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Do English people hate talking about money so much that someone is REFUSING TO PAY ME??
I woke up today to a ridiculous email from a friend (a friend!) I've been collaborating with. I don't mention it often, but I'm a musician and I do a lot of remote recording work. My friend (FRIEND!?) and I just finished working on a ten track album on which I worked on 9 out of the ten songs.
I do this kind of thing all the time and usually with people I've never met. So what I USUALLY do (very sensibly) is arrange a contract first and everyone signs it before I record a note. But THIS time it was for an English friend so I thought we could just talk money once I'd finished. What. A. FOOL.
When we came to talk percentages / royalties ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE and now I can't see past my fury enough to figure out if he's:
a) Over-reacting
b) A d-bag
or c) Rendered useless by money-talk because of his Britishness
Here's what happened:
He emailed me to ask about contracts / percentages, etc. I emailed back suggesting slightly high figures so he could barter me down to what I actually wanted. Based on my past 10 years of experience – this is how it's always done. But here's his response:
I think I wasn't expecting any of this and in reality this album wont me making you or I any money.
Really? Nobody every told me…
I won't be making any formal agreement with percentages or sales in regards to the songs.
OH, GOOD. I thought you were going to make this difficult.
I think you will have to accept the original terms – you did this because you wanted to play these songs, not for any financial reward.
What?? I mean yes, I love music and yes, I like his songs – but I can't pay my bills with the Sound of Music (unless the hills come alive and pay my mortgage)
You cannot now be asking for percentages and so forth when it was clear from the start I would not be paying you for your contribution to the album.
Um… yes I can. Because no it wasn't.
This is the same as a dentist doing a filling and his patient telling him he should accept payment as HIS LOVE OF TEETH.
So cast your votes, expats! Is he a) over-reacting, b) d-bagging or c) paralysed by the fear of talking about moolah.

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Santral Istanbul is a recent addition to the cultural landscape of Istanbul located at the beginning of the Golden Horn. It consists of a modern art museum, an energy museum, an amphitheatre, concert halls and a public library, all situated within the Silahtarağa campus of Istanbul Bilgi University. Jose Manuel Barroso called it "a superb example of post-industrial urban renewal." Santral Istanbul's preliminary opening was held in July 2007 in presence of Prime Minister Erdoğan. The official opening took place in September 2007.
Silahtaraga Power Station supplied Istanbul with electric power from 1914 to 1983. The thermal power plant was the first one in the Ottoman Empire, built by a Budapest-based Austro-Hungarian Company. It started to supply power to a tram net and to the sultan's palace in February 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I. In March 1983 it was shut down.
The redevelopment plan was an idea of a businessman and founder of Istanbul Bilgi University. The private Bilgi University was founded in 1996. Bilgi is renowned for its liberal atmosphere and critical professors. The university was host to the first conference on the Armenian issue in 2005, held a Kurdish conference in 2006 and was the first Turkish university to have a gay students' association. At Bilgi there are currently around 10,000 students studying in three campuses, including the campus of Santral.
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Country music star Jason Aldean saw "pandemonium" unfold around him as a gunman shot hundreds of people watching his concert at a music festival in Las Vegas last month, the singer said in his first on-camera interview since the massacre.
Aldean appeared on the "Today" show Tuesday to share his memories of the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Oct. 2, which he thought at first was a speaker blowing. Then he heard the burst of crackling again.
"When I turned to look, my guitar player had run behind me and was telling me to move, to like, 'Let's go," and my security guy was on stage telling me to run," Aldean said.
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Soon, people were screaming amid a general panic. No one on stage was hurt, but the gunman would kill 58 people and wound hundreds more over several minutes from his perch in a nearby hotel. He would take his own life.
"I think everybody just kind of panicked and didn't know where to go or what to do," Aldean said.
Other country stars spoke to "Today" about the shooting, saying they were texting Aldean to make sure he was okay. Aldean flew home to see his daughters.
A week after the shooting, Aldean appeared on "Saturday Night Live" to perform Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" — Petty had died that week — and released a recording of the song to benefit the Direct Impact Fund, which supports victims of the shooting.
The musicians had a similar message to share as they think about performing again.
"We're not going to live in fear," said Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum.
Aldean said, "We're all going to try and move on and I have to do that as well, but it's something that I'll never forget. ... I hope it gets better for everybody as time goes on."
And Aldean urged people to stop arguing about politics — the shooting sparked a new round in the debate about guns — collaborate on issues and remember that we're all Americans.


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SACRAMENTO — California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.
