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"Dance with me, baby," the night nurse crooned to me. Despite the morphine-induced fog clouding my brain that first week after the accident, I understood that she meant I was to collapse into her arms. Then, holding me like a limp rag doll, she lifted me upright and held my full weight. The new perspective was dizzying, since I'd been on my back, looking up, since the cops and the medics got to me.
The nurse, who had become my favorite, had stayed way past her quitting time that morning in order to transfer me into a wheelchair for the first time and to take me for a ride from the Surgical I.C.U. to Bellevue Hospital Center's tiny, wonderful one-room hair salon so I could get my hair washed. Since my arrival at the hospital six days earlier, I had had surgery to repair a broken left femur with a titanium rod, blood transfusions, stitches in my crushed right foot, an inferior vena cava filter inserted above my stomach to prevent blood clots and the extreme pain of a broken pelvis. But the thing making me most miserable in my immobilized, bedridden state was my filthy hair. In retrospect, that first terrifying, painful ride in the wheelchair was the beginning of my recovery.
On May 7, 2007, I was hit by a delivery truck making a turn while I was crossing the street with the light. I was just one of 10,859 pedestrians injured when they were struck by a car, truck, taxi or bus that year.
One of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's great accomplishments was bringing down traffic fatalities in the city by close to 30 percent. There were 286 traffic deaths in the city in 2013, compared with 701 in 1990. The worst year for the city was 1929, when there were 1,360 traffic deaths, 952 of them of pedestrians.
These statistics have been much on my mind lately. Even though pedestrian vehicular deaths are down, there has recently been a spate of awful accidents in the region. In January, a 9-year-old boy was fatally struck by a taxi while walking with his father, who also was hurt, in a crosswalk on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. On March 16, a 5-year-old boy was struck and killed by a car in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. On April 26, a 54-year-old man died crossing a street in Richmond Hill, Queens.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has made reducing these traffic accidents one of his first major priorities. In February, the mayor announced Vision Zero, a major street safety plan that treats all traffic deaths and major accidents as inherently preventable.
Though it happens fairly frequently, the experiences of those who are in pedestrian accidents and live are rarely told. It is natural and right that the worst (and fatal) cases attract the headlines and public horror. But being hit by a vehicle changes the way a pedestrian experiences the city, even years after recovery. Every time I see a white delivery truck coming down the street, an almost daily sight, my thoughts rebound to my accident. Some changes, like never stepping off the curb until the light has actually changed, or looking both ways before crossing (sometimes twice), are probably salutary. But you are never again sure that a vehicle that should stop will stop, and carefree pedestrian wanderings in the metropolitan area end abruptly and forever.
The New York Times is one of numerous businesses in Midtown Manhattan. Some are bigger, some smaller. I was taken by the fact that in the years since my accident, three other Times colleagues have been hit by cars while crossing streets and seriously injured, two of them in New York City. I imagine the ratio is similar at other companies. I have taken to thinking of us as The Times's Run-Over Club, a group that none of us would have voluntarily joined.
We are the lucky ones and we know it. We all lived. We enjoyed the support of family, friends, colleagues and countless talented doctors, nurses and physical therapists. We had good health insurance. The first cop who stopped to help me said: "Lady, if the truck had rolled over you two inches higher, all of your major organs would have been crushed. You wouldn't be here."
Our stories share certain similarities: We looked up at faces looking down, asking if we were O.K. None of the drivers who hit us were charged by the police with any misdoing — significant because part of Mr. de Blasio's plan is stricter enforcement of traffic laws. Passers-by, belying the reputation of our area, rushed to help. And we were all deeply moved by the support of our friends and co-workers.
Still, though we have all mostly recovered, we travel around our city with a sense of permanent vulnerability. Nearly four years after she was hit, Denise Fuhs, a news design editor, put it this way in an email account of her accident: "I still cannot cross very many streets without looking both ways about four times and looking over my shoulder a dozen times while crossing. If a car gets too close, or if I think a driver turning my way doesn't see me, I panic, sometimes freeze."
Among the cards and well-wishing messages from colleagues that lifted my spirits while I was recuperating was one that I will never forget. It was from Neil MacFarquhar, now a foreign correspondent, whom I had then never met. He had been hit 10 years earlier by a runaway bus on Fifth Avenue when he was on his bike. A bystander had described his body bouncing off the bus "like a dummy." He had been unconscious for 10 days and still had lingering physical effects from his injuries. "I don't mean to alarm you," Neil wrote in an email, "but your life will probably not ever be quite the same."
In a 2010 report on traffic accidents, the city found that among the 6,784 pedestrians who were seriously injured by motor vehicles from 2002 to 2006, about three-quarters, or about 5,000, were in accidents at intersections, and over half of them, or more than 3,500 of the total, were crossing legally. In this, my colleagues and I were typical.
I was crossing the street in Times Square, heading to the gym before work. The light changed to green and I began to cross going east. Suddenly and seemingly out of the blue, a food delivery truck came barreling by. Its front tire rolled over my right foot and I was dragged down while the rear wheel rolled over my left side.
Ms. Fuhs, 47, was hit in April 2010 crossing West End Avenue at 95th Street, also with the light. "The driver of a Prius turning left onto West End has said she was distracted and didn't notice me and only stopped when she had heard a bump," my colleague said. "The 'bump' was me." ("Driver inattention" was the most common cause of accidents according to the city study.) She never saw the car coming. "I did not even know I had been hit by a car until I became conscious of myself lying in the middle of the street honestly thinking, 'Oh, my God! What the hell am I doing in the middle of the street? I'm going to be hit by a car!'"
Ms. Fuhs's accident was classified as a "pedestrian knockdown," she said, adding: "That's what I was told the police term is. I also was told most people do not realize how often they occur. Somehow the term makes it sound less serious."
Where Pedestrians and Bicyclists Are Injured, and Why
Mayor Bill de Blasio's goal of eliminating pedestrians' deaths on New York streets will have to overcome a volatile mix of harried drivers, fast-moving bikers and distracted walkers.
Whatever it was called, it "was one of the scariest and most difficult things I have experienced — physically, psychologically," Ms. Fuhs said.
Andrew Kueneman, editor of digital news design and the most recent member to join our club, got off the bus in Montclair, N.J., after a day of work at the end of January. He was supposed to have the right of way. But then, more than halfway across the street, he sensed a car coming at him. He jumped backward, but the driver swerved in the same direction, and the car struck him in the lower right leg first, vaulting him up onto the hood and windshield. He was carried about 15 or 20 feet farther until the car came to a stop and deposited him back onto the roadway.
Mr. Kueneman, 36, remembers, after he was hit, lying in the street, looking up. Then he sat up to look at his leg. "The pain had yet to arrive full force and I watched my leg move limply and with far more bends and joints than usual," he said in an email about his ordeal.
Mick Sussman, 42, an editor on the news desk, was hit in Brooklyn on a Saturday night in 2012. He, too, had the light, though the police said he had been outside the crosswalk. Mr. Sussman also saw the car that hit him approaching. He said in an email about the accident that he remembered thinking, "That car is barreling toward me, and it will hit me with considerable, possibly deadly, force." He doesn't remember the moment of impact, but "the instant after, I found myself sprawled on the pavement, alive and able to hobble."
"Foolishly, I scrambled across a lane of traffic and collapsed onto a median strip," he recalled. "I was soon surrounded by a crowd of people who refuted the stereotype of gruff, unkind New Yorkers. Someone called 911; another rested my head on a backpack; they assessed my condition and kept up a soothing patter. I'm grateful to them. Standing sheepishly at the edge of the group, silent but willing to face his reckoning, was the driver of the car that hit me."
After my accident, I was strapped to a board facing up and loaded into an ambulance to be taken to Bellevue, considered the best trauma hospital in the city. The bumpy and excruciatingly painful ride there was my introduction to the force that would become a central part of life for me and the other members of the club. As we drove, the medics promised I would soon be given pain medication. I was lucid enough to recite the names and numbers of my immediate family members and close colleagues. When I arrived in the Bellevue emergency room, my husband, Henry Griggs, and my boss, Bill Keller, were waiting for me. So, thankfully, was a morphine drip.
In the emergency department at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where Ms. Fuhs was taken by ambulance, the doctors did a CT scan of her head: She had a concussion. When she told the doctors about pain in her neck, shoulder and hand, they told her to follow up with her primary physician as soon as possible. The next day she did, and when she complained about her shoulder, she was told it was severely bruised and swollen and would eventually heal; she should go home, ice it and take some naproxen, the active ingredient in Aleve. (It took three more visits and almost a month for doctors to figure out that her injuries included a fractured clavicle, a labrum tear and a rotator cuff tear, which required surgery.)
