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I'm a 30 year old single Dad of a beautiful 6 year old girl. I have a BA in Journalism from The Ohio State University and work at a bank as an Investigator. I enjoy movies, sports and sharing a laugh. I was born in Chicago and most of my family still resides there. A piece of me will always be in Chicago but I have come to call Columbus home.
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I work 730-4 M-F. My daughter just started Kindergarten, so I am sure I'll be busy with that kind of stuff. I enjoy sports, movies, and watching my daughter grow. I'm also in search of my soul mate; could it be you?
I'm really good at
Being a Dad and making people laugh.
The first things people usually notice about me
My sense of humor.
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
Music: Anything but rap
Shows: Family Guy, Big Bang Theory
Movies: Rudy, A League of Their Own
Shows: Family Guy, Big Bang Theory
Movies: Rudy, A League of Their Own
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My future. Expanding my family. Getting married.
On a typical Friday night I am
Curled up with my little one watching movies.
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I'm an open book. Ask me anything.
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Do you ever wonder why Subaru is one of the best cars right now especially for rally car racing? Well, the answer to that is because the rally parts that they use are always top class! The company may be smaller than its competitors but this company generates a lucrative profit.
Most of the rally car racers also prefer Subaru because of its rally parts. Subaru craftsmen construct their line of products that run from a number of Subaru car parts or auto replacement components. They also have tire pieces that are strong enough to withstand sharp curves that rally car drivers make at about 200 kilometres per hour.
With Subaru rally parts, you will be quite certain that it is high engineering performance and that you are assured that their designs appeal to your taste as the consumer. Subaru's slogan is "Think.Feel.Drive." This slogan aims to capture and let buyers know of the company's strengths like balancing thought and emotion between idea and sentiment.
Their marketing strategy is turning the usual vehicle that you have to exhibit conventional bodies which would also have turbo-charged engines necessary for rally car racing. Indeed, these turbo-charged engines are equipped with rally parts that would be beyond what you are looking for. Their rally car capacity is more than what you expect.
Subaru has been successful for so many years now and they believe it's not just because of their hard work in marketing their cars but also because of their capacity to adapt to the needs and wants of their clients or the consumers.
For example, in 2000s, they were able to tremendously penetrate the US market with the production of their SUV line. Before, they didn't manufacture this since they were focused on rally cars but since SUVs were the demand of the market in the United States, they catered to that.
During the 1990s, Subaru made sure to announce its presence in developing rally cars and rally parts that employed the highly publicized six-cylinder SVX and Impreza. It was of great deal to rally car enthusiasts! It was their first time to witness such an up rise in the world of rally cars.
During this time also, the interest of people in rally car racing became more and more. And since Subaru is the most reliable maker of rally parts, the company found another dimension in their company. They are now one of the leading manufacturers of rally parts. Up to this day, Subaru is the leading supplier of rally parts.

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Our normal morning routine. John was on shift and so it was just Catherine and I.
Driving to Catherine's school field trip.
Catherine's school field trip was held at Kemah Boardwalk. The kids played at the park, fed and pet stingrays, rode on carnival rides, and played in the water fountain. It was a fun and busy trip!
Catherine started swimming lessons today at the YMCA. She loved it! She is also more advanced than the other two children, so we are going to see if we can go up a level.
After swim lessons and a quick dinner, we headed out to the backyard to play and enjoy the weather.
Then it was clean up time. Her art desk is always a mess and usually the most dreaded area to clean up.
Once the munchkin was in bed, it was time for me to hit the treadmill. I am trying to do cardio on the days that I don't do yoga or pilates. I HATE the treadmill but I know I need to do it.
And because I didn't have a chance to do any work during the day, I put in a bit of time before I headed to bed.


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AMC's 'Mad Men' Makes Me Mad
September 24, 2008 9:35 AM
Okay. I know "Mad Men" won the Emmy for best dramatic series, but I absolutely hate the show.
True, I didn't walk in those women's shoes in the early sixties, the time period for this show. Frankly I was a kid, and I never witnessed how women at home, raising families were treated by their high powered, well-paid male spouses.
Pretty shabby, according to this show, including all of the women who worked at this fictional ad agency. But when I grew up, I saw the other side, "Bewitched." I personally prefer that slice of life. Darren never cheated on Samantha. Remember?
I've only seen two episodes of "Mad Men," and I'm still trying to get the drama's appeal. So I took it upon myself to ask older women why they find it appointment TV.
They all say, and some can really relate, being married to ad agency executives, while they were raising families, that it's all true.
However, I find this show extremely deprecating to today's young women. Sure you can argue that's the way it was, but it isn't anymore. Bring back "Murphy Brown." That I can relate to.
I would like to see more shows on TV about women who actually crashed through the glass ceiling, like Murphy Brown, and are on equal footing with their husbands (Although Murphy didn't have one and raised a baby anyhow).
To me, "Mad Men" is one very sexist show and didn't deserve the Emmy.


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She's been all over the place over the past few months, and Lupita Nyong'o found herself in New York City for an interview on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on Wednesday night (February 19).
The "12 Years a Slave" Oscar nominee was beautiful in a strapless black getup as she explained to Dave all the places she lived as a child.
As for how she became interested in the entertainment industry, Lupita explained, "When I grew up I watched a lot of American programming and my favorite show was "Charlie Brown." I used to watch that over and over again. Linus Van Pelt was my favorite character because he sucked his thumb and so did I."
And from an early age she was quite creative- "I just had a really wild imagination. I spent most of my time daydreaming. My mother would call me a space cadet. And I'd make up stories at the age of 3."


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Daviess County Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. Monday in the Commissioners' Room at the courthouse. Items included on the agenda: interlocal agreement; community corrections report; US 50/SR 257 intersection safety petition; appointments.
County Council to meet on Wednesday
The Daviess County Council will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday in the Commissioners' Room at the courthouse. Items on the agenda include: abatement deduction schedule; requests for addition appropriations and transfer of funds.
I-69/U.S. 50 hearing on Wednesday
There will be a public hearing on the I-69/US 50 Interchange land use plan at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Washington City Council Chambers, 200 Harned Ave. The Planning Commission will meet following the public hearing to discuss the land use plan.
Barr-Reeve Christmas program Wednesday
Barr-Reeve elementary grades kindergarten through second grade will present its Christmas music program at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Barr-Reeve High School gym. The public is invited to attend and admission is free.
