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It's the night before Christmas… Happy Holidays from us to you.
It's the night before Christmas, The first in this house. Thankfully the power's back on, So we have lights we can douse. Soon the girls will be sleeping, My wife and the kids. They'll try to stay up, But close will their eyelids. It's been quite a year, This year of 2006. Filled with offers… Read more

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The homa is a votive offering involving the construction of a fire in a hearth-altar, and the immolation of offerings in the fire. The altar is homologized with a mandala, and as with other ritual uses of mandalas, the deity evoked in the course of the ritual is located at the mandala's center, and in this case identified with the fire itself. As a tantric ritual, the practitioner is also ritually identified with both the deity and the fire, and the offerings made into the fire are the spiritual obstacles that impede the practitioner from full awakening. Tantric homas are generally categorized according to different functions or goals, such as protection, subduing adversaries, and so on. As a form of individual practice conducive to awakening, the practitioner's own inherent wisdom is identified with the fire, and just as the offerings are transformed and purified, the practitioner's own spiritual obstacles are as well.
Ritualized activities of maintaining and making fire are some of the most ancient forms of social coordination, which is essential to the development of the human species. Such ritualization would seem to be the basis for fire cults, forms of which are known throughout the world's religions. In the scope of Indo-European religions, similarities of practice and symbolism provide a shared background to the homa per se. More directly, there appear to be both Vedic and Indo-Iranian traditions of ritual praxis that converge in the tantric homa.
The homa is found in all of the Indic tantric traditions: Buddhist, Śaiva, and Jain. Once established as part of tantric practice, the homa was spread throughout Central, East, and Southeast Asia, particularly in its Buddhist form. This transmission of ritual practice engaged local traditions wherever it spread. Tibetan tantric traditions developed an extensive literature of homa rituals, and from there the practice also influenced Mongolian fire rituals as well. In China, interaction between tantric Buddhism and Daoism led to the creation of a homa devoted to the Northern Dipper, a figure unknown in Indian sources of Buddhist tantra. Two similar examples are found in Japan. The Shintō traditions of Yuiitsu (or Yoshida) and Miwa modified the tantric Buddhist form for the worship of a selection of Shintō deities. Similarly, the tradition of mountain asceticism, Shugendō, also adopted the homa and adapted it to its purposes. As a result of the repression of Buddhism in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, the Shintō forms are no longer extant, though in the present many Shintō shrines perform rituals of various kinds in which fire plays an important role. In contrast, the Shugendō homa, sometimes as a prelude to fire-walking, remains an active part of Japanese religion into the present day.
The tantric homa has been interpreted in a variety of ways, reflecting the multifaceted character of fire itself. There are two important strains of interpretation. One is the yogic interiorization of ritual found in post-Vedic Indian religion, more as a form of esoteric physiology than as a psychologized understanding of visualization. While closely related to yogic interiorization of ritual, the sexual symbolisms that are attached to all aspects of the fire rituals constitute a second strain of interpretation. These symbolic associations are important for their role in understanding tantric notions of ritual efficacy, which require greater nuance of understanding than can be attained by simply categorizing such practices as magic.
Keywords: tantric Buddhism, Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Vedic, sexual symbolism, ritual efficacy, Tibet, Northern Dipper, Shinto, Shugendo
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Technical Report | The Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL): An Introduction
Technical Report | Dependability Modeling with the Architecture Analysis & Design Language
In this episode, Julien Delange and Peter Feiler discuss the latest developments with the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) standard. First published in 2004 by SAE International, AADL is a modeling notation that employs both a textual and graphical representation. AADL provides modeling concepts to describe the runtime architecture of application systems in terms of concurrent tasks, their interactions, and their mapping onto an execution platform. Development organizations use AADL to conduct lightweight, rigorous, yet comparatively inexpensive analyses of critical real-time factors such as performance, dependability, security, and data integrity.
Peter Feiler is the technical lead and author of the SAE AS-2C Architecture Analysis &Design Language (AADL) standard. This standard has been published in Nov 2004 as SAE document AS5506. Version 2 of the standard was published in Jan 2009. For the last 25 years, Feiler has been a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI where his research areas include dependable real-time systems, architecture languages for embedded systems, and predictable system analysis &engineering. In 2009, he received the Carnegie Science Award for Information Technology for his work with AADL.
Julien Delange leads several projects at the SEI related to architecture modeling and avionics system design. He became involved in AADL research after authoring the ARINC653 annex for modeling avionics architecture. He also designed tools for the analysis and implementation of avionics architecture from models. Prior to the SEI, Delange worked for the European Space Agency where he was a lead designer and developer of the TASTE toolset, a model-engineering framework for designing cyber-physical systems from models.
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When Harry A. James died in 1956, his obituary in the Glendale News-Press noted that the chapel of Sacred Memories at the L.G. Scovern mortuary was filled with the many friends he had made during his career in radio, as a recording artist, and later as a very active volunteer in several of Glendale's leading civic and philanthropic groups.
James, who was born in England, came to Glendale in 1922. He worked in radio and in 1927 helped open radio station KELW.
KELW was begun by Burbank real estate developer Earl L. White, who used his initials to name the station. On the station's inaugural night, many dignitaries were on hand and no doubt James was on the air. He managed the station for three years. The station soon increased its coverage and at one point could be heard as far away as New York City. For more on KELW, visit www.radioheritage.net.
James also opened a radio station in Santa Barbara for the Columbia Broadcasting System; at the height of his career he was heard on 456 radio stations. Plus, he was a recording artist; his rendition of the Gettysburg Address was released by Brunswick in 1924. You can find out more about this recording on www.authentichistory.com.
James and his wife Alice moved to the 1100 block of Linden Avenue shortly after they arrived here. They were both very active in the community. They helped found the Foothill Service Club for the Blind in 1940 and remained involved in that group for many years. Not only did he serve as executive secretary of the club, he and Alice founded and guided the Cypress Social Club for the Blind in Glendale and the Normandy Club for the Blind in Los Angeles, according to the News-Press, February 2, 1956.
He also served as stage manager of the Glendale Symphony Orchestra Association, remaining in that position until shortly before his death at age 69.
Another local group that benefited from his talents was the Glendale Historical Society. In 1952 he played an important role in installing the first historical marker for the city.
In his dual roles as a director of the historical society and as president of the Old Settlers Society, he presented a bronze monument, marking the home of J.C. Sherer (a significant local pioneer) to Legory O'Loughlin, president of the historical society. The marker still stands at the corner of S. Verdugo Road and E. Windsor Road, on an easement granted to the city by Sherer's widow, Caroline.
During his years in the historical society, James used his skills and connections as a recording artist to preserve the recollections of many Glendale pioneers by recording each interview. These recordings are stored at the Glendale Public Library and are available to the public.
James was recognized for his contributions to the community in 1951 when he was awarded a Citation for Service. The awards were presented by the historical society following secret balloting throughout the city.
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In 1952, the Glendale Historical Society celebrated its second annual Citation Week.
