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Only Visiting This Planet (1972)
Original LP Release - Verve V6-5092
Note: This release came as either a tri-fold, or in more rare cases, a gatefold version.
Front Side
Back Side
LP Release - "Silver Label Version" Street Level ROCK-888-5
Note: Gospel Media is listed as the distributor. The rear cover has the Gospel Media address on Grandview drive at bottom left.
LP Release - "White Label Version" Street Level ROCK-888-5
Note: The rear cover does not show the Gospel Media address and has no other distribution information. The phrase, "a division of Street Level Productions, Inc." is appended to the Street Level address.
LP Release - Verve 2304-145
LP Release - Focus FS-1012
Note: This release came with either rainbow or yellow labels.
LP Release - "Peach or Apricot Version" Rhema RH-017
Note: The rear cover lists the distributor as Rhema and includes the Sydney address.
LP Release - "Tan Label Version" Rhema RH-017
Note: The rear cover lists the distributor as DTS and includes the Pennant Hills address.
LP Release - DTS RH-017
Note: The rear cover lists the distributor as DTS and includes the Pennant Hills address. Additionally, the catalog number is included in the upper right hand corner of both covers.
LP Release - Concorde RH-017
Note: The rear cover lists the distributor as DTS and includes the Pennant Hills address. Additionally, Concorde (Hastings address) is listed as the distributor in New Zealand.
LP Release - MGM 2315 135
Note: The rear cover displays the MGM logo and states that the album was marketed by Polydor.
LP Release - MGM/Verve 2315 135
Note: The front and rear covers display the MGM logo but the labels are Verve. The album was marketed by Trutone (Pty) Ltd.
LP Release - Myrrh MYR-1170
Note: The rear cover notes that the album was printed and make in England by Shorewood Packaging.
Original CD Release-Solid Rock 5699
CD Label
CD Release-Solid Rock SRD-005
CDR Release-Solid Rock SRD-005
CDR Label signed by Larry
CDR Label
CDR Release-"The Compleat Trilogy" Solid Rock SRD-005
Note: First release of "The Compleat Trilogy" version.
CDR Release-"Maximum Planet" Solid Rock SRA-005
CDR Release-"The Compleat Trilogy-Volume One" Solid Rock SRDX-002
LP releases
USA Verve V6-5092 (1972) (black & blue labels)
USA Verve/MGM V6-5092 (1972)
USA Street Level ROCK-888-5 (1978) (white & silver labels)
USA Phydeaux ROCK-888-5 (1983?)
AUS Verve 2304 145 (1973)
AUS Focus FS-1012 (1973-75?) (yellow & multi color labels)
AUS Rhema RH-017 (1979) (apricot & tan labels)
NZ Concorde RH-017 (ca. 1979?)
SA MGM/Verve 2315 135 (1973)
UK Myrrh MYR-1170 (1984)
CD releases
USA Street Level 5699 (1993)
USA Solid Rock SRD-005 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 - twice, 2004)
USA Solid Rock SRA-005 (2004)
USA Solid Rock SRDX-002 (2008)
Cassette releases
USA Street Level/Solid Rock? (no number) (1998/99)
AUS Rhema RHC-017 (1979)
UK Myrrh MC-1170 (1984)
8 Track release
USA Street Level ROCK-5T (1978)
Single releases
USA Verve 10718: Readers Digest / Ive Got To Learn To Live
Without You (1972)
USA Verve 10720: Ive Got To Learn To Live Without You /
The Outlaw (1972)?
USA Verve 10720 (promo): Ive Got To Learn To Live Without
You (mono) / (stereo) (1972)
USA MGM 14351 (promo): Righteous Rocker, Holy Roller /
Peace, Pollution, Revolution (1972)
USA MGM 14351 (stock): Without love / Peace, Pollution,
Revolution (1972)
UK MGM 2006 105: Righteous Rocker, Holy Roller /
UK MGM 2006 143: Ive Got To Learn To Live Without You /
The Outlaw (1972)
UK MGM 2006 277: Readers Digest / I Wish We'd All Been
Ready (1973)
Song listing original LP
Side 1 Why Don't You Look Into Jesus
The Outlaw
I've Got To Learn To Live Without You
Without Love You Are Nothing
I Wish We'd All Been Ready
Side 2 Six O'clock News
The Great American Novel
Pardon Me
Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music
Reader's Digest
Oh, How I Love You
Not listed
Extra tracks on the CD releases
PeacePollutionRevolution (1971 single)
Righteous Rocker (rough mix)
The Outlaw (demo)
Digest (rock version)
Extra tracks on SRDX-002 CD release
Peacepollutionrevolution (Radio Single)
Righteous Rocker (Hard Rock Version)
♫ This album is part one of "The Trilogy," recorded in England (Air Studios, London). Some titles can be found on previous LPs but these are all new recordings. The Verve release came in a tri-fold cover first, then in a gatefold cover. The labels of the stock copies are black, blue or white. The white label versions also show the MGM logo.
♫ There are US LP re-issues on both Street Level and Phydeaux. The Street Level album was issued as a gatefold pre-release version (with a four side insert & a printed inner sleeve) and as a normal version with a regular cover and silver labels plus a lyrics insert (some were released through Gospel Media). There are two versions of four side insert, one is printed on normal paper, the other on "newspaper paper." There are also differences in the contents as the song listings given for the Trilogy box are not the same (!). See also the last note of both "So Long Ago The Garden" and "In Another Land."
♫ There's no difference between the Phydeaux version and the Verve version of "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" although there's mention of it on the inner sleeve of the gatefold pre-release Street Level version.
♫ The UK MGM & Myrrh releases have regular covers with inserts and feature the original album with "Oh, How I Love You" which is not on the Street Level LP and the Phydeaux LP. On the Phydeaux cassette however, this song does appear! It's also on the CD releases. "Oh, How I Love You" is not listed on any "Only Visiting This Planet" release (but it's listed on "Home At Last"
♫ All Australian releases, except for the DTS release, feature the original album with "Oh, I Love You" (not on DTS). Focus, Rhema & DTS released the album with a gatefold cover. The Focus & Rhema releases came with two different labels (Focus: yellow and multicolor, Rhema: tan and apricot). The Verve pressing also came with a gatefold cover (black labels).
♫ The Street Level & Phydeaux releases have a slightly different song order with some title adaptations (most striking: "Righteous Rocker #1" instead of "Without Love You Are Nothing)." The 8 track tape has a more than slightly different song order.
♫ The extra CD track "PeacePollutionRevolution" can also be found on the Phydeaux reissue LP "So Long Ago The Garden" (on the CD it's some 15 seconds longer!) and it's also on MGM single 14351 (1971 is probably the year the song was recorded).
