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PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea's newest batch of future soldiers - scrawny 11-year-olds with freshly shaved heads - punch the air as they practice taekwondo on the grounds of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School. Students and teachers here say they're studying harder these days to prepare for a fight.
Across the country, banners, slogans and artwork have been redrawn to focus on fighting "the imperialist Americans and their traitorous followers," a reference to South Korea. Slogans on improving North Korea's economy had dominated since 2009, but anti-American propaganda has re-emerged over the past year, particularly following U.S.-led censure of North Korea's decision to launch a long-range rocket and test a nuclear bomb.
At the military school, where students work on desktop computers without Internet access and practice their English with chants such as "The respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is our father," classwork is infused with conflict.
"Because of the present situation, I am trying to study harder, because I really think that's how I can get my revenge on the American imperialists: by getting top marks in class," one student, Jo Chung Hyok, told The Associated Press.
"It's my revolutionary duty," Jo said. "I'm working extra hard to get top marks in military subjects like tactics and shooting."
The uptick in anti-American sentiment comes on the heels of international condemnation and U.N. sanctions for North Korea's long-range rocket launch in December and its underground nuclear test in February, which Pyongyang accuses Washington and Seoul of instigating. Joint U.S.-South Korean military drills south of the border also have incensed Pyongyang.
The anti-American campaign also comes as North Korea prepares to mark the 60th anniversary in July of the close of the Korean War. The three-year conflict pitting North Korea and China against U.S.-led U.N. troops ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. The continued division of the Korean Peninsula, and the presence of 28,500 American troops in South Korea, has rankled North Korea's leadership.
For weeks, North Korea has threatened to attack the U.S. and South Korea for holding joint military drills and for supporting U.N. sanctions. Washington and Seoul say they've seen no evidence that Pyongyang is actually preparing for a major conflict, though South Korean defense officials say the North appears prepared to test-fire a medium-range missile capable of reaching the American territory of Guam.
Both sides have said that in order for dialogue, the other side needs to act.
The U.S. says Pyongyang must bring down tensions and honor previous disarmament agreements before talks can begin.
North Korea laid out a long list of preconditions for resuming talks Thursday, including the lifting of U.N. sanctions, the end of U.S.-South Korea military drills, the withdrawal of U.S. nuclear weapons assets from the region a halt to criticism of North Korea. On Friday, it reiterated a warning to South Korea to apologize for offending its leadership before any talk of dialogue to defuse tensions.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry called North Korea's demands illogical, but in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry put a more positive spin on Pyongyang's response.
"It's the first word of negotiation or thought of that we have heard from them since all of this has begun," he said Thursday before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. "I'm prepared to look at that as at least a beginning, not acceptable obviously, and we have to go further."
The U.S. remains open to "authentic and credible negotiations," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One. But he said the U.S. has not seen any commitment from North Koreans that they are willing to end their nuclear program.
Inside the sprawling compound of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, students are made aware of their government's latest invectives against its foes, in addition to usual subjects of study: biology, history, foreign languages.
"At the moment, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is tense, and America is being bad to us," said Lt. Col. Kim Hak Bin, an administrator at the military academy. "But you can see that the students here look just as bright as usual, and life and classes are carrying on the same as before.
"Our students are ready to go to the front lines whenever a war breaks out, and they are now studying harder than usual," he said Thursday.
The school, located near the birthplace of North Korea's first leader, Kim Il Sung, was created in 1947 to house, feed and educate the sons and daughters of soldiers killed while fighting the Japanese who occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945.
Today, the girls are housed in a separate academy named after Kim Il Sung's mother, the Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School in the western port city of Nampho.
Late leader Kim Jong Il attended the academy for eight months during the Korean War, school records show. His son, current leader Kim Jong Un, did not. His military education came from studying at the Kim Il Sung Military University next door.
During his 17-year rule, Kim Jong Il elevated the importance of the army and poured much of the nation's meager resources into defense. Military life became an integral part of the North Korean identity.
The students here are being groomed to serve as the "core" of the Korean People's Army, said biology teacher Ri Kyong Hui.
A visit to the military academy offered a peek into how young North Koreans learn to march and chant with such startling precision as displayed in parades held on major anniversaries.
A group of students, dressed in uniform, struggled to get their march just right as an instructor adjusted their arms. One boy grimaced in frustration. Inside, other students rehearsed for a performance, using fake rifles as props.
But boys will be boys, and the 11-year-olds who just joined the academy at the start of the month were hardly examples of discipline.
Suited up in light green and blue tracksuits, they squirmed, giggled and made faces as they practiced taekwondo.
Associated Press Television News in Pyongyang, and AP writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, and Matthew Pennington and Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington contributed to this report.


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a European-origin component in the composite Ashkenazi Jewish gene pool that he happens to share.
October 18, 2010
Joe Pickrell on his ancestry
25 comments:
- Gioiello said...
This is what I wanted to hear from you and this is what I have said in starting my presence on the blogs. My two banishments were undeserved.
- Monday, October 18, 2010 6:36:00 pm
- Marnie said...
to boldly go where no man has gone before
- Monday, October 18, 2010 7:39:00 pm
- Gioiello said...
The great Latin poet, probably from an Etruscan family from Campania, Titus Lucretius Caro, who wrote the poem "De rerum natura", a follower of the greatest Greek Philosopher, Epicurus, didn't think to explore the space like Star Trek, but from the earth, our house, desired only "noctes vigilare serenas", searching for truth.
- Monday, October 18, 2010 9:29:00 pm
- Marnie said...
You can't say that you've really lived until you've had a few banishments. Good for you, and us, and I hope now 23andme will clean up their act.
- Monday, October 18, 2010 10:24:00 pm
- pconroy said...
Of course, let's not forget that according to this site on History of Ancient Israel and Judah, and many other similar ones, that:
In 66 the Jews revolted against Rome. The rebellion was crushed and the Temple destroyed (70 CE); over 100,000 Jews died during the siege of Jerusalem, nearly 100,000 were taken to Rome as slaves , and many others fled to Mesopotamia and to other countries. In 132 a second revolt, Bar Kokhba's Revolt, began, led by Simon bar Kokhba, and an independent state in Israel was declared. By 135 this revolt also was suppressed, and the Romans reorganized Judaea as part of the province of Syria-Palestine.
So I think I've probably specifically located the origin of Judean (aka Jewish) admixture in Central Italians...
- Monday, October 18, 2010 10:56:00 pm
- Jack said...
I knew Gioiello would comment. Ah, ah.
I think it's obvious that Jews absorbed a few South European genes, but it is also true that to a limited extent there was "pollution" of certain areas such as tuscany by Near eastern people, namlely etruscans.
Btween Etruscans and Greeks in Italy and a few other areas, Arabs in Spain and a few other areas, etc., there is going to some overlap between Jews and South Europeans even if the former hadn't stayed in SE.
Add that they absorbed some N. African stuff since large Jewish communities were in NAfrica.
Bottom line is that they "look" like ME populations and that tells the story.
Unless of course someone wants to prove that SEuros originated in Palestine or Saudi Arabia...
- Monday, October 18, 2010 11:04:00 pm
- Cuah123 said...
