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Meaghan Grey Jackson of Athens and Brendan Kyle Dow of Enterprise were married in a 6:30 p.m. ceremony Sept. 1 at Creekside Plantation in Mooresville with Kenneth Straugn officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Andy and Shane Jackson of Athens. She is the granddaughter of Mamie Lou and Tom Harrison and the late Buster and Betty Romine and Walton Jackson.
The groom is the son of Brian and Karen Dow of Enterprise. He is the grandson of Loren and Darlene Dow and Hazel Lindsey and the late R.J. Lindsey.
The bride was given in marriage by her father Andy Jackson.
The matron of honor was Brittney Catherine Dunn, sister of the bride. Bridal attendants were Dru Anna Jackson, Dana Jackson, Nancy Romine Minkler, Lindsey Dow, Alison Bivens, Mallory Davis, Brooke Williams, Adrienne Merrett, Mary Jameson, Emily Ray, Shelby Robinson, Laura Beth Smith, Katrina Elkins, Ashley Robinson and Lindsey Townsend. Junior bridesmaids are Brianna Turner, Annie Catherine Dunn and Meg Jackson. Honoraries were Jennifer Hall and Christy Stewart.
The flower girls were Anna Townsend and Reagan Jackson.
Jordan Dow served as best man. Groomsmen were Brian Dow, Rodney Jackson, Jeffrey Dunn, Allan Lindsey, Jay Martin, Mark Jipson, Brian Hundley, Trey Montgomery, Gabe Childs, Calvin Cassady, Pep Pfluke, Justin Jones, Doug Watkins, Michael Cumbie and Deval Williams.
The ringbearer was Riggs Ryan Dunn and bridal announcement sign holder was Garrett Dunn.
Music was provided by Chris Slayton.
The guest register was kept by Audra Williams and Jessica Jackson.
A reception followed the ceremony at Creekside Plantation.
Wedding coordinator was Carla Lynn, the floral designer was Lisa Atkins and the wedding videographer was Josh Frantz of Idoflix in Birmingham.
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When the Sabres called up Jhonas Enroth to replace injured goalie Ryan Miller, it left their affiliate in the AHL, the Portland Pirates, short a goalie for their game against the Charlotte Checkers and moved David Leggio of Williamsville into the starting role.
After allowing the tying goal in the last second of regulation on Tuesday, Leggio stopped four of five shooters as teammates Luke Adam and Corey Tropp scored to claim a 4-3 victory in the shootout.
Leggio ran his season record to 5-0 with a .925 save percentage and 2.50 goals against average.
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VOTD: Project Nghiem
Stop-motion master Kyle Roberts hooks up with The Nghiems to produce the year's most fun local video.
If you're not familiar with Norman band
The Nghiems
(pronounced "Nims") or the terrific things that
Reckless Abandonment Pictures'
Kyle Roberts is up to, then take five minutes to familiarize yourself.
It's pretty awesome that each member of the band has his or her own signature video-game moves in the video for "Dum Dum Dah Dah" (my favorites are James' on-the-ground forcefield drumroll and just getting to watch Jen kick butt in general), but what's really kind of amazing is the fact that David Nghiem apparently dreams in a video-game format.
Also, watch for Tyler Hopkins and Tanner Blair, who are probably the two most convincing bad guys I never would have considered to be bad guys. And there just can't be enough said about how fun-loving and silly Roberts' stop-motion stuff is. Be sure to check out "
Battle of the Bonds
," too, if you haven't already.
by Matt Carney
10.03.2011 2 years ago
at 09:00 AM |
Christmastime in September
Now it's October. But the video was shot in September. And the song's due in December.
I was lucky enough to get to hang out with Okie singer Samantha Crain recently, as she recorded her contribution to this year's Fowler Volkswagen Christmas compilation. You might recall
last year's edition
— of silly cover — which was recorded by Chris Harris at Hook Echo Sound and even spawned a really great free holiday concert.
This year's edition currently is being recorded at Blackwatch Studios, and owner/producer Jarod Evans says the album will feature Colourmusic, Sherree Chamberlain, Chrome Pony, Ol' Savior and more, including Ryan Lindsey singing the wonderfully titled "I'm Coming Down Your Chimney."
Nathan Poppe
's been tapped to shoot a promotional music video for the album, and he subsequently tapped yours truly to help out.
Watching Sam work on her Oklahoma-themed girl-crush seasonal song with Jarod and Daniel Foulks, her friendly fiddle player was a delight. At first, they considered doing a Lucinda Williams number, but decided it'd be more fun to layer a bunch of vocals over a steady, crackling-fire beat with plenty of sleigh bells, like a '60s girl-group song. Of the tracks I've heard, it's my favorite so far. Looking forward to picking up a copy come Christmastime! Watch video of her and Daniel recording their parts. Apologies for me being a bit of a wobbly videographer. Musicians make me nervous:
by Matt Carney
10.03.2011 2 years ago
at 01:50 PM |
Mmm ... Minty!
Norman's much-loved Starlight Mints announce digital releases, singer's solo album.
I've only enjoyed the pleasure of hearing the Starlight Mints play once, but it was most definitely enough to make the email I received from Allan Vest today a very happy one.
According to Vest, the band's two earliest albums, 2000's "
The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of
" and 2003's "
Built On Squares
" are now available for purchase from iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Rhapsody, Napster and other digital music outlets. While OKS is personally very fond of "Rhino Stomp" and "Drowaton" in general, this is good news that the band's older material's finally found its way online. Now go buy it!
Vest, of Edmond, also said that he's currently working on solo material in pursuit of a career in film and television scoring. Go, Oklahoma!
by Matt Carney
10.04.2011 2 years ago
at 12:35 PM |
That's like, a quarter of a day, man.
The Flaming Lips' six-hour song to be released ... soon, we understand.
Warner Bros. Records announced yesterday that The Flaming Lips'
, somewhat anticipated and sure-to-be-psychedelic, charitable, six-hour-long song, "Found a Star on the Ground," will be released very soon. A press release said to stay tuned to
the band's website
for information.
Also contained within the release was this odd little nugget:
"The song itself will be contained within a newly-developed mesmerizing toy, THE STROBO TRIP. This unique devise has been called 'A Light & Audio Phase Illusions Toy' to use used in conjunction with 'Found A Star On The Ground' to create a complete Lipsian happening to be enjoyed by yourself or with other interesting people or pets."
It adds the following explanation, for context (one supposes):
"Honestly users, you'll just have to experience this multi-sensory phenomenon for yourselves to understand the concept."
We appreciate your candidness in being incapable of explaining the inner workings of The Flaming Lips' collective brain to the masses, Warner Bros.
by Matt Carney
10.04.2011 2 years ago
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VOTD: Stephen's grievin'
Watch Stephen Malkmus and co. rock a dirty, scenic NYC rooftop.
