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Mecano | |
Origin | Madrid, Spain |
Genres | Pop, Synthpop, New Wave, Pop rock |
Years active | 1981–1992, 1998, 2012 |
Labels | CBS, Sony BMG |
Past members | Ana Torroja Nacho Cano José María Cano |
Mecano was a Spanish pop band formed in the early 1980s, active until 1992, and which had a brief comeback in 1998.
The band's lineup was singer Ana Torroja and brothers Nacho and José María Cano, who worked alongside session musicians such as Arturo Terriza, Manolo Aguilar, Nacho Mañó, Javier Quílez, Ángel Celada and Óscar Astruga.
The trio's musical career spanned two distinct stages. The first, up to 1985, was essentially as a synthpop band; while on the second stage Mecano followed a more acoustic pop rock direction, with elements of ballad, salsa, rumba, bolero, paso doble, flamenco, bossanova, tango, dance and even reggae. They were considered by some to be avant-garde for their time.[1]
Mecano is still the best-selling Spanish band to this date, reaching over 25 million albums worldwide.[2] The unprecedented success also hit Latin America. Also, thanks to adaptations to other languages of several of their songs, they had an impact on non-Spanish speaking countries such as Italy and France, as with their Une femme avec une femme. That foreign song remains to this date the one which has been for the most weeks at the top of the French charts.
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History [edit]
The band started as a synth-pop ensemble (tecno pop in Spanish) by brothers Nacho and José María Cano, along with singer Ana Torroja, in 1981 in Madrid. In a period of cultural experimentation in the newly democratic Spain, Mecano achieved its initial popularity with their debut single, «Hoy no me puedo levantar» («I Can't Get Up Today»), a song about youth boredom and hangovers. Their first, self-titled album became a collection of classics that would later represent Spanish 1980s pop music.
At the same time, Nacho Cano branched out into producing other bands, and both brothers started writing songs for other pop up-and-comers. Although those secondary acts wouldn't achieve the level of success Mecano gained, they turned out to be new testing grounds for Mecano.
Having achieved another huge hit in 1986 with «Me cuesta tanto olvidarte» («It's So Hard to Forget You»), the band reformed its musical approach with the album Entre el cielo y el suelo (Between Heaven and Earth). Their new style emphasized pop over techno. It also facilitated the export of their music to Latin America. This new versatility was evidenced by «Hijo de la Luna» («Son of the Moon»). This song was also submitted by the band as a potential contestant for Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, but TVE selected another band, Cadillac.
Their follow-up album, Descanso dominical (Sunday Rest), produced two of their most popular singles: «La fuerza del destino» («The force of fate») and «Mujer contra mujer» («Woman against woman»). The latter is about a lesbian relationship, seen through the eyes of a friend, who only later realizes what is going on. It was recorded in French («Une femme avec une femme»), English and Italian, giving Mecano their first truly global hit.
Aidalai (nonsense word meaning, "Oh Dalai"), their following album, was published in 1991 and was as successful as their previous two works. In 1993 the band announced a "temporary hiatus".
The songs La fuerza del destino and «El 7 de septiembre» («September 7») were dedicated to Coloma Fernández Armero, who was Nacho Cano's girlfriend for several years. Actress Penélope Cruz debuted in the video clip for La fuerza del destino. She later had a relationship with Nacho Cano for several years.
In 1998 the band released the album Ana, Jose, Nacho, which mixed new songs with greatest hits. The band separated later that year and all three members went on to have solo careers, though only Ana found success as a singer. In 2005 keyboardist Nacho Cano wrote a musical based on 32 Mecano songs, named after their first single.
In 2005, the members of Mecano released a double-CD/DVD package commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of the band. The new CD/DVD, Mecanografia (Mecano-graphy), includes a compilation of all their singles, never-before released songs, and a DVD with videos and early concert appearances.
The Cano brothers were innovative musicians in the use of technology, and Nacho was one of the first Spanish musicians to own a Fairlight keyboard. (Its screen can be seen in the back cover of their only live album). Jose Maria also commented that he often locked himself in a room with a dictionary and books to write his songs, while Nacho has said that to compose he started off with a rhythm machine, then added the melody, and the lyrics came in last.
In November 2009 the band reunited with a new song to be released later that month.
On November 25, 2011 the journalist José Antonio Abellán announces their reunion in ABC Punto Radio for a world tour in 2012. This was later denied.[3] Other media such as the newspaper El País, confirmed the news and the world tour.[4]
Discography [edit]
Albums [edit]
- 1982: Mecano
- 1983: ¿Dónde Está El País De Las Hadas? (Where is fairyland?)
- 1984: Ya Viene el Sol (Here comes the sun)
- 1985: Mecano: En Concierto (Mecano Live)
- 1986: Lo Último de Mecano (Mecano's latest) (Un-official album released by CBS Records. Album with four unreleased studio songs: three from 1982 and one from 1984; and four live ones from the Tour at "Frontón De Segovia" in 1985)
- 1986: Greenpeace, Salvemos Al Mediterráneo (Greenpeace, Let's Save the Mediterranean Sea) (Unofficial album released by RCA-Ariola. Only one song by Mecano: "Canción cortita para antes que nos abandone el mar" (Short Song for time before the Sea Abandons Us) - just 57 seconds' runtime.)