Bravo Dienekes! I hope that 23andme et al go back and refocus their results...hope it doesn't open them up to law suits, especially if people changed their lifestyles...
This also points people of different cultural backgrounds creating offspring, either by love or force.
- Monday, October 18, 2010 11:24:00 pm
- Marnie said...
De Rerum Natura
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:25:00 am
- Jack said...
The 100,000 jwish taken to italy is a possibility. Ironic. Tons of slaves were brought to Italy Mainly to Rome.
THis may explain some genetic southerness or wierdness in parts of Lazio (from what I remeber) around Rome besides the etruscan effect. There is an ancient jewish community in Rome, the oldest in Europe I think, and the most inbred. Some still have "arabic" names and have nothing to do with the rest of the population.
However, from what I have read slave survival rate and reproduction in Roman times is estimated close to zero in general.
Slavery was not the nice and easy going thing they had in the United States.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:52:00 am
The Etruscans probably proceeded the Latins and other I.E speakers into Italy. The I.E urheimat is somewhere in Siberia. So who is foreign and who native?
I wouldn't give any credence to Bible stories as real history, or accept what people write they did to their enemies. The Egyptians, Ramses for example, the great one, had a lot of BS written on many stonewalls about his achievements. The Romans were no different. The Arabian historians were very inventive. Sometime happened in the year 70 C.E but not what those Roman historians said happened. Just because it is written or said often does not make it fact.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:43:00 pm
- onur said...
However, from what I have read slave survival rate and reproduction in Roman times is estimated close to zero in general.
Slavery was not the nice and easy going thing they had in the United States.
Ottoman slaves and Islamic slaves in general were in much better conditions than Ancient Hellenic/Roman slaves. They generally became Muslims and were set free after some time and even became part of the family they served. In the Turkish-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire (we can also include here the Seljuk Sultanate and Anatolian beyliks) the overwhelming majority of slaves (there were many many slaves) were White slaves (taken from Christian populations of Asia Minor, the Balkans, Caucasus and other European domains) and Muslims living there were usually fond of having children from them (through marriage or concubinage). Black slaves, OTOH, were a very small minority in the Turkish-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire (because that they were far away from Sub-Saharan Africa), and Muslims living there almost always even if not always shunned marriage and/or mixing with Black slaves and generally sterilized them by castration. Another thing of note, Muslims in the Turkish-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire highly valued having fair skin, fair hair, colored eyes and fine features, as they still do.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:05:00 pm
- alfio said...
"The 100,000 jwish taken to italy is a possibility. Ironic. Tons of slaves were brought to Italy Mainly to Rome."
The average age of death for slaves was 17,5 years.
Slaves were not from middle east only but from every part of Europe too.
So i can't see why jews should have left more traces than celts or thracians to make an example.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:07:00 pm
- Major Tom said...
Jack is right, the presence of Jews in Italy and in Europe is linked more to businesses than to the slaves.
In Rome there were Jews already in the Republican era, but I believe that the Jewish presence is overrated and a more careful analysis can give very different answers about the origin of aaskenazis, but many Jewes of Rome, a small comunity of about 15.000 members, are sephardis from Spain, not askenazs.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:08:00 pm
- alfio said...
"I knew Gioiello would comment. Ah, ah.
I think it's obvious that Jews absorbed a few South European genes, but it is also true that to a limited extent there was "pollution" of certain areas such as tuscany by Near eastern people, namlely etruscans."
Etruscans left almost no traces of them in modern day tuscans and we still don't know exactly if they were from middle east nor if they were only an elite from Anatolia in a sea of villanovian people.
Any study cluster Tuscany with middle east, save few lineages in the autosomal tests that to me only show an Adigey\caucasian legacy more than M.e
Beside this Tuscany haven't had any contact with middle eastern or north african populations.
So I can't see why after years of shouted paternity of many people in S.Europe some jews can't accept that is them who are similar to some S.europeans and not the other way around.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:19:00 pm
- onur said...
BTW, Janissaries were allowed to marry and have children (not necessarily through marriage, having children through concubinage with female slaves was allowed for every male Muslim in Islam) after retirement (as is the case with soldiers in general, they retired early in life) by the Ottoman rulers, but many of them married and had children even before retirement so much so that the Ottoman rulers afterwards allowed them to marry and have children whenever they wished.
Also of note is the fact that marrying and having children from non-Muslim women is allowed for every male Muslim in Islam. So the non-Muslim wife of the Muslim husband can keep her non-Muslim faith all through her marriage and can die as a non-Muslim. But all of her children from the Muslim husband have to be raised as Muslims and cannot be non-Muslims according to Islam.
For female Muslims to marry and have children from a male non-Muslim, OTOH, the male non-Muslim has to convert to Islam first in order to marry with the female Muslim according to Islam.
Lastly and very importantly, once someone becomes a Muslim, there is no return according to Islam.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:11:00 pm
- pconroy said...
Did you read Joe Pickrell's recent comment??
According to that analysis as well, I have a bit of Ashkenazi ancestry (15-30%, or 3-6% if restricting to only 4 grandparents from the same place). I'd be slightly suspicious again, though, about what exactly this means. Certainly the results depend on the composition of the 23andMe database. My guess is that some groups are much more represented than others, and thus more likely to contribute IBD matches (ie., in this analysis I appear to have no Italian ancestry). It would be nice to see some PCA maps of the 23andMe database to figure this out.
Bolded by me...
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:17:00 pm
- Marnie said...
Mη χειρότερα.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:35:00 pm
- Aaron said...
"According to that analysis as well, I have a bit of Ashkenazi ancestry (15-30%, or 3-6% if restricting to only 4 grandparents from the same place). I'd be slightly suspicious again, though, about what exactly this means. Certainly the results depend on the composition of the 23andMe database. My guess is that some groups are much more represented than others, and thus more likely to contribute IBD matches (ie., in this analysis I appear to have no Italian ancestry). It would be nice to see some PCA maps of the 23andMe database to figure this out."
--He states 3-6% have self declared Ashkenazi. I wonder what the self reported countries associated with this ancestry are?
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:37:00 pm
- Grendal said...
We should also remember that while Judea and Israel were part of the pre Alexandrian empires there were a number of occasions when large sections of their populations were transplanted to other parts of the empires. Thus "jewish" DNA would be scattered around the Middle East and beyond. Israel ended in this way. Also other populations were often settled in Judea/Israel in exactly the same way. What happened to their genes?
This is why I wonder whether discussions about "ashkenasi genes" or even "jewish genes" are
meaningful without very specific definitions and frames of reference.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:54:00 pm
- Gioiello said...
To Pconroy:
GregRM says: "having more than 1000 Relative Finder cousins is a pretty solid indicator of recent Ashkenazi ancestry".
I have explained this in another posting: I was speaking of an ancient introgression of Italian genes into Ashkenazim, not a recent one. They have more relatives because they have multiplied in these last centuries from about 25.000 who from Italy migrated to the Rhine Valley. The introgression happened then and it is that introgression which gives our "Ashkenazi ancestry".
- Wednesday, October 20, 2010 7:08:00 am
NW Europeans and Colonials obsess too much about Jewish ancestry or Jewish genes.
