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Steve Earle on How He Saluted an Old Friend on His New Album, 'Guy'
When Steve Earle was an aspiring musician still in his teens, he was fortunate to be taken under the wings of two legendary artists who had a significant impact on him as he was learning the craft of songwriting. The first was country-folk singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, whom Earle met in Houston, in the early '70s. The other was Guy Clark, another Texan, like Earle and Van Zandt, who was 14 years older than Earle but just starting to establish his own career as a recording artist. Clark gave Earle his first big break, helping the younger guitarist land a music publishing deal as well as hiring him to play bass in his band and perform on his highly acclaimed 1975 debut album, Old No. 1.
The influence of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark has always loomed large in Earle's music, and he has shown his appreciation to both men in numerous ways over the years. He has recorded their songs at various times in his career, and in 1995 he performed a benefit concert with them at Nashville's Bluebird Café that was released as an album, Together at the Bluebird Café, in 2001. In 2009, about 12 years after Van Zandt passed away, Earle released Townes, a tribute album containing 15 cover versions of his favorite songs from his mentor's catalog.
After Guy Clark passed away on May 17, 2016, Earle decided he shouldn't wait as long to record a tribute album to him. "When Guy passed away, I knew that I was going to have to do it as soon as possible," Earle says. "I didn't want to run into him on the other side, having made the Townes Van Zandt record but not his. I had originally planned to make a political record as the follow-up to my last album, [2017's] So You Wanna Be an Outlaw, but I made this record now for my own selfish reasons. The timing worked out better anyway, as my political record will now come out in 2020," an election year.
Guy (New West Records) is a collection of 16 Guy Clark covers performed by Earle and his band, the Dukes. The material comprises nine songs from Clark's first two albums, Old No. 1 and Texas Cookin', as well as his tune "Heartbroke" (a number-one hit for Ricky Skaggs in 1982) and a handful of numbers from later in Clark's career, like "Dublin Blues" and "Out in the Parking Lot." Among the highlights are several of Clark's best-known songs, including "Desperados Waiting for a Train," "L.A. Freeway," "New Cut Road" and "Rita Ballou." On "Old Friends," Earle is joined by, appropriately, some of Clark's pals, among them Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris and Jerry Jeff Walker. Shawn Camp, who played on several of Clark's later records and produced his last album, 2013's My Favorite Picture of You, also plays guitar on two tracks.
Although Earle usually spends his time off the road at his home in New York City's Greenwich Village, Guitar Player caught up with him at his second home in Nashville, where he was spending time in between shows. As he fondly reminisced about the many ways Clark inspired him, it soon became evident that both men are kindred souls who shared the same passion for the craft of songwriting, guitars and life.
How did you meet Guy Clark and end up working with him?
Before I left San Antonio for Nashville, I knew a little bit about Guy because Jerry Jeff Walker had recorded three of his songs ["Desperados Waiting for a Train," "L.A. Freeway" and "That Old Time Feeling"], and I played them. In November of 1974, when I decided to go to Nashville, I was hoping to meet Guy. I figured it would happen eventually because I knew people that knew him.
I was hanging out at this place called Bishop's Pub. At least two or three times a week — as often as they would let me — I would play a set there and pass the hat. It was a basket house. About six months before I got to Nashville, Guy and his wife Susanna had moved out to the lake near Mount Juliet, so they weren't around as much as they had been in past. One night, I walked in and my friend songwriter Richard Dobson, who was tending bar there, told me that Guy was in the pool room in the back. Guy was back there with Jim Stafford, Deborah Allen and Susanna. They were shooting pool, and I just hung out there watching them play. Guy was lining up a shot and I was in his line of sight. He looked up, and the first thing he said to me was, "Nice hat." Back in those days nobody would have recognized me without my cowboy hat. We struck up a conversation, and I started getting invited to things.
About a year and a half later, when his first record came out, I was playing bass in his band. I played in his band for just one tour. He helped me get my first publishing deal. He browbeat his publisher until he signed me. Guy championed my songs and showed me a lot about songwriting.
What were the most valuable lessons Guy taught you about songwriting?
There were two big ones: Write with a pencil, not a pen, and use a big eraser; and songs aren't finished until you play them for people.
A lot of people aren't aware that, in addition to being a prolific songwriter and guitarist, Guy was a talented guitar builder.
Guy worked on my guitars back when I first met him. He was a luthier, and he repaired the guitars that belonged to everyone in our little circle. He had a guitar shop when he lived in San Francisco. Somebody gave me a photo of him, Minor Wilson, who was his business partner, and Bob Weir sitting in front of the shop in 1969. It didn't last very long. Minor went back to Texas and Guy moved to L.A., where he worked at the Original Musical Instrument factory owned by the Dopyera brothers. He built Dobros and stayed there until he signed his deal with Sunbury/Dunbar, an RCA publishing company. They asked him where he wanted to live, and since he didn't like L.A. very much he had them move him to Nashville.
There's such a wealth of material to choose from Guy's entire career. How did you decide which songs to cover, and why did you focus so much on songs from his first two albums?
It's weighted pretty heavily toward his earlier stuff because that is the material that I am the most connected to. Those were songs that I already knew and had played in my career. Before I got to Nashville and met Guy, I already knew "Desperados Waiting for a Train," "That Old Time Feeling" and "L.A. Freeway." When I played bass in Guy's band, I played "Anyhow I Love You," "She Ain't Going Nowhere" and "Texas 1947," and I was around when "The Last Gunfighter Ballad" was written.
