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Wanna see the city's drag superstars? You'll find them at these excellent parties, performances and shows.
If you've been to a drag show in NYC in the past five years, it's highly likely that Marti Gould Cummings was the host. The fabulous NYC drag performer took her act to the next level this year when she helped her new political club, the Hell's Kitchen Democrats, win two district leader seats, got married and produced and starred on the TV documentary series about the lives of NYC queens, Shade: Queens of NYC. We talked to the cutting-edge drag queen about her insane 2017.
How did your career as an activist get started?
When Donald Trump was running for office, I had this moment when I was on stage, and I was kind of making jokes about Kellyanne Conway and how ridiculous she is. And I realized that I was making light of it, but I had an opportunity to do something bigger than just joke about it. I realized that this is a great opportunity to educate myself about politics and our political system, so that I can help some kid who just moved to New York who doesn't know how to relate to their family right now, and they're scared about what's happening, and they just need somebody to tell them where they can volunteer and get involved. My friend Mark Robinson and I started Hell's Kitchen Democrats with ten people in our first meeting, and we have grown into a much larger organization very quickly. People want to help; they want to get involved in their neighborhood. We appointed two people to run for district leader and they won. That shows that it's time to get rid of the old, regardless of what party they're in, and time to bring in fresh voices. I'm getting involved in politics because I want to educate and empower people to know that educated officials work for us, we don't work for them. I always say: If a drag queen can do this, just think what you can do?
Looking back, what are your best memories of organizing this year?
There are two protests that really stand out to me. The first one was right after the election, and everybody was marching on Trump Tower. And this group of guys starting calling me a faggot and saying: "This is Trump's America now!" Then a whole group of people surrounded these guys and stood up for me. I realized that it's a very small voice in this country that happens to be amplified at the moment. I believe in the goodness of people and the positivity of humanity, and I think that will always win out. The people coming to my defense—strangers—is what America is to me. And then we all marched to Trump Tower together.
The other one that stood out to me is that I got a bunch of my drag sisters—Jan Sport, Brita Filter, Holly Box-Springs, Jasmine Rice LaBeija and Gilda Rabbit—and we went to a protest, and it was us, Rise and Resist and Black Lives Matter holding the banner. I remember thinking: This is history. There's going to be a time when people learn about this awful man who somehow was elected through the electoral college, and people spoke out and did the right thing.
How has your experience been since the premiere of Shade: Queens of NYC?
As a producer, I'm happy I can help show the whole picture of being a working queen, you know, and showcase what it's like to struggle with dating, finances, health and religious upbringing. I want to show people that drag is fun but that there are real people under the makeup. I've had so many messages from young people around the country saying that they are getting involved in their local politics because they saw I did it on the show and they want to learn more about it. It's pretty dope.
You work six to seven nights a week.
She's busy!
Has the new attention from the show affected the types of gigs you're getting?
The hustle's the same, but I'm now at a place where I'm only going to work for people who I believe really support drag and have the same kind of moral compass that I have. A lot of my bar owners have been supportive of my I'm here to help people, because I know that there are young and queer who are scared. political stuff, but I quit a bar last year. They didn't want me getting political because they thought it would offend straight audience members. I was like, "well, bye!" All people are welcome at my show, but when I'm talking about politics, I'm talking about helping a young person who is scared to go home for the holidays because their family voted for someone like Mike Pence, so my job is to let them know that there's somebody in their corner. If you tell me to censor myself in a way—to just be cookie cutter drag—I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to change anything.
You got married this year.
It's been a crazy year, girl! Right now I'm setting up my new apartment in Hamilton Heights. Life is good. The universe gives you what you can handle, and I'm at a place in my life where I'm really starting to be comfortable with myself, after many years when I wasn't. The universe was like: This is the year to live your dreams, and if it gets to be too much, we'll take some away, and we'll give you what you can take on. My husband is such a good guy. I never thought I'd get married because I'm so busy, but i did!
What's next for you?
My husband and I recorded a broadway album [A Very Marti Holiday] with a bunch of stars, and all proceeds go to the Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ youth. I'm just excited to be a newlywed and president of the Hell's Kitchen Democrats and producing this TV show. I'm excited to find out what's next. Life is such an adventure. There's so much goodness in the world. Our news cycle focuses on negativity, and I want my drag and my activism to let people know that there's good stuff to look forward to. I'm researching if running for office is a possibility in the future. I don't know if I'm better suited as an elected official or as an activist. That's something I'm exploring and meditating on and praying on a lot. We'll see.


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Cary SLP-03 Preamp CAD-120S II Power Amplifier (TAS 208)
- by Tony Cordesman
- Dec 16th, 2010
Normally, I try to avoid dragging readers through the problems I have in obtaining equipment and making it function. In this case, however, I would do a distinct disservice to any audiophile looking for a great tube amp with truly musical sound, and to any audiophile who already has a Cary CAD 120S and has problems with it. My experience led to the redesign of the Cary CAD 120S and the creation of the Cary CAD 120S II, and if you have read negative "chat" about the original 120S you really need to know what happened.
The Road from the Cary-120S to the Cary-120S II
My original interest in the Cary CAD-120S began largely as a result of specsmanship. I had previously been using moderately powered tube amplifiers from PrimaLuna and VAS (the Citation One) as part of my reference system that depended on RCA inputs. Both worked very well, but I needed two things: More power than most audiophiles need, since a reviewer never can predict the sensitivity of the speakers that come in for review, and balanced inputs for compatibility with the wide range of equipment coming through my listening room.
That was the initial reason I became interested in the Cary CAD-120S. It provides 60 watts per channel in triode mode and 120 watts per channel in ultralinear mode into an 8-ohm speaker load. It also had good specs by tube standards in many other respects. (These are described in detail in the specifications listings at the end of this review.) The input circuit is a fully balanced design with separate RCA and XLR inputs; it uses 1% precision metal resistors, Kimber capacitors, and the power supply features 1120mF of capacitance for ample reserves in demanding usages. In short, the Cary CAD-120S had all the bells and whistles of a top quality design.
As for features, I was struck by the fact that, the output stage could be switched "on the fly" from triode mode to ultralinear by using a front-panel selector button, without turning the amp off and on. It also had a soft-start turn-on circuit to extend tube life, and backlit front-panel meters to show the circuit bias setting for each channel and whether it was operating correctly.
Specs are one thing, however, and reality is another. I quickly found I had serious problems with the review sample, and largely because of gain. While the Cary 120S seemed to be advertised as an amplifier that could be used with the normal range of preamps, the truth turned out to be very different. The amplifier simply did not have the gain to work with either my Pass or Quad 909 preamps. The result was it was not only impossible to take advantage of the 120S's power, but the sound suffered from all of the typical problems that occur when there is a serious gain mismatch between components of this kind. The sound lack life and dynamics; there was no air and finer soundstage detail, and—to mix a metaphor—the music sounded "shut in."
Enter the Cary SLP-03 Preamp
It had been a long, long time since I had encountered gain mismatch as a problem, and the specs for the 120S did not tell me enough to suggest the cause. Accordingly, I asked for the loan of a Cary preamp and got the SLP-03. Once again, the specs were impressive. The SLP-03 is not an exercise in audio minimalism. All audio path signals are amplified through 12AU7 vacuum tubes in a Class A zero-feedback circuit. Its circuit is a fully balanced design with four analog gain stages: Two separate gain stages are used for each of the two channels. One gain stage amplifies the positive phase and the other gain stage amplifies the negative phase. The two stages for each channel represent the four active line circuits. It also has eight fully regulated power supplies with separate supplies for each channel's analog circuit along with power supplies for the display and dual supplies for the Motorola processor.
The SLP-03 has a fully functional remote control, and a far wider range of inputs and outputs than many competing tube preamps. These include one pair of XLR balanced inputs, and six pairs of RCA inputs; one pair of XLR balanced outputs, and two pairs of RCA outputs. There are wide range of other features like a tape monitor loop, cinema bypass, an RS232 full remote configuration interface, and power-amplifier triggers. Unlike far too many newer tube preamps, it also had a balance control—a feature I find essential in getting the best imaging out of a given recording and that leads me to reject any design that lacks a balance control.
The only problem was that the Cary SLP-03 had the same gain problems as my Pass and Quad preamps. In short, I was right back where I started. I supposed I should have caught the gain problem earlier, but I now got far more serious about finding out what was happening, and read enough user comments on the Internet to see that others were having somewhat similar sound problems.
Enter the Cary CAD-120S II
Accordingly, I got far more proactive in contacting Billy Wright at Cary, and it became clear that the CAD-120S simply was not designed for general use. At the same time, however, Billy Wright also stated that "the CAD-120S was originally designed to match with a high-gain preamp. The input sensitivity is around 2.5–3.0 volts. The gain is around 10dB. In order to drive it to full output, the gain of the preamp would need to be around 20dB, such as that provided by the Cary SLP-98 preamplifier.
