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Beijing cancels violin competition at short notice
The Beijing International Music Competition has called off its violin contest in September after it 'encountered serious financial difficulties'. BIMC goes on to state that 'the governmental reform on cultural activities are inevitably beneficial in a long run however, this leads us into financial plight.' Make of that what you will. The cello competition is […]
Lucas Debargue 1st full interview: 'For three years I never touched a piano'
The French pianist who caused a sensation at the Tchaikovsky Competition has given his first in-depth interview to Bertrand Boissard, at Parlons Piano. Among other topics, he discusses his Russian teacher Rena Shereshevskaia, his two years working at a supermarket till, his preference for learning Prokofiev by ear and his favourite pianists of all time, […]
Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet crashes
It's not easy or cheap to perform, but with Audi on board as sponsors the heat-seeking Minguet Quartet put on a rare and widely-anticipated performance of the airborne work in Ingolstadt. Then bits started falling off. Viola player Aroa Sorin withdrew after a test flight. She was replaced by Munich orchestra player Felix Gargerle, who was meant […]
A new defence fund for 'naked' string quartet leader
Influential friends of Stefan Arzberger, leader of the Leipzig Quartet who is under investigation in New York after a naked hotel rampage, have formed a defence fund to meet his legal costs and personal expenses during months of enforced unemployment. Stefan is accused of attempted murder of a fellow-guest at the hotel. He will face […]
Lucerne Festival photographer has died
Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo library announces with great sadness the passing of Georg Anderhub, our superb performing arts photographer based in Lucerne, on 19 July 2015 aged 66. We send our deepest condolences to his mourning family and friends. He worked with the Lebrecht photo library for many years and was always on hand to help us with special […]
Update: US opera chief died of heart attack in car
Initial reports indicated the David Roth, general director of Kentucky Opera, died on Sunday when his car ran off the highway and hit a tree. His family have now been told that Roth, 56, died of a heart attack while driving. Details here.
Ex-London Symphony chorus chief is jailed for child offences
Joseph Cullen, who pleaded guilty to offences against two boys aged eight and eleven, was sentenced in Glasgow today to 12 months in jail. Cullen, 55, was successively director of the London Symphony Chorus and the celebrated Huddersfield Choral Society. More here.
Sadness: Elina Garanca mourns her mother
Latvian National Opera has just announced the death of Anita Garanca (10.02.1949 – 23.07.2015), one of the country's most respected vocal teachers. Anita's daughter Elina cancelled all summer engagements to be with her mother in the late stages of her illness. Our sympathies to Elina and the family.
Proms soloist has to rehearse in railway station
This is Leif Ove Andsnes at Marylebone today, and he's doing it for a film.
Will classical music ever be aired again in Miami?
South Florida lost three classical stations last week when the Minnesota owner sold them to Christian operators. Miami critic Lawrence A. Johnson is incensed. So are many Slipped Disc readers. Larry assesses the options for a non-Christian resurrection here.
Met musicians mourn veteran cor
Richard Nass, who played English horn (cor anglais) at the Metropolitan Opera, for forty-eight seasons until his retirement in 1999, has died at the age of 96. Before the Met, he played six seasons for Fritz Reiner in Pittsburgh. Richard is survived by his wife, Met cellist Marian Heller, and three children. Tributes here.

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New Groove Review: 20 Questions with Jarrod Kaplan (Hanuman)
We featured Hanuman as our new groove of the month, just over a year ago, in our January 2001 issue. The following piece is another in our series of new groove follow-ups as Dewey Hammond speaks with the band's founder, percussionist Jarrod Kaplan. The group a busy twelve months performing nearly 200 shows across the country in support of its Shine release. The band's tour itinerary and other relevant info can be found at www.hanumanmusic.com
DH- Describe Hanuman's sound to someone who has never heard you before.
JK- Since its conception in 1996, my way of describing Hanuman's sound has changed and evolved along with our line-up. While Ben Klein (silver flute) was in the band, I'd describe our "Tribal Gypsy Pop" sound as an eclectic cross between acoustic, instrumental Jethro Tull and Ali Farka Toure. After Ben left the band in 1998, we became Hanuman trio.
Our sound became a little funkier, and we tended to improvise more. We began calling our music, "Acoustic Free Folk Funk," described most tangibly as a cross between Medeski Martin & Wood (MMW) and Ali Farka Toure. When Scott Law (mandolin) joined the band in 1999, we seemed to steer in a more country-funk, bluegrass direction, winding up with a cross-pollination likeness to Bela Fleck, Ali Farka Toure, MMW and David Grisman. Now that Scott has left to pursue a gig with The Melvin Seals Melting Pot, Damien Aitken has been performing with us on saxophone. Use all of the above descriptions and throw in a little Maceo; you might come close to describing us.
DH- How did you learn to play the djembe?
JK- I think my interest in percussion began when I was at The University of North Carolina. I was a "percussion major" for my first semester, studying classical percussion, but was mainly interested in studying jazz drum-set. I went with my class to the PAS (Percussive Arts Society) Convention in Washington, DC, and saw Frankie Malabe and Kim Plainfield do a workshop on Afro-Cuban Rhythms for the drum-set. I was completely intrigued with how the rhythms locked between the kit and percussion, and decided I needed to go study with Frankie in New York. I took a few private lessons with Frankie at Drummer's Collective, and he told me that if I learned the Afro-Cuban Rhythms on congas, the drum-set parts would be a piece of cake.
I went shopping for congas, but couldn't find any that I could afford. Instead, I wound up buying a large, nickel-plated brass dumbek (with a tambourine built into it) and a book called, "Dumbek From One Amateur to Another." I basically taught myself to play, and practiced improvising with other musicians at parties and in drum circles. I think my interest in hand percussion grew from there. In 1989, I transferred to Syracuse University to study communications, and began using the dumbek to perform acoustic sets with my rock band, Yosemite Quick.