I had to make a little bit of an effort to come up with some later stuff, although most of my choices were easy. "Dublin Blues" lent itself to my band. We did it how I thought Guy would have done it earlier in his career. Guy became allergic to recording with drums. He tried and tried to record with drums in the beginning, but after that it became more spotty. By the time he recorded "Dublin Blues," he was working mostly in a bluegrass-band format, with all acoustic instruments and no drums. Those were some of the best records of his career. His last album, My Favorite Picture of You, is amazing, and he finally won his first Grammy for that.
My version of "Dublin Blues" was one of the first things we recorded after So You Wanna Be An Outlaw. I was playing a lot of electric guitar, and that's just where I ended up. On Outlaw, I finally overcame my fear of Fender Telecasters. I never thought I would ever become a Tele guy, like I am now. I didn't start playing electric guitar until my late 20s. I'm still more of an acoustic player than an electric player. I use the same gauge strings on my electrics as I do on my acoustics and play with a combination thumbpick/flatpick — a Fred Kelly Bumblebee. Guy was the first person that I ever saw use a pick like that. He used to make them himself, long before anything like that was commercially available.
"Parking Lot" was another one of his later songs that I felt needed to be on there. There are a few songs that I missed though. After I finished the album, I ran into Louie Pérez. He's the principal lyricist in Los Lobos, and he was always a fan of Guy. Louie told me he heard that I had finished the Guy Clark album, and he asked if I recorded "The Cape." I said "Nope." "Did you record 'El Coyote'?" I didn't do that one either, and when he mentioned it, I realized that I should have. When I was back home in New York City, I went to Electric Lady Studios on my own and recorded two more songs for a seven-inch single that is going to be released for Record Store Day. It's going to have "El Coyote" and "Don't Let the Sunshine Fool You."I did them solo — just me and my 1930 Marshall Special. It's a Gibson-made flat-top that's like an L-00, and it's the only intact one of the two known to exist. It sounds great. It was the first time I ever used that guitar for a recording.
You've developed a very distinctive voice on the Telecaster.
It's me, but it's also very Waylon Jennings. Jerry Shook, who is a session player in Nashville that I know, saw me playing a gig in a club one night. Back when the mechanical bull thing was going on, there were only three people in Nashville who knew [the popular line dance song] "The Cotton-Eyed Joe": me, Gary Nicholson and Ray Kennedy. We all had bands that played the mechanical bull joints. Back then, Jerry told me that my guitar playing reminded him of Waylon. When I started playing electric guitar a lot a few years later, I leaned toward guitars with P90s, because they were forgiving, and hollowbody guitars, because they fed back really easily. I liked that.
I always found Telecasters unforgiving. I bought a 1955 Telecaster that was completely intact from Matt Umanov's shop in 2007. I got it for only $15,000, because the owner really needed to sell it, but it's always been worth a lot more than that. It was one of the best buys I've ever made in my life. I used it on one song on one record where a Tele seemed like the only thing that would fit, but I never put it on the back [bridge] pickup. Then I started writing songs for Outlaw. By that time my band had evolved into a really good country-rock band. I wanted a pedal-steel player, so we got Ricky Ray Jackson. I finally surrendered to the Tele on that album.
I finally have a band that can do everything I ever recorded: bluegrass, the harder rock stuff from the '90s, blues, more traditional country — everything from the Cherokee Cowboys to the New Riders of the Purple Sage. The arrangements on this album became more about playing. There's a western-swing feel on several songs, which is something that we've gotten really good at. Our fiddle player studied with Johnny Gimble. It's also all about Texas. I'm really happy with the current lineup of my band, and I'd like to keep it together as long as I can.
It sounds like you used the Tele on most of the songs where you played electric guitar. Did you use any other electric guitars on this album?
I used the Tele on everything except "Parking Lot." For that song I played a 1963 Gibson SG/Les Paul Standard. It has some of the last alnico PAF humbuckers that Gibson made. It's a great guitar. I've grown to like real humbucking pickups. I'm starting to want a 'burst, which is going to cost me a lot of money one of these days.
Your tone on "Heartbroke" is a little different as well.
On "Heartbroke" I'm not on the back pickup. It's more of a western-swing thing, so I thought that the middle position sounded better for that, which is the front [neck] pickup, without the bass circuit, since my '55 Tele hasn't been rewired.
What acoustic guitars did you play?
It was a 1935 Martin D-28, which is the most expensive guitar I've ever owned. I used it for all of the acoustic tracks on this album and Outlaw. I own about 30 other Martin guitars, but they're mostly smaller-body ones. I'd pull them out and use them on different tracks from time to time, but now I feel like I could sell all of them. The D-28 can sound huge, but when you capo up the neck it can get small, too. It's more balanced than any other dreadnought I've ever heard, but it still has the woof that you need for bluegrass.
I play M-size Martins when I'm touring, because you can use a pickup to compensate for the low end. And ergonomically, it's easier for me to play. It has a little more low end than a triple-0 Martin, because the body is bigger, but it has the same depth. I like my M-size guitars, but I've never used them in the studio, with the exception of maybe one track on the Townes album. I have an M-21 Steve Earle — Martin built 180 of those about 10 years ago — an M-36 and an M-38. I use them live because I don't take vintage amplifiers or guitars on the road. My road electrics are two James Trussart Teles with humbuckers in the front. Those Trussarts are incredibly stable. I've put them away for three months after a tour, and when I took them out again for rehearsals they were still in tune. They're incredible.
