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Weekly net post: Naked truth is, Venus controversy good thing
By Joe Fleming, USA TODAY
Ahhh, controversy. A little bit of it, every now and then, is a good thing.
Venus Williams is out of the French Open singles tournament — she lost Saturday to Nadia Petrova in a fourth-round match — but she dominated the opening week in Paris. Or rather her fashion choices did.
It's all been well documented, of course: The lacy, corset-like cancan dress. The skin-toned shorts she wore underneath. The illusion of nudity.
"The illusion of just having bare skin is definitely for me a lot more beautiful," Williams said. "For me, it's just been pushing myself as a designer, too."
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Williams has a degree in fashion design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, and she does design her own lines — meaning she is no doubt looking for any buzz about her on-court outfits can generate.
Williams wore the skin-tone shorts in January at the Australian Open— causing a stir in Melbourne — so there should have been no surprise there would be reaction again.
The truth is, fashion choices have long been part of the deal in tennis. And despite what Williams suggested — "Lace has never been done before in tennis" — lace has indeed made an appearance.
Gertrude "Gussie" Moran famously wore lace-trimmed knickers under her short-for-the-time tennis dress at Wimbledon in 1949.
"When I saw the picture (of Venus), I didn't even equate the two," Moran, who will be 87 in September, told Florida Today in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles apartment. "There was no relationship in my mind. It was so dissimilar anyhow.
"I just thought it was very attractive and cute," she said of Williams' outfit.
Gussie, and Venus, aren't alone.
Anne White wore a white body suit to Wimbledon in the 1980s.
Venus' sister, Serena, has made her own fashion statements, often at the U.S. Open — including the "boots" and jeans skirt and the black Lycra cat suit, among other innovations.
Tatiana Golovin caused an uproar at white-outfits-only Wimbledon in 2007 with a pair of red shorts under her white dress. Because they were shorter than the hem of her dress, they didn't fracture the ordinance.
Bethanie Mattek-Sands has pushed the envelope in the past. Cowboy hats. Leopard-print shorts. Her ever-present tube socks. She noted she had faced a fine at least once, and she talked about instances where disapproving tournament referees sent her back to the locker room
Of course, it hasn't just been women. Andre Agassi was known early in his career for unorthodox fashion sense, including denim shorts. He skipped Wimbledon from 1988-90 because he didn't want to wear white.
French Tennis Federation spokesman Christophe Proust was asked last week about Venus' outfit.
"It gives the illusion that she's naked (underneath), but she isn't," he said. "Maybe some people didn't like it, but, from what I know, there was no angry reaction from the organizers or French federation officials."
The tennis at the French Open is compelling enough to keep the attention of tennis fans, without a doubt. But publicity, even negative, isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Leave it to Mattek-Sands to put it in perspective: "I've pushed the line a few times. It's really a hazy line. So I think it's cool when people push it. I like it. I think it brings more interest. I mean, obviously everyone is talking about it, so it's great. Tennis is getting in the news. It's on the front page when I open up my browsers and everything just because she's wearing something different.
"So I think it's great."
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•The American effort at Roland Garros certainly could have been better — no American men in the quarterfinals; a strange, disinterested performance from Sam Querrey; the Bryan brothers, No. 1 in doubles, crashed out early — but it also could have been worse. Serena Williams is in the quarterfinals (the first American to get there since Serena made it in 2007; no American man has been to that stage since 2003 (Andre Agassi) and the title looks like it's hers to lose; Robby Ginepri came out of nowhere (1-7 entering the tournament) to get to Round 4; two other American men reached the third round. By contrast, in 2007, all nine American men lost in the first round, a record for American futility at a major.
•Speaking of Serena … Obviously there's a long way to go — and injuries have often been an issue — but the world No. 1 and Australian Open champion certainly has a chance for a season Grand Slam this year. Roland Garros is the tough one, and quarterfinal foe Sam Stosur has been superb. But nemesis Justine Henin is out — thanks to Stosur — and there are no other major champions left in the draw. Jelena Jankovic, who still has to beat Yaroslava Shvedova in the quarters, is 4-4 against Serena and beat her a few weeks ago on clay in Rome. Elena Dementieva and Nadia Petrova are tough outs. None of the above, however, has broken through in a major. Breaking through against Serena is a tall order. Even if she wins the French, Serena is only halfway to a Slam. But she's the defending champion at Wimbledon and who would bet against her in New York if she has the first three in the bag. Not us.