In 1990, a friend brought a set of tabla back from India for me, and that summer I studied with Misha Masaud in New York City. I studied dumbek & Egyptian tambourine with Michael Beach (in Portland, OR), and then more tabla (group classes) with Zakir Hussain (in Seattle).
I acquired my first djembe in 1992, shortly after moving to Seattle. I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and bought the drum from a Senegalese traveler who needed to sell it before returning to Africa later that week. I immediately began playing the drum at every circle I could find, as well as in acoustic situations with my Seattle rock band, Milk & Money.
At that point, I had begun to develop a style of djembe playing that emulated a drum-set: I found my kick-drum at the center of the drum, the various tom pitches as the tones, and the snare sounds as the open and closed slaps. I also began using shakers on my left ankle, much like a hi-hat, and brass bells on my right leg for accents and counter rhythms.
My style gradually developed and became a lot more refined in the acoustic trio, Trillian Green. With Trillian Green, I began to express a lot more melodic sense through the drum. I found many harmonic pitches, and began to think more in terms of relative pitch in accordance with the melodies the band was playing. I liked playing melody on the drum, and Trillian Green's music was perfectly suited for it.
DH- Tell us about your unique style of percussion.
JK- My style is a non-traditional blend of many different ethnic styles and techniques. I like to study various traditional rhythms to the point of learning how to get good, clear sounds from the drums, and an idea of how the rhythms feel within the music of whatever culture the drums come from. Once I've accomplished that, I have a tendency to move on, because I personally don't ever see myself performing the traditional music. My thought being that there are already so many amazing bands and musicians that are native to those styles doing them already, why would I want to?
Instead, I prefer to take what I've learned, and respectively use it within any other sort of music I happen to be playing. In my case, I'm fortunate with Hanuman to be performing a variety of musical styles at every show. I mainly perform on djembe (and some drum-set and dumbek), but use techniques and feels from many styles of drumming; I'm playing everything from bluegrass to funk to middle-eastern or African "feeling" music.
In traditional drum circles, I've actually been criticized for my "non-traditional" technique and even, I'm proud to say, been given the title "The Controversial Djembe Player." Such is the consequence of stray-path navigating I guess? With this in mind, I must say that I greatly respect and enjoy the traditional rhythms and techniques of all drum cultures, and I think that anyone who wants to learn to play should learn as much of the traditional music and technique as possible for the drums they're playing.
However, I don't think that playing the instruments traditionally, or playing the traditional music is the end all, or even necessary. As a matter of fact, I often find non-traditional, musical playing more interesting and refreshing. My personal taste in music (and in most everything else) favors uniqueness.
DH- Can you recall the first time you picked up a musical instrument?
JK- In grammar school, I tried learning piano, violin, trumpet and trombone, but nothing ever stuck. When I was around 13 years old, all of my skateboard punk friends began picking up musical instruments and jamming. I was fortunate to have found an old Gibson SG electric guitar at a neighborhood garage sale for $50, but the dream of learning to play was very short lived. Emulating a move in a Plasmatics video on MTV, my so-called friends put the neck of my prize through an old TV screen and cracked it in half.
After that, two of my best friends wound up with bass guitars, and I loved the low, mean, tones they were getting. I suppose I would have loved to learn to play bass, but I couldn't afford one.
The next instrument to come into the crew's possession was a drum kit. Luckily for me, I seemed to have a better knack for it than the kid who owned it, so every time the crew got together, they kicked him off and asked me to play. That was the real beginning of my desire to learn to play drums. I finally received a drum kit from my dad as a birthday gift when I was 15, and began studying seriously when I was 16.
DH- Who has been your biggest musical influence?
JK- It's really hard to site any one influence as the biggest. I suppose all of my teachers and fellow bandmates have influenced my playing style and musicianship.
I mostly enjoy, and am influenced by, music that pulls me into another world, i.e., music that creates a genuine mood that I can relate to in any given emotional state – music to visualize by, and music that is baffling to the imagination with regard to how it's performed. Sometimes, the more obscure the better, but for me, it has to at least have some melodic and harmonic sensibility.
As far as artists go, my evolution of interests went from my first favorite band (as a kid), ELO, to the hardcore punk of Black Flag & The Bad Brains, to all the biggest art rock bands of the 1970s and 80s: Yes, Pink Floyd, Rush, Led Zeppelin, ELP, King Crimson, David Sylvian, Brian Eno, and others; to the bebop icons: Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, & Ornette Coleman; to jazz fusion monsters: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Pat Metheney, Bob Moses, and Weather Report; to world music, which has become my current biggest influence and interest: Zap Mama, Ali Farka Toure, Hamza El Din, Shakti, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mystery of The Bulgarian Voice, and many others.
DH- What is your favorite city to play in?
JK- Seattle has been the best so far, as it's our home base, and we have the most die-hard fans there. We can also go home to our own beds after the shows.
DH- What is your favorite venue to play at?
JK- In Seattle, The Tractor Tavern has been a great home base for all of my bands, and is by far, where Hanuman does the best. In Portland, The Crystal Ballroom is my favorite and I wish we performed there more often. In Eugene, Oregon, Sam Bond's Garage is like Hanuman's living room. Mojo's is the place in Ashland, Oregon. In San Francisco, The Great American Music Hall is a place we'd like to play more, but The Last Day Saloon has been good to us as well. In Los Angeles, The Temple Bar is very cool.
DH- What is the best part of being on the road? The worst?
