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Posted on January 13, 2014 by K. Allen Wood
When Witch's self-titled debut dropped in 2006, the album caught me by surprise. Mainly because J. Mascis was in the band, as their drummer. Mascis, for those unaware, is the man behind the long-running legendary indie rock band Dinosaur Jr.—a longtime favorite of mine (those fuzzy solos are so nice). So when I heard he had once again set up shop behind the drum kit, it was unexpected.
Before Dinosaur Jr., Mascis bashed the skins in the punk/hardcore band Deep Wound and later, in the early 90s, for the doom-metal band Upsidedown Cross. With Witch, he not only traded in his guitar and wah-wah pedal for a drum kit, he also revisited a heavier, doomier metal style far removed from the musical style of the band he built his career on.
Joined by Kyle Thomas (guitar and vocals) and Asa Irons (guitar), both from the avant-folk/rock band Feathers, and Dave Sweetapple (bass), the result is pretty fantastic.
Witch play a slightly mixed bag of doom-metal styles: traditional, stoner, and psychedelic, though heavy on the traditional side of the spectrum with a good dose of 70s rock. The cabalistic lyrical content may remind some of Witchcraft, and fans of the legendary St. Vitus or Pentagram may hear musical similarities, but Witch groove with a more vintage rock swagger than those aforementioned bands—at least the latter two. This is consistently reinforced by Kyle Thomas's vocals when his upper-range begins to sound somewhat akin to that of old-school Robert Plant. The guitar work throughout the album is excellent, rife with solos and dark grooves courtesy of the Sabbath-heavy riffs. Sweetapple's bass runs and clear tone in the mix make his instrument more of a standout element rather than an unnoticed part of the rhythm section, the backbone of which is Mascis's standard but solid drumming.
The album starts in epic form with the stunning "Seer," a glorious doom-laden jam best suited for a funeral parade at the End of Days. The same formula is applied to other tracks like the stalking stomp of "Black Saint"—accompanied by riff-heavy two-and-a-half-minute closing jam punctuated by some fuzzy dual leads—and the mind-wearying ebb and flow of "Rip Van Winkle." With the first six songs painting on coat after coat of heavy, doom-riddled texture you might find yourself scratching your head when the final song, "Isadora," opens with acoustic guitars and subtle vocals wrapped in an eerie melancholia that lasts for almost four minutes. But then things veer back into familiar territory as the floodgates are opened to the down-tuned riffage and solo work that comprise the first six songs. The song ends in classic, plodding doom fashion and Kyle Thomas singing "Isadora" over and over and over again…
And this is generally where I hit play again.
In the years since this album was released, with newer bands like The Sword, Saviours, Blood of the Sun, Priestess, Dixie Witch and Early Man having imparted varying degrees of 70s-influenced stoner rock and doom upon our ears, the style began to feel a bit overwhelming, the scene saturated in mediocrity. Thanks, of course, to the labels who tried to exploit things and shove more and more similar bands down our throats, as they tend to do. Despite this, there will always be a handful of diamonds to be found within the deep, sucking mud of the mainstream's latest go-to genre. Witch, and those aforementioned bands, are some of those diamonds.
This review originally appeared in Shock Totem #4, July 2011.
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BROOKLYN � A public hearing about whether to lease a portion of the Tiffany Street Community Center to a private day care will be held Tuesday night.
Carelot Daycare wants to rent about 3,000 square feet in the lower level of the building to run as a day care. The selectmen have proposed a one-year lease starting March 1, with an option for Carelot to renew for another three years.
�I�m in favor of the lease,� First Selectman Austin Tanner said recently. �Unless someone has a better use for it, I can�t see why we wouldn�t do it. That space is ready for a day care.�
The public hearing is at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the middle school.
$30,000 a year
Tanner did not specify the monthly rent but said over the course of a year, Brooklyn would get about $30,000 from renting the space to Carelot.
Earlier this month, the Board of Selectmen asked the Planning and Zoning Commission to considering a zone change for the Tiffany Street facility. The center is currently zoned as a residential property, and although the center previously had a day care in it, it was considered a municipal facility. A private day care could not operate without the zone change.
The Planning and Zoning Commission will not hold its public hearing about the zone change until Nov. 6. The commission will consider extending the Mill Mixed Use Development District to the property. That zone would allow the day care and other commercial uses under a special permit.
Tanner said Carelot will take care of any maintenance work needed for them to get up and running. The facility is already outfitted with child-sized toilets and sinks, so the work would be minimal, he said.
Rick Ives, a Democrat who�s challenging Tanner for first selectman in the Nov. 5 election, said he opposes leasing the space to any private business.