•The US Open National Playoffs continue. Last week five more men and women advanced. A notable match from last week was a quarterfinal matchup at the USTA SoCal tournament where men's winner Cecil Mamiit, a former NCAA singles champion and Pan-American Games silver medalist, faced former U.S. Olympian and 1999 French Open doubles finalist Jeff Tarango. Mamiit prevailed, 6-2, 6-0.
•Two Americans, sophomores Bradley Klahn (Stanford) and Chelsey Gullickson (Georgia) swept the NCAA Division I men's and women' singles titles Monday in Athens, Ga. This is the second consecutive year that Americans have swept the NCAA singles titles, as Devin Britton (Mississippi) and Mallory Cecil (Duke) won the events in 2009.
•Final thoughts: Want a tennis lesson with Anna Kournikova? It will cost a little, but it's for charity. Click here.…Stat of the week: 35-1. Rafael Nadal's career record at Roland Garros. Overall, Nadal is an astounding 173-6 on clay since 2005. …Quote of the week: "When I win the point, I like to show the emotions; when I lose the point, I like to break the racket. People here like it." — Novak Djokovic, the No. 3 seed, who has advanced to the French Open quarterfinals.
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An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.
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An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.
Determining that he is locked in, the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an unfamiliar, alternate world. As the day passes, various characters call on Mr. Blank in his cell, and each brings frustrating hints of his forgotten identity and his past.
Both chilling and poignant, "Travels in the Scriptorium" is vintage Paul Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.
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Mysterious, complex and challenging, the new novel from one of America's foremost fiction writers offers plenty for readers to contemplate. Mr. Blank, the elderly lead character, is trapped in a room, where he struggles to regain his memory. He has no recollection of arriving in the room, nor any idea of how much time has passed since he got there. On a desk in the room, Mr. Blank finds a manuscript, which he begins to read, only to discover that it tells the story of another captive, one Sigmund Grafa man not unlike himself. Soon, people from the manuscript visit Mr. Blank in his room, relating pieces of the story of his life. One visitor, Anna, gives Mr. Blank sponge baths and offers him sexual comfort. Other characters include James P. Flood, a former policeman, and Samuel Farr, a doctor, both of whom hint at dangerous journeys Mr. Blank forced them to embark on in his past life. The manuscript itself, meanwhile, describes the development of a new country called the Confederation and recounts the adventures of Graf as he travels to a place known as the Alien Territories. Auster uses the parallel stories of Blank and Graf to build suspense and tension, luring the reader into a world of narrative illusion. As usual with the novelist, all is not as it seems, and the book features an abundance of surprises. Fans of literary fiction will relish this cleverly constructed bookthe latest from a master of the genre.

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Eggplant Parmigiana
READY IN: 2hrs 15mins
Recipe by Joanne
This is one of my favorite vegitarian dishes to prepare. You can have it on a sandwich or with a side salad or over pasta. Either way, I love it.
Top Review by breezermom
This is delicious! I made it exactly as posted, and it turned out great. I baked mine for 35 minutes, and it got a bit brown.....but I think my oven runs a little bit hot. I'll definitely make this again. Thanks for sharing! Made for Rookie tag game.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 eggplants, small to medium size, washed, and cut into 1/2 inch rounds (skin on)
- 5 cups tomato sauce, my Italian Tomato Sauce
- 12 basil leaves, torn
- 6 -8 cups seasoned panko breadcrumbs or 6 -8 cups regular seasoned bread crumbs
- 4 eggs, beaten
- salt and pepper
- 1 1⁄2 lbs mozzarella cheese, shredded
- canola oil (for frying)
- 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
Directions See How It's Made
- For the eggplant (this step is optional, leave it out if you have limited time): Arrange the eggplant rounds in a single layer on 2 baking sheets. Sprinkle with salt on both sides of each slice and allow it to sit for about 1 hour. Salting it draws out the liquid and bitter flavor. After an hour, rinse with cold water and dry them with paper towels.
