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Competence and confidence is an ideal mixture in the workplace. Employees with these traits can motivate others to work together and create a safe and productive environment. How can you build this utopia at your facility? Establishing an effective training program is the best way to start. However, building a strong and knowledgeable staff isn't free. These 10 tips will help you make the most of your training dollars.
Tip 1: Use variety. You have many training media and methods available: Use as many as you feel comfortable with. For example, if you tell a group of electrici ans some facts about troubleshooting a new motor drive, you'll pass on some knowledge. But you'll pass on much more if you let them view a video on that drive, read the manual, watch another electrician working on it, or listen to a tape on how to troubleshoot it. The more ways you present information, the more your staff will learn and retain. Vary the pace and style of your training. Formal training is good, but informal training fills in many gaps. Magazines, books, and on-the-job training (OJT) are all very useful. Because magazines cover many topics in a single issue, you can bring the knowledge of many experts into one place.
Tip 2: Use repetition. Informal training repetition can mean you distill portions of the training into slogans, factoids, and images. Including slips of paper in with paychecks with a sentence or two about some idea can work well with safety training. You can also include photos, illustrations, or icons to get your point across. Even passing around a copy of a magazine article, maybe twice a year, can help employees remember important information. Refresher courses are also a form of formal training repetition. Recap previous sessions before continuing with new material.
You may also follow up with annual or semiannual recertification. Let's say someone earns a Master Electrician's License. That license requires extensive knowledge of the NE Code and how to make Code-related calculations. Yet, a typical Master Electrician will use only a portion of the knowledge needed for the exam, while expanding knowledge in other areas. If you have a monthly refresher course that takes, say, 1 hr each Friday, you keep the bulk of that knowledge at the front of the electrician's mind. Once a year, you can take a half-day to give a portion of the Master Exam in-house. Anyone going through even this low level of repetition will be 90% prepared for licensing day.
Tip 3: Use feedback. Feedback reinforces learning by making the student recall information. The method of feedback is important. For example, master exams tend to intimidate people. Brief quizzes reinforce the learning experience, without intimidation. In fact, success on frequent quizzes will boost the student's confidence. Quizzes can be formal, informal, oral, or written. Using these tools in combination is best.
For some reason, the learning communication path is wider when it has two-way traffic. One simple way to get feedback is to ask for it. For example: "What did you learn about photo sensors today? Take 5 min and tell me some details." Some companies try to get feedback by requiring electricians to write follow-up reports. This approach seems cold and impersonal, so the emotional element that reinforces the training just isn't there.
Tip 4: Administer small doses. Most people get "burned out" if they get too much of a good thing-at least too much at one time. That's just the way most minds work. If you're going to schedule a week of training, you'll do better to spread all five topics, a little at a time, across five days, rather than covering a full topic each day. Administratively, this is a little more work, but the payback is much higher. Having a tip of the day is another easy way to administer small doses.
Tip 5: Apply knowledge right away. It's too easy to forget something if you don't use it. Experts disagree on the "shelf life" of learning, but there's somewhat of a consensus you should wait no longer than two weeks to make use of newly acquired skills. Even if people didn't forget, they are much more motivated when they know they can put their learning investment to use right away.
When someone returns from a training session, assign that person some work related to that training. For example, if you're going to send a person to PLC training, delay non-emergency PLC work until that person gets back. Then, give that work to the person who just got the training. Remember the saying made famous by Gloria Steinem, "Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."
Tip 6: Make it interes ting. Bore people, and their minds become stones instead of sponges. Keep material dry, and you get nowhere.
First, if you're using written materials, how do they sound when you read them out loud? Does the writer try to bring you into the discussion? Do you feel any emotional response? Does the material sound wordy or stuffy? If so, it makes poor training material. It needs to be concise and clear. If the material sounds like the author wrote it to impress someone with a huge vocabulary, rather than to share with the reader, then that's probably the case. On the other hand, if the writer seems to be talking to you, this is probably good material to use in training.
Second, can you draw any parallels between the material and other interests of the students? Can you show them how this will affect their work or lives? Does it relate to any outside interests? Build a profile of each person.
Third, add an interactive element whenever you can. Group projects and discussions help accomplish this objective. It's always good to ask people how this relates to their work. "Do you have breakers that give you nuisance trips?" Another question might be: "Do you have any sloppy wireway in your plant?" Personalize the training to make it interesting. People are more interested when you're helping them solve their problems than when you're passing on information they don't have an immediate need for. Find that need!
Tip 7: Use training experts. Several companies produce interesting training videos and other aids that use the principles of variety, repetition, and small doses. Who are the experts? Certainly, a company that makes motors knows about motors. A company that makes digital multimeters knows about digital multimeters. These companies provide training aids at very low prices. You can find some of these by looking through this issue of EC&M.
Realize you have experts among your own people. They may not know everything, but they know enough to be a good resource for training. The typical OJT arrangement is apprentices working under a journeyman. If you keep track of the kinds of work assigned to the apprentices, you can count their experience as training.
Let's say you have an annealing furnace with specialized controls. You have four people who maintain the furnace. One of them always serves as the brains when you do any major repair or troubleshooting. That person may be the one you need to pair other people with. You could use the same OJT techniques electrical apprentices use: hands-on training under the guidance of a qualified person.
If you want your in-house experts to put on formal training, educate them on how to train others. Your local community college is one resource, or send your experts to one of the many "train the trainer" seminars.