23andMe have a simple method of working out you are Jewish, at least Ashkenazim. If on RF you have 1000 RF cousins ergo you are Ashkenazim Jewish. Even half AJ or quarter AJ have many RF relatives. On Leon Kulls HIR search site, it is easy to pick out the Jews. As for other "Middle Eastern" types for example Samaritans, there is one Samaritan on Leon's site and he scores well with the AJs, not as high as the AJs but higher than non Jews score with each other.
For my part, I have 35 RF cousins.
I think the statement that hidden "Southern European" ancestry, Italian specifically, can give mainly NW Europeans or Euro Americans, a higher Ashkenazim score on dienekes program, it correct.
- Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:08:00 am
By the way, every ethnic group or antique nation had there slaves. Mostly the slaves were from their own country or from similar ethnic groups. There was no need to import slaves. The Spartans had their Helotes who were other Greeks from Laconia. They had no need for Middle Eastern or Egyptian or sub Saharan slaves. The ancient Romans and other Italici enslaved other inhabitants of the Italian peninsula. The Vikings had their slaves and those Vikings traded extensively with the Byzantine Greeks, various Arabs, and partook in the selling of slaves to the North Africans.
When it comes to slavery, no one has clean hands.
- Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:14:00 am
- pconroy said...
Ponto, Gioiello,
I'm not denying that some Southern European ancestry - be it Anatolian, Greek or Itlalian - introgressed into the founder Ashkenazi genepool, but in addition to that, Jewish ancestry introgressed into Southern Europeans.
This was a two way process, but it would seem that the bulk of enslaved Jews became Christians eventually, with only a minority migrating to Ashkenaz (Germanic lands) and giving rise to Ashkenazi Jews.
Therefore your family could be Christian for 2,000 years, but you could still be of part Jewish ancestry, especially in Central Italy, that's all.
- Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:10:00 pm
- Aaron said...
"I think the statement that hidden "Southern European" ancestry, Italian specifically, can give mainly NW Europeans or Euro Americans, a higher Ashkenazim score on dienekes program, it correct.
I don't think this is correct. If they had South European ancestry, ie: Italian they would have fewer relatives. I haven't heard of Italians having more than 50-60 (rough ballpark) matches.
- Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:11:00 pm
- Cuah123 said...
"Certainly the results depend on the composition of the 23andMe database"
I've posted this before, (coming from the video game industry were we use database for a variety of data manipulation and metrics) the results depend on the population and balance of the database. Is the database "balanced" to represent world populations? If its skewed one way or another it then the results will be skewed as well.
- Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:20:00 pm

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I have kind of caught the Samsung bug, I loved the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom with its 10x optical zoom, then I was seduced by the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 not only is the screen perfect for updating my blog, the camera is amazing and I have become a scrapbooking whiz, but now my heart belongs to another, the new and improved Samsung Galaxy S5.
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For me, any smartphone has to have a great camera and I thought it would be hard for any phone to compete with the Note 3, which I love, but this beauty does with its 16-megapixel camera. Key features that I love: It has a selective focus function, which means you can change the focus of your photos after you have taken them, so to either blur the foreground or background, I love anything that makes a better Instagramable piccie!!! Plus the camera also has fast auto-focus, so action shots are easier to capture, I can't wait to try this out during fashion week. There is also a random Virtual Tour function unless you're an estate agent I am not sure when I would use this – but hey, never say never.
But aside from the great handset, the S5 also launched with two wearable devices – the Gear Fit, a fitness-tracker smart band that can notify you of e-mails, phone calls as well as Twitter updates, and the Gear 2 Neo smartwatch, which you can do everything the Gear Fit does as well as make phone calls, yep it is very Michael Knight from Knight Rider.
The Gear 2 Neo is a much improved on the debut smartwatch, it is slimmer and more stylish, you can even change out the straps, so it does feel more like a conventional watch, while still having the added benefits of being able to read your e-mails and text messages, see who has hearted your Instagram pic, as well as take a phone call. But for me, it is just a tad bulky for everyday use.
There are number of features I loved, other than notifications on my wrist, from the music player that connects with Bluetooth earphones – it really does make working out easier, as well as the personalised fitness S Health platform connectivity – from the pedometer counting your steps to tracking exercise activity from running to cycling, and if you want to you can even measure your heart rate. I do like that you can set yourself personal goals that can be measured on the wearable devices and then viewed within the app on the S5. I really love reaching my steps goal.
For me though it is all about the Gear Fit, I love how comfortable and light this device is to wear, I wear it day and night, and it is easy to personalise with any look as you can change-up the clock face, the wallpaper and colour – so from coordinating with my manicure to matching my bright pink trainers I love switching it up.
Much like other fitness-trackers, the Gear Fit is acts like my personal coach, it tracks my exercises like the Gear 2 Neo, counts my steps, checks my heart rate, as well as having a handy sleep function that measures whether I have had a good night sleep or not, lately I have been doing well as I have been around the 90% motionless for my nightly rests. I had been using the S Health app on my Note 3 to calculate my steps but using the Gear Fit has been more accurate and easier to make my goals. I also think it has been pushing me to achieve those goals as well – when I see that I am only half way through my goal I walk to the shop rather than drive.
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Finding a pair of heels that are comfortable to walk in for more than 10 minutes at a time is definitely a challenge, but believe it or not, some women are going to insane extremes to make the process a whole lot easier.
And when I say insane, I mean I-N-S-A-N-E. More are more women are undergoing surgical procedures so they can wear high heels -- and some are even going so far as to have their toes cut off. No, I'm not kidding. (But I really wish I were.)
Having your pinky toe completely severed in order to be able to squish your foot into a sexy pair of stilettos sounds totally ridiculous -- but yes, women are doing it.
Other "foot job" procedures that are seeing a rise in popularity include getting injections into the balls of the feet for extra padding and cushioning, and also having one or more toes shortened as opposed to slicing the whole toe off. (Still kind of nuts if you ask me.)
Ok, so I can understand resorting to foot surgery if you are in a constant state of pain or have trouble walking because of some sort of problem with your feet. But if you have to go under the knife in order to be able to wear heels -- doesn't that kind of clue you in that they probably aren't the most natural thing to wear?
I mean, I LOVE the way heels look, and I drool over Kate Middleton's gorgeous legs every time I see her step out in her favorite pair of nude pumps. But each and every single time, I make some sort of comment about how I don't understand how she can walk around in heels all day like that -- because I sure as hell can't.
And as much as I'd love to be able to strut my stuff in a chic pair of stilettos, I certainly don't care about them enough to go to drastic measures to fit into them.
If I find a pair that I can tolerate long enough to wear on a dinner date or for a few hours at a wedding, I'm satisfied. But as for the shoes I wear on a daily basis? Yeah -- I stick to flats, not only because they're comfy and practical, but also because there are so many cute styles on the market these days. (Flats are the new heels anyway.)
Back to the women who are cutting off their toes -- I'm sorry, but they're completely off their rockers, period. Oh, and one more thing, aren't they the least bit concerned about how funky their feet are going to look with a toe missing come flip-flop season?
