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With its triangular, armored head, bulging eyes and serrated forearms, the predator attacking its prey is a menacing sight.
The Transformer-like creature on the computer screen in George Grall's home office is actually a Carolina mantis chowing down on a red-legged grasshopper. And the larger-than-life shot shows what the Ellicott City photographer does best: capture the inner workings of nature up close.
Grall, a freelance photographer for National Geographic magazine for 23 years and staff photographer for the National Aquarium in Baltimore since 1984, will give a presentation Friday, Nov. 16, at the Howard County Conservancy on one of his favorite subjects: the reawakening of amphibians in vernal pools.
"The main thing is to educate people into appreciating nature," the Illinois native said of his work. "I try to approach [my photography] from a different angle they never saw before."
Vernal pools are temporary bodies of water that serve as homes to various plants and animals. They can be found all over the world but are especially diverse in the Mid-Atlantic, Grall said. To get shots in these shallow aquatic environments, he lies on an inflatable raft in the muck with his camera poised at or below the water's surface.
When asked whether there's any glamour in being a nature photographer, Grall laughed loudly.
"This is a lot of hard work," he said. "The [creatures] are where you find them, but not necessarily where you found them" previously, he said of constant changes in animals' habits and habitats.
"You have to know when your subject is active, and you'll find them best when they're out feeding."
Grall, who is 60 and grew up in Baltimore, is accompanied by his wife, Kathy, on many local outings and global excursions. She also contributes her skills as a graphic designer to assembling her husband's slides for presentations. The process, which she likens to creating a storyboard, can take as long as three months.
By popular demand, the couple is returning to the conservancy for the fifth consecutive year and will show 153 of Grall's photos in a 90-minute presentation.
"George has that keen eye, and he's able to track down creatures you'd never expect to see," said Meg Boyd, executive director of the nonprofit conservancy located on 232 acres in Woodstock. "He knows how to be there at the right time to get the right shots."
The first program attracted an audience of 80, Kathy Grall said, but last year, 225 people showed up and seating was difficult to come by. Registration is recommended, Boyd said.
While the educational program is open to all, many in the audience are camera buffs who follow Grall's work, she noted.
Grall first became involved in the world of creatures at age 3 when he pulled a dead 3-foot fox snake out of a gutter and dragged it home. His mother, who often rescued stranded turtles she found on the road, understood his curiosity and allowed him to keep it and other dead snakes — outside.
That was the beginning of a lifelong obsession. By kindergarten, he was feeding ground beef on a toothpick to a 12-inch tiger salamander, and he's had hundreds of pet snakes over the years, he said.
By age 16, Grall and a buddy took turns using the friend's Brownie camera to take pictures of each other holding snakes. He saved money from odd jobs like cutting grass and working in a seafood store to buy "a good camera" a year later.
"I've always known that I wanted to do this," said the self-taught photographer, who prefers Canon cameras. "When I first compared my photos to those I saw in books, I thought, 'I can do as good.' "
After a couple of semesters of college, he quit and began painting houses, putting up drywall and doing other home improvement work to finance his hobby and build a portfolio. His big break came in 1971, when the director of an amphibian and reptile venom laboratory where he was employed showed his photos to a friend at the National Geographic Society in Washington.
Grall had pitched a photo spread and article on the life cycle of the hellbender, a 3-foot giant salamander he had documented in Garrett County. His proposal made it to the magazine's planning committee, without the accompanying photos, but was ultimately voted down.
One of the magazine editors later called and said she wanted to see the photos anyway. Though the photos didn't appear in print, they earned him freelance work, and he has traveled on regular assignments for the magazine since 1990. His work has also appeared in Newsweek and Life, as well as publications of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Audubon Society, among others.
Grall's work has taken the couple to Mexico, Costa Rica, the Caribbean island of Bonaire, and Australia, among other locales.
"There are so many species in Costa Rica," he said, noting he's still working to identify 20 insects he captured on film. "The diversity there is incredible."
But he is equally likely to be found shooting at such locales around the state as the Eastern Shore, where he recently planned to photograph snapping turtles. He had paid a consultant to help him time the animals' breeding season but still missed out.
"When it goes wrong, you usually have to wait until the following year" to get the photos, he said, chalking it up as one of the hazards of the profession.
The vernal pools are important because they provide breeding grounds for many life forms, he said.
"They are a barometer for the human condition," he said. "When pools decline, it's due to air and water pollution" and is a direct reflection of our stewardship of the planet.
Grall also regularly traipses the grounds of the conservancy, finding creatures to photograph in the various environments there.
"The wide variety of habitats here is incredible," Boyd said. "George took a shot of two black snakes mating high up in a tree on our property that many people probably walked beneath without noticing. If you're not constantly looking around at nature, then you're missing something."
The conservancy has four miles of trails and is open daily from dawn to dusk, she added.
Grall said he still pals around with his childhood friends, and they still go snake hunting to see who can locate the largest and then take photos of each other holding their finds.
"You don't have to travel far or own a $50 billion camera to get good shots," he said.
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What: Return of the Spring Pools: The Amphibian Awakening and More
When: Friday, Nov. 16, 7 p.m.
Where: Howard County Conservancy, 10520 Old Frederick Road, Woodstock
Tickets: $10 for adults, in advance; $12 after Nov. 15; kids under 8 are free.
Information and online registration: hcconservancy.org


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September 2012 welcomes the arrival of a defining name of 1980s British Punk Rock: Subhumans. This will be the band's first-ever-Australasian tour and features the 1981 line-up of Dick, Trotsky, Bruce and Phil that recorded their debut EP "Demolition War" in 1981 and classic albums such as "The Day The Country Died" and were an integral part of the UK anarcho-punk scene.
Since reforming in 1998, Subhumans have released a live album for the infamous Fat Wreck Chords, a new set of studio tracks, "Internal Riot" on the band's own Bluurg label, as well playing to packed venues throughout the world including headlining festivals such as Rebellion.
