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Posted: April 22 2013 at 23:28
Hi, I'm curious to know whether the most well known prog had some popularity at it's peak. Like, was stuff like Close to the Edge or Foxtrot commonly known during that time or just a mere niche? This was before my time so I'm very curious to know exactly what prog significance was during it's peak.
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|Posted: April 22 2013 at 23:40
here's an article I wrote on the matter -
When Prog Ruled the World
It barely seems possible. Was this the same planet we currently reside on? A place where today such albums would be considered by the general public more as theater than modern rock music, seen as a novelty, or worse, a gimmick. A selfish overindulgence by groups who thought rock had become high art, and with the temerity to actually sell it to people. What was occurring in the post-psychedelic landscape of the early 1970s, and what had happened to individual perception that caused such ambitious breakthroughs to become marketable?
In many ways, it isn't terribly surprising when one considers the sheer quality of the music; Thick as a Brick with its catchy melodies, storybook lyrics, clever cover, and very digestible mix of acoustic folk with hard rock and classical. A winner before it was it was ever heard. The newness and palatable art-pop on ELP's first, sophistry and challenging structures in Close to the Edge, and the elegance and crystal waters of Wish You Were Here. All pinnacles of where rock had been and how far it had come, and each one further inspired and improved upon. A true progression of both form and of quality. As well, other smaller prog artists were able to follow on the coattails of these successes, eking out a living if only in their own countries. That's not to say The Stones, McCartney, Simon & Garfunkel, Chicago and Elton John weren't the undisputed kings of sales, but the British Invasion hadn't ceased with The Beatles' break-up. No, it had expanded, morphed seemingly overnight into something altogether new and extraordinary that took not only from rock's past, but from the best the western world's entire musical history had to offer. The rules had exploded, the sky was limitless and people seemed ready for an era both marvelous and maddening in its creative spirit. It was clear: Progressive Rock was a movement, and by the time it was over would produce some of the most startling, meticulous and difficult popular music the world has even known. And all during the course of about ten years.
And people were buying it, listening to it. A few even seemed to be enjoying this masturbatory nonsense, apparently lauded only by beard-stroking academics with no girlfriends and a little too much time on their hands. Even more unexpected was that this new 'art rock' was an extension of what had come just before, a much further push into territory The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Moody Blues, Doors, The Who and others had only hinted at. It was unusual because most new musical forms are a reaction against their siblings of the old guard, a turning away of the past fueled by a desperate need to be expressively different. But a few mavericks in Britain, Europe and North America, some of whom had formal musical backgrounds and larger visions of what was possible within a rock format, decided to raise those stakes, not change them. It was a time when the bigger the concept, higher the ambition and finer the skills - the more a musician was willing do and farther able to go - the more people seemed interested. The audience had grown-up and instead of rejecting its history, wanted more. The timing was right and the artists were ready-- a fleeting convergence when everything that had been accomplished in the previous decade, the inventive and free spirit of those times, had set the stage for something far greater.
The record-buying public weren't the only ones charmed. Commercial music, that pool of anonymously recorded and publicly owned stuff you hear slapped on a cheap TV show, pasted to endless radio spots or piped-in at the local mall had suddenly adopted a space age & synthesizer motif, sounding remarkably like a watered down ELP. Pretty soon everything from the local news to the new season of In Search Of sported music undeniably influenced not by Pop, Rock 'n Roll, Folk or the other popular genres, but by what the Prog musicians had been offering for years.
Then things changed. Some say Disco killed Prog with its polyester, new haircuts, and hijacking of symphonic arrangements. Others think it was Punk, its 'rebellion' against the rock establishment and bloated acts that system supported. In fact the truth isn't so simple and frankly neither Disco nor Punk had much hand in progressive rock's recession. Time moves on, generations grow out of their past and new replaces old. And though music journalism's passionate love affair with Punk rock and tenuous relationship with Prog probably hastened its demise, the press wasn't the culprit. All three musical styles developed around the same period, paralleling one another much of the time. Each provided a unique voice in modern music and an alternative to the massive Pop market, and each eventually succumbed to its own weight.
Thankfully progressive rock survived. Just barely. A handful of bands scattered around the world didn't give-in to the pressure and kept making rock for the thinking person, playing to an oblivious world caught up in the Reagan era. A few veterans like Yes and Pink Floyd re-emerged in the 80s and offered some quality music to a thankful if tiny audience. Still others such as Rush just kept going, some feel at the price of their artistry, making many more albums and even getting a few radio hits along the way. Luckily in our time, the internet has saved Prog from going under and offers not only an easy way to find the music of these new and old bands, but a worldwide community filled with likeminded lovers of the rock progressive. So enjoy, and Prog on!
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 01:11
King Crimson,Yes , ELP, Genesis, Rush, Pink Floyd, Camel,Jethro Tull were all big sellers. Rush and Genesis actually sold more records during and after punk.
Gentle Giant not so much so. VDGG never had a big selling album in the UK although were big in Italy and other continental countries. There were loads of prog bands whose sales were modest to say the least. The Seventies was the decade of the so called 'Supergroup' and prog was in a good position to exploit this. Add the synthesiser and suddenly you have a succesfull commercial formula that lasted a good while until people just got bored with it.
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 04:16
Of course it was.
Look at the album charts of the time.
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 05:50
Sure it was. But you have to consider that the offer of pop-rock music and entertainment in general was much more limited than now, so any music released had automatically more chances of exposure and of becoming popular.
Nowadays pop-rock music is an element of the young generations culture and entertainment but only one of many, along with computers and tablets, video-games, tons of movie releases and TV offer, social networks, phone texting and so many others, so except for the really big mainstream hits, most of the music released is nearly by definition a niche entertainment. Exposure as such has become easier with the internet, YouTube etc, but the chances of becoming really popular among such a dense offer of entertainment is actually smaller, and the cultural importance of pop-rock in the young generations culture has become rather marginal.
In the 1970's rock music was the predominant cultural expression and artistic entertainment for young people and the quantity of music released was more limited. Of course much music remained obscure, but the chances of exposure and of getting some success were much bigger.