♫ The extra CD track "Digest" was probably recorded in the 80's. "The Outlaw" is also from a later date. "Righteous Rocker" is very similar to the version on "Larry Norman" on "Down Under (But Not Out)" (US mispress? cassette and Swedish LP), and on "The Best Of Larry Norman"; on this CD it fades into "Forget Your Hexagram" at the end.
♫ MGM single 14351 features what might be called "Righteous Rocker #2." It's almost, but not completely (!), the same as "Righteous Rocker #2" on the self-titled Australian album ("Larry Norman)." Now there's one odd thing and that is that the MGM single version was recorded in 1971 (MGM showed the year of recording in the master numbers, in this case: 71-L-3022)...
♫ The 1998/99 cassette features the CD version.
♫ The CD has been re-released several times, in 1999 (it says "1997" on the back but it was probably released in June 1999), in 2000 and again in 2001. The releases from 1999 and 2000 have the same (new) artwork. The artwork of the 2001 version has been changed again; the same happened with the 2003 versions, all of them are CD-Rs. According to the November 2003 newsletter, the second 2003 version has been re-balanced, re-equalized, and re-mastered.
♫ There's a tape release on GMI from the Netherlands called "Eigen wijs 2" that promotes gospel LPs released in 1983/84. Amongst these, Larry Norman's Phydeaux re-release of "Only Visiting This Planet" gets promoted.
♫ This album was number five in a series of fourteen albums, mentioned on the inner sleeve of "Something New Under The Son" (albums number nine through fourteen have not been released, see part II).
♫ A 3 LP boxed set containing albums #6, #7 & #8 and being titled "The Compleat Trilogy" (as mentioned on the insert of the Street Level reissue of "Only Visiting This Planet") has never been released. This boxed set should feature the trilogy as Larry Norman originally intended. The LP "Only Visiting This Planet" in this set should feature the complete version of "I Wish We'd All Been Ready."
All release information and notes courtesy of Robert Termorshuizen with updates by Jim Böthel.


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The Port Authority Bus Terminal, on Eighth Avenue just blocks from Times Square, is considered one of the ugliest buildings in all of New York City. But it looks like that's about to change… kind of. By the end of June, the Port Authority Bus Terminal's northeast facade on the corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue will be completely redesigned to boast a massive LED screen that will light up the boxy building a la Times Square.
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Erica doesn't care for consequences when her brother's life is at stake
Erica's premonitions help her track the killer
That shovel was put there for a reason
Toolbox behind the mausoleum could hold some useful things
Cognitive abilities can show you what killer was doing at a selected place
Windows version
Speeding toward the cemetery to thwart the serial killer's plans.
Using your smartphone.
Everything's locked... need to find a way inside the cemetery.
No time to go official, shooting the lock is the only way.
Erica Reed, the protagonist.
Erica has a special cognitive ability to see past events through her visions.
An angel with a shovel... the killer must've put it there, but it's stuck solid.
You can use hint system to highlight all the items on the screen you can interact with.
Taking the shovel embedded in the angel's hand.
Seems like the killer is watching your progress.
Erica is determined to save her brother, no matter the cost.
Shots came from inside, better thread light.
Erica is barely standing due to her injuries she had to endure in order to enter the mausoleum.
Erica's brother is trapped in a strange contraption.
Gotta find a way to set your brother free.
Cutting the wires in the reverse order will require your special ability.
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Cotton and Conquest
How the Plantation System Acquired Texas
By Roger G. Kennedy
Copyright © 2013 University of Oklahoma PressAll rights reserved.
Lineaments of Force
The Texians—as they were then called—declared their independence from Mexico in 1836 and formed a republic. Their republic gave up that independence in 1845 and merged into the United States, only to join the Confederacy early in 1861. Texans fought for both sides during the Civil War of 1861–65. Some of them were still fighting each other five weeks after Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his army surrendered to U.S. lieutenant general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. Lee's surrender left unprotected the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, and all those associated with his government in Richmond. Two Texans, Francis R. Lubbock and John H. Reagan, were among the small entourage accompanying Davis on his subsequent flight westward and then southward. Lubbock, the former governor of Texas, was serving as a military aide to Davis. Reagan, a former congressman, was acting secretary of the Confederate treasury. They got as far as Irwinville, Georgia, where on May 10, 1865, they were apprehended by a detachment of the U.S. Cavalry.
For those accustomed to reading commercial documents, the primary theme of the narrative you have now opened could be extrapolated from a folder of papers Reagan was carrying when he was frisked by the cavalry, and that was taken from him. Thousands of other Civil War mementos—caps, buckles, sabers, and spurs—are solemnly presented in Confederate museums today on shelf after shelf, but thousands of documents have disappeared, including "cotton acceptances," promises on the part of British and French merchants to the Confederate government, as assignee, of sums to be paid in Confederate money for shipments of contraband cotton through Mr. Lincoln's blockade. Such records thus represent the demands of an international textile trading system that dominated the economic life of the cotton states for half a century.
When read with a few annotations from economic and political history, these acceptances are as articulate as diaries, logbooks, newspaper accounts, or ledgers in setting forth the lineaments of force stretching across the Atlantic from the cotton fields of the American South to the textile mills of Britain and back again to the marts of trade in America. Those lineaments had brought the Confederacy into existence, and engendered the Civil War that ended the plantation system, with its enslaved workforce, its dispossession of Indians, and its insatiable appetite for land.
John Reagan was an agent of that system. He had resigned his seat in the U.S. Congress to join Davis's cabinet in the unglamorous role of postmaster general. He had emerged as a strong voice in its councils for the strategic importance of the West; in 1863 he alone opposed Robert E. Lee's commitment of the Confederacy's reserves to the invasion of the North that culminated at Gettysburg, urging instead that those reinforcements be rushed to succor the garrison besieged in Vicksburg by Grant. The Vicksburg garrison could not break Grant's siege, and nearly thirty thousand were starved into surrender.
Lee lost twenty-eight thousand at Gettysburg, and the Confederacy never fully recovered.
On Sunday, April 2, 1865, Reagan had arisen from a cot in the War Department to receive word from Lee that he could no longer sustain the defenses of Richmond against the battering of Grant's much superior forces. Reagan informed Davis and Lubbock, on their way to church, that the Confederate capital would have to be abandoned. Lee's telegram confirming his defeat and his decision to leave Richmond to Grant was brought to Davis during the service. Afterward, as Lee struggled to escape the convergence of Grant's armies, Davis, Reagan, Lubbock, and what was left of the Confederate government boarded a train bound westward and then southward down its only remaining rail link to the fragments remaining of the Confederate states. Reagan wrote many years later that, from the last rail station in Confederate hands, they hoped to ride to Florida and board a British ship that would take them to Texas.