What mandolins do you play?
My mandolins are made by Steven Gilchrist. I have an A Junior [Model 1] that has a K&K pickup in it that I use on the road. For the record, I played a 5 Junior that Steve built for me about three or four years ago. His work gets better and better every year, and this one is just a monster.
For Outlaw, your main amp with the Tele was a Vox AC50. Did you use the same amp again here?
I used to own about 25 amps, but I went through a divorce and had to sell a bunch of them, including a couple that I regret getting rid of. I sold all of my amps, except for a small Gibson BR9 and the two that I always use in the studio: a 1965 Vox AC50 with a new cabinet with two 12-inch speakers, and a 1959 Fender Bassman. The [2015] Terraplane record is the Bassman through the whole thing, but the last two records are the AC50 all the way through.
Live, I use Peavey Classic 50s. I love them. They sound great and they don't blow up. I used to use them with eight 10-inch speakers. That was stupid loud, but it sounded incredible. I don't need to get any more deaf than I already am, so I've backed off to four 10s. I only broke one Classic 50, which was on New Year's Eve in Chicago in 2000 when I pushed it off the stage. After we retubed it, it worked fine.
You recorded Guy in less than a week. Did you do a lot of pre-production rehearsals, or did the songs just come together quickly?
We rehearsed all but two of the songs over and over during soundchecks while we on tour doing the Copperhead Road 30th anniversary shows for about four months. We learned the other two songs, "Sis Draper" and "New Cut Road," during the session. Most of the songs were recorded on the first or second take, since we knew them so well.
The tracks were recorded live. How did the band set up in the studio?
I'm always in an isolation room by myself, in case something goes wrong with the vocals so I can do them over. Everybody else was together in one room while the amps were in isolation in another room. There was a baffle room in between the control room and the main room that you can put amps in, and there were a few other isolation booths off of it. Eleanor [Whitmore], our fiddle player, was in an isolation booth as well. Usually she and I are isolated and everybody else is in the same room.
We recorded in what used to be T Bone Burnett's room at the House of Blues Studios. That studio was sold recently and everybody has moved out of there. When we recorded the album, T Bone was actually working over in Studio A and we were in his room, which is called the Cave. The main room of the Cave is based on Sun Studios, but it has more isolation than the original Sun studio in Memphis.
"The Last Gunfighter Ballad" has a very dry, intimate sound that's different than any other song on the album. How did you record that?
It was recorded about 18 years before the rest of the album. I recorded that for Guy's 60th birthday. Some other friends of Guy and I all recorded tracks separately for Guy and burned them on a CD that we gave him for his birthday. I was working on another album at the time at Ray Kennedy's old studio on Music Row called Room and Board, so I recorded it there. When Tamara Saviano put together the This One's For Him Guy Clark tribute album, she leased that track from me. I tried to record "The Last Gunfighter Ballad" again for this album. I felt it should be on there because I was there when it was written. I also played that song most of the time at the tribute concerts for Guy after he died. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't beat that version I did back then, so we put it on the album.
What tracks did Shawn Camp play on?
He's on "Sis Draper" and "New Cut Road." I'm playing mandolin on that song, and since Chris [Masterson, Dukes guitarist] is still learning to play acoustic bluegrass guitar, we had Shawn play acoustic guitar. Chris does just fine live now. We also brought in Mike Bub to play bass on "Sis Draper," because it's so hard, and Shawn and him play together all the time. Kelley [Looney, Dukes bassist] stood down for that track. We did a similar thing on "New Cut Road": I played mandolin, Shawn played acoustic guitar and Chris played electric guitar. Shawn Camp is a bad dude! He's one of the best mandolin players I've ever seen, and he's a monster flat-top player. And he's a great singer and a great fiddle player! He's one of the most talented people I've ever seen.
Guy used a capo on the guitar's second fret on his versions of some of the songs you did, but I noticed that you did a few of them in standard tuning. Was that more for the vocal range?
I learned about using the capo on the second fret from Guy, but I didn't do that too much here. I used the same tunings as he did though. "Desperados Waiting for a Train" is in drop D and "Old Time Feeling" is in open G, which is the way he wrote it and the way I played it. The capo position is really just a matter of changing the key for singing it, and I was more comfortable without the capo.
Your guitar playing on "L.A. Freeway" is very close to what he played.
It's his version, although it's not 100 percent note for note. I did this record the same way that I did the Townes record, which was my best memory of the way Guy played it on the vast majority of the stuff.
You said one of your biggest regrets was that you never wrote a song with Guy.
I should have done that. Part of that had to do with me living in New York. I still don't co-write a lot, but I have done it. I write with Miranda Lambert a little bit and with people I've done projects with, especially if I'm producing something with an artist. Guy didn't co-write that much when I met him. In fact, he didn't do it at all. But later on, he was co-writing more to keep himself going. When I was 20 years old, he gave me a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus as a test. He wanted to see if I would take it, and I think he wouldn't have spoken to me if I didn't. We both got older and we both used the hell out of those rhyming dictionaries. I've got a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus in my phone, and I use them every day.
