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Demi Moore's daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah are allegedly still 'apprehensive' about repairing their relationship with the actress
Demi Moore's relationship with her daughters is allegedly still fragile.
The 50-year-old actress - who recently reconciled with Rumer, 24, Scout, 21, and Tallulah, 18, after they reportedly froze her out because they were fed up of her constant partying - is working hard to repair their bond but Rumer is still ''apprehensive'' despite being spotted partying with her mother at Bootsy Bellows in Los Angeles on Thursday night (09.05.13).
A source close to the budding actress told gossip website RadarOnline.com: ''Demi and Rumer have been working on repairing their relationship.
''But the problem is that Demi wants to go out and party with her again and that is where all the problems started before. They're apprehensive.''
It was previously claimed Rumer and her sisters - whose father is Bruce Willis - were upset with their mother's partying and wished she would maintain a lower profile following her split from Ashton Kutcher and subsequent rehab stint.
The girls are said to be still worried about Demi, who has recently been linked to 30-year-old commercial pearl diver Will Hanigan.
The source said: ''Demi's girls are really apprehensive about letting their mother back into their lives. They want her to be totally over Ashton and healthy.''
Rumer and Demi were first spotted together for the first time in months last weekend leaving a yoga class, sparking rumours they have buried the hatchet.
An insider previously said: ''Rumer is really the one making the decision to do this as the oldest. Around the time Bruce's wife Emma (Heming) had the baby (Mabel Ray), it was this scary sense of, 'Demi went off her rocker again'.
''Bruce is now very much out of the spotlight and the kids were very happy about that. They started feeling that Demi needs to stay home and be more of a mother. She checked into rehab and they'd always been pushing for her to do that. (But) she came out partying and dancing on tables again.
''The kids are old enough to band together, Rumer being the ringleader. The family is very much divided.''
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For the most part a great tour but you do spend some time getting from important place to important place. Do this tour FIRST when you get to BA so that you don't inadvertently stumble across some of the Evita sites on your own.
A very informative tour great courier well worth the money .
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Nice trip and the team who made the tour was friendly
just two comments, the tour is called working tour but it is not a walking tour but a tour made with a bus (fortunately because the walking distance would be VERY long!)
also the phone number provided to contact the travel agency was wrong, the emergency phone number was OK, but you can not call it from a cell phone not from Argentina nor with skype
should correct that
We were picked up from our hotel by private taxi, with a guide for just the two of us (we had been expecting this to be a minibus or coach trip). The young lady did not appear to us to be very experienced as a tour guide, though she spoke good English, and we did not feel that we had learned or gained very much knowledge about Evita Peron from this tour. The tour was also much shorter than advertised, little more than 2 hours long, and we assume this was due to there being only two of us and the guide's lack of experience/knowledge.
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Rodriguez is due back in court on Dec. 5.
Police say a necropsy determined the dog died from blunt force trauma to its head.
A neighbor told police he often heard the puppy crying after allegedly being beaten by Rodriguez and recently heard the dog's crying growing fainter as the beating went on for 20 to 30 minutes.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Jimmy Rollins rediscovered his power stroke and the Philadelphia Phillies regained their winning touch.
The veteran shortstop homered twice and drove in three runs Friday night as the Phillies beat the Washington Nationals 6-2.
Left fielder Domonic Brown also doubled in two runs for Philadelphia, which won its fifth straight game to match its longest winning streak of the season.
Rollins hit a two-run homer in the third inning off Nationals starter Jordan Zimmermann (6-5) and a solo shot in the seventh off reliever Craig Stammen.
The 35-year-old Rollins now has 11 home runs this season after hitting a career-low six in 160 games last year. He is at a loss to explain his resurgence.
"I'm not any stronger," he said, adding that it's a matter of "just being able to get to that stroke, being able to catch the ball in the right spot and get some good flight on it, picking pitches -- get in situations where they're giving me the pitch and capitalizing."
Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said Rollins has been using the entire field this season.
"The power and pull stroke," Sandberg said, "is just a secondary reaction."
It was the ninth multi-homer game of Rollins' career and the first since he hit two at Washington on Aug. 1, 2012. He also became the second Phillies player to homer twice in a game this season. Right fielder Marlon Byrd did so on June 29 against Atlanta.
The Phillies, who have struggled much of the season at the plate, scored 31 runs during their winning streak. Rollins said the hitters huddled during a series in Milwaukee -- a four-game set that Philadelphia swept -- and they were able to "put things back in perspective."
The Phillies are still nine games below .500 at 42-51 and remain in last place in the National League East. Rollins believes the team will be a seller at the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline.
"That decision's already been made," he said. "I don't know if it's a fire, but there's something going on, and hopefully it turns into a fire."
Left fielder Bryce Harper hit a solo homer for Washington, which has dropped three of four.
Philadelphia starter A.J. Burnett (6-8) allowed two runs and five hits in 7 2/3 innings to end his two-game losing streak. Burnett, who last won when he beat St. Louis on June 20, struck out six and walked four.
Burnett has won six of his last seven decisions against the Nationals, improving his career record against Washington to 10-4.
Rookie Ken Giles relieved Burnett in the eighth and allowed an RBI double to third baseman Ryan Zimmerman but retired the last four hitters he faced.
Jordan Zimmermann departed after 3 1/3 innings with what is being described as a biceps cramp. The right-hander will undergo an MRI on Saturday to determine the full extent of the injury, but manager Matt Williams does not expect Zimmermann, who made the NL All-Star team for the second straight season, to be able to pitch in next Tuesday's game in Minneapolis.
"It was getting worse with every pitch," Zimmermann said. "Hopefully, the MRI comes out good."
He had pitched to a 1.26 ERA in his previous seven starts but on Friday had given up four runs and six hits while striking out five. He did not walk a batter in losing for just the second time in his last six outings against the Phillies.
Byrd and third baseman Cody Asche singled with one out in the second inning and Brown then lashed a double into the gap in right center field, scoring both runners.
Rollins made it 4-0 with a two-run homer in the third inning, his 10th home run of the season. His blast into the right field seats followed a leadoff single by center fielder Grady Sizemore and came on an 0-1 fastball from Zimmermann.
An RBI double by catcher Cameron Rupp in the sixth inning gave Philadelphia a 5-0 lead. Harper led off the following inning with a homer against Burnett, Harper's second home run of the season.
