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KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine's new president on Saturday called for dialogue with the country's east, gripped by a violent separatist insurgency, and for armed groups to lay down their weapons but said he won't talk with rebels he called "gangsters and killers."
Petro Poroshenko's inaugural address after taking the oath of office in parliament gave little sign of a quick resolution to the conflict in the east, which Ukrainian officials say has left more than 200 people dead.
He also took a firm line on Russia's annexation of Crimea this spring, insisting that the Black Sea peninsula "was, is and will be Ukrainian." He gave no indication of how Ukraine could regain control of Crimea, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has said was allotted to Ukraine unjustly under Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Rebel leaders in the east dismissed Poroshenko's speech.
"This statement doesn't concern us," said the so-called prime minister of the insurgent Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Borodai, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
Poroshenko offered amnesty to rebels who "don't have blood on their hands." But "I don't believe it," said Valery Bolotov, the insurgent leader in the Luhansk region. Rebels in both Luhansk and Donetsk have declared their regions independent.
The new president promised "I will bring you peace," but did not indicate whether Ukrainian forces would scale back their offensives against the insurgency, which Ukraine says is fomented by Russia.
Russia has insisted on Ukraine ending its military operation in the east. Ambassador Mikhail Zurabov, representing Moscow, at the inauguration, said Poroshenko's statements "sound reassuring," but "for us the principal thing is to stop the military operation," RIA Novosti reported.
As president, Poroshenko is commander-in-chief of the military and appoints the defense and foreign ministers. The prime minister is appointed by the parliament.
The 48-year-old Poroshenko, often called "The Chocolate King" because of the fortune he made as a confectionery tycoon, was elected May 25. He replaces Oleksandr Turchynov, who served as interim president after Russia-friendly president Viktor Yanukovych fled the country in February after months of street protests against him.
The fall of Yanukovych aggravated long-brewing tensions in eastern and southern Ukraine, whose majority native Russian speakers denounced the new government as a nationalist putsch that aimed to suppress them.
Within a month, the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea was annexed by Russia after a secession referendum and an armed insurgency arose in the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk.
In his inaugural address, attended by dignitaries including U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, Sen. John McCain and Democratic Rep. Marci Kaptur, Poroshenko promised amnesty "for those who do not have blood on their hands" and called for dialogue with "peaceful citizens" in the east.
"I am calling on everyone who has taken arms in their hands – please lay down your arms," he said, according to a translator. He also called for early regional elections in the east and promised to push for new powers to be allotted to regional governments, but he rejected calls for federalization of Ukraine, which Moscow has advocated.
Poroshenko also insisted that Ukrainian would remain the sole state language of the country, but promised "new opportunities for the Russian language," without giving specifics.
He assumed power a day after meeting Putin at D-Day commemoration ceremonies in France.
Putin has denied allegations by Kiev and the West that Russia has fomented the rebellion in the east, and he insisted Friday that Poroshenko needs to speak directly to representatives from the east.
After the low-key inauguration ceremony, which included a choir in traditional national costume singing the national anthem, Poroshenko went to the square outside the landmark Sophia Cathedral for a ceremonial troop inspection.
Taras Danchuk, a 37-year-old spectator at the square who was wearing a traditional embroidered tunic, said he supported Poroshenko's strategy for trying to negotiate an end the eastern conflict.
"Out of emotion I would like to say that we should destroy the terrorists, but that is not possible without sacrificing the civilians who live there, so there will have to be negotiations," he said.
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I am Steve Winfree and I ask for your vote for the Board of Directors of the Sunnyside School District.
The Daily Sun News has invited me and my opponent, and friend, Mary Rita Rohde, to tell you, the voters, why we want to be a Director and to state our qualifications for the position. As you evaluate our priorities and qualifications, please keep in mind the requirements for the position. The role of a director is not to administer or operate the schools. Rather, it is to decide what is needed, and to work with the superintendent and staff who determine how to accomplish what is needed.
The School District needs board members with different expertise to give it perspective for goal setting and planning. The superintendent and staff have a great deal of expertise in educating children. What boards of directors provide, hopefully, is expertise in business, serving on other boards, and input from a community perspective.
It is important for board members to understand their primary role is to oversee the financial viability of the school district and provide policy guidance to the superintendent. It is equally important for directors to refrain from interjecting their personal agenda.
My opponent offers education experience. I offer experience in business and service on other boards. What both my opponent and I agree on is the pursuit of the best education we can provide our community's children.
A brief background:
I was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska and graduated from high school there. I attended the University of Oregon, getting an undergraduate degree in accounting and business statistics, and, after military service, I returned to the U of O to get a law degree. I served as an officer in the USAF, where I participated in management of worldwide communication systems.
My wife, Linda, and I came to Sunnyside in 1976, after two years practicing law in Oregon. We raised our two sons here, and after high school, they attended and graduated from college. I am pleased to report that their education in the Sunnyside School District educational system prepared them well for college and their professional careers. I am a member of the Sunnyside Presbyterian Church and have served in leadership in the Church and on committees in the denomination. I served on the board of directors of the Lower Valley Hospice. I am an active member of Rotary with 35 years of service.
My business experience:
I have practiced law in Sunnyside for 37 years, most of that time with my partner, Paul Hart, as the Hart and Winfree firm, and now as part of the Halverson Northwest Law Group. Like many of you, I have managed a small business and invested in this community. My practice is generally commercial, real estate and estate planning.
However, my work most closely connected to the School Board position is that I have been privileged to work with the Port of Sunnyside and Sunnyside Community Hospital. For 37 years I have participated with and advised the boards of the Port and the Hospital on the very issues the School District faces regularly, such as: Open Public Meeting and Public Records laws; public financing; budgeting and finance; public construction projects; employment law and policies; planning and acquisition of real estate; and conflict resolution.
My work with the Port includes recruiting of businesses that typically look at the tax rates for financial feasibility and look at the quality of the schools and hospital because it affects the lives of their employees. The schools are the heart and soul of a community, and the success of our students is essential to both the students and the community.
My connection to the Schools:
My relationship with the School District relates back to the early 1980's when I was asked to chair a citizen's committee for improvement to the school facilities. From that time on I have co-chaired almost all of the bond and levy issues for the School District. For a number of years I have served on and currently chair a committee which helps review and develop school policies, especially regarding matters relating to kids, parents and teachers. I served on the Athletic Advisory Board governing extracurricular activities. Last, but not least, I have volunteered in a classroom for several years.
My priorities for the Schools:
First, I wholeheartedly support the District vision: All students will be successful. Everything we do must be done for the benefit and success of the students.
With that in mind:
I support the emphasis on professional development of teachers, principals and administration. The state has adopted the common core curriculum and, more recently, measures to promote and measure professional development. There is nothing more directly connected to the success of students than the professional development of their teachers. The District has in-service training days and professional learning communities within schools with frequent meetings to focus on instruction and student achievement. I support continuing to devote resources to this effort.
I will continue the prudent financial planning of levies and bonds which take advantage of the equalization money from the State for levies, and the participation from the State for capital improvements. The District has maintained a consistent levy rate over the last 30 years or so, which is very important for farmers and industrial development. The levy rate is also the second lowest in the county, which indicates we are getting good value for the money spent.
I support the emphasis on safe schools. The board and administration are diligently working to assure that schools are safe, not just from outside threats, but within the student population. I have been a part of Sunnyside Connects, consisting of representatives from the School District, the City, the Port and the Hospital, which has worked to coordinate efforts for gang reduction, health initiatives and forming a community coalition which is now Sunnyside United.
I do not have an agenda or plan changes. I believe the School District has been fiscally responsible, and I will continue to support that. I will not suggest the District should add resources or personnel without also telling you what will be cut or how revenue will be raised.
As I near the end of my law career, it is the right time for me to put the experience and skills I have acquired to the benefit of the community. I believe I can offer expertise not presently available to the School District.
It is the right experience at the right time. I ask for your support and your vote for School Board Director.
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2013 Ford Focus ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Sporty ST and Electric join newly redesigned lineup.
One of the most popular compacts on the market, the Ford Focus has a sharp, futuristic look that leaves behind old stereotypes of small, affordable American cars. Completely redesigned for the 2012 model year, the Focus makes its claim as the technology and fuel-mileage leader in its class. The 2013 Focus lineup adds two new models: the sporty Focus ST and the all-electric Focus Electric.
The Ford Focus comes in four-door sedan and five-door hatchback models.
The most popular 2013 Focus models come with a 2.0-liter engine with direct injection and twin variable valve timing. A 5-speed manual transmission is standard and a 6-speed automatic is optional, with SelectShift manual mode an option for the automatic. The standard 2.0-liter engine makes 160 horsepower and 146 pound-feet of torque.
EPA fuel economy estimates for the 2013 Ford Focus are 26/36 mpg City/Highway with 5-speed manual, 28/38 mpg with 6-speed automatic.
