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After sending out an open call in late September, The Village Voice received roughly 800 submissions for our benefit compilation of new love songs to New York City. (It'll be out in March.) They came from all over the countryfrom famous musicians and from people who'd never recorded before. They sent everything from giant, lush, studio-produced song cycles to a taped-over Columbia Records cassette sampler with someone squeaking "New Yawk City, New Yawk, New Yawk" over and over for . . . a very long time. And even though the announcement had asked specifically for love songs, about NYC in particular, almost everyone just wanted to talk about Topic A.
The overwhelming majority of the submissions, that is, are about September 11 and its aftereffectsthe horror of watching the towers fall, the bravery of the Flight 93 passengers, the desire to kick bin Laden in the head, etc. Only about a fifth are even vaguely love songs. There's a little subgenre about the people who jumped from the burning towers, and at least half a dozen songs called "911." A few titles are variations on "The Day the Whole World Changed." A bunch are "We Are America" or "I Am America" or "We Are Americans." Clichés? Yeah, for a reasonthey're ideas that artists needed to express in their work.
A lot of the tapes and CD-Rs that came in are really pretty awful, honestly. But that's not the interesting thing about them. In aggregate, they're awe-inspiring, a cross section of the folk music of this moment: the songs people write and sing whether or not there's anyone listening. 9-11 is responsible for more cultural production than any other single event of the last 50 years (only Princess Diana's death even comes close), most of it on a private, individual level. That Onion story, "Not Knowing What Else to Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake," is about right, except that hundreds of people recorded songs instead, and then sent them to us. (And thousands more didn't send them to us: MP3.com lists another 520 songs with "9-11" in their titles alone, about two-thirds of them on-topic, plus 83 more called "September 11" or something similar.) Songs are better than cakes, anyway.
I'm not going to name anyone who wasn't chosen for the final compilationpartly because Voice readers are likely never going to be able to hear their songs even if you want to, and partly because the critic's prerogative doesn't extend to artists whose work hasn't been made public. Especially if the critic is representing an organization that could've made that work public and didn't. Still, there are some meaningful patterns in the ways songwriters responded to the attacks and their aftermath.
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For one thing, most of them obviously wanted to come up with something inspirational to say, which isn't easy. A song called "God (Heart) NY" declares that God's love is "so great he can let a couple of buildings fall," which is suspect both logically and theologically. The plinky hip-hop number called "Ground Zero" strains to invoke similarly dubious uplift in its chorus: "We wanna thank you/For havin' so much pride/We wanna thank you/For the people who lived and died inside." The heroine of "Little Ozark Girl" seems like she's going to make good until her plane crashes in the last verse"Twin towers on fire when men conspire/To destroy our American way"; the narrator informs her that "now you'll be the one to shine among those stars up in the sky." And we are not, as one song puts it, "all heroes" simply because we live in the city.
What's most striking about the 9-11 tributes en masse, though, is how similar their language is, no matter what their sentiments are. Like Wordsworth said, poetry comes from "emotion recollected in tranquillity," but the people who were writing in September or October hadn't really had a tranquil moment in a while. What they had left were the words that everyone was using to address the indescribable, and a lot of their lyrics rely on phrases that have lost their meaning from recent overuse (some of them imported from other songs). "Home of the brave," "liberty and justice for all," "sea to shining sea," "never be the same," "senseless attack," the inevitable and frustratingly incomplete "united we stand" . . . One song goes, "I saw the news today, oh man"; another begins "now more than ever" and ends with a rousing chorus of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Plenty of the lyrics are declarations of patriotism, a concept few clarify beyond being pro-Us and anti-Them: "I will rise out of this dust/Because I'm American/Because I must." (It's curious how many have references to "rising again"the "rise again" verse is a standard feature of English-language folk music, but rarely is it this literal.) One song called "U.S.A." wades so deep into received language that it loses sense altogether: "All we believe in is pride in democracy/Let's lead the way to a life that our children will see . . . Oh say can you see/Oh say can you see."
It's not impossible to find a fresh angle for a song about something this huge and recentthe Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson sang a great one December 26 at Sidewalk Cafébut it's hard to get enough perspective. One result is statements of the obvious, as in the tune whose chorus goes, "The towers have fallen, all the dust has swirled/There won't be any tradin' at the center of the world." (It happens to accomplished songwriters too. Neil Young's "Let's Roll" fails in basically the same way.) The flip side of the same problem is generalized vagueness: "Seize upon the hour and begin/So I guess it's time you found your second wind," rambles "Second Wind," which unsurprisingly cops some Billy Joel moves, though more from "Movin' Out." (Paul McCartney's "Freedom" says just as little.) Also, the trick of establishing historical context by mixing in taped newscasts, particularly of G.W. Bush's "I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you" speech, is very popular, and gets old very quickly.
For their music and arrangements, the 9-11 songwriters tend to reach out to familiar, comforting modes that are formally associated with their subjects: early Bob Dylan for complaints about social injustice, uptempo country for announcements that we're going to get the bastards, the '80s midtempo rocker for I-miss-you-so-much sentiments, the "Wind Beneath My Wings"-style power ballad climaxing in a wailing guitar solo for declarations of passionate hope. These are all forms with multiple, specific conventions, which their adherents follow as closely as they can. They sing like Sheryl Crow, Bruce, Sinatra, Michael Boltonlike anyone except themselves. Maybe that means those styles, especially the currently unfashionable ones, are what people want to hear more of right now; when was the last time you heard a Buffy Sainte-Marie-type soprano-vibrato-enunciation-acoustic-guitar combination on the radio?
Unfortunately, approximations of "professionalism," or of particular professionals, are rarely as good as the real thing. The more wholeheartedly amateur performers embrace their own eccentricities, the better they sound: cheers to the guys who rap over a boom-box playing the Bee Gees' "New York Mining Disaster 1941," to the nervous woman singing an a cappella song about her fears of vengeance, and to the fellow with the heavy European accent, cheap karaoke synth, and flamenco guitar whose toe-tapper's high point goes, "I loave New York!/Terroreeessm will be cruuushed!"
Some songwriters puntedsending the Voice not particularly germane old recordings, or what seemed to be all-purpose instrumentals. That's the dilemma of sharing private art: An old composition may take on new meaning, or a guitar solo may be addressed to the city, but even a programmatic title doesn't mean that anyone but its creator will understand how. A few bands happened to have written an NYC love song a while ago, which was fine. On the other hand, somebody sent in a song called "Television Jerk" with a 1976 copyright. Oh please.
Among the actual new love songs to New York, the most popular mode is the old-style American list song: the uptown and the downtown, the boroughs, the subway, all the things you can do in the city. (Fair enough: That is what a lot of people love about this place.) Again, reliable formulas keep turning up"Give my regards to Bleecker Street/Remember me to Washington Square," goes one called "New Yorkers." Even among the ostensible love songs, though, Topic A's gravitational force is hard to escape. "Alive Again" goes on about stars and bars and "Central Park, Times Square, Dick Clark," but the first line is still "the terrorists struck without a warning."
If it sounds like the 9-11 songs are uniformly bad art or novelties, they aren't. As always, there are prominent exceptions to the trends, and as usual, the best songs are among those exceptions. But even the most derivative seem born of necessity more than calculation. "When we no longer mourn/Will we keep on reliving September?" one woman sings. Everyone hopes not, but her song is itself a way to get to the end of mourning.
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ST. MARYS - The city may be getting a downtown restaurant if, after further study, a Celina restaurateur gives the go-ahead.
At the city's Community Improvement Corporation luncheon Tuesday, John Irmsher, owner of CJ's HighMarks restaurants in Celina, Sidney, Troy and Greenville, presented an overview of necessary elements for starting a restaurant, an undertaking he said has the highest failure rate of any new enterprise.
"It's a lot more than being able to cook. It's a people-driven business ... Downtown areas have less traffic and chain retailers follow the traffic ... With restaurants, 80 percent of our business is night and weekends, a time when downtown areas are less populated," Irmsher told the group, adding he'll "hold off" on choosing a location until he has a clear view of what St. Marys offers.
The location currently under consideration by Irmsher is in the new complex being discussed for the downtown area where the remains of the old woolen mill building stands. Community Development Director Todd Fleagle presented an artist rendering of the proposed building and new landscaping around the old canal lock.
The former Glass Block parcel on East Spring Street is being purchased by First Financial Bank, which plans to construct a new $1.4 million banking center at the site. Irmsher's tentative proposal puts the restaurant in the same building as the bank.
Irmsher, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind., has been in the food service business for almost five decades. In 1963 he opened the Happy Humpty restaurant on state Route 703 in St. Marys. Along the way he and his partners operated the Empire restaurant in Celina, which they eventually sold and later owners closed.