"Frontman Dick Lucas is totally engaging. There is a fierce intelligence here in his lyrics, his delivery and his between song banter where his passion for the old school punk political hits home. They play fast and there is a wild, feral energy to what they do. They have this punk rock thing so honed down, so perfect – the fluidity of the rhythm section, mind boggling brilliant bass lines from Phil to let yourself go to and Trotsky's stop start drums that never settle for a boring 4/4 when something more exciting will do are so effective. Bruce's rasping punk rock guitar completes the perfect backdrop for Dick's passionate delivery – he works himself up into a sweatshod frenzy as the band hit the stage in top gear and never leave that level of intensity. If you still need any proof of the intelligence and anti establishment smarts in punk rock then the Subhumans are still out there, still meaning something and still making sense in a senseless world." – John Robb, www.louderthanwar.com
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text: Sociology chair wins Fulbright to teach and study in Prague May 30, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos Barbara Vann, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of sociology, has been awarded a core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to teach and study at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, for the spring 2014 semester. Nearly 800 faculty from across the United States receive the prestigious core Fulbright award each year, which sends experienced professionals in a wide variety of academic and professional fields to more than 125 countries worldwide. "This award means everything to me as a scholar," said Vann, who has taught at Loyola since 1987. "My research is specific to the Czech Republic; it requires me to have personal contacts and build up trust with people I interview, and now I have the opportunity to focus on that vital component of my scholarship for an extended period of time." At the Charles University Institute of Sociological Studies, Vann will continue her ongoing research of collective memory–information that becomes the memory of a group of people–as it relates to the period before, during, and after the Velvet Revolution, a non-violent protest that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989. She has studied the topic for the better part of a decade, gathering vital information in short stints during the one month study abroad program in Prague she leads each summer. Vann plans to publish a book about her findings once her research is complete. In addition to scholarship, Vann will teach two classes in English to sociology students at Charles University. The undergraduate class will focus on social inequality in the United States; the graduate seminar will focus on race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States. Vann's award includes a stipend, along with allowances for travel, accommodations, and books.


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The Angel on the Roof (Paperback)
The Stories of Russell Banks
Harper Perennial, 9780060931254, 528pp.
Publication Date: April 24, 2001
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With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works, these stories resonate with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and the world, from working-class New England to Florida and the Caribbean and Africa. Broad in scope and rich in imagination, The Angel on the Roof affirms Russell Banks's place as one of the masters of American storytelling.
About the Author
Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.


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Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Guide to the Ida Louise Anderson Papers
Cage 52
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
- Creator
- Anderson, Ida Louise
- Title
- Ida Louise Anderson Papers
- Cage 52
- Date [inclusive]
- 1921-1970
- Extent
- 1.0 container.
- General Physical Description note
- 1 linear feet of shelf space.
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- Notes, clippings and scrapbooks on dramatic and literary topics, many prepared for classroom use. Also an autographed pamphlet from former student E.R. Murrow and copies of the Anderson memorial booklet (1942).
Preferred Citation note
[Item Description]. Cage 52, Ida Louise Anderson Papers . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biographical/Historical note
Ida Louise Anderson was born in Morganton, Tennessee, on 6 November 1900. At three years of age she and her parents moved to Colfax, Washington. Five years later, she returned to Tennessee with her family for a visit. While there, she became gravely ill. Doctors diagnosed her condition as infantile paralysis or polio. During the next several years, Anderson underwent medical and physical therapy in attempt to lessen the disease's effects. Nevertheless, Anderson was physically handicapped, with a severe curvature of the spine. In 1924, Anderson received an undergraduate degree in speech from the State College of Washington. She spent a summer in Alaska before returning to Pullman to begin a sixteen-year teaching career at WSC in the school's Department of Speech. Anderson took advanced speech work at the Boston School of Expression and at the University of California during two summers. She also studied a year at Northwestern University. Her teaching career ended in 1939, when the lingering effects of polio forced her to retire. Shortly, Anderson moved to Oregon to be nearer her sister. She died there on 16 September 1941. Anderson was buried in Colfax, Washington.
Ida Lou Anderson was one of the State College's most respected instructors with a powerful mind and character that reached well beyond the classroom. She pioneered the field of radio broadcasting. One of Anderson's earliest and most impressive students was Edward R. Murrow, a European news correspondent during World War II and a journalist and executive for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) through the early 1960s.
Scope and Contents note
The Ida Louise Anderson Papers are comprised of several types of items. Correspondence includes letters between Anderson and WSC president Ernest O. Holland and WSC vice-president Herbert Kimbrough concerning her resignation and retirement, and letters concerning plans for a memorial publication commemorating Anderson's life. Other material includes scrapbooks and large-size single leaves on which Anderson typed favorite passages from literary works. Also included are handwritten lists of books that Anderson had read during the 1920s, along with favorite quotations from several of them. Finally, the collection includes several copies of Ida Lou Anderson: A Memorial, a small volume published by the State College of Washington c.1942. It includes tributes to Anderson from WSC president E. O. Holland, Edward R. Murrow, Maynard Daggy, and other friends and relatives.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries © 1994http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610
Conditions Governing Access note
This collection is open for research use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
The Washington State University Libraries acquired the Ida Louise Anderson Papers in piecemeal fashion from the 1940s through 1970.
Processing Information note
They were arranged as manuscript collection Cage 52. In March 1994, the papers were reprocessed.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
- Anderson, Ida Louise--Archives
- Murrow, Edward R.
- Literature
- Speech--Study and teaching (Higher)--Washington (State)--Pullman
- Washington (State)
General note
Ida Louise Anderson, 1900-1941
Collection Inventory
Ida Lou Anderson: A Memorial, copy 1 1942
Ida Lou Anderson: A Memorial, copy 2 1942
Ida Lou Anderson: A Memorial, copy 3 1942
Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing 1940-1941 13
Correspondence, re: Ida Lou Anderson's death 1941-1942 8
Correspondence, Miscellaneous 1963-1970 4
Booklet "Emergency Committee in aid of Displaced German Scholars" 1934
Ida Lou Anderson, from memorial book 1942 1.0 item. Photograph
Radio Memorial to Ida Lou Anderson, draft, republished in memorial book. 1941 8
Scrapbook A 50
Scrapbook B 20
Miscellaneous notes on drama, literature, culture ca. 1920-1950 150
Lists of books read during the 1920s and quotes from some entries; theater program; mounted literary clippings from magazines [oversize folder]. 15


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This week marks the beginning of Tales of the Cocktail. In its ninth year, Tales opens on Wednesday with a set of professional seminars, and then on Thursday, seminars for the general public begin.