Before Lee had surrendered his remaining 28,231 tattered, hungry, and exhausted men to Grant on April 8 at Appomattox Court House, 16,900 went into battle at Sailor's Creek against Grant's 36,500; the Cherokee war whoop that Texans had learned and made their own as the "Rebel Yell" was heard for the last time in Virginia; the canister and grapeshot tore through the onrushing ranks for the last time; bullets thudded into flesh, and cries of pain were heard for the last time; and the last hope of escape died. General John B. Gordon, commander of one of the few corps of Lee's infantry that could go into battle as a unit, reported that he had "fought my corps to frazzle." About 2,400 of Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry managed to break out of Grant's tightening cordon.
On the Gulf Coast the great cotton port of Mobile might once have been an aperture through which a fleeing Confederate government could have escaped, but on the day of Lee's surrender a besieging Federal army, including a division of U.S. Colored Troops, broke through the Confederate defenses, and a week later, on the day on which Lee's men were stacking their arms, Mobile surrendered.
Reagan burned all the treasury's Confederate bonds and notes and distributed all its gold and silver coins to pay the troops and to provide some relief to needy civilian refugees—$86,000 (U.S. dollars) in gold bullion and coins, plus $71,000 in silver coin and bullion—much of it gained from cotton sales to the British and French via Mexico. He had kept in his wallet the British acceptances after all, but a little coin and currency was left to him. Why did he bother? Those promises of payment were of doubtful use to soldiers straggling home in tattered grey uniforms: the cotton brokers who issued them had excellent lawyers and were unlikely to fulfill obligations to customers whose cause was irrecoverably lost. Reagan was an excellent historian, and he may have clung to those acceptances because he understood the long history inherent in them, culminating in the interaction of the nineteenth-century "Southern way of life" with the British way of life, statecraft, and commerce that had been maturing since the emergence of the English from their own colonial status in the Middle Ages. That long, slow emergence of a great economic power is chronicled in the next few chapters, together with an account of the collateral growth of French economic imperialism.
John Reagan may also have clung to those bankers' acceptances for their extra-economic value—the shipments they acknowledged had escaped the U.S. Navy along routes that his old friend "Rip" Ford had endeavored to keep open for four years. The last fought for the Confederacy, Ford's final battles were also Reagan and Ford's. When the Civil War came, the two men had been in midcareer, ambitious and accustomed to serving the planters' interests, though neither were cotton planters. Ford was born in 1815, Reagan in 1818, in Cherokee country in eastern Tennessee, on the northern flanks of the Great Smoky Mountains. Ford was trained as a doctor and Reagan as a lawyer, although in the 1830s, after they migrated to Texas, they worked as surveyors of cotton land and served as militiamen in campaigns to drive the Cherokees from territory coveted by the planters for cotton production. When the question of slavery came up for public debate, both made speeches in its defense that cause modern-day readers to wish they had chosen silence. And though both were apprehensive about the consequences of secession, they did not take a public stand against it.
Following his militia service in the 1830s, Reagan became a farmer and surveyor, studying law at night. After setting himself up in practice in Buffalo, Texas, he was elected a judge, then a state legislator, and in 1857, a Texas representative to the U.S. Congress as a Sam Houston Democrat. In 1860 he broke from Houston on the great question of secession. Reagan went with the tide, while Houston refused to accommodate and was forced from power. After his service to the Confederacy as postmaster general and as secretary of the treasury, and his capture by the U.S. Cavalry, Reagan was imprisoned on an island in Boston harbor with Alexander Stephens, the former Confederate vice president. He was released after urging his fellow Texans to accept the failure of secession. Thereafter, his advocacy of extending the suffrage to former slaves, and his practice of referring to the "Civil War," rather than the "War between the States," aroused the antipathy of Confederate diehards; he was nevertheless elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and then to the U.S. Senate. After returning from the Senate, he became railroad commissioner for Texas, with plenty of fight left in him. He put it into service of the ideals he had advanced in the Senate when championing an Interstate Commerce Commission. So, before he turned to memoir writing, the old man secured stiffer regulation of the Texas railroads carrying cotton to international markets.
When the cotton states sought to secede to form their own confederacy in 1861, they issued truculent declarations of independence, but in reality were accepting a condition of aggressive dependency. They proclaimed the entry of their new government into the ranks of sovereign powers, but in fact they were settling even more deeply into neocolonial dependence upon the British and French, and acquiescing to the demands of international markets.
Secession meant destruction of an uneasy, unstable, yet remarkably persistent equilibrium that had held together long enough to become the world in which Sam Houston, Rip Ford, and John Reagan had come to manhood, and in which they made their self-defining choices. When the cotton states destroyed that equilibrium, they brought an entire social structure down around them. And with that social structure went the familiar domestic scenes of mansion house and slave cabins, of cheroot-smoking, julep-drinking masters presiding from the verandah while under an unrelenting sun the black slaves harvested and hauled huge sacks of bolls.
The collapse of this system in the Civil War and Reconstruction years shook loose a multitude of arrangements, understandings, and mutual tolerances. For four years highland Southerners fought lowland Southerners, white Unionists fought white Confederates, blacks fought Indians and Indians fought other Indians, royalist Mexicans fought antiroyalist Mexicans, who fought Confederates. Mexicans sympathetic to or doing business with Confederates fought Unionists, some of whom were black, some "Anglo," some of Mexican descent. The violence spared no one. More than six hundred thousand young men died. Cities were reduced to rubble. Cotton fields became killing fields. Rich people became poor, and poor people destitute.
Slavery-based, Indian-dispossessing, European-dependent, cotton imperialism came to its final agonies along the Rio Grande, at its westernmost extremity, beyond which lay desert and Indian Territory. California glimmered on the sunset horizon as if on another continent. Southward was Mexico, still seething with resentment at the loss of half its territory in the wars of 1835–36 and 1846–48, the first against the Anglo-Texans, and the second against the United States. When the French invaders marched into Mexico City in 1859, they went about stoking that anger, encouraging talk of how an American civil war would offer an occasion to recover Texas. The failure of the French designs was largely attributable to the wisdom of Mexico's leader, Benito Juárez, who had no ambitions to lead his countrymen toward a reverse Manifest Destiny.