Mr. Sussman was taken to New York Methodist Hospital, in Brooklyn. "I learned the first rule of emergency rooms, which is to avoid them on Saturday nights, when they are crowded with people who have had too much fun with alcohol," he said. "I spent 12 hours there, alone, since my girlfriend (now fiancée) was out of town, and I couldn't reach my parents. My pain steadily grew to become unbearable. I could only get wisps of attention from doctors and nurses, who were overwhelmed with cases far more dire than mine. I had nothing to do all night but listen to their dreadful stories, told to an intake nurse directly behind where I sat, writhing in agony. I left the next morning, on crutches, with instructions to see an orthopedist."
It turned out that his tibia had been crushed and his knee was "balanced precariously on two slivers of bone." His doctor advised surgery, which was successful, but "the aftermath was worse than I'd feared," Mr. Sussman said.
"The pain along the incision wound and around the bone where metal pins had been inserted was excruciating, qualitatively worse than any pain I'd ever felt, leaving me in hysterical tears the first time I felt its full force," he wrote. "For days after the surgery, the slightest jostling sent panic-inducing tremors of pain up my body. I appreciate the need for doctors to ration addictive painkillers, but my allowance seemed cruelly insufficient."
Over time, the pain "weakened and became more diffuse, but it was a nearly constant presence for the next five weeks, leaving me exhausted and despairing."
I recognized the kind of pain he was talking about. In the weeks after my accident, I had struggled to get off the drugs, first morphine, then oxycodone, and gained new sympathy for drug addicts. Your body aches and feels as if it is screaming for these substances once you have been taking them a long time.
Mr. Kueneman's injuries kept him in the hospital in New Jersey for four days before he was moved home with a hospital bed to convalesce.
"Hospitals are boring," he said. "You have visitors, they bring soup, everyone is super nice, they leave for a bit. Nurses come in and check your 'vitals.' This repeats for days.
"I don't know what people did to keep sanity in my condition before smartphones," he added, "but I cherished my tether to the outside world and I flouted the nurses' warnings when I used the red outlets to keep my phone charged. Check email, Facebook, Twitter, nytimes.com, Instagram. Charge. Repeat.
"The obvious, and likely only, positive thing one can take away from an experience like this is the genuine outpouring of concern and support," Mr. Kueneman said.
In the days after the news of his accident spread, "countless emails, cards and gifts arrived from my extended family of Times colleagues."
"You expect these gestures from your relatives and close friends, but they feel tremendous and special coming from the people you spend your professional life with," he said.
"When you are lying in a shared hospital room, immobile and cloudy from opiates, and you're contemplating the fragility of your body and life, the generosity and compassion on display by your friends and family feels overwhelming and supernatural."
During my four weeks at Bellevue, visits from family and colleagues made all the difference. Maureen Dowd came on weekends to give Henry and my kids some patient-sitting relief. She wheeled me outside for the first time, and that moment was for me like the instant when "The Wizard of Oz" goes from black and white to color.
Although my doctors had predicted I would have to spend weeks in a nursing home, Henry rigged our apartment so that I could go home from the hospital and get around in a wheelchair.
Learning to walk with a walker all over again was hard, especially going down steps. Then came crutches and, finally, a cane. If done assiduously, physical therapy can achieve miraculous results. Even with a bad limp, simply hearing the birds and enjoying the summer air felt wonderful. Though I had to sleep for months hooked up to a noisy electronic machine called a bone stimulator (it looked like some strange S-and-M device), my femur grew back over the rod.
Physically I was certainly recovering. Then, for the first time in my life, I became seriously depressed. Drugs did not help all that much. I was referred to a post-traumatic stress disorder therapist who used a technique called eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or E.M.D.R. I was extremely skeptical about this experimental therapy at first, which required me to recall details of the accident while watching a bar of flashing lights. But I was so miserable I was willing to submit to these weekly sessions, and after many months of E.M.D.R., the depression gradually lifted.
For a long time, though, my life was defined by my accident.
Ms. Fuhs felt the same way. "Another thing no one tells you about after the cards, flowers and visitors fade, is how much of your energy and time all these medical procedures, tests, rehabs, lawyer visits, doctors' visits etc. take, not to mention time missed from work," she said. "Before the accident I think I had one or two sick days in 10 years. Because of the accident itself, and then surgeries that followed, I missed probably close to a month of work. To me, that was a big loss."
And the experience lingers, both mentally and physically. In college, Ms. Fuhs played Division I softball on a scholarship, and the game had always been a huge part of her life. "It was my escape and much of my exercise," she said. She has regained about 80 percent of her mobility and 70 percent of her strength, but she's not the same. She has tried to play softball a couple of times since the accident, "only to be left frustrated and disappointed," she said.
"I can still throw, but not nearly as hard as I once could, and definitely not with the accuracy that had been my signature," she said. "In my mind, I'll never be the same and that's heartbreaking to some extent."
Beyond that, she said: "The fear and the vulnerability stay with you. I wasn't paralyzed or killed, so I felt fortunate. Being hit by a car did, however, damage my sense of security and safety."
Mr. Sussman recovered relatively quickly. Six weeks after the accident, he returned to work. With the help of a physical therapist, he got back on his feet, and a couple of months after that, he had no remaining physical symptoms.
"So I've recovered from my injury, which is not the same as not having been injured," he said. "Reflecting from the distance of a year and a half conjures up strong feelings, including, unexpectedly, nostalgia. That period has a distinctive texture in my memory. It wasn't all awful: I was cared for by my loved ones; I had the leisure to get in a lot of reading and 'Breaking Bad' episodes, and to take stock."
Yet certain traffic patterns still trigger latent fears. And he has become an exceedingly careful pedestrian. He had never liked cars, but these days he's a zealot against them. "Don't get me started," he said. "I'll say this much: Among the triumphs of our civilization is how rarely we must encounter sudden, life-threatening harm. There are still occasional perils: natural disasters, a much-reduced threat of crime, but mostly cars. Our complacency about this seems inexplicable to one of their victims."
Mr. Kueneman is still in the middle of the experience, after undergoing surgery and physical therapy at the hospital, then recuperating at home for eight weeks. As the time wore on he was "anxious to return to some form of normality — both at work and at home."
"I need the feeling of responsibility and accomplishment," he said. "Playing with my daughter or putting her to bed upstairs. Working and socializing with my colleagues and friends. Doing my job. Being a dad and a husband. Going to the grocery store."
He returned to work full time on April 1, on crutches.
For someone who just turned 60, I'm in good physical shape. When I get tired, I limp a little, but most people I meet don't know I was in an accident. I'm anticipating the slightly surreal feeling I get every May 7. On that date, I almost always get an email from Dr. Mark Hochberg, one of the Bellevue surgeons who saved my life. Like me, he has a true appreciation for why I am still here.


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The Youth Club operates on Saturday evening between 4 pm and 6.30 pm and is open to all BME groups and local young people aged 8 to 18. The club offers a range of sporting activities such as pool, table tennis, football, snooker & computer games. As well as this we also have an art group which offers support to anybody wishing to try their hand at something creative.
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text: Swedish death metal band Darkane was formed from the remnants of Agretator, a progressive-influenced unit following in the footsteps of bands like Watchtower. Guitarist Christofer Malmström and drummer Peter Wildoer (the latter also formerly of Armageddon and Arch Enemy) first recruited guitarist Klas Ideberg and bassist Jorgen Löfberg, and recorded a couple of compilation tracks. The new band's sound contained some progressive elements (somewhat similar to Meshuggah), but took a more Gothenburg-style death metal approach. With ex-Forcefeed vocalist Lawrence Mackrory in tow, Darkane began work on their debut album Rusted Angel, which was released in late 1998 and appeared in the U.S. the following year on Relapse Records. Following Mackrory's exit, the group recruited Andreas Sydow, who made his debut on the follow-up release Insanity; it was issued in early 2001 by Century Media. ~ Steve Huey


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Monarch Butterflys
Delta County becomes Michigan's butterfly capital in late summer and early fall when thousands of stately Monarch butterflies use the county's unique geography to rest, and capture the imaginations of thousands of humans following the flight, and plight, of this unique creature.
The county's Stonington Peninsula, and in particular, the cedar trees and lands surrounding the Peninsula Point Lighthouse, a Forest Service Day Use Area, at the end of the point, separating Little from Big Bay de Noc, becomes the stopping-off-point for thousands of Monarchs in late summer and early fall.
Researchers have been studying the orange-and-black-winged insects and their flight patterns since 1993 to determine where they live in the area and how to protect this unique species, which migrates more than 1,900 miles from northern climates to regions near Mexico City each winter.
