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Springdale Public Schools Education Foundation receives $100,000 grant from Tyson Foods
Tyson Foods, Inc. awarded $100,000 to the Springdale Public Schools Education Foundation to support the organization's mission to provide resources that enhance educational and enrichment opportunities for Springdale public school students.
While a portion of the grant funds will be directed toward the Foundation's operating expenses, over the next two years, $70,000 will be used to fund classroom and school-wide grants that directly impact student learning such as Special Olympics, Literacy Mentor Program, and Language Lab.
"We're very excited about Tyson Foods' support. This grant helps strengthen our ability to support innovative programs throughout the district," said Mike McFarland, Chairman of the Foundation's Board of Directors. "The programs we fund are not part of the school district's operating budget, and as such have a tremendous impact on the educational offerings to students."
The Springdale Public Schools Education Foundation supports the teaching process by attracting private and philanthropic funds to expand educational programs that fall outside the Springdale Public Schools normal operating budget.


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As night draped over the desert like a thick blanket, Dave and I sat near the small, crackling fire and talked in hushed voices about our grand plans for the coming adventure. He had flown in to Salt Lake City and made the four hour drive across Utah to Zion that morning. I had made the robust seven hour drive across Arizona and Southern Utah from Phoenix. Both of us were short on time. Saturday was our only day to really see the park, to drink it in until we were intoxicated by it's unique beauty. We asked ourselves, "What do you do when you only have one day in one of the most amazing places on Earth?"
Our only answer, "Everything!"
The main section of Zion National Park is not terribly huge. The section of park along the North Fork of the Virgin River from the park entrance to The Narrows is only about 6 or 7 miles long. But that stretch of canyon houses within it's hallowed walls some of the most dramatic and iconic scenery in North America. There are monuments and trails within this sliver of earth that many only dream of visiting. We'd see icons like The blood streaked Altar of Sacrifice in the Towers of the Virgin, the Sentinel watching over the Court of the Patriarchs, and the Great White Throne of God looking down upon the razor thin edge of Angel's Landing. We'd walk among lesser icons like Echo Canyon and plunge our tired feet into the frigid waters of the Virgin River.
Sharp gusts of canyon wind carried a chill through the darkness at camp, rustling the grasses and the cottonwoods. I fumbled with breakfast in the dark while we packed for the day. Dave, who is more accustomed to lightweight backpacking than I am, carried a tiny bag with almost nothing but water and a few small bags of snacks. I had my camera gear to contend with and shouldered a far heavier burden. The earliest park shuttle would arrive at 7am and by 6:45 we were the only ones stirring in camp, a good sign we'd have the trail to ourselves. The morning sky was just beginning to glow as we walked quietly among the deer that were loitering at the visitor's center.
There were only two others on the first shuttle of the morning from the visitor's center. The other early risers were an elderly fellow who had plans to see sunrise from further in the canyon and fairly large man in a ponytail who wanted to "hike Angel's Landing without his wife and kids slowing him down". We picked up a few more ambitious hikers before reaching The Grotto, where we would find the trailhead to Angel's Landing.
We chose to conquer Angel's Landing first for a few reasons: First, I wanted to shoot from Angel's Landing in early light. From all accounts, this would be a technical, heart-pounding hike with serious exposure and there was no way we were going to try to hike it for the first time in the dark just to catch "sunrise" from the top. I was happy being able to shoot in the early morning light, hoping for something dramatic. Second, we wanted to beat the crowds of weekend warriors and all-out tourists shuffling up the trail. The park tells you to plan 4 to 5 hours for your round-trip to Angel's Landing, but we were confident we could shave that down a little.
Angel's Landing was an absolutely amazing hike. Short, a little strenuous, and potentially nerve-wracking for anyone with a possible fear of heights. Since neither of us have ever experienced a fear of heights, the hike wasn't as white-knuckle-scary as it was made out to be. There are a few sections where well-worn chains guide you along and give you something to cling to. I don't think the chains are necessary though. We were alone hiking most of the trail, running into very few people hiking that early. We made short work of it clawing our way to the very end of any navigable path within 45 minutes of leaving the shuttle bus. We spent nearly an hour at the tip of Angel's Landing just enjoying the view and taking pictures and never saw another tired, sweaty soul until we packed up and headed back. On the return hike it was easy to see how this hike could turn into a 4 hour ordeal when it gets crowded. We never did see Ponytail.
Before too long we were back across the Virgin river and waiting for the next shuttle to take us up the canyon to Weeping Rock where we'd catch the trailhead to Observation Point. This was a busy trailhead, but we were ahead of schedule and doing well to stay ahead of the real crowds. The beginning of this trail can be busy as it's shared with those making the short hike to Weeping Rock, or venturing a little further to see Echo Canyon. A small fraction continue on up the long, winding, never-ending swithcbacks leading to Observation Point.
This one takes some time, and is one of the most popular hikes in the park for one reason…the view. From Observation Point you are treated to a plateau level view of the entire valley. The point itself sticks out from the adjacent canyon wall enough that you are awarded near 360 degree views down into the park. We sat at the point for a long time, resting the feet, taking pictures and befriending the local wildlife. We both dreaded the long downhill and what that would mean on our tired, old knees.
I had expressed an interest in checking out Hidden Canyon, which we would pass on the way back down. We looked forward to a little uphill hiking again after the descent from Observation Point and didn't lose a step in the transition. The trail to Hidden Canyon offered the kind of fun we found at Angel's Landing, narrow trail clinging to the canyon wall, chains provided for the sketchy bits. We managed to pass a couple of other groups who seemed to be in over their heads on this one.
I really love seeing those people on the trail, sweating with fear and clinging to the chains or rails with a death grip. They move slow and sure, sometimes swearing and screaming at a misstep or stumble. This, to them, is the pinnacle of adventure and they are doing it! It reminds me of my mother on the trail down to the pool below Mooney Falls in Havasupai. She was scared to death, but she made it. I'm there because I don't fear those trails, I love it and I'm comfortable there. These people are there in spite of their fear and discomfort, pushing past their limits and experiencing wonder. It's commendable.