�I don�t think we should be in the business of renting space to a for-profit corporation,� Ives said. �I don�t think it�s good planning to rent it and give it a long-term lease when we�re not sure of other needs for the town.�

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First Look: Fall Dessert Tasting Menu At Michael Mina, San Francisco
Lincoln Carson wants to make a "cacophony of food." He wants to bring energy to the table. And he wants you to stop ignoring dessert.
Well, thank goodness. How many times have we been to a restaurant, even the otherwise exceptional ones, and got the sneaking suspicion that dessert was an afterthought? That someone had to pull themselves away from the savory side of the menu to put together a staid affair of chocolate cake and unexceptional fruit tarts? (A changing roster of ice cream flavors does not a seasonal dessert menu make.) Not at Michael Mina. The first class restaurant gets a first class dessert menu to match.
While you can order many of Carson's desserts à la carte, the best way to enjoy dessert here is with the 6 course tasting menu. Tasting menu doesn't mean a steady pace of uniformly sized dishes, rather four courses "dropped" (Carson's word) on the table. Some are meant to be shared. Some are as light and simple as a walnut toffee croquant. Some are more elaborate; multi-bite confections meant to be explored.
Take the Tiramisu, the original red-sauce Italian restaurant version of which is one of Carson's guilty pleasures. Carson makes a soft sponge cake and soaks it in coffee brewed at two times normal strength. The cake is frozen then soaked with more flavor, namely a mix of brewed coffee, espresso, and benedictine rum. The outside of the cake is sprayed with Valrhona Opalys White Chocolate, a creamy white chocolate made with a high percentage of milk solids that's specially designed for coating. The chocolate coating gives the cake the impression of having a hard crust, though the first bite reveals it's perfectly soft. "I like to add surprise," Carson explains. "I like to make your expectations different from what you get."
Like the surprise of cutting into the Peppermint Bombe, which from the outside resembles a plain, smooth chocolate cylinder. Put your fork to the cylinder and you'll find the chocolate gives way to fresh peppermint ice cream, and that ice cream to a capsule of liquid chocolate that bursts, mingling with the minty ice cream and the crunchy crumbled cookies beneath.
When asked about his dessert philosophy, Carson says, "It's always an evolution. You're always trying to move forward, to not do the thing you did yesterday. I don't know that I can do anything better than this but come back in a year. Maybe we will."
We'll be back. But in the meantime, check out the slide show above to see all the fall desserts at Michael Mina.
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There are a number of historical sites in this town including the Staircase Range Cutting, built by Chinese immigrants in 1905 to pay tribute to the many early wagon teams that stopped in Springsure overnight on their way from Rockhampton to the Gulf and Barcoo country. Just south of the town you'll find Old Rainworth Fort, built in 1862 as a way of defending settlers against aboriginal attack.
To learn more about the history of the town, head to Cairdbeign Homestead and School where relics from the past are on display for visitors. There's also the chance to go fossicking for opalised wood and labradorite in the fields around Springsure.
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- "My God, so they are killers. I've heard lots of people say once a man's a killer, they just keep on killing and killing; they sort of develop a taste for blood"
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The world can't touch Ghost, purple tape, Rae co-host
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Hit mics like Ted Koppel, rifle expert
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Too hot to handle, one thought from scrambling the mandolin
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For every blow, depends on breath control
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One of America's most admired and respected composers, John Adams is a musician of enormous range and technical command. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of their themes. Over the past 25 years, Adams's music has played a decisive rôle in turning the tide of contemporary musical aesthetics away from academic modernism and toward a more expansive, expressive language, entirely characteristic of his New World surroundings
Born and raised in New England, Adams learned the clarinet from his father and played in marching bands and community orchestras during his formative years. He began composing at age ten and heard his first orchestral pieces performed while still a teenager. The intellectual and artistic traditions of New England, including his studies at Harvard University and attendance at Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts, helped shape him as an artist and thinker. After earning two degrees from Harvard, he moved to Northern California in 1971 and has since lived in the San Francisco Bay area.
Adams taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for ten years before becoming composer-in-residence of the San Francisco Symphony (1982–85), and creator of the orchestra's highly successful and controversial "New and Unusual Music" series. Several of Adams's landmark orchestral works were written for and premièred by the San Francisco Symphony, including Harmonium (1980–81), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1984–85), and El Dorado (1991).
In 1985, Adams began a collaboration with the poet Alice Goodman and stage director Peter Sellars that resulted in two groundbreaking operas: Nixon in China (1984–87) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1990–91). Produced worldwide, these works are among the most performed operas of the last two decades. Three further stage collaborations with Sellars followed: the 1995 "songplay", I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, with a libretto by June Jordan; El Niño (1999–2000), a multilingual retelling of the nativity story, composed for the celebration of the millennium; and Doctor Atomic (2005), about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the first atomic bomb. Commissioned by the San Francisco Opera and premièred there in 2005, Doctor Atomic was introduced to European audiences in 2007 at the Netherlands Opera and given new productions by Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera in 2008. It was presented by the English National Opera in March 2009.
