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Establishing Trust in the NSTIC
This is part of an ongoing series on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The introduction to this series can be found here.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) proposes a large ecosystem of identity providers, attribute providers, and relying parties that must establish trust with each other in various ways. NSTIC requires various types of trust within the identity ecosystem. These include:
- Users must trust that their Identity Provider will manage their credentials securely and in their best interest.
- Relying Parties must trust in the attributes provided by Attribute Providers.
- Attribute Providers must trust Identity Providers and Relying Parties to handle attributes, which may include proprietary data such as credit scores, in accordance with their terms of use.
- Relying Parties must trust Identity Providers to provide the requested strength of authentication and to manage credentials and attributes correctly.
The term "federated identity" is widely used to refer to identity systems that span multiple organizations, each of which maintains its own identity information. That arrangement is typically used between an enterprise and its business partners, such as contract manufacturers, channel partners, and consulting firms. Trust is established individually with each. A fully meshed federation of n participants would require n(n-1) such agreements, which does not scale well beyond small federations, especially considering that these agreements often take the form of contractual negotiation between each party.
The anticipated scale of NSTIC makes this form of federation wildly impractical. This is where the accreditation model proposed in the NSTIC has a real advantage. To differentiate it from the pairwise-federation model, I often refer to the model used by the NSTIC as accredited identity. These are also sometimes referred to as trust frameworks.
One of the biggest problems with accreditation historically has been communicating clearly the meaning (semantics) of the accreditation. In the context of the NSTIC, the semantics of accreditations should include:
For Identity Providers:
- The maximum level of assurance that the Identity Provider's credential management procedures and authentication mechanisms are sufficient to support.
For Attribute Providers:
- The maximum level of assurance of the Attribute Provider.
- The domain of the attributes that are accredited, e.g., health care, financial, or employment.
For Relying Parties:
- Identification of the Relying Party.
- Agreement that the Relying Party agrees to abide by terms of use in the information received.
For Accreditors:
- The maximum level of assurance of the Accreditee.
- The type(s) of entities that can be accredited, and in the case of Attribute Provider accreditors, the attributes that can be accredited.
- Whether lower-level accreditors can be accredited.
All this granularity is intended to make it easier for parties to participate in the Identity Ecosystem. If they are only going to support low levels of assurance, it should not be necessary to bear the burden and cost of being accredited at the highest possible level. Similarly, it is easier to accredit an attribute provider to be a trustable source of certain types of information than it is for all possible assertions.
Another important requirement that is all too often overlooked is the ability to revoke the accreditation of both accreditors and other Identity Ecosystem participants. Without the ability for revocation to be revoked, it means little. Revocation needs to be possible on both a technical and practical basis. From a technical standpoint, it needs to be possible to quickly communicate the revocation to those that are dependent on the accreditation, or for the accreditation to be evaluated in real time. From a practical standpoint, it needs to be possible to revoke an accreditation without causing an excessive amount of collateral damage; no accreditation can be allowed to become so important that it is "too big to fail." This means that the structure of accreditations isn't a tree, but a bunch of trees with intertwined branches, as participants are likely to have several accreditations that are applicable for different purposes, to increase their breadth of trust, and as backups.
While the trust framework for the NSTIC Identity Ecosystem is critical to its success, it will take considerable care and attention to build it properly.
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This is the kind of substantive and constructive commentary that helps government (FICAM and NSTIC) and private sector efforts.


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TORONTO — A world-renowned violinist who is using music to help poverty-stricken youth in troubled neighbourhoods, a Holocaust survivor and educator, and two kids who raise thousands of dollar for cancer research from lemonade stands were a few of the nine people honoured at the 11th annual Starry Nights: Ve'ahavta's Tikun Olam Awards Ceremony on Nov. 10.
The event, which attracted about 500 people, including Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, honoured nine people in five categories: human rights leader and activist Chief Phil Fontaine for humanitarianism, Joe Gottdenker and Faigie Libman for remembrance, Moshe Hammer for education, Dr. Andrew Simor for medicine, and Jamie and Alexandra Eckler and Amanda and Joshua Belzowski for young leadership.
"It's enormously inspiring," said Robyn Segall, director of programs and marketing for Ve'ahavta, the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian and Relief Committee.
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Hammer is a world-famous violinist who is helping inspire children who live in poor areas stay out of gangs through the use of music.
In 2006, during Toronto's so-called "summer of the gun," Hammer noticed the heavy gang and gun violence amongst young children and teenagers in certain areas of Toronto and was struck by the fact that the words "violin" and "violence" are quite similar.
He realized he could use his talents to help inspire children, and teach them musical lessons – something most children in the schools he works in do not have a chance to take – to help them develop life skills, a positive self-image and sense of responsibility, and encourage them to become better citizens.
In its first year, the Hammer Band, as his project is now known, had 40 students. This year, he has 600 students, for a total of more than 1,200 school children who have taken part in the musical lessons.
"The philosophy behind what we do is that, besides making better adults, which I'm sure we are, because we're in some very dangerous areas, we are convinced that when we get the kids when they're 9, 10 or 11, their chances of joining a gang will be completely reduced," Hammer said.
"Kids who feel disenfranchised, lonely, out of place, and weak, those are the kids that are lured into gangs. We give kids that kind of belonging. They belong to a band."
Hammer and his team of professional musicians enter schools in poverty-stricken areas and teach students the violin and cello, for free, while encouraging them to develop their creativity and passion. The majority of the students are immigrants, and Hammer's team has taught students from 39 different cultures. To date, the Hammer Band has performed more than 50 concerts.
"We challenge their creativity, challenge their imagination, that's what kids don't get enough of," said Hammer. "My aim isn't to create hundreds of musicians but to create thousands of better people, because then how much better will our communities be?"