Which of your own songs did Guy influence the most?
"Ben McCulloch" and "Tom Ames' Prayer," because I was definitely under his tutelage there. Those were both written when I was 20. I was emulating other things as well then. We were all listening to Blood on the Tracks, and "Tom Ames' Prayer" was me trying to write "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts." But Guy was a huge influence on everything I wrote during that period. A lot of Outlaw was directly influenced by him because I was trying to get back to where I came in on that record.
You mentioned a political record. What will that be like?
The next record is going to be a little different. It's going to be the band again, but the core of the songs are being written for a theater piece for the Public Theater that will debut in 2020 about Upper Big Branch, the coal mine in West Virginia that blew up in 2010. The play is being written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, who wrote [the 2002 play] The Exonerated, and it's based on their interviews with people who survived it and their family members. I wrote songs to move the narrative along. Those songs will be the core of the next record. The record will be political, but it won't be a "preaching to the choir" record, since I've already made that [The Revolution Starts...Now]. This time I want to make a record that speaks to people that didn't vote the way I did.


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|Priya Gandhi, September 2015
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with Noam Pikelny on 03/28/2020
Caitlin Canty (born 24 January 1982 in Vermont, United States) is an American singer/songwriter. A New York City transplant, the roving singer/songwriter spends most of her time in a red Volvo, zipping around the Northeast and delivering her soulful songs with an old Recording King guitar and a husky alto. Members of Cold Satellite, Darlingside, Rusty Belle, Session Americana, and Josh Ritter/Ray LaMontagne bands have joined Canty on the road and on her records. Read more on Last.fm
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Monday, October 22, 2012
EMPLOYMENT: Opportunities at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) conducts interdisciplinary policy research to support sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. From April 2013, IGES will begin its Sixth Phase Strategic Research Programme and seeks a number of dynamic individuals with extensive knowledge and experience to carry out the research activities.
Positions: Research Staff (multiple positions)
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Healthcare-seeking behavior and its relating factors in South of Iran
Atefeh Khajeh1, Hossein Molavi Vardanjani1, Alireza Salehi2, Negin Rahmani1, Sajad Delavari3
1 Department of MPH, Shiraz Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran2 Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran3 Health Human Resources Research Center, School of Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Correspondence Address:Dr. Sajad DelavariHealth Care Management and Informatics School, Almas Building, Alley 29, Qasrodasht Ave, Shiraz IranSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_93_19
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_93_19
INTRODUCTION: Health systems aimed to increase health utilization. Habits and behavior about using health facilities, which is called health-seeking behavior, are different among different cultures and influenced by different factors. The present study is aimed at investigating Iranian Southern population health-seeking behavior and its influencing factors.MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sample of 397 people was selected using proportional stratified random sampling for this cross-sectional study. They were asked to fill a questionnaire about their health-seeking behaviors (seeking treatment, inattention to treatment, and self-medication) and socioeconomic factors. Data were analyzed using regression models including linear, ordinal, and logistic regressions.RESULTS: Near 80% of participants reported self-medication and most of them prefer public hospitals as their first point of contact with health system compared to others such as family physician. Using linear regression revealed seeking treatment has significant relationship with age (P = 0.037), living place (P = 0.018), and having complementary insurance (P = 0.013). Self-medication behavior has relation with age (P = 0.015), gender (P = 0.039), education years (P = 0.031), living place (P = 0.005), having complementary insurance (P = 0.001), and satisfaction with health-care providers (P = 0.003) in logistic regression. Using ordinal regression, it was found that inattention to treatment has a relation with education years (P = 0.044), living place (P = 0.042), having complementary insurance (P = 0.049), and severity of illness (P = 0.031).conclusion: Southern population does not accept family physician as the first point of interaction with the health system, and they prefer to go to public hospitals directly. Moreover, self-medication is a prevalent behavior among the population and thus their acceptance of health care is low. Based on the findings, it can be suggested providing more satisfying health care, increasing insurance coverage, and informing population could lead to better utilization of health-care services.
Keywords: Acceptability of health care, healthcare-seeking behavior, health-care utilization, health facilities, Iran, patient acceptance of health care, self-medication


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Triumph's annual RAT RALLY is on again, the 2014 rally will take place this year at popular coastal destination of 'Coff's Harbour' on August 22nd – 24th. "Coff's Harbour has always been a popular location amongst motorcyclists and we've hosted a few events in the area over the years." Commented event organiser Darren Kersey.
Last year's event welcomed over 400 participants and this year Triumph are taking it up a peg. Hosted at the grounds of the Novotel Pacific Bay Resort, Rat Rally attendees are in for a treat. Kicking off the event is a Friday registration where all riders will receive a commemorative RAT patch, event pin, T-shirt and Stubby holder. "Last year we thought we would warm into the event with a bit of Karaoke, it was such a hit that we're bringing it back again this year." Kersey added. "Saturday is going to be all about the bikes kicking off with a Show and Shine, some Demo Rides on our fleet of Triumph's, and a Mystery ride in the afternoon to name a few. But Saturday night is the big one, so our Trumpy owners better pack their best footy shorts, their oldest bluey, their favourite flanney and grow the best mullet because its a night of nights with BOGAN BINGO!".
The event is jam packed full of entertainment of things to do with your bike, Saturday of course includes a dinner and surely a chance to get up and dance. Sunday the group are going to a short ride for a BBQ lunch send off.
