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The Formative Years
The Rose of Avalanche were founded by Leeds school friends Phil Morris, Paul James Berry and Alan Davis. From an early age the trio hung out together, skipping school, listening to music and making plans to form their own band. Many of these early influences were American bands like Hendrix, MC5, The Stooges and Lou Reed, and these influences would be directly referenced in the bands song writing and Phil's novel, if a little odd, decision to sing in a mock American style accent.
From the bands official press bio in early 1986:
The Rose of Avalanche: Born in Leeds. Spiritually bathed in the dirt of Detroit. Raised in defiance
According to Phil, the unusual name for the band was chosen to
represent the bands music – the "rose" for the beauty and the "avalanche" for the power.
The lads first discussed forming a band in October 1983, and the band was actually christened in April 1984.
The initial line up of Morris / Berry / Davis wrote the first batch of songs that would establish the band as one of the hottest upcoming acts in the UK Indie / Goth scene. These songs would make up the bulk of the tracks appearing on the bands first four singles released between '85 and '86.
By their own admission they were young, naive, and still learning their craft. However right from the off they portrayed a self assured swagger and belief in their potential.
Paul noted of this early period:
There was no calculated master plan like there is with some bands, we were just young and naive and we were really into what we were writing. Especially the first 3 of us. The Early stuff we thought could be mega big. The biggest influence for me personally was Alan (the first bass player) we used to have a really cool rapport. We didn't just get things and slap them together, we tried to, I don't know, make a spiritual thing out of it."
Their first major step was contributing two songs to a compilation album, called "Parkside Shivers", released by Leeds Independent Label (LIL). These tracks were "LA Rain" and "American Girls".
At this point the lads were only 18 / 19 years old, but the maturity of the song writing and the lyrical theme's being explored portrayed an experienced band delivering a finely tuned slab of sleazy, guitar driven rock, belying their actual years.
The reaction to the band off the back of this initial exposure was sudden and overwhelmingly positive. John Peel, the barometer of all things cool, quickly picked up on the band and gave "LA Rain" a lot of air play.
"LA Rain" was quickly released as a 12″ single in its own right, backed with "Rise To The Groove" and "Conceal Me". For a full review of this single check the Discography. Off the back of the Peel exposure and the growing buzz, "LA Rain" reached Number 1 in the UK Independent Charts.
Whilst in the studio recording "LA Rain", the band felt that it needed a little something extra. A classically trained guitar player, Glenn Shultz, was working at the Parkside Studio's and The Rose asked him to play some 12 string guitar on "LA Rain". Impressed with how quickly Glenn slotted into the vibe the band were trying to create, he was asked to join as a full time member.
This was a landmark move for the band, with both a positive and a negative side. Glenn was older and technically much more proficient that the other members of the band. Glenn's advanced playing and penchant for the "solo" would come to define The Rose sound for the next 5 years, however this did deviate the band from their original aims, and did not allow them to mature into their own style at their own pace.
Paul commented:
"I was told by a lot of people at the time it was a big mistake, but a really liked Glenn as a person, but I knew he was too advanced for us, and I felt we didn't evolve at our own pace. Like I don't know, a band like U2, their early stuff like Boy was pretty simple, and their later stuff is still pretty simple but there's a definite progression. If we'd have spent 5 or 6 years, it would have changed , we'd have all got better as musicians, and we would have found our own identity. Instead we got someone in too soon, and too good. We were one chord and take over the world – totally."
Glenn himself also recognised the potential for tension:
"I think that, possibly, I was a kind of a shortcut by being there and having more experience the sound evolved somewhat faster but I think that they'd have got to a similar place without me eventually, but it could be argued that I was a detrimental influence (and not just musically!!) because I brought a more standard, old school rock sound in which took them slightly away from the original direction. Some of the very early songs had changes and ideas that I found quite bizarre and left field. That kind of thing vanished almost totally"
The Rose were invited to record a Peel session (recorded on 28th May 1985) and things were buzzing in the Rose camp.
So very quickly this young band found itself in the enviable, if slightly bizarre, situation of having released a Number 1 Indie single, a coveted Peel Session, and all without playing a single gig!
The Rose now had to promote themselves by getting on the road and establishing a live following. A series of sporadic gigs were arranged from the summer of 1985 through most of 1986. They didn't play any consecutive dates in a tour format, so were often travelling up and down the M1 to play one off gigs in London.
Following up "LA Rain" was the second single "Goddess". This again replicated the success of "LA Rain" by going to Number 1 in the UK Indie Charts, and being named as "Single Of The Week" in influential UK music paper Sounds.
So although the band were basking in the success of their recorded output, they were still very much finding their feet playing live. With the great level of expectation off the back their chart success, they were expected to deliver live from the off. Music press reviews of their early live shows referenced "wooden" performances, which I guess was understandable considering their age and experience levels.
The whole American / 60′s Rock thing also fixated the music press. Rather than wanting to judge the band for what they were, journalists often lazily pigeon holed the band into one of two camps…Firstly the Hippy / 60′s revival that was happening in the mid 80′s, due to Phil's mock accent, hair length & style of the band (or lack of!), or secondly the Goth tag due to them hailing from Leeds, using a drum machine, and having swirly art record covers. (Note the band was NOT named after The Sisters of Mercy's drum machine!)
Although frustrating, it is understandable that the music press did this, after all there are very few truly genre shifting bands that come along. I think the band were a little naive in their dealings with the press, and rather than using them to their advantage to push what they were doing to a wider audience (which Wayne Hussey of The Mission was adept at), The Rose came across as awkward and obtrusive in many dealing with the press. Again, this was perhaps reflective of their age and the naivety of thinking the music should do the talking. However this coupled with the "wooden" live reviews, started to undermine the initial positivity of their recorded output.
1985 closed out on a high with "LA Rain" being named at #26 in John Peels annual "Festive 50″.
The Fire Years
1986 opened with LiL releasing "First Avalanche", in March 1986. This was an unapproved compilation of the the "LA Rain" and "Goddess" singles packaged together with two extra tracks: "American Girls" (from "Parkside Shivers"), and the previously unreleased "Stick In The Works", which according to Phil was only at a demo stage. This unauthorised releasing and re-packaging of material was to dog the band throughout their career.
The band recorded their second Radio 1 session for Janice Long on 5th March 1986.
After the success of 1985, a number of record companies were circling around the band. The band decided to sign to the "Twist And Shout" publishing company, later to become part of Fire Records. Without knowing it the band had just effectively signed away all artistic control and any chance of seeing much of a financial return from their endeavours…
Paul described the situation in an interview with this website in 1997:
"(it was like) The first time we'd ever been to London , it's like one of these clichés, and we got ripped off. Alan, me and Phil went down to their office. The only reason I remember is because I nicked this book out of the office (laughs) and I was really proud!….When it came to signing the contract I was in Paris, so Sid the guy that helped us out a lot, signed it for me. We never got anything off them, I think we got a £300 advance, that was it. We were just young and stupid, we didn't have a manager. I remember us all sitting in a studio, again cliché, trying to work out all this legal jargon, passing it around"
The bands first release on Fire was "Too Many Castles In The Sky" in April 1986. This again delivered chart success, going Top 5 in the UK Indie Charts and selling consistently enough to stay in the chart for some considerable time. At this stage the band had still only clocked up around 30 gigs and received limited press exposure.
The first of two personal changes happened in early '86. The band ditched the ridged constraints of the drum machine in favour of a "real" drummer, and Mark Thompson joined the ranks of the band around Spring 1986.
Around early summer of 1986, founder member Alan Davis decided to leave the band. We don't (currently!) have Alan's side of the story to tell, but Paul and Glenn both offered some insight into the decision to quit. Paul insinuated that Alan was never completely comfortable with the change in direction of the band once Glenn had joined. Alan apparently also had growing career prospects outside of the band, and there is a suggestion he followed his head over his heart, and rather than pursue to dream of being a rock star, he choose a more stable path to try and make some money!
Alan's replacement was Nicol McKay who had played with Mark Thompson in a previous band. Alan's departure was not detectable on record until 1987, as the bands fourth single was recorded with him still in the fold. "Velveteen" was released in September 1986 to coincide with The Rose of Avalanche supporting The Mission on their mammoth "World Crusade Tour" in the UK and Europe which would run from October '86 through to March 1987.