JK- The Best Parts:
Great shows in cool venues while performing for big crowds that pay attention and dance
Visiting new places, sharing music, and meeting new friends and fans
Seeing old friends in different places
Sitting-in with other bands in cool places
Landing at big festivals and sharing universal gripes and road stories with other bands
Good restaurants
Good hospitality
Cable TV in motel rooms (when we get more than one room!)
The Worst Parts:
Being stuck in a pig-sty van with bandmates you're sick of, for weeks on end, with no personal space, and a pressing agenda
Loading and unloading gear
Long, dismal drives to crappy venues, to perform for peanuts
Van stench created by bandmates who eat bad combinations of disagreeable junk food
Having to listen to someone else's CDs when you're not in the mood
No sleep
Sleeping on floors in unfamiliar places
Worrying about the gear in the van
Greasy food
Crabby, deaf sound people who don't know how to mic my djembe, or as they like to call it, a "jambay"
DH- What is the craziest/weirdest/strangest thing that has ever happened on stage?
JK- Off the top of my head, I really can't think of any strangely noteworthy onstage Hanuman experiences.
Some of my personal freakiest moments on stage have been:
with Leftover Salmon: sitting-in when a crazy fan jumped up on stage and dumped a two-gallon vat of mayonnaise all over himself (High Sierra 1998?); I've never smelled vinegar so strong, and the stage became pretty slippery.
while sitting-in with Seattle industrial band, Tchkung in 1997 at The Weathered Wall, a fan set off a military grade smoke bomb! It was an extremely intense, blissfully apocalyptic scene. The smoke was so thick that you literally could not see your hand in front of your face. The band was playing super loud heavy junk-percussion-driven tribal industrial music, and the singer was screaming politically charged lyrics through a megaphone. The remote glow of torches and a spinning police-siren light (on stage) were all that penetrated the thick gray smoke. The venue was filled with 800 half-naked and mud-covered fans; it felt like a sauna from the heat of all those bodies mixed with sweat, and spilled beer.
I think the most frightening thing that happened at a show was when a fire-eating girl accidentally set her whole head and upper body on fire. The beginning of her act (in between our sets) was very cool, but at one point, she blew a fireball and it backfired into her mouth! A few people tackled her and threw a wet towel over her face. The freakiest thing was that when they took it off of her (after what seemed to be 10 seconds), the inside of her mouth was still on fire!!! She turned out to be okay, but people in the room were screaming, and it took a little effort to get the energy of the show flowing again.
DH- Where did you expect to be today five years ago?
JK- Exactly where I am today, which is an inspiring thing, because it makes me believe that with persistent hard work, a little faith and a lot of patience, I'll eventually achieve all of my goals and dreams.
DH-Where do you see yourself in five years?
JK- If I remain a professional, performing musician, I will be playing on theater stages, in venues all over the world, making great, unique music, with people that I really enjoy doing it with.
If I drop out of touring, but continue playing music, I'll be creating very cool soundtracks for various video and film projects in my home studio, and distributing CDs to fans through my own record label. I'll probably also be teaching a lot of "Non-Traditional" djembe and percussion workshops, and selling djembes as well.
I may also be living off of royalties from a good book or screenplay that I'm (eventually) going to write.
DH- Where do you see Hanuman in five years?
JK- Either performing in large-scale venues all over the world, with a full-time management and publicity team growing the bands popularity while we write music, or living-on in the memories of thousands of fans, and on CDs only available thru mail-order on the Internet.
DH- Name your five desert island discs (i.e., if you were stuck on an island for the rest of your life, which five albums would you love to have?)
David Sylvian: Rain Tree Crow
Zap Mama: Adventures in Afroeuropea or Sabslyma
The Beatles: Abbey Road
Yes: Close to The Edge or Fragile
Ali Farka Toure: The Source
DH- What CD is in your CD player right now?
JK- Putumayo's Brazillian Compilation, Braziliero
DH- In your opinion, what are some of the best bands out there?
JK- Zap Mama, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Trilok Gurtu, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, The Tony Furtado Band, Sound Tribe Sector 9, The Steve Kimock Band, The Dave Matthews Band, Living Daylights, The Motet, California Guitar Trio, and the list goes on
DH- Who have been your favorite musicians to share the stage with?
JK- Me, personally sitting-in:
Tony Levin, with California Guitar Trio: legendary musician in a theater setting
Bela Fleck, Jeff Coffin, Paul McCandless, Karl Denson and the 2001 High Sierra All Stars: best mind-blowing festival show
Karl Denson: band with the phattest grooves
String Cheese Incident: biggest crowds and most fun drum jams
Dan Bern: most amazing and intense songwriter
Tchkung: most intense, apocalyptic show
Leftover Salmon: wildest antics
Keller Williams: most fun, freakazoid silliness
DH- And with Hanuman?
Joe Craven from David Grisman's Band
Jimmy Cliff
The Grandmothers (Frank Zappa's original band)
The Tony Furtado Band
DH- Who would you like to share the stage with that you haven't already?
JK- Medeski, Martin & Wood, The Word, John Scofield, Mike Stern, David Lindley, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Spearhead, Galactic, Ben Harper, Ali Farka Toure, Critter's Buggin'
DH-Who is your favorite drummer/percussionist?
JK- It's really hard to name just one, as I see them all as "equal caliber" in their own unique ways. If I had to name one, I'd say Trilok Gurtu is my current favorite.
DH-If you weren't a musician, what do you think you'd be doing?
JK- Funny that you should ask me this, as with the band's current state of 180 dates-a-year burn-out, I've been asking myself this question a lot lately. With a degree in Production for Electronic Media from The Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, concentrating in Film & Clay/3-D Animation, I feel pretty creatively capable in other realms. I've recently been considering doing screenplay adaptations of good short stories for television. Before I officially adopted "musician" as my career choice, I was planning to write and shoot animated educational films for kids, using music that I would produce and record. My senior thesis film project was a clay-animated piece called, "The Plight of Mother Earth."
