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Internet Control StruggleOctober 14, 2005
If you've been following the news, you may be aware of the growing struggle over control of the internet. At issue: the United States wants to retain control, no one else wants to let them.
A real fear is that if the major players can't come to some sort of agreement, it could lead to country-specific segregation. The global nature of the net would crumble as national sandboxes prevent incoming or outgoing connections to other local networks, through active censorship or simply benign incompatibility.
But I guess there's a silver lining. With ICANN's moves of late being the approval of boneheaded top-level domains like .mobi, among others, I wouldn't be terribly upset were they replaced.
HA! And what about the US? "Think of the Children!" "RIAA" and "War on Drug/Porn/Whatever" right back at ya.
But the difference is that U.S. agencies go after the webservers. At issue here is the DNS system, the root servers. Currently one has to be careful where to put their webserver so as not to break that countries' laws, but securing a domain name isn't an issue.
The US' fear is that an international body would start restricting domain names and where they point. From what I've read, nations like China and Iran want international control (You know they'd love that, make their censorship a lot easier, eh?) and the EU is trying to be a go-between and get ICANN to remain in control but strip the US of it's power to alter the data on the DNS servers. Basically, if the US wants to, we can change the root DNS servers. The US wants this, the EU wants the US to give it up, and other nations want international control!
All I can say, is that if the UN takes control, we might as well look to replace the internet.
I don't think its a bad idea to do it just that its human nature (and animal nature) to rip stuff to shreds if they don't get their allotted shares. There is a real danger of this devolving to a push and point argument.
Umm why isn't DNS working right how it is right now again? I don't really understand.
There are many regimes in the world I'd prefer kept their toes out of it as well. So I guess its complicated and obviously some argument is going over my head.
I just see that people are wanting their share of something valuable, as usual. Why not just let DNS be? The US hasn't exactly done a shocker of a job have they?
But just my opinion I guess… (no I'm not American lol)
"Every country has flaws"
Yes, but the UN isn't a country. Like someone said, it's a place where dictators are a constituency, but their victims aren't. Look who's running the Human Rights committee, for one.
Now, the Europeans and the Americans can point at each others' free speech foibles, but they and the other liberals nations of the world have a lot more in common when it comes to free speech than with, say, China.
Let's talk about internationalizing the internet - but why involve the UN? There are lots of major, active international agreements that don't involved it. Why couldn't the US and some other free speech-loving countries set up an independent organization for managing the root servers, protecting the network infrastructure, and ensuring open communication across the network?
Ugh, typos. That should have been "they and the other liberal nations" and "agreements that don't involve it".
"HA! And what about the US? "Think of the Children!" "RIAA" and "War on Drug/Porn/Whatever" right back at ya."
The US doesn't censor domains, and has not censored any sites hosted in the US that abide by US law. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to prove that the US Government is actively trying to limit the information its citizens read on the net, unlike China, Iran or North Korea. I would also point out that in the three examples you posted there is no evidence to support the US closing web sites for anything other than infractions of the law. If you run a child porn site it gets shut down, if you post copyrighted music it gets shut down, if you post a site selling Weed via a shopping cart system it gets shut down… all if served within the US. As for porn, are you going to tell me US control over ICANN has made porn impossible or illegal to look at in the US?
I'm not for a one government monopoly on the root servers, however I will not support a changeover if the new managing body resembles the members of the UN Human Rights. China, Iran and North Korea have no right asking for control over a system they've been trying to censor or eradicate from their country since its inception. As for the rest of the western countries I'm for sharing, but first lay out in absolute terms how free speech will be protected from persecution on the net, then I'll sign off.
"Don't fix it if it's not broken."
The only way it is broken is that oppressive regimes such as China and Iran can't control things outside their borders. If a country is so worried about the US trying to destroy them by cutting their access, it is possible for these countries to setup backup root servers so that even without a hiccup their "internet" would still work inside their country. The US has shared the internet part of which was root servers for DNS with everyone and now they are saying we can't be in charge of what we created? I trust ICANN more than I do the UN to run DNS plain and simple.
Call me crazy, but wouldn't having one organisation/country control the internet defeat its purpose?
…and the continuing fight *against* the .xxx TLD that wouldn't be a concern if the DNS record were being controlled somewhere that wasn't waging a war on pornography :)
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True, but then you'd have to worry about the free speech violations of just about every other country in the world? You want China running the internet? Even most european countries have restrictions on hate speech. I for one don't want France or Germany deciding my website violates their backwards speech laws.
Right, let's recognize we have an international crowd in here and not let this devolve into nationalistic finger-pointing.
Every country has flaws, which nicely demonstrates why it's a good idea that no one country should be in charge.
The whole idea of category specific TLDs is flawed in my opinion. What if your company goes from providing .travel information to something else? Will you change your domain as a function of your service thereby breaking all links to your site? Stupid, stupid, stupid. It's about as bad as naming your CSS classes .greenText or URIs /team/bob/company_manual.html
As for the US wanting to retain control. I'm sure the NSA has something to do with that. After all, they donated land in New York to the UN so that NSA's eavesdropping would be easier.
Problem I have with giving the EU or the UN control over the internet is censorship. The UN human rights document is an example of how many countries think free speech is only a right as long as it is allowed by the overseeing authority (the UN in that case). I have no problem with more than one country working together to call the shots, but taking the total control away from the Us just because its the US isn't a good enough reason, and until we have a world wide internet bill of rights I won't support any unknown change.
"Every country has flaws, which nicely demonstrates why it's a good idea that no one country should be in charge."
That pretty much sums up my views too.
"Problem I have with giving the EU or the UN control over the internet is censorship."
HA! And what about the US? "Think of the Children!" "RIAA" and "War on Drug/Porn/Whatever" right back at ya.
Don't forget that the Bush administration prefers to privatize services whenever possible. Running ICANN via UN committee is anathema to them.
I personally think the idea of categorized TLDs is great. Much more organization, but at what cost? as for control over the internet, it needs to be a cooperative move.
I really think the UN should have the majority vote, as they say
> The US doesn't censor domains, and has not censored any sites hosted in the US that abide by US law.
Nonsense. One example off the top of my head would be the censorship of Google by USA courts in response to complaints by the Church of Scientology.
Take a look at the Reporters without Borders press freedom survey sometime. The USA is down below ~20th place or so. The USA is not a paragon of virtue when it comes to free speech. The only thing that's remarkable about the USA when it comes to free speech is how vocal its citizens are about it.
The people that are spreading fear about China taking over the Internet - please explain how China is going to singlehandedly wrest control of the servers from the UN and impose their will on the rest of the world.
Remember that the USA is a member state of the UN too (even if they don't pay their bills), and has just as loud a voice as China. I'm sure the USA can successfully put forward a case for freedom of speech even if China has their say too.
A move to maintain the DNS hierarchy by the UN is a move to give all countries an equal say in how it is run. I thought democracy was an American ideal?
This is a very timely argument.
Right now, Americans represents only 23.4% of the internet's world users. In fact Europeans represent 28.5% and Asians 34.2%! http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
This speaks volumes. Why should the minority group control what belongs to all? Let's make well thought-out decisions together and move away from hasty choices on issues like new TLDs (like .mobi, as Dave metnioned).
Gareth is right. (Just for non-Americans reading this the text of the First Amendment is available at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America#Amendment_I in case you were wondering.) Perhaps we need is an "Internet Constitution" that all countries can follow?