"The CAD-120S was also designed to operate as an 8-ohm amplifier. With a high gain preamp, I do not think there would be any issue with performance on 8-ohm or 4-ohm speakers. However, a modification to increase the sensitivity of the CAD-120S should eliminate any concerns with any of the preamps used in your testing."
Not all that long afterward, I got the new version of the Cary CAD 120S, which Billy Wright said would be called the Cary CAD-120S II and which he described as follows: "The gain is increased to 28dB, and the sensitivity is 1.24V. We also made changes to the feedback network reducing overall global feedback."
If you are a Cary SLP-98 preamp owner, these changes may not matter. If you are not, the modifications to the Cary CAD 120S that have made it into the CAD 120S II matter a lot. It is now fully compatible with any preamp I know of, and the sound is truly exceptional.
The Illusion of Live Music
As might be expected, both the Cary SLP-03 preamp and the Cary CAD-120SII are "voiced" to have the same sound characteristics and nuances. These sound characteristics are different enough from many other tube preamplifiers and amplifiers, and most sold-state preamps and amplifiers, to be an important option in a field where components increasingly stress apparent detail over musical realism, and in a world where far too many recordings seek the same emphasis on detail in ways that can make the end result too bright and hard.
I should make my listening biases clear here. I listen almost exclusively to acoustic music, much of it classical chamber music where any tilt in timbre can make the upper strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, and harpsichord sound slight unpleasant. The same is true of close-miked female voice and, much more rarely, a tenor pushing towards the limits of his register. I am only interested in musical detail to the extent that I hear it in live performances and that it does not interfere with a natural balance of the midrange and upper octaves. I am also particularly irritated when bright upper octaves seem to interact with the limits of the equipment used in making the recording, and harden peaks and transients. I am not interested in listening to technical accuracy; I am interested in listening to a close to the illusion of live acoustic music as possible.
Far too often, the high end seems to have moved in the opposite direction in recent years. This may well work with electronic and synthesized music where upper midrange peaks seem far less common, and most acoustic jazz and orchestral music does not highlight these problems to the same degree as recordings of chamber music and soloists do. Nevertheless, the search for technically flat frequency response and maximum detail has combined with recording problems to create the paradox that some recordings sound better in a mid-fi or home-theater system than a high-end system balanced for maximum upper-octave energy. There are reasons why some skeptics of the high end can say that "it sounds better on my car radio."
In contrast, both the Cary SLP-03 preamp and the Cary CAD-120SII produce a sound that emphasizes the natural warmth of the midrange and upper bass, and that produces musically natural upper-octave energy without losing the highs you hear in live music. They also both set a soundstage that slightly emphasizes depth over width in comparison to many other preamps and amplifiers—when the music permits. Detail is natural, centerfill is excellent, and imaging is as about as realistic in size and as stable as the recording and the rest of your system and set up permit. Applause is more realistic, and sounds like the rustling of scores do not alter to emphasize the higher frequencies. Flute, clarinet, and piano have transients and peaks that sound musically realistic; the brass has bite without being hard, and female voice does not lose its warmth or emphasize sibilants and breathing sounds.
There is a cost to these advantages, although one that is slight compared to any system that overemphasizes or hardens the upper octaves. The sound characteristics of the Cary SLP-03 and CAD-120S II are less revealing with those older recordings that were miked at too great a distance or had softer highs in the first place. They are much more suited for speakers that emphasize flat, extended highs than those that effectively roll the highs or slightly depress the upper midrange. With truly neutral recordings, and with a properly balanced speaker and room setup, there are trade-offs in natural musical detail between the warmth of the Carys and top solid-state electronics like the Pass XP20 preamp and Pass XA160.5 amplifier I use as references.
As for the deep bass, the Cary CAD-120S II does very well, and its extra power can make a real difference in providing better dynamics and control than lower-powered tube amps. Nevertheless, even the best tube amplifier will have some limits in controlling the bass of most speakers compared to the best solid-state designs. It will also be somewhat more load dependent, although the Cary CAD-120S II is less sensitive to speaker loads than many other tube amps.
Incidentally, if you are wondering about the trade-off between the 120-watt ultralinear and 60-watt triode options, I preferred the 120-watt option most of the time. It was not as soft or sweet, but it sounded slightly more detailed and realistic with musical transients, and the bass and dynamics were consistently better. A bit like the choice between daylight and candlelight, much will depend on your mood.
No preamp and amp can do everything. No matter how you tailor your system, you have to give up something to get something. In fact, I found that with my front ends, and with the Quad 2909s and Vandersteen 5As in my listening room, the combination of the Cary SLP-03 preamp and the Cary CAD-120SII were a bit too warm, and got the best results with a combination of the Pass XP20 preamp and the Cary CAD-120SII.
This, however, highlights a point that we reviewers probably need to make more often. Even if you could disregard the recording and your front end, you would still be subject to the interactions of four components: the preamp, amp, speaker, and listening room. We are reviewing nuances and seeking an illusion in a world where system synergy involves far too many variable to predict what balance of timbre and detail will be most natural in any given setup—and "natural" is hard to apply even to acoustic music recorded in a hall or venue you know well. The range of components in making the recording is at least as subject to coloration and the range in playing it back. I can tell you that the Cary SLP-03 and Cary CAD-120S II are likely to be exceptionally musically real in any good setup in any good listening room, but finding the best synergy to create your illusion of choice is still going to be part of the chase in your hunt for the absolute sound.
Circuit type: Class AB, push-pull amplifier, ultralinear or triode mode operation with front panel selector switch
Gain: 28dB
Sensitivity: 1.24V
Power output: 120 watts per channel, ultralinear; 60 watts per channel, triode
Inputs: XLR balanced or RCA single-ended
Noise: -80dB
Input impedance: 100k ohm both RCA and balanced
Frequency response: 17Hz–25kHz @ 1 watt
Tube complement: Two 6SN7 input gain stage; two 6SN7 driver; eight KT88 output
Weight: 65 lbs.
Dimensions: 17" x 8" x 14"
Price: $5500
Preamplifier inputs: One pair balanced XLR connections, six pair single-ended RCA connections
Preamplifier outputs: One pair balanced XLR, two pair RCA
Tube complement: Four 12AU7 dual triode
Input impedance:100k ohm on RCA, 200k ohm on XLR
Output impedance: 500 ohm on XLR, 500 ohm on RCA
Rated output: RCA1V (8 volts maximum); XLR 2V (16 volts maximum)
Weight: 25 lbs
Dimensions: 17" x 4.5″ x 13"
Price: $3000
1020 Goodworth Drive
Apex, NC 27539
(919) 355-0010
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BOB TEAGUE (AP Photo/WNBC-TV)
by Karen Matthews
NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Teague, a former news anchor, reporter and producer and one of New York City's first Black television journalists, has died. He was 84.
Teague, who lived in Monmouth Junction, N.J., died Thursday, WNBC said. His widow, Jan, told The New York Times that he suffered from T-cell lymphoma.
Teague was a veteran newspaper reporter who had worked at The Milwaukee Journal and The New York Times when he joined New York's NBC affiliate in 1963.
At WNBC, he became a correspondent for "Harlem: Test for the North," an hourlong program started after riots broke out in the area. He also covered other minority communities during the tumultuous 1960s.
"They felt black reporters would be invulnerable in a riot," Teague said in a 1981 interview.
Teague often subbed on NBC network news and sports programs, but he was critical of the industry that employed him.
"How can you make the decisions about your lives, your family, your business if what you are getting is information about what the beautiful people are doing?" Teague wrote in a 1982 book, "Live and Off-Color: News Biz."
He retired from WNBC in 1991.
Teague was born in Milwaukee and was a star football player at the University of Wisconsin. According to the Times, he passed up offers from four professional football teams to become a reporter for the Journal.
Teague was the author of several other books, including "Letters to a Black Boy," addressed to his then-1-year-old son. He wrote three works of children's fiction with titles such as "Agent K-Thirteen the Super-Spy."
WNBC anchor Chuck Scarborough said Teague was "driven to excel and tireless in his pursuit of the truth."
"He was also a valuable mentor to those of us who followed in his footsteps," Scarborough said. "Bob's achievements and integrity stand as an example for us all."
WNBC praised Teague in a statement as "a broadcast pioneer with a passion for news and for serving his New York viewers."


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No Country For Young Nurses
Creative Commons Licensed (Joan Thewlis)
The nursing profession takes a certain dedication to love. After all,
most office jobs don't involve standing for 12 hours at a time,
scarfing a bite of lunch between "clients" or handling gallons of
bodily fluids on a daily basis. But for years, nursing schools lured
students with the promise that they would be snapped up by prestigious
hospitals upon graduation, remunerated for their hard work with good
pay and enviable job security.
And they were right - until now, that is.
a paradox straight out of "Freakonomics:" Even though California still
faces a shortage of nurses, up to 40 percent of nursing school
graduates will be unable to find jobs, according to the California
Institute for Nursing and Health Care.
The recession set off a domino effect that has caused California hospitals to virtually stop hiring newly-minted nurses. The Institute estimates only half as many
nurses will be hired this year as in 2008.