When I first moved to the Northwest, I tried to break into the very small & cliquey Seattle film community, but wound up as a booking agent and musician instead. The schmooze game is basically the same, and I seem to have a knack for networking. I enjoy the management and record label music business tasks, but not while I'm in the band I'm working for. I've considered dropping out of performing, touring, and being in bands to become an agent, but I think I might miss being on stage. Who knows? Either way, I have options, and as long as I can be creative in whatever I do, I know I'll be happy.


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Respected by clients for his success in translating functional requirements into beautiful, flexible design solutions, David has worked with and forged significant relationships with Fortune 500 clients. They include clients such as Kraft, Sears, W.W. Grainger, Morgan Stanley, Motorola and Bank One. Internationally, David's work includes major commissions for YIDA in China, Samsung in Korea, Mori Trust's Shindome Tower in Tokyo and the headquarters and a number of large-scale projects for The Reliance Group, in Mumbai, India.
He has also been pivotal in the master planning and architectural design of numerous university and healthcare campuses worldwide. This experience includes the University of Colorado Medical Center near Denver, Colorado and the MD Anderson Medical Center in Houston, Texas. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, his experience includes the Umm Al Qura University; the King Saud bin Abdulaziz Medical Universities in Riyadh, Jeddah and Al Hasa as well as the new Princess Nora University for Women in Riyadh.
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There has been talk on CAPS lately, by a fellow $2 bill (checklist), that we are entering a secular bear market. While I do understand his reasoning, I cannot, for the life of me understand why the potential future market is going to be secular. So far as I am concerned it is much more likely to be religious, more closely resembling the picture below: [more]
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I have worked the libertarian/liberty speaking circuits for years, while that movement seemed huge to me once I found myself emmersed, I have now been made aware of another movement of like-minded people who are kinder, gentler, and more happy than most of the people I meet at liberty events.
Our family was invited to speak on anarchy and unschooling, entrepreneurship and alternative currencies, and Sovereign Living, our efforts to get off centralized institutions such as government and corporate food chains. We were also able to screen the first three episodes of the reality show about our efforts, also called Sovereign Living (www.sovereignliving.tv).
Our talks were well attended with about 40 people in each session. The conversations we had after each speech were powerful and dynamic and full of curiosity. Not everyone agreed with our philosophy, especially on self defense/gun ownership, but the conversations were incredibly positive despite the differing views.


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WATCH:Surveillance video on the Phila. Police YouTube channel
It happened on January 28th at 11:50 p.m.
Police say the 17-year-old boy was sitting in LJ Café in the 2900 block of Frankford Avenue. He started talking with another man, then the two went outside.
That's when police say the second man pulled out a handgun and demanded money. The 17-year-old said he didn't have any and turned to run away. The gunman fired once, hitting the 17-year-old in the back, then fled west on Orleans Street.
Police have released the following description of the suspect:
Black male, 20-30 years-of-age, 5'7"-6'0", goatee, wearing a tan jacket, black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
Anyone with information about the suspect or the crime is asked to contact Detective Aiken at the Philadelphia Police Department's East Detectives Division: 215-686-3243/3244.


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This is the first year that Eli has really had a Spring Break, and lo, a great light bulb went off when I thought about all the parental complaining I've been hearing for years. I never really got it until now. We need a plan for summer, stat.
It also made me realize that it's almost impossible to care about what you're wearing if you aren't getting out of the house every day. I have to physically walk Eli into school now that he is in Kindergarten. Every day. Call me vain if you will but being seen by other people? It's my primary motivator not to wear my pj's until 1 PM. So if you're currently spending all your time nursing a 3 month old and wondering how you're supposed to motivate yourself out of your sweat pants? My advice is that as early as you can, you should find yourself a routine that gets you out of the house and in front of a jury of your peers at least a few times a week.
Or just rock the sweatpants and know that when your kids are in school it gets better.
{Loft T Shirt, Handmade Scarf, Target belt, Loft skirt, Franco Sarto wedges}
This is one of those outfits that looked SO cute in my head and it was only ok in person, although it got better after I added the scarf and the belt. When in doubt keep piling stuff on.
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OH THIS DRESS IT IS THE BEST DRESS. God, I looooooooove this dress. It is so wonderfully magically wonderful. It seriously was as if someone at the Gap designed the MOST perfect dress (for me) in the world. Nice fun mod pattern, structured, waist in exactly the right place, I looooooooooooooove it. It's sold out online but it is still in stores, I believe, and it runs small. I normally wear a 12P in dresses and this is a 14.
{Banana Republic sweater, J. Crew Factory Bermudas, Sperry Top Siders}
Eh, I needed to garden. This was fine. Does some part of it look oddly too big? I don't know. The shorts fit at the beginning of the day and by the end of the day they're stretched out, and the sweater is a Petite. I'm hoping the shorts shrink in the wash. Might be better with a shorter t shirt or something. Or a tucked in blouse.
{Gap wrap dress, handmade scarf, J. Crew wedges}
I love this dress. I got a compliment on it from my husband! That never happens. (He's not like, a heartless bastard, he just never notices these things.) I don't think I would wear it with these shoes again, they turn the whole thing slightly "I wore this dress for Jesus and I teach choir to 7th graders." Also, I bought this dress on super clearance two months ago, it is no longer available except on Ebay, I am a terrible fashion blogger, someone fire me.
{Gap Luxlight V Neck Sweater, Loft Curvy Crops, Michael Kors watch, Toms Metallic Prison Shoes (TM A'Dell)}
Favorite outfit ever in the history of time. Later on in this day one of my children got chocolate on my derriere. Children ruin everything.