Many people would actually favour more pop-oriented rock such as Bowie, Lou Reed, Peter Frampton, the albums by the ex-Beatles, Iggy Pop, The Who, ELO etc or the heavier side with Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath etc, but they would almost surely be also exposed to proper Prog and would likely have in their discographies some ELP, Yes, Genesis, Camel, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, KC etc, at least their most famous albums (even some Zappa was quite common to be present in most people's discography, even if fewer people actually listened to them ).
If Prog would have only come into existence today, I doubt that it would have become as popular as it did in the 70's, if only because the offer of alternatives for the young is so much bigger. Conversely any other new rock style having popped up in 1969-1970 instead of Prog would likely have become popular too. Timing played a role.
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 06:19
Looking in my book of British Chart hits, Yes had Number One hit albums in 1973 & 1977, and six other Top Ten hit albums in the 70s. Pink Floyd had Number One hit albums in 1970 & 1975, plus four more Top Ten hit albums. ELP had a Number One hit album in 1971, plus another six Top Ten hit albums. Genesis had seven Top Ten hit albums. Jethro Tull had four Top Ten hit albums.
That's a total of thirty two Top Ten chart albums in the 1970s, just for those five bands.
Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon stayed on the charts for fourteen years without dropping out. Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells was on the charts for over five years.
Success is measured by lots of people buying the music, and that's measured by the charts.
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 07:45
I think Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd were the most commercially successful prog bands internationally in the "golden era" (1970-74). At least they were the ones getting into the US Top 10 which was the biggest and most lucrative market. Gabriel era Genesis were popular in the UK but didn't get really big in the US until they started going "pop" (And Then There Were Three). I just checked and Invisible Touch was their biggest album (6x Platinum). There's no accounting is there....
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 08:38
Years ago I made a thread about an Italian chart of best selling albums in a certain month in 1972, which I found in Armando Gallo's book "I Know What I Like" (about Genesis, obviously). This is the chart I'm talking about
Pretty amazing, isn't it? Imagine that that would be the actual chart of best selling albums in your country.
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 08:56
Wow, Pawn Hearts at #1 along with Islands and Nursery Cryme that high up? :S Three albums which really didn't matter at all on an international level, but also three of my favorite albums.
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 09:34
Yes, very very popular---Yes selling out 4 nights at Madison Sq Garden kind of popular. Who can do that today but a handful of artists. And across the pond---just or more popular in it's overall impact---
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 10:19
Prog sure was quite popular. Found out that even Goblin's PROFUNDO ROSSO album sold over a million copies in 1976. The prog message was clearly out there. It was massive. :)
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 10:40
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 10:42
At least as far as KLOS and KMET in Los Angeles and KNAC ... Yes was probably the best known of these as Genesis did not quite take off until "Selling England By The Pound", though they were one of those "darling" imports!
AFAIK, in London the term "progressive" was already used, but in California it was still considered "art rock", though I already considered these folks the modern composers of my time and yours ... and did not separate rock, jazz and bullmerde from any other music, like everyone else does and states that it is not worth of discussion in order to make music history ... IT IS ... or our generation is a bunch of worthless geeks that never learned anything ... except to copy "the master" ... and both you and I have an issue with that, I'm sure!
Unffortunately, for the record, Genesis became even more famous after Peter Gabriel and the work that we DO consider "progressive", which tends to distort the equation! Pink Floyd was already seminal and important in these stations, and SPECIALLY the FM radio (these were) because they were STEREO as opposed to the regular radio ... and this IS ... the great wakeup time about music ... since before the fidelity was next to nill and poor.
It is VERY important that we understand that ... since in many ways the advent of "stereo" helped a lot of this music seem a lot more important than before ... and this is something that we do not consider enough. Go check out the rinky dinky AM band and listen to a few songs played there and then go listen to a big name FM station on the same radio ... that difference is MASSIVE to differentiate the VALUE of the music itself, and "progressive" music made FULL use of that ability ... like the top ten was not doing at the time! This is a lot LESS visible and an issue today, as the lowest level mp3 or iTunes is even better than most olf FM station signals in those days!
It's easy to say ... you had no idea!
I do think that a few years later in America, FM radio went commercial and the value of these bands dropped some, to the point where the big sellers were more important ... and this had a tendency to hurt the whole process and create the glamour thing and then the louder still thing (like the Rolling Stones at 125 decibels were not loud!), and then ... anything else!
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 10:54
Not just prog but at least on Long Island radio in the 1970s, one could hear Tangerine Dream.
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 11:01
If I'm not wrong the fist sold out date achieved by Genesis was in Rome and I think Italy is the country where VdGG have been more successful than in any other country in terms of charts.
From what I personally remember, in the early 70s in Italy we had no TVs or radios other than the national ones which were used to apply censorship. Aqualung was censored for its anti-christian contents. The media offer was sticking on the popular artists coming from the 50s. Even though some of them were good (Gaber, De Andre, Tenco) the majority was very poor, so whenever anything "new and fresh" arrived on the shops it became a cult counterposed to what was considered mainstream.
Prog in Italy became very popular (but not under this name) thanks to home taping and to very few TV and radio shows.
Local political issues had a positive effect as left winged bands like Area and Stormy Six became representative of a way of making music and made their listeners used to more challenging sounds.
This scenario started to change in 1976/77 and the 80s were in Italy poorer than in other countries, I think.
The above is my personal perception of how I have lived these years. History can be different.
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|Posted: April 23 2013 at 11:16
Only 3 of these albums were "played" on the big stations in Los Angeles. I know that KNAC did play at least 3 more, but KNAC did not have the signal that the big 2 did, that covered almost ALL of Southern California ... and you can learn some of this in Radio Kaos which was about KMET! Jim Ladd was in those stations! There was a reason why PF sold out the Hollywood Bowl in the fall of 1972!
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Their battles are overseen by the engagingly oddball Doug Jones and his smiling and motherly wife (Sherilyn Fen), but while the film toys with the implications of the gladiatorial aspect it never develops any depth to what is happening. It sort of lies between Death Race and The Hunger Games…but appears to be happening for no particular reason apart from visual sport.
What follows is a series of bloody and increasingly nasty girl-fights – punctuated by a cameo from Rosario Dawson – as Sabrina starts thinning down the numbers, while also looking for any way of escape. But this is an environment where the male oppressors (and Fenn) hold the power. What the film lacks is some more detailed character development…especially as most women are dressed the same and tend to meet nasty demises. But it is rare starring role for Zoe Bell, and she certainly has the physical presence to more than hold her own.