- Arrange a breading station:.
- Combine eggs, salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste in large bowl. In another bowl combine panko breadcrumbs, salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste, and 1 tbs. parmesan cheese. Dip eggplant in egg mixture, then in panko breadcrumbs. Arrange the eggplant in a single layer on baking sheets.
- Heat a large frying pan on low/medium heat, add enough olive oil to fill about 1/2 inch of the bottom of the pan (you may need to add more oil after first batch). When oil is hot, add a single layer of eggplant. Cook for about 3 minutes per side until golden brown (do this in batches) transfer eggplant to a paper towel lined plate to drain.
- To assemble:.
- In a 9 x 13 inch baking dish add a little of the tomato sauce to coat bottom of pan. Add a single layer of eggplant slices (i start with the largest slices) top with tomato sauce, then mozzarella cheese, then torn basil. Repeat the layering process 2 more times (or until you use up all of the eggplant) to make 3 layers. Sprinkle the remaining 1 tbs. Parmesan cheese on top.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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In 1969, the members of the three year-old Nitty Gritty Dirt Band almost packed it in for good, unsure of where the young group was heading next in its career or with its hybrid sound. Thirty-seven years later the remaining foursome - weathered, well-traveled, arguably wiser -- is enjoying its 40th Anniversary. The individual band-mates would probably admit they still don't know where they're heading next, only that wherever it is, they'll be going there together.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's pioneering spirit, its eagerness to experiment and desire to explore the by-ways and gravel roads of America's musical past, has exerted a profound effect on our present-day pop culture. Its members refused to be pigeonholed or hew to a narrow star-making path. In the early seventies, they defied the conventional hit-driven approach to record-making by undertaking the ambitious three-LP set Will The Circle Be Unbroken, cut live to two-track in Nashville over six days, for the sum of just $22,000. Thanks to the band's unfettered creative energy and the palpable excitement of playing with their country and bluegrass music idols, the album became a landmark, genre-smashing hit. Circle remains such a pivotal cultural moment that it was one of 50 recordings honored this year - and to be preserved -- by the Library of Congress.
It would be no exaggeration to say that much of what falls under the umbrella term of roots music these days bears the mark in some way of NGDB's influence, from folk-rock to alternative country, contemporary bluegrass to neo-hippie jam bands. It's not just a legacy from the past, but an influence that continues to grow - young heartthrobs Rascal Flatts scored a Best Country Song Grammy this year for "Bless the Broken Road," co-written by NGDB guitarist Jeff Hanna and originally featured on NGDB's 1994 Acoustic album. (The tune had also been nominated for the Song of the Year Award.) Fadden's "Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go)" was covered by up-and-coming bluegrass stars Cherryholmes on their self-titled, 2006 Grammy-nominated album. NGDB's own work is featured on the soundtrack to the 2006 Oscar-worthy film Transamerica. The band members, regularly nominated over the years as songwriters and artists, were awarded their most recent Grammy in 2004, Best Country Instrumental, for "Earl's Breakdown," a track that featured the titular Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Vassar Clements and Jerry Douglas. Most importantly, NGDB, in classic road-warrior tradition, still tours several months a year.
Although the faces and names of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band may not always be immediately recognizable to the general public - vocalist/guitarist Jeff Hanna, drummer/harmonica player Jimmie Fadden, banjo/fiddle/mandolin/guitar player John McEuen, vocalist/keyboardist Bob Carpenter -- fellow musicians young and old know exactly who they are. When John McEuen's son cajoled his dad into going to a Phish concert, Trey Anastasio not only recognized McEuen outside the arena and immediately invited him (and his lucky son) to hang out on the tour bus, he insisted McEuen open the second half of the show with the band. Before a performance at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, Bruce Springsteen mentioned to Jeff Hanna that Circle was one of his favorite albums (a claim clearly supported by Springsteen's own new Seeger Sessions). Bruce Hornsby has confessed that as a student in Virginia, he and his lyricist brother John snuck into an NGDB gig at William and Mary College by posing as roadies and carrying the band's gear into the concert hall.
