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Today we look back 10 years to this conversation with Widespread Panic bass player Dave Schools that first ran on the site in May 2003.
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On April 15, Widespread Panic released Ball, its 8th studio effort and its first since the passing of band namesake Mike Houser. Not only is the roster slightly different on this disc, with George McConnell joining the group on guitar but so too is the approach, as unlike its predecessors, Ball features material undeveloped in the live setting.
Bass player Dave Schools remains an integral part of the band even as he continues to explore other endeavors. In February he traveled to Europe for a string of shows with Jerry Joseph (Schools produced Joseph's Conscious Contact disc). Meanwhile, he continues to work on the second release from Slang, his project with Layng Martine III. In addition he still puts in time with Gov't Mule. The following interview explores all of these topics with a heavy focus on his recent projects outside of WP. The conversation will continue next month with a bit more on the Mule as well as Panic, past present and future…
DB- I'd like to start off with your summer reading list. I can remember an interview with you a while back where you said you were reading Huck Finn for the eighth time.
DS- Probably more like the 80th time. I just read Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby. I'm reading two Noam Chomsky things- one called Power and Terror: Post 911 Talks and Interviews and the other is called What Uncle Sam Really Wants. I've also just started David Sedaris Naked. I like to keep things on rotation because if you read these Noam Chomsky things solely you walk around being upset to your stomach.
DB- I often find that bass players do quite a bit of reading. I wonder if you think there is some connection between the level of attention that is required to read a book and to play bass in the live setting where it is essential to focus on the other players somewhat intensively?
DS- I think you're right. I think it's because bass players have no friends and when we were small children our best friends were books. [Laughs] I read an article, I'm sure it was in Bass Player magazine, about bass players making better producers than other musicians because the bass is the bridge between the rhythm section and the melody lines. Bass players have to be aware of all things and how they balance. Maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe being balanced, bass players want to read, listen to music and also rock. But you do have a point, I think bass players tend to be more introspective. [Laughs] Okay, let me just say it, I think we're friendless. We all hang together. That's what so great about Warren Haynes, he gave us a club where bass players could hang out together.
DB- What originally drew you to the bass?
DS- John Entwistle. John Entwistle was my hero. I loved the Who from a really young age. I got a bunch of 45 rpms of things like "Pinball Wizard" and other Who singles and I thought it was amazing. I even had a paper drum kit when I was four years old that said the Who on it. Guess what I did to it?
DB-You destroyed it.
DS- Of course. After that it was cheap acoustic guitars for a while. We were living in apartments and I guess I was about twelve years old. I really wanted to play the drums but living in apartments there was absolutely no way I was going to practice, so it was "Hmm what's the next best thing…bass." A couple of years later it turned out to be a great call because no one wants to play the bass. There are a million lead guitarists, a million drummers but every band is always looking for a bass player. That's when I said, "Well I guess this was the right decision."
I knew that music ran in my family and so did my mother and she had me taking piano lessons when I was in first and second grade. I hated it though because it was so stiff and academic. I played the "Blue Danube Waltz" and the only reason I was playing it was because it was in my favorite movie 2001. I walked out of my second year recital and my piano teacher told my mother that I had no talent.
Then when I was taking bass lessons in fifth or sixth grade I didn't want to do the scales, I just wanted to learn how to play "Dark Star." My bass guitar teacher would just roll his eyes and say, "Good lord not only does he want to play rock and roll but he wants to play music by that awful Grateful Dead." So he suggested that I take up piano because he knew what kind of player Lesh was. I always thought it was an interesting thing that my piano teacher told me I had no talent and my bass teacher told me maybe I should play the piano.
At the time when I was picking it up and being really jealous of anyone who could play, I was listening not only to stuff like Blue Oyster Cult and classic 60's rock- Zeppelin, Sabbath and all that. But albums also were coming out like Stanley Clarke's School Days, some of this cooler fusion jazz before it turned into crap. To hear someone like Stanley Clarke back then when he was playing funk, jazz and rock and to hear what he could do with the bass was amazing. It was probably like someone who is just learning the instrument hearing Oteil or Vic Wooten. You'll either put the guitar in the closet for the rest of your life or it will really kind of open your mind. So that's what happened to me and I've been in bands sever since.
DB- Have you ever been seriously tempted to pick up another instrument, like the drums?
DS- Not really, I just love playing the bass. There's nothing quite like feeling it all clicking together when you're locked in with the drums and then you give the guitar player and the keyboard player a great piece of terrain to run across with their melodies. It's a good feeling. There have been a few times when I wanted to sit down with the drums but I'm just not coordinated enough. I can't do four things at one time.
DB- In terms of that Bass Player article do you find that your role as a bassist has enhanced your abilities as a producer?
DS- I'm proud of the things that I have produced that and hopefully the people I've produced will say they're proud of them, mainly the Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons record Conscious Contact which was a great experience. Then there's the Slang record and there's another one that's gonna come out really soon, which were produced by me and a fellow bass player, Layng Martine III. I don't know what you call the music but it's cool and we love it.
I've also done a lot of work with really young bands in Athens. That's what I like to do, if I hear a young band that hasn't made a record yet and they seem to put the goods across live, I'll take them in to David Barbie's studio and have him engineer and I'll produce. We'll work a couple of days on arrangements just to sort of get them in there to learn the process so that if they do get the big deal they don't freak out and blow it.
That's what I like to do. Maybe it's a bit of a control freak issue but at the same time there's aspects of Widespread Panic records where there are things that everyone feels really strongly about. Everyone could be a producer for a little while. I don't think anyone has the focus like John Keane does to deal with a six piece band like us but we all have to hold some of our instincts in so we don't get that too-many-cooks thing. So being able to work with these other bands and also the side projects makes it easier to keep your mouth shut when Panic's in the studio. JoJo's got his Smiling Assassins and Todd's got his Barbara Cue records and it's good for the whole thing. It's really good for Widespread Panic to do these other things.
DB- With Conscious Contact, did you come to Jerry Joseph or did he approach you?
DS- We had talked about it for a while. He kept putting out these songwriterly, overproduced records filled with session guys that were designed to show what a great songwriter he was in any context. I felt that an somebody needed to make a Jackmormons record or at least one that was like whatever Jerry sounds like live. We always agreed about that and then he got the deal with Terminus Records which was also the same label that put out Slang and loves Bruce Hampton and understands the feasibility of non-commercial music. They called and I said, "Well did you talk to Jerry about it?" and they said, "Oh, yeah," so it was great . In Jerry's words when someone asked him why did he have me produce the record sand he said, "So that he'd have someone to blame if it sucks." [Laughs]
DB- Did you know Jerry pretty well going back to the Little Women days?
DS- Oh yeah, Jerry was responsible for taking Widespread Panic west of the Mississippi. We opened for Little Women back in the mid-to-late eighties. We got our foot in the door in Chicago, Boulder, San Francisco, Salt Lake, Portland…We wouldn't have those territories if Jerry hadn't given us that little bit of good feeling back then.
DB- It would be interesting to see where that band would be at today if had remained together.
DS- They did a reunion at the County Fair in Oregon about 2 years ago and I think once they got past all the stuff that broke up the band they had a really good time. But it's hard to keep a band together especially when you have seriously-talented people. I think Little Women was way ahead of its time. They were one of the first bands to be play some Grateful Dead and do a reggae version of one of their original songs and have twenty minute guitar solos.