- 1986: Entre el cielo y el suelo (Between the Heaven and Earth) (Spain edition, 12 songs)
- 1986: Entre el cielo y el suelo (USA & Latin American edition, 10 songs)
- 1986: Entre el cielo y el suelo (French edition, 14 songs)
- 1988: Descanso Dominical (Sunday Rest) (Edition in Spanish, 14 songs)
- 1989: Figlio Della Luna (Italian edition, 9 songs in Italian + 1 instrumental)
- 1990: Descanso Dominical (French edition, 1 song in French + 11 songs in Spanish)
- 1991: Aidalai (Edition in Spanish, 12 songs + 1 instrumental)
- 1991: Aidalai (Italy edition, 6 songs in Italian)
- 1991: Aidalai (France edition, 7 songs in French).
- 1998: Ana/Jose/Nacho (Compilation double-album in Spanish: 6 "new" songs + 1 New Version + 23 old hits)
- 1998: Ana/Jose/Nacho' (French edition, compilation unique-disc: 3 new songs in French + some of 7 "new" songs in Spanish and old songs in French)
Other releases [edit]
- Mecano: Obras Completas - 2005 (collection, released in a limited and numbered edition. The CDs inside the box are in digipack format. The box contains 8 original-CDs of their official discography in Spanish, yet it doesn't include albums in Italian or French. The box contains: 6 studio-albums + 1 live-album + 1 "CD Bonus" with previously unreleased songs)
- Tripack: Mecano: Grandes Éxitos - 2005 (a pack in the shape of 3-gatefold that contains 2 audio-CDs (15 songs each one, singles and non-singles) + 1 DVD with 20 official videoclips)
- Digipack: Mecanografía (La Historia En Imágenes) - 2006 (Luxury digipack with 4 DVDs, it contains presentations of Mecano in Televisión Española (TVE) + extra unpublished songs)
- Mecano contributed the song "Canción Cortita Para Antes que Nos Abandone el Mar" to the compilation album "Greenpeace, Salvemos al Mediterráneo" (1985).
Foreign language recordings [edit]
Mecano recorded some of their songs in English, one of which was released as a single: "The Uninvited Guest", which is the English version of "Me Colé en una Fiesta" ("I crashed a party"). Other songs recorded in English by Mecano are: Hawaii-Bombay and You, but these were never released officially.
- Italian
Mecano also recorded many of their songs in Italian, such as:
- Figlio Della Luna (Hijo De La Luna)
- Croce Di Lame [Cruz de Navajas ("Cross of Knives")]
- Un Anno Di Più [Un Año Más ("One More Year (is gone)")]
- Uno Di Quegli Amanti [Los Amantes ("The Lovers")]
- Per Lei Contro Di Lei [Mujer Contra Mujer]
- Il Cinema [El Cine]
- Vado A Nuova York [No Hay Marcha En Nueva York ("Though Luck in New York")]
- Fermati A Madrid [Quédate En Madrid ("Stay in Madrid")]
- Mi Costa Tanto di Scordarti [Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte]
- Responso Positivo [El Fallo Positivo ("Positive Sentence")]
- Anna e Miguel [Naturaleza Muerta ("Still Life")]
- Una Rosa e Una Rosa [Una Rosa es Una Rosa ("A Rose is a Rose")]
- Tu ("You") (Italian version)
- "Dalai Lama" (Italian version)
- Il 7 Di Settembre [El 7 De Septiembre]
- "La Forza Del Destino" [La Fuerza del Destino].
- French
Mecano recorded some songs in French including:
- Une Femme Avec Une Femme [Mujer Contra Mujer]
- Dis-Moi Lune D'Argent [Hijo De La Luna]
- "Une Histoire À Trois" [El Uno, El Dos, El Tres ("The One, The Two, and The Three")]
- Nature Morte [Naturaleza Muerta]
- Le Paradis Artificiel [El Lago Artificial ("The Artificial Lake")]
- Toi [Tú]
- "J.C." (French version)
- "Le 7 Septembre" [El 7 de Septiembre]
Unreleased Songs [edit]
Some unreleased Mecano songs are Me Non Parle Vous Français ("I Don't Speak French"), Me he declarado en guerra ("I've Declared Myself At War"), Cristóbal Colón ("Christopher Columbus"), El Caballo de Espartero ("The Weaver's Horse"), Solo ("Alone"), Lía, El Pez ("The Fish"), El Romance de la Niña María Luz ("The Romance of the Girl María Luz"), Arlequín ("Harlequin"), Al Alba ("At Dawn"), ¿Qué Haces Tú en el Mundo? ("What Do you Do in the World?"), among others.
Covers by other artists [edit]
Due to the popularity of their songs, Mecano has been covered by other artists in the Spanish-speaking as well as in the non-Spanish-speaking world. Songs from Entre el cielo y el suelo have been covered by Montserrat Caballé and Celia Cruz. Also, the unpublished song Lía was sung by Ana Belén. The Euro-dance-band Loona covered the song "Hijo de la luna" in 1998 and achieved a major hit with it. Laura Branigan recorded a version of "Mujer Contra Mujer" on her 1993 album Over My Heart. In 2008, Mexican singer Daniela Romo included the song in her album, Sueños de Cabaret.
In 2004, Mexican pop singer Fey recorded the album La Fuerza Del Destino, an album consisting of 12 Mecano covers. This album was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards in 2005. Costa Rican Latin grammy winners, Editus covered the song "Hijo De La Luna" in their album Siempre....
Non-Spanish covers include Sarah Brightman, who sang the songs "Tú", "Hijo de la luna", "Naturaleza Muerta". Mario Frangoulis covered "Hijo de la luna" and "Naturaleza Muerta." The Belgian-Spanish Belle Perez did the same. Greek singer Eleni Dimou covered "Hijo de la luna" translating it in Greek ("Πέφτει το φεγγάρι" - "Moon is falling").
The Spanish heavy metal band Stravaganzza covered the song "Hijo de la luna" in their most recent studio work: an EP called Hijo del Miedo (Son of Fear).
