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Fans Who Stole Foul Ball from Crying Kid Say They Were 'Unaware'
Sean Leonard and fiance Shannon Smith Moore, the couple who stole a foul ball from a little boy and made him cry during a game between the Yankees and the Rangers on Wednesday night, recently spoke to ABC and said they were completely oblivious to the drama playing out right beside them. Do you believe them?
According to the couple, they were caught up in the excitement of the moment and were completely "unaware" that the pint-sized baseball fan was also going for the ball.
"As the parents of a soon-to-be combined family of seven children, Shannon and I completely understand how upsetting a situation like that can be for a young child surrounded by the chaos and excitement of a ball game," Leonard told ABC affiliate WFAA. "Again, we would never intentionally taunt and/or wish to see a young child disappointed in such a way."
As for the child's parents, Crystal and Kyle Shores, they think the whole situation has been blown out of proportion. "It all looked worse than it was," the boy's mother told 'Good Morning America.' " We don't think at all that they did it on purpose or that it was intentional or anything like that."
What do you think? Do you buy the couple's excuse?

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I'm trying to embed some video into this posting. This is me shooting an apple from about ten feet with a Highpoint 9mm. My friend is doing commentary and all you can hear of me is the gleeful cackling in the background. Her son, on his first time at the range, had tried to shoot it with a .22. He hit it plenty but didn't get the results we wanted so I got the Highpoint and made that bad boy disappear like it was teleported out on the first shot.
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DANIELSVILLE - Ruby Nell Dutton House, 81, passed away Wednesday, October 10, 2012, at the Ty Cobb Health Care Nursing Home in Comer.
She was born in Hart County on February 25, 1931, the daughter of the late Ed and Mammie Boles Dutton. She was a seamstress having worked with Fritzmar Manufacturing and was of the Baptist denomination. Mrs. House was preceded in death by her husband, Ethridge Terrell "Edd" House; brother, Amos Dutton; and sister, Kathleen Grizzle.
Survivors include children and spouses, Kenneth and Pam House, Colbert, and Lynn and Donald Miller, Hull; grandchildren and spouses, Dwaine and Erica Free, Chad and Joy House, Chasity Gaines, and Tasha Miller; great-grandchildren, Ryan Miller, Marcus House, Riley Free, Abby Free, Ricky Miller, Toby House, Brooklyn Gaines, and Haley Gaines; brothers, James Dutton and Jerry Dutton, both of Elberton, Charles Dutton, Lawrenceville, and Garrison Dutton, Villa Rica; sisters, Lillian Wilson, Savannah, Geneva Grimes, Elberton, and Dorothy Rousey, Calhoun Fall, S.C.; and a special friend, Frances Dutton, Stone Mountain.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 13, at the Pruitt Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Benson Bottoms officiating. Burial will follow in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Royston.
The family will receive friends at the Pruitt Funeral Home in Royston from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friday evening, October 19. The family is at the home of Kenneth and Pam House, 31 Maple Ridge Place, Colbert, GA 30628.
Online condolences may be made to the family by visiting www.pruittfhroyston.com.
Pruitt Funeral Home, Royston, is in charge of arrangements.
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Looking for some tips on Twitt-iquette? Then look no further than the guidelines issued by the government of the United Kingdom to its civil servants.
For instance, departments are advised against "tweeting" more than once in half an hour -- so they don't flood the service (and risk the dreaded unfollow or block).
Agencies are also urged to use Twitter to contact constituents in an emergency.
While casual, colloquial language is recommended, the Associate Press report mentions no ban of "tweener," or chat speak like "Vote 4 PM Brown 2day! New Labour rulez!"
One can only hope Queen Elizabeth will do something to protect the mother tongue from such vulgarity with a royal decree or something.
Jackson West would learn Italian if Silvio Berlusconi started a Twitter account.


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Cesare Prandelli turned to Gigi Buffon with a smile. It is two years since Italy's goalkeeper summed up the pessimism surrounding the national team by saying that they would not even qualify for Euro 2012. "And I remember thinking," Prandelli said, "are you sure?"
Buffon was wrong but now that the Italians are here, their presence has been overshadowed by a betting scandal. Their first game is against Spain, the world and European champions, who knocked them out of Euro 2008.
And yet the smile said much. So did the fact that the Italians opened their entire training session to the media rather than the regulation 15 minutes. If there is a surprise in store, it has already been prepared.
"We have tried many options which might be new to you but not to us," Prandelli said, letting a little intrigue linger. "We have talked about the line-up for days [but] everyone still has a chance of making the team."
The atmosphere was relaxed and confident. Asked how he felt going into his first major tournament, Prandelli responded: "I slept well last night."
When Italy first got together, Spain had not even named their squad and nine of those players who would make it were still involved in domestic action with the final of the Copa del Rey.
The Italy coach has had time to prepare ways of preventing Spain's possession being converted into chances. He intends to flood a deep-lying midfield and deny them space. Daniele De Rossi, who is set to play in the middle of a back five, will be a key figure.
"De Rossi is totally convinced about his ability to play centre-back," Prandelli said. "He has played there for Roma and if he had to play in this position he won't simply be a defender but a defensive midfielder. We want to use him in this position because during the match we could make tactical changes.
"We have to prepare the match according to our characteristics. We are fully aware we have a good team and if we pull together we can be really competitive. We want to keep Spain away from our penalty area. If they get there they'll create difficulties."
It will be down to Andrea Pirlo to give the Italians fluency. A Serie A champion with Juventus having been considered past it at Milan, Pirlo is one of those players for whom the Spanish have the greatest admiration. This is a game that has been presented in Spain as clash of cultures, almost a battle between good and evil. Pirlo is seen as the exception: the most Spanish of the Italians.
He added: "If [Spain do close down Pirlo], it will mean that we are playing well. And if there are difficulties of that kind of course we have tried some different tactics."
Up front, Prandelli knows Italy need to find the goals that have evaded them of late. Much will rest on Mario Balotelli.
At one point Prandelli had admitted that he did not know whether he could trust the Manchester City striker. Balotelli, in turn, was open in his desperation to play at these championships. Now he is Italy's greatest hope.
"As far as the management of Balo is concerned, it's always difficult for 21-year-old guys, especially those who want to show their value," Prandelli said. "But he has behaved in a really professional way in the last few weeks. Mario has to be aware that he's very important to the team.
"If he plays for the team then he'll be very important to us. We already asked Balotelli and other players to be generous with each other. It needs to be a game where they play for each other and for the fans. We need to give everything on the pitch."
Buffon, in the national team since 1997, was asked what advice he would give the striker. "None," he said. "He is a player of pure talent, one of the very few that can win a game for you on his own. I don't need to tell him anything. He is young and it is normal for him to make mistakes occasionally.
"The most important thing is that he learns from them. Off the pitch [with Italy], he has always behaved the right way."


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Bow Ties Are Gonna Happen, Goddammit!
Bow ties are so fetch, have you heard? Christina Binkley of the Wall Street Journal reports that everyone from David Beckham to the Jonas Brothers are wearing them.