NOTES: Washington C Wilson Ramos singled in the fifth inning to extend his career-best hitting streak to 14 games. ... OF Grady Sizemore started in center field and batted leadoff for the Phillies, one day after his contract was purchased from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Sizemore, released by Boston on June 20 and signed by Philadelphia five days later, hit .283 in 11 games for the IronPigs. ... Phillies LHP Cliff Lee, on the disabled list since May 19 with a left elbow strain, will make a rehab start for Class A Clearwater on Monday. Manager Ryne Sandberg said Lee, moved to the 60-day DL on Thursday, will throw up to 75 pitches. ... Philadelphia C Carlos Ruiz, on the disabled list since June 27 with concussion-like symptoms, hit off a tee Friday, his first day of baseball activities since he was disabled. He will continue such activities at Clearwater during the All-Star break, then work his way back into game situations. ... Washington SS Ian Desmond did not play after being hit on the right hand by a pitch from Baltimore RHP Darren O'Day on Thursday. Desmond is day to day.
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A lot of people don't really know what I do every day when I say that I'm studying to be a pastry chef. Well, it's a lot of practicing. We have tests, exams, and assessments just like other students, but a lot of our tests, exams, and assessments are practical ones, where not only the final product is evaluated, but our planning, working methods, hygiene, safety and even our logic is taken into account as well.
We do also have to take theory classes, and in the level that I'm currently in we've had to take food safety and hygiene, hospitality supervision, financial control systems, and food classification and purchasing (and probably a few that I can't think of at the mo as well!)
Back to the practical assessments though...
The unit that we're working on right now (that I'm still finishing because I'm behind!!) is desserts. So hot and cold desserts, either portioned and plated for service, or whole (as in gateaux, tortes, or cakes.) There's a project or assessment at the end of every unit and for the dessert unit we've got a practical assessment to do. Well, two, actually... We have to create four portions of a hot dessert in three hours, including garnishes, sauces, and all that jazz. And then we'll have another three hours to do the same but with a cold dessert. Three hours sounds like a lot of time -but it's never enough!
Since I came over to the UK I've fully embraced tea-drinking. In fact, I can't function without that cup first thing in the morning! I usually drink regular tea, but I was introduced to Chai tea a couple of years back, and ever since I've thought that the spicey flavour of the tea would work well with the sweetness of white chocolate. Chai, if you've never had it, is black tea, flavoured with cloves, ginger, sometimes black pepper, and all sorts of gingerbread-y flavours. When I first started drinking it I was told that you were meant to add condensed milk to it, and heaps of sugar, so I knew that it could handle the sweetness of the white chocolate and balance it.
I had my concept, but that was only two ingredients!
I spotted silicone demi-sphere moulds in the kitchen a few weeks ago, and I've had my eye on them ever since. They would be perfect to use seeing as they're pretty much foolproof (no worries about whether or not the dessert will come out of the mould, or if there are air pockets, as you can manipulate the outside of the mould) and the demi-sphere would give the dessert a nice clean, and modern shape, something which was stressed to us when we got the assessment brief. Ice cream was the first thing that came to mind when I thought of the mould, but three hours to make a custard, chill it, and then churn it? Even with an ice cream machine I didn't think that would be enough time to chill the ice cream enough to hold the shape of the mould for any length of time. Next up was a mousse... Perfect.
I still had to make four gateau's for the dessert unit, so I decided to try out my concept for the assessment as a gateau.
I used a chocolate genoise as a base. I wasn't planning on using a chocolate genoise specifically, but I had some extra layers kicking about, and I tend to be pretty lazy at times... I cut one sponge in half and soaked the first half with a chai infused syrup. Syrups help keep sponge moist, because there is such a thing as mousse on top of a very dry sponge, and it's not nice... I spread a dark chocolate ganache over the top of the sponge to isolate the sponge from the mousse so that I would still have the two distinct textures. The dark chocolate had another purpose as well -the bitterness of the dark chocolate would contrast the sweetness of the white chocolate and keep the gateau/dessert from becoming overly sweet. I centred the ganache-covered sponge inside of a ring mould (like a tall band of stainless steel) and poured half of my chai-infused white chocolate mousse on top. The mousse was a basic custard, or crème anglaise, mixed with melted chocolate, cooled and then folded into whipped cream. To make the mousse chai-flavoured though, I infused the milk from the custard, and instead of adding vanilla or another flavouring, I added a very intense chai-infused syrup. I put the second half of the genoise on top of the mousse, which was already beginning to set. I brushed chai syrup onto the sponge, and then coated it with another thin layer of dark chocolate ganache. I had kept the ganache relatively cool so that it wouldn't run, and I was able to pour the rest of my chai-white chocolate mousse on top. I put the whole thing in the freezer to set before coating. I either took the gateau out too soon, or the mousse was too delicate and the second layer of sponge too heavy though, because as the gateau sat out I could see the sides start to curve out. I coated the gateau in a white chocolate ganache made with chai-infused cream and put it back in the fridge to set before slicing into. And you can see I was impatient there as well, because the ganache has been pulled along where I've sliced instead of cutting neatly!
The Verdict
The taste of the gateau was very good overall, and the textures worked well together. For my personal taste, I'm considering adding a thin layer of orange jelly between the ganache and the mousse, or between the mousse and the top layer of sponge -just something to break up the chocolate-y-ness of it. I also might add orange in the form of a compote though, or another element on the plate, because I'll need to think of garnishes, and a sauce to go with the dessert.