A string of hits on mainstream pop and country radio in the eighties did get the band's name out to a large contemporary audience. Well before then, though, unsuspecting Top 40 radio listeners were singing along to the band. Hanna and McEuen had backed Michael Martin Murphy on his classic "Wildfire" and "Carolina in the Pines"; NGDB also arranged and played live in the studio on Steve Martin's gold-selling left-field hit, "King Tut." Clearly the band has a sense of humor to go along with its good taste.
"We've kept it alive, kept it a growing thing," say McEuen of the band's evolution. "With the Dirt Band, you think of a certain integrity in the songs, not a single focus. What has connected our various work is the 'Americana' instrumentation and playing songs that are accessible to people. Our songs aren't just about one thing and neither are people's lives."
"Maybe we're the Kinks of country music," suggests Jimmie Fadden, who, along with Hanna, has been part of NGDB since its inception. He's referring to the revered British Invasion combo fronted by Ray Davies, whose fame was eclipsed by the Beatles and Stones. Its work, however, remains among the most musically and thematically adventurous of the era. "There was always some disjointed quality to what the Kinks did that was parallel to what we did. It was not always perfect, like the record company likes you to be perfect, like the radio station likes you to be perfect. We were always allowed to wear our little band-aids and leave bruises and scratches on our music."
"We are told our songs have become a soundtrack to people's lives over a period of time," continues McEuen. " I sit at the autograph table and talk to younger people, in their teens and early 20s, obviously not whom you'd expect at a veteran band's shows. They would be there by themselves and I'd ask why they came to our show and they'd say, 'Ever since I was little, my folks used to play your music. They'd take it camping with us, we'd sing along in the car to "Ripplin' Waters," "Make A Little Magic." The song about Bojangles always reached me.' Currently, 20 percent of the Dirt Band's audience is under 30. Now when I ask them why they come to the show, they're starting to say it was their grandparents who used to play our music all the time."
"I didn't think anyone in this band felt we'd be playing music into our fifties," Carpenter admits. "At first I just looked at it like, we want to sell records and tour, and it happened from year to year to year. We're been fortunate that no matter what happened with our recordings, we always had people who wanted to come and see us play. And that's the thing that really kept us together. I know it may sound trite, but we really have our fans to thank for that. We've got a loyal fan base that comes out to see us make music."
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band formed in Southern California during the spring of '66. The young Hanna, Fadden and McEuen hung out at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Long Beach; this maverick group distinguished itself from its peers by playing jug-band music and wearing cowboy boots with vintage pinstripe suits. Like the Lovin' Spoonful on the east coast, the combo was inspired by the early 20th century jug-band sound, a danceable variation on country blues that originally depended on homemade instrumentation like washboards, jugs and kazoos. As Hanna recalls, "All of us were rebelling against popular music, although I think we were all closet Rolling Stones and Beatles fans. You could not be a child growing up in the sixties and not be exposed to that music and not have it influence you in some way. But there was something in the folk-blues tradition that jug-band music embodied. It was a throwback to a simpler time in music that was really appealing. Not to get too deep on a sociological level, but the idea that this music came from the Prohibition era spoke to us too, because people were all sneaking around rolling joints in the back of their parents' houses."
"It wasn't a part of what my friends were listening to," explains Fadden, "It wasn't so easy to get. You couldn't just turn on the radio and have it. I liked that sort of 'outsider' thing. I saw myself as not being a part of the mainstream so I gravitated to it quite easily. What really captured me was the honesty of the music, that it was uncompromising and relatively unadorned. There weren't a lot of smoke and mirrors. I think that's what really got me. It was raw."
Hanna says, "When we put our jug band together, before we were actually making any money, we were drawing overflow crowds at these little folk rooms - there might have been 200 to 250 people. They were young people; our fans were our peers. So there must have been something appealing about it, more than just our esoteric, snobby outlook on popular music. Of course, jug band music is fun too. The Lovin' Spoonful developed into a great band, one of the coolest, underrated bands ever."
NGDB's self-titled debut was released in 1967 on the Liberty label and included "Buy For Me The Rain," which cracked the Top 40. That was quickly followed by Richochet and, in 1968, Rare Junk. During this period, the group's manager read in Variety that the producers of the movie musical Paint Your Wagon were scouting for a band to portray itinerant musicians from the 19th Century California gold rush. NGDB played for composer Alan Jay Lerner and director Josh Logan on a huge soundstage at the Paramount lot and got the job. The band spent four months in the Oregon woods alongside such unlikely musical comedy stars as Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin and Jean Seberg.