Easily one of my favorite songs from
the current Stephen Malkmus album
was the youthful, fed-up shouter "Tune Grief," which gets the Pitchfork TV treatment today. There's something really perfect about the graffiti-blasted rooftop and sunset, which matches Malkmus's nonsense-spewing and teenaged attitude.
Also, I
want that super-cool Silver Jews hat that he's rocking. Don't forget to scroll through for a couple more tracks from this session, including "Forever 28" and "Senators."
by Matt Carney
10.05.2011 2 years ago
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Kickstart a local album!
Help Okie singer Sherree Chamberlain record her second disc.
There aren't a whole lot of local female musicians who are as talented as Sherree Chamberlain. Her debut album, 2009's "
The Wasp in the Room
" was as lovely a work as you'll find around these parts, and it's most definitely in need of a follow-up. To the Internets!
Chamberlain has started
a Kickstarter page
in an attempt to raise money to record her sophomore album, which she's already written, and titled "New Skin." On the page is a really funny, candid video of her discussing the details of the disc, and what she'll do if a baby donates money to her cause: "I will hunt down a mother, find some breast milk, and feed it to you in a bottle."
Watch, then head to the site and pledge some money! She's already $1,700 toward her goal, which she must achieve by the end of this month.
Also, I just realized that for a $500 donation, she'd cover any song of my choosing. Never in my life have I been more sure of the fact that I want to hear Sherree Chamberlain record a version of "
Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)
by Matt Carney
10.06.2011 2 years ago
at 12:10 PM |
What's good, KD?
The first in a series, wherein I evaluate the Durantula's music evaluations.
With the outlook for a full (or even halved) NBA season
growing bleaker and bleaker
, I've realized how weirdly unhealthy my obsession with Kevin Durant is.
I constantly refresh his Twitter and Facebook pages on the regular, hoping to catch a few loose links to videos of semi-pro games he's dominating, or
news about the movie he's shooting
, or
awesome photos of him repping Oklahoma
. Heck, I even bought a pair of his shoes, just for playing pickup ball.
In all this, I've noticed how much this guy cares about music (exclusively hip-hop and R&B, from what I've seen), as he's constantly talking and arguing about what he's listening to. Just a few days ago, Durantula defended West Coast mixtaper Dom Kennedy via Twitter, after arguing with
(apparently a friend?) between Pusha T and Young Jeezy the night before. He's also been pushing Big K.R.I.T., an upcoming Southern trunk rapper/producer, extensively the last couple of weeks.
So I thought it might be fun to tune into No. 35's Skullcandy headphones and analyze what he's saying about it. Here's your first installment of "What's good, KD?"
Let's consider his recent brief assessment of Clipse member and Kanye collaborator Pusha T. From Durantula's Facebook, around about 2 a.m. yesterday:
"Now playin on my Skullcandy's: 'open your eyes' - Pusha T. MEEEAAANN track!!!"
Clipse's 2006 street-rap manifesto "Hell Hath No Fury" set a high bar for mean hip-hop, and Pusha's work since then's been similarly aggressive. He loves to set your expectations much lower with especially playful beats and samples (the "Bohemian Rhapsody" sample on "Open Your Eyes" is textbook), then skewer them by comparing himself to, say, the genocidal Hutu tribe, as he does on "Fury"'s "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)." It's one of the reasons he's been so great with Kanye, who's been similarly aggressive and graphic lately.
I'd be inclined to agree with KDTrey5 here then, except Pusha doesn't really hit you that hard lyrically, and certainly not in the same place. On "Open Your Eyes," he's more earnest about his drug-dealing past, and proud of his success ("bigger homes, with bigger guns and better cameras") than he is aggrandizing. It's less intimidating, especially when you compare the track with his recent
"Fear of God" mixtape
(from standout song "My God": "I gotta voodoo doll / Every time I pin the verse / Not only do they say they feel it but they say it hurts").
This seems to me more like post-game wind-down music than a really gritty, mean, pre-game warmup track. So KD, while I do love that you're into Pusha T, dig into some of his other work for stuff that's truly "MEEEAAANN," and you'll instill the "fear of God" within the heart of every three-man in the league this season.
by Matt Carney
10.06.2011 2 years ago
at 02:40 PM |
VOTD: Trip-hop to the rescue
Watch Portishead play its first American TV show in over a decade.
Just when I was getting worried for a while that the super-aggro, mass-culture-canned version of dubstep (see: Skrillex, Excision) was starting to completely fill out the mainstream's understanding of electronic music, legendary English innovators Portishead calmed me down. The trip-hop act showed up on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" to play a brand new song and a classic, for the first time on American TV in 13 years.
Watch (or rather, experience) "
Chase the Tear
," which the band is currently promoting as a 12" release, and "Mysterons," a haunting song that will probably outlive us all:
by Matt Carney
10.07.2011 2 years ago
at 10:30 AM |
VOTD: It's a JFJO two-fer!
Watch the state's reigning alt-jazz act play FreeTulsa!
I don't know who's behind
, but they've shot a couple of really terrific, multi-camera videos of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's FreeTulsa! performance, as well as other local bands Desi & Cody, Low Litas and the awesomely named Manhammer. I strongly recommend you jaunt over to their neck of the Internet woods and watch the beautiful stuff posted there.
I'd especially like to point out the pair of tracks from JFJO's excellent, latest LP, "
Race Riot Suite
." Watch "The Return" for a lengthy, impressive Chris Combs lap guitar solo, and "Grandfather's Gun" for the signature raucous, high-energy performance you expect from the band.
by Matt Carney
10.10.2011 2 years ago
at 12:10 PM |
VOTD: Ya wanna buy a van?
Because The Black Keys are selling one.
So Akron, Ohio, neo-blues icons Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney (no relation that I can be certain of) are busy boys these days.
News broke a few weeks ago
that they'll soon be releasing a sequel to 2009's "Blackroc" that'll include producer Damon Dash and a slew of other rappers — Curren$y, U God, Jay Electronica, Jim Jones and Wiz Khalifa among them.
You'd think a rock band that's sold nearly 2 million records and won a Grammy for their last album wouldn't be too interested in following up on a seemingly one-off passion project, but that's just the kind of guys Dan and Pat are.
They also can't stop writing songs or coming up with hilarious ways of promoting them. The video below hit the Internet yesterday, via the newly built website,
. It features Bob Odenkirk (of cult-level "Mr. Show" and "Breaking Bad" fame) doing his thing as a frustrated car salesman. While I did love the "Frank the Dinosaur" bit that promoted the last record, and
this wonderful, wonderful bit of single promotion
Odenkirk's berating of the idiot driver behind him is hysterical.