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Commune: Trausse
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Department: Aude
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
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from Paris: 617 km
from Calais: 851 km
from Nice: 382 km
from Bordeaux: 302 km
from Strasbourg: 710 km
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Taxpayer, I did say "Go out and exercise you right of free speech." If you do not pay your taxes you will be breaking the law. I did not agree with the way GW Bush spent my tax money. I spoke out about the specific issues involved. I e-mailed or called congressmen, senators, and the White House. However I did pay my taxes. Today I continue to express my views to our representatives. I do not agree with everything they have done or are planing to do. However I plan to try and work with what they are doing in hopes that my input will get them to change or adjust some things more to my way of thinking. I do not however just condem them out of hand the way many people have, who did not vote for this government. You have a right to get excited about the TEA day, that was a lot of people who came out. However do not get mad if most of the extreme opinions expressed on that day are ignored by this current government. We did just have an election. Those results speak louder than TEA day did. ,,,... Do not tell me that Social Security is a ponzi scheme, between Maydof and the other frauds about 90 billion in investment funds were exactly that. $90 billion of church fund retirement fund, charities, tell them how much better private business is than government. So tell me a specific program you would get rid of or alter to reduce spending. Would you get rid of Social Security or alter it. Medicare, alter it get rid of it. Would you replace them with something else besides begging for charity as some here have advocated. The human being is an imperfect creature so anything setup by humans will also be imperfect. I do not expect perfection in any government program, but it should achive its prescribed goals staying close to the budgets set for it. ... Brian, yes I expect somthing back. When I give at church I expect them to use it for stated church purposes. It may be to pay the church heating bill, making me confortable or go to a charity. That charity will help our society in some way, I live in that society as do my family. If our society is better then that benefits me. If I pay a road tax and the road is fixed that benefits me. I pay school tax but my children are now adults. The current students will be better for the education my taxes are paying for. That benefits society, and I benefit from an improved society. Brian, so ask your priest, or rabbi or minister if he wants to run a church version of social security, or medicare. The government is not stealing your money. The people thru their representatives have decided that these programs are for the common good and benefit and improve our society. The society you live in. An educated person is more likely to be productive and help improve this society. Roads and highways improve the ablity of business to transport goods and deliver services. Farmers benefit from programs to improve crop production. National parks, polutions rules, safety laws, food inspection, state university systems, community colleges, illness that are easily cured or prevented, all these thing are paid for by the taxes that the people thru their representatives have decided are for the common good and benefit our society. All of these things put together provide a society where you can earn a living and be able to buy those toys. So when you just spent $300 on another toy, do not be so grudging in spending an extra $40 or $50 dollars a year in property tax for the local school, or for the water district. Think about how it will be used to benefit your society before you just say NO!
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A Lee County man faces felony drug charges for allegedly making meth while a child was present.
Eric John Reid of Montrose is charged with conspiracy to manufacture meth in the presence of a minor.
The Lee County Narcotics Task Force says Reid was arrested Monday after an investigation into allegations he was making meth. Officers say they did a search and found evidence to support the claim.
Reid faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
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Areas of Research/Interest: American Politics, Judicial Politics, Political Economy
Select Publications:
A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Preface to A Mere Machine
Votes Without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920-1968. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998.
For reviews of my book, Votes Without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920-1970 (Cambridge, 1998), see the following links:
Recent Papers:
Ducking Trouble: Congressionally-Induced Selection Bias in the Supreme Court's Agenda (With Barry Friedman, NYU Law). Journal of Politics 71: 2 (April 2009): 574-592.
Existing studies of congressional influence on Supreme Court decision-making have largely failed to recognize the fact that the Court has a discretionary docket. We model the effects of congressional preferences on the certiorari decision, and find strong evidence that the Court's constitutional agenda is systematically influenced by Congress. The Court is significantly less likely to review cases wherein there are large congressionally-induced deviations between what the Court would like to do, and what it can do in its final rulings. This selection bias in the Court's docket can lead to considerable uncertainty in estimating the effects of congressional constraint on the Court's final decisions, including a failure to properly reject the null hypothesis of no constraint.
Pulling Punches: Congressional Constraints on the Supreme Court's Constitutional Rulings, 1987-2000. Legislative Studies Quarterly 31:4 (November 2006): 533-562.(With Barry Friedman, NYU Law)
To date, no study has found evidence that the U.S. Supreme Court is constrained by Congress in its constitutional decisions. We addressed the selection bias inherent in previous studies with a statute-centered, rather than a case-centered, analysis, following all congressional laws enacted between 1987 and 2000. We uncovered considerable congressional constraint in the Court's constitutional rulings. In particular, we found that the probability that the Rehnquist Court would strike a liberal congressional law rose between 47% and 288% as a result of the 1994 congressional elections, depending on the legislative model used.
Electoral Institutions and the Evolution of Partisan Conventions, 1880-1940 (with Bumba Mukherjee, Florida State University). American Politics Research 34:3 (May 2006): 368-398.
This article examines variation in partisanship levels across the United States between 1880 and 1940 and suggests that the introduction of three electoral laws in this time period—party registration, primaries and secret ballots—can explain the geographic variation in partisanship levels across the United States during this era. Specifically, the article argues that the introduction of party registration increased the observability of partisan behavior; and this, in turn, increased partisanship strength in the states in which party registration was introduced. Conversely, primaries and secret ballots reduced the observability of partisan actions, which consequently weakened the level of partisanship. The authors test their theoretical predictions on aggregate levels of split-ticket voting across the United States between 1880 and 1940. The authors find considerable support for their predictions in time-series cross-section (TSCS) estimates of the effects of electoral institutions on levels of partisanship across states, support undiminished after corrections for endogeneity and selection bias.
Electing the Supreme Court (with Barry Friedman, NYU Law). Indiana Law Journal 78:1 (Winter/Spring 2003): 123-151.
This article uses empirical analysis to explore the relationship between the ideological distance between Congress and the Court, and the Court's propensity to strike congressional statutes. We examine two kinds of ideological distance: that between the Court and the enacting Congress, and that between the Court and the sitting Congress. We find that, while some might expect the Court to be more likely to overturn statutes from ideologically distant enacting Congresses, there is no evidence of this effect in the data we employ. However, we do find that the Court is quite sensitive to the ideological composition of the sitting Congress: the closer the Congress, the more likely it is that the Court will overturn congressional statutes.
Fellowships/Honors: Executive Council, American Political Science Association (APSA) Political Parties Section, 1997-1998; Politics and History Section, 1996-1997; Best Dissertation Award, APSA Women in Politics Section, 1995; Best Paper Award, APSA Women in Politics Section, 1995.
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Time: December 13, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Horizon Books
Street: 243 E. Front St.
City/Town: Traverse City
Website or Map: http://www.horizonbooks.com
Phone: 231.946.7290
Event Type: literary
Organized By: Horizon Books, Traverse City
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Author Richard Smith, Great Michigan Deer Tales #6, signs his book at Horizon Books.
Another new collection of true short stories about how, where, when and by whom Michigan's biggest bucks have been bagged, with one notable exception. That exception is a chapter about the highest scoring non-typical ever recorded for the state, which was found dead more than a month after hunting seasons ended.
Other chapters are about state record muzzleloader and crossbow bucks, the highest scoring 8-point taken by a bowhunter, Leelanau County's best bucks and a unique non-typical taken by a hunter in the Upper Peninsula (UP).
Still more chapters are about a father and son deer hunt for the books, the best year for Booners in the UP and much, much more. You won't want to miss the chapter about the Michigan hunter who has 31 bucks in state records, including a number of Boone and Crockett proportions.