It's all thanks to Botox,
healthcare reform and other people's husbands.
Back from retirement
years ago, a severe nursing shortage was giving policy-makers night
sweats. In 2001, national vacancies in nursing reached 13 percent, and
over 120,000 nursing positions went unfilled, according to a report by
the American Hospital Association. The numbers were especially dire in
California, and in 2005 the state began funding and aggressively
promoting nurse education.
"With this new initiative we are
going to improve the quality of health care everywhere in our state. We
are going to provide more classes, more teachers and more resources to
expand the ranks of nurses in California," Governor Schwarzenegger said
in a press release at the time.
It worked. California nursing schools saw enrollment rise by 70 percent over four years as the profession became increasingly touted as "recession-proof."
But the recession found a way.
funny thing happened when the economy began to crumble. Peter Buerhaus,
a nursing expert at Vanderbilt University, found that an astounding
number of experienced nurses left their non-hospital jobs to work in
Though only about 60 percent of nursing jobs are in
hospitals, recent nursing graduates often rely on resource-rich
hospitals to provide them with the extensive training they need to be
considered ready to work with patients. In addition to having the best
training opportunities, hospitals also happen to have the best pay, the
best benefits and the best shifts.
"In two years, hospital
employment grew by 243,000. That's a world record. That's astounding,"
he said. "People were coming in from all over. I mean, we've got nurses
coming down from Uranus, from Pluto, waiting to get clearance to come
As one of the perks, many hospitals give nurses the
option of changing a standard full-time schedule to three 12-hour
shifts per week, which allows some nurses to pick up a second job on their
free days.
It's a life-preserving strategy for when their
spouses (70 percent of nurses have one) lose their jobs, as millions of
Americans have since the recession hit.
Retired and part-time
nurses all over the country have been returning to work full time when their
spouses' jobs were threatened, or eliminated. Faced with the option of
hiring an experienced nurse or a novice who needs training, the choice
for hospitals is clear.
Or as a Marina Del Rey hospital
representative said, "We are not hiring new grads at all. With the
employment market the way it is right now, we don't have to."
And nurses who were going to retire decided to stay put.
turnover is almost nil," said UCLA nursing school Dean Suzette Cardin.
"They're just not leaving. Everyone's afraid to leave."
older, returning nurses have crowded out novice nurses who need
training. And they've done so in greater numbers in California, where
the economy has tanked harder and where there tends to be more workers
nearing retirement age.
"There may have been a bigger
reservoir of older nurses that weren't working in California," Buerhaus
said, "and you had a very strong reaction of nurses getting back in the
labor market."
Fewer implants, greater uncertainty
of the first casualties of the recession was disposable income and all
the luxury items - watches, cars, and errr...silicone - that it buys:
Allergen saw sales of Botox and breast implants plummet in 2009.
And as job loss led to health insurance loss, people were re-thinking not just nose jobs, but knee surgeries.
decline has led to less demand for nurse assistance during some
procedures. "Elective surgeries are down, so patient days are down,"
said Deloras Jones of the California Institute for Nursing and
On top of that, hospitals are reluctant to beef up
their staffs while the healthcare debate rages on. Hire too many nurses
now, and in a few months they might be stuck paying more in salaries
while getting reimbursed less by insurance companies.
are uncertain about what their near-term future is," Buerhaus said.
"It's taxes one day, payment reductions the next. Given that
uncertainty, it's slowing their employment decisions."
Pumping a dry well
together, these factors have shattered the popular narrative of nursing
jobs that are easy to come by. Cedars-Sinai hospital cut their job
openings for new grads from 250 last year to 100 this year. UCLA's hospital typically has two new graduate intake sessions - one in the
spring and one in the fall. This year, the spring session has been
"A lot of nurses have applied to the UCLA new grad
program in August," said Kathy Carder of the California Nurses
Association. "But in the meantime, they're wondering how they're going
to feed their families."
It took Cedric Lara seven months and
40 applications to find a job after he graduated with an associate's
degree in nursing from Whittier's Rio Hondo college in May 2009.
I was in school, I was looking at jobs and seeing the well dry up,"
Lara said. "Even hospitals where I looked during clinical rotation -
Kaiser, Downey Regional, Presbyterian - by the time I graduated, they
had hiring freezes."
In Northern California, the prospects are
even worse. Jessica Martin graduated with a master's degree in nursing
from the University of San Francisco in December, and she said just six
of the 25 people in her cohort have gotten jobs so far. Those who have
relied mainly on personal connections.
"It was pretty
misleading," she said. "The people that graduated before me were
getting jobs easily, and people were recruiting them. But then I
graduated, and there's nothing."
Martin is hoping for an
operating-room job, but so far the only hospitals admitting new grads
are those like Stanford, where there are 600 applicants for three to
six open positions.
"I'm sending my resume out into the ether, and nothing is coming of it," she said. "It's fairly hopeless right now."
For some, hope lies in less sought-after jobs outside of hospitals and doctors' offices.
a new grad had 20 offers, but this is forcing them to seek other
opportunities than what they thought," said Kathy Lopez of the National
Association of Hispanic Nurses. "Some students may have to start in a
convalescent home, or maybe doing flu clinics."
Some, like
Martin, are looking out of state. Her student loans are coming due, and
the alternative is moving back in with her parents.
"I'm 28
years old and I might be financially dependent again," she said. "I'm
trying not be be bitter and angry about it, it just takes time."
California is still projected to have a nursing shortage in 2020,
especially since the older nurses are likely to swiftly re-retire after
the economy rebounds.
Until that time comes, however, a pool
of cash-strapped nursing school grads wait with increasing frustration.
Healthcare experts hope they don't give up before the recession
"We've been working hard to build our capacity, and
we're worried that if new grads can't find jobs, we'll lose the gains
we've made," Jones said. "Because if they leave California, they may
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Soon we will have results from the Iowa Caucus. It appears to be between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The question in everyone's mind is whether presidential candidate and leader Donald Trump was damaged by dropping out of the Jan. 29 debate. So far, on Jan. 31 Trump still has a substantial lead of 30 percent, the highest ever. However, Monday's Iowa results will answer the question.
Monday's caucus in Iowa had several major events; Bernie and Hillary were deadlocked at 50 percent and ended with Clinton 49.9 and Bernie at 49.6 percent. Ted Cruz won with 27.7 percent, Trump at 24.3 percent and Rubio at 23.1 percent.
This is not close to being the end for Trump so stay tuned.
It is amazing a socialist (communist) could ever be a factor, even on the Democrat side. But the choice for Democrats at this point is a Communist against a clear liar with a sinister background.
The Democrats and Republicans have played a shell game for many years. How many times have you heard candidates on both sides of the aisle pledge to control immigration while the country is bloated with 10's of millions of illegals? This was the beginning of Trump's incredible rise in polls. Even Mexicans who have been nationalized are angry that they must compete with illegal aliens. That is probably why Trump says he expects a strong Hispanic vote.
Trump remains committed to building a wall to keep illegals out, deporting illegals and even making Mexico pay for the wall. I don't doubt any of these assertions. But both right and left claim it is impossible to send millions of people home. Hey, it is our country, we are supposed to be a nation of laws. The illegals broke the law and they need to be scoured out of this country. Why in the world should we be worried about law breakers? In fact, many countries simply shoot invaders; it isn't PC but it's practical and necessary. Every president and congressman took an oath of office to protect the country and they lied.
Powerful money interests are the reason we are out of control and both parties will do whatever it takes to get one of their own into office. Note these same interests put Obama into office and now that his term is nearly over he is more and more honest about what and who he really is. And he is not, as he claimed early in his administration, a Christian. If he isn't an Islamist why is he loading the country with Koran worshippers, sprinkling them all over the country? Why is he defending Islamic atrocities? Why does he refuse to be honest rather than couching deaths as workplace violence? You can thank the Democrat party and the national media for not vetting him.
Obama will be seen historically as a huge mistake and voters as plain stupid.
I believe Trump, when elected, will turn the ship of state 180 degrees. And I believe bad actors like Hillary will be jailed.
I have said this before but it is a teachable moment for me. I worked for a man once who in turn worked for one of the early billionaires. One of the many businesses owned by the billionaire sold and installed cable television.
A lawyer contacted a selectman (councilman) in Massachusetts and offered a bribe if he would vote for their cable system. The selectman contacted the FBI and they put a wire on him. The lawyer offered the bribe and promised him, my boss at the time, he would fly in his company jet to pay cash. My boss's boss was also named.
Competitor Medtronic worked their copy machines overtime and sent copies worldwide.
Then nothing more was written. I asked my boss numerous times why it had died out. All he would say is that he never met the lawyer who had made the offer. Years later I asked again and he said you remember I grew up next door to Howard Baker and we have been close friends for years. (Baker was a heavyweight politician and had served as a Senator and then commanded a Washington law firm.) He said Baker had "fixed it" for them. Imagine taking the event off the screen. I have tried to find it online and only get my own editorial that discusses the matter. Now that is a fix all right. But how? That is one simple example of the power of Washington.