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The North American supply base is fundamentally strong, with great near-term opportunities. Suppliers have shown great fortitude through the recession of 2008 to 2009 and resilience through the Japanese and Thailand natural disasters, and must exhibit their resourcefulness in meeting light-duty vehicle-production projections for 2013. The challenge: Supporting the forecasted 15.9 million units of production in 2013, a 600,000 incremental increase over 2012.
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* Seadrill may move to London, Singapore * CEO Thorkildsen disagreed with move, leaves firm
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By Henrik Stolen
OSLO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Shipping tycoon John Fredriksen announced on Wednesday plans to move management at Seadrill
out of Norway, prompting the chief executive of the world's biggest deepsea drilling rig owner to leave and opening a new chapter in Fredriksen's controversial love-hate relationship with his former homeland.
Seadrill said it is looking at several alternative locations for its central management, with London, Dubai, Singapore and Houston under consideration after concluding that its current base in Stavanger, the Norwegian oil industry's capital on the west coast, is too expensive and too remote for a company seeking to do business globally.
"Stavanger may constrain Seadrill's aggressive growth plans, for which access to qualified personnel is critical," the firm said. "The Norwegian cost level and distance from Seadrill's core markets makes travel and logistics cumbersome when managing world-wide operations."
Chief Financial Officer Rune Magnus Lundetrae added: "We have a lot of oil and offshore competence in Norway but we are doing some complex capital transactions globally and that sort of expertise is not the easiest to find in Norway."
Seadrill's chief executive Alf Thorkildsen disagreed with the step and announced his departure, to be replaced by Fredrik Halvorsen, a key executive at two Fredriksen companies, well services firm Archer and Frontline .
"The message from the company was clear that they are considering moving and this should be priority number one," Thorkildsen was quoted as telling Norwegian online news portal E24. "So I decided it was time to go."
Thorkildsen was reported as saying that Norwegian costs were indeed very high but Fredriksen's "attitude" to Norwegian authorities was a factor.
Thorkildsen was unavailable for immediate comment.
Oslo-born Fredriksen, known as "Big Wolf" for his bold business deals, has been in dispute with the Norwegian authorities for years and has traded his citizenship for a Cypriot passport, calling the move an "escape".
He now lives in London but often criticises the government of his former homeland, where he was once detained for several months during a fraud investigation before being cleared of wrongdoing.
"Thorkildsen going is clearly a loss for Seadrill," Swedbank analysts Sondre Dale Stormyr said. "He has delivered well since coming to the firm with the acquisition of Smedvig in 2006."
Seadrill, which has a market capitalisation of $18.8 billion, has been on an aggressive expansion spree in recent years, moving into markets such as Brazil and North America and growing its fleet to 67 drilling units, including 19 under construction.
"We believe it may take some time for the market to warm to Halvorsen, who has been at Archer since October 2010, at a time when the company has struggled and the share price has lost over 80 percent since early 2011," Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a note.
Seadrill said the move was more evolution than disruption and having headquarters in Stavanger for a company with Seadrill's international scrope was now a drag.
"There is no drama here; he (Thorkildsen) developed the company from more or less nothing to become the world's largest rig company ... and this is now a natural development," Lundetrae said.
Shares in Seadrill were down 0.5 percent at 226.8 crowns by 1342 GMT.
"London would seem the most natural choice," Nordea Markets analyst Davis Bhatti said.
"Stavanger is mentioned as a place where it is difficult to obtain qualified staff and is expensive to operate from."
Norway's economy has been a rare economic standout amid Europe's meltdown thanks to its oil and gas industry, which accounts for a fifth of the economy.
The boom has cut unemployment to 3 percent but pushed wages higher with the average oil worker now earning $180,000 a year, the highest in the world, and $93,000 more than workers on the UK side of the North Sea, according to data from recuitment firm Hays .
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- 2011-02-05: OpenEmbedded at FOSDEM'11 - We have a booth at Europe's finest F/OSS event. See you in Brussels!
- 2010-12-03: OpenEmbedded 2010.12 released
- 2010-09-20: OEDEM and eV General Assembly
- 2010-06-09: OpenEmbedded in Berlin! Meet us at our booth at LinuxTag 2010.
- 2009-11-07: Openembedded Developer Meeting 2009 in Cambridge, UK
- 2009-08-12: Openembedded gains ability to create Qt Embedded Linux SDK
- 2009-05-27: Palm is using Openembedded to build Palm webOS
- 2009-05-27: MontaVista is using OpenEmbedded in their MontaVista Linux 6 product
- 2009-03-31: OpenEmbedded opens the stable/2009 Stable branch. Special procedure is applied to it which results in better support for our downstream users.
- 2009-03-24: FOSS Aalborg in Aalborg, Denmark, with a focus on embedded software. Mickey gives a talk about OpenEmbedded.
- 2009-03-06: Always Innovating is using OE to build software for their Touch Book.
- 2009-02-19: KOAN Software company announces it's KaeilOS distribution will join the OpenEmbedded project.
- 2009-02-10: OE has a new Logo -- Many thanks to Bug Labs who funded the logo development, and Mateo Zlatar for designing the logo.


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ST. JULIA AME Zion Church choirs presents a program �What a Friend we have in Jesus� at 3 p.m. Sept. 22 with speaker Garry Slade. Call 910-346-8565.
ST. JULIA AME Zion Church choirs presents a program �What a Friend we have in Jesus� at 3 p.m. Sept. 22 with speaker Garry Slade. Call 910-346-8565.
HOMECOMING services at 11 a.m. Sept. 22 at Richlands First Free Will Baptist Church with the Rev. Buster Price. Dinner. Gospel sing at 6:30 p.m. with Second Edition Quartet. Call 910-324-4615.
LIGHTHOUSE Baptist Church, 2531 Burgaw Hwy., presents No Other Name in concert at 11 a.m. Sept. 22. Free.
HOMECOMING service at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 22 at Freedom Way FWB Church, Hubert with dinner following on the church grounds. Freedomwaybaptistchurch.org.
REVIVAL services at Cabin Original FWB Church, Beulaville at 6 p.m. Sept. 22 and at 7 p.m. nightly Sept. 23-25 with the Rev. Scott Broadway and singing each night. Call 910-290-1291.
MAYSVILLE First Baptist Church will hold a joint revival with Memorial Baptist Church held Sept. 22-26. Nursery provided. For more information call 910-743-8071.
UNION Missionary Baptist Church, 5090 Richlands Hwy., will celebrate Homecoming at 11 a.m. Oct. 6. Call 910-324-5500.
APPRECIATION service for the Rev. Willie McQueen at 3 p.m. Sept. 22 at Moses Temple AME Zion Church with the Rev. Phillip Jones and congregation of St. Paul AMEZ Church.
CRYSTAL COAST Assembly of God, Cape Carteret will hold a barbecue dinner/yard sale fundraiser at 11 a.m. Oct. 20-21. Plates $7. Call 252-393-6858.
MORGAN CHAPEL Church, Richlands will celebrate its 20th choir anniversary at 3 p.m. Sept. 22 featuring the Violinetts and others. Refreshments. Call 910-324-1478.
WOMEN�S DAY at Myrtle Grove Christian Church, Maysville at 3 p.m. Sept. 22 with the Rev. Clementine Elliott of Forestville, Md., and music by First Baptist of Belgrade. Dinner.
NORTHWOODS Methodist Church hosts Faith in Action from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 22 with lunch provided for all on duty police, fire, EMS and dispatch workers. Eat in or take out. Call 910-340-3151.
