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Integrating music into our everyday lives.
My idea is all about making music and singing as a tool to set a positive cycle in motion that will encourage respect, communication and expression, which to me, are key ingredients to a society of individuals who can truly change the world.
No, this is not a new idea - but I think it's something we forgot how to do, and I want to help us remember.
I made a video to explain how we can reap the benefits of integrating music into our everyday lives called "Growing Back into Music", which you can watch here:
I'm so curious what you all think!
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May 6 2013: Hi Lizanne,
I agree in a big way!
Many thanks for your insights - your video has been helpful with my own perception of this subject.
I am reminded of Julie Fowlis and her work recovering the old Waulking songs of the flax workers.
The last 8 years my life have been dedicated to promoting the pennywhistle as a cultural instrument - a way back into our musical hearts. It is cheap and no one expects master-class performance on it (although some become masters).
It does not become a platform for "the music industry" as the guitar did, and it is not recognised as an orchestral instrument - and so escapes academic isolation from the people. Others are doing similar work with the ukulele, harmonica, concertina etc. Small easy methods of expressing music regardless of how well one can sing.
But, of course, singing is the root of music along with dance.
You correctly identify the isolation of the community from its song. This seems to me a part of the process of exclusion that is practiced by those seeking disproportionate wealth and status. We see it in every aspect of our lives.
It is plain, that music is part of the "totem" of community identity .. when we sing together we subconsciously accept the community of the singers - it binds us.
My experience down the years is that musical ability is innate, but will atrophy if there is no exposure in early childhood. This atrophy manifests as "tone deafness" and results in someone who believes they cannot sing. It is a kind of poverty. Surrounding our children with music and song enhances the health of the family and community.
It is a travesty that we are made to pay for something we already own. The argument of excellence and mastery is always rolled out to overcome the truth. For those who accept that lie, I would suggest they get involved in an Irish music session, learn some of the traditional tunes and participate. When you do that, you can see plainly that there is no "audience" - just togetherness.
Bogdan BudaiMay 6 2013: Mitch, I enjoyed reading your opinion about this idea and I am glad I did it.
Your answer was very well argumented and it made me think about other ideas and made me make more connections.
I also consider playing an instrument, weather at a beginner lever or at an expert level, is very useful for human development and growth. Too bad the society is not supporting this behavior and act.
I also consider, as you and Lizanne did, that it's not necessarily about the talent, but about expressing your emotions and your inner feelings through music.
May 7 2013: Hi Bogdan,
This notion of "talent" is over-blown.
It is not necessarily "born-into" people.
From my experience it mostly flows from the reality experienced in early childhood.
There may be an inherited component - but that would amount to the cumulative adaptation of a community with music. Talent is the default - not having talent indicates a poverty of community.
Wherever you are on this planet, you will find some group of musicians maintaining your cultural musical tradition. They are often "invisible" to the those who walk modern lifestyles, but they are not hiding - If you look for them you will find them - and they will be more than happy to help you develop any skills, either in song or instrument. Folk festivals are a good place to start the search.
It's well worth the journey.
May 7 2013: Hey Mitch, oops - I missed this comment of yours!
I agree, 'talent' is something not everyone possesses. What a world this would be, if we were all possessed natural-born talent!
Talent is aptitude, and when stimulated in a positive way, can become a skill, and even a profession.
What I believe, is that we all possess the gift of music and singing, regardless of the level of execution.
May 6 2013: Thank you so much for your thoughts, Mitch! I wholeheartedly agree with what you said, that "It is a travesty that we are made to pay for something we already own". We all posses a 'toolbox' of music that we have with us at all times, and can utilize at all times, whenever and wherever we may find ourselves! It's a question of stimulating it and teaching kids to utilize it, not just as children but for the rest of their lives.
On a side note, I too am an avid pennywhistle lover. My Irish heritage played a strong role in my upbringing, we had a basket of pennywhistles in every key that was within easy reach and played with fervor at any given moment. I have followed that tradition in my home - it's the instrument my kids' friends always reach for first when they come over to play!
Thank you for passing on your passion for this wonderfully accessible and traditional instrument!
May 7 2013: Hi Lizanne,
There is something that awakens when one fully integrates music into one's life.
To start with, one starts being more than one.
Practice of music enhances every other aspect of life. It integrates mind, "spirit" and body and sharpens awareness.
Then a journey begins.
It is not by accident that musicians often recognise the dynamics of social capital and turn their backs on commercial intellectual property. Copyright-seeking "performers" are not musicians in my book - having been such a copyright seeker at one time, I am glad to have escaped it.
There are still places for excellence - excellence as a personal goal seems to come as a side-effect of the love of music, but the instant wealth or fame becomes the goal, music departs.
At one time I played pop music. The people in that field were often rather nasty. The people I find in the folk music community are not like that - they are humble, open and inclusive, and in my opinion, better musicians than those you find in the "music industry".
If everyone were to find their voice in music and simple community, all would recognise the perversion of modern economic and political doctrines.
These are large claims - but seem obvious from my standpoint. Without observing true community dynamics first hand, one would not be able to understand this.
I promote traditional music - it is not just a whimsy - it is the spine of folk-tradition that maintains the ancient flow of human wisdom. Once you "get it" it all becomes clear.
May 7 2013: Hi Mitch!
Yup, I've been in that boat too!
I agree with you about traditional and folk music, the fact that it is so deep-rooted and so connected with humanity and culture is reason enough to promote it!