But even that "constitution" idea kinda annoys me. I hate restrictions on the internet, but perhaps it's a necessary evil.
Undoubdetly curious discussion unfolds here. Aside of the few hickly (bucolic?) responses from the both sides of the story we see spirited, yet knowledgeable debate. I might lack in the lay of it, but I'll chip in my sixpence out of sheer natural verbosity.
Clearly, the whole DNS system should be decentralized. Meaning not trading bad for worse, but completely removing authority (whichever that might be), physically duplicating servers across geographical networks, and deploying mechaninsm of maintenance providing clarity and consistency of operation. In effect, DNS (and consequently internet as a whole) should function as self-sustaining independent semantically horisontal system.
Whatever I wrote above–do not quote me on that for meself I am not sure what the hell I was talking about.
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Freedom of speech v. freedom of press? Sure, if you won't let opposition press in to cover your event, you wouldn't need to prosecite them, cause they don't have anything to say. Whatever the details, FCC can easily prosecute on any grounds if needed.
As for the US being "the land of the free", it puzzles me, why children in public schools obliged to pray to Christian god every morning? Why is it okay to wear "I love Jesus" shirt, but for wearing pentagram you will be suspended? I know how it goes–I am from Christian country myself (though secular by constitution of course) with all that implies, but it is hard to comprehend how intrusive it gets in the US.
By the way, I am still perplexed upon the fact that many school districts prohibit teaching (and prosecute teachers) evolutionary theory. It is XXI century after all, and such a barbarity…
If it quacks like a duck… the fact is, the USA passed a law making it illegal for Google to tell people where particular websites were. This is not new; 2600 were successfully prosecuted for the same thing, it's also essentially the same thing as the Napster case, which revolved around telling people who had what file.
The ability to take the laws to the Supreme Court is irrelevant; only people with lots of time and money to waste can do it, and even then the outcome is uncertain. The practical effect is that it doesn't matter if a law is unconstitutional or not, people are still overwhelmingly compelled to obey it. Do you really have freedom of speech when exercising it can ruin you? Does it matter to the average person that the DMCA is unconstitutional when even behemoths like Google back down from challenging it?
I also don't think drawing a distinction between freedom of the press and freedom of speech is a useful thing to do. Journalism is a form of speech, one of the most important forms of speech. Deliberately acting in such a way as to have a chilling effect on journalism is an attack on free speech.
Backup DNS servers don't solve policy problems.
No Amercian court ruled against Google when COS filed a DMCA complaint with Google; Google never challenged the COS. The government did nothing to censor xenu.net. They did nothing to protect them, either. You have to stand up for yourself if you want protection, and Google wasn't willing to spend money on xenu.net at the time. Xenu.net decided against bring a case against Google or the COS. DMCA has yet to be tested in Supreme Court in this regard. More to the point, Sean meant that the US government did not censor domains through DNS. The DOC did not order ICANN to prevent access to xenu.net.
I looked at Reporters with out Borders, and their complaints regard freedom of press, not freedom of speech. Those are two distinct rights – not the same thing. They cite attempts to pierce shield laws, selective granting of press passes, and the arrest of journalists who got caught up in protests they were covering. Not one of those complaints deals with restriction of speech. No journalist has been arrested for writing a story the government did not like. Obscenity laws are the only area in which the US directly censors expression. Even then, the US has always targeted hosting servers located within its borders. It has not deleted the DNS entries for those sites.
Justify the need for a change in DNS control structures that cannot be dealt with through the establishment of backup DNS servers in concerned countries, and the US might listen.
I should clarify, of course, that freedom of speech is not absolute in the US, nor is it freer than in a few other countries. You cannot scream fire in a crowded theater or threaten to kill someone. For more info on how US courts treat the issue, I would recommend findlaw's notes on the 1st Amendment.
I think the main thing the US dislikes when it comes to speech regulation within the EU is the tendency to regulate hate sppech and the like. Rather thatn decide where the line is, the US permits all of it. Britain is currently grappling with the issue of what is and is not hate speech in its new hate laws. France and Germany tend to be strict in this regard, and the US was disturbed by their attempts to regulate Yahoo on the matter.
Jim and TheUg,
I wrote out several paragraphs for point by point rebuttal on the speech press issues, but that consumes nearly four full comment allotments, so I will stay on topic. If you would like to hear more on those issues, I'll email it to you. Let us focus on DNS.
@ TheUg: Decentralization of DNS is good in principle, but difficult in practice. You need an authority to resolve conflicts; you will end up with chaos otherwise.
@ Jim: What are the policy problems? This is what people mean when they ask "How is the status quo broken?"
You acknowledge that backup DNS roots will solve the the problem of the US deleting a major domain, so what are your other concerns? How would you change DNS to fix them?
Syria says spam is their problem. How can you fix spam through DNS? It's not feasible to delist an ISP every time one their clients downloads a trojan. Brazil says it finds the .xxx domain morally offensive. That's okay; they shouldn't use it. That doesn't mean they should get to tell everyone else not to use it. Brazil also says all the good names in the top level domains are taken. They can easily solve the problem using a country code. It's how Aussies and the Chinese dealt with getting .com names for their own. CIRA is rather brutal when it comes to protecting the .ca domain from foreigners, but that gives Canadians a guaranteed place to reside on the net that is under their control. Other issues lie with IANA, not ICANN. Finally, that leaves Iran and China. They want more control over offensive content regardless of the country in which it resides. That raises sovereignty issues on which the US will not cede any ground.
Until we can justify changing a functional status quo, we should not change it. Please tell us your specific problems not already addressed, their significance, and how they cannot be solved in the current system. That will lay a foundation for further discussion.
Let me give you a likely scenario if the UN took control of ICANN. The first issue that will come before such a council will be the .tw domain. The UN formally adheres to the one China principal. Taiwan is not a country in the eyes of the UN, so China might demand the removal of the .tw domain from all DNS servers. How will you protect Taiwan's domain? The General Assembly does not think the ROC exists. The PRC has bullied or bought the weaker nations into this position. Even the US maintains ambivalence to prevent a possible nuclear conflict over the matter. If no one can veto on that council, Taiwan will lose it's domain. Thus, the first consequence of international control is the elimination of a democratic nation's domain. If any nation can veto, the council is hopelessly deadlocked. As a second scenario, consider a UN proposal for a universal tax and service fee on various domains to fund any number of UN projects. That could well be taxation without consent.
The UN doesn't care about what is right. It is a policy tool that makes compromises to avert wars. You do not let your blender do your laundry; it doesn't work – blenders are not designed to laundry. So, how do you handle these scenarios? What are the specifics?
History reminds me of four things it might be worth remembering in the course of this debate:
America('s military) built what became the Internet.
A majority of the world's backbone servers exist within US territory.
The UN has been, in the vast majority of its numerous endeavors, a long-term failure.
The more (so-called) liberal the governing institution, the higher and more extensive will be its involvement in and taxation of your life.
I dont agree with handing it over to the UN because, to me, they have made enough mistakes as it is. Many country's are thinking of backing out of it anyways. Its not like Bush listens to the UN, why will anyone when they have no power? I say leave it in American hands, not because we are best, but because it is working and we devloped the technology. You could compare this to giving away necular secrets to the UN to share with the rest of the world. It is just not right! Just my opinion though.