HOMECOMING/Family and Friends day at 11 a.m. Oct. 20 at Haw Branch AME Church with the Rev. Nathan Darden and Beautiful Valley Church of Dover. Dinner. Call 910-265-6889.
HARTSVILLE PB Church, 507 Country Club Road celebrates its church anniversary at 11 a.m. Sept. 22 with speakers the Rev. Joseph Hines Jr. and others. Dinner. Call 910-330-0104.
QUARTERLY meeting with communion at 11 a.m. Sept. 22 at Clinton Chapel Memorial AMEZ Church, Pollocksville with the Rev. Michael Burden and the Mass choir. Call 910-934-3984.
JENKINS Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Sneads Ferry celebrates its senior choir anniversary at 3 p.m. Sept. 22 the music by Paul Hardison. Refreshments.


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Harvey Mann CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL
Abstract: From a capital budget, an operating budget and a partnership agreement prepared almost 250 years ago in New France, a cash Budget and balance sheets are prepared to help in an analysis of the viability of the company. This investiga-tion into the feasibility of the project discloses a quite sophisticated use of man-agerial accounting. The original partnership failed, but eventually the company became a successful venture.
Accounting played a prominent role in the establishment of Les Forges de Saint-Maurice between 1730 and 1736. This is illustrated by a capital budget and an operating budget, prepared to support a request for a much-needed loan. In this paper, after an opening balance sheet is drawn up from various bits of data, the two budgets are examined and recast into more traditional forms. They are then analysed to ascertain whether decisions might have been different if present day techniques had been used. To aid in the conclusions drawn, recourse is made to an agreement between the partners. Other parts of this agreement are also examined for their account-ing content. Using all the information, a new balance sheet is then prepared. It is possible to conclude that mistakes were made that may have been avoided if all the proper questions had been asked, but there is no doubt that the original concept was very sound.
European explorers were first lured to North America by hopes of gold and other exotic riches, but it wasn't until 200 years after Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River that a more prosaic, but more useful, metal was mined and worked in New France.1 This venture, Les Forges (ironworks) de Saint-Maurice,
*A great deal of original research on Les Forges de Saint-Maurice has been done by Cameron Nish, Professor of History at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a leading authority on the ironworks. Although liberal use has been made of his work, it must be emphasized that the author is responsible for errors of translation and any interpretations of the data.


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Will pitfalls of being Super Bowl champs swallow the Seahawks?
RENTON, Wash. — After the first of the New England Patriots' three Super Bowl wins, coach Bill Belichick went fishing in Florida with Jimmy Johnson and picked his brain on how to combat the change in mentality once a franchise is on top.
The first step is confronting everyone with the reality of the challenge the Seattle Seahawks face, said Johnson, a college psychology major who put his degree to use with the Dallas Cowboys, who won back-to-back titles after the 1992 and '93 seasons.
"Every secretary wanted a raise. Every player wanted to write a book. Every player was bitching and moaning that they didn't get as much credit as Troy (Aikman) and Emmitt (Smith) and Michael (Irvin)," Johnson told USA TODAY Sports in a phone interview. "Then the second thing is just the natural complacency. The biggest enemy of great is good. When you're real good, people tend to pull back."
The Seahawks say it won't happen to them as they try to become the first team since Belichick's Patriots a decade ago to successfully defend a Super Bowl title, beginning with Thursday night's nationally televised opener against the Green Bay Packers.
The Seahawks' June minicamp was so intense they were disciplined by the league for violating rules regarding contact. They had no major contract squabbles aside from running back Marshawn Lynch's week-long training camp holdout. They were lights-out in the preseason.
"The way we prepared in OTAs (organized team activities) and minicamp and obviously training camp as well, I thought we've done better than ever before," Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson said. "That edge, that sense of getting back to where we were in terms of winning, not necessarily the Super Bowl but just to win again, is definitely there for us. And the way we practice and prepare, I don't think anybody can do it better."
Life changes when you're the champs, though. There's a parade, ring ceremony and trip to the White House. Everyone says how great you are off the field, and everyone wants to knock you down on it.
"Every week's going to be a miniature Super Bowl," said former Patriots linebacker Willie McGinest, who played on those three title teams and works as an NFL Network analyst. "The other thing is the offseason is a lot shorter. A lot of these companies come in and want to use the champs for their endorsements. You get pulled in a lot of different directions. Sometimes, that takes you off your path when it comes to training, staying focused."
Seahawks safety Earl Thomas and cornerback Richard Sherman signed contracts that briefly made them the highest paid at their positions. Sherman is pitching beef jerky and sports drinks. Lynch's new Skittles ad hit the Internet on Tuesday. Wilson has a handful of endorsements, too.
"But that comes with success," Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril told USA TODAY Sports. "I don't necessarily think that'll change anybody, not right now at least. Maybe if you win two or three of them. Then, hey, everybody needs to get paid."
The Seahawks have the best young core of a defending champ since the Packers won the Super Bowl after the 2010 season and went 15-1 in 2011, only to play their worst game in the divisional playoffs, losing 37-20 to the eventual champion New York Giants.
A lot must fall into place to win one title, much less two or three in a single-elimination playoff format in which one mistake can derail it all, to say nothing of the pressure and scrutiny that come with being on a pedestal.
"It's hard to tell everybody that you want to get it again and be just as hungry and as insatiable as you need to be to win it," said Pro Football Hall of Fame safety Ronnie Lott, whose four titles with the San Francisco 49ers included two in a row after the 1988 and '89 seasons.
"Some people say that's arrogant. It's not arrogant; you're like every other team. You should have that pursuit, and it should be just as appealing as it was the year before. You have all these psychological things everybody tells you that can't say (or) do."
The easier the first one comes, McGinest said, the easier it is to become too satisfied. He pointed to the Chicago Bears' early exit a year after torching the Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX, one of two title games more lopsided than the Seahawks' 43-8 rout of the Denver Broncos.
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Mark Schlereth, who played on the Broncos' consecutive Super Bowl winners in the late 1990s and is an ESPN analyst, told USA TODAY Sports the catalyst for that run was losing to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the divisional playoffs the season before.
"It's all giggles until you get your ass beat, and then it gets serious," Schlereth said. "Those things permeate championship organizations. You look at it and say, 'We won a world championship with this team.' Sometimes, you don't really evaluate yourself honestly."
Johnson's Cowboys won their first title in blowout fashion, 52-17 vs. the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVII. Then came the challenges of the following offseason, including a holdout by star running back Smith, who missed the first two regular-season games.
"Once you've won it, all the conversation is how good you are. You get infected," said Johnson, an analyst with Fox NFL Sunday. "The more you hear about how good you are, the more complacent you get. And the more money you've got in your pocket, the less you work to get more money.
"I told Bill, 'The only guy that's got the hammer is you. You're the guy that's got to make the hard calls.' The fans, players, even your assistant coaches, everything works against you repeating."
In Seattle, the hammer rests with coach Pete Carroll, whose upbeat style belies the intensity and detail of the program he has built. He and general manager John Schneider evaluated and made changes, with a handful of key veterans departing, but the core is the same.
Carroll said last year he never talked about the Super Bowl, and players say those words still aren't in his vocabulary. But Carroll acknowledged Wednesday he has "been studying this for a long time and watching what's going on" with teams in the same position — enough that he didn't need to seek advice.