Peak Migration is between August -October
Volunteers help naturalists at the U.S. Forest Service's Rapid River/Manistique Ranger District off in Rapid River monitor each stage of the monarch's life, from when they return to the area to lay their eggs–only on the milkweed pods–to when they mature, and again migrate to wintering areas near El Rosario, Mexico. Volunteers conduct monitoring between May 1 and the end of September, counting the number of butterfly eggs and larvae in the spring, and their health of the local milkweed plants, the larvae's only food source, Joanne Sanfilippo, District Ranger for the Hiawatha National Forest Rapid River/Manistique Ranger District office in Rapid River. The monitoring work at Peninsula Point is conducted exclusively through volunteers. Mileage reimbursement for volunteers may be[CJM-1] possible through funds received from Wildlife Unlimited of Delta County.
The butterfly's appearance also coincides with visits by hundreds of Monarch fans who wing in, or drive from across the country to watch the butterflies gather in late summer and early fall.
The butterflies gather at the peninsula for their flights across the open waters of Lake Michigan and Green Bay on their way south. During the evening, butterflies generally roost in the Peninsula Point's cedar trees for protection from the elements and from birds that are brave or foolish enough to take a chance at tackling the Monarch's natural protection–a toxin they retain as a result of dining on milkweed. Monarchs become active as the sun warms them. They most often use the prevailing winds following a cool front to help them make the trek across open water to Wisconsin's Door Peninsula.
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Lately, the Monarch population has come under tremendous stress, as milkweed is lost on their breeding grounds, and frosts and other inclement weather in Mexico in recent winters caused millions to perish. Many scientists fear that because of possible climate change, loss of milkweed from herbicide spraying and human encroachment on wintering grounds, the future of the migration may be threatened.
To see the Monarchs come through, Sanfilippo says, the best month is August. However migration continues throughout September, when the peninsula's hardwoods begin their annual fall changeover.


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By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop)
Sometime ago, when some SLPP-leaning Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and so-called human rights activists engaged in political poaching in the name of seeking the interest of the 'Commonweal' in relation to the reduction of fuel prices; the fingerprints of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) were seen in their modus operandi. They were unmasked and their efforts ended in humiliating fiascos which produced the comical situation of people hiding in smoke.
And because the provisional 2015 Housing and Population Census results have shown that the SLPP would, definitely, be footnoted in the next General Elections; the dumb and paralysed SLPP seems to have contracted the services of political mercenaries. But because most of the well-known SLPP-leaning CSOs and so-called activists are now ashamed to play the 'rented opposition', Abubakrr Messeh Kamara aka "Pipul Pikin" seems to have accepted that role with alacrity.
And to all intents and purposes, Abubakrr Messeh Kamara aka Pipul Pikin is the classical fabled fox who will always regard the grapes as sour just because he was once prevented by the ruling All People's Congress (APC) from reaching them. For starters, when the APC was creating the National Youth Commission (NYC), Pipul Pikin was one of those who drew all imaginable and unimaginable strings to become Commissioner of the NYC. But when he didn't get that job, he decided to go for the jocular. And since then, he has created the niche for himself of being everything anti-APC or anti-Ernest Bai Koroma.
And true to form, Pipul Pikin has been playing that role with the eagerness of a brilliant Class Five pupil. For his latest "6 Million Plus People Campaign" is an indication that he is very low on analytical skills. The thrust of his campaign is threefold: The 2015 Housing and Population Census provisional results are fake; that President Ernest Bai Koroma was listed as President of Koidu Holdings SA, and that the Koroma-administration is engaged in hiding millions of dollars in overseas bank accounts. And because of these wild allegations, he is now inciting sane Sierra Leoneans to become insane.
But Pipul Pikin's doubt of the 2015 Census provisional results is illogical. Because by his 'Pipul Pikinian' logic, populations the world over are supposed to be static. So, according to his warped logic, if the population of Sierra Leone after the 2004 census was six-point-something million; it should follow that the population must still be six-point-something million in 2015. What I think any reasonable person should first do if s/he wants to depute the provisional results of the 2015 census is to do a tabulation of the births and deaths from 2004 unto 2015 and triangulate it with those who stood up to be counted in the last census to see if the figures add up. But since he was in a hurry to criticize for criticism's sake, Pipul Pikin feigned ignorance of the cardinal fact that populations either increase or decrease over time because they are determined by the birth and death rates coupled with those who stood up to be counted.
And if I should stretch the argument further, the hullabaloo over whether the Northern Province has more people than Freetown, the capital, is very lame. Let's for argument's sake say Freetown has more people than the Northern Province but during the census process more people in the north presented themselves to be counted than those in Freetown; this will definitely reflect in the final results of those who were actually counted—including the "margin of error".
Again, let's say in a school Class Four has 45 pupils but when the teacher comes in to call the roll there are only 35 pupils present. Now the difference here is that though there are 45 pupils in Class Four only 35 pupils answered the roll call. If the teacher is asked how many pupils were present in class that day, s/he will not say 45 but 35. So, in my humble opinion, censuses are all about those who are, or were, actually counted.
The second accusation by Pipul Pikin and the 'rented opposition' that President Ernest Bai Koroma was listed as president of Koidu Holdings SA is an amateurish propaganda that will even shame Dr Josef Goebbels (Adolf Hitler's Minister for Propaganda)! For those who know President Koroma very well will tell you that his name and stupidity cannot, and will never, appear in the same sentence. Let's for the sake of idle argument say the President has shares in Koidu Holdings SA; do sane people think the President would have been so foolhardy to have allowed his name to be published on the company's website as its president? Even my illiterate grannie at Four Mile will not do such unguided thing. But the problem with Photoshopped documents is that only those who sexed them up believe in them not even those they were originally intended to target.
I can understand the desperation and eagerness of Pipul Pikin and the 'rented opposition' to paint President Koroma as the incarnated devil which he is not. Even when the Accra Bureau Chief of the Bloomburg News Agency (which published the misinformation), Andreas R. Martinez, acknowledged that their listing of President Koroma as president of Koidu Holdings SA "was an error" and accepted "full responsibility" and apologized for their folly; the 'rented opposition' is still clinging onto such misinformation as if it is their life-supporting machine.
And for Pipul Pikin and the 'rented opposition' to accuse the Koroma-administration of being engaged in hiding millions of dollars in overseas bank accounts is not only preposterous but laughable. Because if that has been the case, the Swiss government would have blown the whistle as it did for the Abacha and other families in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. If that has been the case, the British and the United States of America governments would have stopped giving Sierra Leone helping hands. And if that has been the case, then the "Panama Papers" would have highlighted that. But since it is wishful thinking and 'Badheartism' which Pipul Pikin and the 'rented opposition' are now wallowing in; I will engage them in a debate whenever they present concrete evidence not sexed-up or Photoshopped ones.
It is on that note that I will end today's One Dropian dropping with a quote from the Nigerian actor, Pete Edochie, which says "never let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out".


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Scene from the film 'Time of the Gypsies'. Click on link if video doesn't play. The film was made into an opera and performed at the Milan Cathedral and Opéra Bastille in Paris. See scenes from the opera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQCNlHYDBo
The Gypsy exodus is very beautifully presented in 'Latcho Drom', a film by Tony Gatlif. It shows the journey from India to Europe through music and images only, recorded in Roma (Gypsy) communities in India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain.
Different in style and focus, 'Time of the Gypsies' by Emir Kusturica is another classic on the life of the Roma people. Set in Yougoslavia and Italy, it gives a good insight into petty crime and how the Gypsy are victimized by their own people. Music, composed by Goran Bregović and based on traditional Serbian Roma melodies, plays an important part in this film as well. A famous scene is the Spring festival of Ederlezi, also known as Đurđevdan.