Another honoree, Holocaust survivor and educator Gottdenker, has made it his mission to ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten. Born in Poland in 1941, he was hidden with a Polish family for 3-1/2 years during the war. After the war ended, he was reunited with his parents and moved to the United States and then Canada, where he now resides. However, he never forgot the sacrifice the Polish family made to save his life, and he kept in touch with the parents, their children and grandchildren.
He is vice-chair of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem and a board member of several organizations, including UJA Federation of Greater Toronto's Neuberger Holocaust Education Center.
"Fortunate is not strong enough of a word to have survived through the goodness of these people," said Gottdenker, who was the principal donor to the International Seminars wing at Yad Vashem's International School of Holocaust Studies, which opened in 2009.
"I feel I have to give back and to give back in a number of ways."
The keynote speaker of the night was Frank O'Dea, founder of Second Cup, who spoke about living on the streets of Toronto before founding the coffee empire.


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out of curiousity, the random black dots in the middle of nowhere are probably small towns or camps correct?
Thanks for the link. I actually have some of these for Nevada in both original and reprint. My wife thinks I'm wierd for having such old maps, but they come in handy.
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out of curiousity, the random black dots in the middle of nowhere are probably small towns or camps correct?
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Thanks Matt for posting the links, I am up in PHX and am wanting to go north to check some sites out, this will help out a lot. Thanks again.
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NYCC 2014: Rick and Morty Panel
Co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland are joined by Sarah Chalke, Chris Parnell and moderator Steve Brandano to expand the world of Rick and Morty, sell some Blu-rays and get even more mileage out of our sweat-drenched Mr. Meeseeks costume.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2019
SDCC 2019: Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal Panel
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SDCC 2017: Rick and Morty Panel
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SDCC 2016: Robot Chicken Panel
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NYCC 2014: Robot Chicken Panel
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NYCC 2013: Robot Chicken Panel
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San Diego Comic-Con 2013
SDCC 2013: The Venture Bros. Panel
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SDCC 2013: Rick and Morty Panel
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SDCC 2011: The Venture Bros. Panel
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SDCC 2011: Childrens Hospital Panel
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NYCC 2010: Childrens Hospital Panel
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NYCC 2010: Delocated Panel
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NYCC 2010: Robot Chicken Panel
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NYCC 2010: The Venture Bros. Panel
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SDCC 2010: The Venture Bros. Panel
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SDCC 2010: Robot Chicken/Metalocalypse/Venture Bros. Panel
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SDCC 2010: ATHF/Tim & Eric/Frankenhole Panel
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SDCC 2010: Childrens Hospital Panel
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San Diego Comic-Con 2009
SDCC 2009: The Venture Bros. Panel
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SDCC 2009: Robot Chicken Panel
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San Diego Comic-Con 2008
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The Republicans' message on the sequester couldn't be clearer: They don't have a unified one.
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Public Enemy (band)
|Public Enemy
Public Enemy performing in 2012.
|Background information
|Also known as
|Long Island, New York, U.S.
|Hip hop
|Years active
|Def Jam/Columbia/SME
|Associated acts
|The Bomb Squad, Beastie Boys, Anthrax, Big Daddy Kane, Ice Cube, Brother Ali, Ziggy Marley, De La Soul, LL Cool J, PE 2.0, Boogie Down Productions, KRS-One
|Chuck D
Flavor Flav
DJ Lord
Khari Wynn
The S1W
Professor Griff
Davy DMX
|Past members
|Terminator X
Sister Souljah
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group. Formed on Long Island, New York in 1982, they are known for their politically charged music and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community. They remain one of the most critically acclaimed bands in history. Their first four albums during the late 1980s and early 1990s were all certified either gold or platinum and were, according to music critic Robert Hilburn in 1998, "the most acclaimed body of work ever by a hip hop act."[1]
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Public Enemy[2] number 44 on its list of the Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, the highest ranking for a hip hop act.[3] The group was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.[4] The band were announced as inductees for the 2013 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on December 11, 2012, making them the fourth hip-hop act to be inducted.[5]
- 1 History
- 2 Legacy
- 3 Controversy
- 4 Band members
- 5 Discography
- 6 Awards and nominations
- 7 Further reading
- 8 References
- 9 Bibliography
- 10 External links
Formation and early years (1982–1986)
Carlton Ridenhour (Chuck D) and William Drayton (Flavor Flav) met at Long Island's Adelphi College in the early-1980s. Developing his talents as an MC with Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record "Check Out the Radio", backed by "Lies", a social commentary—both of which would influence RUSH Productions' Run–D.M.C. and Beastie Boys. Chuck D put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station where he was working at the time) and to fend off a local MC who wanted to battle him. He called the tape Public Enemy #1 because he felt like he was being persecuted by people in the local scene. This was the first reference to the notion of a public enemy in any of Chuck D's songs. The single was created by Chuck D with a contribution by Flavor Flav, though this was before the group Public Enemy was officially assembled. Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Ali Hafezi and offered a position with the label. Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song "Public Enemy Number One" Rubin had heard from Andre "Doctor Dré" Brown.
According to the book The History of Rap Music by Cookie Lommel, "Stephney thought it was time to mesh the hard-hitting style of Run DMC with politics that addressed black youth. Chuck recruited Spectrum City, which included Hank Shocklee, his brother Keith Shocklee, and Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, collectively known as the Bomb Squad, to be his production team and added another Spectrum City partner, Professor Griff, to become the group's Minister of Information. With the addition of Flavor Flav and another local mobile DJ named Terminator X, the group Public Enemy was born." According to Chuck, The S1W, which stands for Security of the First World, "represents that the black man can be just as intelligent as he is strong. It stands for the fact that we're not third-world people, we're first-world people; we're the original people."[6] Public Enemy started out as opening act for the Beastie Boys during the latter's Licensed to Ill popularity, and in 1987 released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show. Over the next few years, Public Enemy released It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Fear of a Black Planet, and Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black. In addition to ushering in the golden age of hip hop, during this time, Public Enemy reached the height of their popularity, adulation, and controversy. The group then separated from Def Jam and has since been independently producing, marketing, and publishing their music.