Another example is the dozens of deaths surrounding the Clintons with little or no mention by the media.
Local Politics
I heard a rumor "activist" Anna Marsola is going to run for Cave Creek Mayor. How interesting! I think she should find out just how disliked she is. If you would like to see an administration which will be 100 times worse than the disaster we are currently experiencing with our lovely town being carved away to increase bicycle traffic, then save your vote for her. I doubt she ever heard of property rights and she surely is a devoted Dark Sider.
On another note I have told possible candidate for Mayor Usama Abujbarah there is a sure way to be elected and that is to promise to return the town to pre bike trail days. The only problem is how.


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Gary Cooper in High Noon
Gary Cooper as Will Kane, newlywed city marshal
Hadleyville, New Mexico Territory, Summer 1873
Film: High Noon
Release Date: July 24, 1952
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Men's Wardrobe Credit: Joe King
Born 119 years ago today on May 7, 1901, Gary Cooper received his second Academy Award for Best Actor in recognition of his now-iconic performance in High Noon as a laconic lawman whose sense of duty compels him to make a lone stand against a band of dangerous outlaws.
"Each generation has imposed its own politics and values onto High Noon," wrote Glenn Frankel for a detailed Vanity Fair retrospective in 2017. "Yet what has largely been forgotten is that the man who had written the script had set out with a very specific goal: to make an allegory about the Hollywood blacklist, the men who sought to enforce it, and the cowardly community that stood by silently and allowed it to happen." Indeed, while screenwriter Carl Foreman had undoubtedly had the famous Red Scare in mind as he penned his script, High Noon has found fans on both ends of the political spectrum though it initially met with conservative-minded opposition from figures like John Wayne, who had refused the leading role and vehemently spoke out against the film's anti-blacklist sentiment.
Though Duke and director Howard Hawks would eventually team up to make Rio Bravo in response to High Noon, Wayne still accepted Cooper's Best Actor Oscar on his friend's behalf, famously concluding his speech by joking that he was "gonna go back and find my business manager, and agent, and producer, and three-name writer, and find out why I didn't get High Noon instead of Cooper!" High Noon also received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and two Oscars in recognition of the soundtrack, composed by the prolific Dimitri Tiomkin who would also pen the score for Rio Bravo.
We meet the taciturn Will Kane on the morning of his wedding to Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly). "Well, one more ceremony and Will's a free man," declares the judge, as this bright Sunday is also to be Kane's final day as the popular city marshal of Hadleyville, a fictional town in what was then New Mexico Territory. The upstanding lawman is reluctant to give up his badge until his replacement arrives and, only seconds after he hangs up the tin, he's informed that the dangerous criminal Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald) has just been pardoned and is on his way to Hadleyville via the noon train. Awaiting Miller at the depot are a trio of dangerous gunmen—"three gunnies," according to Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell (Lloyd Bridges)—which includes a young Lee Van Cleef making his screen debut.
Kane's friends urge him to leave town as Miller no doubt wants to violently settle the score against the lawman who put him away, so a hesitant Kane begins riding away with his new bride, finally stopping his horses outside of town: "It's no good, I've got to go back, Amy." Despite Amy's protestations, Kane buckles on his gun belt and pins his star back to his vest, choosing his duty to Hadleyville over his new marriage. However, Kane's expectations of reciprocation fall dangerously short as no one in the town rises to his aid, with even his own deputy bitterly turning over his badge due to Kane's reluctance to recommend the unscrupulous Harvey as his successor. Kane finds himself increasingly disillusioned over the following hour as his friends to continue to abandon him and the minutes creep closer to high noon and the inevitable confrontation with the Miller gang.
What'd He Wear?
High Noon essentially plays out in real time over its 84-minute running time, following Will Kane from his courthouse wedding right up through the famous gunfight on the street. Kane dresses for his nuptials in an informal variation of morning dress consisting of frock coat, striped waistcoat, and cashmere-striped "spongebag" trousers, though he wears it with his standard day wear of a flannel work shirt and string tie rather than the more formal white shirt and cravat.
Kane dresses up for his nuptials with a dark woolen flannel frock coat, an informal alternative to the dress coat. The single-breasted, two-button frock coat has a full-length, straight-cut skirt like a dress coat rather than the tapered cutaway quarters of a traditional morning coat. Kane's frock coat has straight hip pockets with wide flaps, two non-functioning decorative buttons slightly spaced apart at the end of each sleeve, and two ornamental buttons along the back waist seam, a holdout from equestrian riding coats.
Apropos the setting, Will Kane wears a dark felt hat with a wide, curled brim and round crown in the telescope or gambler shape, but with a taller crown. Golden Gate Western Wear, home of Knudsen Hat Company, offers an all-black replica of Gary Cooper's High Noon headgear and describes it as "similar to a gambler-style hat but taller in the crown and wider in the brim."
The decision to place Gary Cooper's heroic but flawed character in a black hat signified that High Noon was a new kind of Western, diverging from the decades-old practice of clearly establishing white hats for heroes and black hats for villains.
Kane wears a light-colored flannel shirt, likely an off-white or pale gray, that may have been too informal for a dressier wedding but suits him perfectly when he reverts to his duties as a marshal overseeing the town. The shirt has a soft, narrow attached collar with rounded corners like the classic "club collar", and the long sleeves are shirred at the cuffs where they fasten through a single button. The shirt has a horizontal chest yoke that slants slightly toward the center, where the dark four-hole buttons contrast against the shirt's front placket.
Dressing up for his wedding, Kane wears a dark bow string tie patterned with a neatly arranged array of pin dots, though he ultimately discards the tie after it gets loosened and disheveled during his stables fight with a drunken Harvey Pell. This style of neckwear was common in the old West—indeed, even the justice who marries Will and Amy wears one—as a cross between the more gentrified bow tie and the bolo-style string tie associated with cowboys and ranchers.
After discarding his frock coat, Kane re-pins his five-pointed Marshal star to the left side of his waistcoat (known as a "vest" in colloquial American parlance.) Kane's vest is patterned in a balanced two-tone stripe that clashes with the slightly different "cashmere stripe" of his trousers, though these garments weren't meant to match. The single-breasted, six-button vest has a shawl collar that is cut off at the back, which is finished in a dark satin lining. He wears his pocket watch in the right-side pocket of the vest's two forward-slanting, slim-welted lower pockets with the chain strung "single Albert"-style through a hole next to the vest's third buttonhole, and the fob hangs free.
Kane's formal striped trousers emerged in fashion during the early 19th century to accompany the frock coat for daytime dress. The "cashmere stripe" refers to the distinctive gray-and-black striping pattern and not the soft, luxurious wool obtained from the cashmere goat. Kane's wool trousers follow the cashmere stripe or "spongebag" tradition with balanced stripes that alternate in width, likely black stripes against a dark ground ground. The trouser bottoms are plain-hemmed, befitting their more formal context.
The trousers are more reflective of the contemporary 1950s production than the old west era depicted on screen. Most men's trousers before the 1920s weren't even made with belt loops, typically held up with suspenders that connected to buttons around the waist, though Kane's cashmere-striped trousers are worn with a wide, dark leather belt; even if some in the old west did wear belts with trousers, these more formal trousers would not have been a likely candidate to be worn with a belt. Kane's trousers have a flat front, another concession to the '50s as most formal trousers had pleats; in some instances, his gun belt bunches the fabric on the front of his trousers together to create the appearance of reverse-facing pleats. However, the flat front pattern of Kane's trousers is more complementary with the Western-inspired front pockets with their concave-slanted openings.
As this particular Sunday was supposed to see no more action than Will Kane's wedding and his last day on the job, Kane hadn't been wearing his gun belt until he realized he would be facing down Frank Miller's gang. He returns to his office and straps on a dark leather Buscadero gun belt with a solid octagonal single-prong ranger buckle and his single-action revolver holstered against his right thigh for a right-handed draw.
The accepted history of the low-slung Buscadero rig is that these were first worn by Texas lawmen around the turn of the 20th century and soon popularized by movie cowboys from the early years of the silent era through the golden age of Western serials into the 1950s, worn by icons like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and the Lone Ranger. The Buscadero has long been figured to be an accepted anachronism, an element that adds to the American cowboy mythos even if most Western gunslingers carried different holsters… if they holstered their sidearms at all! (To read more about how guns were actually carried in the old west, check out Jane C. Bischoff's "The Buscadero Bio" for True West magazine, Phil Spangenberger's "Hideout Hijinks" (also for True West), and Cochise Leather Company's history of Western gun leather.
While much of Will Kane's wardrobe isn't unfamiliar when compared to the prototypical heroes of Western fiction, one differing aspect that I appreciate are his boots. As opposed to the taller cowboy boots or roper boots seemingly ubiquitous in Westerns, Will wears ankle-high dress boots more appropriate for a day where he expected nothing more than to get married and ride out of town via wagon. Likely black leather, his plain-toe boots have gently raised heels and pull tabs, not unlike Chelsea boots though they lack the elastic side gussets.