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Producers: Kenny Gage, Zoe Bell, Andrew Pagana, Josh Waller
Executive producers: Allene Quincy, Rachel Nichols, Bill Ceresia, Matthew Hayden
Screenplay: Robert Beaucage
Cinematography: Dylan O'Brien
Editor: Brett Bachman
Production designer: Rob Howeth
Music: Frank Riggio
Main cast: Zoe Bell, Rachel Nichols, Rebecca Marshall, Tracie Thoms, Bailey Anne Borders, Rosario Dawson, Allene Quincy, Doug Jones, Sherilyn Fenn, Bruce Thomas


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#1 This Week in Petroleum History August 5 August 1108-08-2013, 11:54 PM
August 7, 1933 Alley Oops Oil Patch Roots
A 1995 postage stamp commemorates Alley Oop by Victor Hamlin, a cartoonist originally from Iraan, Texas.
Alley Oop appears for the first time when former Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reporter Victor (V.T.) Hamlin publishes the caveman as a syndicated daily cartoon in Iowas Des Moines Register.
The comic strip will run in more than 800 newspapers nationwide and the West Texas oil town of Iraan proclaims itself as Hamlins paleontological inspiration.
Iraan (pronounced eye-rah-ann) first appeared as a company town following the discovery of the prolific Yates oilfield. The name, chosen in a contest, combines names of the townsite owners, Ira and Ann Yates.
Discovered in October 1926 in southeastern Pecos County, the Yates field will bring prosperity to Iraan, Fort Stockton, Midland, Odessa and other communities by producing more than 40 million barrels in just three years.
According to historian Mike Hanlon, the cartoonist came up with the idea for Alley Oop while working in the oil patch. As Iraan boomed in the late 1920s, Hamlin worked as a cartographer for an oil company making site maps.
He could watch dinosaur bones being removed by the steam shovels and scrapers as they cleared the sites for drilling, wells, and pumps, Hanlon claims, adding that Hamlin developed a life-long interest in geology and paleontology.
But the biggest roughnecking days are over in Iraan by 1960 when the band Hollywood Argyles sings that Alley Oop is the toughest man there is alive.
The town opens an Alley Oop Fantasy Land theme park in 1965 with favorite son Hamlin in attendance. Alley Oop is one of 20 comic strips commemorated in a 1995 series of U.S. postage stamps. Although Yates oilfield production and Iraans fortunes may have declined advanced production technologies are bringing new life to the historic field and oil patch community.
Today, tourists visit the Alley Oop Museum and R.V. Park on the northwest edge of Iraan. Thanks to improved recovery techniques, oil production from Yates oil wells continues and the field is estimated to have one billion barrels of recoverable oil remaining.
August 7, 2004 Death of a Hellfighter --Famed oilfield firefighter Paul Red Adair dies at age 89.
Adair, who founded the Red Adair Company in 1959, pioneered technologies to wild well control. Over the years his company and controlled about 2,000 dangerous oil well fires and blowouts onshore and offshore all over the world.
His skills, dramatized in the 1968 John Wayne film, Hellfighters, were tested in 1991, when Adair and his company extinguished 117 oil well fires set in Kuwait by Saddam Husseins army.
August 9, 1921 First Reflection Seismograph
An energy source (explosive charge, weight drop, vibration generator, or other source of seismic waves), several seismic wave paths demonstrating reflection from the top of bedrock to detectors (or geophones) on the land surface - courtesy Geologic Resources.
Illustration of an energy source (explosive charge, weight drop, vibration generator or other source), produces seismic wave paths demonstrating reflection from the top of bedrock to detectors (or geophones) on the land surface courtesy Geologic Resources.
Thanks to pioneering research led by Dr. J. C. Karcher, an Oklahoma physicist, the worlds first reflection seismograph geologic section is measured near Ardmore.
Oklahoma is the birthplace of the reflection seismic technique of oil exploration, notes the Oklahoma Historical Society of the geophysical method that records reflected seismic waves as they travel through the earth, helping to find oil-bearing formations.
The Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma were selected for a pilot survey of the technique and equipment, because an entire geologic section from the basal Permian to the basement mass of granite is exposed here, explains the society.
Reflection technique has been responsible for discovery of many of the worlds largest oil and natural gas fields, containing billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.
August 9, 1922 Oil Fortune of Luling, Texas
The Central Oil Patch Museum of Luling, Texas, is a restored 1885 mercantile store.
After drilling six consecutive dry holes near Luling, Texas, the heavily in debt United North & South Oil Company brings in the Rafael Rios No. 1 well.
The Central Texas discovery well reveals an oilfield that is twelve miles long and two miles wide. Local lore proclaims that Edgar B. Davis, president of the company, found the well only after getting a psychic reading.
The oil patch reading came from then famed clairvoyant, Edgar Cayce. Within two years the oilfield has 391 producing wells and yields about 11 million barrels annually.
Davis will sell his leases to the Magnolia Petroleum Company for $12 million the biggest petroleum deal in Texas at the time. Psychic Edgar Cayce will claim success helping other Texas wildcatters. He leaves the oil patch for good after forming his own oil company and drilling a series of dry holes.
Luling also hosts an annual Roughneck BBQ and Chili Cook-Off and boasts of the best ribs in the country, according to Readers Digest.
Read about the oil patch museum in Luling and the psychic in the historical society article, Central Texas Oil Patch Museum.
August 10, 1909 Hughes patents Drill Bit
Howard Hughes Sr. of Houston, Texas, receives a patent in 1909 for a drill that relates to boring drills, and particularly to roller drills such as are used for drilling holes in earth and rock.
Rotary drilling is revolutionized when Howard Hughes Sr. of Houston, Texas, patents the twin-cone roller bit consisting of two interlocking cones.
Petroleum historians note several men who were trying to improve on drill bit technologies at the time, but it was Hughes who made it happen.
Granville A. Humason, for example, developed a cross-roller bit before a chance meeting with Hughes in Shreveport, Louisiana where he sold the rights to Hughes.
The twin-cone roller bit, which drills faster and deeper through harder rock formations, launches the Hughes oilfield service company empire.