He observed that the retail areas in St. Marys aren't centralized with Kroger's in the northeast, St. Marys Square in the northwest, downtown and the store along state Route 703 to the west.
"But weaknesses can become strengths," he said, adding the four-lane highway is access to leave a market, but also access bringing customers into the market.
The Celina businessman has been looking at St. Marys since last summer and has formed a committee to offer investment opportunities locally.
"If this is successful, we'll come to St. Marys," he said.
He outlined some features a proposed restaurant would offer: a bar, banquet facilities for 50 to 80 people, a deck overlooking the Miami & Erie Canal, seating for up to 200 people and the food basics from appetizers to desserts.
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Formula One racing is a game of intense speed, high-tech achievement and very big bucks. | |
Accidents leading to serious injuries: | |
1 in 300. | |
The longest period of time during a race when computer data from a car are not being downloaded: | |
4 seconds (in the Monaco tunnel). | |
Revenues already contracted for 2003 season: | |
$249 million. | |
Total number of people the FIA claims have seen Formula One on TV in any form: | |
50 billion-nearly ten times the world's population. | |
Price of a speeding ticket for each kilometer-per-hour above the 60kph limit during practice: | |
$250. | |
The time it takes to accelerate from 0 to 100mph and decelerate back to 0: | |
6.6 seconds. | |
Amount Ford Motor Co. expects to spend on its Jaguar F1 team in the next five years: | |
more than $1 billion. | |
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$2 million. |
Everyone knows where to find the reclusive
King Bernie pretty much engineered the world's second-largest sport, after soccer, using guile and moxie. (Nascar racing–which uses regular stock cars that have been souped up, in contrast to Formula One's single-passenger shells on exposed wheels–has revenues that are 40% of Formula One's $4 billion.) Ecclestone still runs races the way he did back when Formula One was little more than a bunch of English speed freaks with no concept of television rights. He's 70 years old now, and a triple bypass two years ago helped convince him to sell off 75% of his Formula One holdings for $2.1 billion. He is the richest entrepreneur in Britain–and the scariest.
Even with the sale, Ecclestone is still five feet of the meanest monarch in sports; he has no plans to step down. His contract calls for him to serve as a kind of regent until at least 2007. "I have put my life into this sport," he says fiercely.
But some members of Formula One aren't very happy about his regime, and his sale of a controlling interest in SLEC Holdings (it stands for Slavica Ecclestone, his 42-year-old Croatian wife), which owns his complex tangle of Formula One interests, gives them an excuse to revolt. The buyer was Kirch Group, a pay-television giant in Munich. The European carmakers behind the biggest F1 teams now worry that races could move off free TV onto a narrower pay-TV audience, making the ads they splash over the sides of cars a lot less valuable.
In April a band of carmakers that sponsor racing teams–Fiat's Ferrari, Ford's Jaguar, DaimlerChrysler and BMW–announced the creation of a company to manage a breakaway racing series in 2008 when the contract governing F1 expires. That is, if peace with Bernie can't be negotiated. "This is a sort of watershed moment," says Ecclestone's close ally Max Rufus Mosley, head of Formula One's governing body and the velvet glove on Bernie's carbon-fiber fist. "If the big manufacturers say they want to run a rival series, they have the resources to do it."
Not that anyone is crying poverty. Bernie's reign has been long and absurdly prosperous for everybody in the $4 billion-a-year sport. "Bernie has always understood the Lincoln thing–that you can annoy some of the people all of the time," says Mosley. "People complain, and then they get on their private jets."
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Ecclestone figured out long before anybody else that the big money had to come from television, which is the only way a spectator can really get more than a split-second blur of color at 150 miles per hour. Every other Sunday from March through October, 350 million people in 150 countries tune in to watch the 22 most painstakingly engineered cars on the planet whiz through twisty tracks in places like Montreal, Monaco and Malaysia. Only the Olympics bring higher global TV sports ratings. Formula One's worldwide TV rights should bring in roughly $500 million this year–the company doesn't disclose numbers–with 53% going to Bernie's Formula One Management and 47% to the 11 Formula One teams.
And there are the fees paid by promoters for the rights to stage the races and sell tickets. The average promoter fee now hovers around $15 million for each of the 17 races. Bernie is also a promoter at his own tracks in Spa, Belgium, Hockenheim, Germany and Magny-Cours, France. Revenues from these could reach $200 million a year, and none of it is included in the assets Ecclestone sold to Kirch. Within the next two years Moscow will get a Formula One race, and Bernie will probably own it.
Ecclestone rarely offers a peek at the details of his business affairs. Three years ago, however, he reluctantly gave the world a glimpse when he decided to raise cash to cover inheritance taxes. The prospectus for a $1.4 billion bond offering showed that Formula One Management had operating profits of $185 million in 1998 on revenue of $401 million. The company, says Robin Saunders, managing director at Westdeutsche Landesbank, which jointly underwrote the offering, is "a wall of contracts and arrangements like I've never seen in any business. Where in the world has one person been able to control an entire sport with such an iron hand?"
The racing teams are getting tired of it. "We need a structure that provides more equitable distribution of income," says Ron Dennis, chief executive and 30%-owner of Tag McLaren Group, which in turn owns the McLaren Formula One team that races Daimler's entry. "No team has any intention of signing a new agreement anywhere near what's depicted in the current one." Ecclestone's response: "When Dennis sold [a 40% interest] to Mercedes, we didn't ask him for shares."
But beyond the question of money, there's also the question of whether the business has finally outgrown Bernie's one-man rule. Ecclestone has a classic entrepreneur's distaste for delegation. "To exploit this sport properly, Bernie needs a few more people," concedes his friend Mosley.
He should be exploiting America, for example. Almost none of Formula One's TV viewers live in the U.S. Returning to the States after a ten-year absence, Formula One ran a race at the Indianapolis Speedway, but Fox Television got just 300,000 households to watch it. Sponsors are not happy. "I'd better be able to tell my CEO why I spent $1 million on Formula One, instead of distributing it in quarterly profits," complains Jean-Christophe Babin, the new president of Tag Heuer, F1′s official timekeeper since 1933.
Making the sport work in America probably calls for tinkering with some of the rules to make it more entertaining, and that means toning down its emphasis on NASA-level engineering. F1 cars have gotten so aerodynamically advanced that they leave turbulent "dirty air" in their wake, which makes it difficult for a pursuing car to stay close enough to attempt a pass. That means infrequent lead changes and a less interesting event than a Nascar stock-car race.
Ecclestone seems in no hurry to make converts here. "From the day children start thinking in America, they are educated not to concentrate," he says. "All American sport is punctuated with breaks, but with F1, you can't get up and go to the fridge, now can you?" He scorned a chance to win friends in the U.S. when Sylvester Stallone approached him about a movie based on Formula One. The film Driven was recently released. It's based not on F1 but on an open-wheel Indy 500-style car in the rival CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) circuit. Word is, Stallone thought Ecclestone's asking price was out of line.
Give the guy in the tinted glasses some credit. "It was only when I started to make the promoters pay more that they cleaned up their act so they could make more," he recalls. That was in 1978, when he became president of the association representing English teams. Ecclestone had made a small pile selling second-hand motorcycles, but his passion was car racing. He tried his hand behind the steering wheel, but a crash at age 26 put him behind a desk. In 1971 he bought the Brabham team for $50,000 or so.
The business was a shambles. Since 1950, when Formula One's world championship began, each team had negotiated its appearance fee independently with the track owners, who low-balled them. If the teams didn't like the terms, they didn't have to race. As a result there was no telling who would show up at a Formula One event, or whether they would get paid. When the promoter of the last Formula One race at Watkins Glen, N.Y. stiffed racers in 1980, Ecclestone stepped in and offered to negotiate with race organizers on behalf of all the teams, putting up the money himself if the promoter welched and making a profit if he didn't. Ecclestone chartered Boeing jets to ferry the 90 tons of Formula One equipment from race to race. He arranged hotel rooms for the teams. He sold advertising signage at the tracks.
His biggest coup was negotiating television rights away from the organizers in the late 1970s when they amounted to little more than $1 million a year. That done, he strong-armed broadcasters into showing every race of the season in its entirety, or no races at all. As the audience grew, so did the sponsorship money and the broadcast fees. Then in 1990 Bernie ditched the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella organization of public TV stations that held the F1 contract, and went straight to commercial stations, dumping the bbc in one brusque phone call after a 15-year relationship.