You can hear more about this new surgical trend in this video clip.
Be honest -- would you cut off your toe for the sake of your high heels?
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Brighton Baths have been around since 1881 and although originally just a recreation centre over the years they've turned into a multi trick pony. The Baths are a place for weddings, dinner with the family or a just coffee when your neck-deep in lycra. The venue is a great place for locals and tourists alike to see Melbourne's beautiful, however mostly hazy, cityscape. The Baths are split into two with a more fancy restaurant upstairs and a cafe/bar downstairs. The cafe menu is a little simpler and cheaper but aims to please most people with things like a classic bowl of wedges to Spaghetti Marinara. Sitting across from Ricky Ponting one fine Sunday, we ordered the Baths Burger that came with a beef patty, traditional seeded bun, lettuce, tomato, cheese, pickled cucumber and chipotle mayo.


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Newtown father to throw out first pitch
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Rangers announced on Thursday that Robbie Parker will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the home opener against the Angels on April 5 at Rangers Ballpark. Parker is the father of 6-year-old Emilie Parker, who was killed in the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14. Twenty children and six adults died as a result of the shootings.
Parker is from North Texas and a lifelong Rangers fan. Through the efforts of several local baseball websites -- including the Newberg Report, Lone Star Ball and Baseball Time in Arlington -- thousands of dollars have been donated by individuals in North Texas to Emilie's Fund, which assisted families of those impacted by the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"Shortly after the tragedy in Newtown, both John Blake and I saw a picture on the Internet of Mr. Parker and his daughter Emilie watching batting practice at Rangers Ballpark. As we learned more about Robbie Parker being a Rangers fan, John and I discussed having him here for Opening Day and the ceremonial first pitch," Rangers vice president Chuck Morgan said. "We took the idea to Nolan Ryan and it was done. It was an honor for me to call Robbie and invite him to Texas for Opening Day, something I will never forget. A special tip of the cap to Rangers fans that have donated time and money to help the folks in Newtown, Conn., and brought this to our attention."
Major League Baseball will honor the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting during the opening games of the 2013 regular season. All players, managers, coaches, umpires and on-field personnel will wear a symbolic ribbon patch and observe a moment of silence in their opening games (March 31 to April 2) in a league-wide effort to remember the 26 individuals who lost their lives.
"The unimaginable tragedy that befell Newtown, Conn., will never be forgotten," Commissioner Bud Selig said. "Major League Baseball, all 30 clubs and baseball fans from around the country and Canada offer our deepest sympathies and our unbridled support as the community continues to heal from this heartbreaking day."


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Problems Copying Music to Your iPod in Windows 8
You won't find the word iPod mentioned in the Windows 8 menus, help screens, or even in the Help areas of Microsoft's website. That's because Microsoft's competitor, Apple, makes the tremendously popular iPod. Microsoft's strategy is to ignore the little gizmo in the hope that it will go away.
What won't go away, though, are the problems you'll face if you ever try to copy songs onto an iPod with Media Player. You face two hurdles:
Windows Media Player won't recognize your iPod, much less send it any songs or videos.
When you plug in your iPod, Windows might recognize the slick gadget as a portable hard drive. It may even let you copy songs to it. But your iPod won't be able to find or play them.
The easiest solution is to download and install iTunes software from Apple's website. Because iTunes and Media Player will bicker over which program can play your files, you'll probably end up choosing iTunes.
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Sumatra PDF Viewer: Fast and Simple PDF Reading
Adobe Acrobat Reader is still the king of PDF viewers, but that might only be by market share, the same way Internet Explorer is still the king of Web browsers. An ever-growing group of people is rising up against the system-slowing Adobe monopoly and trying out other free, open-source PDF readers that promise to leave a small system footprint, load and let you browse PDF documents faster and more efficiently, and not slow your system down in the process. A new contender in that arena is the Sumatra PDF Viewer, an app that goes easy on the system but is powerful enough to speedily handle even large PDF documents.
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The recent World Rugby hosted work shop welcomed potential bidders from Australia, France, Ireland, Italy, South Africa and the USA. The five were presented to media as being the possible host nations for Rugby World Cup 2023 with Argentina therefore not involved in the bidding process.
The decision to not bid came despite Argentina's World Rugby representative Agustín Pichot having championed the option. It was, nonetheless, deemed to be a matter of timing and circumstances with Argentina's turn to host the Rugby World Cup having been postponed in favor of improving the house of Argentine rugby and supporting a friend.


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I joined the CBS 6 News team in December 2011, and I am over-the-top excited to return to Virginia after spending my college years here in the Commonwealth.
I am originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, but grew-up in Nashville, Tennessee. My television career started in my hometown of Nashville, where I was an Associate Producer, Web Editor and Weekend Producer at WKRN-TV. Two years later I made the move across the country to Butte/Bozeman, Montana. I started as a Reporter, but was soon promoted to Morning Anchor at KXLF/KBZK-TV. After two years of frigid, arctic temperatures, I packed up leaving only my parka and snow boots behind and headed to Columbia, South Carolina. There I spent two years as a Reporter/Weekend Anchor at WACH Fox News. The next part of my journey would take me to Florence, Alabama, where I spent a year as a Bureau Reporter with WHNT-TV.
I have been honored to interview everyone from poet Nikki Giovanni, former NBA player Alonzo Mourning, to President Barack Obama. But my most memorable interview was with 101-year-old South Carolina native Donella Wilson, a self-proclaimed political buff. Ms. Wilson has been voting for decades and said she was proud to "exercise a right, once denied."
I am a proud graduate from Hampton University (the real HU) and I am a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
When I am not working, you will find me somewhere cheering on my Hampton Pirates, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, adding to my shoe-collection, at a local comedy club or working on maintaining my "Best Auntie" title with my precious niece, Brooklyn.
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East Carolina�s football players don�t wake up on Saturday mornings facing a 7-0 deficit.
It only seems that way, and no one is sure exactly why.
GREENVILLE � East Carolina�s football players don�t wake up on Saturday mornings facing a 7-0 deficit.
It only seems that way, and no one is sure exactly why.
The Pirates enter this week�s Conference USA game against Texas-El Paso without a first-quarter point to their credit this season.
In four games, they haven�t managed a touchdown, a field goal or a safety before switching ends of the field, giving opponents an aggregate 35-0 advantage in the opening period.
�We�ve just been a little sluggish in the first quarter, and I don�t know exactly what it is, to be honest with you,� said offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, who added that the explanation might indeed be �coincidence.�
�It�s taken us a little too long to settle in. We�ve wasted too many opportunities.�
In the first quarter of last week�s 27-6 loss at North Carolina, ECU (2-2, 1-0 C-USA) went three-and-out on its first two possessions before mounting a 14-play, 70-yard drive that ended with Warren Harvey�s 22-yard field goal � on the second play of the second quarter. By then, the Pirates trailed 7-3.
ECU has fallen behind early in each of its four games, including a 35-0 third-quarter deficit in a 48-10 loss at South Carolina on Sept. 8.
Overall, the Pirates have scored four touchdowns and kicked three field goals in nine trips to the red zone, a success rate third-year head coach Ruffin McNeill believes will improve along with early output.