Personally, I can't place one genre over another. There is popular music that rubs me the wrong way, and pop music that inspires me. I think exposure to all genres is important in understanding and appreciating music in its entirety.
Taste, however, is up to each individual, and indisputable!
May 7 2013: Yes .. there's "stuff" and "stuff" ..
It all looks the same till you taste it .. I mean really taste it ..
Commitment ..
I have this total image of the "work of your life" ..
If you never found it .. you would have no idea what I just said.
So our work starts with making little doors - we all love each other .. and any door we can make .. any little window that light can get through .. that is our work. It is only through these tiny stupid little doors that take a whole lifetime to open, that we can actually love each other.
That is worth spending a life to do.
I salute you for the door you have opened. Those who come through it will realise how well you have done. .. for the rest .. let's see how many we can get through?
May 7 2013: A story:
Before Christmas, I got a note from an old flute-maker.
He asked me about my "waiting list" and honestly revealed that the cancer that was killing him prevented him from playing his own flutes at his favourite session .. and please, could he have a whistle - it takes less breath.
So I dropped everything, took the best bit of wood I had, and the best metal and spent a whole week honouring his need.
I got an email from his widow last week .. he has passed, and the whistle was given to his grandson - who played it at his funeral.
I Replied my condolences, and hopes for the new life.
Blue mixes with yellow .. and life is composed of all colours.
May 8 2013: It wasn't his desire that moved me - it was his reality. And his honesty.
Up above all the rubbish we have to do to get through the morass of mistaken humans and their short-sighted imperatives and lies, opinions and illusions .. there is the truth.
You know you have truth when you are part of these stories.
I am in denial that all humans cannot tell these stories - we all can .. why aren't we?
To me .. that is important.
And look - science proves beyond any controvercy - talent is available to all - it's simple brain plasticity - the older you get, the longer it takes .. there is no limit.
But having exposure in early childhood puts you ahead of the field.
Ego makes up self-inflating stories - don't fool yourself.
May 6 2013: In my son's public grade-school, they all played recorder in music class. And, of course, starting in pre-school, kids do lots of singing. It stops as a regular thing in secondary school, but it is easy to get secondary school students to sing together- solos harder. I think percussion instruments of all kinds are extremely inclusive as well.
Later this month, I will be attending, as I have for the last twenty-five years, the largest free folk festival in the United States. There are 7000 registered performers, but all sorts of people will walk onto the grounds for four days with their own drums, fiddles, flutes, and washboards, guitars, didgeridoos... and position themselves wherever they please, alone or in the drum circle or on 'blue-grass hill"...
I thought of you immediately, Mitch, when I noticed the first performer I will announce (I am an emcee of a couple of stages for three hours on two different days). He plays native american flute.
May 6 2013: Oh, the recorder... I personally have a love-hate relationship with it, partly because it was my first instrument and partly because of the shrill sound it makes, with so little space for dynamics!
I think playing an instrument is an entirely different story - the benefits of which are also too many to list here! I think the beauty of this concept is that you already possess everything you need to make music: your body, and your voice. And you already possess everything you need to sing and make music about: your thoughts, emotions, questions, achievements...
This festival sounds simply incredible, Fritzie.
Who knows what inspiration will arise from a gathering of music enthusiasts of all walks of life!
May 6 2013: I agree we come with a voice. But we can also make percussion instruments out of common objects all around us. And lots of kids, particularly boys, really connect to the active aspect of percussion.
I sing all the time, with an average voice. But I treasure my melodic drum (I have forgotten to what key it is 'tuned."
May 6 2013: Absolutely, Fritzie!
I put that part in the video about banging on the dinner table with your silverware for a reason!
And similarly, a set of pots and pans and a wooden spoon make for a super drum kit.
And, actually, who needs equipment at all when we've got our bodies ready to beat a rhythm on and with!
I agree, there is something very primeval about beating out a rhythm, that plays as much a role in this concept as using our voices.
Is there a certain key a melodic drum should be tuned to?
May 6 2013: They are each built to a key. Some keys are preferable for novices, because all sorts of spontaneous combinations sound good. Other keys are better for people with more music experience.
If you do a search, you will find sites that will let you hear the difference in the drums they make. I will not link one here, because these will be sites of little businesses.
May 7 2013: Hi Fritzie,
If all goes to plan, I will try to get to that festival in a year or 2 .. along with the Willie Clancy fest in Ireland.
Part of my journey has been the exploration of making the whistles. As an exercise in manufacture, the journey has lead me away from the common modern trade paradigm. The whistles became popular and my order book got up to 2 years long waiting time. 2 years is an insane time to wait for something - and there was no way to promise when, if ever, the order would be fulfilled. So I stopped taking orders and started accepting requests. Even this didn't work, so I closed my request book. When the book is cleared, I will make the whistles and take them to festivals for the players to discover. There is a specific magic that happens when the right player meets the right instrument. It has to be done in person, in the real world, and there is no formula to predict which player will "click" with which whistle .. the whistle might be a simple $5 tin whistle, or it might be one of the grand ones that take me days to make. There is no place for bald economics in music. We enjoy our wonderful technology - phones and internet and such, but the only way to be truly alive - is in-person.
On the recorder: the recorder is a chromatic woodwind. The chromatic tradition is based on the even-temperament of the piano and has come to dominate western music.
Real music is played in the just-temperament which has exact harmony where the even temperament does not. Even-temper is a compromise devised to standardise orchestral instruments for the purpose of playing 11 recognised keys. Real music is not compromised like that.