Tip 8: Use your vendors. Vendors routinely put on mini-courses. While these may accent a particular product, it's worth it to pass on information an attendee can use. Many times, a vendor will come to your office or plant. Many companies train their sales representatives. Granted, that training tends to be equipment-specific, but don't you buy and use specific equipment?
This type of training has some side benefits. For one thing, your own people become familiar with the vendors on a first-name basis. Sometimes, this can get you exceptional service you wouldn't get otherwise. You also learn more about your equipment and usually wind up on the short list for product update information; and the ball caps, screwdrivers, and pens vendors usually hand out at these mini-courses are always an added bonus.
Tip 9: Use a matrix. Many engineers and financial types often use spreadsheets. If you don't have spreadsheet knowledge, ask for help. If you don't have a matrix, you're administering your training in a haphazard manner. This says something to the people who work for you. Change the message to a positive one.
Nobody likes to be behind their coworkers. If posted prominently, a matrix allows people to compare their own training progress with their peers. This can have a motivating effect. Before you post such a matrix, though, make sure you've taken at least the first step toward correcting imbalances. If someone feels cheated, it'll be counterproductive to showcase the reasons why.
Tip 10: Give everyone a chance. What was that comment about feeling cheated? If you leave an employee behind the group in terms of training, you marginalize that person. Use training to show you have confidence in them and their contribution is important.
When you show everyone is important, through the way you administer training, you have a positive effect on the team dynamic. When everyone is an expert in something, then you've accomplished one of the main goals of training: a strong, knowledgeable staff. The attitudes from such an environment give rise to teamwork as well as excellence.


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Professor Emil Wolf, the Wilson Professor of Optical Physics and a faculty member at the University of Rochester for more than 50 years, celebrated his 90th birthday this year and the occasion was commemorated at the annual meeting of The Optical Society (OSA) last week. On Sunday, Oct. 14 at the meeting in Rochester, Wolf's current and past colleagues, students and collaborators offered a perspective on the field of optics, as well as sharing anecdotes from working with him. Wolf was in attendance at the conference the 52nd such annual meeting he has attended.
Introducing the talks and reflecting on Wolf's contributions to optics for many years was Professor Joseph Eberly, his colleague at the University of Rochester. "Emil, you should know that your positive attitude and innovative thinking, and the publications that follow them, continue to be expected from you and will continue to inspire us. Don't spend a lot of time looking back think of the decade ahead," said Eberly. These sentiments were echoed throughout the afternoon by the other speakers and reflect how even now Wolf's group continues to contribute to research in the field.
As Professor Nicholas Bigelow, the Lee A. DuBridge Chair in Physics and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has said about Wolf, "Virtually everyone who has studied optics in the last several decades has been influenced by Emil." He added, "He is known throughout the world as an intellectual giant in the field of optics, and known to his students as an extraordinary educator."
A leading expert in the fields of coherence and polarization properties of optical fields, he is well known for collaborating with Nobel Laureate Max Born on the book Principles of Optics. First published in 1959, it is now in its seventh edition and widely used by students to this day just as a measure of its popularity, Google Scholar measures the book citations at over 40,000.
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You might contend that fried chicken and biscuits falls into the indulgent category, but it doesn't have to be the antithesis of healthy eating. We made this classic southern meal for the very first time, and it was so good without being particularly difficult, that we plan on doing it again very soon.
I suggested to Mike that we try our hand at this meal because I really wanted an excuse to make homemade buttermilk biscuits. Being a quick bread, they are not very different from one of my favorite obsessions, the scone. The recipe in a recent issue of Food & Wine was incredibly simple, with only four ingredients. I made one small change and mixed the dough with my fingers instead of a pastry blender or other tool.
I recently read in Cook's Illustrated that this method would help create a biscuit with more flaky layers because the butter would get pinched and flattened by your fingers instead of getting turned into coarse crumbs by a pastry blender or food processor. Since hand mixing is the easiest way to go, and my biscuits had plenty of flaky layers, I definitely recommend it. Keeping the dough cold (so the butter stays solid prior to baking) and using a sharp biscuit cutter that will not smash together the layers you have created, are also important steps.
In a very distant childhood food memory, I recall the KFC buttermilk biscuit being the best part of the meal, but my homemade version beats the memory hands down. They are even better than the Pillsbury biscuits that come in the paper can that pops open. I've written up the biscuit recipe today, and I will give you the fried chicken in my Wednesday post, along with some tips to make this meal just healthy enough to have it whenever you get nostalgic for dinner in a bucket, only tastier.
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Accidental Hedonist's Buttermilk Biscuits
The Buttermilk Biscuits on Baking Sheet rise gorgeously high
Orangette's Buttermilk Biscuits are made with Southern Flour (I don't know what it is, but I think I'd like it)
Mile High Biscuits from Meathenge look especially tasty modeled by Southern Biscuit Barbie
Buttery Buttermilk Biscuits
Adapted from Food & Wine magazine and Natalie Chanin
With so few ingredients, each one should be the best, so use a good quality unsalted butter that you really like. I used Plugra European style that you can find in most supermarkets. Kerrygold Irish butter and Organic Valley butter are two other brands that are delicious and widely available.