�We�d like to have touchdowns there last week when we got field goals, but we�ll keep working and addressing it, and I think we�ll see it explode here for us,� McNeill said. �I�m excited to see it, too.�
Sophomore quarterback Shane Carden, who made his second career start last week, said solving the early sluggishness isn�t complicated.
�It�s a pretty simple explanation: We�ve just got to start faster,� he said. �We�re getting out there and we�ll have glimpses of good plays, but we�re not putting it all together. We�ve got to come out there and put it all together and play fast from the beginning.�
The question
When was the last time the Pirates scored the first points in a game?
Beyond the sacks
Carden accepted much of the blame for being sacked seven times against the Tar Heels, asserting that he should�ve gotten rid of the ball more quickly in many cases.
Riley, though, believes the problem was more complex.
In his five seasons on the offensive staff at Texas Tech before coming to ECU with McNeill, Riley said he couldn�t remember a first-year starter playing in two bigger games out of the gate.
Carden led the Pirates to a 24-14 win at defending C-USA champion Southern Miss in his first start, followed by a rivalry game on the road in which simply getting rid of the ball was easier said than done.
�There�s times he�s doing a really good job of that,� Riley said. �I think the biggest thing is him just pulling the trigger. We�ve, by design, been a little bit more conservative the last two weeks considering (that Carden is) a first-year starting quarterback. The biggest thing was the atmospheres, the importance of the two games.
�I think he�ll continue to get naturally more aggressive without pressing the issue and having silly turnovers,� Riley continued. �That�s certainly the goal of it. We�ve got to push him a little bit more towards that line, and we know that.�
On this date
The Pirates picked up a 31-20 home win over South Carolina on Sept. 28, 1991, as part of an 11-game winning streak leading to a landmark victory over N.C. State in the Peach Bowl.
Livin� on the edge
Michael Brooks has moved out, and that�s just fine with him.
Brooks, who is listed at nose tackle and started all 12 games there last season, started at defensive end last week and is expected to play the end position Saturday.
Against North Carolina, the 6-foot-3-inch, 276-pound senior had three tackles and was credited with half a tackle for loss.
Where he piles up his stops doesn�t matter to him.
�Like I told Coach, they could throw me at safety if they wanted to,� Brooks said. �I�d play it. Anywhere they want to put me at.�
While safety might be a stretch for the gregarious Roxboro native, he is equipped to play inside or outside, McNeill said.
The luxury was discovered when Brooks missed two games with a knee injury and sophomore Terry Williams and redshirt freshman Terrell Stanley proved a capable replacement tandem at nose tackle.
Defensive end Justin Dixon, meanwhile, sustained a season-ending knee injury while Brooks was hurt.
�Michael is one of the best guys I�ve coached in 30-plus years with his hands, which is real valuable at the end,� McNeill said. �It gives us more depth.�
Defensive coordinator Brian Mitchell agreed.
�We just want to get our best D-linemen on the field,� Mitchell said, �and Terry Williams and Michael Brooks are two of our best D-linemen.�
The answer
The Pirates haven�t scored first since a 22-17 loss at UTEP last Nov. 12, when they took a 7-0 first-quarter lead on Michael Dobson�s 2-yard touchdown run.
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East Carolina hasn�t scored a first-quarter point this season. Here�s a look at how the Pirates have managed in each quarter:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
Opponents 35 13 31 23 102


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His benefits will start being paid out on Halloween
View the Video Watchdog Minute: Filner Pension Update
Former Mayor Bob Filner is set to receive his first payment from his city pension next week, despite pleading guilty to three criminal charges and agreeing to give up a portion of his retirement.
He will receive a first check on Thursday based on his full annual amount of $20,000, said Christina Di Leva, spokeswoman for the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System.
Filner in a plea deal with criminal prosecutors earlier this month agreed to "loss of pension benefits" under a state law, which says that a public employee convicted of a felony for conduct within the performance of official duties shall forfeit pension benefits earned or accrued from the date of the felony act.
That led to an understanding among some courtroom watchers that Filner was giving up the portion of his pension earned after March 6, when he committed the felony of false imprisonment by placing a woman in the "Filner headlock."
U-T Watchdog soon reported that the state law that was cited does not apply to charter cities like San Diego.
What part of his public pension should Bob Filner lose?
None of it 12% (397)
The portion accrued after March 6 13% (425)
His entire city pension 43% (1425)
All public pensions, including the city, Congress and SDSU 33% (1103)
3350 total votes.
Also, a similar city measure approved last year by the voters has been found not to apply by the city's top lawyer and the pension board. Filner entered the city pension system as a city councilman in the late 1980s, prior to the passage of Prop. B.
The city attorney, the pension system and the interim mayor's office all believe that Prop. B only applies to new hires after its effective date in July 2012, although some authors of the measure believe it should be applied retroactively.
Despite neither law applying to Filner's case, the pension system's legal determination says Filner may have the authority to reduce his pension on a voluntary basis, and may have done so under his plea agreement.
The pension system says the law requires Filner to have been fully aware of his rights — including the right not to forfeit his pension benefits — for any voluntary forfeiture to stick. The agency expects a Dec. 9 sentencing hearing to shed light on the issue.
Until then, the agency said, it "has insufficient facts to determine that Mayor Filner was fully advised of his rights such that he entered into a knowing and intelligent waiver of his pension benefits, or part of them, despite the fact that he was not mandated to do so by law."
A call to an attorney for Filner was not returned.
Filner also remains eligible for public pensions he earned previously.
He draws $14,700 in annual income from his stint at San Diego State University from 1970 to 1992. Also, he was eligible to join the Congressional pension system. Congress does not make the amount of individual benefits public. Filner's benefit would be $58,900, according to a calculation made by U-T Watchdog earlier this year.


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The mother of a 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after suffering complications from sleep apnea surgery is speaking out several weeks after taking her daughter out of a hospital.
Nailah Winkfield says in a letter that appeared Wednesday on Facebook and Twitter that she believes her daughter is "much better physically'' since she was removed from Children's Hospital Oakland last month.
MORE: Friends Believe Jahi McMath, "Quiet Leader," is Alive
The letter doesn't specify Jahi's condition or say where she is being kept. Her family says Jahi is at an undisclosed location and has been given feeding and breathing tubes while remaining on a ventilator.
Family attorney Christopher Dolan says the letter is meant for those supporting Jahi and her family.
Jahi underwent tonsil surgery Dec. 9 and began bleeding heavily before going into cardiac arrest and being declared brain dead Dec. 12.
MORE: Catholic Group Says Jahi McMath "With Jesus Christ"
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Here's the letter as posted to a Facebook page dedicated to Jahi:
A letter from Nailah;
It has been over a month since I have spoken about my life with Jahi to anyone outside a very small circle of family and friends. So many people have asked how we are doing and if Jahi is alive. This has and continues to be an unbelievably difficult time for me as a mother and for us as a family. I have withdrawn for reasons of safety and privacy and to focus on my daughter and my role as her mother. However, I have not been alone. I have been surrounded by the love, support and prayers of so many kind people. Despite what people say about my daughter being dead and how I must be ignorant not to get that, I can tell you that she is much better physically since she has left Children's Hospital and I see changes that give me hope.