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Early signs show that Pasta was first created by civilisations in Western China almost 4000 years ago. Perhaps China should be in control over all the worlds Pasta operations, and decide which countries can receive Pasta and which will be left without….
Sure the internet was developed by one country, but it is used by the entire world, other countries should have a say in what happens with it, at least in my opinion.
The majority of backbone servers may exist in the US, however the majority of it's users exist in Asia and Europe, not the US.
Stating the the UN is a failure it just false in my opinion. Who knows how many wars and lives have been saved because of UN Peacekeeping forces, and how much information has been brought to our eyes because of the UN. I wouldn't be so quick to call it a failure. Perhaps you should be better educated in what a failure really is, I would recommend the "I'm feeling Lucky" result of "miserable failure" on Google just to start.
CNET reports that Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) has introduced Senate Resolution 273
"A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United Nations and other international organizations shall not be allowed to exercise control over the Internet."
Via fergie's tech blog
As a US citizen I don't understand the argument that we aren't entitled to a certain level of control over a structure which we created.
The US has never had any problem with freely offering things which we created for use by others. But just because large groups of users are outside the US does not negate our interest.
There are now many global users of the GPS system who use it for many critical functions. Does this mean that control of the GPS system should be taken away from the US and given to the UN?
Is that a logical argument?
I won't argue with the fact that the world users now outnumber US users. Usage of a system does not infer ownership or control. The traffic of all these non-US users is only possible because their networks are referenced through centralized US Root servers (10 out of 13). This critical infrastructure clearly belongs to the US.
Can anyone present an argument for the US to GIVE AWAY critical infrastructure that it owns and maintains?
I most definitely agree that we should create forums for all users (individuals/ governments /etc..) to have a say and a place at the table. But it's not logical to believe that we would be willing to give up the major share of control over something we created.
Within the structure of the UN and the ITU we could be blocked from change by a single vote from Togo in Africa. Would we then have to pay-off underdeveloped nations to allow change and development of the internet?
Sorry this was longer than I expected…
Just things to think about…
Thanks for listening..
Evan Veal
he internet is not free. Last time I checked with my broadband bill it was about $30.00/month and about $300.00 for cpu.
If an International body took over the internet are you saying that all the domain names being used today be invalid…the problems would still remain for country's who were slow in seeing the vision of the net. The internet as we see it today is not as universal as we like to see it. China and Cuba restrict wedpages and if if some one in North Korea wants to buy my product from my website can they really expect receive it.
Let those country who object from the present system break away and find there own solutions. In the long run the will again merge together in the global economy.


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Puzzles are obviously a great activity for this but so are manipulative toys such as blocks, duplos, and magnetix. As it grows, a child's brain allows hand-to-eye coordination skills to be more and more refined. Toys designed to encourage drawing, coloring, cutting, batting, throwing and catching all boost hand-to-eye coordination.
Button a shirt. Tie a shoelace. Write with a pencil. These are a few of the daily tasks that depend on the dexterous skill of our hands. Although they may seem like simple gestures to adults who perform them almost as second nature, the development of hand skills and eye-hand coordination from birth is a complex process.
Many factors influence the development of hand skills including cognition, vision, touch and movement (also known as somatosensory systems). All of these variables affect the development of hand skills and a young childs ability to play, care for themselves and achieve in school.
Overall human development progresses from the head down and from the trunk outward. In other words, skilled use of one's hands and fingers is the last in a long process of development. Improving hand-eye coordination can keep the reflexes keen and the best way to do that is by practice. The more you use these varied skills, the better they get. So to help your child learn pre-literacy skills and improve their learning abilities when they begin school, use some of these activities to stimulate their hand eye coordination.
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Purchase a large rubber ball that is easy for little fingers to bounce on a hard surface.
Have your child and yourself sit a small distance from each other, roll a ball between you.
Using a plastic container suitable to ball size, throw the ball to your child encouraging them to catch it in the container.
Purchase a baseball bat suitable for toddlers, these are usually plastic. Using a small plastic ball throw the ball to your child, encouraging them to hit it with the bat.
2)Climbing and playground activities.
Encourage your child to climb and go down slides.
Allow them to explore the playground independently.
Encourage your child to roll, run and tumble.
3)Improving hand eye coordination with toys.
Kids should be encouraged to use their toys imaginatively.
Building blocks teach children to build and stack.
Beads can be used to sort out in color and shape (over 3 years old)
Encourage your child to string dry pasta on a string or beads.
Your child's dolls and matchbox cars also stimulate early learning.
4)Using games and puzzles
Jigsaw puzzles are great for children to learn hand eye co-ordination.
Games for matching pairs.
Memory games with picture cards.
Eye Spy games, having your child find something within a book.
Purchase a toddler hand held computer game.
You can purchase computer games or visit safe web sites for your children, these can be educational and are great for teaching mouse and computer skills.


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Pinal County Supervisor Pete Rios is pleased to announce that the Waste Disposal Voucher Program for 2014 will begin Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2014.
The vouchers are a replacement for the free dump days that used to take place throughout the San Pedro Valley area. Residents can obtain their voucher at the Board of Supervisors office located at 118 South Catalina Avenue in Mammoth.
To receive your free waste disposal vouchers you must bring a current utility bill with name and service address imprinted to provide proof of residence. If you have more than one residence, you can only receive vouchers for your primary residence.
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Please remember that the person who obtains the voucher must be present when redeeming it at the landfill or transfer station.
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The Snapshot wrote:bhaw wrote:And if you want to point out that your opinion of MAF changed because he started playing better (while still talking down on people who held a negative opinion of DB when the team sucked out loud), then instead of being uniformed, you can be reclassified as hypocritical.
Not hypocritical at all. I simply said Fleury stunk in a stretch where the GA was being pushed as the reason to fire Bylsma. Actually dead on. Fluery and Vokoun both started playing better and in a few games of the streak made 30-35 saves. There were games before the streak where they were surrendering 2 bad goals a game, including the big comeback against the Flyers.
I never asked for Fleury to be benched, fired or traded. That would have been uninformed.
The folks who wanted Bylsma fired were reactionary and uninformed. Its not talking down, it is pointing out how extreme and uninformed the whole thread was. The thread was started by a troll and many followed when they were sitting at #2 in the conference and NO GM in the league would have made that move. Simple.
Truth - this exit.
Your definition of uninformed is uninformed. As is you definition of reactionary. But please go on about how you never made reactionary posts about fleury and you knew all. If you want to group all opinions into one pool, you are indeed uninformed of how to create an argument. Fleury wasn't the reason the team was giving up tons of goals, at least the only.
If you can sit he and say the d scheme is the same as 2 months ago, there is nothing else to say. You aren't watching but rather perusing forums for your opinions.
But please tell us more about your totally reasonable opinions on fleury. Massive lol there.


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10:30am Spanish Knot Bracelet - Beginner $40 - Instructor: Steph
May 29, 2018 –
Spanish Knot Bracelet
Cost: $40 (materials included)
Level: Beginner
This exotic knot was brought back from the beaches of Spain by our shop owner, Karen, and has been a huge hit! You will learn the basic Spanish knot using leather cord and incorporate metal spacers to create a bracelet with an adjustable button-and-loop closure. After class, you'll want to use this versatile knot in all kinds of applications -- try using them in your leather wrap bracelets in place of regular knots for a designer touch!