Makes 8
2 c. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 stick unsalted butter
¾ c. buttermilk
Prep the butter up to several hours ahead. With a floured knife, cut it into ¼ to ½ inch cubes. Spread the cubes out on a plate, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Whisk together the flour baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Add the cold butter, fold into the flour and combine, using your fingers to break up the chunks of butter into slightly flattened bits. At this point, the dough will still be very powdery and should not come together. Add the buttermilk and stir gently with a wooden spoon just until all the flour is dampened. If you still have a lot of excess flour, add a few more drops of buttermilk until you have a barely cohesive, shaggy mass of dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat the dough together with floured hands. Flatten into a thick disk, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes or up to 2 hours.
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Pillows. They're not just for nestling your noggin anymore. They're also for keeping your stiff neck from aching, your sinuses from congesting, your acids from refluxing, your snores from snorting, your tinnitus from tintinnabulating and — yes! glory be! — your face from turning into a prune.
Or, so go some of the claims. Here's a heads-up on how well the hype holds up.
Acupressure pillows. Laying your head on a bunch of pointy spikes may not sound especially therapeutic. But that's the basic principle involved in acupressure pillows, which are intended to relieve headaches and stiff necks.
"You have to reach a certain pain threshold in order to get the benefits," says StJohn Wiles, chief executive of Halsa in Warwick, N.Y., which markets the Halsa pillow. "But after you've used it once or twice, you don't notice any discomfort anymore."
Like acupressure therapy, the pillow spikes are supposed to stimulate the release of natural pain-relieving hormones. "Our users swear by their effectiveness," Wiles says. And a Swedish study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in 2011 found that lying on an acupressure mat, which uses the same pointy spikes, helped people relax (as measured by their physiological responses).
Acupressure pillows are meant to be used about 15 minutes a day. But if you zonk out on one, no harm done.
Sinus congestion-prevention pillows. Your pillow can be a great place for dust mites to hang out, feasting on the dead skin cells you serve up for them every night. You might never even know you have all those hungry guests unless you're allergic to them, in which case they may well announce their presence by giving you sinus congestion. A dust mite-proof pillowcase is your best defense, says Dr. Mark Aronica, an asthma specialist at the Cleveland Clinic. Dust mites will set up housekeeping in an ordinary pillowcase, whether or not you have a hypoallergenic pillow. (They'll also take up residence in your mattress and bedding, so you need to take additional steps to battle them there.)
For sinus congestion not caused by an allergic reaction, "all you can do is prop yourself up so your nose is higher than your heart," says Alan Kominsky, a physician in Cleveland Clinic's Head and Neck Institute. "Any pillow can do that."
Anti-acid reflux pillows. Gravity is a natural antidote to acid reflux since it can help keep your stomach contents down where they belong. Pillows designed to reduce acid reflux rely on this fact, but Kominsky questions whether using such a pillow is the most effective measure. "You really have to tilt the whole bed," he says. "One way is to put a brick under the headboard." You definitely don't want a pillow that makes you bend at the waist, he warns. By pushing stomach contents up instead of keeping them down, "that might even make your acid reflux worse."
Speaker pillows. Speaker pillows are meant to block out, or mask, sounds that keep you awake — the snores from your bed partner (but see below!) or the rings, buzzes and whistles of tinnitus — with sounds that help you get to sleep, such as a dull monotone or the strains of Brahms' Lullaby.
Masking tinnitus doesn't work for everyone. To see if it's likely to work for you, try the "faucet test": Stand by a faucet that's turned on as high as it will go. If you can't hear your tinnitus over the sound of the gushing water, masking is probably worth a try.
No-more-snores pillows.
For many of these, the goal is to keep your airway as open as possible by keeping your chin lifted away from your chest. There's an assortment of pillows that use an assortment of designs that are intended to accomplish that, but there's not much research to support the use of any particular one of them, says Dr. Joseph Kaplan, director of the Mayo Sleep Center at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla.
Fountain of Youth pillows. To review, sleeping on your back can make you snore, and it can be bad for sleep apnea patients too. But uh-oh. The American Academy of Dermatology says sleeping on your side, with your face rubbing against your pillow night after night, can give you wrinkles.
It's a dilemma all right. One possible solution: the Cupron pillowcase. An unpublished but randomized controlled trial of 55 women and two men found that after four weeks the appearance of both facial wrinkles and crow's-feet was significantly reduced for those who slept on this pillowcase compared with those who slept on regular pillowcases. The Cupron case's unique feature is the copper oxide it contains, which some believe stimulates the production of collagen.
Long before there were copper oxide pillowcases, there were silk and satin ones, which are thought to lessen wrinkle production by minimizing friction between face and pillow. More recently, the Save My Face pillow was invented to minimize any contact between face and pillow at all. Shaped like back-to-back letter Cs, it lets you position your cheek in the opening, thus touching nothing but air, while your head is supported because your temple and jaw rest on the pillow.
"Some of my patients like it," says Dr. George Sanders, a plastic surgeon in Encino. "They don't see wrinkle lines when they get up anymore. Others say it doesn't work for them."
In fact, how much benefit any pillow can give may depend to some extent on just whose noggin is nestling on it. "If you think a pillow will help," Aronica says, "then potentially it will."