We found ourselves at the bottom of the trail on another shuttle, sore, tired and out of food and water. But we still had a little more of the most important commodity in our whole adventure…TIME. So we headed to The Narrows. After a refill of sweet spring water and a little "Vitamin I" we were back on the trail with a vengeance. Late in the afternoon, the River Walk Trail leading into the narrows is choked with "tourists". These are typically NOT hikers or adventurers but "tourists" in the purest sense of the word and I'm not ashamed to admit that we bullied our way past the sluggish cattle. Our time was fleeting and we were moving with purpose.
Reaching the end of the paved River Walk Trail we scuttled down the concrete steps to the rocky beach. We continued our brisk pace weaving past the people lingering there. We reached the water's edge then, without hesitation, we continued our hike through the cold water. Further up the canyon the only people we saw were those returning from day hikes into The Narrows wearing wetsuits and drysuits and accompanied by a guide. We continued to pick our way up canyon, watching our footing in the swift water. I set up a couple of shots, feet going numb in the cold Spring runoff. We hiked as far into the canyon as we could, stopping before the water became deep enough to force us to swim.
We hung out for a while, savoring our sampling of The Narrows and mentally adding to our To-Do lists for future trips. I hear Fall is a great time to hike The Narrows…
We returned to camp at dusk thoroughly used, tired, wet, hungry and sunburned. Surely a sign we'd done our duty well. We changed into dry shoes and clothes and walked to the Zion Brew Pub (Dave had convinced me that our day warranted more than freeze-dried backpacking food). We ended our epic day in Zion National Park the way one should end any epic day…with stories and beer.
Many of these images from Zion National Park are available in print or download from my Gallery.

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How much money do rice farmers need to make from farming?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which Japan endeavors to join, continues to be controversial, though most people in Japan only have knowledge about the broadest arguments. If Japan joins TPP, it's the end of Japanese agriculture; if it doesn't, Japan will not have access to one of the biggest markets in the world.
Several recent articles in the Asahi Shimbun at least give some idea of what rice farmers stand to lose or gain from the agreement. Two farmers are profiled, one in Fukui Prefecture, the other in Aomori prefecture. The Fukui farmer works a one-hectare paddy that he inherited from his father about 15 years ago. The paddy yields about 96 hyo (1 hyo = 60 kg) a year and ¥1.47 million in revenues, which breaks down to ¥1.1 in sales and the rest in government subsidies. When the Democratic Party of Japan became the ruling party, it threw out the old Liberal Democratic Party subsidy system, which basically discouraged farmers from growing rice. The DPJ subsidy, called kobetsu shotoku hosho (individual income compensation), pays them to grow by making up for any losses they might incur due to low market prices.
The Fukui farmer's annual expenses for cultivating his paddy run to about ¥1.77 million, which includes ¥520,000 for outside labor. It's implied that the paddy owner himself does very little actual farming. On his tax return he also lists in the loss column ¥600,000 in depreciation for his farm equipment. All in all, the farm in 2010 lost ¥300,000. However, he says it doesn't really bother him. His main job is working for an electrical parts maker, which pays him a salary of ¥5.3 million. His wife also works, earning ¥2.8 million.


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By: Mike Farrell, Multichannel News
Large media mutual funds appeared to be taking advantage of low-priced stocks and making bets on an improved advertising environment in the third quarter, beefing up on shares of CBS and News Corp. while reducing their positions in distributors like Comcast and Verizon Communications.
According to Securities and Exchange Commission filings over the past few weeks, the four largest mutual funds focusing on the cable space — Capital Research Global Investors, Capital Guardian Trust, Janus Capital Management and FMR LLC — focused on snapping up cheap stocks like CBS (which traded as low as $5.78 per share in July) and News Corp. (which traded around $9.47 per share in July) as well as strong performers such as Discovery Communications (which has had three straight quarters of advertising-revenue growth).
Those stocks were trading near their low points for the year in early July, but rallied in the latter part of the quarter. If they bought in early, those funds likely made a killing. For example, CBS, trading at $5.78 in July, more than doubled to $12.05 per share by Sept. 30 and the stock closed at $13.73 each on Nov. 18. The broadcaster, which owns cable networks Showtime and College Sports Network, has been making noise recently on the retransmission-consent front, claiming it will double its retrans take in 2010. In the same timeframe, News Corp. rallied from $9.47 on July 7 to $14.44 on Sept. 22, a 52% gain.
Discovery shares were more stable — they were up 25% between July 1 and Sept. 30 — but they also showed consistent domestic ad-revenue growth (2% in the first quarter, 1% in the second and 5% in the third) The other programmers are still reporting declines, but are improving. For example, Viacom reported a 6% decline in domestic ad revenue in the second quarter, improving to a 4% decline in the third quarter.
"Generally, ad-reliant stocks like CBS, Disney, Viacom and News Corp., have been on the upswing since the ad market has been improving sequentially every month since April or May, and advertisers are providing strong demand for fourth quarter 2009 ad inventory," said Miller Tabak media analyst David Joyce.
At Capital Research Global Investors, the $211 billion fund managed by media legend Gordon Crawford, the top buys in the third quarter were AT&T (14.9 million shares); Comcast Class K stock (7.3 million shares); and News Corp. (6.1 million shares). Cap Research sold 12.4 million shares of Verizon Communications, 7.2 million shares of Disney and 8.3 million shares of Time Warner, but still remains among the biggest holders of those stocks. According to SEC filings, it no longer holds shares in Disney, but still owns 111 million shares of Verizon and 90 million shares of Time Warner.
Sister fund Capital Guardian Trust was less active, adding 1.2 million shares of Scripps Networks Interactive and 622,577 shares of Time Warner Cable in the period. Among its biggest sales was Comcast class-A stock (4.8 million shares); AT&T (1.9 million shares); and Disney (1.6 million shares).
Janus Capital Management, the Denver-based mutual fund that was an early backer of Comcast, spent part of the third quarter unloading a good chunk of its holdings in the cable operator. According to the SEC filings, Janus sold 11.8 million shares of Comcast class-A stock in the quarter, reducing its holdings from 27.4 million to 15.6 million shares. The fund giant also reduced its holdings in the only other cable MSO in its portfolio, Cablevision Systems. Janus sold about 806,900 Cablevision shares in the quarter, reducing its stake from 1.3 million shares to 525,636 shares. Among its biggest buys was CBS (12.8 million shares); News Corp. (10.8 million shares); Verizon Communications (2.7 million shares) and Viacom (2.7 million shares).