According to the Glendale News-Press and the audio from the event, the honorees were selected "in recognition of the accomplishments that have given them credit to themselves as well as the community in which they live.''
The audio features brief interviews with the honorees from 1952 and also from 1951 (there was no ceremony the prior year) conducted by Charles Hamilton of radio station KFI, with Paul Duncan serving as the master of ceremonies. Harry James and Legory O'Loughlin assisted Hamilton in introducing the 1951 citation recipients.
Highlights of the program include interviews with former Brooklyn Dodger Babe Herman; 1957 Indianapolis 500 winner Sam Hanks; Caroline Sherer, wife of Calvin Sherer, early Glendale historian and pioneer; and a spontaneous rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" to close the event.
The website includes a list of the recipients.


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They are the Dirty Half Dozen — Vine, Obscure, Grape, Striped, Long-Tailed and Pink Hibiscus. They are an unsavory lot, all from the mealybug family.
Mealybugs feeding on plants, particularly grapevines, can reduce vine vitality and transmit grape viruses. But what makes them a particularly slimy lot is that they can excrete great quantities of honeydew, rendering the fruit non-harvestable and covered with sooty mold.
Like any outlaw gang, there are the mean ones and the not-so-mean hombres in the Dirty Half Dozen, which rode across the Colorado River into California about the mid-1990s.
Vine and Grape are the Jesse and Frank James of this gang. Vine especially. It is the real bad one of the bunch. Pink Hibiscus is the wimp. Obscure and Long-Tailed can be mean if given half a chance. Striped is starting to exert its evil side, looking for trouble.
There is a big posse out looking for this bad bunch using whatever means they can; gunning them down; luring them into an ambush or just trying to find their hideout and keep them there before they can cause trouble.
Part of the posse, including University of California entomologists and farm advisors, Napa County ag commissioner and growers, was at a recent Bayer CropScience grape workshop to explain what to look for from the bad hombres and how to keep them at bay.
No need to worry about pink hibiscus, which was found hiding out in Imperial Valley in 1999. Parasites have successfully corralled this member of the gang. Pink Mealybug is generally found on ornamentals, anyway.
Striped mealy bug is moving rapidly through the Central Valley. It is being found in almonds and pistachios, according to "Marshall" Walt Bentley, UC Area IPM advisor, an expert on mealybugs stationed at the UC Kearny Ag Center in Parlier, Calif.
Obscure and Long-Tailed have a relatively narrow temperature tolerance, but a wide host range. They are far more important pests in greenhouses and indoor plantscapes. Infestations in vineyards have been isolated to a small number in the Central Coast region.
Grape mealybug, according to Bentley, produces two generations per year and is not as prevalent on leaves as vine mealybug. However, it can produce a lot of honeydew.
While post harvest pesticides applications can control Vine Mealybug, Bentley said grape mealybugs go deep into barks in the fall through December.
"You will not kill them with any kind of pesticides with 400 gallons of water and 250 PSI at that time of year," Bentley said.
Crawlers start emerging in the spring and can be controlled with pesticides, but if it turns cold, they high-tail-it back into the bark where pesticide sprays will not touch them.
Sample in June
It is best to sample for Grape Mealybug in June at the base of the spurs. That sampling period may be later in cooler, coastal areas. Persistent sampling can detect spot infestations that can be treated early to prevent spreading throughout the vineyard.
Pulling spurs in winter is another way of detecting infestations. Crawlers move from the spurs to leaves in warmer weather where they begin to cause damage.
There is no pheromone yet for grape mealybug, but there is one for its meaner cousin, Vine Mealybug.
Vine Mealybugs produce five to six overlapping generations per year and is much more voracious than any of the other gang members. It overwinters in all stages on all parts of the vine and in roots. Vine Mealybugs are found on the top of leaves and heavy infestations can leave grapes covered with honeydew with the consistency of candle wax.
Growers can get "pretty good control" in the central valley with a post harvest treatment of Lorsban or Imidan, he said. Applaud works well in immature stages early, he added.
The first line of defense with most grape growers, especially table grape producers who can tolerate zero honeydew damage, is Admire, the systemic pesticide that can be applied through drip systems at rates of 32 ounces in one application or split applications of 16 ounces each. Growers under heavy vine mealybug pressure also do a post harvest application to prevent Vine Mealybug overwintering.
Ants as guards
Like any outlaw gang, the Dirty Half Dozen have accomplices. Ants are the protectors of mealybug. Ants feed on the honeydew and protect the mealybug from predators. Ants even carry them from vine to vine.
According to another posse member of the posse, UC entomologist, Kent Daane, also based at the Kearney Ag Center, ants can increase honeydew damage from mealybugs. The more ants feed on the honeydew, the more honeydew mealybugs secrete. Ants are so protective, they drive away mealybug parasites and Daane has remarkable video that shows that.
Daane is on a variety of mealybug trials, including one working with San Luis Obispo County farm advisor Mark Battany and UC Riverside urban entomologist Mike Rusk to develop attract and kill techniques to bring ants under control.
The Argentine ant is a major urban ant pest and as the coastal areas continue to urbanize, Argentine ants are moving from homes to vineyards.
The ants can be killed by pesticides, but these are often disruptive to predators. That is why Daane is working on attract-and-kill techniques.
Grey ants and fire ants are associated with mealybugs in the central valley and they are protein feeders. The Argentine ant feeds on protein as well, but it also thrives on carbohydrates: honeydew.
Daane has discovered the ants can be controlled by attracting to a sugar water bait laced with small amounts of pesticides in an attract-and-kill control strategy. However, the labor of servicing many traps is prohibitive. He hopes to develop an expensive capsule or disposable tube technology to make attract and kill economical.
Good, bad news
In Napa County, "Mealybug Sheriff" and county agricultural commissioner David Whitmire and Napa growers are attempting to slow down mealybugs using an extensive trapping program to monitor vine mealybug infestations and hopefully slow down the spread with regulations. Infestation sites have gone from 19 in 2003 to 30 last season.
"That is a good news-bad news scenario. There are more Vine Mealybug infestations than before, but the good news it is not everywhere," he said.
"We cannot eradicate it, but we can try to prevent its spread and from becoming established," said Whitmire. "I think we are making a difference."
Napa has taken this approach because of what Whitmire called "economical, environmental and social" reasons. There is a big vineyard sustainability push in the Napa Valley, almost bordering on organic. Widespread Vine Mealybug infestations would mean more pesticide use.
Regulations in place
Whitmire said there are regulations to prevent the spread of Vine Mealybug in moving equipment from infested areas to non-infested areas. Similar restrictions are in place for movement of green waste.
All posse members stressed good sanitation measures are the first line of defense to keep members of the Dirty Half Dozen out of vineyards.
Infested leaves, bunches and bits of cane can travel on farm equipment from one site to another. It is extremely important that all farm equipment used in an infested vineyard is cleaned before it leaves the site. Vine mealybug can also be transported on clothing. Therefore vineyard workers should not move from an infested vineyard to a non-infested one on the same day.