The decision to take The Mission support slot caused a degree of controversy within the band. On the plus side it would undoubtedly gain them exposure to bigger crowds and develop them in terms of touring extensively, but they would be forever linked to the Leeds Goth scene and the baggage that came with it:
Paul commented:
"We had a manager that got us involved with a company that had the Mission, and because they were bigger then us, we were always looked down on…The tour came up, and we had to pay for that , and it was £8,000 which was a lot at that time. Glenn nearly left after the England dates because he couldn't hack it. It was just too much we were getting out of our skulls every night, it was total madness. But we thought this was normal. The things that piss me off now were the people around the Mission, they used to treat us like shit. You know it was "Who the fuck are you?" You know we didn't know anything different, and to be on a tour with these guys who'd done it all with the Sisters, they were totally fucking professional. We were just slobs! It really spoilt it, because of the atmosphere. On the German leg of the tour we travelled in a converted horse box!!"
The first recorded output of the 4th incarnation of the band was the "Always There" single released in March 1987. This was the final "approved" released by the band on Fire, and signalled the start of a very long and bitter legal dispute between the band and their label.
Frustrated by the lack of creative control and money, the band sought to leave the label. Fire were obviously keen to hold on to them due to their growing commercial success. Unfortunately it seems a compromise could not be reached and the whole thing ended up in court. While in dispute it was impossible for the band to release anything, and with no product to promote no promoters were that interested in booking the band to play live.
Thus, right at the point when the band was primed to take off, the wheels came off and the band was effectively put on ice for the best part of 18 months…
"It was hell. A lot of us went through sleepless nights for weeks on end, not knowing what to do. We nearly split up twice. It's very hard to go through something like that; just see you life disappear down the tubes…They were ripping us off – hadn't paid us a penny in three and a half years, and released sub standard material. There was an LP that came out called 'In Rock', which wasn't even finished. It started off as a 4 track 12″ single, and they turned it into an LP by taking the vocals off 2 tracks so they got 6 tracks, and they added the B side of an earlier single."
Self Determination
The fallout from the Fire dispute wrote off three quarters of 1988, apart from some sporadic gigging, often under different names to avoid legal issues.
Once the legal dispute had been settled out of court the band found themselves a new financial backer and setup their own label – Avalantic Records, to ensure they retained complete creative control.
The first release on Avalantic was "The World Is Ours" single, and the band promoted this by embarking on the Winter Thrash Tour at the tail end of 1988. It was if the band was starting all over again, the early promise of 1985 feeling like a distant memory…
"It was soul destroying. A lot of bands who used to support us have become quite big, like Fields of the Nephilim, The Wedding Present, All About Eve, and the Wonder Stuff. If we had the backing they have had, instead of like the put down that we have had, and hindrance from the record company, we would have been as big as the Mission , I honestly believe that"
The Rose quickly followed off by entering 1989 with another single, the title track of their upcoming first "official" studio album – "Never Another Sunset". Both of these releases were promoted by another UK wide tour – The Groove Collision Tour.
Just as it seemed the band were re-establishing themselves, a further revelation came from the settlement with Fire Records, Glenn explaining in the 2006 interview with this website:
"At some point Fire Records contacted us and told us that not only did they want the percentage we'd agreed as part of the severance deal but that as the album Never Another Sunset was released within weeks of signing this agreement it must have been recorded prior to the agreement and was therefore covered by the old agreement. They wanted everything, which seemed to be the basis of our contract with Fire. Unfortunately we had signed the contracts and they did have the law on their side so there was nothing we could do."
This blow seemed to be the final straw for Glenn and Nicol, and they decided to leave the band in the summer of 1989.
Phil and Paul did consider replacing Glenn to continue the dual guitar style the band had established, but the Hippy / 60′s fad was over, and new tastes were developing.
Paul mentioned that when they wrote their first batch of songs as kids they wanted to take over the world with 3 chord songs. With the departure of Glenn, Morris and Berry saw the opportunity to try and recapture that early energy and simplicity in the song writing, so elected not to replace Glenn.
The new lineup featuring new bass player Darren Horner, toured in the UK at the end of 1989 and released one single, featuring songs written while Schultz and McKay were still in the band. This was 1989′s "A Peace Inside EP".
The band also attempted a "re-brand" and during this period as they started to call themselves "The Rose", dropping the "of Avalanche" from their name. This new name featured in fan club mailings and the press kit for the Peace Inside EP, however it seemed short lived as the band never released an actual record under the shortened moniker.
Mark then decided enough was enough and left. Mark's replacement was Andy Porter, and thus completed the 6th and final line up change for the band.
At this point the band effectively disappeared from the UK music scene with focus shifting to exclusively focusing on mainland Europe, for example the "I Believe EP" released in 1990 was only available in Europe. Paul always said that it was far easier to receive the freedom to do your own thing in Europe, where in the UK the promoters always wanted a product to shift or a "name" to feature.
At the end of the decade the UK alternative music scene was going through dramatic change. There was a history of underground music genres bubbling under the main single & album chart, with the bigger acts of those genres occasionally breaking through into the charts alongside the mainstream established acts.
Remember this was back in the 1980′s when single sales were still significant enough to represent a challenge for any underground / Indie act to break the Top 40.
The "alternative" or "Goth" genre had enjoyed a pretty unrivaled run as the largest of these genres for the majority of the 1980′s, with bands like The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, All About Eve, The Cult all breaking into the Top 40 charts. However towards the end of the decade, "Goth" was suddenly replaced as the top dog by a number of emerging genres.
The "second summer of love" saw Acid House & Dance break out from the underground of illegal raves and clubs into the mainstream charts. "Shoegazing" bands dominated the Indie Charts, and then Madchester exploded in the late 80′s / early 90′s.
Suddenly bands like The Mission who were previously untouchable, found themselves torn apart by personnel changes, and in the desire to innovate their sound, released disastrous albums like "Masque" where they attempted to associate themselves with the new younger credible bands on the scene like Utah Saints. Unfortunately they only succeeded in alienating their existing fan base, and failing to attract any new fans in the process.
The Rose too faced this new market dynamic, their response being "String 'A' Beads", their second studio album. Indie rock was quickly picking up the dance influences, and bands like Jesus Jones and EMF suddenly were becoming huge mainstream acts. The Rose had experimented in the studio with tracks like "I Believe Dub Track 1990″, and "Stringa" saw the delivery of 10 new tracks, drawing from this new sound and marking a significant shift from the previous album, "Never Another Sunset".
The musical dynamic of the band had changed significantly. With Paul as the single guitarist, compositions were much simpler and cleaner. The bass came to the forefront in songs to compensate for the loss of the second guitar. Most notably the fresh approach to the drumming sound from Andy Porter sought to add the dance / electronic element to the sound, via the heavy use of electronic and sequenced drums.
The band closed 1990 touring String 'A' Beads extensively in mainland Europe.
Walking on thin I.C.E.
1991 opened with a further European Tour, but again no UK dates, the Rose seemly now happy to give themselves no publicity in the UK at all. There was never any mention of them in any of the music press, but they didn't seem to help the situation, turning down the chance to play live on the infamous 'James Whale Show', where Wayne Hussey had appeared totally pissed out of his head. After the 4 year wait for the first album, the second in two years was released in August 1991, called "I.C.E."
"I.C.E." followed on where 'Stringa' had left off, with short, sharp, uncomplicated Rock songs, but it has to be said, compared to the earlier records it was poor.
Paul noted that by the stage they came to record "I.C.E." the band had been going for some 7 years. The income from the music alone was never going to be enough to earn a full time living from, so the band members had growing interests outside of the band, leading to "I.C.E." being recorded during the night shift.
I think this lack of focus and commitment is evident in the final product, the record lacking that enthusiastic feel of a band passionately throwing everything they have into it.
The band toured again in 1992, but at the end of the tour Paul decided to quit. The band had generated enough interest and sales in Europe to be offered new distribution deals, but Paul was increasingly frustrated with the lack of ambition in the band, who were seemingly content to continue at their current level. For him it should have been all or nothing.
After six line up changes over the years, and Paul being an original member, it was a terminal blow to the band. The move hit Phil hard as they had been friends since their school days.
After the final Rose split, the drum machine was dusted off, and Phil & Darren teamed up with Glenn Shultz again. A new rhythm guitarist, Neil Richardson, was recruited. This new line was called "Diversion".
They gigged once as the opening act at the first Carling Festival in Leeds and recorded a demo. However Europe was only interested in the Rose name, and nobody wanted to start again from scratch in this country as everybody in the band and support crew had other careers by now that were earning a higher income than the band.