The surge in offenders requiring state prison sentences is undermining a nearly 3-year-old law pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The legislation restructured California's criminal justice system to keep lower-level felons in county jails while reserving state prison cells for serious, violent and sexual offenders.
The law initially reduced the state prison population by 25,000 inmates and brought it close to the level demanded by a special panel of three federal judges who ruled that a reduction in crowding was the best way to improve treatment of inmates.
But the inmate population is rising again, led by a record increase in the number of second felony convictions for those who already had a prior conviction for a serious crime.
Counties, where prosecutors have discretion in filing such charges, sent nearly 5,500 people with second felony convictions to state prisons during the 2013-14 fiscal year, a 33 percent increase over the previous year and the most since California enacted the nation's first three-strikes law in 1994 that required life sentences for offenders convicted of three felonies.
The number climbs to 6,044 two-strike offenders last year if parole violators returned to prison with new second-strike sentences are included, a 20 percent increase.
The trend, particularly noticeable in the Central Valley, is complicating the state's mandate to meet a prison population cap by February 2016. Last month, the federal judges reluctantly gave Brown's administration two additional years to comply by taking steps that include earlier releases for some inmates sentenced on a second strike.
Partly as a result of the increase in second-strike offenders, the prison population of 133,000 inmates last June is projected to grow to 143,000 by June 2019, despite all the steps the state is taking to comply with the federal court order and reduce the population to about 112,000 inmates.
State prisons currently hold more than 34,000 second-strikers, about a quarter of the total inmate population.
Second-strike convictions had been generally declining since 1999. But they began rising sharply about the same time as the realignment law took effect in October 2011, according to figures from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that were reviewed by The Associated Press, though there are competing theories on the reasons for the increase.
"We're not quite sure what's behind the trend. When you see such a drastic increase year-over-year … that kind of suggests that there's been some kind of behavior change at the county level, in terms of how they are charging, whether they are choosing to charge individuals as second-strikers or not," said Aaron Edwards, a corrections analyst with California's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.
Judges are imposing longer prison sentences for drug, property and other nonviolent crimes since criminal justice realignment became law, according to an analysis by the corrections department. Those sentences are increasing even as the length of sentences for violent crimes declined, leading to a net increase of 3.3 months in the average prison sentence since realignment.
Mark Zahner, chief executive of the California District Attorneys Association, said prosecutors are not to blame. "We're convinced that it's not any kind of change in charging practices on the part of the DA's offices," said Zahner, who said he had spoken with virtually all of the county prosecutors in the state.
Nevertheless, the California Judges Association has asked judges to respond to the increase in second-strike convictions later this spring.
Corrections spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman said the department is examining the trend because it represents the largest jump in the state prison population, but could not say what additional steps the administration is considering.
The two-strikes portion of the law doubles the sentence of a criminal convicted of any felony if they have one prior conviction for a serious or violent felony. It means offenders will be sentenced to state prison and not county jail, and must serve at least 80 percent of their sentence.
The second-strike does not need to be serious or violent to qualify for an extended sentence, and the courts have ruled that prosecutors and judges have discretion in applying the strike law if doing so would impose an unfair sentence given the nature of the crime. Prosecutors also have discretion in charging some crimes as misdemeanors or felonies, with only felonies triggering the second-strike law.
Thirty-eight of California's 58 counties increased the number of second-strikers sent to state prisons in the fiscal year that ended last June, according to the corrections department figures.
But the trend is clearly more pronounced in the Central Valley than in the Bay Area and Southern California.
In Merced County, the number of second-strikers and parole violators with new sentences sent to state prisons was up 244 percent, in Stanislaus County 88 percent. But in Santa Clara County, the number rose only 4 percent; in San Mateo County, it was 12 percent. (In Alameda County, however, the number was up 32 percent, and in Santa Cruz County it increased 75 percent.)
The number of second-strikers sent to state prisons in the last fiscal year also increased only moderately in Southern California's huge coastal counties. In Los Angeles County, it increased 5 percent. In Orange County it jumped 10 percent, in San Diego County 8 percent.
Policies on applying the law vary widely between counties, said prison consultant James Austin, who has testified on behalf of inmates in several of the lawsuits over California prison conditions. San Francisco, for instance, rarely uses the second- or third-strike provisions that carry extended sentences, even though it has plenty of candidates, while some counties use it whenever they can, he said.
In San Francisco, the number of second-strikers sent to state prison was down 60 percent from the previous fiscal year, according to the correction department.