About the festival:
Ederlezi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ederlezi_%28song%29
Đurđevdan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90ur%C4%91evdan
About the films:
Latcho Drom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latcho_Drom
Time of the Gypsies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_the_Gypsies
About the opera:
NY Times: Opera With Attitude, Guitars, and a Dose of Mayhem: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/arts/music/28emir.html?_r=1


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E. Patrick Johnson, GWST 7th Annual Korenman SpeakerPouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their TalesThe Department of Gender + Women's Studies is thrilled to present this year's Korenman event. E. Patrick Johnson's will perform selections from his 2009 play, Sweet Tea—The Play, based on his...Posted: November 18, 2013 4:21 PM
Meet Dr. Viviana MacManus, one of the new faces at UMBCOur newest Assistant Professor of Gender + Women's StudiesThe Department of Gender + Women's Studies is very pleased to announce our most recent addition to the GWST faculty. Dr. Viviana MacManus is currently featured on the UMBC homepage, along with Dr....Posted: September 18, 2013 3:20 PM
GWST faculty, Dr. Gloria Chuku, publishes edited volumeThe Igbo Intellectual TraditionThe Department of Gender + Women's Studies is proud to announce the released of Dr. Gloria Chuku's edited volume "The Igbo Intellectual Tradition: Creative Conflict in African and African...Posted: September 18, 2013 11:16 AM
Dr. Kate Drabinski, GWST, highlighted in Retriever WeeklyDr. Kate speaks candidly with the Retriever Weekly about her recent publications in Baltimore's City Paper. You can read the full article online...Posted: August 28, 2013 5:21 PM
Praise for production by GWST/THTR faculty Dr. Susan McCullyTheater is Political in "Inexcusable Fantasies"Dr. Susan McCully has been touring internationally with her show, "Inexcusable Fantasies." Most recently, she performed in New York City. Andrew Rothkin of NYTheatre.com reviewed her...Posted: August 28, 2013 10:45 AM
50 years later, women's contributions acknowledgedToday and this past weekend in Washington, DC, people joined the rallies to commemorate the progress that has been made, and highlight those dreams yet to be achieved, since Dr. Martin Luther...Posted: August 28, 2013 9:36 AM
GWST Student Kelly Martin Broderick makes national headlinesTurning cyberbullying into an opportunity for activismAfter learning that an anonymous person used her profile picture to create a mean-spirited meme online, Kelly first tried to retrieve her image and stop the spread of the photo online. When those...Posted: August 22, 2013 5:20 PM


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Reports are coming in that Professor John Holdren – director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School, University of Harvard – is Barack Obama's pick for science advisor, and head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
From ScienceDirect:
Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president's science adviser.
A top adviser to the Obama campaign and international expert on energy and climate, Holdren would bolster Obama's team in those areas. Both are crowded portfolios. Obama has already created a new position to coordinate energy issues in the White House staffed by well-connected Carol Browner, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and nominated a Nobel-prize winning physicist, Steve Chu, to head the Department of Energy. That could complicate how the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which Holdren will run, will manage energy and environmental policy.
And from the Washington Post:
President-elect Obama will announce this weekend that he has selected physicist John Holdren, who has devoted much of his career to energy and environmental research, as his White House science adviser, according to a published report today.
The Obama transition office would not confirm Holdren's selection. Last night, asked by The Post to comment on the science adviser search, Holdren responded by e-mail that he would be unable to comment because of his work with the Obama transition team.
Maintaining a longstanding tradition for presidential science advisors, Holdren is a physicist by training. But his forte is the intersection between science, the environment and society – making him an exciting addition to the science and technology-based team Obama is rapidly assembling.
Update, Dec 20:
In his weekly address, President-Elect Obama has just confirmed the appointment of John Holdren as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He has also confirmed that Harold Varmus and Dr. Eric Lander will be the other co-chairs of PCAST.
From the address (viewable on YouTube here):
"Whether it's the science to slow global warming; the technology to protect our troops and confront bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; the research to find life-saving cures; or the innovations to remake our industries and create twenty-first century jobs—today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It is time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.
Right now, in labs, classrooms and companies across America, our leading minds are hard at work chasing the next big idea, on the cusp of breakthroughs that could revolutionize our lives. But history tells us that they cannot do it alone. From landing on the moon, to sequencing the human genome, to inventing the Internet, America has been the first to cross that new frontier because we had leaders who paved the way: leaders like President Kennedy, who inspired us to push the boundaries of the known world and achieve the impossible; leaders who not only invested in our scientists, but who respected the integrity of the scientific process.
Because the truth is that promoting science isn't just about providing resources—it's about protecting free and open inquiry. It's about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology. It's about listening to what our scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient—especially when it's inconvenient. Because the highest purpose of science is the search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us. That will be my goal as President of the United States—and I could not have a better team to guide me in this work."
Update Dec 21: Holdren confirmed as next Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
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Dad Speaks Out Against Madonna's Adoption Appeal
Malawian James Kambewa says he wants to keep his daughter in her own country
The man believed to be the biological father of Mercy, the 4-year-old Malawian girl Madonna is trying to adopt, says he he wants to raise her in his own culture.
"I want to take care of her, and I'm capable of taking care of my baby," James Kambewa told CBS's The Early Show in an interview to air Monday, the same day the court will hear Madonna's appeal of the rejected adoption.
"Mercy, she is a Malawian, so [I] need her to grow as a Malawian … with our culture," he said.
The hearing in Madonna's appeal case will be led by the head of the judiciary in Malawi. The southern African country's High Court had previously rejected her application to adopt Mercy Chifundo James.
In his interview, Kambewa tells The Early Show that he's never met his daughter and has only seen her "in newspapers and TV, not face to face."
Madonna spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg said she doesn't know if Kambewa is the girl's father and that Mercy has been in an orphanage all her life, according to the Associated Press.
The singer, 50, found Mercy, whose teenage mother had died, at Kondanani Children's Village in the town of Bvumbwe when she first visited Malawi in October 2006, the same time she found David Banda at a different orphanage.
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Indian Super League (ISL) champions ATK have parted ways with coach Teddy Sheringham, a day ahead of a home match against Chennaiyin FC on Thursday.
"ATK Team management would like to thank Teddy Sheringham for his services towards ISL Season 4. We wish him all the very best for his future endeavours. Ashley Westwood, will be the interim head coach," the club's media release said on Wednesday.
Under former England striker Sheringham, ATK were able to win only three of their first 10 games this season, and a 3-0 loss away to FC Pune City in their last game on January 20 was among the four defeats this season. With 12 points from 10 matches, they stand in eighth position in the 10-team league, but trail fifth-placed Jamshedpur FC, who have played 11 matches, by just four points.
Sheringham becomes the third coach to have been sacked in mid-season - Rene Meulensteen of Kerala Blasters was replaced by David James, whose previous association with the 2014 runners-up as player-coach that season. NorthEast United also let go of Portuguese coach Joao de Deus earlier in January, and brought in former Chelsea manager Avram Grant as technical adviser, with former East Bengal coach Eelco Schattorie as assistant coach.


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It's a strange sinking floating sensation
All the impressions you had built up within their ornate guilded sense of sorcery
Its all real and fake
A wild ride with whimsy and haste
Years are estranged
It makes you feel deranged by the surreal quality
of moving thoughts and ideas making your story
Aren't we more though?
More than this journey to nothing from nowhere?
Or maybe we are the meaning we seek
A longing to find what wasn't lost only we made ourselves less aware


text: Probate is the legal process of administering the estate of a deceased person by resolving all claims and distributing certain property under a valid Last Will and Testament. The probate court decides the validity of a testator's will. A probate interprets the instructions of the deceased, appoints the personal representative of the estate, and adjudicates the interests of the heirs and other parties who may have claims against the estate.


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Blue Stahli - Not Over Til We Say So (feat. Emma Anzai) [Formal One Remix] [Digital Single]
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Moldova based DJ & bass music producer Formal One has made a deal with The Devil. Even though Blue Stahli's sophomore remix album, The Devil (Remixes), was already completed for release, a deal was struck for one more remix (here's the evidence: https://twitter.com/formal_one/status/994889157624426498) and we couldn't be happier.
Formal One has turned "Not Over Til We Say So" (feat. Emma Anzai of Sick Puppies) into a hyper-edited-guitar-sampled club-anthem with bombastic bass and satisfying synth drops. The Devil remixes really aren't over til we say so!
Release Date: August 31st, 2018
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1.1. "Agent" places the Public Offer on the conclusion of the contract of the Commission for the purchase of tickets for the Client on its own behalf, but at the expense of the Client, for a fee. In turn, the Client undertakes to reimburse the Agent for full expenses incurred.
1.2. In accordance with Article 437 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (GK RF), this document is a public Offer, and if the following conditions are accepted, the person / organization making the Acceptance of this Offer shall pay in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In accordance with clause 3 of Article 438 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, payment is an Acceptance of this Offer, which is considered equivalent to the conclusion of the Agreement on the conditions set out in the Offer.
1.3. Based on the above, carefully read the text of the Public Offer, and if you do not agree with any clause of the Offer, you are invited to refuse to conclude this contract.
1.4. In this Offer, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms have the following meanings:
"Offer" is a public offer of the Agent (Public contract) addressed to any person / organization intending to order or purchase, or ordering, purchasing tickets to events organized by third parties.
"Agent" is a company that catalogs tickets to events organized by third parties on its Internet site.
"Client" - A person who intends to order or purchase, or ordering, purchasing tickets to events organized by third parties.
"Accept" - the full and unconditional acceptance by the Client of the terms of the Agreement.
"Website" is the official website of the Agent, which is a catalog of tickets for events organized by third parties.
"Ticket" is a document certifying the Client's right to attend the event and containing all the necessary information about the event.