If you call the number listed on the site, you hear a recorded message from Pat (
who also tweeted the number with the hashtag "elcamino" yesterday
) describing an El Camino with "a quarter-million miles on it." Pitchfork's reporting that "El Camino" is the title of the album, and it's due out in December. Pretty excited for this one, guys.
by Matt Carney
10.11.2011 2 years ago
at 08:10 AM |
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By Crystal Wylie
Register News Writer
Second-year data for Kentucky's new school accountability system, Unbridled Learning, will be released Friday for all state schools.
Last year, the new accountability model brought many changes to the way schools are assessed.
Not only are there changes in scorekeeping methods, but also in the range of scores possible. For example, in the past, schools could score between zero and 140. Now, schools may score between zero and 100.
There were changes in the state's standards of proficiency as well.
"In the past, there was a high percentage of students reaching proficiency on the state assessment, but when they took the EXPLORE, PLAN and ACT (nationwide tests), the percentage of kids reaching proficiency was no where close to the number of kids who were meeting the benchmark ― there was an over-inflation of students meeting proficiency," said Randy Peffer, who served as Madison County Schools' chief academic officer from 2008 until last year, when he moved on to a position at the Kentucky Department of Education.
The new Kentucky standards in reading and math adopted in 2010 has risen the bar for students to meet proficiency, he said, therefore the number of students meeting proficiency was expected to drop.
After a final score is tallied for each school, it is ranked state-wide from highest to lowest, so that each fall into a percentile.
Schools in the 90th percentile and above are labelled "distinguished;" 70th to 89th percentile are "proficient;" and anything below 70th "needs improvement."
In February 2012, the U.S. Department of Education granted Kentucky flexibility under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, according to a press release from the KDE. This flexibility allows the state to use the Unbridled Learning model to report both state- and federal-level accountability measures.
New 'progressing' distinction
This year, the label "progressing" can now be tagged onto labels of "distinguished," "proficient," or "needs improvement" for some schools.
This distinction means the school increased its score by a certain number of points to meet or exceed its annual measurable objective, or AMO.
The school's/district's overall score will be used to calculate AMOs, which is number of points it must gain each year for the next five years to achieve proficiency. This is similar to the adequate yearly progress, or AYP measurement used in No Child Left Behind.
Under NCLB, a school's AYP was used to determine whether schools were doing well. If a school made AYP, it was not subject to consequences, according to KDE.
In Kentucky's new system, the term "AYP" was eliminated and now schools must achieve AMO.
Because 2011-12 was the first year using the new standards and accountability system, last year's data was baseline and every school and district was given an AMO of 1 to exceed this year, said David Gilliam, Madison County Schools' new chief academic officer.
From here on, however, every school labeled proficient and above will continue to have just an AMO of 1, he said.
Preliminary data from KDE indicates that several Madison County Schools increased their school score by at at least one point and achieved AMO, which gives them the distinction of "progressing."
Focus schoolsIf a school has an individual group of students in an individual area scoring significantly below other students, they become a focus school, Gilliam said.
Last year, Farristown and Madison middle schools, Madison Southern High School, Mayfield Elementary and Model Elementary all were labelled focus schools, which is a two-year designation. All of these schools received this label because of low achievement scores in their "gap" group.
"Gap students" are those students that are identified as a minority, receive free/reduced lunch, receive special education, or are English language learners.
The scores of gap students also is one of the five components from which a school is assessed. The five components are explained below.
Next Generation Learners
Next year, Unbridled Learning will include program reviews on a school's course-offerings in subjects such as practical living, arts and humanities and creative writing. This phase of the assessment was originally scheduled to start this year, but has been delayed.
The following year, the assessment will look at teacher and principal effectiveness.
However, this year, educators will continue use the first phase of Unbridled Learning ― Next Generation Learners.
There are five components to Next Generation Learners from which a school is assessed: Achievement, Gap, Growth, College/Career Readiness and Graduation Rates.
Elementary scores are based on the first three components, middle school scores are based on the first four and high school scores are calculated using all five components.
Achievement"Achievement" is determined by how students perform on K-PREP tests (Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress), administered during the last 14 instructional days of the school year.
The schools are given zero points for a "novice" score, a half a point for an "apprentice" score and a full point for a "proficient" or "distinguished" score.
In the past, a school's overall score was only determined by the results of these tests, formerly known as the KCCT (Kentucky Core Content Test).
"Gap students" are those students that are identified as a minority, receive free/reduced lunch, receive special education, or are English language learners, Gilliam said. The Gap score is derived from the same data components that make up the Achievement score except that it only looks at the scores from "Gap students" and it only awards points for Gap students that earn Proficient and Distinguished scores.
GrowthGrowth is defined as students who meet typical or higher gains on the assessment based upon their "academic peers" from one year to the next. Growth is measured only in reading and mathematics.
An "academic peer" is not just defined as students who are in the same grade level, but students who are compared to the others across the state who scored at the same level.
Schools are given points for students who achieve typical or higher growth. That means, students who are already performing at a high level will not necessarily score points for their school if they do not achieve growth from the previous year. Whereas, a student who earns low scores but has achieved typical or higher growth from the following year, will gain points for the school.
In the past, a student could never score more than "distinguished," therefore assessments did not focus on the growth of every student, especially those who already scored at a high level, Peffer said last year.
Elementary and middle school growth is calculated using K-PREP. High school growth is calculated using PLAN and ACT, which are part of a series of tests explained in the next component.
College/Career Readiness
Only middle and high schools are scored with this component.
College Readiness is assessed using EPAS (Educational Planning and Assessment System) which consists of three tests: EXPLORE, administered to eighth-graders in September; PLAN given to tenth-graders, also in September; and ACT, taken by 11th-graders in March. These test are administered nationwide.
In middle schools, College Readiness is based on the percentage of students who meet the EXPLORE benchmarks in three academic areas, Reading, English and Mathematics. The score range is between one and 25.
High school students are deemed "college ready" if they meet the ACT benchmarks in the same academic areas. The score range is between one to 36.
Finally, high school students are considered "career ready" by achieving a qualifying score on the ACT, the ASVAB (military assessment test), COMPASS (Computer Adaptive Placement Assessment and Support System), KYOTE (Kentucky On-line Test), the ACT WorkKeys, a job skills assessment system that measures foundational and soft skills, or KOSSA (Kentucky Occupational Skill Standards), an industry-recognized certificate in a vocational field.
Four-year adjusted cohort graduation rateThis component is only used in high school assessments and has changed this year.
Last year, the assessment looked the Averaged-Freshman Graduation Rate. For one cohort of students, the AFGR was an average of the number of freshman one year and sophomore the next year divided by the number of graduates during the cohort's senior year.
However, the new four-year adjusted cohort graduation rates takes the group of students that enter the ninth grade, adds students who transfer into the cohort during the next three years and also subtracts students who transfer out, emigrate to another county or pass away during that same period, Gilliam said.
The graduation rate is then determined by calculating the percentage of students in the four-year adjusted cohort that graduate with a regular high school diploma is four years, he said.