Adams's latest opera, A Flowering Tree, was inspired by Mozart's The Magic Flute and premièred in Vienna in 2006. Based on a folk tale from southern India, it shares similar themes with its Mozartian model: youth, love, and the emergence of moral consciousness. A CD-recording of A Flowering Tree, with the composer conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, has been released on Nonesuch Records in the autumn of 2008.
Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls, composed for the New York Philharmonic in 2002, to commemorate the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music, and the recording on Nonesuch won a rare "triple crown" of Grammy® Awards: "Best Classical Recording", "Best Orchestral Performance", and "Best Classical Contemporary Composition".
In 2003, a film version of The Death of Klinghoffer, Adams's second opera, was directed by Penny Woolcock for Channel Four TV, and released in theaters, on television, and on DVD. The film, for which the composer conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, made its American début at the Sundance Film Festival and won such international prizes as the Prix Italia and the Vienna TV Award. Wonders Are Many, a film by Jon Else about the creation and première of the opera Doctor Atomic, premièred at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and was a New York Times Critics' Pick in 2008.
Other recent Adams works include: Dharma at Big Sur (2003), for electric violin and orchestra, inspired by literary impressions of the Californian landscape by such writers as Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Henry Miller; and My Father Knew Charles Ives (2003), an evocation of Adams's boyhood in central New Hampshire. The "Doctor Atomic Symphony" (2005), drawn from the opera, was given its American première in February 2008 by the St Louis Symphony, conducted by David Robertson.
Harvard University has twice given Adams significant awards: in 2004 he received the Centennial Medal of the university's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences "for contributions to society," and in 2007 he received the Harvard Arts Medal. He has received from Northwestern University both the 2004 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition (the first ever awarded) and in 2008 an honorary doctorate. Honored with a proclamation by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California for his distinguished service to the arts in his adopted home state, he has also been awarded a honorary doctorate by the University of Cambridge and a honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He was honored by his home city of Berkeley, California, for his 60th birthday.
In 1985, Nonesuch Records released Adams's Harmonielehre, a landmark recording of American symphonic music. Since then, Nonesuch has released first recordings of all of his works, both symphonic and theatrical. Nonesuch's ten-disc set, The John Adams Earbox, documents his recorded music through 2000. Adams's works are among the few written in our own time that have achieved repertory status, appearing regularly on programs by orchestras throughout the world.
The young American violinist Leila Josefowicz has made the Adams Violin Concerto her signature piece, having presented it in Europe and the U.S. in more than 60 performances. Pianist Emanuel Ax premièred and recorded Century Rolls (1996), Adams's piano concerto, and later recorded it with the Cleveland Orchestra. A new work for solo piano by Adams, commissioned by Emanuel Ax, was premièred in 2010.
Hallelujah Junction—Adams's volume of memoirs and commentary on American musical life—was published in 2008, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S., and by Faber & Faber in the U.K. In its August 25th issue of 2008 the New Yorker Magazine published an extended excerpt from the book under the title "Sonic Youth," covering Adams's early years in San Francisco. The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer, edited by Tom May and published by Amadeus Press, is a 400-page summary of writings about Adams and his music, and the first in-depth anthology of texts dealing with more than 30 years of the composer's creative life.
John Adams is an active conductor, appearing with the world's greatest orchestras and with programs combining his own works with others by composers as diverse as Debussy, Strauss, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Ravel, Ives, and Ellington, as well as his contemporaries Zappa, Reich, Glass, and Michael Gordon. As a guest conductor in the U.S. and Europe, he has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and London Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Adams received critical acclaim for his creative programming at the most important music venues in the world. In April and May of 2003, Lincoln Center presented a festival titled "John Adams: An American Master", the most extensive festival that the venue has ever devoted to a living composer. As the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall from 2003–07, Adams conducted the first public concert in Carnegie's Zankel Hall and founded the annual "In Your Ear" festival. In 2006, he curated the hugely popular "Minimalist Jukebox" for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. As Artist-in-Association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he regularly conducted the orchestra at London's Barbican Centre and the annual BBC Proms concerts at Albert Hall. Adams has also served as Music Director of the Cabrillo Festival and Creative Chair of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Son of Chamber Symphony, Adams's sequel to his popular Chamber Symphony of 1992, was given its stage première in April 2008 at the San Francisco Ballet with the title Joyride, choreographed by Mark Morris. Adams's most recent work, a string quartet commissioned by the Juilliard School and Stanford University for the St Lawrence String Quartet, was given its première in January 2009 during an Adams residency at the Juilliard School.