The new 2013 Focus ST features a more powerful 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine that cranks out an impressive 247 horsepower and 250 pound-feet of torque. Focus ST comes with a 6-speed manual gearbox and sport-tuned suspension. Focus ST comes as a hatchback only with a special body kit. The sporty Focus ST is rated 23/32 mpg City/Highway.
The Focus Electric is powered by a 107-kilowatt electric motor that has an estimated range of 76 miles per full charge and an EPA energy efficiency equivalent rating of 110 MPGe City and 99 MPGe Highway or 105 MPGe Combined. It's an electric car, so gas stations are a thing of the past. You charge it up at home. With a 240-volt home charger, Ford says the Electric can be recharged in four hours, half the time it takes the Nissan Leaf to get fully juiced. The Focus Electric competes most closely with the Leaf, although the Mitsubishi i-MiEV is a smaller, less expensive all-electric alternative. Government subsidies, perks and kickbacks make the Focus Electric more attractive to buyers.
The Ford Focus models have nice interiors for the class. The soft materials are clearly high quality, while the hard trim looks slathered on. There's excellent legroom in front, but rear legroom is only moderate. The gauges are easy to read and include a big tachometer and speedometer with cool blue needles.
The 2013 Focus uses the MyFord Touch connectivity interface powered by Microsoft's SYNC. The system uses twin high-resolution screens, including an 8-inch touch screen in the center console, to communicate with your car. The driver uses three senses: see, hear, touch. Ford says the system is designed to be simple and completely intuitive for the driver, and maybe it was designed that way, but it doesn't always work that way. We found this latest version of MyFord Touch difficult to use.
On the road, the Focus is exceptionally quiet. A lot of productive effort went into making the cabin silent, with luxury-levels of sound insulation practically everywhere, including the doors, windshield, carpet and headliner. Ride quality was smooth and soft. We found the standard engine extremely smooth with plenty of power. However, we thought the 6-speed automatic was imprecise in its shifting, while the 5-speed manual felt ropey.
The 2013 Ford Focus competes with the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Chevrolet Cruze, Subaru Impreza, Hyundai Elantra, Mazda3, Mitsubishi Lancer, Kia Forte and Volkswagen Jetta.
The 2013 Ford Focus comes in sedan and Hatchback versions. Focus comes standard with a 2.0-liter engine. A 5-speed manual transmission is standard, a 6-speed automatic optional.
Focus S Sedan ($16,200) is equipped with cloth upholstery, climate control with air filtration, power door locks and front windows, full center console, 110-watt four-speaker AM/FM/CD3/MP3 sound system, fold-flat rear seat, tilt-telescoping steering wheel, 15-inch steel wheels, halogen headlamps, and black grille, mirrors and door handles. No cruise control or USB port or Bluetooth, rear windows are rollup and rear brakes are drum.
Focus SE Sedan ($18,200) and SE Hatchback ($19,200) come with cloth bucket seats with four-way power driver's seat, body-color mirrors and door handles, floormats, foglamps, auto headlamps, illuminated entry, compass and temp display, steering-wheel audio controls, power rear windows, and 16-inch aluminum wheels. Still no USB port or Bluetooth, and rear drums. With the Hatchback you also get a 60/40 rear seat, rear wiper and liftgate spoiler.
Focus Titanium Sedan ($23,200) and Titanium Hatchback ($24,200) come loaded with leather-trimmed bucket seats with four-way power driver's seat with manual lumbar, dual-zone climate control, 10-speaker Sony sound system with HD Radio, Sirius XM Satellite Radio, 8-inch touch screen, SYNC voice-activated communications and entertainment system, MyFord Touch system with touchscreen display, pushbutton start, sport-tuned suspension, four-wheel disc brakes, 17-inch aluminum wheels. Navigation with SiriusXM Traffic and Travel Link is optional. Other options include heated front seats, remote start system, cargo area protector.
Focus ST hatchback ($23,700) features the more powerful 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine, 6-speed manual transmission, and sports suspension. Focus ST comes with cloth seats.
Focus Electric ($39,200) features an electric motor and a single-speed direct-drive transmission. The Focus Electric comes with cloth upholstery, heated front seats, dual-zone climate control, 60/40 folding rear seats, MyFord Touch and MyFord Mobile interfaces, with two unique driving screens, rearview camera, Reverse Sensing System, MyKey, rain-sensing wipers, and 17-inch aluminum wheels.
Safety equipment in all Focus models includes six airbags with the latest technology, electronic stability control, anti-lock brakes (ABS) with Electronic Brake-force Distribution and Brake Assist, rearview camera, tire pressure monitor.
The Ford Focus looks like a big Fiesta, with an unmistakably Ford shape. The Hatchback looks especially aerodynamic. The Focus spent 1000 hours in the wind tunnel to get its sleek shape and low roofline. It yields a 0.295 coefficient of drag, an improvement by nearly 8 percent over the previous (pre-2012) Focus.
Active grille shutters block airflow to the radiator when it's not required, which improves aerodynamics and fuel mileage. NASCAR racers did this with cardboard and duct tape for years, but now it's fully electronic; the shutters have 15 different positions, based on engine temperature. Other cars such as the Chevrolet Cruze are doing this, as well.
Ford calls the distinctive grille split-trapezoid. Fortunately, the grille is black and not chrome and in-your-face like other Ford models. There are eight thin horizontal bars in a huge-mouthed trapezoid whose wide side is the bottom and is divided into three segments by two body-colored vertical bars like catfish chin whiskers. It looks better than it sounds, balanced by a horizontal opening above it, with one thin chrome bar and a neat blue Ford oval. The long thin trapezoidish headlamps wrap forward and downward from the cheeks of the car. They're like sweeping dragon's eyes, says Ford.
Sculpted lines at the sills and door handles flow back from neat modest flared front fenders to give the Focus a forward-moving slant: kinetic design energy, Ford calls it. The windshield is steeply raked and roofline steeply dropped to the liftgate glass, making about as much of a teardrop as a chopped hatchback can be. The side window outline is shaped like a picture of smoke traveling over a sleek car in a wind tunnel. Big vertical taillamps make the Focus look being safe and Volvo-like.
The Focus SE looks cleaner, we think, lacking chrome beltline trim. The 17-inch Titanium wheels are multi-spoke wagon wheels, better looking than the optional 18-inch wheels that are like big chrome stars with thin prongs.
The Focus chassis uses a crash structure designed for the larger Taurus. More than 55 percent is high-strength steels, including Boron B-pillars and front beam, and a decoupling powertrain cradle to keep the engine out of the cabin in a head-on crash.
The first thing we notice about the Focus is its seats. Focus models have had comfortable seats for years tne the current models come standard in sturdy fabric, with leather optional. The seats in the Focus are much better than those in the Chevrolet Cruze.
The interior of the Focus feels like a cockpit. With all its bells and whistles, we could easily imagine being a pilot with all those dials, switches, controls that feel like they wrap around to the elbows on the center stack, and LED ambient lighting in a choice of seven colors. The Focus Electric feels even more futuristic, with two screens that show information about driving efficiency, charge capacity and other do-dads related to the electric powertrain.
The gauges on the dashboard and instrument panel are easy to read: big tach and speedo with cool blue needles, fuel and engine temp between them, and easy-to-read digital info above the fuel and temp. The soft materials are clearly high quality, while the hard materials look slathered on: for example four big vertical vents that rival the giant grille in terms of in-your-faceness, and thick shiny trim that lines the edges of the center stack, console, and thick horizontal spokes of the steering wheel. However, we haven't been in a base S model, maybe it's got a more spartan interior missing the overkill trim. We have no problem with the optional piano black trim.
The MyFord Touch powered by SYNC connectivity system uses twin high-resolution screens, including an 8-inch touch screen in the center console, to communicate with your car. Ford says it's designed to be simple and completely intuitive for the driver. We're not sure they've succeeded in achieving this, but they are continuing to work on it.
There's excellent legroom in front, but the current generation Focus is shy on rear legroom at 33.2 inches, less than the amount offered in the previous generation Focus. Rear legroom is a key feature for a compact car, but Ford appears to have discounted it in the Focus. By comparison, the Volkswagen Jetta, a stylish but not flashy car, has 38.1 inches of rear legroom with the same wheelbase.
The 60/40 fold-flat rear seats increase trunk volume from its so-so 13.2 cubic feet (the Jetta has 15.5) and the hatch cargo capacity to a hefty 44.8 cubic feet.
Driving Impression
We took a test drive in the Focus SE hatchback, which uses the standard 2.0-liter engine with direct injection and twin variable valve timing. It makes 160 horsepower and 146 pound-feet of torque. It's plenty powerful, but mostly, it's extremely smooth. Chevrolet Cruze's 1.4-liter turbocharged Ecotec engine zooms more quickly to high speeds.
