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Jazz, more by accident than design, has become almost exclusively an 'instrumental' music, its standards and criteria deriving from the realm of 'the instrumental', rather than the art's vocal, blues-based roots. So, you have the jazz instrumentalist trying to sound like the human voice, while – conversely – you find that many a jazz vocalist continues to try and handle his/her voice like a trumpet, a trombone, or – especially today – a saxophone!
When did we forget the seduction of the vocalist? Perhaps we didn't. We just got lazy and forgot what the Pied Pipers to the human soul sounded like. Or perhaps we have simply been steamrolled by the commerce of the music industry, and have found little time to hyperventilate and be swept away by a vocal set. Time was when the great voices of our music would not let this happen... When, spurred on by their epiphanies, the great vocalists stepped up and delivered their poignant jazz psalms, like arrows shot straight from the heart. We listened in awe. We were entranced. It was almost as if we were mesmerized... just like watching a sunlight dust dance. As if each word has its own special and secret music egging it on. A unique rhythmic play... an invisible kinetic energy that simply leaped out from a hidden world, caressing the voice that was wrenched from – or burst forth – from deep within the singer's heart, and definitely not from his or her throat or lungs!
Go ahead and spin any of the discs containing the entire legacy of the Empress, Bessie Smith on Columbia. Feel the volume and sheer majesty of her voice capture the space in your heart; destroy the false sense of what you may have thought to be fictions past. For sure, the joy and pain bursts out as from an ancient well. You almost feel the soul wrenching itself away from a skin it dreads to inhabit. You can feel the hurt that many of her generation and those that continued to follow, carried like a great badge of courage through the ages, and also held up as a mirror to our societies as we went on to plunder the dignity from each other's lives.
Then we heard it in the small, supple and sensitive vocalistics of Billie Holliday. There was no other interpreter of the cascading human emotions of the dispossessed, as Billie Holliday. Her cornerstone of protest against racial discrimination – "Strange Fruit" – a great wailing, allegorical tale of 'strange fruit' hanging from a tree, i.e., the body of the African American – an almost indelible image of our cruel past. She 'cried' the song – yes Billie Holliday did! In her plaintive understatement, we wept in our mind's mind more bitterly than we would if we were assaulted by a grand passionate unrestrained expression in an operatic ambience! In Billie Holliday's classic understatement the weight of life was almost always an internal avalanche that was set in motion by a 'little girl' voice. Yet we were somehow forced to feel the full weight of its emotional assault on our senses. Always the elemental sadness of the voice, juxtaposed by the visage of that big beautiful woman, who – it appeared – had carried the burden of history in her heart too long. Suddenly the scars of her life leapt out at you. And the joy at being released from this weight through the art of the song... As suddenly as you were assaulted, were you set free by a voice so pure that everything else – including the physical presence of the singer seemed to vanish, leaving behind just the song and the multiplicity of its emotions. There was also pathos in Billie Holliday's voice. You hear it in "Tell Me More", which she recorded in 1940, with Roy Eldridge and Teddy Wilson. But it was also the charm and urbane elegance, the suppleness and sophistication in the understatement of her vocals. That was the greatness of the musician that is Billie Holliday. It also speaks of the greatness of her singing; the vocalistics with which she was able to transform life itself...
The baton was also held fast by Ella Fitzgerald, who right from the 30s on until this day, reigned in the domain of the art of vocal music. Miss Fitzgerald was also the mistress of the 'blues-line' in jazz singing, yet she was also the great diva. She innovated; it's true – especially when, with Chick Webb's band, she swung through "A Tisket, a Tasket". In the 40s, when Bird and Diz blazed through the skies like comets, fashioning the pain of the day into bebop, Ella scatted her way through "How High the Moon" and "Lady Be Good". There was talk of 'bop' vocals then. Yet Ella Fitzgerald continued to 'change' remaining unharmed by passing fashions and trends. Her interpretations of the 'songbooks' of the great American songwriters – Gershwin, Kern, Berlin and Porter – belong to the greatest documents of modern American music. Indeed, in assuming the role of Bess to the great Louis Armstrong's Porgy, I believe that Ella (and Louis, of course) has given us one of the finest lessons in the art of rendering story in song. No other singer – with the possibly exception of Abbey Lincoln today – has been able to tell a compelling story with just the use of human voice.
When she undertook the challenge of interpreting Max Roach's tour de force, Freedom Now Suite Abbey Lincoln gave notice of 'taking over' the mantle of becoming the urban griot of African-America. Today she is the queen of vocalistics. Whether she is singing wordlessly – on Roach's "Garvey's Ghost", on the classic album, Percussion Bitter Sweet, or telling the story of "When Malindy Sings" on the same album, Abbey Lincoln brings together both the sophistication and plaintiveness of Billie Holliday as well as the raw power of Bessie Smith, and takes vocal music to a new level. In the 2000 set Over the Years Abbey Lincoln has surpassed the highest standards of vocal art. Her joyful discovery of life, "When the lights go on again" warms the heart and stirs the soul as it fills us with hope that all may yet be well someday 'all over the world'. You hear the echoes of the end of apartheid, the joyful union of Mandela and his people and even a simple love story between man and woman come alive in that song. Lest we forget the hurt of a woman mistreated listen to "I could sing it for a song" and the tragic "Tender as a Rose". Sure in this set alone, there is evidence of who rules the empire of vocal music today – especially in the art of interpreting a story in song.
Of course it would be a stretch to suggest that Ms. Lincoln is alone at the top of the art. I write, of course, only of music written and sung in the English language. Who can ignore the magnificent contribution to vocalistics, made by many musicians who have skirted jazz for decades? I speak of some of my favorite Brazilians – Elis Regina, who embodied the art of 'chorinho', a vocal music not so much sung as it is 'cried'. And there are others from that great South American contributor to the development of jazz itself. Even now my head echoes with the voice of Nana Caymmi, as she 'weeps' her way through a song aptly entitled (in English, of course) "No More Tears"! I hear Flora Purim too, in her interplay with Airto Moriera and that brings back memories of the memorable collaborations between Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, Ella and Duke and so many others that this cup runneth over!