Hughes receives a patent, No. 930758, for a drill that relates to boring drills, and particularly to roller drills such as are used for drilling holes in earth and rock, and with business associate Walter Benona Sharp established Sharp-Hughes Tool Company to manufacture and market the twin-cone roller bit.
In addition to modern tri-cone bits, companies like Varel International, founded in 1947, offer a variety of bits, including many manufactured with natural diamonds.
Hughes company engineers will invent the tri-cone bit in 1933. More innovations follow. Frank and George Christensen develop the earliest diamond bit in 1941. The tungsten carbide tooth comes into use in the early 1950s.
Hughes biographers note that he met Granville Humason in a Shreveport bar, where Humason sold his roller bit rights to Hughes for $150. The University of Texas Center for American History has a rare 1951 recording of Humasons recollections of that chance meeting.
On the tape, Humason recalls that he spent $50 of his sale proceeds at the bar during the balance of the evening.
August 11, 1998 Amoco announces BP merger
Amoco announces plans to merge with British Petroleum in a stock swap valued at about $48 billion at the time the worlds largest industrial merger. Amoco began in 1889 as John D. Rockefellers Standard Oil Company of Indiana, and changed its name from Standard to Amoco in 1985.
Finalized on December 31, the combined company, BP Amoco PLC, is 60 percent owned by BP shareholders, marking the transaction the largest foreign takeover of an American company. In 2001 BP announces that Amoco service stations will be closed or renamed to BP service stations.It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.
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Persimmon Bread
We have a persimmon tree and this year I thought I would make Persimmon bread from the fruit. First I had to find a recipe that I liked and do a trial run to see how the bread tastes. I found a recipe at this website that I used to make my bread. http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2007/11/persimmon-bread.html The first one turned out very tasty but I thought that I should double the recipe and bake the bread in my panettone mold.
2 1/2 cups persimmon, mashed pulp. I put mine in a blender and made a smoothie out of them. There was a little extra that went into the bread also.
2 tablespoon lemon juice
4 tablespoons olive oil
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1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups bread wheat flour
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1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cloves
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1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup roasted almond pieces
Mix the persimmon lemon juice, olive oil, sugar, water, and vanilla extract together. Then add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. Then mix until all the flour is moistened. Add the almonds and raisins and mix them in.
Pour into what ever baking pan you are going to use and smooth the top out so it looks nice.
Preheat oven to 325°F then cook for 1 1/2 hours. Let the bread cool completely before cutting. The glaze was made by melting a thick slice of butter. Then added a half tablespoon of fruit flavored brandy, an eighth of a teaspoon of Vanilla and Almond extract each. The glaze is then thickened up by adding powdered sugar until I got the thickness that I wanted. This glaze is just very wonderful all on its own. I then placed some sliced Almonds on top of the glaze. I love the wonderful flavor that the persimmons give to this bread.


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They didn't have many athletes qualify for the South Carolina high school state track and field finals, but the seven Bluffton Bobcats who did make it to the two-day meet at Lower Richland High School made head co-coach Dana House proud.
The 4x800-meter girls' relay team of Vannica Williams, Alex Bailey, Diamond Gilyard and Madison Putich combined to destroy the BHS record in the event with a fifth-place finish in 9 minutes, 53.86 seconds during Saturday's finals in Hopkins.
The 4x400 girls' foursome of Putich, Tibra Wheeler, Gilyard and Williams also established a school mark with a fourth-place finish in 4:05.15.
Steven Bradley placed 7th in the 110 high hurdles in 15.54, breaking his previous school mark, and Taylor Paul finished 7th in the 800 in 2:02.91, a personal best for him this season.
Our 4-by-800 relay team's 9:53.86 shattered the school record of 10:13 set the previous week at the state qualifying meet,'' House said. "That was a very competitive time against a strong relay field."
Eastside finished first in the 4x800 in 9:32.68. Hilton Head was third in 9:37.91.
The Lady Bobcats' 4x400 relay team knocked nearly five seconds off the previous school record. JL Mann High won the event in 4:00.07.
Both relay teams made it to the eight-team finals with seventh-place finishes in Friday's preliminaries. The teams' prelim times were 10:20.88 (4x800) and 4:10.80 (4x400).
In the boys' individual prelims on Friday, Bradley was seventh in the 110 hurdles in 15.76, Paul eighth in the 800 in 2:05.92.
"Steven and Taylor ran very well both days," House said. "It was an especially big challenge for Taylor, who was coming off a hamstring pull the last three weeks."
Seniors competing for the last time for BHS were Williams, Gilyard, Bradley and Paul. Wheeler is a sophomore. Putich and Bailey, also teammates this spring on the Lady Bobcats' soccer team, are freshmen. And let us not forget freshman Casey Witkowski, who was a 4x800 relay team alternate.
The BHS girls finished 21st in the team standings, the boys 27th, both with 8 points. The Hilton Head boys (47) placed fourth, the Seahawks girls 16th (16).
Battery Creek (Beaufort), edged by Richland 58-57 in the boys' team finals, lost the title because of a couple of disqualifications and a false start in three events. Battery Creek would have collected the two points needed for the win with a last-place (eighth) finish in two of the three races.
The Hilton Head boys placed fourth with 47 points. Seahawks senior Clifford Morrow won the 400 in 49.01.
Bobcat Boys' Golfers Seventh In State
Off to a slow start that saw the Bluffton High boys golf team in 11th place at 322 strokes after the first day of the 36-hole 3A State team finals at Quail Creek Country Club in Conway, the Bobcats played better on Tuesday with a 302 to finish 7th overall at 628 in the 16-school field.
A.C. Flora (590) finished first, St. James and South Akien tied for second at 602). Hilton Head (605) placed fourth. Hilton Head coach Rawn Grant reportedly filed a grievance with the South Carolina High School League over the disqualification of one of his golfers after the first round.
Corey Taylor (Blue Ridge) was the medalist with a 4-under 140, followed by Chandler Brazeal (South Aiken) three strokes back.
Bluffton scores: Wesley Long 152, Coley Davis 153, Kenny Kovacs 158, Matt Leib 165, Shawn Fox 171. Hilton Head Top Three: Trent Hoisington 144 (fourth place), Tate Hoisington 151, Tyler Williams 155.