FMR LLC, the parent of the Fidelity family of mutual funds, took a bit of a break from its usual contrarian stance in the quarter, instead going along with the pack in buying 6.6 million additional shares of CBS stock; 3 million additional Comcast class-A shares and 4.5 million additional Liberty Interactive shares. FMR sold 28.2 million shares of Verizon stock, 11.4 million shares of Comcast Class K and 2.9 million shares of Liberty Global.
Source: http://www.multichannel.com/article/390858-Funds_Go_Cable_Shopping.php?rssid=20059&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MultichannelBreakingNews+%28Multichannel+News+-+Breaking+News%29


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text: Lawless33 1 Posted August 20, 2013 Hey, guys! I use my DT25 combo live at our church with a POD HD500. Just curious as to whether the power tubes work harder, or provide more tube warmth when the master volume on the DT25 is set higher. I've read conflicting reports. I've heard guys run the DT25 master volume very high, then control the patch volume from the HD500 (I've used the amp model's channel volume to do this.) Others keep the DT25's master volume lower and then raise the volume with the HD500's amp model channel volume. Anybody know for sure? Thanks in advance! Wes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I'm just very excited about this table so I had to post a photo for the family. We found this table on craigslist for a song and it's actually exactly what I would have chosen so I'm pretty stoked. If anyone has been to our house you know that the last table was the same one I ate from as a baby and it was pretty ugly (sorry parents!). It's always fun to upgrade.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
gather round
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Monday, May 26, 2008
We just got back from our camping trip in Colorado. We had so much fun! It was snowing when we got there and snowed off and on for the first 2 days which was less than fun (and a surprise!) but it was so hilarious that it was kind of fun. At first we were scared it was going to be miserable but the kids were surprisingly ok and the rest of us just sat around the fire and laughed that it was snowing. We are sad that the other family members couldn't come but we had so much fun with Drew and Amber! You guys are such good sports. Drew took us all fly fishing on the lake and caught a whole bunch of fish pretty much every time we went out. It was so exciting! We ate good food and more toasted marshmallows than one should eat in a year, hiked and fished and canoed and just had a great time. The only sad part is that we missed my aunt's wedding. Sorry I missed your day, my favorite Aunt Les! Hopefully we'll see you soon. Anyway this was the most fun we've ever had camping and I'm so glad we decided to brave the weather. We certainly made memories.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
barber of seville
So yesterday I decided I needed to get my hair trimmed. I haven't had it cut in about 3 years so it really was about time. I called around to see if anyone could get me in and I finally found an 8:00 appointment at a "the best salon in Albuquerque," so appointed by many different local magazines. Normally this place charges $70 for a haircut but they take late Saturday appointments and only charge $27. I was really excited about this because I figured I'd get the most awesome haircut ever. Anyway so I went in and told my stylist that I wanted a little off the bottom, an inch maybe, and some crazy layers so I could wear it wavy. She said, "How about two inches?" and I said that would be fine. So 10 inches later I have the above new 'do. It's not bad looking but not at all what I had wanted or asked for. I'm a little sad, but it is just hair and it will grow back. And now I'm back to square one: finding a stylist I like. boo.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
doing the body rock
Here is a taste of the "body rock." I'll see if I can get the longer one to load too.
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tumbling class
On Fridays Benson goes to tumbling class taught by a friend from church. I realize that most of these photos are of Banks but we felt bad interrupting his class to be paparazzi parents. Anyway Benson and Banks (and I!) have so much fun because it's really relaxed and just a fun time to run around with other kids. I appreciate that Benson is having some exposure to a structured hour while I get to socialize with other women from church. It is $10 a month well spent.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
they're going to pull through
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
chicken tragedy
We had a lot of fun today playing at our friends' house but came home to an almost horrible sight. There were feathers all over the yard and I only found Posy after looking for a few minutes. She was hiding really well, the smart little girl. It appears that our cute little chickens were attacked while we were gone. I almost cried because I thought they had been eaten. Luckily they are apparently really manly girls because they fought their assailant and only suffered from a few nicks on their legs and combs. They'll probably die from shock anyway but we'll be taking further measures to ensure they don't get attacked again. Not that anyone cares about my chickens but I was so sad that I had to post about it, after I called my mummy and daddy for comfort. I swear someday I'll be a big girl. Anyway I'll try to take some photos tomorrow so you can see their wounds.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
last 5 years in review
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
high fashion
It's all for you, cousin Maddie. Benson will be a little sad to see his "run around skirt" go. My favorite part about this is that he accessorized the ensemble with a tie. That's high fashion.
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Monday, May 5, 2008
photo shoot
My mom requested some close up photos of the children for mother's day so I took them to the park in hopes of shooting some magic. Well, it was less than magical but we got a few that might work. Truth be told, my camera only had enough batteries for 24 shots and if anyone else has kids like mine, they know that it takes a lot more than that to get a good picture out of the bunch. Banks was very uncooperative but surprisingly I had more trouble with Benson. He was happy to sit there and pose for me but could not remember to look at the camera for more than 1 second, and when he did he gave be the most fabulous cheeser he could pull out. Ha. Good thing they will look the same in the days to come. We will get a good photo out of them if it's the last thing I do.
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someone is having a baby...
Or thinks he is anyway. Benson is crazy about putting things in his shirt and pretending like he's having a baby. Last night Benson fell asleep in our bed and when we went to put him in his own bed we found him like this:
with his silkies stuffed up his shirt for sleeping. He is so weird but extremely adorable.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Sorry I've been kinda MIA from blogging lately. My grandparents and mom came to visit me and we were too busy having fun to blog. Benson fell in love with my grandpa and I think the feeling was mutual. They even shared a banana split, which is not something even I would do with Benson. My mom came with them too, but I don't have any photos of her. I need to work on taking more pictures. I'm so glad they were all able to come and see us... it is so nice to be around family. We miss you all already!