Triumph owners and friends can purchase tickets for the event at www.triumphmotorcycles.com.au. Tickets are just $150 a head. The team at Triumph looking forward to a great event. See you there!


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I have been working in the conveyancing industry for the last 10 years.
I started out as a receptionist and then moved onto an assistant whilst studying and attending university to obtain my licence.
I became a member of the First State Conveyancing team at Cessnock 2 years ago and have not looked back, I really enjoy speaking with my clients and helping them with one of the most important decisions they will ever make.
I am married to Bill my childhood sweetheart and have one son, Liam who is married to Kylie and now have 3 beautiful grandchildren, Ethan, Lillian and Bonnie-Blue, whom I love spending time with.


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Apple trees
Every year I get something attacking my apples, leaving red splotches on the apples, and I have leaves dying out at the end of branches. I do spray with an insecticide after blooms have fallen and again in midsummer. Please help with controlling these pests and can you tell me what I'm dealing with, please?
Without an image I cannot say for sure what issue you are dealing with.
My best guess from your description could be Cedar Apple Rust or Bitter Rot.
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Posted by Matt Young in Website on 6th February 2019
As if interviews aren't hard enough already, those pesky people who are looking to employ you, tend to throw in some hard questions too; I mean, it's not like the interview process isn't hard enough already.
So, the team here at Paramount Personnel have got together and come up with the best way of answering those darn tricky questions, enjoy!
The reason this question is asked is to find out if you're self-aware and authentic. It's about figuring out how you think and operate.
When answering it, consider using words that describe the way that you think. Mentioning that you are creative is good, but you need to give them examples; simply saying, "I'm creative" won't cut it. Understanding if you're authentic is key for them, so, don't lie. If you're not creative, maybe plump for something like curious instead.
This question is also seeking an answer about your character, so try and pick a trait that rings true. Don't make it up, but honesty and kindness are both good answers.
Please, please, PLEASE don't say "I'm a perfectionist". You might as well say, "don't give me the job".
This question is aimed to solicit a negative answer, but the trick here is to turn a negative situation in to a situation where you learned something.
Say for example you've been working at the same establishment for too long and your career has become stale. This could be something worth bringing up as long as you highlight that you're there with them, in that interview, to kick-start the next part of your career.
Uuugghh, I hate this one, and I know I'm not alone in that. If you're ambitious, the real answer may be that you've already moved on from the company who're looking to employ you that day!
Equally, if you say you're hoping to have been promoted within that organisation, that can be negative too; it's a loaded question. The company you're interviewing for, may not have the room to promote you any time soon, so be careful with that answer.
It's natural to want to say that you see yourself with that company in five years, but your answer should be based around the understanding of that company and how it might change and evolve in the coming years.
Make sure you know how much that company has grown and what their ambitions are. If you align your own goals with them, it's likely to be a good fit and that will come across in the interview.
Think about all of these questions before you go in to an interview and have an answer ready. It's likely to be different for each place you go to, so have them planned in advance.
Do your research. Understand where that company is heading and what their goals are too. It might be prudent to ask the same question in return, but that's a bold move and you should only ask that if you think the interview is heading in the right direction.
Be honest! Unless your answer to question one is… Lazy, ignorant and unemployable; then you should consider finding something that you love to do instead - Good luck.


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Antinori Chianti Classico Riserva Marchese Antinori 2015
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'Antinori seems to do everything well these days, from churning out millions of bottles of supermarket wines all the way to turning out superb versions of their many flagship bottlings. This is another impressive set of new releases with a number of highlights. Over the years oenologist Renzo Cotarella has moved away from the super-late harvests of the late 1990s/early 2000s in favor of picking slightly earlier, a decision that has paid off handsomely, especially over the last few years.' Wine Advocate
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George Mellor, Private 2100, 1/7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Died of wounds 20th August 1915 at sea off Gallipoli, Turkey, aged 18
George Mellor was baptised on 8th August 1897 at St Philip's Church, Chorley (Alderley), Cheshire, the son of Sarah Alice and Ernest William Mellor, a confectioner, of London Road, Alderley Edge. In 1901, 3 year old George was living in London Road, Alderley Edge, with his parents and siblings Ralph (5), Florence (2) and baby Winifred, just six months old.
By 1911 the family had moved to 67 Paradise Street, Macclesfield, and George's father was a grocer. Winifred died in 1901 but another child, Ada, was born in Altrincham in 1904.
In 1913, 16 year old George, then a grocer's assistant (most likely in his father's shop), enrolled at Macclesfield Technical School to take classes in 'intermediate bookkeeping'.
George and his brother Ralph both enlisted at Macclesfield during the first week of September 1914, joining the 7th Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, and following a period of training in various locations in the south of England, the 7th Cheshires, as part of 159th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division, received orders to equip for service in an undisclosed location in the Mediterranean. In July 1915 they sailed from Devonport to Alexandria in Egypt, then on to the island of Lemnos on the 4th August.
On the evening of 8th August, the Battalion arrived off the coast of Gallipoli and the following day landed at "C" Beach, Suvla Bay. Having landed, they came under shell fire at about 8.30am and so moved north along the edge of the bay; they then received orders to attack in the direction of a dip in the hills behind Anafarta Saghir.