The posse also warned that mealybugs can be moved on nursery stock and on budwood used in grafting.
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This page contains review feedback for the initial design/layout of the wiki.
- For look and feel, in general it looks good. It is easy to navigate but in other hand it shows too much information on one page.
- May be move the first column category to the top or just show high level?
- I like to see Contacts as separate big bullet rather than under For Users.
- Issue Tracker is in two places.
- It will be good to show a roadmap such as future plans.
- It will be good to provide For Beginner section that describes how to use GMAT.
- The middle section, where the text is, and the right section, both have a horizontal scroll bar on my Mac. That doesn't look good.
- I would like the middle section to stand out more, as we discussed at the meeting
- I find some of the site map stuff on the left side of each page to be confusing. I keep expecting it to map to what is on that page and it doesn't necessarily. For example, on the Governance page, the list in the main part of the page does not match the order in the list on the left.
- how ready is the new build system for 32- and 64-bit on each platform?
- I will be doing the documentation for how to write a new Resource, Darrel will doc the command
- Maybe Current Activities should be its own section on the Wiki
- What kind of metrics do you mean (under Missing Data Items)?
- Code style guide definitely needs to be there
- Seems like all the biggies are there as far as documents go
Overall I am very pleased with the look/feel. I think some changes are necessary to the LHS menu and launch pad pages and we are ready for major migration of data.
- I find it confusing that the outline of the left hand side of pages is very different than the organization of the site on the main page.
- We have two levels of launch pad pages and we need to make sure we aren't duplicating information. If duplication is not possible, we should consider getting rid of one of the levels.
- We are missing this information:
- Required Accounts: Summarizes what accounts you need to participate
- Getting Started/Training: Summarizes how to get started for different particpant types.
I have one overall comment that may be useful to incorporate (writing this after the comments below, so expect a repeat there). When I look at the Wiki page pretending to be a new user, I get lots of links to GMAT details that I can drill into, but don't have anything that helps me clue in to how to get started. So I'd put a link in the left side navigation bar labeled "New to GMAT" with links to friendly pages "For new users" and "For new contributors", with with underlying pages that talk about how to get started for each group of folks. Basically, let's lower the cost of entry by giving new folks some pointers about where to start out in learning an actually pretty complex new system.
- Is the vision for the Wiki complete and what we want?
Under the first bullet, I'd make sure there are clear "Getting Started" links for new users and new contributors. Something to be sure that when a new person comes to the front page, they can see where to go to figure out how to start using or contributing to GMAT.
- Is the look and feel of the Wiki professional/what we want?
I like the look, aside from needing a bit more on the navigation front from the underlying pages. (Now fixed via the GMAT icon, I think.)
- Is the proposed organization of data in the new wiki intuitive?
Add a "Starting Out" section (same as what I said above)
- Is the most important data for public consumption identified in the migration plan?
Mostly. Same comment here (again).
Some general thoughts that I think need to be addressed at some point, though I don't have a solution right now:
- Some info should be categorized in multiple places. For example, users care about how to submit bugs, but only contributors (participants) need guidelines on reassigning and triaging them. Developers need compile instructions, but users do, too (since they may be downloading a source bundle). Core API docs are for developers only, but C API docs are for users. We'll just need to flesh out these relationships as the wiki matures.
- We need one wiki "owner" that makes sure things are moving smoothly. Sub-pages should have separate curators, but I vote for having one POC for the entire thing, to herd everyone in the right direction.
And some specific items:
- We spent some time brainstorming wiki topics; these should be included in the list.
- "Participants" seems too small for a top-level heading. I prefer something like "For Users > About Us" that links out to pages that describe the team, participants and contributors, links to other websites, etc.
- Agree that we need to figure out how to make the left-side menu more consistent and useful.
- Agree that "Governance" as a heading could be improved. Maybe "Project Management" or "How to Participate" or "GMAT Project" - none of these seem good, but you get the idea.


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San Diego-based U.S. Coast Guard crews launched a rescue mission for a sailboat broken apart by waves in an 8-foot surf off San Clemente Island late Friday.
One person died and five others were rescued from the surf in hazardous weather conditions caused by a powerful winter storm.
The 30-foot sailboat was competing in the Islands Race when the vessel's rudder failed around 9:30 p.m.
The crew tried to launch but couldn't because of weather conditions. A 10-knot wind and a small craft advisory were in effect at the time, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
As the "Uncontrollable Urge" crew tried to anchor, they drifted closer to the island located southwest of Catalina off the coast of Southern California.
That's when an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew launched from Coast Guard Sector San Diego and Coast Guard Cutter Edisto.
The sailboat eventually broke apart at the rocky surf line, according to the USCG, and six people were pulled from the water.
Crew members were taken to UCSD and Mercy Hospitals for treatment.
The sailors initiated a mayday call at 9:30 p.m. but refused help from nearby boaters or the Coast Guard. The rescue mission was launched more than an hour later when the crew decided to abandon the vessel.
The "Uncontrollable Urge" is a Columbia Carbon 32 owned by James Gilmore of the Silver Gate Yacht Club on Shelter Island.
The day before the race Gilmore posted updates on Twitter about taking out the "new Urge" for a race.
"Gonna see what this boat can do!" he tweeted.
The Islands Race, sponsored by the Newport Harbor Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club, involves a course that runs 139 nautical miles rounding Catalina and San Clemente Islands. A map that live-tracked the race can be seen here.
On Saturday morning the Silver Gate Yacht Club of Shelter Island released the following statement about the fatal sailboat accident:
"Silver Gate Yacht Club is very sad to acknowledge the loss of one of our members, as well as the loss of a member's boat. This is a tragedy for the families and our club is in mourning for the loss of life. We will be respecting the privacy of the family by not releasing any further information until a time of the family's choosing."
A report released by the county medical examiner's office Saturday afternoon confirmed that 36-year-old San Diego resident Craig Williams was the victim killed in the sailboat accident.
When Coast Guard crews reached the boat, they discovered Williams unresponsive in the water, the report confirms. He was pulled from the water and pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the San Diego Yacht Club website, Williams owned his own boat named "Uproarious."
Friends and fellow sailors say Williams was an avid sailor and devoted husband and father. He leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter and wife, who is expecting the couple's second child.
A memorial fund has been established for Williams' family. To donate, click here.


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The Wall Street Journal's Weekend Interview feature this past Saturday sent Journal editorial board member Matthew Kaminkski in the direction of the author of the screenplay of Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal. While he has teamed up with director Katheryn Bigelow, Boal is also a reporter who has written for such reliably left-wing outlets as The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones. With his screenplay for the Zero Dark Thirty, however, Boal has strayed slightly off the reservation.
We've tried to separate fact from fiction in the film, in part with the help of the excellent Washington Post column by Jose Rodriguez. The film not only depicts waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques on high-value detainees, it suggests that they had something to do with the success of the CIA's long quest to locate bin Laden. It's an issue that deserves the kind of serious discussion and analysis that Rodriguuez provides.