Mainstream success (1987–1994)
Their debut album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, was released in 1987 to critical acclaim. The album was the group's first step toward stardom. In October 1987, music critic Simon Reynolds dubbed Public Enemy "a superlative rock band".[7] They released their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988, which performed better in the charts than their previous release, and included the hit single "Don't Believe the Hype" in addition to "Bring the Noise". Nation of Millions... was the first hip hop album to be voted album of the year in The Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[8]
In 1989, the group returned to the studio to record Fear of a Black Planet, which continued their politically charged themes. The album was supposed to be released in late 1989,[9] but was pushed back to April 1990. It was the most successful of any of their albums and, in 2005, was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress. It included the singles "Welcome To The Terrordome", "911 Is a Joke", which criticized emergency response units for taking longer to arrive at emergencies in the black community than those in the white community, and "Fight the Power".[10] "Fight the Power" is regarded as one of the most popular and influential songs in hip hop history. It was the theme song of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.
The group's next release, Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black, continued this trend, with songs like "Can't Truss It", which addressed the history of slavery and how the black community can fight back against oppression; "I Don't Wanna be Called Yo Nigga", a track that takes issue with the use of the word nigga outside of its original derogatory context. The album also included the controversial song and video "By the Time I Get to Arizona", which chronicled the black community's frustration that some US states did not recognize Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday. The video featured members of Public Enemy taking out their frustrations on politicians in the states not recognizing the holiday. In 1992, the group was one of the first rap acts to perform at the Reading Festival, in England, headlining the second day of the three day festival.
Terminator X's exit and DJ Lord's entrance (1998–current)
After a 1994 motorcycle accident shattered his left leg and kept him in the hospital for a full month, Terminator X relocated to his 15-acre farm in Vance County, North Carolina. By 1998, he was ready to retire from the group and focus full-time on raising African black ostriches on his farm.[11] In late 1998, the group started looking for Terminator X's permanent replacement. Following several months of searching for a DJ, Professor Griff saw DJ Lord at a Vestax Battle and approached him about becoming the DJ for Public Enemy.[12] DJ Lord joined as the group's full-time DJ just in time for Public Enemy's 40th World Tour.[13] Since 1999, he has been the official DJ for Public Enemy on albums and world tours while winning numerous turntablist competitions, including multiple DMC finals.[14]
In 2007, the group released an album entitled How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?. Public Enemy's single from the album was "Harder Than You Think". Four years after How You Sell Soul..., in January 2011, Public Enemy released the album Beats and Places, a compilation of remixes and "lost" tracks. On July 13, 2012, Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp was released and was exclusively available on iTunes. In July 2012, on UK television an advert for the London 2012 Summer Paralympics featured a short remix of the song "Harder Than You Think". The advert caused the song to reach No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart on September 2, 2012.[15] On July 30, 2012, Public Enemy performed a free concert with Salt-N-Pepa and Kid 'n Play at Wingate Park in Brooklyn, New York as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series. On August 26, 2012, Public Enemy performed at South West Four music festival in Clapham Common in London. On October 1, 2012 The Evil Empire of Everything was released. On June 29, 2013, they performed at Glastonbury Festival 2013. On September 14, 2013 they performed at Riot Fest & Carnival 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. On September 20, 2013 they performed at Riot Fest & Side Show in Byers, Colorado.
In 2014 Chuck D launched PE 2.0 with Oakland rapper Jahi as a spiritual successor and "next generation"[16] of Public Enemy.[17] Jahi had met Chuck D backstage during a soundcheck at the 1999 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and later appeared as a support act on Public Enemy's 20th Anniversary Tour in 2007. PE 2.0's task is twofold, Jahi says, to "take select songs from the PE catalog and cover or reVisit them" as well as new material with members of the original Public Enemy including DJ Lord, Davy DMX, Professor Griff and Chuck D.[18] PE 2.0's first album "People Get Ready" was released on October 7, 2014. "InsPirEd" PE 2.0's second album and part two of a proposed trilogy was released a year later on October 11, 2015.[17] Man Plans God Laughs, Public Enemy's thirteenth album, was released in July 2015.
Public Enemy made contributions to the hip-hop world with sonic experimentation as well as political and cultural consciousness, which infused itself into skilled and poetic rhymes. Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "PE brought in elements of free jazz, hard funk, even musique concrète, via [its] producing team the Bomb Squad, creating a dense, ferocious sound unlike anything that came before."[19][20] Terminator X's innovative scratching tricks can be heard on the songs "Rebel Without a Pause", "Night of the Living Baseheads", and "Shut 'Em Down".
Public Enemy held a strong, pro-Black, political stance. Before PE, politically motivated hip-hop was defined by a few tracks by Ice-T, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and KRS-One. Other politically motivated opinions were shared by prototypical artists Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets. PE was a revolutionary hip-hop act, basing an entire image around a specified political stance. With the successes of Public Enemy, many hip-hop artists began to celebrate Afrocentric themes, such as Kool Moe Dee, Gang Starr, X Clan, Eric B. & Rakim, Queen Latifah, the Jungle Brothers, and A Tribe Called Quest.
Public Enemy was one of the first hip-hop groups to do well internationally. PE changed the Internet's music distribution capability by being one of the first groups to release MP3-only albums,[21] a format virtually unknown at the time.