Odon library board to meet
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Bedford man arrested after crash while evading police
David West is being held on cash bail pending a hearing Monday in Merrimack District Court on seven charges, including operating after suspension, disobeying a police officer, reckless operation and breach of bail, police said.
According to a press release, Sgt. Devon Kimball attempted to stop the driver of a 2002 Chevy Prizm for multiple driving violations about 7:30 p.m. but the driver continued south, reversed directions near the Merrimack town line, and drove northbound at a high rate of speed. West crashed into a vehicle stopped at a red light near the Ray Wieczorek Drive ramps.
Police said the collision involved three vehicles and sent one person to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Police said West was uninjured and arrested at the scene.
The crash closed the South River Road northbound lane for about 45 minutes. Bedford Fire Department provided cleanup for a ruptured fuel tank.
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Hi guys. I'm 17, have been training in powerlifting for just over 6 months now, and I'm going to start competing next year around march. I haven't ever competed, and have been training completely RAW. I'd like to get some gear to compete with in the IPF, but I have absolutely no idea what type of gear is best, so I was hoping I could get a little help. Right now I'm only looking for a Bench shirt + Squat suit, but having a squat suit that works with deadlift would be awesome.
With bench, I have a moderate Arch, and I keep my elbows tucked.
Squat, I have a medium-wide squat stance, and with Deadlift, although I pull more with conventional style, I'm much more comfortable doing sumo and would like to train with sumo deadlift.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
IMO, the best decision would be to find a local PL gym nearby and commit. Gear is no good without the right training partners that can show you first hand how to operate it. My dumb-ass tried learning a loose fit bench shirt on my own and I didn't know wtf I was doing. I wasted 6 months of training and never ended up competing in it. It would be a good idea to build a solid raw base before getting into equipment.
I already have a strong enough base I feel. Unfortunately, there are no PL gyms in my city (closest one is about 2 hours away), but when I start competing next year in March, I will be training with the powerlifting team at the university where I'll be studying. Do you think I should just train RAW until then? Or is there some kind of basic, easy to use gear which will help me for the next 5 months.
No training partners means training in gear is out. Especially for a beginner
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Thanks a lot guys!
Also, what kind of deadlift stance should I use? I understand that deadlift stance should be dictated by body type... I'm 6 feet tall, have about 20% body fat and weigh around 210 pounds. Should I stick with conventional, or go sumo?
If you really want to get better and train in gear, and the closest PL gym is 2 hours away, I suggest you travel the 2 hours, at least once a week.
Also, I don't know who decided that raw had to be typed in all caps. Like it's somehow the most important word ever.
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LuckyVitamin Corporation, a Top 500 E-commerce retailer located in the King of Prussia, PA area is looking to hire a Search Engine Marketing Specialist. This person they hire for this position will be part of the online marketing team managing and implementing a multi-million dollar paid search marketing program for the company. This is a hands-on position requiring a strong understanding of implementing, overseeing and growing a large and complex paid search program for the company.
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– Execute best practice strategies and methodologies to maximize company's paid search marketing programs with holistic coordination of multiple online marketing channels and on-site promotions, to ensure optimal timing, consistent messaging, and a superior customer experience.
– Administer daily operational tasks associated with search engine marketing.
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– Create high quality text ads to drive traffic to the site for the company's 40,000+ SKU's and 2000+ brand name products.
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– Provide strategic management of paid search campaigns against defined success metrics for various brands and categories.
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– Plan and develop keyword lists and text creative, implementation, optimization, testing and performance analysis
– Complete detailed analysis to provide data-driven insights and weekly reporting of campaign performance via bid management and reporting tools
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July 12, 2014
The recent sniper attacks have local school officials being extra cautious.
They're canceling field trips to the Washington D.C. area.
All athletic and field trips, within a 50 mile radius of the capital, have been postponed for Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Augusta, Staunton, Waynesboro and Page County.
These trips will be made up once arrests are made and the superintendents decide the areas are safe.


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Unnecessary poll. Delete.
7/31 - Hamilton Leithauser - Echo
8/06 - Herbie Hancock - Hollywood Bowl (?)
8/07 - Haim - Wiltern (?)
8/08 - Spoon - Hollywood Forever
8/10 - Paul McCartney - Dodger Stadium
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
this is necessary to teach Screwball a lesson in life.
I recognize that album cover. Just got the record off eMusic. Tame Impala.
That is quite a talent.
Still a crap movie (can't believe you voted 'Yay', if that was you). Sup Gay. Go out to the theatre and see it people so we can get more votes.
Wait, is this poll about Days of Heaven of End of Days?
End of Days was mostly miserable, but I thought Gabriel Byrne was a good devil, and the giant demon at the end was cool.
6/15/14 Failure - Glasshouse // 7/9/14 Cloud Nothings/Metz - Roxy
7/16/14 Planes Mistaken For Stars - Echo // 8/23-24/14 FYF Fest - Expo Park //8/25/14 Nine Inch Nails - Hollywood Bowl // 9/12-14/14 Riotfest - Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL
9/18/14 Neutral Milk Hotel - Hollywood Bowl
Days of Heaven. And like your avatar, Drinks. Please vote with your heart and keep politics aside.


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LOS ANGELES — What's even more repulsive than the idea of using DNA tests to help people create designer babies? Getting a patent for the idea.
23andMe, the pioneering direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, was awarded such a patent in September. U.S. Patent No. 8,543,339 is titled "Gamete donor selection based on genetic calculations," and among the inventions it claims is the idea of using genetic tests and computer programs to predict the likely traits of a baby based on the DNA of its parents.
Needless to say, this patent does not sit well with bioethicists. In a commentary published Thursday in the journal Genetics in Medicine, a group of bioethicists in Europe describes another scenario covered by the patent: prospective parents seeking egg and sperm donors with specific DNA variants to maximize their chance of having a child who will grow to a specific height, or develop the slow-twitch muscles that make someone a better endurance athlete, or have certain personality characteristics. Some traits, such as gender and eye color, could be chosen pretty reliably.
"Selecting children in ways such as those patented by 23andMe is hugely ethically controversial," the bioethicists wrote. (They did give the company credit for not offering "a cast-iron, fool-proof method guaranteeing that the eventual child will have all the phenotypic traits on the parents' shopping list, an impossible task.")
The Center for Genetics and Society, a bioethics think-tank based in Berkeley, Calif., has called on 23andMe "to abstain from developing or offering any product or service based on this patent, and to use its patent to prevent others from doing so."