{Loft dress, Target cardigan, J. Crew wedges, Target necklace, San Diego Hat Company Hat, Forever 21 sunglasses}
This dress is a little bit sexypants in person? Not sure why. Is it the boobs? It's probably the boobs. Ah well. It's old, which is why it's purple, but I can't get rid of it, I don't have nearly enough dresses for the Summer of the Dress, especially not ones that I can just throw on, you know? I need more of that type of dress. The type sans zippers.
Anyway, I de sexified it with a cardigan when I went to Target, and then I came home and you can see how I am going to wear it in my backyard this afternoon. It's supposed to be 80 degrees! Gotta put your big hat on.
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In 7th grade I was bullied relentlessly, and the abuse didn't end until I graduated from elementary school and went to an all boys prep school in the city. The experience left me with an instinctive and vicious hatred of bullies – whether they are kids or adults – and became the crucible that forged my identity. One reason I support human rights is because I don't like to see anyone – American, Chinese or Burmese, bullied by those in authority. I fought offshoring because I saw IT workers being bullied by their bosses and an economic system that drove down the cost of labor. I have given hell to my son's school administrators and teachers over any whiff of bullying occurring in his schools. I even support Israel partly because no ethnic group has been bullied by so many for so long.
So when I read the story of Phoebe Prince, a beautiful girl from Ireland who committed suicide after being bullied by rejects from a Lord of the Flies sequel, my blood goes cold and my heart breaks. All the hallmarks were there making her a target, and the school did nothing. She was new to the school district and had no connections to anyone. She spoke with an accent. She was different and also of the age when girls become the most vicious towards each other. Had she arrived two year earlier or later she would have most likely avoided the hazing and survived, but Phoebe had the unfortunate luck to arrive at South Hadley High School at just the right moment. Add in the fact that the school's teachers and administrators didn't give a damn – and worse, ignored the advice of an anti-bullying consultant hired to advise them – and the likelihood of Phoebe ending up dead became a near-certainty.
Now the teachers and administrators of South Hadley High School are scrambling like roaches under the intense glare of the national media, and of course, the inevitable lawsuit. Some parents of the bullies are already using the "bitch deserved it" defense for their little psychopathic darlings as their little ones' dreams are threatened with jail time. Of course even the most sadistic prison experiences that lay ahead for these animals will not bring Phoebe back to life nor surpass the horror she experienced the last five months of her life.
Her teachers and school administrators aren't being charged, which is a shame. But if my kid was in that school I would not rest until each and every one of them had lost their teaching certificates and their abilities to hold a job involving children ever again. They know they are guilty, and they know that we know they are guilty, and those in the community should never forget their failure to bear the responsibility they chose to carry by being teachers at South Hadley High School.


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The Associated Press has revealed some new guidelines for its reporters with regards to credit and attribution. The guidelines come in the form of a letter from AP Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes.
Is the AP asking its reporters to do what it has frowned upon in the past? Share your thoughts.
The guidelines apply to AP reports in print, broadcast, and online news, and stress the importance of giving proper attribution to other publications that break stories.
"We should provide attribution whether the other organization is a newspaper, website, broadcaster or blog; whether or not it's U.S. based; and whether or not it's an AP member or subscriber," writes Oreskes. "This policy applies to all reports in all media, from short pieces, such as NewsNows and initial broadcast reports, to longer pieces aimed at print publication."
Oreskes says attribution doesn't have to be at the beginning of a story, and that sometimes it can be two or three paragraphs down.
"If some information comes from another organization and some is ours, we should credit ourselves for what's ours and the other organization for what's theirs," he writes, adding that if material from another source turns out to be wrong, that will be cited in corrections later. (emphasis added)
The AP is one organization that has famously expressed disdain with blogs in the past (ones that quoted AP stories and gave credit), and was cited among various other publications earlier this year by Danny Sullivan as one that failed to credit where it got its information (most likely his article, at least somewhere in the chain) about a particular story.
It is interesting however that these guidelines appear to suggest that its reporters can freely do what the AP has in the past complained about others doing - using snippets of content. Now, the guidelines don't exactly say anything about using "snippets", but it's either that, rewriting, or regurgitating something that's already been discussed elsewhere (even with some additional original content added). Am I wrong? It's a matter of fair use, and the AP's stance on fair use in the past has basically been that there isn't any when it comes to the AP's content. Is it a double standard? Clearly, this is admission that the AP has participated in this same type of reporting.
It's good to know that they're recognizing that this is just part of how it works in this age of online news, but you still have to wonder what side of the fence they come down on with regards to their own content. I guess we'll see if AP reporters abide by these guidelines and whether or not the AP attacks anybody for using the same methods with AP content.
The whole thing is very related to the AP's stance on search engines and aggregators as well. These sites do, after all, provide snippets, links, and credit to the sources. The AP just reignited a deal with Google, by the way.
While stressing the importance of attribution, Oreskes does also make a note of telling reporters not to use other sources so much that it appears they're "free riding" on another organization's work, and stresses matching or further development of the story.
What is not mentioned once in the guidelines is the word "link". There is no mention of linking whatsoever. It is unclear whether linking is included it in the proper attribution described or whether they deem simple credit to be sufficient. While obviously you can't link in print or broadcast (one reason why online content is more valuable to readers), linking has become commonly looked upon as necessary to attribution in online news, so those who deserve credit for breaking a story can in turn get traffic to that story.
The letter does say that it will continue to use "information from" lines with URLs, but that attribution should be in the body of the story as well. However, it is unclear whether or not this attribution will actually include links.