If only the automatic transmission were programmed to be as smooth as the engine. Its shift points, whether in Drive or Select, were unexpected and frequent. Sometimes it shifts itself for engine braking going downhill, when you don't need it to, while other times it doesn't when you want it to. There was so much override in the Select mode, it didn't really seem to matter much which mode we were in; the car made the shifting decisions regardless. The manual gearbox is ropey, reminding us of Volkswagen manuals, but the shifting is effortless and precise.
Ride quality is good. The Focus rides on the soft side, good for commuting while sipping cappuccino. Handling is less precise, however. When we ran a modest rise in the road full throttle at about 60 mph, the car floated and the tires chirped when it came down; typically we might have expected that only at higher speeds. The suspension uses MacPherson struts in front, multi-link in rear.
The rack-mounted power steering system on the Focus was less precise than we'd like, matching the suspension. In our Focus SE with the standard suspension, we struggled to steer the car precisely in the curves, in contrast to the Chevrolet Cruze, which handled like a dream when pushed fast through turns.
Active Park Assist, which will parallel park the Focus for you, while you just sit there. It's an improvement on the Toyota Prius system, which can only park if the space is 7 feet 9 inches larger than the car; using ultrasound, the Focus needs only a margin of 3 feet. However, it will require the driver's help with the accelerator in a space that small, because jockeying forward and back is required.
Interior noise is kept to a minimum on the Focus. A lot of productive effort went into making the cabin silent, including the door structure and sealing, thick window glass, an acoustic layer in the windshield, sound-deadening body panels, foam in body cavities, thick carpet insulation and a sound-absorbing headliner.
We observed fuel economy in the mid-20s when we were driving the gasoline-powered Focus SE. Official EPA estimates are 26/36 mpg City/Highway with the 5-speed manual gearbox and 28/38 with the 6-speed automatic. The new Focus ST hatchback with the 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine is rated at 23/32 mpg City/Highway.
The Focus Electric doesn't need gas. It gets its power from a battery that owners charge up at home. On the road, we found the power from the 107-kilowatt electric motor perfectly adequate. It makes the equivalent of 141 horsepower. Like all cars that use electric motors, there's plenty of thrust off the line. The single-speed, direct-drive transmission is smooth and unobtrusive.
The Focus Electric gets an EPA energy efficiency equivalent rating (MPGe) of 110/99 MPGe City/Highway (105 MPGe Combined), which is slightly better than the Nissan Leaf. Ford claims the Focus Electric can go up to 76 miles on one charge, which is less than the Nissan Leaf's estimated range of 100 miles. But the Focus has a huge advantage when it comes to charging time, at least on paper. Ford says the Focus can fully charge in four hours using a 240-volt home charger, while the Leaf requires twice as long. Owners of the Focus Electric will be able to control and check up on their cars using MyFord Mobile, a smartphone integration app that allows owners to monitor charging progress, locate charging stations and remotely set climate control functions.
We found the Focus Electric particularly smooth and quiet. We expected ride quality to be sacrificed with the comparatively huge 17-inch aluminum wheels, but we didn't detect any significance differences while on the road.
The 2013 Ford Focus is a technology leader in the compact car class. The standard Focus models get good fuel economy and are smooth and quiet. The transmissions do the job but are uninspired. MyFord Touch takes effort to learn to operate well. The Focus ST brings sports appeal with a more powerful engine. The Focus Electric eliminates the need for gasoline.
Sam Moses reported from Los Angeles, with Laura Burstein reporting from Detroit, and Mitch McCullough in New York.
Model Lineup
Ford Focus S Sedan ($16,200); SE Sedan ($18,200); SE Hatchback ($19,200); Titanium Sedan ($23,200); Titanium Hatchback ($24,200); ST Hatchback ($23,700); Focus Electric ($39,200).
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Ford Focus SE Hatchback ($19,200).The Ford Focus is small, economical, and fun but it includes the latest technology and style; setting a new standard in the compact car category. New for 2013 the SEL trim is no longer available and the Titanium trim is available with the manual transmission. The front-wheel drive Focus is available as a four-door sedan or five-door hatchback. Ford offers three trims on the Focus, the S is available on the sedan, the SE and Titanium are available on both models. The high efficiency engine is a 160-hp 2.0-liter inline four-cylinder with twin independent variable camshaft timing (Ti-VCT), direct gasoline injection and E85 capability. It is paired with either a five-speed manual or six-speed auto-shift manual transmission. Six airbags, rear seats with three headrests, anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, remote keyless entry and power door locks are standard on all series. Available features include Ford's MyKey, SYNC, MyFord Touch, Sirius Satellite Radio, a Sony Premium Audio system, and heated front seats and exterior mirrors. The Ford Focus is a carryover for 2013.
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VIDEO: Obama Adds To Pressure On Rep. Weiner To Resign
The news broke last evening — President Obama thinks Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) should step aside.
As our colleague Frank James wrote over at It's All Politics, that dramatically increased the pressure on Weiner to leave office because of the scandal over the lewd messages and photos that the married congressman has sent to numerous women in recent years.
Obama told NBC's The Today Show that:
"Obviously what he did was highly inappropriate. ... I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign."
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Meanwhile, The Associated Press writes that "with a defiant Rep. Anthony Weiner resisting calls from colleagues to quit and President Barack Obama saying he'd resign if he were in Weiner's shoes, House Democrats are wrestling with how to put the embarrassing online sex scandal behind them. ... Democrats could try to oust the seven-term congressman from the House Democratic caucus or try to strip him of his committee assignment on the Energy and Commerce panel in hopes of persuading him to quit Congress."
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It is my hope — and more importantly, the community's hope — that our employee associations help restore Costa Mesa's fiscal health and return it to being a model of balanced government.
First, we have to stop the bleeding. Our city has been hemorrhaging money for the past four fiscal years, draining $33.6 million from its reserves, despite eliminating more than 120 employee positions, delaying infrastructure repairs and cutting into many services.
The sales tax revenue declines from the economic downturn and sharply rising pension costs have fundamentally changed the financial structure of Costa Mesa, and the city has yet to fully adjust. Our state and federal governments certainly don't seem to have a solution that would create a marked change in our city's fiscal health for many years to come.
The preliminary 2011-12 budget still shows a multi-million-dollar deficit, despite sales tax revenue projections that are higher than those predicted by the city's own consultant.
This council is committed to adopting a sustainable budget that is balanced, doesn't use one-time financial gimmicks, and begins to re-establish priorities important to residents such as infrastructure repairs, quality sports fields and adequate emergency reserves.
Unfunded liabilities, which are commitments we've made to our employees, must also be addressed as soon as possible.
The cuts needed to balance next year's budget will be painful — which is why past councils opted to tap into reserves instead of balancing the city's books. (Credit to Councilman Eric Bever, who warned us many times that the city was headed down a dangerous financial path.) We've let our reserves get so low that our credit rating has been downgraded, and we're now in danger of running out of cash in December before our coffers are replenished with property tax revenues.
It's critical that we begin to spend less than we take in to keep the city's finances out of intensive care. And once Costa Mesa is stabilized, we need to practice preventative medicine to insure the city's budget remains healthy for years to come.
The prescription for Costa Mesa's long-term financial health is based on a healthy dose of common sense.
First, we need to maximize revenues. We should study the city's business license fees, for instance, which haven't been revised in more than 25 years (any change will need to be approved by voters, likely in June 2012). And we need to hire an economic development consultant who can help Costa Mesa attract revenue-generating businesses and help craft policies that will engage the business community in a productive partnership.
Second, we need to lock into our budget adequate spending on infrastructure. For example, Huntington Beach residents voted to spend 15% of the city's general funds on infrastructure improvements, repairs and maintenance. Costa Mesa would be wise to do something similar, along with regulations on minimum levels of cash reserves.
Third, we need to deal with our long-term, unfunded liabilities we've accumulated in our city employee pension and retirement health care packages. We can't leave the next generation with the bills we've run up. Nor can we ignore our promises to the retirees. Ironically, this council not only understands that previous elected officials made promises, we will work hard to make sure the city has the money to keep them.
Fourth, we need to initiate pension reform in Costa Mesa. This fiscal year, we will spend three times as much on pension costs than we do on infrastructure. Within the next several years, pension costs are projected to be 25% of the city's total budget.
This is not sustainable and a warping of the city's duties to its citizens. Costa Mesa's primary mission has gone from providing services to its residents and businesses to funding pensions for city employees.
By the way, I don't blame the employees for this is predicament. The majority in past councils, then flush with money, agreed to the contracts — pensions and all. But it is time for the employees associations to sit down with us and work together on this needed reform. With the city locked into multi-year contracts with its five employee associations, it's up to union leaders to re-open negotiations.