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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
Update: Since the conducting of this interview, "Sports Illustrated" has selected Tlumack's photo – featuring a fallen Iffrig – as the cover for it's upcoming issue.
As a tragic bombing in Boston leaves three people dead – including an eight-year-old boy – and more than 100 injured, on Monday "Piers Morgan Live" invited a collection of eyewitnesses and experts to share their individual insights and context.
As hundred of runners approached the finish line of the world famous Boston Marathon, a deafening explosion sent the event, and the day, into chaos.
In position to capture his traditional celebratory photos, John Tlumacki instead snapped an image that conveys an entirely different emotion:
Police react in aftermath of explosion #bostonmarathon #boylstonst (John Tlumacki photo) twitter.com/BGlobeSports/s…
— Boston Globe Sports (@BGlobeSports) April 15, 2013
Joining Piers Morgan, the "Boston Globe" photographer described the circumstances that lead to his picture:
"I was focused on a couple children coming over the finish line. And then the blast occurred, and everybody was just screaming," he explained.
"That runner who you're describing fell in front of me and then the Boston police officers that were near him started drawing their guns. It was just a panic on people's faces."
The gentleman to whom Tlumacki refers is Bill Iffrig, a 78-year-old veteran of 45 marathons. He too talked live with the host, explaining the course of events from his perspective:
"I got down to within 15 feet of the finishing apron and just tremendous explosion, sounded like a bomb went off right next to me," said the man from Lake Stevens, Wash. "The shock waves just hit my whole body and my legs just started jittering around. I knew I was going down and so I ended up down on the blacktop."
Watch the clip, and listen further, as Tlumacki describes some of the specific injuries he witnessed first-hand, going so far as to refer to it as "carnage."
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It was seeing Bill go down in the video that had me most upset about this. My 65-year-old father is a marathon runner, as are my brother and me. We know the feeling of being 15 feet from the end of 26.2. I so hoped Bill was OK.
I hope so too, God Bless1
Bill was fine. He got up from the street and walked 6 blocks to his hotel. He then later appeared on CNN for an interview.
The real question is: did he finish?
As soon this tragedy was aired to the pulblic – before we knew 3 people died – the first footage we see is a blast and a marathon runner falling. I was also worried about this gentlemen (now known as Bill). I pray for the families of the 3 that left us yesterday and those that are still in the hospital. I am personally thankful to hear that the runner we all saw fall is alright. My heart is still very heavy.......I hope to hell we find out who did this and give them the justice they deserve.
We know who they are...... they are the sons of Satan regardless of nationality.
Hate to disappoint you shepherdgregory but they are reporting (certainly not on this liberal site) that the technique used was found in an Al Qaeda magazine. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/16/al-qaeda-magazine-pressure-cooker-bomb-directions/2088109/
You must be shocked and horrified?
May40....... the magic quote is:
"similar to those believed the source of two explosions in Boston on Monday were published two years ago in Inspire".
This means that this link is available to pretty much every person in this country with a computer for the past two years. He11......even YOU had the ability to make and plant these bombs.
My point? Nothing in that USAToday story and nothing you have posted discounts the possibility of a 'home-grown', McVeigh type killer being responsible.
3 people died and ur most upset at a runner who fell down becuase near the finish line because he and you share a commonality of running marathons?
Bill was my scoutmaster and neighbor when I was growing up...He is/was a very kind , giving man and I am so glad he is still alive and kicking...way to go Bill...R L Reber
Will run with my sister, Martrese, any day of the week. Nice work as always!
My mom, who died 2 years ago, was a marathoner from age 70 until age 81 and I just teared up when I saw this awful incident on the afternoon news. My condolences to the families who lost their loved ones, to those so terribly injured and anyone who witnessed this. "All we are asking is give peace a chance."
Peace never happens by chance. Only when evil is made to pay a price it can't afford – then and only then does peace come about.
Ed, that is one of the saddest comments of the day. Really? Peace can only come by making evil pay a high enough price? Good luck with that approach! It hasn't worked in our relationships with with the Middle East and elsewhere around the world, and it does not work within our own borders. "Getting a bigger hammer" will never bring peace.
Bill is a great man, I know him personally, he was a cross country coach at my High School. i am glad he is ok, but my heart goes out to those who cannot say the same
In the end it does not matter if the person or people who did this were pro-gun or anti-gun, pro-abortion or anti-abortion, pro-feminist or anti-feminist, pro-this or anti-that. It does not matter what they did try to achieve with their act if anything. The way they chose to proceed their cause was not acceptable. As an organized society we have ways to deal with unacceptable behavior and we should stick to them. At the same time we should support the victims in any ways needed and refuse to be terrorized.
I'm so proud of this guy. 78 and still running and in great physical shape. I feel bad for him that the memory of such a great day has been tarnished for him by this explosion.
security national first. Maybe north korea terrorist here. BE CAREFUL.
Scary thought about that, or even Al-Qaeda, means they've found a way to communicate and plan without detection. And worst of all would be NK sleeper cells going unnoticed.
Still, way to early to speculate about anything. Could just as easily be an American extremist act, like a white supremacist group or lone wolf, or OWS affiliation, or who knows? Too early to tell.
There may be some thugs involved in OWS, but actual terrorist attacks would be more in line with the Tea Party. They're constantly threatening secession/civil war/revolution whenever elections don't go the way that they would like.
Yep! The far Right " TEA TARTY" is Seperatists and anti – American!!!! Hey Sarah!
Michael, prove that. Who involved? How do you know? You don't know, it could be ANYONE. But typical kneejerk liberal reaction, blame the Tea Party that you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about beyond the CNN, MSNBC, Huffpo, NYT LIES! I'm not willing to concede it wasn't someone involved with them, but not going to single anyone out without proof. But nobody with the Tea Party has ever called for anything more than peaceful assembly; OTOH – proof has repeatedly shown OWS affiliates more than willing to destroy; in fact many want open revolution, just like the French Revolution, some even posting that here on other threads.
It's just too early to tell or say anything.
Yep Jason the Tea Party have been calling the rest of America losers and not worthy of living for more than four years! Rush Blabbermouth " I never abused pain pills", Sarah "im an Idiot", Hannity ' Lame Duck Whinner", and Bill " lets just calm down and avoid the Poor, their worthless" O'Whiley! The majorityOne Though!!! Ha!
