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Posted: August 13 2010 at 11:14
Picchio Dal Pozzo does not really need an introduction. Their debut album is one of the greatest albums in the progressive rock genre. It is a truly incredible album and a must have for any music lovers.
Although Picchio Dal Pozzo are an Italian band, they are widely accepted as being a Canterbury scene band. A position their other releases cemented. Their music has been described as romantically melodic overtones, swiftly implemented time signatures and jazzy interplay in concert with the proverbial peaks, valleys, knotty twists and circuitous turns. I just call their music great.
It is therefore with great pleasure I bring you this exclusive interview with Paolo Griguolo from Picchio Dal Pozzo.
What is Picchio Dal Pozzo up to these days ?
Well, we could say we're slowly wakin' up after a long sleep. The very restart was in 2002, when we met again (Aldo De Scalzi, Aldo Di Marco, Claudio Lugo and me:the 'survivors') and recorded [email protected] valdapozzo. After this recording session, we had few gigs as a quartet, playing only material out of this album. The feeling was great, so we dedided, in 2008, to take the chance offered by Yugen, a prog band from Milan, and set up the official come-back of PdP. The live CD of this concert will be published and available in few months, the title is a_live. Now we're rehearsing with a new line-up and will be ready for the beginning of this summer: Aldo De Scalzi (voice, keybds, wx7 and alto-sax), Aldo Di Marco (drums), Paolo Griguolo (guitars, flute), Dado Sezzi (percussions), Edmondo Romano (soprano-sax, flutes, bagpipes), Massimo Trigona (bass), Luca Cresta (keybds).
Picchio Dal Pozzo was born in Italy in 1973. Who started the band, which bands influenced you and why did you choose Picchio Dal Pozzo as your band-name ?
Aldo De Scalzi, Andrea Beccari, Giorgio Karaghiosoff and me met at ground school when we were 6 years old, we were schoolmates. We used to play in the small school-band, that means only classic music, Telemann, Corelli, Bach, Mozart a.s.o. We had a good musical education and we started play together on our own when we were about 12, so around 1969. We listened to every kind of music, classic, jazz, rock, country, pop. Our favourite was and is Frank Zappa. An other musician that had a great influence in PdP's music is Robert Wyatt. Picchio dal Pozzo is the character of a nonsense-poetry written by G. Karaghiosoff in form of collàge. The lyric is recited by Cristina Pomarici, our first live sound-engineer, in the first album Picchio dal Pozzo. There's no main reason for this choice, the production needed a name for the band and we were not so much ready for the question 'what's your name'
How was your formative years and how did you get your first record deal ?
A. De Scalzi's brother, Vittorio, played with one of the most famous italian bands, New Trolls. In the early '70s he set up a recording studio with his father, so we had the chance, first, to look at the 'adults' playing and recording music, after a while, to start working in the studio as apprentices. After few years they founded a label, GROG, and we were one of the bands that got a record deal purpose.
Your first album Picchio Dal Pozzo from 1976 is rightly regarded as a prog rock classic and the artwork (front cover) is iconic.
Please give us a presentation of this album which has inspired so many people. The music, the recording, lyrics, the musicians, the artwork, the tracks.........
We had no ready tracks at the beginning of our first 'adventure'; only workpieces to develope and put together, it has been like a big jigsaw puzzle. Fortunately GROG gave us more than a month time, so we could not only put the tracks together but also experiment new take techniques, exspecially mics placements, sound filtering and editing. In these years you had to reverse the tape indeed if you wanted for example a reversed reverb. This was a crazy job in the job, but very amusing.
All the lyrics of the album are related to our love for 'intelligent nonsense', tongue twisters a.s.o.. The only one a little more descriptive is 'l'upupa' introducing the second part of Napier.
The choice of the artwork for the cover has been very 'casual'. We were sitting in the office speaking to Renata, the label secretary. Behind her, hanging at the wall, there was a calendar designed by Heinrich Ellermann, a german designer for children artwork. We found it lovely and very in tune with us. We asked him the license for using it, he said 'yes'.
There were mainly two reasons for having 'external' musicians in our album: the first, we had no drummer, the second , we loved collaborations and exchanges. In Genoa we were considered crazy people and Picchio dal Pozzo a crazy band. Therefore a lot of friends, and among them a lot of musicians, came to vist us in studio to see what we were setting up. It has been a pleasure, to involve them actively in our project.
Arriving at the end of our work, we decided to dedicate the album to Robert Wyatt in a 'sheltered and italianized' way: dedicated to Roberto Viatti.
Please tell us more about this artwork which I, and I guess many others, would be happy to have framed on my wall.
There's not much more to tell. The guy looking through the portal is Mauro Fiore, Giorgio Karaghiosoff's cousin, who created the pictures patchwork inside the album. I repeat myself, the choise of this artwok for the album cover happened by chance, a kind of 'last minute'. Evidently it has been a good chance.
Please give us a presentation of your second album Abbiamo Tutti I Suoi Problemi from 1980. The music, the recording, lyrics, the musicians, the artwork, the tracks.........
This album signs clearly the end of the 70's. A radical change happened from the early 80's till now, in music and, generally, in social and political attitude. The realization has been a very hard work. We were looking for new methods of composing and this took a lot of time for experimenting and rehearsing. We spent 10-12 hours daily on the instruments looking for new directions and this for months. The very example is 'Strativari'; for this composition we decided to choose the notes, the hight, the length and the instrument they were to be played with really by chance, drawing lots. There are mainly two kinds of tracks: very short and based on the syllabication of the lyrics, long with no lyrics based on composing experimentation.
The musicians: Aldo Di Marco (drums), Andrea Beccari (bass), Aldo De Scalzi (keyb, alto sax, guit, vocals), Paolo Griguolo (guitars, violin), Roberto Romani (tenor sax), Claudio Lugo (alto sax). This has been the official band line up from 1976 till 1981. Giorgio Karaghiosoff, one of the 'magic four' founders of the band, left in 1976. The artwork for the cover is a painting by R.Romani, the title is 'Mister Fagiolo' (Mister Bean). The lyrics by A. Di Marco.
There was a 21 years long gap between your second album and the third album Camere Zimmer Rooms. What happened during this long time ?
In fact, Camere Zimmer Rooms has been recorded in 1977 and never released till 2001. At the end of 1981 we realised that Picchio dal Pozzo was 'out of the times and lines', no concerts anymore, no music schools, nothing. We were 24 years old more or less and everybody had to choose his way. Most of us stopped with musical activity at all, Aldo De Scalzi, Claudio Lugo and me continued profesionally following different directions, Aldo Di Marco stayed in between, let's say a sort of part-timer.
Please give us a presentation of Camere Zimmer Rooms from 2001. The music, the recording, lyrics, the musicians, the artwork, the tracks.........
Camere Zimmer Rooms' comes out of a test. We had just bought a new P.A. System. So we decided to make a sort of sound check for the gigs. We set up the equipment in the recording studio and tested the P.A. playing some titles we used to play live and recording on a 16 track at the same time. After a while the studio needed the tape for other jobs and we had to mix down the 'test'. I rescued the tape from several removals and kept it in a drawer for years. In 2000 i got contacted by a guy for an interview and i told him about this unreleased record. After few weeks Steve Feigenbaum of Cuneiform Records called me on the phone saying he was interested in publising this unreleased work; this is the way it happened. The lyrics of 'Il Presidente' (The President) are an ironic newspaper article about a famous impeachment of G.Leone, italian president in 1977.'La Città' (The Town) is based on a graffiti drawn on a wall we found in Turin. The rest of the lyrics are written by me. I'd say that this album belongs to the most active period of Picchio dal Pozzo.
You returned again in 2004 with [email protected] which was a collection of new and old material incorporating pieces of music from the sadly deceased Area
frontman Dimitrio Stratos. Please tell us more about this album.
After the publishing of Camere Zimmer Rooms an other event, by chance, convinced us, the time of a reunion had arrived. Aldo De Scalzi called me, he had found in the old recording studio the tape we recorded for Demetrio Stratos during one of his solo exibitions. Demetrio has been a very important figure for Picchio dal Pozzo and perhaps the most famous fan of us. The tape was really