Some have tried to label Costa Mesa's budget crisis as a figment of the Republican Party's imagination. I'm a card-carrying member of the GOP and have received no financial, strategic or volunteer support from the Republican Party.
If you want more evidence that the need for pension reform cuts across party lines, look at the scores of local governments throughout California that are struggling to balance budgets because of rising pension costs: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Vista, San Diego, Sacramento and Yuba City, to name a few.
This isn't an ideologically driven issue. It's driven by dollars and cents.
Most of us can agree on the basics of pension reform. City employees need to pay more into their own retirement accounts, and a second-tier system needs to be started for new employees who will receive benefits in line with private industry (including age of retirement). Some cities have already started to enact these reforms.
If this seems like radical medicine, it's only because for years politicians ignored the financial health of the very governments they were supposed to shepherd. In Costa Mesa, you now have a council willing to do what's right.
It's time we take our medicine and get Costa Mesa healthy again. It's time we work together with the employees associations to provide to Costa Mesa taxpayers a sustainable city government. Our community deserves it.
STEVE MENSINGER is a member of the Costa Mesa City Council.


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Insomniac Games "absolutely" believes Fuse has the potential to become a franchise, telling VideoGamer.com that it's confident it can take the series "in a lot of different directions".
"When we started development of the game, our intention - like every other IP we've developed - has been to create a long-lived franchise," Insomniac CEO Ted Price told VideoGamer.com at a Fuse media event last month.
"The story reflects that, the way we built the characters and the alien substance itself reflects that, because there's a lot of opportunity to expand.
"Ratchet is the same way," Price continued. "With Ratchet, we wanted to build a world or a universe with no rules. Fuse, because it's a made-up world - it's our own take on a slightly futuristic society - means that we don't have to adhere to any particular real-world constraints. We can take this franchise in a lot of different directions, and that's fun for us as creators."
Fuse, which was first announced as Overstrike, is Insomniac's first foray into third-person shooting, following first-person shooter series Resistance and platformer Ratchet & Clank.
It's also the developer's first multi-platform release following its long-standing partnership with Sony - a move Price suggests is important to the company's future.
"I think the industry is volatile and we're responding to it," Price continued, reflecting on THQ's closure and financial difficulties faced by other developers.
"Last year we put out our first free-to-play game with Outernauts, and we're dipping our toes in a lot of different spots and changing with the tide as we see the industry becoming more fluid. And that's one of the strengths of Insomniac. We are willing and able to change very quickly when necessary."
But predicting the direction the industry is headed in, rather than simply responding to trends, is still just as important, Price says, before suggesting that remaining "open to trying new things" will provide "even better chances for success down the road".
"We try to look ahead, too," Price continues. "Like everybody else, I think it's important for us to try to predict what's going to happen, which is why we started the group at Insomniac which makes free-to-play games.
"It's why we experimented with Ratchet as well. Ratchet Full Frontal Assault was another experiment in what we could do with that franchise. Some experiments work great and some don't, that's part of this business.
"And that's part of the excitement of being in this business. You aren't limited. You're always trying new things, and as long as we're open to change and open to trying new things then things stay interesting and we have even better chances for success down the road."
Fuse is due to launch on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year.
Source: VideoGamer.com Interview


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text: This event is for 9- 11 year olds to learn to make their own computer games and programs. These places are in high demand - please book early to avoid disappointment. As there are only a few computers at Chipping Campden if possible could own devices be brought along e.g. laptops or tablets. Sessions every Friday Term Time only


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Back in the early 1960s, the thought was the only union a woman belonged in was marriage. Lucky for thousands of farm workers, Dolores Huerta never got that message. She married, all right, but she was never June Cleaver. Instead of vacuuming in pearls and heels, she rolled up her sleeves and joined Cesar Chavez in starting a movement that in the words of her close friend Gloria Steinem exposed the dirty secrets of what was going on in the fields of America.
If you say to yourself, "Dolores Huerta? I've never heard of her," you're not alone. And the reason you haven't is because there's been a concerted effort to erase her from the history books, a racially motivated slight the fascinating documentary "Dolores" determinedly seeks to correct. Directed by Peter Bratt, brother of Benjamin, and produced by music icon Carlos Santana, "Dolores" gives this unsung human rights heroine the due she deserves with a plethora of clips of her championing the rights of the poorest of the poor from her beginnings in 1959 until her unceremonious exit 40 years later from the union she and Chavez cofounded -- the United Farm Workers of America.
In between, her activism often spread beyond the California grape and lettuce fields to include feminism, racial equality and public health issues related to the rampant use of lethal pesticides on America's produce. And the clips Bratt has assembled, along with the interviews he's scored with the likes of Steinem and Angela Davis, provide a vivid biography of a life fully lived, albeit at a cost. Yes, Huerta's vigor and fight in leading rallies, organizing boycotts and standing up to her sexist peers at the UFWA are inspiring. But the part of the film that's most affecting is when Bratt turns his camera on Huerta's 11 children, all of whom took a backseat to a mother who was almost always absent. Hearing them speak of the "scars" she left is wrenching to hear, but then you learn how in their later years she went from just a mother to an inspiration that led all 11 kids into community service.
And how cool is it to have a mother who counted the likes of Bobby Kennedy and Coretta Scott King as her friends and the likes of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan among her staunchest enemies? You might even say she made a career out of ticking off Republicans. Even now, at the grand-old age of 87, pundits such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are still on the attack. And legislatures in Texas and Arizona are passing laws to keep her name out of school textbooks.
Given all that vitriol, you'd think she'd be sprouting horns. But "Dolores" lets us see her as she really is, a sweet but proud grandmother with a Teflon exterior that deflects any criticism hurled her way. Yet, you can't help but feel for her knowing that the abuse and exploitation of Mexican immigrants is as alive now (see DACA) as it was when she began her fight for human rights nearly 60 years ago. Equally, "Dolores" riles your ire when you see how racism wasn't nearly the enemy sexism was in her colorful life. Even her own compatriots in the union - all of them male - dismissed her, hitting her with the double slight of downplaying her role as cofounder of the UFWA and then passing her over as a replacement for Chavez after his sudden death in 1993.
Hardly the treatment you'd expect for a woman who nearly died when a San Francisco cop repeatedly jabbed her with a club during a protest outside a campaign event for Bush 41 in 1988. The incident left her bedridden for months, but like everything in her life, Huerta looks upon the act as a catalyst for her to reconnect with her children, who sat diligently by her side during her long convalescence. How she grew such a tough hide is the one thing Bratt might have missed in an otherwise inspiring and enlightening profile of the woman who coined the now famous slogan, "yes we can." And what better way to end her story than showing Huerta receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the man who sheepishly admits to copping her iconic phrase – Barack Obama?


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Traditional Linux implementations provide their users with an
abstract device path, called
The device files are split in two groups, called
If you take a look at a certain device file, you might find something like this:
# ls -l /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hda
In the previous example we see that
Two examples are
If you do a quick check in such a
When you add new hardware to your system, and this hardware didn't have
a device file previously, you would have to create one. Advanced users know
that this task can be accomplished with
When you have programs interacting with hardware using the device files,
you can't have the root partition mounted read only, while there is no
further need to have it mounted read-write. And you can't have
As you can imagine, the kernel hackers have found quite a number of
solutions to the aforementioned problems. However, many of them had
other flaws as described in
devfs tackles all listed problems. It only provides the user with existing devices, adds new nodes when new devices are found, and makes it possible to mount the root filesystem read only. And it tackles more problems we haven't discussed previously because they are less interesting for users...
For instance, with devfs, you don't have to worry about major/minor pairs. It is still supported (for backwards compatibility), but isn't needed. This makes it possible for Linux to support even more devices, since there are no limits anymore (numbers always have boundaries :)
Yet devfs does come with it's own problems; for the end users these issues
aren't really visible, but for the kernel maintainers the problems are big
enough to mark devfs
For more information as to why devfs is marked obsolete, please read the
One of the first things you might notice is that devfs uses directories to group devices together. This improves readability, as now all related devices are inside a common directory.
For instance, all IDE-related devices are inside the
IDE and SCSI disks are controlled by an adapter (on-board or a seperate
card), called the
So, whereas
To give you an idea on the directories, this is a listing of the directories which I have on my laptop:
cdroms/ cpu/ discs/ floppy/ ide/ input/ loop/ misc/ netlink/ printers/ pts/ pty/ scsi/ sg/ shm/ sound/ sr/ usb/ vc/ vcc/
Using this new scheme sounds fun, but several tools and programs make
use of the previous, old scheme. To make sure no system is broken,
$ ls -l /dev/hda4 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Aug 25 12:08 /dev/hda4 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4
When you alter the
SIGHUP will have
SIGUSR1 will do the same, but won't generate REGISTER events.
