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Flash: Court Upholds Decision in Favor of BUSD Student Assignment Plan
Berkeley Unified School District earned another legal victory Tuesday for its student placement plan.
The California Court of Appeal upheld an earlier Alameda County Superior Court ruling that the plan is fair and legal.
In October 2006, the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative Sacramento-based public interest litigation firm, sued Berkeley Unified for violating California's Propostion 209 by racially discriminating among students in placing them at elementary schools and in programs at Berkeley High School.
After the Alameda County Superior Court ruled in favor of the plan in April 2007, the foundation appealed on behalf of the American Civil Rights Foundation. In March 2008, the foundation asked the California Court of Appeal to review the decision affirming Berkeley's "use of race as a factor to determine where students are assigned to public schools and to determine whether they gain access to special educational programs."
On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal ruled that because the district assigned kids to schools based on neighborhood demographics, and not specifically because of any individual student's race, the school district is not in violation of Prop. 209's prohibition on the use of race in public education.
In a statement sent out by Alan Foutz, lead attorney for the case, Pacific Legal Foundation said that the "district uses race as a factor in classifying the level of 'diversity' in neighborhoods, and uses that classification as a key factor to determine where kids go to school."
"The court has carved a big hole in Proposition 209 by permitting school districts to use race as one of the factors that determine where kids will go to school," Foutz said in his statement. "Prop. 209 is comprehensive and categorical in banning the use of race in student assignment. The court has undermined that mandate for colorblind educational policy, by allowing districts to continue using race in its student assignment decisions."
Berkeley Unified School District spokesperson Mark Coplan said the district was delighted with the news.
"We just heard from our lawyers and are really happy," he said.
District Superintendent Bill Huyett did not return calls for comment immediately.


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The sparse poetry of classic country music is rooted in its folk-accented one forms, arrangements and instrumentation.
The sparse poetry of classic country music is rooted in its folk-accented one forms, arrangements and instrumentation.
National Standards: 1-3, 5-7, 9, 11
Have the class read Techniques: Country Music (page 2 of the student edition). The article uses four examples (song form, arrangement, lead instruments, and instrumentals) to illustrate the central elements of this American genre.
Key points in the article:
- Country music is derived from folk, gospel and blues from the early 20th century
- From rural beginnings, the genre has evolved into one of the biggest forces in American music, even helping some artists cross over into pop
- The 16-measure melody of "Can the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a I-IV-V (1-4-5) chord progression that many modern country songs are based on.
- Country music's most recognizable elements are its vocals and acoustic guitar, in addition to fiddle and electric and pedal steel guitars.
- Another common aspect of country music are the intros, outros, and fills that come from a fiddle or guitar.
- Branches of country music, bluegrass and western, traditionally cycle through chord progressions quickly, outlined by a melody.
Example 1
Play "Can the Circle Be Unbroken?" by the Carter family
- Ask students to raise their hand when they hear a change in the chord progression
Now play "I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash
- Ask students to raise their hand when they hear a change in the chord progression
- What similarities can you find between the two songs? What makes them sound similar?
Example 2
Play Hank Williams' "Your Cold, Cold Heart"
- While they listen, ask students to pay close attention to the bass line, as well as the acoustic guitar and when it strums.
Now play Example 3 and Example 4 on a piano (if available)
- Ask students what characteristics of the melodies make them sound "country"
After you've played it on the piano, play Tony Rice on "Blackberry Blossom," asking students to listen for the quick chord changes.


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Book of Saints – Valeria – 28 April
(Saint) Martyr (April 28) (1st century) The wife of Saint Vitalis and mother of Saints Gervase and Protase. They were among the first converts to Christianity in the city of Milan. They were taken to Ravenna, where Valeria, after her husband and children had laid down their lives for Christ, worn out by suffering, died in prison.
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On Sept. 16 and 17, Camp Casey will be overrun with vibrant colors and displays of creativity as hundreds of kites take to the sky.
But for the Whidbey Island Kite Fliers, this isn't a once-a-year sight. They fly their kites as a group every month, showing off their newest hand-made creations and practicing coordinated team flying.
Labor Day was no different, as the kite aficionados geared up for the Whidbey Island Kite Festival, which is set to take over Coupeville in two weeks.
"The thing about the kite festival is the colors and the imagination that is put into some of the kites," Lisa Root, festival chairwoman, said. "Seeing hundreds of beautiful kites dominating the sky is just incredible."
Whidbey Island Kite Festival is a combination of a family-friendly community flying event and a sport kite competition that attracts people from far and wide. An annual event in Coupeville since the late 90s, according to Root, the festival brings out "about 1,500 people that come and go each day, at least." Most of those people bring their kites to fly, whether purchased or handmade, although some arrive to simply witness the vibrant display of human creativity over a picnic.
With the backdrop of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, it's a colorful sight.
The festival features a plethora of events. One facet of the festival is the sport kite league, where the competing fliers butt heads in sporting categories such as precision and ballet; kites must fly in a certain way to score points and fly to music, respectively. Members of Whidbey Island Kite Fliers compare ballet to figure skating, and say competitive kite fliers prepare for them like an athlete would for a competition.
There are also team competitions, where kite fliers stand shoulder to shoulder and direct their kites in a coordinated manner. On Monday, a group from Whidbey Island Kite Fliers could be seen directing their kites in unison, similar to the movements seen in synchronized swimming. As one kite flier gave directions to move left, right and turn, the others followed suit.
It was like clockwork.
According to group member Steve Dutcher of Oak Harbor, the group flying is where people test their mettle.
"You don't really get good until you fly with other people, because you have to keep an eye on other kites that are close by," Dutcher said. "Plus, for me it's all about flying together. Together, everyone here has become masters and I can hardly keep up with them."
For those not looking to compete, the Whidbey Island Kite Festival has a number of other events. The Whidbey Island Kite Fliers put on kite-making sessions for both kids and adults, as the members of the group all dabble in their own kite-making, designing simplistic crafts to intricate ones with multiple moving parts that sway in the wind. There is also a competition for kids to test their strength, where the object is to run with a kite against the wind.
Root says the most popular event tends to be the annual teddy bear drop at 1 p.m. on both days, where a kite drops a stuffed animal dangling on a parachute to a swarm of eager kids battling to snag it from the sky.
For those hoping to snap a postcard picture, Root says the festival has a mass ascension at noon on both days, where most who are present will take to the sky at once.
"With the best wind on the island, a large field and the view of the mountains behind the Sound, it's an amazing sight," Root said. "Knowing the hours people dedicated to making their kites and practicing their flying make it even better."


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Microsoft support and the BSOD
I was on a call to Microsoft support today for an issue with Communication server 2007. During the initial steps of the support call when the technician was trying to setup the Easy Assist session, his computer started a memory dump with a BSOD. He had to jump to another machine while rebooting the now inoperable computer. He apologized politely, but it was no big thing for me, I actually got a kick out of it. It also helped that the Guy (Hi Patrick), was a BSG fan and we chatted a little about the upcoming Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica…
FIOS customers – better DNS solution
If you have Verizon FIOS, and haven't already customized your router to use better DNS Servers, do yourself a favor and do so asap. By default Verizon uses "DNS assistance" on their *.*.*.12 DNS servers. Set your router to use custom DNS servers and change the ending .12 to a .14. Alternatively, using any of the other official Verizon DNS Servers in the range of 18.104.22.168 through 22.214.171.124 is also a good bet.
If you don't customize your DNS, the Verizon DNS assistance configuration can potentially cause issues for Tech Savy users who do VPN, host monitoring, etc. You are also helping Verizon make more money by being served ads on their DNS assistance page.
I came across this help link on the Verizon website that will guide you through changing your router config to optomize your DNS settings…
Black logon screen for Server 2003
This is the first time I've run across this issue, but what was happening is I'd see a black screen both through RDP and from the actual server console. You could see a little bit of the windows logon box, but it was cut off where the username and password fields would be. If you can fumble your way through the logon screen you'd be able to logon but everything was still black, the only color you'd see would be in the desktop icons. This makes it virtually impossible to do anything on the server. This situation does not cause a work stoppage, as all the background services ran fine, you just can't logon and do anything.