As I prayed today, I felt called to express to people that I am truly grateful for the amount of love and support my daughter Jahi McMath and I have received from people all over the world. We feel your prayer and support. Because of your unselfish generosity I was able to do what I was afraid I would never be able to do, move my daughter from Children's Hospital Oakland before they removed her from her ventilator and stopped her heart. This was itself a miracle. Please know that all of the support we received has been used towards helping Jahi. If I had it my way, I would say thank you to each and every person in their native language so they could understand how much I appreciate them for all their support and, most importantly, prayers. It is my belief that faith in God, your prayers, and the incredible kindness of good hearted medical professionals, are the main reasons my daughter is alive today. I know people are concerned and I want to make sure you know that Jahi is not suffering, she is surrounded by love. I will never let her suffer.
On the long hard days when I'm feeling down I think about all the people who are praying for me and Jahi and I feel so much better. I want you to know that I'm praying for you as well.
Thank you to all of the people who view my daughter as the sweet, innocent, 13 year old girl that she is and not a dead body or a corpse, I deeply appreciate that. Thank you to everyone who hasn't forgot how my daughter got into this situation in the first place. No one should have to go through this.
I would like to thank all of the people who have reached out to me and shared their stories of their family members. Some have been heartbreaking, some have given me hope. All have helped me feel that I am not the only person who has had this struggle. Some of you have shared how you fought for your loved ones and they got better, some of you have shared your regret with not fighting more and some shared with me the incredibly difficult decisions you made to let go. I have prayed for you as you have for me. Sadly I can say I know how you feel.
I also want to thank those who felt the need to go public with their opinions about me and my daughter, positive and even negative. It is because of you that my daughter's experience is so relevant and that people all over the world know who Jahi Mcmath is. What you may not know is that her name, Jahi, means one who is known by many. Hopefully my daughter can
change some of the ways brain death is viewed in today's society. Honestly, I think she already has.
Finally, thank you for all the love, support and prayers you give Jahi every day. I am certain that she knows you are praying for her. I feel the support from your prayer all the time. I don't think I or Jahi would be here today without you. May God bless all who have shown love and
compassion as well as those who have expressed their contempt. All are deserving of God's grace and love. For those who believe, please, keep praying for Jahi. God can overcome all things and I believe that his will has yet to be fully revealed. I love Jahi and where there is love, there is hope.
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ALBANY, N.Y. – UMBC women's basketball freshman forward Sara Tarbert (Delta, Pa./Kennard-Dale) received a top-honor at the conference's annual award banquet on Thursday night on the campus of University at Albany, being named the America East Rookie of the Year, in addition to earning All-Conference Third Team recognition and a spot on the All-Rookie Team. Classmate Taylor McCarley (Bowie, Md./Academy of Holy Cross) also earned a spot on the league's All-Rookie Team.
Tarbert becomes the second Retriever in the last three years to earn the rookie distinction with Lauren Chase receiving the honor in 2012. The Delta, Pa., native received a program-record five America East Rookie of the Week honors during the 2013-14 campaign and led all AEC freshmen in scoring (13.7) and rebounding (6.9). Tarbert leads the league in minutes per game (36.1) and also ranks seventh in both field goal (43.8) and free throw (75.9) percentage.
Tarbert started her career by becoming the first Retriever rookie in this decade to post a double-double in her collegiate debut and followed by becoming the first America East freshman to register back-to-back 20-point efforts. The forward went on to notch six 20-point efforts, five double-doubles and has the fifth highest point total of any UMBC freshman in program history with 383 points on the season. Tarbert has 22 double-figure scoring games on the year and enters the tournament in the midst of a 12-game double-digit scoring streak.
"I am so proud of Sara," head coach Phil Stern said. "She has been so consistent and played with the maturity of an upper classman."
McCarley added the one-two-punch for the Retrievers' offense, scoring 10.9 points per game during league play, 16th in the league, while also ranking in the top-10 in the league in assists (3.3 apg) and steals (2.0 spg). The Bowie, Md., native tallied three America East Rookie of the Week honors, including the final distinction of the season after recording the program's first-ever triple-double in the season finale against Binghamton, finishing with career-highs of 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. McCarley ranks second all-time among UMBC freshman in free throws made (90) and free throws attempted (135).
"Taylor has improved every day and has done so many things for us this season," Stern continued. "Our future is in good hands with these two young ladies leading us."
The seventh-seeded Retrievers are set to do battle with No. 2 Stony Brook on Friday, March 7 in the quarterfinals of the America East Championship. Game time is set for noon at SEFCU Arena and will be broadcast on ESPN3 with Eric Frede and Vera Jones on the call.


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Published December 19, 2013
All was quiet the morning of Dec. 18 as men and women in their winter best approached the grave site of Louise Bethune, the first professional female architect in the United States. The visitors parked their cars along the edge of a curved drive at Buffalo's Forest Lawn cemetery and stepped out into a world of white. They wore wool and fur-cuffed coats, leather boots, scarves in many colors and hats of many types.
The guests were here to pay respects on the 100th anniversary of Bethune's death.
In a brief ceremony, speakers including Robert Shibley, dean of the University at Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning, and Kelly Hayes McAlonie, interim director of UB's Capital Planning Group, reflected on the life and legacy of the first woman elected to the American Institute of Architects.
Bethune, a Buffalonian, opened her own firm at the age of 25 and designed many notable projects. Her opus was the Hotel Lafayette, which reopened in 2012 following a restoration.
In a lovely gesture, Rocco Termini, the developer who led the renovation, was among those at the memorial. Elizabeth Chu Richter, 2015 president-elect of the American Institute of Architects, was also present; she flew in from Texas for the occasion.
"We're not mourning. We're celebrating," said Hayes McAlonie, who helped plan the event and is working on a biography of Bethune.
She led the way to Bethune's burial site, where an evergreen wreath ornamented with shimmering butterflies and roses in two shades of pink awaited. With Richter, Hayes McAlonie unveiled a new grave marker, which the crowd then sprinkled flower petals.
The message on the marker was a simple, a modest remembrance of a great soul. The words were engraved in capital letters:
The event was sponsored by the American Institute of Architects New York State chapter and the Buffalo Architecture Foundation. In an additional tribute to Bethune, the Hotel Lafayette and the historic Electric Tower in downtown Buffalo were lit up in pink lights the evening of Dec. 18.


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AMHERST, Mass.—Massachusetts scored twice in the game's first 12 minutes and went on to a 3-0 win against the Harvard field hockey team, handing the Crimson its first defeat of the year, Saturday afternoon at Garber Field.
Cynthia Tassopoulos made 13 saves for the Crimson (2-1), and Carly McNeill added a defensive save. The Minutewomen (2-3) got goals from three different players and two saves from Alisha Widdall.
UMass jumped on top quickly, on Kim Young's second goal of the season at the 4:14 mark. Nicole Cordero doubled the lead just seven minutes later, converting after taking a long pass from Alyssa Ineson. Tassopoulos made 10 saves and McNeill blocked a Nikki Panciocco effort to keep the Minutewomen off the board the rest of the half despite 16 shots.