"We believe the patent office made a serious mistake in allowing a patent that includes drop-down menus from which to choose a future child's traits," Marcy Darnovsky, the center's executive director, said in a statement.


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Another indie band lands a hot ad spot and lots of attention.
A guy drinks from a bottle of Snapple Antioxidant Water, and hears bubblewrap popping. He looks scans his surroundings and notices the entire city is covered in the stuff. Off he goes, bouncing and rolling down stairs. In one single bound, he leaps off a rooftop.
Check it out:
The song playing in the background is "Cat's Meow" by the Bad Eliots. These relatively unknown artists hail from New York City. Their name hasn't become a household legend yet--but the musicians who make up the band are pretty close to it. Lead singer and multi-instrumentalist James Rotondi boasts an impressive career with the band Air and Mike Patton's Mr. Bungle. Drummer Ant Cee played with Megadeth, the Deftones, and on the Warped Tour. Bassist Jony Matias runs a studio and is a member of the Crash Moderns, and guitarist Paul Riario is the maestro behind a successful cover band called the Monster.
So what's so grand about these fellas? Well, everybody who is anybody is searching for them. Last month, they posted the song for their video to "Cat's Meow" on YouTube. It's pretty inventive, considering the band dons 2-D boxed images of themselves on their heads:
So how did Snapple come to court these gents? Apparently they competed against a bevy of other bands. Frontman James Rotondi says, "There was some spirit in the studio that day which was light and fun," and this put the band on the map.
Since 2001, small, independent bands appearing in commercials have sold thousands of records, been placed on numerous Billboard charts, and culled the respect and admiration of music fans.
Some say a band is "selling out" if they promote themselves and their tunes this way. But Rotondi counters, "People have an idea that music for commercial use means selling out. I never had someone from a commercial client come to me and say, 'We'd like you to do something unoriginal that no one will notice.'"
The Bad Eliots are an amalgam of the Psychedelic Furs, Magazine, and Gang Of Four. Find out more at thebadeliots.com.
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CLARKSVILLE, Ind. - Police in this southern Indiana town reported discovery of a methamphetamine drug lab in a local motel room.
The occupants -- Amanda Marie Burden, 31, and Travis C. Kelley, 45 -- were arrested and charged with producing and possessing illegal drugs.
An alert police officer discovered the meth lab after observing the couple arguing at a convenience store and shadowing them back to room 241 at America's Best Inn.
Indiana State Police were called to the scene to remove the meth manufacturing materials and paraphernalia.
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A driver was airlifted to a hospital Friday after a single-vehicle crash at C.R. 700 South, east of 1100 West near Topeka.
The crash occurred at 8:35 a.m. LaGrange County police said a F350 Ford driven by Katie Bussard, 27, White Pigeon, Mich., was traveling at a high rate of speed. The vehicle went off the road and hit a tree stump and a fence.
Police said Bussard was removed from the vehicle by passersby. Bussard was airlifted to Parkview Memorial Hospital in Fort Wayne, where she was listed in serious condition Friday.
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• Katie Knight, 402 S. Sixth St., Goshen, told Goshen police someone stole an orange and black BMX 16-inch bike from her porch during the evening hours Wednesday.
• Terry Smith, 1016 S. Seventh St., Goshen, told Goshen police someone stole six solar lights and one solar insect light from the front of his residence June 15.
• Betty J. Smith, 2304 Lincolnway East, Goshen, told Goshen police she lost her wallet or someone stole her wallet Tuesday.
• Elena Cortez-Delgado, 41, 59657 Glenmore Ave., Elkhart, was arrested by Goshen police on a charge of theft at Meijer, 4522 Elkhart Road, Goshen, at 1 p.m. Thursday. She was later released on a memorandum to appear in court.
• Wayne Price, 1420 Wilson Ave., Goshen, told Goshen police someone stole solar lights from his yard at approximately Thursday.
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• Chelsea Hoel, 310 Roxbury Park, Goshen, told Goshen police Wednesday that someone egged her house during the overnight hours.
• The property manager at 1375 Lincolnway East, Goshen, told Goshen police someone damaged the building with spray paint Monday.
• Jaslyn Taylor, Goshen, told Goshen police someone vandalized her vehicle and her North Main Street home June 12.
• Susan Juarez, 714 S. Eleventh St., Goshen, told Goshen police someone poured sugar into her vehicle's fuel tank. She told police she noticed this when arriving to a gas station to fill the tank at 12:17 a.m. Friday.
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• Jennifer Rowdabaugh, Goshen, told Goshen police someone made fraudulent charges on her bank account May 20.
• Lavere Rouch, Nappanee, told Elkhart County police Wednesday someone opened a line of credit in his name and made a purchase July 20, 2012.
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• Terry A. Stidham, 19, Millersburg, was involved in a crash at the intersection of Kercher Road and Firethorn Drive in Goshen at 2:47 p.m. Wednesday. After the collision, the driver of the other vehicle, a maroon mini-van, left the scene without exchanging information or waiting for police to arrive. Stidham had minor abrasions to his arms from his airbags deploying and declined medical treatment, Goshen police said.
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• Rosanna Burkholder told Elkhart County police Tuesday she found a green plastic bottle with a straw in it believed to be used in the manufacturing of methamphetamine. The bottle was found in the ditch alongside C.R. 100, north of U.S. 6 on the east side of the road. The Indiana State Police Meth Suppression Section was called to assist in the investigation.


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Location: Head south down Kanan Rd., and after a short while, bear left onto Sideway Rd., which immediately merges into Cornell Rd. Continue on Cornell for 2.2 miles (passing and Malibou Lake) and stay on this road for another mile as it becomes Lake Vista Dr. Then, turn left onto Crags Dr. until its end where you will find a trailhead. Park on any street nearby.
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Generally eaten between 2 and 4 pm, comida is the main meal of the day. It may consist of several courses, including soup (sopa) or salad (ensalada), a main dish (guisado) and dessert (postre). It is often accompanied by a fruit flavored water (agua fresca).
Many restaurants offer comida corrida, a set meal with a few options. This is often the most economical choice, though prices can vary greatly (from around 30 up to 100 pesos). Many businesses and offices close between 2 and 4pm, not necessarily for "siesta", but for comida, so that workers can go home to enjoy the main meal of the day with their families. Correspondingly, traffic in cities may be heavy between 1:30 and 2:30 pm on weekdays.
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Arrive in Guyana and transfer to Georgetown. Overnight at Cara Lodge. No meals included.