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ssj wrote:Normally that comes with a cryptic message whenever I click on the floppy icons "Please insert disk B into drive A" or "Please insert disk A into drive A".
ssj wrote:Using desktop.inf would definitely be easier, I've been using it for hard disk conversions, but I don't really understand the format of the file. I simply copy paste it from one game to the other and edit the filename to run . For floppies I'm not sure what changes I would need to do.
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ssj wrote:Silly question, but how exactly can I edit the desktop.inf file inside an .st file?
For hard drive games it's simple because they are simply zip files so I edit the desktop.inf on the PC and then insert it back, not sure what's the easiest way to do this with .st files.
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Before the blast took both his legs below the knee, Jeff Bauman says that he looked into the eyes of one of the alleged bombers. According to Jeff's brother Chris:
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Bauman's testimony, provided just moments after he revived in the hospital, has likely helped the FBI narrow the bombing suspects.
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RELATIONSHIP ADVICE: Five reliable signs your boyfriend is planning to leave you
By Katie Michaels, DERF Relationship Columnist
I know you're wondering 'What makes me the expert?' I'm not a psychologist and I don't have a library of empirical data to support my thoughts in this column. And I didn't steal these items from the book, "He's Just Not That Into You". In fact I haven't read that book but I imagine it might also share a little insight in this area we are discussing. I do have however, a non-empirical but reality based database in my gray matter populated with my own and many girlfriends' real life experiences and observations of the unusual behavioral patterns and tendencies shown by men before they leave a woman. As far as research goes, I did receive in preparation from this article over 100 emails from DERF readers who shared the behaviors they have experientially documented as warning signs. I even received a few from men who shared their insider perspective. I saw a lot of themes throughout this informal research and I hope these points I have condensed for you will serve as a guideline.
WARNING: Please do not take all of these signs as surefire indicators. Note the word 'reliable' in the title of the column. I didn't use the word surefire for a good reason. Men are strange animals and if you show panic every time you witness any of these behaviors then he is SURE to leave you. A common mistake we make is to misinterpret every strange or insensitive act on a man's part as a prelude to a breakup. You should be looking for a pattern that includes several of the items below happening either simultaneously or in series. But most importantly trust your intuition.
SIGN #1 - WHY DON'T WE TALK ABOUT THAT LATER? Avoiding discussion of future events (even more than usual) - When a man knows he is leaving you he feels he is lying to you when discussing future plans....parties, vacations, outings, weddings, etc. Take note if you notice declining interest in this area.
SIGN #2 - LET ME DO THAT FOR YOU - Extra kindness that seems out of place - As strange as it sounds many men truly feel empathetic toward a woman with whom they are planning to break up. This type of man sometimes rationalize an act of kindness as pre-empting or helping to counter the hurt they are about to cause. They hope you will remember them more fondly because of their kindness. These kind acts can take any form but you should be on the lookout for something out of the ordinary....something planned he would normally not plan, etc. We've all heard a girlfriend say something like, "It came out of no where. Everything was going so well. He took me on that romantic trip to Chicago and then wham! He said he didn't feel the same way any longer." And there it is. The classic empathy breakup.
SIGN #3 - I DIDN'T KNOW YOU ALREADY HAD ONE OF THOSE - Decline in the quality or thoughtfulness of gifts - This is the opposite of the one above but more common among the 25 and under guys. Some men never give a thoughtful gift but if your man has consistently delivered but now suddenly has trailed off, this is a red flag. He is basically saying he would rather save his money for his next girlfriend.
SIGN #4 - SURE WHATEVER YOU WANT - Appears overly agreeable (especially about things that previously would have caused a disagreement) - Ironically, often the most agreeable time a couple experiences is a month or two before a breakup. This is because if one person knows the situation is temporary they are no longer invested enough in the relationship to care about it's problems. If you're selling the car, do you really care about that annoying little ticking sound you've been hearing?
SIGN #5 - THE BREAKUP WALLET LIST! - As unfathomable as it sounds many men have told me they have made a written list of negative attributes about someone they were planning to break up with. For men this makes sense because they tend to spend so little time thinking about relationships that it is easy for them to forget what they don't like. They literally need a reminder to help them decide if they should leave you. Now here's the funny part - Any guess where most men claim to keep this list? The answer is in their wallet! Yes, they see this as their safest hiding place especially if you spend a lot of time at their place.
Now for the bad news. What can you do about all of these warning signs? The answer is nothing. If someone wants to break up there is nothing you can do. It is impossible to talk your way out of dumped. Always remember that. Seeing the signs may help you brace yourself for the inevitable but the pain will be there. That's a rule of life I didn't make. In another column I do give some great advice on how to win a man back but that is an entirely separate topic.