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First, from Joe Cox, who I asked about criticism aimed at assistant coaches. Here's what he said regarding Willie Martinez...
"In 2007, everybody was worried that Coach Martinez was going to get a head-coaching job somewhere, and he was going to be gone. Our defense had a great year, and then it's like when things start going bad, he's still running the exact same thing. He still coaches the same way. We're just not carrying it out like those teams have in the past."Next, from Mark Richt, who addressed Georgia's lack of pressure on Johnathan Crompton...
"Most of the time when they were throwing the ball, where they had the most success was on the run downs. A great majority of their success came off the boot action… It was mostly hard running-game fakes. … It's more difficult to get a great pass rush on a guy when you're dealing with those kinds of things. Most sacks happen on third down, and we just didn't get them in many of those. And they did a nice job of blocking."And finally, from Martinez, who addressed why Tennessee was so successful...
"I just think they executed really well and we didn't. They did a nice job of mixing it up early on. We had opportunities to make plays and we didn't. We got outcoached, outplayed, and they played really well and Tennessee deserves a lot of credit. … It kept us off balance. We were trying to bring pressure at times, but it seems like they were doing a great job of mixing it up. We weren't able to get off the field and make plays. They out-executed us, out-coached us and out-played us, bottom line."Now, I'm guessing most of you already see the relationship between those three quotes, but let's point it out anyway.
Quote 1 boils down to: Martinez does the same things he's always done.
Quote 2 boils down to: Tennessee did some things that aren't "the norm" and that made it hard to get pressure.
Quote 3 boils down to: Georgia couldn't get pressure and so Tennessee was successful.
Now, I'm not exactly putting a ton of stock in Cox's analysis of Georgia's offense. Martinez is not Cox's coach, after all. But I've heard essentially the exact same quote from at least a half-dozen players or coaches in the past two years, so I'm inclined to believe it's valid.
And here's the problem: Martinez is doing the same things he's always done, but the rest of the SEC is not. Tennessee didn't. Georgia Tech hasn't. Kentucky didn't. Florida sure as heck isn't.
How many programs were running the spread in 2005, when Martinez took over the defense? How much has Georgia Tech's offense changed since then? How many QBs stand back in the pocket these days? Heck, how many even start out under center?
Georgia has been burned repeatedly by mobile QBs, by play-action, by diverse offenses. But the problem is, those things aren't the exception anymore. They're almost the rule.
The coaching in the SEC has changed. The offenses in the SEC have changed. The talent level in the SEC has changed.
I know Cox was trying to defend Martinez in his quote, but it comes out sounding more like an indictment.
Football is like any other business. In fact, take it from a guy who works in a dying industry -- if you're staying the same, you're falling behind.


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Surely, If Read messes this up, they have to choose Fozzie? He's had a fantastic couple of seasons
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Surely, If Read messes this up, they have to choose Fozzie? He's had a fantastic couple of seasons
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Why would that be? If he's selected for England then he has to wait another 5 years before he can play for South Africa...unlikely that he'll leave then isn't it.Originally Posted by Prince EWS
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It isn't about the possibility of him leaving - it is about the fact that he has played for another country.Originally Posted by James90
I don't know why that should make a difference.
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With Regards to Steven Davies. He's too young in my opinion and needs to be given more time. I don't feel that rushing him in too early is the best option as guys like Read were given early chances and didn't look ready (Although Read still doesn't look like a test batsmen).
I don't know about James Foster. I didn't see him before he was injured (then dropped) from the national side.
I've seen Prior in the one day side and I really don't rate him. And others whove seen him in the longer form of the game have said that he isn't that special either.
England have plenty of keepers to pick from Nixon , Jones , Read , Prior , Pothas , Davies , Foster , Batty and there's probably a few more knocking around the county scene that I haven't heard enough about.
It looks asif Nixon will play the Commenwealth Bank Series and most probably the World Cup. Nixon wouldn't be picked if he wasn't going to play. I think the selection showed some doubt as to whether Read or Jones will ever don the gloves again. Nixon was a tactical selection. Not so much for himself. England believe that Nixon can do a stop gap job. Get England through the next two series. Its really delaying the envitable. I don't think England will stick with Read, or go back to Jones for that matter. Fletcher doesn't like Read that much , and I not sure how he could go back to Jones again , unless he found some serious form with the bat next summer with Kent. Then probably won't for a long time (If ever).
It leaves Foster , Davies and Prior as the three main candidates. I would personally go with Nic Pothas myself because him being 33 would mean that if he took the gloves for the next four years , it would allow Davies to come in at about the right time (24-25) into the fold. I have no idea who the selectors will go with for the fact that Fletcher may not be there (Certainly not in a selection role) next summer.