I would like to be blogging excitedly right now about the events I'll be attending and covering, but I will not be at Tales this year. Let me flash back a year and give a little context that might help explain why. Last year, I was at Tales, and I had a great week, even presenting a seminar for the first time.
Strangely, though, as hot as it was in New Orleans last year, it was even hotter in Providence and I left my poor wife at home to suffer while I caroused, ate way too much, took a few too many spins at the Carousel Bar, and made much merry.
This year looks like much and more of the same kind of weather. Right now, for example, it's 86º in Providence, and 77º in New Orleans. (And raining. Ha!) Tracking the forecast over the next few days shows a roughly equivalent level of misery in New Orleans and Providence. 87º, 93º, 92º, 87º, 88º. Those temperatures appear on both five-day forecasts, the only difference being the order in which they'll befall each city.
The biggest difference this year, of course, is that we're expecting a baby.
I had to make a decision in the first part of the year about whether to attend Tales, and this thought — that Providence might well be as steamy as NOLA — was at the front of my mind. Jen's pregnancy is proceeding very well, luckily. She and the baby are both doing great. But we couldn't have assumed that, five or six months ago, when I would have been applying for a media pass and making travel and hotel arrangements.
Third trimester, 90º+ weather. Sounds like hell.
When I'm at Tales, I'm not always easy to find. Sure, I carry my cell around everywhere, but my AT&T reception in NOLA is sketchy. There are areas within the Hotel Monteleone where I get no reception at all. Events during Tales take me to various venues in the city — and those are the official events. Because these events feature alcohol, they're sometimes loud and crowded–not great places to take an emergency phone call. And in addition to the official events, I often decide on a whim to have lunch at Coops, take dinner at Lüke, or enjoy a cigar and a cocktail at the French 75 Bar.
With the forecast as it is, and with Jen having a ninety-minute commute in each direction, my choice wasn't a difficult one to make.
The chances that Jen might need me to be suddenly be at her side during the next five or six days are pretty low, and thank whatever deity you worship for that. But if she did need me and couldn't find me, I would feel like the world's biggest asshole.
I'll miss Tales this year, and I'll especially miss catching up with friends. But there's more than Big Fun at stake. Those who've never been might think it's just a giant party, but the opportunities to actually learn a few things, meet influential and important people in the industry, and get your name and face in front of people who matter — those are immeasurable advantages of being in New Orleans in mid July every year. Jen feels bad that I'm missing it this year, and this post might well make her feel a little worse, but my regrets are few.
I'll mix a Sazerac tomorrow or Wednesday, lift it in the general direction of New Orleans, and start scheming for 2012. After all, that'll be TotC's 10th anniversary, and I'm sure it's going to smoke.
photo © Jennifer Hess. All rights reserved.
And we'll be a little more careful and try not to make Baby #2 between now and then.


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"Traffic Continued"
Rolling Stone, August 6, 1970
The Fillmore is weird in the daytime. The day-time people come at
dawn and turn on all the lights and all of a sudden it's a
basketball court instead of a dance hall. The luminous light-show aerie is now little more
than a raised, rickety platform; the
stage has lost its dark, enticing corners and its brooding domination of the room. It's
just a basketball court with strange piles
of electronic paraphernalia at both ends. If they cleared the junk away, they might have
some good bleachers.
At the top of the key stands Chris Wood, squinting across the room. His face is set in a small, vague smile; in one hand he carries his tiny black flute case. "Too fucking hot," he says, still smiling. The thermometer outside says only 75 degrees, but in San Francisco - and Birmingham, England - that's a heat wave. Chris moves across the vast echoing room to the multi-tiered dressing room behind the stage. His movements are effortless and economical, as though he had found a jetstream in the room and was letting it rush him along. If for just one moment he were to step outside his mind and float across the ceiling, it would come as no surprise. He probably spends a fair amount of time up there.
Chris Wood is one-third of Traffic, which is arguably one of the two or three best rock and roll bands in existence. There used to be four men in Traffic, and after that there were three for a while, then none. Early this year however, Traffic stirred its ashes and reincarnated itself as a trio. Now there's a new album (John Barleycorn Must Die) an American concert tour, and a feeling that if we could only get Buffalo Springfield back together too the world might yet be saved.
Chris has been with Traffic through all its changes, his brilliant, fanciful reed and flute work wrapping its delicate ribbons around Steve Winwood's remarkable voice, providing Traffic with much of its character and grace. It's nice that Chris has come first and alone. The most retiring member of Traffic, he usually lets Steve or Jim Capaldi, the firesign drummer and lyricist, speak for the group. But now it's just him in a dim cubbyhole of the dressing room, and he speaks easily.
The conversation opens with a question about why there are so few rock and roll reed and woodwind players. And even fewer good ones. "When you learn how to play," Chris says, settling back, "you have six months of horrible noise before you can get anything that sounds good. And I think most kids are interested in song-writing. You can's really write songs on a flute, but you can on guitar. Besides . . . well, the guitar is both a solo instrument and a group instrument. You don't stop playing during a song. Now occasionally . . . on 'Medicated Goo,' for instance, I lay down something continuous.
"And I'm not a song-writer. I think most song-writers are singers, too. They have to get into lyrics and use their voices. But my voice is my instrument. On reeds and woodwinds, you see, the mouth is still used. It's like singing to me, but it's hard to write songs that way."
How did he get into reeds and woodwinds?
"I was made to learn piano as a child. Classical music. And then I was listening to the start of it-Bill Haley, Elvis, like that. Then I got into a jazz thing. I think I made myself listen to jazz because everybody was listening to rock and roll. Very avanti. Then I heard a flute on a Dizzy Gillespie record, and I saw the film 'Jazz on a Summer's Day' and there was someone with Chico Hamilton playing flute, and I knew just what I wanted to do.
"Then I was going to art college near Birmingham-I was a painter, you know-but I was playing in a blues group too. We'd play weddings and boozing clubs, that kind of thing. We'd play Saturday lunchtime for two bob admission, and all the students would come in to get drunk.