In the second half, UMass again struck in the first five minutes, when Panciocco redirected in a shot off a penalty corner. Shots by Harvard rookies Sydney Jenkins and Catriona McDonald forced saves by Widdall in the second half. The Minutewomen held a 26-5 shots advantage in the game.


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Leonardo da Vinci and The BrainRenowned Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci had a tremendous range of interests beyond the magnificent paintings that made him a legend. He was also an inventor, an architect and a scientist committed to uncovering as much as possible about how the mind and body functioned. Leonardos curiosity was boundless. Unlike most of todays students of science, Leonardo did not specialize, but pursued deeper understanding of an amazing breadth of biological phenomena. He was extremely interested in disease in general, and often turned his attention to the mysteries of reproduction, birth and development. He discussed why some children are born mute or blind and explored why a mothers mental state can affect the health of her unborn child, since he believed that "one and the same soul nourishes the two bodies." Leonardo was especially intrigued by the brain, which he believed was the key to understanding the relationship between the senses and the soul.
Leonardos life and work have been the subjects of thousands of books written in many languages. Leonardo scholar Dr. Jonathan Pevsner, a research scientist at Baltimores Kennedy Krieger Institute, has developed a lecture designed to introduce audiences to Leonardos contributions to neuroscience. For todays students of science, the lecture reveals that while not all experiments will succeed, curiosity is invaluable.
LEFT: Dr. Jonathan Pevsner is a neuroscientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute and an expert on the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci. The driving force behind Kennedy Krieger's work in bioinformatics, the study of biology using the tools of computer science, Dr. Pevsner is the author of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, one of the first texts devoted to this growing field.


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Guala Closures Group's Franco Bove Announces Turn 360° Campaign
Guala Closures Group's chief operating officer Franco Bove has announced the launch of Turn 360°, a promotional campaign developed by leading manufacturers of aluminum closures to enhance public awareness of the advantages of this sustainable and state-of-the-art closure form for wine. The campaign, organized through the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA), kicked off with the roll-out of the multilingual website, www.aluminium-closures.org, which provides user-friendly information about aluminum wine closures in areas such as taste and quality, sustainability and recycling, convenience, technology, cost efficiency and design.
"Aluminum wine closures are a seal of quality not just from the viewpoint of the wine's flavor but also from the aspects of sustainability, convenience, and cost efficiency," explains Bove, who also chairs the EAFA Closures Group. "This is the core of the communication campaign."
Turn 360° is designed to reach decision-makers in the wine sector globally, highlighting the progressive trend of the high-performance aluminum closure. In the last 10 years, the number of aluminum closures for wine worldwide grew rapidly to reach nearly 4 billion in 2011. The www.aluminium-closures.org website is backed by a comprehensive press package for technical, special interest and trade media.
"There is a growing awareness of the many benefits and quality-enhancing properties of the aluminum closure in the industry itself and in the marketing and product design sectors as well," says Bove. "With the comprehensive content and conclusively presented package of facts of the 'Aluminium Closures – Turn 360?' campaign, we're laying the foundation for an objective appraisal of this closure form, one that is truly sustainable in all respects."
About Guala Closures Group
Founded in Italy in 1954, Guala Closures Group (GCG) is the global leader in the production of aluminum and non-refillable closures for wines, spirits, soft drinks, waters, olive oil and pharmaceuticals. With an emphasis on technological innovation and business development, GCG has sold over 12 billion closures designed to safeguard the quality and enhance the image of its customers' products. GCG operates five research centers and 25 production plants worldwide. In North America it is headquartered in Napa, California, where it provides customer and technical services to its U.S. wine and spirits customers.
About EAFA
The European Aluminium Foil Association is the international body representing companies engaged in the rolling and rewinding of alufoil and in the manufacture of aluminum closures and alufoil containers as well as of all kinds of flexible packaging. Its more than 100 member companies are based in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1974, it has its roots in associations dating back to the 1920s. For further information contact Guido Aufdemkamp, EAFA Director Communication at +49 (0)211 47 96 168 or email@example.com.


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Gerald "Jerry" Wexler
January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008
Their son was not a school-loving child however and his youth was spent skipping school in pool halls and record stores while visiting Jazz Clubs in Harlem in the evenings. The music that drew him into those stores was Jazz…and he became part of a loosely knit group of record collectors streetwise intellectuals who praised trumpeter Henry "Red" Allen and quoted Spinoza.
This circle of friends could never have imagined (though they might have dreamed about it), that they would become the leaders of the record industry in the coming years. In that 'band of musical-brothers' were John Hammond and George Avakian (Columbia Records), Milt Gabler and Bob Thiele (Decca Records), Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff (Blue Note Records) and Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun (Atlantic Records).
From his autobiography "Rhythm & Blues"; "We were absolutely a cult. It was 'we happy few' as the English say. We used to hang out at the Commodore Record Shop, this little in-group, and get together in the evening. We loved McSorley's Ale and maybe we'd smoke a cigarette without any name on it. People would bring their favorite records and we'd be listening to Louis and his Hot Five, Hot Seven, whatever."
How would you have liked to hang on the street-corner with that crew!
Gerald was a marginal student who found him self traveling the 100 miles to Kansas City, MO as often as possible so that he could listen to a new music he had fallen for, the blues.
After graduation, Wexler found himself back in New York and eventually became a cub reporter for Billboard Magazine. Back then the black popular-music charts were titled "Race Records". One Friday the editor at Billboard asked the staff to come up with a new term for this section and on Tuesday when the staff returned, Gerald Wexler suggested "Rhythm & Blues" and it was readily accepted, thus changing the landscape for black artists from then on.
In 1953, after his partner at the time left for the Army, Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic records, brought Jerry Wexler into the company as a partner. Wexler recalls that "In a way, he (Ertegun) handed me a life".
Together these two men changed the landscape of music, bringing Rhythm and Blues to the white world.
They also hired the astonishing writing duo of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller who were responsible for some of their biggest hits. Wexler forged innovative contracts with the two which allowed them to work as independent A&R men for the company. He made the same arrangements with Phil Spector and Bert Berns. This type of arrangement was unheard of at the time, but now, it is common practice in the industry.
In the early years at Atlantic, Wexler was the driving force behind the music that built the foundation of rock and roll. This was the music that introduced young white America to the pounding rhythms of the black culture, such as Big Joe Turner's riotous "Shake Rattle & Roll". The music tended to contain biting racial satire as with the Coasters "Yakety Yak", or pushed the limits of the songs that had more to do with the action in the back seat of cars than the action on the dance floor. Clyde McPlatter's "Honey Love" was banned by many radio stations for indecency and the Clovers' "Down In The Alley" poked fun at the decency of the day with lines such as "I plant you now and dig you later/Because you're my sweet potato".
Wexler was the face of Atlantic records when the 'payola' scandal of 1959 took place, traveling downtown all alone to be questioned by the NY District Attorney. Ertegun would spend that summer enjoying the cool sounds of the Newport Jazz Festival, while his partner worked the phones in their NY office trying to get more and more airplay for their growing roster of artists.