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Last year local gloom rockers Jail Weddings released their second full-length, Meltdown — A Declaration of Unpopular Emotion, a perhaps too-optimistic assessment of the songs within. The eight-member collective journeyed to hell and back to make the work (in the process they lost members, went nuts, spent all their money, etc.) and you can hear it in the songs, which range from bleakly optimistic to bleakly bleak. But there's something true and earnest in frontman Gabriel Hart's vocals — and the molded, orchestral backing tracks. For this reason, the work is actually quite inspiring so long as you're in the right mood. In any case, on an indie landscape full of ugly snarkiness, it's downright refreshing to hear a group performing from the heart. Even if said heart happens to be broken. —Ben Westhoff
Charlie Cox has been busking at the La Brea Tar Pits park for so long that the city literally grew him a shade tree to stand under. The talented music man moved from North Florida to L.A. in 1975. "I had a job lined up, but it didn't work out," Cox explains. "Someone told me they had buskers over near the art museum, and I've been playing here ever since." Cox sings old folk songs, bluegrass and an occasional original, using a banjo, mandolin, guitar and pennywhistle. He doesn't take requests for contemporary hits (which he calls "mindless") but the museum still recognizes him as a valuable staple, even carrying his CD in the gift shop. "It's an all-around love fest over here," he says. You can find Cox busking under his tree from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., every day except Mondays and Wednesdays. For a special treat, ask him to play "The Original Tar Pit Waltz." —Isaac Simpson
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It's a brilliant, rare thing in hip-hop (or any art form, for that matter) when an artist abandons pretense entirely and settles into himself. Such is the case on Dark Comedy, the latest album from Los Angeles rapper Open Mike Eagle. Though the Project Blowed veteran is still far from a household name, over the last year and a half his profile has jumped considerably; he appeared on Marc Maron's uber-popular podcast and made a hilarious song with comedic it-dude Hannibal Buress, and Dark Comedy is being called one of the year's best hip-hop albums. (Let's not even talk about the idiots at Harvard & Stone who wouldn't let Mike perform there.) It's not that he wasn't great before, but he now seems completely at ease with who he is — a struggling, conflicted artist and dad who somehow thrives in an industry that doesn't know quite what to make of him. You could call his songs indie, or emo, or artsy, but what they really are is mature. That, and joyful to hear. —Ben Westhoff
In an age of six-figure-a-night DJs who play the same 12 songs every time (usually their own), it can be hard to find art and finesse in contemporary electronic dance music. But sets by L.A. house king Marques Wyatt will bring you back to earth, with his nods to New York royalty such as Frankie Knuckles, David Morales and Masters at Work. But he doesn't neglect the West Coast: Wyatt proved that house still stirs the Angeleno soul when he hosted a summer Made in L.A. party at the Hammer Museum featuring fellow diehards Doc Martin and Raul Campos. The turnout was phenomenal. Give the man credit for bringing house to Santa Monica in the 1980s, hosting Knuckles at his legendary Does Your Mama Know weekly party in Hollywood in 1997, and continuing to prove that EDM can still have soul, via his contemporary parties known as Deep L.A. He told us this year that house pioneer Knuckles "allowed this music to be taken seriously," and the same goes for Wyatt, especially here in Southern California. —Dennis Romero
As surreal as a David Lynch film, 79-year-old Jimmy Angel says he was a former teen idol, a friend and high school classmate of Elvis Presley and the adopted son of infamous mob boss Joe Columbo. We don't know about all that, but with his coal-black pompadour and a voice that carries the smoothness of his Memphis upbringing, Angel performs rockabilly songs biweekly in a weird and wonderful lounge show at the midcentury SmokeHouse restaurant in Burbank. Backed by a tight trio, Angel's original songs and offbeat stage banter will leave you in awe. Catch his trippy act while you are knocking back a cocktail in the 1946-vintage Smoke House bar, and things will be even more intense. —Nikki Kreuzer
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The unanimous winners of L.A. Weekly's best live band contest, Mars and the Massacre throw everything but the kitchen sink into their live performances (and we're not discounting the possibility of a kitchen sink at a future show). They play psychedelic garage rock, but if you can't picture that, just know that they really shred. That is, when they're not drifting off into another stratosphere entirely. Still, their shows feature neither masturbatory noodling nor overblown theatrics; all three members play multiple instruments and they all know what they're doing, even throwing looping machines and other technical equipment into the mix. Of course, all of this musical mastery would be useless if their shows weren't entertaining. But, trust us, that is not the case. If there is ever a dull moment, they simply pour blood on themselves. —Ben Westhoff
For those who want punk to be dangerous again ... have you seen Nomads? Nomads are a "punk band" in the same way that an intercontinental ballistic missile is a "bomb." Mix the confrontational aggression of Black Flag with the stripped-down simplicity of English act Discharge with the glorious cacophony of Sweden's more recent crop of d-beat noisemeisters such as Disfear and Martyrdöd, and you've got Nomads, who might just be L.A.'s next big thing. Listening to one of their records is akin to having your eardrums punctured with an anvil. Hearing them live is even more intense. Things get rowdy real fast. Their front man, who just goes by Michael, sings like a man who fully believes each breath might be his last. They play pretty much every weekend (check their site), but you'd best get there early: Their sets frequently clock in at less than 10 minutes. Consider bringing a helmet. —Nicholas Pell
It's sometimes difficult for cover bands to transcend the cheesiness associated with their craft, but The Goodtime Boys make it look easy. That's particularly remarkable considering they're the house band for '70s-themed Hollywood bar Good Times at Davey Wayne's, which is dripping in kitsch. Every Friday and Saturday night at 11:30 p.m., the foursome of Dazed and Confused doppelgängers takes the tiny stage; from their first chord, they transport you back to a groovy basement listening session you're probably too young to have actually attended. In a nutshell, they play the hits from your parents' record collection: Nick Gilder's "Hot Child in the City," Bob Seger's "Hollywood Nights," KISS' "I Was Made for Loving You" and an unbearably sexy rendition of Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen." Moments into their set, you will find your hand in the air. You will feel it making devil horns. You will curse the fact that you didn't wear bellbottoms. You will be unabashedly loving it. —Ali Trachta