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Often overlooked in favour of the new breed of adventure-style sports tourers, the new FJR is a fabulous piece of kit – fast, refined and fun. Although hugely competent and thoroughly desirable, the new FJR isn't that different to the older model. But there again, that's no bad thing as the out going bike is also excellent. Overall the new ...
998cc, 157.75bhp, 185mph, Insurance group 17
Not much has changed with the 2012 R1, but the big news is it now has a six-stage traction control system, incorporating anti-wheelie in its two most intrusive levels. It also has a restyled nose, a slotted YZR-M1-style top yoke and a longer, softer rear shock. The changes aren't enough to compete with the new-generation of hardcore superbikes, like the ...
125cc, 8.9bhp, 65mph, Insurance group
The BW's 125 is an off-road inspired scoot that goes nicely and looks even nicer - rugged styling marks it out as a small scoot aimed at blokes. At £2,499 it's not the cheapest 125 scooter on the market, but nice detailing and decent performance help to justify the price.
49cc, 2.6bhp, 30mph, Insurance group 2
Yamaha's funky race replica two-stroke scooter is nippy, agile and lots of fun, although the single seat limits pillion options. It's one of the best looking scooters around and can be seen tearing up city streets as well as being paddock transport for Yamaha-sponsored MotoGP/WSB and BSB stars. Upside forks and disc brakes means the little Aerox R can be ...
250cc, 21bhp, 70mph, Insurance group 7
Yamaha's YP 250R X-Max is a middleweight twist-and-go 'maxi-scooter'. It has all the practicalities of a conventional scooter with a bit more oomph for longer journeys and decent-sized wheels and tyres for cornering confidence.
249cc, 21bhp, 90mph, Insurance group 5
With no roadster to fill the void in Yamaha's range between a learner 125 and something like an 80bhp XJ6, the Japanese firm have decided to bring the YBR250 in to the UK as a limited run. It's friendly, practical and swift enough to have some fun - plus it's 33bhp licence-friendly too.
124cc, 14.6bhp, 75mph, Insurance group 6
Since 2004, Honda has had the learner sports bike market sewn up – the CBR125R flew out of showrooms faster than its larger capacity counterparts. Yamaha's range had a gap for a 125 sport motorcycle, and the YZF-R125 fills that gap by combining the Honda's easy-going ride with a little bit more poke and grown up looks – it's actually ...
749cc, 106bhp, 170mph, Insurance group 17
The Yamaha YZF-R7 was a limited edition machine top dollar machine only sold to the public so Yamaha could race it in World Superbike. Just 500 were sold for road use (40 in the UK) and they were about £22,000. Also known as the OW02, the Yamaha YZF-R7's race success was limited partly due to the rules favoring twin cylinder ...
1198cc, 140bhp, 160mph, Insurance group 15
Mad Max. There, that tells you everything you need to know about the Yamaha VMX1200 V-Max, an ill-handling, raw powered Rottweiller of a motorcycle. The full power 140bhp model is the only one worth having, so skip the early 90s UK spec models with a feeble 95bhp.
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A Ducati with Japanese reliability? That was the plan. The Yamaha TRX850 was a match for Ducati's 900SS of its day but never sold well – the last few machines were ushered out of showrooms for under £4K. Shame. the Yamaha TRX850 is a sporty motorcycle but road biased with tons of character. Can be a bargain on the used ...
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No politician will admit that the United States is no longer number one. But other nations do a lot of things better -- and we need to learn from them.
Foreign observers used to chuckle at that very distinctly American political rhetoric of exceptionalism -- the assertions of our God-granted preeminence and predestination. But beneath that laughter, there was usually grudging respect, and even envy for a country whose citizens were so ready to express such national pride.
Now such language it is often openly derided. Let's face it, even with all the problems in Europe, and everywhere, the American lantern is not as brightly inviting as it used to be. And I don't mean just literally inviting, as in inviting to immigrants -- though that in itself is a huge problem, one that contributes to the general perception of a country closing itself inward.
When Americans travel abroad, they are often surprised at how well other countries do the things we used to think America does best. In fact, one reason so many American businesses still lead the world is because they benchmark the competition and emulate best practices. But suggest to an American politician that we should try to learn from other countries, and he will look at you like you are from Mars. It is somehow unpatriotic even to raise such comparisons.
Imagine if a politician were to say, "France has a better health care system than we do." I can almost guarantee that politician would suffer electoral defeat -- even though the statement, in most objective respects, is true. The U.S. is, for too many, the only country that matters; experiences anywhere else are irrelevant. Remember, we have many members of Congress who boast they have no passport.
At a time when many trend lines in the U.S. point to relative decline in this regard, one actually brings hope: More and more young Americans go abroad for some of their education. Last year, about a quarter million studied in another country; a decade ago, the number was about half that. Value will come not just from greater global consciousness, but from the direct experience that many nations simply do many things far better than we do.
New statistical evidence of this appears almost weekly. When it comes to student performance in mathematics, we are now 25th among the 34 advanced economies, and behind many developing countries as well. In college attendance, our previous preeminence has long faded; we are now 9th in percentage of younger workers with two-year or four-year degrees, and 12th in college graduation rate. In health, we are 37th in infant mortality and equally low in life expectancy. In environmental performance, we are 61st. In the percentage of people below the poverty line, we are 21st. Even when it comes to the "pursuit of happiness," enshrined in our Declaration of Independence as one of the noble goals of government, our citizens are only the 15th most satisfied with their lives.
But many of our political leaders, rather than asking what we can learn from the countries that have surpassed us in various ways, choose instead to win applause with unqualified boasts of our inherent greatness. They imply that the answers to our problems are to be found not just by closing our borders to immigrants but to foreign ideas as well.
The countries that are making great strides follow quite a different path. Some of them are autocracies. Their leaders want to know which countries do the best job teaching elementary education or high school science, and how; which countries best prepare their people for tomorrow's jobs, and how; which countries best protect consumers while maintaining business vitality, and how; which countries best reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, and how. They benchmark against the leaders--just like the strongest American businesses do.
Sadly, and shockingly given where the U.S. used to stand in most rankings, few of the best practices foreign leaders want to emulate are any longer in the U.S.
Young Americans who see this country from different shores can't help but conclude that something is awry in a political culture that denies what they plainly see elsewhere: health care systems that provide better outcomes at lower cost and for everyone; better airports, faster trains, more extensive urban public transportation--and even, amazingly, better highways; more upward mobility (yes, the American dream is now more real in many other countries than it is here); more sustainable energy policies; elections that work more quickly and inexpensively, with more rational discourse and greater citizen participation. The list is long.