Bluffton Boys Soccer Ranked 15th
With one week remaining in the final South Carolina High School Soccer Coaches Association Top 15 3A ratings, the Bluffton High boys (13-7-1) are sitting at No. 15.
The Bobcats boys' season ended with a 1-0 home loss to No. 8 Airport (14-10-1) in the second round of the playoffs. The BHS girls' season closed with a 2-0 first-round loss to North Myrtle Beach. Neither team is rated.
No. 3 South Aiken's boys (18-4-1), who would have played a third-round match at Bluffton had the Bobcats not lost to visiting Airport 1-0 in Round 2, represented the Lower State against Up State-champion and No. 1-ranked JL Mann (22-4) for the state title Saturday at Columbia's Memorial Stadium.
South Aiken reached the final with wins over Airport 1-0 and Brookland-Cayce 2-1.
Friday's 3A final in Columbia pitted No. 1 Riverside (21-3-1) against No. 2 South Aiken 20-2-2). South Aiken moved on with a 3-0 road win Monday over No. 4 Hilton Head (13-7) in the Lower State title match.


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The University of Wyoming Department of Music Percussion Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the Fine Arts concert hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
The program will feature guest artists Kurt Gartner, percussion professor from Kansas State University; and Steve Riley, percussion professor at Baker University. Gartner is an expert on the malletKAT, an electronic percussion instrument, and Riley is a professional percussionist in Kansas City. He also is an award-winning composer.
The ensemble, which is composed of marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, timpani, and various other drums and percussion instruments, will perform "Magnum Opus," made famous by the rock group Kansas; a Latin version of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage"; and works that employ odd techniques, such as gargling water and singing at the same time.
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Good news for customers of Verizon Wireless here in the United States, we have another look at the upcoming Nokia Lumia 928. We first got a nice render from @evleaks about two weeks ago. It showed off the front and back of the upcoming device, but now we've got a look at the sides as well.
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One of the unknown female vampires working for the Volturi, Clare Fredwin challenges everything the Volturi stands for. When her past comes back to haunt her however, she must choose...
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I could feel the cold air against my pale skin. The rain saturated my long blonde hair – a welcome blessing.
The dark night crackled with electricity, a clap of thunder echoed through the sky.
This was my favourite time of day – night. Not that we have a choice now. Our kind had been reduced to hide in the dark; shadows of old in a dangerous world.
Yet we were not the danger, despite what most choose to think. The real danger lurks out there, walking amongst your kind.
I could smell him from where I stood with my back against the wet stone wall. His scent, once a mixture of musk and cigars reeked of alcohol, stale on my nostrils. He was heading in our direction, like planned.
Oh, blast!
No! I felt myself scream. The boy next to me squeezed my hand, his palm cold on mine.
Why don't I listen anymore? Mother said it would be a bad idea. Now I am stuck here, in an alleyway while it pours down with rain and my dress is now ruined!
"We didn't plan for this," I hissed softly to the boy next to me. I glanced up at his face, my glare melting as I stared into his golden eyes.
I wonder if he knew he did that, the thing with his eyes, or if it was unintentional.
Was he completely oblivious to the butterflies in my stomach, the thoughts in my mind?
Do not be afraid. Even the voice inside his head was melodic and calm. She will be safe, I promise you.
He showed no response to my thoughts.
"Let us go – now, before it is too late." His voice was quiet, so low that only she could pick it up. It was like he and I were on the same frequency.
He moved his body out of the shadows, walking gracefully in the alleyway. A turn to the left was all we had…
The scream pierced more than my ears. It shattered every bone in my body, every moral piece of fibre I had tried to retain, all these years past. It reverberated through my body, leaving me helpless, weak.
A hand on my curve of my spine pushed me forward, and I found my legs.
It happened in one sudden movement, yet the girl seemed to register it all, the shock and horror evidence on her face.
I was in front of the man, he behind. My voice rang out against the walls.
"Let her go." Though the sound was musical, the undertone was that of pure seriousness.
Something flashed across the girl's neck. A knife at her throat, a hoarse chuckle from the man.
"I will let her go – only you will be next."
In another sudden movement, the girl was on the ground, the man lashing out at me, knife in hand.
I was too fast for him as I darted out the way. I stood where he had once stood, my partner darting behind him once more.
I smiled, looking at the man through my eyelashes.
It was a smile I reserved for my victims before their fall. It captured everything that I was – beautiful and deadly.
My upper lip curled under, revealing my porcelain white teeth. I ran my tongue over the front, feeling the venom pumping through, and the familiar ache started.
Hold it.
I cocked my head to one side. I knew I could twist this in my favour. I thought about something arbitrary, whilst devising my plan.
It threw both of them off.
The man looked astounded as I walked closer to him, my hips swaying suggestively.
Hello Dolly!
The man's thoughts made me wince inwardly.
What on earth is she doing?
Panic filled the girl standing behind.
He - my partner in this so called crime - was trying hard to push through the barricade I had created, barely noticing my dangerous actions.
"Try me," I purred.
I took another step forward. So close I could smell the man's body odour – a vile smell.
"What are you doing?" the girl on the ground screamed.
I glanced behind me at her cry – a wrong, deadly move.
The man darted forward, clutching my elbow. I, in turn, screamed as his warm fingers pushed into my pale skin.
In another movement, the man was wrestling with my partner, the knife in between them.
"Edward – no!" I heard myself scream. What if something were to happen to my angel?
Suddenly the man was writhing under my grasp, panting for breathe. My arms encircled his neck, my legs acting as a stony wall.
I stood in shock at my actions. I had not acted so fast in the history of my time.
"Edward?" I whispered.
I blocked out every other sound – the beating of the rain on the streets, the sobs of the girl on the ground, the wheezing of the man.
Over here.
I twisted my head around, gripping harder onto the man as I felt him struggle.
Edward was standing nearby, the girl in his arms.
She had fainted.
I will take her back home – I'm not hungry tonight.
I rolled my eyes, turning my attention back to the man in my arms.
I heard the sound of Edward leaving – I knew if I turned that he would not be there – faster than anything I had ever seen.
I felt the panic rising in the man, the blood pumping through his body. He no longer smelt vile, but beautiful, delicious.