in bad conditions (we unrolled it completely on the floor and cleaned it up with alcohol!) but at the end we succeded in digitalise it. At this point, we decided to spend a week on a farm called Valdapozzo, a kind of full-immersion, and to carry out an album dedicated to Demetrio. We used the material as 'sound' not as 'voice'. The music is completley new and composed during this amazing week excepted 'Pugni Chiusi', a song that Demetrio sang at the beginning of his career with a band called 'I Ribelli'.
What is the current label situation and the situation regarding availability and distribution of your albums ? What is your experiences with the music/record industry ?
We tried to find out the situation too, you can find the result of our researches on our web-site (www.picchiodalpozzo.com), clicking 'Buy CD'.
Mostly, we're not very enthusiastic about the official music industry, there are on the opposite some indie labels that produce huge efforts and a good job. The web is changing deeply the situation in a positive direction, in my opinion . There's still a big lack regarding live music, concerts, gigs that, from our point of view, are foundamental for bands like us.
Your band has been categorised as a Canterbury scene band and I personally agree with this although I also feel Rock In Opposition and Jazz is also good descriptions on your music.
But I guess you also have your own opinions. So how would you describe your music ?
As you use the term 'categorised', our answer is 'we hate categories'. We all have had a 360° musical education and of course a lot of influences like everybody, but we never had the intent to belong to a category or a style, we never followed a trend or a fashion. Categorising is often the sign of fear of freedom, the need of having everything labeled. So, I'd say that Picchio dal Pozzo's music is 'music all round' composed and developed by common work. Everybody is free to find the right place for Picchio dal Pozzo on his shelf.
The Canterbury scene is probably the only music scene in the world with no geographic relevance to the place it has been named after. What is your view on this scene and which Canterbury scene bands do you like ?
Yes, I agree, no geographic relevance and perhaps no relevance at all, there's not even Chaucer involved! I think that the main merit of the 'canterbury' musicians has been hybridization, the stepping out of styles, rules and labels. This has produced, even if sometimes unawares, a political and social message. Technically, what I like most, is the development of vocal lines.
My favourite bands are Hatfield and the North, Henry Cow, Gong and Matching Mole.
Picchio Dal Pozzo has been around since 1973. How would you compare the music scene back then with today's music scene ?
We're speaking here about a 40 years gap and of course a lot of things have changed. I'd say that one of the most important factors of this (r?)(de?)evolution has been technology. Nowadays everyone has the possibility to have in his livingroom a professional recording studio with recording softwares, wonderful instruments samples, powerful postproduction means; in other words, everybody has the chance today, to express himself at a quite high professional level and this is the positive side; on the other hand, we are overfloated by a massive amount of music, often produced with any kind of know-how, knowledge and taste. Lately i rarely listened to something interesting or at least 'new'. Speaking about prog, it has become a sort of antique trade with almost no evolution. When you try to go a bit foreward, you automatically are considered out of prog; so we could say that prog is a kind of vintage movement. All this of course decided and ruled by music critics.
There is some links from the Picchio Dal Pozzo homepage to the band members side projects. Please tell us more about these projects.
Well, the best thing for everybody is of course to have a look at the sites personally. Briefly:
Please tell us more about the gigs and festivals you have played.
Our live activity has been mostly from 1977 to 1981. In fact we didn't play so many gigs; the problem has always been the RIO slogan: the rock shows the record companies don't want you to hear. We had our own P.A system and, for a period, a van too; more a nightmare than a van. We often played for audiences expecting some 'dancy' stuff for the evening, the memory of staring eyeballs and dropped jaws is still vivid . Going back to your question about music categories, we used to say we play acrobatic rock , that's a good definition of Picchio dal Pozzo's music.
What is Picchio Dal Pozzo future plans ?
As saied, we're slowly starting a Picchio dal Pozzo project again. We're now ready and available for concerts, have met good musicians we're comfortable with and mainly nice guys. This is our near future. The long term plans dipend obviously on how Picchio dal Pozzo's new activity will run in the next future. The new line-up works well and slowly new wishes appear behind the horizon, we'll see.
Please name your five favourite albums
Of course this is my personal choice:
Ruth is Stranger Than Richard (R.Wyatt),
Life In New York (F.Zappa),
Freedom Now Suite (A.Ayler),
The Magic of Satie (Jean-Yves Thibaudet),
The White Album (Beatles)
A big thank to Paolo for this interview.
A big thank you to Picchio Dal Pozzo for their music.
Their bio is here and their homepage is here
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|Posted: August 13 2010 at 12:02
A great interview for one of my favourite bands.
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|Posted: August 13 2010 at 12:09
Wonderful interview but I think the Frank Zappa album is called ''Zappa in New York'' and not ''Life in New York''.
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|Posted: August 13 2010 at 12:29
Excellent interview. A band I really love. Nice to read Paolo's words. Now I am eagerly waiting for the live album.
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|Posted: August 13 2010 at 13:43
Excellent interview. Hopefully they will continue far beyond A_live (which I can't wait for).
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|Posted: August 13 2010 at 15:31
Ditto what everyone else has said, really. Great interview, looking forward to the new release!
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|Posted: August 13 2010 at 18:57
Everyone has said everything I wanted to say when I came in. Thanks for the interview!
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|Posted: August 14 2010 at 16:05
It's such a great band. Essential listening. I have the four studio albums, and each is good, but the debut and Abbiamo Tutti... in particular I just love.
And when I got Abbiamo... some years ago I used to play "Mettiamo il Caso" over and over again. I love how it brings in music from the first album.
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|Posted: August 14 2010 at 16:20
Very informative interview, thanks! Whenever I have the time I'll check out the samples.
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I made this cake twice this week, one for my birthday, and the other to take to visit our Vet Friends to see their new Vet Grub (he's three months old but we were all variously busy before now). Plus both Junior Sis and Junior Bro picked up a clutch of good grades in their AS-levels and GCSEs in the last week, so lots of reasons to make and eat this cake. It was borne from a foraging trip with Lauren last weekend, which resulted in lots of wild urban plums, some sloes (sitting in the freezer to be made into sloe gin later on), and some elderberries. I am always worried about mistaking edibles for something horribly poisonous, but Lauren used to want to be a herbologist (I didn't even know that existed outside Harry Potter and am very taken with it), so I felt safe in her hands.
I found the recipe for this cake while looking for alcoholic recipes that used plums. It had great reviews, and hit a happy nerve as my great-grandmother used to make a German plum cake which Munchkin Granny remembers from her youth. It was very easy and I doubled the quantities to make both cakes at the same time. It turned out to be a gloriously moist and fruity cake - not too sweet (there isn't too much sugar in it, and just an extra dusting with some cinnamon on the top). It wasn't the prettiest but it got good feedback in the pub on my birthday, and from Vet Dad the next day. Definitely a keeper.
Festival of Quilts booty - brown spotty fabric to make this dress (thanks, Roisin!); apple fabric to make a bag/apron; bags of felt to make the cute bright cushion cover kit - birthday present from Doc Eco Sis (thanks Doc Eco!); assorted fat quarters for unspecified quilting projects
On my actual birthday I went to the Festival of Quilts at the NEC with Vicki and Doc Eco Sis. We had a really good day, and I did come away with a bit of a stash of goodies. In the evening we went to the cake-welcoming pub with friends and had more good times :)
Giant crochet granny square and small granny square cushion cover (made in Vancouver), sitting with birthday present knitting books from Vet Friends (thank you!)
And on the goodies front, here are a couple of other craft projects I've been finishing off recently.
Appliqued apron - it used to be a pinafore dress I never wore - recognise the apple from the fabric stash above??
Plum cake recipe here (and they have some good fruity alcohol recipes there too)