NGDB's next studio album, 1970's Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy, would be the band's commercial and artistic breakthrough, yielding a Top Ten hit with its now-classic version of Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles." By then, Jimmy Ibbotson had joined the band and would be part of NGDB off and on for the next three and a half decades, penning such band staples as "Ripplin' Waters" and "Dance Little Jean." NGDB had suffered a temporary break-up in early '69, but soon reunited with a stronger focus, its priorities figured out. As Hanna admits, "When we started as jug band we had a clear vision of what we wanted to do, but then we had these growing pains because people were going on different tangents, so the '69 version of the band - in terms of what we play now - is the heart of what we do, that country rock-bluegrass hybrid. "
Along with Walker's classic story-song, Uncle Charlie featured tunes from Randy Newman, Buddy Holly, a then-unknown Kenny Loggins and former Monkee Michael Nesmith. NGDB's manager, John's brother Bill McEuen, had demanded complete artistic control from the record label and took over production. He incorporated rustic audio-verite segments into Uncle Charlie that helped unify the material into more of an album-length statement and foreshadowed the work to come on the 1972 Will The Circle Be Unbroken. He would produce several important NGDB albums, though to simply call him the "producer" would be an understatement; Bill was to NGDB as George Martin was to the Beatles, crucial to the refinement of the band's studio sound at a key point in its career. As John says of his brother, "Thanks to his production, editing, artwork and concepts, the group achieved success that went beyond what many thought it could be."
Among the many outstanding tracks on Uncle Charlie was a version of Earl Scruggs' "Randy Lynn Rag." When NGDB performed at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Scruggs and his family came to the show. Hanna and John McEuen later caught up with him on the road. McEuen asked Scruggs if he'd consider recording with band, Scruggs answered "I'd be proud to" - and that set into motion what would become the Circle album.
In today's cultural climate, when the soundtrack of O Brother Where Art Thou? could reach platinum status, the concept of Circle hardly seems radical. Yet at the time this collaboration among Nashville legends like Scruggs, Doc Watson, Roy Acuff and even Mother Maybelle Carter and these long-haired admirers from the West Coast was unprecedented. Artists like the Byrds had gone to Nashville, but none had attempted a dialogue of quite this nature, reaching across generations, geography, attitudes and separate histories to find sounds and songs that everyone appreciated. Will the Circle Be Unbroken was a veritable summit meeting of talent, but it came off like a back porch conversation -- relaxed, congenial, with lots of laughs and plenty of poignant moments. A torch wasn't being passed; everyone was holding it up together. In an era of political and social divisiveness, Circle was an extraordinary gesture of unity and understanding that instantly captivated critics and record buyers, and would become a multi-platinum success.
In April 2006, the National Recording Preservation Board, established by the Library of Congress as" a comprehensive national program to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's sound recording heritage," added Will the Circle Be Unbroken to its National Recording Registry, one of 50 recordings selected each year. As the Board put it, the album "introduced acoustic country music to a new generation of audiences and revived the careers of several of the guest performers."
This groundbreaking effort had a reciprocal effect on NGDB. As Hanna, who now lives in Nashville with his wife, singer-songwriter Matraca Berg, explains," I think we were lucky to find people down here to work with who were encouraging and nurturing on a creative level...and to be accepted by the country music community. The Circle album was a great kind of backstage pass to have. In the early eighties, when we had our run at country radio, there wasn't any test we had to pass in terms of credibility."
NGDB's 1974 double-album mix of live and studio cuts, Stars and Stripes Forever, received an even more enthusiastic commercial reception than Circle; the group followed it with the all-studio Dream. By '77, NGDB participated in another groundbreaking cross-cultural event: It became the first American combo to be invited by the Soviet government to tour the U.S.S.R., performing a month's worth of live dates and playing to literally 140 million curious television viewers.