Recently the crossover soprano Geraldine Larrosa covered a French/Spanish version of "Naturaleza Muerta".
In their 2008 album, Tales of Ithiria, the German symphonic metal band Haggard made a cover for "Hijo de la Luna".
The Finnish symphonic metal band Katra made a cover in Finnish of "Hijo de la Luna" as "Kuunpoika" in their 2008 album Beast Within.
In 2009 the Mexican singer Gloria Trevi, sang a live cover of the song "Hijo de la Luna" on the Mexican television show, El Show de los Sueños. Also that same year the brazilian-venezuelan singer, Elisa Rego, did an electronic version of "Aire" song (Air) included in her fifth studio album titled "Temperamental". Remenber that also in her beginnings (1982) she was lead singer of band ES-3, an underground rock band who specialized in interpreting Mecano versions at nightlife of Caracas city long before this spanish trio visited Venezuela for the first time in 1984 during their Promotional Tour the "Ya Viene El Sol"-album (Already Comes The Sun). Then their second visit to Venezuela was in 1986 at promotional tour of "Entre el cielo y el suelo".
The Italian extreme gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires made a cover of "Hijo de la Luna" in their 2011 album Moonlight Waltz.
Bibliography of Mecano [edit]
- Book: "Mecano: La Explosión Del Pop Español", Author: Joan Singla, editions: "Martínez Roca", 144 pages, 20 × 13 cm., ISBN 84-270-0871-6.
- Book: "Mecano (El Libro)", several authors, editions: "Luca", 128 pages, 24 × 20 cm., ISBN : 84-87491-05-7. Includes a CD-PROMO with two Audio-tracks, "track 1" sung in Italian; "track 2" sung in French. Date of publication: August 1, 1992.
- Book: "Mecano: La Fuerza Del Destino", authors: Carlos Del Amo and Javier Adrados PopAdrados, publishing house(editorial): "La Esfera De Los Libros", edition: 1st: 436 pages, ISBN 84-9734-177-5. Date of publication: April 20, 2004.
References [edit]
- ^ "Billboard". Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ^ "Grupo Mecano". Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ^ "Vuelve Mecano".
- ^ www.elpais.com (25 November 2011). "Mecano regresa con una gira mundial la próxima primavera". Retrieved 25 November 2011.
External links [edit]
- Zona Mecano Official site
- Mecanohi Official hi5 site
- Ana Torroja Official Ana Torroja site


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BISMARCK — North Dakota banking officials are cautioning owners of flood-damaged homes about the consequences of giving up and walking away.
Several Minot banks said Friday they aren't seeing customers who want to abandon their homes and their mortgages.
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"Everyone has a clean slate, and everyone is competing," Glenn said. "That's just going to make us better going into fall camp." After three years of remarkable continuity on his staff, Sarkisian overhauled his defensive staff in January to bring that unit back and on par with its high-flying offense, to take the UW's program revival from consecutive bowl games to contending for championships. It's only two spring practices without pads into the new defensive regime, with still five months before the games get real. But the early returns are more like raves. "I love it," Glenn said. "The energy they are bringing and the positivity, just encouraging guys. If you mess up, that's OK. Just keep going, keep going. "I really like the direction the coaches are bringing us." As Stevenson said, "nobody's complaining." Neither is Sarkisian. The coach and his staff know that since they arrived in 2009, his Huskies are 13-3 when they win the turnover battle. "It's huge. It's huge. It's the number one stat in football," Sarkisian said. "If you look at it that way and you really understand the value of the ball in, one, taking care of it and two, creating turnovers and the effect it can have on you winning and losing, it has to be a huge emphasis for us." That's why the new defensive coaches are teaching making plays on the ball as much as any other skill this spring. "For two practices in, we've got quite a bit of defense in. It's not like we are running one or two calls," Sarkisian said. "And for our guys to be playing at a high level and not having a major amount of busts -- we have a few here or there, and that's going to happen -- but we are playing at a high level and our guys are playing fast. "That means our guys are teaching really well, so that our kids can perform when they get an opportunity to perform." Stevenson is getting early opportunities at linebacker, after spending his first two college seasons at safety. He has added 12 pounds, "and I'm trying to put on 12 more, to be honest," he says, so he can better play a position that is the thinnest on the defense. The Huskies lost playmakers Mason Foster and Victor Aiyewa in 2010, then middle linebacker and captain Cort Dennison to graduation following December's Alamo Bowl. This spring Stevenson is inside stuffing run plays. He's outside covering slant routes on pass plays. He's on the line at end rushing into the backfield. "Yeah, I'm enjoying it," 6-foot-1, 215-pound junior from Mililani, Hawai'i, said. "I can cover, obviously, I played safety last year. I have some cover skills... And it's good when I am in `the box' and I can make plays. "We all have to step our games up." Shirley, Washington's sack leader with 8½ last season as a situational redshirt freshman, is standing up more to maximize his rush skills - and time on the field. "It enables me to see what is going on, to keep my head on a swivel and see what's going on out on the field," he said. The standup ends are part of Washington's shift from four down linemen to more 3-4 principles with a nose tackle and two mobile ends, to better defend the Pac-12's wide-open offenses. New coaches in the conference such as Rich Rodriguez at Arizona and Mike Leach at Washington State use the pass-first spread, and are joining the supersonic offenses already in place at Oregon and elsewhere in the league. Sarkisian believes having standup ends that can attack more quickly and from multiple places adds pressure on a passing offense. "You look at the coaches that have been hired, I think there is an emphasis on throwing the ball. There's an emphasis on spread-out teams, on shotgun-running teams," Sarkisian said of the Pac-12. "If you want to defend those guys you have to defend your edges and you can't let the ball get on the perimeter. I think it can create some confusion in pass protection, creating some more rush lanes for our guys. "But ultimately we have to make sure we can hold up against the two-back, power-running teams (such as Stanford and USC), as well. There's a lot of give and take. And I think for our defense going against our offense, that's a little bit of the beauty of facing us, because they get both. They can get a lot of stuff on film. There is a lot of stuff to teach." There's that word again. Teaching is what the Huskies' new assistants are doing most this spring. And the players seem tuned in to learning. "It gives us the desire to be better," Shirley said, "because last year wasn't good enough. So we have to step up and make changes, for the better." NOTES: Former Huskies head coach and longtime defense coordinator Jim Lambright talked with athletic director Scott Woodward on the sidelines of the East Field during practice. 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Less than a month after Women With A Vision won a victory for sex workers by getting a repeal of the Solicitation of Crimes Against Nature (SCAN) law through the Lousiana legislature, a law which labels sex workers with Sex Offender status meant for sexual assault perpetrators, NOPD continues it's racist, P.R. motivated sweeps of minor offenders by arresting 9 women and charging them with the soon-to-be-repealed SCAN law.