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Mike Pelfrey gets his third start of the spring this afternoon against Boston at Ft. Myers. Three starts in, and we should be seeing signs of progress from Pelfrey. So far, we haven't. In his previous two starts, Pelfrey was hit with a big inning, which isn't a good sign.
Pelfrey entered camp as the Mets' No. 2 starter, and we need to see signs of that today. A big inning, and three runs counts in that regard, is an indication of not being able to put hitters away and limit the damage. That was indicative last year when he got into trouble and it is surfacing again.
There is no doubt, out of necessity, Pelfrey has been rushed by the Mets. But, what is done is done, and he's had enough time where we should be seeing signs of development. It would be nice to see some of that today.


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ROCKFORD - A dismal jobs market in the second half of 2013 didn't improve during the holiday shopping season.
According to initial estimates by the Illinois Department of Employment Security, the Boone-Winnebago county unemployment rate in December was 11.6. That was up from 11 percent the month before, which was also the rate in December 2012.
It was the highest jobless rate seen locally since March. It also was the second straight month that the rate was higher year over year after having declined 40 of the prior 41 months.
The state estimated there were 144,519 people working in Boone and Winnebago counties in December. That was 3 percent fewer than the 149,026 working in December 2012.
The state said there were declines in logistics employment, financial services and a sharp decline in government employment sectors.
The Rock River Valley wasn't alone in having a sluggish jobs market. Ten of the state's 12 metropolitan areas had higher jobless rates this December compared with 2012. Danville was hit hardest. Its jobless rate jumped from 10 percent in December 2012 to 12.2 percent.
If there was one positive from the monthly report it's that Chicago, the state's main economic engine, saw its unemployment rate fall from 8.6 percent last year to 8.2 percent.
The city of Rockford's jobless rate jumped to 13.2 percent. That's the highest it has been since February. Belvidere's unemployment rate also spiked to 13.3 percent. That's the highest it has been since March.
The Ogle County jobless rate for December was 10.5 percent. It was the first time Ogle was 10 percent or higher since July. Ogle is not included in the Rockford metropolitan area statistics.
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Smashing The Scales: Not Everything Needs 'Balance'
from the zero-sum-game dept
Julian Sanchez has noticed something similar, though in other areas of the policy debate, such as the claim that we need to "balance privacy and security," and suggests that the whole balance metaphor is a serious problem in many such debates in part because it assumes a zero sum game (if you're better off, then I must be worse off):
Perhaps the most obvious problem with balancing metaphors is that they suggest a relationship that is always, by necessity, zero sum: If one side rises, the other must fall in exact proportion. Also implicit in balancing talk is the idea that equilibrium is the ideal, and anything that upsets that balance is a change for the worse. That's probably true if you're walking a tightrope, but it clearly doesn't hold in other cases. If you have a perfectly balanced investment portfolio and somebody gives you some shares of stock, the balance is upset (until you can shift some assets around), but you're plainly better off--and would be better off even if for some reason you couldn't trade off some of the stock to restore the optimal mix.And when it comes to privacy and security:
In my own area of study, the familiar trope of "balancing privacy and security" is a source of constant frustration to privacy advocates, because while there are clearly sometimes tradeoffs between the two, it often seems that the zero-sum rhetoric of "balancing" leads people to view them as always in conflict. This is, I suspect, the source of much of the psychological appeal of "security theater": If we implicitly think of privacy and security as balanced on a scale, a loss of privacy is ipso facto a gain in security. It sounds silly when stated explicitly, but the power of frames is precisely that they shape our thinking without being stated explicitly.Julian is reasonably worried that this type of "balance" thinking drives people to make very bad policy decisions, relying on what feels like a useful metric that is really quite misleading at times. It's definitely a worthwhile read, and let's hope we can start to get past the claim of "balance" where it is not appropriate.