Cotton imperialism had come subtly into the Southland a half century earlier—as if emanating from mighty magnets situated in the British Midlands and the textile towns of northern France. Those magnets derived their power from whirling looms drawing ever more fibers into a nexus of force we may call "cotton pull," reinforced in the American South by "soil-exhaustion push." Pulled and pushed, masters and slaves were propelled westward, thrusting Indians out of their way. Indian removal was justified as a triumph of the civilized over savages, and justified as well according to the theology of "highest and best use." Thousands of Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Seminoles, and Chickasaws were killed or driven to the west. The non-Indian population in cotton-growing Alabama grew from 9,000 in 1810 to 130,000 in 1820 and to 600,000 in 1840. In Mississippi it increased from less than 5,000 in 1810 to 75,000 in 1820 and 380,000 in 1840; in Arkansas from 1,062 in 1810 to 4,300 in 1820 and 100,000 in 1840. The non-Indians living in Texas in 1825 numbered less than 3,500. A decade later, 30,000 of its 40,000 inhabitants were American settlers and their slaves. In 1850 the population of Texas was 213,000; after the frenetic cotton boom of the 1850s, it was 600,000.
Between 1790 and 1860, a million slaves were sold to planters in the West in interstate trade so profitable as to become one of the precipitating causes of the Civil War. In 1860, the cotton states once more threatened to leave the Union unless the North again offered portions of the public domain for slave-based agriculture, creating markets for the slave sellers. Those markets most recently opened to the slave merchants were those brought into the Union by the integration of Texas, and by its sequel, the war of conquest against Mexico. The lands of the Louisiana Purchase had been picked over by the 1840s: Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri produced wondrous crops of cotton; Texas would soon do even better.
Whether territories could grow cotton or not, when cut into states, they could grow senators. So the plantation system demanded not only new fields to conquer but also prevention of future threats from new Senate seats held by its antagonists. In 1860 the cotton states feared the loss of their effective control of the Senate and its capacity to restrict the interstate traffic in slaves. In his address to the Provisional Confederate Congress on April 29, 1861, Jefferson Davis was explicit that among "the evils with which they [the cotton states] were menaced" was that while they might continue to sell their cotton to the British and French, they would be unable to market their crop in human beings to new plantations in the West. Davis warned of the Lincoln administration's desire for "the total exclusion of the slave States from all participation in the benefits of the public domain acquired by ... conquest or purchase." Those benefits would be primarily the provision of a market for slaves. That, coupled with the exhaustion of the soil currently worked by the planters in the Old South, would have the effect of "rendering the property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless, and thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars."
Between 1790 and 1860 two agricultural systems, those of the North and the South, had raced westward as a healthy, energetic people, experienced in warfare and well armed, came over the Appalachians and saw before them land that might be easily acquired, cultivated, or sold at a profit. North and South, they went after it. The desire to make fresh beginnings, to establish some measure of individual independence, and to be rid of neighbors led to great movements of people and to additional demand for cotton clothing; new ginning machines expedited the removal of unwanted fibers and seeds from raw cotton; other new machines made the ginned fibers into cloth cleverly and cheaply; and only a relative few of the laborers in the fields were able to escape slavery. The rates of increase in demand for cotton clothing, the number of slaves at work on cotton plantations, and the number of acres of Indian lands put under cotton cultivation increased commensurately.
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Unemployment is universally recognized as a bad thing. While economists and academics make convincing arguments that there is a certain natural level of unemployment that cannot be erased, elevated unemployment imposes significant costs on the individual, the society and the country. Worse yet, most of the costs are of the dead loss variety where there are no offsetting gains to the costs that everyone must bear. (Depending on how it's measured, the unemployment rate is open to interpretation. Learn how to find the real rate. Check out The Unemployment Rate: Get Real.)
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The Costs to the Individual
The costs of unemployment to the individual are not hard to imagine. When a person loses his or her job, there is often an immediate impact to that person's standard of living. Prior to the Great Recession, the average savings rate in the U.S. had been drifting down towards zero (and sometimes below), and there are anecdotal reports that the average person is only a few weeks away from serious financial trouble without a paying job.
Even for those eligible for unemployment benefits and other forms of government assistance (like food assistance), it is often the case that these benefits replace 50% or less of their regular income. That means these people are consuming far less than usual. The economic consequences can go beyond just less consumption, though. Many people will turn to retirement savings in a pinch and draining these savings has long-term ramifications.
Prolonged unemployment can lead to an erosion of skills, basically robbing the economy of otherwise useful talents. At the same time, the experience of unemployment (either direct or indirect) can alter how workers plan for their futures - prolonged unemployment can lead to greater skepticism and pessimism about the value of education and training and lead to workers being less willing to invest in the long years of training some jobs require. On a similar note, the absence of income created by unemployment can force families to deny educational opportunities to their children and deprive the economy of those future skills.
Last but not least, there are other costs to the individual. Studies have shown that prolonged unemployment harms the mental health of workers, and can actually worsen physical health and shorten lifespans.
Costs to Society
The social costs of unemployment are difficult to calculate, but no less real. When unemployment becomes a pervasive problem, there are often increased calls for protectionism and severe restrictions on immigration. Protectionism can not only lead to destructive tit-for-tat retaliation among countries, but reductions in trade harm the economic well-being of all trading partners.
Other social costs include how people interact with each other. Studies have shown that times of elevated unemployment often correlate both with less volunteerism and higher crime. Elevated crime makes sense because absent a wage-paying job people may turn to crime to meet their economic needs or simply to alleviate boredom. The volunteerism decline does not have an obvious explanation, but could perhaps be tied to the negative psychological impacts of being jobless or perhaps even resentment at those who do not have a job.
Costs to the Country
The economic costs of unemployment are probably more obvious when viewed through the lens of the national checkbook. Unemployment leads to higher payments from state and federal governments for unemployment benefits (in excess of $320 billion through the end of 2010), food assistance, and Medicaid. At the same time, those governments are no longer collecting the same levels of income tax as before - forcing the government to borrow money (which defers the costs and impacts of unemployment into the future) or cut back on other spending (perhaps exacerbating the bad economic situation).
Unemployment is also a dangerous state for the U.S. economy. Over 70% of what the U.S. economy produces goes to personal consumption and unemployed workers. Even those getting government support cannot spend at prior levels. The production of those workers leaves the economy which reduces the GDP and moves the country away from the efficient allocation of its resources. For those who subscribe to Jean-Baptiste Say's theory that "products are paid for by products," that is a serious issue.
It is also worth noting that companies pay a price for high unemployment as well. Unemployment benefits are financed largely by taxes assessed on businesses. When unemployment is high, states will often look to replenish their coffers by increasing their taxation on businesses - counter-intuitively discouraging companies from hiring more workers. Not only do companies face less demand for their products, it is also more expensive for them to retain or hire workers.
The Bottom Line
Governments rightly fret about the consequences of inflation, but unemployment is likewise a serious issue. Apart from the social unrest and disgruntlement that unemployment can produce in the electorate, high unemployment can have a self-perpetuating negative impact on businesses and the economic health of the country.