It will be interesting to see how the AP proceeds in this regard. Without links, the organization is setting itself up for a great deal of criticism.
Thoughts on the AP's guidelines? Let's hear them.


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North Carolina starts year at No. 8
Defending national champion Stanford starts season atop poll
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) and Continental Tire have released the NCAA Division I Women's Preseason Rankings and coach Anson Dorrance's Tar Heels check in at the No. 8 spot. North Carolina is one of five Atlantic Coast Conference teams ranked in the Top 10 of the preseason poll.
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UNC finished last year ranked No. 13 in the final poll after finishing the 2011 campaign with a 13-5-2 record.
Stanford leads the charge in the preseason poll. The Division I women's national champion finished 2011 unbeaten with a 25-0-1 record. Last year's runner-up, Duke, enters the season at No. 2 following a 22-4-1 finish. Wake Forest, Florida State and Oklahoma State round out the preseason Top 5 for the women.
The first ranking of the 2012 women's regular season will be released August 21. The Tar Heels open their 2012 season at Portland on August 17.


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Posted on June 21 at 7:03 p.m.
This morning my minister reminded us that he was less concerned that I agree with him, more concerned that I agree with myself; we are unreflective and become conflicted and more inclined to let someone else do our research and thus become manipulable.
Posted on June 7 at 11:02 p.m.
Small people rage...
Posted on May 30 at 10:51 p.m.
What if they just shifted the funds and offered kids scholarships? Much more needed than D.A.R.E.
Posted on May 27 at 11:20 a.m.
Any news on this?
Posted on May 12 at 11:07 p.m.
nomoresanity, you better than most should understand imperialism, and how the past half millennium is characterized by a certain form, creating subaltern peoples from the Americas to Asia.
Posted on May 12 at 6:51 p.m.
You clearly support the police uncritically. I conclude that this is important to you, so never mind.
I know. It's hard, maybe even exhausting, for you. That's okay--just get some rest.
Posted on May 12 at 6:17 p.m.
touristunfriendly, that story surprises you as it would many people.
There are some citizens, however, who are so married to the status quo and powers that be that it would devastate them psychologically to think that the criminal justice system is not pristine.
Posted on May 12 at 6:07 p.m.
UCSB's star basketball player, Alan Williams, from Phoenix was pulled over multiple times by the same cop here in SB. He kept his chin up, but eventually broke down and called his mother. She called Cam Sanchez and the harassment stopped abruptly. I do not know the disposition of the officer.
Posted on May 12 at 6:04 p.m.
If you admire the cop in the report above I can understand why everyone who is not a cop is likely unsavory to you.
I am against all crime but you are only against crime until committed by police, who can do no wrong.
Posted on May 12 at 5:19 p.m.
Jarvis, be fair, please. The "unsavory types" are frequently the police. If you admire and identify with this cop, then we have very different ideas of what "unsavory" means.
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In continuation with my previous post on Creating a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Project, you will now learn how to create a Shared Data Source within that project. In this post I compare and contrast Shared and Embedded Data Sources and demonstrate how to create a Share Data Source.
A Data Source is a data connection that includes the type of data source that you are connecting to, the connection information (Server Name, Database Name), and the credential type (Windows or SQL Authentication for example). For more information on Data Sources got to:
- Data Connections, Data Sources, and Connection Strings
- Embedded and Shared Data Connections or Data Sources
In this posting I will explain how to create a Share Data Source. When we get to the point when we create an actual SSRS Report I will explain and demonstrate how to create an Embedded Data Source.
Shared and Embedded Data Sources
When developing SSRS projects you have two choices when creating Data Sources, Shared or Embedded. The primary difference between the two is that the Shared source can be used by all reports in the project, while the Embedded source can only be used by the report in which it is created. Therefore, if a change occurs that affects an Embedded source (change to server name, database name, logon credentials, etc…) someone will be required to update the configurations within each report. So if you create 50 reports that include the same Embedded source, you would need to open each report and update the affected data source. On the other hand, if the same reports used a Shared source, the change would only need to be made in one place. This will become clearer once you actually create both types of sources. In addition to the aforementioned, the Shared sources are publishable and are required for Share Datasets, which will be discussed later in this series.
Creating a Shared Data Source
- Open SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).
- Open the project that you created in the Creating a SQL Server Reporting Services Project blog. You can also download the project from here.
If the Solution Explorer is not open, Go View in the menu and select Solution Explorer.
In the Solution Explorer right-click the Shared Data Sources folder.
- Select Add New Data Source from the menu.
- The Shared Data Source Properties window will open.
- Ensure that General is selected in the left section of the window.
- Enter SQL_ContosoSchoolDW in the Name textbox.
Select Microsoft SQL Server from the drop down list labeled Type. If you expand the drop down list you will see a complete list of the available connection types that are natively available in SSRS.
- Click the button labeled Edit….
- The Connection Properties window will open.
- Enter your SQL Server name in the Server name textbox.
- If you are using Windows Authentication accept the default. If you are using SQL Server Authentication select it and enter a user name in the User name textbox and a password in the Password textbox.
Select ContosoSchoolDW from the Select or enter a database name drop down list.
- Click the Test Connection button to verify that your connection is valid.
- Click the OK button.
Back on the Share Data Source Properties window a connection string has been inserted into the Connection string textbox.
- Click Credentials in the left section of the window.
Several options are available. Review the options and accept the default (Use Windows Authentication (integrated security)) for now.
- Click the OK button and your Share Data Source is created.
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It may be the most expensive and ambitious film ever made Down Under, and it certainly received saturation media coverage, but Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" isn't breaking records in Oz.
Then again, how it holds will be the real test. Fox execs are hoping that, as the movie heads into its second weekend, it will have legs like Luhrmann's 2001 "Moulin Rouge."