To send a signal, simply use
# kill -s SIGHUP `pidof devfsd`
or# killall -s SIGHUP devfsd
If you want the compatibility symlinks that clutter up
# Comment the following two lines out to remove the symlinksREGISTER .* MKOLDCOMPAT UNREGISTER .* RMOLDCOMPAT
You need to reboot your system for the changes to take affect.
When you load a module, devfs will automatically create the device
files. If you don't want this behaviour, remove the following line from
If you want to set permissions using
REGISTER ^cdroms/.* PERMISSIONS root.cdrom 0660
The second field is the device group, starting from
The fourth field is the ownership of the device file, and the fifth field contains the permissions of the device file.
This is the default behaviour for Gentoo: if you
REGISTER ^pt[sy]/.* IGNORE CHANGE ^pt[sy]/.* IGNORE CREATE ^pt[sy]/.* IGNORE DELETE ^pt[sy] IGNORE REGISTER ^log IGNORE CHANGE ^log IGNORE CREATE ^log IGNORE DELETE ^log IGNORE REGISTER .* COPY /lib/dev-state/$devname $devpath CHANGE .* COPY $devpath /lib/dev-state/$devname CREATE .* COPY $devpath /lib/dev-state/$devname DELETE .* CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink /lib/dev-state/$devname RESTORE /lib/dev-state
In other words, changed device files are copied over to
Another possibility is to mount
mount --bind /dev /lib/dev-state mount -t devfs none /dev devfsd /dev
For more information on devfs, check out the following resources.
The devfsd.conf manpage explains the syntax of the
Daniel Robbins has written a set of articles for IBM's DeveloperWorks about Advanced filesystems. Three of them are about devfs:


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The Canterbury Tales
Off The Ground Youth Theatre Presents
"The Canterbury Tales"
By Geoffrey Chaucer
This is an outrageous re-telling of Chaucer's classic "The Canterbury Tales". If you've never seen this on stage it's time to grab a bottle of wine and some friends and travel with our improvisational impresarios to Canterbury. On their way they lay bets on who can tell the tallest (often dirtiest) tale! If you think classic literature is all tights and posh accents – think again. Say no more, except "where can I get tickets?"
"The Canterbury Tales" is on Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th March 7.30 at Calday Grange Grammar school.
Cabaret style, please bring your own alcohol.


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Logitech's apparently planning a run into the air mouse market with its MX platform. It looks to sport both gyration-based movement and a standard laser, though they're supposedly holding off on Bluetooth in favor of RF. Expected drop date is sometime this summer.
What do guys think of air mice, anyway? I'm still madly in love with my heavily worn, four-year-old MX500—I don't need shmancy lasers or gyroscopic sensors.
Logitech planning MX Air gyration mouse? [Engadget]


text: "Lux, James P" <james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > Well.. That's always a trade.. Buying comes out of the capital bucket, > leasing comes out of the expense bucket, and they have very different > treatments, accounting wise. Don't forget that JPL works on a "cost > reimbursement" basis: that is, we spend money, and the gov't, via > NASA, reimburses those costs, and ONLY those costs. There are > literally bookshelves full of rules (the Federal Acquisition > Regulations) that tell you what is allocable, accountable, and > reimburseable. Translation: "bureaucracy is expensive". > the US government will not pay for interest on borrowed money. Don't tell the folks holding all of those US bonds! I'm pretty sure you meant that it will not allow its subsidiaries to borrow money separately. > Most capital investments have to be approved by an act of > congress, and the amortization of that investment requires special > treatment to make sure that costs are properly allocated to each > project. Leasing makes it easy. Accountants cost money too, if you do > march down the amortization process. Many, many commercial > companies have similar sorts of issues, particularly with respect > to transactions between divisions (e.g. see Regulation W for > banking), all designed to prevent "hiding profits". Which leads to so much overhead that we end up with the $700 hammer (for military work, which has even more of it), and at JPL, hardware prices much above what an individual would pay to purchase the same item on the open market. (Without benefit of a volume discount). There should be a happy medium between using regulations to squeeze out waste/fraud, and drowning in red tape. To me this program seems rather closer to the latter than the former. > Actually, before they went to a centralized support model, they found > that the "shadow administrator" and "shadow support staff" costs were > huge, and more to the point, not accurately measureable (what you > can't measure, you can't manage). Conversely, it may cost more to measure and manage than it saves. > And, while most JPL technical staff are certainly capable of doing > their own support, there's good reason for them not to Agreed. However, there is a simple way to enforce that, deny end users admin access to JPL supplied PCs. (Well, it might not so simple to keep the technically adept out of their machines. ) > Support isn't trivial here, even for office staff. For a variety of reasons (and not unique to JPL.. Any other 5000+ employee, $1B year business will have similar ones), we have an amazingly wide array of various and sundry institutional applications to do things like timecards, keeping track of inventory, document mangement, etc. I'd venture that the desktop support staff spends more than 70% of their time dealing with non-OS related software issues (e.g. why is my email not getting through), and a very tiny fraction of their time responding to hardware problems or OS issues. Point 1, I believe you that support isn't spending much time fixing hardware, which is why I think this contract is too expensive. Point 2, if the core software (presumably mostly web based at this juncture) is so problematic, it would suggest that that is the place to go for cost savings. > Let us not forget IT security. This is a non-trivial matter when you have to manage tens of thousands of desktops and comply with dozens of pages of government regulation, NASA procedural instructions, etc. > > The upshot is, you get a fair amount for your $130/month support subscription. To put that in context, that's less than two hours of engineer time. So $4680 for three years for purchase and support of what type of machine exactly? Does the XXX/month include the support of the centralized business software, or just the end user's machine? It was my impression that it was the latter, which is why I thought this manner of supplying computers to be overly expensive. Surely network support is covered in some sort of overhead and isn't allocated on a machine by machine basis. > For what it's worth, we have a similar sort of scenario when dealing > with test equipment. Do you own it, and have in house inventory, > (with all the peculiar government contract stuff about cost > accounting), or do you have an outside vendor provide it > on lease/rent. That's a tough one. I would assume that things like oscilloscopes and voltmeters would be owned and kept in a pool for checkout. These have a long service life and aren't all that expensive. For specialized and expensive equipment, it is too complex to generalize, even before the government purchase rules are thrown into the mix. These sorts of tools often need expensive service contracts if purchased (to cover the replacement of failed parts which are not generally available), and it often comes down to 6 of one and half dozen of the other if buy or lease is most cost effective. It's a different problem though. Most test equipment is not a commodity. Computers are. Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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Muscle Mustangs & Fast FordsEvents
2013 All-Star Nationals - Just Peachy
The 5th Annual NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals invaded Commerce, Georgia's Atlanta Dragway.
On the heels of the season-opening Spring Break Shootout, Mustang fans and racers were primed and poised for another great season of NMRA drag racing. With the snow melted, spring in full bloom, and the dust from the off-season merely a memory, the race season was in full swing.
Once a non-points race, the dual-series race (both NMRA and NMCA) is now locked in on everyone's calendar as a points race for both series. When we arrived on Thursday, the pits were already almost full, the manufacturer's midway was packed, and tire smoke filled the air—excitement was ramping up. Pollen on the track surface caused a bit of extra work for track officials, but the Atlanta Dragway crew had it cleaned up and race-ready in short order.
By the end of Friday, over 30 competitors were already preparing for Sunday's Tremec True Street battle. Heavy-hitters Randy Seward and Blair Brannock made a few time-trial runs; Seward was running low-9s and Brannock was dipping below the 8.50-mark. Brannock suffered a broken transmission in Bradenton, and worked tirelessly to ready his barely-legal GT for this event. Seward has done some upgrading and updating of his own since March—investigative teardown revealed some mangled parts, so he did a full freshen-up of his engine. He buttoned everything up Thursday, and made the trip from his home in Tennessee to Commerce in time for Friday morning. Brannock broke on Saturday, giving Seward some breathing room.
The Georgia-based Emmett Head Performance (E=HP) crew made its usual pilgrimage to Commerce. The squad had a couple of nitrous-guzzling Fox-bodies in its arsenal, including Jack Young's four-eyed GT, which had taken the True Street win at this event last year, and Daniel Caissie's LX hatch. Thompson, Connecticut's Caissie had his eye on winning the Stick Shift Shootout in Bradenton, but broke his transmission and didn't make the cut. With the Stick Shift Shootout over, the E=HP team swapped in a C4 in the days before the All-Star Nationals kicked off.
Normally, True Street competition is held Saturday afternoon, but was pushed back to Sunday to accommodate the overwhelming number of classes competing in both series during the event. So between rounds of qualifying on Saturday, we made our way through the manufacturer's midway, swap meet, and car show areas. Over 150 cars and trucks filled the UPR Products car show field. We saw everything from classic muscle cars to brand-new Dearborn iron. Jackson, Mississippi's Jason Hall made the trip to Commerce with his freshly built LX coupe and drew quite a crowd. It's unsuspecting from afar, but closer inspection reveals a quite comprehensive GT500 swap including engine, transmission, and nearly all of the interior pieces from the Snake. Look for a full feature on Hall's Bright Atlantic Blue coupe in an upcoming issue.