Worse still, some of the worst effects of unemployment are both subtle and very long-lasting - consumer and business confidence are key to economic recoveries and workers must feel confident in their future to invest in developing the skills (and building the savings) that the economy needs to grow in the future. The costs of unemployment go far beyond the accumulated sums handed out as unemployment insurance benefits. (Preparation can help you land on your feet after getting the "old heave-ho." See Planning For Unemployment.)


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Building a Thin Green Line Along the West Coast
From California to British Columbia, environmentalists are gearing up for an epic fight against fossil fuel infrastructure
Despite a string of victories in the last few years limiting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure on the West Coast, Donald Trump's presidency shows it was never going to be easy to defeat the oil and gas industry.
In two months, Trump has moved to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipeline routes that had been blocked by the Obama administration, expedite environmental reviews for infrastructure projects, and reverse fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. He is expected to reverse environmental regulation policies established under President Obama, including the Clean Power Plan, and will not likely adhere to the commitments of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Republicans in Congress have followed suit, voting to kill two regulations passed in the waning days of the Obama administration: the Stream Buffer Rule, which prohibits coal companies from dumping toxic waste into an estimated 6,100 miles of streams; and a Bureau of Land Management rule that directs energy companies to capture natural gas from drilling operations on public lands rather than allowing them to burn or vent it into the atmosphere, where it's heat-trapping potential is 84 times that of carbon dioxide.
For now, the situation is "scary," says Mia Reback, a climate justice organizer with 350 PDX in Portland, Oregon. At the same time, she said, Trump has sparked "a groundswell of people coming into the climate justice movement who are looking to strategically and thoughtfully take action to create political change." At her organization alone, orientation attendance has increased tenfold since the election.
All along the West Coast, environmentalists are gearing up for an epic fight. Advocates of a clean energy economy talk of building a "thin green line" from California to British Columbia to protect and improve on gains against the spread of fossil fuel infrastructure so that the production, use, and export of oil, coal, and natural gas steadily decline.
The fronts in this war are multiplying—along pipelines and rail lines, in the courts and media, through finance and all levels of government—even as an emboldened fossil fuel industry tries to roll back gains for climate justice and revive …more
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Awe and Wonder for Sale
Our public lands, now under siege, offer space for quiet reflection, contemplation, and renewed faith in our agency
After three days wandering off trail along the Continental Divide, we reached the beating heart of wild America. Before us: the headwaters of the Yellowstone River, an elk's bugle from the point farthest from a paved road in the lower-48. Less than halfway into our weeklong, eighty-mile journey through northwest Wyoming, we'd already encountered more wildlife than we had seen in years of backcountry travel.
Photo by Tim Lumley
It was our layover day, time to climb to the sacred source of the Yellowstone and trade our fifty-plus pound packs for something a little lighter. I'd dreamed of this moment. The previous night's thunderstorm — the type that makes you wonder if you'll live to see another day — had left me sleepless and on edge.
Blue skies beckoned beyond our frost-covered tent. We struck out with high hopes across wide-open terrain. It wasn't long before the tables turned. At a saddle before our final push, a brown giant peered down at us, only a hundred yards upslope. Our hearts pounded. Hump distinctly visible, the bear woofed, turned, and ambled out of sight. It was the fourth grizzly of the trip. We scanned for additional critters. Should we continue?
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Many Americans would wonder what my wife and I were doing on that remote mountainside, dozens of miles from pavement, no one to call for help. But here in the West — and everywhere public lands are found — we feel the pull of empty spaces on the map. In the wild, our terror is our joy. Our isolation is our freedom. Refugees from modern civilization, we search for spiritual renewal, exercising our God-given quads in pursuit of our inalienable rights. For some, an experience like this might happen once-in-a-lifetime. For others, it's a weekly ritual.
Our American birthright is 640-million acres of public land that belong to you and me. On April 15 — tax day — we make a mortgage payment on this land. Every time we fill a glass of water, cast a fly, or bask in alpine splendor, we reap the rewards of ownership.
As Westerners, public lands are where many of us live life to the fullest. Republican or Democrat, if we are lucky enough to enjoy these corners of wild America, our prized memories often harken …more
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Coal in 'Freefall' as New Power Plant Construction Dives by Two-Thirds
Report says move to cleaner energy in China and India is discouraging the building of coal-fired units
The amount of new coal power being built around the world fell by nearly two-thirds last year, prompting campaigners to claim the polluting fossil fuel was in freefall.
The dramatic decline in new coal-fired units was overwhelmingly due to policy shifts in China and India and subsequent declining investment prospects, according to a report by Greenpeace, the US-based Sierra Club, and research network CoalSwarm.
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The report said the amount of new capacity starting construction was down 62 percent in 2016 on the year before, and work was frozen at more than a hundred sites in China and India. In January, China's energy regulator halted work on a further 100 new coal-fired projects, suggesting the trend was not going away.
Researchers for the groups said a record amount of coal power station capacity was also retired globally last year, mostly in the US and EU, including Scotland closing its last one.
One of the reasons for the fall in new plants was that too much capacity had been built in recent years, particularly in China.
Tim Buckley, director of energy finance studies at the IEEFA, a pro-green energy thinktank, said the falling demand for coal power in China and India and plans to curtail new power stations shows that the world has overestimated the need for the fossil fuel.
The report, which tracked power stations through publicly available information, company reports, and satellite imagery, said 65GW of new coal-fired units had started construction between January 2016 and January 2017, down 62 percent on the 170GW the year before. Most coal power stations are around 1GW or greater in capacity.
Lauri Myllyvirta, a Beijing-based energy analyst at Greenpeace and author of the report, said the fall in China was largely down to government policy to clean up air pollution and encourage clean energy. That policy shows no sign of stopping — at the weekend, Beijing ordered its last coal-fired power plant to close in a bid to improve the capital's air quality.
Myllyvirta said that in India the decline was down to slower-than-expected growth in energy demand, and renewable energy projects being installed rapidly.
Paul Massara, the former chief executive of RWE Npower …more
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Oman's Search for Renewable Energy Sources
In a region better known for oil, the Middle Eastern nation is beginning to look for alternatives
Perched over the Strait of Hormuz and above the 17 million oil barrels that sail through it each day, the Sultanate of Oman is something of a regional outlier. Nestled among a cluster of hydrocarbon-producing heavyweights, Oman might appear unlikely as a burgeoning champion of renewable energy. Yet the Middle Eastern nation is embarking on a search for new sources to fuel the country's future energy needs.