The reason that recorder is taught in western schools is that, at one time, to qualify as a teacher, one had to have proficiency in an orchestral instrument.
Educators are not always musicians, so the teachers would quickly learn recorder to get their qualification.
If not for that, whistle would be taught in schools - it's more intuitive.
May 7 2013: When you come to Folklife, I hope you will get in touch. I don't travel to it, as I live a few minutes from the festival grounds.
Your description of the magic that happens when the right player meets the right instrument reminded me of the first of the Harry Potter books, The Sorcerer's Stone (or, in England, The Philosopher's Stone). In the wand shop when Harry is to purchase his wand, the proprietor explains that the wizard doesn't pick the wand. Rather the wand picks the wizard.
Harry gives several a wave, with poor effects. Then he waves one that works as if it were made for him.
May 7 2013: Yes, it sounds trite, but it's true.
At any given time there will be 10 to 20 "Olivanders" of the whistle on planet Earth.
It is a protected branch of humanity due to the fact that there are not many pennies in a pennywhistle - because of this, there will never be enough master whistle makers - and because of that, there is no such thing as competition. We mostly know each other due to the internet and welcome new entrants - according to orthodox economics: the demand will always exceed the supply .. but the match of instrument to player is the true economy - it is well balanced in the real world.
May 6 2013: It may be co-incidental but I am drawn to a musical instrument of my native Bengal as if it is a living being. It's an one string instrument that minstrels and wondering holy men play as accompaniment of their songs. It's called Ektara or Gopichand. Since Mitch mentioned ukulele, harmonica and concertina, I could not resist mentioning it.
May 7 2013: Hi Lizanne,
As a singer you will appreciate this:
I am told that, to be an Indic traditional singer, one has to spend the first year or 2 finding one's personal note. After that is found, the raga are then permitted to be performed by the singer - and all the instruments (including the drums) must be tuned to the singer.
May 7 2013: Hi Pabitra,
The musical tradition in the sub continent is not properly understood in the west.
The Indic musical tradition is fully integrated into all facets of life. It is not isolated to a theatrical stage or packaged as a commoditised "entertainment".
Here's a little story: I set out to make a dedication whistle to honour some Mysorean rosewood that came out of India with the Raj. Based on the Mysore festival, I decided to call it "Durga".
As part of the research, I was contacted by a North Indian fellow who explained the full meaning of the Durga festival, so I had to understand the legend and how it fit into the culture.
My friend read to me the legend of Durga over the phone - he read it from an ancient Sanskrit book owned by his family - a tale that took 2 hours in the telling.
From the legend I found I had to make 3 whistles in a set - Durga, Shiva and Mahishhah Durga and Shiva have their own raags, - and the whistles were tuned to play these raags. For Mahishhah, there is no raag, so I used the western diatonic scale to represent the Raj - but tuned it to the 22 note southern Indian tones. The final designs were executed in the Mysore rosewood by a flute-maker in Barrow-upon-Humber in England and sent to me.
None of these whistles were sold - the spiritual thread of the instruments carried them away into the community - Shiva and Durga are presumably changing hands - into the hands which require them. Mahishhah remains with me - I keep him to remind me that heaven cannot be taken by force.
What also remains with me is the grand integration of music and life - and the "magic" that happens when that integration is allowed to happen.
May 7 2013: I liked your story, Mitch :) You will be happy to know that I come from a part of India where Durga festival, locally known as Durga Puja, is the mainstay of the culture. I am very happy to know that you are familiar with the legend of Durga, the motherhead of power and destroyer of evil.
Interestingly, in the tradition of North Indian Classical music, there is raaga named Durga.
I found it very interesting that Durga, the legend as you say, is identified with a raaga, not a raagini (a feminine form of movement as contrasted with a raaga), despite Durga is a mother deity.
I also tend to think, when it's a legend, a musical movement and a cultural mixture - there is no better ground of integration one can imagine.
May 7 2013: Oh yes, I've heard that, Mitch!
There are singing workshops that work with that premise too - people find their own note and wander around the room, keeping to their note, while listening to each other. I don't remember what it's called, but I have tried it and it is pretty incredible. But, finding your own note is not something that takes a matter of hours, but indeed, a matter of years.
I really love what you wrote about "the grand integration of music and life - and the "magic" that happens when that integration is allowed to happen. " Here, here to that!
May 8 2013: Pabitra,
There are 22 prayers of overcoming that the Goddess Durga gives us as the defence to the violators of heaven.
There are 22 exact tones in the southern Indic scales measured from the singer's note.
There are many times of day that hold certain reality - we are there or we are in a no-place. And the song of our life is a symphony of journey in this universe.
Durga is a goddess made up of all the most powerful parts of all the gods. She slew Hahishhah - the immortal of Brahma - using the discus of Shiva.
The other part of Durga is Kali.
I have met them both - and both of Shiva and both of Mahishhah.
Here is the truth of gods:
If you sacrifice to them them - they bless you - and show themselves to you.
If you deny them - they bless you - and do not show themselves.
If you do their work - they do not bless you. You become them.
The blessing is not of you - it is of them - all that power! And none of it for you.
So spoke Shiva and Durga to me.
I am yet to explain why Brahma blessed Mahishhah and why it is permitted of the demon lord to take and to destroy. Is there no future in heaven?
May 8 2013: I think you are referring to Mahishasura, the demon?