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With a vocal rasp that makes her sound like someone from the '60s, Jenny O. seems wiser than her 30 years. Then again, her lyrics contain slang such as "I'm never gonna be a pro skater 'cause I can't do tricks and I'm not that sick," so let's just call it a wash. What's clear is that the Silver Lake songstress blends a vintage Laurel Canyon aesthetic with a compellingly modern folk-rock sound, with plenty of witty vocal asides to boot. Plenty of people are taking notice: She's had songs featured in ad campaigns with Toyota and Target, and has toured with everyone from Ben Harper and Father John Misty to Sixto Rodriguez. A native of New York, she came to L.A. six years ago and started singing with the L.A. Ladies Choir. She still maintains a bit of shyness onstage but these days, armed with an acoustic guitar, she has only her twangy, gentle strumming to hide behind. It's this raw, candid nature that makes her music so refreshing. —Artemis Thomas-Hansard
At least when it comes to Los Angeles artists, the genre tag "Latin Alternative" usually refers to some sort of cumbia/rock/electronic hybrid. Which is why it has been exciting to see Irene Diaz develop on the scene here, since she's not easily pigeonholed, melding influences that include blues and soul. At her core, however, Diaz offers quality songwriting, which can be heard on her debut EP, I Love You Madly, which was released after a successful Kickstarter campaign. She emerged as a singer-songwriter only a few years ago and has been featured in national media, including NPR. Her voice has been compared to none other than Ella Fitzgerald, and feels similarly timeless. Her songs are in English, which is just one reason we suspect her music will break out of the Latin scene and be recognized by everyone. —Eddie Cota
Metal in 2014 has been hopelessly splintered into a million different subgenres. But we love Whittier quartet Exmortus because they play heavy metal — the pure, unadulterated kind. The group members are all in their mid 20s but planted their roots in the field plowed by such '80s thrash greats as Testament. Simultaneously, guitarist/frontman Jadran "Conan" Gonzalez layers in magnificent neoclassical solos that evoke memories of shred greats like Yngwie Malmsteen, while drummer Mario Moreno complements the sound with powerful riffs; he and Conan are cousins, and the familial bond is evident. The band's lyrics are quite metal as well — their latest album, Slave to the Sword, is full of fist-pumping odes to warriors engaged in battle. Meanwhile, onstage the quartet display an infectious energy that has countless jaded metalheads remembering why they fell in love with the genre in the first place. —Jason Roche
So many contestants on television talent shows think they can sing the blues — with all that huffing and puffing and twisting of faces into grotesque grimaces, you'd think they were lifting mountains instead of making music. Of course, real blues of any style involves a deep communication between performer and listener, not just theatrics, and that's where Lawrence Lebo excels. After attending the Grove School of Music and earning her B.A. in music at UCLA — where she studied under jazz legend Kenny Barron — she now teaches blues-vocal workshops at McCabe's. Her singing displays her talent for the blues. Yes, she can wail up as fierce and fiery a storm as any gospel diva (even after returning to action just weeks after heart surgery last year), but Lebo also purrs and puts a jazzy touch on occasional Western swing rambles. Most impressively, she's that rare blues musician who writes persuasively authentic original songs, such as "Lawrence's Working Girl Blues," her smartly sarcastic answer to Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp." —Falling James


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LONDON, Ont. — The mother of a man charged with killing eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford says justice will only be served when her son gets to walk out of his high-profile trial a free man.
"My son is innocent," said Deborah Murphy outside the London, Ont., courthouse where the proceedings against her son, Michael Rafferty have been held for the past 10 weeks.
"This could happen to any man that's walking around right now. Terri-Lynne McClintic has wrecked our lives and I just hope that justice is served and that he's free."
Rafferty, 31, is charged with first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping the bubbly blonde-haired girl.
Stafford was last seen outside a Woodstock, Ont., elementary school on April 8, 2009.
Her remains were found on July 19, 2009, wrapped in garbage bags and buried under a rock pile in a field near Mount Forest, Ont., more than two hours north of where she was last seen.
McClintic, 21, is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in 2010 to the little girl's death.
This was the first time Murphy, who was wearing dark sunglasses and walking with a cane, has ever spoken publicly about her son.
When asked about how she thought the case was going for Rafferty, she replied: "I think he's got a good lawyer."
Meanwhile, inside the 14th floor courtroom, his defence team told jurors in its closing arguments that McClintic, who spent six days on the stand as the Crown's star witness, cannot be believed.
"The centre piece of the prosecution's case is Terri Lynne McClintic . . . whom I am going to suggest to you, has perjured herself over and over and over again," said lawyer Dirk Derstine matter-of-factedly.
"There is no real way that you could find that she did anything other than poison the entire atmosphere of this courtroom while she was in it."
This "dangerous" testimony was the only direct evidence linking Rafferty to the death of the little girl. Jurors must remember that it is the word of a "prolific and accomplished liar," urged Derstine.
The only thing that should be believed by this ex-girlfriend is that she dealt the fatal blows to the young girl's skull in that field near Mount Forest, Ont.
"She was just putting on a fantastic performance," Derstine told jurors, likening her testimony as that of an "Oscar winning actor."
That's why it's even more important that the jury judge this case "dispassionately" when they are sent out to deliberate later this week.