Does Riki Wessels qualify to play for England? Has potential, imo.
Take out prior, really don't know why the selectors still consider him. But good to see another bloke pushing for Pothas. Only if he's picked IMO can Freddie bat @ 7 thus England can play 4 bowlers as people have been calling for. But the fact is Freddie is a very capable number 6 based on his record their since 2003 only series he has struggled in @ 6 since the Ashes in SRI 2003 & i can't see England dropping none of Harmo/Freddie/Jones/Hoggard/Panesar once all are fit.
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As David Lloyd said and I agree 'You don't fly an 38 year old man half way across the world to carry the drinks'. Nixon plays. And for the CB series and the WC its a good decision.
Joyce was always unlikely to play.
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Officials in East Africa are gushing with anticipation over potential oil revenue: A new production agreement has been reached in South Sudan; fresh discoveries have been made and drilling deals signed in Kenya and Uganda. But if the potential for economic growth is great, so is the capacity for corruption and environmental degradation if journalists are not allowed to report on contract details and resource allocation. And each of the East African nations has notable blemishes on its press freedom record, including government-sponsored violence in Kenya and Uganda, and suppression of in-depth reporting in South Sudan.
Oil accounts for almost all of South Sudan's government income, and although the country has wrangled with Sudan over who owns the oil and how much each side should pay to transport it, Africa's newest country has a wealth of untapped reserves, the World Bank says. In Uganda, estimated reserves of 3.5 billion barrels have the potential to double the country's economy, and in Kenya new reserves have been discovered in the northern county of Turkana and near the Ethiopian border.
Whether all this oil will benefit the average citizen depends largely on whether extraction deals are handled in an open, transparent manner. A comparison between Brazil and Nigeria is instructive. The South American country provides monthly updates on oil production on a state website. Brazil became the seventh-largest economy in the world with the help of oil output, with 2011 per capita income of $12,594, according to World Bank statistics. In Nigeria, five decades of oil output have been mired in secrecy and conflict. Although the country's oil exports are comparable to those of Brazil, its per capita income is just $1,452.
So far, the authorities in Kenya, Uganda, and South Sudan have released occasional press releases and basic information on government websites about drilling locations and production expectations. But there are few specifics on how much private companies and governments are investing in the oil projects, how revenues will be shared, and what tax rates are applied. "Detailed information about contracts and compensation is not readily available to journalists. It takes a lot of effort to obtain such information," said Ugandan journalist Joe Nam, who reports on oil drilling and contributes to the daily New Vision. "In most cases it is not available at all unless it is leaked by a source in confidence."
Journalists in Uganda and South Sudan have some legal recourse to obtain information on oil production, but the authorities in both countries often skirt access-to-information rules. While Uganda's 2005 Access to Information Act theoretically covers documents between the government and private companies, oil contracts typically have special provisions whereby both parties must consent before information is given to a third party, according to Gilbert Sendugwa, coordinator of the Africa Freedom of Information Centre in Uganda. The secrecy clauses prevent even parliament from getting key information, according to Dickens Kamugisha, chief executive of the Africa Institute for Energy Governance, a Kampala-based think tank that advocates for transparent energy policies.
The Information Act did not help reporters Angelo Izama and Charles Mwanguhya, of Uganda's leading independent Daily Monitor, who sued for access to oil contracts on the grounds of public interest in February 2010. Chief Magistrate Deo Ssejjemba ruled that the petitioners had not proved the public benefit of disclosing the information, according to the journalists and news reports. Two other access-to-information cases filed by journalists and civil society organizations have been pending before the High Court of Uganda for four years, Kamugisha said.
Since few Ugandan authorities comply with requests under the access law, few journalists bother to use it. Sendugwa noted that all government ministers are required to report how they implement the information act. "We decided to test the law and sent an information request to parliament in November 2010 asking for the ministers' reports on their implementation of the Access to Information Act," he said. "To this date, none have complied."
Similarly, the Ugandan lands ministry is required by the Land Acquisitions Act to establish a policy for compensating those affected by oil development, but this has never been done, according to Kamugisha. "As a result, the citizens must continue to rely on the discretionary powers of government to determine compensation," he said. Uganda's 2012 Oil and Gas Revenue Management Policy contains a small section on transparency, saying that "all parties involved in the management of oil and gas revenues shall observe the highest standards of transparency," but it does not specify how this should be undertaken. Journalists place little faith in three petroleum bills proposed in parliament in 2012. None of the three bills--the Petroleum Resource Bill, Value Addition Bill, and Revenue Management Bill--contained clauses specifying access to oil contracts, according to reporter Edward Ssekika of the Observer newspaper. The anti-corruption research organization Global Witness also analyzed the bills and concluded that all three lack guarantees on contract and financial transparency.