So I started searching around and ultimately ran across a MS KB article 906510. I'll paste in the information below, but the KB said it was an issue with the color scheme, and the registry values were all set to "0". At least that is whats listed as the cause of the black screen symptom, but it does not offer an explanation of what would cause the numbers to get set to "0" in the first place.
To resolve this I had to do the following: (NOTE: the drive mapping step was only needed for my solution as the server was not on the domain and not using internal DNS, so I could not authenticate on the domain).
1. Map a drive from another network machine to this server using local admin credentials.
2. Open regedit and connect remote registry to the server in question. (this will not work unless you map the drive first – see above note)
3. Use an export from a working server of the registry key noted in the MS KB and import that into the remote server.
4. Attempt logon through RDP or at the console, the color issue should be resolved.
I wish I knew what caused this issue, but I can't find much as to the actual cause. I heard talk that maybe it was a disk space issue, but my server had 10GB of free space, so that wasn't it. Hope this information helps someone in the future.
Help and Support service missing in Server 2003
I ran into a situation in which the Help and Support service in server 2003 dissappeared. I had no idea why, and for a long time left it alone. I then did some digging and found a KB article from Microsoft describing how to re-install the service. Follow these instructions (taken from MS KB article 937055):
To resolve this problem, reinstall the Help and Support service. To do this, follow these steps:
|Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK.
|At the command prompt, locate the following folder:
|At the command prompt, type the following commands, and then press ENTER after each command:
Terminal server – strange behavior
Something really strange just happened, and I can't explain it. Yesterday I was trying to install Terminal Services on a Widnows 2003 server. I went through the normal install routine, and set my options and everything installed ok. But when I went to view the configuration, it was set to Remote administration mode, and did not prompt me for this before install. I was also trying to install Citrix and couldn't get past the first part of the installer because it detected TS wasn't in application mode. I tried uninstalling and re-installing and nothing helped.
Here is the weird part, this morning when I tried doing the same thing, uninstalling and re-installing, this time it worked fine. I don't even see a mode option in the configuration now and the Citrix setup is allowing me to proceed. I didn't do anything differently this time, same options and same license server, but this time it worked. I have no idea why, but I'm not complaining, I just hate coming across things like this that don't make sense and I can't explain what happened.
Goodlink 5 deployment issue
I have been working on deploying multiple Goodlink 5 messaging servers recently, and came across a problem with the user migration feature in Goodlink 5. Normally if you have more than one Good messaging server, you have the option to "change good messaging server" when you right-click on a user account. So in my deployment when I didn't see this option enabled, I had to call Goodlink support. What I found out made sense, but is definately irritating.
I called Goodlink support before deploying Goodlink version 5 to ask about deployment options and get some advice on my project. I asked about the user migration feature and using multiple GoodAdmin mailboxes, and was told that it should work fine. Now here is where the issue comes in. In my deployment scenario, I wanted to deploy multiple individual Goodlink 5 servers in various locations/offices around the world. The limitation here is network bandwidth and latency, due to the fact that the offices getting these Goodlink 5 servers are spread across the globe on various speed networks, and some of the offices in Asia for example, have very high network latency and bandwidth is limited. To help with this situation, I asked if it would be advisable to use multiple GoodAdmin mailboxes, one for each new Goodlink 5 server, that way, each location that got a Goodlink 5 server and had a local Exchange server, would get its own GoodAdmin mailbox homed on the local Exchange server. This would increase performance, reduce the time it takes to re-connect all the mailboxes in the event of a reboot, and provided a better solution for my deployment project.
When you use a single consolidated GoodAdmin mailbox, and you have more than one Goodlink server which is connected to the network on a low bandwidth link or one that has high latency, it is a good idea to have separate GoodAdmin mailboxes, to keep network traffic local to the office in question. Its faster, more reliable, and if the central Exchange server that houses the consolidated GoodAdmin mailbox were to go down, all your Good Messaging servers would be rendered useless until the Exchange server is back online and the GoodAdmin mailbox is available again.
So my scenario of using more than a single consolidated GoodAdmin mailbox was a good idea, still works well and does help with performance and all the other reasons I mentioned above. The drawback is that in this configuration, from within the Good Messaging console, you only see the server you are connected to under the "Good messaging servers" folder. This also means that the "change good messaging server" option is grayed out and unavailable. The fact is that the GoodAdmin mailbox is what keeps track of how many servers you have, but they all have to be configured to use the same GoodAdmin mailbox in order for the server to "know" about the other Good Messaging servers you have in your network. This basically means that the user migration option is not going to work for us.
This is not a problem, its just an inconvenience. And it would have been nice to have known this initially when I talked with Good support eariler. Lately no matter what company I deal with, I usually end up getting conflicting information about their products and features based on who you talk to. The first time I call and get info on something, I hear one thing, then when I am working on the deployment and have a question or problem and call back, I hear something completely different. This is irritating and can cause some major problems for large projects.
Phone number normalization in OCS 2007
I ran into this issue with OCS 2007 and thought it might come in handy for someone in the future. Lets say you deploy OCS 2007 in your environment, and in AD you use the phone number field for the office ext, and you want to keep that format. Lets also assume you are noticing that if you use this configuration you end up with warnings in communicator saying it cannot synchronize the addressbook. When you check the event log on your OCS server you see errors and warnings about the addressbook server. You won't find a service for this component (at least I couldn't find it), it appears to be built-in to the OCS server software. You also find a list of invalid AD phone numbers in your C:Program FilesMicrosoft Office Communications Server 2007Web ComponentsAddress Book FilesFiles directory.
So how can you keep your internal extensions in their current format and still communicator without having to see the annoying addressbook warning. Its not simple, but the fix is not too complex to impliment. Here is what to do. This assumes that you use a format such as "x 5555" for your extensions in AD for the users in the phone number field.
First, in the OCS 2007 console, right click on the forest, and go to properties, then select voice properties. Next, click the "Add" button to setup a new default location profile. Give it a name and a description. Next, under "Normalization Rules" click the "Add" button. Give this a name also and a description. Under translation, enter "^(x|X|x |X )" without the quotes in the "Phone pattern regular expression" box. In the next box, enter "$`" Thats a dollar sign, immediately followed by the key to the left of the number one key on the top number row of your keyboard. To test this, enter an extension in the same format as you use in AD in the "sample dialed number:" box. If it works you should see the resulting number in the format you want in the bottom text box.
Save you changes by clicking "ok" until you are back at the console screen. Then you just need to issue some commands on the server to update the address list, which are listed below: (NOTE: CD To the directory of your abserver.exe location)
Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
Type net start abserver, and then press ENTER.
Type abserver.exe –regenUR, and then press ENTER.
Type abserver.exe –syncNow, and then press ENTER.
Exit and re-start communciator on your PC/laptop and it should now load with no errors or warnings and you will now see your extensions listed.
RPC over HTTP(S) for Exchange 2003 – single server
I'm pleased to announce that I'm now able to access my exchange mailbox from anywhere in the world using RPC over HTTP(s). This was a lot easier to setup than I thought it would be, and following the steps provided by Daniel Petri helped a lot! I also utilized the RPCFrontend tool that he mentions in the link. This made things very easy and I got it working the first time I attempted the configuration.
What this means is that I can now access my mailbox on my Exchange server, from anywhere with the only requirement being an internet connection. I can just open Outlook, and go straight to my mailbox as if I were on my home network. I highly recommend this for anyone with Exchange servers, it makes remote connectivity so much easier and can be fully secured with SSL and other security options.
What no one ever tells you about cluster hardware redundancy
I was recently reminded about this, so I thought I'd post about it and share the knowledge. I use mostly HP hardware, so in this setup, lets say we have two HP DL585 servers for use in a Windows cluster. I also have dual fibre channel interfaces in each server. Externally lets say we have two separate fibre channel switches. For storage, its an MSA1500 external fibre channel SAN with over 1TB of RAID storage, partitioned for use in a cluster. The MSA1500 has dual controllers and each controller has its own fibre chennel interface.