Public Enemy helped to create and define "rap metal" by collaborating with Living Colour in 1988 (Funny Vibe) and New York thrash metal outfit Anthrax in 1991. The single "Bring the Noise" was a mix of semi-militant black power lyrics, grinding guitars, and sporadic humor. The two bands, cemented by a mutual respect and the personal friendship between Chuck D and Anthrax's Scott Ian, introduced a hitherto alien genre to rock fans, and the two seemingly disparate groups toured together. Flavor Flav's pronouncement on stage that "They said this tour would never happen" (as heard on Anthrax's Live: The Island Years CD) has become a legendary comment in both rock and hip-hop circles. Metal guitarist Vernon Reid (of Living Colour) contributed to Public Enemy's recordings, and PE sampled Slayer's "Angel of Death" half-time riff on "She Watch Channel Zero?!"
Members of the Bomb Squad produced or remixed works for other acts, like Bell Biv DeVoe, Ice Cube, Vanessa Williams, Sinéad O'Connor, Blue Magic, Peter Gabriel, L.L. Cool J, Paula Abdul, Jasmine Guy, Jody Watley, Eric B & Rakim, Third Bass, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, and Chaka Khan. According to Chuck D, "We had tight dealings with MCA Records and were talking about taking three guys that were left over from New Edition and coming up with an album for them. The three happened to be Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, later to become Bell Biv DeVoe. Ralph Tresvant had been slated to do a solo album for years, Bobby Brown had left New Edition and experienced some solo success beginning in 1988, and Johnny Gill had just been recruited to come in, but [he] had come off a solo career and could always go back to that. At MCA, Hiram Hicks, who was their manager, and Louil Silas, who was running the show, were like, 'Yo, these kids were left out in the cold. Can y'all come up with something for them?' It was a task that Hank, Keith, Eric, and I took on to try to put some kind of hip-hop-flavored R&B shit down for them. Subsequently, what happened in the four weeks of December [1989] was that the Bomb Squad knocked out a large piece of the production and arrangement on Bell Biv DeVoe's three-million selling album Poison. In January [1990], they knocked out Fear of a Black Planet in four weeks, and PE knocked out Ice Cube's album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted in four to five weeks in February."[22] They have also produced local talent such as Son of Bazerk, Young Black Teenagers, Kings of Pressure, and True Mathematics—and gave producer Kip Collins his start in the business.
Poet and hip-hop artist Saul Williams uses a sample from Public Enemy's "Welcome to the Terrordome" in his song "Tr[n]igger" on the Niggy Tardust album. He also used a line from the song in his poem, amethyst rocks.
Public Enemy's brand of politically and socially conscious hip hop has been a direct influence on new hip hop artists such as The Cornel West theory.
The Manic Street Preachers track "Repeat (Stars And Stripes)" is a remix of the band's own anti-monarchy tirade by Public Enemy production team The Bomb Squad of whom James Dean Bradfield and Richey Edwards were big fans. The song samples "Countdown to Armageddon" from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The band had previously sampled Public Enemy on their 1991 single Motown Junk.
The influence of the band goes largely beyond hip-hop as the group was cited by artists as diverse as Autechre (selected in the All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival) in 2003), Nirvana (It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back being cited by Kurt Cobain among his favorite albums), Nine Inch Nails (mentioned the band in Pretty Hate Machine credits), Björk (included Rebel Without a Pause in her The Breezeblock Mix in July 2007), Tricky (did a cover of Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos and appears in Do You Wanna Go Our Way ??? video), Prodigy (included Public Enemy No. 1 in The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One), Ben Harper, Underground Resistance (cited by both Mad Mike and Jeff Mills), Orlando Voorn, M.I.A., Amon Tobin, Mathew Jonson and Aphex Twin (Welcome To The Terrordome being the first track played after the introduction at the Coachella festival in April 2008).
In September 2009, VH1 aired a show called "100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs" where Public Enemy earned the number one spot with their hit song, Fight the Power.[23]
In December 2012, the group was announced as one of the inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for its 2013 class.[5]
Political activities
In January 1987, Arizona governor Evan Mecham canceled a state holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. because the holiday had not been properly authorized. In response to this action, the group wrote a song entitled "By the Time I Get to Arizona." In the video for the song, the group was seen assassinating Mecham by planting a bomb underneath his limousine and detonating it by remote control, perhaps intending an analogy or other reference to the 1976 murder of Don Bolles, an investigator reporter for the Arizona Republic newspaper.[original research?]
In 1989, in an interview with Public Enemy for the Washington Times, the interviewing journalist, David Mills, lifted some quotations from a UK magazine in which the band were asked their opinion on the Arab–Israeli conflict. Professor Griff's comments apparently sympathized with the Palestinians and he was accused of anti-Semitism. According to Rap Attack 2, he suggested that "Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world" (p. 177). (In turn a quote from The International Jew) Shortly after, Ridenhour expressed an apology on his behalf.[24] At a June 21, 1989 press conference, Ridenhour announced Griff's dismissal from the group,[25] and a June 28 statement by Russell Simmons, president of Def Jam Recordings and Rush Artists Management, stated that Chuck D. had disbanded Public Enemy "for an indefinite period of time."[26] By August 10, however, Ridenhour denied that he had disbanded the group, and stated that Griff had been re-hired as "Supreme Allied Chief of Community Relations" (in contrast to his previous position with the group as Minister of Information).[25] Griff later denied holding anti-Semitic views and apologized for the remarks.[27] Several people who had worked with Public Enemy expressed concern about Ridenhour's leadership abilities and role as a social spokesman.[28]
In his 2009 book, entitled Analytixz,[29] Griff criticized his 1989 statement: "to say the Jews are responsible for the majority of wickedness that went on around the globe I would have to know about the majority of wickedness that went on around the globe, which is impossible... I'm not the best knower. Then, not only knowing that, I would have to know who is at the crux of all of the problems in the world and then blame Jewish people, which is not correct." Griff also said that not only were his words taken out of context, but that the recording has never been released to the public for an unbiased listen.