@Michael That is ridiculous. I seem to remember all kinds of whining and crying when John Kerry lost.
This guy is one tough bird but I got to say I feel bad how he has been propped up in front of camera after camera when he has to be feeling some post traumatic stress despite what he says. We should be getting this cared for, not parading him around television. In the few interviews I heard, some last night, he was obviously still dazed, he said this morning that his ears still aren't right. Just doesn't seem like the right thing to do, hopefully he is also being cared for right now as well.
I'm sorry that this 78 year old guy got blown off his feet towards the end of the finish yesterday. Someone helped him to his up and he crossed the finish line but I am getting tired of seeing his face plastered all over the news. He is okay. How about the names and stories of some of the victims?
Despite not being seriously inured, he was still a victim. I'm sure I speak for a lot of people who watched that video when I say I'm glad there are stories about him. I wanted to know he was alright. That doesn't take away from my caring about others who were injured or killed.
you guys can talkk politics and argue all day but woever did this is obviously sick, and i doubt it was an american. what i would like to know is how they planted bombs that big and no one noticed at all? and they said people have been threatening to bomb the race to begin with, wheres the security? Do people not notice anything? when they were going to bomb times square someone saw this guy was acting mad sus so they reported it. i just want to know how they got bombs that big so close to the marathon with no one saying anything
They are saying that the bombs were in a 6 liter pressure cooker. Do a Google image search for one. You will see it's not that big. They were placed in a duffel bag. Can you imagine the volume of duffel bags at a race with 27,000 registrations and likely double or triple as spectators? Securing an event like this is not possible.
The blogging on here is borderline amusing. SM is illiterate, and it has turned into a pro-this or that discussion.
People we live on a planet that is larger than the US. Speculation clouds our thoughts and the clarity of facts. Wait and see what is revealed. If it was outside terror, they will reveal when they are done to claim their glory. If it's home grown terror regardless of organization or belonging they may not be finished and can easily assume the sleeper posture, leaving the ability to do more damage laying in wait for their next target.
Prayers to the families affected and for our Nation to heal. Together we stand, Divided we fall.
Well said. 🙂
Illeterate, stop it! I'll go toe to toe with you or anybody on any subject. I'll get to your true personality and see if your a taker, giver, or useless!
Forget it sm, I'm done with you...reprobate minded fool
Thanks man! I'll be talking too you soon
Come on mr. literate. lets get down and dirty in some issues and see who you really are! Speak!
I don't think you're illiterate,SM–you're the best contributor on here–you just haven't been whipped enough,but Mildred has
The Rod Of Correction as we speak(and some refreshment),so if you'll just take up the position–Mildred,this might hurt me...
lets just kill every single one of tghem freaks...why dont they get in army fatugues and take on our marines??,,,yea i thought so u cowards...
Who exactly do you mean by "tghem freaks"?
Why does a tragedy like this bring out the worst in some people. Like 9/11, conspiracy theorists are working overtime to come up with a story that fits their twisted views. The left and right are at each others throats blaming the other side for what happened. Let's stop reading between the lines and wait until the facts come out.
Until this nation turns back to God, this will continue to happen.
How can you possibly know this to be true???
Furthermore, why would you worship a god that kills children?
This photograph perfectly captures a terrorizing moment of shock and then immediate response. Amazing.
did u guys see the women cop from the left site when the second bomb when off she run run away back word she wasn't going to help ,,what a shame
Oh, I'm totally sure that's what happened. Were you there watching her? Don't be a dick.
So what? Everyone, regardless of their job or responsibility and even training, occasionally fails and lets themselves be overcome by their weakness. Only thing that mattered is if she stayed and helped, and I'm guessing she did. She deserves forgiveness for momentary weakness.
all the sickening pacifist lib comments make me sick
never would defend this country no matter what
Nothing more disgusting than the right-wing ghouls taking advantage of this tragedy to belittle "libs" and further divide our country.
I hope this man will be okay. My prayers are with the others, who were hurt and killed.
After repeatedly seeing the clip of the man falling, I am really glad to see this interview and know he is ok. It was terribly disturbing that the news media (all of them) kept playing this one scene. We are praying for Martin Richard's family – especially his dad.
It all boils down to this.... someone holds no respect for the dignity of life. Someone has no value for life. That person is filled with hate, and not with love. We don't care what color he/she is, what religion he/she is, what nationality he/she is. He/she is our brother/sister in this world, and has done a heinous and awful thing. We all hurt and grieve this action. Let's not escalate it to something other than just that.
What an attention hog!!! Him and his UGLY Orange tank top have GOTTA GO!
six of the best for SM!!!!!!
One of the first things I noticed (& have waited to hear about) when I saw the video that shows Bill falling, is that he appears to deflect or catch a white object/projectile with his left hand. He actually reached out to the left,with his palm out. I cannot get that out of my mind...Is it something relevant to what happened? I honestly thought that his hand would have been seriously injure ...or worse.
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What a tragic weekend in the world, They stuck and event that people were attending to better themselves an event were people were running for causes. The people that were hurt were supporting the runners. The people they killed had nothing to do with the so called cause that drove
them to kill. What a waste!
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Gesta seeks first title on Pacquiao-Marquez card
LAS VEGAS — Mercito Gesta believes his first title shot is more than preliminary match on the undercard of Saturday night's fourth meeting between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez.
"It could be a preview," Gesta joked earlier this week.
Like Pacquiao, Gesta is an aggressive, southpaw fighter who learned the trade in The Philippines.
And like Marquez, Gesta's opponent, Miguel Vazquez, is a counter-puncher from Mexico.
Gesta, a resident of Spring Valley, will challenge Vazquez for the International Boxing Federated lightweight title in a 12-round fight an hour before the highly anticipated fourth match between Pacquiao and Marquez Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Gesta and Vazquez are expected to enter the ring at 9 p.m. on the HBO pay-per-view card.
This will be the first title fight for Gesta, whose rapid improvement has made the 25-year-old one of the hottest new names in boxing.
The only blemish on Gesta's 27-fight professional record is a draw. And nine of his 14 career knockouts have come in his last 11 wins.