In South Sudan, Minister of Petroleum and Mining Stephen Dhieu Dau says the nation's Petroleum Act ensures that members of the public "are able to know where our resources come from, how they are handled, and where the revenues go." Though the act offers broad assurances that oil information is public, a provision allows the ministry to determine whether or not a particular oil contract is published, said Dana Wilkins, a campaigner for Global Witness. No contract had been made public as of late 2012.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, acquiring two-thirds of the former Sudan's oil, but Khartoum retained the processing and export facilities. Drilling in South Sudan came to a standstill in January 2012 after a dispute over how much South Sudan should pay Sudan in transit fees. The two countries reached agreement in September 2012 to end the gridlock on production and transportation, but the pact falls short of providing public access to financial data, according to Global Witness. "Sudan and South Sudan's citizens are the ultimate owners of their countries' natural resources," Wilkins said in a statement. "Yet they have been totally cut out of this new oil deal, with no way to verify the amount of oil and money that will be transferred between their governments." South Sudanese journalist Richard Ruati said he is not surprised by the lack of transparency in the latest agreement, since the press has been kept in the dark all along. "So far, no proper press conference has been organized to brief both the national and international media on regards to oil deals or contracts," he said. "But it seems there are already oil companies in the oil fields drilling clandestinely." South Sudan does not have a freedom of information law.
In Kenya, where oil exploration is at an earlier stage, there is also no freedom of information law, but journalists hope the country's robust new constitution, adopted in August 2010, will ensure that yet-to-be-signed oil contracts will be open to the public. "It's too early to tell yet, but luckily the new constitution does not allow executives much room to do secret contracts," said Charles Onyango-Obbo, an executive editor at the Kenyan Nation Media Group. The constitution says that transactions involving the grants of rights or concessions for exploitation of any natural resource must be subject to parliamentary ratification, according to business journalist Cathy Mputhia. The document also states that agreements related to natural resources must be published by 2015.
Prospective oil contracts were presented in parliament in June 2012, and the government plans to put information on oil deals on an online open data platform. "We are seeking to get the data," said the Kenyan Information Ministry's permanent secretary, Bitange Ndemo. "Most departments have not quite understood the new constitutional dispensation but we are determined to get the information and upload it." So far, journalists have had incident-free access to report on communities near oil drilling sites in Turkana, northern Kenya, according to William Oloo Janak, chairman of the Kenyan Correspondents Association. "But when oil production starts, that's when potential problems for journalists and Kenyans at large may begin in terms of secrecy and possible environmental concerns," Janak said. In the past, journalists have been harassed or arrested for reporting on opposition to major development projects, most recently when freelance photographer Abdalla Bargash had his notes and memory card confiscated in March 2012 as he tried to cover local community members on Lamu Island opposed to a port project that includes an oil pipeline.
Ugandan and Southern Sudanese journalists say that attempts to interview residents near oil drilling sites in those countries are often blocked by local officials. The Observer's Ssekika, who lives near one of the sites in Buliisa, western Uganda, said he has not attempted to interview locals about oil drilling since December 2011, when he was told he needed clearance from the district internal security officer, who in turn said the journalist would be allowed to work only with a police escort. After Ssekika declined an escort, the security officer told him he needed clearance from the mining ministry in Kampala to conduct interviews with local residents. "Personally, I have worked with journalists who I guide to the oil region, but they get arrested and deported from the oil districts to Kampala," said Kamugisha of the Africa Institute for Energy Governance. "The crime they commit is trying to ask the local people their challenges."
Obtaining information from local officials and residents of oil-producing regions of South Sudan is equally challenging. "I have tried asking officials in Unity state about the required funds for compensating locals, but none give me clear information," said freelance journalist Bonifacio Taban Kuich, who is based in the oil-rich state bordering Sudan. "Most people here, especially those in areas of oil production, do not have the slightest clue about oil income in South Sudan."
Officials and oil companies in Uganda try to control the message by providing organized tours of oil drilling facilities. The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development's 2011 communication strategy paper recommends two media tours of the Albertine Graben oil-drilling area each year. "Sure, it's easy to go to oil areas for oil company-organized events," Ssekika said. "You can talk to district officials, etc. But when you go alone with your own view, that's a different story."