These young Americans usually return with an openness about the world that many of their parents lack. No less patriotic than when they left, they see how curiosity about other ways to do things can only make us a stronger country. They were taught, as we were all taught, that the U.S. was built to greatness on ideas borrowed by the rest of the world and improved here. That is what we must do again.
Consider some of the things that have fueled that American lantern of attraction for more than two centuries. Perhaps more than anything else, it has been the American Dream: the universal desire of all parents that their children will lead lives better than their own. This dream was given an American name, and not just in American dictionaries. But that dream is dying. And it can't be resuscitated if talented people sit on the political sidelines or don't attend the game at all.
According to a recent Rasmussen poll, only 17 percent of Americans believe our national government possesses the consent of the governed. These numbers may not seem shocking, because they've been low for so long. But not always. In 1964, Pew found 77 percent of Americans expected their government to do "the right thing" most of the time.
So the American people think our democracy doesn't work. But there are also many objective signs that it's failing. One is that Americans don't vote as much as citizens of most other countries, including developing countries. In 2010, only 37.5 percent voted in Congressional elections. There are signs that young people are voting less than they used to. Why? As Rock the Vote found in a 2010 poll, it is very simple: Because they think it doesn't matter who wins, that no real change is possible. They think the power of special interests is simply too great. And they are right.
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Social Impact CalculatorCapital for Healthy Families & CommunitiesSeptember 18, 2014
A first-of-its-kind tool that allows us to estimate the social impact of our investments in dollars—providing a new way to assess how effective we are in creating pathways of opportunity in low-income communities. We are pleased to present the calculator as an interactive tool for you to learn how it works, offer feedback, and use for your own purposes. More...
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Video: Panel Discusses Housing America's Older Adults ReportJoint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard UniversitySeptember 17, 2014
The Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) published Housing America's Older Adults which analyzes America's aging population's demographics, housing data, accessibility issues, community needs, long-term support and related services. The report found that in 15 years the population aged 50+ will rise to 132 million and in 2012 one third of older adults pay over 30 percent of their income on housing, rendering them "cost-burdened." The JCHS hosted a panel discussion about the report on September 2, 2014 in Washington D.C. and the videos of the discussion are available to view.
Green Initiative's Impact on Housing Affordability Fannie MaeSeptember 12, 2014
Fannie Mae published a white paper addressing the effect of green building practices on the "quality and affordability of multifamily housing." Transforming Multifamily Housing: Fannie Mae's Green Initiative and ENERGY STAR® for Multifamily paper analyzes risks, property improvements, key findings, and cost drivers for energy and water. The paper provides a toolkit and survey results to assist in multifamily development decision making. Key findings include: inefficient properties can spend up to $165,000 more in annual energy costs, and inefficient properties use over three times as much energy and six times as much water. Fannie Mae offers affordable housing owners loans to help subsidize the cost of green building improvements.
Homeowners Delinquent or in Foreclosure Save Time, Headache and Money When Working with Housing CounselorsNeighborWorks America Press ReleaseSeptember 9, 2014
A new study for NeighborWorks America by the Urban Institute finds that homeowners have saved tens of millions of dollars annually because of the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling program. Specifically, homeowners working with NFMC program counselors are nearly three times more likely to obtain a money-saving mortgage modification, are nearly twice as likely to get their mortgage back on track without a modification, about 60 percent less likely to re-default after curing a serious delinquency, and, if necessary, able to complete short sales faster than homeowners who don't work with housing counselors. More...
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Exhaust Notes: Mileage tax, GM-Isuzu pickup, auto-valet Audi
Our semiregular roundup of the latest automotive news and musings from around the Web.
This week, the feds call for a mileage tax and don't take it back, GM is reuniting with Isuzu, and journalists stare at a driverless Audi A7 parking itself in Las Vegas.
Ready to be charged by the mile?
In February 2009, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood shot off a zinger that immediately got zapped by the White House. LaHood had suggested a federal mileage tax that would allow the government to track odometer readings and send an automated bill to every American driver. That's not exactly what he said, but it's exactly what he meant. One day after he was quoted suggesting the tax, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said charging drivers by the mile "is not and will not be the policy of the Obama administration."
Well, nearly four years later, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. LaHood is quiet, but now the Government Accountability Office is in full favor of levying a tax ranging from 0.9 cents to 2.2 cents per mile. The problem, says the GAO, is the declining highway budget that needs $110 billion to stay afloat in the next nine years. A bigger problem is that all of the fuel-efficient cars we're buying -- which is what the government had wanted us to do in the first place with the toughest CAFE laws on record -- have resulted in less money being collected through federal fuel taxes.
But according to the GAO, the only way to save our highways is to enact this new tax, or increase the gas tax -- which hasn't been raised since 1993 -- to at least 31.6 cents per gallon. Joy!
A new GM-Isuzu pickup?
According to Automotive News, General Motors and former Japanese partner Isuzu are working together on a new pickup truck. GM had a near-half stake in Isuzu until 2006, and in 2008, Isuzu quit the U.S. market. The current Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize trucks were developed in conjunction with Isuzu (also known as the i-Series, shown above).
We're not sure how to interpret the news. GM has already released a new generation of Colorado pickups, which won't debut in the U.S. for at least another year, with Isuzu (sold in Europe as the D-Max). Does this mean the U.S. will receive a new GM-Isuzu truck, or would it only be reserved for foreign markets? Neither company will say, but don't bet on Isuzu's extended powertrain warranties to return here.
An end to valets as know them?
Within three years, Massachusetts will eliminate all toll collectors as it rolls out a fully automated system. But toll collectors, like land-line phone workers and newspaper pressmen, aren't the only ones whose jobs are threatened by technology. Valets might be next.
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Audi showed off an A7 parking itself. This wasn't an automatic parallel-parking feature as seen on many other luxury cars, but an autonomous car that can pull away from the curbside, drive itself to the parking garage and find its own space. No more worries that the 20-something guy getting into your $70,000 Audi will do a burnout on the next block, nick your rims, move your seat or rummage through your belongings.
But if that does happen, will Audi take responsibility? What if someone blocks the car's path -- which causes it to stop -- and proceeds to steal it? No one answered those questions.
Our suggestion: Stick with real, breathing, professional valets who work full-time at hotels and other venues. Third-party companies, which are contracted by several locations at the same time, have less of an incentive to keep your car in one piece -- or one place.