"Order" - the tickets selected by the Client, when placing the Order on the Internet site, with an indication of the cost, which includes the agent's fee and the cost of delivery of tickets to the Client.
"Delivery" - direct transfer of the Ticket from the Delivery Service employee to the Client at the location indicated by the Client as the delivery address.
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2.1. The Agent undertakes to purchase and deliver tickets for the Client on his own behalf, but at the expense of the Client, for a fee. In turn, the Client undertakes to reimburse the Agent for the expenses incurred in full and pay the remuneration. The ticket price indicated on the website includes the amount of the Agent's remuneration and the cost of delivery of tickets to the Client. The Agent ensures that Tickets are provided to the Client and is responsible for the validity of the tickets provided.
2.2. This Agreement and its annexes are official documents of the Agent and an integral part of the Offer. The current version of each of the above documents is available on the website at.
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3.3. When collecting and processing personal data of Clients, the Operator is guided by the provisions of the Federal Law No. 152 FZ "On Personal Data" dated July 27, 2006.
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6.2. Delivery price is included in the price indicated on the Agent's website.
6.3.The delivery deadlines for the Order are from one working day from the moment the Order is received. The maximum delivery time depends on the complexity of the client's order.
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7.2. In case the order has been paid by a bank card, the refund is made to the same bank card.
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IBM Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler and Architect – Can you use both at the same time?
IBM is pushing Performance Modeler as the tool of choice for creating TM1 objects. The tool is being rapidly updated and is always shown as the tool in training videos and presentations by IBM. It's likely that only Performance Modeler will get updates and Architect will start to get left behind. Rule Driven Links Automatically…Details


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SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA -- He first tried this factory on for size in 1978. "I liked it," says Jim Antosh. "I like manufacturing." He was fresh out of school. Jim went to work with his dad making Roundhouse Overalls long before his son David was even in denim diapers. Jim chuckles, "We've gone full circle,"
Such is the unique success story of a company born in 1903. Roundhouse got its name from the old railroad maintenance yards. Shawnee was a big hub for the old Rock Island Line in those days. Hundreds of workers needed a steady supply of sturdy garments.
The elder Antosh describes some of the many things happening on the factory floor. "These are the backs here," he points out. "These are the fillings here." Railroad workers still buy them, but so do a lot of other working people. David Antosh walks over to a a pile of boxes ready for shipment. "These are all headed for Taiwan," he says.
The Antosh's keep a file of celebrities who've worn Roundhouse gear. Even Donald Trump once wore the Roundhouse label. From big men to really big men. The largest size the factory makes sports a 74 inch waist. "We sell about 3 dozen of these a month," says Jim. "My boys used to dress up as a two-headed man in these for Halloween," he laughs.
From pinstripes to camouflage, the big factory floor, still in Shawnee, churns out more than a quarter million overalls per year. Jim Antosh breaks it down further. "We're typically making about a thousand pair a day," he says. Even a decade ago you could still find apparel manufacturers scattered across Oklahoma. Most of the operations that didn't move to Mexico closed for good. Roundhouse kept kicking.
They actually opened a new factory in 2008 to make Roundhouse jeans. The Antosh's have plans to add-on to the Shawnee plant in the Fall. Overall aren't just big. They're still growing. The reason? Jim explains, "First off, we have a pretty good bunch of employees. They've been with us a long time and they do a good job. Also, we keep or overhead and costs low. We don't a lot of management so we keep those costs low. Plus, we make a great product."
In the first ten years of the 20th Century a good pair of overalls cost less than a dollar. Buyers could slide all kinds of tools into the pocket then head out to a hard day's work. Lots of people still do that today. The nice thing is that the label and the location haven't changed a bit.
If you want more history on the Roundhouse brand or you'd like to know where to get a pair the company maintains a good website. www.round-house.com .


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So you have spoken and we have listened. Students who have been longing to draw on diagrams from the questions, without having to redraw them can finally make that happen! And beyond that, students can upload pictures of their own work right to the question editor. It's all possible with this new icon here:
Now once you click on that, you will be able to select any images that are viewable by clicking on them.
You will notice that if images show up in answers or detailed solutions, those won't be visible here until after the learner has encountered them and has them open on the screen:
Once you choose an image, then you have a chance to place it and resize it. (Tip: hold "shift" down to maintain aspect ratio when resizing!)
Once the image is placed it can't be moved, because students need to be able to write on it! If you aren't happy with where it ended up, just "undo" and re-add the picture, or use the eraser tool to get rid of it. The undo function works great with images.
Now that this is in the web version of questions, we are making this the last feature in the iPad and Android tablet apps update, which should make it on the store some time next week. We will keep you posted! Happy forging everyone.


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One of Phil Jackson's more precarious moves during his bizarre tenure as president of the New York Knicks was signing Joakim Noah to a four-year, $72 million contract in July 2016. Barely a year and a half later, the acquisition looks like it was perhaps the biggest of Jackson's many blunders. Noah has played all of 40 minutes through the Knicks' first 52 games this season, and the team announced Friday that the former All-Star and Defensive Player of the Year "will not be with the team until further notice," per Steve Popper of USA Today.
It has been reported that Noah initially left the team after a heated exchange with head coach Jeff Hornacek back on January 24, the cause of which is said to be Noah's dissatisfaction with his playing time.
At 23-29, the Knicks don't have have a great roster, but one spot at which they are strong is the center position. Enes Kanter and Kyle O'Quinn are both having career years, and Willy Hernangomez, though he has played sparingly this season (he's averaging 9.2 minutes across 25 games), is a promising young player who was First-Team All-Rookie last season. Even if Noah were a solid option in the frontcourt, it would still be tough for head Hornacek to get him regular playing time given the talent he has at center.
Making matters worse for Noah is that it seems like his days of being a "solid option" are over. Over the past four seasons, the 32-year-old has averaged 5.7 points per game on 44.7 percent shooting. He still hits the boards fairly well (8.8 rebounds per game over that span) and is a solid facilitator for a big man (3.6 assists), but he is clearly not close to being the dynamic difference-maker that he was during his prime years with the Chicago Bulls.
What makes it even tougher to get Noah on the court is the fact that the Knicks are in the process of rebuilding their core, and Noah isn't in the team's future plans. By the time top weapon Kristaps Porzingis reaches his prime, Noah will be in his mid-to-late-30s and is a lock to be playing elsewhere, if any NBA team will even take him at that point. As a result, it makes far more sense for the Knicks to give minutes to players like Kanter (25 years old), O'Quinn (27), and Hernangomez (23), who have the potential to be core pieces for future Knicks teams or could perhaps be traded for future assets this season.
Speaking of trades, the Knicks preferred method of dealing with the disgruntled Noah would surely be to ship him off to another team. Unfortunately for them, the lucrative contract that Jackson gave Noah makes a trade extremely difficult. In order to move the aging big man, the Knicks would likely have to either take on another team's bad contracts, or part with future draft picks or a talented young player—something that would hamper their rebuilding efforts.
Another method that won't work is a buyout. Noah has another two years and and $37.8 million left on his contract—all fully guaranteed. Players will occasionally agree to take a fraction of their remaining salary to leave a team, allowing them to sign a new contract with a different team. Noah, however, would likely be met with a cold market, so he doesn't have much of an incentive to give up any significant chunk of his remaining guaranteed money.
Knicks fans are familiar with bad contracts—names like Jerome James and Eddy Curry come to mind, and we can now add Noah to that list of infamous disappointments. Unfortunately, there's not much the team can do but wait. In 2020, Noah's contract will expire, or perhaps the team will trade his expiring contract at the deadline in two years. But for now, the Knicks will continue to pay him while he sits at home watching "his team" struggle to contend a low-end playoff spot.


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In an ever changing society, keeping up with the fast paced nature can be difficult, and we can come to crossroads leaving us confused on where to go next.
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How do you make it through the dog days of Summer? For Ryan Gorton, the answer is pretty simple.
Ever since he purchased Doodle, a nine-week-old golden retriever from the PetLand in the Waterford Lakes shopping center, Gorton says his dating life has been turned upside down.
"The whole reason I bought the dog was so I could add pictures of her to my Tinder account," Gorton said. "I wasn't getting many matches with my old profile, so I deleted the pictures of me fishing with my boys and my selfies, or as I like to call them, "brofies," at the Rec and Wellness Center and replaced them with pictures of me and Doodle."
Since revamping his Tinder profile Gorton has experienced an influx of matches. He says it's a struggle trying to raise Doodle in secret in his dorm room while simultaneously being drowned by approximately two thirds of the female UCF population, but for him it's worth it.
"I used to think you needed things like hobbies, a decent personality, good looks, and the ability to treat women like human beings to get a date, but nope. Turns out all you need is a small, adorable dog."