Grade level break down
The K-PREP tests assess elementary students in third, fourth and fifth grade in Reading and Mathematics. However, fourth-graders also will be assessed in Science and Writing Mechanics. Fifth-graders will be assessed in Social Studies and Writing on-demand.
An elementary school's overall score is based on Achievement (30 percent), Gap (30 percent) and Growth (40 percent).
MiddleAs in elementary schools, the K-PREP tests assess all middle school students in Reading and Mathematics. However, sixth-graders also will be assessed in Writing on-demand and Writing Mechanics; seventh-graders in Science; and eighth-graders in Social Studies and Writing on-demand.
A middle school's overall score is based on Achievement (28 percent), Gap (28 percent), Growth (28 percent) and College Readiness (16 percent).
High school student's are administered K-PREP End-of-Course assessments given in English 10, Algebra 2, Biology 1 and U.S. History for the school's "achievement" component. Sophomores and juniors also are assessed in Writing on-demand.
A high school's overall score is based on Achievement (20 percent), Gap (20 percent), Growth (20 percent), College/Career Readiness (20 percent) and Graduation Rate (20 percent).
BonusesThere also is potential for bonus scoring in "achievement" if the percentage of students scoring Distinguished is greater than the percentage at the Novice performance level. Schools can gain 0.5 points per percentage point.
High schools also are awarded a 0.5-point bonus for each percent of students who meet both College Readiness and Career Readiness standards.
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Academic Freedom is Dead
Thanks to David over at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex for saying all that needs to be said about the University of Illinois' decision to terminate Dr. Kenneth Howell.
The University of Illinois taught me a lesson first-hand, so it is not surprising that it continues to perpetuate that lesson: academic liberalism (and indeed, modern liberalism in general) is a façade constructed to push a set of ideals. It's all about respecting other people's opinions, until those opinions happen to conflict with the party line.
And when the party line is breached, look out. It becomes sinister, wicked, underhanded — and Amen, Amen I say to you — evil. Meanwhile, the Catholic viewpoint is proclaimed openly in a spirit of charity and love, always with regard to the intrinsic dignity of the human person, regardless of where they fall on any moral spectrum.
I would hope that Dr. Howell might find a job at a Catholic school, but this might be difficult. The game is the same, only a little less visceral. The seminary system is a good option as well, but the pay isn't so great.
One Response to Academic Freedom is Dead
A yet-to-be-determined number of things:
1) Nice use of this job: ç.
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In a merciless economy, being older is painfulBy CATHERINE RAMPELL
The New York Times | February 03,2013Young graduates are in debt, out of work and on their parents couches.
People in their 30s and 40s cant afford to buy homes or have children.
Retirees are earning near-zero interest on their savings.
In the current listless economy, every generation has a claim to having been most injured. But the Labor Departments latest jobs snapshot and other recent data reports present a strong case for crowning baby boomers as the greatest victims of the recession and its grim aftermath.
These Americans in their 50s and early 60s those near retirement age who do not yet have access to Medicare and Social Security have lost the most earning power of any age group, with their household incomes now 10 percent below what they made when the recovery began three years ago, according to Sentier Research, a data analysis company.
Their retirement savings and home values fell sharply at the worst possible time: just before they needed to cash out. They are supporting both aged parents and unemployed young-adult children, earning them the inauspicious nickname Generation Squeeze.
New research suggests that they may die sooner, because their health, income security and mental well-being were battered by recession at a crucial time in their lives.
A recent study by economists at Wellesley College found that people who lost their jobs in the few years before becoming eligible for Social Security lost up to three years from their life expectancy, largely because they no longer had access to affordable health care.
If I break my wrist, I lose my house, said Susan Zimmerman, 62, a freelance writer in Cleveland, of the distress that a medical emergency would wreak upon her finances and her quality of life.
None of the three part-time jobs she has cobbled together pay benefits, and she says she is counting the days until she becomes eligible for Medicare.
In the meantime, Zimmerman has fashioned her own regimen of home remedies including eating blue cheese instead of taking penicillin and consuming plenty of orange juice, red wine, coffee and whatever else the latest longevity studies recommend to maintain her health, which she must do if she wants to continue paying the bills.
I will probably be working until Im 100, she said.
As common as that sentiment is, the job market has been especially unkind to older workers.
Unemployment rates for Americans nearing retirement are far lower than those for young people, who are recently out of school, with fewer skills and a shorter work history.
But once out of a job, older workers have a much harder time finding another one. Over the last year, the average duration of unemployment for older people was 53 weeks, compared with 19 weeks for teenagers, according to the Labor Departments jobs report released Friday.
The lengthy process is partly because older workers are more likely to have been laid off from industries that are downsizing, like manufacturing.
Compared with the rest of the population, older people are also more likely to own their own homes and be less mobile than renters, who can move to new job markets.
Older workers are more likely to have a disability of some sort, perhaps limiting the range of jobs that offer realistic choices. They may also be less inclined, at least initially, to take jobs that pay far less than their old positions.
Displaced boomers also believe they are victims of age discrimination, because employers can easily find a young, energetic worker who will accept lower pay and who can potentially stick around for decades rather than a few years.
When youre older, they just see gray hair and they write you off, said Arynita Armstrong, 60, of Willis, Texas, who has been looking for work for five years since losing her job at a mortgage company.
Theyre afraid to hire you, because they think youre a health risk, she said. You know, you might make their premiums go up. They think itll cost more money to invest in training you than its worth it because you might retire in five years.
She added, Not that they say any of this to your face.
When older workers do find re-employment, the compensation is usually not up to the level of their previous jobs, according to data from the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.
In a survey by the center of older workers who were laid off during the recession, just one in six had found another job, and half of that group had accepted pay cuts. Fourteen percent of the re-employed said the pay in their new job was less than half what they earned in their previous job.
I just say to myself: Why me? What have I done to deserve this? said John Agati, 56, of Norwalk, Conn., whose last full-time job, as a merchandise buyer and product developer, ended four years ago when his employer went out of business.
That position paid $90,000, and his resume lists stints at companies like American Express, Disney and USA Networks. Since being laid off, though, he has worked a series of part-time, low-wage, temporary positions, including selling shoes at Lord & Taylor and making sales calls for a limo company.
The last few years have taken a toll not only on his familys finances, but also on his feelings of self-worth.
You just get sad, Agati said. I see people getting up in the morning, going out to their careers and going home. I just wish I was doing that. Some people dont like their jobs, or they have problems with their jobs, but at least theyre working. I just wish I was in their shoes.
He said he cannot afford to go back to school, as many younger people without jobs have done. Even if he could afford it, economists say it is unclear whether older workers like him benefit much from more education.