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I became a LUROP Provost Fellow after taking a service-learning course with Dr. Julia Pryce my sophomore year. My involvement with her research on Project MENTOR extended beyond the time of my summer fellowship, and it is an experience I continue to draw on in personal and professional ways. Project M.E.N.T.O.R. evaluated the effect of mentoring and comprehensive community-based programming on reducing risky health behaviors of youth living in the Englewood and Woodlawn communities. I helped facilitate a community-based participatory research project on sexual health and violence, where I worked alongside teens as they completed a research project and presented their findings to the community and at a Loyola School of Social Work Symposium.
Through working with researchers, youth, and community members, I learned about the complexities of the research process, effective mentoring programming, and community health from a variety of angles, which I feel has allowed me to develop a unique public health perspective and skill set. My LUROP experience allowed me to experience firsthand how academia can positively engage with the surrounding community. It greatly influenced my interests in exploring the relationships between policy, economics, and community health outcomes further in graduate school.
I believe that the greatest advantage of my fellowship, however, was being able to develop a close working relationship with my faculty mentor. Not only was I able to learn from Dr. Pryce's expertise as a researcher and professional in the field, but her feedback, guidance, and support throughout my fellowship and beyond has been absolutely priceless in helping me develop my interests and achieve personal and professional goals.
Upon graduation, I worked at Health and Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG), a policy center dedicated to promoting social justice and challenging health care inequities. My focus was providing staff support to the Illinois Department of Public Health Healthcare Workforce Workgroup, working alongside state level health leaders to lay out a plan for workforce development in preparation of implementation of the Affordable Care Act. I had the unique opportunity of seeing how policy that ultimately affects communities is shaped at a much broader level.
Currently I am pursuing my MPH at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health in the department of Health Policy and Management, with a certificate in the social determinants of health. Among my interests are health systems reform, maternal and child health, and community based research. My goal is to become a leader in the field of public health, working on shaping policy that is informed by the participation and engagement of the local community.


text: Arkansas Rice Farmers Race Against the Calendar May 13, 2013 08:11 AM Tweet Rice farmers in southeast Arkansas are struggling to get a crop in the ground thanks to the wet weather this spring. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Tyne Morgan US Farm Report Host Email If planting falls too far behind, more rice acres could be forced out of production Driving on Arkansas roads, farmers are working fiercely. With planting falling later behind, many farmers are struggling to get this year's crop in the ground. "Basically we've been running around the clock, when we could go, to try and get this crop in the ground on a timely basis," says Eric Stevens, who farms in Dermott, Ark. "We're really far behind, probably 30 days behind last year," says Joe Mencer who farms in Lake Village, Ark. Just weeks ago, these southeast Arkansas fields were covered it water. Now it's a race against Mother Nature since they're so behind in planting, and even tractors are getting stuck. With the wheels coming to a halt, many farmers in the area are reminded how late this year's crop may be, especially considering the jump start farmers had in 2012. "Last year was exceptional," says Stevens. "Normally, we'd be behind that and be around the 75 percent mark. This year we're probably 40 percent total planted." Corn planting in the area got off to a decent start before Mother Nature brought continuous rains. "We were able to get in the field the second week of March and planted 500 acres in two days," says Stevens. "Then it started raining." Both farmers were forced to sit on the sidelines and watch it rain. As the fields flooded, potential replants surfaced. The cool, wet start forced Stevens to replay 120 acres of just one field. For Mencer, emergence is spotty and corn conditions continue to decline. "The corn crop has really been going through severe flooding the whole spring," he says. "The lower ends of the fields are all real weak and thin. We're having to add extra nutrients out there to try and bring the corn crop online." But it's the rice crop really weighing on their minds. Normally, these farmers would start planting rice March 25. This year, they finally started sowing seeds at the end of April. "The later you push into September, you're taking a bigger chance of having a big tropical storm develop in the Gulf," says Stevens. "Most of the time, it will blow that rice flat on the ground." "One thing is going through more diseases, the late you are in the year," says Mencer. "We may be pollinating during the hot time of the year, which leads to blanking in the rice. This could set us up for lower quality rice, which has really plagued the U.S. the last few years." Both farmers say they need to have everything planted by the end of May. As the calendar approaches the middle of the month, Mencer thins more rice acres could be forced out of production this year. "If it keeps raining, we'll go to flying rice in, and that doesn't work as well," he says. "And usually if you're going to mud it in, you're going to mud it out, that means extra costs. It just carries on throughout the year." He says rice acres are already down this year, falling below the one million mark in the state for the first time in more than 30 years. So, as planting falls later behind, their biggest concern remains getting the crop in the ground in just a matter of weeks. Back to news