BS.... we're taxed enough already. And what about those of us that get no raises once we're retired? Do you want us to give every cent we have to the State and Federal governments so they can give themselves a raise big any time they want and take more away from the rest of us.
There will be nothing fair about a mileage tax. You can take that to the bank.
Why don't all of you Liberals take a flying leap off a short pier..... so the rest of us can tax you on that.
The Isuzu..... Another Imported to Detroit vehicle. Most of the profit will go into GM and the employees of foreign countries bank accounts while few Americans will share in the profits. The average American on the other end will beleive that they are the model Patriot by "Buying American" .
The mileage tax.... I wonder if the tax will be the same rate for a city driver as it will for someone who lives in a rural area and drives many more miles than the city driver.
The Audi..... What happens when one of the computers fails or gets infected with a virus or is "hacked"?
From past observation....The job of journalist working for MSN's "Exhaust Notes" must not pay much more than minimum wage, even though a self-parking Audi would most probably have a higher IQ than the whole staff there...
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Most of the cars they drool over can only be purchased by Arab oil Sheiks or prominent crack dealers
And, If it ain't Japanese, it ain't no good.
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cetaneSyllabification: ce·tane
Pronunciation: /ˈsētān /
A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series, used as a solvent.
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Injuries take you out of the game for a short period. Retirement takes you out for all time. Hideki Matsui, former New York Yankees slugger, plans to announce his retirement from Major League Baseball. According to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, among others, Matsui will make the announcement today. Matsui plans to make the retirement announcement today. sankei sports 1st reported. — Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) December 27, 2012 Matsui played 10 seasons in the Majors after playing 10 seasons in Japan. As soon as he arrived in the states, he made an impact. In 2003, Matsui played 163 regular season games for the Yankees (yes an extra game was in there), and he finished second in American League Rookie of the Year voting. Matsui would not miss a game until the 2006 season when he battled through injuries and only played in 51 games. Age began to catch up with him at that point and he wouldn't play more than 145 games again in his career. In all, Matsui amassed an impressive 1,253 hits and 175 home runs in his Major League career. He hit .282/.360/.462 in his ten seasons. Matsui was a two-time All-Star and twice finished in the top-25 of American League MVP voting. He is best remembered for his days with the Yankees. Matsui played for New York for seven seasons and hit .292/.370/.482. He played three more seasons after leaving New York, for the Los Angeles Angels, Oakland Athletics, and the Tampa Bay Rays. Matsui is 38 years old. Follow @mlbinjurynews !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="http://www.mlbinjurynews.com//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
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Here in the UK there's a massive wave sweeping the nation: a demand for a change to the way we destroy fish 'stocks'. Led by marine biologists who have noted the disastrous collapse in the number of fish in the sea and the way that bycatch and quota limits means that millions of fish are thrown back into the water dead every year, the TV watching public are being shocked out of their complacency, and demanding an end to the pillaging of the sea to feed an ever-fatter population…
Say what? Marine biologists on TV, the public demanding a temporary ban on all fishing until numbers recover, the man in the street swooning at the glory that is a Tuna, one of the most wonderful and perfectly evolved predators in the sea, the discussion around the water-cooler agreeing that instead of us humans viewing everything in the oceans as 'ours' and to hell with every other living thing we're instead going to rein in our colossal appetites and allow the seas to recover…?
No chance. This is the UK. We don't do science, we do celebrity. These aren't marine biologists educating the public – these are famous chefs: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (of River Cottage fame), Heston Blumenthal (who has invented new ways to cook sea cucumbers and 'chocolate starfish' [sic] specially for this 'Fish Fight'), Jamie Oliver (the cheery wunderkind who's Fish Fight programme is trailled with "Jamie Oliver offers ten delicious and easy new recipes that use less-pressured species, including crab, trout, squid, pouting and sardines"), and Gordon Ramsay (who's hypocrisy knows no bounds as he slams the Chinese for using shark fins while using Endangered Eels – the species was listed as endangered in 2008 after a 90% drop in its population – in his own recipes and championing foie gras).
Yes, chefs who make a great living selling us food inventing new ways to 'save' fish by urging us to change our food habits so that instead of only eating Cod and a handful of other species we instead, for example, 'learn' to love Coley (which Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall says has "somehow, over time, slipped from our consciousness") and every other previously ignored species in the sea. And when a chef says 'love' what he really means is 'eat'.
I don't want to be completely mean-spirited – after all these guys have at least managed to kickstart a debate that our politicians and fishermen have managed to keep smothered for decades and are at least making a hitherto complacent public realise that there is a problem – but am I really alone (as comments to me on Twitter suggest) in not understanding how urging millions of people to turn from a fish with a low population to a fish with a currently high one and to exploit animals we know virtually nothing about is a long-term fix to the real problem: overfishing and rampant pillaging of the oceans?
What exactly is going to happen if the 'Fish Fight' succeeds in sparking a fish feeding frenzy amongst the British public, who now number nearly 62 million and most of whom are more than happy (it seems) to take their scientific advice from non-scientists? The logical conclusion is that we'll end up with more threatened fish species, not less, more 'harvesting of resources' not less, and a public who – appetites whetted – will be on a continual hunt for new tastes to try. Have we learnt nothing from for example the story of the Orange Roughy – a deep-sea fish found off Australia? Prized for its firm flesh and promoted as being 'new and different' it was caught in vast numbers, and went from abundant to threatened within just thirty years.
End the pillaging of the oceans by eating more crab, more prawns, more of everything? What that will leave for the wildlife that actually depend on so-called 'seafood' isn't explained. We're already an obese, over-fed nation that wants for nothing – but how about birds like shearwaters and auks (or penguins in the southern hemisphere), other fish, like tuna and sharks, that actually depend on fish and marine animals to survive? What will they eat when us humans really get stuck into what's left in the sea (though in reality we needn't worry about sharks because we're eating all of them already, and of course we've overfished some tuna species so that they're now rarer than the Tiger)?
One of the main themes of 'Fish Fight' is to enforce sustainability. Of course – let's please do that, but through a vote by a mass of people who despite years of overfishing, warnings from scientists, numerous films and documentaries (the superb 'End of the Line should be required watching IMHO)' have to be told about the problems by chefs. I don't mean to belittle chefs in any way (though I don't join in the lionising of people who make a very good living finding new ways to use animals for the ephemeral pleasure of 'taste'), but in fact Hugh F-W reveals his real concerns on his website when he asks visitors to sign a petition with the line that "It'll take you a few seconds but it could help to ensure we, and our children, continue to eat and enjoy our fish for many years to come". 'Ours'?