The average age of entry into prostitution is 13 or 14 years old. Most of these 13 or 14 year old girls were recruited or coerced into prostitution. Others were "traditional wives" without job skills who escaped from or were abandoned by abusive husbands and went into prostitution to support themselves and their children.[1] The fact that New Orleans cops firstly failed to protect these women when they were children from the violence of patriarchy and class society, and then have the gall to ATTACK THE VICTIMS when they use a means of survival that is a visible reminder of this system's failures is a despicable attempt at obliterating any activities which remind them of where their massive degree of power, control and wealth in our society came from, while simultaneously re-producing and furthering that inequality as these women are forced to pay money to the courts for fines and fees, as their bodies in cells mean daily money to pay the Sheriff to house them, and as they lose the money from Johns to the whiter, more privileged sex workers ("escorts") not targeted by NOPD. NOPD's action simultaneously attacks society's victims, takes away more power from the oppressed and gives it to the more privileged, and blames sex workers instead of Johns for prostitution when most wealth is controlled by men in our society, re-enforcing the system of patriarchy.
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The feature line-up includes 3D support, along with the ability to convert 2D images to 3D. Although the lack of DLNA certification (for versions of the HTIB sold in this country) means you can't steam video or audio from your own PC, there's a good assortment of Internet content providers and the built-in Wi-Fi makes getting those from your router to the SC-BTT3770 a bit easier. BD-Live Internet content is also supported, but you'll need to supply the needed memory (in the form of a 1 GB or higher SD memory card) for that. Connectivity is excellent for an all-in-one HTIB, including two HDMI 1.4a inputs. If the Panasonic SC-BT3770 is a bit beyond your price range, the Philips HTS3251B/F7 (Discontinued) is less capable -- especially on the audio side -- but it still does an admirable job with Blu-ray discs.
Expert reviews have been slow to come in for the Panasonic SC-BTT370 in this country, but we found lots of reviews elsewhere. Top destinations for those include Britain's TrustedReviews.com, Expert Reviews and What Hi-Fi? Though there are some minor technical and feature differences (for example, non-U.S. versions support DLNA streaming) overall performance should be similar. Meanwhile, user reviews are starting to trickle in on Amazon.com.
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Tom Morgan covers all the bases in this relatively detailed review of the Panasonic BD-BTT370. He conducts hands-on testing, and he comes away impressed, awarding the HTIB an 8 out of 10 rating. Morgan questions the build quality of the front speakers, but he says surround effects are good, and the system holds its composure even when things get loud and low.
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Though the write-ups are short here, they hit the important points and are backed by solid testing. What Hi-Fi? is notable for their willingness to be critical, but the Panasonic SC-BTT370 emerges here with a solid 5-star rating and a Best Buy award. Connectivity options, sound performance and video performance are all praised, although the editors mention that the initial speaker set up is a bit of a bear to do.
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IRVING, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant says he will play with a broken finger Sunday against Pittsburgh and there are signs that it might not be wishful thinking.
Bryant was listed as a limited participant in practice Thursday, an upgrade from a day earlier, when he sat out. Dallas coach Jason Garrett said he caught some passes in practice after saying before the workout he didn't think Bryant would.
The third-year pro fractured his left index finger in last weekend's 20-19 win at Cincinnati, but he caught a touchdown after getting injured. He will need surgery, but the question remains whether he can try to play through the injury and have surgery after the season.
It didn't seem like much of a question in Bryant's mind Thursday.
"Only thing y'all need to know is I'm playing," he said while ducking in and out of the locker room without stopping for interviews.
Bryant was the last player on the field for the open portion of practice, and he was wearing a padded white glove that had the tip of the finger exposed. Several players said he looked good catching passes.
"There are different ways to catch a ball," quarterback Tony Romo said. "He can probably tell you better than anybody just how to catch a football. I trust him. If he's going to put himself in that position, I know he's going to find a way to play at a certain level."
Bryant wants to keep playing for two reasons: the Cowboys (7-6) still have a shot at the playoffs, and he's in the best stretch of his career. The third-year pro has his first 1,000-yard season and has scored in a career-best five straight games.
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Flip500: IHMO - Planned Parenthood Protetects Child Rapists, and Defenders of Planned Parenthood Simply Ignore the Bloody Truth of Child Abuse.