The considerably lower shafts of Kane's boots gives us a glimpse of the black socks he wears as he catches his breath following his fight with Harvey Pell.
These boots are best seen in a behind-the-scenes photo of the cast watching TV, an entertaining juxtaposition of the cast dressed for the 1870s while experiencing a contraption that wouldn't be introduced for decades yet.
Go Big or Go Home
John Boessenecker neatly illustrates the sacrifices made and difficulty faced by American city marshals who sought to carry out their work with honesty in his excellent biography Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, The Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde, particularly as described in the chapter highlighting Hamer's brief but colorful service "taming" the Texas border town of Navasota:
The office of city marshal—tantamount to a chief of police—should not be confused with the U.S. marshal, a federal lawman appointed by the president. The city marshal's jurisdiction was within city or town limits. As a rule, smaller towns with a few officers had city marshals; larger communities had a chief of police… The city marshal's duties were set both by custom and law. By custom, marshals would patrol the streets on foot and horseback and respond to calls for assistance. At night they walked back alleys, shook doorknobs, and looked out for prowlers, burglars, and rowdy drunks. Under Texas law, marshals were specifically required to identify and arrest all vagrants in their jurisdiction; to suppress gambling and confiscate gaming tables and gambling paraphernalia; to enforce public health, sanitary, and quarantine statutes; to enforce antiprostitution laws; and to maintain a fee book of all court costs in civil and criminal cases. In many communities, they were also charged with such mundane tasks as keeping roads and bridges in good repair, maintaining public windmills, and picking up stray dogs.
For every thousand people in small towns today, there is an average of two full-time police officers. Under that formula, a town like Navasota, which then had 3,200 people, would have six officers. But in 1908, no community that small had a tax base large enough to pay for six police. As a result, western and rural villages often hired the toughest marshal they could find, knowing that for the most part he would have to handle criminals and rowdies alone. Only in cases of emergency would the county sheriff or his deputies be able to help.
"If you're honest, you're poor your whole life," explains the town's former marshal, Martin Howe (Lon Chaney), who Kane seeks out for advice with less than a half-hour until noon. There's plenty that can be gleaned about Will Kane's character by his choice to become the Hadleyville city marshal, having evidently served well enough to earn the respect of most townspeople… and illustrating just how selfish they are not to assist in his time of need after the range of duties he would have been expected to perform for them.
The Guns
Like myriad Western heroes in movies, TV, and real life, Will Kane relies on the tried-and-true Single Action Army, the Colt revolver introduced in 1873 that quickly gained fame as the "Peacemaker". The original Single Action Army was chambered in the powerful new .45 Long Colt round, though a wide range would become available including rifle calibers like the .32-20 Winchester, .38-40 Winchester, and .44-40 Winchester so that users would conveniently need only one type of ammunition that would serve both revolver and rifle. (The .44-40 Colts were officially marketed as the Colt Frontier Six-Shooter when production began in 1877.)
Colt originally offered the Single Action Army with a 7½" barrel. This long-barreled configuration would become known as the "Cavalry" model, with additional variants including the "Civilian", "Gunfighter", or "Quickdraw" model (4¾" barrel) and "Artillery" model (5½" barrel). While shorter- and longer-barreled SAA revolvers were produced like Wyatt Earp's apocryphal "Buntline Special" with its foot-long barrel, these three barrel lengths were the standard for mass production as well as military issue during the last quarter of the 19th century.
Colt would produce more than 350,000 of these revolvers during the first generation of Single Action Army production, which began in October 1873 as the "New Model Army Metallic Cartridge Revolving Pistol" in .45 Colt and ended around 1940 following the introduction of varying barrel lengths and at least 30 different caliber options. As Westerns grew in popularity and the Single Action Army itself began attracting renewed attention after World War II, William R. Wilson founded the Great Western Arms Company to produce copies of the original Single Action Army, inspiring many other companies to follow including Cimarron Firearms, Freedom Arms, Ruger, Uberti (now owned by Beretta), and even Colt, who resumed production in 1956.
Will Kane carries a Single Action Army Artillery model holstered on his right hip, through he also pulls a second Peacemaker with a shorter Civilian-type barrel from his desk drawer and tucks it into his waistband.
Though the first Single Action Army wouldn't be produced by Colt until October 1873, nearly six months after High Noon is set, it's ubiquitous as the preferred sidearm of not just Will Kane but also the four men who came to Hadleyville in search of him as well as his former deputy, Harvey Pell, whose pearl-handled Single Action Army is taken from his discarded holster by Amy during the film's climax. (Interestingly, Frank Hamer was presented with a Civilian model Colt Single Action Army in 1910 by the Navasota city council in recognition of his exemplary work as city marshal; he would continue to carry "Old Lucky" for the rest of his career.)
Few other firearms are featured in High Noon, though Kane is seen inspecting the Winchester Model 1873 lever-action rifles in his office. He appears to load his weapons with Winchester brand ammunition as well.
How to Get the Look
Gary Cooper's outfit as a lawman standing tall in the old West is very specific for its time and place, though I help this provides a helpful guide for any potential cosplayers, High Noon-themed Halloween costumes, or just gents who want to add a dash of Will Kane into their wardrobe.
- Black flannel single-breasted 2-button frock coat with notch lapels, wide-flapped straight hip pockets, decorative 2-button cuffs, and decorative 2-button back waist seam
- Off-white flannel shirt with soft rounded-corner collar, front placket with dark contrasting buttons, slanted front yoke, and shirred 1-button cuffs
- Dark pin-dotted silk bow string tie
- Dark striped wool single-breasted 6-button waistcoat/vest with shawl collar, two forward-slanting slim-welted pockets, and straight hem
- Black-on-gray cashmere-striped woolen formal trousers with tall belt loops, slanted Western-style front pockets, and plain-hemmed bottoms
- Dark leather trouser belt with large squared single-prong buckle
- Dark leather Buscadero gun belt with solid octagonal single-prong ranger buckle and right-hand-draw holster
- Black leather plain-toe ankle boots
- Black socks
- Black felt gambler-style cowboy hat with tall round crown, black silk band, and curled brim
One outfitter that specializes in recreating menswear (and women's fashions) from this period is Historical Emporium.
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The Quote
They're makin' me run, I've never run from anybody before.
While High Noon never makes its setting explicit, there are some context clues that I was able to use to pin down the date. The use of the 37-stag flag suggests a time frame to within 1867 and 1877, assuming that Hadleyville keeps vexillogically current. Particularly with earlier Westerns, Hollywood notoriously armed its gunslingers with Colt 1873 Single Action Army revolvers and Winchester Model 1873 rifles even if the true setting was decades earlier, but we'll give High Noon the benefit of the doubt and narrow the time frame to the mid-1870s. (There are still some anachronisms as pointed out by IMDB, including Pabst signs and pre-gummed envelopes that were not used until the 1890s as well as a boarding house dated "1888", but I like to think that this flag was chosen for a reason with the filmmakers intending an earlier setting.)
The pendulum clock on Mart's wall indicates that it's July, specifically a July where the first day was a Tuesday, which could have only been 1873. We know this is a Sunday, and the train depot calendar says "26/27", so we can effectively pinpoint the setting of High Noon to be Sunday, July 27, 1873.


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Styled shoots are an amazing opportunity for us to think outside of the box, to flex our creative muscles, and to engage in a creative process with new vendors we've loved but haven't had a chance to work with yet. It's a moment when we get to play, dream, and explore, with stunning results. This winter, our planner Samantha gathered together a fabulous team and created a shoot inspired by her childhood in Zimbabwe and how her past influences her understanding of love. Her Zulu Love Letter, based on the beaded messages Zulu maidens weave as they dream of romance, is a story of strength, softness, warmth, color, and organic elements that will change the way you look at the world around you. We'll leave it to Samantha to explain the rest:
Zulu Love Letter
(As described by shoot producer Samantha Robertson)
For me, love is the long afternoon shadow that slipped across the veranda of our house, a dusty farm road, the smell of wood smoke from the evening cooking fires and the call of guinea fowl as they began to roost for the night. Growing up, barefoot and free on a farm in Zimbabwe, we were taught from a young age to be conscious of the connection that our feet had to the earth and to identify and appreciate the symbols of life that flowed past us as we walked our path.
A whole country and culture away from where I grew up, another form of this symbolism is the cornerstone of a beautiful nation of people known as the Zulu people. Now as I sit in the mountains of Colorado, a million miles away from a home that no longer exists, I take comfort in the tangibility of something that is so different from my current environment yet so comforting to my African roots and heart.
For centuries, Zulu maidens have woven their romantic hopes, dreams and desires into intricate beaded messages. Known as a Zulu love letter, its purpose is to visually declare to the world feelings of love and affection for the wearer. Intricate pieces are hand crafted, their meaning bound in a love language that has the instinctual flow of poetry but is visually wearable art.