The controversy and apologies on behalf of Griff spurred Chuck D to reference the negative press they were receiving. In 1990, Public Enemy issued the single "Welcome to the Terrordome", which contains the lyrics: "Crucifixion ain't no fiction / So-called chosen frozen / Apologies made to whoever pleases / Still they got me like Jesus". These lyrics have been cited by some in the media as anti-Semitic, making supposed references to the concept of the "chosen people" with the lyric "so-called chosen" and Jewish deicide with the last line.[30]
In 1999 the group released an album entitled There's a Poison Goin' On. The title of the last song on the album is called "Swindler's Lust". The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) claimed that the title of the song was a word play on the title of the Steven Spielberg movie "Schindler's List" about the genocide of Jews in World War II.[31] Similarly in 2000 a Public Enemy spin off group under the name Confrontation Camp, a name according to the ADL, that is a pun on the term concentration camp, released an album.[32] The group consisted of Kyle Jason, Chuck D (under the name Mistachuck) and Professor Griff.
The title of the 2015 album "Man Plans God Laughs" is a well known English translation of a Yiddish proverb [33] "Der mentsh trakht un got lakht" Chuck D has not explained why a Yiddish proverb was used.
In a letter to the editor, Leo Haber alludes to criticism by New York Times writer Peter Watrous of the group's supposed homophobia.[34]
Reviewers John Alroy and David Wilson said that Fear of a Black Planet contained "homophobic babbling" which challenged politically correct thinking.[35]
Zoe Williams defended Public Enemy against charges of homophobia by stating that:
If you look at the seminal black artists at the start of hip-hop, Public Enemy and Niggaz Wit Attitudes, you won't actually find much homophobia. The only recorded homophobic lyric in Public Enemy's canon was: 'Man to man/ I don't know if they can/ From what I know/ The parts don't fit' [a lyric from "Meet the G that Killed Me" on Fear of a Black Planet]".— Williams, Zoe, "Hiphopophobia", The Guardian, 29 April 2003
Flavor Flav was criticized for allegedly homophobic lyrics on Public Enemy's 1991 song "A Letter to the New York Post", in which he raps, "It only brings agony, ask James Cagney / He beat up on a guy when he found he was a fagney / Cagney is a favorite he is my boy".[36]
Band members
Current members
- Chuck D (Carlton D. Ridenhour) - MC
- Flavor Flav (William Drayton) – hype man, occasionally lead vocals
- Khari Wynn – guitars
- DJ Lord (Lord Aswod) – DJ
- Professor Griff (Richard Griffin) - Minister of Information
- Davy DMX - bass
- Brother James (James Norman)
- Brother Roger (Roger Chillous)
- Brother Mike (Michael Williams)
- James Bomb (James Allen)
- The Interrogator (Shawn K. Carter)
- Big Casper (Tracy D. Walker)
- Crunch
- Drew
- Pop Diezel
Former members
- Terminator X (Norman Rogers) - DJ, Producer
- Sister Souljah (Lisa Williamson) - Minister of Information (took over Richard Griffin's place when Griffin left group)
- Jacob "Big Jake" Shankle (died 2013)
- The Bomb Squad
- Hank Shocklee (James Hank Boxley III) *original member
- Keith Shocklee (Keith Boxley) *original member
- Eric "Vietnam" Sadler *original member
- Gary G-Wiz (Gary Rinaldo) (took Eric Sadler's place when Sadler left group)
- 1987: Yo! Bum Rush the Show
- 1988: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- 1990: Fear of a Black Planet
- 1991: Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black
- 1994: Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age
- 1998: He Got Game
- 1999: There's a Poison Goin' On
- 2002: Revolverlution
- 2005: New Whirl Odor
- 2006: Rebirth of a Nation (with Paris)
- 2007: How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?
- 2012: Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp
- 2012: The Evil Empire of Everything
- 2015: Man Plans God Laughs
Awards and nominations
Grammy Awards [37]
|Nominated work
|"Fight the Power"
|Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
|Fear of a Black Planet
|Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
|Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Back
|Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
|Greatest Misses
|Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
|"Bring the Noise" (with Anthrax)
|Best Metal Performance
American Music Awards
|Nominated work
|It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
|Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album
|Fear of a Black Planet
|Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album
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Further reading
- Young Rick- cofounder/ cowriter of lyrics*Chuck D with Yusuf Jah, Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Off Da Books, 2007 ISBN 0-9749484-1-1
- Chuck D with Yusuf Jah, Fight the Power, Delacorte Press, 1997 ISBN 0-385-31868-5
- Fuck You Heroes, Glen E. Friedman Photographs 1976-1991, Burning Flags Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9641916-0-1
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- ↑ "Long Island Music Hall of Fame | Preserving & Celebrating the Long Island musical heritage". Limusichalloffame.org. Retrieved 2014-04-19.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ Chuck D. and Yusuf Jah, Fight the Power, p. 82)
- ↑ Reynolds, Simon. "Public Enemy", Melody Maker, 17 October 1987.
- ↑ McCombs, Joseph (December 11, 2012). "Decking the Hall: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's New Members – Public Enemy". Time. New York. Retrieved June 11, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ "Canadian Music - HuffPost Canada". Music.aol.ca. Retrieved 2014-04-19.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ "Dj Lord of the battle". In the Mix. Retrieved June 2002. Check date values in:
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- ↑ "DMC Kicks Back…Mr. Lord-Public Enemy Spinner & Hip Hop King". DMC World Magazine. Retrieved 2014-04-19.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ "UK Top 40 Singles Chart = Radio 1". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-19.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-04-19.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Electric & Acoustic Guitar Gear, Lessons, News, Blogs, Video, Tabs & Chords". GuitarPlayer.com. Retrieved 2014-04-19.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Dubois, Keir. "https://web.archive.org/web/20030619220955/http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/topics/infoart/public-enemy/". Transcriptions Project, December 1999. Retrieved on April 15, 2016.
