown sugar mixture.
- Punch dough down; turn onto a lightly floured surface. Divide into 30 pieces; roll each piece into a 1-1/2-in. ball. In a small bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon. Place melted butter in another bowl, Roll each ball in butter, then in cinnamon-sugar. Place 15 balls in each pan. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour. Bake at 375° for 22-27 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before inverting onto serving plates.


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Vietnam visa for Bulgaria citizens
Do Bulgaria passport holders need a visa to Vietnam?
Ja, Bulgaria passport holders need a visa to Visit Vietnam.
How to apply Vietnam visa for citizens of Bulgaria?
There are two options:
Option 1: Obtain the letter of approval to pick up the visa upon arrival at Vietnam airport (get visa stamped at Vietnam International Airports on arrival).
Visa on arrival is beneficial for those who live far away from the Vietnamese embassies and do not wish to send their passports away by postal mail.
– Issuing unit: Vietnam Immigration Department
– Processing time: 1 bis 2 Arbeitstage
– No Passport sendoff required
– How it works? You go online at https://www.visainvietnam.org/booking, fill in the secure form, and just wait 2 Arbeitstage (Normalbetrieb) or within 1 Arbeitstag (dringender Service) to get your Visa Approval Letter via email, and take this letter + Ihr Pass + 2 Fotos + pay a stamping fee of $45 for single entry and $ 65-95 for multiple entries. Make sure that you bring the cash with you because you might not find any ATMs near you.
Don't forget to check the approval letter to make sure that all the information is correct. If you find any processing mistakes, we'll refund the charges and make you a new one.
Option 2: Contact the Embassy of Vietnam in Bulgaria before you arrive Vietnam. The procedures are quick and simple.
– Issuing unit: Vietnam Botschaft
– Processing time: 4 bis 5 Arbeitstage
– Your original passport required
– Before applying for Vietnam visa, make sure your passport has minimum 6 Monat Gültigkeit und linke Seiten.
– For visa on arrival option, it is applicable for those traveling by air to Vietnam.


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We Live Atop Lost Cities and Civilizations
Anne Arundel County's newest Lost Town is Pig Point, a prehistoric Indian village near Jug Bay on the Patuxent River.
Archaeologist Jane Cox and her Lost Towns Project colleagues realized they were on to something pretty wild as soon as they started excavating the long-forgotten site. Digging down through the layers of several fire pits, they encountered trash going back almost 10,000 years. That makes this one of the region's oldest uncovered sites.
The accepted wisdom has always been that Paleo Indians first occupied North America somewhere between 13,000 and 10,000bc, coming down the land bridge from Russia after the last Ice Age and working their way east over the course of millennia. Some evidence suggests that they moved with surprising speed across the continent. There's also evidence that occupation in North America could be as early as 16,000bc.
Archaeology is tedious work. You carefully sift through dirt an inch at a time. As you dig deeper, you travel back in time. At the top of the pit, you may find metal objects, like buttons or fishhooks from the colonial era. At every level, animal bones tell you what people were eating.
As you dig down, the color of the dirt walls changes, and you can accurately carbon date each layer within a decade or so by analyzing the charcoal.
After about a foot, you start finding pieces of pottery, which in turn provide a pretty good idea of what time period you are digging through. At this site, Townsend, Rappahannock, Mockley, Popes Creek and Accokeek pottery styles have been unearthed. Pottery dates this site to the Woodland period, between 1000bc and around 1650ad.
When the pottery stops, you are left with charcoal, bones and stone tools from a time we know little about.
The latest Carbon 14 date from this year's excavation at Pig Point now confirms occupation back to circa 7300bc, making this one of the oldest stratified sites ever studied. So the stone points recovered from the fire pit at Pig Point are a major discovery.
Two good old boys showed up in the second year Jane and the Lost Towns team were working at Pig Point, supported by a Maryland Historic Trust grant. Each carried a shoebox filled with arrowheads, including two projectile points that Al Luckenbach, the Lost Towns director and county archaeologist, recognized as re-worked Clovis points, the oldest stone points uncovered on the continent. The modern-day hunters had found the points in a nearby field 40 years ago.
Over 20 small sites are located around Jug Bay, with Pig Point the largest and most significant. What makes it unique is not just that it's old but that it was occupied continually throughout human times.
News from 10,000 Years Ago
Here's what we now know after digging through 10,000 years of Indian life.