Depart hotel and travel along the coast to the Mahaica River. We will take a boat on the river to see Guyana's national bird the Hoatzin, which is found in abundance along this river system. On the way back we will stop and bird as opportunities arise for Black-capped Donacobius, Point-tailed Palmcreeper, Moriche Oriole and Rufous Crab Hawk. This afternoon we will the extensive and beautiful Botanic Garden, where an ornithological highlight is the Blood-colored Woodpecker, an astonishingly colorful Veniliornis found only in the Guianas and even there almost wholly limited to the narrow coastal plain. The gardens also host Pinnated Bittern. Brown-throated Parakeet, Great Horned Owl, Golden-spangled Piculet, White-bellied Piculet. Black-crested Antshrike, Spotted Tody-Flycatcher and Wing-barred Seedeater. A number of macaw and parrot species are also present, including the Festive Parrot. Overnight at Cara Lodge. Only BL included. You can have dinner on your own either at the Lodge or at one of Georgetown's other restaurants.
This morning we will see dawn rise over the extensive and beautiful Botanic Garden, where, if we are lucky, the trip's first ornithological highlight will be the Blood-colored Woodpecker, an astonishingly colorful Veniliornis found only in the Guianas and even there almost wholly limited to the narrow coastal plain. The gardens host Snail Kite, Gray Hawk, Pearl Kite, Carib Grackle, Red-bellied Macaw, Red-shouldered Macaw and a host of parrots including the Orange-winged and Yellow-crowned Parrot and the Festive Parrot. We will walk on trails in the back on the gardens and may see Yellow-chinned Spinetail, Boat-billed Flycatcher, Black-crested Antshrike, Short-tailed Swift, Ruddy Ground Dove, Grayish Saltator, Silver-beaked Tanager, Buff-breasted Wren, Piratic and Ashy-headed Greenlet. You may also see the Golden-spangled Piculet, White-bellied Piculet, Great Horned Owl, Spotted Tody-Flycatcher, Pinnated Bittern, Wing-barred Seedeater and Brown-throated Parakeet. After breakfast we will transfer to the airport at nearby Ogle, where Red-breasted blackbirds sing and Snail kites patrol, we'll fly by scheduled aircraft for Annai. Transfer by Bedford truck to the Iwokrama River Lodge for lunch.
This afternoon we will bird along the Screaming Piha Trail near the River Lodge, is home to Bronzy Jacamar, Chestnut & Waved Woodpecker, Amazonian Antshrike, Gray Antbird, and Strong-billed Woodcreeper. We may also see Gray-winged Trumpeter, Black-tailed, White-tailed, Violaceous and Collared Trogons, Plain-brown, Wedge-billed, White-chinned, Buff-throated, Chestnut-rumped and Barred Woodcreepers. As the day ends we will look for Ladder-tailed Nightjar; Great and Common Potoo and the rarer Rufous Potoo and White-winged Potoo. Overnight at the Iwokrama River Lodge. B, L, D included.
Making another early start we will embark on the Essequibo and circumnavigate Indian House Island giving us a chance for dawn song on the river including five species of Tinamou, Marbled Wood-Quail, Band-rumped Swift, White-banded and Black-collared Swallows, and Guianan Streaked-Antwren before returning to the Field Station for breakfast.
We then set out by boat for half an hour or less to the foot of Turtle Mountain. Along the way Harpy Eagle have been seen and we may also see Greater Yellow-headed Vulture, King Vulture, Gray-headed, Double-toothed and Plumbeous Kites and Black-faced Hawk. Here we explore the trails for a few hours first visiting Turtle Ponds where anis, herons and Green and Rufous Kingfisher hunt and then climbing to an elevation of 900 feet for a view of the forest canopy below and chances of Green Aracari, White Bellbird or a fly-by of one of five types of Eagles. The trails may reveal Little Chachalaca, Marail Guan, Black Curassow, Squirrel and Black-bellied Cuckoos, Eastern Long-tailed and Reddish Hermits, Blue-crowned Motmot, Guianan White-necked Puffbird, Collared Puffbird, Pygmy, Todd's, Spot-tailed, White-flanked, Gray, Long-winged, Rufous-bellied, and Brown-bellied Antwrens, White-lored Tyrannulet and Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant.
On the return trip we will bird as we go and hopefully spot Caica, Blue-headed, Blue-cheeked and Mealy Parrots, Cocoi Heron, Bat Falcon, Lined Forest-Falcon and Pied Lapwing. We'll visit Fair View, a nearby Amerindian village and in late afternoon we'll take a walk on trails around the Field Station to look for Swallow-winged Puffbird, Black-spotted Barbet, Golden-collared, Yellow-throated, Crimson-crested and Red-necked Woodpeckers, Guianan Toucanet, Black-headed, White-browed, Ferruginous-backed, Warbling, Scale-backed, White-plumed, and Rufous-throated Antbirds, Ringed Antpipit, Black-tailed Tityra and Thrush-like Schiffornis.
Finally, after dark, we'll set out on the river once more, in hopes of finding one or another of its four species of caiman, and listen for nightbirds such as Spectacled Owl, Long tailed Potoo, Zigzag Heron or Blackish Nightjar. Overnight at the Iwokrama River Lodge at Kurupukari. B, L, D included.
This morning we will bird along the Greenheart and Woodcreeper Trails close to the Iwokrama River Lodge. Quill rattling by Spix's Guan or Crestless Curassow may start us off and then we will look for Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner, Olivaceous Woodcreeper, Eastern Slaty-Antshrike, Sooty-headed Tyrannulet and Tiny Tyrant Manakin.
This afternoon we will take a boat trip to Stanley Lake for birdwatching along the banks a locale for Sunbittern, Green Ibis, and Capped Heron. During our three night stay at Iwokrama we will also be looking for Black Nunbird, Blue Dacnis, Spangled and Pompadour Cotingas, Red-eyed Vireo, White-shouldered, Blue-backed and Turquoise Tanagers, Buff-cheeked, Lemon-chested and Tawny-crowned Greenlets, Brown-throated Parakeet, White-crowned and Golden-headed Manakins, Violaceous, White-vented, and Golden-sided Euphonias, Fasciated, Mouse-colored, Dusky-throated, and Cinereous Antshrikes and Guianan Red-Cotinga, Black-necked Aracari, Rufous-capped and Black-faced Antthrush, Gray-crowned and Yellow-margined (Zimmer's) Flycatcher, Rufous-tailed Flatbill, White-breasted Wood-Wren, Spotted Puffbird and Musician Wren. Overnight at the Iwokrama River Lodge. B, L, D included.