Morris, Horner and Schultz came back together one last time under The Rose of Avalanche name on 29th May 1993 at The Duchess of York in Leeds. They played a full 83 minute set, showcasing a number of new tracks meaning that the song writing process had continued, however Phil was clear from his on stage conversation with the crowd that this was to be their final ever show. For pointless trivia fans out there, the Rose's final ever song played live was a cover of the Stereo MC's "Step It Up"
So the Rose eventually fizzled out by mutual apathy, and the fact that everybody had found a more rewarding life outside of the band.
Originally written by James Parton October 1997. Updated July 1999, September 2007, May 2008, May 2012, and March 2014.


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Hello, )-----Original Message----- )From: address@hidden )[mailto:address@hidden On )Behalf Of Phil Holmes )Sent: 02 August 2011 09:29 )To: Graham Percival; address@hidden )Subject: Re: GOP-PROP 8: issue priorities ) )----- Original Message ----- )From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> )To: <address@hidden> )Cc: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> )Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 6:22 AM )Subject: GOP-PROP 8: issue priorities ) ) ) )> We have over 600 open bugs or patches to review. At one point, )> this number was in the low 60s. The task of maintaining lilypond – )> let alone adding large new features – cannot be handled by the )> current development team alone. We need to be more efficient in )> how current developers work, and we need to make it easier and )> more fun for new contributors. Something which makes it impossible )> for somebody to contribute is therefore more important than any )> graphical output problem (with the possible exception of )> regressions). ) )I wasn't around in the days of 60 bugs, but my guess for why there are so )many more now is that it's partly due to putting almost every reported )problem into the tracker, +1 ) and partly due to increasing user base as well. +0.25 I'd say that it was more because people like Mr O. Redchuk (and others) have been much more 'on the case' than has ever been before to spot tracker-fodder or add a tracker for Reitveld items that would in the past not have had any. )> )> Priority-high: )> )> * any failure to build make or make doc which does not fall )> under the priority-critical definition. )> * anything which makes it difficult for serious contributors )> to help out (e.g. difficult to find the relevant source )> tree(s), confusing policies, problems with automatic )> indentation tools, etc). ) )So any bug in Lily that produces bad output can never be High? Or - to put )it another way, we, the developers ,only regard bugs as high when they )hinder us, not when they make you, the user's life difficult. and here is the rub (for me anyway) - a good example is slurs over line breaks. It's a hard problem (so it seems) to solve, but it produces (in some cases - all in my own personal experience) dreadful looking output. While not obviously critical, it should be High. Even if it is hard to solve. I don't want to get all 'mission statementy' but isn't that the point that we all use LP, Good/beautiful output? )I don't like )that. I remain of the view that the words "An issue which produces )output )which does not accurately reflect the input (e.g. where the user would )expect an accidental, but none is shown) or which produces aesthetically )poor output in a situation which could be expected to crop up frequently )in )real-world music. It should not be used where the problem can be )avoided )with a simple workaround." make a good definition of high. +1 )> )> Priority-postponed: )> )> * No fix expected for at least two years. ) )I don't actually see the point of this, given that I can find open high )priority issues almost 5 years old. Think we might as well drop it. ) -1 No. I think it's good to keep issues 'postponed' than closed, even if they are old. Someone someday will come and look at this, as tastes change and developers have specific requirements or just a plain old challenge. In the Bugzilla-driven world I sometimes work in we have a 'WONTFIX' statement which we use for enhancements that we never intend to implement or for issues that are not going to be fixed in the current release of our code but no longer exist as an issue in the newer code base (i.e. the feature is deprecated for good). That are the only two cases we ever drop issues (or if the issue suddenly goes away when someone revisits it after a number of iterations of the software). If we just close/drop the tracker issue I assume it goes off the radar and so we lose it altogether which I don't think is a good idea. The point of the tracker is not necessarily to get it to 0 (after all if we all sat down and thought hard we could come up with dozens if not hundreds of enhancements that are not bugs) but that doesn't detract from the project at all. Maybe some people get despondent when they see a rise of 200% in 'open' tracker issues, not me I'd say a rising and falling (and rising again) tracker rate shows a *healthy* interest in a software project and a healthy development base. James
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Association for Aerial Anomaly Research and
UFO and Paranormal Research from
south-central Indiana −
Always Watching the Skies
Filed by Michael Grubb, AAARC
Witness: , Michael Grubb
Additional Witnesses: Ross R., Mike S.
Time: 07:45 PM
Date: January 24, 2006
Location: Dolan, Monroe County, Indiana
"Ross!!! Are you seeing this!!!" I yelled. He came out and his eyes grew
to the size of saucers.
The weather had been erratic all evening. It was raining, sleeting, snowing,
and then would warm up and become absolutely clear. The wind was very
powerful that evening, and a clear electrical charge could be felt outside.
I watched the biggest and most dramatic cloud formations come in from the
west as the sun was setting and had even pointed them out to Ross. Ross has
been the one person at this point who was still not entirely convinced that
there were any anomalous craft over my house. He had previously seen
something unexplained a few weeks ago, but nothing which was definitive for
The lights began to steadily flicker in our home (THEY WERE NOT
FLICKERING BEFORE THIS), and I began to feel my forehead compress gently.
Ross was trying to help Linette (my girlfriend) with a computer program when
I finally spoke up. "Hey," I said, "I know they're outside right now.
They're hiding in the clouds."
This statement was all but ignored while they continued to work away. It
registered on some level though, as Ross remembered this and brought it up
After roughly fifteen minutes, Mike S. showed up at the home with his two
children. I went downstairs to help him install the new Soundblaster Audigy2
Card into our computer for future recording projects.
Ross eventually came downstairs to load his equipment into the house.
When he came back in, it was roughly 7:45 PM.
He looks at the both of us and says "Hey guys, the sky is clear." This
was actually odd for Ross. Mike and I are always looking to the sky, and
usually have to prompt Ross, who otherwise doesn't care...He's the true
skeptic of the bunch (NOT ANYMORE, THOUGH).
Mike and I didn't waste a second. We dropped what we were doing without
question and bolted outside immediately.
Mike was the first out the door, I was second, and Ross was right behind
Mike immediately exclaims "Damn...look at that.", He had not even gotten
out "Damn" before I had chimed in.
"Ross!!! Are you seeing this!!!" I yelled. He came out and his eyes grew
to the size of saucers.
Sitting directly above my home was an enormous Star-like craft. Mike saw
it first and actually saw it grow from a star, to about 10 times its size.
Ross and I saw it at full size by the time we caught it with our eyes.
It sat there for roughly three seconds so that we could all clearly see
it, and then it bolted upward towards the sky.
The best way to describe how fast it actually moved was by comparing it
to "Star Trek's Warp Speed." One second you saw the craft, the next second
all you saw was a line in the direction it moved, and then, it was gone." It
appeared to sit slightly southwest of our home and was as bright as the
Ross, Mike and I all began screaming (sheer amazement), and then ran
upstairs to tell Linette. Linette is quite accustomed to seeing crafts,
therefore, she affirmed the situation, and returned to working on her
Ross and I decided to go for a walk to check for other crafts while Mike and
Linette continued to work on their respective items.
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Interesting Tax Sale Industry Articles
Posted by thetaxsaleresource in Welcome on March 7, 2014
As most investors know, the tax lien and tax deed industry is continually changing. It's also talked about repeatedly in newspapers across the country. TSR attempts to stay as connected as possible to these changes so that we can better assist investors with their needs. We have come across several very interesting articles this month. Check them out!
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- February 24, 2014: Pennsylvania's new lien law could monkeywrench REO sales in 6 ways – http://www.housingwire.com/articles/29069-pennsylvanias-new-lien-law-could-monkeywrench-reo-sales-in-6-ways
- February 21, 2014: Harp: Tax Hike May Be Coming – http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/harp_take_hike_may_be_coming/id_65311
- February 21, 2014: Two sentenced in tax sale scheme; Rochman to be sentenced March 25 – http://thesouthern.com/news/local/two-sentenced-in-tax-sale-scheme-rochman-to-be-sentenced/article_59cbba49-f0d0-52c8-8c2a-cc92db212405.html
- February 20, 2014: Denby Bill Would Ease Interest Rates on Delinquent Taxes – http://whmi.com/news/article/19224
- February 20, 2014: Governor's agenda includes going after delinquent property taxes – http://www.kuam.com/story/24783257/2014/02/21/governors-agenda-includes-going-after-delinquent-property-taxes
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Personal Contract Plans are an increasingly popular means of financing a used car purchase. They offer a straightforward, flexible means of spreading the payment of your next used car over a set period, whilst minimising the initial outlay and monthly repayments through the unique structure of the arrangement.