This is a feeling of absolute ecstasy that only jazz can bring. And it is because the music can elicit this feeling and fuel this belief that I believe that the music that was born of the pain and joys of a dispossessed people has always belonged to the whole world. Our insularity prevented us from reaching out and discovering. The music industry has not helped otherwise either. We are too obsessed by labeling and cataloging everything. We have forgotten that we came from the same source somewhere in the Great Rift Valley. We migrated and were variously shielded or burned by the sun – in shades that may take a million new Ansel Adams to see! And, as with seeing and perceiving – with discernment – so also with hearing... And there is really only one way to do both. It is with the heart!
Then you will hear the jazz of rap. In the rhythms and rhymes, and in the apocalyptic shouts of The Last Poets – Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole – as they streak across the skies of urban America. The poetry of Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka and Gil Scott-Heron is also music and it's also jazz... Grandmaster Melle Mel, Killah Priest and Nas... their rhymes to are jazz – bebop to hip-hop – as we saw and have memorized when Quincy Jones brought a super constellation of stars on stage in Montreux some years ago... This was vocalistics par excellence. But there is a deeper meaning to the direction that jazz has taken since its heartbeat changed to fibrillation and the irregularity of its rhythm actually breathed new life into its soul!
There is a great album – Madman of God, by Sussan Deyhim, that extraordinary Persian-born vocalist produced in 1999. The album is an all-too-short interpretation of the poetry of the ecstatic poetry of Rumi, Saadi and Hafez. The music, while Oriental in its rhythmic centre vibrates with the swinging freedom of jazz, as Deyhim appropriates the poetry of the mystic-poets who straddled 11th to the 19th century Persia like colossi to the landscape of music. It is probably true that when the Sufi's wrote their ecstatic verse, contemplating the mysteries of man's relationship with man, God and the universe of His creation, it was probably sung too. (Rumi definitely did and is credited with the origin of the 'dance of the dervishes'). And this, to is jazz. Deyhim says: 'I have sought to evoke and live the vibration, (of the Sufi material) for I believe the vibration is the essence of the Sufi way of traveling through time, in cosmic space, which transcends all other parameters.'
The phrase, 'transcends all other parameters' is key to the very heart of jazz. It is an artistic, musical expression of the trails and tribulations of modern man, who seems to have got virtually everything wrong. More importantly it is a musical expression that originates in the heart and the soul, to be given breath by the lips. This is the song that is sung with unbridled feeling that cannot be suppressed or put down. This is true vocalistics. And nobody today understands that better than Bobby McFerrin.
His incredible expedition into the realm of vocalistics began, he said somewhere in liner notes to one of his many joyous albums, when he heard a voice calling him to channel his talent where the voice has never gone before, as he was playing the piano. And he seemingly hasn't paused for breath ever since! McFerrin brings a spirit of deep trust and joyful spontaneity to music – especially in his spectacular album, Circlesongs. Here is where McFerrin's gift for teasing the sublime out of silence is most evident. The eight songs on the set spring from sounds improvised on the spot. McFerrin is assisted by twelve singers on the album. The rhythmic repetition of the sounds is what gives the songs their circular shape and chant like structure. 'It's primal, unadorned singing,' McFerrin explains in the liner notes to the record. 'I have always felt,' he adds, 'that singing a song without words makes one song a thousand songs because the people who hear it can bring their own stories to it.' And this is exactly the impact of the music.
You hear creation – birth and life as it moves inexorably to death and renewal. You hear the pain and joy of existence of man's journey on earth. And you hear it sung with a vital energy that you have never heard before.
In McFerrin's vocalistics you hear something ancient and yet truly new. It is not a matter of form – although the music is defined by a nominal form – the circle. The circles occur not only in space, but in sound. There is the creation of circles of sound – one of the most intuitive ways to make music. While musical notation allows for epic genres – such as the symphony, opera and concerto, which unfold in linear measures of time, oral tradition music has always favored circular and cyclical forms. Rounds and canons are a venerable form of western music. In the great musical traditions of the East, rhythm and melody are often conceived in circular periods. Breathing is circular: inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale! Awareness of the circular rhythm of breathing is one of the cornerstones of daily practice in many spiritual disciplines. Chanting gives voice to the rhythm of breath and synchronizes the breathing of the singer into a collective rhythm that can – and does – invoke considerable power. On the right conditions, this power of collectivity may overcome the power of ego and create an opening through which the human being can link himself to forces greater than himself. When those forces are imbued with the spirit of the Divine, chanting takes on the quality of a sacred music.
This is where the art of vocal music is headed – or ought to be headed – from this seminal work by Bobby McFerrin. This is the state of the art of vocalistics. This is music that comes directly from the spirit. Now the search ought to be on for the 'perfect note', as we dig deeper into the soul. And the discovery will come: when the cry that is provoked by the fear of death colliding with the ecstasy of liberation. This is, after all, the true spirit of vocalistics. This is jazz!
Photo Credit
Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald by William P. Gottlieb
Abbey Lincoln by Sue Story
Bobby McFerrin by Jimmy Katz


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GRAND FORKS (WDAZ-TV) - Altru Health System is pushing back its main campus expansion plans. The original plan was to finish in 10 years but now construction isn't expected to end until 2024.
The main focus right now is the four buildings Altru recently acquired in the south end of town. Even though finishing touches won't be complete for another 12 years, the new clinic will be opening its doors by June or July.
Original plans to renovate the main campus were made before Altru purchased the building where Doctors Hospital was supposed to open.
"It was all about space for us," Altru COO Brad Wehe said.
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"We wanted to integrate whatever we were going to do there with the master plan that we had for this campus," Altru Chief Planning Executive Dennis Reisnour said.
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"Our emphasis on that first phase is that South Washington campus," Wehe said.
One of the main things Altru wants to accomplish in this process is to keep the South Columbia road campus and the south end site separate to avoid having to transport patients back and forth for procedures.
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"It's important they don't have to go between the two campuses," Wehe said.
Services provided by the site on South Washington St. will include a GI and endoscopy unit, sleep center, an imaging and lab center among others things. But you won't notice much change on the outside.
"I don't know that you'll see major construction," Wehe said.
It's the interior that will be altered to best fit the hospital's needs.
"How to use those facilities to make the best use out of that space and get it in use as quickly as we can," Reisnour said.
The main focus will always be the patients, but for the future, Altru hopes to provide the same services on both sides of town.
"We do believe that we can have a really strong satellite facility on South Washington Street that compliments this campus very well," Reisnour said.
There won't be an emergency room in the south end location because Altru doesn't see a point in having two separate trauma facilities.