"The tragedy of this case can all too easily overwhelm all of this but you must keep yourself apart from it," he repeated. "The time for considering the horror of Tori's death must come at a different time. For now you must be impartial.
Many pieces of the Crown's evidence just don't add up, according to the defence.
He asked the jury to remember the multiple statements McClintic had made to police after she was arrested on April 11, 2009.
On at least two occasions, she "happily and cheerfully" told investigators she just wanted to help them find the girl and denied any knowledge of the kidnapping.
She was a good liar who knew to include details to make what she was telling them more believable, said Derstine.
The reason she lied, he continued, is that she wants to escape moral responsibility for her actions.
If the jury doesn't believe her, then the Crown's case is built completely on circumstantial evidence, he argued.
Still, their job is not to judge his client's "moral flaws," but to ensure their verdict is based on the criminal system's three fundamental principals: the presumption of innocence, the onus of proof and that the Crown has presented proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Court had heard that Rafferty had lied to and dated at least 15 women during the spring of 2009.
"The fact that Michael sleeps around . . . but it doesn't make him into a murderer," he argued.
Derstine suggested that it was McClintic and not his client, who had a "propensity for violence."
She was the one who was on a "mission" that day, because she was the "engine" in the events leading to Stafford's death, not Rafferty, he said. She was the one who listened to violent music and often wrote violent stories in her journal and in letters to a friend.
Derstine even asked jurors to think about McClintic's "lie" that Stafford was kidnapped that day at random.
The girl's mother, Tara McDonald, testified earlier in the trial she met McClintic in passing on two separate occasions prior to her daughter's abduction. One was to purchase Oxycontin pills from her mother, and the other was to discuss the possibility of breeding their Shih Tzu puppies.
"What a shocking coincidence that this girl of all girls is the one that Terri-Lynne McClintic picked on that fateful day," he said.
Derstine continues that McClintic had many opportunities to get help during the course of the abduction, but did nothing.
She had testified the couple had stopped at a Tim Horton's, a house in Guelph, Ont., to pick up Percocet pills and a Home Depot where she went inside after she was instructed to buy a hammer and garbage bags.
Rafferty did not realize that the girl was being kidnapped or that she was going to be killed by McClintic, said Derstine.
Outside the courthouse, the girl's father, Rodney Stafford says he hopes the jury will remember his daughter throughout their deliberations.
"I honestly think the jury really does have Tori on their minds," he said. "You can see the way it played on them throughout the whole trial, with all the evidence that was coming out. I think they'll make the right decision."
The Crown will present its closing statements Tuesday, which will remind the jury of their theory: that Stafford was kidnapped for sexual purposes at Rafferty's urging.
Their arguments will also focus on the girl's DNA that was found in his vehicle, and the fact that he lovingly visited McClintic on at least two occasions in jail prior to his own arrest on May 19, 2009.
The high-profile trial began on March 5, and has heard from 62 witnesses — all of which were from the Crown except for one.


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Chaplain James Britt has comforted patients and families at The Medical Center at Bowling Green for more than three decades, and now his name is a permanent part of the organization.
The community surprised Britt on Monday by unveiling the prayer room at the Hospitality House's new name: Chaplain James Britt Prayer Room.
"This is an honor, a blessing. I'm honored by this," Britt said through tears, adding that he was told to drop by the Hospitality House that day to visit a patient. "I didn't know I was visiting so many people."
A crowd gathered to support Britt, who has visited, prayed with and comforted patients and workers for 34 years. Britt's daughter and son-in-law, Beth and David Bradford, and a friend, Covella Biggers, donated a total of $100,000 to Hospitality House and requested that the prayer room be named for Britt.
"It's just in honor of a giant among men – one of the greatest men I know," David Bradford said. "It's just ... a very appropriate place for his name to last forever."
Britt, who was a pastor before serving as a hospital chaplain, began consoling patients in 1978 when he worked as a full-time chaplain at the former city-county hospital.
He has encountered his share of tough situations, such as the sudden deaths of children. But he has also formed many, meaningful relationships, he told the Daily News.
"I'm just proud of the work and ministry of The Medical Center," he said. "We have a great staff, caring people, and it's just a joy to visit and see the staff and the people who come."
The Hospitality House opened more than a year ago as a place for families and caregivers to stay when visiting patients who are hospitalized for an extended period of time. With 12 private guest rooms, it's a service for many out-of-town visitors – so far, it has served people from 49 counties, 32 states and four countries.
And the prayer room – now the Chaplain James Britt Prayer Room – is an important part of the organization, hospital officials say.
"When you find you have an illness in your family, there's a spiritual need that typically needs to be met," said Cristi Pruitt, vice president of accounting and corporate controller for Commonwealth Health Corp., the parent company of The Medical Center.
It's "befitting," Pruitt said, to name the room after a man who has dedicated decades to prayer for the patients and family of the hospital.
"I've just been doing what I've been called to do," Britt said, as a long line of people waited to embrace him.
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Spotify introduces music to your social life [LO HAS CONSEGUIDO!!] - el 3/1/2012, 8:59 am
Today, September the 22nd, is a big day for everyone who loves music.
Music is one of the most social things there is. That's why for the past couple of years, we've been obsessed with what the next generation music service should look like.
We knew that the service had to be free to draw people away from piracy. Helping them to listen to even more music. To do that, we also knew that the service would have to be inherently social. There couldn't be a better place to do this than Facebook.