Before dawn we will transfer by Bedford Truck along the road through the heart of the Iwokrama Forest, where there is a good chance to see the elusive Jaguar. The Iwokrama forest is rapidly gaining an international reputation for its healthy jaguar populations that seem not to be troubled by the appearance of curious humans. No promises, but many have been lucky! The road also offers excellent birding, including a locality known as Mori Scrub, characterized by an unusual low, sandy forest. This supports an interesting assemblage of bird species, among them Rufous-crowned Elaenia, Black Manakin and Red-shouldered Tanager. We will stop along the road at numerous locations and look for species such as Guianan Red-Cotinga, Pompadour Cotinga, Blue-backed Tanagers, White-winged Potoo, Olive-green Tyrannulet, Rufous-winged Ground-cuckoo and Marail Guan. Continue onto the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway with birding along the road as we travel. Here we can bird watch from the vantage of 35 Metres up in the canopy. Caica Parrots, Painted Parakeets, Guianan Toucanet, Pompadour Cotinga, Plumbeous Pigeon, Red-and-green Macaw, Screaming Piha and a host of crown specialists come within our view.
Continue by 4×4 Bedford Truck, eventually reaching the Rupununi and Annai, its northernmost community. The Rupununi Savannah is to Guyana what the Gran Sabana is to Venezuela, an extensive area of grassland with termite mounds and scattered or riparian woodland. It differs in that much of it is devoted to cattle raising, though the large ranches are not very productive. Indeed, one can travel for hours without seeing a domestic animal of any sort. Needless to say, the birdlife here is markedly different from that of the rainforest. Fork-tailed Flycatchers, Savannah and Black Collared Hawks patrol the grassland. Arrive at Rock View Lodge for a late dinner. Overnight at Rock View Lodge. B, L, D included.
This morning we will devote the morning hours to a location know as Moura Bridge for the opportunity to view the Amethyst Woodstar, White-chinned Sapphire, Long-billed Starthroat and several Hermits as they patrol around the grounds. Nearby forest patches are home to Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher, Rufous-browed Peppershrike and a variety of antbirds. Afternoon again we set out on the road to Camundi Bach, for Cinereous Mourner, Reddish Hermit, Rufous-bellied Antwren and Yellow-billed Jacamar, Fork-tailed Flycatchers, Savannah and Black Collared Hawks as they patrol the grassland. At dusk as nightjars and nighthawks tumble over the grasslands we will look for the Nacunda Nighthawk and White-tailed Nightjar. Overnight at Rock View Lodge. B, L, D included.
This morning you can bird around the resort or in the foothills of the Pakaraima Mountains on the Panorama Trail for Cinereous Mourner, Reddish Hermit, Rufous-bellied Antwren and Yellow-billed Jacamar.
After an early lunch we will take a chartered flight to Kaieteur, the world's highest free-falling waterfall. Though Venezuela's Angel Falls are greater in total height, their filamentous drop occurs by stages whereas Kaieteur is a single, massive, thundering cataract 100 meters wide created as the Potaro River makes a sheer drop of 228 meters, nearly five times the height of Niagara. The spectacle is the more impressive for its remoteness and it is altogether possible that we'll be the only persons viewing it. Here we will hope to find White-chinned and White-tipped Swifts swirling over the gorge, and perhaps we'll be lucky enough to see the astonishingly colorful Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock, Orange-breasted Falcon, White-tailed Goldenthroat or Musician Wren. Flight continues back to Ogle. Transfer to Hotel. Dinner at the hotel. Overnight at Cara Lodge. B, L, D included.
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Durham Hillside's quest for an undefeated season traces its birth to the 2008 playoffs when the Hornets were defeated by Fayetteville Byrd.
Hillside's players, including his year's seniors, thought they had won the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4-A Eastern championship game after blocking a 25-yard Byrd field goal in the closing seasons and seemingly protecting a 7-6 lead.
But a yellow flag ruined the ending. Hillside was called for roughing the center, who is protected by the rules because he is in a defenseless position after making a long snap.
Given a reprieve, Byrd kicked the winner for a 9-7 victory and ended the Hornets' 12-2-1 season.
Coach Antonio King was bitterly disappointed but afterward said the loss would be a motivation for the future. He said his team had missed opportunities to have the game in hand.
The disappointment would feed the Hornets' hunger.
The Byrd loss was in mind last spring when King met with the players returning from the 9-4 Hillside 2009 team that had been eliminated in the playoffs by Middle Creek, 24-19.
King asked those players what was their goal for the 2010 season.
"They asked me to research and find out what they would have to do to go undefeated," King said on Monday morning. "I looked into it and came back with the things they would have to do as far as dedication, practice and time.
"They talked about it and they decided, not me or the coaching staff, but they decided they wanted to do all the work it would take to have a chance of being undefeated."
Quarterback Vad Lee said earlier this season that the Byrd loss has been in the back of the players' minds all season.
"That has been our motivation all season," Lee said. "We remember that feeling, and we don't want to let it happen again."
Hillside has steamrolled every team in its path except for Southern Durham, which extended the Hornets before losing 13-12.
Other than that Piedmont Athletic 4-A thriller, Hillside has won each of its 13 games by at least 20 points.
"It is a very focused team," King said. "They celebrate a win until Saturday afternoon. Then you'll start seeing them extending e-mails about getting ready and getting focused on the next game."
Lee, a Georgia Tech football recruit, has rushed for 1,098 yards (11 yards per carry) and passed for 2,249 yards, despite playing in the fourth quarter of only two games all season.
"Vad has done a tremendous job," King said. "He has matured and does a great job running the offense. I think we have four or five players with at least 20 catches. He just finds the open man."
Early in the season when Lee's recruitment and offensive numbers were attracting attention, the Hillside defenders started calling themselves a bunch of guys with no names. Those nobodies are giving up only 9.5 points per game, and most of those points came against Hillside reserves during games well in hand.
The Hornets use a multiple four-front defense with Treshawn Council, an East Carolina recruit, Jamal Marcas, Anthony Talley and Ronald Thompson on the line. Wesley Dowdy and Lee Williams are the linebackers.
The cornerbacks are Aaron Krah and Kennan Stalls. The rover is Meyer Krah, with Christian Ballard and Korrin Wiggins in the secondary.
The Hornets play at their Russell Blunt Stadium on Friday night against Lee County, which upset Northern Durham 16-12 and Greensboro Dudley 28-12.