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People have been messing with road signs for years now, warning people of zombie attacks. It's so much more awesome when it's done to specifically warn people of Left 4 Dead's zombies, though.
Two signs in Pennsylvania were earlier this week tampered with by crafty video game fans, their regular traffic notices replaced by warnings like "Zombies Ahead", "Watch for Hunters" and "Be alert for Tanks".
The last two may not seem that terrifying to the general populace, seeing as they're words used to describe, well, hunters and tanks, but Left 4 Dead fans would know exactly what they meant: two of the games deadlier zombies.
"The message could have been a lot worse than it was," said Ken Wilson, from the local Department of Transportation. "In my opinion, it was a prank. They could have put something more sinister; something causing more panic."
Yeah, like "Slow Down, Witch Ahead!"
Tampered road signs warn of zombies, tanks on SC 160 [Herald Online]


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Mirrors are one of those wonderful accessories that can hold both utilitarian function and offer a beautiful piece of art in your home. Yes, you can hit a point where you have too many, but you can also have one in every room and venue and it won't be too much.
Offering different shapes, styles, colours and sizes, mirrors are one of the most versatile decorative additions you can add to your home. They can either be a small accent feature, or a large-scale statement piece—and that is an incredible concept! Below we have featured six ways in which you can choose the perfect mirror, depending on your space, style and taste!
Coming in just about any shape you can imagine, mirrors can work with almost any style room. As seen here, this square-shaped, framed mirror with a great grain and shade of wood perfectly accents the other neutrals in the room and the dark wood adds a bold pop of colour.
The mirror is large enough that it's the focal point of the room, yet not too demanding of your constant attention. Make sure depending on the shape of the mirror, that you strategically place the mirror at head-height and symmetrically angle it so it sets balance to the room, rather than making one wall seem heavier than the others.
If you're more into the decorative and artistic qualities of mirrors, think about the various materials that can be used to make mirrors fabulous. Many manufacturers and designers offer mirrors mixed with mosaic glass, raw stones, or even painted features. The mirror seen here has a modern, retro print that mixes small white pieces into the overall scheme.
Notice that the mirror is hanging from two minimal metal hangers, creating balance between the dining room lamp and the darker colours in the living room. To find the perfect mirror for your room don't be afraid to head to antique and second-hand stores for a truly unique feature.
If you've ever lived in a smaller apartment, or a student apartment, than you know that mirrors can come in all shapes and sizes. From stand-alone vanity mirrors with built-in LEDs, to floor-to-ceiling mirrors that cover sliding closet doors and hanging mirrors—almost any size you want should be available at your disposal.
This homeowner chose large-scale mirrors to cover the storage compartments in this living room. Placing mirrors in this way, with this large of a size, creates an illusion of an extension of space and allows both natural and artificial light to reflect into the entirety of your room!
Think a full-length mirror is too much for your space? Think about adding an accent wall that is made of 100% mirror, like seen here! We promise you won't regret it!
Homeowners with eclectic, rustic, modern or even Scandinavian tastes are surely to be able to find a mirror that highlights and accents the design features in their rooms!
This minimalist, Scandinavian-style apartment has chosen a round, hanging mirror to the left of the door with the chair to create a lobby-type of area. This type of area is where you can throw your coat and scarf down and check yourself before leaving the house for a meeting.
If you're super-minimalist, choose mirrors that are smaller in size and unframed—if you have more eclectic or rustic tastes, think the opposite. Circular mirrors are also a great addition because most areas and decor in our homes tend to be of square or rectangular nature.
Have a more eclectic or romantic space and don't know which style mirror to choose? Take a look at this great vanity area!
This large-scale, framed mirror in this living room was a great choice to add a small sense of eclecticism into this otherwise modern space. Unframed mirrors can be minimalistic, smooth and create clean lines in your home, whether it be your living room or bedroom. Framed mirrors can be extremely versatile too in that you can customize the surrounding frame, or easily paint over it and make changes.
Think old frames around mirrors look too old-school? Think again—adding mirrors like the one seen here can really bring something special into your room!
The most fun aspect of mirrors are their artistic qualities. Think about unique shapes, sizes and styles and where these don't work—think about the way you hang or place your mirror to bring more life to it!
This homeowner decided to purchase a series of four mirrors and hang them so they work together to highlight the room and add an artistic element. They are also unframed which works well with the rest of the minimalist and clean lines in this living room!
This bedroom has a great mirror in size, style and placement!