"Australia" mustered a strong but not stellar A$7.8 million ($4.9 million) in its five-day opening weekend, which kicked off on Wednesday.
Fox opened the film on 643 screens, the widest-ever release on Oz, beating previous record-holder "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" by 30 screens.
The release included a strong regional rollout — a strategy that paid off as pic proved a hit in the sticks, particularly among women lured by star Hugh Jackman. Australia provided a 40% tax rebate for the production.
"It's definitely skewing older with a female bias, and it also is very strong in the regional centers compared to metro," said Greater Union Cinemas manager of film Peter Cody. "The big test is this weekend. If word of mouth is strong, it should not drop much, which will go a long way to determine final numbers."
There's been no reports of audience hysteria but a general perception that the hype has been overdone not just by the studio but by its many media partners each running their own campaigns.
News Corp.'s national newspaper circuit built to a crescendo of daily coverage in the week of release, while Nine Network's "A Current Affair" broadcast its entire program live from the preem's Nov. 18 red carpet.
Ushers in suburban independent theaters told Daily Variety that their exit polls prove auds are enjoying the pic, unfazed by its 2 hour 45 minute duration and awestruck by young aboriginal newcomer Brandon Walters.
However, media reporters dispatched to cinemas for the opening weekend delightedly reported that they were half-empty rather than half-full.
"Australia" nevertheless saw the biggest opening ever for a Luhrmann film in Oz, beating "Moulin Rouge" by 200% in terms of tickets sold and "Romeo and Juliet" by 337%.
Meanwhile, Sony is riding high after "Quantum of Solace" raked in $7.5 million in Australia the previous weekend.
Sony had been forced to move the Bond pic's opening date (and resked its publicity tour) after Fox bumped "Australia" onto the date originally set for "Quantum."
"Comparisons with 'Quantum of Solace' opening weekend, or any big Hollywood franchise for that matter, while fun and juicy for the media I don't think are realistic or terribly relevant," said Fox Australia marketing topper Marc Wooldridge. "The audience profile for 'Australia' is quite different, as is the trend for Baz's movies in the past."


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Five hundred sophomore students (260 male and 240 female) received the 2002 Sophomore Satisfaction Survey by mail in the spring of 2002. An overall 50% net response rate was attained. Of the 246 respondents, 42.7% were men and 57.3% were women.
The majority of the respondents were white (96.7%), 20 years or younger of age (80.8%), unmarried (96.7%), and live in the residence halls/apartments (51.2%). Forty-eight percent of the sophomore respondents were from North Dakota, 33.3% from Minnesota, and 18.7% from other states/countries.
Over ninety percent of the sophomores surveyed indicate their college-related goals as "To obtain a degree" (97.2%), "To increase my knowledge and understanding in an academic field" (91.5%).
Ninety-three percent of the respondents intended to graduate from UND.
Nearly 80% of the respondents worked 20 hours or less per week, 13.5% worked between 21 and 30 hours and 6.5% worked more than 31 hours weekly. Nearly 80% of the respondents studied 20 or less hours per week while 18.2% studied 21 to 30 hours and 2.5% studied 31 or more hours. The majority (89.3%) of the respondents spent fewer than 20 hours per week watching television.
Nearly 55% of the respondents discussed class assignments frequently or very often with fellow students while only 12.8% of the respondents did so with their instructors.
More than 98% of the respondents indicated that lecturing was the major teaching method they received in UND. Nearly twenty percent of the respondents received computer-assisted learning frequently or very often. Eighteen percent of the respondents never used the library research.
Near or over 50% indicated that their instructors place much or great importance on "Encouragement of high quality thinking" (59.5%) and "Concern that students are well prepared in their major" (49.6%).
"Learning on own", "Working Independently", "Making informed choices", and "Organizing time effectively" are the top four items reported being impacted on students' personal growth.
Admissions, Registrar's Office, Memorial Student Union, Library, and Bookstore were the five most used offices on campus.
Overall, 84.5% of the sophomores surveyed indicated that they were satisfied or very satisfied with their experience at UND.
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Wilfred: Renewed for Season 3!Matt Richenthal at . Comments
Wilfred will return with many more inappropriate jokes and references in 2013.
FX announced yesterday afternoon that it has picked up the Elijah Wood/Jason Gann comedy for a third season.
David Zuckerman - who adapted the Australian show for American television and has served as Executive Producer and showrunner for the first two seasons of the series - will remain on as Executive Producer, but hand the top job over to Reed Agnew and Eli Jorné.
Said Nick Grad, Executive Vice President of Original Programming for FX:
"David Zuckerman has done an amazing job adapting and reconceiving Wilfred for FX. It was his decision to step down from the Showrunner's post, but we're very happy he is going to stay involved with the show. Both we and David have great faith in the ability of Reed and Eli to seamlessly step up and take over the reins. I have no doubt they'll do a great job."
Wilfred Season 2 averaged 2.63 million total viewers and 1.71 million in the 18-49 demographic per week.
Production on Season 3 will begin this spring and new episodes will air in June.
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Sen. Rand Paul has urged the Republican majority in Congress to only repeal the Affordable Care Act when a replacement is ready.
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This past weekend, the Democratic Party finalized a national platform that promises to tackle antitrust violations, increase the federal minimum wage, and pursue single-payer healthcare.
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9 Gripping moments in The K2 that make it a must see
Ji Chang Wook and Yoona's new series The K2 is one of the most action-packed K-dramas on air. You enjoy all the suspense and thrills of a blockbuster film in the comfort of your own home. Every scene is filled with so many twists and turns, it's impossible look away! We have fourteen more hours of non-stop action to anticipate, while the first two episodes left us breathless with its heart-stopping moments. I have listed nine of most gripping moments in The K2 its premiere week.
