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Forsaking his three years of college engineering classes, Tom Belloni found work as a commercial painter early in life, before a job at a boat repair business introduced him to the chemicals that would become so important to his wall sculptures. Over 30 years of experimentation has led to the development of his technique: free-flowing geometric wood blocks, coated in a polyester resin that contains truly mixed media.
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You are reading this because it's gotten to 11:30 CT and Major League Baseball (who has the call because it's the only series between the teams) has not yet postponed today's game.
I understand all the issues: logistics, scheduling, travel, not wanting to lose the revenue from a date.
Still, at a certain point, the weather is going to win today. I know the drainage system at Wrigley Field can handle a lot of rain, even this much, but there comes a point at which you have to say, "Are these conditions conducive to baseball?" I'm thinking the answer today is, "No."
There's the further issue of roads closed by flooding; it's possible that some game-day employees of the Cubs might not have been able to get to Wrigley today, or have flooded basements.
I'm waiting this out at home until it's clear that they're actually going to play baseball this afternoon.
Cubs lineup:
DeJesus CF, Castro SS, Rizzo 1B, Soriano LF, Schierholtz RF, Castillo C, Valbuena 3B, Barney 2B, Villanueva P
Rangers lineup:
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Carlos Villanueva is off to an excellent start this year, far better than we might have imagined. Last year, he had a good outing against the Rangers August 18 in Toronto, throwing 6⅓ innings and allowing just four hits and two runs. Even for an offensively-challenged squad like this year's Cubs, maybe that'd be enough.
Alexi Ogando has never faced the Cubs. Current Cubs are 1-for-3 against him, which can be disregarded. He's off to a great start this year. I think you know what that means.
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In general, game previews will post two hours before game time. Exception: for day games after night games, that will usually be 90 minutes.
As has been the case during spring training, you will also be able to find the First Pitch Thread and all the overflow threads in the box marked "Chicago Cubs Game Threads" at the bottom of the front page (you can also find them in this section link). They will also appear in this StoryStream™. As I've done for each regular-season game for several years now, we'll have the First Pitch thread at five minutes before game time (moved up from actual game time per your requests), then an overflow one hour, two hours and 2:45 after game time.
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New transloading facility in Columbiana
Valley business rolls full steam ahead as loading hub for oil and gas drillersPublished: 3/18/13 @ 12:05
Lee Stoneburner spends most of his days on a sprawling 100-acre expanse of what was once mostly corn fields.
He dedicates his attention to shuffling rail cars on 7,300 feet of track that wind their way around an industrial park that cropped up around what long ago was a refractory mill at the edge of the corn fields. Kiln bricks were manufactured there for the insides of blast furnaces.
Stoneburner, the general manager of Buckeye Transfer Realty, was just a landlord six months ago, overseeing BTR-owned property occupied by trucking companies, an aluminum extruder and one other business.
Today, Stoneburner, along with his 22 employees, and BTR are a fundamental link in the oil and gas supply chain. The industrial park, on Esterly Drive, off West Park Avenue in Columbiana, is close to state Route 11 and near the epicenter of the Utica Shale play.
About two years ago, Stoneburner, his father, Jerry, and Lisa R. Wallace, chief operating officer for the company, began to envision their 2,000 feet of railroad track and industrial property as a distribution center for the oil and gas industry. They decided to start with sand.
"We were already involved in the transportation industry. We started hauling sand at least one year ago," Stoneburner recalled on Friday. "It clicked; we saw how much transportation was actually required. It's not insignificant. If you're looking for something of volume, sand is the high-volume part of the industry."
Volume is what Stoneburner deals in these days.
BTR's property is now home to the region's newest transloading facility. Rail cars, brought in via Norfolk Southern's main line that hold 100 tons of sand each, arrive at the facility three times a week.
Oil and gas service companies, preparing to frack wells throughout Northeast and Southeast Ohio, send trucks regularly to pick up that sand and transport it to well sites.
BTR welcomed its first sand-loaded Rail cars Jan. 4. Business has grown ever since. The facility is designed to move between 20,000 and 25,000 tons of sand each month.
Before the company moved into the transloading business, it was just Stoneburner, Wallace, Jerry and Pepper, Jerry's dog, who appears to be a small terrier mix charged with watching the doors and following his owner faithfully.
In the past three weeks, BTR has hired 22 employees, with plans to bring on more.
"I think this is the best thing to hit this area in a long, long time," Stoneburner said when asked what the oil and gas supply chain means for his business.