Under a PCP scheme, your monthly payments are reduced thanks to payment on a portion of the car's value being deferred until the end of the agreement (typically three years). This is called the 'guaranteed future value' but is also known as a 'balloon payment'.
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DVDFab Media Player 2 is a free Blu-ray ISO player, and it performs professionally with two playback modes for main movie playback and for menu navigation experience. Next is a simple demonstration of how to use it to play Blu-ray ISO, follow me if you're interested.
Start DVDFab Media Player 2, and choose a Blu-ray playback mode
Open DVDFab Media Player 2, then click Main Menu icon in the top left corner, and choose Settings in the following pop up. Then let's go to Blu-ray option, to choose a region code for the Blu-ray, and select a playback mode from Quick Mode and Menu Mode. Quick Mode will play only the main movie and Menu Mode will let users navigate via Blu-ray menu. Let's choose Menu Mode for example.
Import Blu-ray ISO
Click Open File on the main interface to load in the source Blu-ray ISO you want to view, or just drag and drop it from your PC into the program.
The movie will be in very quickly. And it is showed in Menu Mode.
The movie will be in very quickly. And it is showed in Menu Mode.
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This article discusses a crucial part of being a "boss in the middle" that's often missed. Sometimes, we need a break. Here's what I think we should do.
Our work will be there when we get back.
A common mistake is to think we need to get it all done. We think we must push through to our goals until we make it. That's only partly true.
In reality, sometimes, we need a break. Time to reflect and recharge. For some, this may be a week, for others, a day is enough. So long as we take it.
This break will allow us to;
- Relax. Try sitting on the couch and just watching T.V.
- Sleep in.
- Enjoy something new.
- Enjoy something old.
- Reconnect with family & friends.
- Gain new perspective.
- Do nothing.
I'm often surprised at how effective and driven I can be, when I return to my work. But, don't take my word for it, try it yourself.
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With the Smithsonian (@ReliveApollo11) tweeting the 40th anniversary of the Apollo11 mission and current space shuttle mission commander Mark Polansky (@Astro_127) tweeting the crew's work on the International Space Station, no space nut these days can operate without a twitter account. Today NASA took the experiment one step further and held a tweetup. Part of the growing twitter lexicon this term refers to a real-life meetup for tweople (people on twitter, I'm led to believe). Usually this means a dozen or so people in a bar, but in the case of NASA followers, which broke 100,000 today, the auditorium at NASA headquarters did the trick today. A lucky 150 or so people flew in from as far away as Arizona, Vancouver, and even (wow!) Spain, crowded in, turned on their iPhones and laptops, and were treated to a good two hours with the crew of the STS-125 shuttle mission to make repairs to rejuvenate the Hubble space telescope.
We've come a long way since the first TV transmission from space, just 40 years ago yesterday; the entire STS-125 mission was webcast on NASA TV. Viewers watched on tenterhooks as the astronauts, equipped with cameras on their helmets, removed tiny screws from the telescope's housing and replaced batteries the size of a baby grand piano. And during it all, astronaut Mike Massimino was tweeting. The public loved it; Massimino, or @Astro_Mike as he's known on twitter, has 692,564 followers and counting. His tweets were 140-character haikus from earth orbit—funny, thoughtful, and quietly profound:
Night pass over Australia, the city lights give stunning signs of life on our planet within the darkness of nighttime
Hard to sleep last night after my spacewalk, images of the work and the views still vivid in my mind.
Eating chocolates in space, floating then in front of me then floating and eating them like I am a fish.
When the seven astronauts walked on stage in their identical blue polos, one woman shouted, "We love you, Mike!" The astronauts talked about the grueling back-to-back spacewalks they underwent to complete the repairs and how they felt when the mission was delayed in October. They played clips from the mission video and gave a sort of live "director's commentary" on scenes such as a tour of the shuttle toilet and the extra days they spent in microgravity waiting "doing astronaut tricks," as mission specialist Megan McArthur put it, while waiting for permission to head home. And they fielded questions about everything from how stars look without the atmosphere in the way (brighter, more colorful, and not twinkling, apparently) to what the crew members were like in middle school.
All in all, the astronauts were "very, very down to earth, warm, friendly, and really funny," said Kathleen Forden, a technology project manager at the University of Phoenix who'd flown in with a co-worker for the event. ("I'm an uber-geek," she explained.) "They seem like they could be their own comedy club based on a space theme."
"The experience of watching everybody tweeting and interacting with each other is also interesting, getting to see what everybody thought was cool rather just than what I thought was cool," said Schwortz, who teaches physics and astronomy at a community college in Massachusetts. She added that she'll be using twitter in the fall with her online and face-to-face classes for discussions, questions, and to facilitate study groups. She said she's part of a growing number of teachers who are using social networking tools to add an extra dimension to learning.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
NASA followers gather for tweetup
"My favorite subject was physical education," said mission pilot Greg Johnson. The crowd laughed. "I was always interested in math and science but I was very interested in fun."
My personal favorite question was about why fizzy drinks don't make it into space. Besides the fact that soda easily becomes foamy mass in free-fall, the simple act of burping can have a disastrous outcome, we were told.
"One of the most dangerous things to do in space is the burp reflex," said commander Scott "Scooter" Altman. "Here on earth gravity makes the liquid stay at the bottom and gas go to the top. In space, well, you have to watch out."
"I feel like I'd always thought of them as being some strange remote aliens," admitted twerson Andria Schwortz (@aschwortz)with a laugh. "It was hard to think of them as humans, and then i see them up there on the stage not only as humans, but humorous. They're funny, they've got a sense of humor, they're cracking jokes at us."
Throughout the tweetup, a screen behind them showed the constant stream of tweets from the audience. (You can look through them by checking out the #Nasatweetup trending topic.)
"One of the main uses I've heard of is people with really large lecture classrooms," Schwortz said. "They tell people to bring their laptops and follow along with the conversation. These people who couldn't ask questions in a huge lecture group can still interact with each other through twitter."
@Astro_Mike and @PhysicsCentral: Guess who's the astronaut?
Mike Massimino, who calls himself NASA's twitter "guinea pig," said putting life in space into 140 characters was "a great way to share" his experience.
"It's the greatest job in the world, but we can't take all of our friends and family with us, they just can't fit in there!" he said. "So it's nice to be able to try to share it."
Follow us on twitter: @PhysicsCentral
Posted by scappuccino at 7/21/2009 07:28:00 PM
Labels: astronauts, fun, NASA, space, STS-125, the hubble, tweetup, twitter
3 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2009 at 10:45 AM
I think the title and credit of @PhysicsCentral goes to you scappuccino.ReplyDelete
University of Phoenix has a typo - But great blog, I really wanted to go and could not make it. Maybe next year I can Tweet another visit.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Max! Fixed it. The best thing to do is follow NASA on twitter...they tweeted it the second registration for the event was open. Hopefully we'll see more of these tweetups from NASA!ReplyDelete
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A new day in the neighborhood
(Column ~ 01/13/05)
Jan. 13, 2005 Dear Julie, White fog clung to the top of the river like frosting early one morning this week. The beauty stopped my walk. Most everybody who still lives in their hometown or has returned to live there probably has mixed feelings toward it. But the longer I live in Cape Girardeau, the more moments like that occur...
Benefit planned to raise funds for Oran youngster
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
NEW HAMBURG, Mo. -- A benefit is scheduled for Jan. 22 to assist 2-year-old Graycen Beardslee of Oran, Mo. She was diagnosed earlier this year with xeroderma pigmentosum, an incurable and extremely rare genetic skin disorder that makes exposure to sunlight life-threatening. ...
Fire department awarded grant, hires firefighter
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
The news that Jackson's fire department received a $103,500 federal grant capped off a productive week for fire chief Brad Golden. And it was only Wednesday. U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson and U.S. Sens. Kit Bond and Jim Talent announced the release of the Homeland Security funds, which will go to help purchase equipment. ...
Woman sentenced for drug-smuggling connection
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
A Canadian woman involved in what federal authorities called the largest pseudoephedrine/methamphetamine case ever handled in the Eastern District of Missouri was sentenced Tuesday. Krystina Randles, 36, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole. ...