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For decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates — have financed ambitious programs for urban development and modernization via enormous oil and gas revenues. Collectively, these states possess roughly a third of proven global oil reserves. They are also six of the thirteen worst per capita CO2 emitters in the world, each producing more carbon dioxide per person than the United Kingdom, Russia, or China.
Oman cannot, however, rely on the same fossil fuel resources as its opulent neighbours. For starters, Oman's oil stocks pale in comparison to the GCC giants: it would take 50 Oman's to eclipse Saudi Arabia's cache of existing crude stocks. Oil reserves in Oman are generally more difficult to access, more expensive to exploit, and are also likely to run dry within 40 years (while emirates like Abu Dhabi are expected to be able to produce for another century).
Oman's gas policy is also unsustainable. Gas accounts for 97.5 percent of the country's fuel used for power generation. Despite possessing vast quantities of natural gas, domestic needs regularly outstrip production. As a result, the government is forced to import billions of cubic meters of gas from Qatar each year to cover a national deficit.
Additionally, the country's growing population, which is both youthful and well educated, is driving demand for new housing developments and increased living standards. This is placing greater strain on the national power grid and leading to widespread blackouts. Indeed, in 2014, the power system in Oman's second largest city of Salalah — serving roughly 350,000 people — experienced a total system blackout for almost five hours. Similar blackouts occur more regularly in regional areas reliant on diesel generators, which account for the remaining 2.5 percent of fuel used for electricity production. To meet expected demand, the system that …more
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US Needs to Massively Scale Up Forest Protection to Tackle Climate Change
Logging reduces potential forest sink by over a third, hampering critical action to curb global warming, says new report
Of the many sources of carbon emissions the United States must reduce in order to thwart climate change, the most surprising may be its forests. According to a new report out today, logging in US forests reduces the potential forest carbon sink by over a third, preventing critical action on climate change.
If the US is serious about solving the climate crisis and providing communities a safety net against extreme weather events, it needs to scale-up its forest protection substantially, says the report, The Great American Stand: US Forests and the Climate Emergency, released by the conservation group Dogwood Alliance on the International Day of Forests.
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Understanding the scope of CO2 emissions from deforestation and forest degradation requires a long view.
The report estimates that 60 percent of the carbon emitted from logging between 1700-1935 has yet to be recovered from the atmosphere. This makes planting trees today to mitigate current emissions from fossil fuels problematic — trees planted today cannot be viewed as offsetting fossil fuel emissions when the US has yet to offset carbon emissions from past logging, the report says.
"We need to reduce emissions from logging in the US and massively scale up the amount of carbon stored in our forests in the next 20 to 30 years," to reach negative emissions and curb the worst effects of climate change, says Danna Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Dogwood Alliance and co-author of the report.
The US is the largest producer and consumer of wood products in the world. From 2000 to 2012, forests in the Southeastern US experienced four times the rate of disturbance from logging as South American rainforests. And yet, the logging industry still boasts that US forests sequester 11 to 13 percent of US carbon emissions each year. "We hear this all the time… as if this is something to be proud of," laments Smith. Considering that the global average for carbon sequestration by forests is 25 percent, it is apparent that the US has a lot of catching up to do.
Currently, logging in the US is reducing the capacity of US forests to store carbon by …more
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Grizzlies in Jeopardy
Proposal to remove Yellowstone bears from Endangered Species Act is premature
The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to delist grizzlies from the protection of the Endangered Species Act in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The basic rationale for delisting is that the geographical distribution of bears has increased, particularly in areas south and east of Yellowstone Park, as well as population growth.
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But there is a debate about whether this is enough to justify delisting, and more worrisome, is whether the bear's continued population growth is really ensured.
At best, there may be 700 grizzlies in the entire Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. While this may seem like a large number, consider that grizzlies are a tournament species. That is, a few large, dominant males, do the bulk of all breeding — hence reducing the overall genetic diversity in the population.
Many geneticists believe a viable population of 2500 to 5000 bears is necessary for the long-term survival of the species. This can only be accomplished if the Yellowstone bears' numbers increase and are eventually connected to other bear populations further north as part of a larger metapopulation.
There has been increasing mortality of female grizzlies in recent years for reasons that may be related to climate change — to be discussed in a minute. But higher mortality of females is critical since they are the source of new bears in the population.
The major argument against delisting has to do with a significant decline in Yellowstone grizzly food sources.
Whitebark pine, which has nutritious seeds, and which bears, particularly female bears, relied upon, have declined significantly due to bark beetles. The increase in bark beetle mortality in whitebark pine is attributed to global warming. As temperatures continue to rise we can only imagine even greater mortality in whitebark pine populations and loss of a major food source for grizzlies.
A second loss has been cutthroat trout. Bears used to feed upon spawning trout in tributaries to Yellowstone Lake, much as coastal brown bear feed on salmon. Lake trout, which prey upon cutthroat, were introduced into Yellowstone Lake and caused a major decline in cutthroat trout populations to the point where few to no bears feed on spawning trout any longer.
A third loss is meat. In the past, elk numbers were higher, and many elk died in winter due to starvation. This provided bears, …more
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When Building Sustainable Societies, There's No Better Guide than the Human Scale
We need to fashion communities such that individuals become neighbors and lovers instead of just acquaintances and ciphers
It can be fairly objected that every age has its crises and so far the ingenuity of the human brain or the capacity of human society has been able to solve, or appear to solve, most of them. No matter how problems have grown in the past they have not interfered with the sort of growth that has characterized Western civilization in the modern period. But that lesson from the past disguises one important fact of the present: our crises now proceed, like the very growth of our systems, exponentially.
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"During the past two centuries," in the words of M. King Hubbert, the prescient geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey, "we have known nothing but exponential growth, and we have evolved what amounts to an exponential growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth."
Obviously the solutions to these crises, even when they are identified and tried, have done nothing to diminish the impact of exponential growth, and indeed the solutions turn out to be problems, or generate unforeseen problems, as often as not. That is why it is necessary to turn in a totally different direction with a totally different mindset and expectation—a way, as I will show you, to the human scale.
It is now obvious that the way we have been going, particularly for the last 25 years, has plunged us into multiple environmental and social crises, and going on in that direction invites, if it does not guarantee, civilization's collapse within the next 25. That is no exaggeration: as Pope Francis said in his June 2015 encyclical, "Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain."
So to save our planet and its civilizations we must move in an opposite direction, we must work toward the decentralization of institutions, the devolution of power, and the dismantling of all large-scale systems that have created or perpetuated the current crises. In their place, smaller, more controllable, more efficient, more sensitive, people-sized units, rooted in local environments and guided by local citizens. That is the human-scale alternative.