Brooks Brothers is totally selling a lot, and that suave retailer isn't selling a lot of anything! They're the ultimate in pocket-protector chic, the perfect fashion accessory for a nation ruled by a nerd-in-chief.
Except: No. Just no. Even Tucker Carlson hasn't worn a bow tie since his sartorial embellishment figured in the epic beatdown Jon Stewart gave him. And the hero of Binkley's piece is some guy named Cooper Ray (above), who runs a site called SocialPrimer.com. Hello?
Binkley has been pushing bow ties for over a year now — a trend apparently driven by a single designer. In March 2008, she gushed over the ushers' bow ties at a Lanvin event: "My father-in-law wears them, and I like him, so maybe I'm partial." Full disclosure! Congratulations, Christina. For your ceaseless efforts to make bow ties happen, we now dub you the Gretchen Weiners of fashion reporting:


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
1: Meaningful Interpretation
Before You Watch
To begin this workshop session, you will tap your prior knowledge and experience and then read current research on interpretive communication.
Reflect on Your ExperienceConsider the types of interpretive tasks that you have done with your students, then answer the following questions. You may want to save your answers in order to reflect on them again at the end of the session. You can use the Reflect on Your Experience (PDF, 55 K) form for Question 1.
Examine the ResearchRead each of the articles listed below, then answer the following questions.
Articles"Practical Implications of Recent Research in Reading"
Part 1 (PDF, 530 K) | Part 2 (PDF, 509 K)
This article discusses the reading process and suggests reading strategies for foreign language classrooms.
Phillips, June K. "Practical Implications of Recent Research in Reading." Foreign Language Annals 17, no. 4 (1984): 285-296.
"The Gordian Knot: Language, Literature, and Critical Thinking"
Part 1 (PDF, 692 K) | Part 2 (PDF, 722 K) | Part 3 (PDF, 601 K)
This article discusses the changing role of literature in the language classroom.
Schultz, Jean Marie. "The Gordian Knot: Language, Literature, and Critical Thinking." In SLA and the Literature Classroom: Fostering Dialogues, edited by Virginia M. Scott and Holly Tucker, 3-31. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2001.
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Whenever I open up my inbox at work, I'm never surprised to find several new messages waiting to be read. The same thing can't always be said about my personal Gmail account. Sometimes I end up checking my mail only to find nothing new there.
No big deal, really. But now imagine that you access Gmail on a super slow connection from a remote place in Ethopia where it might take minutes to completely load your inbox. The disappointment is larger when you find out that there is nothing new to read and you could have saved all that time.
To ease this pain a bit, we created a new feature in Gmail Labs called Inbox Preview. While Gmail is loading, a simple, static preview of your inbox with your ten most recent messages is displayed. Turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, and if you're on a slow connection you'll know from the start if it's worth the wait.


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Thursday, 5 April 2012
A-Z Challenge: E is for Englishry
The penalty for killing a Norman was quite severe; the penalty for killing an Englishman, not so severe. So, instead of just finding out 'whodunnit', genealogy came into play to find out whether the deceased was Norman or English by descent. (If nobody could decide, then they considered the victim to be Norman).
Then, the spotlight would fall on the person accused of the murder. If he could successfully plead 'Englishry' (ie that the deceased was English and not Norman), he would not receive the more severe penalties, which included a fine on the hundred (place) in which the murder was committed.
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How fascinating. I didn't know that at all, but it makes sense. In the north, the Normans were outstandingly unpopular and clamped down hard. I can imagine that claiming Englishry would have been quite a high priority in our part of the world.ReplyDelete
Reciprocal A-Z visit and very happy to be here.
Very interesting. I love words. I'm trying to visit all the A-Z Challenge Blogs this month.ReplyDelete
That's amazing! It's the first I've heard of a murder defence consisting of something other than "I didn't do it".ReplyDelete
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I'm always interested in history but prefer someone else do all the research and work - your blog's perfect for me! I'll be back to see more of your a - z.ReplyDelete
Very interesting! It's always good to stumble across a blog that can teach its readers something!ReplyDelete
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Winter League roundup: Texas prospect fuels rally
Venezuelan Winter League
La Guaira 9, Aragua 7
Andy Wilkins and Rangers prospect Luis Sardinas each knocked RBI singles in the bottom of the eighth to break a tie and give La Guaira the win. Aragua's Jim Murphy had hit a three-run homer as a part of the team's four-run eighth. Box score
Venezuelan Winter League
La Guaira 9, Aragua 7
Andy Wilkins and Rangers prospect Luis Sardinas each knocked RBI singles in the bottom of the eighth to break a tie and give La Guaira the win. Aragua's Jim Murphy had hit a three-run homer as a part of the team's four-run eighth. Box score
Zulia 5, Caribes 2
Jose Flores went 3-for-4, and right-hander Jose Sanchez pitched five strong innings to lead Zulia. Both Felix Perez and Jose Pirela added two hits, while Minnesota's Eduardo Escobar and Leslie Anderson paced Caribes with three knocks each. Box score
Caracas 6, Margarita 5
Caracas scored four eighth-inning runs, highlighted by a two-run double by Daniel Mayora, to earn a thrilling win. Gregorio Petit led Caracas with three hits and scored three runs, while three other Caracas players had two hits -- including veteran Bobby Abreu. Box score
Magallanes 8, Lara 1
Pirates Minor League right-hander David Bromberg tossed six scoreless innings of one-hit ball to lead Magallanes. Five-year Major League veteran catcher Jesus Flores was 2-for-4 with three RBIs, including a two-run homer. Box score
Mexican Pacific League
Mazatlan 2, Mexicali 1
An 11th-inning rally by Mazatlan had a little bit of everything. Oswaldo Morejon doubled to left field, then Bryan Petersen was intentionally walked by Javier Solano. Ruben Mateo was hit by a pitch to load the bases for Issmael Salas, who hit the winning sac fly to center field. Box score
Navojoa 4, Los Mochis 2
In a tight 10-inning contest, a triple by Abel Martinez and an RBI single by Luis Fonseca were the difference. Carlos Orrantia had two hits on the night -- a home run and a single -- with three RBIs. Spencer Patton took the loss. Box score
Culiacan 3, Guasave 0
Francisco Campos got his second win of the season, tossing six innings of no-hit ball, and the Culiacan bullpen allowed just two hits to secure the victory. Maxwell Leon added three hits for the club. Meanwhile, Orlando Lara took his second loss of the season. Box score
Hermosillo 3, Obregon 0
Yunesky Sanchez hit a two-run home run and Jonathan Aceves hit an RBI single in the sixth inning for the only offense of the game. Angels right-hander Barry Enright got his second win of the season, allowing just two hits in six innings. He also struck out five. Box score
Dominican Winter League
Escogido 4, Licey 1
A three-run home run in the fifth inning by Gregory Polanco proved to be the difference in the game. Rangers infielder Jurickson Profar, playing for Licey, went 1-for-3 with a double. Orioles farmhand Yamaico Navarro also had a pinch-hit single for Licey in the eighth. Armando Rodriguez was the winning pitcher, while Jose Contreras took the loss. Box score
Quinn Roberts and Cash Kruth are reporters for MLB.com. Follow Kruth on Twitter at @cashkruth.