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Give the ultimate credit for this decision to Lila Rose and Live Action. While the Susan G. Komen Foundation made the decision to halt grants to Planned Parenthood because of Congressional investigations into its activities — especially in defying legal requirements to report child abuse — those investigations got started because of the investigative work done by Live Action and the intense follow-up from many more pro-life organizations:
After years of protests and criticism from pro-life advocates, the biggest breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has announced it is halting further grants and donations to the Planned Parenthood.
Figures from August directly from the Komen for the Cure foundation show 18 affiliates of the breast cancer charity gave a total of more than $569,000 to the Planned Parenthood abortion business in 2010. That was down from the $731,303 Komen officials publicly confirmed in October 2010, when they acknowledged that 20 of the 122 Komen affiliates gave to Planned Parenthood during the 2009 fiscal year.
Now, Komen says it is halting all grants because of public pressure from pro-life groups and due to the impending investigation in Congress of the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
The policy makes it so no further Planned Parenthood grants will be given unless the investigation results in Planned Parenthood's favor.
According to Fox News, Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said "the cutoff results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organizations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. According to Komen, this applies to Planned Parenthood because it's the focus of an inquiry launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., seeking to determine whether public money was improperly spent on abortions."
And this is not temporary, either, at least not if one takes the Komen Foundation statement at face value:
Austin Ruse, the president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CFAM) tells LifeNews that the AP report is wrong and that the Komen funding is not a temporarily decision based solely on the fact that Planned Parenthood is under investigation at the federal and state level.
He told LifeNews.com that the official Komen statement announcing the decision does not mention that it is conditioned based on the results of the Congressional investigation and that it not a temporary change based on a change in how grants are allocated — pointing to the sentence in the Komen statement saying, "We also implemented more stringent eligibility and performance criteria to support these strategies.
"What you take from the Komen statement is that it is about a change in funding criteria which does not rely on the success or failure of an investigation. You can infer from this that the decision is long-standing and not temporary," Ruse says. "Pro-lifers should be happy today that Planned Parenthood gets yet another black-eye. Susan G. Komen Foundation should be congratulated for making this important decision."
The key in the Komen decision is the grant criteria it uses to make grants. That has changed from "pass-through" grants, which allowed agencies like Planned Parenthood to receive grants that allowed it to make referrals for women to receive mammograms from other agencies to outcome based programs. (Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms at any of its centers across the United States, something Komen has acknowledged). This reportedly has the effect of ending Planned Parenthood funding even if the Congressional probe finds Planned Parenthood free of any wrongdoing.
That's why this goes beyond the Congressional investigation over abortion funding. Several states have opened investigations into Planned Parenthood activities after Live Action's sting operations show clinic workers actively attempting to hide cases which the law required to be reported to the state, in order to protect children from sexual abuse. Others show nurses instructing patients about how to lie to judges. Planned Parenthood has become politically toxic, and the Komen Foundation hardly needs that kind of baggage from its grant recipients.
Needless to say, Planned Parenthood isn't terribly happy about this, and predicts dire consequences:
Planned Parenthood, in an email to its supporters, is putting the blame squarely on pro-life groups.
"I wanted to share some extremely discouraging news from a partner and longtime ally for women's health — news that could have devastating consequences for women," Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards writes to top supporters of the abortion business in an email LifeNews received. "The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has announced that it will stop supporting lifesaving breast cancer screening for low-income and underserved women at Planned Parenthood health centers."
"It's a deeply disappointing decision — made even more alarming because politically motivated groups and individuals determined to undermine women's access to care appear to have successfully intimidated the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to withdraw this critical support," she said. "But when anti-choice groups began criticizing the Komen Foundation for partnering with Planned Parenthood, the foundation ended its support for Planned Parenthood health centers. We know our opponents put their ideology over women's health and lives. What we never expected is that an ally like the Komen Foundation would choose to listen to them."
The email asks for an "emergency donation" to the abortion business to replace the donations Komen sent.
Funny — from our perspective, it looked like Planned Parenthood was putting both its ideology and its revenue ahead of both the health and lives of its underage customers, in states all across the nation. From Congress, it looks like Planned Parenthood was putting public money into abortions. The Komen Foundation had little choice but to recognize reality.
Kudos to the courageous Lila Rose, Live Action, and the pro-life organizers who put Congress' feet to the fire on Planned Parenthood funding.
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None of the staff said anything about the fetus. No sonogram. No counselling. When a young woman sees a sonogram of her unborn child, a very high percentage choose life over abortion.
So why is it called Planned Parenthood instead of something more accurate? It only sells abortions, so why not call it what it is?
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...and the bastards get my tax money to kill babies! Our gov't should be ashamed.
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Two United Methodist pastors heard that one of the specialties of the area was ice fishing, so they decided to try it. They went to the sporting goods store and bought all the necessary equipment.
They went out the next morning, found some ice, pitched a tent, and started cutting a hole in the ice. Just as they got into the spirit of the thing, a loud, awesome voice from above proclaimed, "There's no fish under the ice."
Well, that stopped them for a minute, and they looked quizzically at each other. But then, too embarrassed to acknowledge hearing the voice, they returned to cutting the ice. Just as they got going again, they heard the voice once more say, "There is no fish under the ice."
Still embarrassed, they once again started sawing when the voice came a third time only booming, "There is no fish under the ice!"
Finally, one of them could stand it no longer, stood up, and cried out, "Is that you, Lord?"
The voice boomed out again, "No! This is the manager of the ice rink!"
As we return to the routine of this Fall season, our world is filled with those who seek to predict the coming events of 2013. Some see a bright future while others see struggle and calamity throughout the world. Some see the world economy moving forward and others see a greater recession on the horizon. And still some will proclaim the end of the world as tensions continue to grow in the Middle East. Whatever your concerns may be, I'm sure you join me in looking to this Fall with some anxiety.