After having sat in and recorded with the group since the mid-'70s, Bob Carpenter officially joined the Dirt Band, which had briefly dropped the "Nitty Gritty" from its name, in 1980; McEuen likes to refer to him as "the new original member." Carpenter co-wrote "Make A Little Magic" with Hanna, a 1980 pop hit featuring vocalist Nicolette Larson that is among the band's most perennially popular, the one, says McEuen, "that you always hear in grocery stores or on airplanes." Similarly, Linda Ronstadt, with whom Hanna had backed in a post-Stone Poney's lineup, guest starred on the lilting soft rock of Rodney Crowell's "An American Dream," which had made the Top 20 a year before. The mellow, gently heartfelt approach of those songs was indicative of the work that would put the Dirt Band at the top of the county charts for a decade, starting in the early eighties. Its remarkable run of 17 consecutive Top Ten hits included "Dance Little Jean," "Baby's Got A Hold On Me" and "Fishin' in the Dark." Their chart-topping work had little in common with the slick, pop-oriented country hits of today; it was more akin to the warm-hearted country/rock balance of "Peaceful, Easy Feeling"-era Eagles Throughout this productive period, there were more significant comings and goings: Ibbotson, who left in the late seventies, returned in '81 and stayed until 2004; McEuen departed in '88 for a solo career and came back in 2001.
"It was a cool time in country music,," says Hanna, "with people like Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Lyle Lovett - they all were on the radio then. I was very proud that our band was happening at the same time, through the eighties."
By 1982, "Nitty Gritty" was restored to the Dirt Band name; in '89, the group -- consisting of Fadden, Hanna, Carpenter and Ibbotson -- revisited the Circle concept, gathering another impressive, wide-ranging roster of performers and selecting both vintage and contemporary material for sessions that had a pronounced country-gospel feel. Among the vocalists were Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Levon Helm, Roseanne Cash, John Hiatt and Bruce Hornsby; John Denver contributed a particularly affecting performance of "And So It Goes." Randy Scruggs, namesake of the "Randy Lynn Rag," co-produced the set with the band. (Circle II would go on to win three Grammy Awards and the Country Music Association Album of the Year). Randy would return in 2002 for the final installment of what became a Circle trilogy, a bluegrass-oriented set that featured such friends as Willie Nelson, Earl Scruggs, Rodney Dillard, Alison Krauss, Taj Mahal, Dwight Yoakum and, once again, Johnny Cash, who delivers the powerful, elegiac "Tears In the Holston River."
NGDB's most recent studio album, Welcome to Woody Creek, brought the group back to its roots. The band-mates approached their material as if it were a Circle session, with the emphasis on interaction, informality, spontaneity and maximum feeling, and it shows on every one of the self-produced album's spirited tracks. Though Woody Creek showcases material penned by the band members, the album also contain a particularly inspired treatment of the Beatles' "Get Back," re-imagined as a bluegrass stomp, and a graceful, evocative rendition of Gram Parsons' "She."
Looking back on the 40-year legacy of NGDB, Carpenter says, "The work of keeping the individuals and band together --the communication it takes, the work of dealing with people just as people -- that part of the job has been as intense and as time consuming for us as the music. You have to empathize with each other. We've been very lucky to be able to work things out in whatever dysfunctional way we do -and, believe me, it can be totally dysfunctional - but I think it's that way for every group."
"I love playing in the band," states Hanna. "One of the things that's different now is that we've traveled so many miles together, spent so much time together, it's become intuitive. We can read each other musically and that becomes a lot of what makes it fun to play music together. Plus we have this volume of work to draw from, which is great. We can pull out a song that feels new to us even if it's something we recorded 20 or 30 years ago. We're constantly learning. We surprise each other, with a new tune or a lick or some kind of groove that's fresh for us."
"Stuff goes in and out of the set," Fadden confirms. "We'll do something that we haven't done in 10 years and it seems like, oh, that was last week. It's simple and fun. I'm grateful being a part of that. I've been very blessed with many things. I like the guys I work with --there are some things in each and every one of us that rankles the other a little bit, but, you know, it's no big deal. I still have a lot of fun playing, in fact, I have more fun playing now than I ever did."
McEuen concludes, "It's the various strengths of the individual members, called upon at different times and brought to the forefront, that have kept the band creative and productive and brought the most success to the band."