This project may not be completed in class. All classes use only the kits and materials provided, with no exceptions. Project colors may vary according to availability.
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Elementary Einstein
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein revolutionized the way scientists think about space and time. "Elementary Einstein" takes you on a tour of his surprising ideas and their coolest applications.
In his special theory of relativity, Einstein showed that time and length are not as absolute as everyday experience would suggest: Moving clocks run slower, and moving objects are shorter. Those are just two of the unusual properties of Einstein's world! Another consequence of special relativity is the most famous formula of all: E=mc², stating that two physical quantities which physicists had defined separately, namely energy and mass, are in fact equivalent.
In Einstein's general theory of relativity, space and time become even more flexible. "Your mileage may vary," and so may the time intervals you measure, depending on where and when you are. This flexibility has an analogue in the geometry of surfaces like that of a sphere - there is a curvature of space and time. Distorted space and time influence the way that material objects or light move. In fact, there is a direct connection to the cosmic interaction that holds the universe together, makes the earth orbit the sun and keeps our feet on the ground: gravity.
Einstein's theory of space, time and gravity predicts a number of new phenomena. Distortions of the geometry of space should propagate into the depths of space as so-called gravitational waves. If enough mass is concentrated in a given location, the perfect geometrical prison should form - a region called a black hole. No object that enters such a region can ever escape! In addition, there are the big bang models, which form the foundation of modern cosmology - the study of the universe as a whole, its structure and evolution.
General relativity is the foundation of modern astrophysics and cosmology. But there is another physical theory at least as fundamental: quantum theory. Our section Relativity and the quantum tells you what happens when you combine quantum theory and Einstein's special relativity: the result is modern particle physics, the study of the most elementary constituents of matter. The same section takes you right to the frontiers of today's physics - more concretely, to one of its most persistent unsolved problems: There's still no complete theory of quantum gravity, i.e. no theory that unites Einstein's general relativity with the laws of the quantum world.
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Righteous Aglaida (Aglae) of Rome - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 4
You fervently followed the way of the martyrs / Confessing Christ before unbelievers, O Boniface. / You gave your body to modest Aglae / As an imperishable treasure. / Healing and mercy flow from it for the world.
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Abu Dhabi GP 2012
Saturday Team Quotes
Red Bull-Renault
Mark Webber (2nd, 1:40.978): "I'm pleased with that, it was a good qualifying and I felt happy with the car. The track temperatures moved around from the afternoon to this evening, so you have to be careful how the car performs, but I felt comfortable in all three sessions and got a good momentum. McLaren were strong, but we're in a good position and can have a good race from there."
Sebastian Vettel (3rd, 1:41.073): "Third in Q3 was a good effort, but I should have done a bit better on the final lap. I had a little mistake in the final sector of my last flying lap, but it was still good to be third. I'm not sure what the issue was at the end, I was just told to switch off the car."
Regarding starting tomorrow's race from the pit lane: "One of the best ski jumpers of all times once said 'Every chance is an opportunity and as far as we are concerned there are still plenty of chances tomorrow'."
Christian Horner, Sporting Director: "During the slow down lap following the final run of Q3, Renault instructed to immediately stop Sebastian's car on the circuit due to an issue with the fuel system. After speaking with the stewards, who accepted the situation of force majeure for technical reasons for the car to be stopped, unfortunately, for reasons yet to be fully understood, 850ml of the required one litre was pumped out of the car following post race checks. As a result, the FIA has excluded Sebastian from qualifying and we will withdraw the car from Parc Ferme in order to investigate further. Therefore Sebastian will start from the pit lane for tomorrow's race. We will need to make the most of Mark's strong front-row grid position and Sebastian will have a busy evening ahead of him."
Lewis Hamilton (1st, 1:40.630): "Those extra three-tenths came from my family! Our car works incredibly well around here. Our aero package really suits this track; the set-up was perfect, and everything came together perfectly for qualifying. My lap felt really great ' I enjoyed it so much. I love this track! Still, I'm realistic: the race tomorrow is going to be tough. At the start, it's down to the team to make sure the clutch performs perfectly because the getaway will be incredibly important. Our race pace is very strong, but so is Red Bull's ' and staying ahead will be tough, particularly with the double DRS zones. I really want to finish on a high for Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. I'll give it everything I've got tomorrow."
Jenson Button (6th, 1:41.290): "I shouldn't really be starting this far back. All weekend, I've been pretty happy with the car, but, for some reason, we just couldn't find the pace in qualifying ' and we don't know why. Obviously, our car is very quick around here ' Lewis put it on pole by quite a margin ' so there's some more time to find. While starting sixth will make the race more difficult, there are two good DRS overtaking zones, so hopefully there'll be plenty of overtaking. Also, our race pace has looked good all weekend, so I'm still feeling optimistic."
Martin Whitmarsh, Team Principal: "Lewis drove brilliantly in qualifying here in Abu Dhabi today ' he was quickest in Q1, Q2 and Q3 ' and pole position was never really in doubt, was it? It was the 25th pole of his Formula 1 career ' all of them scored in Vodafone McLaren Mercedes cars ' and he's now perfectly positioned to drive to victory tomorrow. Having said that, you get no points for pole position in Formula 1, so we don't intend to get carried away. Equally, there's a lot of hard work for us to do between now and flag-fall at the end of tomorrow's race, and we never under-estimate our opposition. But we've got a good race car, and Lewis loves this circuit. Jenson is understandably a little disappointed with qualifying, but he's a truly fantastic racer and he can still mount a serious challenge from sixth place on tomorrow's starting grid. Moreover, his long-run pace was good yesterday ' so, like Lewis, he'll certainly be one to watch when the five red lights go out on the startline gantry."
Fernando Alonso (7th, 1:41.582): "In all three free practice sessions, we were always around this position, so it would have been too optimistic to hope for more in Q3: a place between fifth and eighth was within our expectations going into the session and that's where we are. I did almost the same time on three occasions between Q2 and Q3, which means there was nothing more to come. I am pleased with the work we have done today, because we squeezed every last drop of performance out of the car. The updates we brought here have improved our performance but the others have not been relaxing on the sofa watching television while twiddling their thumbs...Usually, Saturday is the day we suffer the most, while on Sunday things always go better: let's hope that will also be the case this time. It's also true that with so little tyre degradation, the strategic choices are much more limited and so too the opportunities to make up places. We know that in the three remaining races, we must score fourteen points more than Vettel and that is our one and only objective."
Felipe Massa (9th, 1:41.723): "This is definitely a rather difficult and complicated weekend, at least up until tonight. We were hoping to be able to start a bit further up, at least on the front three rows of the grid. In Q3, I opted to run a different programme to my team-mate, partly because I only had one set of new Options available. Looking back, one could say that was not the best choice, but it's always easy to be wise with hindsight. I did not have all the updates we brought here: that was definitely not great, but looking at Fernando's result, it didn't make a difference. On the last lap I had a bit of oversteer in one corner which cost me a few hundredths: maybe I could have been eighth but it would not have changed much. Honestly, today it would have been hard to do more than this. Let's hope that tomorrow, thanks to a race pace that is traditionally our strong point, we can make up some places. This circuit seems to suit some cars particularly well: the McLaren was not this quick in the last three races, but here Hamilton took pole really smoothly."