Along the way there were constant power struggles with the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, or FIA, the sport's governing body. That is, until Max Mosley, then-legal counselor for the British racing association, took over as president of FIA in 1991. Since then the two have steered the sport with genius and close collaboration, squashing dissent and resisting rivals. For those who have always found Bernie and Max's friendship a little too cozy, the capper came when the FIA made two deals in which an Ecclestone firm picked up FIA's 30% share of broadcasting and licensing revenues under long-term leases.
To appreciate Bernie Ecclestone at his wiliest, however, you had to see him handle the sale of his holdings in SLEC, the trust that owned his Formula One interests. He dealt a 12.5% stake to Deutsche Bank's Morgan Grenfell Private Equity for $275 million, valuing Formula One at $2.2 billion. He also gave the bank an option, expiring Feb. 1, 2000, to pick up another 37.5% for $825 million. Waiting in the wings was EM.TV's Thomas Haffa, who could have bought Morgan Grenfell's option but instead allowed the option to expire, believing he could cut a deal directly with Bernie at a better price.
Ecclestone then sold the 37.5% stake to San Francisco private bankers Hellman & Friedman. Haffa, who wanted Formula One more than ever, ended up paying $1.6 billion for the 50% share he bought from Morgan Grenfell and Hellman. He also agreed to buy a further 25% from Ecclestone for $1 billion. EM.TV's main business, meanwhile, was collapsing, and the $1 billion payment would have driven it under. In came Kirch, which bought Haffa's 50% stake and then forked over the $1 billion to Ecclestone for the next 25%.
The Formula One teams hate the deal. Ecclestone has plowed close to $100 million of his own into producing an interactive spectacle that lets the viewer switch at will among a variety of cameras around the track and atop the cars. He believes he can get an audience of 30 million subscribers, generating additional revenues of $300 million a year. The team owners fear that Kirch will support Bernie-vision by limiting free, over-the-air broadcasts.
"No one's wishing Bernie's demise," says McLaren's Ron Dennis. "But the manufacturers simply aren't going to sit still and let this sport get sold to the highest bidder, who can then do whatever they want."
Ecclestone isn't abdicating anytime soon. "There is no succession plan–that's one of the things we have to tackle with Bernie," says Dieter Hahn, deputy chairman of Kirch Group. "But as long as he wants to run it, it's his." Long live the king.


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Of all the months in 2005, I can already safely say that none of them will have as much hype as August did. During the second to last week in the month, the "big five" soundtracks were released (Grandia III, Shadow Hearts:FTNW, Near Death Experience, FFXI: The Star Onions, and Tales of Legendia). Of the five, I had predicted that ToL would come out on top, but I didn't pay much attention to the new FFXI arrange album. While Legendia was a pleasant listen, FFXI ~ The Other Side of Vana'diel was the biggest surprise of the week.
Do you like jazz? Easy listening? R&B? What about gospel? It's all here, and extremely well done. The music is performed by the "Star Onions," a band led by Square Enix composers, consisting of Naoshi Mizuta, Kumi Tanioka, Tsuyoshi Sekito, and a few others. Each one of them plays an instrument, and they sound like professionals.
There's just so many things about this album that I love: the variety of styles, the instrumentation, the quality of the arrangements, and so much more. My favorite track is "Selbina," which is a R&B/gospel/soul arrangement unlike anything you've ever heard before. This is one of those slow jams you can play to your girlfriend. I'm a big fan of the piano work. "Kazham" is another beast, though. It's a jazz arrangement laden with a tenor sax, flute, and electric guitar. The heavy rock introduction is pretty misleading, but the song itself is pretty aggressive for a jazz track. And I can't forget to mention "Blessed in Her Glorious Light," which is a gospel vocal track, which, to my recollection, has never been done before in VGM. This is the best gospel track I've ever heard. And I hate gospel. I could go into more tracks, but give the samples a listen and form your own opinion.
The bottom line? Buy this, now. FFXI: The Star Onions is the "Chrono Trigger: Brink of Time" for the FF series. There's never been anything like it before it, and there will never will be anything like it again, unless the Star Onions do it. It's a high caliber soundtrack that will please even the most hardcore FF anti-fanboys. I'm giving it a 10 out of 10.
Reviewed by: Mike Wilson
Final Fantasy XI - Music from the Other Side of Vana'diel, the game's very first arranged album, has arrived. The Star Onions (a band originally forumlated in order to perform in a concert celebrating the release of Final Fantasy XI Chains of Promathia, September 2004) are responsible for both the arrangement and performance of the pieces. The various members, who include Naoshi Mizuta (Parasite Eve II, Rockman & Forte) and Kumi Tanioka (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2), provide an eclectic approach to musical arrangement, spanning the main game and both expansions: Rise of the Zilart and Chains of Promathia.
With a playtime exceeding 2200 hours in Final Fantasy XI, I approached this album with a mixture of burning curiosity and morbid hesitation. After hearing these songs in-game literally hundreds of times over the past couple years, one cannot help but manage to become intimately familiar with them, almost to a fault. I listened, and...
...well, the album could be described as a "mixed bag" - not only because of the track selections, but because of the wide variety of musical genres which are drawn upon and weaved into the arrangements. The album, unfortunately, does not have a clear theme in mind; tracks such as "Awakening," an intense synth-heavy piece which accompanies the Battle with the Shadowlord (Rank Mission 5-2 - Xarcabard, Land of Truths), are sandwiched uncomfortably between the jazz-influenced arrangement of "The Sanctuary of Zi'tah" and the easy-listening arrangement of "Selbina." As a whole, Music from the Other Side of Vana'diel jumps around much more than anticipated, with the rollercoaster ride coming to a conclusion with the soul vocal rendition of "The Grand Duchy of Jeuno," to which Aundrea Hopkins lends her vocal talent (Bemani fans may recognize the name from her various collaborations with good-cool). In its own right, each track is a masterpiece; however, they have understandable difficulties coming together to form a cohesive whole.
I recommend Final Fantasy XI - Music from the Other Side of Vana'diel in the same manner which I would recommend Chrono Trigger � The Brink of Time. It's an unusual compilation, that's for sure. But it's good stuff.
Reviewed by: Ryan Mattich
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Sinkhole buyouts await evacuated Louisiana homeowners
Sinkhole buyout for homes over a salt cavern will be offered to residents in Assumption Parish, La. The homes eligible for the sinkhole buyout are under evacuation because of a nine-acre sinkhole, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday.
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Texas Brine will offer buyouts to Assumption Parish residents whose homes are in a swampy area under evacuation because of a nine-acre sinkhole, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday.
Scientists say the sinkhole formed after the collapse of an underground salt cavern operated by Houston-based Texas Brine Co. LLC, which extracted brine and piped it to nearby petrochemical facilities. The cavern failure released oil and natural gas from formations along the salt dome face.
"They caused the situation. They've got to make this right," Jindal said after a closed-door meeting with company leaders.
About 350 people living in the area have been under an evacuation order and many of them displaced for more than seven months, with no immediate end in sight.
Jindal said Texas Brine plans to send out appraisers beginning Monday to help determine residents' interest in the voluntarybuyouts and to assess the value of homes in the area — or to discuss settlements with those who choose to stay.
The sinkhole opened up in August near a community along Bayou Corne, a sparsely populated area of swampland about 40 miles south of Baton Rouge.
"What we're looking forward to is trying to get some relief for the residents of Bayou Corne who have been fighting this for seven months, who have been relocated, living in trailer parks and other locations outside their home. And we want these people to have the financial wherewithal to be able to relocate and move on with their lives," said Assumption Parish Police Jury President Marty Triche, who attended Wednesday's meeting.
Jindal said he didn't have any estimates of what buyouts or settlements for the 150 homes in the evacuation area could cost Texas Brine. He said the company pledged to complete the appraisal and assessment process within weeks.
Company officials, including president Ted Grabowski, left the governor's mansion without speaking to the media, after talking with the governor and Assumption Parish officials.
The company issued a statement in which Grabowski said Texas Brine will meet this week with U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey about settlement offers. Zainey is overseeing the lawsuits that have been filed against Texas Brine in federal court.
"Our legal counsel was able to bring the governor up to speed on where things stand with the current legal filings and explain that Texas Brine is preparing to engage either directly or through counsel with those residents interested in discussing a possible resolution to their claims," Grabowski said in the statement.
He said the company hoped to reach quick agreements with residents interested in receiving a settlement.
The governor said he also pressed Texas Brine leaders about reimbursing state and local agencies for their response costs. State departments have spent $8 million dealing with the sinkhole, but haven't received any reimbursement so far, Jindal said.
"They are the ones who are the responsible party. They caused the damage, and certainly we'll be aggressive in making sure they pay," the governor said.