"I'm not asking for anybody to help me on this one," Carroll said. "We're going to do it the way we know how to do it, and we've been preparing for this all along. It didn't just start this offseason in February. We've been preparing to be in this position so that we can handle it really well, and hopefully, we can.
"Everything has looked just on point throughout. The offseason has been great. We have handled all of the issues that come up with the celebrations and all of that. If I can tell from anything, it's the way the guys have prepared.
"We haven't changed anything. We haven't adjusted anything. We've just dealt with the truth of what's happening."
The rings, the money and the slaps on the back mean nothing now that the season is here. It's the Seahawks vs. the world again and, perhaps as important, the Seahawks vs. themselves.
"You've got to continue to improve, (because) you're going up against some incredibly gifted people each week," Lott said. "Any week, someone can get you."
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Le Parisien
By Staff
April 28, 2014
The curtain falls on one of the queens of French comedy. The actress Micheline Dax, just disappeared. She was 90 years old. It is her agent Jean- Pierre Noël, who announced the sad news to AFP Monday, April 28.
Emblematic figure of the cinema with a filmography to rival starlets , but also television personality and theater , the soprano had participated in a tour with the great Charles Aznavour and is the first part of Edith Piaf.
Married to actor Jacques Bodoin since the 1960s, Michelle Dax leaves behind a daughter , Veronique Bodoin, actress and TV host. Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, she also made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2012.
Micheline Etevenon born March 3, 1924, Micheline Dax, who began her great career after the famous Simon course, had also lent her voice to Miss Piggy, the famous slut Muppet Show and Ursula in The Little Mermaid, Calamity Jane Lucky Luke in or Maa sheep in Babe: Pig became a shepherd. Very popular on television in the 1970s and 1980s, she was a regular guest on game shows including "Les Jeux de 20 Heures" and "l'Académie des neuf".
Friday, April 25, two days before her death, the comedy "Un Beau Salaud", she created in 1987 with Jean- Jacques Dax was still being played on the boards of the Forge of Barsac, Gironde. A great lady has left us.
DAX, Micheline (Micheline Josette Renée Etevenon)
Born: 3/3/1924 in Paris, Île de France, France
Died: 4/27/2004, Île-de-France, France
Micheline Dax's western – voice actress:
Lucky Luke (TV) – 1984 [French voice of Calamity Jane]


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A.C. Lighting Inc. Showcases Leading Innovations at LDI 2011
October 25, 2011 05:21
A.C. Lighting Inc.'s booth at the 2011 LDI show, Orlando will be showcasing the latest technology innovations from Chroma-Q®, Jands Vista and LedGo – all of which are distributed in North America by the reseller (Booth 403).
The eagerly anticipated new Chroma-Q Color Force Compact™ will be officially launched at this year's show. Utilizing core LED technology from the incredibly popular Color Force™ range, the Compact provides a powerful 1,700 lumens of output in a slim, compact profile – making it ideal for lighting areas while occupying a very small footprint.
By incorporating the same LEDs as the 12″, 48″ and 72″ fixtures, the Compact works in perfect harmony with the popular Color Force range; providing the deep cold blues, red hot lava looks and super soft pastels that designers love.
Another Chroma-Q innovation on show is the recently launched Studio Force™ White LED range, which has been designed specifically for broadcast and other studio lighting applications.
Studio Force is also available in 12, 48, and 72 inch versions, and the range features a choice of 6,100K CCT, daylight white (Studio Force D) and 3,000K – 6,100K CCT, variable white (Studio Force V) models – between them providing an extreme output ranging from 5,300 up to an impressive 28,000 lumens!
Based on the same renowned core technologies as the Chroma-Q Color Force range, the six Studio Force white LED models all offer at least twice the light output of their RGBA color variants. A sophisticated custom optical design provides a smooth, uniform wash output.
The new Chroma-Q Color Span™ 2 will also be launched on the booth. Featuring an improved second generation design, the Color Span 2 is a configurable low profile, ultra bright LED cove lighting and wall wash system for wide ranging applications. The fixture allows users the flexibility to specify many aspects of its design including the IP rating, body length, body color, LED colors, and optics. For more information visit: www.chroma-q.com
A.C. Lighting Inc. will also be demoing the recently released Vista v2 software running on the Jands Vista control range. The next generation Vista v2 software was designed from the ground up to allow all levels of user to get the most from whatever mix of technology they have available, whether dimmers, moving lights, LED, or media.
Available in a wide range of hardware options, Vista v2 offers both the simplicity to work fast, with the power to control the finest details, so everyone can focus on creating a great looking show rather than on programming a desk. For more information visit: www.jandsvista.com
Following A.C. Lighting Inc.'s recent appointment as LedGo's North American distributor, the booth will feature LedGo's range of modular video solutions. LedGo panels are brilliantly engineered and incorporate high-quality hardware and components to deliver incredible video performances at economical prices.
On display will be the 0.2 inch, 0.4 inch, and 0.6 inch resolutions (6mm, 10mm, and 15mm). LedGo video panels feature easy "Rig and Click" hardware for quick assembly and very high refresh rates by using the latest LED drivers to avoid flickering on cameras. For more information visit: www.LedGo.tv
In addition to aforementioned products distributed in North America by A.C. Lighting Inc., the company carries a vast stockholding of the latest stage, studio and event worship lighting products, accessories and consumables. This choice of on-the-shelf products is coupled with competitive prices and the highest level of service and support.
Chroma-Q and all associated product names are recognised trademarks, for more information visit www.chroma-q.com/trademarks. The rights and ownership of all trademarks are recognised. The information contained herein is correct at the time of printing, however as we are constantly refining our product range we reserve the right to change the specification without notice. E&OE.