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Ancient Dice Prove That The People Have Been Cheating For Centuries
A new archeological discovery proves that people have always tried to find an edge when gambling, even if that edge is not entirely legal. A pair of wooden dice, which were estimated to be nearly 600-years-old, had two fives, and two fours, instead of the numbers one and two, indicating that the dice were likely used to cheat in dice games that were popular in the 1400's.
One game was called "passe-dix" in which gamblers would roll three dice in an attempt to roll a number larger than ten. The first player to score under a ten loses. Having a die with two fives, and two fours vastly increases the chances of rolling over a ten.
The dice were found near a wooden street, leading to questions about how they ended up discarded on the side of the road. Christian Underhaug, who is leading the excavations in Bergen, wondered if the dice were discarded by the cheater, to prevent being caught, or if they were thrown away in anger by a victim of the cheater.
Archaeologist Ingrid Rekkavik said that while gambling was illegal and gamblers could face stiff penalties including fines of 107 grams of silver, it was still widespread in the area.
"It's exciting to imagine this dice's last game – was the cheater revealed?" wrote Rekkavik. "What happened to the dice? Was it perhaps thrown away by the nervous cheater eager to get rid of evidence? Or was it angrily thrown by an opponent, to where it ended up being found over 600 years later?"


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FBI Kansas City Office
PIO Bridget P. Patton
There was a bank robbery earlier this morning, March 3, 2014. Below are the details:
Approximately 8:13 a.m. US Bank 110 East 24 Highway Independence, MO
Lone Black Male Approximately 30 – 40 years old Wearing a black peacoat Possibly wearing a black stocking cap.
Suspect drove up to the bank's drive thru window, threatened a bomb and displayed a demand note. Suspect fled in an unknown direction with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Vehicle described as a silver/grey color 4 door (pictures attached)


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John Lennon Was a Crazy Cat Lady
John Lennon was crazy about cats. Over the years, he owned several, plus a few dogs. These are their stories.
Growing up, Lennon had a cat named Elvis, who was owned by his beloved mother, Julia. Julia was worshiped by young John, and they were both crazy about Elvis Presley. The Lennons realized they had misnamed Elvis when "he" gave birth to a littler of kittens in the cupboard. But still the name of their favorite singer remained tagged to the new mother.
Tich and Sam
He had two other cats as a boy growing up in Liverpool: Tich and Sam. Tich passed away while Lennon was away at art school (which he attended from 1957 to 1960).
One day, John Lennon found a stray cat in the snow, which his Aunt Mimi allowed him to keep. (John's beloved Aunt Mimi raised him from a young boy through his late teenage years.) He named the marmalade-colored half-Persian cat Tim.
Tim remained a special favorite of John. Every day, he would hop on his Raleigh bicycle and ride to Mr. Smith's, the local fishmonger, where he would buy a few pieces of fish for Tim and his other cats.
As a famous Beatle, traveling all over the world, John would often call and check on how Tim was doing. Tim lived a happy life and survived to celebrate his 20th birthday.
(At left, Aunt Mimi holds Tim.)
As a teenager, John Lennon had just one dog, named Sally. It was reported that when Sally died, John was inconsolable; a witness said it was "the only time I ever saw John cry."
John later gave his first wife, Cynthia, a dog named Bernard as a gift. Bernard and Sally were to be John's only two pet dogs.
Mimi and Babaghi
John and Cynthia also had a cat named Mimi who was, of course, named after his Aunt Mimi. They soon got another cat, a tabby, who they dubbed Babaghi. John and Cynthia continued acquiring more cats until they eventually owned around 10 of them.
(At left, Cynthia and John with one of their many cats.)
As a Beatle, John had a cat named Jesus. The name may have been (or probably was) John's sarcastic response to his "the Beatles are bigger than Jesus" controversy of 1966. (Paul McCartney also once owned a cat named Jesus, too.)
Major and Minor
In the mid-1970s, John had an affair with his secretary. One day she brought a box of stray kittens into the recording studio.
"No, no!" John immediately protested, "I know what you're thinking! We can't adopt them!" But she had John pick up the kittens, and then he couldn't resist.
They adopted two of the kittens and named them Major and Minor.
Salt and Pepper
John also had two cats with his later wife, Yoko Ono. One was black, one was white. As befitting John's offbeat sense of humor, he christened the white cat Pepper and the black one Salt.
(At left, Yoko and John with Salt.)
John's Russian Blue cat named Alice, however, was his special favorite.
One day, Alice jumped out of an open window in the Lennons' high-rise apartment at the Dakota and plunged to her death. Sean Lennon, John's son, was present at the time of the accident. He remembers it as the only time he ever saw his father cry.
Misha, Sasha, and Charo
In later years, John also owned three cats he named Misha, Sasha, and Charo.
Always an artist at heart, John loved to sketch his many cats. He used some of the cats' pictures as illustrations in his books.
(At left is one of his cat illustrations from Real Love: The Drawings for Sean.)
Eddie Deezen has appeared in over 30 motion pictures, including Grease, WarGames, 1941, and The Polar Express. He's also been featured in several TV shows, including Magnum PI, The Facts of Life, and The Gong Show. And he's done thousands of voice-overs for radio and cartoons, such as Dexter's Laboratory and Family Guy.
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The Beatles self-titled double album masterpiece has been described as the most diverse record in pop history
It was the first album by The Beatles or in the history of rock by four solo artist in one band…
The White Album's original working title was A Doll's House, which is the name of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece 19th century play. In addition, according to Geoffrey Giuliano, author of The Beatles Album, an illustration was prepared for the cover of A Doll's House by the famed artist John Byrne (aka Patrick). However the title was changed when the British progressive band Family released the similarly titled Music in a Doll's House earlier that year. The plain white cover was opted for instead after McCartney then requested that the album's sleeve design "be as stark a contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as possible, the complete opposite of it…." That's exactly what he got.
Cultural Responses
Ian MacDonald, in his book Revolution in the Head, argues that The Beatles was the album in which the band's cryptic messages to its fan base became not merely vague but intentionally and perhaps dangerously open-ended, citing oblique passages in songs like "Glass Onion" (e.g., "the walrus was Paul") and "Piggies" ("what they need's a damn good whacking"). These pronouncements, and many others on the album, came to attract extraordinary popular interest at a time when more of the world's youth were using drugs recreationally and looking for spiritual, political, and strategic advice from the Beatles. Steve Turner, too, in his book A Hard Day's Write, maintains that, with this album, "The Beatles had perhaps laid themselves open to misinterpretation by mixing up the languages of poetry and nonsense." [1]
Bob Dylan's songs had been similarly mined for hidden meanings, but the massive countercultural analysis of The Beatles surpassed anything that had gone before. [9] Even Lennon's seemingly direct engagement with the tumultuous political issues of 1968 in "Revolution 1" carried a nuanced obliqueness, and ended up sending messages the author may not have intended. In the album's version of the song, Lennon advises those who "talk about destruction" to "count me out." As MacDonald notes, however, Lennon then follows the sung word "out" with the spoken word "in." At the time of the album's release — which followed the up-tempo single version of the song, "Revolution," in which Lennon definitely wanted to be counted "out" — that single word "in" was taken by many on the radical left as Lennon's acknowledgment, after considered thought, that violence in the pursuit of political aims was indeed justified in some cases. At a time of increasing unrest in the streets and campuses of Paris and Berkeley, the album's lyrics seemed to many to mark a reversal of Lennon's position on the question, which was hotly debated during this period. [2]
The scope and license of the White Album has permitted everyone from OutKast to Radiohead to Green Day to Joanna Newsom to roll their picture out on a broader, bolder canvas.