We're very excited to have been asked by Mark Zuckerberg to showcase this new experience at the f8 conference in San Francisco today. Take a look at these amazing new features in our video.
You'll now start seeing new music posts and play buttons all over your newsfeeds. Hit a play button and the music starts. Right there. Spotify fires up to give you a new soundtrack to your social life. Check out your new Music Dashboard and your real-time ticker to discover the music that's trending with your friends.
This integration with Facebook will help everyone to discover more free music than ever before. Thanks to our unrivalled, truly free service, users can just hit play to enjoy the music, no hassle, no gimmicks; month after month after month.
We hope many more people can enjoy the musical journeys that this integration will bring. Like the thrill of looking through a friend's music collection and finding a track that blows your mind. Or sending birthday playlists across the planet.
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I grew up in Chicago but far south of the downtown area. As a child and young adult we came into the city often for shopping and after high school dances and proms. I remember seeing Johnny Mathis at the Chez Paree after a school dance before he was ultra famous, going to the Empire Room after a prom and later on going to just about every college dance at some big hotel, even saw a very young Bob Newhart perform at his alma mater Loyola University.
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I grew up in Chicago but far south of the downtown area. As a child and young adult we came into the city often for shopping and after high school dances and proms. I remember seeing Johnny Mathis at the Chez Paree after a school dance before he was ultra famous, going to the Empire Room after a prom and later on going to just about every college dance at some big hotel, even saw a very young Bob Newhart perform at his alma mater Loyola University.
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- The Whimsical Gardener said...
I've never been to Chicago. Your photos capture it beautifully - it looks as if you had a wonderful day! The glass flowers were especially eye catching! Do you happen to know the artist's name?
- Sat Nov 06, 08:19:00 AM 2010
- Carolyn Gail said...
Great pics of our lovely city, Eileen. I love downtown Chicago as well and have many fond memories of my long career on Michigan Avenue.
Downtown has changed so much and I especially love the many plants and flowers that are everywhere.
- Sat Nov 06, 08:49:00 AM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Whimsical Gardener, the name of the store is Arts and Artisians at 108 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. You could probably contact them to find out the artist of the glass flowers in the window.
- Sat Nov 06, 09:58:00 AM 2010
Oh, I would love to go to chicago...I have quit a few feiends living there and seeing these beautiful photographs jsut remind me again how much I'd love to go. I've also heard that young people want to go there...it is a moving city with much culture!
And I love chagall's stained glass!!
- Sat Nov 06, 10:43:00 AM 2010
- Jennifer@threedogsinagarden said...
Great post! I have never been to Chicago, but have heard so many good things about it that I would love to go. I love Terry Evan's images of the prairies, as well as the beach image (such an interesting perspective!). It would have been nice to hear her talk on where she found her inspiration for these shots.
The blue Chagall windows are incredible!
I would love to try my hand at creating one of those glass sculptures that you show in the post...I have seen the glass paint at Michael's...hmm...my husband may kill me if I take up another craft!
- Sat Nov 06, 01:06:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Jennifer, I have been to Toronto, lovely city, reminded me a lot of Chicago.
Look up Terry Evans on the internet, she is quite a fascinating person. She does a lot of aerial shots now, works with all types of scientific people and has a couple of books out.
- Sat Nov 06, 01:27:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Carolyn,
I hope our new mayor (opps, I mean your new mayor) keeps all of this up. It's too bad they don't ccampaign as plant lovers - this would get them the vote!
- Sat Nov 06, 01:29:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Ronelle, you would love Chicago, very busy, like Paris and lots of good food from all different ethnicities.
- Sat Nov 06, 01:30:00 PM 2010
- Shirley said...
Thank you for sharing Terry's photos, I like the bison and praire landscape, and for your own. Chicago looks like a great city to visit and I love the beautification project. I wish more cities had mayors who cared to "green" their cities.
- Sat Nov 06, 03:08:00 PM 2010
- Shirley said...
PS to my previous comment, I too love Uptown Girl and Downtown! I remember Downtown playing on the radio(and was thrilled when it was played in the series LOST) while the smell of my mom's fresh baked bread wafted through the house. Great memories!
- Sat Nov 06, 03:12:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Thanks Shirley,
There are always lots of memories when I go downtown.
- Sat Nov 06, 03:59:00 PM 2010
Hi Eileen, What a nice trip to Chicago. Having never been it was nice to see it.
- Sat Nov 06, 09:31:00 PM 2010
- Karen said...
Hi Eileen, thank you for this post. We've been through Chicago several times but it's so nice to see it through the eyes of someone who knows it so well. I wish we had seen the 'Bean'...Carl would love to build something like that out of stainless. How cool. The prairie shots were amazing, too!
- Sun Nov 07, 08:46:00 AM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Thanks Grace, we were lucky we had such a nice day.
- Sun Nov 07, 12:45:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Thanks Karen, you would have loved those stained glass windows.
- Sun Nov 07, 12:45:00 PM 2010
- GardenJoy4Me said...
My goodness Eileen that was quite a journey ! and what sites to see .. the plantings in the city are very pretty and yes I would hope the same if a new mayor was taking over.
Ottawa and Toronto are beautiful cities .. I grew up at the west end of Ottawa .. the major museums there are outstanding .. so much to see and do it can be overwhelming.
It sounds like you had a wonderful outing : )
- Sun Nov 07, 02:00:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Joy, I have been to Toronto and it is a lovely city, a lot like Chicago.