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Baroque Gestures Activity Students learn about the importance of gestures in baroque opera through viewing and practicing them. Goals: to teach students that baroque opera involved body movement as well as music, and that physical motion and musical material were intimately linked in the 17th and 18th centuries to demonstrate how stage gesture can affect one's interpretation of an opera scene. Class: Music 97a: Music History and Repertory: Medieval to Baroque Read more about Baroque Gestures Activity roule_email_instructions_part_1.docx roule_email_instructions_part_2.docx Comments
Roman Numeral Analysis and Class Game Students practice and review the fundamental skills of Roman numeral analysis through a competitive question/answer game. Read more about Roman Numeral Analysis and Class Game Comments
Sounding China This was a semester long project. Throughout the semester, graduate students (many of whom had little previous exposure to the course material) studied the history of Chinese music theory, the Jesuit missionaries who transmitted it back to western Europe, and the reception of Chinese culture there in the 18th century. The website commemorating the exhibit and giving more information can be found at hcs.harvard.edu/soundingchina Read more about Sounding China Comments
Theme and Variations: Understanding Musical Style This activity took place as part of an ongoing study of the various conventional forms in Classical music (sonata, concerto, etc.), and also contributed to a larger, semester-long conversation about the ways in which we deal with the nebulous concept of "style" in music. Coming into the class itself, students possessed a basic knowledge of musical rudiments such as melody and harmony. For this particular activity, students had already been introduced to the idea of a "Theme and Variations" form, and had listened to several examples. Read more about Theme and Variations: Understanding Musical Style czerny1848_chapter4_variations_mus150.pdf Comments
World Music YouTube Culture Show Dr. Michael Heller created this project for a World Music Class for International Students taught at University of Massachusetts, Boston. Students were encouraged to develop traditional academic skills and new media skills in this World Music YouTube Culture Show Project, by incorporating written word, public speaking, and storytelling tools like Zeega, Powerpoint, or Meograph in this project. Read more about World Music YouTube Culture Show midterm_presentation.docx Comments
Producing a Musical Exhibition Graduate students in Anne Shreffler's seminar, "The Fromm Foundation and Contemporary Music in the United States," collaborate during the semester to produce an exhibition in the Loeb Music Library entitled, Composing the Future: The Fromm Foundation and the Music of Our Time. Read more about Producing a Musical Exhibition fromm_syllabus.docx Comments
Live String Quartet Performances In Anne Shreffler's freshman seminar on Beethoven's String Quartets, students in the class perform excerpts from the music being studied in practically every class. Read more about Live String Quartet Performances beethovens_string_quartets_syllabus.doc Comments
Stravinski Chord Compositions In gen ed course "First Nights," students invent their own chords and rhythms based on Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" in order to to better describe the way in which the piece was composed by experiencing that composition themselves. Read more about Stravinski Chord Compositions Comments
One-Minute Musicals In gen ed course, Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 31: American Musicals and Culture, students in Luci Mok's section present one-minute summaries of musicals to engage with the main plot and show that they have seen it. Read more about One-Minute Musicals Comments


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Was chatting to my buddy Rob Foster recently and he was slagging me off for not pointing to the SharePoint Pod Show we recently recorded. So here for you listening pleasure (ahem!) is a discussion about the MCM program, some classic mistakes for SharePoint deployments and even a little bit of cricket!
SharePoint MCM, Top 3 mistakes, and User Profile Sync discussion with Spencer Harbar-Episode 63
Spence, Enjoyed the Pod Cast (and your class).The Top 3 Things 'you can do but doesn't mean you should be doing' are really good.


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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band
Horses in the Sky
US: 22 Mar 2005
UK: 18 Apr 2005
Last December a friend of mine lost a sister and spent the four or five days crying her eyes out instead of sleeping, gradually falling in on herself. Upon discovering that A Silver Mt Zion were playing that Thursday evening, I remembered listening to their debut, He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms, while lying on my bed with my eyes shut a few years ago. This being in university shared housing, I was jerked out of my glacial reverie by the words of a German exchange student wandering into my room: "How can you listen to that, it's horrible… so unbelievably sad… I can't stand it." In truth, their (then purely instrumental) music, for all that it lacked the orchestral furore of father act Godspeed You! Black Emperor, was even then nigh unbearably poignant; slow and sumptuous sonic cradles for the shattered that offered no solace save beauty.
Despite not being particulary keen on their third and most recent album, which had fleshed out both the band's sound and its name, appending the '...Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band', I decided that their performing would probably rip every last shred of misery out of my friend in one shuddering rush; catharticism by combat, if you will. Having bought two tickets and eventually cajoled her into joining me at the gig, I was confident that the change of surroundings would help a little even if things turned out to be musically disagreeable and we had to get drunk in order to ignore the band. Initially the rawness of their playing and frontman Efrim's singing—two songs in he would apologise for the disordered performance, claiming that they were learning the new songs by playing them on the tour, something reiterated by the booklet of the tour's end product, this album—had me thinking I'd made a terrible mistake, especially as lyrics seemed to be more concerned with angry punk politicking than regret and remembrance.
However, after the scouring of our ears and attention things became softer, choral chants emerging over cello lines as a more reflective side to the music emerged, the intensity of the musicians' emotional presence having a deeply hypnotic effect on the now rapt, motionless audience. And then, towards the end of what is now the title track of this new record, Efrim uttered the words "All that true love/is the light/in my sister's darling eyes" into silence, only for it to be taken up and repeated with palpably increasing volume, tenderness and loss. Slowly turning to look at my friend confirmed that tears were streaming down her face, yet her eyes were bright and her lips captured a tiny smile. I hugged her; I felt like Judas, I felt like Jesus, I had betrayed and destroyed, I had saved and rescued. Later, the band would end their encore, "Hang On To Each Other (...and every fucking thing you love)", to a veritable explosion of applause and foot stomping by an audience ripped apart and then reassembled with their hearts beating as one.
Silver Mt Zion make music of extremes; very simple, inordinately miserable, utterly emotionally invasive, performed with such total, galvanising conviction that it's terrifying at times. Efrim's singing is slightly less corrosive on record, but there are moments when his anguish rips through his voice as though it were a shank twisting violently in his chest; those to whom Connor Oberst sounds overwraught will not find safe harbour here. Nor is this music for those seeking the Linus' pop comforter of a Snow Patrol or a Coldplay: here, freedom has come and gone, "our schools look like prisons/and our prisons look like malls/and downtown's just a sick parade/where no-one cares/at all." Here, armies play endless games of retribution with piles of corpses as counters, though nothing can make death pay back what we lose, and Efrim asks "Who among us will avenge Ms. Nina Simone?" Here, wonder is sunlight reflecting off a helicopter gunship as its chaingun "cuts a man in two". Here, walls of static and distortion intermittently overwhelm tremulous vocals, piano and strings as humanity is revealed as horribly vulnerable, with only the distant loveliness of the stars to warm it against an infinity of silent, dying space. Here is the reality of mortality, somewhere between suicide and surrender, that Silver Mt Zion face with unwavering, courageous devotion. Here their purity has produced an album of tremendous power that only occasionally (as on the Kanada-denying "Teddy Roosevelt's Guns") loses its focus to pained posturing that the musical backing, stretched thin, cannot back up. Here, we hang on to each other for comfort before dying. It's enough.