One of these artists was Ray Charles. Mr. Wexler was certainly the driving force in combining spirituals and 'jump blues' in the creation of "I Got A Woman". Wexler went on to produce or co-produce every Ray Charles Album and single until Ray left Atlantic in 1961. He did produce the first album released on ABC Records and then Ray began taking producer credit.
In the early 60's Wexler also innovated another record label first. Subsidiary labels were born under the Atlantic umbrella. The first of these was Rolling Stones Records, followed by Swan Song Records for Led Zeppelin (who Wexler signed to Atlantic) and the more successful of the group, Capricorn Records; home for the Allman Brothers Band.
When Wexler convinced Dusty Springfield to go to Memphis to record her breakthrough album, he discovered Stax Records and developed a distribution deal which allowed Atlantic to market their product. (Small factoid…Dusty ended up doing her vocals in NYC after all!)
This brought some huge Southern Stars to Atlantic records including Rufus and Carla Thomas, Booker T. & The MGs and Otis Redding. It also introduced Wexler to a more improvised and organic way of recording records both at the Stax Studio and at the nearby Muscle Shoals, AL Studio. This led him to bring some of Atlantic's stars to the South to record including Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave.
Wexler convinced her to join the Atlantic label and brought her down to Muscle Shoals to record her first album for them. It was here where he says he "urged Aretha to be Aretha."
And that she did and was. Sitting at the piano with her band, her voice soared to new heights. Wexler produced "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)", "Do Right Woman – Do Right Man" and the biggest hit of her career "Respect".
His love of black music and his years helping bring it to the masses did not stave off some troubling times though. In 1968 at a music convention in Miami, the word was spread that he was ripping off royalties from Ms. Franklin. Saxophonist King Curtis and a pistol packing Titus Turner escorted Wexler from the banquet room after word went out that someone was going to shoot Wexler.
A year earlier, Wexler made what he has called his major mistake. "I mistakenly figured we were at our zenith" he stated later on when discussing his persuading Ertegun and Nesuhi to sell Atlantic to Warner Brothers-Seven Arts for $17.5 million, a pittance for what the company would be worth in the coming years. "What a mistake. Worst thing we ever did. It was because of my own insecurity when I saw all these other independent record companies going out of existence. We were sort of done in by the broker who was supposed to be representing us. He undersold us." The men were no longer owners, but employees and the relationship between Wexler and Ertegun was forever strained.
Wexler was now free of worrying about the bottom line and began focusing in on other music he enjoyed. He began working with Ronnie Hawkins, Donnie Fritts and Tony Joe White, a new blend of music combining Southern rock, country and R&B, what Wexler called "Swamp".
He had some commercially failed records with Donnie Hathaway and considers two commercial flops; Dr. John's GUMBO and DOUG SHAM AND BAND as two records he is most proud to have been a part.
In 1974 he tried to establish Atlantic records in Nashville, a move that did not work well. He did produce two albums with Willie Nelson SHOTGUN WILLIE and PHASES AND STAGES.
Jerry Wexler left Atlantic records in 1975 began freelancing his talent producing albums for Bob Dylan (SLOW TRAIN COMING), Dire Straits (COMMUNIQUE), Etta James, Allen Toussaint, the Staple Singers, George Michael, Jose Feliciano, Linda Ronstadt (WHAT'S NEW) and Carlos Santana(HAVANA MOON).
Mr. Gerald (Jerry) Wexler died peacefully in his home this past Friday from congestive heart failure, leaving behind his wife Jean Arthur and his two surviving children Paul and Lisa (a third child, daughter Anita died of AIDs in 1989).
Mr Wexler was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987. "He played a major role in bringing black music to the masses, and in the evolution of rhythm and blues to soul music," Jim Henke, vice president and chief curator for the Hall of Fame, said in an interview. "Beyond that, he really developed the role of the record producer. Jerry did a lot more than just turn on a tape recorder. He left his stamp on a lot of great music. He had a commercial ear as well as a critical ear."
A documentary about Mr. Wexler was produced and directed by Tom Thurman in 2000. It is entitled "Immaculate Funk", Wexler's phrase for the Atlantic sound, characterized by a heavy backbeat and a gospel influence. "It's funky, it's deep, it's very emotional, but it's clean," Wexler once said.
"He was a bundle of contradictions," said Tom Thurman, "He was incredibly abrasive and incredibly generous, very abrupt and very, very patient, seemingly a pure, sharklike businessman and also a cerebral and creative genius."
When trying to describe to Wilson Pickett the sound he was looking for in the back-beat, he demonstrated by doing the newest dance craze "The Jerk"...he knew how to get his message across.
When asked what he would like on his tombstone, Jerry Wexler said "Two words....More Bass"
Thank you for your vision and your ears Mr. Wexler. You brought us some stunningly beautiful music over the years and your legacy will live on for generations.
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"Hallelujah I Love Her So"
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"I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Love You)"
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"In The Midnight Hour"
Wilson Picket
"Six Three Four Five Seven Eight Nine"
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State health department celebrates National Minority Health Month
2014 theme:
'Prevention is Power: Taking Action for Health Equity'
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[April 15, 2014]
CHICAGO — The Illinois
Department of Public Health Center for Minority Health Services is
celebrating National Minority Health Month this April by hosting
workshops, health fairs, screenings, webinars and various other
events. The IDPH, in conjunction with local health departments, as
well as community and faith-based organizations, is working to teach
communities about the diseases that disproportionately affect
communities of color, such as breast and cervical cancer, prostate
cancer, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS.
have the highest mortality rate of any racial and ethnic group
for all cancers combined and for most major cancers.
are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes as
non-Hispanic Caucasians.
women have the highest rates of being overweight or obese
compared with other groups in the U.S.
African-American adults are 40 percent
more likely to have high blood pressure.
"The IDPH has a long-standing history of collaboration with
agencies and organizations that seek to improve the health of
minorities," said IDPH Director LaMar Hasbrouck. "We have also made
reducing health disparities a top priority in our five-year
strategic plan."
The IDPH Center for Minority Health Services was created to
provide information and technical assistance regarding the health
care needs of minority populations; and to develop, maintain and
enhance health care services in minority communities. To achieve
this goal, the center works with state and local entities to
heighten awareness of minority health issues and services across the
This year's theme for National Minority Health Month, "Prevention
is Power: Taking Action for Health Equity," emphasizes the critical
role of prevention in reducing health disparities. It is a call to
action, a charge for all of us to unite toward a common goal of
improving the health of our communities.
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In support of the theme, the IDPH is encouraging men and women to
take a proactive approach to improve their health by having routine
medical exams in addition to the following:
Talk with your
physician about appropriate screenings for you — such as
mammograms, Pap tests or prostate exams.
Take a loved one
to the doctor.
Exercise at least
30 minutes a day and eat healthier.
Get screened for sexually transmitted
diseases — and seek medical treatment if you contract an STI.
Reducing health disparities and increasing health equity for all
Illinoisans through targeted leadership, outreach and strategic
partnerships is one of the five priorities outlined in the
Five Year Strategy 2014-2018 (PDF).
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Illinois Department of Public
Health file received from the
Illinois Office of Communication and Information]
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