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Box 117315 3141 Turlington Hall Gainesville FL 32611-7315 United States 352-392-3198 x219 firstname.lastname@example.com 9-5 United States Geologic Survey (USGS) Mississippi Automated Resource Infromation System (MARIS) The Louisiana State Atlas Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 184.108.40.2062 USGS quadrangle names were supplied from the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data supplied to this project from MARIS and Atlas. Stream names are supplied from USGS 1:24000 Digital Raster Graphics. All polygons are closed. Initial problems included short segments and self intersections. Line segments are a set of sequentially numbered coordinate pairs. No duplicate features exist nor duplicate points in a data string. Intersecting lines are separated into individual line segments at the point of intersection. Point data are represented by two sets of coordinate pairs, each with the same coordinate values. Tests for logical consistency were performed by running the Check Geometry tool and repaired with the Repair Geometry tool. Two stand-alone tables in the database report as such. This data set is 95% complete. Some attribution is missing in the LaMineSites feature dataset. Specifically, USGS quadrangle names for the Amite River mine area and mine pit polygons were not reported, as are estimates of the length of floodplain impacted by the same mine sites and pits. The Amite River sites and pits were compiled for a slightly different project, and then imported into this database in order to provide a more complete coverage of mining activities in Louisiana. The horizontal accuracy of the data is in accordance with National Mapping Accuray Standards for data compiled at 1:24000, which represents a possible error of +/- 40 for well-defined man-made features. The DOQQS used as base maps are well within this standard. However, no RMSE report(s) are available on photo orthorecitification. 24000 online 1955 1960 MARIS (www.maris.state.ms) and ATLAS (http://atlas.lsu.edu/) 24000 online 1982 1982 MARIS DRGs 40000 online 1992 1996 MARIS DOQQs 62500 online 1945 1955 UA University of Alabama All feature classes within each feature data set were orinally created as ARC/INFO coverages. Topological consistency was checked through ARC/INFO commands BUILD and CLEAN. Channel and channel features were manuallly digitized over 1: 24000 and 1: 62500 scale USGS DRGs, 1:40000 scale (1m pixel resoluion) DOQQs and historic 1955-60 FSA aerial photos (1:20000 scale) scanned at 500dpi to create a 1m pixel ground-resolution. The 15-minute series maps were georeferecnced to using 1: 24000 scale Public Land Survey System (PLSS) grid intersections as control points in ArcGIS 8.3. A minimum of 30 ground control points (GCPs) were used producing an average root mean square error (RMSE) of 9 meters. The strms40s data were then derived from these DRGs. The historic aerials were georefereced using a minimum of 16 GCPs in ERDAS Imagine. The RMSE is less than 1 meter for all photos. The strms50s coverages were then created from these photos, while the strms80s and strms90s coverages were created with the aid of the 1:24000 DRGs and DOQQs, respectfully. All coverages are double precision. Digitization tolerances are: Weed: 0.5 meter. Fuzzy: 0.5 meter. Dangle: 5 meters Edit: 30 meters Nodesnap: 5 meters. All QA/QC was performed manually, where any gross digitizing errors in channel positions or in the extent of channel features were corrected. These coverages were then converted to Personal Geodatabase feature classes. The strms40s data were not used in analyses operations due to the limited basin coverage and the horizontal accuracy of that data. Topology rules described above ensured all data remained clean. Feature class cluster tolerances are less than 0.5 meters. 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We've reviewed a lot of cookware over the years, including most of the top brands but never have we had the chance to review an As Seen on TV product. To be honest, I don't think we would have even thought to do so, because As Seen On TV products often have a tendency to not be at the standard of quality most would desire. So when Stoneline asked us to review a 12pc set of their cookware, let's just say, we weren't expecting much.
BUT…after using this cookware continuously for the past two months, I'd have to say that we are both quite impressed. Who would have thought?! In fact, we were so impressed that we both went looking for a larger Stoneline frypan the other day, to add to our collection.
So let's get started with the review…
Our first impression on taking the pots out of the box was that they were sturdy and well made, without being too heavy.
We split the set up between the two of us to use in our respective households, and we used the cookware as much as possible over a two-month period. We basically replaced our regular cookware with the Stoneline range to make sure that we gave it a real work out.
This wasn't all that difficult because it didn't take long for us to realize that this is actually really nice cookware to work with. It feels good using it and the handles are comfortable.
The beauty of the Stoneline cookware is that it can be used on induction, gas, electric and ceramic stove tops. I have a gas stove, Paula has an electric stove and the pots perform equally well on both types.
What I really like is that the pans heat up quickly and evenly, and I have not experienced any hot spots. This is due to the 4.5mm thick stainless steel alloy base, which distributes the heat in an optimum way and the conductivity, which reduces the cooking time. So these pans are energy efficient.
Stoneline Vs StoneDine vs All the Other Copy-cats
Bear in mind, that there are a lot of copy-cats of this product and they aren't the same. This is where a lot of confusion can arise when people are giving their reviews for this product. Are they actually using the original or are they using a knock-off?
When checking reviews for this product on Amazon, we found people writing reviews for StoneDine under the Stoneline product. They didn't even realize that what they had purchased was not the original Stoneline product. So it was difficult for us to get a good idea of consumer sentiment from these reviews as we didn't know if those bad reviews were actually for Stoneline or were for another product. However, those who were talking about Stoneline were very positive.
Oven Safe?
All the pieces are oven safe up to 350f (180c) degrees.
Seasoning the cookware
If you are like us and don't read instruction booklets, then you will probably miss the instructions to season your cookware first. Weuse oil when cooking most of the time, so we probably got away with that one, but Stoneline recommends seasoning the cookware before first use by placing a couple of drops of cooking oil on a paper towel and gently rubbing over the cookware.
Even with constant use we have not noticed any loss of the non-stick surface but if you do notice this after a while, simply re-oil the pan with a few drops of oil on a handy towel while it is cold. This will re-season it. You may notice some loss of the non-stick feeling if you have placed the pans in the dishwasher, which of course it is recommended you don't do.
Speaking of oil…
Stoneline states that this cookware doesn't require fats or oils when cooking. Personally I like my food cooked in oil or butter. I never got caught up in the 'oils are bad for you' type of philosophy. There are good oils and there are bad oils and my preference is to cook with those good oils as the food just tastes better.
In fact, both of us prefer to use a fat of some sort when cooking, so just wanted to make that statement as in most cases we both used oil when cooking with this cookware.
But since we wanted to test this thoroughly, the times that we didn't use oil, the food did not stick. We have cooked steak, omelets ( which are notorious for sticking), soups, casseroles and fried onions and have had great success with each. We cooked both with (only because of habit), and without added oil or fats and nothing sticks. Omelets, which are notorious for sticking on a lot of surfaces, simply slide out of the pan. With steak and roast veges we simply rubbed them with a little bit of oil and herbs but did not add oil or fat to the pan.
Eggs over easy (fried eggs) worked well and actually tasted better without the added oil. It's just a matter of being patient and letting them set on the bottom before turning them.
So nothing sticks to the pans and cleaning them is really easy.
What Type of Stove Tops can Stoneline be Used On?
The beauty of the Stoneline cookware is that it can be used on induction, gas, electric and ceramic stove tops. I have a gas stove, Paula has an electric stove and the pots perform equally well on both types.
What's on the Bottom?
What I really like is that the pans heat up quickly and evenly, and I have not experienced any hot spots. This is due to the 4.5mm thick stainless steel alloy base which distributes the heat in an optimum way and the conductivity which reduces the cooking time. So these pans are energy efficient.
What is it made of?
The Stoneline pots and pans have a magnetized stainless steel base , a layer of aluminum in the base and sides and a non-stick surface made up of tiny particles of stone. The aluminum ensures even cooking and we have found this to be true of this cookware.
The Stoneline non-stick cookware range is PFOA-free. The inside of the pans are coated in stone – they do not have a Teflon coating.
The saucepans have bakelite handles that stay cool and are comfortable to hold. The handles can be placed in the oven up to 180 degrees Celsius.
Clean Up
Since I am the person in my household that does most of the washing up, (and we don't have a dishwasher), this cookware is a breeze to clean. Since nothing sticks to it, you only need to wash out with a soft cloth.
Stoneline doesn't recommend that this cookware be used in a dishwasher. I personally don't recommend putting any non-stick coated cookware in a dishwasher. We've never known a non-stick cookware to last for long anyway, regardless of the manufacturer and placing it into a dishwasher only shortens it's life even more so.
As we have mentioned previously, we have been using these pots and pans for over 2 months now, so in terms of longevity, we have no idea how long they will last, so that will have to be an update at another time.
So far, the coating is like new and there is no sign of pealing or chipping.
So What's in the Box:
We received the 12 pce set which includes:
- 1 roasting pot – 9.5" diameter, 4.5" high – (4.5 ltr/4.8 qt)
- 1 cooking pot – 8" diameter, 3.75" high – (2.5 ltr/2.7 qt)
- 1 saucepan – 7" diameter, 3.5" high – (2.5 ltr/2.7 qt}
- 1 stewing pan – 9.5" diameter 2.25" high
- 1 small frying pan – 8" diameter, 1.5" high
- 1 square pan with lid – 11"w x 11" d x 3" h
- 1 Dutch oven with lid – 11" diameter 5.25" high (7 ltr /7.4 qt)
- 3 glass lids that fit both pots and pans
The square pan has a set of oven mitts that slip neatly over the handles of the and I find that its best to keep them handy as the handles on the pan do get hot. So make sure you have oven mitts or teatowels on hand when removing the pans from the oven or when using it on your stovetop.