It just doesnt make sense to offer retraining for people 55 and older, said Daniel Hamermesh, an economics professor at the University of Texas in Austin. Discrimination by age, long-term unemployment, the fact that theyre now at the end of the hiring queue, the lack of time horizon just does not make it sensible to invest in them.
Many displaced older workers are taking this message to heart and leaving the labor force entirely.
The share of older people applying for Social Security early spiked during the Great Recession as people sought whatever income they could find. The penalty they will pay is permanent, as retirees who take benefits at age 62 as Zimmerman did, to help make her mortgage payments will receive 30 percent less in each months check for the rest of their lives than they would if they had waited until full retirement age (66 for those born after 1942).
Those not yet eligible for Social Security are increasingly applying for another, comparable kind of income support that often goes to people who expect never to work again: disability benefits. More than one in eight people in their late 50s is now on some form of federal disability insurance program, according to Mark Duggan, chairman of the department of business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School.
The very oldest Americans, of course, were battered by some of the same ill winds that tormented those now nearing retirement, but at least the most senior were cushioned by a more readily available social safety net.
More important, in a statistical twist, they may have actually benefited from the financial crisis in the most fundamental way: prolonged lives.
Death rates for people over 65 have historically fallen during recessions, according to a November 2011 study by economists at the University of California, Davis.
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Fast sampling of emissions from products and materials. The Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor™ (µ-CTE™) is a versatile and compact unit with up to six small cylindrical chambers that enables the sa...read more
Fast sampling of emissions from products and materials.
The Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor™ (µ-CTE™) is a versatile and compact unit with up to six small cylindrical chambers that enables the sampling of chemicals released from products or materials. Released volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) are collected onto sorbent tubes for analysis by TD–GC–MS.
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Obama Administration Lays Out Pending Cuts by State
With sequestration nearing, the president's team details state-by-state cuts.
With five days to go before $85 billion in automatic spending cuts take effect, the Obama administration is intensifying its grass-roots campaign to pressure congressional Republicans to find a compromise.
The administration has released a state-by-state report on what it calls dire consequences from the cuts, called a sequester.
[READ: Obama Winning the War over the Sequester]
Among the examples cited by administration officials are cutbacks in spending at military bases in California and Texas; a slowdown of efforts to clean up the damage from Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey; teacher layoffs in Ohio; and less maintenance of Navy ships in Virginia. Obama is scheduled to visit shipyards in Newport News, Va., Tuesday to personally argue his case for avoiding a sequester.
The report also argues that sequestration would result in the loss of $8.4 million in funding for primary and secondary education in Colorado, putting the jobs of 120 teachers and teachers' aides at risk. And the administration says about 31,000 Department of Defense employees would be furloughed in Florida.
In addition, the administration warns that there would be cuts in important programs nationally, including airport security personnel, Head Start, and food inspections.
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"Unless Congress acts by March 1, a series of automatic cuts—called the sequester—will take effect that threaten hundreds of thousands of middle-class jobs, and cut vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform," said an administration spokesman.
Obama has proposed avoiding sequestration through what he calls a balanced approach that combines targeted spending cuts and higher taxes on the affluent and on big business. GOP legislators prefer only spending cuts, an approach that Obama says would damage too many important programs.
But Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement that, "What we still don't know is whether the president has a plan for smarter, more common-sense cuts to the waste and endless growth in Washington. Surely, he can put forward a plan to cut 2 to 3 percent from a $3.5 trillion budget."
[READ: Why the Sequester Isn't the Economic End of Days]
And Sean Spicer, communications director for the Republican National Committee, said, "Considering the House has twice passed legislation to avoid the sequester, you would think [the] White House would be focused on getting the Senate to pass a plan that would do the same instead of creating more PR stunts."
The Senate is controlled by Democrats, and the House by Republicans.
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The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for three West Virginia counties as Hurricane Sandy heads for the Atlantic Coast.
The hurricane is expected to clash with a winter system, dumping up to 2 feet of snow in the mountains of eastern West Virginia. The winter storm watch is in effect from Sunday night to Tuesday morning in Pocahontas, Randolph and Webster counties.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin urged West Virginians to prepare by gathering batteries, flashlights, bottled water, nonperishable foods and other necessities. He said highway crews, the National Guard and utility crews are preparing to respond.
The West Virginia Red Cross said it also is mobilizing volunteers and getting shelters, relief supplies and disaster response vehicles ready.


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---- — TRAVERSE CITY — Virginia Ruiz has no driver's license and relied on buses for decades. But she's given up on the new Bay Area Transportation Authority bus service model — at least for now.
"I only tried it once, and that was enough," she said.
Ruiz, 90, was used to BATA's dial-a-ride service, which picked her up at her apartment off Cherry Bend Road in Leelanau County and took her directly to her destination. She just needed to schedule the ride ahead of time.
BATA's new model eliminates that door-to-door service. Now "Link" buses, scheduled ahead of time, pick up riders from their homes and drop them off at transfer stops. Riders are then picked up by fixed-route "Loop" buses. Sometimes riders have to transfer buses again before reaching their destination, depending on the route. The changes will eliminate an estimated 55,000 bus miles annually, but the elderly and disabled can find the transfers challenging.
Ruiz said she was dropped off at a transfer stop on M-22, where she waited an estimated 15 minutes for a Loop bus to come along.
"It was supposed to be five minutes, but it was a long five minutes," she said. "There was no place to sit down, not a tree around. Just a big rock. I have pain if I stand any length of time."
Her June 13 bus ride to the grocery store took 1 ½ hours instead of the usual 20-minute dial-a-ride, she said.
Tom Menzel, BATA's executive director, said BATA can't efficiently run a door-to-door service.
"We are a public transit. We are not a cab service, and for years many people have used us like that," he said.
As for providing benches for waiting riders, Menzel said 16 grant-funded shelters will be installed in September. It's too expensive to buy benches before then, he said.
Ruiz also said her route made no sense. The bus turned left on M-22 and took her to a transfer stop about eight miles north, instead of turning right to Traverse City, just a few miles away.
Menzel promised to investigate.
"That's something that needs to be looked into, and that's how it gets better," Menzel said.
BATA passengers and employees alike are adjusting to the new "Link and Loop" bus services. Menzel pointed out that the new system has brought many positive changes, such as earlier and later bus runs, more frequent runs in rural areas, and a new weekend service.
Those who bike or walk the Leelanau Trail on weekends are particularly thrilled.
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Menzel said BATA's next level of change will give disabled riders a priority for the modified dial-a-ride pick-up. The "noise level" of complaints, he said, has been low and ridership has remained relatively stable. People need to appreciate the enormity of BATA's changes, he said.
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School Loop is an online application for Elementary, Middle and High school students and parents to communicate with their teachers. It allows staff to access each student's workload and grades and provides digital lockers to store and share files. Assignments and grades are emailed home each day at 5 pm.