The search for hidden meanings within the songs reached its low point when cult leader Charles Manson used the record to persuade members of his "family" that the album was in fact an apocalyptic message predicting a prolonged race war and justifying the murder of wealthy people. [3] The album's association with a high-profile mass murder was one of many factors that helped to deepen the accelerating divide between those who were profoundly skeptical of the "youth culture" movement unfolding in the mid to late 60s in the U.K., the U.S., and elsewhere, and those who admired its openness and spontaneity.
Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote a best-selling book about the Manson "family" that explicated, among other things, the cult's fixation with identifying hidden messages within The Beatles album. Bugliosi's book was entitled Helter Skelter, the term Manson took from the album's song title and construed as the impending conflict he believed was fast approaching.
Cultural responses to the album persisted for decades, and even offer a glimpse into the process of collective myth-making. In October 1969, a Detroit radio program began to promote theories based on "clues" supposedly left on The Beatles and other Beatles albums suggesting that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by a lookalike. The ensuing hunt for such clues to a supposed cover-up that the Beatles presumably wanted to suppress (and simultaneously publicize) has become a classic example of the development and persistence of urban legends.
The Charts
It was their first studio album in almost eighteen months and, coming as it did after the blockbuster success of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, expectations were high at time of release of The Beatles. At its debut in the U.K. on December 1, 1968, the album went straight to #1, becoming their third album to do so (the first two being Help! and Revolver). It spent seven weeks at the top of the U.K. charts, including the entire competitive Christmas season, until it was replaced by the Seekers' Best of the Seekers on January 25, 1969, dropping to #2. However, the album returned to the top spot the next week, spending an eighth and final week at #1.
The White Album was particularly notable for blocking the Beatles follow-up album, Yellow Submarine, which debuted (and peaked at) #3 on February 8, 1969, the same week The White Album was dominating the second position on the charts. It then spent another four weeks in the Top 10 before dropping down the charts. In all, "The Beatles" spent 24 weeks on the UK charts (a far cry comparison to the over 200 weeks spent by Sgt. Pepper's).
In the United States, the album was received with huge commercial success. It debuted at #11, then reached #2, and finally peaked at #1 in its third week, spending a total of nine weeks at the top. In all, The Beatles spent 155 weeks on the Billboard 200. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, The Beatles is The Beatles' best-selling album at 19-times platinum and the tenth-best-selling album of all time in the United States.
Although it carried a list price of $11.79 (a single album was selling for $3.98), their double album "The Beatles" sold 4 million units during its first four weeks alone; a record for any double album up to that time.
The Mono Version
The Beatles was the last Beatles album to be released with a unique, alternate mono mix, albeit one issued only in the UK. Twenty-eight of the album's 30 tracks ("Revolution 1″ and "Revolution 9″ being the only exceptions) exist in official alternate mono mixes. Beatles' albums after The White Album (except Yellow Submarine in the UK) occasionally had mono pressings in certain countries (such as Brazil), but these editions—Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be—were in each case mono fold-downs from the regular stereo mixes.
By 1968 in the U.S., mono records were already being phased out; the U.S. release of The Beatles was the first Beatles LP to be issued in the U.S. in stereo only.
What the White Album influenced, and some of its tributes
- The album's cover, though stark and minimalistic, has been highly influential. Goth band The Damned released The Black Album in 1980, and is considered the first album to draw influence from the cover, as well as the first band to use the term "Black Album".
- The 1984 Rob Reiner "rockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap also pays homage with their own "Black Album", which is juxtaposed to the original by A&R staff Bobbi Fleckman, who notes in a debate about appropriate packaging material: "What about the White album? There was nothing on that Goddamned cover." The band are generally less enthusiastic, referring to it variously as "a black mirror", "none more black" and "death".
- The self-titled debut album of They Might Be Giants is commonly referred to as "The Pink Album" due to the amount of the color pink on the cover.
- Comedian Dennis Miller released a stand-up comedy recording in October 1988 titled "The Off-White Album" which mimicked the design of The Beatles.
- In the 1990s, both Prince and Metallica released self-titled albums with their names printed against mostly plain black covers, and are both informally referred to as "The Black Album".
- In 2003, rapper Jay-Z released an album officially called The Black Album. DJ Danger Mouse produced the mashup The Grey Album by combining vocals from Jay-Z's Black Album with samples from The Beatles.
- Two compilations of Beatles' material, released in 1973 as 1962–1966 and 1967–1970, are often referred to as "The Red Album" and "The Blue Album" respectively, in reference to their colour scheme.
- The Bob and Tom Show named their first collection of material as The White Cassette (later renamed The White Album when released on CD).
- All three of Weezer's self-titled albums borrow from this idea as well and fans refer to them respectively as "The Blue Album" (1994), "The Green Album" (2001), and "The Red Album" (2008).
- The 311's self-titled release from 1995 is often referred to as "The Blue Album", and The Dells' 1973 self-titled album is often known as "The Brown Album", as is The Band's 1969 self-titled album.
- Australian comedy duo Martin/Molloy also released a CD called The Brown Album in 1995, while American rock band Primus did likewise in 1997.
- The animated television series The Simpsons and SpongeBob Squarepants both used the title The Yellow Album for their spin-off CDs, with the latter also parodying the plain cover.
- The British electronica duo Orbital released their first two albums without definite names, which in time became known as The Green Album and The Brown Album, while their final release is known as The Blue Album.
- The satirical Australian alternative rock band TISM released The White Albun [sic] in 2004.
- The band Phish covered the album in its entirety for their second set of their three set Halloween show in '94.


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Blueberry Orange Sour Cream Bread
Sweet breads are a great way to enjoy the goodness of a cake-like dessert which can be relished by itself, or even be paired with tea or coffee. Fruit breads are not only easy to make, they can be really versatile to incorporate seasonal ingredients. This week we enjoyed baking this Blueberry Bread, made even more delicious by addition of citrusy Orange flavor, and made soft by using Sour Cream. The bread not only smells great, it can fill your kitchen with a refreshing aroma that lingers long after you've finished your delicious loaf of Blueberry Orange Bread.