At 8am on 10th August the Battalion was ordered to attack Hill 70. This was unsuccessful and the Battalion suffered severe losses. A second unsuccesssful attack took place at 5pm.
The following day at 2.30pm the Brigade moved north, but the 7th Cheshires and 4th Welsh Regiments on the left were under attack so had to pull back. The 7th Cheshires remained in this position in trenches for several days.
It is not known when George was badly wounded, but he died of his wounds on the hospital ship HMHS Delta in the Mediterranean sea on 20th August 1915, aged 18 years. It is assumed that he was buried at sea, and his death was reported in the Macclesfield Times on 17 September 1915:
LOCAL FAMILY BEREAVED: ONE SON KILLED AND ANOTHER WOUNDED – Yesterday official information reached Mr E W Mellor, 67 Paradise St, Macclesfield, that his son, Private George Mellor, had died of wounds sustained in the fighting at the Dardanelles. Private Mellor enlisted on the outbreak of war, along with his brother Ralph, who has been wounded. he was eighteen years of age, and before enlistment assisted his father in the grocery business. Deceased was a good swimmer and secured two prizes at the last gala held at the Corporation Baths. He was of a cheery disposition and his death will be regretted by a large circle of friends. Private Mellor was an old boy of Mill Street Higher Grade Wesleyan School, Macclesfield, as is his brother Ralph.
Private George Mellor has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel Ref. 75 to 77 on the Helles Memorial in Turkey. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission holds casualty details for Private George Mellor, and he is listed on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website.
In Macclesfield, Private George Mellor is commemorated on the Park Green, Town Hall, St Michael's Church and St John's Church War Memorials and the Park Green United Methodist Church Roll of Honour.
Brother of Ralph Mellor who served as Private 2097 Cheshire Regiment and was wounded at Gallipoli, but survived and later served as Private 250446 in the Labour Corps.


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Of course, Mothers Day had me thinking of my own mother and I dug out a couple of pictures to share:
And Mom with her first three grandchildren (Rob on the left, Tommy on her lap and Janie on the right), again at the beach! Does she look overwhelmed? It got even better after Molly was born.
The surprise was that after we sat down for our lunch and were perusing the menu, a woman at the next table said, "Maryanne, is that you?" I looked up, and it was our mother's friend, Marie!
Marie was mom's best friend at least back to high school, and she was the nurse in the delivery room when I was born. The story was always that Marie managed to slip Mom a little extra something to make the delivery easier.
Apparently Mom had introduced Marie to her future husband, Charlie, and both women were in each others' weddings. Marie and Mom both had lots of kids and would only see each other sporadically after the kids started coming, but when they did, there was never the feeling of time passing. They would just pick up where they left off.
We caught up on what is happening with all of us and then she told us a story about how she and Mom used to go to the park to swing, and pick up guys.
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Down with Love
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|Down with Love
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Down with Love is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake. It stars Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, and is a pastiche of the early 1960s American "no-sex sex comedies"[3] such as Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back (which both starred Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall) and the "myriad spawn"[4] of derivative films that followed. Time film critic Richard Corliss, estimating conservatively, wrote that Down with Love "is so clogged with specific references to a half-dozen Rock-and-Doris-type comedies that it serves as definitive distillation of the genre."[3]
Randall himself plays a small role in Down with Love, "bestowing his sly, patriarchal blessing"[5] on the film that also stars David Hyde Pierce (in the neurotic best friend role often played by Randall or Gig Young), Sarah Paulson, Rachel Dratch, Jeri Ryan, and Jack Plotnick, who spoofs the kind of role Chet Stratton played in Lover Come Back.
Typical of the genre the film tells the story of a woman who advocates female independence in combat with a lothario, the plot reflects the attitudes and behaviour of the early pre-sexual revolution 1960s but has an anachronistic conclusion driven by more modern, post-feminist ideas and attitudes.
New in New York City, in 1962, Barbara Novak arrives at Banner House to present her new work, Down with Love, a book the intent of which is to free women from love, teach them to enjoy sex without commitment, and to replace the need for a man with things such as chocolate. Following her rules would, she believes, help to give women a boost in the workplace and in the world in general.
The men who run Banner House refuse to support the book. But Vikki Hiller, Barbara's editor, has an idea to promote the book, and that's for Barbara to meet Catcher Block – a successful writer for the magazine Know and a notorious "ladies' man, man's man, man about town" – but he avoids her repeatedly by postponing their dates until she gets fed up, insults him, and walks out.
Catcher's boss and best friend, Peter MacMannus, and Vikki take a liking to one another. However, their relationship revolves around Barbara and Catcher, and neither is brave enough to express their feelings for the other. Peter feels overshadowed by Catcher's strong personality, and Vikki wants to see strength in her lover. She even assumes Peter must be gay.
Barbara starts promoting her book with Vikki's help, and things take off when they get Judy Garland to sing the song "Down with Love" as a promotion to the book on The Ed Sullivan Show. Sales skyrocket, as housewives and women around the world buy the book and rebel against their men; Catcher now wants to meet Barbara, but now it is she who rejects him.
It all comes to a boiling point when Barbara appears on a national TV show talking about a chapter from the book – "The Worst Kind of Man" – and cites Catcher Block as the perfect example. His date rejects him, which infuriates him. Catcher swears he will prove Barbara is the same as every other woman: that she wants love and marriage.