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The City of Virginia Beach and the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development have partnered with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to launch the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge. This is an unprecedented, open innovation challenge that will launch 20 startup companies focused on creating therapeutics, vaccines, and devices for veteran-related illnesses including cardiovascular, neurological disorders, diabetes, oncology and regenerative medicine.
- Expand Their Industry Network
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This program will give you a head start and accelerate your ability to run a bonafide company.
Between VA Beach and the Center for Advancing Innovation…
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Teams can officially enroll in the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge at https://www.innovatevabeach.com/. We encourage you to enter soon as the inventions will be posted in January.
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Auburn rallies for 49-37 win over Alabama
Allen Payne and Josh Wallace each scored 11 points and Auburn
held Alabama scoreless for more than nine minutes in the second
half of a 49-37 comeback victory on Wednesday night.
The Tigers (9-13, 3-6 Southeastern Conference) snapped a
six-game losing streak despite managing just 13 points in the first
It was a season-low in points for Alabama (14-8, 6-3), which had
won six of seven games and five straight in the rivalry. The Tide's
previous low was 50 points.
Payne scored nine points in the second half. Wallace, who was
averaging 3.6 points, matched his season high – all in the second
Auburn mounted the comeback even with leading scorer Frankie
Sullivan missing his first 11 shots in a 1-for-13, four-point
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Your task is to write a simple "Library Management System (LMS)" as specified in this document.
Your design will consist of a collection of interacting classes/interfaces to store information about:
1. The library and its collection
2. The holdings contained in the library
3. The members who can borrow/return
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The system will need to be modelled as a number of object oriented classes/interfaces. The main
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If you loved Girl on a Train, you'll be very excited to hear that Paula Hawkins's second book is officially here. This time, she transports us to a sleepy town in the English countryside that revolves around a winding river, which women have been drowning in for centuries. The reader hears from a... Read More »
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I rated this book 5*. I liked it a lot. Actually I thought the characters were much more diverse than The Girl on the Train. As a mature reader (senior), I enjoyed the age range and background of the characters. And the setting was very suited to the story.
I couldn't get into this book. I just didn't like it, finally gave up and returned it.
The book was a little disappointing. It went back and forth from first person to third person and in the beginning I had no idea who was talking about what. Lots of characters and not all that exciting. Predictable ending.
Too many characters, not nearly as much suspense as Girl in the Train
INTO THE WATER may not be everyone's "cup of tea", but I have to admit British author Paula Hawkins has a real talent for keeping the reader off-balance with her twisty-turny plots. Although I didn't find this novel as engrossing as her bestseller, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, it did grab me. Warning: the story is told from many viewpoints and involves a large cast of rather unlikable characters, but a handy list is provided at the beginning of the book which helps keep track of who's who. With a sinister/creepy setting, suggestions of witchcraft/mysteries, and short chapters it was the perfect escapist read to take with me on my recent vacation.
Reminded me, somehow, Twin Peaks.
Legends, urban myths and real life.
There are unfinished moments of the plot.
Sometimes people have one really good novel in them. If that is true of Ms Hawkins, it would have been The Girl on the Train. Hopefully that is not the case and Into the Water just represents a misstep, with its author feeling too much pressure to duplicate the mega-success of her first novel. Because this sophomore effort is pretty underwhelming.
I was a little disappointed by Paula Hawkins' second book "Into the Water". It had a lot of potential, and I kept on waiting for twists in the plot. Unfortunately, the storyline was pretty predictable. However, I will eagerly await for her to release another book, as I really did enjoy "Girl on the Train".
Better as a book on CD. Narrator did a good job of changing voices which made it easier to track the characters. Still had to back up a couple of times to catch the time shifts. Overall, an interesting story.
Yes there are many characters but I thought the plot was better developed than Girl on a Train. I liked reading this book and would recommend it for a quick holiday read.
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Upstream Heroes
The Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) honors America's agricultural producers who efficiently manage their nutrients as part of a comprehensive conservation system. They are truly Upstream Heroes. These farmers enjoy benefits to their bottom line while protecting water quality. In the Mississippi River Basin, CTIC, with support from the US Environmental Protection Agency, facilitates three public-private partnerships working to further nutrient efficiency, therefore reducing the size of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone.
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Calling for a "new sense of economic patriotism", the Obama administration is urging Congress to act "immediately" to curb the significant growth in tax inversions.
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In a letter to the leaders of the congressional tax-writing committees, secured by FOX Business, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, requests lawmakers "… enact legislation immediately – and make it retroactive to May 2014 – to shut down this abuse of our tax system."
The inversion tax strategy involves a merger between a company based in the United States and another headquartered elsewhere. Following the merger's completion, the combined company then bases itself outside the U.S. Federal law taxes corporations at the highest top rate in the industrialized world and on their worldwide profits, so a merged company usually realizes a significant reduction in its tax bill at a loss to the U.S Treasury.
This week, two more U.S. drug companies, Mylan and AbbVie, joined the growing list of firms to attempt the tax maneuver. The move was also reportedly a significant selling point for Pfizer (PFE) in its bid for AstraZeneca (AZN).
"… We should prevent companies from effectively renouncing their citizenship to get out of paying taxes," wrote Lew.
In his letter, Lew endorses a Democratic proposal that would prohibit a company from moving its tax location without also changing the entity controlling the company. The bill is offered by Sens. Ron Wyden and Carl Levin and Congressmen Sander Levin and Chris Van Hollen and would mean about $19.5 billion dollars more to the U.S. Treasury over the next decade, according to an analysis of the legislation performed by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.
Specifically, their bill "increases the needed percentage change in stock ownership from 20% to 50% and provides that the merged company will nevertheless continue to be treated as a domestic U.S. company for tax purposes if management and control of the merged company remains in the U.S. and either 25% of its employees or sales or assets are located in the U.S." according to the Democrats' bill summary.
Senior Republicans said they share in the growing alarm over inversions, though differ on the appropriate remedy.
"The non-partisan experts that have looked at this policy say it doesn't solve the problem. Companies will continue to move overseas until we address the fact that we have the highest corporate rate in the industrialized world," said Sarah Swinehart, a spokesperson, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp.
The Senate Finance Committee's top Republican, Sen. Orrin Hatch, added in a statement that "it is misguided to think a short-sighted patch aimed only at alleviating a symptom of the broader problem will prevent companies from leaving the country."
Even Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, a Democrat, seemed non-committal to his colleagues' proposal. "This inversion loophole must be plugged. As the speed of inversions increases, this will only fuel bipartisan urgency to stop companies from deserting the US. I'm talking with my colleagues and exploring options for addressing this in the near and long term," said Wyden in a statement.
Lew said the administration agrees Congress needs to overhaul the corporate tax code, though it should also enact tax inversion legislation to address the issue while lawmakers wrangle over the details of tax reform.
An overhaul of the broader tax code is very unlikely this year, according to senior congressional aides. Though House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp has released his full discussion draft and despite the growing lipservice lawmakers have given the issue, the details remain too contentious to address in such a fractured Congress during an election year.
"If there are more inversion deals, while Walgreens is rumored to be the next, that would increase chances that the Senate might act, but I think chances of House action this year are really slim, no better than 10 or 20%, said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at the Potomac Research Group.
It could offer Democrats another economic political issue going into the fall midterm elections, as Lew ended his letter with a familiar administration political phrase. "We know that the American economy grows best when the middle class participates fully and when the economy grows from the middle out," Lew wrote. "We should not be providing support for corporations what seek to shift their profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share of taxes."