1 cup whole grain flour
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sour cream
1 stick butter - at room temp
1 1/2 cup cane sugar
4 large eggs
Zest of 2 large oranges
3/4 cup fresh orange juice
2 tsp vanilla
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup blueberries
Spray 2 bread pans generously and keep aside. Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
Cream butter and sugar in large bowl. Beat in eggs one at a time, then orange zest, orange juice and vanilla.
Thoroughly combine flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl and add to creamed butter mixture. Slowly add the sour cream and mix everything well to form an even blend.
Fold in the blueberries, taking care not to mix too hard so s to break them.
Bake in the middle rack for 45-50 minutes at 350 F, until the loaves swell up and pass the toothpick test. When done, let them rest on the wire rack till they cool to room temp. Only then attempt to cut the loaf into slices.
Store in a cool, dry container and you can relish this bread for up to a week. It tastes great 2-3 hours after baking, as the orange and blueberry juices slowly sink in to make a moist flavorful bread!
This has now become one of our cherished breakfast recipes. Enjoy it yourself either with your morning tea, or serve them as a sweet treat at your next Tea party!
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The Online Publisher's Association just released the results of a new study on tablet owners' use and purchase habits. The news is good if you're a magazine, not so much if you're a newspaper. But it's all good if you're an app developer.
31 percent of US internet users now use a tablet in 2012, up from just 12 percent last year. That's 74 million tablet users: a significant slice of consumers. And, the magic that marketers are always looking for, they trend higher income. The highest penetration of tablet use is in the $50,000-and-up income categories.
The gap between iOS and Android shrank, largely due to the Amazon Kindle Fire:
The most common uses of tablets are much as you'd expect: watching videos, getting news, and checking the sports scores:
The market for paid apps is getting bigger: Even though only 23 percent of all apps were paid apps, 72 percent of all tablet owners had paid for at least one app. Tablet owners did, however, show an increased preference for apps with advertising versus paid apps, so there remain multiple monetization options.
The researchers estimated that the total market for paid tablet apps in 2012 will be $2.6 billion.
And in good news for Android tablet developers, the gap between iOS owners and Android owners buying apps seems to be shrinking: 79 percent of iPad owners have bought apps, versus 66 percent of Android owners. iOS owners still spent more, however:
Of particular interest to content creators and distributors is the finding that 61 percent of tablet owners have purchased at least one piece of content for their tablet. Most of that is in magazines and digital books, with only 15% of that in newspapers.
Movies, however, are a surging category, with TV shows not far behind:
And in worse news for newspapers, when researchers calculated the total dollars spent on content, news came out far behind magazines, entertainment, and sport:
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AURORA ALERT: Did you miss the Northern Lights? Next time get a wake-up call: Spaceweather PHONE.
VENUS HAS A SIDEKICK: Look east just before dawn on Sunday morning, Sept. 20th. There's Venus, as usual, shining through the rosy glow of sunrise. A pair of binoculars trained on Venus reveals a temporary sidekick: 1st-magnitude star Regulus less than 0.5o away. Don't miss it: sky map.
APPROACHING SUNSPOT: NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft stationed over the sun's eastern limb is monitoring an active region not yet visible from Earth. STEREO's extreme ultraviolet telescope captured this image on Sept. 19th:
The tangle of hot, magnetized plasma circled above almost certainly overlies a large new-cycle sunspot. We'll soon find out. The sun's rotation is turning the active region toward Earth and it could pop over the sun's eastern limb as early as Sept. 21st. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments.
FOGBOW SEASON: Northern autumn is beginning and that means it's fogbow season. The weeks of late September and early October often bring banks of fog to the countryside, where moist ground has spent the night cooling under a cloudless, starry sky. When the sun comes up, warms the ground, and sunlight hits the rising mist--voila!--a fogbow:
Claude Duplessis took the picture at daybreak on Sept. 17th. "I spent the night in La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve in Québec," he says. "In the morning, as I prepared to leave, this white 'bow popped out of the mist."
Fogbows are close cousins of rainbows. The difference is droplet size. Rainbows appear when sunlight bounces in and out of large raindrops. The same type of reflection produces a fogbow, except fog droplets are much smaller. Small droplets don't separate the colors of sunlight as widely as large raindrops do. In a fogbow, therefore, the colors are smeared together, producing a ghostly-white arc.
To see a fogbow on a misty autumn morning, face away from the rising sun and look into the fog. The lower the sun, the higher the arc, so wake up early for best results!
more images: from Daryl Pederson of Prince William Sound, Alaska; from Tyler Burg of Pisgah, Iowa; from Ákos Ujj of Bátonyterenye, Hungary;
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Colum Doherty • 21 October 2017 07:19Good morning all - relax and have a pleasant weekend.
Has Brian arrived anywhere yet? Maybe he wil give us a miss.
Take care everyone.
Catch you all later - thinking of you all.
Vicky • 21 October 2017 09:39Good morning everyone.
Yes Colum Brian has arrived, very windy and very heavy showers. Exbury Gardens is closed today due to the weather, very high tides are expected along with coastal flooding.
I have got to get busy in the kitchen as Kim and tony are coming to see us today.
Have a good day everyone and take care.
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 21 October 2017 11:35Belated Birthday Greetings Lynn, hope you had a great day with lots of pressies.
Lynn Frost (Now Marner) • 21 October 2017 12:10Kim, We have only just booked for last years birthday present from my daughter and family, trip to Kew Gardens for a few hours during the day and back in the evening for the Christmas lights in the gardens! Staying two nights. On the Sunday, meet up with the family who all live nearby. We missed out last year due to George's second ankle replacement operation.
This year, on my birthday, we were with our oldest Grandaughter. She has Crohns and has regular infusions. After her treatment, we went for a meal in Melton, near Woodbridge for a delicious meal.
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 21 October 2017 15:50We definitely have Brian visiting us at the moment Colum, it could be worse but glad I didn't need to go out today.
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 21 October 2017 15:53
Originally Posted by Lynn Frost (Now Marner)All sounds like very enjoyable stuff Lynn. I love Kew Gardens !!
Lynn Frost (Now Marner) • 21 October 2017 17:24
Originally Posted by Pamela ForbesPam,
The family collected Cookie this morning and have sent photos of him by messenger but I don't know how to download them! It is three weeks since the first pictures of him at the rescue centre; he is certainly looking a lot bigger today!
Lynn Frost (Now Marner) • 21 October 2017 17:31Managed a couple so far! Oh No I haven't!
Pamela Forbes • 21 October 2017 22:17
Originally Posted by Lynn Frost (Now Marner)It's very frustrating when you can't upload a photo, Lynn. I have the same problem here. My youngest son got a cocker spaniel puppy a couple or more months back and sent me photos attached to an E-mail. I have been trying without success to upload it to my photo file or copy and paste them. He is a little black and tan job and has been named Koda after the baby bear in the Disney film 'Brother Bear'.
Colum Doherty • 21 October 2017 22:46Good night all sleep well God bless you all.
The rain has finally stopped after lots of it all day.
I hope it was Brian going easy on us.
Take care.
Vicky • 22 October 2017 09:19Good morning everyone, a quieter day than yesterday thank goodness.