To connect it all together, each server connects one of its two fibre channel interfaces to one physical SAN Switch. The MSA1500 SAN controllers each get connected to a separate physical SAN switch. The goal here is to optomize hardware redundancy and make this configuration as fault tolerant as possible. But here is where the issue comes in.
No one tells you that you need special software running on each node of the cluster to handle the hardware redundancy. If you don't have this software in place, what you will find is that Windows will see two SAN storage arrays. One of them will be inaccessible since you can only have one physical connection active. I had to call HP support and go through several explanations of what I was trying to accomplish with all the hardware redundance before I was told about the software I needed. Its called MultiIO or "Multi Path IO". If you do a search on the HP support website, you will find HP MPIO Basic (there are two versions, basic is fine for most people). Download this software and install on each node and amazingly you will find that things work much better. From the documentation I saw, there is no indication of needing this software, but in this kind of highly resiliant configuration it is necessary to use MPIO to control the hardware redundancy.
Ran into issue with LCS 2005 and OCS 2007
LCS 2005 (Enterprise Edition) is installed on a single server with SQL 2005 server for the backend database. ?There is no warning or indication that this would cause any problem and up until now it?hasn't.? The software does allow for this type of deployment and works fine in this configuration.? OCS 2007 server was recently installed and configured.? During initial testing it was observed that users on the 2005 LCS server could not see presence data and communicate with users on the OCS 2007 server (and vice-versa).??After searching online for solutions it was found that there are two critical hotfixes for LCS 2005 that were said to correct this issue.?
Installing the hotfixes:
Following the instructions on the first hotfix documentation, I installed hotfix 911996.? The installer completed successfully and there was no indication of a problem.? Next I installed the second hotfix 921543, again the installer ran successfully and there was no indication of a problem.? I then checked the services for LCS and found that the LCS Server services would start, but then stop on its own with an error:
Event ID: 12299
Source: Live Communications Server
Details: The service is shutting down due to an internal error.
Error Code: 0xC3EE78F8.
The hotfix documentation mentioned this error as a possibility if you install the patch on the front-end server before the backend patch is installed.? However, since this was a single server deployment with both the back-end database and front-end server components on the same physical server, the hotfix only installed the update for the front-end components.? Again, there is no documentation saying this is not a supported configuration and the installer will gladly allow you do install both components together without a problem in the LCS 2005 setup.? (NOTE: OCS 2007 server prevents this configuration in the installer and will not install both components on the same box when using Enterprise Edition).? There is also no warning in the hotfix documentation not to install the update if you have both components on the same physical box.?
For a resolution, I called Microsoft support services ticket number SRX080212602272 and spoke to an afterhours support specialist.? After some initial troubleshooting and research the technician was able to review a similar case they had a few months ago.? He attempted the resolution listed in their issue history which did ultimately fix the issue.? To resolve, a string value must be deleted from the LCS 2005 registry branch (HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftReal-Time Communications{Your GUID}.? This key "role=EE" ?had to be deleted from the registry in order for the hotfix to install on the back-end database.? Once this was done, the LCS 2005 server service started successfully and we tested connectivity with a test account to verify that the server was working normally.? Basically this tricks the installer into thinking that the server is the backend database only, and it will allow the hotfix to install the back-end components.?
This issue could have been avoided completely if Microsoft had updated their documentation for the hotfix, especially since they had issues with this months ago and should have updated the documentation.? I am recommending to the technical support manager that the documentation be updated since this is a known issue and others have experienced the same problem.? Hopefully this will get done and prevent others from having the same issue.?
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, located inside East Fort in the City of Thiruvananthapuram, is a temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu. The temple has an awe-inspiring structure that has a 100-feet high 'gopuram' or 'tower' built in a blend of the Kerala and Dravidian styles of architecture. A magnificent array of gods, goddesses, nymphs, sprites, and demons adorn the seven-storey 'gopuram' that forms the temple tower. The temple has a corridor with 365 one-quarter sculptured granite-stone pillars with elaborate carvings. Every pillar has the figure of a girl bearing a lamp in the palms of her hands joined together and raised above the waist. Also one can see many mural paintings in the temple corridor. The temple stands by the side of a tank (seen in the snap), named Padma Theertham (meaning the lotus spring).
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the main architectural landmark of Thiruvananthapuram. The city derives its name from the presiding deity, Lord Padmanabha, who reclines on the "Anantha" (which is the name of the serpent he reclines on) in a conscious slumber. This Mahakshetra (greatest of temples) is one of the 108 divya kshetrams in the country.
Outside the temple courtyard, there is a medley of shops that sell souvenirs, handicrafts, woodcarvings, and handiwork of sandal.
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
The Red Cross Saved My Marriage
We were arguing over whether it should matter what the Red Cross/Red Crescent should look like when it is on a mission to help save lives. In a nutshell, I said the emblem shouldn't have religious history, and Stagg said it wasn't a religious symbol, and it shouldn't matter if it is a religious icon.
On January 14, 2007, the Geneva conventions listed the Red Chrystal as a third emblem for the health organization. Whew, peace in the homefront!
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Mr. Anchovy & I once had a billowy argument in the house of croisants. It was about the movie the Fly. We ate and argued well that night.
hope you guys are well!
- 11:15 PM, March 22, 2007
- Stagg said...
Hi Tuffy P, we are great! We had a friend in from out of town and got all tired out running around...and jsut doing a lot at home. Did you chekc out the photos I put at Stagg's place tonight?
It's weird what you can get worked up about huh? I laughed about fighting over the Fly...although, see, thats just how controversial Cronenberg is...and Healing Room said she has friends who had a blow out fight about Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
We have had some great laughs about our discussion/argument about the Red Cross/Red Crescent we were hell bent on convincing each other of our perspectives...and then just got worn out. In January we were like yeah! The red cross saved us!!!
- 11:51 PM, March 22, 2007
oops...that was me, I forgot to log out of Stagg's blog posting photos there...
- 11:52 PM, March 22, 2007
- Karen said...
So....if I'm in a war zone anywhere in the world and I see some sort of red symbol on a white background, I should head there? I knew about the crescent and the cross but now there's a crystal? Why????
- 6:20 AM, March 23, 2007
- Candy Minx said...
Karen, there is a crystal so that Stagg and I can be happy :)
- 12:16 PM, March 23, 2007
- Red said...
I would say that of course they are religious icons -- certainly I have always thoguht of them that way (well, not always, but since finding out that there is a Red Crescent in addition to a Red Cross).
But that's nice subject for a three-hour fight! Very clever and you even had to google stuff! We argue about cooking and cleaning behind the toilet and mundane stuff like that. Bah.
- 1:18 PM, March 23, 2007
- Candy Minx said...
Ha ha Red, that is funny. Well, we haven't really had an argument like that since that one...it was exhausting and also we learned a lot about how we look at arguing I must say. We really realized how long we were at it, and said, my god. We better just let this oen go.
Yes, both the crescent and the cross are from religious icons. The idea of first aid and charity was associated with religion, right? I think it's incredibly valid and important that the new image, the crystal is more secular. Can you imagine being wounded ina religious war and the enemies religious icon comes to fix the wounded? True, I would take the help for medical attention...but this bodes a new acknowledgement that perhaps religion should be set aside for battles? Or since we are actually fighting over resources...well lets face it...instead of sharing resources with each other al around the world: we are fighting over them. Too bad we're such stupid animals and we don't just leap to resource sharing and let go of the fight?
- 1:36 PM, March 23, 2007
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Phaedra Cook is eating her way through Houston and counting down her 100 favorite dishes of 2015. It's a collection of personal favorites that is also indicative of Houston dining. It's a scene where a vast range of dishes coexist: highbrow and lowbrow; local and international; cheap and expensive; modern cuisine and beloved tenets — and everything in between.
Kris Bistro is Houston's best-hidden French restaurant. If you didn't know it was there, you'd never find it. The fine-dining place is located inside of Culinary Institute LeNôtre, the respected French culinary school. On the outside the structure looks like a rather plain office building, but Kris Bistro itself, all done up in wood, glass and big hanging lights with red shades, is quite nice.