Yes, let's fish 'sustainably' – but can I ask what 'sustainable' means to those suddenly voting for it? Can all these new converts to sustainability define what 'sustainability' is? Do most of us even know WHO fixes what level 'sustainability' is defined as? Scientists can't count what's in the sea (it's a bit big for that) so often use the figures given to them by the fishing industry to work out what's left – but does anyone actually know of a fishing industry that adheres to quotas, doesn't fix figures, doesn't overestimate 'stocks' and under-report catches, and doesn't put the interests of its members far above the welfare of the fish they hunt and kill in vast numbers?
An example? Check out the disgraceful debacle of pumped egos and misdirection that was last year's International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna meeting which ended with Birdlife saying, "After a 3-year seabird risk assessment that found tuna and swordfish longline fishing has significant impacts on Atlantic seabird populations, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas failed to act at a recent meeting in Recife, Brazil" and which led The Ecologist to say that "The ICCAT summit on bluefin tuna was stained by a lack of transparency, allegations of illegality and disturbing examples of financial interests trampling over environmental concerns".
Greenpeace (who support Hugh's 'Fish Fight') said in Dec 2010 that "The EU has utterly failed to manage fishing activities…Fisheries management should be guided by science and not by lobbying power, but ministers are too often dancing to the tune of the powerful fishing industry. Instead of dishing out unsustainable quotas, ministers should end overfishing and scrap destructive boats…Fishing quotas are set too high because politicians are trying to maintain vast fishing fleets that are simply too big and destructive."
In the 'Fish Fight' Jamie Oliver et al are urging the nation's fish and chip shops to switch from serving Cod to serving Mackerel. If that catches on how will that be any sort of disincentive for eg Iceland – which raised its Mackerel 'quota' from 130,000 tonnes last year to 147,000 tonnes in 2010 much to the anger of UK fishermen who would like to do exactly the same – to throttle back?
The RSPB are urging members via Twitter to support the 'Fish Fight' despite what I took to be a powerful statement against over-exploitation of the marine environment when they wrote in 'Safeguard our Sea Life' that: "Fishing can be one of the most damaging activities in the marine environment. Over-fishing leads to the depletion of fish stocks, some fishing gears damage seabed habitats, and discarded fishing nets can be lethal, drowning seabirds, seals and dolphins…Shipping creates pollution and there is the risk of oil spills from accidents, while rubbish discarded overboard can end up in the stomachs of marine animals…In addition to these traditional activities, fresh challenges are emerging for our marine environment, with the UK now looking to the sea to provide increasing renewable energy and recreational opportunities…all these different uses will need to be carefully balanced to ensure that the UK's treasured marine wildlife is not compromised, and that the seas around our coast continue to be rich in wildlife."
"Continue to be rich in wildlife" while supporting TV campaigns to fish, fish, and fish some more, that urges us to eat species of fish so far deemed unpalatable, and create our own sushi industry with a demand for sea cucumbers and starfish? I'm sorry, perhaps I'm being ignorant – but how does this ensure there is food for our seabirds exactly? In oceans already threatened with acidification or marine pollution do we really know how to keep our seas rich in wildlife as things stand now?
I fully understand the concept of 'one step at a time' conservation: the public, so I've been told, will not give up eating fish, so conservation needs to take baby steps to at least change their habits. For sure – though I have to say I'm an ordinary member of the public who loved eating fish and 'seafood' but stopped once I realised that I was complicit in the destruction of mangroves in Asia by the Tiger Prawn industry, the wrecking of seabeds by bottom-trawlers, the drowning of huge numbers of albatrosses by longlining, the near-extinction of Tuna for sushi, so it can be done if you decide it's right – but is this the CORRECT step? Is urging us to eat MORE really the way fish conservation needs to be heading? Is treating everything in the ocean as 'ours', as something we can 'eat', as just another 'resource' the best way to recreate a balance between us and the oceans? I know it's a radical thing to say, but actually we humans don't have the right to think of every other living thing as only having worth if we can somehow use it.
There are now close to 7 billion of us on the planet, and fish and 'seafood' are constantly being touted as something that are 'ours' and that we should all 'enjoy' into the future. And how will that work exactly? I'm no mathematician but the numbers just don't add up. As we grow richer, more demanding, more affluent, and more numerous our appetites will only take more from what I believe (though perhaps I need a TV chef to confirm this fact) is a finite planet.
Perhaps I'm just being hugely cynical but I sincerely believe this campaign has the potential to backfire spectacularly, though I would hope rather than just tell me that I am in fact being mean-spirited and foolish someone will point me to data that proves that taking more out of the sea actually means that biodiversity increases. And that getting people who professionally cook pieces of animal are the ones to deliver a conservation message that actually means anything…


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Back in August, we wrote about the retail trend forecast that plaid would be a must-have for fall. We were skeptical, but new wallpaper designs, carpet tiles, and other home goods have proven to us that plaid is definitely here to stay... at least for now. While we remain unsure about the prospect of an all-plaid living room, we do think...
... that plaid throw pillows are a cute, not-too-overwhelming way to bring a little tartan into the mix. We especially like the way that colorful, saturated plaid pillows look, whether layered on top of one another or used as an accent against a bright chair. For a few good examples, from store-bought to DIY versions, click through the links below.
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• Modern Plaid: Blankets and Pillows by Scholten & Baijings
• Gone Mad: Decor Goes Plaid
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These pictures confirm what I already knew: I am not a plaid person. And my house is not a plaid house, either.
I only like plaid in very contemporary homes with space and lines that, say, pillows pick up on. In a crafts-riddled grandma palace.... ick. Cherubs, unicorns, lacey.... not for me.
@tiger. I collect unicorns (a guilty obsession since the age of 6) and I would still not allow plaid into my house. No no no no no.
Two exception. 1. Greyscale plaid pillows in a white modern house on a crisp white chair with black lacquer armrests. 2. As lining for a dog bed.
Could not agree more that plaid is a HUGE trend (I've now done two entirely plaid entries!)
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Stian Carstensen at Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2011. Photo: Thomas Bjørndahl.