"Mercito is a naturally gifted fighter," said Vince Parra, who trains Gesta. "Some experts think this is a huge step for Mercito. No one is picking Mercito to win. No one knows what we know.
"Mercito was ready for this fight two years ago. I was getting concerned that no one would fight him. We're very confident. This fight could shoot Mercito into stardom."
Perhaps the biggest problem facing Gesta Saturday night is the style of Vazquez, who is also 25 and owns a 32-3 record with 13 knockouts.
"He is very unorthodox," said Gesta of his opponent. "He runs away. I plan to slow him down, cut off the ring and get inside and work the body when I can. I can't let him stay on the move."
Gesta, whose best weapons are a quick jab and a right hook, said there is no under-playing the importance of this fight in the 135-pounder's career.
"Since I moved to San Diego (in 2007), I've been working toward this fight and telling people I met that it would be happening," said Gesta. "Now it's happening. I have to win."
Unlike most boxers, Gesta, who is ranked as high as fifth among lightweights, never fought as an amateur. His only boxing experience is his 27 professional fights and countless rounds of sparring. Gesta's background was as a Muay Thai fighter in The Philippines. Muay Thai is a kick boxing form of martial arts.
"Muay Thai is heavy on kicking and punching without the grabbing of MMA fighting," said Gesta, who switched to boxing at the age of 16.
"A lot of kick boxers have to make major changes when they get into the boxing ring," said Parra. "Mercito's style didn't have to be tweaked. His father had done a great job when Mercito made the switch."
While climbing the ladder, Gesta fought four times in his adopted San Diego "home." He's been represented by Top Rank for the past year.
"Not many San Diegans have reached title fights since Danny Perez, Paul Vaden and Terry Norris, and that was more than a decade ago," said Parra. "Mercito's goal is to defend a title one day at Petco Park."
As for Pacquiao and Marquez, the pair will be welterweights in their fourth meeting.
Pacquiao, 33, has a 54-4-2 record and weighed in Friday at the 147-pound maximum. Marquez, 39, is 54-6-1 and weighed in at 143 pounds. Pacquiao will be the aggressor Saturday night. Marquez is a counter puncher.
Pacquiao has won two of the first three meetings between the pair with the first fight ending as a draw.
They first met in 2004 as featherweights and fought to a draw although Pacquiao knocked Marquez down three times in the first round. In 2008, Pacquiao won a split decision when both were junior lightweights. Pacquiao won a majority decision 13 months ago, although many ringside observers had Marquez winning.


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Eugene Patterson, editor and columnist, dies at 89
Eugene Patterson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist who helped fellow Southern whites understand the civil rights movement, eloquently reminding the silent majority of its complicity in racist violence, died Saturday evening at his Florida home. He was 89.
Patterson was surrounded by family friends when he died of complications from cancer, according to B.J. Phillips, a spokeswoman for the family.
Patterson was editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1960 to 1968, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for editorial writing and doing a signed column every day for eight years. He wrote about the civil rights movement at a time when many Southern newspapers were reluctant to cover it.
Patterson's Sept, 16, 1963, column about the Birmingham church bombing that killed four girls, titled "A Flower for the Graves," was so moving he was asked by Walter Cronkite to read it on the "CBS Evening News."
"A Negro mother wept in the street Sunday morning in front of a Baptist Church in Birmingham," Patterson began the column. "In her hand she held a shoe, one shoe, from the foot of her dead child. We hold that shoe with her.
"Every one of us in the white South holds that small shoe in his hand. ... We who go on electing politicians who heat the kettles of hate. ... (The bomber) feels right now that he has been a hero. He is only guilty of murder. He thinks he has pleased us. We of the white South who know better are the ones who must take a harsher judgment."
"It was the high point of my life," Patterson said in a June 2006 interview from his home in St. Petersburg. "It was the only time I was absolutely sure I was right. They were not telling the truth to people and we tried to change that."
Patterson said he was fortunate to work for a newspaper with "deep pockets" and "enlightened" leadership that encouraged him to use his voice.
"We were rather rare editors in the South at that time," Patterson said of his columns and those of Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill. He worked under McGill, himself a Pulitzer winner in 1959, and then succeeded him at the helm of the Constitution four years later.
In the 2004 Discovery Times Channel documentary "Someone's Watching," Patterson recalled being asked by the FBI to print damaging information on the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"He said we have information from our informant (and that means in FBI lingo, a wiretap) that Dr. King is being unfaithful to his wife," Patterson said. "And I said to him, `We're not a peephole journal. We don't print that kind of stuff.'"
When he was approached a second time, Patterson recalled, "I finally said to him, `Look, the news story here is not Dr. King's life. It's the misuse of the federal police power by the FBI in trying to damage an American citizen.'"
In 1968, Patterson joined The Washington Post and served three years as its managing editor, playing a central role in the publication of the Pentagon Papers. After leaving the Post he spent a year teaching at Duke University.
He became editor of The St. Petersburg Times and its Washington publication, Congressional Quarterly, in 1972 and was later chief executive officer of The St. Petersburg Times Co. Under his leadership, the Times won two Pulitzer Prizes and became known as one of the top newspapers in the country.
Times owner Nelson Poynter, who died in 1978, chose Patterson to ensure his controlling stock in the newspaper company was used to fund a school for journalists then called the Modern Media Insititute. It is now known as the Poynter Institute, which owns the St. Petersburg Times.
"A person - one person - had to be entrusted with fulfilling what Mr. Poynter intended," said Roy Peter Clark, the school's first faculty member. "That meant he had to be trusted enough not to sell the newspaper to Knight Ridder or Gannett or take away millions of dollars for personal use. He had to be totally trustworthy, so Mr. Poynter chose Mr. Patterson."
A champion of high ethical standards for journalists, Patterson insisted the Times play the story prominently on the front page when he was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
In 1981, Patterson refused to join other Pulitzer board members in awarding Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke the prize for her story of a young heroin addict.
Patterson said at the time the story didn't "smell right," and said at best the story was "an aberration," tainted by Cooke's promise not to disclose information that could help save a child's life.
Cooke had to return the Pulitzer two days later after admitting she had fabricated the story.