During the thesis year of my design degree, I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the heartland of the Zulu Nation. It was here that I got a firsthand experience and understanding of how all traditional Zulu beadwork relates in some way to courtship and marriage, and how Zulu women are the guardians of this craft. Each colored bead of the Zulu Love Letter imparts a different message and, when they are combined, its symbolism is created within the colors and geometric figures whose meaning changes depending on the combination of colors and the arrangement of the shapes.
These color meanings are:
WHITE: A symbol of hope, purity, cleanliness and true love.
BLACK: Grief, loneliness. My heart has turned as black as the rafters in the hut as I hear you have another maiden.
YELLOW: Wealth (or lack of). If we marry I will be hungry, as you own no bull to slaughter.
GREEN: Love-sickness, jealousy. I have become as thin as a blade of grass from pining for you.
BLUE: Faithfulness. If I were a dove I would fly through blue skies to reach you.
TURQUOISE: Impatience. I am losing hope that you will marry me.
RED: Intense love, longing. My heart bleeds with love for you.
PINK: Abject poverty. If you keep on gambling and wasting money, you will never save enough for my Lobola (dowry paid in cattle).
BROWN: My love is like the earth that gives rise to new life.
STRIPED BEADS: Doubt, accusations, two timing. You are like the Ntothoviyane (striped grass hopper) springing from bush to bush.
(meanings taken from http://earthafricacurio.com/african-crafts/zulu-love-letters-wholesale-prices)
Using these pieces of love art as the inspiration for this photoshoot was an interesting exercise, and it called for the visual merging of two very different stylistic worlds in a way that needed to still be reachable by both.
Lucky for us, though, when love is the base of whatever you do, something magical is always created.
Design & Styling: Samantha Robertson for Bella Design & Planning
Photography: Dani Cowan Photography
Venue: Breckenridge Nordic Center
Floral Design: Ali Fortunato
Cake: Sugar Breck
Rentals: Pink Monkey Solutions
Paper Goods: Richard's Notebook
Hair: Ashley for Southern Exposure
Makeup: Jessica Taylor


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Breastfeeding: Next steps in learning...
This tutorial has covered the core knowledge you need on this subject, but there are some more in-depth resources which will help extend your knowledge about breastfeeding and the use of medicines in women who breastfeed:
- Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) has evidence-based advice on managing various medical concerns in breastfeeding such as nipple soreness and caring for women with a low milk production or excess milk supply.
- There is a helpful BMJ review on how to manage breastfeeding problems in the community (May 2014) that is available via Athens.
- The Best Beginnings charity have produced a film From Bump to Breastfeeding, which is endorsed by five Royal Colleges. It aims to motivate the next generation of mothers to make a supported choice to breastfeed. Films can be viewed online in English and several other languages including Urdu, Bengali, Polish and Somali.
- The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is a worldwide organisation with members from over fifty countries. It has published 25 clinical protocols for managing issues connected with breastfeeding. These include the management of mastitis, and jaundice in the breastfed infant, as well as the use of galactogogues, antidepressants, analgesics, and contraception.


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Claude Monets House tapestry
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Claude Monets House tapestry
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Claude Monets House tapestry, La Maison de Claude Monet, is from one of his many paintings of his house and gardens; also called The Garden of Monet at Argenteuil. It is now a Giverny tapestry of this lovely setting where he lived from 1883 to 1926 and which we can visit today. This soft scene is woven in France in 100% cotton and it is lined, with a rod pocket for easy hanging. With every order we supply instructions about hanging tapestries.
This is a favourite of ours, largely because of the colouring and its quiet setting. It is also enjoyed by Edward and Jane in their Alberta home:


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Phil Grenadier
With his stylistic versatility, dark lyricism, and aggressive imagination, trumpeter Phil Grenadier can do just about anything (one of his gigs is in the Jerry Bergonzi band every Monday night at the Lily Pad in Cambridge). The title and all-standards program of his new CD — as well as the black-and-white cover portrait — suggest a laid-back mainstream session. But Grenadier has given himself a spare setting — just his trumpet along with bassist Will Slater and drummer Karen Kocharyan — and the emphasis here is on spontaneous exploration. The scope of the arrangements extends from a fairly straight treatment of "In a Sentimental Mood" (the melody lovingly caressed by Grenadier's vibrato) to a left-field twist on "Yesterdays": The melancholy Jerome Kern chestnut is bookended with extended quotes from Edgar Winter's funk-rock classic "Frankenstein." That's the most extreme move here; mostly the trio wants to see how far it can go with these songs while remaining true to their essence. Even when the furious tempo of "I Hear a Rhapsody" brings the musicians to a trilling, unresolved coda, they're still playing the tune — it's just taken them someplace new and unexpected.
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Electrifying Africa: an environmental history with policy implications
journal contributionposted on 2023-06-07, 16:59 authored by Kate B Showers
The European Union anticipates alleviating future energy shortages and fulfilling renewable energy mandates by importing "green" electricity from Africa. Historical precedent and environmental consequences have largely been ignored. This article presents an environmental history of African electricity generation at a continental scale, tracing its parallel developments with colonialism, as well as its pursuit in the independence eras of development assistance and neoliberalism. Initially electricity served European interests. Independent governments' development policies involved electrification primarily for industrial development; in North Africa, universal access was also a priority. Recurrent themes and cycles of environmental constraint, environmental disruption, and displacement of consequences from one ecosystem to another are addressed. Highlighted are inter-relationships among electricity generation, fuel supplies, ecosystems, and water cycles. Late twentieth century technologies and globalized markets revalued African rivers and deserts as potential energy sources. Mega-engineering projects were rejuvenated or proposed. Rural electrification was labeled uneconomic social welfare unrelated to economic development policies of selling power through national, regional, continental and intercontinental interconnections. Historical analysis suggests new areas of research for sustainable development and alternatives to declensionist narratives. Decentralized, small-scale plants offer models of electricity supply for industrial and domestic needs, while investment in rural electrification produced measureable economic benefit at national levels. Will the EU renewable energy mandate simply displace Europe's environmental problems to Africa? Can Africa afford another water-intensive export commodity? Will the New African Century follow well-established patterns of exploitation, or take new, sustainable directions?
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JournalGeografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
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Shia LaBeouf And Michael Bay Are Quitting Transformers
The Transformers franchise made Shia LaBeouf a mega-star, but he can't play second fiddle to a bunch of computer-generated robots forever. So it should be no surprise to hear that after the current movie, Dark of the Moon, he's calling it quits.
Talking to MTV during their movie awards Shia made it all pretty clear. He says, "I'm not coming back to do another one." And actually it sounds like if Paramount wants more (and come on, these things are a cash cow, they will), the whole thing may have to move on to a completely new bunch of filmmakers. Even Michael Bay may not be up for Transformers 4. LaBeouf confirms, "I don't think Mike will either. It still is a hot property, I think, especially coming out of the third one. So I imagine they'll reboot it at some point with someone else."
He's throwing the word reboot around a little casually there. Just because Michael Bay leaves doesn't mean they have to reboot it. They can plug in some other director and, sorry Shia, pretty easily hire some other actor. People really only show up for the robots, he's not exactly essential to the franchise.
It doesn't sound like he bears the franchise any particular ill-will though. He says he'll be there opening night to see the fourth one, if it happens, and he's pretty enthusiastic about the current movie Dark of the Moon, calling it "our best movie." Maybe so, but count me excited to see what Transformers might look like once someone other than Michael Bay gets his hand on it.
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UK to trial evoting – again
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The Government is to press ahead with more evoting trials in 2004 despite mixed results during local elections earlier this year.
Trials are due to take place for next year's European Parliament elections. No doubt it's hoped that the trials will go some way to help cure voter apathy and increase turnout from the disappointing 24 per cent during the 1999 European Parliamentary elections.
Three regions in the UK are expected to pilot all-postal voting, with smaller-scale electronic voting trials expected to take place in one of those regions, the Government announced yesterday.
As part of the move towards different voting methods local authorities and other interested parties are being offered the chance to take part in a nine-week public consultation on the matter. The Government also unveiled new proposed legislation - the European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill - to smooth the way for pilots.
In a statement Christopher Leslie, Minister at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, said: "It is both a continuation and an extension of our policy to modernise the electoral system and make voting more convenient and accessible to all.
"Previous pilots at local elections have been very successful and this Bill represents a significant scaling up of the programme to make voting easier and more practical."
In July, the electoral commission gave the thumbs up to postal voting after finding that turnout increased in those areas where it was tried.
"[But] in relation to electronic voting," said the commission, "we are clearly some way from the prospect of an e-enabled general election."
Among the issues the commission identified that needed more work was security and the prevention of electoral fraud.
However, it did recommend that the Government should continue to test evoting to "ensure that in the future, the mechanics of democracy are not regarded by considerable sections of the public as irrelevant and effectively redundant, even if there is widespread adoption of all-postal voting". ®
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Has this ever happened to you?