He arranges for a casual meeting at a drycleaners, taking advantage of the fact that Barbara has never met or seen him, and he poses as an astronaut, Major Zip Martin, attentive and polite. Barbara appears to be immediately infatuated with this man who seemingly has no idea who she is, in contrast to men who now avoid her, viewing her as the enemy since the publication of her book.
"Zip" takes her to the most fashionable locations in New York while maintaining considerable sexual tension between them by feigning naivete and a desire to remain chaste until he is "ready" for a physical relationship. But he starts falling for her, and it gets harder to go through with his plan.
When Barbara finds Catcher/Zip at a party he is almost caught out, and decides it is time to take everything to the next level: he tells Barbara that Catcher Block wants to interview him for an exposé on the NASA space program and asks her to accompany him. It is his own apartment and he sets everything up to record her saying she loves him. But then it is she who reveals the truth: she knew he was really Catcher from the beginning, but she also lied as she is not Barbara Novak but Nancy Brown, once one of Catcher's many secretaries, who fell in love with him whilst working at Know, but who turned him down when he asked her out because she did not want to be just another one in his long list of romances.
She tells him she did this to be different from all the women he knew, and make him love her. They both realize that Catcher does love her, but as he is proposing, one of his many lovers appears and thanks Barbara for what she's done for womankind. Barbara realizes that she does not want love or him as she has become a real "down with love" girl. Vikki and Peter's relationship also changes when she insults him for helping Catcher. Peter realizes he is indeed like any other man and takes Vikki to Catcher's apartment to take things to the next level.
Days later, Catcher is completely depressed; all his efforts to win Barbara back have failed. Even his exposé is ruined now that Barbara has told her story in her own magazine, Now. Peter is also depressed as his relationship with Vikki is now apparently based only on sex. Catcher realizes he can do something and writes a new exposé, "How Falling In Love With Barbara Novak Made Me A New Man". He learns there is an opening at Now and goes for an interview with her. There, he tells her how much she changed him, and it is obvious she wants him but turns him down anyway; he says he wished there could be a middle ground for them "somewhere between a blonde and a brunette", referring to her real persona, where she was a brunette.
As he is leaving her office, he realizes she is not coming after him, but she surprises him on the elevator, showing him a bright red hair style: she has found the middle ground and she wants to be with him. They fly to Las Vegas to get married, influencing Vikki and Peter, who also decide to get married.
The end credits show their marriage has resulted in a new book intended to end the battle of the sexes. The pair end by singing "Here's To Love".
- Renée Zellweger as Barbara Novak
- Ewan McGregor as Catcher Block
- Sarah Paulson as Vikki Hiller
- David Hyde Pierce as Peter MacMannus
- Rachel Dratch as Gladys
- Jack Plotnick as Maurice
- Tony Randall as Theodore Banner
- John Aylward as E.G.
- Warren Munson as C.B.
- Matt Ross as J.B.
- Michael Ensign as J.R.
- Timothy Omundson as R.J.
- Jeri Ryan as Gwendolyn
- Ivana Miličević as Yvette
- Melissa George as Elkie
Additional voice cast[edit]
The sets, costumes, cinematography, editing, score, opening credits, and visual effects (including split-screen shots during phone calls heavily laced with double entendres between the two leads), are carefully designed to echo the style of 1960s comedies. The New York City skyline of 1962 was digitally recreated for backdrops. A greenscreen technique was used to simulate unconvincing 1960s rear projection using restored street footage from the late 1950s and early 1960s. The film begins with the 1960s logos for 20th Century Fox and for CinemaScope, a wide-screen process introduced in the 1950s, developed and owned by 20th Century Fox. The Regency Enterprises logo is in pink, and contains a saxophone jazz rendition of its theme.
Box office[edit]
Down with Love was chosen as "the perfect film" to open the second Tribeca Film Festival where it made its premiere.[6] The film opened first in New York, and was released country wide a week later May 16, 2003. The film was released as counter programming against The Matrix Reloaded.[1] The film performed worse than expected,[original research?] earning $40 million at the international box office.[2]
Critical response[edit]
In August 2018 the magazine Vanity Fair put Down With Love at Number 13 on their list of the top "25 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time".[7] In June 2017 Chicago critic Jonathan Rosenbaum named Down With Love one of his "25 Favorite Films of the 21st Century (so far)".[8]
At the time of its release Down With Love received extremely varying reviews. A. O. Scott in The New York Times praised director "Reed's buoyant homage," Zellweger's Doris Day-like ability to "swivel engagingly between goofiness and sex appeal," McGregor's Sinatra-like "wiry, wolfish energy" and screenwriters Ahlert's and Drake's "canny cocktail of period vernacular and deliberately labored double entendres," finding the movie "intelligent and amusing" with "a glorious, hectic artificiality." But he questioned "the point of the exercise" compared to Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, which "plunged into the subtext of those old movies," whereas Down with Love, being an "updating and a critique," "snips that subtext away," making it "less sophisticated than what it imitates."[5]