Oil companies, which benefit from minimizing costs and expediting production, may see few benefits to transparency. Taimour Lay, a journalist who covers oil production, said companies have pushed East African authorities to sign agreements without public debate, claiming they need quick approval to drill or they will work elsewhere in the oil-rich region. "When China National Offshore Oil Corporation [CNOOC] struck a deal with Tullow Oil to develop Uganda's fields, it warned [President Yoweri] Museveni that there wasn't time to wait for parliamentary debates over the issue--pausing now could mean Uganda losing its winning lottery ticket to Kenya," Lay wrote on the African Arguments news website. Tullow's communications manager in Kampala, Cathy Adengo, disputed that depiction. "Tullow did not push the Ugandan authorities into doing anything, considering we had a two-year wait to ratify the deal with CNOOC," Adengo said.
While offering general endorsements of transparency, oil companies typically defer actual requests for contract and other information to governments. "I have tried to communicate with them but they instead refer me to local government officials," said Kuich, the South Sudanese freelance journalist. Levi Obonyo, former chairman of Kenya's independent Media Council, says bluntly that oil companies hide behind governments to avoid public scrutiny. "Unfortunately, with regard to oil companies, the demand for accessing information has been directed at the government and public sector rather than the private sector," Obonyo said. "Too often we tend to treat the private enterprise as an untouchable."
Adengo of Tullow Oil told CPJ that it is up to the Ugandan government to determine whether a contract should be published, although the company "would welcome publication of all our contracts with all governments." The French oil giant Total, which bought one-third interest in Tullow's Uganda oil exploration sites in February 2012, supports transparency in oil revenues, but the decision ultimately lies with the government, said Ahlem Friga-Noy, manager of public affairs and external communication. "Publishing the oil contract is a decision which pertains to the government and not to the company," she said. "Total is ready to publish the contract if the Ugandan authorities decide to do so."
Oil companies have sometimes paid a price for being opaque and running roughshod over local communities. In 2009, the Dutch oil giant Shell reached a $15.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed in the United States over human rights violations in the Niger Delta. The company was accused of financing militias that used deadly force against local residents protesting Shell's presence. The company has faced further lawsuits over pollution in the Delta and alleged ties to the Nigerian military, according to Reuters. "Imagine, it took a court case launched in America before activities of oil companies were discovered," said Omoyele Sowore, publisher of the anti-corruption website Sahara Reporters and a former Niger Delta resident. The legal disputes resulted in an estimated loss of one million barrels of oil a day for the Nigerian government and private companies, according to Nigerian writer Orikinla Osinachi.
Secrecy and corruption have marked more than 50 years of oil production in Nigeria, obscuring and likely limiting the financial gains to citizens and leading to significant environmental degradation. Oil revenues count for 80 percent of the national budget, yet the government is unable to determine the amount of oil extracted from its territory, according to Alex Awiti, an ecologist at Aga Khan University in Nairobi. A 2011 study by the U.N. Environment Programme found widespread hydrocarbon pollution in soil, air, and water of the Delta, and said local drinking water is contaminated with 900 times the World Health Organization guideline for benzene, a carcinogen. Yet Nigeria still uses state security as a pretext to keep information on oil deals secret, Sowore said.
Nigeria's situation is not unique. Although Angola is the second-largest oil producer in Africa with an annual GDP of $101 billion and per capita income of nearly $9,000, more than two-thirds of its 8 million people live under the $2-a-day poverty line, according to the World Bank and news reports. These statistics, said Awiti, are rooted in the lack of transparency in Angola's oil production--leading to corruption, millions of dollars being stashed abroad, and revenue sequestered in a secret "parallel budget." In 2012, the International Monetary Fund attributed a $32 billion gap in Angola's state funds from 2007 to 2010 to "quasi-fiscal operations by the state-owned oil company."
Already, allegations of corruption in oil dealings have arisen in Kenya, Uganda, and South Sudan. In October 2011, Ugandan Member of Parliament Gerald Karuhanga accused three officials--Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, former Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa, and former Energy Minister Hilary Onek--of receiving billions of shillings in bribes from Tullow Oil Uganda. All three individuals and Tullow Oil deny wrongdoing. A commission of inquiry was set up to investigate the allegations but had not reached any conclusions by late 2012, according to local reports.
In Kenya, two MPs in Turkana County want an inquiry into allegations that a small firm owned by a cabinet minister made a fortune trading in oil prospecting licenses. They told parliament that shady deals might have fleeced the country and Turkana County of more than 3 billion shillings (about US$35 million), according to news reports. "We demand to know all the companies involved, how much money the government made, and how land and rights were mortgaged," Turkana MP Josephat Nanok was quoted as saying in local media.
Lack of transparency in oil deals means that even allegations of graft can be frustratingly obscure. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir accused government officials in June of stealing $4 billion from government coffers, but he did not name any individuals or provide details. If true, the stolen funds would equate to more than 30 percent of oil revenue received by the government since 2005, particularly egregious given that oil accounts for nearly all national income. Also in South Sudan, the authorities are legally bound to ensure that a percentage of oil profits are used to develop communities in the drilling areas but, as freelancer Kuich said, "I have yet to see development within the communities in the oil areas even though it belongs to them."