Jackson man arrested for theft at trucking firm
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
A Jackson man was charged Tuesday with burglary and theft after the Sikeston Department of Public Safety concluded an investigation into the reported theft of $29,000 worth of equipment from a Sikeston trucking business. James A. Coleman, 35, of Jackson was arrested Monday, according to a spokesman for the prosecutor's office. His bond is set at $35,000...
Scott City police bust marijuana-growing operation
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
A Scott City man has been arrested after police found him allegedly growing marijuana in a sophisticated hydroponic system using exotic cultivation methods. Frank C. Handley, 58, of 711 Walnut St., was arrested on suspicion of felony manufacturing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia...
Benton man pleads guilty in animal abuse case
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
BENTON, Mo. -- Gregory H. McElroy of Benton pleaded guilty in Scott County circuit court Wednesday afternoon to three counts of misdemeanor animal abuse. The incident sparked the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to contact the county prosecuting attorney to urge penalties and that McElroy undergo a psychological evaluation...
Scott County bust nets four on drug charges
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
BENTON, Mo. -- A search warrant served on a residence in Morley, Mo., Tuesday netted the arrests of three Scott County residents and one from Bollinger County on various drug charges, according to the Scott County prosecutor's office. The warrant was served on the residence of Jaden Zeleny, 27, of 215 Kennett St. ...
Ex-Missourian photographer arrested for obstructing police
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Crane said Wednesday he hadn't decided whether to file criminal charges against Don Shrubshell, a Columbia Daily Tribune photographer, for obstructing police officers during a shooting investigation...
Cape's heritage to come alive during storyteller series
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
For storyteller Steve Otto, history is really nothing more than a collection of stories -- stories that must be told. "History isn't dates and names," said Otto, "it's a collection of wonderful stories about what people did and didn't do, and about things we shouldn't do in the future. Storytelling is a fun way of bringing history to life."...
Cape Christian School students raise funds
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
There's little in life that inspires generosity among children more than friendly competition and the possibility of kissing a frog. Those two motivators have led students at Cape Christian School to raise more than $1,500 over the past two weeks for tsunami victims. ...
Jackson saves $500,000 in deal with AT&T for generators
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
AT&T's loss is Jackson's gain. Jackson city officials tracked down three never-used electric generators in Seattle, Wash., last week and Don Schuette, the director of electric utilities, says the city will save roughly $500,000 while getting more back-up power than expected...
P&Z OKs apartments; developers must meet conditions
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
Eastern white pine trees, a 6-foot chain-link fence and a 30-foot-wide green space are needed to screen a proposed apartment development from nearby homes along Alta Vista Drive, the Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission said Wednesday. Commissioners recommended the city council approve the request of developers to add four new apartment buildings to the two-building Collegewood Apartments complex at 807 N. Sprigg St...
Teen taken in custody after bomb threat
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
A 14-year-old boy was taken into custody Wednesday after Jackson School District officials received information about a possible bomb on a school bus. According to assistant superintendent Jim Welker, a concerned parent called with the information shortly after 7 a.m. The bus was taken to the nearest school, Gordonville Elementary, and evacuated...
Central JV wins tourney contest
(High School Sports ~ 01/13/05)
The Central junior varsity boys basketball team defeated Perryville 59-31 in a round-robin tournament at Central. Jeremy Kimble and John Lockridge each scored 10 points for Central, which plays Saturday in the tournament's final day. * The Central freshman boys basketball team defeated Notre Dame 66-32 in the first round of its tournament. Adrian Cox scored 19 points, while Anthony Watts added 12 and Chase Johnson scored 11...
Cards sign eight to minor-league deals
(Professional Sports ~ 01/13/05)
ST. LOUIS -- Infielders Wilton Guerrero and Abraham Nunez are among eight players who have agreed to contracts with the St. Louis Cardinals' Class AAA affiliate in Memphis, Tenn., the Cardinals announced Wednesday. The Cardinals also signed pitchers Chris Gissell, Bob File and Toby Borland; first baseman Mike Bell; and outfielders Raul Gonzalez and Brandon Berger...
Ridge stayed with Arizona lobbyist
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
WASHINGTON -- As the Homeland Security Department was starting up, Secretary Tom Ridge twice stayed overnight at the Arizona home of a wealthy friend who ran a lobbying firm that was aggressively expanding its homeland security business. The Blank Rome firm, whose chairman is former Ridge fund-raiser David Girard-diCarlo, hired two of Ridge's aides to lobby the new department, and some of the firm's clients eventually landed lucrative contracts, according to documents and interviews...
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(Speak Out ~ 01/13/05)
Watching the geese; Making mistakes; Leaving the scene; Lawsuit is wrong; Toy for teachers; Patriot Act goes too far
Supreme Court orders change in federal sentencing guidelines
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
A splintered Supreme Court threw the nation's federal sentencing system into turmoil Wednesday, ruling that the way judges have been sentencing some 60,000 defendants a year is unconstitutional. In ordering changes, the court found 5-4 that judges have been improperly adding time to some criminals' prison stays. The high court stopped short of scrapping the nearly two-decade-old guideline system, intended to make sure sentences do not vary widely from courtroom to courtroom...
GOP dismantling pro-family policies
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/13/05)
To the editor: In 1900 America, millions of children worked 14 hours six days a week in factories and mines. People starved or died of disease in abysmal tenements with no public health. Corporations fixed prices, controlled government and made huge profits by paying starvation wages. There was no minimum wage, overtime pay or unemployment insurance, and families had little protection from faulty or contaminated products...
USPS offers big service at fair cost
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/13/05)
To the editor: Sam Ryan's "Resolution: USPS will lose weight, get in shape" is not representative of the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS is a self-supportive entity and receives nothing from taxes. Ryan's doom-and-gloom opinion that the public "will be on the hook for a massive bailout" is completely off mark, as is his comment that labor is the Postal Service's No. 1 problem. I take offense that I or any other clerks or carriers are the No. 1 problem...
Music ambassadors
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
Innovative teaching from two Jackson High School teachers has put them in the national spotlight. Tom Broussard and Christy Shinn, both music instructors, have been selected to be consultants for the College Board, which means they'll begin traveling the country to teach other teachers about the Jackson music program...
Commerce church refurbished as part of Eagle Scout project
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
A year of hard work and dedication has made Marcus Painton's Eagle Scout project shine. Painton chose to refurbish the exterior of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Commerce, Mo. A confirmed member of the church, Painton previously helped his brother, Michael, in an Eagle Scout project to erect a 20-foot cross on a hillside adjacent to the church...
Defensive back plays Vick's role in practice
(Professional Sports ~ 01/13/05)
ST. LOUIS -- Seldom-used St. Louis Rams defensive back Dwight Anderson has a very big role this week in practice. On the scout team offense, he's playing the part of Michael Vick. Anderson, an undrafted rookie free agent, sees time primarily on special teams and he's been inactive the last two weeks. But according to Rams coach Mike Martz, he's best suited to mimic the dangerous Atlanta Falcons quarterback heading into Saturday's NFC playoff game...
Owners, players reach agreement on steroid testing
(Professional Sports ~ 01/13/05)
NEW YORK -- Baseball players and owners have reached an agreement on a tougher steroid-testing program and plan to announce it today, The Associated Press has learned. The agreement will include penalties for first-time offenders, an American League player said on condition of anonymity. Other details, such as the frequency of tests, were not immediately available...
Tigers' upset win shows they're not pushover any more
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
Tennessee State might not be ready to stake its claim as one of the Ohio Valley Conference's top women's basketball teams. But the Tigers, winless in league play last year, have already made a major statement through the early part of this OVC season -- and that has Southeast Missouri State University on alert entering today's 5:30 p.m. tipoff in Nashville, Tenn...
Sleep-deprived doctors a danger on the road
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
They're in training to save lives, but medical interns sometimes threaten them: Lack of sleep from very long hospital shifts can make young doctors behind the wheel as dangerous as drunks, researchers found. Doctors in training were more than twice as likely to get in a car crash while driving home after working 24 hours or longer, compared with when they worked shorter shifts, according to a study by Harvard Medical School researchers...
Tennessee State tries to live up to the hype
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
Tennessee State coach Cy Alexander realizes how unusual it is for a team to be absolutely awful one season -- and two years later be picked as one of the Ohio Valley Conference's premier squads. But that's the situation the Tigers found themselves in to begin the 2004-05 campaign --and he's not sure they were quite ready to handle the hype...