In Isaiah 43 we find these words: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now there are those who believe that this passage is still another prediction of the future, but I would suggest to you that these words are an invitation. You see, God offers us a new start whenever we surrender our lives to God's purpose and will. And who couldn't use a new start?
The Good News for us as Christians this Fall season is that God is offering us a new start. Grace says all is forgiven and… you are not forgotten! Grace says,"My Son died for you!" Grace says' "You matter and what you do matters!" I invite you to join me as we again assume our routines of returning to school and saying good bye to the summer; join me as we again look to the One who gives us purpose and meaning to our lives; join me as we discover "A Life that Matters!"
Together in Christ,
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Even Fair Go last night had an article about spam but a current frustration is a phonecall I had from the Department of Internal Affairs Antispam Unit which explained that the unsolicited email I've received from 'Celia for Mayor' (a Mayoral Candidate in Wellington) is not actually illegal.
Here's the email I received subsequent to our conversation:
The Department of Internal Affairs is responsible for enforcing the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 ('the Act'). Please note that any information provided in this communication is not legal advice and is given without prejudice.
After reviewing the received message from the address [redacted from the web] sent on the 10th August 2010, the Department has found that the message is not considered a commercial message under Section 6 of the Act in that it does not promote goods or services: 6 - Meaning of commercial electronic message • For the purposes of this Act, commercial electronic message— o (a) means an electronic message that— ? (i) markets or promotes— ? (A) goods; or ? (B) services; or ? (C) land; or ? (D) an interest in land; or ? (E) a business or investment opportunity; or ? (ii) assists or enables a person to obtain dishonestly a financial advantage or gain from another person; or ? (iii) provides a link, or directs a recipient, to a message that does 1 or more of the things listed in subparagraphs (i) and (ii). Please also note that Section 6 states exceptions to messages that — provides the recipient with information about goods or services offered or supplied by— • (A) a government body As per our discussion, this is somewhat of a grey area in that Celia is sending the message as a candidate for a local government body. Previously the Department stance has been to contact the likes of MP's and advise that their campaign messages would be in the best interest to include an unsubscribe facility and contact details so recipients can remove themselves from such messages. The Department understands that there can be frustration in receiving such messages, however you may wish to remove yourself from the mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe facility. Or you may wish to contact the administration team by using the email address [redacted from the web].
The Department will also contact Celia's administration team and request how they are obtaining recipient email addresses for their campaign and advise accordingly. In regards to using an address from a unpublished source, you may wish to make a complaint with the Domain Name Commission.
The latter is a response to the suggestion I made that my email address had been harvested out of 'whois' data. I had another look, and the email address being used is unlikely to have come from this source.
However am dissapointed that the law in NZ (which I initially thought to be fairly well written) seems to have such a grey area around political advertising. I wonder if a mayoral candidate's advertising could be construed an advertisement of services that is not (yet) a government body...
I do appreciate the DIA attempting to educate Celia's administration team, and I wish them well. In any case, I would never vote for a spammer, so the advertising that I received from this candidate did the exact opposite of what was intended. And I remain dissapointed that the laws about spam have a gaping hole in them...
Noticed the server lost international connectivity for a brief period late this afternoon. An enquiry with the colo provider I use has resulted in advice that they're having router troubles at the moment, and the guilty party is to be swapped-out at sometime between Midnight and 1am tomorrow.
So there'll be a little more pain before it's sorted. Sorry bout that folks.. :) Impact should be minimal as you should be doing something else after Midnight on a Friday! :)
As the sign says....
Credit to one of the guys at work who pointed out how appropriate the sign is when we wear our IT security hats. :-)
Oh, come ON...
Er.. yeah.. thanks for that kitty! Still havn't gotten the feathers out of every blimming corner of the rumpus room...
Up until recently i've been a stalwart supporter of Dick Smith Electronics - yes, I'm a former employee. That was 10 years ago, however.
Sadly though they've seen fit over the last few years to drop out of a lot of their 'specialist' electronics stuff and focus instead on the consumerware that is otherwise found in places like Harvey Norman and Noel Leemings. DSE have the advantage of being far more numerous, and thus, more accessible. I used to also believe their staff were sharper, but this remains to be proven in the current climate.
Of course, DSE still carry more 'eclectic' stuff (they're a hybrid Harvey Norman -> Jaycar bridge, now, really) but there's one thing you need to be very careful of with DSE; check the pricing on what you're after and make sure it's infact sane.
Here's an example. End of last year I picked up a Bluetooth Handsfree Kit (aided by the law change requiring their use). The unit I picked based on cost:benefit was the DSE EA0054.
Here's their photo ripped from their website:
This retails at $79.95. Pretty sure that's about what I paid for it nearly a year ago, too.
Then I spied this at the local supermarket the other day:
It's the same damn unit with a different brand name printed on the front. And it's $49.95. Or 62% of the price.
Frustrating, really. I'm seeing no significant advantage to having the DSE brand name on my handsfree unit. Not enough to translate to nearly half-price at my even more ubiquitous supermarket.
So, DSE; what's your markup on EA0054? Can you justify being that much more expensive?
Server was subjected to some updates over the weekend and a reboot to place these fully into effect today. Sorry for any impact, and let me know if any troubles persist...
I have to give a lot of credit to David Millar (and others) for giving those of us in the NZFIRE group a steady stream of updates from Christchurch in the aftermath of one of NZ's most significant natural disasters. The affects of the magnitude 7.1 quake which hit last weekend will be felt for years.