"Lee County went into Durham County Stadium and beat Northern Durham and then went to Dudley and beat them," King said. "Lee County has shown it can win on the road. We know it has a very good team."
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The controversial plan required school districts to teach Algebra I in middle school, a mathematics course that most other states offer to high schoolers, according to NBC 4 News.
But the State Board of Education dumped the Algebra 1 requirement last month, favoring standards that will mirror the national Common Core standards, EdSource reported. That means no more Algebra I for eighth graders, though there are plans to develop accelerated courses of study for students who have the skills to comprehend the Algebra I curriculum.
"This change will provide us with greater flexibility at the middle school to create classes that focus on taking students where they are and accelerating their development of skills and understanding of concepts," said Tony Roehrick, Cabrillo Unified School District superintendent. "Basically, removing the constraints of a one-size-fits-all mentality is good for kids."
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Complicating the matter was a move by the state two years ago that created two sets of middle school math standards. Federal No Child Left Behind statues don't allow for dueling curriculum.
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"The taking of algebra at 8th grade for all students did not make a lot of sense," said Roehrick. "While the majority of students possess the requisite skills to master algebra at that age, many do not."
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"So here I am on my stool tonight
Yeah, I'm practicing for the afterlife,
Cause when I'm nothing but a pile of bones
I'm gonna come back as a country song."
"I meet a lot of teenagers," Alan Jackson says. "It's surprising how many like real classic country music… They go out and find it, even if they can't hear it on the radio. They know."
He pauses for a moment, half- laughs. He's been here before.
"It's funny," Jackson remembers, "back in the mid-80s, there was so much pop stuff (on country radio), and I had my little band. We were playing Hank, Jr and George Strait who just had a deal, but the rest was Haggard, Jones, Gene Watson… There were no young people making realcountry music.
"I was 20 or less; I figured I'd move to Nashville, try to find a place to make this music. That fall, Randy Travis hit – and I thought, 'Well, okay…' The labels stillwouldn't sign me! Said I was too country, so there I was… and I didn't know what to do."
The one thing he did know: he couldn't change the music he loved.
In not changing, he set the stage for the modern traditionalists from Alison Krauss to Lee Ann Womack. He also provided the balance for Garth Brooks' arena rock country.
Along the way, he spent two decades creating some of turn of the century Nashville's most enduring commercial music. Whether it was the breathtaking post-9/11 musing "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning," the happy hour friendly "Five O'Clock Somewhere" with Jimmy Buffett or the seriously Southern boy coming of age romp "Chattahoochee," not to mention the pop-come-country skewering "Gone Country," Jackson kept it real – and connected.
It's easy to look at the success, and write it off as more "Nashville Cheese." But that would miss some of the best classic country music of the last 25 years. Forget Nashville's brassy marketing, look instead to the essence of songs like the breakout heartache of boy doesn't get girl "Here In The Real World" or the tortured "Last Night I Climbed The Walls" and move forward.
Indeed, keep coming. All the way to Thirty Miles West, Jackson's first album for another label since signing his original record deal. Named for how far off the Dixie Highway his hometown is, Thirty Miles West is as strong as any album Jackson's made – and it comes at a time when country's gone bombastic, slicker'n pop and knuckle-dragging in its willingness to dumb down.
"I'll be the bad guy, I'll take the black eye
When I walk out, you can slam the door
I'll be the S.O.B. if that's what you need from me
So you don't have to love me anymore…"
"When I heard it," Alan Jackson says of "So You Don't Have To Love Me Anymore," the lead single from his first record for his first new label in a career now in its third decade, "I was like, 'Now that'sa country song…'
"It was so good, I thought that. Then I called up Adam (Wright, half the duo the Wrights, and Jackson's nephew), and said, 'Are you sure you wanna waste this thing on me? I'll bet any of the young guys would cut it. That'd be a lot better for your career."
Alan Jackson, a CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year, has been around enough o know. His nephew, who at 4 was the ring bearer at Jackson's wedding to wife Denise, has enough real country in his blood to know, too.
Adam Wright wanted the best. He told the future Hall of Famer to sing it.
After all, there are few modern country singers whose voice is as authentic, as believable and as inherently country as the kid from Newnan, Georgia. Strong without being stiff, warm and reassuring, yet capable of shouldering the load, supple with enough bend to get the nuances in a note or feeling, the kind of "there" that's worn, but not worn out: the same kind of voice that gave Haggard and Strait their staying power.
It's a funny thing with country music. We love our stars 'til we're bored with them. Outsiders decide who "the legends" are, then decry the industry for moving on. Sometimes those legends have let the music sag… and sometimes the public taste has moved away because they're told this is tired.
Ironically, Jackson's got a good grip on all that. He's also got a good grip on what kind of music he makes – and if long ago, he stood silent, getting passed over again and again until he was signed to a Nashville start-up of New York powerhouse Arista Records by songwriter/producer/manager Tim Dubois, who produced Restless Heart, written Alabama's "Close Enough To Perfect" and Jerry Reed's "She's Got the Goldmine (& I Got The Shaft)," and Clive Davis, the man behind Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys.
"My sound is pretty much the same as those first demos Keith and I cut," Jackson says. "When I go onstage at night, I think it's just about being honest and true to who you are, how the songs are. It's pretty basic: country music helps you when you hurt and gives you a smile when you need it."
"You don't need to be real aggressive (musically), because it's real life. People know."
It's intriguing that in today's rush for bigger, badder, louder country, Jackson endures. Indeed, he gets better. Between the wry maintain your dignity break-up song "Look Her In The Eye and Lie," the quick picking catalogue of small town Southern life "Dixie Highway," featuring hippie country's Zach Brown, or the broken realization of powerlessness "When I Saw You Leaving," Jackson is seeking to capture life as its lived, not idealized. Not one to compete, he knows the power of the truth.
"There's nothing sensational about my life or the stage show," he says. "I've just always felt that music should be the most important part. Everybody wants to be about the celebrity, and everything else.
"You see it even in concert," Jackson says of the evolution. "These acts come out and they're real loud and aggressive in front of us, then we come out. The sound level drops, but the crowd energy doesn't… They know."
He doesn't have to say anything more. Alan Jackson, who will acknowledge his records are thicker sounding than Haggard or classic balladeer Don Williams, realizes there's always been pop and rock aspirations in Nashville. He just knows it's not something worth chasing.