Hale's career ends with broken wrist
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
The season is over for Southeast Missouri State University senior guard Brett Hale. Results of an MRI on Wednesday showed that Hale's injured right wrist is fractured, as had been feared by the Southeast coaching staff. The wrist will be placed in a cast...
Tigers get good news in loss
(High School Sports ~ 01/13/05)
Central boys swimming coach Dayna Powell received a bit of a surprise Wednesday afternoon. It wasn't an upset victory against perennial state power Lafayette of Wildwood, Mo., though Powell found plenty of bright spots in the 132-54 defeat. The unexpected feat came from the 400-meter freestyle relay team, which made the state qualifying cut by finishing second in 3 minutes, 36.50 seconds in the final event of the meet at Central Municipal Pool...
Rookie defensive end has impact
(Professional Sports ~ 01/13/05)
ST. LOUIS -- A year ago, Anthony Hargrove was doing grunt work for an airline in Atlanta. The rookie defensive end returns to his home base this weekend as a starter for the St. Louis Rams. "It means the world to you," Hargrove said Wednesday. "How would you feel if this was your first year, your team is in the playoffs, and now you're playing well and you're part of the starting lineup that's really starting to come on?...
Parents need guidance against college aid scams
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
After a 90-minute sales pitch from a company that promised to increase the financial aid eligibility of her college-bound kids, Corrine Nocerino signed a $1,950 contract on the spot. She would soon regret that decision. Her son's guidance counselor found out and immediately warned Nocerino, who lives in Spotsyvlania County, Va., that the symposium she attended in November 2003 at a nearby hotel sounded like a scam. ...
Iranian woman who killed attempted rapist spared death
(International News ~ 01/13/05)
TEHRAN, Iran -- A woman who spent seven years on death row in Iran has been spared execution by the family of the police chief she stabbed to death and sexually mutilated for trying to rape her. The death sentence for Afsaneh Nowrouzi raised an outcry from activists and drew the attention of international groups who sought to overturn the order...
Sri Lankan accused of trying to sell grandchildren
(International News ~ 01/13/05)
BATAPOLA, Sri Lanka -- Police have arrested a 63-year-old Sri Lankan man on charges of trying to sell his two young granddaughters after their home was destroyed and their mother killed by the Asian tsunami -- a case that highlights the vulnerability of children in the wake of the disaster...
Donald Forehand
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
Donald M. Forehand, 88, of Sardis, Miss., died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at his home. He was born Dec. 30, 1916, in Portia, Ark., son of Marion Elmer and Mollie Ernestine Rapp Forehand. He and Zelma Shively were married March 30, 1940, in Charleston, Mo. She preceded him in death in 1999...
Joyce Johnson
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
Joyce A. Johnson, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2005, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born June 5, 1934, at Wolf Lake, Ill., daughter of Thomas L. and Donna Lingle Aldridge Sr. She and Gerald H. Johnson were married May 6, 1956, in Corinth, Miss...
Con McArthur
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
MORLEY, Mo. -- Con L. McArthur, 78, of Morley died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 10, 1926, in Aid, Stoddard County, Mo., son of William Verley and Mabel Gertrude Hudson McArthur. He and Mary Jane Gibbs were married March 6, 1948, in Rock Island, Ill...
Scott City graduate completes basic training
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
Navy Seaman Apprentice Tori L. Zyduck, daughter of Sharon K. and Perry L. Zyduck of Scott City, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training. Zyduck is a 2004 graduate of Scott City High School. -- From staff reports
New food pyramid will emphasize calories, exercise
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
WASHINGTON -- The government on Wednesday urged most Americans to eat fewer calories and exercise 30 to 90 minutes a day, updating guidelines that advised people to lose weight but gave few specifics on how to do it. The new dietary guidelines will be used to update the familiar food pyramid, which most people recognize but few heed. ...
World briefs 1/13/05
(International News ~ 01/13/05)
U.N.: Polio cases rose sharply in 2004; British flight backtracks after U.S. refuses flier; Opponent delays challenge of Ukraine presidential vote; EU moves closer to single European constitution
Franky G plays it tough and tender as ex-con going straight
(Entertainment ~ 01/13/05)
NEW YORK -- Seems like people are always chasing Jonny Calvo. Or punching him. Or otherwise being a pain. But Jonny -- brawny and street-smart -- can fend for himself, while obliging his need to help others who can't. It's all part of his high-stakes juggling act on "Jonny Zero," a fast-paced action show with heart and even a measure of comedy (check out Jonny brawling in a lobster costume). It premieres 8 p.m. Friday on Fox...
Witness - Abu Ghraib suspect disobeyed orders
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
FORT HOOD, Texas -- The first witness for Army Spc. Charles Graner, the alleged ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse case, said under cross-examination Wednesday that Graner routinely disobeyed orders while serving as a guard there. The testimony from Master Sgt. Brian Lipinski could undermine Graner's contention that he was just following orders to soften up Iraqi inmates for interrogation...
Deep Impact on course to crash with comet
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name -- Deep Impact -- blasted off Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a glimpse of the frozen primordial ingredients of the solar system. With a launch window only one second long, Deep Impact rocketed away at the designated moment on a six-month, 268-million-mile journey to Comet Tempel 1. It will be a one-way trip that NASA hopes will reach a cataclysmic end on the Fourth of July...
Nation briefs 1/13/05
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
Vehicles pile up amid fog in Michigan, Indiana; Ex-Klansman accused in killings posts bail; Witness: Abu Ghraib suspect disobeyed orders; Feds crack down on lasers aimed at pilots
Man's search for his family after mudslide ends in grief
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
LA CONCHITA, Calif. -- Jimmie Wallet went out for ice cream, and when he got back, everyone and everything he had left behind were gone. On Wednesday, he identified the bodies of his wife and three of his daughters, pulled from a tangle of homes smashed by a mudslide...
The race for a lifetime
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
You wouldn't know it to look at him, but Jim Hormann's life needs saving. True, on this day he is resting easy in his favorite chair with his youngest son napping in the next room, but Hormann may as well be flailing in the ocean, trapped in a burning building or plummeting toward earth with a defective parachute...
White House - Hunt for Iraqi WMD ends
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
WASHINGTON -- The White House acknowledged Wednesday that its hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction -- a two-year search costing millions of dollars -- has closed down without finding the stockpiles that President Bush cited as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein...
Bush looks to expand school tests
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
The impact of the No Child Left Behind Act -- felt mostly in elementary education right now -- may soon spread to high schools across the nation. Under a new plan unveiled by President Bush Wednesday, the federal law would require all students in grades three through 11 to take reading and math tests annually and 12th-graders to take tests in both subjects every two years...
Two elections required for Cape council seat
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
It will take two elections -- the second one in June -- to fill the vacant Ward 3 seat on the Cape Girardeau City Council, but perhaps only one election in April to fill the vacant Ward 4 seat. Ellen Dillon, an instructor at Southeast Missouri State University, filed Wednesday for Ward 3. She is the third candidate to file for the seat vacated by Jay Purcell who was elected to the county commission...
Sikeston man to lead state National Guard
(State News ~ 01/13/05)
Sikeston lawyer King Sidwell will take command of the Missouri National Guard after Gov. Matt Blunt on Wednesday appointed him adjutant general of the state's military forces. Sidwell, 54, logged 30 years of service in the Guard before retiring in August as a colonel. His last command was over the Engineer Brigade, 35th Infantry Division, based in Cape Girardeau...
Community digest 1/13/05
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
Cape Civil War group meeting Sunday; Discussion series, movie on tap at library
Community Q&A 1/13/05
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
* Name: Brittney D. Lee...
Vivian Burton
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
Vivian I. Watson Burton, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 10, 2005, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born June 26, 1928, in Carrsville, Ky., daughter of Daniel Ivan and Allie Belle Moore Watson. She and Kenneth L. Burton were married June 24, 1974. He died Aug. 10, 1994...
Jean Bozarth
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
Jean Bozarth, 68, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at the Lutheran Home. She was formerly of Dongola, Ill. She was born May 25, 1936, in La Valle, Mo., daughter of Ernest and Laura Tucker Douglas. She and the Rev. Lucien Bozarth were married July 14, 1957, in Ware, Ill...