I love Durga story, the legend as myth and do not deny that the spiritual message of awakening of power to fight against and win over 'evil's as found in the story is culturally profound. However, my appreciation ends there. It's a story, an interesting one, a large section of humanity attaches spiritual importance to it, that is awesome - but a story nonetheless. And there are several different versions of it , just like resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I, by no means disrespect your sentiments and feelings about it, but I am on a different page, I guess :)
"If you deny them - they bless you - and do not show themselves." True. I have never seen them.
I can find out 21 of the stotram (prayer) for Durga.
Am I missing something?
Or may be we should discuss this somewhere else?
May 8 2013: Ok, I shall make an attempt. I am not a musician so my view may be non-conformist :)
You said : integrating music into life : Growing back in Music. I see Om or Aum in Vedic tradition as the first syllable and note both. I don't know if any other ancient culture ever had a sound identified as the purest form of spirituality.
And you may be interested in the oldest heard musical rendition in vedic chants.
For at least 3000 years this is one unbroken tradition of worship where music and life merged with one another. I don't believe in a God but certainly believe in the strength of tradition.
May 9 2013: Pabitra, you say, "I am not a musician so my view may be non-conformist". Well neither am I! No one needs to be a musician to understand and appreciate the importance, and indeed tradition, of music.
Those links you shared are truly fascinating - when I do vocal warming up with my students, we often begin with the sound 'om', I was aware that it had meaning, but I never knew about the deep-rooted significance of that sound!
Chanting is another way of using our natural rhythmic and singing ability together, getting a message across as a whole, which would not exist without each individual. Very beautiful, and incredibly strong! Thanks!!
May 9 2013: @Pabitra,
I learned Mahish-hah - the son of Rambha lord of the demons.
Mahish is the buffalo.
In the old Sanskrit book Shyamala was not cursed to be a buffalo - she was just an attractive buffalo that Rambha desired to rape. The rape child was mahishhah.
Rambha heard news of the child and was fearful that he would challenge him and had all the buffalos killed - the slaughter began and Shyamala went to Brahma for help - Brahma made Mahishhah immortal and thus he escaped the massacre - which took his mother.
Mahishhah blamed the gods and in rage and revenge attacked heaven - and defeated the hosts of heaven.
In their sanctuary, the great gods made a golem called Durga of the parts of the greatest gods armed with the most powerful weapons and mudras.
Durga went to battle against the legions of Mahishhah before the doors of the sanctuary of heaven and in a 100 day battle finally cut Mahishhah's throat with the discus of shiva.
Across India the story is told in different shades and names.
This is the story told me from the old book - I cannot say the talk amongst the gods as it is a story that takes 2 hours to tell - and I would have to get it translated to me again. I preserved the story in whistles and they have the Sanskrit names engraved on them.
When I delivered the work to this world, these gods came in the form of humans and blessed me.
It takes courage to pronounce OM - and it takes courage to ask for the words of Om that are the words of your self - the secret words that none must know.
You will see - the plastic wrapper being woven around your secret word. I would say .. cover yourself in buffalo turds and the plastic wrapper will dissolve.
Who are the Brahman except you and I my friend?
I am Shaman of the north - I bring news of the south.
Time for courage.
Time to be the Buddha.
Time to enter into courage. And life.
May 9 2013: Dear friend, Brahman is no God. it is a conceptual pinnacle of spirituality and detached from divinity. Brahman is the unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world, which cannot be exactly defined. I completely disagree with Radhakrishnan who described Brahman as the absolute Godhead which is the divine ground of all being in modern Hinduism.
I am quite awed and humbled with the knowledge of humanity's spiritual journey and evolution from ancient times. The pillar of Hinduism, the first of the four canonical texts of Vedas, the Rigveda is a collection of hymns of a pastoral, nomadic people settling in an unknown territory and it is profound enough how they started to worship natural elements.
When I was 11 years old, I was initiated into Brahminism through a ritual named 'Upanayana' (a second birth of a human into knowledge of self) where I was taught, as a fresh Brahmin, the Gayatri hymn, which was amongst the first musical/lyrical inspirations I got.
I don't know how courageous I am, honestly. But with the story of life where I stand today, it appears to me that looking at life at it's face, asking questions and weighing answers on the razor's edge all the while when Gods allure one to stop and submit and get peace is no act of cowardice either.
May 10 2013: No .. we cannot be gods.
This much is clear.
And, as in the prayers of the dead - to be properly human is to "not get stuck" by Shiva or Durga or Ganesh ro Jesu or Yaveh or Albert Einstein or the grunting fascination of lovers lost in each other.
I have only windows into Hindi and Buddhist teaching through the teachings that were laid before me by .. I presume are gods ... I am of the simple shaman in tradition. That which is found, not taught. Compared to the Indic wisdom .. I'm like a wild dog. All I say is not any more than vomit.
But as a wild dog I vomit and roll in corpses. It's not popular, but it makes me happy.
The nice bit of carrot in this particular regurgitation is the way that the Indic music is not music as westerners see it .. except maybe the Irish .. it does not exist up on some vaunted stage above the commoners .. it is like blood .. it carries an essential fluid of life that will never stop .. we just sing - we are all dogs howling at moons and ambulances - birds in treetops singing "I am here".
And it's fun to do that - we need no justification - and payment is only to parasites - they can be scraped off with a scaling knife when the itch gets too much.
(Pentameter is fun to use I think,
But haiku is best - it gives us 3 things to say, when we feel the urge)
May 11 2013: I salute you the shaman of the North and call you a friend. :)
With all my silliness, let me tell you that there is no East or West in the depth of a human soul. Over some great distance on earth you and I are tied to the same umbilical cord that is life. If you mass spectrograph our tears and track the muscle movements of our smiles - none can tell Mitch from Pabitra.