There is a also large Roasting set available as an optional extra and I will certainly look out for one as I love the idea of the lid doubling as a large baking dish and the roasting pan is a decent size at 16 ¾" x 10" x 4 ¾". Perfect for cooking a roast in one and the roast veges in the other.
The Downside
After using this cookware for a couple of months now we don't have any real negatives to speak of except for the size of the fry pans….they are just too small compared to the rest of the pots and pans in the set, especially the smallest frypan which is too small for much although I to cook an omelet or some fried onions or mushrooms.
The larger frypan is about right for a two member family but even then if you want two big juicy steaks for instance, they are pretty squashed in the pan. This is why, we went looking for a bigger version of the fry pans.
There is an 11" fry pan available and in Australia we can buy a 12" fry pan which is a much better option for families.
The set comes with a 12-year warranty, which means that Stoneline will repair or replace an item that is found to be defective in workmanship or material within the 12-year period. The decision on whether an item is considered to be defective is at the discretion of the Stoneline distributor.
Scratches, stains, discoloration, minor imperfections and slight color variations that do not impair the functional use of the cookware are not covered under the warranty.
There are a few things that you can do that will ensure that your Stoneline cookware lasts:
- Only use silicone utensils in all my cookware and it is recommended that you don't use metal utensils.
- Never put a hot pan into cold water or you may crack the coating
- Stoneline (or any non-stick cookware) should be hand washed, it is not recommended that you put your non-stick cookware into a dish washer.
- The lids are oven safe up to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celcius)
The Knife Set
We tried just about all of the pieces in the knife set over the two month period. I would say these are just average. One knife in the set already had a tiny nick out of it and the quality isn't great.
We both make our own bread and the bread knife really isn't up to the job. The steak knives aren't too bad and they were able to cut through a medium steak quite well.
However, it's not a bad knife set overall, and you are getting the set as a bonus.
The knife set includes:
- 1 chopper
- 1 cleaver
- 1 bread knife
- 1 fillet knife
- 4 steak knives
- 1 paring knife
- 1 pair scissors
Again it is recommended that you do not place the knives in the dishwasher.
Final Thoughts
Well this is not what we expected; our findings do not fit our original expectations that this cookware was just going to be another poor quality As Seen on TV product.
We are impressed and would certainly recommend Stoneline Cookware, and if you are looking for a new cookware set, replacement cookware, this set would make an excellent gift.


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It's hard to imagine any piece of cool metal feeling better in your hand. Bright chrome grip bodies & sculpted end caps provide a solid feel, while contrasting soft black rubber inlays absorb vibration & provide comfort for miles on end. Transformer Grips also allow you to match any Küryakyn theme parts already used on your bike with interchangeable Widow, Zombie or Maltese Cross medallions included with each pair.
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Cell Phone Flaw Puts Homeowners at Risk
Nationwide Problem Bedevils Affected Homeowners, Police
Strangers and police showing up at all hours on your doorstep unannounced, banging on your front door, demanding to be let in and sometimes brandishing a gun: That's the nightmare being faced now by homeowners in at least three states, thanks to a flaw in the technology used to locate cell phones. It falsely gives these homeowners' addresses as places where lost or stolen phones can be found.
We wrote earlier this week about Wayne Dobson of Nevada. In the last two years he has lived in his North Las Vegas home, five people--all missing their Sprint cell phones--have come knocking on his door, demanding that he return their handsets.
If a GPS tracker for your lost cell phone leads you to Dobson's home, you'll find a sign that reads, "No lost cell phones!! This location gives a false 'phone locator' position due to a cell tower behind this home. Please contact the North Las Vegas Police and file a report."
On Dec. 18, four men who Dobson described as "young" pounded on his door at around 2:30 a.m., shouting for him to return their phone. One of the men had a tablet with a tracking application, pointing to Dobson's home.
"I understand why people are upset. These are $300 or $500 devices," Dobson said. "I'm worrying about someone showing up in an agitated state, are drinking, and if that one person has a weapon perhaps. This is Las Vegas."
But apparently, Dobson's plight is not unique.
Our ABC News story elicited a response from Greg and Kelly Miles of Edgewater, Fla. They say they have been getting the same kind of scary visits for the past year and a half.
ABC's story, says Greg, sent "chills down our spine."
"The cops have showed up at my door in the middle of the night with assault rifles. We have also had angry people coming to our house and are very scared that someone might show up and do something really bad. Please help us if you can," Greg wrote in an email to ABC.
Greg and Kelly say their problem began in 2011, when an individual came to their house and accused them of having stolen his cell phone. He had tracked it, he said, to their home. "We didn't know what to think," Greg tells ABC. "We didn't have anyone's cell phone."
Since then three other seekers have come looking for their phones. "Some have come back multiple times."
On other occasions, Greg says, police have come in the middle of the night. "My wife looked out, and there were officers with assault rifles at the door. They said they'd received a 911 call from this house reporting an attempted suicide. The name they gave meant nothing to me."
Three weeks after that incident, a police officer pounded on the door at night. He said a stolen cell phone had been tracked to the home. Miles says he was interrogated, even after the officer had satisfied himself Miles was not harboring a stolen phone. "He asked me where I'd been all day."
Now Greg and his wife keep their door locked all the times. They are being harassed, he says, and they are afraid. "Maybe there are others like us," he speculates.
In New Orleans, WDSU News reports that an Algiers woman, Diana Pierre-Louis, has suffered similar visits. "It's humiliating," she is quoted as saying. "It is an attack on our dignity."
Miles says he is at a loss to explain the problem with which he, Dobson and Pierr-Louis are having to contend. Experts in phone-location technology, however, face no such confusion. They tell ABC News they think they have a very good idea of what's going on.
Ben Levitan, an expert on cell phone technology who holds 27 patents in the field, thinks the problem is arising, at least in Dobson's case, because of the way the cell phone location system works: If it tries and fails to get the exact location of the phone being sought (all cell phones being sold today, he says, contain GPS location-tracking technology) the system automatically resorts to finding the address of the cellular transmission tower nearest to the phone—for example, the cell phone tower near Dobson's home.
Levitan speculates that the address for the tower may have been entered incorrectly in the system: When a searcher seeks a missing phone, what he gets is the address for Dobson's home, not the tower.
A spokesperson for Sprint, the service provider for some of the people who have come to Dobson's house looking for their phones, offers a different but not contradictory explanation.
Stephanie Vinge Walsh of Sprint corporate communications says the problem arises from the fact that Dobson's house "happens to be in the center of a geometric circle denoting the coverage area." The address of that center is the address provided searchers "when a more precise location of a device is not readily available."
Whatever the explanation, it's all the same to Dobson when cops--or drunks--come pounding on his door at 3 a.m. "We sincerely regret the inconvenience experienced by Mr. Dobson," says Walsh.


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Director-General Champions Deeper Cooperation with Namibia
On 7 June, the UNESCO Director-General, Ms Irina Bokova held a joint meeting with Ministers in policy areas linked to UNESCO's fields of competency.