In the swap meet area, we spotted some great finds. One guy had a real-deal tubular GT-40 intake up for grabs for $575. Used Mustang parts authority MPS Auto Salvage had a full display of its inventory. Since its headquarters is just around the corner in Statham, it brought out a whole collection of treasures. It even had racer Tim Matherly's old Real Street Fox coupe for sale as a roller.
And in the midway, shoppers and spectators lined up to get close and personal with some of the industry's leading manufacturers and suppliers. Companies like QA1, Moser Engineering, Nitto Tire, UPR Products, and Roush Performance had full displays of parts and had representatives on hand. The sun was shining, spirits were high, and racing well underway.
Then on Sunday, drag racing's archrival reared its ugly head—rain. The forecast looked bad, but the day's activities progressed as planned. Shortly after returning from the True Street 30-mile cruise, the sky opened up. None of the NMRA classes were able to make it past the semi-finals, and all 28 remaining True Street racers were left drenched in the staging lanes. The race was called shortly after, and winners will be decided at the next NMRA race in Maryland. True Street competitors were given a voucher to any NMRA or NMCA race within the next year—props to the ProMedia organization for standing behind its racers.
In all, it was a fun and exciting event. We'll certainly be back next year, as will much of the rest of the Blue Oval enthusiasts. We just hope the rain will find another place to fall.


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|Rick Simpson. Photo credit: Richard Kaby
We interviewed Rick Simpson, whose debut CD as leader, Semi Wogan is about to be released. (Launch gig 12th September, Pizza Express Dean Street):
LondonJazz - Rick, can you tell us where your musical story started?
Rick Simpson - I grew up in Guisborough, a small town in the North East, near Middlesbrough. There wasn't much jazz there but when I was 15 I met an ex-NYC jazz pianist called Race Newton who was a huge deal in getting me started. Every time he came to the house he would bring me cassette tapes of wonderful music that I'd never heard - Bud Powell, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Bob Berg, Django Bates (!!), Cedar Walton, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter....it was by far the most exciting period of my development - hearing all this incredible music for the first time and spending hours listening to these cassettes!
LJ - And how did your parents react to that?
RS - My dad used to catch me listening to music till the early hours of the morning and I used to get it in the neck as I'd have college the next day but after a while they begun to understand that it was exactly what I needed to be doing. What a period! I'm eternally grateful to Race and those tapes! Race Newton must have been in his 80's but he was still listening to the newest things - that he brought me Bud Powell one week but then also this weird, alien music by Django Bates still blows me away - that's so courageous of a teacher to give someone new to jazz that music.
LJ - And then you moved to London?
RS - I moved to london when I was 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and I'm still as excited about this city as I was when I first arrived.
LJ - Is this your first album as leader? When and where was it recorded?
RS - Yes it is. It was recorded during two days in July 2011 at Derek Nash's great studio Clown's Pocket. I really like the Steinway Derek has but by far the main reason I wanted to go there was for the warm, friendly atmosphere that Derek creates. Nothing is a problem for him and he's an incredible engineer and person.
LJ - What excites you about playing music?
RS - What excites me about the music we play is that it covers a lot of different genres and territories but always comes from one central place, which I guess is whatever compositional language I've built up over the years that I've been writing. There are a lot of bands who really specialise in one area of jazz and play that music really well but I've never felt the urge to do that. I wanted my tunes to reflect my listening habits which have never focussed on one style of jazz, or indeed music, exclusively. I love all styles and periods of jazz and would hate to confine myself to just one.
LJ - And what inspired the tunes on the album?
RS -A whole range of different things. Chairman Meow,, for example, is a huge tip of the hat to Lennie Tristano and his school of musicians, who I obsessed over during my years at Guildhall. Other pieces like Day Of The Trippetts, Attack of The Tehranchulla! and Dog Eat Dogger are inspired by the modern NYC scene - musicians such as David Binney, Mark Turner and Kurt Rosenwinkel who I've been really inspired by. I try to capture the essence of other music that I like. That is often what brings me to write.
LJ - You work with a lot of singers
RS -Working with vocalists is something I've done frequently since I was about 16. It started thanks to Steve Berry, who asked me to work with the vocal students at his Burnley Jazz Summer School.
LJ - What do you enjoy about it?
RS -It makes you listen and think about what you can do to offer the most support whilst being creative. Also getting to play so many amazing songs over the years has really helped with my writing and knowledge of tunes. I am pleased that Brigitte Beraha sings on the closing track on the album 'Almost' - she's one of my favourite musicians and her voice was perfect for this piece.
LJ - Apart from Brigitte Beraha , then, who else is on the album?
RS -The quartet is made up of George Crowley on tenor saxophone, Dave Manington on double bass and Jon Scott on drums.
I really like playing with Jon Scott because he's so quick. He can play anything you put in front of him and it always sounds like knows exactly what you're looking for. Generally I tell Jon to thrash around as much as possible and he has a couple of great drum features on this record where he really shines.
Dave Manington sounds really great on all the rhythmic music we're playing - the outro to 'Tehranchulla' that he improvises with Jon just sounds so great to me.
George Crowley is great composer and player and he brings a great playful sound to the group. I knew that George is as enthusiastic about Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh as I am, so I had to include Chairman Meow on the album just to give him space to blow. You can really hear how he's been influenced by Mark Turner on 'Dog Eat Dogger' too. George is a great player and his own album is well worth buying.
LJ - Are you by nature a soloist, a sideman/ accompanist. Or both?
RS - I don't think I'd define myself as any one of those. You have to put different 'hats' on for different gigs. One of my favourite things to do is to play standards in a piano trio and in that setting my soloist side definitely comes to the fore. In other bands, such as Fini Bearman's Quartet I get really excited about accompanying her on her incredible songs but also being able to really improvise and see where the music can go.
I also play regular pop gigs which is a whole different skill set to have. You have to put the jazz side of your persona away and enjoy trying to get as good a groove as possible. Its a different challenge which I enjoy just as much.
LJ - And you enjoy composing and bandleading?
RS - Yes., absolutely. The thing I like to do the most though is to be writing my own music and playing it as much as possible. I prefer being in charge which I guess says a lot about me! I'm currently writing for a sextet/septet and trying to make it as compositionally orientated as possible which I find really challenging and exciting. I can't wait to have enough music together to finally play it live.
LJ - What music inspires you, away from jazz
RS - I'm really into electronic music, hip hop, indie and folk music. Whilst I was in college I mainly listened to Jazz but the last few years has brought jazz to about 50/50 against other genres. It's only a good thing I think. Some of my favourite artists are DOOM, Madlib, Radiohead, Deerhoof, Akron/Family and Grouper. I couldn't stand just listening to Jazz - I need everything I can get. I'm always amazed that some people are content only listening to Jazz. I'm not sure it's that healthy. Everything leads to the same path in the end - good music.
LJ - What's the title about, 'Semi Wogan'??
RS - It vaguely refers to a photo of Terry Wogan I have wearing tight pants. I'm going to leave it at that.
LJ - It's a digital-only release, right??
RS - It was going to be, but I have physical copies and it's going to be released very soon on Amazon, iTunes etc. The album launch is at Pizza Express Dean Street on 12th September with George Crowley, Tom Farmer, Jon Scott and Brigitte Beraha. It should be fun!
LJ - Definitely looking forward to hearing the album.
Rick Simpson - If you don't want to wait, you can listen to a sampler, right now, on Soundcloud.
LondonJazz - Thanks for doing the interview Rick, and very good luck with the album!


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Another week down, just one more to go ... for the regular season, that is.
So what was the biggest surprise of Week 16? How about Indy winning its second in a row on the wares of Dan Orlovsky? The Chargers having an epic fail in Detroit? Perhaps the Bills coming out of nowhere to cease playing like a USFL team?
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Buffalo was a shocker, at least to this humble writer. Tim Tebow hadn't thrown four interceptions all season, while the Bills scored a whopping three return touchdowns: two courtesy of Tebowmania, the other off a punt return.
I love what's happening in Detroit. I mentioned in a previous column some fans have been negative nancyies about the team this year, but didn't mean it as an insult. Rather, the intention was to convey the lack of trust in a franchise that has let its fan base down time and again in the past decade, much like George Lucas.
Well, those days are gone, at least for Detroit. The Lions are in, as are this week's rankings. Let the dissension commenceâ¦
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Will Mike McCarthy actually rest his guys against Detroit? That's the question on a lot of people's minds. For a coach who seems awfully aggressive and has very little let-up to him, sitting the Packers stars seems a little out of step. But let's hope McCarthy is true to his word. We saw what happened to Aaron Rodgers when he got Discount Doublecheck'd in Detroit last year. And we saw what happened to Greg Jennings against Oakland. Need I type more?