Kaminski's column gives us Boal's take on the subject in the context of the assault on the film by Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin in league with John McCain (Republican, I'm sure I don't need to remind you). By contrast with Rodriguez, Feinstein and Levin are operating in bad faith like thugs intent on preserving the narrative on George Bush and "torture." Feinstein has posted the trio's joint letter to Sony here. (Bigelow and Boal have responded to the letter with this brief statement.) I find the Feinstein/Levin/McCain letter to Sony almost shocking, and we would have heard much more about it if, well, you know the rest.
Kaminski traces the evolution of the assault on the film:
After bin Laden's killing in May 2011, the Bigelow-Boal team shelved a planned film about the failure to capture the al Qaeda leader at Afghanistan's Tora Bora in late 2001 and jumped instead on the successful raid. Mr. Boal worked his sources at the CIA and elsewhere. Republican Rep. Peter King complained that a film made with CIA help might reveal confidential information and help President Obama's re-election campaign. Originally scheduled for an October 2012 release, "Zero Dark Thirty" was pushed past Election Day to Christmas. But then, when the film came out, it was liberals' turn to be outraged by the movie's depiction of CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques."
"In addition to providing false advertising for waterboarding, 'Zero Dark Thirty' endorses torture in several other subtle ways," wrote Jane Mayer in the New Yorker. In the Guardian, Naomi Wolf called Ms. Bigelow "an apologist for evil" and compared her to Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite documentarian. Actors Ed Asner and David Clennon started a campaign to deny any Academy Awards for "Zero Dark Thirty."
Washington politicians joined in. Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin and Republican Sen. John McCain sent a letter in mid-December to the CEO of Sony 6758.TO +1.66% Pictures, which distributed and promoted the film. "Zero Dark Thirty" is "grossly inaccurate and misleading," the senators wrote, urging Sony to "please consider correcting the impression that the CIA's use of coercive interrogation techniques led to the operation against Usama Bin Laden. It did not." Democrats on Ms. Feinstein's intelligence committee had just completed a classified investigation into CIA interrogation that reached the same conclusion.
In two separate letters to the acting head of the CIA, the Capitol Hill trio demanded to know if the filmmakers "could have been misled" by the agency about the efficacy of the interrogations. The lawmakers asked for "records of the meetings that occurred, notes, internal emails, Sametime [sic] communications and other documentation describing CIA interactions with the filmmakers."
The Senate investigators haven't contacted Mr. Boal or Ms. Bigelow, but last month Mr. Boal retained Jeffrey H. Smith, a prominent Washington lawyer. "They're just investigating the origins of a work of art," says Mr. Boal. Turning serious, he calls the letters "a mischaracterization" of the film "and intellectually dishonest."
Kaminski returns to the letter to Sony further down in the column:
The senators' letter to Sony revealed another motive. Democrats had won the policy debate on terrorist interrogation and detention. But the senators wrote that polls show "a narrow majority of Americans" believe torture can be justified as a legitimate way to gather intelligence. "Zero Dark Thirty," they wrote, "has the potential to shape American public opinion in a disturbing and misleading manner." They don't want to reopen the debate.
Kaminski reminds us that Feinstein, Levin and McCain haven't gotten to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has yet to fall into line:
One of the film's supporters is none other than Leon Panetta, the former CIA director portrayed in the film by James Gandolfini. The Feinstein letters cited Mr. Panetta's past statements about torture to criticize the film. "It's a good movie," Mr. Panetta told Agence France Presse in an interview this month. "There's no question that some of the intelligence gathered was a result of those efforts," he said, referring to the enhanced interrogations. "But I think it's difficult to say that they were the critical element. I think they were part of the vast puzzle that you had to put together in order to ultimately locate where bin Laden was."
Given that it's a debate Democrats might lose, you can see why it's especially important to shut it down.


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The Proof Is In The Pudding
Jordan Hoffart Interview
Photos by Deville
Words by Blair Alley
With the deadline for Powell's new video FUN! looming, Jordan Hoffart has been putting down some serious stunts. He sent over a batch of photos (below) AND sent down the makes on video (even further below)! So as a throw back to an article we used to run on the pages of TWS, here's a piping hot interview with Jordan Hoffart. The proof is in the pudding.
Jordanian Tomlinson.
What up Blair, how you doin'?
You knew it was me? You got TransWorld's number on your caller ID?
Yeah, I kind of figured.
What are you doing up early?
Had breakfast with my mom actually.
You up in Vancouver?
Yeah, just until Friday.
I got a good idea for this interview, do you remember when TransWorld did those Proof Is In The Pudding articles? There'd be a bunch of pages of stills, then at the end they'd have the video grab sequence of the make.
I think that's how we should lay this one out.
Sure, that sounds dope. So I have this friend of mine, this has nothing to do with my interview, but he plays rugby for the Canadian National team. He used to skate back in the day and he came skating with me yesterday and he can still do crooked grind shove-its. So we did this trick tip.
Is he all buff?
Yeah, he's like 230 [laughs]. I was gonna send it to you just to see what you thought, because it's supposed to be a joke. I was like crying editing it.
I'm down. So are the tricks in this interview some of your bangers for the Powell video?
I wouldn't say they're my enders for the Powell video. I've been finished with my part for a while. I had a lot of footage.
When's the video coming out?
Well, I heard that Stacy Peralta might be doing our intros, I don't know. Everyone's done. We're not trying to make an hour long video.
Who's gonna have gnarly parts?
Josh Hawkins is definitely gonna have a gnarly part. Derek Elmendorf, will probably have the gnarliest. Hopefully my part will be okay.
You going pro after the video comes out?
That's the intention. It'd be nice. I guess if we feel that I deserve it. I don't know.
I'd say you do. I'd vouch for you.
Thanks buddy [laughs]. It's just been a while since I've had a video part, so we want it to have some impact, you know? And then Aldrin Garcia is gonna have a banger part.
When are you gonna premiere it?
We're looking to do that around tradeshow (late January, 2009). We're gonna do one in San Diego because Aldrin and Derek are from there. We're gonna do on in L.A., one on the East Coast, and one in Vancouver because that's where I'm from. And hopefully Arizona, too. Just to stoke out all the riders because we're all over the map, so we'd like to have one in everyone's areas.
Cool, I think that's good enough. Don't want the people to have to scroll too far down on a page.
Yeah, for sure. I read Mike V.'s thing (Hometown), that was dope. And all that footage from '85, jumping off the hood of cars was nice.
You gonna be at the Active Am this weekend?
Yeah, I'll be there. See you Saturday.


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Catcher Dan Butler wasn't quite sure why he had been pulled from the game in Pawtucket Friday night.
The PawSox were trailing Syracuse en route to a 6-2 loss, but Butler had been playing well. He had two hits in three at-bats, and most importantly, he was healthy.
"When I got pulled out, I was kind of confused a bit. I wasn't hurt, so that was a plus. I was hoping it wasn't performance related," Butler said with a laugh.