Students have opportunities to work here and hone their skills, and one skill they might pick up is how to make charcuterie. The restaurant's namesake, chef Kris Jakob, has long maintained an in-house program that produces dense, smoky strips of duck pastrami, cured hams, coppa, salami and other dried sausages.
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The offerings change from time to time depending on which meats have aged long enough and are ready to serve, other than the duck pastrami and ham, which are always available. When they do, they might arrive on a big wheeled cart specially made to hold a whole ham in place so it can be cut into paper-thin slices on demand. Or the meat may be brought to the table clipped onto a small rack.
Since it's part of a school and is itself a learning facility, the prices at Kris Bistro tend to be very competitive, too. The Charcuteries Maison costs $15 for a few slices each of four different meats. Be sure to check the reasonable beer and wine list for something appropriate to drink alongside.
The List of Top 100 Dishes of 2015 So Far:
No. 50, Cauliflower Steak at Backstreet Cafe
No. 51, Telur Balado at Rice Bowl II
No. 52, Green Curry at Asia Market Restaurant
No. 53, Foie Gras Breakfast at Triniti
No. 54, Korean Fried Chicken at ToreOre at Super H Mart
No. 55, Bulgogi Bibimbap at BiBiJo Express at Super H Mart
No. 56, Vegetable Plate at Hugo's
No. 57, The Cured Plate at Revival Market
No. 58, Simply Grilled Fish at Ibiza
No. 59, Tonkotsu Black Ramen at JINYA Houston
No. 60, The Rancor Burger at The Petrol Station
No. 61, Heritage Sampler Platter at Rudi Lechner's
No. 62, Oxtails at Le' Pam's House Of Creole
No. 63, The 420 Slice at Pi Pizza Truck
No. 64, Frenchy's Fried Chicken On Scott Street
No. 65, 3 Pig Mac & Cheese at Urban Eats
No. 66, Pucchia Pugliese Foggia at Sud Italia
No. 67, Triple-Smoked Pastrami On Rye At Kenny & Ziggy's
No. 68, Fume Pizza at Pizaro's Pizza Napoletana
No. 69, Banh Mi Thap Cam at Café TH
No. 70, Caramelized Onion Soup at Mockingbird Bistro
No. 71, Milk Chocolate Stout Malt at Fat Cat Creamery
No. 72, Pork Ribs at Roegels Barbecue Co.
No. 73, Carrot Pizza at Weights + Measures
No. 74, Jalisco Wings at El Big Bad
No. 75, Mussels at Cafe Brussels
No. 76, Cresta di Gallo at The Pass & Provisions
No. 77, Beef Fajitas at El Real Tex-Mex
No. 78, Chicken Tikka Masala from the Tandoori Nite truck
No. 79, Chocolates at Cacao & Cardamom
No, 80, Hummus Supreme at Al's Quick Stop
No. 81, Red Oil Dumplings at Mala Sichuan
No. 82, Tex-Cajun Fries at BB's Café
No. 83, Mac & Cheese at The Oceanaire Seafood Room
No. 84, The Principal Burger at Bernie's Burger Bus
No. 85, Hunter's Honey-Roasted Duck at Brennan's Of Houston
No. 86, Fish & Chips at Good Dog Houston
No. 87, Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit at Blacksmith
No. 88, "Saucy Balls" At Brooklyn Meatball Company
No. 89, Perry's Steakhouse/Perry & Sons Pork Chop
No. 90, General Tso's Chicken from The Rice Box
No. 91, Eggs, Refried Beans, Hash Browns and Hugo's Sauce at 59 Diner
No. 92, Shipley Do-Nuts Plain Glazed
No. 93, Housemade Bologney at Public Services Wine & Whisky
No. 94, Bo Luc Lac at Cheno's (formerly Chino's) Fast Food
No. 95, Combo #5 at Soto's Cantina
No. 96, Carnitas Salad At Chipotle
No. 97, Pickled Shrimp At Punk's Simple Southern Food
No. 98, Lobster Roll At Maine-Ly Sandwiches
No. 99, Chili-Cheese Coneys At JCI Grill
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As you may remember I've been putting together a camping kit for my two nephews who don't spend a lot of time in the wilderness. The boys not getting any dirt time has been weighing heavy on my mind, but instead of letting it get me down I decided to take action and do something about it.
This past weekend my youngest nephew told me he was heading to boy scout camp and that he didn't have everything he needed, so I decided to give him his kit early. (I was waiting for his birthday in early May to give it to him.) Last weekend I had a friend come over with his kid and and his son's friend – both 12 – and my nephew who is almost 11. The idea was to test out the cold weather tent I'd just bought, but in reality it was a chance to give my nephew his gear.
Man, I couldn't have been more surprised at his reaction! As I pulled stuff out of the pack: knife, canteen with cover and cup, firesteel, cozy, stove, compass, head lamp, poncho, etc, his eyes kept getting bigger and bigger. He kept asking, "Is this for me? Is that mine?" I'd smile and say, "Yeah, Buddy. This is your stuff. Now I just have to show you how to use it in the woods."
When I was done he came over and gave me a hug and said, "You're the best uncle ever!"
According to my sister he's talked about nothing else since Saturday. Now that makes me feel good, but it's not the end of the story. He wants to come over now and learn how to use the stuff, which to me is far more important than any amount of gear I could give him. My grandfather, dad, and some uncles taught me some wilderness skills and I picked up others by myself. It's an ongoing process and anybody who tells you that they know it all has reached the sad state where they've stopped learning. I don't know any true outdoorsman who isn't interested in learning something new or seeing a new way of doing an old task. I want to continue the tradition and pass on some knowledge to my nephew.
Knowledge and experience are the best tools you can take into the woods… you can make just about everything else if you really need to. Not only do you learn how to survive you also learn to respect nature… something lacking in a lot of people today.
So, my plan is over the summer to have him over for several camp outs and to teach him a few of the things he'll need to know in order to camp successfully and even to survive if he ever finds himself in a tight situation. Some of the things I want to teach him are responsible fire making, how to use a knife properly, basic compass, making potable water, and some first aid. And I'd like to do one big adventure like climbing Mt. Katahdin, which would be huge!
If you were in this situation what would you like to teach your nephew or niece? I'm open to all ideas.
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My Sunday Photo – Dad and Daughter Day
My Sunday Photo for this week is titled Dad and Daughter Day
Earlier this week Hannah and I had a rare day of completely unstructured activities. It was the first time in weeks that we hadn't had a doctor's appointment or playgroup or a visit to a childcare centre. We had a whole day just to ourselves, to do whatever we wanted.
I let Hannah take the lead. In the morning I asked her what she wanted to do. Her response was a blank look followed by a big smile. She is 18 months old after all and despite her astounding levels of comprehension, she is still unable to answer open-ended questions in a meaningful way.
I rephrased my question to "D0 you want to go to the park?"
A smile and a single, distinct nod informed me that it was indeed what she wanted to do.
"Do you want to scoot?"
Again, a large nod.
We had a great time in the park. Hannah rode her scooter for three kilometres as I pushed, which I appreciated because I had been lazy that morning and not gotten out of bed for my usual run.
Then we stopped for a banana break before Hannah had her first ever attempt at scooting in the standing position. She did a fantastic job, although she used the assistance of a strong wind to push her along like a sailboat. She still doesn't quite comprehend the whole use your foot to push thing.
We had a wonderful, unstructured dad and daughter day. It reminded me that sometimes it is important to take things as they come and to leave enough room in a busy schedule to just play!
Today is Father's Day in Australia, so a huge Happy Father's Day to all of the wonderful dads out there!


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Hire Slow-Fire Fast
Ok, This is not an original idea
If you've ever managed a team of more than two, and been responsible for recruiting, interviewing, hiring, evaluating and firing then you've been through the most challenging part of being a "boss" as well as a "Manager" or, in reality, a "Leader." It's the toughest and most impactful responsibility you'll ever have.