Conversely, The San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle wrote "Down With Love is superior to Far From Heaven", which "seems naive in comparison" because "Down with Love is a very smart, very shrewd movie, and the smartest, shrewdest thing about it is the way it masquerades as just a fluffy comedy, a diversion, a trifle. Hardly a trifle, Down With Love distills 40 years of sexual politics into 100 minutes, using the romantic-comedy conventions of an earlier time to comment on the governing social assumptions of yesterday -- and today, as well... The brilliance of Down With Love is that it slyly reminds us that our modern perspective, like every 'modern perspective' that preceded it, is doomed to obsolescence and isn't some final stage of enlightened social thought."[9]
Opposing opinions even occurred at the same newspaper, as was the case with The New York Observer, where Rex Reed's review was headlined "Down With Down With Love!"[10] but Andrew Sarris's headline countered with "It's Affectionate and Smart, And I'm Down With Love."[11]
Richard Corliss of Time admired Orlandi's costumes and Laws' design for their "giddily precise exaggeration" and wrote that the script "has a gentle heart to humanize its sharp sitcom wit," advising his readers to "stay for the movie's denouement: a two-minute speech that wraps up the plot like Christmas ribbons around a time bomb." But he found the film to be "miscast at the top" and "conflicted about its subject -- it both derides and adores what it means to parody" and that director "Reed often uses a gong where chimes would do." Corliss concludes: "As you see, we too are conflicted about this film. We want to love it, but like a Rock Hudson rake, we keep finding fault in its allure. We want to hate it, but like Doris Day, we finally can't say no."[4]
Nathan Rabin wrote that Chicago critics by and large embraced Down With Love, noting: "It got two thumbs up from Ebert & Roeper and was No. 2 on the Top 10 list of Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum,[12] who called it a "masterpiece" and wrote "If a more interesting and entertaining Hollywood movie than Down with Love has come along this year, I've missed it."[13]
In the years after its release, Rabin and Rosenbaum in an updated piece[14] and Richard Brody at The New Yorker are among the critics and film theorists that have continued to write in praise of the film.[15]
Down with Love received a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 174 critics.[16] Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert spoke of the film fairly positively, saying parts were "fun" and describing Zellweger's speech at the end as "a torrent of words [pouring] out from her character's innermost soul."[17]
The film's title comes from the song "Down with Love" as sung by Judy Garland, who is seen singing it on The Ed Sullivan Show in one scene.
The song "Here's to Love" sung by Zellweger and McGregor during the closing credits (and in its entirety on the DVD release as a special feature) was a last-minute addition to the film. Songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman appear in the number as the bartender and the pianist. According to the DVD commentary, it was added at the suggestion of McGregor, who pointed out the opportunity the filmmakers had to unite the stars of two recently popular musical films (his Moulin Rouge! and Zellweger's Chicago).
The songs "Kissing a Fool" and "For Once in My Life", sung by Michael Bublé, previously appeared on Bublé's 2003 self-titled album.
Track listing[edit]
|"Down with Love"
|Edgar Yipsel Harburg; Harold Arlen
|Michael Bublé and Holly Palmer
|"Barbara Arrives"
|Marc Shaiman
|Marc Shaiman
|"Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)"
|Bart Howard
|Frank Sinatra and Count Basie and His Orchestra
|"One Mint Julep"
|Rudy Toombs
|Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra
|"For Once in My Life"
|Ron Miller; Orlando Murden
|Michael Bublé
|"Girls Night Out"
|Marc Shaiman
|Marc Shaiman
|"Everyday Is a Holiday (With You)"
|Jenny-Bea Englishman; Sean Lennon
|"Kissing a Fool"
|George Michael
|Michael Bublé
|"Barbara Meets Zip"
|Marc Shaiman
|Marc Shaiman
|"Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)"
|Bart Howard
|Astrud Gilberto
|"Love in Three Acts"
|Marc Shaiman
|Marc Shaiman
|"Here's to Love"
|Marc Shaiman; Scott Wittman
|Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor
|Total length:
- ^ a b Lyman, Rick (11 May 2003). "SUMMER MOVIES; Looking For the Look Of 'Love'". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Down with Love". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- ^ a b Corliss, Richard (May 19, 2003). "That Old Feeling, Doris Day, Rock All Night". Time.
- ^ a b Corliss, Richard (May 11, 2003). "I Hear America Smirking". Time.
- ^ a b Scott, A.O. (May 9, 2003). "Film Review; Trading Barbs, Like Doris And Rock". The New York Times.
- ^ Hernandez, Eugene "Down with Love to Kick-Off Second Tribeca Fest"
- ^ "The 25 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
- ^ "My 25 Favorite Films of the 21st Century (so far) | Jonathan Rosenbaum". www.jonathanrosenbaum.net. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
- ^ LaSalle, Mick (May 16, 2003). "Up with 'Down' / Behind retro-fluff look is a smart view of sex, American style". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Reed, Rex Down With Down With Love! The New York Observer May 19, 2003
- ^ Sarris, Andrew It's Affectionate and Smart, And I'm Down With Love The New York Observer May 26, 2003 Archived: [1]
- ^ Rabin, Nathan Ribald Retro Case File #146: 'Down With Love' My Year Of Flops The A.V. Club, Sept 16 2009 [2]
- ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan What's Past Is More Than Prologue Chicago Reader July 10, 2003 [3]
- ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan Down With Love (2003) Revised 2009 "Written for The Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies from the U.S., a catalogue/collection put together to accompany a film series at the Austrian Filmmuseum and the Viennale in Autumn 2009"[4]
- ^ Brody, Richard (December 29, 2009). "Down With Love". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Down with Love (2003)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
- ^ "Down with Love Movie Review & Film Summary". Roger Ebert. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
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