Over time, many different people called Pig Point home, at least seasonally. They started as hunter-gatherers and eventually settled down, living in more permanent camps soon before Europeans arrived in the Chesapeake. They became farmers, living in small oval shelters made of bent saplings anchored to the ground and covered with bark. The river was their highway. They traveled in log canoes, trading with people throughout the region, maybe as far away as the Ohio Valley. That's what Cox and her crew suspect because they found stone tools from quarries in the Midwest.
The Pig Pointers had a rich protein diet, eating shad, bass, gar, sturgeon, drum, freshwater clams, rodents, turtles, birds, beaver, bobcat, bear, raccoon, deer, turkey and muskrat. Local plant life also provided an abundant source of food, including acorns, hickory nuts, wild grape, wild rice and Tuckahoe root, a potato-like tuber. And they created items of rare beauty: bead necklaces, tobacco pipes engraved with elaborate designs, bone tools like sewing needles, decorated clay bowls and tiny pots that may have been used to hold paints.
Pig Point is like a small window into life before white settlers.
"We are always looking for volunteers to help us with our field work," Cox said. "You, too, can actually come out and play in the dirt with us and touch artifacts from thousands of years ago." No experience necessary.
The Lost Towns Project: www.losttownproject.org. Sign up to volunteer in the field or at the County Archaeology Lab with Jessie Grow at 410-222-7440; [email protected]


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Raymond James (RJF) CEO Paul Reilly says he's pleased to "declare the Morgan Keegan integration over."
"We can talk about it forever, but they're now part of the family," Reilly said in an interview Tuesday during the Raymond James Women's Symposium, taking place this week in St. Petersburg, Fla.
As for its next deal, "Our focus is not on acquisitions," he said. "Morgan Keegan was unusual. Yes, our focus going forward might include a niche firm or two. But we have not identified any firm like Morgan Keegan with the same values, though there are some smaller ones there."
Instead, the firm's focus in on the aggressive recruiting of advisors "who share our values," the executive says.
The Morgan Keegan deal (announced in early 2012 and fully combined onto one platform a year later) led to a slowdown in the parent company's overall recruiting efforts last year, Reilly says, especially within its employee channel, Raymond James & Associates.
"Our first job was to focus on Morgan Keegan … and then we went to a product-neutral grid taking the best of both systems," he shared.
But with "only so much time in the day," recruiting slowed down, Reilly says, and this was true across the industry due to the bull market.
A few months ago, however, recruiting shot up. The independent channel, Raymond James Financial Services, "is having a good run and picking up more robust teams," he said.
"Teams with $1 billion are not uncommon to see coming through the door. They view us as a viable platform," explained Reilly.
Raymond James' main appeal, he says, is that it's still a value-based, friendly firm for advisors specifically looking for a firm that culturally feels like regional broker-dealer.
"We pay a lot less in transition assistance [than other firms], but it's a fair price. We want them to be where they want to be" or not make the switch, Reilly stressed.
RIA Realities
While the firm has boosted its RIA platform and staffing over the past 18 months or so, it's growing this channel with the same philosophy that guides all of its corporate strategies. "We want to be sure that [these advisors] fit our risk criteria," the CEO noted.
For instance, Raymond James takes a conservative approach to products like variable annuities (in terms of the level of front-end loads), closed-end funds (in terms of their amount of leverage) and nontraded REITs.
"We do not sell nontraded REITs," Reilly said. It's not that they are bad products, it's that they involve a liquidity discount, "which is not worth the extra yield."
If the regulatory situation stays where it is, with rules bifurcated between RIAs and brokers, the RIA channel will continue to grow at its current pace, he says.
But if regulators choose to apply one standard to both brokers and RIAs equally, the pace of growth within the RIA channel could slow down somewhat, Reilly says, though "it will still grow."
"My guess is that there will still be one standard, but it will be applied differently, so RIAs still should have some advantages," the executive said.
And the firm is upbeat on the growing platform. "We're still in the early days and feel good about it."
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Portrait of Mr. Raccoon Nursery Art Print
Mr. Raccoon went and sat on the moon, or anywhere else. Inspire creativity with this quirky nursery art print.
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We use Premium Quality Inkjet Heavyweight Satin Paper which gives a sharp, crisp, clear look to all of our artworks. Its heavier weight gives it that 'professional' feel.