"It was right in there that I met Steve. In Birmingham we'd get together and jam and play. Eventually, I went to the Royal Academy of Art. But painting was well, I was kind of wrapped up in my own world. The music seemed more important. And we had been talking about this thing we had, this thing we knew we could do. Steve was with Spencer Davis, but he quit and we got the cottage-April 1st, 1967, it was-and all of a sudden we were Traffic. We played our first date in Sweden."
Shortly after that, Traffic made its first album, Mr. Fantasy, a flawed and amazing record remembered with great fondness by the group. "You don't really know whether something is good until six months-or a year later-but Fantasy, well . . . 'Mr. Fantasy, of course' and 'Coloured Rain', 'Paper Sun' and 'Heaven Is In Your Mind.' It was kind of our first expression, that album."
Still strolling down memory lane, Chris mentions the second album, Traffic. In particular, Chris remembers, "No Time To Live:" "I listened to that a while ago, and I couldn't believe it. When we did it, I had no idea it was that good. Fantastic."
As Chris was talking, music has been filtering into the dressing room from the stage outside-heavy organ chords overlaid with skittish, amusing drum riffs. Chris uncoils and walks around to the front. It's Steve on drums and Jim hunched over the organ.
"Just fucking around," calls Steve, and Chris smiles. Then Chris starts fooling with the electric piano, and Steve leaves the drums and moves toward the back room.
Steve Winwood is . . . Steve Winwood. You've read the clippings: boy genius, superstar, virtuoso, a rock and roll band all by himself. He doesn't play the genius game, however- fame seems to have stripped the layers of affectation from him.
He is asked about Traffic's peculiar history - the odd, long episode with Dave Mason, in and out, back and forth, the final breakup, after which Steve toured with (it seems a century ago, a footnote) Blind Faith. At first he is reluctant.
"Well, the changes were, you know changes. We all went through them. The group now, today . . . well, it's more loose and more . . . evasive. Difficult to put a finger on. The vagueness that we have is often missed, you know. But we all benefited from doing those things. We all played with different people, and we learned. Before, in Traffic, there was almost this jealousy thing if we played with someone else. That doesn't exist anymore, you know, that's just bullshit."
Blind Faith?
"Should I talk about it? I got into some very bad scenes with Eric [Clapton] over some of the things I said about it. But . . . the thing about Blind Faith was, you know, as soon as we thought of the name it was all sold. We had no control over any of it."
Were there a lot of ego trips?
"Oh, yes. It's wrong for a musician not to want to be told what to play. It's even easier . . . at least once in a while, someone should say, play this. But it didn't happen. I kept feeling as though I had to prove myself musically. And the more you try to prove yourself, the less you can do. The less relaxed you are, the more you try, the worse it gets."
How did you feel when Traffic broke up, before Blind Faith?
"Well, you know, we never thought we'd break up. It was such a permanent thing. But then everybody also felt that . . . what is to happen will happen. When we came back together, that seemed natural too. A continuation of the same scene."
We got onto Winwood the one-man band, talking about things he's done on at least two albums ("Who Knows What Tomorrow Will Bring" and "Means To An End" on Traffic; "Stranger To Himself" and "Every Mother's Son" on John Barleycorn Must Die), playing all or almost all the instruments himself, brilliant exhibitions of virtuoso overdubbing.
"I don't see myself as a virtuoso, you know. It's a form of writing on a manuscript when you write on a record. It is a kind of inhuman thing to do, playing with myself, but it is a good way writing."
Did the boy wonder image hurt him? "Yes, sure. I was really beginning to think that everything I was doing was fine. That was a hindrance. Only lately, I've been broadening the scope of . . . of the music I'm listening to, among other things. Folk music and a bit more classical music. At first, you know, I hated the stuff. Chuck Berry and 'Roll Over Beethoven,' that's what I thought. But I think it's something that rock and roll still has to come to terms with classical music."
The subject changed again. What about the printed rumors that Traffic was going to add a fourth man?
"Oh yes. A fourth and probably a fifth man, when we get back to England."
"Well, I don't want to say, because nothing's been agreed to. But one will probably be a horn player a French horn player that I knew in Birmingham when he played in a brass band at school. I haven't seen or heard him in five years, but he's in a rock and roll band. That tells me something."
And the fifth . . .?
"Bass guitar. You know, we've really got too much to do up there. Chris can do certain things with bass lines, but he's primarily a flute player. And I like playing. I like feeling, the bass lines myself, but I'm singing and accompanying myself besides the bass. It doesn't give us as much freedom as we'd like."
The conversation stutters a bit, winds up at the famous cottage in the Berkshires, out of which Traffic was kicked a few months ago.
"Well, you know, the land was owned by an aristocrat who started taking acid in 1967 - a bit trendy, he was. He just decided he wanted some musicians on his land. We didn't sign anything, we didn't pay rent, and eventually we had to leave. I'm looking for a new place."
Would you all live together again?
"Oh, no. We've got Island Studios now, to play together all we want. What we needed the cottage for was to get into each other's heads. It's all involved with the difficulty musicians have communicating musical ideas, especially since people stopped reading notes. It gets very difficult to get over the sounds you want to make. It's all . . . you have to play as one. Some people just can't play as one sound."
Like Blind Faith?
"Well . . . Eric and I made some beautiful sounds together. But, in Blind Faith, there was so much attached to it before it even existed that there wasn't any time to communicate with each other. But in Traffic, we complement each other . . . personally, and all kinds of ways. Astrologically for instance." (Steve is a Taurus while Chris is a Cancer and Jim is a Virgo).
So Traffic, continued, is stable for a while.
"Oh, we're not going to split up. We are going to expand, explore the differences in music, branch out. Music is limitless. There's nothing you can't do. Like, I've always dug the idea of music and visuals. We're going to do the score for a movie called Nevertheless by a young Dutch guy named Antonio Coyas. The way we're going to do it, we're going to compose tunes and melodies right along with him as he's doing the movie. He's going to shoot in Morocco and we're going to be there in three weeks' time. It's nice-we'll be right along with him, at the same place, while he's doing the movie. I've never had anything to do with music and visuals like that. All Around The Mulberry Bush - well, I thought that's what it was going to be about, but it wasn't."
It seems that bad rock and roll is especially prevalent in film scores. For that matter, there's lots of bad rock and roll everywhere.