Meanwhile, the state will create an expert study group to review issues of the long-term safety of residents who remain in the Bayou Corne area. Commission members will be named by the end of the week.
The governor had been largely absent from the public response to the sinkhole until this week, after displaced residents criticized his absence and after local media highlighted his refusal to say whether he'd check out the state's response efforts in person. Jindal plans to visit the sinkhole site next week for the first time.
He said he'd been receiving regular updates from his agency chiefs about response efforts and ongoing negotiations with Texas Brine. Jindal said he got directly involved when months had dragged on without resolution over the settlements and buyouts.
"We just finally got to the point where we said, 'Enough is enough,'" he said.


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Atomic Force Microscopy. Credit: Wirtz Lab/JHU
Absence of this biological 'spark' linked to cancer's spread
In human relationships, a certain "spark" often governs whether we prefer one person more than another, and critical first impressions can occur within seconds. A team lead by Johns Hopkins researchers has found that cell-to-cell "friendships" operate in much the same way and that dysfunctional bonding is linked to the spread of cancer.
The research was published in the Nov. 18 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science and appears in the journal's Nov. 25 print edition.
"Bonding between cells has important health implications," said the study's senior author, Denis Wirtz, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins. "When cancer cells break free from their neighbors, they can spread the disease through the body. If we can learn more about this process, we may find new ways to keep cancer in check."
Toward that goal, Wirtz, who also is associate director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, led a multi-institution team that focused on alpha-catenin, a small protein that floats in the cytoplasm, the gel-like material that surrounds the nucleus inside a cell. Alpha-catenin allows cells to recognize neighboring cells as "friends" almost immediately, leading to the creation of many strong bonds that are hard to break. However, cancer cells, including those found in diffuse gastric cancer and lung cancer, possess dysfunctional alpha-catenin and form very weak bonds with their neighbors. This allows them to break free from cell masses and spread cancer throughout the body.
To better understand these bonding characteristics, Wirtz and his colleagues used a technique called atomic force microscopy to study single cells with and without functioning alpha-catenin. This technique records tiny forces, measured in nanoNewtons, that cells exert upon one another.
Wirtz's team discovered that normal cells with properly functioning alpha-catenin formed bonds that were four times more stable than those without functional alpha-catenin, and these first bonds formed in less than 1 millisecond. The longer the cells remained in contact with one another, the more numerous and stronger these bonds became. The connections between these cells resembled those that occur with a popular type of fastener material. "This accelerated formation of additional bonds between neighboring cells was akin to the 'Velcro' effect," Wirtz said.
In contrast, cells without functional alpha-catenin formed weak bonds from the onset. Also, even as these cells remained in contact, bonding strengths continued to diminish. Wirtz suggested that if
scientists could figure out a way to repair or replace the alpha-catenin dysfunction found in some cancer cells, it could lead to a therapy that thwarts the spread of cancer.
The research team members included Sean Sun, a Johns Hopkins associate professor of mechanical engineering; Saumendra Bajpai, a graduate student in the Johns Hopkins Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Gianpaolo Suriano, Joana Figueiredo and Joana Correia, all affiliated with the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Portugal; and Gregory Longmore and Yunfeung Feng of the departments of Medicine and Cell Biology, Washington University in St. Louis.
This work was supported by grants from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health.
Related links:
- Link to the online journal article:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/11/18/0806783105.full.pdf+html - Denis Wirtz's Lab Page: http://www.jhu.edu/chembe/wirtz/
- Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology: http://inbt.jhu.edu
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New Delhi, June 20: Death row prisoner Devenderpal Singh Bhullar got a breather after the lieutenant governor of Delhi temporarily suspended his execution based on a medical board's opinion that he suffered from 'severe depression with psychotic symptoms'. The laws of our land in accordance with international laws forbid the execution of any individual until they're declared physically or mentally fit.
On April 12, the Supreme Court had rejected similar medical finding and also the opinions cited by Bhullar's lawyer who had pleaded for commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment on the ground that the delay on the President's part to decide his mercy plea had severely affected his health. His lawyers had relied upon the records of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Hari Ngar and also a medical certificate issued by the Institute of Human Behaviours and Allied Sciences, Delhi.
The bench of Justices Singhvi and Mukhopadhaya had dismissed Bhullar's plea. It said, 'Though the documents produced by K T S Tulsi do give an indication that on account of prolonged detention in jail after his conviction and sentence to death, the petitioner has suffered physically and mentally, the same cannot be relied upon for recording a finding that the petitioner's mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that the sentence awarded to him cannot be executed.'
On Bhullar's mercy plea the bench had said, 'Unfortunately, the petition filed by the petitioner remained pending with the President for almost six years, that is, between May 2005 and May 2011. During this period, immense pressure was brought upon the government in the form of representations made by various political and non-political functionaries, organizations and several individuals from other countries. This appears to be one of the reasons why the file remained pending in the President's secretariat and no effort was made for deciding the petitioner's case.'
Is Bhullar really mentally ill or is he faking it?
Of course the aforementioned laws could lead to any individual claiming mental incompetence so that he/she can escape or delay capital punishment. However, Bhullar's doctors claim that he has been put through a series of tests periodically to ascertain his mental status. 'To the best of our ability, we have made all possible efforts to rule out the possibility of him feigning mental illness.'
Bhullar has attempted suicide twice in the hospital bathroom and has attempted to do so before in Tihar jail. He was also being treated with anti-depressant drugs and was undergoing regular counselling, but he has only shown marginal improvement which makes it unlikely that he has been feigning his mental illness.
'His cognitive abilities have improved and he is able to establish rapport fairly well. So, we can say there is a minimal or marginal improvement in the symptoms of depression, but it is only to the tune of 20-30 per cent,' a senior doctor said. Some of his doctors also claimed that his understanding and meaning of the rejection of his mercy petition is at best 'shadowy' and since 2011 he has been disinterested about his fate. At most times he is confined to his hospital bed and occasionally wakes up screaming at night saying he had dreamt of being hanged.
By all accounts, it would seem that Bhullar is indeed suffering from mental illness and is in what the law calls Non compos mentis – Latin for not of sound mind. Human rights activists claim that regardless of the nature of the crime committed it would be unlawful to execute someone who isn't mentally fit to defend themselves. This judgement could actually set off a vicious circle because under law he won't be executed till he's mentally competent and Dr Desai believes that full recovery is out of the question now, 'We cannot hope he will fully recover now because there is no hope for him with the sentence.'
Bhullar has been lodged at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IBHAS) for the last three years and is suffering from manic depression and is suffering from 'depression with psychotic features' and has exhibited suicidal behaviour on numerous occasions. A TOI report from 2011 suggests that he had tried to commit suicide at least twice in four months on IBHAS premises. Before that he had attempted to commit suicide several times in Tihar Jail. The decision not to have a current medical report was lambasted by experts all over the country. Dr Nimesh Desai, Director of IHBAS, said: 'As per norms, if and when there is an order by a court for medical opinion on any of our prisoners, we constitute a medical board that puts together a cumulative opinion. In Bhullar's case, such a board was never constituted because there was no order from the judiciary.'
Who is Devinderpal Singh Bhullar?
Bhullar was a Khalistan Liberation Force terrorist who triggered a bomb blast at youth Congress office in Delhi in September 1993 which killed nine people and injured 25 others. The main target, Maninderjit Singh Bitta – an outspoken opponent of the Khalistan movement was injured in the attack. The Khalistan movement is a secessionist movement that wanted a separate nation called Khalistan for the Punjabi speaking populace.


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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — An opening volley of musket fire ushered in the start of the milestone commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg on Friday, 150 years after the Union Army turned away a Confederate advance in the pivotal conflict of the American Civil War.
Wearing period uniforms, thousands of Civil War buffs gathered on a private farm outside the actual battlefield to take part in the battle re-enactment considered the pinnacle of the hobby. The sights and sounds of faux warfare are also a big draw for visitors — about 200,000 people are expected to descend on the small, south-central Pennsylvania town during a 10-day period that started Friday.
"Troops moved correctly, scenarios were done as designed, with only a few flaws," Terry Shelton, the Confederate "commander" said in a confident voice befitting of a general. "There was a lot of planning."
It was one of two re-enactments planned to commemorate Gettysburg, the war's bloodiest conflict with up to 10,000 killed July 1-3, 1863. The National Park Service's official ceremonies begin Sunday.
The events are years in the making after being jointly planned by the Park Service and a host of community organizers and volunteers. It's a lot of work to welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors to a town of 7,500 people.