Pamela if the photo is on an email as an attachment you should be able to download it and then save it to your file, well that's how I do it. I would love a spaniel if a rescue one came my way.
We had a lovely few hours with Kim and Tony yesterday. They bought me a Teapot nesting box for Robins so I shall have to find a suitable place for it in the garden.
Have a good day everyone and take care.
Pamela Forbes • 22 October 2017 12:55Vicky, I don't usually have any problem with E-mail attachments but these photos of Koda simply refuse to be saved. It's such a shame because he is really cute and I'd love to be able to share them with you all.
Lovely photo of your great granddaughter. Can I see a touch of the young Vicky there?
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 22 October 2017 14:33Thanks for the photo Vicky - what a gorgeous little girl, you must be so proud of her.
Lynn Frost (Now Marner) • 22 October 2017 18:24She is lovely, love her curls.
Colum Doherty • 22 October 2017 21:57Good night all sleep well God bless you all. A new week.
Take care. Lots of rain forecast for tomorrow.
Colum Doherty • 23 October 2017 04:10Good morning all have a great day.
I'm off back to bed it's too early even for me.
Take care. Lots of lovely heavy rain here already.
Colum Doherty • 23 October 2017 08:05Good morning all from a cold and wet Ballymena.
I will give shopping a miss today.
Unless the sun comes out of course which is unlikely.
In the meantime I will retire to my bed??????????????.
Catch you all later.
Vicky • 23 October 2017 09:41Good morning everyone, a dull grey morning.
Yes Emogen is a lovely little girl, in fact I am proud of my Grandson and his wife as they manage on only one wage and don't but things that they cant afford. They buy a lot of Emogen clothes from charity shops and I knit quite a few. We shall be spending Christmas day with them so it will all revolve around Emogen this year.
I spoke to Craig yesterday and he now has a boot on instead of the plaster but is having trouble walking as he has a big screw in his ankle and a couple more in his foot. It is going to take a long while to get over this op and then he has to have the other foot done.
Have a good day everyone and take care.
Lynn Frost (Now Marner) • 23 October 2017 14:30Vicky, Your shower room looks very smart and a shower is so quick. We are thinking of upgrading to this.
Colum Doherty • 24 October 2017 00:21Good night all sleep well
God bless you all.
Smurf says goodnight.
Vicky • 24 October 2017 09:21Good morning everyone, a very grey dull morning.
We are off out for lunch today courtesy of our eldest daughter, she is driving over from Brighton to see us as it is half term so she is on holiday. She is a data/exams manager at a large secondary school.
Weigh in tonight with a taster night where we all take something with no syn or low syn value and tonight we are going to swap ideas for staying on track for Christmas. I am making a Weetabix cake which actually tastes like bread pudding.
Have a good day everyone and take care.
Colum Doherty • 24 October 2017 09:36Good morning all - have a good day despite the rain????
Haven't much to say.
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 24 October 2017 16:02Hello Family - pleased to say that Alan had his final check-up yesterday following his cataract operations and both eyes are in good order.
Pamela Forbes • 24 October 2017 21:03Good to hear that Alan's check up went well, Kim.
My beautiful almost granddaughter, Emma is 8 months old today.....
Colum Doherty • 25 October 2017 05:48Good morning all - just checking in - will catch up later.
Have a good day despite the rain.
Smurf says good morning.
Colum Doherty • 25 October 2017 05:50
Originally Posted by Rosemary (Kim) DimondGreat news Kim I'm so glad for you all.
Colum Doherty • 25 October 2017 05:53Lost a post there.
Have a great day despite the rain.
That is one beautiful baby Panela.
Spoiled rotten no doubt.
All for now take care.
Pamela Forbes • 25 October 2017 08:50I don't know about being spoiled rotten, Colum, but she is very much loved and treasured as she is a miracle IVF baby.
Vicky • 25 October 2017 09:31Good morning everyone, a very grey dull day.
Lovely photos of Emma Pamela.
Good to hear that Alan's check up went well Kim, think I might need my cataracts doing in the near future, my optician has got me on yearly check ups now and my right eye is definitely getting worse.
Had a good time last night at slimming world and I am still at target.
We had a lovely lunch with Tracey yesterday but I did fall by the wayside when Ian had the cheeseboard for pudding, I was going to resist but I do love cheese.
Have a good day and take care.
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 25 October 2017 10:21Hi Pamela, thank you for the photo of Emma, what a little beauty.
Vicky, hope you get your cataracts sorted soon - Alan says he didn't realise how bad his eyes had become until after his ops.
Bob (Tuffy ) Draper • 25 October 2017 12:00Vicky, do not leave it too long for cataract op. I did and then had to have general op in eye hospital. photo of me 5 minutes after op a couple of years ago, my sight is perfect now.
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 25 October 2017 15:36Bob is absolutely right about cataracts Vicky - on both occasions Alan had a local anaesthetic and was in and out in 45 minutes.
Bob (Tuffy ) Draper • 25 October 2017 16:52
Originally Posted by Bob (Tuffy ) DraperEach eye only took 20 minutes on separate occasions but having a general I had to stay in all day but it was worth it.
Terry Carey • 25 October 2017 19:46Patricia had her right eye done a year ago and was expecting to be sent for the left eye last month but our optician said it isn't ready yet. He's prescribed special glasses with a prism in but she isn't happy with them. Apparently they make her feel as if her left eye is being pulled to the side. I said if she can't get used to them she will have to go back and ask for something different.
Colum Doherty • 25 October 2017 21:57Good night all sleep well God bless you all.
Annual MOT tomorrow. I hope they go easy on the blood letting.
Hasn't rained here for two hours.
Must've run out of water.
All for now take care,
It's at 0945 so will get breakfast on the canteen.
They're so good to me.
Colum Doherty • 26 October 2017 08:56Good morning all - off for my annual MOT.
Take care - catch you all later.
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 26 October 2017 15:59
Originally Posted by Colum DohertyHope you passed your MOT Colum !!
Vicky • 26 October 2017 19:45Late on parade today but I have been busy. My cataracts are not bad enough yet according to my optician. I see him again next March. I had a letter from the Dr requesting that I go for a blood test as I take Ramipril which can affect the kidneys, got it booked for Monday.
I had a fall today when I was gardening, not much damage apart from the fence that I fell in to and Ian has repaired that now.
It is Margaret and Phils golden Wedding this Saturday but I am not sure if Phil is home yet.
Good luck with your MOT Colum.
Rosemary (Kim) Dimond • 26 October 2017 20:40Hello Vicky, sorry to hear you had a fall today, just hope you are OK. Take care. Hope that Phil is home for Saturday so he and Margaret can share their Golden Wedding Anniversary together. I will be thinking of them.
Pamela Forbes • 26 October 2017 22:28Hi Vicky, I hope that you are ok after your fall and not too badly bruised. We don't bounce so easily as we used to do we? I'm in the same boat as you with the Ramipril and getting called for blood tests.
Daisy is looking very beautiful at the moment as she has been to the groomers this afternoon and Hannah has done a really good job .... just the way I like her, nice and tidy but not too short a cut. She has also acquired a new collar as her old one was beginning to look a bit tatty. Her new one is pink leather with diamantes ... very bling princess!!