"Again, a lot has to do with the fact that groups don't have any real way of communicating musical ideas. They play like they play. We've experienced that Dave used to have trouble communicating all the time. That wasn't how it began, but then . . . Dave would just come to us with a definite number, with him singing and playing the acoustic guitar. And we'd accompany him, and fill in. Most of what else happened on a song was ours - the sentiment was Dave's, and it was always very good, very nice, but the sound was usually ours. We tried to blend certain things with Dave, but in the end it just didn't happen. We had such difficulties . . . anyway, we're still friends, you know. Dave and I. I haven't seen him lately, but we played together a while ago. I dig his new album."
The Last Exit album (which came out after Traffic disbanded) was a sad album. Was the whole break-up trip unhappy?
"Not any more unhappy than now. Last Exit was an album without us really wanting it. Some people just put together what they thought was the last bit of Traffic. We knew about it, of course, but . . . anyway, that broken symbol [on the back cover] was Guy Steven's idea, who produced a couple of the cuts on our last album. He's not really musical, you see, he works on purely an emotional thing. I guess that's what he thought about the thing."
Steve looks up, Jim Capaldi is leaning diffidently against the door. "Just thought I'd come back," he says.
Jim Capaldi proves less accessible than either Steve or Chris. He's more cynical and thoughtful, older somehow, with the instincts of a moving target which men who have been winged a few times develop. On stage, he serves as Traffic's good old-fashioned syncopated glue, sewing together the brilliant patchwork of Steve and Chris into a piece of music.
Interestingly the conversation starts with silence.
"Man, I hear some groups up there, like a whole great train, going down. But silence is a part of music. Pharoah Sanders has a thing, 'Japan,' that's all about that. There are different ways of doing things, of course, it's just that some of these extrovert-type groups . . ."
Like who? "Well, you know, the Grateful Dead. It seems to be . . . well, I couldn't be part of a chorus set-up. There has to be space there to say something. It's difficult to talk sometimes. You need time." Steve nods, "With the Grateful Dead. I get the impression that [Jerry] Garcia is definitely the leader. The sound of the Dead is definitely the sound of Garcia. But, you know, we all function in different ways."
How does Traffic function?
Steve: "We're about equal, really. Jim and I think of the basic things, and Chris is into embellishments. I suppose I'm the leader, but it's all a circle, really, as far as the roles we play. No one's a leader. There's just us."
Jim: "It's like the Band. Such togetherness, without overriding anything else. There's pure silence, and then there's music. The Band really holds such a fine line on those things. It's not like the drummer is incredible and everybody else is following along. They're playing at one pulse."
Jim is asked what he did when Traffic split up.
"I didn't do a lot. I did some sessions, and I wrote a song with Dave that's on his new album. But I was mostly looning about. I just wanted to find out what I should do. There are times when nobody does anything unless somebody asks them to. I didn't want just to get a job and have somebody tell me what to do. There was a temptation to form a group, of course. There was a thing with me and Chris and Mick Weaver and Dave, but it was just a fling before everybody disappeared. You know there's a time when all you want to do is play. When you're 16 or 17 or 18, it doesn't matter, where the fuck you are. But when you've grown up and you leave the stage, you . . ."
". . .need something to channel into," finished Steve.
"Yeah. And I got into the weird thing where I didn't want to work. I got frightened when I got job offers. I kept thinking they were expecting me to do me Traffic thing, and I didn't know what me Traffic thing was."
And . . .
"Well, here . . .you've got to stick with something. Nothing is nothing until it's worked on. There are really two ways of doing it. One way, you're creating, a group of people making music. And the other . . . is an entertainment form. The old thing, people want to entertain. Jethro Tull - I think Jethro Tull is a new theater. So with one thing, what you care about is that you feel fucking great, that you really got off, and it just happens to be in a hall in front of a bunch of people. Like the Band-they're aware of the audience, but they say, OK, just listen and watch us. The other thing is like Otis Redding and Stax and all that. Really opposite vibes, but just as nice. They're really getting the audience, working the audience. Of course, no matter who you are, you can feel the audience. When they're right on you . . . in a beautiful way, when you get it on, you've been the audience. They feel you. There's a natural state where what you're doing belongs to everybody. It's not a matter of can - can't I. It just is."
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Last updated November 11, 1997.
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Dan Radcliffe In August Issue of Attitude Magazine
Jul 27, 2009
Radcliffe Interviews
Actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) has given a very candid new interview to the UK gay magazine Attitude, which appears in the August issue of the magazine on newsstands now. The August issue of this magazine features a multi-page photo spread and interview with the actor, which can be seen right here in our Image Galleries courtesy of our Order Partner DanRadcliffe.com. The BBC has an article online highlighting parts of this interview, incliding Mr. Radcliffe's comments on his loathing of homophobia, as well as his liberal political leanings. On the subject of homophobia, the actor relates that, "I grew up around gay people entirely. I was the only child in my class
who had any experience of homosexuality or anything like that." In the full interview he goes on to say:
"My dad was an agent and represented Jonathan Harvery who wrote Beautiful Thing so I grew up knowing Jonathan and his partner and it was just never an issue. Then when you get to that age at school and someone calls you a poof, and you go, "What?" You go, "Hold on, why is this word being used like this?" It suddenly became really weird for me to have people around me who were homophobic. It was a very strange, weird thing. I've always been around gay people."
The interview continues with Mr. Radcliffe speaking on a number of subjects, including politics and getting out the youth vote. On this subject he says: "It's so important young people learn about politics and vote even if it's a protest vote to make a point. Not voting is not a protest." Dan Radcliffe wraps up his interview in Attitude, which a short discussion of his future after the Harry Potter films. In this section, the actor speaks further to the possibility of playing late photojournalist Dan Eldon in an upcoming project:
"I'm hopefully going to play Dan Eldon,the photojournalist who was stoned to death in Somalia. I've spoken with his mother and sister and met them. We need to make sure we get it right and do him real justice."
A caution to parents, as this interview does contain discussion of
subjects and language that may not be suitable for younger readers. The full interview and complete photo spread can be found over in our Image Galleries.