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Jenny just broke up with her boyfriend, so she thinks it would be a good time to crash her filmmaker brother Jeff's Tiki bar basement for a couple of weeks to figure things out. Problem for Jeff is, when you've got a toddler and money is tight and your wife is struggling to balance motherhood and art, it might not be a great idea to have a perpetually wasted 27-year old around. Also – it's Christmas in Chicago. Working again with DRINKING BUDDIES collaborators Anna Kendrick and cinematographer Ben Richardson (working in warm-hued Super 16mm), Swanberg's latest is a can't-miss cocktail of effervescent performances, cringe-inducing realities and small graces. Starring Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Lena Dunham & Jude Swanberg. Dir: Joe Swanberg. 2014. Digital. 77 mins.
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CYBER-SENIORS chronicles the extraordinary journey of a group of senior citizens as they discover the world of the Internet through the guidance of teenage mentors. Their exploration of cyber-space is catapulted to another level when 89 year-old Shura decides to create a YouTube cooking video. A spirited video competition for the most "views" evolves as the cyber-seniors' hidden talents and competitive spirits are revealed. CYBER-SENIORS provides insight into the wonderful things that can happen when generation gaps are bridged, proving you are never too old to get 'connected'. Directed by Saffron Cassaday – 2014 - 75 Minutes.
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The screening night starts at 6:30 PM in the lobby where the filmmakers, writers, producers, directors, actors, and editors of the short films can get to know each other.
Then the show begins at 7:00 PM and ends at 9:00 PM, followed by a short Q&A with the key filmmakers.
Afterparty at 9:30 PM down the street at a local bar or restaurant where we will tally up the scores and announce the winners of the Audience Choice Awards.
Brown Bread: The Story of an Adoptive Family
In the hills of Northern California, an unusual family gathers for their reunion. As they join hands around the table, their colorful mix of races looks like the American dream of integration.
Black, white, middle class, ghetto: adoption gave the same name to six children from very different backgrounds. Scenes from the family reunion are interwoven with images from their home lives: a professor at Stanford, a manual laborer, an entrepreneur in debt. How do they bridge the differences of race and class which divide them?
A personal documentary about what it means to grow up in an adoptive family.
Directed by Sarah Gross. 2013. 87 mins. NR
SARAH GROSS studied filmmaking at Harvard University, where she began exploring the portrait documentary. In the industry, she is an experienced 1st A.D., working on major European productions such as award-winning Good Bye Lenin. Her short films have won awards, and she has received European MEDIA funding to develop several screenwriting projects. She has three children and is based in Berlin, Germany. BROWN BREAD is her first feature-length film.
This extraordinary doc and Audience Award-winner about the 2008 murder of 15-year-old Larry King will both break your heart and fire you up into action. It brilliantly focuses on how bigotry and prejudice are community-wide problems, rather than only the acts of individuals. Frameline is more than your favorite summertime film festival! From the folks who bring you the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Frameline Encore is a fresh, queer community screening series.
Dir: Marta Cunningham. Digital. 2013. 87 mins. 7pm.
Free to all!
A surprise hit at Sundance, KINK tells the true story of sex, submission, and big business as seen through the eyes of the unlikely pornographers whose nine-to-five workdays are spent within the confines of the San Francisco Armory building, home to the sprawling production facilities of Kink.com, the wold's largest producer of pornography with BDSM themes – for the uninitiated, that stands for bondage and discipline/dominance and submission/sadism and masochism. Come peer inside one of the Roxie's most notorious neighbors. Produced by James Franco. Directed by Christina Voros. 2013. Digital. 79 mins.
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MI CASA NO ES SU CASA tells the story of a rapidly evolving neighborhood: San Francisco's Mission District. Stripping down the word "gentrification" to its literal and interpreted meanings, this film addresses the multifaceted perspectives of the issue. Through interviews with long time residents, politicians, professors and community activists MI CASA NO ES SU CASA gives us a snapshot into this vibrant neighborhood and the complicated politics of its newfound popularity.
Directed by Avery Yu and Haley Jensen. 40 mins.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers!
We're excited to team up with one of our favorite film festivals – the mighty SLAMDANCE – for a night of film and fun.
FILMMAKER RECEPTION – 6PM! Come hang out with Jay Alvarez & DRINK OUR WINE!
I Play With The Phrase Each Other
Jake, a young neurotic, is persuaded to leave his small home town and move to the city to live with Sean, a fanatical poet who survives by swindling inexperienced Craigslist customers. When Jake arrives, Sean has disappeared, and as he struggles to secure a job and a place to stay, Jake discovers a nocturnal world of neon poverty in which his friend is thriving. Written & Directed by Jay Alvarez. Digital. 2014. 110 mins.
I Play With The Phrase Each Other – Trailer from IPWTPEO on Vimeo.
NIPPON NIGHTS is monthly series of Japanese cinema bridging different genres, styles and generations.
Neon Tokyo : Anime World #2 – AKIRA
Thursday, August 21st
The 2nd program of the special series "Neon Tokyo" is "AKIRA", Japanese animated action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.
"A fever-dream masterpiece" Village Voice
"A towering achievement of imagination" Time Out
Neo-Tokyo is about to E•X•P •L•O•D•E
Clandestine army activities threaten the war torn city of Neo-Tokyo when a mysterious being with powerful psychic abilities escapes his prison and inadvertently draws a violent motorcycle gang into a heinous web of experimentation. As a result, a biker with a twisted mind embarks on a path of war, seeking revenge against a society what once called him weak.
The film depicts a dystopian version of Tokyo in the year 2019, with cyberpunk tones. The plot focuses on teenage biker Tetsuo Shima and his psychic powers, and the leader of his biker gang, Shotaro Kaneda. Kaneda tries to prevent Tetsuo from releasing the imprisoned psychic Akira. While most of the character designs and settings were adapted from the original 2182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the manga. It became a hugely popular cult film and is widely considered to be a landmark in Japanese animation. (Wikipedia)
Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. Written by Katsuhiro Otomo and Izo Hashimoto.
Voices Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, and Taro Ishida.
1988. Japan. 124min. Rating: R
Original (dubbed) 35mm print courtesy of UCLA Film + Television Archive!
Based on the graphic novel "Akira" by Katsuhiro Otomo. First published by "Young Magazine", Kodansha Ltd.
©1988 Akira Committee. Licensed by FUNimation® Productions, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Endorsed by Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco /
Co-Presented by CAAM / Promotional Partner: btrax
"Beautifully made… a meditation on the transformative possibilities of a relationship."