"It takes a lot of hard work to get involved with these companies," Wallace said. "You have to be very responsive, but the benefits are here for everyone, I think, for years to come."
Sand is an integral part of hydraulic f racturing. A typical well can require 2,500 tons of sand during the fracking phase. Sand, water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock to create fissures through which oil and gas float into pipe that takes it to the surface.
Sand, or proppant as it's referred to, helps hold those fissures open so they do not close under pressure of the earth.
BTR's sand is shipped from Illinois and Wisconsin in three forms; large mesh, fine mesh and resin coated — each with a different crush strength and shape, for use depending on the rock formation and geology of different wells.
Mobile transloading machines, with long tails, pull up to the rail cars and unlock hoppers. The sand falls from the railcar to a conveyor on the tail, which then brings it upward for unloading into a truck. The machines can load 250 tons per hour, or provide a typical load in about 10 minutes.
For now, Stoneburner and BTR are focused on learning the ins and outs of the business, but they eventually hope to use their acreage by expanding the facility or using it for other applications, such as a condensate gathering facility or a pipeyard for infrastructure being built throughout the area.
"This has truly been a labor of love," Stoneburner said. "There's a lot of money invested in this property, and we'd like to continue doing more with it."
Posted by glbtactivist (anonymous) on March 18, 2013 at 1:50 p.m.
First we hear that thousands of gallons of poisons were dumped into the Mahoning River, upstream of drinking water for thousands of people. Then we hear a well next to our drinking water, Meander Reservoir, leaked the poisons. Then we see fracking waste trucks involved with crashes killing local citizens. Now we see that thousands of train car loads of sand are being used, causing good farmland to become useless quarry pits. What's next, earthquakes? This method of getting gas is a disaster. People owning these fracking companies need to be charged with serious crimes so they will not be so careless with our neighborhood.
Posted by DwightK (anonymous) on March 18, 2013 at 4:04 p.m.
How does the sand turn farmland into quarries?
Posted by Metz10987 (anonymous) on March 18, 2013 at 7:59 p.m.
You have to mine for the sand, most commonly using quarry mining. We don't have much sand around here but sand quarry are common near the lake Erie shoreline. There is farmland up there so in some cases it will be lost.
Posted by UticaShale (anonymous) on March 18, 2013 at 8:46 p.m.
Whatever...... so sad to read the mentality of these fractivist and their pathetic existence. Mining for sand is reducing good farmland, these losers come up with any amount of BS to justify their mediocre lives.
I can't wait for more of the drained brains to return to this God forsaken mess of a City. Lord knows we need the return of normalcy and push these takers away. Hopefully we can disconnect their NG and ban their mommy's cars from sucking more gasoline.
Posted by Ytown20 (anonymous) on March 19, 2013 at 12:27 a.m.
As our communities are being transformed into gasfields, people other states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin are having their land destroyed via frack sand mining so we can frack here.
The whole process of unconventional oil and gas extraction is devastating and I feel bad for what is being thrust upon these communities for their sand.
Minnesota is trying to establish a moratorium to study the health effects on frack sand mining in communities.
Posted by walter_sobchak (anonymous) on March 19, 2013 at 12:41 p.m.
My God! Now, mining for sand is harmful to us and destroys the environment! Most sand is mined as stone that is then crushed and sieved at large processing facilitites. Other things that are mined include limestone, iron ore, copper, bauxite and evil coal. These items are all used to better our world by making concrete, steel, aluminum, etc. But, if someone's land is being destroyed, they should call law enforcement and have them arrested for trespassing. Oh, and they should not cash their royalty checks either. What a total load of crap!
Posted by DwightK (anonymous) on March 21, 2013 at 1:10 p.m.
Guys, the sand vs farmland thing is pretty weak. Don't argue that point. Looks like you're reaching.
Posted by Metz10987 (anonymous) on March 21, 2013 at 8:15 p.m.
Maybe but guess you also think breathing in slica sand is great for your lungs too.
Posted by Fracman (anonymous) on March 21, 2013 at 10:38 p.m.
Gee, is this the same silica sand that is used in sand traps, water filters, pool filters, sand boxes, industrial castings and glass manufacturing?
Posted by UticaShale (anonymous) on March 22, 2013 at 8:19 a.m.
See this is what us with some IQ left have to do when these faceless morons come with their snakeoil science, we need to unite and smack 'em down. For instance Meds and glblact over there, these guys are obviously ill prepared for life and are most likely leeches on society using up valuable energy without producing any. These guys must have all fuel sources shut off to them and rerouted to more productive citizens.