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As the Director of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, my research has focused on the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.Our program has developed a variety of endoscopic techniques to aspirate malignant and pre-malignant lesions of the pancreas. These lesions include cystadenomas, intra-ductal tumors, and masses.We have worked closely with collaborators in the MGH Departments of Cytology and Chemistry to develop assays for tumor markers and cytologic analysis that are capable of making a tissue diagnosis of a mucinous cystadenoma and detecting early evidence of malignant degeneration.Recently, we have established an endoscopic technique for the diagnosis of early malignancy of the esophagus, often in the setting of Barrett's esophagus. Endoscopic confocal laser microscopy is a new technique for providing histologic quality imaging of the mucosa. We are participating in a national study for establishing the sensitivity and specificity of confocal laser microscopy in Barrett's esophagus.
My clinical research program focuses on the early detection of gastrointestinal malignancy using advanced endoscopic techniques. Using endoscopic confocal microscopy, we will compare the diagnostic accuracy of traditional endoscopy with mucosal resection to confocal microscopy in patients with high risk lesions arising from Barrett's esophagus. This clinical research program will be conducted in the context of a national prospective multicenter trial (CEBE). We also have a protocol to determine the diagnostic accuracy of confocal microscopy in differentiating between adenomatous and inflammatory polyps.
We will also use advanced endoscopic techniques for the detection of early pancreatic malignancy arising from cystic lesions of the pancreas. Endoscopic ultrasound is used to guide fine needle aspiration and optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. A variety of cyst fluid markers are used to enhance the diagnostic accuracy of EUS imaging alone. We have examined the accuracy of CEA and cytology in the diagnosis of mucinous cystic lesions. Currently we are investigating new molecular markers. OCT imaging is performed using a novel catheter placed within a EUS needle and guided into a cystic lesion.
Current research projects within the CIST Center and the Pancreas and Biliary Program:
We are currently directing several clinical trials, including an investigation of in vivo confocal endomicroscopy in the diagnosis of Barrett's esophagus and a pilot study of endoscopic radiofrequency ablation of malignant bile duct strictures (visit the Clinical Trials website of the National Institutes of Health for more information).
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Jerrod Niemann Reveals 'Free the Music' Cover and Track Listing
Jerrod Niemann is helping his fans gear up for the release of his highly anticipated sophomore album. "Free the Music' is set to hit stores in less than two months — October 2 — and this week, the singer revealed the album's sexy cover and the track listing for the 12-song project.
"This album is my interpretation of how I feel about country right now," Niemann says about the new music, that includes a wide array of musical instruments backing him such as horns, fiddles and steel guitars. "We've done our best to try and make room for everyone."
In addition to his co-producing the project, Niemann also took part in writing every song on the album. He penned three of the tracks without the help of any co-writers.
Niemann had a particular vision in mind while creating the songs and music for his new album: to mix the old with the new. "The pedal steel guitar has come to define country music, but there were years and years of country being made before that instrument was even invented," he explains. "Horns have been in country going back to the 1920s, and fiddles and other string instruments date back even further. I took all those things and put them on 'Free the Music.'
"I made this record in an effort to try and mix 1927 with 2027, but I didn't want to disregard 100 years of what people have already done musically," Niemann continues. "Instead, I wanted to take that and do it in a way that is also representative of the future."
Fans have already gotten their first taste of what's to come with Niemann's current hit on the rise, 'Shinin' on Me.' The tune is the first release from 'Feel the Music,' which will officially hit stores on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The album is available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.
Jerrod Niemann's 'Free the Music' Track Listing:
1. 'Free the Music' (Jerrod Niemann)
2. 'Whiskey Kind of Way' (Jerrod Niemann, Randy Boudreaux)
3. 'Get On Up' (Jerrod Niemann, J.R. McCoy, Jesse Clingan)
4. 'I'll Have to Kill the Pain' (Jerrod Niemann, J.R. McCoy, Arlos Smith)
5. 'Only God Can Love You More' (Jerrod Niemann, Jon Stone, Lee Brice)
6. 'Shinin' on Me' (Jerrod Niemann, Rob Hatch, Lee Brice, Lance Miller)
7. 'Honky Tonk Fever' (Jerrod Niemann)
8. 'Guessing Games' (Jerrod Niemann, J.R. McCoy)
9. 'It Won't Matter Anymore' (Jerrod Niemann, Rob Hatch, Lance Miller)
10. 'I'm All About You' [featuring Colbie Caillat] (Jerrod Niemann, Richie Brown)
11. 'Real Women Drink Beer' (Jerrod Niemann, Houston Phillips)
12. 'Fraction of a Man' (Jerrod Niemann)


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A program to help professionals and parents of children with special needs, birth to five.
The ECDC provides free information, referral, technical assistance and support to families, professionals, and community agencies concerned with children birth to five with suspected or diagnosed delays or disabilities. The Early Childhood Direction Center also provides assistance to early childhood programs to improve options and opportunities for preschool children with developmental delays or disabilities served in typical early childhood settings. We provide ongoing community training programs for both parents and professionals in the counties of Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Allegany and Orleans. We provide ongoing community training programs for both parents and professionals in the counties of Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Allegany and Orleans.
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Spyder4ELITE Software Automated Color & Brightness Calibration Spyder4ELITEs simple, clear and automated process makes it straightforward to calibrate your displays to a reference condition. You can view and edit images with confidence on a display calibrated to show true-to-life colors and luminance adjusted for precise shadow/highlight detail.
Full-spectrum color sensor Spyder4ELITEs patented 7-color sensor improves upon colorimeters that use 3-channel RGB sensors. Each Spyder4ELITE unit is individually tuned in the factory to accurately handle a variety of wide-gamut and normal gamut displays with ease.
Single sensor calibrates all your displays Spyder4ELITE works with your laptop, multiple monitors, front projector, television (with paid software upgrade on website), iPad and even iPhone. It works with LCD, LED, OLED, CRT, DLP and other display technologies. You can calibrate multiple displays connected to your computer. Spyder4ELITE is unique in its ability to calibrate all your display devices to achieve greater consistency.
Improved accuracy and stability The fourth-generation Spyder4ELITE has double-shielded color filters for an even closer match to CIE color standards and improved long term stability. Accuracy is increased by an average of 26%.