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- Massachusetts Court Upholds Privacy Protection for Location Records: In Commonwealth v. Augustine, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in cell phone location records held by a company. Article 14 of the Massachusetts Constitution, similar to the Fourth Amendment, provides that individuals should be free from "unreasonable searches, and seizures." The court held that obtaining two weeks of phone location records was a search, requiring a warrant. EPIC filed "friend of the court" briefs in Commonwealth v. Connolly, a similar case in Massachusetts concerning warrantless GPS tracking, and State v. Earls, a case in which the New Jersey Supreme Court held that location data is protected under the state constitution. EPIC also filed a brief in In re U.S. Application for Historical Cell Site Data, where an appeals court held that users have no reasonable expectation of privacy in location records under the Fourth Amendment. The Massachusetts Supreme Court considered all three cases. For more information, see EPIC: Location Privacy. (Feb. 20, 2014)
- New Jersey Court Issues Landmark Location Privacy Decision: Today the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cell phone location data under the NJ state constitution. In State v. Earls, the New Jersey high court found that "cell-phone location information, which users must provide to receive service, can reveal a great deal of personal information about an individual." This decision is the first to establish a Constitutional right in location data since the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Jones, a GPS tracking case in which several Justices expressed concern about the collection of location data. EPIC participated as amicus curiae in Earls. The New Jersey Supreme Court noted that "EPIC offered helpful details about the current state of cell-phone technology." For more information, see EPIC: State v. Earls and EPIC: Locational Privacy. (Jul. 18, 2013)
- Court Permits Police Use of Phony Cell Phone Tower: A federal court in Arizona has denied a motion to suppress evidence gathered by "StingRay" surveillance technology. The court in United States v. Rigmaiden held that investigators did not violate the Fourth Amendment. The court also held that the government's use of a cell site simulator or StingRay device was supported by a "mobile tracking device" warrant. EPIC recently argued that users have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the location of their mobile devices, and has also received hundreds of pages of documents related to the FBI's use of StingRay technology. For more information, see EPIC v. FBI: StingRay and EPIC: State v. Earls. (May. 10, 2013)
- EPIC Testifies in Austin on Texas Location Privacy Bill: EPIC's Appellate Advocacy Counsel Alan Butler testified before the Texas State Assembly on a privacy bill for telephone location data. The House bill, would establish a warrant requirement for location data and a comprehensive reporting requirement, similar to the federal wiretap reports. Mr. Butler discussed the need for clear rules governing location surveillance that satisfy Fourth Amendment standards, as well as the importance of public reporting and accountability. He also testified at a Senate Committee hearing on the proposal. EPIC recently submitted amicus briefs in State v. Earls and In re U.S. (5th Cir.) regarding location privacy. For more information, see EPIC: Locational Privacy. (Mar. 28, 2013)
- EPIC Testifies Before Maryland Legislature on Location Privacy: EPIC Appellate Advocacy Counsel Alan Butler testified before the Maryland House Judiciary Committee on H.B. 887, a location privacy bill that will establish a search warrant requirement for the collection of private location information. Mr. Butler discussed the current state of location tracking and privacy under the state and federal constitutions. The Maryland bill will require a warrant for location tracking and an annual report on electronic surveillance reports, similar to the federal wiretap reports. EPIC recently submitted amicus briefs in State v. Earls and In re US regarding location privacy. For more information, see EPIC: Locational Privacy and EPIC: State v. Earls. (Feb. 28, 2013)
- EPIC to Argue for Location Privacy in NJ Supreme Court: The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in State v. Earls, an important case regarding the privacy of cell phone location information. At issue is whether real-time location data should be disclosed by a cell phone provider without a warrant or a court order. EPIC Appellate Advocacy Counsel Alan Butler will present oral argument along with counsel for the Defendant and amici ACLU-NJ. In response to the Court's request for supplemental briefing, EPIC's brief outlined the current state of location tracking technology and argued that cell phone users have a reasonable expectation of privacy under both the Federal and State constitutions. For more information, see EPIC: State of NJ v. Earls and EPIC: In re Historical CSLI. (Jan. 28, 2013)
- New Jersey Supreme Court Considers Cellphone Tracking Case: In State v. Earls, the New Jersey Supreme Court is today hearing arguments on whether the police may use cellphone tracking techniques without court approval. Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court ruled that the police must obtain a court order if they attach a GPS tracking device to a vehicle. EPIC filed a "friend of the court" brief in Earls, urging the New Jersey court to uphold Fourth Amendment protections. The cell phone tracking techniques at issue in the New Jersey case, EPIC argued, "is more invasive than the GPS tracking in Jones." Princeton attorney Grayson Barber is arguing for EPIC as amicus before the New Jersey court. (Oct. 22, 2012)
- Law Enforcement Requests to Wireless Carriers Topped 1.3 Million in 2011: In response to recent letters from Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), nine mobile wireless carriers have provided detailed reports of law enforcement requests for user cell phone records. These requests come from agencies - across all levels of government - seeking text messages, caller locations, and other information in the course of investigations. The reports show that companies turn over thousands of records a day in response to subpoenas, court orders, police emergencies, and other requests. The volume of requests has increased as much as 16 percent for some companies over the last five years, and some carriers have rejected as many as 15 percent of all requests that they found legally questionable or unjustified. EPIC recently filed amicus briefs in the Fifth Circuit and New Jersey Supreme Court arguing that disclosure of historical and real-time cell phone location information violates a reasonable expectation of privacy and thus requires a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. For more information, see EPIC: In re Historic Cell-Site Location Information, EPIC: State v. Earls. (Jul. 9, 2012)
- EPIC Urges Court to Uphold Location Privacy in Cell Phone Tracking Case: EPIC filed a "Friend of the Court" brief in the Fifth Circuit urging the court to uphold Fourth Amendment protections for cell phone users. In the case, In re US for Historical Cell-Site Data, the lower court held that the disclosure of historical cell phone location records without a warrant would violate the Fourth Amendment. EPIC argued that this opinion should be upheld in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in United States v. Jones, because cell phone location records are collected without the knowledge or consent of users. The records in this case, EPIC argued, create a "comprehensive map of an individual's movements, activities, and relationships, . . . precisely the type of information that individuals reasonably and justifiably believe will remain private." For more information, see In re Historical Cell-Site Location Information, EPIC: State v. Earls, and EPIC: US v. Jones. (Mar. 19, 2012)
- EPIC Urges Court to Uphold Location Privacy in Cell Phone Tracking Case: EPIC filed a "friend of the court" brief in the New Jersey Supreme Court urging the court to uphold Fourth Amendment protections for cell phone users. In State of New Jersey v. Thomas W. Earls, the lower court held that an individual has no legitimate expectation of privacy in the location of their cell phone. EPIC argued that the lower court opinion should be overturned in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in United States v. Jones. The cell phone tracking techniques in this case, EPIC argued, "is more invasive than the GPS tracking in Jones." For more information, see EPIC: State v. Earls, and EPIC: US v. Jones. (Feb. 29, 2012)
Questions Presented
Was defendant's arrest valid where law enforcement officers used information from defendant's cell phone provider about the general location of the cell phone; and did the plain view exception to the warrant requirement apply in these circumstances?