One interesting point of note is the value the new Hazmat-Command Units NZFS has recently fielded have brought into play, with their integrated communications systems, etc. Here's some photos taken by David and posted to NZFIRE today:
A couple of years ago wifey and I formed a home business as the New Zealand distributors for CardMemories. The business we formed was Jazzed Solutions Ltd and we just relaunched it's website after running a very flat, very basic HTML page for a while.
Due to our changes in personal circumstance the business has been wound right back until recently, but now it's time to get out there again with our Greeting Card Albums. They really are a neat product and are an awesome gift (Christmas is coming y'know!).
So check us out. What can I say, it's our lil thing and it deserves the odd plug. :)


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Today in books and publishing: The class-action lawsuit against Google gets the go-ahead, the Times of London paywall temporarily comes down, and a copy of the Book of Mormon has been purloined.
Ooh, a federal court judge in Manhattan has refused to dismiss a claim by The Author's Guild that Google misappropriated the work of members in an attempt to build a digital library of unholy size and scope. That means thousands -- literally thousands -- of authors can join in on a class action lawsuit against the Internet behemoth. [Reuters]
The Times of London and Sunday Times -- possessors of the one the few truly impregnable paywalls in modern publishing -- will be abandoning the system but only temporarily so readers can access stories Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee for free. How very sporting, how very English of them. [The Guardian]
Ellen Levine -- author of the very good children's books Henry's Freedom Box and Darkness Over Denmark -- has died. She was and was suffering from lung cancer. Her publisher, Scholastic, announced her death. [AP]
A first edition of the Book of Mormon -- the real Book of Mormon -- was stolen from a rare bookstore in Mesa, Arizona "sometime before Memorial Day weekend." There are just 5,000 first edition copies of the book is existence. It's valued at $100,000, but the owner of the store didn't have it insured. [Jacket Copy]
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Francis Picabia
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Francis Picabia in his studio c. 1910-1915 |
Birth name | François Marie Martinez Picabia |
Born | Paris |
22 January 1879
Died | 30 November 1953 Paris |
(aged 74)
Nationality | French |
Field | Painting |
Movement | Dada; Surrealism |
Works | Amorous Parade |
Influenced by | Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp |
Francis Picabia (French: [fʁɑ̃sis pikabja]; born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with Cubism, Abstract art, Dada and Surrealism.
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Biography [edit]
Early life [edit]
Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven. Some sources would have his father as of aristocratic Spanish descent,[1] whereas others consider him of non-aristocratic Spanish descent, from the region of Galicia.[2] Financially independent, Picabia studied under Fernand Cormon and others at the École des Arts Decoratifs in the late 1890s.
In 1894, Picabia financed his stamp collection by copying a collection of Spanish paintings that belonged to his father, switching the originals for the copies, without his father's knowledge, and selling the originals.[1] Fernand Cormon took him into his academy at 104 boulevard de Clichy, where Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec had also studied. From the age of 20, he lived by painting; he subsequently inherited money from his mother.
Métier [edit]
In the beginning of his career, from 1903 to 1908, Picabia was influenced by the Impressionist paintings of Alfred Sisley. Little churches, lanes, roofs of Paris, riverbanks, wash houses, lanes, barges—these were his subject matter. Some however, began to question his sincerity and said he copied Sisley, or that his cathedrals looked like Monet, or that he painted like Signac.[3] From 1909, he came under the influence of those that would soon be called Cubists and later form the Golden Section (Section d'Or). The same year, he married Gabrielle Buffet.
Around 1911 he joined the Puteaux Group, which met at the studio of Jacques Villon in Puteaux; a commune in the western suburbs of Paris. There he became friends with artist Marcel Duchamp and close friends with Guillaume Apollinaire. Other group members included Albert Gleizes, Roger de La Fresnaye, Fernand Léger and Jean Metzinger.
Proto-Dada [edit]
In 1913 Picabia was the only member of the Cubist group to personally attend the Armory Show, and Alfred Stieglitz gave him a solo exhibition at his gallery 291. From 1913 to 1915 Picabia traveled to New York City several times and took active part in the avant-garde movements, introducing Modern art to America. When he landed in New York in June 1915, though it was ostensibly meant to be a simple port of call en route to Cuba to buy molasses for a friend of his—the director of a sugar refinery—the city snapped him up and the stay became prolonged.
The magazine 291 devoted an entire issue to him, he met Man Ray, Gabrielle joined him, Duchamp joined him, drugs and alcohol became a problem and his health suffered. He suffered from dropsy and tachycardia. New York ate him up.[4] These years can be characterized as Picabia's proto-Dada period, consisting mainly of his portraits mécaniques.
Manifesto [edit]
Later, in 1916, while in Barcelona and within a small circle of refugee artists that included Marie Laurencin and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, he started his well-known Dada periodical 391, modeled on Stieglitz's own periodical. He continued the periodical with the help of Marcel Duchamp in the United States. In Zurich, seeking treatment for depression and suicidal impulses, he had met Tristan Tzara, whose radical ideas thrilled Picabia. Back in Paris, and now with his mistress Germaine Everling, he was in the city of "les assises dada" where André Breton, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon met at Certa, a basque bar in the passage de l'Opera. Picabia, the provocateur, was back home.
Picabia continued his involvement in the Dada movement through 1919 in Zürich and Paris, before breaking away from it after developing an interest in Surrealist art. (See Cannibale, 1921.) He denounced Dada in 1921, and issued a personal attack against Breton in the final issue of 391, in 1924.
The same year, he put in an appearance in the René Clair surrealist film Entr'acte, firing a cannon from a rooftop. The film served as an intermission piece for Picabia's avant-garde ballet, Relâche, premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, with music by Erik Satie.