I once had a key opening, in fact, this position was really the second in command role. It managed a significant part of the organization's public face. The staff who reported to this position asked me to act quickly since the organization had grown and I wouldn't be able to give the position's day to day tasks the attention they need.
This was in the middle of October and I quickly posted the position and did phoners with several applicants. One local candidate impressed me on paper and our meetings went well. He hadn't worked directly in our industry but professed a great love our values-based way of doing things. This was October and he came on board in December.
By February I went to my boss and confessed that I had made an error in judging their commitment to our editorial integrity and, worse, their personal integrity. The morale around the office plummeted and toxicity set in.
I terminated their employment in May after going through a series of HR processes to ensure I was not misreading the situation. The HR service we contracted with assessed the situation and agreed that termination was appropriate.
But the damage was done. I took five years for the organization to recover. Some other staff members needed to leave because this one employee had poisoned the well so deeply between staff members and between some staff and managers and even between managers.
Eventually we did become the trusting and cohesive organization we needed to be. I hired the right person into the job after several months; someone I could trust and have a great amount of respect for their work.
So here are my suggestions for leaders who do a lot of hiring in small to mid-sized organizations.
Wait three weeks before you start writing the job description. You'll need this time to observe the staff and ask them what qualities and skills they would like to see in the new hire. Watch what they do-not what they say when they don't have a manager guiding them. You'll learn a lot.
Listen to your gut; not the staff's. You know the needs they didn't talk about and the and skills you want in the new hire. You're the boss; your needs come first.
Nix the committee. I've sat on both sides of the fence on this one and I can tell you hiring committees do not give you the results you want most of the time.There are generally three kinds of committees.
The most common is made up of the hiring manager, some reporting staff, some peers and maybe some others. Then there's the Staff Only committee and the worst one of all: The Hiring Manager, their boss and their peers with no staff on the committee.
The last is the worst because each member is voting or assessing based on their own internal agendas and do not have the best interest of the department at heart.
Have a list of people you know that you would like to work for you. Sure, you may have HR or Industry EEO hoops to jump through. I can tell you from experience that networking for staff will bring you people who fit culturally in your organization.I once waited 10 years for an individual I admired to become available. I knew they would fit in our organization and I would have a great relationship with them. It was worth the wait.Even though I had to reorganize a department to bring them in, they nearly doubled the department's revenue in 12 months.
The second interview should be rigorous. If I don't have a person in mind for a position, or even if I do, I bring three applicants in for an all-day interview. I ask them to arrive at 9:30 am and plan on being there till about 4:30.They first spend an hour to 90 minutes with me in my office with the door shut talking about many of the things we've talked about in the phoner.I have a set of questions that I asked in the first interview and I ask again in the second interview. I'm looking for inconsistencies or more expansive answers. All the others rules about the candidate being prepared apply too. You'll Get to see how they react to stress and a long day too.
Next they spend 30 to 60 minutes with each staff member they will be peer with alone. I ask each manager to ask them questions about how they have interacted with a similar department in another organizations. I also ask them to look for signs and cues about how their relationship with me and others would shape up. Your direct reports will have a fresh eye and should be made to feel comfortable giving you direct feedback. I once passed on a candidate that I really liked but one staff member pointed out three things I missed. Again waiting paid off. The person I hired into that position did gangbusters.They spend the last 30 minutes with my supervisor. You want your boss in agreement with you in case things go south. In the case of the first anecdote in this post, my boss alerted me to the fact that I would have to work with them to acquaint them with values. I had a great boss who supported me, but knew that I to make and take responsibility for my decisions.
The last person standing gets to meet their staff. I ask the person I am going to give the offer to come in for one last meeting and to a lot two and half hours. They spend about 30 minutes with me or our HR person to go over benefits, but not salary. Then I introduce them to their staff over a lunch or some other food to create a relaxed atmosphere. I hang in there for about 20 minutes then slip out and let them have it. I then ask them for their reactions immediately after the candidate departs. Hopefully this last step happens on a Friday so both the candidate and I can reflect and firm up our mutual priorities. I call them on Monday and negotiate the salary and hopefully they'll accept on Tuesday or Wednesday.I've found that if you give reporting staff a menu of candidates you risk fermenting dissension in the ranks. They will end of "voting" on who should be recommended and each group will blame the other over small things the new manager implements. If they are not unanimous and enthusiastic then think twice before you make an offer. Starting the process over is less problematic than six months with the wrong person.
Your results and style may be different from mine, but I can honestly say that my last three outside hires were my best decisions. They've carried the organization on greater heights and grown in our industry.
So How Did I Come This Way Of Thinking?
My favorite management book is Essentialism: The Disciplined Art of Doing Less and you'll hear me quote from this manual many times. The author spoke at a professional development event I attended several years ago and it's stuck with me along the way.


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Summer vegetable & quail's egg tart
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per slice
- kcal215
- fat12g
- saturates5g
- carbs17g
- sugars2g
- fibre4g
- protein7g
- salt0.4g
- 300g ciabatta bread mix
- 3 tbsp rapeseed oil, plus extra to serve
Rapeseed oil
If you want a light alternative to other cooking oils, rapeseed is a great choice and has…
- 140g frozen peas, defrosted
- 85g full-fat cream cheese
- 140g soured cream
- 1 large egg, beaten
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 3 shallots, finely chopped
Related to the onion (as opposed to being a younger version of it), shallots grow in clusters at…
- ¼ tsp golden caster sugar
- 400g (unpodded weight) broad beans
- 6-8 baby leek
- 8 asparagus tips
Labour-intensive to grow, asparagus are the young shoots of a cultivated lily plant. They're…
- 6-8 quail's eggs
- small handful pea shoots, to serve
Tip the bread mix into a large bowl and add the oil and 175ml lukewarm water. Knead for 5-10 mins until you have a smooth, elastic dough, then cover with cling film and leave to rise until doubled in size.
Whizz the peas and cream cheese together in a blender or food processor until smooth, then stir in the soured cream, egg, shallots and sugar with some seasoning. Bring a medium pan of water to the boil. Add the broad beans for 30 secs, then lift them out with a slotted spoon into a bowl of cold water. Gently squeeze the bright green beans out of their thick skins and discard the skins. Meanwhile, add the leeks to the boiling water for 1 min 30 secs, then add the asparagus and boil for 1 min more. Drain well.
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Roll the dough out on a large baking sheet to a rectangle 14 x 40cm, pressing down the centre to create a thicker 'crust' around the edge. Spread the pea cream in the middle of the tart and bake for 20 mins. Scatter over the leeks, asparagus and broad beans, then carefully crack over the eggs – you can arrange the veg to create little pockets if it helps. Drizzle with rapeseed oil and bake for another 5-7 mins. Scatter a few pea shoots over and serve straightaway, cut into thin slices.
Recipe Tip
Get aheadYou can bake the pea filling into the tart a couple of hours ahead, then add the veg and quail's eggs 10 minutes before you're ready to serve. Just add a minute or two to the second baking time.


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10 Free Live Music EPs And Albums To Download [Sound Sunday]
Sound Sunday can introduce you to new artists and their music, but great bands are best experienced live. It's always a treat to see musicians perform their art and witness them pouring their souls out. Skillfully crafted studio albums lack that special touch, which only sweaty live performances produce. Sometimes, however, a live recording can capture the magic. This week's edition of Sound Sunday features 10 EPs and albums that are emotional, vibrant, and beaming with the soul of live music.
Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 in the price field. That said, we strongly recommend you to donate a few dollars for music you enjoy!
You are welcome to submit your music, send suggestions with free albums you have discovered, or request genres I haven't covered in a while. For all Sound Sunday related inquiries, please contact Tina [tina at makeuseof dot com].
Stereophonics – Live From Rehearsals EP
Genre: alternative, pop, rock
This Welsh alternative rock band is one of my favorite. Having seen them perform live almost a dozen times over the past 14 years, in tiny clubs, large arenas, and on major festivals, I can safely say that the lads rock. Their latest album Graffiti on the Train is bound to be released on March 4th. It promises to be a darker, more melancholic, and intense album than previous releases. The free rehearsal EP is a nice intro to its sound. The videos for the three songs are also available in the Stereophonics' Amazon Artist Lounge.