Erwin Stuehmeyer
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Erwin Frank Stuehmeyer, 82, of Perryville died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at Perry County Nursing Home. He was born July 23, 1922, in St. Louis, son of Henry and Marie Schroeder Stuehmeyer. Survivors include two brothers, Oscar Stuehmeyer of Foster City, Calif., Henry Stuehmeyer of Petaluma, Calif.; and a sister, Lorraine Foelsch of St. Louis...
Patricia Fritsche
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
Patricia Fritsche, 55, of Fruitland died Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2005, at her home. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements.
Bertha Treadwell
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Bertha May Treadwell, 84, of East Prairie died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at East Prairie Nursing Center. She was born Dec. 30, 1920, in Kentucky, daughter of Charlie and Pearl Love. She first married William Brice Smith, who died Feb. 24, 1964. She and James Delmer Treadwell were married in December 1968...
Madeline Holmes
(Obituary ~ 01/13/05)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Madeline L. Holmes, 64, of Perryville died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Nov. 14, 1940, in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., daughter of Edward Harry and Beulah Vivian Anderson Holmes. Holmes was a retired teacher, having taught at schools in St. Mary and Bonne Terre, Mo...
Out of the past 1/13/05
(Out of the Past ~ 01/13/05)
25 years ago: Jan. 13, 1980 KELSO, Mo. -- It's been a long time in the making, but the restoration project of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso, Mo., is nearing completion.The scaffolds, paint cans, tools and construction workers will leave the 1889 church the first part of February, and the doors will once again be open to members of the church. Restoration began in 1978...
Club news 1/13/05
(Community News ~ 01/13/05)
Laureate Alpha Rho...
Births 1/13/05
(Births ~ 01/13/05)
Petzoldt; Riney; Hulvey; Vollink; McGill; Robinson; Bles; Myer
Area sports digest 1/13/05
(Other Sports ~ 01/13/05)
Davis earns honors; Tickets available
Area sports calendar 1/13/05
(Other Sports ~ 01/13/05)
Cape police report 1/13/05
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/13/05)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released Wednesday by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests * Andrew Coleman Noce, 23, 1013 N. Fountain St., Apt. A, was arrested on suspicion of assault. * Jeffrey Alan Harker, 40, 914 Old Cape Road, Jackson, was arrested on suspicion of burglary and stealing...
Cape/Jackson fire reports 1/13/05
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/13/05)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following items on Tuesday: * At 5:34 p.m., stand-by at the airport. * At 6:57 p.m., emergency medical service in the 2000 block of Steven Drive. Firefighters responded to the following items on Wednesday:...
School board filings ensure competitive regional races
(Local News ~ 01/13/05)
With less than a week before the close of filing, most Southeast Missouri school districts have plenty of candidates signed up for board of education races. With the exception of Cape Girardeau School District, where there is an additional one-year term opening, all local boards have three terms of three years each up for election...
Kraft curbing snack ads aimed at children to help fight obesity
(National News ~ 01/13/05)
NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- Kraft Foods Inc., the nation's biggest food manufacturer, said Wednesday it plans to curb its advertising of Oreo cookies, regular Kool-Aid and other popular snack foods to children under 12 as part of an effort to encourage better eating habits...
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This article began as a post on Facebook. It is being posted here as requested by KosherSalaam. Comments will be appreciated.
I get most of my best ideas when I am involved with water. Today, while I was watering the garden, just after putting in a load of wash, I was suddenly struck by the realization that Donald Trump IS NOT A BUSINESSMAN.
He's a deal maker. He buys and sells things. He doesn't make anything other than deals.
Every single business he has attempted in which he engaged in some kind of manufacturing or service industry product has failed. The only way he makes money is through the buying and selling of real estate, or licensing his name.
He's a salesman, not a businessman.
Okay, that's not a exactly late breaking news. However, it is something that has been overlooked by just about everyone who supports Trump.
What does the President of the United States have to sell? What product is he offering for sale?
The United States of America.
This corrupt, cynical, self-absorbed, self-centered, egomaniacal con artist is trying to sell off the United States to the highest bidders.
He wants to sell our roads - our rights of way - to private developers to have and to hold in perpetuity, collected tolls on roads that were formerly free.....forever.
He wants to sell off our National Parks to the oil companies and the private developers, breaking up our irreplaceable national treasures and putting private property signs on what are now public lands.
He wants to destroy free public education to create a generation of morons who will believe whatever they are told and do whatever they are instructed to do.
He wants to complete the process of converting America's home owners into tenants, so he and his cronies can rake in the bucks by jacking up interest rates to the point where ordinary people can no longer afford to buy homes and will have to rent places to live for the rest of their lives.
But the crown jewel in Donald Trump's ambitions is the elimination of the alternative minimum tax which costs him more each year than most Americans make in a lifetime. (The stories about Donald Trump not paying taxes were myths, and always were. His big tax write off ran out years ago.)
Lowering the maximum effective tax rate from 35% to 25%, combined with the elimination of the alternative minimum tax will drive the United States of America into bankruptcy and once we are bankrupt the fascists really take over.
While Republicans cry about the wealth transfer from rich to poor, they are in the process of executing the biggest con in the history of money, using the trickle down theory myth to justify wholesale tax cuts that will turn this country into an economic wasteland.
Why is the trickle down theory a myth?
1. Business expansion is driven by demand, not by conserved capital. Demand is driven by consumption, Consumption is generated by consumers buying products. Consumption is driven by increased discretionary income at the low end of the economic spectrum, the people we now call the 98%.
2. Tax cuts at the low end of the economic spectrum stimulate economies because they release pent up demand. Tax cuts at the high end of the economic spectrum fuel investment rather than consumption. This, as we have seen, drives the stock market into an inflationary spiral and inflation, of course, diminishes the value of the currency, making it more difficult for the 98% to drive the economy. As consumers are squeezed out of the marketplace, consumption goes down and the rationale for business expansion evaporates.
3. Tax savings received by corporations from the proposed tax cuts will not go into business expansion. The benefits derived from tax cuts result in increased profits and increased profits are distributed to shareholders (unless you own Berkshire Hathaway) in the form of increased dividends. This isn't a matter of choice. Corporations are compelled by precedent to distribute windfall profits to their shareholders, or face shareholder suits compelling them to do so.
4. Business expansion is almost always funded by debt from borrowing, except among a very small group of cash rich companies, who have so much conserved capital that it doesn't make sense for them to borrow but they didn't need tax cuts to generate that conserved capital. They did it themselves, with productivity.
If a business sees a reason to expand or develop new products, they will either go to the banks to borrow capital or they will issue new stocks and bonds to generate the necessary capital. No viable business ever refrains from business expansion or development because they are paying an effective tax rate of 35% rather than 25%. This is a complete myth.
5. Businesses always try to expand by borrowing because they can write off the interest on that debt which reduces the cost of the funds invested in new projects. When they use conserved capital, they do not get the benefit of the tax deduction.
6. The number one use for conserved capital isn't business expansion through organic growth. Most conserved capital that is not distributed in dividends is used to buy back stock, increasing management's control over the corporation, or for mergers and acquisitions, which almost invariably results in less competition, fewer jobs and eventually higher retail prices.
7. Tax cuts for high income individuals (I'm glad you asked) do not generate increased consumption of consumer goods, which is the segment of the economy that generates job growth. They already have all that stuff in multiples. Instead, those funds are invested in stocks, bonds, art work, gemstones, mansions, and yachts, high-dollar luxury items which all share one interesting characteristic: they are usually not labor intensive activities and therefore do not generate job growth. It takes maybe a hundred men to build a super-mansion or a super-yacht, highly skilled, well paid labor. It takes many times that number to build consumer residential housing or the family rowboat with the same total dollar value.
The belief that tax cuts for the wealthy generates economic growth has never been proven, either experimentally or in actual practice. It is a matter of fact, not speculation, that the economy suffers every time Republicans deal themselves a major tax cut, and revives whenever Democrats impose tax hikes. (Do the research. The information is out there.)
The Art of the Deal is not a blueprint for how to manage America. It is a model for how to sell off America to the highest bidders.
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What flim flam artist in their right mind would even think to them self that being a business person was a qualification to be POTUS?
Oh wait...
He sold it off already, to Mr Putin.
Thanks for bringing this over. I'm not on Facebook but Myriad is and she sent me over to this post. I've made some of these points before (and I'd imagine you have also) but certainly not all of them and this is well presented.