- Sun Nov 07, 05:08:00 PM 2010
- Zoey said...
It's been a long time since I have been to Chicago. I once lived in Wheeling, Glenview and Mundelein. That seems like it was another life ago--way back in 1978-79.
The city looks different now. I remember going to the Sears Tower and wondering where the Sears store was! LOL.
Enjoyed the post.
- Sun Nov 07, 05:23:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Zoey, it is actually a lot prettier than in the past. There are many beautiful green areas with flowers and planters all along the streets.
- Sun Nov 07, 05:55:00 PM 2010
- Luna Miranda said...
each photo is amazing...thanks for taking me to Chicago. wonderful skyline. the aerial photography especially the beach shot is fantastic, and the glass art--oh, so beautiful!
- Sun Nov 07, 09:47:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Thanks for visiting Luna. Terry took that beach shot from an airplane, and the people on the beach contacted her later when they saw the photo.
- Mon Nov 08, 04:44:00 AM 2010
Dear Eileen, I have so enjoyed my visit to Chicago with you. A city about which I know very little. It certainly appears to be very dramatic in terms of architecture and, clearly much attention is being paid to municipal plantings. I know that I should love to see the Art Institue, which I understand to have a very fine collection.
- Mon Nov 08, 06:31:00 AM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Edith, I know you would like the greenery in Chicago. It has really changed a lot in the last twenty years with the influence of the current mayor.
- Mon Nov 08, 07:09:00 AM 2010
- Mary Anne said...
Hi Eileen: Your post on Chicago was fabulous....loved it. I also loved the post on The Holiday Market in Western Springs. I photographed it too! However, some of my shots a quite different! As for the Sally Weaver shot of her artwork.......I took almost exactly the same picture!
Miss your company! I am trying to get my profile picture on the blog and guess what (if you can imagine)I can't seem to get it done!
Also, Gatsby's Gardens refers to you as Garden Coach.......you didn't seem to mention Blogger Coach. Talk soon! and again Eileen, a beautiful post on Chicago.
- Mon Nov 08, 08:44:00 PM 2010
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Mary Anne, thanks for your kind words about the Chicago post. I am always amazed at how great our city looks when I see the photos.
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(b) Has been convicted of an offense resulting in imprisonment for more than 1 year. However, we may make an exception to this prohibition, if the nature of the conviction is such that selection of the applicant poses no risk to the beneficiary and the exception is in the beneficiary's best interest.
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Name and Address Change:
Q: I have gotten married and need to change my name?
A: Complete Document 190 (listed on Fax on Demand) and submit with a fee of $10.00.
Q: How do I notify your office of my personal address change?
A: You can notify this office in writing or use the Online Services on the Internet.
Q: My company name/address has changed?
A: Complete Document 180 (listed on Fax on Demand) and submit with the correct fee.
Q: How can I get a duplicate copy of my license?
A: Submit a request by letter with the fee of $10.00 to this office.
General Application:
Q: Is residency in South Carolina required to receive a license in the state?
A: No. Residency is not required for licensure.
Q: I have taken and passed the exam - what should I do?
A: Submit your application, score report sheet and fees to this office.
Q: How long does it take to process an application?
A: Applications are processed within 5 to 10 business days.
Q: Where can I obtain a copy of the License Law Booklet and Applications?
A: This information is listed on the Real Estate webpage. The web address is: http://www.llr.sc.gov/POL/REC/. or by calling this office at (803) 896-4400.
Mandatory Continuing Education:
Q: I am a non- resident licensee and have satisfied the requirements for MCE in my state. Do I need to take courses in South Carolina?
A: No, however, if your resident state does not require any MCE, you must take South Carolina courses.
Q: How will I know when I need to take the MCE?
A: By checking the expiration date on your license. You must complete CE before renewing.
Q: I need to check on my continuing education hours?
A: The Real Estate commission does not track CE hours for individuals, you only submit them if you receive an audit letter from us. Just keep your hours in a file.
Q: How many CE hours are required?
A: 8 hours of CE are required in a 2 year period. Look at the expiration date on your license and count backwards 2 years. (If it shows 6/30/2007, then you have to have completed 8 hours of CE from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2007) a minimum of 2 hours from a core area are required and 6 hours can be either core or elective hours.
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A: All courses approved by the real estate education department are assigned a course number and prefix of CEC for core hour and CEE for elective hours or DEE for distant education electives.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — You can finally close the door on the free agent summer of 2013 now that restricted free agent big man Nikola Pekovic has agreed to a five-year, $60 million deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves (as first reported by Marc Stein of ESPN.com and confirmed by Wolves boss Flip Saunders).
Pekovic was the last big name on the marquee without a deal this summer, a group headlined by now Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard and Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul.
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Pekovic emerged as a low-post force for the Timberwolves last season, averaging 16.3 ppg and 8.8 rpg while starting in all 62 games he played in last season. A skilled, 6-foot-11, 290-pounder, Pekovic is the ideal counterpart to pair with Love, whose range extends beyond the 3-point line. They'll form a dynamic inside-out big man duo for a Timberwolves team that has legitimate playoff aspirations next season.
Signing Pekovic was work Saunders needed to get done as well. After a busy summer that saw them add quality veterans like Corey Brewer, Chase Budinger, Kevin Martin and Ronny Turiaf, keeping Pekovic from unrestricted free agency next summer was an absolute must. Even more important, a deal with Pekovic gives the Timberwolves some much-needed security at the center position going forward.