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New Websites for Asia Pacific and EMEA Regions
Graco announced today that it is expanding its multi-lingual website capabilities at www.graco.com to include significant new functionality for an additional 10 key languages in its Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. The languages include Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish. Spanish, French, and Portuguese translations for all graco.com content have been available since 2012. In addition, navigation pages for numerous additional languages including Arabic, Latvian, and Lithuanian are now available to help point end-users to Graco's portfolio of products.
"Expanding our business globally is a key growth driver for the company and the introduction of a substantive new multi-lingual capability for our website supports our international growth strategies," said Patrick J. McHale, Graco's President and Chief Executive Officer.
The new international capabilities include personalization features that tailor viewable web content to the specific interest of the user. This functionality makes relevant content and product features much easier to find, while offering a more dynamic platform with new visuals and global brand consistency. The personalization features can be disabled by viewers if they do not want all of the website's functionality.
"Graco's new website is a direct response to consumers in EMEA and around the world who have asked for more product information to help them make the best purchasing decision possible," said Jeffrey P. Johnson, Vice President and General Manager, EMEA. "We will continue to evolve Graco's web technologies to meet the needs of our worldwide customer base."
With the new functionality, global viewers of Graco's website can obtain detailed product information in their native language to help them determine which Graco product ideally meets their job requirements. The new sites also contain translated marketing materials; support information such as resource manuals and case studies; as well as videos and downloadable photographs.


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Murray, Ky. - The Tennessee State women's golf team were off to a better start on day two of the Time Warner Racer Golf Classic on Monday before play was halted. Overnight rain, strong winds and falling temperatures ended the final round of the two-day, 36-hole event at the Par-72, 6,017 yard Miller Memorial Golf Course. Groups had completed nine holes and others up to 12, before tournament officials deemed the course unplayable.
Kelly Merkel was matching her play from day, which had her in a tie for 6th heading into the day. Amelia Dap, Chelsea Marlin and Sarah Needleman were able to make adjustments to their game and were having more success than the opening round, despite the unfavorable conditions. On the par-3, 2nd, Marlin hit her second shot from 20 yards out to within two feet of the hole. She was able to tap in to save par. But, do due the tournaments cancellation no scores from today are official and the results from Monday will stand as final.
"I am disappointed the team did not get to finish today," said head coach Parrish McGrath. "Based on how they were playing today, even in these conditions, it was a shame they did not get to see better results. They were able to make some adjustments and they were trying to improve from day one, but the course just would not allow it."
The Tigers will next tee-off at the Tennessee Tech Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate in Pigeon Forge on March 17-19.


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a taste of Japan
Fuji Grill III is proud to serve imaginative and creative sushi dishes along with traditional Japanese cuisine. Only the freshest ingredients are used to ensure a great dining experience.
Join us for our popular Happy Hour where sushi bar items are 50% off, Monday - Saturday from 4:00 to 6:00pm. Dine-in only. We're conveniently located in the quaint village of Orchard Park, just a few minutes from the 20A exit off the 219 Expressway.


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Hygiene legislation
Food hygiene legislation affects all food businesses that regularly produce, handle, transport, process or supply food. This includes caterers, primary producers (such as farmers), manufacturers and retailers. How it affects you will depend on the nature of your business.
In this section you will find general questions and answers about food hygiene legislation, which are relevant to all food businesses. You can also find information for different sectors from the links below.
Food hygiene legislation - what you need to know
Thursday 24 August 2006
Information for caterers
Friday 9 September 2005
Information for local authorities
Friday 25 May 2007
Information for primary producers
Friday 27 October 2006
Information for retailers
Monday 4 December 2006
Information for the meat sector
Tuesday 2 August 2011
Safer food, better business
Thursday 21 February 2008
Scotland: CookSafe and RetailSafe
Thursday 26 May 2011
Northern Ireland: Safe Catering
Tuesday 18 April 2006
Industry Guides to Good Hygiene Practice
Tuesday 9 November 2010
Bacteria Bite Business
Tuesday 18 July 2006
Hygiene Guidance
Wednesday 19 July 2006
E. coli O157: control of cross-contamination
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Future food hygiene conference
Friday 27 May 2011
HACCP-based food safety management
Thursday 3 November 2011


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Starting with Fremantle, packages can now be managed by developers through the maemo.org packages interface. Community testers can help in the QA process by testing applications in the queue and giving thumbs up/down for a package.
At the same time we open the extras-testing and extras repositories for Fremantle for promotion through the interface.
The interface has the following features:
- Package search
- Package listings per repository
- Only allow maintainers to promote a package
- Request package maintainership
- Automatic package maintainership assignment on first upload of a package
- Automatic dependency tree checking
- QA queue for testing repository
- Promotion unlock to stable (Extras) repository based on karma score
- Leaving comments when you encountered problems with a package
At this moment the interface is in beta testing mode, so please be aware that there might be some rough edges. Promotion will happen manually for the first few promotions, so we can make sure that everything is working. Feel free to file bugs in bugzilla, if you encounter any.
Improvements will come in the next few weeks. More integration with the autobuilder is already coming next week.
In a later post, I will discuss the new promotion process for Fremantle a bit more in depth. This is still something that needs to be refined a bit.