Later years [edit]
In 1925, he returned to figurative painting, and during the 1930s became a close friend of Gertrude Stein. In the early 1940s he moved to the south of France, where his work took a surprising turn: he produced a series of paintings based on the nude glamour photos in French "girlie" magazines like Paris Sex-Appeal, in a garish style which appears to subvert traditional, academic nude painting. Some of these went to an Algerian merchant who sold them on, and so Picabia came to decorate brothels across North Africa under the Occupation.
Before the end of World War II, he returned to Paris where he resumed abstract painting and writing poetry. A large retrospective of his work was held at the Galerie René Drouin in Paris in the spring of 1949. Francis Picabia died in Paris in 1953 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre.
Today [edit]
In 2003 a single Picabia painting once owned by André Breton sold for US$1.6 million.[5]
Visual gallery [edit]
Horses 1911, oil on canvas, 73.3 x 92.5 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Published in the New York Times, New York, 16 February 1913, Page 121
The Procession, Seville, 1912, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 121.9 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
The Dance at the Spring, 1912, oil on canvas, 47 7/16 x 47 1/2 inches (120.5 x 120.6 cm), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show.
Bibliography [edit]
- Allan, Kenneth R. "Metamorphosis in 391: A Cryptographic Collaboration by Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Erik Satie." Art History 34, No. 1 (February, 2011): 102-125.
- Baker, George. The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-0-262-02618-5)
- Borràs, Maria Lluïsa. Picabia. Trans. Kenneth Lyons. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.
- Calté, Beverly and Arnauld Pierre. Francis Picabia. Tokyo: APT International, 1999.
- Camfield, William. Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
- Hopkins, David. "Questioning Dada's Potency: Picabia's 'La Sainte Vierge' and the Dialogue with Duchamp." Art History 15, No. 3 (September 1992): 317-333.
- Legge, Elizabeth. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Virgin: Francis Picabia's La Sainte Vierge." Word & Image 12, No. 2 (April–June 1996): 218-242.
- Page, Suzanne, William Camfield, Annie Le Brun, Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais, et al., Francis Picabia: Singulier ideal. Paris: Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002.
- Picabia, Francis. I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry Prose, and Provocation. Trans. Marc Lowenthal, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-0-262-16243-2)
- Pierre, Arnauld. Francis Picabia: La peinture sans aura. Paris: Gallimard, 2002.
Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.
—Marc Lowenthal, translator's introduction to Francis Picabia's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, And Provocation
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b Jori Finkel (December 2008), Artist Dossier: Francis Picabia, ART+AUCTION, retrieved 2008-12-10
- ^ Javier de Castromori (28 September 2008), Picabia, ¿pintor cubano?, La Voz de Galicia from 3 May 2004 quoted on www.penultimosdias.com, retrieved 2010-01-26
- ^ [1] online biography, retrieved June 15, 2009
- ^ Paris Match No 2791
- ^ BBC News, "Surrealist Sale Smashes Records."
External links [edit]
- Extensive Picabia website
- Comité Picabia Site of the organization developing a catalogue raisonné of the artist
- Picabia art and biography
- Picabia images at CGFA
- Scans of Picabia's publication, 391
- After 391: Picabia's early multimedia experiments Short essay
- Dada Movement in the MoMA Online Collection
- Francis Picabia - Dadaist/Surrealist Painter - A Gallery[dead link]
- Francis Picabia, Singulier idéal by Joseph Nechvatal


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A couple of us from the United Way office joined the mayor in his "Bike to Work Day" Tuesday morning.
It was lovely!
We all have to do a lot of moving. Whether going to school, work, or play, we need a way to get there. Sometimes we just hop in our car as a matter of habit instead of thinking of other ways to get to where we need to go. While cars are convenient, they aren't the only way we can get around town! Here are 5 reasons to ditch your car and try out alternative modes of transportation:
1. It will save you money!


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Copyright © 2011 Halachic Organ Donor Society.
Below are videos of Rabbis who discuss their position on organ donation, as well as some personal stories and comments. NOTE: You must have Real Player to view some of these videos. If you cannot view the videos, you can download Real Player; it's free. Other videos are from YouTube.com.
Rabbis | Rabbis | Other Videos |
spoke with Rabbi Feinstein |
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Chief Rabbi of Tzfat |
spoke with Rabbi Feinstein |
spoke with Rabbi Feinstein |
Chief Rabbi of Haifa |
HODS on CNN |
spoke with Rabbi Feinstein |
Rabbi Moshe Felsman |
Rav Shlomo Amar Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel |
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Chief Rabbi of Efrat |
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv | |
Rabbi Yechiel Halevy |
Rabbi Gedaliah Rabinowitz Rosh Kollel, Jerusalem | |
Rabbi Yehuda Meshi-Zahav Founder of ZAKA |
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Israel Inst. for Talmudic Publications |
Metropolitan Ethics Network |
Yeshivat Tekoah |
Imaging of Intracranial Blood Flow |
Yeshivat Har Etzion |
Chief Rabbi of Bet El |
Montefiorre-Einstein Medical Center for Bioethics |
Rabbi Dovid Shloosh Chief Rabbi of Netanya |
Harvard Medical School |
Legal Ramifications |
Other Videos | Other Videos | |
SUNY Downstate Medical Center |
Mamoo Family |
Dr. Yonatan Halevy Director of Shaare Zedek Hospital |
Cadavaric Donation Process |
Goodman Family |
Ismail Katib An Arab Donating to Jews |
Anatomy & Physiology |
History of Definition of Death |
Jerusalem Burial Society Mr. Chananya Shachor |
Anatomy & Physiology |
NY Organ Donor Network | ||
One educational video was sponsored in memory of Bernie and Lucille Katz.