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has enabled us to view our shared musical heritage in a new light. It has expanded the vocabulary of popular music and taken its uniquely American perspective around the globe. Most of all, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has proven that collaboration, cooperation, tolerance and good humor - along with a healthy disagreement every now and then -- can keep a group of people working together, having fun, creating music and making a difference for a lifetime.
-- Michael Hill
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I have a column in today's USA Today about microphilanthropy: basically, non-profits that encourage a direct connection between donor and recipient, with donors choosing where their money goes and receiving follow-up updates. One of the non-profits I highlight is Donors Choose. Founded by a Bronx teacher, Charles Best, in 2000, Donors Choose lets people select certain classroom projects to help fund.
I spoke with Best a few weeks ago about finding classrooms serving gifted learners through the search function, and while it's a little complicated, it's definitely doable. You can search for "gifted" in the keyword search, and come up with a few. This morning, I found a request from Mrs. T that way. Mrs. T in Green Bay, Wisconsin writes that "I work in 6 different schools a week with gifted and talented children. Many are second language learners and/or economically challenged. My children come to school and know a large percentage of the curriculum or they learn it very rapidly and many times then have to read a book to wait while other children work through the concepts. These children have so many gifts to offer the world, but they need to be pushed to challenge their learning and expand their thinking." She is asking for donors to band together to raise $353 to purchase materials. (Read more about her classes here).
Best told me that you can also narrow the search to magnet schools, which will help find some that specifically serve gifted students. Using this method, I found a request from Mrs. F in Birmingham, Alabama. She is seeking funds to purchase history books that will intrigue her students. She writes, "I teach fifty-five 4th grade students from fifteen area schools who have been identified as gifted. There is no funding for gifted education in Alabama. Our state education systems have been tremendously hurt by the economic turndown and the oil spill in the gulf. Any materials we get are purchased from our own pocket, thus no books, no equipment, and no materials." She is asking donors to give $268 (it was more but four people have chipped in already). You can read more about her here.
Of course, you can't read these requests without getting upset. The United States spends more per pupil than the vast majority of countries (even in a downturn), yet somehow teachers are being told that there is no money for books for their classes and they have to buy them themselves? How is it that low-income, gifted students -- those that we need public schools to serve and challenge to reach their incredible potential -- are given a mere hour or so of pull-out a week? Why is their teacher running around to 6 different schools and asking anonymous donors for items to help her serve her kids' needs?
These are broader questions that we have to continue working on. But in the meantime, Donors Choose gives people a way to address specific needs even as we figure out how to address a broader problem.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Microphilanthropy, Donors Choose, and gifted education
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Heck, *most* teachers are being told to purchase materials, if not books, out of their own pockets. What percentage of the education budget goes to bureaucracy, and how much of that could we save by getting rid of half the standardized testing?
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Support for this research was provided by grants for the Prevention Research Center at Arizona State University (2 P30MH439246-18 and 5 P30MH068685-3, ASU Prevention Research Center for Families in Stress; 5T32MH01837-15, Research Training in Child Mental Health/Primary Prevention), and a grant for a 6-year follow-up of the preventive intervention under study (1 R01MH057013-01A). The authors are grateful to the families for their participation.
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Mark Cavendish won his third stage of the Tour de France Thursday, but the British rider's feat was overshadowed by the race's third positive EPO test and the withdrawal of the Saunier Duval team.
Before Thursday's stage, brash Italian rider Riccardo Ricco, who won the sixth and ninth stages in the Tour and was runner-up in the 2008 Tour of Italy, was arrested after testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug CERA EPO after his Stage 6 win.
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- 946.0 ml whole milk
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- 2.46 ml coarse salt
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 295.73 ml granulated sugar
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- all-purpose flour, for pan
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C'è voglia di Romo? E allora che Romo sia.
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Now That's What I Call Romo! Dex Dexter were an band formed in late 1994 via an ad in the pages of 'Melody Maker'.
The line-up was Xavior (vocals), Even (keyboards), Gjeih (guitar) and Gage (bass). They were augmented by female drummer Elle for live engagements. The band were named by singer Xavior, after the character Dex Dexter, a lover of Alexis Colby, from 80's U.S. soap opera 'Dynasty'. By 1995 they were up and gigging in the London area.