I will never discard your wisdom as vomit.
And we revere Irish connection here in Bengal through Margaret Noble.
I hear what you say my friend.
May 11 2013: HI Pabitra,
Friend indeed!
I am just a dog. Who needs more than that! I have learned a lot from dogs .. and cats .. and trees as well. In fact .. my "money" comes from trees right now . I am allowed to keep living because I know how to make a bit of tree become a bit of a human. .. I am a kind of tree/human match maker and arrange marriages between them through the ring of music.
I mourn that so many of our brides are extinct .. The whistle that I made for the dead man was made of a wood extinct 100 years .. it is the true west indies cocus - long gone .. and the best flute-wood ever found. The Conquerors of South America did more than despoil the gold in their attack on heaven - they plundered the very skin and bones of the earth for the entertainment of dead children to have money that has long since expired from life - we call them "capitalists" and they have all been "amortised" .. made dead .. they are the zombies and exist in video-games - but some of us are allowed to see .. and in seeing, contain the map .. and nothing will be lost when we come home .. many years from now.
Fun now .. or life. It's just entropy. No one is qualified to judge, because the court is life. And it never ends. Even having the arrogance to inflect entropy enough to allow our skin is bold and dangerous, but the rule of life is that we must. And I will not apologise for that :)
I am joyful to find a friend!
May 12 2013: Here is a gift.
Here is another friend of ours who we have not met yet:
I can see the waves that flow over us - it dictates what we talk about .. it's kinda silly when you watch it. You see the wave .. then everyone is talking about the wave .. very few talk about what the wave is saying - and no one talks about what makes the wave in the first place.
Although quite a few have asked us to talk about it.
If I could get anything done .. it would be to convince myself .. and everybody else the thing that cats and dogs and trees already know:
Be still .. all is well.
That is the only mantra worth chanting - or contemplating.
I have a draft thesis that will remain in draft for all of time.
If you would like, I can send it to you. It is not found in any university - except my life. And only my friends can have it.
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Right now, more than 75 bidders have driven the prices for the kits to $9,025 (NFC kit) and $12,525 (AFC kit). You can also bid on the Super Bowl XLVIII-logoed drumsticks Chad Smith will use for rehearsal and for the performance.
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September 11, 2001: A clear, crisp fall day in Washington, DC, and New York.
I was shooting a routine photo assignment in the District when my Blackberry went off.
"Explosion a the Pentagon" the message read. I walked out on the street and looked towards Virginia. Smoke snaked into the air from the direction of the Pentagon. I loaded my cameras into my Jeep Wrangler and headed towards the 14th Street Bridge.
But police had already closed off the bridge so I headed towards Southeast DC and the entrance to I-295, which led through Anacostia towards the DC Beltway.
While waiting at a stoplight near the main gate of the Washington Navy Yard, I saw Marines armed with M-16s guarding the gate — an unusual site. I snapped some photos from the open Jeep before the light changed.
Arriving at the Pentagon, I pulled the Jeep into the grass alongside Columbia Pike. A morning commuter sat by his car. He looked dazed.
"A plane hit the Pentagon," he said. "It just flew into the building and disappeared. Then the explosion."
A light pole crushed the front hood of a taxicab. The driver of the cab said the plane flew so low overhead that it knocked the pole down onto his hood.
I grabbed my cameras and headed a rise to get a better view. Smoke poured out of a gaping hole in the side of the huge structure. An acrid odor assaulted my senses: Burning kerosene and something else — the stench of burning human flesh. I had smelt it before, many years ago in a far off land. It was something I hoped I would never smell again.
For the next 17 hours, I went on autopilot, shooting photos and handing the compact flash cards from my Nikon D1s to a runner who brought fresh cards and a batteries. I would be several hours before another photographer and I working on that hillside would learn that two other planes had struck the World Trade Center in New York and even longer before hearing the news that United 93 had crashed into a field.
My photos would not only appear on Capitol Hill Blue but in newspapers, magazines and web sites around the world.
And it would be early the next day before I staggered home to our condo in Arlington — only about five miles from the Pentagon.
Stuck in the door was a card from an Criminal Investigations Service at the Navy yard. I called the number. He wanted to know why I was taking photos at the main gate the day before.
I explained who I was and gave him the ID number of my Department of Defense press pass. He verified my identity and said he was sorry to have bothered.
"We have to follow up on these things," he said. "It's a bit tense around here."
Yes, it was. I collapsed into bed knowing that life in America had changed on the day before and would never, ever, be the same.
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Thank you Chief for another remarkable commentary of the horror oif 9-11. You have an eye for drama and a heart and writing ability to make it real.
This morning on "Morning Joe" they interviewed Pasquale Rotella who on that morning had just arrived at his job with the Port Authoritry and talked about his survival of riding a chunk of concrete down the elevator shaft or stairwell that brought him safely down to earth. The Discovery Channel is showing his story this evening at 8 PM.
His thoughts during that horrible fall were for his wife who was pregnant with their first child and managed to hold herself together and tell her husband by phone what had happened as she could still get television coverage.
It took years of reflection for Mr. Rotella to relive that morning as shock can often help the person involved to survive. It is a remarkable story and will be shared with all of us.
Thank you for your commentary on the Pentagon disaster. When you brought this to Reader Rant so many years ago it sold many of us on your talent for reporting.