The issue presented in Earls is whether the government can constitutionally obtain and use locational information from a defendant's cell phone provider to track a suspect's location without a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. The government engages in this investigatory technique frequently, although its constitutionality is still in question in many courts.
Thomas Earls, the defendant in State v. Earls, was a suspect in a string of residential burglaries. In order to locate Earls, police contacted his cell phone carrier. Because every seven seconds, a cell phone scans for the strongest signal and then identifies itself with that cell phone tower, the police could use these tower logs to track Earls' approximate location. The cell phone carrier notified the police three separate times of Earls' location; on the third the police found Earls' car in a motel parking lot within the targeted area. The police found Earls inside his hotel room along with a flat screen television and other stolen property.
Earls filed a motion to suppress this evidence. The court denied this motion after a three-day evidentiary hearing. Earls then entered a plea bargain, agreeing to seven years of imprisonment. After this, he filed a motion to reopen his appeal challenging the court's denial of his motion to suppress.
The N.J. appellate court denied this motion and ruled that the locational tracking was constitutional because the police monitoring took place on public highways, based in large part on United States v. Knotts and United States v. Karo. However, on January 23, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jones. In this decision, a majority of the Court stated that some types of locational tracking, even when done entirely on public highways, can infringe upon a reasonable expectation of privacy. Thus, the ruling in Earls must be re-evaluated.
EPIC's Interest in State v. Earls
EPIC has an interest in promoting privacy in digital spaces by upholding robust Fourth Amendment protections. Location privacy is becoming an important issue in Fourth Amendment law as more devices store location data that can later be recovered, intercepted, or otherwise obtained by law enforcement or private parties. EPIC recently filed a "Friend of the Court" brief in US v. Jones, a Supreme Court case involving a Fourth Amendment challenge to the government's unwarranted use of GPS tracking technology during a criminal investigation.
The New Jersey Supreme Court held oral arguments in Earls on October 21, 2012. Then on November 21, 2012, the Court requested additional briefing on six specific questions related to the retroactive application of the warrant requirement, the current state of technology of related to cell phone location tracking, and the reasonable expectation of privacy in cell phone location under federal and state constitutions.
Legal Documents
New Jersey Supreme Court
- Opinion
- EPIC Supplemental Brief
- ACLU-NJ Supplemental Brief
- Second Supplemental Brief on Behalf of the State of New Jersey
- Defendant Earls' Letter in Response to the Court's Order Requesting Supplemental Briefing
- Order Requesting Supplemental Briefing
- Supplemental Brief on Behalf of Defendant-Petitioner
- Supplemental Brief on Behalf of the State of New Jersey
- EPIC Amicus Brief
- ACLU-NJ Amicus Brief
New Jersey Appellate Court
- Lower Court Opinion, State v. Earls, 22 A.3d 114 (2011).
Related Cases: Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
- United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012).
- United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109 (1984).
- United States v. Karo, 468 U.S. 705 (1984).
- United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983).
Related Cases: Cell Site Location Information
- In re US for Historic CSLI, No. 11-mc-00223 (previously 10-mc-00891, 00990, 00998) (S.D. Tex. Nov. 11, 2011), rejection of the government's Section 2703(d) application on appeal to the Fifth Circuit, Case No. 11-220884.
- In re US for an Order Authorizing Release of Historical Cell-Site Info., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 93494 (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 22, 2011).
- In re US Order Authorizing Release of Historical Cell-Site Info., 736 F. Supp. 2d 578 (E.D.N.Y. 2010).
- In re US for an Order: Authorizing the Installation & Use of a Pen Register & Trap & Trace Device, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45643 (N.D. Ind. July 5, 2006).
- In re Application of US for an Order Authorizing Installation and Use of a Pen Register, 402 F. Supp. 2d 597 (D. Md. 2005).
- In re Order Authorizing the Release of Prospective Cell Site Info., 407 F. Supp. 2d 134 (D.D.C. 2006).
- In re United States, 411 F. Supp. 2d 678 (W.D. La. 2006).
- In re US for an Order Authorizing Use of Two Pen Register & Trap & Trace Devices, 632 F. Supp. 2d 202 (E.D.N.Y. 2008).
- In re US for an Order Authorizing Use of a Pen Register, 396 F. Supp. 2d 294 (E.D.N.Y. 2005).
- People v. Hall, 14 Misc. 3d 245 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2006), aff'd People v. Hall, 86 A.D.3d 450 (N.Y. App. Div. 1st Dep't 2011).
Related Cases: Third Party Doctrine
- Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979).
- United States v. Miller, 425 U.S. 435 (1976).
News Reports
Print Media and Blogs
- In New Jersey, a Win for Privacy, N.J. Star-Ledger, July, 21, 2013.
- N.J. Supreme Court Says Police Need Warrants to Track Suspects' Cellphones, Anthony Campisi, Northjersey.com, July 19, 2013.
- N.J. High Court: No Cell Phone Tracking Without Warrant, Chris Mondics, Philly.com, July 20, 2013.
- New Jersey Court: No Cellphone Tracking Without Warrant, Associated Press, July 19, 2013.
- New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for Phone Tracking, John Ribeiro, PC World, July 19, 2013.
- N.J. Court: Police Need Warrant for Your Cell Phone Data, Loreno Franceschi-Bicchierai, Mashable, July 19, 2013.
- Police Can Use Cell Phone Signal to Find a Suspect, State Appeals Court Rules, MaryAnn Spoto, N.J. Star-Ledger, July 12, 2011.