Stefano Domenicali, Team Principal: "Obviously we are not happy, in fact we are very disappointed with this result. We were unable to give our drivers a car with which they could compete for the front rows of the grid, despite all our best efforts here at the track and back at the factory in Maranello. It's true that in the race we have almost always seen that the gap to the best is reduced, but we can't always hope for exceptional performances like the one Fernando produced last Sunday in India. However, it's crazy to see how things have changed in just a week, with the pecking order varying from track to track by half a second. But now there's no point crying over spilt milk: we will just roll up our sleeves and concentrate on preparing for tomorrow's race. I often say it: the points are handed out on Sunday and the sums will be done at the end of the season. We have a duty to do our utmost in every area and there can be absolutely no doubt about that."
Pat Fry: "All I can do is repeat what our boss has said: we are disappointed that we did not give our drivers a sufficiently competitive car. We had brought various updates here, some only fitted to Fernando's car, because we do not yet have enough of them for both. Unfortunately, the whole package did not work the way we had expected before coming here, at least relative to the progress that the other teams have made. Both Felipe and Fernando did the maximum they could: unfortunately they had already reached the limit in Q2, which explains why it's not by chance that Fernando did practically the same time three times in a row, while the others raised the bar in Q3. It's clear that the McLarens, especially Hamilton, seem out of reach this weekend, but all the same, we were hoping to start from higher up the grid. Now we must prepare as well as possible for the race. We know we can count on a good pace and on a top speed which will allow us to overtake. We will try and make up as many places as possible and to make the most of a slightly different grid order to the one we have seen in recent races."
Mercedes GP
Nico Rosberg (8th, 1:41.603): "Qualifying worked out well for us today as P8 was our target and we were able to achieve that position. I'm ahead of a Ferrari and a Lotus so that's a good step, and we have made some improvements with our set-up work this weekend. Thanks to my mechanics today who did a great job to fix an issue with the brakes just before qualifying and make sure that the car was ready in time. It won't be an easy task for us to move up the field tomorrow but I'm looking forward to the race and to seeing what we can achieve."
Michael Schumacher (14th, 1:42.289): "My qualifying did not exactly go according to plan today. We changed our approach a little for the last run in Q2, and then I did not properly make use of it in the first sector and particular in turn one. So we are not quite where we would want to have qualified but I will certainly try to make the best out of my starting position tomorrow."
Ross Brawn, Team Principal: "A good qualifying session for Nico today, considering the car that we have at the moment. He drove very well, and the team did a good job to get him out at the right time and maximise our potential. We squeezed as much performance out of the car as possible today, and eighth place is a small improvement on recent performances. It was a little frustrating for Michael as a small mistake on his quick lap in Q2 prevented him from finishing higher up the field. But overall, a more positive day for where we are with the car, and we will wait to see what happens in the race tomorrow."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director: "A good lap from Nico in the final qualifying session this evening. He had only one opportunity and his lap time is about six-tenths closer to championship leader Vettel than at the last couple of races. 0.021 seconds separate Nico from seventh placed championship contender Alonso. Michael looked quite strong on used options but could not improve his lap time after a small mistake. Congratulations to Lewis on his 25th pole position in a McLaren Mercedes and compliments to our partner team - well done to them for getting the best possible job done on a Saturday."
Kimi Raikkonen (5th, 1:41.260): "Qualifying was good. The car hasn't felt fantastic all weekend but we decided we weren't going to change the car's set-up from where it was for the last race. It was the right choice because in the end the circuit came to us in qualifying where the car was the best it has been so far here. We'll give tomorrow our best shot; Let's see if we can make a good start to get right behind the Red Bulls, and then we'll see what happens after that."
Romain Grosjean (10th, 1:41.778): "It wasn't a great qualifying lap for me today, and P10 is not where we want to be on the grid. In the last run in Q3 I had no grip so wasn't able to find more pace. The car had felt fine before that and we looked good through the other qualifying sessions. It just means I have some more work to do in the race and I think there's more to come from me and the car."
Alan Permane, Chief Race Engineer: "Overall a good performance from the team. We are happy with our achievements today, however we could have possibly managed even more with both drivers. Fifth on the grid is very good for Kimi and means we should be well placed for tomorrow. Romain was looking set for a strong lap too, matching Kimi for the first two sectors, but he lost half a second on the final sector; we'll be looking at what went wrong there. As has been the trend this season, we're confident in terms of where our race pace should be relative to our opposition. We completed a promising long run on Friday afternoon; we have no problems or issues with tyre wear, warm-up, or anything like that so there are no reasons why we should not have a good evening tomorrow. We've qualified further up the order with Kimi which should certainly help his race. Overtaking is slightly easier here, however Romain will have his work cut out. That said, he completed some nice overtaking moves last time out, so let's hope for the same here."
Force India-Mercedes
Nico Hulkenberg (11th, 1:42.019): "I expected a bit more from today, but it seemed that our car was no so competitive in the cooler temperatures because I felt much happier during final practice in the sunny conditions. So maybe the lower temperatures caught us out. I will start from eleventh, just one position away from the points, and I have a free choice of tyres so hopefully we can use that to our advantage to come away with some points."
Paul di Resta (13th, 1:42.218): "I've been struggling with the balance and the car has been quite difficult to drive this weekend, so it was always likely to be quite a tough qualifying session. Our long run pace hasn't looked too bad but I'm just struggling to get the ultimate performance from the car. We're still in a reasonable position to try and score points and I'm feeling comfortable in the new chassis. We will play the long game tomorrow because I think it's likely to be one of those races where tyres will probably last longer than expected."
Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal: "After final practice we were probably feeling quite optimistic of getting at least one car into Q3, but it seems that the cooler conditions this evening didn't play into our hands. Nico was just a tenth away from making the top ten, while Paul was not far behind, and that was about where our performance level was today. I think we have a good race car and both drivers were very consistent during their long runs yesterday so there's every reason to hope we can be strong tomorrow. We've got the flexibility with the strategy on both cars and will be targeting points in the race."
Sergio Perez (12th, 1:42.084): "My last lap was a good one and I think this is just about the maximum possible for us here. Q3 today wasn't within reach, although yesterday I hoped it would be. I have confidence in our race pace and believe we will be able to score points tomorrow."
Kamui Kobayashi (16th, 1:42.606): "I have been struggling with the balance of the car since we got here. We did a lot of changes and managed to improve it to a certain extent, but I still had problems with the front brakes locking. This was also the reason for the mistake on my final flying lap in Q2. I hit the brakes, the front wheels locked and that was it. I think in race conditions we should be better, but it won't be easy to improve. The circuit allows for overtaking, but you also need to have the speed for it."
Monisha Kaltenborn, Team Principal: "We know this is a challenging track for us and we have experienced issues throughout the weekend on our low fuel runs. This result is not a surprise for us, but at the same time we have seen our long run pace is good and now we have to make the most of it during the race."
Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "Today was all about the field being so tight. All in all we had hoped to put at least one car in the top ten, but we didn't make it. Apart from that I think there is still some work to do to have the best possible race tomorrow. It was kind of a normal day, everything went okay, but the performance was not totally satisfactory."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Daniel Ricciardo (17th, 1:42.765): "So far, it's been a harder weekend for us than we had expected. We definitely made progress today, compared to where we were on Friday, which is positive, but in the end it was not enough to move us higher up the grid. Everything went smoothly on my side of the garage, apart from losing a lap on the Prime, when my headrest was moving and I had to come in to have it fixed. I think this motivated me to then do two really good laps and the pace on the Option was okay, showing we had made progress again, not just from yesterday, but also from this morning. However, we are not where we want to be. Strategy will be a key to having a good race tomorrow and like in India a one stop could be possible for some cars."
Jean-Eric Vergne (18th, 1:44.058): "It's quite frustrating to fail to make it to Q2 today. We have been struggling all weekend with understeer and we are still trying to do our maximum and I was pushing a lot. We really only had one lap to see where the balance was this afternoon and the car seemed to be going the other way towards oversteer and I made a mistake. That doesn't mean I will have to fight the car all the time tomorrow, because there are still things we can do like playing with the front flap and tyre pressures to improve the situation for the race but it's going to be a tough night tomorrow."
James Key, Technical Director: "We had a troublesome Friday, struggling with the balance on both cars, so the team did a good job to come with some changes that produced an improvement in today's Free Practice. We moved in a stronger direction and the balance of the car is now far more driveable for both drivers. However, we really only had the three runs this morning so maybe there were further steps we could have taken if we'd had more runs. I think the outcome of qualifying was unfortunate for us: in Q1, Jean-Eric's lap was looking pretty good and he was on course to get to Q2, but he spun at Turn 20 and we will have to work out why. That effectively ended his session as he was on his new set of Softs at the time. Daniel made it to Q2, but we lacked a bit in the first corner and then in sector 3, which is downforce dominated. From what we saw on Friday our long run pace was not too bad and the balance of the cars is certainly biased towards a race configuration. The tyre situation is a big unknown and so there could be some interesting calls in terms of strategy on Sunday. Therefore we will be trying to play that card correctly."
Pastor Maldonado (4th, 1:41.226): "It was a difficult session, especially in Q2 as we were on the limit in P10, but I saw the potential in the car. We then found a great balance in Q3 and I'm happy that we are back to looking strong again. I think we showed throughout all the weekend that we are competitive and I did my best in qualifying. I'm really happy for the team, for myself and looking forward to the race tomorrow. Points are very important for us so I will be pushing to the maximum."
Bruno Senna (15th, 1:42.330): "I never want to be out of the top ten in qualifying but this weekend we have had a few problems, so that is how it is. Hopefully tomorrow the car will be quick in the race as we have a competitive car. We'll work hard tomorrow and will still be trying to get into the points. For sure it is a track with some overtaking opportunities with the DRS so hopefully we can make some use of that and use it to our advantage."
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: "Pastor has been very strong all weekend showing good race pace on Friday. We worked hard on the qualifying balance throughout the weekend which ultimately paid off today with Pastor delivering an excellent fourth in Q3. Bruno has found it a bit more difficult this weekend. His first run in qualifying was hampered by a car problem that was quickly fixed prior to his second run but unfortunately he didn't quite have the pace to transition into Q3, finishing 15th in what is a tight grid."
Heikki Kovalainen (19th, 1:44.956): "I'm pretty pleased with my final lap but I know there was more pace in the car. My first run on the medium tyres was ok but on the second run on the softs I had a problem with the DRS that meant I wasn't able to really attack the high speed corners and that cost me a bit of time. Despite that I think we're looking ok for tomorrow. The balance feels better with the lower track temperatures we had for quali and that'll most likely be the same tomorrow for the race, so hopefully I can have another good start and see how hard we can push the cars ahead."
Vitaly Petrov (21st, 1:45.151): "Honestly I'm a little bit disappointed with where I've ended up in quali today because I thought the car would be a bit quicker than it was. We had a slightly tricky FP3 and tried a couple of setup options to find a good balance and when I went out for my first run in Q1 it didn't really feel like I could push. It felt better on the softs and on my fastest lap I was looking good up to turn 17 but a bit of traffic after that held me up just enough to cost me time. The good thing is that the car definitely felt better when the track temperatures had dropped a bit so I think we'll be ok tomorrow."
Pedro de la Rosa (23rd, 1:45.766): "We completed a good practice and qualifying session. I was comfortable in the car and I'm sure that I could have improved by a couple of tenths but surely the rest could have too. The car was running well and we had no problems with the temperature of the brakes or the engine at a circuit like this one which is so hot, so I'm happy. I think we've got good pace for tomorrow's race and the first objective is to get off to a good start and keep close to the Marussias. We should try to go for one stop, hope for the rear tyres to hold out and try and put some pressure on our rivals."
Narain Karthikeyan (24th, 1:46.382): "It was a tough qualifying session for me. It's my first time racing in Abu Dhabi and, being such a technical circuit, I'm finding it tougher than expected. I didn't manage to string together a good lap; I was running well on the first set of tyres but with the second set I found traffic and the rear tyres wore out before I could improve my time. Although I'm not entirely comfortable at this circuit, tomorrow I will give everything like always to try and put in a good performance and finish the race."
Toni Cuquerella, Technical Director: "The aerodynamic improvements as a result of the new rear wing and the new engine air intake have given a good result and the difference with our main rivals has reduced. It's also important that at such a tough circuit we haven't experienced problems with the temperature of the brakes or the engine. In qualifying it was important to find a clean lap and heat the front tyres well. Both drivers did a good job with the first set of tyres but Narain was unable to make the most of his second set. In any case, we're satisfied to see that we're close and that, with the data we extracted yesterday, we have a good race pace. The tyre degradation isn't too high so the race strategy will be two-stop or even one."
Charles Pic (20th, 1:45.089): "I am really very happy with my qualifying session today. I had a very good car; the balance was almost perfect. I lost a little bit of time in the second sector of my quick lap and that is how Kovalainen was able to get ahead. I have to be happy with the lap though as it represents my best qualifying result of the season, so a great result for me and the Team. I have to say thanks to my car crew because they worked very late last night, but I hope today was some reward for their efforts. I am now looking forward to the race tomorrow; the start should be quite interesting with the cars around me. I also hope to be able to make the same progress as we did in India and keep improving through the whole race. The objective is again to stay in touch with the Caterhams."
Timo Glock (22nd, 1:45.426): "Not a bad day overall but a disappointing end when it counted unfortunately. This morning, at the start of FP3, we struggled a little, but at the end we arrived at a good set-up. We carried this through to qualifying and seemed to have good momentum all the way through until the last, most important, lap when his car had no grip. Until then we were fighting hard with the Caterhams, so it's a little disappointing. So now we will have to go through the usual analysis tonight and see what we can find for tomorrow."
John Booth, Team Principal: "Today was another important step towards achieving our goals for this season and a fantastic achievement for Charles, which underlines his impressive development this season. His lap time represents the smallest gap we have had to Caterham in qualifying so far, at just 0.1s. Today's result is a credit to the excellent teamwork we have demonstrated here in Abu Dhabi, as the weekend has been less than straightforward - for the mechanics in particular. Today is an excellent reward for all their efforts. As for Timo, we have seen many times that the tyres are extremely sensitive and this evening our main focus will be to understand the sudden lack of grip he encountered on his final lap. He had some good high fuel runs in FP2, so I'm sure he will take heart in the fact that he should be able to make good progress tomorrow. With both Charles and Timo lining up alongside our direct competitors on the grid, this will be our best chance of potentially out-racing at least one of them, given that we have already shown in recent weeks that our race pace is significantly better than our qualifying pace. We're looking forward to it!"