And I wanted to make him suffer.
I wanted to make him feel pain, to understand what pain was, just as he made those other girls.
I ran my teeth against the softness of his neck, feeling the veins throb underneath. His skin was so translucent, so tempting. I could see the blood rushing underneath, the panic rising.
"Please…do not…hurt me. I have a wife and child!"
His voice was breathless, fear encompassing him.
"It's too late for that."
In one, swift move, I punctured his neck, feeling the venom pump through my teeth and into his neck.
At the same time, his own blood entered my body. I felt alive, I felt powerful.
The man's body goes limp in my arms, his heart slowing as his blood disappears.
All too soon it is over, and he is lying on the ground, eyes wide open in fear. A droplet of blood clings to his neck where there are two red and small puncture marks, something that can easily be misconstrued as a spider bite.
I stand up, licking my teeth and lips as I move into the darkness of London, my brilliant red eyes glowing with satisfaction.
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Honda Civic Gets Its Groove Back
Twenty months after offering a model that no one could love, the 2013 Civic EX puts Honda back to where it once belonged. WSJ 'Rumble Seat' Columnist Dan Neil reports on The News Hub. Photo: Honda Corporation.
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... the ... welcome new sub dad always shale I'm I'm Simon console while it's time to have a look and the like often do about it that man ... Dan Neil ... joins us now from Raleigh North Carolina Mary ... Ann's ... CEO resigned due to a euro material ... another car ... here's one now ... and ... what they know and it's a Honda Civic I didn't want you now ... you know let people down but it's on the sonic ... every week we had these conversations every week USB ... port in the border this car ... and then up for the twenty thirteen model year I recommended for a twelve ... year ... old saw says that the story this color ... how the ... city ... anti ... American ... has decided to who you are ... interested in costs to offer that ... the customers a little more car for all of this the money and it's a reflection of a balancing act in this context it ... is extremely competitive with the Koreans and so although the price point of the price point one-year test of its about twenty thirteen Honda at the Civic DX to twenty one thousand six hundred and five bucks plus some taxes in a low estimate ... you really want you did you see one you can get into account the fact that actually has ... a of having the sense is that this is the the the bread and butter are fighting on configuration ... and that is ... really quite up credit card the interesting thing is that to ... it's this little things in a different suppliers like ... it ... will slash a crumb on the outside inside the car doesn't look as dreary end ... it has a day before ... the Wallabies tires again will I answer it ... upholstery ... and does wonders for the ... current basically mechanically almost the same ... but it feels so much more branches ... than it did last year and Anna Grace's is possible that ... the estimate of about five hundred dollars car ... and and that's squeezing them options now this time would you consider it to be competitive ... against him in some way with the company competition held back ... yet this is ... that's what really happened is ... the sort of still a little bit that they have again services at the front of the pack a need for twenty one by ... this is a lot of appeal ... Friday today that they still have ... that that they they ... say the ... B of boats and quality of the stars is quiet to find a lot of ... his classes and use it comes to Atlanta nation and and in your face a to B went to visit was to clean laminated because the colors a bit shall see ... I was I mean ... well the ... this Wilford Hall ... on Tuesday who needed Glass has a feature of Massey layer of of of ... it's a classic New Jersey which untreated glass ... desserts and doesn't have the windshield it also ... puts and any ECB are now the reason that is relevant is because they send in costs money ... and it cost weight ... so you know they everything's a copper mines in Eugene so they had to steal a little bit is something else elsewhere to make up for the go way costs ... so that's ... is ... the thing is that this is to find calibrated product all these are the sentence ... is comes down to the Antifinance factor and so are the cases on the day people I have right they ... were during December they just got a little wrong ... in a season of ... reform ... they have a new ... man in Iraq and thirty nine miles a gallon on the highway thank you very much Dan Neil The Wall Street Journal we appreciate your time


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the fourth time this season, MIT sophomore Noel Hollingsworth has been named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men's Basketball Player of the Week. Hollingsworth helped MIT pick up a pair of road victories last week, as the No. 12 Engineers improved to 17-2 and 6-1 in conference play. Hollingsworth averaged 23.0 points and 5.5 rebounds while shooting over 73% from the field in wins over Coast Guard and WPI.
Hollingsworth began the week with 25 points, on 10-13 shooting, to go along with seven rebounds, three assists and 2 blocks in a 78-58 defeat of Coast Guard. He followed that up with 21 points and four boards, including a clutch lay-up with 25 seconds left, as Tech outlasted WPI, 74-66. With the win, MIT swept the season series with the Worcester Engineers for the first time since 2003.
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Barrons Fund Columnist Brendan Conway joins the News Hub to discuss changes in the S&P, a stagnant Dow and stock futures starting low this morning. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the the ... welcome back to the beest live ... I'm Kelsey Hubbard ... the markets now be heading for the last trading session of the week Brendan Conway is here what what we're going to be looking at today says them and the ... SNP Nasdaq ... good news in terms of we are the prices stand today ok ... SNP five hundred close to another five-year high urgent action think it's it's it's someone who will get to be a sixty year over year All-Time High actually ... up Nasdaq a twelve year high ... if you look at the chart of the doubt for instance the last two weeks I mean it is ... black is the great plains it's it's just a clear answer yes yes you know if you do it that the couple weeks and it's clear that not now that we're back to these multi year highs investors are a little the hesitant to cut and push beyond long nap ... this morning he certainly seemed startled one last time I hear their tenacity just really flat was out in so you know ... it ... wouldn't be all that surprising especially this time of year to see something of a correction ... on tap this morning futures were down slightly for you know what what I would take to be ... no paired with good reason ... one piece of news that it might your thoughts this morning ... a little bit odd is that there's a manufacturing survey I how does this region continue work ... on they came in well above expectations ... moving to an expansionary mode for the first time since the summer ... so ... that you use other features kind of the UN to take back a little with their losses this morning and that a bit and it is there ... some of high-profile money managers and Apple yes so it's that time of the year four times a year these well-known money managers to disclose ... their portfolios ... Apple dishes this battle you know it the stock fell so so sharply at the end of last year ... a lot of folks are warning will who was selling it to its elegant ... well ... among the among the the the brand name investors to work on and refining work George Soros was one event he he actually upped his stake a little bit ... of that then you also have folks like Dan Loeb of Third point Capital pretty well known investor on sold his stake entirely Seiyu Duke Odyssey his portfolio reshuffling going on ... one of well-known stock like that I've died so quickly and thing about London investors Carl Icahn ... and it was the fact is this is can this is that this is a bit of fun with this idea involving a stock that most people hadn't heard of until the last couple months ... stocks they miss Herbalife it's a health products company ... bill Ackman hedge fund manager accused of being a pyramid scheme ... in steps Carl Icahn he's got a thirteen percent position ... that stock is soaring this morning on hopes that he will either cause them to go private ... or I get to take some other stuff to carry the accusations political crisis of this happening ... gold is in the gold price is is is is is tough lately up for people who ... think that cold will act as a hedge ... you know stocks are rising and rising in gold just can't catch a break ... up police thing this morning is George Soros copies ETF position ... in gold this also came of those documents last night ... you know the feeling is you know it's it's fear versus greed write as people see stocks rising you know gold doesn't pay dividend gold doesn't have earnings gold as a store of wealth as it's you know ... bulls see it aam ... but the price just isn't doing anything so I think people are are are kind of giving up by ... putting money in this awful scene works ... we will fail to work thanks so much a dining us and we appreciated the fact ... that it can be watching all those stocks and more as they


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Our 2009 CIO Role Survey shows that CIOs expect the importance of business tasks in their portfolio to increase much more quickly than technology tasks over the next two years. This points to the need for a new skill-set for the next generation of CIOs.