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StudioMatch Software enables visual fine-tuning of studio displays to match the way you see color. Built-in presets for video standards such as Cineon, NTSC and PAL. Color analysis of your display quality by plotting uniformity, color gamut, and change over time, tone response and allowing comparison with other displays. Calibrate to professional workflow targets with L-Star tone response curve. Unlimited choices for gamma, white point, white luminance and black luminance. Iterative grey balance algorithm for the most accurate greys. Front projector calibration for color accurate presentations.
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Total Control Advanced controls are included in the Color and Black & White Tinting curves in your Image Editor, which allows you to apply adjustments to the profile rather than to each individual image. The Extended Grays Target allows you to add precision gray and near gray data to profiles, enhancing the quality of tinted and b&w prints.
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I was too busy being all proud of myself for last post being within a week of the one before, that i forget to come back!
The sun was shining today so i took full advantage and took a couple of recent finishes on an outing. I only went to the local park but at least it's further than most quilts get to go!
First up is the string X quilt. My Euro Bee buddies made a few blocks for this and i attacked the rest like a woman possessed. I've managed to use just about all my small scraps and strips on this so the only fabric i had to buy was the brown. I love scrap quilts.
Actually this has been finished for about a month but there isn't enough light to photograph it when i get home from work and sods law that either the weather is dreary on a weekend, or it's sunny and I'm busy.
Edited to add: I got the tutorial here!
The second one is the Josephs coat quilt. This has been a real labour of love and sometimes i didn't feel as if i was ever going to get there. Every time i counted the blocks i still had 5 to do. I'd count them a week later and they'd still be 5 left to do. Strange.
I started this what seems like eons ago for the quiltalong with Kellie.
I used a pile of Mendocine FQs and a pile of AMH Good folks with a few coordinating scraps chucked in. I love it more than life itself!
I've added them to the humongous pile of tops to be quilted and i estimate it will be 2014 by the time i get to these!!


text: News From NPR A Business Incubator Gives Funding And Jobs To Vets By editor • Oct 5, 2011 As the U.S. winds down military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and troops come home, many are eager to start work in the civilian sector. But it's been tough: The federal government reports the unemployment rate for young veterans has hovered around 30 percent this year. World Cafe Looks Back: Guitar Greats By editor • Oct 5, 2011 Over the years, World Cafe has seen its share of guitar gods. What's In Store: 3 Tales Of A Terrifying Future By editor • Sep 6, 2011 When I was a kid, I assumed that in the future things would get better and better until we were all driving flying cars and playing badminton with space aliens on top of 500-story buildings. Frankly, I kind of counted on this happening. But now I don't assume that we'll just keep going up anymore. Wilhelm Furtwaengler: A Complex German Conductor By Lloyd Schwartz • Aug 29, 2011 Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's name without the umlaut is spelled Furtwaengler. Wilhelm Furtwaengler's name may be hard for Americans to pronounce, but the reason this great conductor isn't so well-remembered here is that he chose to remain in Germany during WWII, though he was never a member of the Nazi Party, and was exonerated by a postwar tribunal. Foster The People On World Cafe By editor • Aug 11, 2011 Los Angeles's Foster the People seemingly appeared out of nowhere, taking the blogosphere and Top 40 radio by storm with the viral single "Pumped Up Kicks," a breezy summer jam with a subtly sinister edge. Elton John And Leon Russell On World Cafe By editor • May 30, 2011 From his start with the band Bluesology in 1961, multi-award winner Elton John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight) has time and time again proven himself to be one of the most iconic singer-songwriters of our day. Rising to international fame by the 1970's with the hit "Your Song," Elton has since released an overwhelming number of studio albums, many of which have climbed their way to the top of the charts. Chuck Brown On World Cafe By editor • Feb 3, 2011 Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go music, died in 2012. A year earlier, he'd stopped by World Cafe to discuss his 50-plus-year career and his last album. World Cafe Remembers Levon Helm By David Dye • Jul 7, 2009 This segment, from Jan. 18, 2008, is part of our Vintage Cafe series, in which we revisit some of our best studio performances. Here, we remember an Americana legend and drummer for the '60s rock group The Band, Levon Helm, who died in 2012. Levon Helm first picked up a guitar at age 8, but soon switched to drums. Though best known as the famous drummer for the rock group The Band, Helm continued to influence music with his collaborations and solo works. Pages« first ‹ previous … 3950 3951 3952 3953


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Air transportation – the critical infrastructure when disaster strikes
When disaster strikes, air transport is often the only feasible mode of transportation for first responders and urgently needed relief supplies. Following an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane, most roads, rail tracks and even ports become unusable, as they are blocked for days by debris. Airports, on the other hand, are remarkably sustainable and, within hours, usually become operational again.
The main reason of this sustainability is that runways are on open space where debris of a disaster can be removed quickly. Furthermore, a runway usually suffers remarkable little damage even by a strong earthquake, such as experienced last week in Nepal or in Haiti in 2010. And even if there are cracks and holes in the runway, modern relief aircraft like C-130s can operate safely for some time.
However, the challenges of operating relief flights can quickly become overwhelming, especially for airports in developing countries that usually experience only moderate traffic. In Haiti, for example, more than 74 aircraft landed on a single day following the earthquake to unload supplies. Such traffic poses risks in the air; air traffic control, often hampered by inadequate or damaged surveillance installations, can't cope managing all arriving aircraft. On the ground, where tarmac and taxiways are small, congestion quickly reigns which prevents the arrival of more flights.


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Five TED Talks that inspired me
This April, I had the honor of delivering a TED Talk in Vancouver, Canada. TED Talks aim to inspire and spread ideas, and this year's theme – The Future Us – explored what lies ahead for the world.
Artificial intelligence, robotics, and other technological advances hold great promise, but these changes are coming at break-neck speed. I'm afraid many of us aren't ready. There's still too much poverty and inequality in the world, and we have a lot of work to provide opportunities for everyone.


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Fjeld Township is a blog about ancestors from Nelson County, North Dakota. Field is an actual township in this county. It is a blog about my Norwegian ancestors, who settled in Nelson County and the ancestors of others who settled in Nelson, North Dakota. Along with random acts of genealogical kindness, you can expect to see information regarding Norway and Norwegian ancestors.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Brett Comer, Sherwood Brown and Bernard Thompson combined for 59 points as Florida Gulf Coast earned its fourth straight victory, an 81-78 win over Atlantic Sun Conference foe Jacksonville.