Fellow freshman Amy Rivers is experiencing similar romantic success after her recent Tinder profile update, which involved deleting the wordy bio that outlined her personality and astrological sign, and replacing it with, "Like 🍺. I don't wait for 💏, I 🚙 all night to 🔍💖." She also reshot all of her profile pictures from the bed of her new truck.
"I immediately matched with, like, a hundred guys," Rivers claimed. "I have dates lined up every night for the next two months, which is great because I already spent all of my summer loan money and food is expensive."
Despite their newfound "romantic" success, both students have experienced some unexpected drawbacks:
"Now I have to worry about Doodle and me getting kicked out of student housing at the Towers, and my phone won't work anymore because everytime I turn it on, it freezes up from the new matches I'm getting," Gorton complained.
Rivers has had similar trouble. "It's really hard to find gas stations for this dumb truck. Plus most of the guys I've gone out with so far just want a ride."
In an effort to play matchmaker our Stallion reporter offered to personally introduce Rivers and Gorton, who happen to share a major and a love of cooking. Gorton declined on the grounds that she was "only like a 7/10", and Rivers declined on the grounds that Gorton is under 6'.


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Bellingham Technical College's next home inspector training course will begin on October 9, 2017. The class will include 135 clock hours in the fundamentals of home inspection and 40 hours of supervised field training.
State law requires inspection students to obtain at least 120 hours of training, and BTC is the only state college level course that offers substantially more credits than minimum -- a full 15 clock hours above the baseline 120 hours. In addition to acquiring the training and certification necessary for licensing, our students earn state college credits as well!
After many years of having the same promotional video, and thousands of online hits on that link, I have updated the video to better reflect our 2017 curriculum. Along with the standard areas of study, per state law updates, the current course includes techniques for inspecting swimming pools/spas, yard irrigation systems, and alternative methods of construction.
This fast-track training program takes a student from start to finish in four weeks (20 days). Classes meet M-F from 8AM to 5PM.
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This morning, I got out of bed and strolled into town to Dunkin' Donuts to get a hot cup of blueberry coffee. Right next door, at Scottie's Shoe Store, there was a rack of magazines with the December edition of Spin Sheet, the free sailing magazine based in Annapolis. Open to page 36 and 37, and lo and behold, there I am. A very cool layout of a piece I wrote about winterizing tall ships after hanging out in Chestertown here during the Schooner Sultana's Downrigging Weekend last month. Here is the article itself, courtesy of Spin Sheet's website. Visit there, and you can read the whole issue in PDF format, or pick up a printed copy (my personal favorite, and still the best way to read) from any of their distribution points. Visit here to find one. Happy reading, digital or otherwise.
Jack White, The Internet and Public Discourse
So I'm tooling around the net the other morning looking for Jack White tour dates (unfortunately finding none scheduled) and I ran across this interview with the man himself, posted a few months ago on spinner.com. There are a few things that struck me in this piece, most notably the discussion of the impact of the internet on public discourse. But before I get to that, on another note, there was this quote that particularly appealed to me:
"Someone just asked me if I'm ever going to make (a solo album), and I said, 'Of course I'm gonna make one one day.' I mean, I never really plan that far ahead. My calendar is always open. Everything I do is something that just got decided a week before. Yes, I could be making a solo record in a couple months, or I could be making White Stripes record or maybe even a third Dead Weather record, I don't know. I don't tell the music what to do, I don't tell myself what to do. That would be an injustice to what I've dedicated my life to doing. That's the funny thing, most people go to work and say, 'I'm going to do this from 9 to 5 and these are my goals, these are my short-terms goals, these are my long-term goals.' I've never had that."
And I thought I was the only one. It is a little bit reassuring that the complete lack of planning ahead more than a month or so can lead to success. I've always been much the same way; the things I do just sort of come out of thin air as opportunity presents. And 9 to 5 is most definitely not the way I want to live my life. It's just so damned limiting.
Anyway, back to my main points. The discussion about how the anonymity of the internet breeds a certain kind of cowardice, particularly in the people who troll comment boards and spew harsh, venomous opinions, hit me. His point obviously being that the detatched nature of communication on the internet allows certain people to say things that they would never dream of if they had to attach their identities to it, or condemn with a severity they would never use if they were to actually speak to the person being villified to their face. Here's a quote:
"…we were having a conversation with some journalist about the way the Internet breeds cowardice nowadays — how everyone has a fake name, no one shows their face, everyone is extremely judgmental, extremely harsh to each other, commenting and blogging all this stuff. The world is their oyster now, they can type whatever they want, and they don't present themselves as a human being, they present themselves as an avatar and as a screen name, and that's cowardly."
While it's hard to disagree with what White has to say on the matter, what I found particularly interesting was to scroll through the comments section following the article, just to see what kind of response would turn up from the very people at whom White took his shots. I wasn't disappointed. Here's a sampling of some of the comments, each posted under an indecipherable screen name : (By the way, I cleaned up some of the ever-present typos that show up in these kinds of comments. If you're going to rip someone, at least do it competently.)
"Oh, spare me the 'Jack White is a genius' crap. White is a 3rd rate musician. His music is largely derivative and immensely irritating to boot."
"Never heard of this self-promoting jerk and couldn't care less about him."
"White stripes are just awful. I've heard their stuff , it's really crap, I swear."
"This is one of the sloppiest, untalented, overrated bands I've ever heard. A couple of 15 year olds in a garage band sound better than this rubbish."
"This guy's guitar playing is almost as bad as his singing. His songs are lame, too. How in the world did he get famous, anyway?"
See what I mean? Now, I'm not unfamiliar with criticism, sometimes a bit harshly, but usually I base my opinions on something more than simple insults and vague notions on someone's capabilities. Then, there's this guy. He actually posted under a name, which is more commendable, but is it a real name? Who can tell?
"There has never, ever been someone who has managed to make it despite having such utterly mediocre skills as this guy…. he excels in 1 way, greatly, & that is shameless self promotion… yeah, who wouldn't be a "tireless" worker if you've fleeced your way into the game…. not a good guitar player, not a good songwriter, not a good singer, but made it anyway…. Completely clueless people made this guy, nothing more… Serious guys with serious chops laugh at this guy."
Really? No one ever has become successful in the music business with mediocre skills? Not that White's skills are mediocre in the least. I completely disagree with the sentiments that his guitar playing and songwriting aren't good. Both are distinctive, unique and exceptional, in my opinion. And I have a strong musical basis to back that up. But I guess I'm just clueless. And as for the self-promotion part, show me anyone in virtually any field who's reached a level of success, and I'll show you someone who is a self promoter, shameless or otherwise. You simply don't get anywhere, particularly in a field of creative endeavor, without being so. But I suppose serious guys with serious chops are too busy laughing at those who do make it to promote themselves and their work.
And for last, my personal favorite, from a screen name of Hugh Jassol, which is likely fake given the fact when you say it really fast, it sounds a lot like this guy's personality must be, huge asshole. He had two:
"That 'distinctive sound' is the sound of minimal talent. Actually, it's the sound of suck."
"What passes for talent today is a joke. Jack White isn't qualified to carry Jimmy Page's guitar case. His one hit, 'Seven Nation Army' is just one crappy hook, over and over, with some shi##y guitar playing and his singing sounds like a guy with a really bad sinus infection. The only reason he's making a living in music is because of people like you who have tin ears and no taste whatsoever."
To the first comment, I say maybe Jack White has a point. Even if you don't care for his music, how many people are going to meet White and say, "Hi, you're music is the sound of suck." Sure, there may be some, but probably not many. The second comment is the more interesting for a couple reasons. One, in the interview, White himself references Seven Nation Army, even saying, "nobody thought there was anything interesting about that song when we recorded it." Hits are subjective, having more to do with the opinions of people outside the group than the artist's desire for a particular song to be a hit. Of course, Huge Asshole, er, Hugh Jassol covers this by writing off the fans, as well, as people with tin ears and no taste.
However, he also references Jimmy Page, which brings up an interesting example of just how off base this guy is. Go rent the documentary "It Might Get Loud" on the history of the electric guitar. In it, Page, White and Edge from U2 form a triumverate of approaches toward the guitar. It's well worth a watch, or two, or three. There are several sections during the film where the three sit around together and jam. During these, White comes off as far from unable to carry Page's guitar case. They appear almost equals at times, with Page absorbing and learning from White just as much or more than the reverse. In fact, It's Edge that comes off as the wanna-be poser, clearly out of place in the company and confused on how to play with the other two.