1. Seconds before young Anna screams, we clearly see there is someone behind the little girl witnessing her mom's death with her.
2. Anna (who is all grown up now) mysteriously runs away from the convent her family placed her in.
3. Jeha and Anna have a fated first meeting in Spain where she begs him to help her escape.
4. Jeha breaks through a thick window glass to fight bad guys and tend to a critically injured grandma.
5. Choi Yoo Jin seems eerily unfazed by the violent outbreak at the hotel her husband was in. She even creates a story to cover up the crime that occurred.
6. Jeha indirectly puts an elderly couple's life in danger, and they face a terrifying assassin.
7. The assassin warned Jeha that no one he encounters is safe.
8. He walks right into the trap set for him, and there is no way out.
9. Jeha is prepared to kill Yoo Jin to save himself and those around him.
Which moments in the first two episodes had you on the edge of your seat?
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7 Recipes to Become a Successful Affiliate in 2012
What's your affiliate marketing strategy in 2012? The New Year has come and it will surely bring more challenges to your affiliate marketing business. If you want to boost your success in 2012, you have to make sure to prepare better strategies to conduct your affiliate business in the New Year. Here are 7 recipes to become a successful affiliate in 2012:
1. Create new campaign in new niche
If you are the loyal follower of a niche that doesn't give you enough income, it is the time for you to create a new campaign in new niche. Sometime, a change in your niche can bring you significant change in your affiliate commission. By starting a new campaign in a new niche, you are expanding your affiliate marketing business and by doing this, you are giving more possibilities for success.
2. Buy a new blueprint or report and implement it
There are many new e-books being released that will help you to make more money doing affiliate marketing business. What you need to do is to grab one of those e-books and really implement the method inside it. Make sure to buy a quality blueprint or report from reputable online marketer. After you bought it, don't buy any other thing. Your job is to read it and implement it immediately.
3. Increase your motivation
New Year is the best time for you to boost your motivation in your online business. Motivation is the most important thing that will keep you on your path. So, don't let yourself to lose your motivation. By simply increasing your motivation, you will increase your focus and determination in your business. This is important.
4. Create a new and more effective habit
What you do in daily basis to build and maintain your affiliate business will affect your end result. If you have bad habit, low productivity, and procrastination, it will make you to suffer from more failure this year. By creating a new and more effective habit that will accommodate how you handle your affiliate business, you will have better result in your affiliate business.
5. Implement more SEO
I know many people hate SEO and they are building their business without SEO. However, in order to achieve success in your online business, you have to work with the search engines. SEO is important, and if you start to apply SEO this year, it will give you much better ranking in the search engine. It means that you will drive more traffic to your website and more income will start to pour in.
6. Improve the quality of your content
Your content is the most important commodity in your affiliate marketing business. Without good content, people won't purchase the product you are promoting. Therefore, it is important for you to improve the quality of your content to achieve better conversion in this year. If you have low affiliate conversion last year, it is probably because your content isn't good enough. If so, it's time for you to improve it.
7. Create a new website
Why not create a new website for your business? It is a good thing to do since you can expand your earning by creating a new website. Also, make it your project to join another affiliate network and create a new website to promote the products in that affiliate network. You cannot stick with one affiliate program all the time. You have to diversify.
Those are 7 recipes to become a successful affiliate in 2012. If you want to make this year your best year in your affiliate marketing career, those recipes will help you to achieve more success.


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Sometimes stars want oops embarrassing moments cringe with embarrassment. Other times, they just want attention.
Margot Robbie: By accident Robbie revealed a strap of her Oscars' dress broke during the show, and she sewed it back on herself after an assistant brought her a sewing kit. Oh, ain't got time for that! Jennifer Lawrence: By accident Jennifer Lawrence's wardrobe whoops nearly went unnoticed. The "Red Sparrow" star's dress accidentally revealed too much on the red carpet.
MORE: Bella Hadid suffers major wardrobe whoops. Kourtney Kardashian: By accident Kourtney Kardashian went braless at her dinner with sister Kendall Jenner at Craig's in West Hollywood but as she walked from the restaurant, her dress slipped and showed off her nipple cover. Christina Aguilera: On purpose Christina Aguilera opted for a daring look when she dressed up as a titillating cowgirl, pasties and all, for a holiday party. So much holiday fun last night," captioned the 37-year-old singer on Instagram. Erin Holland: By accident Former Miss World Australia Erin Holland gave photographers an eyeful when she accidentally flashed her fashion tape at the Harper's BAZAAR party in Sydney. Monika Radulovic: By accident Former Miss Universe Australia Monika Radulovic was with her artist partner, Alesandro Ljubicic, when she accidentally flashed her underwear at the MAAS Centre for Fashion Ball while on the red carpet. Bebe Rexha: By accident Bebe Rexha had a wardrobe snafu on the Grammys red carpet on Jan.
The back of the singer's dress ripped in the back but she quickly got herself together for the big show. Bella Hadid: By accident Bella Hadid accidentally flashed a little too much while the runway during the Alexandre Vauthier Spring Summer 2018 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 23, 2018 in Paris, France. Irina Shayk: An accident Russian model Irina Shayk happily posed for photographers at The Fashion Awards 2017 held in London's Royal Albert Hall. However, the 31-year-old didn't noticed she was showing off a little too much. Kim Kardashian: An accident Looks like Kim Kardashian accidently flashed her famous tape trick while attempting to ditch her bra for a more daring, plunging neckline. Film Gala Honoring Mark Bradford and George Lucas presented by Gucci at LACMA in Los Angeles. However, the 24-year-old revealed more than what she anticipated in front of photographers.