- ↑ Fight The Power, pp. 236–237
- ↑ "100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs Ever!!! = VH1".<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Pareles, Jon (11 August 1989). "Public Enemy Rap Group Reorganizes After Anti-Semitic Comments". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-19.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Pareles, John (August 11, 1989). "Public Enemy Rap Group Reorganizes after Anti-Semitic Comments". The New York Times. New York:: The New York Times. p. C3.
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- ↑ Hilburn, Robert (April 10, 1990). "POP MUSIC REVIEW: Public Enemy Keeps Up Attack". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles: Tribune Company. Retrieved October 17, 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Hilburn, Robert (February 4, 1990). "Rap—The Power and the Controversy: Success has validated pop's most volatile form, but its future impact could be shaped by the continuing Public Enemy uproar". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times: Tribune Company. Retrieved October 17, 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Professor Griff. Analytixz: 20 Years of Conversations and Enter-views with Public Enemy's Minister of Information. Atlanta: RATHSI Publishing, 2009, p. 12.
- ↑ Christgau, Robert. Jesus, Jews, and the Jackass Theory: Public Enemy
- ↑ *[1] at Village Voice July 13, 1999/Profits of Rage
- ↑ [2] at MTVJewish Group Decries Public Enemy's 'Swindler's Lust'
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WASHINGTON — Reversing its oft-repeated position that it was acting
only on behalf of its clients in its exotic dealings with the American
International Group, Goldman Sachs now says that it also used its own
money to make secret wagers against the U.S. housing market.
A senior Goldman executive disclosed the "bilateral" wagers on subprime
mortgages in an interview with McClatchy, marking the first time that
the Wall Street titan has conceded that its dealings with troubled
insurer AIG went far beyond acting as an "intermediary" responding to
its clients' demands.
official, who Goldman made available to McClatchy on the condition he
remain anonymous, declined to reveal how much money Goldman reaped from
its trades with AIG.
the wagers were part of a package of deals that had a face value of $3
billion, and in a recent settlement, AIG agreed to pay Goldman between
$1.5 billion and $2 billion. AIG's losses on those deals, for which
Goldman is thought to have paid less than $10 million, were ultimately
borne by taxpayers as part of the government's bailout of the insurer.
proprietary trades with AIG in 2005 and 2006 are among those that many
members of Congress sought unsuccessfully to ban during recent
negotiations for tougher federal regulation of the financial industry.
McClatchy examination, including a review of public records and
interviews with present and former Wall Street executives, casts doubt
on several of Goldman's claims about its dealings with AIG, which at
the time was the world's largest insurer.
For example:
The latest disclosure undercuts Goldman's repeated insistence during
the past year that it acted merely on behalf of clients when it bought
$20 billion in exotic insurance from AIG.
_ Although Goldman has
steadfastly maintained that it had "no material exposure" to AIG if the
insurer had gone bankrupt, in fact the firm could have lost money if
the government hadn't allowed the insurer to pay $92 billion of
American taxpayers' money to U.S. and European financial institutions
whose risky business practices helped cause the global financial
_ Goldman took several aggressive steps — including
demanding billions in cash collateral — against AIG that suggest to
some experts that it had inside information about AIG's shaky financial
condition and therefore an edge over its competitors. While former Bush
administration officials said AIG was financially sound and merely
faced a cash squeeze at the time of the bailout, McClatchy has reported
that the insurer was swamped with massive liabilities and was a
candidate for bankruptcy.
A spokesman for Goldman, Michael
DuVally, said that the firm followed its "standard approach to risk
management" in its dealings with AIG.
"We had no special insight
into AIG's financial condition but, as we do with all exposure, we
acted prudently to protect our firm and its shareholders from the risk
of a loss. Most right-thinking people would surely believe that this
was an appropriate way for a bank to manage its affairs."
He said that Goldman didn't have "direct economic exposure to AIG."
relationship between Goldman and AIG has drawn intense scrutiny over
the past year because several Goldman alumni held senior Treasury
Department jobs when the Bush administration guaranteed as much as $182
billion to bail out AIG, $12.9 billion of which AIG paid to Goldman,
the most money it paid any U.S. bank.
On Wednesday and Thursday,
a congressional panel investigating the causes of the financial crisis
plans to question current and former senior Goldman and AIG officials,
including Joseph Cassano, the former head of the London-based AIG unit
that covered $72 billion in bets against risky home mortgages — wagers
that cost U.S. taxpayers tens of billions of dollars when the housing
bubble burst.
The proprietary trades at issue were carried out
using private contracts known as credit-default swaps, essentially bets
on the performance of designated securities and traded in murky,
loosely regulated markets with little disclosure about who placed
wagers, who won and who lost.
Documents emerging from the AIG
bailout and a Senate investigation of Goldman's secret bets against the
housing market while it sold off tens of billions of dollars in
mortgage-backed securities — first reported by McClatchy in November —
have provided a window into some of these dealings.
Until now,
however, Goldman has said that the insurance-like contracts it bought
from AIG from 2004 to 2006 — deals that have cost the insurer some $15
billion — were made to offset similar swaps the investment bank had
written for clients who wanted to bet on a housing downturn.
companies have revealed few details of some $6 billion in so-called
synthetic deals, in which the parties bet on the performance of
designated securities that neither side purchased.
A person
familiar with the matter, who declined to be identified because of its
sensitivity, said that additional synthetic swap contracts between AIG
and Goldman with a face value of $3 billion have yet to be unwound by
the teams of specialists tasked with scaling down AIG's more than $2
trillion in exotic risks.