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blood red rose Over the last decade Rosa Lisa has designed 14 carpets. These lively & expressive carpets challenge the space around them. Rosa Lisa's carpets have been chosen for modern as well as traditional interiors & do well next to colorful as well as to sober furniture. Travelling through fascinating places like India & Nepal, Central America & Mexico in particular, Rosa Lisa found her inspiration for her vibrant rug designs. Her rugs are very colorful & bright. Motifs from the Spanish-Mexican culture are beautifully interwoven. Like in all her work, the red rose reappears in every design. As well as riotous, organic images combined with more abstract elements. All carpets are hand-knotted in Nepal by Tibetan crafts men. The Tibetans are specialized in traditional knotting using a flat Tibetan knot. All rugs are hand made from pure wool: 80% Tibetan & 20% New Zealand wool. All colors are hand-dyed without using chemicals. All carpets have black lines that are very precisely sheared by hand; bringing out a difference in pile that enriches the effect of the design. All rugs have a set price yet different sizes are available, provided that it is corresponding to the original design. All carpets come with a Rosa Lisa signature & have Spanish titles.
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Hope College is one of nine colleges and universities from Canada, Mexico and the United States participating in the North American Mobility Project, a consortium focused on the study of ethics and public policy issues in the sciences in North America.
Through the consortium, students from any of the nine participating institutions will have an opportunity to spend a semester at an institution in one of the other two nations represented. The program includes three institutions each in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
"We believe that Hope College has a great deal to offer the consortium, just as the consortium has a great deal to offer Hope," said Alfredo Gonzales, who is associate provost and dean for international and multicultural education at Hope.
"Our nationally respected, research-based program in the sciences and grounding in ethics as informed by the historic Christian faith help make Hope an ideal destination for the students who will be studying here," he said. "For our students, the outstanding universities with which we are partnered will offer an ideal opportunity to benefit from studying abroad while also gaining a new international perspective on crucial issues in the sciences."
The program has been funded through a three-year, $203,021 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) that will continue through August of 2010. In addition to Hope, the participating U.S. institutions are HowardUniversity in Washington, D.C., which is the U.S. lead for the project, and the University of Texas at El Paso. The participating Canadian institutions are ConcordiaUniversity in Montreal, Quebec; Université de Montréal; and St. PaulUniversity in Ottawa, Ontario. The participating institutions in Mexico are the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro; the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla; and Universidad Anahuac.
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Hope has already had relationships with two of the institutions for several years. Hope and the Autonomous University of Queretaro established a formal relationship in 1996 that has since included exchanges of students, faculty and cultural programs. Since 1998, Hope and HowardUniversity have maintained a "Preparing Future Faculty" program through which recent doctoral candidates from Howard spend an internship year teaching at Hope.
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Phenomenology is one of the most important developments in philosophy in the twentieth century that has had a deep impact on Theology and Religious Studies. This seminar series seeks to engage with some of the literature and fundamental concepts of phenomenology which underlie much work in Theology and the Phenomenology of Religion. While the readings themselves are not directly about the Phenomenology of Religion, in order to understand the Phenomenology of Religion we need to address these fundamental ideas and to raise the basic questions of Phenomenology.
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Media 5 Mile Race
June 15, 2012 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
tMedia Borough and the Media 5 Mile Race Committee
tare pleased to welcome you back to the 32nd Annual Media 5 Mile Race on State Street!
tRace participants, sponsors and cheering enthusiasts will enjoy the benefits of our beautiful downtown ambiance. Our challenging course will travel two loops through the streets of Media borough with awards and finish at Veterans Square. Music, Prizes and Sponsors complete the festive atmosphere. Registration will be capped at 1400 runners. T-Shirts will be given to all registrants.
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tPlan to spend the evening with family and friends in Media!
tBefore the race – enjoy an historic walking tour, stroll the lovely streets to see our eclectic and friendly neighborhood. Shops on and adjacent to State Street and Baltimore Pike will be open for the evening to serve you. Stop and see our great sponsors and donors who support our runners.
tWatch the race from any spot along the course! Join our neighbors at water stops at 4th and N. Olive and 3rd and Edgemont Streets. Don't forget the fun and free Kids' Runs at 6:00 at Barrall Field – State and Edgemont. Lots of photo opportunities abound.