Colum Doherty • 26 October 2017 23:08Good night all sleep well God bless you all.
Doc gave me a clean bill
Of health so I'm a happy bunny.
Pamela Forbes • 27 October 2017 04:11Glad to hear that you passed your MOT, Colum.
Before and after pics of Daisy at the salon today....
Vicky • 27 October 2017 09:23Good morning everyone, a lovely bright day today.
Daisy is looking good Pamela, got my blood test on Monday and an appointment for the Dr today to have a look at my mole. not too battered this morning just a few aches, could have been a lot worse.
Good to hear that you got a clean bill of health Colum.
Have a good day everyone and take care.
Lynn Frost (Now Marner) • 27 October 2017 17:05
Originally Posted by Pamela ForbesDaisy looks so sweet in both photos.
Pamela Forbes • 27 October 2017 19:07Such sad news about Phil, Vicky. They really have been messed about dreadfully by the NHS. Poor Phil seems to have spent so much of his time waiting for one thing or another and in pain.
Good news about your mole.


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In honor of those covetable collaborations that you're willing to wait hours in line for (Peter Pilotto, anyone?), we compiled our fashion wish list of the top Latino celebrity collections that don't exist, but totally should.
1. Celia Cruz and Jeremy Scott
In another life, these two would be BFF's and collaborators. Imagine the colors, the hair, and the music. Together, this duo would make some really out-of-this-world, show-stopping fashion magic. Jeremy, here's your muse for next season.
2. Selena Gomez and Net-a-Porter Capsule Collection
Homegirl has been KILLING it lately. Her elegant and sophisticated looks are a perfect fit for Net-a-Porter. A collection of her top 10 looks (selected by Selena, of course) and I can promise record-breaking online sales.
3. J.Lo and Nuestra Belleza Latina Formal Wear
Jennifer Lopez does it all: she can sing, she can dance, and she's a fashion icon with epic outfits for any occasion. Sounds like the same expectations we have for the mujeres on Nuestra Belleza Latina. Get these two together and you've got crown-winning glamour that any pageant coach would approve of.
4. Sofia Vergara and Wonderbra
It's surprising that these two haven't partnered on something yet. Sofia's tetas are so stellar that she literally thanked them during her SAG Awards acceptance speech.
5. Shakira and Agent Provocateur
When you reach a certain level of international fame, wearing pants in your music videos becomes totally optional. Shaki yet again flaunts her hot bod in her latest vid with Rihanna (we're not complaining), but the entire thing feels like we're watching an Agent Provocateur ad, so why not?
6. Demi Lovato and Hypercolor
For an entire generation that never experienced the Hypercolor phenomenon, Demi — the ultimate color chameleon — should be the one to relaunch this brand with new technology: T-shirts that change colors every time you dye your hair. Your wacky tia with that questionable colorist would be ever so amused.
7. Oscar de la Renta and Target
Every year my heart breaks just a little bit when I find out the new designer collab isn't with ODLR. Just to hold something made by Oscar is a special moment, let alone owning it. I have hope that one day we'll all be able to own a piece of luxury for under $100. Target, please make this dream come true.
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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 16GB TF101-A1 10.1" Tablet w/ Docking Station with Keyboard
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With a slim lightweight design and 10.1" touchscreen, the versatile Eee Pad Transformer is the perfect tablet for people who want to enjoy multimedia on the move, but still wish to have easy access to the Web, email, and other productivity applications. A custom user interface provides easy access to the many features of the Android 3.1 operating system, while the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset provides full support for Adobe Flash, smooth HD video conferencing and playback, a lightning fast Web experience, and incredible mobile gaming performance. The optional docking station turns the Transformer into PC mode with a QWERTY keyboard, while extending battery life up to 16 hours. Front and rear digital cameras make for easy video chat and digital photography, while a built-in mini-HDMI port makes for easy connections to external displays.
Easily switch between tablet and PC mode with the docking station(included on selected models) designed especially for the Eee Pad Transformer. The station not only extends the tablet's battery life up to16 hours but also features added functionalities which include a near full-sized QWERTY keyboard, a multi-touch touchpad, two USB 2.0 ports, and a 4-in-1 SD card reader.
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Houston police chief announces punishment for hitting pedestrian with car
Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland will be taking a defensive driving course and has accepted a one-day suspension from Mayor Annise Parker, stemming from a traffic incident earlier this month.
Soon after he tweeted news of his punishment, a video of accident was also released to the media via email.
The accident happened about 8:15 a.m. on Sept. 4 at the intersection of Clay and Travis, about a block from police headquarters. McClelland hit a man he didn't see crossing the street as he was driving to police headquarters in a city vehicle.
"I am the boss; I should take a bigger discipline. This is why I am accepting my suspension," the official Houston police Twitter page quoted McClelland as saying.
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Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes dies in Sweden at age 94
MADRID (AP) — Renowned Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes, a composer and bandleader who recorded with Nat "King" Cole, was musical director at Havana's legendary Tropicana Club and a key participant in the golden age of Cuban music has died in Sweden at age 94.
The news of his death was confirmed by Cincy Byram, the agent of Valdes' son Chuco Valdes, who is a well-known musician in his own right. A cause of death was not given.
The senior Valdes studied piano and later taught it to Chucho (Jesus Dionisio Valdes), who went on to become a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Cuban-based jazz band Irakere.
The father began playing accompaniments at Havana's famous night clubs in the 1940s. He then worked with singer Rita Montaner as her pianist and arranger from 1948 to 1957, when she was the lead cabaret act at the Tropicana.
His orchestra Sabor de Cuba also accompanied singers Benny More and Pio Leyva at the club. It was during this period that he and rival bandleader Perez Prado developed the mambo, a rhythmic style of dance music that swept the world. Valdes and his orchestra devised another rhythm called the batanga which he said helped differentiate his sound from Perez Prado's.
The senior Valdes maintained a parallel interest in jazz music and took part in many important sessions, some recorded on Cuba's renowned Panart label.
"I was a jazz musician from a very young age," Valdes once said. "I started playing like the first jazz pianist I heard, a guy who was popular when I was a kid: Eddy Duchin." He said other influences were Fats Waller, Art Tatum, and Bill Evans.
In 1958, he worked on Nat "King" Cole's album "Cole Espanol," collaborating with arranger Nelson Riddle on the orchestral backing tracks that were all recorded in Havana. He also worked with singers Lucho Gatica and Mona Bell.
Following Fidel Castro's communist revolution in 1959, Valdes left Cuba, traveling to Mexico in 1960 accompanied by singer Rolando La Serie, but without his children.
Valdes said one day a revolutionary guard went to his house demanding the pianist accompany him to a plaza where Castro was giving a speech. "I asked if there was going to be music there and he replied to me that Castro was music," he said, adding that he then knew it was time to go.
After a brief stay in the United States, Valdes set off on a European tour.