Held at the Ministry of Education, the joint meeting was chaired by Honourable Bernard Esau, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Reserves, and included the Honourable Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology and Representative to the UNESCO Executive Board, Mr Stanley Simataa, and Honourable Deputy Minister of Education, Ms Silvia Makgone.
The Honourable Deputy Ministers and Representatives from the Ministries of Education; Information and Communication Technology; Agriculture, Water and Forestry; Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture; Gender Equality and Child Welfare also attended the meeting.
The working meeting was an opportunity to review in depth the full range of opportunities and challenges facing Namibia -- in quality and inclusive education, in skills building with youth, in harnessing ICTs and promoting community radio, in strengthening water resource management and risk forecasting and mitigation, in advancing early childhood care, as well as in safeguarding cultural heritage and supporting cultural and creative industries.
"Capacity-building is the golden thread throughout our work, and UNESCO stands ready to deepen support to Namibia in all of these areas, which are essential for social inclusion, for social resilience, for sustainable development," said the Director-General.
A Communique was signed as a result of the joint working meeting.
"UNESCO will accompany Namibia every step of the way, as it works to reach its national development goals, 'Vision 2030,' to deepen youth engagement and to promote the benefits of sustainability and development throughout all of society," said the Director-General.
Irina Bokova visited the Penduka Arts Centre, a women's empowerment project, with some 58 women, including some with language, speech and hearing impairments.
The Director-General was shown the full range of arts and crafts created at the centre, including batik, pottery and glass jewellery -- all made with local materials, some recycled, and drawing on traditional skills. Penduka provides skills and employment, a base for cultural tourism as well as a treatment and support centre for women with tuberculosis. Penduka means 'Wake Up!' and the centre provides a wonderful example of solidarity in action.
Irina Bokova also visited the Dawid Bezuidenhout High School, a UNESCO ASPnet School.
She was greeted by the School Principal, and welcomed by an auditorium packed with young women and men. A choir opened the event, where Irina Bokova thanked the Principal, the teachers and all the students for their commitment to taking forward UNESCO's values and objectives. She highlighted the special role of schools, principals and teachers especially, for building lasting peace and sustainable development. The Director-General underlined the importance of empowering girls through education and learning, as a power for social transformation.
"I feel the humanist spirit of UNESCO in this auditorium today-- you are carrying forward the values we share of peace, dialogue, respect and dignity, sustainability and solidarity, and for this, I am grateful and encouraged," said Irina Bokova.
The Director-General also held a meeting with the UN Country Team, where the discussion explored the support of the UN to Namibia's national development plans, and the practice of 'delivering as one' in a middle income country, facing challenges as well as opportunities.


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Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, 1976: The small man center stage has removed his coat and tie. His dark face has grown moist with perspiration. He reaches for a tambourine, slaps it against his hip. In his own words, Sammy Davis Jr. is "revving up." The music changes and the "monster of musical motion" takes off--with "Mr. Bojangles," "That Old Black Magic," "Candy Man," proving his mastery of what has been called his "art of establishing immediate, joyful rapture with audiences."
Flashback to almost 50 years earlier:
Somewhere on the vaudeville circuit, 1929: a silent four-year-old human prop appears on stage for the first time with his father Sammy Davis Sr. and "adopted" uncle Will Mastin. He will soon begin to accompany them in "flashdancing" routines. The years will go by. The lights of vaudeville will dim and go out. Sammy Sr. and Will will fade. Sammy Jr. will go on.
Sammy Davis Jr. was born in New York's Harlem on December 8, 1925. His father was then a lead dancer in Mastin's "Holiday in Dixieland," a vaudeville troupe in which young Sammy's mother, Elvera (Sanchez) Davis, was the lead chorus girl. His paternal grandmother, Rosa B. ("Mama") Davis, reared him at 140th Street and Eighth Avenue until he was two and a half, when his parents broke up materially and professionally, and Sammy Sr. got custody of his son.
Little Sammy, who was called "Poppa" by his father and, for some equally obscure reason, "Mose Gastin" by Uncle Will, traveled and performed with the Mastin troupe, The youngster made his motion picture debut in 1933 in Rufus Jones for President, a two-reeler filmed at Brooklyn's Warner studios, in which he played a little boy who falls asleep in the lap of his mother (Ethel Waters) and dreams he is elected President of the United States.
As the years went by and vaudeville waned with the rise of motion pictures, the Mastin troupe got smaller and its name larger--first "Will Mastin's Gang. Featuring Little Sammy" then "The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr." It was during those years that Davis met Frank Sinatra, who was then with Tommy Dorsey's band, and Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, the "Mr. Bojangles," earlier popularized in the song by Jerry Jeff Walker and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which later became a standard song in Davis' act.
He was drafted into the Army when he was 18, and after encountering blatant racial prejudice for the first time and countering it with his fists, he was transferred to Special Services. There he did shows in camps across the country, "gorging" himself "on the joy of being liked," as he described it in his 1965 autobiography, Yes I Can. He combed every audience for "haters" and, when he spotted one, would give his performance "an extra burst of strength and energy" because he "had to get those guys," to "neutralize them and make them acknowledge" him.
During the lean post-World War II years, breaking in a night club act in the "boondocks" and occasionally in Las Vegas, which was in its infancy as a "show town," he perfected his performance, doing flashdancing and impressions of popular screen stars and singers, playing trumpet and drums--and singing, with Sammy Sr. and Uncle Will's soft-shoe and tap as background. During this period, he recorded some songs for Capitol. One of them, a rendition of "The Way You Look Tonight," was chosen 1946 Record of the year by Metronome magazine, which also named him the year's "Most Outstanding New Personality."
Over the following two years, the trio toured for six months with Mickey Rooney, played a three-week engagement on a bill headed by Frank Sinatra at New York's Capitol Theatre and had a featured spot in a Bob Hope benefit show. It was through Jack Benny, however, that they won a coveted booking at Ciro's in Hollywood and an appearance with Eddie Cantor on the "Colgate Comedy Hour," a television series for which they became the summer replacement. After the trio's smash hit engagement at the Copacabana in New York, Decca Records signed Davis to a contract. His first album, Starring Sammy Davis Jr., included impersonations. Another LP, Just for Lovers, starred him solely as himself.
It was in 1954 that an automobile accident cost him his left eye. During his confinement in Community Hospital in San Bernadino, he began his conversion to Judaism. When he was discharged from the hospital, clubs nationwide were clamoring for him and the trio. With battered face and eye-patch, Davis made his return to the nightclub circuit with them. After a succession of successful club appearances, he made his Broadway debut in 1956, with Sam Sr. and Will, in Mr. Wonderful, a musical comedy created for him.
Davis made his solo debut on television on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and did some serious acting in episodes of the "General Electric Theatre" and "The Dick Powell Show." In 1965, on the "Patty Duke Show," he played himself in "Will the Real Sammy Davis Please Stand Up?" Meanwhile his recordings were making records--"Hey There," "Birth of the Blues," The Lady Is a Tramp," "Candy Man," "Gonna Build a Mountain," and "Who Can I Turn To?"