The Gettysburg Convention and Visitors Bureau set up five temporary welcome tents around town in addition to its two permanent facilities. Satellite parking areas and shuttle bus service are in place to accommodate an expected crush of drivers. Cellphone coverage is expanded to accommodate social media enthusiasts.
And don't forget the portable toilets.
"There are literally hundreds in this community," said visitors bureau vice president Stacey Fox.
So far, so good.
"Today, Day 1, seems to be going off very, very well," Fox said. "Everyone seems to be happy."
The Blue-Gray Alliance re-enactment group opened the schedule Friday with its first of three days of battle re-creations. Organizers expected about 10,000 participants to take part.
They began with a detailed, three-hour re-enactment of the battle's first day, when Union cavalry looking for the enemy encountered Confederate infantry. Other re-enactors took part in living history presentations, such as the demonstration of a Confederate field hospital at the Daniel Lady Farm.
There, Henry Trippe, 59, of Ypsilanti, Mich., entertained visitors portraying a Civil War surgeon. Trippe, a sales clerk back home, brought his own collection of scalpels, knives and anesthetics including powdered morphine.
Or at least, white power made to look like morphine.
"I do not have a drug permit," he joked to visitors. "Do not report me to drug enforcement."
The Park Service programs begin with a Sunday night ceremony. Another re-enactment held by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee is scheduled on a farm north of town July 4-7. Re-enactments are held on private properties.


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Game Notes: Rangers vs. Boston Bruins
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The Rangers face-off against the Boston Bruins in a matinee matchup today at Madison Square Garden (3:00 p.m.) in the first game of a back-to-back set. The Blueshirts are currently in third place in the Atlantic Division standings with a record of 35-24-9, and rank seventh in the Eastern Conference with 79 points. New York enters the contest having defeated the Islanders, 4-1, on Thursday at Nassau Coliseum and have now earned at least one point in 11 straight contests (8-0-3). The Rangers are 13-3-3 in their last 19 contests dating back to a 4-0 win on January 22 vs. Atlanta. Following today's match, the Rangers will travel to Buffalo to face-off against the Sabres, tomorrow, March 10, at the HSBC Center (7:00 p.m.) in the second game of a back-to-back set. The Bruins, 36-25-7, are currently in third place in the Northeast Division standings with 79 points and have lost three or their last four games.
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Rangers vs. Bruins Pre-Game Notes:
* The Rangers are 21-13-1 at MSG this season; The Bruins have posted a 18-12-3 record in 33 road contests.
* The Rangers are 9-6-3 against the Northeast Division this season; The Bruins have posted an 11-4-2 record vs. Atlantic Division opponents this season.
* New York has posted a record of 13-3-3 in their last 19 games, including a 6-2-1 record at MSG during the stretch.
* In their last 17 games, the Blueshirts have registered 13 goals in 65 power play opportunities (20.0%).
* New York has surrendered just four power play goals in their last 12 contests at MSG.
* The Rangers are 8-3-1 in the first game of back-to-back sets this season; Following tomorrow's game at Buffalo, the Blueshirts will have four back-to-back sets remaining on the 2007-08 regular season schedule.
* The Blueshirts have recorded a point in 10 of their last 11 meetings with the Bruins (8-1-2), dating back to a 3-2 win on November 20, 2005 at MSG.
* Henrik Lundqvist has posted a 7-1-2 record, along with a 1.45 goals against average and two shutouts in 10 career regular season appearances vs. the Bruins.
* In the season series, Jaromir Jagr and Scott Gomez lead the Rangers with one goal and two assists for three points apiece in three games vs. Boston.
* Jagr has registered 89 points (32 goals and 57 assists) in 66 career games vs. the Bruins; Chris Drury has notched 31 points (11 goals and 20 assists) in 34 career games vs. Boston; Gomez has collected 24 points (eight goals and 16 assists) in 29 career contests vs. the Bruins.
* Gomez enters today's contest riding a five-game scoring streak, registering two goals and six assists for eight points over the span.
* Lundqvist recorded his 30th win of the season on Thursday at Long Island to become only the second goalie in NHL history to begin their career with three consecutive 30-win seasons (Ron Hextall, 1986-87 to 1988-89); Lundqvist is also the first Rangers goalie to post three straight 30-win seasons since Ed Giacomin, who did it four straight seasons (1966-67 to 1969-70).
* Antoine Lafleur, the Rangers' second round pick (48th overall) in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, has posted a 12-19-0 record with a 4.31 goals against average and a .875 save percentage in 37 games with the Prince Edward Island Rocket of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) this season; The Gatineau, Quebec native became the first goaltender to be credited with a goal on September 25, 2005 at Halifax, and is a two-time Defensive Player of the Week (November 20, 2006 and January 22, 2007).
* The Rangers have two former Bruins on their roster; Paul Mara (2006-07) and Colton Orr (2003-04 - 2005-06); President and General Manager Glen Sather (1966-67 - 1968-69) and Vice President and Assistant General Manager Jim Schoenfeld (1983-84) have also played for the Bruins.
* Boston's roster lists two former Rangers; Marc Savard (1997-98 - 1998-99) and Aaron Ward (2006-07).
All-Time - Rangers vs. Bruins
Overall: 235-277-97-2
At MSG: 135-117-55-0
At Boston: 100-160-42-2
2007-08 – Rangers vs. Bruins
Oct. 20 Rangers 0 vs. Bruins 1 (SO) at Boston
Jan. 19 Rangers 3, Bruins 4 (SO) at Boston
Jan. 20 Rangers 1, Bruins 3 at MSG
March 9 Rangers vs. Bruins at MSG
Upcoming Regular Season Schedule
March 9 Rangers vs. Boston, 3 p.m.
March 10 Rangers at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
March 14 Rangers at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
March 15 Rangers at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
March 18 Rangers vs. Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Recent New York Rangers Games
Last 5 NYR games: 4-0-1
Last 10 NYR games: 7-0-3
* Paul Mara suffered a facial fracture on Saturday at Buffalo, and has missed five games.
* The Rangers have lost 122 manpower games due to injury or illness this season.
Highlights from Hartford
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The Wolf Pack snapped a season-high streak of three straight regulation losses last night with a 2-1 win at San Antonio (Phoenix affiliate). That completed a two-game Texas road trip, after the Pack dropped a 1-0 decision in Houston (Minnesota affiliate) on Friday night. The shutout at the hands of the Aeros was the second straight that the Wolf Pack absorbed, having lost 3-0 at Portland (Anaheim affiliate) last Sunday, the fourth time in franchise history that the team has been blanked in back-to-back games. The Pack has won only four of its last 10 outings (4-5-0-1), but has suffered only five regulation losses in its last 22 (13-5-2-2). The Wolf Pack and San Antonio have a rematch this Friday night in Hartford (7:00), before the Pack entertain divisional-rival Manchester (Los Angeles affiliate) on Saturday (7:00). The Wolf Pack complete a three-game weekend at Worcester (San Jose affiliate) Sunday (4:05).
Individual highlights of the Pack's recent games included:
Brodie Dupont scored the first goal of Saturday night's 2-1 triumph in San Antonio at 10:32 of the second period, to snap a Wolf Pack scoreless streak of 192:28, just under 13 minutes shy of the franchise record of 205:21.
Josh Gratton's first point in five games with the Wolf Pack was the third-period GWG on Saturday night against his old team, the San Antonio Rampage, earning him First-Star honors in the Wolf Pack's 2-1 win.
Andrew Hutchinson leads AHL defensemen in points (53, six more than the next highest-scoring league blueliner) despite missing the last two games, and is tied for the league lead in assists among defenders. He has points in seven of his last nine games (6-9-15) and 10 of his last 13 (7-13-20).
David LeNeveu arned his first win in three starts in a Wolf Pack uniform on Saturday night, defeating his ex-San Antonio Rampage teammates and outdueling former Wolf Pack goaltender Al Montoya, with 31 saves in a Second-Star performance (2-1 win). He was named game's Second Star in his Wolf Pack debut last Saturday night vs. Manchester, with 30 saves in a 2-1 home loss.
Corey Potter ranks second in plus/minus among AHL defensemen, at a +25, and stands third overall in the league in that category.
For more Wolf Pack news, visit www.hartfordwolfpack.com.


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Following the launch of the Kama Bay Speakers, Scythe has announced yet another product that has something to do with audio equipment, called the Kama Bay Amplifier. Scythe's Kama Bay Amplifier can be used as an internal or external device.
The Kama Bay Amplifier comes with a Yamaha YDA138(D-3) digital power amplifier with two 10W channel outputs and a signal to noise ratio of up to 103dB. The integrated headphone amplifier has two 50mW channels with a SN ratio of 95dB.