Patterson retired from the Times and Poynter in 1988.
A collection of Patterson's Atlanta Constitution columns was published in book form in 2002 as "The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968."
Patterson was born in 1923 in Georgia, the son of a schoolteacher and a bank cashier who later lost his job during the Great Depression. He grew up on a small farm, and recalled toiling "behind a plow drawn by two mules across 50 acres of isolation." School, fishing and literature were his only means of escape.
Those experiences in the segregated South would help shape his later world view. Patterson "understood the intense feelings that segregationists had, the great fear they had, that their way of life was about to end," said Hank Klibanoff director of the journalism program at Emory University and co-author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on press coverage of the civil rights movement. "But in the end (he) said that was not reason enough to resist."
Patterson graduated from the University of Georgia in 1943, then served in the Army in Europe. His platoon was in the thick of fighting during the Battle of the Bulge, the final German offensive of World War II.
His first reporting job was at the Temple (Texas) Daily Telegram. He later went on to work for United Press in Atlanta, New York and London. It was there that he wrote one of his most famous leads, on a story about Ernest Hemingway being feared dead in an airplane crash in Uganda.
"Ernest Hemingway came out of the jungle today carrying a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin," Patterson wrote.
Even in his last years, Patterson spent time editing and writing. One of his final projects was cutting 600,000 words from the King James Bible. He reasoned that the Bible is full of great stories that are hard to follow.
Clark wrote of that endeavor: "It turns out that even Moses needed an editor."
The Poynter Institute: https://www.poynter.org/


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Nathan Ansbaugh designed and conducted analyses on a group of 2,720 U.S. veterans referred by multiple providers for initial prostate biopsy.
Biopsy results and clinical information were compiled for analysis by Garzotto.
The study, published online ahead of the print edition of the journal Cancer, found Agent Orange exposure was linked with a 52 percent increase in overall risk of prostate cancer detection by biopsy. Exposure to the herbicide did not confer an increase in risk of low-grade prostate cancer, but it was linked with a 75 percent increase in risk of the aggressive prostate cancer, the study said.
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Following is an exchange between Mad Money host Jim Cramer and his researcher Nicole Urken about the fiscal cliff.
From: James Cramer
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 3:18 PM
To: Nicole Urken
Subject: No Huddle
We talk a lot about the fiscal cliff on the network, and we should because on conference call after call we are hearing CEOs say that uncertainty in Washington over the budget is casting a pall on their own businesses.
From: Nicole Urken
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:07 PM
To: James Cramer
Subject: Re: No Huddle
Hearing this from EMC today—From conference call: "These economic and political uncertainties are affecting business confidence, and this is affecting IT spending rates." What we've also heard from IBM/NTAP/others previously.
Nicole's Research
Third quarter results and fourth quarter outlook have been tainted by uncertainty over fiscal cliff negotiations, something that has of course dominated airwaves. But what is an investible way to play a resolution (whether it be before year end or early next year)?
Answer: The QQQ, the ETF based on the Nasdaq 100.
It is a play on capex cycles for enterprise if we see some normalization on business underspend that has persisted this year. Tech has been out of favor since the end of September but has recently caught a bid on changing sentiment.
Read More: Scaling the Abyss - 9 'Buys' If We Fall Off Fiscal Cliff
Following are some of the key components of the QQQ:
First there's Cisco (CSCO), Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Intel (INTC).
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- Oracle reports next Tuesday and while it is running into the quarter a bit, valuation remains reasonable with expectations muted. The driver of course is software, and once we get a return of enterprise spending, this name will benefit. After all, companies do want to spend to increase revenue growth and improve productivity, but we need certainty before they outline their budgets
- If you want to try to catch a trade in two laggards? Look no further than Microsoft and Intel. Microsoft is down and out on very muted expectations for Windows 8 and the surface tablet, but at these levels, we could see an interesting entry point.
Intel has been a dog, down 15 percent year-to-date as it has dug in its heels on Moore's law. But with a CEO transition forthcoming and potential upside in corporate spending, you could see an interesting January effect trade for this one. Read More: Microsoft Kicks Up Its Surface Tablet Offerings
- Next page for more
Also there are momentum names: Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG).
- Google remains off its highs since its disappointing quarter in October despite improved stats (particularly over Black Friday weekend). While investors are skeptical on its mobile potential, we are seeing Facebook gaining traction in this camp… and if they can do it, Google can too! This stock is one of our "anointed ones" on Mad Money as sultan of search (over 70 percent of search budgets!)…So this is an increased corporate spending play too!
And the latest cost per click (CPC) stats for the company have improved—hitting 63 percent of desktop CPCs (up from 50 percent in recent quarters). Don't forget that Google is building an ecosystem of its own (one of the key reasons we have liked Apple) with its Android devices!
- Amazon seems to do no wrong, with the market giving it the benefit of the doubt despite high spending and mediocre earnings. That said, this e-commerce play has much runroom ahead and margins will begin to improve as spending needs wane
- Apple: This has become the true pulse of the market and has become one of the most technically-driven name. At this point, remains strong for the long-term and the direction of Apple should aid the QQQ. Read More: Apple Testing TV-Set Designs: Report
What's the bottom line?
Keep an eye on the QQQ and its key components. It may be an interesting trade into the end of the year and for 2013.
Nicole's Random musings
In addition to a shift into tech, we are also seeing a shift into the industrials space—some positive data from names out this morning like Dupont (DD), Joy Global (JOY)—on optimism for global cyclical recovery (China GDP growth along with Europe stabilization).
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This classified advertisement, allegedly published in a California newspaper in the spring of 1860, is one of the most recognized and highly disputed relics from the Pony Express. The frontier mail carrier operated only 19 months, leaving in the dust a trail of myth and contradiction.
The oft-quoted ad has since been published in publications ranging from National Geographic to The New York Times. Reproduction parchment posters, passed off as originals, have fetched small fortunes on eBay. But nobody has confirmed how or where the ad originated. Nevertheless, it offers a glimpse of what the fleet messengers were like.
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Articles, eyewitness accounts and journals provide reasonably accurate descriptions of the brave Pony Express riders, but little evidence supports that the young men were orphans. That term was first coined with Pony Express riders in a 1923 article that appeared in Sunset magazine, and it wasn't referenced again until the 1940s.