Live From Rehearsals EP is a free download from Amazon.
EP: The Flips [Broken URL Removed] – Live at The Abbey
Genre: alterantive, indie, rock
From their Bandcamp profile: "The Flips are an indie/alternative rock band from Chicago, IL. We dedicate ourselves to creating music that is honest, engaging, and kind of badass." The live EP was recorded in November 2012 at the Abbey Pub in Chicago.
Live at The Abbey is a name your price download from Bandcamp.
EP: Tyler Butler – Live on CJSR
Genre: acoustic, country, folk
Tyler Butler is a folk singer-songwriter from Edmonton, Canada. If you enjoy this live EP, catch him on Twitter and let him know. He will appreciate the feedback and respond for sure!
Live on CJSR is a name your price download from Bandcamp.
Amos The Transparent – Live at the Opera
Genre: folk, pop, country
Amos the Transparent is an indie rock band from Ottawa, Canada's capital. Here they were recorded live by Live At The Opera, a concert series for music lovers and music makers. The project writes: "It's our love letter to independent music and a bit of hope-springs-eternal for creativity."
Tyler Lyle – Live At Eddie's Attic
Genre: folk, rock
From the album page: "On the days that I don't have to work, I see the world like it's a fish bowl, and I'm the proud owner of it. I ponder the fish, the cleanliness of the water, the reason for there being fish in the first place. On the other days- the days when I am banging my head against a studio wall trying to make smart words fit to catchy melody (or sometimes- any words fit a passable melody)- I'm exhausting the mental self while ignoring the physical. Those days I am a fish in someone else's fish bowl."
Live At Eddie's Attic is a name your price download from Bandcamp.
Sprout the Band [Broken URL Removed] – Live in the Barn
Genre: instrumental, blues, funk, rock
From the album page: "Recorded two nights in May 2011 at Shepherd Farms in Carpinteria, Ca. The band recorded live in a large metallic warehouse. The majority of the tracks were recorded live on the first and only take. A second take was used on Machine Gun Mouth and Drivin' Me Down. Backing vocals and a slide guitar track on Old Railroad were overdubbed in the following days."
Live in the Barn is a name your price download from Bandcamp.
Action News Team – God Damn These Electric Sex Pants
Genre: experimental, alternative, blues, folk, punk
From the album page: "Recorded live in our tiny basement jam space on February 10th [2012], then some overdubs were added here and there to fill things out. We only used four mics and it worked better than when we tried to mic everything individually. We did two takes of every song and chose the better one of the two. All in all we didn't want something that sounded polished and overproduced and decided to just do it and not spend a bunch of time fucking around with the tracks and just release it."
God Damn These Electric Sex Pants is a free download from Bandcamp.
EP: TWRP – The Device [No Longer Available]
Genre: rock, disco, electro, funk, metal
From their homepage: "TWRP is exactly this: Daft Punk, Iron Maiden, Justice and Parliament all smashed into six spandex-clad, keytar wielding, pylon wearing, pelvic thrusting, wildly out of control individuals claiming to be from outerspace, except with way more lazers, confetti, projection screens, and sci-fi references.
Originally from Halifax, NS, and now residing in Toronto, ON, the five "aliens" crash land into every show like missiles made of fun, bringing their ridiculous antics and self aware (but deadly serious) epic 80s inspired dance-rock and spewing it all over the audience with reckless abandon."
The Device is a name your price download from Bandcamp.
EP: DEAD – Live At Old Bar
Genre: heavy, punk
From their homepage: "Jem and Jace are DEAD. They are awesome. Most bands are awful but not DEAD, they're awesome. It's spelled in capitals 'cos there are only four letters and you have to make them count. There are 8,000,000 bands in the world and if you managed to discover this one in that great big pile of mediocrity you have done very well for yourself."
Live At Old Bar is a name your price download from Bandcamp.
Spiral – Live on Matijevic Hill
Genre: doom, gothic, heavy metal, rock, progressive rock, sludge, glacial thrash, psychedelic
From the album page: "I recently came across this old tape and Aaron and I, in a fit of nostalgia, decided to share it. These songs were all recorded when we were performing under the name "Snail". This is quite a bit heavier than Spiral, but you can still catch glimpses of what we would become. Play it loud!"
Live on Matijevic Hill is a name your price download from Bandcamp.
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Leroy Burgess is the crowned king of boogie
Mention the word "boogie" around Leroy Burgess and you're bound to get a response of theatric proportions.
Mention the word "boogie" around Leroy Burgess and you're bound to get a response of theatric proportions. "My crown, my crown," he cries out in a faux British accent. Contrary to this jovial outburst, Burgess is a surprisingly low-key guy who feels right at home nestled away on his sleepy street in the Bronx. "I need to be able to walk around and be anonymous," says Burgess, "so I describe myself as the anti-star."
Originally published as "The Undisputed" in Wax Poetics Issue 24, August 2007
It's probable that you've gotten your groove on to a tune composed by the incomparable Leroy Burgess in your funky travels. After spending nearly a decade as founding member and lead vocalist of the street-corner soul trio Black Ivory, Burgess transformed into an anomalous maestro of percolating dance anthems for indie acts like Fonda Rae, Logg, and Universal Robot Band, while contributing to major-label projects by Eddie Kendricks, Rick James, Herbie Mann, and T. S. Monk.
Recognized as one of the key progenitors of house music, the output of his career can be classified as (a) rare funk gems, (b) quiet-storm classics, (c) Paradise Garage staples, (d) hip- hop sample fodder, or (e) all of the above. Be it crooning to a crowd or lecturing to music-industry hopefuls at the 2004 Red Bull Music Academy in Rome, his humble demeanor has accorded him the ability to put his success in perspective. So whether you're gettin' over like a fat rat or barely breaking even, don't fault Burgess. Blame it on the boogie.
While you were in high school, how did your group the Mellow Souls segue into Black Ivory?
The Mellow Souls was the original name for the group that was to become Black Ivory. In the summer of 1967, I was shooting some hoops with a friend named Larry Newkirk. He started singing on the court, and I started singing too. At that point, he invited me into his group. Eventually, Larry dropped out, and Stuart Bascombe came in. Another guy, Vito Ramirez dropped out and Russell Patterson came in. And it became Stuart, Russell, and myself as the center of Black Ivory.
With the new lineup in place, at what point did Patrick Adams come into the picture?
Patrick was dating Larry Newkirk's sister, Gail. Because of that connection, we were able to set a date for Patrick to come over and check us out. But Patrick called and said he couldn't make it. When he called, I was practicing in the background. He heard me and wanted to know who it was. So we wound up doing a telephone audition. After that, Patrick was sold on the group. We started doing talent shows at different high schools. At that time, Patrick became friends with Kool and the Gang's manager. Back then, they were just an instrumental funk band with no vocals. So their manager decided to put us onstage before their sets doing a few top-forty songs while the band backed us up. This was how we got our first real stage experience. Shortly after the personnel changes happened, we went to Philly to record the song "Don't Turn Around."
Was that at Sigma Sound Studios?
Yes! See, Patrick had a vibe with his ballads that was competitive with my uncle, Thom Bell. And at that time, everybody was writing those Delfonics-type songs. So Patrick got the money together for us to go to Philly and record with the Philly rhythm, strings, and horns sections. So we recorded "Don't Turn Around" and "I Keep Asking You Questions," our first single. When we came back to New York, Patrick did his wheeling and dealing and ended up securing a deal at Perception/Today Records. On the strength of the Black Ivory project and what they knew he was capable of, Patrick also got an A&R job at Perception.
Did you return to Philly to record the remainder of your first album, 1972's Don't Turn Around?
We only did those two sides in Philly. The rest of the album was done in New York at a studio called Blue Rock. The album took a few months to record. But the record came out and was bigger than anybody thought it would be.
You guys did a lot of writing on the first album, but on the second album, Patrick Adams and David Jordan assumed those duties. With that said, there was a vibe on the first record that was discernibly absent on Baby, Won't You Change Your Mind. What was the reason for the shift?