The dimensions of the Kama Bay Amplifier are 152 x 113 x 41mm and it weighs at 480g. It uses either a 4-pin Molex connector or an AC adapter as its power source.
Scythe's latest venture into audio devices will be available soon with a suggested price of US $54.90 or €49.95.
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More pics from Texas Frightmare Weekend in Dallas, TX!
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Round 3 of Terrorplex ICON characters at Texas Frightmare Weekend!
Earnest Borgnine was awesome, funny this is, he asked us to come take pics with him for free and everyone else was having to pay! The young lady in pic #4 is one of Alex Lohmann's characters from 13th St. Morgue!
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He is not as great as made out to be but I am sure he had an off series in India. The way he kept with ease to Mendis and Murali who were bamboozling Indian batsmen back in 2008 was a masterclass in keeping upto the stumps. But yes, I think he has a problem when the pitch is of uneven bouce and had he kept to someone like Kumble he would have struggled more. Still I am prepared to give him another chance and believe he is the best in the world.
I don't agree fully. He has the talent to be a better performer than Yuvraj any day even now but somehow Yuvraj got the kid glove treatment from selectors. Yuvraj is indeed exciting when he gets going and I like watching him but there is no way he could survived in a slighlty more bowler oriented era say early 90s. The problem with Badri was that he could perhaps have "replaced" a player like Dravid but could not necessarily "complement" him. Yuvraj brought in that element of dash and rapid scoring in the lower order and hence he is beneficial when the "overall team balance" is considered.
I hoped he would get his call in the coming series to Bangladesh. However with Tendulkar being focussed on keeping his record intact and his rivalry with Ponting, his chances of a debut look seriously slim.
Saying that Tendulkar is playing just to maintain his records is being pretty stupid. That he is motivated enough to play for India after 20 years itself is a marvel. Since when has a player good enough to get into any team at the moment deciding to take rest from a ODI series and play in the test series mean playing to keep his record intact?
Perhaps you got me wrong there. I used "playing for maintaining his records" in a positive fashion. That is he is so motivated to keep on playing that he won't miss even Bangaldesh test matches. Records are indeed a major factor in any player's motivation to continue playing at even this age after so many years. I think his next target is 100 hundreds in International matches.
Interesting piece in the TOI a couple of days back. Apparently India played just 69 tests in the 90's, compared to 109 in the 00's. I'd never have guessed, what with the entire world vilifying the BCCI as T20 and ODI hungry monsters. What I'm getting at is, supposing India played those 40 more tests in the 90's instead of all those pointless ODIs, and Tendulkar kept at the rate of a century once every 4 tests, he'd have been on 200 tests and 55 centuries or so by now.
Good spot GI Joe.
In fact since 2007 when T20 cricket really took off, India has played 31 matches and is second only to England's 37. Team records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | Cricinfo.com
It was by far his worst-ever series as a keeper though.
And yeah, keepers do seem rather weak standing up to the stumps these days. Matt Prior is one of the better ones, somewhat bizarrely, and that's how you know it's a problem. It's difficult of course, but when your side is so spin-heavy you pick a keeper who can do it. It's one area where I feel Gilchrist never got enough credit for his ability.
Prior has improved out of sight, it's unbelievable considering Alec Stewart is his mentor, no offence to Alec but he was anther Batsman first, keeper second.
Prasanna was hideous in the first test, but he batted for a long time which the commentators at the time felt could have impacted his ability to stay low on those low leg side deliveries. I have seen him keep previously and he looks very sharp normally.


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Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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Kiwi Quilters is running a 12 x 12 challenge after the success of the 12 x 12 quilt exhibition at the Hamilton Quilt Show. The original 12 x 12 quilters are publishing a book next year and their work - here - is fantastic.
The November theme was "home". I wanted to use an old embroidered piece to convey happy images of cottage living - reflecting the fact that we are now past the horrors of the major renovation work on our cottage. I do have to say that our house, and more particularly our garden look nothing like this pretty stitched scene!!
I did intend to stitch it in a grid, like Philippa Doyle my inspiration for incorporating embroideries into quilts... but I whimped out. I might still do it if only I can get brave enough.
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Union College drama presented All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten as the Spring 2012 play. This warm musical comedy based on Robert Fulghum's book featured five student actors in a series of stories depicting life's journey from kindergarten through adulthood and the lessons learned along the way.
"This musical is not about kindergarten so much as it is about life as it proceeds afterwards," said Mark Robison, a professor of English and drama at Union College and the director of Kindergarten. "It's stories about the entire spectrum of life—something everyone can relate to."
Conceived by Emily Zulia with music and lyrics by David Caldwell, Kindergarten features original songs and number of colorful characters including a young boy who insists on playing the pig in his school's production of Cinderella and steals the show and a man who wants to fly so badly he sails over Los Angeles in a lawn chair buoyed by weather balloons.
"This play reminds you of all the lessons you learned back in kindergarten when you didn't have a care in the world," said Jack Sauder, a sophomore communication major in his first collegiate production. "When I was in kindergarten, I learned to take a nap every day. Unfortunately, now I have to take my naps at night."
"It's going to be funny and heartwarming," said Stacy Ramos, a freshman nursing major. "I think it's a good lesson to stay in touch with the kid in your heart."
The cast also included KariLynn Carlson, Cody MacRae and Union College drama veterans James Hall and Tommy Kennedy. Dan Lynn, professor of music, provides musical direction.
The performance will take place in Woods Auditorium on the campus of Union College. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and senior citizens. They are available for purchase at the Union College Campus Store, or at the door.
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Time to take a look at Mississippi State's Week 3 opponent, and it's a Thursday night ESPN game, the first of two Thursday nighters for the Bulldogs in 2011. You've got a night game on the WWL involving Les Miles – you know some kinda magic is gonna happen. Black voodoo magic, perhaps, but magic nonetheless.
LSU Tigers (Sept. 15, in Starkville)
• Conference: SEC
• 2010 record: 11-2 (6-2, T-2nd in Western Division)
• Final ranking: No. 8 AP, T-No. 8 USA Today, No. 11 BCS
• Coach: Les Miles (62-17, six years)
• Returning starters: 15 (8 offense, 7 defense, 0 specialists)
• Last meeting: LSU, 29-7 (Sept. 18, 2010, in Baton Rouge)
• On the Web: lsusports.net
I'm hearing mixed reports on how much quarterback Jordan Jefferson has improved or regressed this past offseason. I saw someone say recently he had a "nice spring", but then there was that awful spring game: 4 for 14 with an interception.
Oh, and there was last season. Jefferson completed 56.1 percent of his passes (118 of 209) for 1,411 yards, seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions while splitting snaps with Jarrett Lee. Now, Jefferson is having to fend off highly touted transfer Zach Mettenberger. This is Jefferson's senior year, so it's kind of time for him to show us something.
And that's the thing. I can't buy into Jefferson until I see something, and I haven't yet. He can barely run the offense under normal circumstances; throw him into a game-end pressure situation, and well … this happens. And this happens. As for the latter, you can't count on dumb luck or Miles' magic every time (can you?). Blame coaching in both instances if you want, but Jefferson screwed up, too.
Perhaps Jefferson really will be better. There's a new offensive coordinator in town, Steve Kragthorpe, a guy who was middling as a head coach but has a good offensive mind. LSU ranked 86th in the country in total offense (341.3 ypg) and 107th in passing offense (155.6 ypg) last season.
Perhaps LSU is so good everywhere else that Jefferson doesn't have to be much more than serviceable. Depth is one of the Tigers' biggest strengths, and the defense is solid at every level. Cornerbacks Mo Claiborne and Tyrann Mathieu can feast on the SEC's collectively inexperienced quarterbacks.
I'm a bit wary about LSU this season, but a lot of folks think highly of this group. The Tigers are a popular top-five pick in the preseason rankings I've seen floating around the Internet. We might have a good idea of that by the time they meet MSU, because the Tigers' season opens with Oregon. ESPN.com ranks LSU's non-conference slate as the toughest in the league.
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The Best of Both Worlds—Do you like dancing? Do you like bellies? Well, why not combine the two? You'll get a scintillating combo deal at Ushasti Gallery in Nob Hill when the Ramla Taal Tribal Bellydance troupe shows up to shake what their mamas gave 'em.
They'll perform to live music provided by Zzejketa. The show runs from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, June 23, and it's absolutely free. Light snacks will be provided and the performance offers an ideal opportunity to check out the current exhibit, a show of sacred feminine art created by Judith Shaw. The gallery is located at 3907 Central NE. 255-1267.