Back when there was nothing going on, Jackson – who got a publishing deal because his pretty young wife Denise, then a stewardess, talked her husband up to Glen Campbell in an airport, giving him a tape that landed the quiet aspiring songwriter/traditionalist a publishing deal – aligned himself with Keith Stegall, the man behind Randy Travis neo-traditionalist template Storms of Life
Storms set off an entire movement. One that included Dwight Yoakam, the Judds, kd lang and grounded the ascendance of George Strait, Reba McEntire and Ricky Skaggs, a little later Keith Whitley and Lyle Lovett. All that music, but no deal for Jackson.
The polite young man who once delivered mail at The Nashville Network just wanted in.
Jackson also knew there was only one producer for him. He wanted Stegall.
"Keith understands that thing about real," Jackson says. "If I sing it, and it's not perfect, but feels right? That's what we want. We cut pretty much live, pretty much keep it all the musicians playing – and hold onto that."
Unapologetically country, plain-spoken and willing to take on the cracked thumbnail, busted knuckles pain of the common man, Jackson was a classic country star long before the hits started happening. If "Blue Blooded Woman (Redneck Man)" stumbled over its forced cleverness, "Here In The Real World" blew up. A song where the real world tears you open, the movie's ending sucks and the boy ends up alone was contrary to the notion of Happy Uptempo Positive Love Songs – and it worked.
From there, it was an onslaught: "Chasing That Neon Rainbow," "Don't Rock the Jukebox," "Wanted," "I'm In Love with a Waitress (& I Don't Even Know Her Name)," "Chattahoochee," "She's Got The Rhythm (I Got The Blues)," and the chilling trip to Hank Sr's grave "Midnight In Montomgery," as well as covers of Roger Miller's "Tall, Tall Trees." "Mercury Blues" and Charly McClain's sassy "Who's Cheating Who."
Alan Jackson was tall, slow and quickened pulses in his faded jeans and white hat. But what really revved people up was his honest approach to country, merging his small town Georgia life with both a sense of humor and the agony people could find themselves in.
"Life, love, heartache, dying, having fun…"
Jackson's trying to explain what his songs are made of. "Having a drink, having a normal life. It's anybody who's trying to survive, have a family, watch the sun rise, maybe fish a little and try to enjoy their time here."
Here are a few more hits, just to be sure of the who and the why he is so enduring: the skewering rock-pop's authenticity grab "Gone Country," a fiddle'n'steel blaze of Eddie Cochrain's "Summertime Blues," the chilling, half-spoken "I'll Go On Loving You," the small town solidarity "Little Man," the devastating classicism of "Between the Devil & Me," the declaration of who he is "Where I Come From," "Small Town Southern Man" and "Drive (For Daddy Gene)," the tear-stained love endures waltz "Remember When," the brush it off "Good Time," the tropical kickback of West's "Long Way To Go" and the slip-through-your-hands bar room pluck of "As She's Walking Away" with Zach Brown.
"Had a chicken pen right in the backyard
Clothesline running east to west
Butter bean and tomato garden
Six days work and a Sunday rest"
All those songs, all that music core-samples the highway builders, long distance haulers, building framers, concrete pourers, farmers, insurance adjustors, air conditioning installers, mechanics, nurses, postal workers and beyond. True as it is "to people, who you know, Holly, really work for what they take home," those sentiments rise up to the white collar plateaus, to anyone uncertain about how life is evolving in these uncertain time. He's captured life in songs, life lived – for the most part – no matter where you are on the socio-econ spectrum, stitched together with some smart fiddle licks, blaring steel punctuations and pools of sadness, banjo for sparkle, mandolin for sweetness.
If you stopped there, you'd be doing pretty good. But that's just the surface.
The life most country fans live isn't introspective. It's working class, often farm or small town based. It's the tanning bed, the nail parlor, the notion of church, tubing, fishing and off-roading. Even in the cities, there's a different way of making ends meet when you look around the parking lot…
For intellectuals, these are not people you're gonna party with. Indeed, a recent post on an industry insider's Facebook page sneered at the "16,000 drunken Snookies in cowboy boots and Daisy Dukes in the back of pick-ups" crammed into the parking lot before a major Northeast country show.
The insider missed that these people's lives don't look like their's. But these people are living inside their client's – and other country radio acts' – music.
"I wish I could tell you how many songs I've written that people come up and tell me that's their life… They've lived it," the Grammy-winner explains with a chuckle, that turns tenderly serious. "It kinda takes me back a little… '5 O'Clock Somewhere' is an easy song to live, but then they come up and talk about 'Sissy's Song,' 'Remember When'… a 17-year old told me about their 60 year old grandparents, how that was their love.
"And 'Where Were You'…"
Ahh, "Where Were You." It was the moment Jackson expressed the depth of our nation's collective humanity. Eschewing his original "big superstar production number" on the 2001 CMA Awards, the soft-spoken Georgian sat on a stool with his guitar and exhaled "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?"
In the starkness juxtaposed to the big flashy awards show, he gave the nation a breath-taking meditation on the unthinkable in the wake of 9/11.
Backstage, everyone stopped. Cold. The rush of live television didn't matter. You had to listen. It was everything you thought, but couldn't quite see. Certainly not express.
Not angry. No crying for vengeance, just posing the truth of "I'm just a simple man/ who can't tell Iraq from Iran…"
In that moment, the kid who looked like he walked out of a Gary Cooper film became a statesman; he also became every one of us. The same way Hank Williams Sr could get inside your bones and shake out what you didn't even know you were feeling.
"Look, I've had a flag on the back of my boat and on my barns for twenty-some years," he cautions. "I was just being a person, trying to understand."
Beyond being "person," the man, who's a perennial Entertainer of the Year winner, an always million-seller, the king of the radio charts, knows how to wrap a song in neon and tears or laughter. He distills life. Not just the rockin and ragin', but the hope and the achin'.
What's funny about being consistently great, though, is how easy it is to take that level of music as a given. Our faster, newer, lust for better culture always looks for the next thing. In that rush for new heroes, our standards implode.
Not that what follows isn't capable of being better; but if you put Eric Church up against Steve Earle, would the songs stand up? Is Jason Aldean as full-tilt as Hank Jr at his most flagrant or self-aware? Is Carrie Underwood's steroidal Stepford country as affecting as Faith Hill or Martina McBride? (We won't even start on Tammy, Dolly orLoretta!)
Yes, each generation has their "own" brand of country. Many artists win based on momentum and filling a void. Many established stars lose the level of excellence and begin a slow, tragic erosion no one around them shores up: Xeroxing what was or chasing songs too young for their long in the tooth reality. Neither is pretty.