Lucky guy. It's amazing how a few always survive. Even in the horror of Hiroshima a few also remained unhurt almost as if they were being protected, while so many other perish instantly their lives snuffed out in mid-stride. Yes, a day most of us will never forget, yet it didn't change things for the better did it? Today's mess is a straight line form that horrifying day isn't it?
blutodog. There are always survivors in the most horrible attacks on all sides of a terrorism war. Americans seems to have short memories but the wrath that sits in their emotions return during times of stress. By the time 8 PM hit here in California, I had felt such remorse for all Americans that I had had quite enough of the emotions following 9-11. I'm one of those old women who cry easily when I recall that so many of my family members and friends were in terrible jeopardy on that horrible Tuesday morning.
In 2001 I had lost a Hospice patient that previous day and I do not lose a parient well even when they are terminally close to death. Working so hard to maintain dignity with my patients is not always easy and watching 3000 people killed in a matter of hours, did me in. It came back yesterday.
I ordered Richard Clarke's book on his experience in the white house and his notes were very clear and precise. He added a time line of 9/11 and it did not match with the Commission Report. I was not fond of President Bush 43 and will go to my grave that he somehow knew this attack was going to happen. No, I do not think he planned it but he knew….he knew.
The worst part is the victory handed to terrorists by the fearful and those that would use their fear to consolidate power in the Unitary Executive. Yeah, we've changed. We torture, we hold people indefinitely without trial, we disappear people, we assassinate, we invade countries unprovoked. I can't help but wonder if the people that died that day would be proud of what we have become.
Link to a video with news footage of the Pentagon and Flight 93.
There are so many unanswered questions about 9/11. That's all I'm saying.
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"If they decide to put 87 at quarterback, then I'll go out there," said a calm but confident Reggie Wayne among a crowd of reporters on Friday. "And I'm sure they'll rally around me also."
They'll refers to his Colts teammates and the statement itself is in regards to the biggest story in professional football as the first games begin to kick off.
But if anything Wayne's words are an attempt by the team to send somewhat of a message to the outside football world: Peyton Manning is not there-and probably won't be any time soon.
Hope-and the faith in those around them-does remain.
"There's nothing you can do. Either let it go on deaf ears or you let it bother you," said Wayne of the many football pundits and fans who believe the Colts will falter without number 18. "I think everybody in this locker room has dealt with it the same way, and that is to not let it bother us at all.
"We don't feel like we have to prove anything to anybody, and we're going to go out there and it's going to be the same mentality. We want to go out there and win."
While doing so probably won't require Wayne to take any snaps, it will require a certain level of performance that may exceed those of the past. It begins with Manning's immediate replacement: Veteran quarterback Kerry Collins.
He's had a little over two weeks and one preseason game to get a handle on the Colts offense that Manning has run for every game since 1998 until Sunday's NFL season opener against the Texans at Reliant Stadium.
Its for that reason that the offense will not likely feature the same look or pace as it did with the usual starter running it. Collins even admits it.
"Peyton's so unique in the things he does, and I don't think anybody expects me to go out there and run the offense like Peyton Manning," said Collins when asked Friday if the offense would look different with him running it. "That's a whole other ballgame that we're talking about. But I know that I'm very comfortable with what we're doing.
"It's going to be a lot of the same things, as far as what this offense asks of the quarterback."
Austin Collie will be one of those likely to see plenty of passes come his way on Sunday but he believes that different won't be an automatic negative.
"Obviously it is going to be a little bit different. Peyton was a guy who ran this offense, but we have all the faith in the world in Kerry," said Collie. "He's done a great job so far, as far as picking up the offense and making sure he puts us where we need to be."
What he'll need to be is great, considering the Colts solid number from a year ago. In 2010 the team was fourth in the league in both points (27.2) and yardage (380.8) per game even without having Collie and Dallas Clark for a majority of the year.
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A series of antismoking ads featuring Ronaldo Martinez, a throat-cancer survivor who speaks through an artificial voice box, may have helped cut smoking rates among men and Hispanics in New York City, the New York Times reported July 17.
The campaign, titled, "Nothing Will Ever Be the Same," details some of the post-cancer challenges faced by Martinez, including never being able to swim again. Martinez, 53, is a native of Puerto Rico and resident of the Bronx.
"People run and call after me, everybody wants to spend a day with me so they can see how I live," Martinez said. "To the tobacco companies, I have nothing to say except that they are responsible for the pain and consequences of smoking."
In 2006, when the campaign debuted, smoking among New Yorkers fell from 18.9 percent the previous year to 17.5 percent. Smoking declined 11.6 percent among men and 15.2 percent among Hispanics.
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"It was good to get the win, but I didn't think we looked as sharp as we did against Buffalo a week earlier," said PHS head coach Jim Stringer. "I didn't think we played with the same level of intensity, and there were some little details that we didn't take care of (against Riverton). We looked sharp in practice, but during game situations we looked a little befuddled and a little shaky. I'm not sure why, but we looked shaky on some things that we've been doing pretty well during the previous two or three weeks."
With that said, Stringer noted the Panthers' passing game did a solid job of taking advantage of taking what the Riverton defense was giving. He also said he was impressed by the defense, led by defensive coordinator Mike Heny.
"I thought we did pretty well when it came to taking advantage of Riverton's defense," Stringer said. "We got two of our passing touchdowns on flag routes and one on a slant underneath. We were able to identify what Riverton was doing, and I thought the passing game, for the most part, did a good job of taking what the defense was giving us.