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Interview with Teddy Thompson
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It's rough to make it in the music business when everyone figures you only got your foot in the door because both your parents held it open for you. In the case of Teddy Thompson, whose parents are British folk legends Richard and Linda Thompson, it's a terribly unfair assessment, indeed. Teddy did his time backing his father on a few tours, as well as spending time as part of Rosanne Cash's road band. By the time he got around to releasing his debut album in 2000, it hardly mattered who his mom and dad were; Teddy was quite an accomplished musician in his own right. Bullz-Eye had the opportunity to chat with Teddy about his belated sophomore effort, Separate Ways (probably not a Journey reference), his famous parents, his love of the Everly Brothers and "Batman," and his feelings on breaking America via radio. (Let's just say it ain't exactly love.)
Teddy Thompson: Hi.
Bullz-Eye: How are you?
TT: Good, how are you?
BE: Not bad. Well, I love the new album…
TT: Thank you.
BE: I guess this is your second full-length release…
TT: Yep.
BE: …but your first for Verve Forecast.
TT: Yeah.
BE: What happened with Virgin Records? Was that just a one-album deal?
TT: Um, no, no, no. It was… (Laughs nervously) You know. They dropped me.
BE: Oh. Eek.
TT: The usual. So, um, yeah, it's not an unusual situation. It wasn't great. A whole new bunch of people came in and everybody was fired, and they cut a big part of the roster.
BE: With the new album, what's the so-called "emphasis track" that's being pushed to radio?
TT: (Dismissively) Your guess is as good as mine; singles on the radio are a joke. I think, at the moment, the next one they're pushing is "Altered State," but…erm, can I get you to hold on just a second?
BE: Sure.
Teddy's muffled voice can be heard as he talks to someone else in the room with him.
TT: I'm sorry about that.
BE: No problem. I was just going to observe that I'm partial to "I Should Get Up," but I didn't know if that was something that was being pushed as a single or not.
TT: That was actually the last single…the first single here in the States, the current single in the UK…but I think they're about to come out with "Altered State" here. It's a confusing thing, the single world. It's so…radio's such a…jeopardy.
BE: I was going to say, I was sensing something less than happiness about radio in America, which I'm not terribly surprised by.
TT: It's not even a lack of happiness. I just feel very…it doesn't really pop up on my radar. I mean, they put a lot of effort into it, but it's such a shot in the dark that I tend to not even think about radio. I just sort of mosey along, doing other things, and if something happens at radio, it would be a huge surprise and a nice bonus, but I don't count on it at all.
BE: I stumbled upon the cover of the Everly Brothers' "Take a Message to Mary" – a duet with your mother, Linda – that appears as a hidden track on Separate Ways. I walked out of the room after "Frontlines" (the last song listed on the disc), and when I came back in, there it was.
TT: Oh, yeah…
BE: Why did you decide to make it an unlisted bonus track? Did you just decide that you wanted to include it, but it didn't fit in with the rest of the album?
TT: Yeah, pretty much. I did it on my first album as a bonus track…an Everly Brothers track again, with Emmylou Harris…and it's just that the Everly Brothers was my first big musical passion when I was a kid. It was the first thing that I really loved, and I have a real soft spot. And it's a nice duet, so I just wanted to do it. And, yeah, all the rest are my songs, so it doesn't really fit in with the rest of the record, so it's just an excuse to put it on there.
BE: So I take it your mom and dad were playing the Everly Brothers around the house all the time when you were growing up?
TT: Uh, well, there was a tape in the car or something, and it was just one of those things I heard. But it was the first kind of musical awareness that I had about something I really liked.
BE: I know this wasn't the first time you'd done so, since you co-produced and appeared on her 2000 album, but how was it working with your mother on this cover?
TT: It was great! It was a very last minute thing to do – the record was pretty much done – but it was great. A nice thing to do, both personally and professionally.
BE: Were you friends with Rufus and Martha Wainwright before they showed up on Separate Ways? Were there, like, Thompson/Wainwright cookouts every summer?
TT: (Chuckles) Well, we've been friends for awhile. I've been friends with Rufus and Martha for about ten years, and we met through our parents, but we hadn't been friends when we were kids…so, no, none of that! But, yeah, we have been friends for awhile.
BE: And I know you're on the "Brokeback Mountain" soundtrack, dueting with Rufus on a cover of "King of the Road"…
TT: Yep.
BE: …and you've also got one of your own tracks on there. How did you come to be a part of that soundtrack? Did they approach you, or…
TT: Yeah, actually, it was my record label that put out the soundtrack! (Laughs) I had an inside edge. But, um, yeah, they had approached Rufus, and it just made sense that, since we were friends, we should do something together.
BE: I saw your dad play at an arts festival in Bath in, like, 1992…and when I told a friend of mine that I was going to be chatting with you, she said she'd seen you play with him on a previous tour.
TT: Yeah!
BE: Was it hard for you to step out of his shadow and into your career in music? I mean, I know he's on both of your albums, so it's not like you're that far out of the shadow, but was it hard to make the leap?
TT: No, not really, because I don't think of it very much that way. Yeah, I've played with him, and I have him on my records, and the same with my mom. It's kind of a folky tradition, the playing together and singing together. It's more collaboration than competition, you know.
BE: I was on your MySpace page, and there were two influences you listed that didn't ring a bell, so I looked them up. How did you come to be introduced to the Comedian Harmonists?
TT: Um…I can't remember. I think through Joe Boyd, who's an old friend and, y'know, produced my parents. And I think he had something to do with it when they reissued their albums. I'm not sure how I heard it, if my mom gave it to me or something, but whenever that sort of came back around…it was probably seven or eight years ago when it was reissued or redone…somehow, I heard it, and it was pretty staggering stuff. (Chuckles) I don't know that it's really a direct influence; it's just something that I really love, so I threw it in there. I don't know that there's a lot of close barbershop harmonies in my music!
BE: (Laughs) And then I also saw that (Leonard Cohen's daughter) Lorca Cohen was listed as an influence.
TT: (Hesitates) Oh, I was just kind of messing around with that one. We're friends.
BE: Oh, okay. I know she's a photographer, but I didn't know if she was a musician as well.
TT: Um, she dabbles. But, no, we're just friends.
BE: That live album that you and your dad are on (Celtschmerz), where you do "Persuasion" and the Left Banke's "She May Call You Up Tonight"…
TT: Uh-huh.
BE: That was taken from the acoustic tour you did with him, right?
TT: Yeah.
BE: Was that something that you co-headlined, or were you just part of the band at the time?
TT: No, I was just along for the ride. It was like an apprenticeship.
BE: Is your Blunderbuss EP ever going to come back into print again, or be available for download?
TT: Uh, yeah, it's there, you can get it on the website. But it's only on the website…and at shows. You can't buy it at record stores.
BE: Okay, because I'd gone to CD Baby, and they said it was permanently out of stock, so I just presumed it was out of print.
TT: No, we just switched it so that you could only get it through the website.
BE: And that was something you just sort of did as a stopgap measure between the two albums?