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Strong finishes have Mott hockey team off to steaming hot start
By Jason Carmel Davis
Posted January 22, 2014
WARREN — Warren Mott hockey coach Rob Pomaville said he knew heading into the season that "scoring would not be a problem."
So far, he's absolutely right, as the Marauders were leading the entire MAC in scoring.
The Marauders were 12-2 overall, 1-1 in the MAC Blue, at press time. In 10 of its wins, Mott has scored at least five goals. The Marauders, who have also won two tournaments this season — in Birmingham and Grand Rapids — have tallied at least seven goals five times and lit the lamp eight times in three games. In total, Mott has notched 82 goals, one more Romeo (MAC White). The next closest teams — Macomb Dakota, St. Clair Shores United and Marysville — all had scored 55 goals at press time.
Pomaville said a big reason for his team's success is the addition of seven new players, which has given the Marauders depth on its lines. With 10 games left in the regular season, Mott has already surpassed last season's win total of eight.
Pomaville said a great group of seniors has led the way, including forwards Brandon Mezuk and Shane Mackin. Pomaville called them two of the most talented and hardest working players he's ever coached.
"Last season, (Mezuk and Mackin) were among the leaders in the state as far as scoring goals, and they're on pace to score even more points than they did last season," Pomaville said. Pomaville also said senior defenseman Troy Ross, and senior forwards Tyler Combs and Colin Richtarcik have also exhibited the will to win.
"Those guys have worked their rear ends off for this team to win this year. I hope this senior leadership rubs off on the underclassmen for the future success of the team."
While Mott's ability to score was never in doubt, Pomaville said stopping the opposition is something that needs to improve. The Marauders have allowed 62 goals through 14 games.
Mott has started slow, Pomaville said, and it shows, as the team has been outscored in the first and second period this season.
"(Coming into the season), I knew we needed to work on our team defense," Pomaville said. "With the amount of goals we've given up, it's hard to believe we have improved on the defensive side of the ice, but we have."
Defense will be key if Mott is to continue its winning ways, Pomaville said. He said every player — not just defensemen — must step up his play on the defensive end. Pomaville said his team right now makes too many bad passes, which lead to turnovers in their end. Turnovers put more pressure on goalkeepers — junior John Chmielewski and sophomore Kevin Lalik.
Mott is eyeing a division title, which would be the program's first since the 2010-11 season. Pomaville said Anchor Bay is the class of the MAC Blue. Anchor Bay (2-0 in division play press time) knocked off Mott 9-1 Dec. 18 at Anchor Bay. The teams' second meeting took place after press time.
"It was a close game through two periods, but we fell apart in the third," Pomaville said. "We're going to continue to work hard and try to compete in every game. We'll give it our best shot at competing with Anchor Bay for the (division title)."
Mott next hits the ice for a matchup with Troy Athens, set for 6 p.m. Jan. 24 at Viking Arena in Hazel Park.
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Staff Writer Jason Carmel Davis covers prep sports throughout Macomb County. Jason has worked for C & G Newspapers since 2011 and graduated from Michigan State University.
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As much as we like to shoot away with our digital cameras while on holiday, the classic travel snap, locked away in a photograph album or, more likely these days, on a laptop, is rarely appreciated as it could or should be.
We spend months planning and saving for holidays. Then, as soon as we return, most of us are guilty of moving on to the next thing without stopping to really enjoy the memories. Nor do we sufficiently exploit anything we might have brought back from the trip, be it a digital snap of an exotic sunset, or a token souvenir.
There are much better ways to record your favourite holiday memories, such as creating artwork which you can display at home and admire every day.
Crispin Finn is a collaborative project by graphic artists Anna Fidalgo and Roger Kelly. The pair describe themselves as hoarders and have collected a large and unusual selection of ephemera from their travels, ranging from bar bills to soda bottles, playing cards, a bowling pin and a foam Statue of Liberty hat.
"Once these items are all home, away from their usual context, they create a unique and vivid travelogue of places and moments that we can both look back on and cherish," explains Anna.
They also take lots of photographs whenever they're away, but find these are just as likely to capture mundane everyday objects such as food wrappers and supermarket shelf displays as the traditional holiday images of smiling friends and family.
Crispin Finn creates screen prints and fabric and paper goods in a simple and striking palette of red, white and blue. They have brought together some of these items from their travels in a series of prints called "Pack Rat", which, says Anna, describes people who "engage in the excessive acquisition of possessions, even if the items are worthless".
The Pack Rat designs are £40 for a 38cm x 48cm print, but Crispin Finn also does commissions.
Artist Helen Bridges also records her travels in her work, in particular extended periods visiting family in California. The intention is for her multi-layered prints to tell a story and evoke memories rather than capture a single moment.
When travelling, she'll take hundreds of photographs and use more than one of these images in each work, as well as text such as song lyrics and other items to evoke historical or cultural memories of the location. With a commission, clients might bring their own photographs and she will discuss what she can add to create a fuller narrative with the final piece.
If you want to keep your own photograph but turn it into a more prominent piece, transforming it into a piece of wallpaper for a single wall is one option. Julie Henwood and her husband used to live in Stockholm where this is a popular trend, and brought the idea back to the UK with them with their company Better Wallpaper. They can make paper out of a single image or create collages out of a selection of snaps, from £40 per sq metre.
For a complete DIY job, turn your photographs into postcards while still on holiday with the Simply Postcards app, which you can use from an iPhone or iPad or online. The app is free, all you have to do is choose the image and add a personal message. Then the Simply Postcards team will print and mail your card the very next day. The postcards cost about £15 for 10. Either send them to family and friends or post them to yourself, adding faraway verisimilitude to your snapshot souvenirs.
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Another bumper week for tunes, so much out there to enjoy everyone!
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The Soul Faderz - In The Moment (Telmo Remix) - Oh So Coy Recordings
DJ Sneak and Phil Weeks pres. Bubba Beats and Kid Piston - Robsoul Recordings
Soulight - Don't Leave Me - DeepClass Records
EV Darko - Time Train (Deep Spelle Remix) - DP-6 Records