The proprietary trades occurred in the
same Abacus series of synthetic securities that Goldman bundled
offshore, according to the senior Goldman official. Another one of
those 16 deals prompted the government to sue Goldman on civil fraud
charges in April.
Goldman also has long asserted that it was
holding $10 billion in collateral and "hedges" and thus had "no
material exposure" in the event that the government had allowed AIG's
parent to go bankrupt in the fall of 2008, rather rescuing it.
The emerging details of Goldman's offshore dealings, however, also call that into question.
doled out tens of billions of dollars of the bailout money to pay off
mortgage-related swaps with U.S. and European financial institutions at
their full face value, a decision made by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York that triggered a public furor.
The bailout enabled major
financial institutions to honor billions of dollars in swap bets that
they'd made with each other, especially in offshore deals that were
pegged to the performance of loans to homebuyers with shaky credit.
declined to say how much money Goldman had at stake if the value of
these securities sank further and the big banks couldn't make good on
their bets amid frozen credit markets.
According to court
documents and a person who's seen records of some of the offshore
deals, investment banks Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, as well as
large European banks, wrote protection for Goldman on these deals
totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
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In addition, The New
York Times reported earlier this year that Goldman cut a deal with the
Societe Generale in which the French bank paid Goldman a portion of the
$11 billion it collected from the AIG bailout.
DuVally denied
that Societe Generale and Goldman had a deal regarding the French
bank's payout from AIG, but he declined to say whether Goldman
collected a large sum from the French bank.
Because Goldman was
holding $7.5 billion in collateral from AIG and had placed $2.5 billion
in other hedges, DuVally said, it "did not have direct economic
exposure to AIG" in the event that the insurer's parent had been left
to bankruptcy.
"That said, we have always acknowledged that if a
failure of AIG had resulted in the collapse of the financial system, we
would have suffered just like every other financial institution," he
DuVally declined to say who selected the securities for Goldman's Abacus deals with AIG.
chief executive, Robert Benmosche, was asked at the company's recent
annual meeting whether it would seek to sue any banks for loading swap
deals with securities on junk mortgages likely to default.
said that the firm is reviewing "all activities from that period" and,
"to the extent we find something wrong that harmed AIG inappropriately,
our legal staff will take appropriate action."
It's unclear when
Goldman first suspected that AIG was at risk of a colossal meltdown,
but the storied investment bank moved more nimbly than any other
financial institution to shield itself.
As the home mortgage
securities lost value over a 14-month period beginning in the summer of
2007, Goldman's huge swap portfolio gained value. Under the terms of
the contracts, Goldman began in July 2007 to demand that AIG post
billions of dollars in cash as collateral.
DuVally said that
Goldman had no inside information about AIG's finances, and merely
protected itself by enforcing contract language that required the
insurer to post cash whenever the mortgage securities underlying the
bets lost value.
"Our direct knowledge of AIG's financial condition was limited to the company's public disclosures," DuVally said.
some experts are skeptical of that, especially because Goldman
responded to AIG's refusal to meet all its demands for $10 billion in
collateral by placing $2.5 billion in hedges — most of them bets on an
AIG bankruptcy.
Sylvain Raynes, an expert on structured
securities of the types that AIG insured, said it's "implausible that
Goldman can say 'I had no idea that AIG was in dire straits or in weak
financial condition.'"
Raynes, a co-author of the newly published
book "Elements of Structured Finance" and a former Goldman employee,
said that a standard clause in the swaps contracts left open to
discussion whether the company writing protection must post collateral.
The buyer of coverage typically could demand to see financial
information, including the number of similar positions held, he said.
you see the (company) has entered into 150 credit-default swaps
totaling $65 billion, and that all of them are the same type as your
credit-default swaps, you know that they have taken huge amounts of
risk and have very little capital to back that up," Raynes said.
you really want to close your eyes, you have to know what their
condition is. If you don't know, then you're not doing your job, and I
have too much respect for Goldman to say they are not doing their job."
said, however, that Goldman wasn't told about other swaps that AIG had
written and didn't have access to AIG's internal financial information.
had served as an investment adviser for the insurer since as far back
as 1987 and as recently as 2006, setting up offshore companies
affiliated with AIG that served as loosely regulated reinsurers.
insurance subsidiaries shined up their balance sheets by shifting
hundreds of millions of dollars in liabilities to reinsurers, including
some of those formed with Goldman's assistance.
prosecutors and state regulators eventually nailed AIG for falsifying
its financial statements and for using so-called "sidecar" companies to
help Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Corp. and an Indiana firm,
Brightpoint Inc., hide liabilities. AIG paid more than $1.7 billion on
to settle those and other charges in 2004 and 2006. Goldman wasn't
For years, Goldman and AIG have shared the same
auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, a firm that AIG retained even after
the SEC in 2006 directed it to find "an independent auditor."
also represented by the same New York law firm, Sullivan &
Cromwell, which boasted on its website of its "significant experience
in offshore reinsurance matters." The firm's senior chairman, Rodgin
Cohen, is known as one of Wall Street's most formidable attorneys.
August 2008, weeks before the rescue, AIG's newly installed chief
executive, Robert Willumstad, invited senior officials of several major
banks, including Goldman, Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and Credit
Suisse, to a meeting to see whether there was any way to reduce the
insurer's huge portfolio of mortgage-related swaps.
from Blackrock, a financial services firm that was assisting the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York with the bailout, show that Goldman
offered to negotiate a settlement on some of the swaps, but the two
sides were too far apart on valuation of the securities to cut a deal.
said that Goldman offered only to settle for payment of its estimate of
the market value of the swaps, which had appreciated sharply due to the
securities' decline in value. To do so would have required AIG to book
a massive loss.