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5 January 1971
Eidsvoll, Akershus
|Musician, entertainer, composer and band leader
|Accordion, guitar & multi-instrumentalist
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Stian Carstensen (born 5 January 1971 in Eidsvoll, Norway) is a multi-instrument Norwegian musician, entertainer and with Jarle Vespestad (drums) and Nils-Olav Johansen (vocal and guitar), central members of the Balkan-jazz orchestra Farmers market.[1][2][3]
Carstensen started as an accordion player at the age of 9. He first learned from his father, and later from a classical player which he attended for 4 years. During this time he played in Norwegian TV, radio, festivals etc. He also toured in America, playing classical music. At the same time he was also into swing jazz, and his father who also played bass, played standard tunes with him.
When he was 15 he started to play electric guitar in a rock band. After a while he started to get back the interest for jazz again and formed a trio with some local artists. He lived as a freelancer a year or so and then he began to study in the Jazz Program at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium with the guitar as a main instrument.[4] During his two years of study in Trondheim (1991–93), he formed the group Farmers Market. The group was originally a free jazz quintet, until they one day found sheet music with a Bulgarian folk tune in 11/16. This was a great experience for the band members and they practiced day and night to be able to play this asymmetrical music.[5]
After a while Carstensen went to Bulgaria and visited villages there to collect and study the local folk music. The result of the tour was a live record, Speed/Balkan/Boogie, with singers & musicians from the famous "Le mysteres des voix bulgares" recorded at Molde International Jazz Festival in Norway. After this he was totally dedicated to the Bulgarian music. He toured a lot with musicians from Bulgaria and Romania, and learned a lot from them.
Besides of being dedicated to this kind of music, he also took lessons in Composition, learned to play the 5-string banjo in bluegrass style, played with various jazz groups (be-bop, and experimental) with Jon Christensen and Bendik Hofseth to mention some.
In 1997 Farmers Market made their second album, Music from the Hybrides with saxophonist Trifon Trifonov from Bulgaria. This was an extreme album with elements of many different styles and ideas from bluegrass in odd meters to metallica like versions of traditional Balkan tunes and slick commercial music mixed with Stockhausen. The album got very good reviews from many contemporary music magazines as well as rock, folk and jazz magazines in Europe.[6]
In 1998 Carstensen was invited to write commissioned work for Vossajazz Norwegian Jazz Festival at Voss. He wrote some music and put together a band consisting of his colleague Jarle Vespestad, a leading Norwegian drummer who also play in Farmers Market), with Django Bates from England, with Tord Gustavsen Trio from Norway, and Ernst Reijseger from the Netherlands. The music was performed in April 98, with great success. The choice of musicians was made carefully, because they each had one thing in common; they were into a lot of styles at the same time. The music was composed in a contemporary spirit, but contained elements from many different styles without being artificial.[5]
This seems to be a highlight in Carstensen's career, and he has been working a lot with that ensemble after this. Another highlight was his release of the new record Farmers Market on the German label Winter & Winter, he toured Europe and Japan with this band in 2000. They got very good reviews both on the album and the concert in magazines like The Wire, Rolling Stone etc. This year Farmers Market played at the world's biggest jazz festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Carstensen also played with Dutch cello player Ernst Reijseger. They work as a duo playing only self-written stuff in various improvisational folk styles.
He has studied Bulgarian polyphony in Bulgaria, and rural American Afro-Celtic music in the Appalachians, on a fee from the Norwegian cultural department. He is currently on a two-year state fee to study Bulgarian traditional music. His instruments are: accordion, kaval (Bulgarian flute), bagpipes, guitar, violin, mandolin & banjo.
He played the accordionist in the circus band (and the soundtrack) of the 2005 Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean film MirrorMask.
In 2000 Carstensen recorded his solo album, with only his own compositions for Winter & Winter, it will be released in 26 countries.
John Kellman of the All About Jazz magazine recognized Carstensen's commission Flip for Vossajazz March 2013, as no. 1 of his "Best Live Shows of 2013".[7]
Discography (in selection)[edit]
Within Farmers Market[edit]
(Stian Carstensen, Trifon Trifonov, Finn Guttormsen og Jarle Vespestad)
- Speed/Balkan/Boogie (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1995)[8]
- Musikk fra Hybridene (Music From The Hybrides) (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1997)[9]
- Farmers Market (Winter & Winter, 2000), nominated for This year's jazz records 2001 in Norway[6][10][11][12]
- Surfin' USSR (Ipecac/Tuba, 2008)[13][14]
- Slav to the Rhythm (Division, 2012)[15]
With Frode Alnæs & Arild Andersen[edit]
Within Børre Dalhaug's «Bigbandblast»[edit]
- 2004: Bigbandblast! (Real Records)[17]
With Mathias Eick[edit]
- The Door (ECM, 2007)
With Alexander Rybak & Mats Paulson[edit]
- ^ Stian Carstensen "Stian Carstensen Biography - Store norske leksikon". (Norwegian)
- ^ "Stian Carstensen – humorist og multi-instrumentalist - NRK Jazz". (in Norwegian)
- ^ "Stian Carstensen: A humorous musical wizard - Ballade.no".
- ^ "Jazzlinja". NTNU.no. Retrieved 2012-11-21.
- ^ a b "Tine møter Stian Carstensen - Kultur og underholdning NRK.no".
- ^ a b "Farmers Market: Stian Carstensen - Puls.no". (in Norwegian)
- ^ Kelman, John (2013-12-13). "John Kelman's Best Live Shows of 2013". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2013-12-14.
- ^ "Farmers Market - Speed/Balkan/Boogie - Discogs.no".
- ^ "Farmers Market - Musikk Fra Hybridene - Discogs.no".
- ^ "Årets jazzplater - Ballade.no". (in Norwegian)
- ^ "Farmers Market & Stian Carstensen - Winter & Winter - Balkana.ru".
- ^ "Farmers Market - Discogs.no".
- ^ "Farmers Market - Surfin' USSR - Review Panorama.no". (in Norwegian)
- ^ "Farmers Market - Surfin' USSR - Review Musikknyheter.no". (in Norwegian)
- ^ "Farmers Market - Slav To The Rhythm - Review JazziNorge.no". (in Norwegian)
- ^ a b c "Frode Alnæs, Arild Andersen og Stian Carstensen - MusikkOnline.no". (in Norwegian)
- ^ Gorseth, Olav (2004-09-22). "Dødelig presist - Storbandplate produsert lag på lag" (in Norwegian). Bergens Tidende. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
- ^ "Stian Carstensen - RB.no". (in Norwegian)
- ^ "Alexander Rybak - Visa vid vindens ängar - RadioLudo.no". (in Norwegian)