Lucky Us—The Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe is the only U.S. museum lucky enough to host a traveling exhibit of art from the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. Whether you've already seen the show or want to learn more about it before you head up to check it out, you'll want to attend a slide show on Tuesday, June 27, at 7 p.m. hosted by UNM art professor David Craven who will talk about the exhibit and sign copies of the accompanying book, Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20th Century. 344-8139.


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2017 Toyota 4Runner
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Transmission | 5 Spd Automatic |
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- Engine: 4.0L V6 DOHC SMPI
- Transmission: Electronic 5-Speed Automatic w/OD
- 3.727 Axle Ratio
- GVWR: 6,100 lbs
- Transmission w/Sequential Shift Control and Oil Cooler
- Rear-wheel drive
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- 2 Skid Plates
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- Gas-pressurized shock absorbers
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- Hydraulic Power-Assist Speed-Sensing Steering
- 23 Gal. Fuel Tank
- Single stainless steel exhaust
- Double wishbone front suspension w/coil springs
- Multi-link rear suspension w/coil springs
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/4-Wheel ABS, Front And Rear Vented Discs, Brake Assist and Hill Hold Control
- Security System Pre-Wiring
- Brake Actuated Limited Slip Differential
- Vehicle Name : Toyota 4Runner
- Body Style : Sport Utility
- Drivetrain : Rear Wheel Drive
- Gross Axle Wt Rating - Front (lbs) : 2998
- Gross Axle Wt Rating - Rear (lbs) : 3439
- Gross Vehicle Weight Rating Cap (lbs) : 6100
- Dead Weight Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) : 5000
- Dead Weight Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) : 500
- Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) : 5000
- Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) : 500
- Maximum Trailering Capacity (lbs) : 5000
- Engine Type : Regular Unleaded V-6
- Displacement : 4.0 L/241
- Fuel System : Sequential MPI
- SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM : 270 @ 5600
- SAE Net Torque @ RPM : 278 @ 4400
- Trans Type : 5
- Trans Description Cont. : Automatic w/OD
- First Gear Ratio (:1) : 3.52
- Second Gear Ratio (:1) : 2.04
- Third Gear Ratio (:1) : 1.40
- Fourth Gear Ratio (:1) : 1.00
- Fifth Gear Ratio (:1) : 0.72
- Reverse Ratio (:1) : 3.22
- Trans PTO Access : No
- Transfer Case Power Take Off : No
- Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary) : 750
- Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (2nd) : 750
- Engine Oil Cooler : None
- Suspension Type - Front : Double Wishbone
- Suspension Type - Rear : Multi-Link
- Axle Type - Front : Independent
- Axle Type - Rear : Rigid Axle
- Axle Ratio (:1) - Front : 3.73
- Axle Ratio (:1) - Rear : 3.73
- Steering Type : Rack-Pinion
- Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb (ft) : 37.4
- Brake ABS System : 4-Wheel
- Brake ABS System (Second Line) : 4-Wheel
- Disc - Front (Yes or ) : Yes
- Disc - Rear (Yes or ) : Yes
- Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) : 13.3
- Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) : 12.3
- Wheels: 17" x 7.0" 6-Spoke Alloy
- Tires: P265/70R17 Mud & Snow
- Steel spare wheel
- Full-Size Spare Tire Stored Underbody w/Crankdown
- Clearcoat paint
- Body-Colored Front Bumper w/1 Tow Hook
- Body-colored rear step bumper
- Chrome Bodyside Insert, Rocker Panel Extensions And Body-Colored Fender Flares
- Black Side Windows Trim, Black Front Windshield Trim And Black Rear Window Trim
- Chrome door handles
- Body-Colored Power Heated Side Mirrors w/Manual Folding
- Power Rear Window w/Fixed Interval Wiper and Defroster
- Deep tinted glass
- Variable Intermittent Wipers w/Heated Wiper Park
- Fully Galvanized Steel Panels
- Lip Spoiler
- Grille w/Body-Colored Bar
- Liftgate Rear Cargo Access
- Tailgate/Rear Door Lock Included w/Power Door Locks
- Roof Rack Rails Only
- Auto Off Projector Beam Halogen Daytime Running Headlamps
- Front fog lamps
- Perimeter/Approach Lights
- LED brakelights
- Front Tire Size : P265/70SR17
- Rear Tire Size : P265/70SR17
- Spare Tire Size : Full-size
- Front Wheel Size (in) : 17 x 7
- Rear Wheel Size (in) : 17 x 7
- Spare Wheel Size (in) : Full-size
- Front Wheel Material : Aluminum
- Rear Wheel Material : Aluminum
- Spare Wheel Material : Steel
- Wheelbase (in) : 109.8
- Length, Overall (in) : 190.2
- Width, Max w/o mirrors (in) : 75.8
- Height, Overall (in) : 71.5
- Track Width, Front (in) : 63.2
- Track Width, Rear (in) : 63.2
- Min Ground Clearance (in) : 9
- Cargo Volume to Seat 1 (ft³) : 89.7
- Cargo Volume to Seat 2 (ft³) : 47.2
- Cargo Volume to Seat 3 (ft³) : 47.2
- Radio: Entune Audio Plus -inc: connected navigation app, Entune Multimedia bundle (6.1" high resolution touch-screen display, AM/FM CD player, MP3/WMA playback capability, 8-speakers, auxiliary audio jack, USB 2.0 port w/iPod connectivity and control, advanced voice recognition, hands-free phone capability, phone book access and music streaming via Bluetooth wireless technology), connected navigation Scout GPS Link app, Siri Eyes Free, SiriusXM satellite radio w/3-month complimentary all access trial, Gracenote album cover art, HD Radio, HD Radio traffic and weather in major metro areas and integrated backup camera display w/projected path
- Radio w/Seek-Scan, Clock, Aux Audio Input Jack and Steering Wheel Controls
- 8 Speakers
- Window grid diversity antenna
- 1 LCD Monitor In The Front
- Real-Time Traffic Display
- Front Bucket Seats -inc: 8-way power-adjustable driver's seat w/power lumbar support and 4-way adjustable front passenger seat
- 8-Way Driver Seat
- 4-Way Passenger Seat
- 40-20-40 Folding Split-Bench Front Facing Manual Reclining Fold Forward Seatback Rear Seat
- Manual tilt/telescoping steering column
- Gauges -inc: Speedometer, Odometer, Voltmeter, Engine Coolant Temp, Tachometer, Trip Odometer and Trip Computer
- Power Rear Windows And Fixed 3rd Row Windows
- Leather steering wheel
- Front cupholder
- Rear cupholder
- Valet Function
- Remote Keyless Entry w/Integrated Key Transmitter, 4 Door Curb/Courtesy, Illuminated Entry, Illuminated Ignition Switch and Panic Button
- Cruise control w/steering wheel controls
- Manual air conditioning
- HVAC -inc: Underseat Ducts And Console Ducts
- Locking glove box
- Driver foot rest
- Interior Trim -inc: Metal-Look Instrument Panel Insert, Metal-Look Door Panel Insert, Metal-Look Console Insert And Metal-Look Interior Accents
- Full cloth headliner
- Leatherette door trim insert
- Leather gear shift knob
- Low Fabric Seat Trim
- Day-night rearview mirror
- Driver And Passenger Visor Vanity Mirrors w/Driver And Passenger Illumination, Driver And Passenger Auxiliary Mirror
- Full Floor Console w/Covered Storage, Mini Overhead Console w/Storage, 5 12V DC Power Outlets and 1 AC Power Outlet
- Front map lights
- Fade-to-off interior lighting
- Full Carpet Floor Covering
- Carpet Floor Trim
- Cargo Space Lights
- FOB Controls -inc: Windows
- Instrument Panel Covered Bin, Driver / Passenger And Rear Door Bins
- Power 1st Row Windows w/Front And Rear 1-Touch Up/Down
- Delayed Accessory Power
- Power Door Locks w/Autolock Feature
- Systems Monitor
- Trip computer
- Outside temp gauge
- Analog Display
- Manual Anti-Whiplash Adjustable Front Head Restraints and Manual Adjustable Rear Head Restraints
- Front Center Armrest And Rear Center Armrest
- 2 Seatback Storage Pockets
- Engine immobilizer
- 5 12V DC Power Outlets and 1 AC Power Outlet
- Air filtration
- Passenger Capacity : 5
- Front Head Room (in) : 39.3
- Front Leg Room (in) : 41.7
- Front Shoulder Room (in) : 57.8
- Front Hip Room (in) : 56.5
- Second Head Room (in) : 38.6
- Second Leg Room (in) : 32.9
- Second Shoulder Room (in) : 57.8
- Second Hip Room (in) : 55.7
- Electronic stability control (ESC)
- ABS And Driveline Traction Control
- Side Impact Beams
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Seat-Mounted Side Airbags
- Low tire pressure warning
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Front Airbags
- Curtain 1st, 2nd And 3rd Row Airbags
- Airbag Occupancy Sensor
- Driver And Passenger Knee Airbag
- Rear child safety locks
- Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts -inc: Rear Center 3 Point, Height Adjusters and Pretensioners
- Back-up camera
- Fuel Economy Est-Combined (MPG) : 18
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - City (MPG) : 17
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy (MPG) : 21
- Tons/yr of CO2 Emissions @ 15K mi/year : 9.8
- Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx (gal) : 23
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- Aux Fuel Tank Location : Midship
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Opened 5 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#11814 closed bug (fixed)
Sizzle's element-rooted QSA strategy (i.e. attaching a temporary id) does not account for comma and other other selector divisions
Reported by: | timmywil | Owned by: | timmywil |
Priority: | high | Milestone: | 1.8 |
Component: | selector | Version: | 1.7.2 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked by: | Blocking: |
This has been a known issue for a while, but I don't see a ticket specifically for this. We recently received this pull: https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/pull/104. Unfortunately, the issue is more complicated than just accounting for commas for a couple reasons.