Little did Butler know that at Fenway Park, catcher David Ross had injured his foot trying to beat out a ground ball in the sixth inning of the Red Sox' 4-3 win against the Yankees, and that the 27-year-old minor league journeyman would be on his way to the big leagues.
Ross was placed on the 15-day DL after rupturing the plantar fascia in his right foot, and Butler received the call on Saturday morning. He was coming to Boston to back up former Pawtucket teammate Christian Vazquez.
"I didn't know this morning until I got the call," Butler said. "I can't explain how exciting this is. I figured a time would come when a spot would open up, and just kind of go out and play and have fun with it."
Butler's promotion to the Red Sox is the latest chapter in the catcher's improbable journey through professional baseball, which began when the team signed him as an undrafted free agent from the University of Arizona in 2009.
The fact that Butler, a backup at Arizona, has ascended to the majors is astounding.
The Red Sox took notice when Butler was a Cape Cod League All-Star and offered him a deal to play for the Lowell Spinners, paying him next to nothing. Butler had a year of eligibility remaining, but he accepted the offer.
All it took was one break. The next season, in 2010, he hit .327 with six homers and 31 RBIs for Greenville in Single A, before being promoted to Salem, the Sox' High A affiliate.
In 2011, Butler hit .241 with 12 homers and 71 RBIs in 113 games between Salem, Portland, and Pawtucket.
He spent most of 2012 in Portland and played his first full season in Pawtucket in 2013. There, he was named the team MVP and hit .262 with a career-high 14 homers in 84 games.
For the better part of the Butler's minor league career, the Sox organization has been well-stocked with catchers.
There are highly touted prospects such as Vazquez and Blake Swihart. At the major league level, the Red Sox had veterans such as Jarrod Saltalamacchia, A.J. Pierzynski, and Ross.
But the dominoes started falling. Saltalamacchia wasn't re-signed in 2014 and was replaced by Pierzynski, who was designated for assignment in July. Once Ross was injured, Butler's improbable path to the majors was complete.
Often, Butler reflects on his days in Lowell, and what would have been if he had chosen to return to Arizona instead.
"I think I thought about that last year, just how quick things can happen in this game and how quick things did happen last night," Butler said. "From playing, getting ready to play the Columbus Clippers today, and then I get pulled from the game and I'm here talking to you guys in a major league clubhouse.
"Of course you're proud of yourself. You work your whole life. You play baseball since you were 6, 7, 8 years old. You watch the game on TV. You always expect that it would be a cool thing to do. You never really realize it until you get the opportunity."
Butler hit .227 with four home runs and 28 RBIs in 76 games this year for Pawtucket. While he's struggled slightly at the plate, he's defensively sound. He's thrown out 13 of 48 base stealers this season.
His offense has also improved as of late, with eight hits in his last 10 games.
Perhaps Butler's most valuable asset is his familiarity with the pitching staff. After the Red Sox gutted the rotation at Thursday's trade deadline, pitchers Tommy Layne and Alex Wilson were recalled from Pawtucket on Friday.
Butler also has worked with Brandon Workman and Allen Webster, who started Saturday, in the minors.
"He's been there the last couple of years [in spring training], and has always had a strong reputation of managing pitchers and his game calling," manager John Farrell said. "It's a real success story when you factor in he's been an undrafted free agent, signed out of the Cape Cod League, was a backup catcher in college, and with all of his work it's paid off to realize a major league opportunity."
Hopefully, for Butler, his major league debut will come sooner than later. When the time does come for him to start, his teammates will be pulling for him, especially the guys he spent time with in the minors.
"It's great, he definitely deserved it," Workman said. "I've only played with him for about three months, but he's a great catcher. He's a great guy and he works hard every day."Anthony Gulizia can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @gulizia_a


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In the summer of 1969, Eddie Wood was about to enter his senior year of high school and he needed a new set of wheels. Lucky for him, his father, Glen Wood of the famous Wood Brothers NASCAR racing team, owned a Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Danville, Virginia.
At the top of Eddie's wish list was a midsized Mercury—a '70 Cyclone Spoiler powered by a Boss 429. After all, Ford homologated this big-block for stock car racing, and the Wood Brothers ran this new hemi-head engine, not a wedge, in NASCAR.
The Wood Brothers surely had big-time pull with Ford and Mercury. This family had raced NASCAR since 1950, starting out with a '38 Ford.
"We've never raced anything but Fords and Mercurys," Eddie says. So whatever Eddie wanted for his new car, one thing was certain: "I was gonna have a Ford."
A Boss 429 Cyclone would have been a dream ride, especially for a hot rod kid going to NASCAR races and working on David Pearson's stock car. But Bunkie Knudsen, president of Ford, wanted an image boost for the Mustang to match the likes of the Camaro ZL1 and Hemi 'Cuda. Eddie didn't get his Boss 429 Cyclone Spoiler, even though the factory order form provided a box for this option.
"There was some kind of a hold on it," Eddie says, his voice reflecting discouragement even today.
Ford put a permanent kibosh on this order. The Boss 429 was available only in a Mustang. The teenager settled for a Cougar Eliminator with a Boss 302, painted Competition Orange with a black interior, the same trim he had ordered for the '70 Cyclone Spoiler. Now he had a lighter, hotter ponycar.
As it turned out, Eddie "got in quite a bit of trouble" with the Cougar. He remembers "a couple, three speeding tickets," and eventually he blew up the high-winding, race-bred Boss motor.
"I think it was against a 383 Super Bee," he says. "We kind of pulled off together. I pulled that thing back in high gear and it blew up just like it was on a racetrack. I mean it blew up big time."
The high school senior had to call his dad to come tow the car. With shoe polish smeared "all over the windows from the dragstrip, I was pretty guilty looking," says Eddie.
Actually, Eddie had not raced the car at the track. He did "have it classed to see what I would have to run against." To Glen Wood, drag racing "was kind of a taboo thing," Eddie says.
While riding in the hauler as they towed the Cougar home, Eddie had a conversation with his father.
"That was a Sunday afternoon in the dead of winter. He says, 'Well, we'll get the thing back together and figure out what to do. You need to get a bigger car and something with an automatic. You ought to get a Cyclone.'"
Fine With Me
A Cyclone was "fine with me," Eddie says. He ordered one as soon as he was able to. Once again, he checked off Competition Orange with a black interior. Even though the transmission was a C6 automatic, Eddie ordered the hottest engine available, the 429 Cobra Jet. The 351 was the base engine in the Spoiler. Mercury did not offer the Drag Pack in '71, which made a 429 CJ into a Super Cobra Jet, most likely an immense relief to Glen.
"I never got in any trouble with that car, but I did drive it a lot," he says.
Eddie left the automatic alone at first and just drove the beautiful beast. Once "the college thing" was over "it was time to do the complete hop-up."
Eddie, then 21 years old, had the resources to build a really hot Mercury. He sent the motor to Holman-Moody, the same shop that built the Wood Brothers' NASCAR racing engines, to have it blueprinted. At the family shop Eddie's uncle Leonard found a pair of four-barrel Holley "center squirters" off a 427 Tunnel Port originally run in NASCAR circa 1967-1968.