Then there's Alan Jackson, who through some business changes might've lost a little heart. Jackson's a sensitive beast, one who feels life – and it shows up in his songs.
Funny things happen with the ones built to last. A change in the weather – or the business – it becomes a wild bird in a cage. It still sings, just not as sweet.
Same thing with Jackson. The man who recorded Here In The Real World, A Lot About Livin' (And A Lot About Love), Who I Am, Drive, Don't Rock The Jukebox, Everything I Love and Drive, had set the standard so many times, what's the point?
After two decades; why should this shift be any different?
Because songwriters like Jackson don't just lose it, even if they lose their taste for how things are going. With the return of long-time catalyst/manager Nancy Russell, who's part of Jackson's career for the last 15 years, and Arista marketing visionary Mike Dungan, then heading Capitol Nashville, it seemed time to stoke the fires again.
"Talk about life, talk about death
Talk about catchin' every breath
Talk about when talk about why…
Talk is cheap and time's a wastin'
Get busy livin' or at least die trying"
Jackson isn't interested in competing with the Luke Bryans, nor the Brantley Gilberts or Jason Aldeans. He wouldn't say that's beneath him, but he might suggest that the best competition he has is own standards and execution.
If Alan Jackson's being honest, the only person worth competing with is… himself.
"I write what I feel," he says. "What I like at the time, where my head is.
"My perspective changes as I age. It's hard to sing neon-leaning love songs now…"
"The days just go by quickly
The nights just never end
As time gets so much more precious
Every minute an old friend"
Real life. It's what Alan Jackson had always written about, sang songs about. Water-skiing, cars, small family owned stores, trying to make ends meet, have a few with the buddies – and laughing at the stories they all tell.
You grow up, life moves on. His daughters listen to country… and hip-hop… hard rock… They inspired the joyful "Her Life's A Song," a post modern midtempo about iPods and the way music still colors and defines young lives.
But growing up also brings a certain gravitas – and things you'd rather not deal with. For the storybook Jackson, it was his wife Denise being diagnosed with cancer that brought mortality into sharp focus. Like Merle Haggard and "Footlights," Richard Thompson and "Showman's Life," even Jackson Browne with "Love Needs A Heart," there are songs of reckoning.
"When I Saw You Leaving" is deliberately obscure, not just an elegy that's not yet final. It could be watching a relationship wither, or the shadow of knowing a child is leaving. But a closer listen makes it clear: this is a song about a slow death.
"I started writing it a week after we found out about it… but I didn't tell her. I didn't play it for anyone.
"When I went into the studio to record, that was the first time I really played the song… and it about got me."
Jackson's marriage, like his music, is unconventional in how traditional it is. They have been there for each other since. As Jackson says, "We started dating when we were children… I was 17. she was 16.
"I started taking care of her since then. I bought her a car, paid for her college tuition. That was just how you did it.
"And when I heard about the cancer, I felt so helpless. There was nothing I could do. Then I got angry and sad. I'd gladly changed places with her…"
Ahhh, yes, that real cowboy thing that made him so quietly sexy all those years ago. It worked because it wasn't a pose, or a marketing motif. Alan Jackson is the sort of guy most people want to believe they are…
And like Haggard – or Hank Sr – he's not afraid of the little details, the fact that boring isn't what people assume and the way time passes.
"It's hard for me to have any regrets – or bad feelings," he confesses.
Indeed, making straight country is nothing to apologize for. He's making the rounds, visiting radio, being on the frontline and doing things probably an icon shouldn't for people who may or may not realize how incredible the talent before them is.
In a world of shrinking playlists, surface understanding and minutiae excavating as the polemic norms, maybe there isn't a place for real modern/traditionalist country. Maybe plastic, synthetic, faux Hallmark hominess and Monster Beverage power-country is all we need.
But listening to a song like the erosion of desire after too many years like "She Don't Get High" or the recollections of "rabbit tobacco growing on the roadside" in that quick-picking "Dixie Highway," this is what honesty is made of. Not just looking back to things so vintage they're only exist as art pieces, nor accepting the brokered, assembly-line kind of music that passes for what's hot now with no real emotional investment.
If there's a place in the world for Adele, then certainly Alan Jackson makes sense. Now, more than ever.
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"When I Saw You Leaving (for Nisey)"
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Great article about a great man. I did want to correct one thing, the song is "Tonight I Climbed the Wall", not "Last Night I Climbed the Wall". Thank you for telling it like it is. Alan is one of the greatest singers and songwriters to come along and everyone needs to be reminded of that on a regular basis.
Thanks Holly for sharing about a man on his own plateau, maybe hanging out with Strait, an icon before his time. A man more country than Willie Nelson, but that's a topic for another night. A man who easily outlasts Garth Brooks, Kix Brooks, and heh, a little praise for you, it's hard promoting people here, who would rather be rockin out with Nirvana, but you make it work and you stay your self, I still love Vince Gill Too, with his last disc, "Guitar Slinger" ,Great Article, took me back to another time, thinking about Alan Singing "Where Were You When - - -
Lovely and insightful essay as always ms Gleason - and it could be far too easy for some to forget him, and fade away. What a great reminder and perspective.
Great article. Alan Jackson has been a constant with me for a long time. When people ask why, I keep coming back to the word "real"...which sounds kind of lame and cliche-ish when I say it but just works for Jackson.
An extra plug for the Wrights: their harmonies are one of the best elements of Alan Jackson's What I Do, and their own releases, including the debut Down This Road, are worth seeking out.
wow - this article really got to me... I'm 45 years old and have been a "real country" musician for 2/3 of my life, and only started writing songs last year. I think I *needed* to read this right now... Thank you!
I just finished listening to Alan's new CD for the third time in a row and I'm thrilled with it. Full of spunk, country sass and reality! Country to the core! Love it!
This article couldn't be better , it's like reading a book , so complete!
I read this again, it just makes me appreciate him more, He's like George Strait, He never changes, He stands there and sings with that big smile, I think that Allan has the best road band in the business, I love watching them thru the years in his videos, Love his lead guitar picker, the guy can chicken pick like crazy, He's pure country, He is an icon still going strong. That first hit off the CD is just plain killer, what a real sad country song. I love him getting Zac Brown involved on his disc. When country goes pop, Allan just straps on that big ole Taylor and starts singing.I think the 90s were my favorite years in country music.
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