You have been cultivating a relationship for months. You finally get a chance to move in for a close and bingo . . . the buyer says YES!
Done deal, right? Wrong.
Because somewhere between "yes" and signing on the line, we let the buyer off the hook.
Could be a complicated contract negotiation, or a delay in administration, or someone who takes the handoff and fumbles the ball.
Whatever the reason, most of us have learned the hard way that the deal is not done until a check comes through the door (and is cashed).
The reason I bring this up is that occasionally it is healthy for us to tune up the administrative process between "yes" and real closure.
The masters at this are auto dealers. Once you say "yes" they kick into high gear with everything from credit checks, to financing, to paperwork flowing quickly and smoothly while you are ON the premises.
In fact, everything is designed so you will not leave until the deal is closed, because they know once you leave, anything can happen.
That is the sense of importance and urgency we need to bring to closing our own deals.
If some of that activity is performed by others, we need to be sure those people share our sense of value for that most precious and rare of all gems in the business world . . . the transaction.


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I Crawl Through It by A.S. King (2015)
She had me at "invisible helicopter."
The four seem pretty out of touch with reality, but the hallucination is shared. Lansdale and Stanzi both talk about how China has swallowed herself, and they all believe in Gustav's invisible helicopter, even if they can't all see it on the same days of the week.
The adults are not immune to the crazy of this world A.S. King has created. In their neighborhood is a man in a bush who gives out letters (of the alphabet, not written missives) and he comes across as vaguely pervy. I had a feeling he was going to become important later in the story and he was, in a way that I did not expect. China's mother was also in a class of her own, walking around in latex all the time and putting her sex toys in the dishwasher. They had some sort of torture basement - I guess China's mother was a dominatrix? Her parents had a lot of guests. China makes references to strangers in the basement begging for mercy. Yikes.
The girls are completely unstereotypical and real, which is exactly what I've come to expect from King. Stanzi was the main character here, and the one I liked the most. Probably because of her obsession with the show M*A*S*H, which I would not expect from such a young person, but which I completely appreciate. She loves Hawkeye Pierce, who she thinks of as a mother figure. Her parents take on a lot of what they consider vacations. They visit the sites of school shootings. There are issues her family are not addressing. It's no wonder Stanzi wants to leave with Gustav in his invisible helicopter.
This story is completely surreal, but poetic, and for the longest time I was really unsure where it was headed. But then it all came together in a satisfying way and brought all of the feelings with it!
I Crawl Through It will be published on September 22. I received my copy courtesy of the publisher via Edelweiss; I was not compensated for this review.


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Manchester City is still not ready to win the Champions League, according to manager Pep Guardiola.
City responded to its shock Premier League loss to Wolves prior to the international break with a 2-0 victory at Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Two-time reigning Premier League champion City is six points adrift of unbeaten leader Liverpool ahead of Tuesday's Champions League fixture against Atalanta.
Having conquered English football, City covet European glory but Guardiola believes his team is not close to reigning supreme in the Champions League.
"The people say about the Champions League, that target. We still are not ready," said Guardiola, whose City have lost in the quarter-finals in each of the past two seasons.We create a lot, don't concede, but can improve. We've scored a lot over the last two seasons and I don't have doubts about that, but we have to keep going, work on that."
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Gabriel Jesus scored in the victory at Selhurst Park, where the Brazil forward netted his 50th City goal since arriving from Palmeiras in 2017.
"He [Jesus] will have a long career and with his mentality always he will have success. He is hungry, he will become an important striker around the world and we are lucky to have him. Gabriel was always good from the beginning. Unfortunately he had the two tough injuries. Last season it was tough for him, after the World Cup it was not easy, but he is strong," Guardiola said.
"He is a number nine for Brazil. The club brought an incredible, young player for an incredible price. One of the best signings. To compete with Sergio [Aguero] is maybe the most difficult thing. Sergio is a legend, an outrageous player - amazing, but Gabriel is so calm.He is a competitor, he accepts the decision and every training session he fights like an animal, but he is so young and can improve."
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Wire Bending, or Patience 101
This hobby started during my freshman year at MIT, when I was fortunate enough to have been placed in Ed Seldin's advisee group. In addition to being a skilled oral surgeon, he is an extremely patient and interesting engineer -- he taught our group how to bend thin steel wires into "unit helices" using only a small pair of pliers and vice grips. The object on the right was my creation, the result of a few hours per week of work during our check-in meetings over the course of the first semester of school.
A unit helix is simply a helix that is created when the central hollow diameter is equal to the diameter of the rod being bent, which is also equal to the spacing between loops in the spiral (in other words the pitch of such a unit helix would be 2 rod diameters/revolution). Making the object pictured on the right required the fabrication of 75 15-turn unit helices, which were then screwed together to form the densely-packed hexahedron shape.
The unit helices are made by first fabricating a "master helix," which is created by sheathing a core of the wire material with two wraps of the same wire. One of those wraps is then peeled away, leaving a single unit helix wrapped around a solid core. Subsequent helices are made by wrapping wire into the void of this master, and then unscrewing the newly created turns as they are created. Finally, the children helices can be trimmed to length.
When I got back home, eager to show the family my creation, I realized that making a BIG version of the same shape would be really striking. My mom agreed, and soon enough the materials were ordered and en-route to my MIT dorm. I decided to go with a 3/8" aluminum armature wire (typically used to create the frame for clay or paper mache sculptures) because it was annealed to a dead-soft state and therefore would be relatively easy to bend into shape.
Unfortunately, the project didn't begin as nicely as I had hoped it would have. Thankfully, Ed Seldin was happy to help me -- I even got to see his basement shop which was filled with all sorts of amazing contraptions and restored machine tools!
About a month later, I was satisfied with the master-helix that Ed and I had created together. Realizing that the scope of this project would quickly become too large for my Simmons Hall dorm room, I packed up all of the wire into several boxes and shipped it back home to CA.
Once I got back home for yet another summer break, I resumed work on the monster-helix project. I started by finishing the master helix. Ed and I noticed that the aluminum was too soft to serve as the central core of the master -- it would quickly bend and deform out of shape rendering the whole thing useless. So I carefully produced one more helix using the soft master, and then soldered it to a 3/8" steel rod using a special solder. I was amazed that the solder actually worked, though it did take a lot of patience and a special touch to get it to flow well (I practiced on scraps first).
From there out it was just more of the same, except this time I used giant wooden clamps instead of tiny pliers to do the bending. The wood made a great forming surface because it did not scratch the soft aluminum, and could be lightly oiled to make the process go much smoother. The finished sculpture, below, now sits outside of our home's entrance. Four of the helices were sent to be anodized to give it some flair -- it definitely grabs attention!


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Tattoo and Body Piercing
Environmental Health Specialists inspect and license tattoo and piercing establishments to ensure safe and sanitary conditions are being maintained. Anyone considering a tattoo or piercing should be aware of the risks and follow certain guidelines when choosing a tattoo or piercing establishment.
How to Get a Body Art License.
Licensing and Inspections
Routine, unannounced inspections, along with educational programs/information, raise awareness of disease and infection prevention.
All tattoo and body piercing establishments are required by Ohio law to be licensed by a local health department. All such establishments in Hamilton County, outside the city limits of Cincinnati, Norwood and Springdale are required to be licensed by Hamilton County Public Health. Additionally, employees working in a licensed establishment are required to be trained in first aid, CPR and blood borne pathogen exposure control.
Ohio law also states that establishments offering tattoos or body piercing are not permitted to provide these services to anyone under age 18 without the consent of a parent or guardian.
If you have questions about tattoos or body piercings, if you would like to report an unlicensed person or facility, contact Hamilton County Public Health at (513) 946-7879.
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*Please note: If you are looking for a facility that is not listed here, it may be located in the City of Cincinnati. Please contact the Cincinnati Health Department at (513) 357-7200.
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If not done properly, tattoos and body piercings can come with serious health side effects. Anyone who is considering a tattoo or body piercing should seriously consider the health risks and the long-term effects associated with tattoos and piercings. You should get a tattoo or piercing from a reputable facility that is licensed and inspected by the local health district.
Employees at licensed establishments are trained to ensure that procedures are done in a way that minimizes the transmission of communicable diseases and the risk of infection. Employees are also required by the state to be trained in first aid, control of transmission of infectious disease, universal precautions against blood-borne pathogens and appropriate aftercare.
The following steps should be taken after a child receives any tattoo or body piercing; these steps are particularly important if the procedure was performed at an unlicensed facility:
- If the child appears to be ill as a result of the tattoo or piercing, contact your regular health care provider immediately. If you do not have a regular health care provider, visit the nearest Urgent Care location or contact the Health District at (513) 946-7800.
- Whether the child is ill or not, parents should contact the health department in their area to determine if the facility is licensed. If proof of licensure can not be provided, parents should take their child to their regular health care provider to be analyzed for exposure to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV.
What to look for when choosing a safe tattooist:
- Ask to see a copy of the establishment's current operating license.