On Aug. 18, 2008, Goldman's equity research
department delivered another blow to AIG, issuing a sharply negative
report on the insurer and lowering its target price for AIG shares to
$23 from $30. The Goldman report heightened concerns among credit
ratings agencies about AIG's condition, Willumstad said in an interview.
September 2008, AIG was besieged with a chorus of collateral demands
from other banks and a threat from credit ratings agencies to downgrade
the insurer, an action that triggered more collateral calls and
prompted Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a former Goldman chief
executive, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to initiate a
bailout to prevent a meltdown of the global financial markets.


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King salmon fishing along the Sonoma County coast broke wide open Monday for fish that averaged 15 to 20 pounds, with slugs claimed in the 30-pound bracket.
King salmon fishing along the Sonoma County coast broke wide open Monday for fish that averaged 15 to 20 pounds, with slugs claimed in the 30-pound bracket.
There was even a sprinkling of 40- to 50-pounders in the mix for the hundreds of boats on the water from Tomales Point to halfway down Ten Mile Beach.
Why has salmon fishing turned on after four difficult months since the season opened April 5?
Capt. Rick Powers of the charter boat New Sea Angler out of Bodega Bay said it's likely the result of a flat ocean, a windless day and a massive squid spawn.
"After squid spawn, they die and drift to the bottom and the salmon follow them down to gorge themselves," Powers said. "What's surprising is the size of the salmon. They're just huge. Imagine hearing stories over the marine radio of 40- to 50-pounders, most of which destroy tackle and break free."
It appears salmon are willing to strike anchovies, either mooched or trolled, over a 50- to 100-foot bottom. The key is to get the gear down and actually scrape the ocean floor.
"It's not red hot, with two-fish limits for everybody, but the salmon we're catching are huge," Powers said. "If you catch just one fish, you've got something to brag about. For guys who have been waiting for the fish to show up, I'd say they had better go fishing now. It's pretty incredible."
Powers said private boaters who depart the harbor at daybreak are catching two-fish limits before the entire fleet shows on the scene.
"The later you get out, the lower your score," he said.
Randy Thomas of Woodbridge fished from a private boat last week and reported a slow to nonexistent bite, perhaps the poorest in many years.
"Our best day we caught three salmon, but on most long days we caught nothing," Thomas said. "We sighted 11 sunfish and pods of porpoise, and the water temperature was warm, as high as 64 degrees one day. This wasn't conducive for salmon."
His conclusion: Something is wrong with the ocean when so-called warm water species suddenly show up and temperatures are 8 to 9 degrees warmer than normal.
"Salmon can turn on in a heartbeat, so maybe they are congregating and heading down the coast toward San Francisco Bay, before running into the Sacramento River," Thomas said. "I sure hope so."
A preseason forecast of 634,650 adult-sized Sacramento River king salmon were predicted by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council. Earlier in July, the PFMC noted, "Salmon seem to be enjoying excellent growing conditions," a fact borne by the amazingly large fish taken by recreational anglers north of the Golden Gate.
San Francisco Bay charters are running along Marin County where the take is about one per rod, but the size of the salmon is exceptional. As a bonus, the occasional white sea bass to 50 pounds and halibut to 28 pounds are unwittingly hooked by salmon fishers.
On Monday, two Sausalito-based charters hooked 42 salmon to 39 pounds for 30 anglers, trolling near-shore waters off Marin County.
Ocean fishing extends through Nov. 9 from Point Arena in Mendocino County to Pigeon Point in San Mateo County, and to Oct. 5 from Pigeon Point south to the Mexican border. The daily limit in the northern zone is two salmon, 20 inches or greater; in the southern zone, it's two salmon, 24 inches or greater.
In-river salmon fishing opened July 16 from the Carquinez Straits to Red Bluff. Just a sprinkling of fish have been logged from Benicia to Vieirra's Resort at Isleton, where the water is 70 degrees or higher. A few more salmon have been hooked at Freeport and Verona, and below the diversion dam at Red Bluff.
On Friday, the northern-most section of the Sacramento River (from Red Bluff to the Deschutes Bridge at Anderson) opens, with boats expected to clog the Barge Hole at the mouth of Battle Creek.
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Color: Green
Drive Train: 2WD
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Merci opened in march 2009 in the arty neighborhood of Haut-Marais in Paris. More than just a retail project, it is a unique place, a destination store with 3 cafés and restaurants as well a very rich programme of exhibitions and scenographies that made the reputation of Merci.
Jean-Luc Colonna d'Istria of Merci: "In 2009, Merci selected this vintage ceiling tins as a decor concept for the Parisien store. Since the opening, there is no one day without seeing a visitor taking pictures of the Merci tin counter or asking to buy it. This phenomenon has given Merci the idea to get together with NLXL to design and market the wallpaper collection Brooklyn Tins."
Historically, tin ceillings were introduced to North America as an affordable alternative to the exquisite plaster work used in European homes. It was between 1890 and 1930 that thin rolled tin-plates were being mass-produced. Today the irregularity and the aging give all the appeal to this American architecture icon.
NLXL Founder Rick Vintage has a background in interior design. In 2005 he imported pressed tin plates for a restaurant project in the Netherlands. "Ever since we installed these tins I knew we had to do something with this beautiful product. At one of the famous parties during the Paris Design Week in january 2012 Daniel Rozensztroch (photo), art director of Merci asked us if we were interested to make a wallpaper collection based on vintage tins. Brooklyn Tins was born. I think the collection shows the pleasure we have had in working together on this project."
|Non-woven wallpaper.
Heavy-duty wallpaper with paper top-layer and non-woven backing.
|OVERALL DIMENSIONS: 19" W x 394" L
|Roll Length
|394 (inches)
|Roll Width
|19 (inches)
|Pattern Repeat
|NO REPEAT (inches)
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