The yardage allowed (469) may not have looked great on paper, but the key is how many points New Orleans gave up: 16. That will win games in the NFL and, more importantly, the playoffs. Classy performance by a class act in Drew Brees. It's impossible not to like the guy. That said, Dan Marino's '84 campaign is still the best offensive performance I've ever seen.
Here's the problem with facing New England in the playoffs: You hold down the offense, hold down the offense, then BAM! -- twenty-seven second-half points. Tom Brady went 20-for-27 for 217 yards in the money half. As I wrote late last week, this might end up being one season in which unstoppable offense overcomes crappy defense.
Close call up in the vortex that is playing in Seattle. The Niners finally gave up a rushing touchdown. As long as they don't allow any more, they'll set an NFL record that has stood the test of time. The benchmark is currently at two, set by the 1935 Lions, 1968 Cowboys and 1971 Vikings. Of more importance is the pressure put on New Orleans to keep winning, i.e., securing the second seed and a first-round bye.
The Ravens rebounded somewhat nicely from last week's debacle in SoCal, but there remain some concerns. The Ravens couldn't hold their 20-point lead, and Joe Flacco went a pretty lame 11-for-24 for 132 yards. That's all his team needed, as the defense stepped up once again. A Ravens' win next week gives them both the AFC North and a bye. A Pats loss on top means home-field for John Harbaugh's club.
Denver and Atlanta losses keep Houston in place, despite its surprising loss to Indy. Now that the ranking is explained, it's time to address the fact that J.J. Watt is a freaking beast. He was all over the field last Thursday. Check that. He was the best player on the field last Thursday. While Watt wouldn't say it straight up, some of those calls on him -- especially the helmet-to-helmet -- were straight baloney. Houston might be reeling after the loss, but considering they played without their top two quarterbacks, best offensive player, best defensive player, and their defensive coordinator, not to mention some ticky-tack officiating, I'm cutting this team some slack.
Atlanta stays a notch above the Lions due to the head-to-head win earlier this season, and the fact that the Saints easily disposed of the Lions, too. The Falcons defense was undressed Monday night, no doubt. But with Chicago's loss, it didn't much matter. The Falcons are in the playoffs and now must try to work out some defensive kinks versus Tampa. That's OK, the Bucs are good for that.
I remember the game like it was yesterday. It was my first year in Los Angeles (2000) and, sans a team, I really wanted the Lions to make the playoffs. That's when the feisty Bears, with a rookie stud linebacker named Urlacher, beat the 9-6 Lions to keep them out of the playoffs. The game-winner was a 54-yard field goal by Paul Edinger. Strange myth about that era of Lions' teams, one that centered around how Barry Sanders delivered this "awful" franchise to the playoffs every year. In truth, Detroit missed the postseason in Sanders' last season (1998) by winning only five games. Yet Detroit made it in 1999, and narrowly missed a berth again in 2000. Now the Lions are back, and it's a great thing for the franchise.
Win and in. Can't ask for a better situation for this team, a group which has struggled against good teams. Well, they'll have to beat the Ravens to get 'er done. What more can a Bengals fan ask for? Beating what's considered the best team in the division in the Ravens, and possibly the best in the AFC, rubber stamps the postseason approval for Cincy.
Tebowmania got stampeded by the Bills. At least Denver's defense made up for Tebow's poor outing by allowing tons of big plays. Still, despite making C.J. Spiller look like CJ2K circa 2009, the Tebows merely need to beat the Chiefs this weekend to win the AFC West.
Nice rebound after a flat performance against the Redskins in Week 15. Eli Manning was just good enough, while Perry Fewell's defense delivered one of its better performances of the year against the Jets. Surprising that Brandon Jacobs said after the game that he would punch Rex Ryan in the face. He's always been one of the classier players in the league. Except not at all.
For all of those league observers who thought the Raiders were mailing it in the rest of the year, think again. Oakland blew a late lead against the playoff-bound Lions in Week 15, but certainly showed up in that game. On Saturday, the Raiders beat a fired-up Chiefs club in front of a road crowd fresh off of one of the biggest upsets in recent years. Oakland needs a Denver loss and a win at home versus the Chargers to win the AFC West.
Is Mark Sanchez the quarterback of the future? How about, "no?" The Jets need major help to make the playoffs, starting with God. The Dolphins could easily beat this club Sunday in Miami.
Like Cincy, it's win and in for the bruised knuckle'd Cowboys. Dallas isn't bruised from hitting anyone hard last Saturday, as this club performed like it had nothing to play for against the Eagles (which it didn't). Still, what a turd of a performance by Rob Ryan's defense. But Tony Romo's knuckle is all the news in Dallas after the QB hit it on a helmet. He's practicing, but one wonders how effective he'll be in the biggest game of the year for the Cowboys.
Probably the most under-the-radar game last Saturday was Titans-Jags. While the sexy quotient was low, the Titans don't do sexy. At the end of the day, the aim is to finish 9-7 in a season with a new head coach, new quarterback, and with the club's two best offensive players either inconsistent ( Chris Johnson) or injured ( Kenny Britt). Even the playoffs are still possible: if the Bengals lose, Jets win, and Broncos lose. If Tebowmania resurrects, then the Chargers would have to beat Oakland.
Seahawks fans, and Tarvaris Jackson, will be replaying the Larry Grant sack in their head all offseason. Frankly, the fate of Seattle's playoff hopes was sealed in a 2-6 start, not in the loss to San Francisco. There is solace to be taken in winning five of the past seven, as well as losing by two points to what could be the NFC's second seed.
Michael Vick doesn't want the 2011 Eagles broken up, but that would be tough not to do. No one wanted Guns 'N' Roses to break up because they were good. The Eagles aren't really good. Despite a dominating 20-7 over a completely unmotivated Dallas team Saturday, it would be tough to qualify this Eagles group as quality. They've had a nice run over the past three weeks, but the taste of a 7-9 or 8-8 record for a team expected to win at least 11 games will be tough to swallow. Most people feel Juan Castillo will be first to go, but there exists far more blame to go around than that assigned to the first-year defensive coordinator.
Despite beating Philly earlier in the year, the Eagles' improved play and the Cards' minus-39 point differential keep them one shade over Arizona. On another note, I'm sure Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington has been schooled before -- maybe at Nerf basketball, a little Golden Tee at the Boar's Nest, or possibly even during a heated gameturn of Dungeon & Dragons. But what Jerome Simpson did to him Saturday just wasn't cool. Still, what a comeback. Had Early Doucet not tripped on his own feet on a play in which the Cardinals handled an all-out blitz in the red zone, the game would have been tied at 23. Playoffs just weren't in the cards for Ken Whisenhunt's club, who can at least go 8-8 with a win next week.
Oh, those maddening Chargers. This team has as much in-season continuity as Arnold's hair in the first "Terminator." First it was long and parted, Norv Turner-style, then it was spiked like Iceman in Top Gun. How do the Chargers linebackers and secondary play that well against the Ravens, then forget how to cover anybody in a game with so much on the line? Matt Stafford was 29-for-36 for 373 yards and three touchdowns. These in fact may be the last days of the A.J. Smith administration. Methinks few tears will be shed around the league, especially by prospective free agents.
Interim head coach Todd Bowles almost pulled off an unlikely upset and a second division road win in as many weeks. Unfortunately, the secondary could not contain Tom Brady in the second half, while the Patriots converted five of their final six third downs. Miami can eliminate the visiting Jets from playoff contention this Sunday in Miami.
Admit it. Watching a quarterback outrun multiple defensive backs to the end zone was pretty kickass. Uh, Cam Newton was a pretty decent No. 1 pick.
The Jay Cutler and Matt Forte injuries loom like a rain cloud over the 2011 season, at least to these eyes. Ever since getting hammered in Detroit, Chicago's defense has been solid. Considering the way Cutler and Forte were playing before their injuries, the Bears could have challenged anyone in the NFC. Yes, including the Packers. Sunday night's game brought the reality home that we lost some luster to the playoffs when those two guys went down.
The home loss to the Raiders was a small-time shocker. It seemed the Chiefs, with the home crowd, new coach, momentum, and a non-Palko at quarterback, would take care of the Raiders and make a late push for the AFC West. It wasn't to be. Kyle Orton played relatively well, but two huge interceptions kept the Raiders afloat. One of the picks came in the end zone, while the other came with the Chiefs driving in the fourth quarter. Orton, it should be noted, is one of several Chiefs who are playing for a contract ... somewhere.