TT: It wasn't even that, really. It was more just a matter of blowing off steam. It was right before I finished this record, and we were working on it, and it was just kind of, let's take a break. There were a few songs that weren't going to fit on the record, and it was just something light and fun to do. Just me and Brad Albetta, who produced the record. We probably did it just a weekend, and we played all the instruments ourselves. It was just kind of a fun project to get away from the album for a minute.
BE: What are your thoughts on breaking in America? I know you do the press rounds, you were on Conan O'Brien's show, but do you feel like you're making headway, as far as making a name for yourself in America?
TT: Ummmm…a little bit, yeah. I mean, I've been doing better in England because I've been spending a lot of time in England, so it's a little bit where I've come back to America and I'm remembering just how big this country is and how much work there is to do. I don't really feel like I've made much of a dent; I just feel like I'm at the bottom of a huge mountain that I've to climb! (Laughs) Which, y'know, is fine. I'm happy to go 'round and tour. You just have to hope that that's still…I mean, I can tour on my own, but, then, y'know, if I want to take a band, it gets expensive. I mean, I'm happy to do it the old-fashioned way, and I think that's the best way to do it, but you just hope to be able to keep that doing. And, then, like I said, you usually need just a bit of luck, whether it's radio or a movie thing or something, to sort of give you a lift up, a leg up. Otherwise, it's just a big slog.
BE: Has MySpace helped you, as far as bringing new fans in?
TT: (Sounding totally flummoxed) I dunno, actually! (Pauses again) I dunno! I'm not really sure how it quite translates to…I like MySpace, I'm on it all the time, you can get addicted to it!
BE: You and me, both!
TT: Yeah! I mean, it hasn't has a massive impact on me, I'm not the odd MySpace phenomenon who makes a huge impact just because of that, but I'm sure it's helped. I just don't know to what extent.
BE: Okay, and just one last MySpace question, I promise. I saw that your quote on your page is, "We're dressed to investigate, let's investigate!" What's that from?
TT: It's from…I was watching "Batman," and…
BE: (Excitedly) That's what I thought, actually!
TT: (Surprised) Really? Good guess! It was, like, 3 in the morning and I was jetlagged, and I just turned on the TV, and it was one I hadn't seen…the old Adam West "Batman." And I guess it was one of the later ones, because it was more campy than usual. I don't know if they were getting more and more aware of themselves or something. But, anyway, there was just a moment where they go to the scene of a crime, and the crime's already over, and Batman says, "Well, should we investigate?" And Robin says, "We're dressed to investigate, let's investigate!" They look each other up and down in their outfits. "Let's investigate!" It was one of the campiest moments I've ever seen.
BE: I'm actually in the middle of doing an article for Bullz-Eye about TV shows that aren't yet on DVD, and that's one that's on my list.
TT: Oh, really? That, and "The Wonder Years"!
BE: Right! And I guess that one's being held up because of the rights to use the music.
TT: Yeah, I was just talking to someone about that, and they said it was never going to happen because the music was too high-profile.
BE: That, and "WKRP in Cincinnati." I don't know if you've ever seen that…
TT: Oh, yeah!
BE: …but it's the same problem with that. You know, it took place in an American radio station in the late '70s, and they didn't think in terms of having problems with using the music later.
TT: Right, yeah.
BE: How did you hook up with Lee Feldman? (Writer's note: Feldman is a NYC-based pianist whose new album features Thompson on guitar and backing vocals.)
TT: Oh, uh, through Ed Haber, who's my mom's producer. He was doing that record, and he just asked me. I didn't know him before that.
BE: I wasn't familiar with him 'til I saw your name on his credits, but I've heard comparisons to Ben Folds, so that bodes well for me.
TT: Yeah.
BE: And you're currently opening for Mason Jennings on tour, right?
TT: Not quite yet. But I will be in a week or two weeks.
BE: And then will you be doing any headlining shows, or have you already been doing them?
TT: Well, I've been doing them in England. As I said, coming back here, I'm a few rungs down on the ladder…but it should be a good tour; he's playing good places and everything, so it's good. And then I'm doing festivals in England during the summer, so I don't know when there'll be another headlining tour of America. I would imagine somewhere toward the end of summer or early fall.
BE: Alright, well, I think that's everything for me.
TT: Fantastic!
BE: It's been a pleasure talking to you…
TT: Likewise.
BE: Like I said, I love the album, and hopefully I will be able to catch you when you're on tour.TT: Yeah, I hope so. Thanks!


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Ill-served by Dem fantasies
Amid all the gauzy tales of personal struggle and parental life advice at last week's Democratic National Convention, it was easy to forget that politicians are elected first and foremost to address the concerns of their constituents. Not to tell them uplifting stories.
For four years, however, Democrats in Washington have been preoccupied with spinning self-serving political stories aimed at justifying their own reckless experiment in Big Government and then distracting people from its devastating, real-world consequences. In fact, President Barack Obama recently told CBS that the biggest mistake of his presidency was that he didn't tell a good enough "story to the American people."
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No wonder that, as the federal debt crossed the dizzying $16 trillion mark last week and Americans woke to even more signs of economic failure, Democrats in Charlotte focused on tired slogans and childhood memories.
Don't expect anything more than that before the election. They have nothing else to offer but feel-good accounts of their own personal success.
In the real world beyond the convention hall, however, millions of Americans young and old continue to struggle with the harsh realities of the Obama economy. Most are deeply concerned about the nation's future — and their own.
They are understandably disappointed that a president who pledged to unite the country around a program of progress and change has spent so much of his time either avoiding challenges or blaming his predecessor for his own failure to deliver good results.
Now, with just four months to go before devastating tax hikes are set to fall on every American and disproportionate cuts are about to harm our uniformed military and their families, the president and Democrats in Congress are again planning to put their penchant for storytelling ahead of the responsibilities that come with holding public office.
Following the president's lead, Democrats in Congress refuse to develop the kind of responsible, concrete plan to avert the impending "fiscal cliff" that House Republicans voted on weeks ago. They'd rather crisscross America from now until Election Day, telling voters that these same Republicans are somehow the problem.
It's fiction. Senate Democrats haven't passed a federal budget in more than three years — a responsibility not just expected of the majority party but required of it by law.
Moreover, not a single one had the political courage to vote for the president's own proposed budget. Republicans had to offer it for them, and then not one member of Congress voted to support it.
Democrats have refused to do even the basics. For the first time in more than a half-century, the Democratic-led Senate may not pass a defense authorization bill, while refusing to take up the individual bill that funds our armed forces. Nor is the Senate, under Democratic leadership, expected to pass any other regular appropriations bill this year — actions previously viewed as routine as turning on the lights.
Trying to avoid all responsibility for the problems we face, or the pressing challenges ahead, Democrats have simply sat on their hands, preferring to tell tall tales about what's happening in Washington rather than doing anything about it. They appear ready to ride out the rest of the year doing virtually nothing about the problems we face as a nation — astronomical debt, a looming tax hike, crippling defense cuts and an anemic recovery that all these things promise to make even worse.
Of all the life lessons recounted in Charlotte last week, one timeless piece of advice I recall from my own childhood seems to have been forgotten: What you do in life matters far more than what you say.
Democrats, from the president on down, would have done well to take this little piece of advice seriously. Maybe then, they'd actually have a record to run on instead of some storybook account of recent history that bears very little resemblance to reality. And won't do a thing to help average Americans.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is the Senate minority leader.


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