– Stephen Holden, New York Times
"[Bertolucci] is still a force to be reckoned with." – The Guardian
Bertolucci's first Italian-language feature in 32 years follows Lorenzo, a quirky 14-year-old loner who has difficult relationships with his parents and peers. Lorenzo decides to take a break from it all by hiding out in his building's neglected basement where for an entire week he will finally avoid all conflict and pressure to be a "normal" teenager. But an unexpected visit from Lorenzo's older half-sister Olivia changes everything. A worldly 25-year-old beauty, her problematic and fragile state upsets Lorenzo's total escape from reality, and their forced cohabitation in the basement's confined space brings forth confrontation and old resentments, but also a need for affection and intimacy. A few emotional days and nights with his sister Olivia will inspire Lorenzo to see the world through new eyes. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Written by Niccolò Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello, Francesca Marciano and Bernardo, based on the novel "Io e Te," by Mr. Ammaniti. Director of photography: Fabio Cianchetti. With Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Tea Falco, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar, Tommaso Ragno and Pippo Delbono. Not Rated. In Italian, with English subtitles. Running time: 97 mins.
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Written by Niccolò Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello, Francesca Marciano and Bernardo, based on the novel "Io e Te," by Mr. Ammaniti. Director of photography: Fabio Cianchetti. With Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Tea Falco, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar, Tommaso Ragno and Pippo Delbono. Not Rated. In Italian, with English subtitles. Running time: 97 mins.


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July 3rd, 2013
A new Electric Vehicle Guide by Sierra Club features 14 EVs and Plug-In EVs available to American consumers. They're here to stay, so let's consider the field and answer some of those nagging questions.
A new Electric Vehicle Guide by Sierra Club features 14 EVs and Plug-In EVs available to American consumers. They're here to stay, so let's consider the field and answer some of those nagging questions.
Tags: · Electric vehicles, EVs, Fit 500E, Focus, Ford, Honda Fit, MiEV, Nissan LEAF, Plug-in hybrids, PlugIn hybrids, Prius, SmartFortwo, Tesla
Revenge of the Electric Car will appeal to car geeks who want to hear all they can about the vanguard of electric vehicles and the personalities behind them.
For me, the film could have delivered even more geek. Having driven a few EVs — the Leaf and the all-electric Ford Focus (which did not make the movie), I want to know ALL about them. Was it hard to achieve acceptable range? What is their range? (I guess we can look it up at fueleconomy.gov.) Why did GM decide to enter the market with a sport vehicle? Were they consigning EVs to a niche play? How do they really feel about Nissan jumping ahead with their family sedan? Will the Tesla roadster ever get below $100 grand? Why did Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn go all-in on the Leaf? We get whiffs of answers to all these questions, and some precious behind-the-scenes vignettes, like Ghosn whispering hush-hush to his staff before springing the Leaf on the world.
Tags: · Bob Lutz, Carlos Ghosn, Chevy Volt, Chris Paine, Elon Musk, greenrightnow.com, Nissan LEAF, Revenge of the Electric Car, Tesla Roadster
As a car, the all-electric Nissan Leaf has received mostly great reviews. But as a positioning statement, Nissan has, in many marketers' eyes, missed the boat. After some missteps, Nissan may now be on the right path. An ad I pulled from Fast Company recently hits all the right marks.
Tags: · Andrew Winston, greenrightnow.com, miles per dollar, Nissan LEAF
Green cars are the hot sellers right now, according to the latest data from Edmunds.com. The service looked at "days to turn" — the amount of time it takes dealers to sell a new vehicle.
Tags: · green cars, greenrightnow.com, Nissan LEAF
David Crane, CEO of New Jersey-based NRG Energy, has become accustomed to the long pauses and surprised looks. Everyone knows the electric car is coming, but most envisioned it coming to California or other more cutting-edge locales first. When Crane first discussed his company's choice for its first big foray into making privately-owned high-speed charging stations a reality, he had quite a different message to deliver.
Tags: · charging stations, Electric Cars, eVgo, Freedom Stations, greenrightnow.com, home charging stations, Nissan LEAF, NRG Energy
Kelley Blue Book has named the Top 10 Green Cars of 2011. KBB's editors said they were struck by the much wider range of vehicles they had to choose from this year when compared to years past. These days not only are there more hybrids than ever before, there also are more high-efficiency gasoline-powered vehicles on the road.
Tags: · Electric Cars, greenrightnow.com, Nissan LEAF
As Nissan speeds toward the December debut in showrooms of its electric LEAF, the first all-electric family sedan to hit the market in the grand slam of EV/PEV and hybrid cars coming to U.S. markets, the EPA has released its official MPG rating for the Nissan LEAF.
It's a mind-blowing 99 mpg.
Of course, that's not exactly what it appears to be. There's no free ride. While the Leaf will use no gasoline, it will use electricity to recharge, and that could run upwards of $500 a year in additional energy costs for a household, depending on rates, how much the car is driven and other factors.
Tags: · 99 miles per gallon, EPA mileage, greenrightnow.com, Nissan LEAF
Hoping to help spark demand for its own charging equipment, General Electric Co. plans to buy 25,000 electric vehicles from makers including General Motors Co over the next five years. GE hopes the move will speed acceptance of electric cars by getting more of them on road more quickly and prompting investment in the equipment that users will need to charge them.
Tags: · A123 Systems, Chevy Volt, electric car charging stations, Electric Cars, General Electric, General Motors, Nissan LEAF, WattStation
Tags: · charging stations, Chevy Volt, Electric Cars, Electric Power Research Institute, EV1, General Motors, IBM, Nissan LEAF, North Central Texas Council of Governments, Oncor, Texas Public Utility Commission, The Beck Group, Wind Power
From Green Right Now Reports
If you want to pick up a new LEAF when Nissan's all-electric automobile debuts in December, you may need to take a number. Already, more than 8,000 customers have plunked down the required $99 deposit to pre-order the vehicle. That's almost eight percent of the 102,000 who previously had signed up as interested buyers.
Those folks had first dibs in terms of making what is still a fairly nominal commitment. (The $99 is refundable.) Nissan expects the figure to grow even more after May 15, when the general public will be able to get in the game.
The company aims to produce about 50,000 LEAFs during the car's debut year. It expects to have about half of those spoken for in pre-orders by the time the vehicle actually begins to hit the streets. The LEAF lists at $32,780, but existing federal tax credits can take $7,500 off that price, and state and local incentives can reduce the cost even more.
Tags: · Automotive News, electric car, LEAF pre-orders, Nissan LEAF
From Green Right Now Reports
Consumers intrigued by Nissan's new all-electric vehicle – the LEAF – have been waiting for the answer to the big question: Just how much will going electric cost?
The surprising answer: About $25,000 for American car buyers after federal tax credits.
Last week, Nissan said it will offer the LEAF for $32,780 in the United States. With a $7,500 federal tax credit, the net price drops to $25,280, making it very competitive with Toyota's popular Prius hybrid.
Tags: · Chevy Volt, electric car, Nissan LEAF, Tesla Roadster, Toyota Prius
From Green Right Now Reports
Until recently, critics haven't had to work very hard at making a case against the electric car.