- Cell Phone Data and Expectations of Privacy, Peter A. Crusco, Texas Lawyer, Oct. 27, 2011.
- Court Rules that Warrant is Required for Stored Cell Site Location Information, Greg Nojeim, Center for Democracy and Tech., Sept. 12, 2011.
- Judge Declares Law Governing Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Unconstitutional, Julia Angwin, Wall St. J., Nov. 16, 2011.
- Texas Judge Says Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Violates Fourth Amendment, Saga Continues, Amar Toor, Endgadget, Nov. 18, 2011.
- DoJ: Stingray Cellphone Tracking Device Falls Under Fourth Amendment, but Don't Ask About It, Amar Toor, EndGadget, Nov. 6, 2011.
- Feds Shift Defense of Cellphone Tracking, Jennifer Valentino-Devries, Wall St. J., Nov. 3, 2011.
- Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower: Did It Constitute a Search?, Kim Zetter, Wired, Nov. 3, 2011.
- Cell Phone Surveillance System, Bruce Schneier, Schneier on Security, Oct. 31, 2011.
- Netizen Report: Occupy the Net Edition, Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices Online, Oct. 19, 2011.
- It's Time for Congress to Prohibit and Criminally Punish the Sale of our Cell Phone Records: "Pretexting" for Phone Numbers is a Serious Privacy Violation, Anita Ramasastry, Findlaw, Jan. 23, 2006.
Law Review Articles and Books
- Stephanie K. Pell & Christopher Soghoian, Can You See Me Now?: Toward Reasonable Standards for Law Enforcement Access to Location Data that Congress Could Enact, 26 Berkeley Tech. L.J. (forthcoming Mar. 2012).
- Matthew J. Tokson, The Content/Envelope Distinction in Internet Law, 50 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 2105 (2009).
- Whitfield Diffie & Susan Landau, Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk, 52 Comm. of the ACM 11 (2009).
- Jack M. Balkin, The Constitution in the National Surveillance State, 93 Minn. L. Rev. 1 (2008).
- R. McDonald Hutchins, Tied Up in Knotts? GPS Technology and the Fourth Amendment, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 409 (2007).
- Jerry Kang & Dana Cuff, Pervasive Computing: Embedding the Public Sphere, 62 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 93 (2005).
- Deirdre K. Mulligan, Reasonable Expectations in Electronic Communications: A Critical Perspective on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 72 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1557 (2004).
- Julie E. Cohen, Examined Lives: Information Privacy and the Subject as Object, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 1373 (2000).
- Helen Nissenbaum, Protecting Privacy in an Information Age: The Problem of Privacy in Public, 17 Law and Philosophy 559 (1998).


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30,000 in Nepal (2003). A few elderly monolinguals. Thulung communities also in Bhojpur and Sankhuwasabha districts, scattered in Udayapur, Morang, Panchthar, and Ilam districts. Migrants may not speak Thulung as L1.
Sagarmatha Zone, southeast Solukhumbu district, Deusa, Lokhim, Mukli, Jubu, Tingla, Salyan, Panchan, and Necha VDCs; Khotang district, Salle, Jaleswori, and Maheswori VDCs; Okhaldhunga district, Tuintar VDC, 6 or 7 villages; Koshi Zone, Bhojpur district, 1 village; west of the slopes' highest ridges to Dudhkosi, north of Nechedanda and Halesidanda ranges, east of upper Solu river, and south of the Kakukhola and the confluence of Ingkhukhola and Dudhkosi. Also in India.
5 (Developing). Language of recognized nationality (2002, NFDIN Act, No. 20, Section 2C), Rai nationality.
SOV; postpositions; noun head final; content q-word in situ; no prefixes, up to 4 suffixes; clause constituents indicated by case-marking; verbal affixation marks person and number; ergativity; tense; passives and voice, but rare; tonal; 29 consonant and 16 vowel phonemes
Language retention high compared to other Rai languages (Winter and Hanson 1991). Home, friends, religion. All ages. Neutral attitudes. Do not believe each other's dialect is 'pure' Thulung. Women speak less Nepali [npi] than men. Most men speak Nepali well.
Interest in development among cultural associations (Thulung Rai Society). Traditional religion, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian.


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The appendix is a narrow, finger-shaped, hollow structure attached to the large intestine. While it serves no purpose in humans, it can cause serious problems when it becomes inflamed. Because of its location, this can happen quite easily; for instance, a piece of food or stool can get trapped inside, causing the appendix to swell and become infected and painfully inflamed. This inflammation—called appendicitis—is most common in children over the age of six, but can occur in younger children.
Once infected, the appendix must be removed. Otherwise it may burst, allowing the infection to spread within the abdomen. Since this problem is potentially life-threatening, it's important to know the symptoms of appendicitis so you can tell your pediatrician at the first sign of trouble. In order of appearance, the symptoms are:
Unfortunately, the symptoms associated with appendicitis sometimes may be hidden by a viral or bacterial infection that preceded it. Diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and fever may appear before the typical pain of appendicitis, making the diagnosis much more difficult.
Also, your child's discomfort may suddenly vanish, thus persuading you that all is well. Unfortunately, this disappearance of pain also could mean that the appendix has just broken open or ruptured. Although the pain may leave for several hours, this is exactly when appendicitis becomes dangerous. The infection will spread to the rest of the abdomen, causing your child to become much more ill, develop a higher fever, and require hospitalization for surgery and intravenous antibiotics. Recovery may take much longer, and there may be more complications than with appendicitis diagnosed and treated earlier.
Detecting the signs of appendicitis is not always easy, particularly with children under the age of three, who cannot tell you where it hurts or that the pain is moving to the right side. This is why it's better to act sooner rather than later if you have any suspicion that your child's pain or discomfort seems "different," more severe than usual, or out of the ordinary.
While most children with abdominal pain don't have appendicitis, only a physician should diagnose this serious problem. If the abdominal pain persists for more than an hour or two, and if your child also has nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and fever, notify your pediatrician immediately. If the doctor is not certain that the problem is appendicitis, she may decide to observe your child closely for several hours, either in or out of the hospital. During this time, she will perform additional tests or examinations to see if more conclusive signs develop. If there is a strong probability that appendicitis is present, surgery usually will be done as soon as possible since surgically removing the appendix is usually the treatment of choice.