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We got in last night, here's an overview of the previous 72 hours...
Got a call Wednesday morning from a security corporation customer that had been tasked with protecting and helping 300+ folks trapped in The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New Orleans on Canal Street. The water was rising, they could not get out, food and fresh/clean water was gone, no electricity or phones, and they were now desperate and in a quickly deterioriating security situation.
They bought the last of the 1,350 MRE Tray Packs we had here along with my promise to promptly deliver. Rented U-Haul, loaded it up along with a pallet of bottled water from Wal-Mart, but then with no driver I could find/trust quick enough, grabbed my two boys (Eric 18 & Logan 16), who are naturally always eager for any excuse to skip school, and we took off that evening with it all.
We were to meet up at La Place city 40 miles west of NO, which was the checkpoint where all eastbound traffic into NO was stopped on I-10, by one of their security people who would be able to get us through all the checkpoints and guide us all the way to the hotel. Original plan was to get in & out of there just before dawn Thursday morning, the quietest time, and then be headed back home with the rising sun in our rearview mirror.
On the road and before we even got out of Texas Wednesday night, though, we get a call that things were getting nasty fast and they wanted to now, instead, await the arrival of a larger security team that was enroute to deploy there at the hotel that would also escort us in. That was fine with us, as we'd been listening to FOX and CNN reports on our satellite radio as we drove all night, so we agreed to slow down, find a hotel, and await a new rendezvous time in the morning. It was after 2AM before we finally found a room in Beaumont, Texas, and just barely, especially with all the hurricane refugees already having booked everything around.
Thursday morning we are told ETA of security team arrival still vague and thus time to meet outside NO still not yet set. However, they had just gotten a shopping list via satellite phone from their security people in the hotel, in the meantime, of additional medical supplies and basic clean clothing that was also needed for which we then went shopping for. This ran about $1,400, including an additional 30 more cases of bottled water while we were at it.
Shortly later, another, more urgent, specific list request comes in of a large quantity of shotgun and rifle ammunition that will have Gander Mountain there in Beaumont remembering us for a long time. So, now, we are toting beans & bullets, the news is getting more dire, and the boys are getting excited as 'riding shotgun' looks like it'll take on a much more practical meaning. We start getting serious now about talking specific tactics and the use of the 'just in case' weapons we've brought along.
Finally, we get the call and time set to meet up is nailed down and we are heading east into Louisiana. Along the way we continue to also listen closely to all the news reports about NO situation and are amazed to hear a woman being interviewed from inside the Ritz talking about how truly desperate the situation is there for them all as she pleas for help. This whole adventure for my boys just then became stunningly very real as they realized we were the ones bringing them their food and water.
We finally meet up with our 'contact' at La Place and two more trucks he'd brought along that we discover only then will also be making this trip in tonight with us, too. One a flatbed with eight large rectangular and full fuel containers (smartly devoid of any fuel placards today) and the other a large mobile crane to remove them at the Ritz hotel for it's now, out of fuel, dead generator.
After brief introductions and sitrep, such as that the additional security teams have been even further delayed in their arrival, thus, he announces, we'll be trying something else tonight for cover, and we pull out together in pre-arranged order, with the, I'm glad to see, fuel truck pulling up the rear. Our 'contact' guy has a few words with the checkpoint police and our four vehicle caravan is waved through the barricades and we head off towards NO.
The darkened Interstate is alive with racing police cars, fire trucks and ambulances, all of them with their flashing and strobe lights on as scenes of the hurricanes and man's destruction increases the further we go along. We pass clusters of them every so often surrounding a scene of looters being arrested, a fire, auto accidents, etc. Everything is either pitch dark or flashing, no other lights from homes and streets around, and my cell phone no longer works. Eventually, in exiting the interstate, though not sure exactly of what routes we took in the darkness and with so many signs blown away, we've headed south and after winding around snapped telephone poles, wrecked houses and debris, we end up at the 'new' New Orleans Fire Dept Command Center at Holy Trinity college.
It's on the West Bank of the Mississippi River in a suburban residential area in the Algiers section of New Orleans. I discover later on that over 300 Fire and EMT personnel now live in one of these buildings and they have all their fire and emergency trucks surrounding it, since having abandoned all their flooded fire stations. From here they continue to efficiently launch their fire fighting and rescue operations, with Central Dispatch now at the reception desk of this building right at the front door. Their professionalism was amazing especially since about 80% of them are now personally homeless from the hurricane. You would not know the depth of their loss from their outward attitude, team work and sense of purpose. I had to tactfully ask a half dozen of them individually how many there had really lost their own homes before I could believe it was accurate, as they just seemed so focused on their work and had everything running so well in their new consolidated fire station... and home.