Which doesn't really surprise me. I've never much cared for Edge. I mean really, Edge? I understand Slash. That guy just looks the part. Wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley. And his guitar style suits the name, as well. But what about this guy says "Edge"? Maybe its a marketing ploy, maybe he uses Edge shaving cream to keep his goatee trimmed up nicely, I don't know. What I do know is that a guy who has a neatly trimmed goatee, wears wool hats and fancies himself a guitar hero when 95% of his sound is coming from the fancy electronics he owns is kind of a douchebag. So again, maybe Jack White has a point, to a degree. Would I say that to Edge (gag) if we ever met? Probably not, but people writing things they wouldn't otherwise say isn't an invention of the internet, nor is it new. From Theater and book critics in the late 19th century, to the letters to the editor that were so prevalent before the digital age, to pamphelteers of all causes, and even a convention such as the Dear John letter, people have been writing things they wouldn't say to someone's face for as long as there's been a written word and paper to print it on. What the internet does do is provide a much greater platform from which to throw it out there.
And as for the "hiding behind a screen name" part, I've got an answer for that. Edge, if you're out there somewhere reading this, and you have a problem with my calling you a no-talent douchebag who can barely strum a few chords, my name is Dan Meadows, I live in Chestertown, MD, my email address is linked to at the top of this page. Drop by any time, and I'll be happy to discuss my misgivings about your musical stylings. So much for anonymity.
To sum up, everybody has opinions, some of them well-founded, some off-the-cuff, some just flat out nasty for whatever reason. Putting those opinions in writing isn't necessarily a bad thing, even on a platform as broad and diverse as the internet. People have been doing it for as long as there has been communication. I'm reasonably certain there were Babylonians laying down some smack in cuneiform. But if you're going to criticize, stand by those opinions, don't hide behind a fake name and an IP address. And to do that, it usually helps to have a foundation for those arguments.
I'll make one more, much briefer point about the White interview and its reference to sensationalism. To quote:
"…people take things out of proportion all the time. I'll say something like, 'I don't play video games,' and the headline would read, 'Jack White Hates Video Games.'"
Okay, makes sense. But consider, a goodly portion of this article is a discussion on how the net allows a certain type of cowardice to develop, the harshness of tone that comes with that, and how that contrasts with the positive aspects of it. It was a lengthy and well-developed point of view on a contradictory, and complicated, circumstance. So what's the article's title? "Jack White Doesn't Suffer Internet Cowards Gladly" or, perhaps put more simply, "Jack White Hates The Internet." Interesting, no?
Sea Change: Things Keep Flowing In The Boating Market
A few months ago, I got a phone call from my friend Carolyn Crouch. She told me about a new boating magazine that was coming into being, and asked me if I'd like to write an article for the debut issue about my former boss, Ira Black. It would be the cover story, I was told, and the magazine would be unveiled during the U.S. Powerboat Show in Annapolis in October. I readily agreed, wrote the piece and recently received my copies of the first issue in the mail. As soon as I saw the cover, I had flashbacks. The list of names there was a veritable who's who of people I'd worked with earlier with The Mariner, Nor'easter Magazine or both. There was the cover photo of Ira as he looks today (like he just stepped out of a ZZ Top video), Gary Diamond, Dick Greenwood, Whitey Schmidt, Bob and Pam Appleton, Paul Esterle and Carolyn herself. It was odd, to be honest, but somewhat gratifying to see that some of the things I helped set in motion a decade or so ago were still chugging along, albeit in a different way and under a new banner.
Mid-Atlantic Boating is the name of this new entrant into the boating market. As most people know at this point, the free-distribution portion of the boating publication market has fallen on hard times of late. Page counts, and the ad dollars that go along with it, have plummeted. Some publications, notably Nor'easter itself, have fallen to the wayside, finding Davey Jones' locker earlier this season. For a new magazine to start up in this environment could be called crazy (honestly, that was my first thought). Or it could be perfect timing. Only time will tell on that score.
The new publication is a tab size, something in the neighborhood of 10 " x 12″, and it sports a nice glossy cover. The interior is newsprint, but a little heavier and brighter than the standard variety, giving the publication a nice look, and a not-too-flimsy feel. The debut issue came out to 36 pages, with a reasonable array of advertisers. Not bad at all given that this is the first effort of a brand new magazine, opening at the end of a season in an historically down market. It will be available through bulk deliveries, as all publications in this region of that type are. My understanding is that, provided things go well, Mid Atlantic Boating will be a monthly magazine beginning in 2011. There is a reference to the January issue in the masthead of issue number one, so I take that as a good sign of continued publication.
Which brings me to a point about the wisdom of taking a chance in this market at this particular time. There are generally two ways to look at it. The first is that, because of the current fiscal problems, and significantly slower economic recovery than many people need or expect, it could be better to sit back and let things improve before taking the risk of jumping in. There may be merit to that point. Playing it safe in this day and age has become the mantra of many companies, understandably so. However, as Ira himself used to say, a down market is the perfect time to advertise and build your business because everyone else is sitting on their hands waiting for things to get better. I can attest to the "hurry up and wait" mentality in some of my recent experiences. And being that I've never really been one to sit by and not take a chance when the opportunity presents, it is pretty frustrating.
The second way to look at this is just that; this market, depressed as it currently is at this time, provides the perfect opportunity to make a splash and grow from the ground up as things improve, positioning yourself in a stronger place than the Johnny-come-lately guys who are afraid to take the risks today but try to snatch up the rewards when things are a bit safer. So let's take a quick look at how things stack up competitively.
As I've mentioned before, Nor'easter Magazine is no more, ceasing publication in early July of this year. The Mariner is still in the field (I think–more on that later) but it's in a severely weakened condition. And Prop Talk, the power boating sister publication to the long running sailing journal Spin Sheet, seems to be doing just fine. That leaves a potential opening for someone to step in, given an actual recovery in the boating market sooner than later. As for The Mariner, their case is a perplexing one. (Full disclosure: I was let go as the Editor of The Mariner in march of this year.) Since my involvement with them ended after the March issue, their publication schedule has been a bit erratic. The October issue, which is the final one of 2010, came out to 32 pages. Not exactly gang busters, but that's not the really confusing part. For some reason, the U.S. Powerboat Show wasn't exploited.
To me, having been through about a dozen seasons in the boating market market through the years, the October issue has generally been the most important issue of the year, not to mention traditionally the largest page count wise, and the biggest money maker, all because of its association with the Annapolis powerboat show. In fact, the decision to even print an October issue without using the show as a platform, both for coverage and ad sales, is a bit lost on me. The coverage of the show in the October Mariner amounted to a vague mention on the cover, one paragraph at the end of the editor's column and a short listing in the upcoming events section. That's it. In contrast, Prop Talk gets it, sporting their corresponding issue as the U.S. Powerboat Show Issue, and cranking out a nice 108-page effort. Mid Atlantic Boating gets it, as well, using the show as the springboard for launching their entire enterprise. And according to various reports, The Mariner didn't even have a presence at the show. How does that bode for the future of the publication? I'm not sure.
To be fair, there is a starburst on the cover that touts the next issue being January 6. But not taking advantage of the most obvious sales tactic of the season, and not going to the show at all, makes me wonder. There are currently no salespeople listed in the Mariner staff, and a good friend of mine who was handling all of the ad design for the publication was given the, "we don't need you anymore," speech immediately following the October issue's completion, much as I was given after wrapping up the March issue. There may, in fact, be a January Mariner, but if I'm looking at this from a competitive standpoint, I'm encouraged. With Nor'easter already gone, The Mariner possibly following suit, or at least needing a significant change in effort to become a player again, someone like Mid Atlantic Boating could sneak in and give Prop Talk a run for its money. After all, they've only produced one issue and they are already in a better position than The Mariner heading into 2011. Maybe the idea isn't so crazy, after all.
As it stands now, no one really knows what kind of market the boating industry will see next year. There are a lot of hopes, and the only thing that is certain is that all of those won't be fulfilled. But it is nice to see someone taking a chance on something for a change. If nothing else, that alone may be a harbinger of positive things to come for all of us. If one company is willing to take a risk and put its money where its mouth is, can others possibly be far behind? That's how recoveries get started.
Talkin' Post Election Day Politics
So, being as yesterday was election day, I figure it's a good time to talk a little politics. On the National level, as expected, the Republicans gained massive ground on the formerly Democrat-controlled Congress. The GOP now has a significant majority in the House of Representatives, and the Dems still maintain a hair-thin majority in the Senate. With a Democrat in the White House, this is a recipe for gridlock for the next two years. To this I say, "Right on!"
As I get older, the more I see very few actual differences between the parties. To me, it's a six of one, half a dozen of the other type deal. To be certain, on various issues, there are vast differences between the two sides, but is one really better than the other? Pick your poison isn't exactly what the founding fathers had in mind, I don't believe, yet that is consistently the choice we're faced with at the ballot box every year. A split government that can't agree on a lunch order, let alone far-reaching legislation is the best of all possible worlds in my mind. The less they can intrude, the better off we all are.