"As for the defense, our guys didn't give up much yardage. Riverton did get a score late, but by that time we had gone the JV route. A big reason they were able to get into the end zone was because of a botched snap by our offense that gave them a short field to work with."
Though the game ended with a 28-point spread, it did take PHS more than a quarter to reach the end zone. Playing without senior lineman Zach Wagner, who was lost to a knee injury early in the contest, the Panthers got their first score on a six-yard strike from Galen Mills to Gavin Mills with just less than seven minutes remaining before halftime. Drayson Bratt added the PAT to cap the 65-yard march.
The Mills twins hooked up for another six-yard touchdown throw and catch with 7:58 left to play in the third quarter. Bratt's PAT put the finishing touches on the 77-yard scoring drive.
During the fourth quarter, Galen Mills threw his third six-yard touchdown pass of the game, this time to Ryan Brandt at the 10:33 mark. That score was set up by none other than Galen Mills, who gave PHS a first down at Riverton's 15. Following Brandt's touchdown reception, Bratt's PAT extended PHS's lead to 21-0.
Shortly after moving ahead by three touchdowns, Powell was the beneficiary of a forced fumble by Trent Gillett. Rustin Myrick recovered the ball to put Powell at Riverton's 23. Three plays later, Galen Mills cashed in on the Riverton miscue by scoring on a six-yard run. Bratt converted the PAT to increase PHS's lead to 28-0 with 9:40 left to play.
The Panthers' final score of the night came on a 25-yard run by Gavin Mills on a reverse. Powell's PAT attempt failed, but the Panthers were cruising with 5:49 to play, leaving Riverton with a 34-0 deficit.
The Wolverines' lone touchdown came after a PHS turnover at the Panther 37. Facing a short field, Riverton quickly drove the ball into the Panthers' red zone. The scoring drive was capped by Brandon Jennings, who scored from seven yards out.
Powell finished the game with 147 yards on 49 attempts. Galen Mills led the way with 59 yards on 16 carries. He was followed by Harshman's 29 yards on 15 carries, and Gavin Mills' 25 yards on one attempt.
Galen Mills, in the passing department, finished with nine completions, three touchdowns and two interceptions on 19 attempts for 147 yards.
Gavin Mills was on the receiving end of five passes for 90 yards. Brandt added two catches for 30 yards. Harshman finished with one catch for 18 yards.
Defensively, Trevor Donarksi led PHS with 19 defensive points. Matt Kifer had 15 defensive points, and Matt McArthur finished with 10. Kifer, Galen Mills and Trent Gillette each had one interception, and Gavin Mills and Rustin Myrick each had one fumble recovery.• Up next: Powell (2-1, 1-0) will face 4A West Conference rival Lander (1-2, 1-1) Friday in Powell at 7 p.m


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RICHMOND, Ky. – The University of Tennessee at Martin soccer team needed just one goal to pick up their fourth consecutive win against Eastern Kentucky on Sunday afternoon. Aoife Lennon scored her third goal of the season to give the Skyhawks the 1-0 victory. The win marks the first time in program history that the Skyhawks have swept Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky on the road.
The Skyhawks (6-7-1, 4-1 OVC) were led by Lennon who scored the lone goal of the afternoon. Lennon and Dominika Conc each tallied four shots on the afternoon. Hannah McGowen, Amy Maksimowicz, Ellie Myrick and Ashlie Watson each tallied two shot each.
UT Martin used two goalkeepers on the afternoon as Mariah Klenke earned the start before suffering an injury in the 23rd minute. The Skyhawks turned to senior Sarah Tompkins for the remainder of the game, notching four saves in 67:24 minutes of action. The duo combined for the team's fifth shutout overall and second of the weekend.
"I thought today was a great game especially for a Sunday," said UT Martin head soccer coach Phil McNamara. "Both teams played really hard. I thought we played a very consistent game for the entire 90 minutes but for sure brought anouther level of pressure to the second half. It was a huge six points on the road this weekend."
The Skyhawks tallied the first four shots of the game as McGowen got the action started at the 10:48 mark. Conc tallied her lone shot on goal of the game at the 17:30 mark but the Colonels' Samm Melton registered the save.
Tompkins notched her first save of four at the 33:11 mark off a strike attempt by Amani Thomas. Thomas's attempt was the only shot on goal for the Colonels in the first half.
Both teams would exchange several shot attempts to open the second period with the Skyhawks tallying nine of the next 11 attempts before finding the deciding goal.
On the sixth and final corner kick of the day for the Skyhawks, Dominika Conc found Lucy Pater who quickly connected with Lennon to give the Skyhawks the 1-0 advantage in the 78th minute. Lennon's goal was her third of the season and second game winner.
Eastern Kentucky would fire three shots in the final minutes, but Tompkins proved to be too much for the home team, tallying two saves to preserve the clean sheet.
The Skyhawks will be back in action on Friday, Oct. 18 when they travel to Tennessee Tech a 3 p.m. contest. Following the Tech matchup, the Skyhawks will return home for their first of four consecutive home matches to close the season with Belmont on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 2 p.m.


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With the iPhone 5S and 5C on their way, you can now claim for two accidents in two years on AppleCare+ -- for a price.
The upcoming new flavor of OS X has been supplied to AppleCare reps to install on their work computers, says 9to5Mac.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres reflects on his mentor, his peace partner, and whether the State of Israel will survive
At one point in my recent interviews with Israeli President Shimon Peres, I ask him why his mentor David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding prime minister, in choosing among many promising young men of his circle, selected Peres as his aide. Perhaps motivated by modesty, the 87-year-old Peres doesn't offer a clear explanation. But without doubt, the "old man," as Ben-Gurion was often called, had spotted the youngster's oratorical and intellectual brilliance, which has entranced world leaders, though not always the Israeli public.