He co-starred in 1958 as the jive talking sailor in the film Anna Lucasta and the next year as the mischievous Sportin' Life in the screen version of Porgy and Bess. Among the numerous additional films in which he appeared are Pepe (in a cameo role as himself), Convicts Four, Three Penny Opera, Nightmare in the Sun, A Man Called Adam, and Sweet Charity, and as a member of the "Rat Pack," a group of performers headed by Frank Sinatra, in a number of pictures including Ocean's Eleven, Sergeants Three, and Robin and the Seven Hoods, as well as Johnny Cool, Salt and Pepper, and One More Time. In the mid-1960s, he returned to the stage as the star of Broadway's Golden Boy, which earned him Cue magazine's Entertainer of the Year award. His numerous television specials have also been widely acclaimed.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) Las Vegas police are investigating a woman's allegations that former baseball player Jose Canseco Jr. sexually assaulted her.
Officer Bill Cassell said Wednesday that the 48-year-old Canseco was named as a suspect in the investigation. Cassell says the investigation isn't complete, no charges have been filed and no arrest has been made.
The department spokesman wouldn't say where the alleged attack took place.
Word about the investigation became public after Canseco posted information about it on the social media network Twitter. Attempts to reach him weren't immediately successful.
Canseco's spokeswoman, Susan Haber in Los Angeles, says she has no immediate information about the case.
The former Oakland Athletics slugger hit 462 career home runs during a career that included stints with six other major league teams from 1985 to 2001.


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In retrospect, it seems crazy that we ever believed in the Logan's Run remake with Nicolas Winding Refn directing and Ryan Gosling starring. Yes, the two were definitely attached, back when Drive still hadn't opened and seemed more like a heist thriller than the mood piece it really was, and they remained attached even as they moved on to make Only God Forgives instead. Gosling finally dropped the project last fall and though Refn never made his own announcement, he's finally confirmed that, yes, the project is totally dead (though word that another screenwriter has signed on may mean it's still living on without Refn).
Answering Twitchfilm's question about the state of the remake, Refn said "It's dead as dead can be." He continued to explain that the quality of the original film kept getting in his way:
. It's a great shame but I realised a couple of things. I was so in love with the original that I think I was disillusioned by the fact that if I made a remake I would be closer to the original, I would be part of the original more than any other, and I realised that that was a lie. That was illusion. It wouldn't be like that. And also if I was going to make a $100 or $200 million movie, and trade off my creative freedom for that price, it needed to be something that was going to outweigh that loss. Because at the same time I'm very lucky to be able to make the films I make, and to exchange that for a larger canvas really needs to feel like the right swap. Logan's Run just wasn't it at the end.
But if you want to see Refn tackle a sci-fi classic, you might not have to wait long. Development on his Barbarella TV series, an adaptation of the iconic 1968 sci-fi movie starring Jane Fonda. A movie remake had kicked around for a long time in the hands of Robert Rodriguez, but Refn seems to be the closest to actually making it happen; he told Twitch "I'm really concentrating on my TV show, to see if I can get that off the ground." Of course, that doesn't mean it's actually happening any time soon-- but at least there's commitment there that clearly wasn't in place for Logan.


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By Liz Waytkus & Frampton Tolbert
On a recent trip to Albany, New York, I stumbled upon a gem of mid-century architecture: the former Adirondack Trailways Bus Station. Handsome and thoroughly functional in its form with bus bays nestled under a supported second floor waiting room, the building, even in its abandoned state, looks to be in surprisingly good condition and spirit. Built at the same time as the well-documented Empire State Plaza (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1959-1972), there seems to be very little information on the terminal's opening date, design or architects. Wondering what other mid-century bus terminals might still be out there, I asked the writers of the Midcentury Mundane blog to help me find some of those remainders and look at the highlights of long-distance bus terminals.
1. Unknown architect, likely 1963 or 1964
Adirondack Trailways, Albany, NY, Photo: Liz Waytkus
2. William S. Arrasmith (architect), 1940
Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington, DC, Photo: John DeFerarri on Streets of Washington blog
3. Unknown architect, 1960. Demolished
Continental Trailways Bus Station, Houston, Texas, Houston Chronical photo posted on Bus Digest Magazine
4. Unknown architect, 1961. Still exists near West Fayette St in Baltimore.
Trailways Bus Terminal, Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Sun Archive Photo
5. Unknown architect and date
Greyhound Terminal, Los Angeles, California, Posted by moefuzz on Jalopy Journal
6. Unknown architect and date
Greyhound Terminal, Los Angeles, California, Posted by moefuzz on Jalopy Journal
7. Unknown architect and date
Greyhound Terminal, Los Angeles, California, Photo: Flora Chou, 2013
8. Unknown architect and date. Demolished.
Trailways Bus Station, Chicago, Illinois, Photo: mbernero on Flickr
9. Philemon E. Sturges (architect), 1963
Bonanza Bus Terminal, Providence, Rhode Island, Posted by Midcentury Modern RI on Facebook
10. Preston Bus Station (1969) recently received designation.
Preston Bus Station, Lancashire, England, Photo: Dr Greg, Wikipedia
11. Pier Luigi Nervi's 1963 bus terminal in Washington Heights is perhaps one of the most significant modern bus terminals in the US
George Washington Bridge Bus Station, New York, NY, Photo: Theodore Prudon
12. Unknown architect, 1959
Greyhound Bus Station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Photo: Goll Studio
13. Unknown architect and date
Greyhound Bus Station, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
14. Unknown architect and date. Still exists on South Olive St and Gardenia St in Palm Beach.
Trailways station, West Palm Beach, Florida, Photo: May 12, 1967 (Palm Beach Post-Times staff photo)


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In 1802, an Act of Parliament was passed to turn four acres of farmland in north London into Camden Town Cemetery, as the new burial ground for St. Martin's in the Fields. The Act provided for the building of a chapel and other accomodation on the site, as well as stating that the cemetery should be enclosed by a "substantial brick wall"; the north wall which still exists today is believed to be part of that.
Three years later, the cemetery was consecrated by Beilby Porteous, the Bishop of London. But its life was not a peaceful one: someone always had their eyes on this desirable bit of land. In 1817, permission was granted to build almshouses on an unused part of the ground: these survive to this day. In 1854, further permission was granted for development on the site, including demolition of the existing buildings.
Work began in 1855. The project required the exhumation of hundreds of bodies from the site, and the public outcry was huge. Fencing around the site was torn down, and navvies working on the dig were pelted with stones. It was said in contemporary newspaper reports that the stench from the exhumed bodies was "abominable" and that the Under-Secretary of State visited the site and immediately had the digging stopped. It's thought that the large mound in the centre of the gardens could be the exhumed bodies from this time, though it may date back several decades earlier, to the clearing of St. Martin's original burial ground, lost when Trafalgar Square was constructed in the 1820s.
Either way, by 1884 the cemetery was closed as a burial ground, and reopened as public gardens five years later by the Countess of Rosebery, Hannah Rothschild. These days, they're in pretty constant use by the sunbathers and beer-drinkers of Camden; one corner has been fenced off to make a children's playground. A few chest tombs survive, and headstones line the north wall. The Gardens were reopened in 2006 after restoration by the council, by the current Countess of Rosebery, the granddaughter-in-law of the last one to do the job.
It's easy to assume that no one else is taking any notice of the history in a place like this, but one lovely Irish gentleman spotted me trying to puzzle out the inscription on a tomb, and told me he's spent the last 15 years walking past it, trying to see what it says. Neither of us could figure it out.
The Friends of St. Martin's Gardens have a blog, though they don't post on it very often.
Visiting: St. Martin's Gardens is on the corner of Pratt Street and Camden Street. Walkable from Camden Town or Camden Road stations; any bus that will get you to Camden will also do. No one bothers about photographers here.
First picture borrowed from Camden Council's website.
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