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Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the Twenty-First Century
Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004 - Law - 880 pages
In a substantially revised eighth edition, Criminal Justice Today continues to set the standard by which all other introductory criminal justice textbooks are measured. The hallmark features that have made Criminal Justice Today the most widely read college criminal justice textbook form the core of this new edition. They include: A thematic approach that contrasts the justice system's twin goals of ensuring public order and safety while guaranteeing individual rights. The book's theme, present since the first edition, is more relevant today and continues to significantly influence the direction of American society. Timely content, including current issues such as efforts to enhance homeland security, concerns about restrictions on individual freedoms in the face of terrorist threats, corporate crime, identity theft, high-technology crime, and special issues such as policing an ever-changing multicultural society. A futures orientation, including a special chapter on the future of criminal justice that points the way to and helps students appreciate the unchanging foundation upon which American criminal justice rests. simple to stay abreast of the latest news, research reports, and government-sponsored studies of relevance to the study of criminal justice. The eighth edition also brings exciting new features to Criminal Justice Today. Among them are: Expanded police coverage, including an entirely new chapter on police organization and management. The criminal justice system's response to terrorism, including broad coverage of homeland security issues, the impact of domestic and international terrorism on criminal justice practices and procedures, individual rights in the face of enhanced security; and terrorism prevention, response, and control. Detailed coverage of corporate crime, including possible criminal activities of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Vivendi Universal, Kmart, Global Crossing, Tyco International, and London-based auction house Sotheby's. Crime mapping, predictive, and enforcement technologies, including CompStat and CopLink software, wearable augmented reality devices, and biometrics. with special graphics provided by the Massachusetts State Police.
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by Tom Utescher
When visiting Springside Chestnut Hill Academy quickly took a 3-0 lead in last Tuesday's Inter-Ac lacrosse match at Germantown Academy, it looked like the Blue Devils were on their way of a season sweep of the Patriots.
After that, though, the Pats regrouped, tied the game 5-5 by halftime, and proceeded to pull out a 9-8 victory.
For a rebuilding GA franchise, it was the first win in nine starts against Inter-Ac opponents, and it balanced out a loss at Springside Chestnut Hill back on April 18.
That win in the middle of last month was the first ever in the league for the Blue Devils, who went on to achieve a season split against Penn Charter. SCH, which plays Haverford and Malvern once and the other three
Inter-Ac opponents twice, finished out its league schedule at 2-6.
Asked how he prepared his charges for Springside Chestnut Hill the second time around, first-year GA head coach Brian Grady said "We knew who their threats were, but we really wanted to focus more on our own game. We wanted to put together four quarters of good lacrosse."
Junior Max Derham (one assist) and freshman Matt Ho each scored twice for the winners, while the SCH offense was paced by a hat trick from senior Evan Fireman. In the goal, the Blue Devils split time, as usual, between two keepers. Sophomore Matt Eccles started and made three stops, and junior Xander Pacilio took over for the second half, logging four saves.
A total of 10 saves were recorded for GA sophomore Ian Davies, who always shoulders the entire load for the Patriots.
"It's really been all on him," Coach Grady pointed out. "Every minute in every game, all the drills in practice, he's the one in there getting shot at without a break."
Davies came under fire early from SCH last Tuesday, when the Blue Devils' Fireman, Tasso Karras, and Clint Sanders gave the visitors a 3-0 lead in the initial five minutes. The Patriots steadied themselves during a time-out and then got on the board thanks to senior defender Pat Sawyer, who penetrated toward the right post and scored with 7:27 still to play in the first quarter.
Soon after that Fireman found the net from the top of the offense off of a pass from Karras, but by the end of the period GA was back within one, 4-3. First, Ho converted off the rebound of a shot by Derham, then senior Alex Zaharchuck scored with an assist from sophomore Garrett Trucksess.
SCH won the face-off that started the second quarter, and just 40 seconds in, Fireman whipped the ball precisely into the upper left corner of the goal after pocketing a pass from junior Jackson Kleintz. Off of the next restart in the center GA gained control of the ball and romped downfield. The ball carrier, senior Ricky Bozzelli (who had been out with an injury for the first GA-SCH clash), delivered it to Derham, who made it 5-4 with the third quarter still in the opening minute.
After that, four penalties slowed the scoring pace, but with the clock down to 1:18, Bozzelli earned another assist as sophomore James Diver scored from in front of the cage. The 5-5 count held up until halftime.
In the third round, Germantown gained the lead for the first time, then reinforced it for a 7-5 advantage. On each of these Patriot goals – by junior Ted Arsenault and by Derham – the Blue Devils made it harder on themselves by committing a penalty on the scoring play, making it more difficult to respond quickly to the strikes by GA.