Eddie got a new hood and cut a hole to clear the two fours, covered with a box. Leonard made a "nice little scoop" by bending and splitting two pieces of tubing. The scoop was "probably 4 inches tall" and painted orange.
With a big cam, the automatic transmission lacked vacuum to work properly. Eddie went to his father's dealership and ordered "every piece it took" to install a four-speed, right down to the shift boot to look factory. However, he chose a Hurst shifter and a Top Loader out of a family racecar, most likely a David Pearson–driven Mercury.
The stock 9-inch had an open differential and 3.25 gears. Eddie swapped the diff for a limited slip and a Wood Brothers racing 3.50 gearset. Those gears are apparently still in the car, as are the shifter and transmission.
Eddie sold the Spoiler in the mid '70s. He recalls, "A guy in Danville bought it for his kid, then sold it. I think it sat in a warehouse for 10 years. Then one day out of the blue this gentleman [named McPherson] calls me from Baltimore."
Collectors like to know the heritage of their cars. Was this the Cyclone Spoiler Eddie bought new?
Eddie says, "I told him to go to the left side of the steering wheel and look under the dash for a couple toggle switches. Sure enough, they were there."
What were the toggle switches for?
"To cut the taillights off, the brake lights," he explains. "You know, if you've got a situation that you need to do that."
McPherson had the Spoiler restored and eventually sold it to a man in the Milwaukee area. The current owner, John Grafelman, bought the car next.
Shinoda Connection
Readers may recall the "Long-Lost Boss" story (June '11) about the Larry Shinoda Boss 302 prototype found in a barn in Illinois. John bought that car in 1976 as a '69 428 Cobra Jet Mustang fastback and a few years ago traced the heritage back to Shinoda, the famous automotive designer. John also found a Shinoda connection in the Cyclone Spoiler. Apparently, before Shinoda left Ford Design, he applied his immense talents to the front end of Mercury's Cyclone Spoiler.
"Larry designed that bullet nose," says John. "I found that out last year. I knew Larry did the spoiler, but Larry designed the whole front end of the car and the grille assembly."
John credits this information to a close friend of Shinoda who was a show car judge at a big muscle car event last year. (He has lost track of his name.) The most interesting part of the design is the round hole in the center of the grille. Larry was a hot rodder and a drag racer in his early days, and his idea was to make a grille to help out his buddies working on their cars at the dragstrip. Shinoda's grille design allows them to pull out a camshaft right through the center hole.
John Grafelman isn't likely to be swapping cams. Mostly, he shows his big bad Mercury. It was a standout among the aero warriors at last year's Forge Invitational, where we captured his blazing orange Cyclone in the late afternoon sun.
At a Glance
1971 Cyclone Spoiler
Owned by: John & Danette Grafelman, Peoria, IL
Restored by: Previous owner
Engine: 429ci/370hp Cobra Jet V-8
Transmission: Ford Top Loader 4-speed with Hurst shifter
Rearend: Ford 9-inch with Wood Brothers 3.50:1 limited-slip differential
Interior: Black deluxe vinyl bucket seats
Wheels: 15×7 Magnum 500
Tires: G60-15 Goodyear Polyglas GT
Special parts: Holman-Moody blueprinted 429 CJ, four-speed conversion


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History of Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills was a prosperous and sought-after location long before it was discovered by the movie industry. At the beginning, our fabled El Dorado was blessed with the most precious commodity in Southern California: water.
The source of this fertility comprises three dramatic canyons: Franklin, Coldwater and Benedict. Moisture gathers on the hills and flows down to form streams that join at the nexus of Beverly Drive and Sunset Boulevard. Native American inhabitants, the Tongva or Gabrielinos, considered it a sacred site, naming it the Gathering of the Waters or, in Spanish, El Rodeo de las Aguas.
Before the arrival of Spanish explorers, the Tongva led a peaceful life nourished by abundant game and meadows filled with wild oats, cucumber, buckwheat, cress and prickly pear. Their everyday lives were guided by animistic religious practice inspired by an environment filled with color: blue lupine, orange poppies, red foxtail, wild roses, fuchsia and golden rod.
The Europeans
Their "gift of life" proved ironic, for these armed Spanish tourists spelled doom for the Gabrielinos. Their medicinal arts were powerless against an imported smallpox epidemic, which destroyed two thirds of the local Native population in 1844. Mistreatment by European settlers soon did the rest.
Rancho Beverly Hills
As was the custom of a time, Maria Rita permitted her livestock to wander freely, but once a year a festive roundup, another kind of rodeo, was held beneath a huge eucalyptus tree at the corner of Pico and Robertson boulevards.
In 1852, three Native Americans ambushed Maria Rita's rancho. A shoot-out and siege followed in a grove of walnut trees at Benedict Canyon and Chevy Chase Drive. Maria Rita survived, but the battle may have influenced her decision just two years later to sell the ranch to Benjamin D. Wilson and Henry Hancock for $4000. However, the legendary waters deserted the new owners; a drought decimated their crops and their cattle died in parched stream beds. However, their names live on today in nearby Mt. Wilson and Hancock Park.
After the Civil War wildcatters and roughnecks drilled oil wells. Cattle gave way to herds of sheep. Edward Preuss bought the ranch in 1868 with the intention of establishing a colony for German immigrant farmers. Preuss dubbed his civic speculation the "City of Santa Maria." He subdivided the soil into five-acre lots and put them up for sale for $10 a parcel.
Another drought ruined these plans and the land reverted to sheep and cattle ranching until Charles Denker and Henry Hammel purchased the territory in the 1880s. Hammel and Decker planted bean fields to help pay taxes but their ultimate dream was establishing a North African-themed subdivision called Morocco. However, this fantasyland disappeared in 1888 when the national economy collapsed.
Birth of a City
Green hired the landscape architect Wilbur D. Cook who, influenced by landscape designer Frederick Law Olmstead, created wide curving streets that hugged the hills. The City's first streets: Rodeo, Canon, Crescent, Carmelita, Elevado and Lomitas were constructed in 1907. Cook also created an emerald necklace for his garden city, with a three-block greensward called Santa Monica Park.
To further stimulate development, the Beverly Hills Hotel was constructed in 1912 at the site of the Gathering of the Waters. It was served by a Dinky railroad, as wondrous in its day as the monorail at Disneyland appeared in the 1950s. The hotel became the center of community life, serving as theater, meeting place and church. The City was incorporated in 1914.
The Glamour Era
Life during the Roaring 20s accelerated with the construction of a huge, banked wooden racetrack, dominating most of the southern section of the City. The Speedway drove Beverly Hills further toward the center of America's popular imagination via radio broadcasts of races that were on the same scale as today's Indy 500. The speedway also was sometimes used as a base for another national craze: aviation.