At home, Peres' persona was shrouded for decades in a pall of popular distrust. He lacked credibility among many Israelis—which explains, in part, his inability to win general and internal Labor Party elections. Rabin repeatedly beat him, in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, in contests for the Labor leadership. One result of the bad blood between the two was that Rabin called Peres an "indefatigable underminer" (hatran bilti nil'eh), a description Peres thought unjustified. But the charge stuck and thereafter shadowed his political career. Though the two men apparently worked well together during Rabin's second premiership, in 1992-1995, when Peres served as foreign minister, Peres proved unable to shake off their troubled history. Rabin's martyrdom reinforced what he had left behind as his legacy. Peres eventually, only on his second try, won the presidency—not by popular majority but by Knesset vote.
How deeply he believes in his oft-proclaimed vision of a "new Middle East" after a decade of disappointment and terror is anyone's guess. The hard core of "Mr. Security" surely remains: Hamas rocketeers and Turkish "peace flotillas," and, possibly, Iranian nuclear madmen need to be forcibly contained and faced down. Beneath his polished, world-weary exterior, he is still the ex-defense minister who believes that for a stable Israel, security concerns must take the highest priority and that any chance of peace is ultimately contingent on Israel's strength, and he seems to carry considerable clout as adviser and elder statesman with the current brood of politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Despite his repeated failures to win election as prime minister, Peres is now a highly popular president, distanced from the daily toil of politics in the largely ceremonial head-of-state role, with a steady 78 percent public approval rating.
I interview Peres in his office, seated around a coffee table. He wears a suit and tie, about which he complains ("I meet diplomats all day"). His media adviser, Ayelet Frish, and her assistant sit with us throughout the two interviews, which were conducted in the Presidential Mansion in Jerusalem's Talbiyeh quarter in early July and lasted for approximately 80 minutes each. Ayelet occasionally interjects, "That's off the record," when she feels her boss has said something excessively revealing. I'm not sure he remembers that I had interviewed him in the past, when I worked at the Jerusalem Post in the 1980s and he was Israel's foreign minister. I can clearly picture a briefing he gave to journalists accompanying him to Alexandria, where he was to visit Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak. Peres had sat in an armchair in the center of his hotel room, and the journalists were draped over assorted chairs or seated on the carpet. I remember that he was brilliant. A quarter of a century on, he appears more tired, his voice weaker; perhaps altogether not quite as sharp.
I ask him about the 1948 war, in which some 700,000 Arabs fled or were driven out of the area that became the Jewish state. (Over the past three decades, I have written extensively about the war, devoting three books to the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem in 1947-1949. Peres, as far as I know, has never publicly commented on my books—though I have sensed, over the years, a certain displeasure on his part with my findings, which many viewed as critical of Israel and Ben-Gurion.)
A few months ago, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a handwritten letter from him praising a highly critical review I had written of a book by an anti-Israeli British historian. (At the start of our first interview earlier this month, Peres commented on my recent book, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, saying it highlighted for him the failings of personal memory. But he did not elaborate.) The war ended with Israel having an Arab minority of some 160,000, representing 15-20 percent of its citizenry. Today, Israel's Arab minority, 1.3 million strong, identify themselves as Palestinians, occasionally riot, and support Israel's enemies during bouts of hostilities (as when Israel fought Lebanon's Hezbollah in 2006 and Hamas in Gaza in 2008-2009).
Morris: Perhaps ending the 1948 war with this demographic was a mistake?
Peres: No, moral considerations took priority over demographic considerations. Ben-Gurion knew that every war and conflict takes place twice—once on the battlefield and then in the history books. He didn't want things to be written in the history books that were in dissonance with the foundations of Judaism. He really believed that without a moral priority there is no existence for the Jewish people. To expel he saw as contrary to his moral values.
But in 1948 he sometimes gave orders to expel.
He did not give orders to expel.
I suggest that Ben-Gurion did in fact give such orders, as when, on July 12, 1948, he authorized the expulsion of Arab inhabitants of the towns of Lydda and Ramleh on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road. Peres shakes his head. "I remember sitting in the room, when the matter of the expulsion of the Arabs from Haifa began, when Ben-Gurion telephoned [Labor Party strongman, later Haifa mayor] Abba Khoushi and told him to do all he could to get the Arabs to stay [in Haifa]. I heard this myself. I was there." (It is worth noting that the Arabs of Haifa were not expelled but fled the city at the end of April 1948, due in part to a decision of the local Arab leadership.)


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Kalamazoo Marathon Organizer Blaine Lam says the area of conern is along the East Michigan Bridge where the Kalamazoo River has shown high increased water levels. Lam says the way the bridge is set up now could present safety issues for runners and bicyclists on marathon day. Taking preventive precaution, the team of organizers will be putting down a four-hundred foot long strip of carpet to make sure runners don't slip and fall on the bridge.
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by Toshiba | Item #: 325586 |Model #: THNU308GLTRSC |
Putting mobile storage in everyone's hands.
Toshiba TransMemory USB Flash Drives are ideal for the home, office and school. They're very affordable and put mobile storage in everyone's hands.
- Conveniently and securely store personal documents, pictures and music
- Security feature available for Windows operating system users
- 8GB of storage capacity
- Ultra thin package design
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