Most of the vehicles in question are small. Almost all either are relatively expensive or figure to be when they finally hit the showroom. With ranges between 40 (Chevy Volt) and 100 miles (Nissan LEAF), you won't be going very far before you have to stop for a time-consuming charge.
Lately, though, progress is being made, and just how much the times may be changing will be on display at the North American International Auto Show, which opens to the media today in Detroit. (The show's public run is from Jan. 16-24.)
Tags: · Chevy Volt, Detroit auto show, Nissan LEAF, North American International Auto Show, Tesla Roadster


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Jimmy C. Newman Radio
The "C" stands for Cajun, and though much of Jimmy C. Newman's early country material has little swamp stylings, he developed a fusion on several 1960s albums that established him as a forerunner in Cajun-country music. Newman was born on August 27, 1927, in High Point, LA; as a child, he listened more to Gene Autry than the Cajun music of the area but still included several Cajun songs in his repertoire with Chuck Guillory's Rhythm Boys, which he joined while still a teenager. Newman recorded several unsuccessful sides in the late '40s for J.D. Miller's Feature label, but Miller later convinced Nashville legend Fred Rose to give the budding singer a shot. After recording four songs in 1953, Newman signed to Dot Records and scored a hit the following year when "Cry, Cry, Darling" reached number four in the country charts. Newman's chart success prompted the Louisiana Hayride to hire him as a regular performer. His next four hits all made Top Ten, including 1955's "Daydreamin'," "Blue Darlin'," and "God Was So Good." Newman moved up to the Grand Ole Opry in 1956 and released "A Fallen Star" the following year. The single, his biggest hit, spent two weeks at number two and also entered the pop Top 25. The singer was unhappy with his Dot contract, though, and moved to MGM in 1958. By November of that year, Newman charted another Top Ten hit, "You're Makin' a Fool Out of Me"; he closed out the decade with three Top 30 singles and the Top Ten "Grin and Bear It" in July 1959. Newman began the '60s with success also, bringing "A Lovely Work of Art" to number six and "Wanting You to Be With Me" to number 11. Not content with his popularity at MGM, he switched labels again, signing with Decca in 1961. Now that he was an established artist, Newman began to integrate Cajun influences in such Top 25 singles as "Alligator Man" and "Bayou Talk." His 1963 album Folk Songs of the Bayou Country was a milestone in the popularization of Cajun music and included great work by accordionist Shorty LeBlanc and Newman regular Rufus Thibodeaux on fiddle. He hit the country Top Ten at the end of the year with "D.J. for a Day," and his recordings soon moved back to the Nashville sound, with occasional Cajun influences. (One notable exception is 1967's Louisiana Saturday Night.) Newman reached the Top Ten twice within six months in 1965-1966 with "Artificial Rose" and "Back Pocket Money," but they proved to be his final hits. The following three years saw occasional placements in the Top 30, and his last chart entry was 1970's "I'm Holding Your Memory (But He's Holding You)." Following his commercial decline, Newman moved back to Cajun music, recording Cajun albums for the La Louisianne, Swallow, and Rounder labels. His performances continue to excite many in Europe as well as America, and his Grand Ole Opry slot also kept him busy. ~ John BushPortions of Content Provided by Rovi Corporation.
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Original and Ultimate Communities
I am a pack rat; I save all kinds of stuff. But moving four times in two years has cheapened the growing tons of archival printed matter I began putting in boxes and storing away in my twenties. So lately I've been yielding to the urge to purge my life of crap.
In my latest purge I emptied 40 boxes; about half of them were filled with books going back to college days. Want a manual for QuickBooks 1.0? Netware 2.0? How about ones that compare WangNet, DECnet and OmniNet? All of those went into recycling, along with about half a ton of paper in loose-leaf binders.
But I kept one binder. It was full of printouts from on-line discussions. Some were from the Compuserve Broadcast Professionals Forum (BPF), and some were from a forum called The Buzz, which was run by my old friend, Denise Caruso, on AOL. The Buzz and Denise were the only reasons I had AOL.
Both The BPF and the Buzz were communities in the deepest sense that word can apply to a virtual space. The BPF was where disc jockeys, engineers, program directors and music obsessives would get together to ask and answer tough questions, help each other find better jobs and comment wisely on the gradual decline of a business they all loved, however corporatized and heartless it was becoming. The Buzz was a mix of techie and intellectual types that hit its peak during the Gulf War.
The BPF was a collateral casualty of Compuserve's gradual suicide, completed by its sale to AOL. The Buzz died faster than the BPF, mostly because nobody could stand staying on AOL. Both, however, were doomed by the same design flaw: everything posted scrolled to oblivion.
The main business model for both AOL and Compuserve back then was metered use. Compuserve also charged customers to download files. No value at all was placed on archiving what people said; that was up to the users. That was why I printed out so many of those old postings.
The Net and the Web are natural and liberating environments for communities. Nobody needs to depend on clueless and uncaring corporate entities. In fact, clueful corporate entities can get together with free-range hackers to improve everybody's environment. That's what's been happening with weblogging, which has produced RSS, XML-RPC, SOAP and other handy standards.
Weblogs form communities in much the same way that people do. Follow the links from Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit, and you'll find most are in agreement with Glenn's libertarian/conservative political philosophy. Glenn is widely considered the leading "warblogger". Dave Winer, the prime mover behind the acronyms in the last paragraph, is widely considered the leading "techblogger". There are blogs focused on photography, music, raising kids, women's issues, you name it. What makes them radically different from any other kind of on-line forum is they aren't contained by their categories.
Eric Olsen, whose main blog, TresProducers, is more or less in the warblogger camp, also is a music producer who has organized a bunch of fellow bloggers at Blogcritics.org. Group blogs and hot topics gather people the way cuisines cause restaurants to gather certain kinds of customers, who are also customers of other restaurants and fond of other cuisines.
Still, I think we're missing something we had in the best of those old on-line forums, especially The Well. One of my life's regrets was that I never participated in The Well, even though I went to the trouble of belonging to it. I have similar feelings about Woodstock: I drove people up there, then turned around and went home in the rain.
With all due respect to Slashdot, Kuro5hin and Advogato, I don't think there are any Wells on the Web yet—including The Well itself, which still exists. I'm on half a dozen e-mail lists that are excellent (I'd name them but I don't want to burden them with more participants than they already have), and most of them are also exposed on the Web. But I still don't think any of them meets The Well standard.
However, I think it will happen because I think we're still early in the Net's evolution. How will we know that Well-grade communities are happening big-time on the Web? Here's my guess: they'll matter politically. They'll mobilize to elect some people and prevent the election of others. They'll also bring down bad companies and industries and raise others up.
Why politics? Why muscular market action? Because the Web is a public place; it's the commons; it's where public communities gather; it's utterly uncontained. Ultimately, our communities are going to keep it that way.
Doc Searls is senior editor of Linux Journal.
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