The very existence of Beverly Hills was threatened by a proposal to annex the City to Los Angeles in 1923. Los Angeles, proponents argued, would provide an inexhaustible supply of clean water for growth. Emboldened by their new local identity, residents Will Rogers (who later became the City's first mayor), Mary Pickford and others mobilized local voters against the plan. Pro-annexation workers left bottles of the sulfur-smelling water on the doorsteps of every Beverly Hills home with a label that read: "Warning. Drink sparingly of this water as it has laxative qualities. Despite these "dirty" campaign tactics, annexation failed 507-337.
This "war of independence" was perhaps the first union of show business and politics in our national life. Long before Ronald Reagan went from soundstage to governor's mansion, Rogers, a wise cracking political humorist, became honorary first mayor of Beverly Hills. Rogers went on to play a part in the development of Beverly Hills by fostering construction of a new City Hall in 1932 and the establishment of a U.S. Post Office in 1934.
Beverly Hills continued to grow. Promotional materials from the period touted the young metropolis as "center of the next million." Fortunately, human-scale public improvements helped soften the effects of growth. In the 1930s, Santa Monica Park was renamed Beverly Gardens and was extended to span the length of the City. The famous Electric Fountain was installed. A finely modeled sculpture atop the fountain shows a Tongva in prayer, homage to Beverly Hills' heritage as a wellspring of fertility and abundance.
A Modern City
By the 1950's, few vacant lots remained and developers cropped whole mountains to ease the housing shortage. Today, such excessive development has stopped and the population is around 34,000 and growing slowly. But the mystique of Beverly Hills as a place of wealth and beauty continues to grow as it has since the days of the Tongva -- who taught residents to appreciate of the abundance of the present while preserving what remains of the past with reverence.


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Has EU Membership Benefitted New Entrants?
A view from Central Europe and the Baltics
Ten years ago this month the European Union expanded to include 10 new members - Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia. It was the largest expansion in the EU's history in terms of population and area, and of historic importance in that it brought into one Union countries that had formerly been on different sides of the Iron Curtain.
Given the Eurozone crisis from which the EU is slowly recovering, it is natural to ask if EU membership has benefitted the 2004 entrants.


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Actress Jane Lynch, who plays the tracksuit-wearing antagonist Sue Sylvester on 'Glee,' was the guest mentor on tonight's (July 10) episode of 'The Glee Project.' Since Lynch embodies all that is fearless, she was the perfect advisor, since the theme of the ep was fearlessness. Who better to teach the remaining "wannaglees" a thing or two about conquering that of which they are scared?
Before the contestants launched into their homework assignment, which was a rendition of Heavy D's '90s rap anthem 'Now That We Found Love,' Lynch advised them, "Relish fearful opportunities. Anything you feel fear about turns out to be the best moment of your life." The song is a fast-paced, pop-rap jam, something the group has not yet tried. They took Lynch's words to heart and embraced what they feared.
Lynch also joked that like her hard-nosed 'Glee' character, "I will be judging you harshly." She quickly rescinded, saying, "No I won't. I will be judging you from my heart. I want you to succeed." Aw, she's a softie underneath all that polyester.
Lynch enjoyed the performance and thought it was fun, and noted that the kids were having fun. She felt Aylin was fantastic, treating her performance like an acting lesson. Lily made Lynch laugh, demanding her attention with her moves. She felt that Nellie held back too much, but we already know that's her thing. She holds back too much.
Lynch ultimately selected Lily as the winner, which caused Aylin to be pissed off since she felt she deserved a one-on-one sesh with Lynch. Girl's getting cocky…
In the one-on-one, Lynch told Lily she chose her since she reminded her of a young version of herself. She also told the hopeful to know and to learn when approaching roles.


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Disenfranchisement: defending voting rights for EU citizens abroad
Midday Statement/Brussels
29 January 2014
The right to vote is a basic and fundamental political right.
That is why we have laws in place that guarantee citizens this essential right:
According to the EU Treaties (Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the Treaty on the European Union), every EU citizen has the right to vote in European and local elections in his or her Member State of residence. This is one of the key rights of EU citizenship in the EU Treaties. And with over 14 million Europeans living in another Member State than their own, this is also an integral part of the right to free movement.
And under national law, every citizen should have the right to participate in the national election of his or her country – on the basis of conditions laid down by that Member State. In short: National electoral conditions are a national responsibility.
So far so good.
But what happens to your right to vote in national elections when you, as an EU citizen, move to live, work, or retire in another Member State? And what happens when Member States apply rules which automatically remove the right to vote in national elections after a citizen has resided for a certain period abroad in the EU?
I know that some of you in this press room know the answer – because as expats you have been personally affected. Like many other EU citizens who have complained loudly to the European Commission, the European Parliament and to their respective governments: in letters, petitions and citizens' dialogues.
Why? Because those citizens who lose the right to vote in national elections and they do not receive a corresponding right in their country of residence (as they do in European or local elections). Instead, they are disenfranchised entirely - left without the right to vote, anywhere in the EU.
In a certain way such practice is punishing EU citizens for exercising their right to free movement in the EU.
Disenfranchisement practices such as these have created in fact – a group of second class citizens from whom something essential has been taken away from their home country.
We are talking here very often about citizens who, now more than ever, can and do easily maintain close links with their home country while making use of their free movement rights. They follow current affairs in their home country on TV, the radio and internet. They can travel home quickly and cheaply, they may even pay taxes or draw their pension there.
I have been talking with Harry Shindler, a British veteran of World War Two. Mr Shindler – who I had the pleasure of meeting last year – fought for his country during the liberation of Rome. But because he now lives in Italy, and has been there for more than 15 years, he has lost his right to vote in his own country.
The Commission listened to Mr Shindler and to all the other EU citizens. In our EU citizenship reports in 2010 and 2013 we committed to address this issue – together with the Member States.
Today the Commission is delivering on this promise. That is why we have issued guidance to those Member States applying disenfranchisement policies.
Five countries are concerned: Cyprus, Denmark, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom. I am asking these countries to show greater flexibility so that their own nationals are not automatically denied their vote after a certain period.
I am inviting them to enable their nationals who make use of their free movement rights to retain their right to vote in national elections - if they demonstrate a continuing interest in the political life of their country. We believe these citizens should have the option of applying to remain on the electoral roll and should be informed about the conditions for retaining their right to vote in national elections.
Why are we doing that? This is about empowering EU citizens, who feel strongly about their country and making sure they are not automatically denied the fundamental democratic right of voting.
Never should the right to free movement lead to a loss of rights.
I very much hope that the countries will be ready to address these very concrete concerns raised by their very own nationals.
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Griffin earned jazz immortality as a member of the classic Benny Goodman Orchestra of the late 1930s. The years he was with Goodman, 1936-39, are considered the peak of the King of Swing's career, when he had the number one band in the country and one of the most remarkable collections of talent ever assembled. Griffin worked alongside Charlie Christian, Lionel Hampton, Fletcher Henderson, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson and many others. For two years, from January 1937 to January 1939, Griffin was part of the most celebrated trumpet section in jazz history. Dubbed "The Biting Brass" by the music press, Griffin, Ziggy Elman and Harry James outshone the competition with their precision, powerful attack and bright, ferocious sound.