I'm in business and I thought about that in this context after I read this post. I wouldn't hire Trump. I don't mean because of politics or fame or any of that, I mean as a pure businessman. I survive on repeat business and he'd kill any of it he got near. He doesn't keep his word, he takes advantage of everyone he can, he bullies people, he refuses to learn about whatever doesn't interest him, and My God, the first time he refused to shake hands with someone in any capacity he'd be out. I can't afford juvenile. Most people who do business with him have to be fools or they have to have something on him. I think back to The Apprentice and think
What the Hell would I have learned about business from that man?
I've heard people talk about wanting a salesman who can sell ice to Eskimos. The problem is that Eskimos don't need ice, so you can do that once, maybe twice if you're really good. After that, the salesman can't get an appointment. If someone has the opportunity to recommend Trump or one of his competitors, where are they going? The ones who recommend him are likely to be the ones he pays off.
I'll tell you something about dealmaking. If the deal isn't extremely short term and a participant gets screwed, they'll do what they can to undermine the functioning of the deal, assuming they can afford to continue it at all. If they make money, they'll support it. If you want a stable deal, there's an extent to which you have to watch the backs of the people with whom you negotiate.
All good points. I am watching MSNBC, suffering through Rachel Maddow's insufferably pedantic delivery, but absolutely fascinated by the seemingly neverending parade of absolutely insane decisions by this fake president.
Re Rachel Maddow; The best place on TV to follow the money.
A comprehensive review I agree with. Trump was never a good businessman, he only played one on TV. Frustrating how easily people are taken in by image and superficial appearance. It's all abut the facade. Wall Street and many big corporations are like him in not producing goods or services but only engaging in currency trading and manipulation. So he's typical in that way. The right wing goal for 40years has obviously been to loot the public sector to finance the private sector. The European "austerity plans" are the same: put everything on the auction block and eliminate all human protections and all corporate accountability. Thanks for this detailed explication.
Anything the Right Wing says is a joke, no actual meaning whatsoever and merely a smokescreen, again, of one or another. What is sad is Americuns inability to distinguish between a public company and a private one, especially a small family held one. An example of a high end private company is Koch Industries. Koch is a monstrosity of a firm that nonetheless runs smoothly when not poising neighbors or customers, blowing things up accidentally, etc. And the famous Kochs inherited the ownership from their John Bircher Papa. Anyway, in a president what the average hick thinks is oh he's a big time business guy and automatically Trump equals Jack Welch or Bill Gates. Yeah. Right. Anyway. Welch and Gates and the other true leaders, like them or not, run public companies with shareholder meetings, earnings reports, etc. This is the so called business acumen that supposedly would help in politics and government. It is also the kind Trump has none of. His only flirtation was with the NJ bankruptcies, that is it. So, he actually had no experience particularly helpful in his background, never mind the graft and sedition, that would help him be an effective POTUS.
Excuse me, "poisoning neighbors" --- lets be fair and let Koch be Koch.
Privately held companies have their share of complexity. Just not Trump's, at least in the way you mean. Trump companies don't produce anything innovative. Trump's labor relations are awful. There's actually at least one way to measure this: How many contributions to his campaign came from his employees is public record. Extremely few of them, far fewer than State Dept. employees who contributed to Hillary's campaign. Trump doesn't protect the reputation of his name in business. Trump's deals tend to shaft people, limiting his ability to get repeat business because he burns bridges. There are private business leaders Imwould trust; just not this one.


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France, U.S., Texas:
captured in gem-like liquid
and sharing my glass.
This past Saturday offered me a chance to enjoy wine at home in San Antonio. San Antonio's newest wine shop, Vinously Speaking, hosted a tasting event that showcased French, American, and Texas wines. When I arrived, not long after the event's start time, Sean and I entered a quiet wine shop. We had time to browse through the eclectic selection (a well-earned adjective) before starting in on the wines.
The small little store greeted us with a French feel. French music, provided by DJ Phylo, and French goodies -- tasty cheeses -- lead us to the bar where owner Ceci Barretto was pouring five French wines. In the back portion of shop, fellow owner Melissa Unsell provided three unique American wines. Melissa had help from Pedernales Cellars own Shannon (pouring a great collection of Pedernales wines), Michelle from Daphne and Lola (offering a beautiful display of jewelry), and great BBQ turkey from Monz Bonz BBQ. How could this not be a good time?
Vive La France!
|French -- cheese -- display
|French White #2
|French White #1
- Whites: The two whites from Gascony were both dry and crisp with light flavors that were wonderfully refreshing on such a hot, humid July afternoon. What was most interesting was that the two whites came from nearly the same blend of two grapes -- this allowed for great comparison. Both wines, Cedrus le Blanc and San de Guilhem, contain Colombard and Ugni Blanc (I have to admit, thanks to Dry Comal Creek, I enjoy Colombard). The difference was an almost carbonated, sparkling feel in the San de Guilhem. By adding the grape Gros Manseng (a new one for me), the wine tends to pop a bit. These provided a great start to the tasting.
|Malbec Rose'
- Malbec: Two Malbec's from Racine de la Terre in Pays d'Oc highlighted a French varietal less associated with France than the New World. The first offering was a dry, rounded rose' that was light and hinted at its fruitier nature. The second, a typical red Malbec, was as expected from a French Malbec. Malbec, no matter the region, has a depth created by its earthiness. In France, this earthiness seems more like tobacco and minerals, creating an edgy depth and complexity. In Argentina, and in Texas, Malbecs are earthy, but the flavor is a smoother one that hints at softened leather and dry minerals. I reaffirmed my conclusion that I prefer New World Malbecs (though Sean appreciates the French ones).
- Red Blend: We ended with a more traditional French blend, a 2010 Cotes-du-Rhone Linteau Grenache blend. This wine, like so many French blends, needed to be opened up. Once I got a few swirls in and allowed the wine to rest for a few moments, I found a smooth wine that provided minerals and rich fruit. This ended the French selection well -- so much so that I brought a bottle home.
|Traditional French Malbec
|Cotes Du Rhone with Ceci in the background
And the rockets red glare...The American selection was limited to three choice, but these three showcased the variety of American wines that match well with each region's terroir and climate.
- White: The Chenin-Riesling blend from Gravity Hills in California's Central Coast surprised me. I am normally not a sweet wine drinker (as many Rieslings are), especially sweet whites (Muscat being the one exception), but this blend's Chenin Blanc softened the Riesling's sweetness and rounded out the wine well. Honestly, I was happy to just have a California white that wasn't a Chardonnay.
- Red 1: The Mankas 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon was next. This dark and earthy Cab was not what I expected. Normally, I find CA Cabs clear and straightforward, but this delightful wine was hearty and smooth with interesting earth notes.
- Red 2: The standout was a Sangiovese blend from Arizona. This surprising wine was bright, like its home state, and smooth. This wine was fruity and earthy. It rounded out the three wine selection for the US well.
|CA Cab
|AZ Sangiovese Blend
Don't mess with Texas!
|Pedernales Cellars and their fine selection
After a nice chat and tasting in back, Sean and I made our way to a bustling front room. In less than an hour, the little shop was almost bursting at its seams. This is a nice change from the past. Ceci and Melissa are the third owners of a wine shop in this spot, and I have witnessed all three (I use to live in an apartment that you can see from the back of the shop's complex). In the early days, they were wonderful but pricey for my limited budget. The next owner provided a limited and relatively safe collection of wines (nice but boring). This great little shop, hidden in a strip mall, back behind an always busy McDonald's, and flocked by office buildings, apartment complexes, and hospitals, is a great addition to the San Antonio wine community, and a touch of fun and class on the Northwest side. And on top of everything else, it is a great destination for Texas wine drinkers, with good Texas options and an array of less common wine choices to appease any palate. And best of all, the prices are reasonable and affordable. I'll be back for the next event and when I need a resupply of wine.
|A busy tasting room and a successful event!


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Ingredients for a big pot of soup:
one big sweet potato
4-5 carrots
one big onion
a can of coconut milk
0,75l of water
vegetable bouillon
coconut oil
1. Chop all the veggies and roast the onion, garlic and ginger in some coconut (or olive) oil.
2. Prepare 0,75 l of vegetable stock and put it and the coconut milk in the pot.
3. Add the sweet potato, carrot and some siracha. Wait until the sweet potato pieces are soft.
4. Mix everything with a blender and add some lime.
5. Add more spices if needed and put some cilantro on top before serving. Also goes really well with some fresh bread! Enjoy!