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For me, family traditions are very important and my first daughter will definitely have my middle name as it's been passed along the family for generations. Have you considered a dual middle name? Normally, I'm against 2 middle names, but I think this works.
Clementine Lily Louise would incorporate both middle names. When I first saw the title of your post, I immediately thought Louise was the best option, so my vote goes to Clementine Louise if you don't like the double mn.(\_/)
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I don't think Clementine Louise sounds very good together to be quite honest! Clementine Grace is probably my favourite of yours, and if you like it so much, I think you should go for it!Favourite girls: Amadea, Antonia, Cecily, Clara, Eleanor, Georgia, Margaret, Matilda, Pandora, Susannah
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May 19th, 2013 01:58 PM #19
I like Clementine Lily the best out of all the names.
At one point I was loving Clementine Juliet. That is another that received a good response.TTC #1
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Do you ever find yourself staring at objects, or turning an item in your hand, squinting at it and feeling some kind of bafflement as to how an object came to be what it is? If so, then this story might be one for you.
For years, the human race has relied on physical paper copies to transmit their stories, memories, facts, histories, messages and more across time and space. But what about the story of paper itself? Who's telling that? Everybody knows paper is trees, but how does this happen?
Here is my account of the life of a piece of paper:
A tree's body:
The story of paper must begin with the tree trunk. Each trunk has its own outer layer of bark to protect it from nasty little threats in the world: It is the tree's armour, naturally formed to shield it from harmful forces like wind, rain, climbing children and grazing insects.
Hiding just inside the bark is thin Cambium, which holds the key to the cells which become the bark and inner wood:
Attribution due to Peter Linehan under Creative Commons License 2.0
Sapwood is a tree's lifeblood; it flows through the parts of the tree's body just as our own blood does. It ensures the tree's nourishment and healthy existence.
And finally, the aptly named Heartwood is the innermost part of a tree's trunk. It isn't living but it's the tree's strength, stability and core.
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All this material is formed of fibres, tiny little friendly cellulose strands stuck together by way of a natural adhesive called lignin.
And this is where our part in the story of paper begins, as it is through our separating and rearranging these very same fibres that brings paper into existence
Early steps:
First of all, chop chop, the tree's body gets cut down.
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The logs are then taken to a paper manufacturing company, where they're bathed, soaked and cleaned before being transformed into good little chips of wood.
The little chips are arranged according to size and moved on for pulping.
And what is pulping I hear you ask?
During this stage, individual wood fibres within the chips are broken apart and separated: It is essentially a making soft of the previously tough and hard substance to produce a malleable, mushy and watery product.
Some other ingredients are also usually thrown in around this point, things like starch, China clay, talc and calcium carbonate which contribute to the strength and brightness of the young paper.
Moving on the mush
The created mush that we now have is pretty much 99% water at this point, somehow, this all needs to be squeezed out. First, the papermakers spray the stock onto a wire, which is actually a wide, long screen, not a wire.
The water drips out the bottom and meanwhile, the little fibres are caught on the top side of this wire where they start becoming friends and bond to form a very thin mat. This bed of fibres at the top of the wire is then squeezed for all it's got between press rollers that take out yet more of its water.
The Final Steps:
Even after of all this squeezing and wrenching, the mushy stuff is still 60% water.
Let commence the dry end of the paper story: Huge metal cylinders are filled with steam and the stubbornly wet mat passes through these gigantic hot rollers.
This process of heating and drying the wet sheet gradually forces the fibres closer and closer together to transform the mush into the glossy magazines and A4 sheets of paper we see all around us. Voila!
Ok, wait this isn't quite the end of the story.
The fledgling paper is made ready for the world:
The paper makers use a machine called the Calendar which is not a calendar. It refers to big, massive and heavy iron rollers that press the drying paper smooth, all uniform in thickness.
Sometimes, depending on our piece of paper's function in the world, it is coated with a substance such as clay which makes it glossy and easy to print on.
And this is how a matted bed of tree fibres comes to serve us as paper in a countless number of ways in the human world.
Paper Problems
I love paper and would never want to ban it from existence, I love writing on it, drawing, folding, making paper aeroplanes, you name it… But we should also be aware of some downsides that are a result of this story.
Pulp and paper mills are actually among the worst polluters to air, water and land and I don't want to state the obvious, but it also uses up a vast quantity of trees.
Still, trees are renewable so that's not the end of the world as some might have you believe: Most of the time tree farms operate by a cut one down, plant one new policy which is…good. What this policy doesn't resolve is the natural diversity and population of an unharmed forest habitat where animals can live how they are used to and want to.
So, the point is, to be aware of other solutions and rally around ways to keep the stories of paper going but in the most ethical way possible. Recycling efforts help massively and so far count for recovering about 43% of all paper used. We should definitely support the paper mills that use only recycled waste as their primary source of raw material.
There are also alternative natural products that can actually stand in for wood, especially when combined with recycled paper: Wheat, oat, barley and left over crop stalks.
Maybe it's time got more of the paper glory?
Sometimes it's good just to know these things and get the word out. This is why companies like Whitepages are to be commended: With the growing number of people that would prefer to just find the correct online directory site and hit 'search' for the contact information they need rather than trail through a book too heavy for them to lift with one hand, Whitepages has recognized the declining need for default print copies of every phone directory.
Their solution is to operate an Opt-in delivery program, so if you REALLY want one, don't worry, you can get one.
But Whitepage's philosophy seems to be pretty much just right: It's not about halting the paper story; it's about managing it, and not creating thousands more unnecessary individual paper stories.
Amalia Dempsey is a dedicated fan of paper, interested in writing and the world. She supports White Pages, an online telephone directory and address finder, and their quest to ban unnecessary print copies of long directories.


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On the New Jersey Turnpike, the speed limit has been reduced to 45 mph in both directions between the Delaware Memorial Bridge and Interchange 12 in Carteret. Motorcycles and car-pulled trailers have been banned on the full-length of the Turnpike.
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ISHPEMING - A switch in defense paid off for the Superior Central High School girls basketball team Monday night.
Coach Greg Trowbridge had his Cougars (2-0) go from a man-to-man to a zone after intermission and it helped SC take a 45-37 nonconference win over host Ishpeming.
"Defense was the difference," Trowbridge said. "Our zone pretty much shut them down in the second half.
"It was a little scary, though. Our offense just isn't clicking yet."