It's here that I also begin to really appreciate just how connected our 'contact' is and why we've come here. It's about 10PM now and in moments a dozen of the fire trucks, with all their lights flashing, are lining up to make a run near where we need to go to get fresh water to a local hospital that's been cut off there. We are being sandwiched right into the middle of their caravan that will also be escorted by numerous police cruisers. Once positioned, we all move out, every light flashing, up to the toll booth for the cross over the bridge and Mississippi River into 'indian territory'. The boys and I are impressed as final reviews of the 'plan of attack' are checked to assure all know their parts in it.
It's then, on the starting line, that a weak link was fully exposed. The hired crane driver/operator has been having serious second thoughts since the get-go and his attitude now stinks and the Fire Dept personnel pick up on it quick and are not eager to risk have him screwing up their well orchestrated high-speed run. He's scared and we'd already stopped twice on our way south from the interstate as he complained continually over the radio to the contact before we'd even gotten to the fire station. Our contact had had to stop our progress twice to pull over on the highway to take him aside and talk to him and the second time it had escalated to getting in his face and calling his boss and reading him the riot act, too. Now, all our contact could do was have us all quickly bow out so as not to hold up our Fire Dept hosts from their primary mission to the water starved hospital.
As the boys and I drove back I explained what the word SNAFU meant. Looking back now, though, with later having seen the obstacle course of debris that awaited us over the bridge, it was best we did not go in then, as our U-Haul, a juicy looter magnet of a target sitting still, was to be following behind him. If he froze up at the wrong time, or did anything stupid, our options would likely have been fewer.
We all four vehicles ended up back at the Fire Command Center at the college where our contact had the crane operator take off half the fuel containers there before releasing him and telling him the safest route back to his home. The boys and I helped, then the contact took off with assurances he'd be back soon with Plan "B", and we all then crawled into the truck at 2AM for some much needed, though sweaty, sleep. Then at 4AM he's back, waking us up and telling us the security team we'd all been looking for would be here in 12 hours. We would have a new plan then for going in with them.
He also told me then that the people in the Ritz had recently been gotten out, and while I was glad to hear that for their sakes, I was too tired to fully digest all that right then, but I knew the risk/reward ratio for this originally humanitarian mission had just shifted for me and the boys. How far we'd push accomplishing any delivery into the area now needed to be looked at anew.
The Ritz was now abandoned and opened to looters and squatters and firebugs. The security teams would be to protect and defend hotel properties, which was pretty clear to me now was what it was always being funded primarily for as I learned they had more than just the Ritz under contract to secure. So, the MRE's and ammo, while they would have done anyone stuck there a lot of good, perhaps even lifesaving, would be now solely for sustaining the property security forces.
He then introduced us to the District Fire Chief who invited us to stay inside their compound where they had better security. I can't say here what he had going on, but nobody went outside for a walk after dark and everybody always slept securely inside. We were OK where we were with the truck, cause we were within a stones throw of the AR-15 and shotgun toting gate guards where we'd parked it and had been visiting with them earlier so they were watching out for us there. (Half of the firemen wore side arms, too.) It was the running water, showers (cold), electricity via generator, though not enough for AC, good food, etc. that had us eagerly agreeing to come into the compound. True to Fireman's form their resident cook was a real professional chef! We were ushered into a big lounge room where the EMT's were all bedded down, most everybody was sleeping on the carpet, not crowded, but just scattered sleeping bags, a few with thin camping mattresses, some with nothing but a sheet, men and women. We all found a spot and crashed quick enough.
Breakfast chow line was 7-8 AM so, tired or not, we got ours while the getting was good, then hit the showers before they threw us out for being 'over ripe'. Visited with the EMT's over breakfast, funny bunch of people, they kidding the boys about the great vacation I'd enticed them into by letting them play hooky from school, heard some of their exploits, too, like the recently 'commandeered' trucks and equipment for their own emergency use now.
I was envious of the boys, they eventually went back to bed and got another 6 hours or so. I got to visit with more of the Firemen and EMT's and learned about what they'd been seeing and dealing with, professionally and family-wise. Lost homes, lost contact with scattered family members, etc. Most of them had nothing there for personal clothing, so we gave the Chief our six big bags of new clothing (mens & women's socks, underwear, t-shirts, sweat pants/tops, etc.) originally intended for the occupants now safely gone out of the Ritz.