As the clock got down near two minutes, SCH was nailed for a third violation, but after this 30-second sentence was up the Blue Devils found the net for the first time in 21 minutes. Sanders brought the ball down from midfield, surveyed the situation, then kept on going toward the goal and scored with 1:34 remaining, making it 7-6, GA.
The Patriots were still able to take a two-goal edge into the final period, though, as Bozzelli advanced from the left flank and fought past several Devils defenders. His shot went in with just 3.4 seconds up on the board.
The fourth quarter was still in its infancy when the visitors were back within a single point once more. Senior Peter Nicolo trotted in from the right wing, changed pace, and put a shot into the left side of the goal about shoulder high. Soon after that, GA goalie Davies denied the Devils on a shot that might have tied the game, making a strong save on an attempt by an unmarked Sanders.
SCH once again hampered its own efforts with several penalties in the middle of the period, then the Patriots went up 9-7 with 5:41 to go. It was Ho who had the eventual game winner, cutting from the middle toward the right post and scoring off a feed from Trucksess.
After a series of infractions by Springside Chestnut Hill, the officials' whistles blew in GA's direction, and a one-minute penalty led to the final goal of the day, scored by the Blue Devils in man-up mode. Sanders came down the left wing with the ball, veered in toward the cage, and then passed to the scorer Karras, who had made a cut to the right post. The count was now 9-8 with 3:29 to go.
The visitors looked to tie the match on another shot by Karras, but the attempt was repulsed by the Patriots' Davies. At the other end, a potential insurance goal for the leaders never materialized as Pacilio foiled the hosts' Ho.
GA's one-goal advantage held up until the end, as SCH once more became bogged down with penalties.
Grady, the Germantown mentor, was pleased to see goals coming from seven different Patriot players during the contest.
He noted, "We're generating more offense than we did earlier on this season, and it's making a difference."


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Earlier today, President Obama demanded that the Democratic Party's platform be amended to include a reference to God and an acknowledgement of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. But moments ago, it came to light that Obama saw and approved the original version of the platform, which deleted all references to the Deity, eliminated the description of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and softened references to Hamas. Obama was fine with these changes–changes in the platform that he himself ran on in 2008–and only insisted on reverting to past platform language when a political firestorm erupted. Politico reports:
Things got so bad that President Barack Obama was forced to personally intervene, ordering language mentioning God and naming Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel be added.
Obama had seen the language prior to the convention, a campaign source said, but did not seek to change it until after Republicans jumped on the omissions of God and Jerusalem late Wednesday.
Of course not. For Barack Obama, politics always comes first. He would prefer to express his far-left views honestly, but if doing so carries a political cost, he is always willing to throw far-left principle under the bus. For the moment, anyway: the question always remains, what will happen if he never again has to face the voters?


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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
In Bloggers I Trust
5 comments:
- TiffnKirk said...
Thanks, Phil for helping me spread the word of our new blog!!! As always, you are a blessing to the MM community.
- February 9, 2011 at 9:20 PM
Great Post!!
I have learned SO much from quite a few of the MM blogs I frequent.
I'm just one of many helping to care for my aunt who has MM.
(btw: who's day +6 of her SCT and doing AMAZING)
So a huge thanks to you for being brave enough to put your story out there for all of us to read.
- February 9, 2011 at 10:02 PM
- Linda said...
Thanks Phil for leading the way in connecting the MM community and bloggers to one another. It really does begin to feel like a family, bonded together by a diagnosis and deep desire to dominate this disease. Hopefully we can support one another in the process. Welcome Tiffany and Kirk...
- February 10, 2011 at 12:08 AM
Phil, do you know anyone blogging about mm before 2005?
- February 10, 2011 at 6:28 PM
- Jeana Brooks said...
You nailed it PHil. Without yours and others blogs, I would feel so lost. My dad was diagnosed in September at age 55 with stage IIIb MM. He finished 6 rounds of RVD and is in complete response with a stem cell transplant on the horizon. We count our blessings everyday and pray for the many young fighters out their with young families. The blog I keep for my family: http://kissitcancer.blogspot.com/
- February 10, 2011 at 7:08 PM


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Representatives from the Cobble Hill Association hosted a meeting with elected officials earlier this month in an attempt to get a better understanding on plans regarding LICH.
Given the confusion, SUNY hosted a town hall meeting on Monday at their Downstate medical campus at 395 Lenox Road in Prospect Lefferts Garden.
On May 1, SUNY announced that it would be withdrawing its proposal to close the 150-year-old Cobble Hill medical facility due to financial troubles SUNY had been experiencing since it acquired the hospital a few years ago.
A sustainability plan is due to the State Department of Health and the Governor's Division of the Budget by June 1 and will be implement beginning June 15.
During a presentation at the town hall meeting, representatives said SUNY will develop a partnership with existing Brooklyn providers to "assume clinical service lines and provide meaningful and consistent slots for medical students and residents."
While SUNY is looking for a solution, representatives were clear with the community that the financial issues surrounding LICH are not going away.
"The financial conditions of LICH remain unchanged," said Downstate President Dr. John Williams, Jr. "LICH's continued financial losses still threaten the viability of Downstate Medical and our world-renowned medical school."
SUNY has taken steps to move its facilities in the right direction. Along with replacing failed leadership with Dr. Williams, SUNY has engaged management consultants to assess and implement a restructuring plan.
"The only ingredient that we are missing at LICH is a committed management operation," said Roy Sloane, president of the Cobble Hill Association, at the meeting. "First you have to listen to the community and provide services that are needed in our community."
Many have placed the blame not with LICH, but rather with the management and staff of SUNY for financial missteps.
"According to the concerned physicians group, LICH had actually not been losing money for much of the past few months," Sloane said. "But we don't know that for sure because we don't have any financial information."
Joseph Scarmato, principal of High School for Medical Professionals in Canarsie which, said his school has benefitted from a partnership with LICH.
"One of the main attractions of our school is the partnerships with health care facilities, such as SUNY Downstate," he said.
Last year, the school graduated its first class with 94 percent of the students earning a diploma. Scarmato said that it was the firsthand experience and collaboration with SUNY that helped make that happen.
"Just consider the ramifications of closing one of these hospitals," Scarmato said. "I would implore you to consider supporting our students even though they are quite young, they are part of the community."


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