"Probably the greatest first trumpet player the New York Philharmonic ever had was a guy named Harry Glantz," said Griffin with a smile. "He was a friend of Benny's. He came in to hear the Benny Goodman band in the Paramount Theater. He got Benny's ear afterwards and he said, 'What the hell do you feed those trumpet players? Raw meat?'"
Admirers included Duke Ellington, who called them "the greatest trumpet section that ever was," and Glenn Miller, who referred to the section as "the marvel of the age."
All three members could solo and play lead. They memorized their parts, played matching Selmer trumpets, and tuned slightly sharp for a more brilliant sound. Nearly seventy years later it is still thrilling to hear their roar on classic recordings like "Roll 'Em," "Life Goes to a Party," and the Stravinsky-inspired frenzy, "Sing, Sing, Sing." In vintage footage they toss out their valve hands with a flourish, point their bells high and rip through their parts with the proud nonchalance of young men who know they are the best at what they do.
Harry James and Ziggy Elman were larger-than-life characters and very extroverted players. James had been raised in a Texas circus band and had learned to play jazz in territory groups, proving himself in one roadhouse after another. Elman had cut his teeth in the nightclubs and ballrooms along the boardwalk of Atlantic City when it was fast and frantic.
"And then there was me, a poor farm boy, sitting between these two guys," said Griffin with typical self-deprecating humor. "I never sought after, nor did I get, very much publicity," says Griffin about his role as "the quiet one" in the section. And yet he had far more experience in the big time than either James or Elman. Before joining Goodman he was a member of both the Charlie Barnet and Joe Haymes orchestras. He toured with Rudy Vallee and Willard Robison, and soloed on recordings of Barnet, Mildred Bailey and early Teddy Wilson/Billie Holiday sides. He replaced the mythic Jack Purvis in the Haymes band and filled Bunny Berigan's seat in the CBS studio orchestra. This by the time he was twenty.
However, Griffin was never a showman like Elman and James who both soloed in flashy, Armstrong-influenced styles. Griffin was always more interested in melody, his solo style closer to the lyricism and restraint of Bix Beiderbecke. In the "killer-diller" Goodman band it made sense that Griffin handled the bulk of the lead parts, directing the entire orchestra with his high, clear tone and solid rhythmic sense while most of the solos went to the others, especially James.
"When he first joined the band we were at the Pennsylvania Hotel," says Griffin. "He came in and the first solo he played...it was just remarkable. It was as if he had stored that solo as an opening to an act. But the rest of the night he played equally, if not better. He just had this remarkable new style that no one had ever attained before. He was a great, great player."
And then there was Elman: "A super ego. And he backed up everything that he bragged about by doing it and doing it well. He wasn't as talented ... as Harry, but he almost attained Harry's showmanship, simply by the bravado of his playing."
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Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and Imagine Dragons lead the nominations for the inaugural iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Rihanna leads the pack with seven nods across five categories, including artist of the year, song of the year and best collaboration -- she competes against herself in the latter two with her Mikky Ekko-assisted ballad "Stay" going up against "The Monster," her duet with Eminem.
Timberlake scored five nominations, including artist of the year, and like Rihanna he is nominated twice in the collaboration category for two singles with Jay Z (comeback single "Suit & Tie" and Jay's "Holy Grail").
Despite a breakout year that yielded them a bounty of Grammys, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are up for only two honors.
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The Seattle hip-hop duo landed in the artist of the year race and will compete for new artist alongside Florida Georgia Line, Icona Pop, Lorde, Passenger and Imagine Dragons, which scored four nods.
Other categories include honors for top songs by genre (country, hip-hop/R&B, EDM, alternative rock), best lyrics -- the only time "Wrecking Ball," "I Love It" and "Same Love" will ever be mentioned in the same breath -- and best fan army, a category that surprisingly doesn't feature Justin Bieber or One Direction's rabid fan bases.
Even more shocking? That this fan-voted award show doesn't feature Bieber or One Direction in the running for anything.
Last month, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment announced that it had gotten into the overcrowded awards business. The radio conglomerate teamed with NBC for the three-hour, fan-voted show, which will set up at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Clear Channel has yet to announce performers, but it promises the telecast will "showcase this year's biggest artists and songs and feature live performances, never-before-done duets and collaborations, celebrity guest appearances and live award presentations."
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Nominations were based on results from the newly minted iHeartRadio Chart, which pulled listener feedback and performance data, digital streaming data from the iHeartRadio platform (including custom station creations) and tags from Shazam and BigChampagne. The data were compiled by Mediabase from the last 12 months.
The iHeartRadio Music Awards are scheduled to air May 1 on NBC at 8 p.m. Pacific time.
Full list of nominations below:
Artist of the year:
Imagine Dragons
Justin Timberlake
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Maroon 5
Song of the year:
"Hold On We're Going Home" -- Drake ft. Majid Jordan
"Mirrors" -- Justin Timberlake
"Radioactive" -- Imagine Dragons
"Stay" -- Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko
"The Monster" -- Eminem ft. Rihanna
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"Holy Grail" -- Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake
"Stay" -- Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko
"Suit & Tie" -- Justin Timberlake ft. Jay Z
"The Monster" -- Eminem ft. Rihanna
"Timber" -- Pitbull ft. Kesha
New artist:
Florida Georgia Line
Icona Pop
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Country song of the year:
"Boys 'Round Here" -- Blake Shelton
"Highway Don't Care" -- Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift
"It Goes Like This" -- Thomas Rhett
"Mine Would Be You" -- Blake Shelton
"That's My Kind of Night" -- Luke Bryan
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Hip-hop/R&B song of the year:
"Blurred Lines" -- Robin Thicke ft. T.I. & Pharrell
"Hold on We're Going Home" -- Drake ft. Majid Jordan
"Holy Grail" -- Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake
"Pour It Up" -- Rihanna
"Started From The Bottom" -- Drake
EDM song of the year:
"Get Lucky" -- Daft Punk ft. Pharrell
"Stay the Night" -- Zedd ft. Hayley Williams
"Summertime Sadness" -- Lana Del Rey ft. Cedric Gervais
"Sweet Nothing" -- Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch
"Wake Me Up" -- Avicii
Alternative rock song of the year:
"Demons" -- Imagine Dragons
"Do I Wanna Know?" -- Arctic Monkeys
"Pompeii" -- Bastille
"Royals" -- Lorde
"Safe and Sound" -- Capital Cities
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"Wake Me Up" -- Avicii (Vocals by Aloe Blacc)
"I Love It (ft. Charli XCX)" -- Icona Pop
"Say Something" -- A Great Big World
"Same Love" -- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
"Wrecking Ball" -- Miley Cyrus
Fan army:
Arianators -- Ariana Grande
Little Monsters -- Lady Gaga
Lovatics -- Demi Lovato
Mahomies -- Austin Mahone
Rihanna Navy -- Rihanna
Swifties -- Taylor Swift
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