This is a classic example of how the legend and lore of the Pony Express is "rooted in fact, but layered with a century-and-a-half of fabrication, embellishment and outright lies," says Christopher Corbett, author of Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express.
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C:T talks to composer Gabriel Jackson
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Tell us something about your background.
I was born in Bermuda in 1962 where my father was a clergyman at Bermuda cathedral. When I was three years old we returned to England. My father had been quite an accomplished pianist when he was young and while he hadn't really kept up his piano-playing he was, and is, a very passionate and knowledgeable music-lover, with a huge record/CD collection, a very glitzy hi-fi system and wide-ranging musical interests and enthusiasms. So I heard and got to know an awful lot of music in my early years..
When I was eight years old I started at the Choir School at Canterbury Cathedral and a year or so later joined the cathedral choir as a treble. The life of a cathedral chorister is very demanding - before a day of school we would have an hour-long choir practice, after school there was another choir practice followed by Evensong, and after supper homework and instrumental practice; we had one day off a week but also sang Evensong on Saturday and two, sometimes three, services on a Sunday. But it was also great fun and very exciting, particularly in a very busy place like Canterbury where there were always lots of special services, radio and television broadcasts and recordings. We had to stay on after the school term finished until Christmas day for instance, and also at Easter, but that was fun, and singing in a packed cathedral for those special events was always thrilling. It is a fantastic musical education - you are singing great music everyday to a very high standard; you have to be very professional all the time, and you develop fantastic aural and sight-reading skills. We were particularly fortunate in my time at Canterbury to have Allan Wicks as Organist and Master of the Choristers - he was a hugely charismatic and inspirational musician and he remains the single most important influence on my musical life. He was also very committed to contemporary music so we sang a lot of contemporary music including things like the Tippett Canticles which were still fairly new in those days.
In my teens I studied composition at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with Richard Blackford and after that with John Lambert at the RCM proper.
How did you start composing?
This sounds a bit silly but I actually started writing notes on staves before I could actually read music properly. I must have been fascinated by how music looked and it was quite an interesting experimental process, drawing these notes on manuscript paper and then discovering, by having someone play me what I'd written down, and hearing what it sounded like. More or less as soon as I started piano lessons (I can't remember how old I was) and could read music I started composing little piecs, this time with some actual sense of what I was doing!
Who or what has influenced your style?
One very important influence is Mediaeval and Renaissance music, particularly late 15th and 16th-century English music. Formative musical experiences are hugely important, I think, and of course the core of our repertoire at Canterbury was Tudor music. Stravinsky has also been hugely important in many different ways - the idea that music is about other music, the use of block structures, without development or transitions, his particular understanding of the unique character of each instrument and the actual sound of the music. I am also a huge Tippett afficianado - the greatest English composer since the death of Byrd - his work has such generosity of spirit and an ecstatic quality that is very special. Among more recent figures minimalist and post-minimalist composers, be they 'holy like Part, Gorecki and Tavener (particularly Gorecki, a much more substantial figure than some would have us believe) or more 'pure' like Steve Reich and Philip Glass have been very important. Also the wonderful Australians Ross Edwards and Peter Sculthorpe.
I think my teacher John Lambert, who was the doyen of British composition teachers - he had taught Ollie Knussen, Simon Bainbridge, Jonathan Lloyd, Mark Turnage and many others - was also very important, although I'm not sure he would have approved of how I've turned out! But he always valued clarity of expression and a certain cleanness is something I always try to to acheive.
Another, quite different, influence is Soul and RnB - not in the sense of attempting any kind of 'crossover' or imatating the music in any way, but the sense of ecstatic communion one gets from the greatest singers, and the frequent use in Soul music of saturated diatonic chords, particularly when voiced by a group of singers, has been very influential. My use of evolving melodies over a harmonic and rhythmic ostinato owes as much to the way the singer's semi-improvised vocal line rides the groove in RnB as to minimalist techniques.
Angelorum by Gabriel Jackson
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How did you get your first commission?
I had numerous requests for pieces throughout my teens and I even got paid a small amount for a piece once but my first proper commission, properly paid, after I left college, was for a piece for piano and percussion in 1984. I don't think I did anythng to actively get it - I was lucky enough to be offered the commission by Timothy Salter, who'd been my supervisor at college. And the pianist in the first performance was Thalia Myers, who has become a great friend and collaborator, so that was nice.
Where do your ideas come from?
Now there's a question! Literally, I don't know. The needs of the project, from other music sometimes, from visual art (I often derive structures and other material from artworks), the text (in vocal and choral pieces), things like that.
Do you have particular techniques - one's you come back to again and again? Tell us a bit about them.
Isorhythm (or my own form of it) where the same material is repeated with different pitches but the same rhythm is something I use a lt. My pieces are all tonal, but that's not really a technique is it? Abrupt editing between one section of material and another. Evolving melodies over harmonic/rhythmic ostinatos; ornate melodies over drones - do these count as techniques?
What's the worst thing about composing?
It's not well enough paid. And it's difficult!
And the best?
A fantastic feeling where everything goes right. The reaction of audiences members when a piece has really affected them. The sense, on occasion, that you've done a good job and the piece really works.
What inspires you to write?
The commission! The circumstances of the first perforamnce - the venue, the rest of the programme etc., a particular perrformer or ensemble (especially if I already know them and enjoy working with them), the text (in a vocal piece, the prospect of payment!
What advice would you give to a young composer just starting out?
Write what you want to write - don't worry about trying to please or impress others. Cultivate performers who you want to work with and who are interested in what you're doing. Don't worry about what other people are doing - concentrate on what you're doing and try and write the best music you can. Be very professional in your presentation of scores and parts - if they're full of mistakes or hard to read you will alienate the players. And be nice to performers you are working with - learn from their experience in practical matters, and be prepared to change things if you've misjudged something and it doesn't work.
Do you have a routine? A place that's special
Do you do other work as well as composing?
Not really. I pretty much compose full time, which I'm very lucky to be able to do, but it doesn't mean writing a huge amount of music each year in order to make it pay.
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