While Tim Tebow has been all the rage this season, the exciting tailback got outplayed by the Michael McDonald of NFL quarterbacks Saturday. Ryan Fitzpatrick has been terrible for the better part of two months, but was calmly effective at Ralph Wilson Stadium, averaging more than 13 yards per completion and seven yards per attempt. The story here though has been the emergence of C.J. Spiller. I was wrong about Spiller, as was most of the media, and perhaps even the Bills staff, who were very reluctant to use him last season, or prior to Fred Jackson's injury this season. Word was that he couldn't grasp the offense. Well, he's grasped something .. like 306 yards from scrimmage and three touchdowns the past two weeks.
Tough to figure the Redskins and Shanahanigans. The latter destroys fantasy teams far and wide, with Evan Royster's insertion in the lineup the latest in a long line of running back moves that leave fantasy owners who relied on Roy Helu or Ryan Torain scrounging for big-time backs like Kahlil Bell, Chis Ogbonnaya, or Isaac Redman on the waiver wire. Royster, who put up 132 yards rushing, wasn't the problem in Week 16. The defense was. Washington couldn't contain Joe Webb, who threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another in limited action. The loss to the Vikings made it five straight at home for the 'Skins. How patient will this fan base be with Mike Shanahan?
Bungled clock management, questionable calls, and more indecision than the Imperial commanders in "Star Wars" -- that's the over-arching theme from the loss in Baltimore, as well as the season as a whole. Browns fans don't have a lot of faith in coach Pat Shurmur right now. Offseason plans have to include Mike Holmgren evaluating his head coach's performance from a distance, as Shurmur was Holmgren's hand-picked successor to Eric Mangini. That's the obvious part. The more intriguing issue is what to do in the draft. If the Rams end up with the top pick, do the Browns junk the Colt McCoy experiment and pay a king's ransom to get St. Louis' pick? Do they take Robert Griffin III, if he comes out early?
Adrian Peterson has run so hard for one of the worst teams in the league, piling up 970 yards and a very impressive -- considering the front line -- 4.7 yards per carry average. To see him tear his ACL and MCL in the second-to-last game of the season, a contest in which he was already playing hurt, sucks. Great win for the team versus the Redskins, terrible blow for the franchise. Peterson likely will not be ready for the start of the 2012 season.
Much like in Cleveland, some hard evaluation has to take place in Jacksonville regarding the quarterback. Whoever is coaching in Jacksonville is not going to be desirous of the Blaine Gabbert show. While the idea of spending back-to-back top 10 picks on a quarterback seems insane, it's not when you've viewed the former Missouri quarterback's play this season. There's no sense spending good money after bad. Make that valuable time as well. Maybe Gabbert turns it around, but he seems a little too jittery around contact, particularly for an NFL quarterback.
Never thought I'd say this, but when are Craig Erickson and Errict Rhett coming back? Can it get any worse down in Tampa right now? The defense is awful, while
Josh Freeman can't get any help. Speaking ofâ¦
Freeman in 2010: 25 TDs, 6 INTs
Freeman in 2011: 14 TDs, 19 INTs.
That's regression.
They finally did it. It took the better part of an NFL season, but the Colts are no longer 32nd. Mazel tov. The giant leap in rank comes courtesy of Dan Orlovsky, who showed more pocket awareness in one drive than Curtis Painter did all season. The former Lion and Texan was resilient as could be facing a relentless pass rush named J.J. Watt. After all the banter about a certain West Coast college quarterback, the Colts may not even be in position to draft him if they make it three in a row against the Jags.
For all those who think the Rams might be inclined to take a quarterback with what could be the first overall pick, think again. Sam Bradford still has tremendous upside, and the Rams didn't pay the kid $50 million guaranteed to give up on him after 26 games. Rather, if the Colts win, and the Rams get the top pick, they'll be more inclined to make a Ricky Williams-esque deal. Remember that one?


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Duggan, Benjamin O., et al. Educational survey, Union County. (UT Record Extension Series, v.1 #2) Knoxville, UT Div. Univ. Ext., 1924. 48 pp.
Dunn, Emma.
Flood insurance study: Union County, TN, unincorporated areas. Washington, D.C., FEMA, 1990. 13 pp.
From hearth & hoe: Union County, TN, 1910-1940. Maynardville, Union County Hist. Soc., 1985. 117 pp.
Goodspeed's history of east TN (Union County, pp. 850-852, 1146-1152). Goodspeed, 1887.
Graves, Kathleen G. Index to Our Union County heritage. Maynardville, the author, 1988. 36 pp.
Graves, Kathleen G. & Winnie P. McDonald. Our Union County heritage. Maynardville, the authors, 1978-1981. 2 vols.
Knoxville MSA 1980-1987: an economic analysis. Nashville, TN Dept. Emp. Sec., 1988. 49 pp.
Maxwell, Britt. "Traditional medical practices in rural east TN." 1971. 8 pp. (student paper, Riedl Collection, UT Library, Knoxville)
O'Malley, James R. "Functional aspects of folk housing: a case for the "I" house, Union County." TN Folklore Soc. Bull. 38 (1972), pp. 1-4.
Oster, Kenneth. A comparative study of local government in a five-county region: the Clinch Powell River Valley: a resource intern report. Knoxville, Clinch & Powell River Valley Assoc. & Office of Tributary Area Dev., TVA, 1971. 56 pp.
Page, Bonnie M. Inventory of historical writings of Union [& other] counties. Lake City, the author, 199?. 24 pp.
Page, Bonnie M. Union County (its towns, cities & points of interest) as of 1940-- updated 1986.Lake City, the author, 1986. 36 pp.
Peters, Bonnie. Union County faces of war: a pictorial history of Union countians involvement in the military service of our country. Knoxville, the author & W.P. McDonald, 1995. 256 pp.
Steinberg, Roger T. Geology & petrology of the Lost Creek barite mine, Union County, TN. UT thesis, 1981. 165 pp.
Stiner, Clifford. The dawn of Union County. Maynardville, the author, 197? 16 pp.
TN Dept. Transportation [county maps] issued periodically.
TN Valley Authority. A survey of legal problems among rural & indigent residents of Anderson & Union counties, TN. Knoxville, 1965. 44 pp.
TN Valley Authority. Div. Water Control Plann. Effect of 15 years of forest cover improvement upon hydrologic characteristics of White Hollow watershed. Knoxville, TVA, 1951. 73 pp. (its Report #0-5163)
TN Valley Authority. Div. Water Control Plann. Forest cover improvement influences upon hydrologic characteristics of White Hollow watershed, 1935-1938. Knoxville, TVA, 1961. 104 pp. (its Report #0-5163A)
TN Valley Authority. Social & Ec. Div. Research Sec. The effect of county government of TVA land purchases in Campbell & Union counties. Knoxville, TVA, 1934. 33 pp.
TN Valley Authority. Social & Ec. Div. Research Sec. The effects upon local finance of real property purchases by the TVA, survey # 1: Norris Reservoir counties. Knoxville, TVA, 1936. 53 pp.
TN Valley Authority. Social & Ec. Div. Research Sec. Problems of the stranded fragment of Union County, TN on the peninsula between the Clinch River & Buffalo Creek arm of Norris Reservoir. Knoxville, TVA, 1936. 11 pp.
Thompson, Noble R. A geographical appraisal of Union County, TN. UT thesis, 1965. 128 pp.
US Geol. Survey [topographic maps] issued periodically. Quadrangles: Well Spring, Ausmus, Clouds, Demory, White Hollow, Maynardville, Powder Springs, Big Ridge Park, Graveston, Luttrell.
UT Knoxville. School of Ed. Educational survey, Union County. Knoxville, UT Press, 1924. 48 pp.
Valachi, Laszlo Z. The petrology & petrography of the Norris peridotite in Union County, TN. UT thesis, 1963. 56 pp.
Webster, J.C. Last of the pioneers: or old times in east TN, being the life & reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (aged 120 years). Knoxville, S.B. Newman, 1902. 129 pp. (memoirs of an ex-slave)
Wilson, Marshall A. Early iron industry in vicinity of Norris Reservoir, 1820- 1928. N.p., TVA Ag. Ind. Div., 1935. 29 pp.
Young, Lawrence E. Legal needs of the poor in Unicoi County, TN. N.p., 1966. 17 pp.
Tharpe, William G. To Loy's Cross Roads. Maynardville, Union County Hist. Soc., 1989. 203 pp.
Tharpe, William G. Luttrell: Union County, TN. Maynardville, Union County Hist. Soc., 1988. 68 pp.
Celebrating 125 years: Speedwell Missionary Baptist Church, 1868-1993. N.p., 1993. 182 pp.
Page, Bonnie M. Speedwell through 200 years: a book of history, memories & other compiled material of the scenic & historic rural community of Speedwell, TN. Lake City, the author, 1985. 380 pp.
TN Homecoming '86 Speedwell. N.p., 1986. 129 pp.