[laughs] The first album came out and was a success, so we started touring as a result and were away from New York a lot. Stuart, Russell, and I were actually composing material and putting ideas together while we were out on the road. But when we came back to New York, however, Patrick told us that the whole album had been written. He had formed an alliance with a songwriter named David Jordan from down South, who we'd never seen before, and they basically decided that this was going to be the second album. We signed that contract a little too fast and essentially turned over the power; we weren't in the position to protest too much. We didn't have any options; we needed a second album at that time. But as a result, yes, the entire vibe changed. You don't have the interaction that you had on the first album. One of the things that made the first album was the interaction between Stuart, Russell, Patrick, and myself. We were all sharing in the composition and arrangements.
It also sounded like you guys had more fun with Don't Turn Around, especially on the cut, "Our Future."
That was a track that Patrick had done for Lucky Peterson, an artist on Perception Records. Patrick had finished the Lucky Peterson session and was still trying to figure out how to fill up the last slot on our album. So he told all of us to come in. We were with our girlfriends and buddies, so a crew of us showed up at the studio. He put the track on and told us to just start talking. So we just started making jokes and general gabbing. But the point of "Our Future" was to say, "Is the future of African American inner-city people centered around being at the party and hanging out?" That's why we were just saying all kinds of irrelevant shit.
On the first album, you're credited as doing the vocal arrangements. Did you at least do any on the second album?
Again, not as much. They said they had all the formulas laid in. Stuart and Russell didn't even get to do a lot of singing on that album. They would call me in to do the lead vocals. I'd be like, "Well, who's that on the backgrounds?" And their answer was, "Don't worry about it." Now, on certain songs, the three of us did in fact sing. "Baby, Won't You Change Your Mind" is an example. But on most of them, David Jordan and Patrick would be in the background. That made us unhappy with the relationship, and, for a while, that was the last thing Black Ivory did with Patrick.
Most labels usually make the lead singer the visual focus of the group. But on most of the Black Ivory album covers, Stuart was the focus. Was that a point of contention for you?
I knew Stuart was the pretty boy. And in a marketplace that's guided by looks and imagery, sure, that's perfect. And it was fine, because everybody knew that I was the lead vocalist. When you came to the show and saw me singing, it clicked. It didn't bother me until much later. After a while, it became quite an issue.
After that second record, Black Ivory left Today Records in 1973, ultimately landing at Buddah Records. What instigated the departure?
We left because of how the second album went down. We didn't want to stay at a place where we couldn't grow creatively. We weren't just singers; we were singer-songwriters. We were aspiring to arrange and become musicians. And the second album just took all of that away from us. It didn't give us the opportunity to express ourselves. So we reasoned that if this was going to continue to be the case, we didn't need to be there.
In the interim, you guys recorded a funky little one-off single, with arrangements by Vincent Montana that landed you back in Philly.
Yes, there was one single that we cut [in 1974] on Kwanza Records, a Warner Brothers label, called "What Goes Around Comes Around." Basically, we made a deal with Norman Harris to do a single on us. But when we got to Philly, Norman Harris had pawned us off to one of his sub-production groups. And they wrote and produced "What Goes Around Comes Around." We came in and sang it in one day, along with the flip side, and that was it. Again, we weren't happy. We didn't have any input. And we really didn't even get the Philly sound, because it wasn't Norman Harris. But also around that time, Buddah Records became interested in acquiring Black Ivory.
Was the deal with Kwanza originally an album deal or just a single?
It was supposed to be an album deal. But the single came out and Kwanza folded shortly after that. I'm not exactly sure what the problem was. But after the single came out, we performed for about six months, and then signed with Buddah.
So how well did you settle in at Buddah?
We began to have more input in terms of the production and songwriting. We were paired with two guys on [1975's] Feel It who were good songwriters in their own right. But, again, the sound was not correct. We did a second album that got closer. But at that time, I was starting to get disenchanted on a personal level with my growth as an artist and what the group was allowing me to do. When 1976 rolls around, I'm thinking actively about leaving. So in 1977, when the Buddah contract was up for renewal, I let them know that I wasn't going to renew with them.
Did you discuss your decision with Stuart and Russell?
First, I discussed it with my mom and dad. I got support from them, and then I went to Stuart and Russell. At first, they didn't believe it. Then when they realized that I was serious, they tried to convince me to stay. But I was adamant about leaving. I didn't think I could progress with them.
Did you have any immediate plans after you left from the group?
After I left in 1977, it took me about a year, but I started writing again and got a chance to write my first hit song away from Black Ivory. And it just so happens that I ended up back with Patrick Adams. He was starting to do a lot of music on the disco scene with groups like Musique. He also had a project called Phreek on Atlantic Records. He had basically finished the project, but he had a few slots for a couple of songs. I had this song called "Weekend," and he wanted to cut it [for Phreek]. Atlantic heard it and said, "This is the single!" As it turned out, it was the only single off that album.
So "Weekend" was the springboard for your songwriting career?
Exactly. I started working with the Aleem Brothers, and we released some independent records that did well on the radio. Around this time, Black Ivory is starting work on their third album for Buddah, and they need songs. I had a song called "Mainline" that I wasn't really doing anything with. I'd originally written it for myself and did a demo of it. It was nice enough, but nobody was really feeling it. So I went back and cut it with Black Ivory. This was the reunion of Patrick Adams with the original lineup of Black Ivory. I wasn't back in the group, per se, but I was there writing, singing backgrounds, and playing keyboards on that single. Patrick was doing the string and horn arrangements. So it was just like the old days. Consequently, "Mainline" was the biggest chart hit that Black Ivory had and the song that we're most well known for. That album, Hangin' Heavy, was the last album Black Ivory did. Stuart and Russell released another album called Then and Now that had some old joints and a few new joints on it. It was kind of like a compilation. At any rate, I kept writing, and the songs that I wrote were getting me back in. And as I got back in, I was able to sing, and people heard me. This is when I came into my own as a songwriter and a producer. I started developing groups. Aleem, Convertion, Logg, Universal Robot Band, Change, Fonda Rae, Jocelyn Brown, and all kinds of other side stuff.
On the few Black Ivory compilations that have been released on CD, the original version of "You And I" is often replaced by a synth-and-drum-machine version with an early '80s feel. Is there any reason for that?
I know there were a couple of different mixes of it. The original album cut was a seven-minute-long epic with strings. But on various compilations over the years, I've heard mixes that were thrown out that somebody got a hold of and put out. When Perception Records went on the block, our former manager Lenny Adams purchased it. He then, in turn, sold it to Sugar Hill Records. So when ownership changes hands, anything can happen.
The evolution of the Logg project is an interesting story. How did it come to expand over a few different labels and take on three different names?
James Calloway and my cousin Sonny Davenport were my two songwriting and production partners. We were approached by Greg Carmichael to put together a song for Sam Records. We came up with the name Convertion, and the song was called "Let's Do It." It turned out to be a big club record. So we approached Sam Records about doing an album, but they said they didn't have any money to do a full album and quoted us some extremely low price per song. We were like, "No! You gotta come with a real budget!" [laughs] But little did we know that he had gone out and copyrighted the name Convertion. The label thought they had us cornered. But Greg took the project to the Cayre brothers at Salsoul. They were ecstatic about a Convertion album, but we knew we couldn't use the name. So Greg called me up and asked me what to call the group. I told him I was busy writing the songs for the album, so I left it up to them. Then somebody called me back and said they came up with Logg. And I really didn't care. To this day, I don't know the origin of the name. And I asked them. It doesn't stand for anything. [laughs] The album sold fair in the States, but it was huge in Europe. At that time, the nucleus of James, Sonny, and myself were working like a finely tuned machine. We were reading each other's thoughts; we just locked. And we had the right supportive cast around us. That's why Logg is considered to be one of my best albums.
The song "Barely Breaking Even" was recorded for the Logg album. But why was it released well over a year later on a different label for the Adams and Carmichael project, Universal Robot Band?