Teslyn Tyner paced the Cougars with 15 points, four assists and four steals. Teammate Vanessa Freberg added 13 points and 10 rebounds.
"They're pretty good," Ishpeming coach Mark Dellangelo said of the Cougars. "They took it to us for a couple of spurts and we weren't able to overcome a couple of possessions.
"They also broke our pressure."
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I have been in love with my rooftop garden this past month. Every meal includes something picked fresh from the garden that morning – there's a bowl of fresh produce on the counter everyday! This is what I love about the harvest season (besides all of the eating). No matter how hard the growing season has been, no matter how many buckets of sloshing water have been hauled, and squirrels have been reckoned with, it is all erased by the joy and thrill of eating meals grown and prepared with my hands, brains, and skill.
I'll be heading over to my community garden this afternoon to check up on progress there. I'm sure I'll come home with a bag of food, but there's just something extra special about stepping out the door, picking something fresh off the plant and stepping back into the kitchen again to prepare it.


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I have a fundamental issue with approximately 90 percent of the wraps in circulation.
For too long, these tortilla-rolled lunchables have been passed off as convenient, self-contained, even healthy alternatives to sandwiches. I disagree.
But Wraps & Crepes, just north of 114th Street and West Dodge Road, tested my preconceived notions.
My main problem with wraps is ingredient distribution. Too often, a wrap is prepared just like a sandwich, with stacked fillings. It's then rolled into a deceptively neat-looking cylinder that loses its structural integrity the moment you start eating. A good third of all wrap bites yield nothing more than tortilla and lettuce.
Wraps & Crepes avoids this problem. Specializing in Southern Indian food, this isn't your typical deli-meat-and-cheese joint. Instead, imagine a traditional Indian dish packaged into a wrap.
The restaurant is owner Rajesh Kotha's second in Omaha. He has operated Kurry Xpress near 108th and Q Streets with his business partner since 2010.
The work they've put into designing the new space, formerly a pharmacy, is obvious. The interior of Wraps & Crepes is bright, fresh and clean, though it also feels a little bit like walking into a beachside juice shop. The tables shine with science-fiction-level white tops, and a wide strip of mint-green paint lines the walls.
The presence of two flat-screen televisions did little for the atmosphere. Fortunately, the volume was turned down. Unfortunately, the sound was replaced with the notably strange choice of American club music, piped in through the restaurant's speakers. (If you've ever wondered why Indian restaurants don't play more Usher, this is your spot.)
When a couple of friends and I arrived for an early dinner, only one table was occupied, but business quickly picked up. Diners order at a counter, though sometimes the restaurant offers table service.
The Wraps & Crepes menu is divided into two main categories. Wraps come in six options, each served in a freshly made whole wheat roti, an Indian flatbread. Choices include yogurt-marinated chicken, curried chicken, malai (cream-marinated) chicken, curried lamb, cheesy paneer or spiced mashed potatoes. Diners pick from a variety of veggies and dressings to complete the wrap.
Crepes come in 15 options and can be ordered either as a thin, crispy dosa or (for an additional $1) as a thicker, pancake-like uttapa. The dosa is prepared by spreading a thin layer of rice flour-based batter across a hot griddle.
Facing down my deep-seated issues, I ordered the Chutney Ritto wrap with curried lamb. It arrived cut in half and easily could have been two meals.
A rich, flavorful and slightly smoky tomato-based sauce worked well with the lamb and mixed greens. What the menu generically listed as "grilled vegetables" turned out to be almost exclusively peppers, which made for a hotter wrap than I was expecting, but the heat wasn't overwhelming.
I traded half of my wrap with a dining companion, who'd ordered the Continental Crave wrap with cheesy paneer, a soft but hearty Indian curd cheese texturally similar to tofu. The paneer dominated the wrap in a good way, with mixed greens, romaine lettuce and cucumber giving it a freshness that felt healthier than my wrap. It couldn't match the taste, though. Both of us kept turning to the curried lamb wrap. By the end, I was digging into mine with a knife and fork.
Our other dining partner went simple with an order of vegetable samosas that we all picked apart.
I enjoyed everything I tasted, including one of the restaurant's mango lassis (a thick, yogurt-based fruit drink made fresh each day), but the samosas were the highlight. A triangular pastry stuffed with spiced potatoes and peas and then deep-fried, they were just the right texture: crispy with a bit of a kick that suggested cumin and cayenne.
At just $2.99 for two, they're the cheapest thing on the menu.
Did I become a wrap convert? Close. I ate a wrap. I enjoyed a wrap. I can even say I'd recommend a wrap, especially for vegetarians who'll find decent options. But I wouldn't necessarily go back for a wrap.
I would, however, fly back for a dosa.
A Southern Indian staple, dosas are, in theory, similar to wraps. But with the dosa, the crepe itself is part of the experience.
On my second visit, I took the server's suggestion and ordered the No. 13 dosa: chicken cooked in a tomato sauce with creamy goat cheese and spinach. Served in a light sourdough crepe made from rice flour, it was huge, about as long as my forearm and twice as much as I needed (I took the other half home to my wife.)
It was delicious. If I had to quibble, I'd say the chicken was slightly dry, but nothing a dab more of sauce couldn't fix.
My dining companion ordered the Chutney Ritto wrap, but this time with curried chicken, and it was no less spicy than on the previous trip. Again, we split an order of samosas, this time to try the variety of vegetable- and spice-laden chutneys. The most unusual (and requested): an avocado chutney that tasted like a thin, somewhat zesty guacamole.
Despite my preference for the dosas, owner Kotha told me in an interview later that wraps were his restaurant's most popular selection. Part of that might be familiarity. His Indian diners, he said, usually opt for the dosas.
Judging from my two visits, the consistency at Wraps & Crepes will be rewarded with repeat visits, especially with the heavy lunch traffic around the Miracle Hills and Old Mill districts. Hopefully more customers will discover those delicious dosas.
The wraps worked on this skeptic, but when it came down to it, I still preferred the alternative.
Casey Logan is the communications coordinator at Film Streams, Omaha's art house theater in north downtown Omaha.


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A cancer survivor is any one with cancer, from the time of diagnosis and treatment through the remaining years of life. You are finished with your active cancer treatment and moving to the next phase of your life and next phase of your care. You may find your life returns to what you knew before you had cancer. Or, you may find that physical, psychosocial or financial concerns continue because of earlier treatments. Patients often call this the new normal.