2PM came and went, and not until 6PM did the contact roll in with two pick-ups full of hired guns just arrived. Plan was to get the fuel truck and my U-Haul positioned half-way up the bridge into 'indian territory' before sundown and leave eight armed security with us while the rest, about two dozen, drove and swept the route, secured the destination, left some there to hold the perimeter, and then the rest would come back to escort us down to them. This was a safe bridge because you could not get onto it without going through the police barricades, nor was any foot traffic allowed. It was all police, fire and rescue traffic up and down it. As dusk arrived the flow from out of 'indian territory' of emergency responders was thick and our side of the bridge for going in dropped to a trickle. With darkness, too, the sporadic gunfire began on our side of the bridge, but far below and off to the sides. No shots came our way, but we kept down and away from the edges of the bridge and also well away from the fuel truck. With my nightvision scope I later watched looters pushing shopping carts below us and scatter whenever car lights were seen coming there way.
The teams showed up about 10PM after positioning a few of their people outside the Ritz to secure our destination. One pickup truck would lead and another pull up the rear, both with nine or ten armed security members 'locked and loaded' and the vehicles then looked like bristling porcupines with all their gun barrels. Our contact man had long ago apprised the local police and National Guard that might possibly be roaming in the area of who they were and the route they'd be taking to assure none of the good guys taking up positions, nor us racing through town, were mistaken for the bad guys. We rolled out with Eric riding shotgun and plenty of additional rounds close and at the ready, Logan was using the night vision in the middle along with the video camera in his lap and was prepared to steer if I needed both hands to return fire out the drivers side.
I remember going up the bridge and seeing no traffic at all going our way though still some leaving out, the rest was mostly a blur after coming down and off the bridge and into town cranking around corners and debris and looking for additional obstructions up ahead as we wound around blackened streets and rubble. I'm following the fuel truck and careful not to close the distance if he brakes hard/fast while I'm also looking for alternate left & rights all along the way for if he got disabled under fire as we did not want to become a stationary target then, too. We finally turned onto Canal street and saw ahead lights and a row of media vans and motor homes and people milling about and went past them at Camp street and then back into the blackness again and then knee deep water somewhere around Bourbon St.
The stench was bad as it splashed up around us and I was glad Eric had suggested we'd need to bring our masks, surgical gloves and decon solutions as I remembered seeing the EMT's back at the Fire C&C being treated for very nasty looking skin infections on their legs from exposure to it. We pulled up in front of the Ritz but it was likely too deep to drive into it and we were told there would also be a delay moving a forklift into position for off loading the fuel truck, so rather than sitting exposed and breathing that nasty water, we transferred ourselves, weapons and gear to one of the pick-up trucks to be moved back out of the flooded area until the vehicle would be ready to be off-loaded inside.
The security team had their own motor home and bus that had brought down their team adjacent to the news media back up Canal street so we got off and stayed near there. An hour later they got me to ride back down to unlock the back-end after they had driven it inside. Their pick-up truck could just barely make it through the even higher water to get onto the grounds of the hotel. I'd left them the keys for the vehicle but not the back-end as I had our personal gear right inside and pressing against the door and did not want anybody opening it and having it drop off into that water or even just the wet ground from people tracking it all around. I secured our stuff and they got busy pulling the pallets of water and MRE's out while I went back up to where the boys were. A little after midnight there was some gunfire up a side street to our position and seemed to be coming closer for awhile before ceasing, but nothing again immediately threatening after that. We earlier had seen a National Guard armored vehicle loaded down with serious troops at the ready go through our location, so maybe they got into that. We all caught a couple hours of sleep in the bus along with the security forces as they rotated guard duties, then at daybreak we started poking around.
You've seen the pictures and video of all the destruction, so we'll just share here a few of ours below. We couldn't take digital photos at night and risk somebody screwing up and having the flash go off, so all our best stuff is on video where we had used our night vision attached to it. When it got light out we'd liked to of gone exploring up some side streets, too, but to stray much from our perimeter invites not only bad guys, but even friendly fire to be walking around armed down there, so we did not risk it. One of the 'good guys' had been killed three blocks away that morning by the National Guard mistakenly.