- There are several other ways a selector can have multiple divisions. Comma is the most common, but several pseudo selectors and perhaps others can also have this effect.
- escaped commas are valid in selectors.
I'm going to take a crack at this as well for 1.8.
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by timmywil
- Component changed from unfiled to selector
- Milestone changed from None to 1.8
- Owner set to timmywil
- Priority changed from undecided to high
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by Igin
This issue exists from 1.4.3 to 1.7.2
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by timmywil
Woops, looks like I was the one who created a ticket on this matter and didn't see it. This ticket has a better description, but here is the test case from that ticket. http://jsfiddle.net/timmywil/tDgXy/
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by timmywil
#10525 is a duplicate of this ticket.
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by timmywil
#11842 is a duplicate of this ticket.
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by timmywil
I had the :not selector in mind when I was thinking of pseudos that create selector divisions, but it turns out :not only accepts simple selectors by spec (meaning no other divisions allowed). Having gone through this list(http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors/#selectors), comma seems to be the only acceptable division. Landing a fix now.
comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by timmywil
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
Update Sizzle: adds selector divisions for element-rooted QSA in the Dupont strategy. Fixes #11814.
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Amy Poehler talks new 'SNL' faces
As a founding member of Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), Amy Poehler was excited to hear that another alumna of the sketch comedy troupe was recently hired as a featured player at "Saturday Night Live." Sasheer Zamata will make her debut this Saturday, and Poehler sung her praises to reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. (Poehler was at the press tour before hosting the Golden Globes to promote "Broad City," a new comedy she is producing on MTV2.) "I recently did an interview where they misquoted me out of context as if I passed to respond on Sasheer's hiring, but I had done that interview many weeks ago. And I have not [had] a chance to say congratulations officially to her. We all know Sasheer and her work," said the Burlington native and "Parks and Recreation" star. "And UCB is really proud to be associated with her. She was part of our diversity program many years ago and she's an awesome performer and so congratulations to her." Poehler also extended congratulations to the two new writers hired by the show, LeKendra Tookes and
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Two gospel singers are taking action against Rick Ross and those featured on his song "3 Kings," which they labeled as "vulgar."
Rick Ross' celebrity personae has gotten him into quite a bit of trouble throughout his career. Whether it's FreewayRick Ross trying to sue the rapper, or death threats, or drive-by shootings, there seems to always be something. Rozay now has a new lawsuit to deal with, surrounding his "3 Kings" song.
"3 Kings" appeared on the MMG boss' religion-themed album, God Forgives, I Don't. The song features Jay-Z and Dr. Dre, who are also named in the lawsuit, as well as the producer Jake One and Universal Music Group.
Two gospel songwriters,Clara Shepherd Warrick and Jimmy Lee Weary, filed the lawsuit. The two own the rights to the 1976 song "I'm So Grateful (Keep In Touch)" which is sampled on "3 Kings." Warrick and Weary say that the lawsuit isn't only about the sample though-- it's about the fact that the song goes against their values.
AHH reports that the lawsuit talks about the "3 Kings" video. The suit states, "The video includes very graphic depictions of drug use, vulgarity, nudity, gun violence, criminal conduct, actions demeaning to women and many other items that are certainly inconsistent with Plaintiffs' wishes for how Plaintiffs' song would be portrayed."
Warrick and Weary also say that the single "3 Kings" is largely responsible for the success of God Forgives, I Don't, which is now up for Grammy. If Rozay wins, that will only shine more light on the song.
The suit says, "Once the Grammy Awards are broadcast, the listeners will be alerted to existence of Plaintiffs song, at which time it will be subjected worldwide to irreparable harm of being linked to defendant's song."
The two songwriters are calling for immediate action, including an injunction to prevent further distribution, performance, or commercial sale of the song.
As well, they're suing for copyright infringement, unfair trade practices, unfair competition by misappropriation, conversion and unjust enrichment.
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It's that time of year when the chill in the frosty air brings us indoors to hunker down with thick comforters and mugs of steaming hot chocolate overflowing with fluffy marshmallows. When holiday music and movies become the soundtrack to our everyday home lives. When we gather 'round the fire for company, drink, food and love. When we are celebrating and remembering those we treasure and hold near and dear. When the real meaning of the season is family – by our DNA or by our heart. When we reflect and give thanks for all we have. In a nutshell, unconditional love.
I'd like to welcome Hannah Reed to share the beauty of the season with us.
Favorite holiday tradition?
Oplatki, which is a Polish tradition. A Christmas wafer is passed around our table. We each break off a piece and eat it as a bond of unity.
Favorite childhood toy?
The very first Barbie with her black and white bathing suit.
Favorite childhood game?
Playing jacks.
Snowball fight or making snow families?
Snowball fight.
Sleigh rides, sledding or skiing?
Favorite holiday song?
"Let It Snow."
Favorite holiday movie?
How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Favorite holiday story to read?
The Night Before Christmas. I still have my Little Golden Book.
Snow on holiday eve or just a chill in the air?
Most memorable holiday memory?
The year Santa brought skis for my kids. Santa and I cuddled in the lodge in front of a roaring fire, sipping Tom and Jerry cocktails while the kids skied.
Did you eat popcorn balls as a kid? If you did, do you still?
Yes, I did. I've forgotten all about them until now.
Real tree or artificial? Green or white?
Real. We misjudged this year. It was way too big to bring inside, so we decorated it on the deck.
What do you do holiday eve?
Several generations ago, some of our family members were musicians and played on Christmas Eve. After the performance, they all met at the only place open – a Chinese restaurant. So that's what we still do.
What are your holiday plans this year?
We're celebrating early this year, taking the train from Milwaukee to Chicago with the entire family to spend the day on the Magnificent Mile, then dinner at Berghoff's.
What's the one holiday dish your family can't go without?
My secret recipe for the best pumpkin roll on the planet.
Please share a Holiday recipe.
I always make a big batch of Hot Buttered Rum batter and keep it in the refrigerator until holiday guests arrive. In a saucepan on low heat, mix 1 lb. butter, 2 lb. brown sugar, 1 ½ tsp. cinnamon, ½ tsp. nutmeg, and 1 tsp vanilla. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Refrigerate for later use or have one right away. To 8 oz. hot water, add 2 ½ T. of batter and 2 shots of rum. It's wonderful.
Holiday party tip?
Candles add something magical to any gathering.
Favorite holiday decoration?
A two-foot Nutcracker king purchased at the ballet.
Please share some magical holiday memories?
Sledding, skating, snow drifts to the rooftops, hot chocolate, so much warmth and generosity among us, waking up early to mountains of presents…
Wrap, gift bag or bow & go?
I'm a wrap and bow woman.
Gifts or gift cards?
Personally, I love getting gift cards, but rarely give them.
Do you eat fruitcake?
Only if it's loaded with brandy and rum.
Do you head to the movies on the 25th?
No, but I've been trying to talk the rest of my family into giving it a try.
What's in your stocking? *wink*
Indulgence Chocolatier's dark chocolate with sea salt.
What do you want in your stocking? *saucy wink aka swink*
Indulgence Chocolatier's dark chocolate with sea salt + Johnny Depp.
Do you head out on the 26th into the madness to exchange or shop for anything?
The day after, I bask in the afterglow of all the madness. It's a quiet time for me.
Thank you so much.
Happy Holidays from my house to yours!
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