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Dawn Harper is a Team USA track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the 100m hurdles at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and the silver medal in the 100m hurdles at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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|Gathering with Team USA
The final part of my 2012 dream has come true! When I arrived in Washington, I found the USA desk where all athletes had to check in. I said my name and, before I could finish it, I heard a yell from behind. The yell came from a fellow track and field athlete, Aries Merritt, who I adore and who's had an amazing year. He not only won a gold medal in the 110m hurdles at the Olympic Games, but he also set a world record a couple of weeks ago. I knew that other athletes were soon to follow and I was bursting with excitement.
As I had thought, other athletes were close behind and, before I knew it, the USA desk was filled with friends and a lot of laughter. Once we arrived at the hotel, we all received our really cute USA outfits to wear at the White House the next day.
We quickly changed clothes and rushed to dinner before it converted to the LIVE party they scheduled for us. I was excited about going to dinner because I knew more of my fellow Olympians would be there. The neatest thing about walking through the doors of the dinner/party was the mixture of different sports that came together to represent the U.S. It was like one big family in the party room. We ate and danced the night away until they closed the doors. Heading back to the hotel was funny to me because I kept thinking, "In the morning I'm going to meet the president." The thought blew my mind!
The buses left for the White House bright and early. I figured that my bus driver really loved his job because he sang songs and talked the entire trip. Arriving to security was surreal. The athletes kept saying, "now this is real security." I also thought to myself that someone's records had to be squeaky clean in order to get through these doors (LOL!).
Walking onto the actual White House lawn was amazing. There was a band to the left, food and drinks straight ahead, and the podium for the president to the right. You see the podium all the time on TV, but to think I was going to sit right behind the president was mind-blowing. When the president was ready to come out, they had everyone take their place. Athletes sat next to other athletes in their sport, so, of course, I sat with the track & field group.
President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, came out as they often do, with smiles and handshakes. However, this time was different because I was in the crowd. I shook their hands and waited for their wonderful speech. Their words spoke volumes to me because I could relate to everything they were saying. We were thanked for our hard work and dedication and he even made a reference about Tyson Gay. Once the photo shoot began, I was lucky enough to shake the president's hand twice and take plenty of pictures with him. His cool, calm and collectiveness are real! He was as sweet and genuine as your grandma with a sweet potato pie.
Once the handshakes and pictures were all taken, we were informed that we could take a tour of the White House. As I walked the halls and rooms, I felt that the atmosphere was filled with history. Seeing things that were in the White House since 1816, seeing the blue room, and seeing the dining hall was an honor. I took plenty of pictures and left with a bigger sense of appreciation for the people who work in the White House. I thank President Barack Obama and the White House staff for welcoming and catering to us. I hope they enjoyed the day as much as we did. Still Smiling!
"The Three Musketeers" – Me, My Medal and the President
September 13, 2012
Going to the Olympics has always been a childhood dream of mine, and I've been blessed to have the opportunity to have represented my country in not one but two Olympics. The thought of going to the White House and meeting the president just takes this 2012 Olympic experience and season to another level for me. At the beginning of the year I remember saying, "when I make this team, I will take this opportunity to meet the President." I wasn't able to go in 2008 because of track meets that I had previously committed to; however, I promised myself I would never miss out on what seemed like a once in a lifetime opportunity again.
I remember making sacrifices and adjustments early on to ensure that I reach my goal of making my second Olympic team. I used the White House and the President Obama as another motivation. The challenges throughout the year seemed to never end, but I was blessed to win the Olympic Trials, receive my medal, and start my real Road to London 2012. I went back to Los Angeles knowing I would be one of the U.S. Olympic members attending the White House but this time I wanted to bring a medal for President Obama to "awe over."
I felt like I put my head down, got into my little bubble, did my work, and didn't come out until it was my time to be on the big stage. The intensity going into the finals of the 100m hurdles in the London Games was very present, but I told myself, "I welcomed this challenge." So I stuck to the game plan round by round so when crossing the line and just missing out on defending my title. After receiving my silver medal I considered it A JOB WELL DONE! I believed in my heart that my family, my country, and my President, Barack Obama, would be extremely proud. I'm excited about the idea of presenting my medal to President Obama and I will forever have the memory of "The Three Musketeers" – me, my medal and the President. I can't wait to feel the presence of his calmness, belief, and strength that he brings to our country. I will walk into the White House with the feeling, "Oh my God I'm going to the White House!" and walk out of the White House with that feeling, "Oh my God I've been to the White House!" I have one more day until the final part of my 2012 dreams come true. I can't wait!


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