Anyways, with the truck now unloaded, we had the option to either stay till late afternoon and have an escort out or leave anytime we wanted. I started watching our for any police cruisers and finally got to talk to a captain in an unmarked car. Ideally, I wanted to at least follow out a police or National Guard unit going our way, but could not find anything. Finally, though, after talking to everybody I could and going over maps and directions we decided things were quiet enough we'd skidaddle. This time we'd go out with the back end wide open showing an empty truck not worth messing with and we'd be very light now and much faster. We said our good byes and headed out purposely the wrong way up the one-way Camp street until we got to a lone 3 man National Guard outpost at a major intersection where we confirmed our route out cause the signs were all missing or twisted up. They assured we had it all straight, wished us luck, and we found and got back over the bridge onto the West Bank and kept moving till we were back on I-10 heading West past La Place. Then stopped in Gonzales, Louisiana for a much needed BurgerKing pit stop and finally secured and got out of sight all the weapons, very tired now and thankful all had gone well and everybody was safe. Not sure yet the boys will so quickly agree to play hooky from school again and 'ride shotgun' when I suggest it in the future, but they most likely will.
Never boring here...
- Shane


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I love ballet gala performances. I love the idea of them, the look of them, the air of anticipation. Although some ballet company galas occur during the regular season, at San Francisco Ballet, the Gala happens a few days before the opening program. And it's excitement personified. The audience has endured an eight-month drought, relieved only by one foggy outing at Stern Grove and the annual Nutcracker, and attendees are thrilled to see new company members and favorite performers alike.
As usual for these events, Wednesday night's audience came in their finest duds — men in tuxes and dress suits, women in satiny slip-style evening gowns, feathery cocktail dresses, and way too many fluffy tulle numbers with guaranteed-to-trip-the-guy-behind-you trains. Champagne flowed, and the buzz was heartfelt and genuine.
The Show
This year's Gala featured two world premieres, one U.S. premiere, and one SFB premiere interspersed with a couple of old chestnuts, some work unique to the event, and a preview of things to come, all leading up to the feel-good finale from Balanchine's Symphony in C.
The energetic opener, a selection from The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (Forsythe), takes the basic look of classic ballet and turns it on its side. It seems sort of traditional, but somehow isn't, with its deconstructed poison green tutus and off-balance steps. The five dancers made the tricky choreography look light and breezy and tons of fun. Special kudos to new corps member Nicole Ciapponi, who not only executed the steps with precision, but managed to catch the often-illusory Forsythe "swing." I'm looking forward to seeing more of her this season.
Galas are normally stuffed with duets and trios, and this night was no exception. It's always great to see a new work from Val Caniparoli. His Double Stop, set to a section of the Glass Songs and Poems for Solo Cello showed his amazing aptitude for creating complicated lifts that look just as good coming down as they do going up. And Sarah Van Patten and Tiit Helimets had the strength and presence to pull it all off.
The two classical pas de deux — the Don Quixote wedding duet and the Black Swan — were the only uneven part of the evening. In the Don Quixote, technically secure Vanessa Zahorian fluttered her fan, yet did not engage with her character; Taras Domitro, while exciting to watch, often gets caught up in the moment to the detriment of the steps. The duo brought it all back together, though, for a satisfactory conclusion.
The Black Swan was danced by principal Sofiane Sylve partnered by newly arrived soloist Vito Mazzeo. Sylve, who dances with great strength and security lacked attack, rounding off the finish of her movements. Mazzeo's elegant bearing made the most of the clean, unembellished choreography in his variation. It was nice for a change to focus on the dancer's line rather than on pyrotechnics.
The hottest moment of the evening came with Yuri Possokhov's new Talk to Her. Lorena Feijoo and Vitor Luiz managed to find the core romance in the steaminess of the choreography and Iglesia music.
But for sheer loveliness, my vote for the standout work of the night has to go to Somewhere in Time, a San Francisco Ballet premiere by Edwaard Liang to music by Ravel. Pianist Roy Bogas and conductor Martin West synched into the atmosphere generated by Yuan Yuan Tan and Damian Smith, whose partnership increasingly discovers new depths. So beautiful and dreamy, the audience stopped for a beat at the end, took a collective breath, and burst into vigorous applause.
Program pacing is always a problem in evenings like this, but Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson sensibly leavened the evening with two appealing contemporary pieces and a character romp. The first contemporary work, an excerpt from Alles Walzer by Renato Zanella to Strauss, was a bravura outing well-suited to the combined talents of Joan Boada and Gennadi Nedvigin. For the second, Vanessa Zahorian, Taras Domitro, and Jaime Garcia Castilla charmingly embraced their inner character dancer for the U.S. premiere of John Neumeier's New Pizzicato Polka. The other light piece, the Russian Variation from Swan Lake, Act III, is always fun, and soloists Courtney Elizabeth, Dana Genshaft, Garen Price Scribner, and Hansuke Yamamoto danced with a lovely controlled abandon.