The best economic period in my working lifetime was during the Clinton administration when we had some of the worst Federal-level gridlock on record. It's not lost on me that the prosperity that occurred then happened with little influence or intrusion from government. Since then, we've had a Republican controlled Federal government under George W. Bush, and we all know how well that worked out, and we've spent the past two years under a Democrat-controlled Federal government, and that, truthfully, hasn't been any better. In fact, a lot of people are of the opinion that it has actually been worse. The two lynch-pin "accomplishments" of the Obama administration are, in fact, massive failures that look a lot like big business, pro-corporate decisions that the GOP are frequently ripped for. The Trillion dollar bank bailout hasn't achieved anything but allowing the very financial institutions that screwed us all to save their own bacon on the taxpayer's dime, and the universal health care plan essentially amounts to forcibly throwing big chunks of our money, under penalty of law, at an insurance industry that, again, is a major part of the problem with health care costs. Not exactly what I would call positive developments for the little guy, unless you're defining "little" as seven- or eight- figure corporate CEOs.
My point here being that Federal level gridlock isn't only not a bad thing, it may well be the best possible thing that could happen to us at the moment. A genuine economic recovery in this country will not happen because of government assistance. In fact, much like the recovery from the Great Depression in the 1930s, the more government gets involved, the longer any recovery will take to happen. We, as individual citizens, are what makes the economic engine of this country tick. It's not the government, it's not the corporations, it's not the banks; it is us and only us. And the less interference we have from legislators, the quicker it will occur. The only problem here is that there is another election in two years and, as things look right now, there is a distinct possibility of one-party control over both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Let's not make that mistake again. We should make it a general rule to never, and I repeat, never allow Congress and the White House to be controlled by the same party again. Only catastrophe results from that. In-fighting, political mudslinging and gridlock are good things for this country as it means our elected representatives have less time and ability to pass endless legislation that only serves the ends of the people paying their bills–the lobbyists, campaign contributors and their own political parties. Always vote No for one-party control.
Which brings me to the local level. Local politics are a very different animal from the National level, primarily because of the fact that you are far more likely to get actual people running for office that truly believe in what they are doing, as opposed to career politicians that essentially are shills for their parties. Certainly, you get some of those, locally, too, but they are generally ladder-climbers who won't be in local office very long anyway, always looking for the next best office to run for. But there are, at least, a few people out there locally worth voting for in any given election. Having only recently moved to Kent County from Cecil County, I'm not totally up on the political maneuverings down here as yet. But I feel obligated to comment on something from my former county.
I was sad to see that it looks like Cecil actually passed charter government this time around, after nearly 40 years and five previous efforts. One of my main reasons for relocating away from Cecil was the increasing size and cost of government, and the tax burden to go with it. Charter government will essentially convert the county from a five-commissioner system to one with a County Executive and a 12-member board. There is simply no way that this isn't going to become a massively more expensive proposition. If you all in Cecil think your property taxes are high now, just wait till this system is in place. And we all know how smoothly and efficiently boards of directors operate, right? This is a nightmare waiting to happen. I wonder sometimes, exactly what voters are thinking when they pass things like this, but then it dawns on me. Cecil has become a bedroom community that's future is largely being determined by people who have just moved there in the past decade or so. I doubt there's any real way to find out, but I'd be willing to bet that long-time Cecil residents of two-decades or more were likely against this, with the relative new-comers putting the initiative over the top. But whatever system of government is in place, the problems with Cecil go far beyond any particular structure.
Cecil is a bedroom community. The job base is not where it needs to be and is shrinking. There is very little manufacturing base. The sales tax, perched as it is right beside tax-free Delaware, will forever limit any significant growth in retail business, and most of the residents here collect paychecks from some other place they commute to. And on top of that, regulations make it prohibitive for small businesses, and extremely difficult to get through the first few years as a new company. That means that the only ways to raise money here are basically the property tax and the local income tax, both of which take advantage of essentially a captive audience. I'm not exactly sure how to fix this without major changes in regulations and a serious slashing of tax rates across the board, and that is simply not going to happen, especially not in this environment. Charter government is going to be a much more expensive and convoluted system that will, ultimately, make it more difficult for the average citizen to stay abreast of what their representatives are up to. But, hey, that's what free elections are all about. Everyone is free to make their own mistakes. And this one may turn out to be a whopper.
A Few More Pics from Sunday in Chestertown
On Halloween, Sunday, Oct. 31, the ships were offering deck tours, as well as trick or treating for kids in costume. This slideshow of pictures were taken during my tour of the vessels.
The Yacht Elf and the Return of Gentlemen's Racing to the Bay
Walking around the docks in Chestertown this past weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to run across the Elf, the oldest small yacht in the country. She was originally built in 1888, and was recently completely restored by Rick Carrion and the Classic Yacht Restoration Guild (CYRG), who, coincidentally, was one of my teachers in high school. I hadn't seen the yacht since her restoration was completed and she was releaunched. In fact, the last time I saw her, she was still in relative pieces in Carrion's barn in Earleville, MD. It was nice to see the 30-ft. vessel finished and in the water for a change.
Over the years, I had written a few articles for both The Mariner and Nor'easter Magazine about the yacht and the effort to restore her. I even attended a benefit crab feast for the CYRG one year that featured what still are the tastiest crabs I've ever picked, right out of the Bohemia River. I spent some time catching up with Carrion, docked as the Elf was right beside the Kalmar Nyckel, making her actually look tiny in comparison. Of course, the dock itself looked tiny with the 140-ft. long, 100-ft. tall vessel parked there. He told me about the next big thing involving the Elf now that she's had a couple years in the water under her belt; a recreation of the Gentlemen's Yacht Races of the 1880s, the era in which she was originally launched.
It's going to be called The Elf Classic, and is scheduled to go off on May 21, 2011. The race will travel from the Eastport Yacht Club to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels. According to Carrion, the race will not be a simple, line the boats up at a starting point and go kinda thing. It will begin on shore, with the boats at anchor. Competitors will row from shore to their waiting vessels, make sail for the destination, anchor and row back ashore to the finish line. The finish for the race will actually be a signature on the race log at the Tolchester Bandstand on the museum grounds. A true throwback to the way things used to be.
Anyway, Carrion and the CYRG are looking for yachts to take part and sponsors to help support the event, the Elf and the museum. If anyone out there is interested, you can visit the Guild's website here, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Barefoot KY Radio on WLXU 93.9 LP FM Lexington Community Radio - Aisley Stuebs, Cody Morgan and Wesley Saylor - Part I 060318
Barefoot KY Radio
June 03 and June 10, 2018 for Part II
Podcast #64
Broadcast #45 for Lexington Community Radio
Hosted by Carolyn Burnette
If you have original music, and its of good recording quality, and would like to submit it for consideration to be heard on our podcast, then for more information go to Soundoflexington.com and look under the radio tab. More information coming soon.
Our special guests in house today are Aisley Steubs and the duo Collide with Wesley Saylor and Cody Morgan along with BLUbeard, Actor Billy Crank and Carolb hosting.
Starting off our show is some indie music from Kentucky and beyond.
1. Tom Boone and the Back Porch Pickers / My Back Yard / Louisville, KY
2. The Local Honey's / King Coal / Morehead, KY
3. Michael Jonathon / Mousie Highway / Lexington, KY
4. Dixie Jack / Colder Now / Nottingham
Interview and music with special guetss Aisley Stuebs and also the group Collide, that's Cody Morgan and Wesley Saylor
5. Aisley Stuebs / Soar / Lexington, KY
6. Aisley Stuyebs / Light Years / Lexington, KY
7. Collide / Jupiter / Cody Morgan and Wesley Saylor / Lexington, KY
8. Collide / Share the Pain / Wesley Saylor and Cody Morgan / Lexington, KY
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Today we glad to introduce our regular echoguest and participant - Arktor. Living in Krasnoyarsk, Dima transmits ambient reality of mountain landscape through his music. And from these records it blows cold. It was a long time ago since Arktor (not as Arktor but under other various nicknames) was a hip-hop boy and sometimes rapped. Now there is no longer almost nothing from this music.
Title of album taken from Clans of the Alphane Moon a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick.
"The Deps are suffering from clinical depression. Their representative to the supreme council is Dino Watters and the name of their town is Cotton Mather Estates, where they live "in endless dark gloom."
Cold and darkness - most appropriate definitions for the album. But all the sound on the album sounds warm and lightly saturated (sometimes not lightly but heavily), and will certainly please those who prefer a warm tube sound :) Also this is first album which Arktor produce selfishly.
Arktor: " As for me not that much of a music depression actually. Just like how it sounds. I use tag "drowntempo" to describe my last works."