MD Anderson's Colorectal Survivorship Clinic is here to help you develop a plan for your ongoing health care.You will receive care based on specific guidelines designed for survivors just like you who have been treated at MD Anderson. Our team works closely with specialized health care providers to monitor and manage late effects related to cancer and its therapies.The clinic addresses your physical and psychosocial care. We will:
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Your survivorship health care team will include physicians, advanced practice nurses and patient service coordinators, who work closely with the other specialized doctors and nurses who treated you at MD Anderson. For your non-cancer check-up, we will communicate with your primary care provider or oncologist in your community and expect you to follow up regularly with that provider.
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Encounter the sublime in this concert of favorite choral masterpieces including Gregorio Allegri's haunting Miserere, Randall Thompson's timeless Alleluia, as well as pieces selected by our audience. Concert-goers will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite a cappella choral music over the centuries and hear it performed by Miami's own GRAMMY-nominated choir. Whether it be Thomas Tallis' If Ye Love Me or Maurice Duruflé's Ubi Caritas, you will decide what we sing!
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Founded in 2002 by Artistic Director Patrick Dupré Quigley, professional chamber choir Seraphic Fire has garnered critical acclaim both locally and nationally. In an exciting crossover collaboration in 2004, Seraphic Fire was invited to record with international pop-star Shakira on a track for her album Oral Fixation II, which ultimately went Platinum. Seraphic Fire has released four CD recordings to date and will release a fifth next year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. In September of 2007, The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation awarded a grant to Seraphic Fire for the formation of a new chamber orchestra. For more information on Seraphic Fire's Chamber Choir and the Firebird Chamber Orchestra, please call 305-285-9060 or visit www.seraphicfire.org.


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For quite a while Ubuntu had been including example-content packages with its releases that contained the same content: some audio and video data to test the playback, including a video of Nelson Mandela.
Ubuntu contributor Jono Bacon had been calling for renewed content and announced a competition that ended September 4. The competition is now over and Bacon presents the winners in his blog.
While Ubuntu users submitted a host of audio samples, there were only two video submissions. The winner in the audio category was Andrés Vidau of Mexico. Bacon's blog includes Vidau's instrumental track that he created using the free OGG format. The video category winner was 14 year old Andrew Higginson with his stop motion animation produced almost exclusively with free software (Whiteboard, Ffmpeg, Mencoder among others). The 2-Mbyte video can be seen on the archive.org site. Vidau's and Higginson's submissions will become part of the next Ubuntu 8.10.
According to Bacon, the next versions of Ubuntu will continue to incorporate the creative work of its users. The stipulation is that submitted work must come under the CC-BY-SA license, which grants attribution rights, but also share-alike rights to ensure that licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the original.
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This gorgeous leaf votive will a be wonderful addition to any room. Casting a cozy glow that conjures up images of the perfect fall day, it will be a welcome accent in your home.
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Project Instructions
Smear Mod Podge® all over the sides of the glass container using the paintbrush. Do not apply Mod Podge® to the bottom of the glass container.
Place your dry leaf onto the container where you just applied the Mod Podge® and press into place. Brush over the leaf with more Mod Podge® using your paintbrush.
Continue adding leaves and Mod Podge® until your container is covered with leaves. I like to overlap a few, but keep in mind that the overlapped areas reduce the light that can pass through. I find that the lighter colored leaves work best. Use the darker leaves as accents.
Once you have finished placing your leaves around the container surface, use the flat end of your brush to create a stippled pattern in the Mod Podge® areas NOT covered by leaves. This step will create a more pleasing pattern than will brush strokes when light shines through these "open" areas on the container.
Let the container dry thoroughly and then apply a second coat of Mod Podge® again, "stippling" the open areas.
Let the container dry several hours or overnight. Over-spray the container with the acrylic spray. When dry, pop a candle (the flameles LED scented candle works best!) or a tea light on the inside of the container and you are finished!
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As the Chelsea players were put through their paces in Washington during last night's training session, there was a familiar sporting face watching on, in the form of Czech tennis player Radek Stepanek.
Stepanek, along with his coach, Petr Korda, was invited along to watch the session by good friend and fellow countryman Petr Cech, as the Blues prepare for Sunday's International Champions Cup semi-final against AC Milan.
Stepanek is in the US capital competing in the Citi Open, where he will play a men's doubles semi-final with partner Mardy Fish later today, and having been knocked out of the singles competition on Thursday, the opportunity to watch Jose Mourinho's side in action at close quarters was a welcome relief.
'It was a tough loss for me but I'm using today to forget about it and there is no better place to be than with Chelsea, Petr and all the guys,' he said. 'I'm still in the semi-finals of the doubles so it's been a nice change for me today being here.'
The two friends are in regular contact, but with both men competing at the top level of their respective sports, and frequently travelling around the world, catching up face-to-face can sometimes be difficult.
'I think this is only the third time,' acknowledges Stepanek. 'Once was in LA in 2007, I remember that because I won the tournament there. Then we met in Moscow two or three years ago and now again here. I'm always excited when I can be around because I'm a great Chelsea supporter.'
While Stepanek, a Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2006, is currently flourishing in a doubles tournament, he has made his name in tennis on the singles circuit.
In terms of the demands, there are clearly many differences between individual and collective sports, and he admitted to feeling a hint of envy over Cech's close bond with his team-mates.
'I think the principles in the sports are the same, the basics are the same, but there are things in the matches that you can't talk to many people in the world about; the feelings and the pressure,' he explained.
'The only thing I'm jealous of Petr about is he is in a team sport. I love to play in a team and when I see all the guys hanging out together, they are winning and losing together, so that's one thing I miss in tennis. I enjoy my moments in the David Cup when I can play for a few weeks in a team.
A day which began with the two going head-to-head on the tennis court ended with Stepanek trying to get the better of the Blues goalkeeper from the penalty spot.
A valiant effort saw him beat his friend twice, as well as hitting the bar with one strike, and though he was full of praise for Cech's efforts with a racket, Stepanek is already looking forward to the next penalty contest.
'This morning when we hit, when I saw his forehand he was getting up the rankings,' he said. 'I brought my coach into the game, he was giving him some lessons and he was playing very well. He's learning very quickly and I was impressed, but I want to get better [at penalties] and hopefully I will score five out of five next time.'


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