The closing work, the fourth movement from the Balanchine Symphony in C, is a true test of the corps de ballet. This movement is like a football half-time show times ten. The geometric shapes and lines have to be spot on or the entire effect is muddied and the soloists and principals get lost in the mess. This night, the spacing was about as perfect as I have ever seen it. The full ballet is part of Program 2 running February 3 to 11 and shouldn't be missed.
The orchestra, led by Conductor Martin West, handled the challenges presented by the wide variety of musical periods and styles with its usual polish. SFB audiences are lucky to have such an ensemble accompanying the company.
San Francisco Ballet 2011 Gala
January 26, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House


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In 2008 I organised and undertook a charity walk in the Lake District (see my short trek blog here) to follow in the footsteps of the poet John Keats. He walked through the Lakes and Scotland in 1818 with his friend Charles Brown and although his tour was cut short by his own ill-health and that of his brother Tom at home in London, imagery in his subsequent work highlights how much the walk added to his experience.
Following my own period of ill-health as I recovered from breast cancer I wanted to get fit and raise some money for causes dear to me. Re-tracing Keats' steps over 100 miles in my favourite part of the world seemed an obvious choice. So I researched his route (much of which is now buried beneath the busy A596) and discovered that a number of people had gone before me. Thus I was introduced to Mr Nelson Bushnell, an American who came to follow Charles Brown's itinerary as closely as possible and who documented the many miles he covered in the book 'A Walk After John Keats' published in the US in 1936. The wonderful AbeBooks found me a copy and I have returned to it many times since using it as the basis of my own route, although my fitness prevented me from heading into Scotland.
Whilst dipping into it recently I remembered a passage that highlights how the subsequent events of history can make the books written in the 1930s appear naive, or even sinister in their willingness to avoid the storm that was approaching from Eastern Europe. I thought I would share it with you here, as my amusement at its jolly turn of phrase is always tempered by the knowledge of the horrors to come.
(To Fort William 12 miles afoot (plus a 12 mile side trip on Ben Nevis) Thursday July 16 1936)
Presently I found myself on a slightly rising mound that was the summit – I had achieved Ben Nevis!…… I counted myself fortunate that this, the last mountain I was to climb, was the first and only one where the rain caught me.
Dimly through the clouds I descried a couple of buildings, an inn and an observatoriy, deserted and ruinous, and in them I took brief refuge from the bitter cold wind and the vast empty wet fog that enwrapped me. And here I found my two fellow climbers likewise in retreat. They turned out to be Germans; we exchanged friendly words in my own tongue, and dug into our knapsacks to make a common meal of our chocolate, jam and biscuits.
We began the descent together, chatting of this thing and that. They turned out to be emissaries of some German movement for an international good-fellowship of youth, spending their summer holidays in foreign travel, learning to share the attitudes and gain the sympathies of their various hosts – 'spying for gun sites and fortifications,' I hear some die-hard sneering. They were in France last summer; how thrilling Paris was! Had I ever been there? …. Yes during… I hesitated. But why not be frank?
'Yes during the war' I said. We all laughed, a little sadly, a little apologetically. How ridiculous! Imagine me gloating over their wounded relatives as I jounced my ambulance over the rough cobblestones to a prison hospital; or imagine them scorching my throat with poison gas in the next war! God help us all for fools and cowards…
(Nelson Bushnell 1936)
Nelson Bushnell does not discount another war, clearly. But he cannot imagine for a moment that these friendly fellows might be doing anything other than travelling Europe in order to 'promote an international good fellowship of youth'. Of course I might be grossly misjudging these two men. It is possible that they were part of the youth hostelling movement that had been established by a German in 1909.
But in the two years prior to this mountaintop meeting the Hitler Youth movement had begun its most significant recruitment 'drive' and had begun to expand by demanding the forcible merger of other German youth groups into its ranks. The international youth hostel movement was also, by 1936, far from simply a 'German movement' and involved representatives from eleven other European countries. Can anyone out there enlighten me on this question? Were there emissaries sent to Scotland in the mid thirties with such innocent, and ultimately forlorn hopes?
Of course the identity of these men may never be known and this is but one small excerpt from a book which, in its willingness to accept American stereotypes of quaint old Britain, is a real museum piece. But in such a gem it brings one up short. A shadow comes across the landscape and Bushnell's purple prose suddenly seems to highlight how far the world was from understanding what the Third Reich was planning.