"Barely Breaking Even" was stolen from the Logg project. The master tape was at the studio where the rest of the album was and Greg Carmichael went in and grabbed that tape. He was unhappy with Salsoul and was like, "Well, they ain't gettin' all these good songs; I gotta get one!" So he went and got it and sold it to someone else who released it. That's the song we had the most fun with. We kind of went nuts on that one! That's when we had the whole crew, girls and guys. Everybody was there that day. We had one day to cut it. We had a ball with that! Nobody got tired, and it was a fourteen- to sixteen-hour session.
That energy definitely resonated, being that Peter Adarkwah of BBE Records named his record label after that very song.
[laughs] He's told me that. I met him once in London when I was doing a tour to support my anthologies. He told me that he was naming his company Barely Breaking Even after the song I wrote and performed as Universal Robot Band.
So with all these hits that you, Sonny, and James were creating, a trademark sound developed that people dubbed "boogie." So, by default, you are called the king of boogie. What exactly is boogie?
[laughs] They call me the king of boogie. But boogie is nothing but disco, slowed down a little bit. "Let's Do It" was a boogie-flavored joint. "Over Like a Fat Rat" was also, again the same nucleus, boogie. "I Know You Will," definitely boogie. It's not fast enough for disco. Sonny and James were not only my songwriting and production partners, but we were also the central rhythm section on all of our songs. I was on keyboards, Sonny was on drums, and James was on bass. And it was that nucleus that developed that specific sound. We did commercial music, but we always put something complicated in it. A good example of this is the piano passage in "Over Like a Fat Rat" that accompanies the lyric "snug as a bug / in your arms." Those are deep chords that you wouldn't normally hear in mainstream music. That's something we tried to incorporate into our sound. But it all began with musicianship.
"Over Like a Fat Rat" by Fonda Rae is one of your most widely known and sampled compositions that still receives a lot of club and airplay. How did that song evolve?
Bob Blank, who was an engineer, was a good friend of ours. He had a nice little studio called Blank Tapes where we had previously worked on the Phreek, Herbie Mann, and Ben E. King albums. One day, he invited us to come down and hear some of the stuff he'd been working on and lay down some material. So we went down and cut three demos. One of them was "Over Like a Fat Rat." Somehow, Bob got in touch with Fonda and called me back to see if it was okay if he tried her on lead vocals. I was like, "No." [laughs] But I went to the studio, met her, and walked her through the vocals.
After some Aleem records and independent singles in the late '80s, it seems you went on a hiatus. What was the impetus for your disappearance from the music scene in the '90s?
Well, I continued to work and do music until about 1992, when the market started to change. Hip-hop started to become more prevalent. There was a dark period where everybody was shaking, particularly the industry people downtown. So I took a little time off from music to study the market and rethink things. Then around 1999, a friend of mine named Roy Parham pushed me to get started in the music business again. This began with a Chicago house music project tentatively titled Timeless, featuring production from producers like Glenn Underground, Maurice Joshua, and E-Smoove. That should be coming out soon. There was another project called Slippery People in Sweden. I've worked on a project with Cassius and released two anthologies of my music on Soul Brother Records in the U.K. I did a duet with Belita Woods, the lead singer from Brainstorm, which was released on Basement Boys Records in 2003. Then there's a project that I've been working on called Throwback. It's essentially culled from unreleased material dating from 1979 to 1985 that we went back and listened to, digitally remastered, and restructured. Lastly, there's the Black Ivory reunion album that we're shopping now. We have a lot of people slated to guest on the album, like George Benson and Stevie Wonder. There's actually an unreleased Stevie Wonder song on the album.
With all these projects on the table, it seems like you're finally ready to shed the pseudonyms and tell the world your name.
A question I'm often asked is why there is so little with my actual name on it, and why there isn't a Leroy Burgess album. That's only because I like being anonymous. To me, the music should always be the most important thing in the equation. And the more you focus on the rest of the crap, the more you get distracted from the music. I got into this industry to put music out that makes people feel good. When you leave it at that, it's actually best for me, because it helps me focus on the music. And that's what my life has been, a study of working on music hard enough to make it right.
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The Library and ARC held our new student orientation sessions in the library this morning. Kim Thomas and Julia Matson spoke with students about the Academic Resource Center and its services; Geri Worley provided an overview of some of the information technology available to students on campus; Pam Sawallis and Steve Laughlin discussed library databases and other services; and Stacey Thornberry energetically led students on tours of the building and its collections. We were generally pleased with the turnout - and we thank the peer advisors and SOS for their help with this part of orientation! If you missed the library orientation, or found your interest piqued by one of the sessions, please note that the first 3 Common Hours of the semester have been set aside by the Provost to follow up on some of the information we quickly breezed through today:
Tuesday, September 2 Getting Comfortable with Blackboard & Office 2007 Time / Place: 11 a.m. / Library Auditorium Presenter: Geri Worley, Library Systems & Accounts ManagerThursday, September 4 College-Level Writing & the Writing Center Time / Place: 11 a.m. / Writing Center (Humanities Center 102) Presenter: Rachel Clevenger, Writing Center Director Tuesday, September 9 That First Research Paper: You Can Do It, We Can Help Time / Place: 11 a.m. / Library Auditorium Presenters: Guy Hubbs, Steve Laughlin & Pamela Sawallis, Reference Librarians Please plan on attending 1, 2, or (gasp) even all 3 of these Common Hours, as your schedule permits. We hope to see you there!


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Protests have rumbled through President Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela for the past month, but in a televised press conference today, Hugo Chavez's successor seemed more concerned with what was going on in Miami and Washington, D.C.
Maduro singled out Senator Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinene as leaders of a "Miami lobby" who are trying to overthrow him. He claimed that the recent protests were not due to his government's failure, but rather were part of a United States-backed coup.
See also: What the Hell Is Going on in Venezuela? A Guide To Understanding the Chaos in Caracas.
Spurred perhaps by Rubio's recent co-introduction of a bill to support anti-government protestors, and Ros-Lehtenin's introduction of a bill yesterday to place economic sanctions on the country, Maduro hit back.
Full US Senate has unanimously approved a resolution condemning violence by govt of @NicolasMaduro & calling for sanctions. #SOSVenezuela
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 13, 2014
Castigating the group as "the right of Miami's Republican lobby," Maduro said that Cuban-Americans Rubio and Ros-Lehtenin are holding America's foreign policy hostage. The "are taking President Obama into an abyss," he said.
"If they succeed and overthrow our government, it would be the worst period of economic instability known in 200 years in Latin America," he continued.
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My bill sends clear mssg 2 #Maduro + oppressors in region that we won't watch as they stomp on #humanrights. @WIOD pic.twitter.com/gO960pOWYX
— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (@RosLehtinen) March 14, 2014
This is not the first time that Maduro has had harsh words for Rubio. Just a month ago he called Rubio the "loco de los locos," or the "craziest of the crazies."
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Mustangs, Monists & Meaning
The dualist belief that body and soul are separate entities is natural, intuitive and with us from infancy. It is also very probably wrong
When I was 17 in 1971, I purchased my dream car — a 1966 Ford Mustang — blue with a white vinyl roof, bucket seats and a powerful eight-cylinder 289-cubic-inch engine that could peg the speedometer at 140 miles per hour. As testosterone-overloaded young men are wont to do, however, over the course of the next 15 years I systematically wrecked and replaced nearly every part of that car, to the extent that by the time I sold it in 1986 there was hardly an original piece remaining. Nevertheless, I turned a tidy profit because my "1966" Mustang was now a collector's classic. Even though the physical components were not original, the essence of its being — its "Mustangness" — was that model's complete form. My Mustang's essence — its "soul" — was more than a pile of parts; it was a pattern of information arranged in a particular way.
The analogy applies to humans and souls. The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month. Still, I am "Michael Shermer," the sum of the information coded in my DNA and neural memories. My friends and family do not treat me any differently from moment to moment, even though atoms and molecules are cycling in and out of my body and brain, because these people assume that the basic pattern remains unchanged. My soul is a pattern of information. (continue reading…)