A two track demo tape containing the songs 'Chemistry Of Youth' and 'V.D' was handed to Kevin Skinny, promoter of the popular Club Skinny night, and the band were invited to come and play at a future date.
This gig, supporting Brighton-based Plastic Fantastic (coming soon!), would kick-start the Romo movement, as then-'Melody Maker' journalist Simon Price (DJing that night), decided to do a special front-cover Romo feature in November 1995. Dex Dexter got themselves a management team and readied themselves to ride on the growing media profile.
The'Romo On The March' tour in March 1996 resulted in substantial record company interest and Dex Dexter decided to sign with the new Trade 2 label, owned by Island Records.
During the summer of 1996 the band began recording and issued one single, 'Another Car, Another Car Crash', in early 1997 (fabulous artwork!). However, due to hissyfits and friction surrounding songwriting decisions, they split later the same year.
Singer Xavior was retained by Trade 2/Island as a solo artist but was dropped in 1998, his finished solo album remaining unreleased.
Around this time, he also appeared in the Todd Haines film 'Velvet Goldmine' as the character Pearl.
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beh allora devi assolutamente postare gli Orlando, non solo il più grande gruppo romo del periodo, ma uno dei grandissimi gruppi pop dei '90.RispondiElimina
Grazie mille!
Se hai bisogno degli Orlando ho tutto...anche se il Magic e.p. è in vinileRispondiElimina
Grazie carissimo, penso di avere tutto dei cari Orlando...ma se ho bisogno ti faccio un fischio!RispondiElimina
Ciao. Ricky
Grazie mille! estuve buscando esto mucho tiempo!!!RispondiElimina
- Anonimo24 aprile 2011 22:29
Best band ever? !!RispondiElimina
Can you re-upload this and Fiddling While Romo Burns? Been looking for these forever and never had a chance to buy them, since I'm stuck in the American Midwest, and we don't get many cool imports...RispondiElimina


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CHICAGO New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson became the first Hispanic selected by Barack Obama for nomination to his Cabinet Wednesday as the president-elect continued building his administration.
Richardson, the third former rival from this year's Democratic primaries to be picked by Obama, is the eighth person chosen for a Cabinet-level post since the election. He was picked to head the Commerce Department.
It's a pace not matched by any president in 50 years, and it should give Obama's team the chance he said he wants to "hit the ground running." Still, government ethics laws, FBI background checks and Senate confirmations will slow the process for hundreds of lower-level people. In the past three presidencies, the average wait for appointees requiring confirmation has been eight months after inauguration, said Calvin Mackenzie, a government professor at Colby College in Maine and expert on presidential transitions.
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Obama picked Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff the week he was elected. He has filled most top White House jobs, including the heads of the economic, national security and domestic policy councils.
He began picking his Cabinet nominees on Nov. 24 with Timothy Geithner for Treasury secretary. Since then, he's chosen nominees for five other departments, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., for secretary of State and Eric Holder as attorney general, and two other Cabinet-level positions — budget director and U.N. ambassador.
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Mackenzie said Obama's pace of appointments "gives these people time to begin to prepare what they're going to do on Jan. 21." Obama takes office Jan. 20.
Richardson, 61, became the latest on the list Wednesday. His name had circulated for secretary of State, prompting a reporter to ask Obama if Commerce was a "consolation prize."
"Commerce secretary is a pretty good job," Obama said. "It's a member of my key economic team." Richardson called it "the programmatic nerve center in America's struggle to rejuvenate our economy."
The New Mexico governor previously served as energy secretary and U.N. ambassador under President Clinton as well as a congressman for 14 years. He mounted a presidential campaign based on his experience and a promise to immediately withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. It lasted through the New Hampshire primary in mid-January — a week longer than Vice President-elect Joe Biden's campaign; Hillary Rodham Clinton quit in June.
Richardson endorsed Obama over Clinton in March, causing a rift with the former first family.
Richardson began sporting a scruffy beard after dropping out of the presidential race, but shaved it off before appearing with Obama.
"I think it was a mistake for him to get rid of it," Obama quipped. "I thought that whole Western, rugged look was really working for him."
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