- Never perform tattooing at home.
- Make sure the establishment looks clean, the practitioner is a licensed professional and follows basic sanitary procedures.
- Look for proper lighting and a sink to wash hands within the establishment.
- Cleaning products and sterilizing equipment (such as autoclaves) are available and used.
- Autoclaves are the only acceptable sterilizers.
- Make sure disposable razors; ink caps; sterile needles and new, clean sterile gloves are used for each tattoo client. All items should be used only once.
- Skin is cleaned before tattooing.
- Look for previous work done by the tattooist. Check for pictures on the wall or a binder/portfolio with photos of work that tattooist has done.
- Make sure proper consent forms are used. A parent or legal guardian is required to be present when anyone under the age of 18 receives a tattoo in the state of Ohio.
Guidelines to follow for safe body piercing:
- Ask to see a copy of the establishment's current operating license.
- Never perform body piercing at home.
- Make sure the practitioner washes hands between customers and that he/she uses brand new, disposable piercing needles and a new, clean pair of sterile gloves for each piercing client. All items should be used only once.
- Make sure the establishment looks clean, the practitioner is a licensed professional and follows basic sanitary procedures.
- Make sure you are given detailed follow up instructions and follow them exactly as written. After-care piercing is very important and determined by the area pierced. Piercing above the neck requires different care than piercing below the neck.
- Make sure proper consent forms are used. A parent or legal guardian is required to be present when anyone under the age of 18 receives a body piercing in the state of Ohio.
Signs of infection:
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Cocoon coats, Vintage v Modern
19 comments:
- Louise Mc said...
That's such a smart and warm looking coat. Excellent. X
- Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 16:29:00 GMT
- Rebecca said...
What a great coat! I really like the suede(?) detail on the collar. Just the right touch. Happy New Year, by the way!
- Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 17:13:00 GMT
I am in love with your green coat! Gorgeous!
- Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 17:31:00 GMT
- Kezzie said...
Oooh what lovely thick material!!!
I really like duffle coats! I wear a variety of coats but I bought a little scrufy duffle and I love it!
- Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 18:43:00 GMT
- Perdita Tinsel said...
That coat is a wonderful colour!
I have 3 coats on the go: faux fur, classic black tailored and a tweed jacket. I also have a little swing coat and a raincoat...my coat rack is quite full!
- Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 18:50:00 GMT
- www.janetteria.com said...
Love Ur piece. :)
- Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 20:14:00 GMT
- WendyB said...
Yours is such a nice color!
- Thursday, 5 January 2012 at 03:59:00 GMT
- Heather said...
very cute love it!! ~And it will keep you warm while looking great ~Love Heather
- Thursday, 5 January 2012 at 08:36:00 GMT
- Vix said...
It looks brilliant on you, such a gorgeous colour.
Aquascutum really seems an unpopular label these days, I blame the football hooligans, it was posh and lovely until they hi-jacked it!
I couldn't even start to tell you which coat I'm wearing this season, there's far too many to mention. xxx
- Thursday, 5 January 2012 at 08:50:00 GMT
- Please may I? said...
Looks very warm, which you need in this horrid weather.
Adore the green colour too.
X x
- Thursday, 5 January 2012 at 09:49:00 GMT
- hippyatheart said...
really a lovely coat you found!
- Thursday, 5 January 2012 at 13:14:00 GMT
- Style Eyes Ethical Fashion Blog said...
I have had real trouble finding a stylish coat that fits a jumper underneath. In the end I got a kind of grown up duffle coat a size too big. I love the colour and the shape of your coat.
- Thursday, 5 January 2012 at 22:36:00 GMT
- Ella said...
your coat is stunning and i just love the colour! I found a wool camel coat in a charity shop which is currently my jacket of choice xx
Ella @ Belle Vintage
- Saturday, 7 January 2012 at 11:09:00 GMT
- Sharon S said...
Hi everyone-thanks for stopping by with your lovely comments! xxx
- Saturday, 7 January 2012 at 14:21:00 GMT
- Style At Every Age said...
That Prada coat is amazing. I have to say I have never had a coat in this shape although I like it very much!
- Sunday, 8 January 2012 at 09:11:00 GMT
- FairyFiligree said...
Missed your first post of the year and am just seeing it now. DIdn't know this style was called cocoon. INspiring name - suggests super assured cosiness. Happy New Year! Am I imagining things or did you change your hairstyle just slightly?
- Sunday, 8 January 2012 at 12:45:00 GMT
- Veshoevius said...
Aquascatum? What a find! You look very cosy in it!
- Tuesday, 10 January 2012 at 16:36:00 GMT
- Cadmium said...
I do like this coat - and am very intrigued by the scarf you are wearing underneath!
- Saturday, 14 January 2012 at 13:17:00 GMT
- Unknown said...
That is one beautiful coat! Love the color -- in fact, it's the one color I'm looking for in clothes this season. Something about it just gets to me in a profound way. Maybe I need to go hang out in forests more! ^_^
- Sunday, 15 January 2012 at 19:01:00 GMT


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DALLAS – Friends and family can't quite process what happened to Crystal Whitley, 35.
"[The doctor] said if she recovered from this, she could live a pretty normal life. She wouldn't be able to run any marathons. But he didn't know if she would pull through it," said Christy Lewis, Whitley's friend.
Whitley, a special ed teacher in Mullin, Texas, is on a life support at Baylor Scott & White in Dallas.
Two weeks ago, she contracted both strains of influenza, then got pneumonia in both lungs and picked up MRSA, a bacterial infection that's resistant to many antibiotics.
"We told her she couldn't give up. She had to keep fighting, and she just kind of gave us that look - that Crystal look like, 'What do you think I'm doing,'" said Lewis. "She was able to mouth the words 'I love you' and she kind of puckered her lips a little bit and blew me a kiss."
Like many cases this season, what's so hard to understand is that Whitley got the flu shot in October after giving birth to her son, River, she's physically active and has no underlying medical conditions yet was stricken down by influenza and is on life support.
More than two weeks after arriving at Baylor, Whitley is now making some progress. She's now able to sit in a chair and came off the ventilator for a couple hours on Wednesday.
"She's making all of this progress, but [doctors] keep telling us she is still very ill. She is still critical, and she is still on life support," explained Mary O'Connor, Whitley's mother.
Doctors told O'Connor that her daughter likely faces a lengthy hospital stay.
"I asked them yesterday, and I said, 'I know you don't know for sure, but what are we looking at?' They said, 'It's probably going to be months,'" added O'Connor.
In Dallas County, 62 people have died from the flu, according to the county. The most recent victims announced on Friday were 90 and 98-years-old and had high-risk health conditions.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reports that 2,897 people have died from influenza and pneumonia since the flu season started on October 1, 2017. While it's not the deadliest year on record, it is one of the most active, according to the state.


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Laugh out loud at Cox's Yard
The Citroën DS3 Ecomedy Tour: Two comedians, five nights, five hundred miles, one tank of fuel.
Dan & Christian will be performing at
03/08/10 - Cox's Yard, Stratford upon Avon
The pair will put in a performance each night during the tour, playing in London, Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Manchester and Glasgow before reaching Edinburgh in time for the start of their Fringe run. The DS3 Ecomedy Tour runs from 1st to 6th August and is supporting Oxford-based hospice, Helen & Douglas House.
To allow members of the public to follow all the action, Dan and Christian will be updating a special tour microsite, www.ecomedytour.com every day with videos, images and words.
Christian Ancliff commented; "It's our first Fringe appearance, so understandably we're fantastically nervous and very excited at the same time. Trying out our show material right across the UK during the tour will give us a great warm-up and a brilliant experience."
Dan Adams added; "We're testing our humour against the public and Citroën's technology against the elements. I only hope we can match audience laughs per gig with DS3's miles per gallon. This should be a terrific adventure for a very worthwhile cause. We look forward to sharing it with the public."
For more information on each performance or to follow the tour activity, visit www.ecomedytour.com
Tour updates will also be published on Citroën's official Twitter and Facebook pages: www.twitter.com/citroenuk & www.facebook.com/CitroenUK
The Citroën DS3 Ecomedy Tour kicks off in London on the 1st August and finishes in Edinburgh on the 6th August.
Dan & Christian will be performing at:
01/08/10 - The Cavendish Arms, Stockwell, London (SW8 2HJ)
02/08/10 - George's Jamboree, The Chester Arms, Oxford (OX4 1SN)
03/08/10 - Cox's Yard, Stratford upon Avon (CV37 6YY)
04/08/10 - The Comedy Store, Deansgate Locks, Manchester (M1 5LH)
05/08/10 - Uisge Beatha, 232 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow (G3 6ND)
Dan & Christian are performing their Edinburgh Fringe show, Baggage of Being, from 7th to 28thAugust at The Globe (Venue 389). For more information visit: www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/baggage-of-being
Helen & Douglas House Hospice provides respite and end-of-life care for children & adults with life-shortening conditions, as well as support and friendship for the whole family. www.helenanddouglas.org.uk
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