Comer scored 21, Brown 20 and Thompson 18 for the Eagles (16-8, 8-3), who set a program record for wins in a season as a Division I team and swept the season series with Jacksonville for the second straight year. The four-game, in-conference win streak is Florida Gulf Coast's longest as an A-Sun member. The team is averaging 84.8 points during that span.
The Eagles and Dolphins (12-12, 7-4) were part of a four-way tie with Mercer and South Carolina-Upstate atop the A-Sun standings entering Saturday.
Russell Powell's two free throws cut the Eagles' lead to 79-78 with 1:16 left, but the Dolphins missed two field goals and two free throws in the final minute.
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Marc Emery's application to be transferred home to Canada for the remainder of his prison sentence was approved by the United States Department of Justice!
Now we need the Canadian Public Safety Minister to review and approve his application, too. Please encourage Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney to approve Marc's request to come home!
Please phone the Public Safety Minister's office and politely request that Canadian citizen Marc Emery be approved for transfer home to Canada from the United States, now that the U.S. Justice Department has approved his request to leave their prison system and finish his sentence at home in Canada. Click here for the Public Safety Minister contact page
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Letters are also encouraged, and should request an official response from the Minister with respect to Marc's transfer application. (Postage not required within Canada)
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Please also contact the Minister's various Member of Parliament offices, so he receives numerous messages, regardless of where he is working:
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For some points to include in your phone call or letter, please review the facts of Marc and his case below, and more on this page (click here).
• Marc Emery is a Canadian citizen who never went to the USA as a seed seller.
• Marc Emery operated his seed business in Canada at all times, with no American branches or employees.
• Marc Emery declared his income from marijuana seed sales on his income tax, and paid over $580,000 to the Federal and Provincial governments from 1999 to 2005 (when he was arrested and the seed business shut down).
• Marc Emery is the leader of the British Columbia Marijuana Party, a registered political party that has regularly participated in elections.
• Marc Emery has never been arrested or convicted of manufacturing or distributing marijuana in Canada, as he only sold seeds.
• Marc Emery gave away all of the profits from his seed business – millions of dollars – to drug law reform lobbyists, political parties, global protests and rallies, court litigation, medical marijuana initiatives, drug rehabilitation clinics, and other legitimate legal activities and organizations in Canada, the United States, and countries worldwide.
• Marc Emery helped found the United States Marijuana Party, state-level political parties, and international political parties in countries such as Israel and New Zealand.
• Marc Emery has been known as a book seller and activist in Canada for 30 years, fighting against censorship laws and other social issues long before he became a drug law reform activist.
• Marc Emery has been a media figure for 20 years with regards to marijuana and drug law reform. He is very well-known to Canadian, American and international news media organizations.
• Marc Emery operated his business in full transparency and honesty since its inception in 1994, even sending his marijuana seed catalogue inside his magazine "Cannabis Culture" to each Member of Parliament in Canada every two months for years.
What did Marc do?
His marijuana trade and propagandist marijuana magazine have generated nearly $5 million a year in profits that bolstered his trafficking efforts, but those have gone up in smoke today.
Emery and his organization had been designated as one of the Attorney General's most wanted international drug trafficking organizational targets — one of only 46 in the world and the only one from Canada.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on."
On May 10th, 2010, Marc was ordered extradited by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. He was taken to the USA on May 20th, 2010 and has been serving his sentence in a private for-profit prison in Georgia from late 2010 to April 2011. He was moved to Yazoo City medium security federal prison in Mississippi in April 2011 and has been detained there since.


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The Quit Line is a telephone and web-based counseling service to help Oregonians quit using tobacco and nicotine products.
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When you call or visit the Quit Line online, you will be asked to register for the program. Once you are registered, staff will explain what Quit Line counseling benefits are available to you and ask if you would like to start counseling now, or schedule a counseling call at a time that is convenient for you.
Once you sign up with the Quit Line, you can:
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The Oregon Tobacco Quit Line is a free, telephone and web-based program that helps callers quit tobacco. It offers free confidential, evidence-based counseling and materials. Callers may be eligible for nicotine patches or gum. It's a reliable referral resource for your patients or clients who use tobacco or nicotine products.
Current Quit Line Services (Updated October 2013)
Quit Line information for providers
Download Quit Line posters, palm cards and other materials to have in your office or hand out to patients
Referring patients to the Quit Line is easy and confidential. It can be done through fax referral or e-referral using your electronic health/medical record system. The Quit Line will call your patient to enroll them in phone or web-based counseling. If you are a HIPAA-covered provider, you will receive a progress report back from the Quit Line.
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Learn what it takes to have a successful career as an administrative medical assistant in the exciting and high-demand world of healthcare.
In this course, you'll master the basics of scheduling patients' appointments, surgeries, and hospital admissions. In addition, you'll discover how to create, maintain, and file medical charts. You'll also find out how to verify patients' insurance, create encounter forms (charge tickets), post charges, obtain pre-authorizations from insurers, and schedule return visits.
After that, we'll go behind the scenes as you learn how to apply diagnostic and procedure codes to patients' accounts and bill their insurance companies. Next, we'll explore additional accounts receivable tasks including posting payments and adjustments, billing secondary insurance, and following up on unpaid insurance claims. You'll also learn what a day sheet is, why it's important, and how to keep track of all your patient accounts on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis.
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If you're organized, you're a "people person," and you're interested in a secure job in the healthcare field, a career as an administrative medical assistant may be just what you're looking for. This course will set you on the path to that career and help you determine which aspect of medical information management—from patient contact to billing and coding—suits you best.
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Nice update. I'm bumping up my vote to reflect the new info, and providing you with a complimentary movie trailer:
A giant, mutated plant monster from space is out for lunch, and Earth is on the menu. With the planetary defenses crippled by a devastating attack from the fearsome Moon Hunter, mankind can only watch in terror as the super-plant draws close. Only one force is capable of stopping it now -- but will the intense radiation at the Qualm's heart shield it from the Moon Hunter's wrath? Or will Earth's former attacker turn saviour? Find out this summer in The Qualm Before the Storm (rated PG-13).
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