Local communities in Upper Nile, Warrap, and Unity states in South Sudan have not benefited from the oil wealth in their backyards because the authorities have kept them in the dark concerning output, says Jok Madut Jok, executive director of the Sudd Institute, a policy research center. "The communities do not have an idea about the scale of production, the price of the barrel, the national net proceeds, and how they are distributed, and therefore are unable to hold the government to its responsibilities to use some of that money for the benefit of communities directly affected by oil production," Jok said. Instead, he said, many have suffered. "For example, the fencing-off of the territories previously used for grazing, future investment in farming over this land, pollution of their drinking water sources, and the displacement of people are all things that happen without any consultation with these communities," he said.
With oil output still in early stages in East Africa, the region has time to learn from other oil-producing countries. Chad has drilled oil since 2003, with the contracts kept secret. "The fact is Chadians do not know how many barrels are actually produced and where the money goes," said former N'Djaména Hebdo journalist Augustin Zusanne, who now works for the United Nations. Without such information, residents can hardly press for more development. "Even the oil-producing region, Doba, does not benefit from oil revenues. The population of this area lives in poverty," said Eric Topona, a journalist with the state broadcaster. However, things might improve, as Chad is now a candidate for membership in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international forum that seeks openness by ensuring that oil payments are published annually. Government officials, oil companies, and civil society organizations oversee the process.
Kiir announced in December 2011 that South Sudan would join the initiative; a proposed Petroleum Revenue Management Bill would also require the finance ministry to report oil revenues on a quarterly basis and have independent audits of production costs and revenue expenditures. In its 2008 Oil and Gas Policy, Uganda said it would apply for membership in the EITI, but it did not say when and nothing has been implemented, according to news reports. "The way the EITI section is drafted clearly shows a government that is not sincere or ready to implement--it's so vague," Kamugisha of the Africa Institute for Energy Governance said in describing the Ugandan policy. Kenya has made no commitment to join the Initiative. Eddie Rich, deputy head of the EITI secretariat, confirmed that South Sudan and Uganda have made public commitments to implement the initiative and said "international partners are working with those governments to progress toward official applications." None of the African countries working with EITI are disclosing information on compensation to local people affected by oil production, Rich said.
There are a few other reasons to hope governments will become less secretive. Yusuf Bukenya-Matovu, communications director for Uganda's Energy Ministry, said his department is "working very closely with the Ministry of Water and Environment and the Uganda Wildlife Authority to ensure environmental protection while oil and gas extraction activities are going on." An environmental impact assessment of the oil-rich Albertine Graben region was also expected to be made public soon, although local journalists said they were skeptical this would happen on schedule.
Global Witness's Wilkins says these measures are still a long way from matching transparency models such as Brazil's, where monthly oil production statistics are published on a state website and transparency is considered by many to be stronger than in the United States. But East Africa does not have to look overseas for mentors: Ghana, Liberia, and even the Democratic Republic of Congo publish oil contracts. "It took years, but contracts are now in the public domain," said Ghanaian development economist Charles Abugre, who vigorously campaigned for publication. Now Abugre and other individuals from Ghana are meeting with civil society leaders in Turkana to help them contend with the new oil discoveries in their remote region of Kenya. "In Turkana, they do not really understand contracts or the transparency obligations so they don't know how far to push," he told CPJ.
Coming late to the discovery of oil reserves may provide East Africa with the advantage of hindsight. "There must be a reason why God made us wait to discover oil," said Ndemo, the Kenyan Information Ministry official. "Perhaps he wanted us to learn from other parts of the world while at the same time working on an appropriate legal and institutional framework."
Tom Rhodes is CPJ's East Africa consultant, based in Nairobi. Rhodes was a founder of the Juba Post, southern Sudan's first independent newspaper. He was the author of the 2012 CPJ report "Murder in Remote Kenya Reverberates Across Nation, World."


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We are looking for a logo for that is fresh, vibrant and healthy for our new business. It needs to be simple so it can be applied across many mediums, incl vehicles, business cards, on boxes etc. Our name Fresh to Door must be strong within the logo. Be creative and most of all have fun!
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Fresh to Door is a supplier of professionally boxed, high quality fruit & vegetables. We deliver to homes and businesses along with schools that use the fruit & vegetable boxes as a nutritional fundraising product. Each box contains the everyday items one would purchase from a retail outlet though the Fresh to Door fruit & vegetable boxes are priced below, and is of a higher quality, than regular retail outlets.
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