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Away from the established centres of power, the world is changing fast. The first meeting of the G20 Foreign Ministers taking place today demonstrate again the need for Britain to continue to build new alliances.
For the first time ever the G20 will be chaired by, and held in, Mexico: an indicative sign of the shift which enhances the status of fast-rising economies.
On the table for discussion will be green growth, poverty, job creation for people around the world, anti-corruption, global development, and global governance - issues being addressed in a broader context than before at the G20 level. We welcome a wider range of countries becoming willing to lead on addressing global problems.
In 1999, when the Canadian Finance Minister first visualised the G20, the world was a very different place. The label of BRIC was unknown, and yet is already outdated.
The major new international powers are now hugely important partners, as are other nations just outside of the G20. When the UK talks of the importance of Latin America, we should not think just of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, but also other regional powers like Colombia and Chile; when businesses consider investing in Asia, they should not just target the massive markets of India and China, but remember neighbours such as Vietnam and the Philippines.
The development of Mexico underlines this important shift. Not only is it emerging as an economic powerhouse, it is a significant political power with a responsible and enlightened global attitude.
Rightly a full member of the G20 and the OECD, Mexico offers strong and energetic leadership. Its role on climate change in Cancun, followed by South Africa's leadership in Durban, shows that it has earned its place at the top table.
Over the course of the year Mexico, as the chair of the G20, has the tough job of steering the other members to get the global economy on to a sustainable footing. The task is great - but the huge economic growth and advances in health, education and social welfare in Mexico demonstrate their capability to effectively lead discussions.
Mexico has captured the spirit of what the G20 is about: mutual co-operation on issues of mutual importance, as equals, away from old divisions based on geographical politics and historic labels. That is why Mexico's Minister for Foreign Affairs has called foreign ministers from the G20 together for the first time to talk about a wider set of challenges we face as a global community.
Like the UK, Mexico understands that in a world of inter-related economies and environments, with international trade, travel and migration, it is impossible to address the ailments of the global economy in isolation. This is not a distraction from the economic crisis; this is central to a lasting solution.
In a more inter-related world, how nation states fare in a globalised economy rests on having international governance that works. The decision-making machinery exists: the political will to use it effectively needs to develop further.
The G20 should be ambitious about meeting the Millennium Development Goals - eight international development goals, which include eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates and developing a global partnership for development. All 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organisations have agreed to achieve this by 2015. The international community should show leadership on what we do to take global development action a step further and what comes after the existing goals expire in 2015 - and the UK is committed to doing everything we can to drive that forward.
The nature of the economic crisis means we need to think creatively about how to achieve growth but avoid returning to the same problems in a decade. We must work with countries that offer leadership on every continent of the world. We must help the world's poorest people, and design our economies to make sure they are resilient to business, economic and environment shocks in the years to come.
The Mexicans have brought international foreign ministers together to consider just such questions. It is another ideal opportunity for Britain to forge new alliances in our national interest and which benefits people across the world.


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Walter Spencer, 94, of Pocono Summit, died on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in East Stroudsburg. He was the husband of Rita (Treiber) Spencer, at home.
Born in Somerville, N.J., he was the son of the late Eugene and Augusta (Novak) Spencer.
He transferred to the Tobyhanna Army Depot from Belle Mead New Jersey Army Depot in 1953 and retired in 1981 as branch chief of the Tobyhanna Army Depot Calibration Laboratories. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in Europe during World War II. He was part of the 121st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, which fought in France and Germany, and freed King Leopold of Belgium and his family on May 7, 1945.
He enjoyed tinkering with electronics, becoming a computer geek at the ripe age of 85. He traveled extensively with his family across the country as a younger man. A handyman by nature, he was always fixing things around the house.
He was a great believer in higher education, and put all his children through college. A doting grandfather and loving father and husband, he will be greatly missed.
In addition to his wife, Rita, he is survived by a son, Walter O. Spencer of Rochester Hills, Mich.; two daughters, Susan S. Dearden of Warrington, and Grace R. Romano of Blakeslee; and nine grandchildren.
Services are private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Walter's honor to a local animal shelter.
Bolock Funeral Home & Crematory
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Walter Spencer
Walter Spencer, 94, of Pocono Summit, died on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in East Stroudsburg. He was the husband of Rita (Treiber) Spencer, at home.


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Like everything else in modern life, communication has sped up and continues to accelerate.
Like everything else in modern life, communication has sped up and continues to accelerate. According to Professor Debra Nussbaum, a professor of journalism at Rowan University, texting surpassed the number of phone calls six years ago. Tweets, those 140-character bits of communication, add to the speed.
Twitter.com says that Twitter is "the fastest, simplest way to stay close to everything you care about." Fast and simple is best today. Even E-mail is pass�.
Anyone who knows a 30-something�s communication habits, Nussbaum writes, is not surprised at these facts. As a parent of three 30-somethings, I can attest to Nussbaum�s facts. E-mails get, at best, nonchalant (if any) response from our kids. A text on the other hand is responded to immediately. Receiving a real letter � on paper � mailed in an envelope with stamp � warrants a celebration � a "red letter day" to be a bit redundant. Even that old-fashioned term gets from most 30-something readers (if there are any) of this column a "huh? What the heck is a red letter day?"
To be fair, we do get an occasional phone call from our children, mostly so the grandkids can say hello to Poppa and Grandma. But add Facebook and other social networking sites to texts and tweets, and telephone calls may be pass� too, going the way of dinosaurs. And the post office.
The Twitter website gushes "you can discover a lot in a little (140 character) space!" In fact, the Twitter folks may not be too far off in their gushing. The best writing is that which is concise and absent of unnecessary fluff. I can�t say (or write) that I have mastered the "lack of fluff" pedigree of outstanding writers to the degree I�d like.
But practice makes perfect. Consequently, I will write my next several columns in a Twitter-like method, using only 140 or fewer "words" (vice characters), including this column, starting with the next paragraph. I�m using 140 "words" and not "characters" in this task because I admit as a writer that I Iack the ability to actually complete a cogent, complete, and thought-provoking column using only 140 "characters." So here goes. In honored remembrance of the death of letters, emails, phone calls, long, newsy conversations, and one day even 750-word (my normal) columns in newspapers, here�s my Twitter-like 140-word column for this week. I hope it�s cogent and thought-provoking.
Driving to work last week on the "Carteret-Craven Speedway," otherwise known as Nine Mile Road, the driver of the dualie was driving too slowly. Passing him was impossible due to opposing traffic. At 45 mph, I thought disparagingly, "you�re driving like my grandmother."
Laughing at myself, I remembered neither my maternal nor paternal grandmother drove. Ever.
Now I�m married to a grandmother. She drives. Know a woman today under 65 who doesn�t? In just two generations, a near reversal occurred.
Here�s another. Less than 50 years ago, tobacco was king. A federal educational campaign then warned of marijuana�s evils. "A good girl until she lights a reefer." "Sin. Debauchery. Insanity. Smoke of Hell."
Today, tobacco�s the devil. Marijuana? Cool. Now. Edgy. Moving toward legality. A massive change in just two generations.
The only sure thing? Change. And it�s accelerating pace.
Barry Fetzer is a columnist for the Havelock News. He can be reached at email@example.com.