Valdes went to Stockholm in 1963 for a concert with the Lecuona Cuban Boys and fell in love with a Swedish woman, Rose Marie Pehrson, a cavalry officer's daughter.
They got married the same year and he settled in Sweden. He described it as the most important moment of his life.
"It was like being hit by lightning," he said. "If you meet a woman and you want to change your life you have to choose between love and art."
Valdes lived in Stockholm until 2007 where he often struggled to interest people in Cuban music and Latin jazz. He earned a meager living playing in restaurants, on boat cruises and in some of Stockholm's finest hotels, although he said he did once consider becoming a bus or taxi driver.
Valdes was not able to see his increasingly well-known and Cuba-based son Chucho until 1978 when he visited New York for the first time in 18 years and attended a concert.
The father often told an anecdote of how a Cuban regime minder came up to him after the concert and said, "See how well we have shaped your son?"
He said he retorted, "I'm very glad, but when was that? Because Chucho played piano at home with me when he was four years old and at 16 he joined a band called Sabor de Cuba, my band."
Valdes' career got a late boost in 1994 when he teamed up with saxophone player Paquito D'Rivera to release a CD called "Bebo Rides Again."
"All musicians want to be famous and I think I've recently experienced some of the biggest moments of my life," Valdes told Svenska Dagbladet.
Nine years later Valdes worked with Spanish singer-songwriter Diego Cigala on "Lagrimas Negras," a flamenco-jazz fusion style CD that won Best Record of the Year by the New York Times. The experience attracted him to Spain where he settled after leaving Stockholm.
Valdes then worked with Chucho to release the CD "Juntos para Siempre" (Together Forever) in 2009. The father and son toured Europe at least twice.
Valdes won five Grammy Award in the categories of Best traditional tropical album and Best Latin jazz albums: two for "El arte del sabor" in 2002, one for "Lagrimas Negras" in 2004 and two for "Bebo de Cuba" in 2006.
Asked how he found the energy to keep performing he said, "What else would I do? Watch TV? No, I'd rather play the piano. I will play until I die."
Valdes is survived by wife Rose Marie, daughters Mayra and Miriam, sons Raul, Jesus "Chucho," and Ramon (born in Cuba) and Raymond and Rickard, who are Swedish.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Wine Institute held its first international "California Wines Summit" last week hosting 21 key wine media and buyers from Canada, the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan and China. The weeklong slate of tastings and experiences was geared toward building on California's worldwide reputation as a high quality wine producer and top destination for wine country travel. U.S. wine exports, 90 percent from California, were $1.4 billion in 2012, a record for the third straight year. Exports seven months through July 2013 are up nearly 16 percent by value and on track for making another record this year. The seven countries represented by the Summit visitors account for nearly 80 percent of California wine exports.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011; 10:58 PM
Here we go again.
China's Supreme Leader visits Washington, and administration officials declare in the run-up to the visit that the United States has had quite enough of Beijing's currency-manipulating, intellectual- property-stealing, domestic- industry-subsidizing policies.
The Supreme Leader denies his country engages in such practices, then promises it will stop them in its own sweet time, without any more meddling interference from Imperialist Running Dogs.
Meanwhile, with great fanfare, the Supreme Leader announces an order for a few more Boeing passenger jets. There are toasts and smiles all around at the A-list White House dinner. As the Supreme Leader flies off, the Treasury secretary declares his "get tough" policy has been a success.
Then it's off to the headquarters of Multinational Corp., where the Supreme Leader signs one of those joint venture agreements with a Chinese government-owned company in which Multinational Corp. agrees to share its latest technology to gain access to the World's Fastest Growing Market - a market that by treaty obligation is supposed to be open to foreign products and foreign investment but in practice is just one giant pay-to-play racket.
By week's end, Americans finally turn their attentions back to the more pressing issue of whether the Jets can really make it to the Super Bowl.
So far, this week's visit by President Hu Jintao has pretty much followed the script.
There was last week's tough speech by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner that extolled the growth in the U.S.-China trade relationship but threatened to cut off access to U.S investment opportunities and access to U.S. high-tech products if more progress was not made on the usual laundry list of concerns.
Within days, we learned that a company called Evergreen Solar would shutter its solar panel factory in Devens, Mass., opened with great fanfare three years ago with at least $43 million in state subsidies. Evergreen is shifting its production to China. Plunging prices for solar panels had rendered the U.S. plant unprofitable, according to chief executive Michael El-Hillow, but Evergreen can still make money in China because of the lower costs and considerable government subsidies offered by the government there. So much for those 800 "green jobs" in Massachusetts.
Then this week, my colleague Howard Schneider weighed in with an equally telling story from Wisconsin, where Manitowoc Co. has for years exported giant cranes to China for use in giant construction projects such as the Three Gorges Dam. But now that Chinese firms are ready to enter the market, Beijing has slapped a 30 percent tariff on Manitowoc's exports under a provision of global trade rules that allow "developing" countries to protect "emerging" industries. To stay in the game, Manitowoc has had to enter a joint venture with one of its Chinese competitors, which means much of the work will be done there.
The right response to these challenges would be for the president this week to laud China for the success of its economic policies and announce that the administration will begin forthwith to apply each and every one of them to Chinese exports into the United States. Subsidies and directed credit for local companies, buy-American provisions for government agencies and government contractors, currency manipulation, the rules on "conditional market access" and "indigenous innovation" - surely China could hardly complain if we were to pay them the highest compliment by embracing their economic model.
To start things off, the administration might announce its intention to block the joint venture Hu intends to announce later this week with General Electric. GE already sells lots of engines to China for all those Boeing and Airbus jets it buys. Now GE is hoping to get the contract to provide avionics to the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China, which intends to go into direct competition with Boeing. What better way than by forming a 50-50 joint venture with Aviation Industry Corp. of China, another state-owned firm?
In addition to $200 million, GE will be contributing technology to the partnership that will operate as the avionics brain for Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner. And going forward, the partners will jointly develop new radars, controls and guidance system at a jointly run research and development laboratory that is already under construction. Call me cynical, but this sure sounds as if one of America's leading technology companies has decided to sell some of this country's crown jewels to ensure access to China's rigged market, potentially jeopardizing the competitive advantage enjoyed by this country's leading export industry.
This is the nub of the problem. With its state-controlled economy, China can force its companies to act collaboratively to achieve the country's strategic economic objectives. And that gives it a tremendous advantage in negotiating the terms of trade with a country like ours, where China can strike deals that may provide short-term profits to one company and its shareholders but in the long run undermine the competitiveness of the other country's economy. What's good for GE or Honeywell or Rockwell is, in this case, almost certainly not good for America and American workers.
Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of industrial policy. But when competing against countries that practice it skillfully and aggressively, we may have no choice but to respond in kind - if for no other reason than as a way to negotiate a more level playing field for American firms and American workers. China has already leveraged this advantage to wipe out large swaths of American industry, build up a $3 trillion dollar war chest and help to put the U.S. economy in a rut characterized by low growth, high unemployment and unsustainable trade deficits.
How much longer must we wait, how much deeper does the rut have to get, before we say, "Enough!"?


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