Posted by 76Ytown (anonymous) on March 23, 2013 at 2:34 p.m.
OSHA's concerns regarding silica sand.
"9% of all samples showed silica exposures 10 or more times the PEL, with one sample more than 25 times the PEL.
31% of all samples showed silica exposures 10 or more times the REL, with one sample more than 100 times the REL.
"Hydraulic fracturing sand contains up to 99% silica. Breathing silica can cause silicosis. Silicosis is a lung disease where lung tissue around trapped silica particles reacts, causing inflammation and scarring and reducing the lungs' ability to take in oxygen.ii Workers who breathe silica day after day are at greater risk of developing silicosis. Silica can also cause lung cancer and has been linked to other diseases, such as tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and kidney and autoimmune disease."
"In air samples taken at a drill site in the Eagle Ford Shale late last summer, investigators found silica dust levels exceeding government safety standards in half of the eight samples taken. In one sample, silica levels were over 10 times the safe limit which meant that even if workers wore air-purifying half-masks, they still would be in danger according to NIOSH. Similar and sometimes worse levels were found at sites in other fracking hotspots in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Arkansas. In fact, NIOSH says silica dust levels exceeded government safety standards at every fracking site they tested.
Breathing silica dust can cause silicosis, an incurable lung disease, and increases the risk of lung cancer.
Posted by ytownsteelman (anonymous) on March 23, 2013 at 6:01 p.m.
76Ytown, if you are that afraid of sand then don't go to the beach!
BTW did you know that freezing to death from not having gas to heat your house is also a health risk?
Posted by 76Ytown (anonymous) on March 23, 2013 at 10:22 p.m.
steelman: Funny you should mention the beach. I love the beach! In fact I just got back from a 10 day stay in SO CA. Watched dolphins and CA sea lions frolicking in the ocean. Did a lot of walking and sat in the sand on the beach and enjoyed the sound of the ocean waves. Only complaint was that it was foggy except for the last day. A few blocks inland was sunny and hot. Did enjoy the gas heat from the furnace at night.
Something to ponder:
"We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better" - Maya Angelou.
Posted by UticaShale (anonymous) on March 24, 2013 at 7:42 a.m.
How much energy did you consume to propell your ass down there, and I bet you didn't think twice about thanking the American state-of-the-art energy worker who harvested that energy for you at the lowest price in decades?
"It is because you suck that we frack!"
Posted by 76Ytown (anonymous) on March 24, 2013 at 4:22 p.m.
UticaShale: Thank you for harvesting energy for all consumers, but I wouldn't exactly call fracking state-of-the-art. It sucks that it's so barbaric.
We are all responsible for coming up with solutions to our energy use. To start, if we compare fracking our land as a way to produce 50% more energy to consume, we can also say that cutting back on consumption by 25 - 50% is a comparable end result without added consequences to our health and environment. Technology is out there, but if it means less money in the pocket of big auto, gas and electric companies sadly they are not willing to change. Consumers can carpool, insulate, unplug and recycle to do their part but sadly, they also are unwilling to change.
Researchers have discovered a new process that takes the energy from coal without burning it -- and removes virtually all of the pollution.
The clean coal technique was developed by scientists at The Ohio State University, with just $5 million in funding from the federal government, and took 15 years to achieve.
Knowing the risks involved in fracking, do you really think it is still worth it? Bottom line, will the money you make today be worth the loss of your health later?
Posted by walter_sobchak (anonymous) on March 25, 2013 at 10:33 a.m.
You miss the point. People are complaining that farmland is being destroyed by mining for sand. The vast majority of sand is manufactured by crushing stone. This would be a hazard no matter what the final use of the sand. As for problems at a fracking site, this can esily be minimized with some dust control since the sand is mixed with water and injected far into the ground, making airborne dust vitually impossible. You raise a good question about working for a paycheck today with possible health consequences later. I was always told the smell of sulphur and the soot in the air meant money in the pocket.
Posted by 76Ytown (anonymous) on March 25, 2013 at 10:53 p.m.
Ok, so we'll circle back to the article about what used to be 100 acres of farmland is now dedicated to the transloading business.
glbtactivist says "causing good farmland to become useless quarry pits". Since glbtactivist did not respond to attempts by the above posters to poke fun at this comment, I will site the following articles that refer to farmland concerns:
"Farmers' livelihoods depend upon the integrity of the soil, clean water and pollution-free air. Because of their reliance on the land, farmers are among those most at risk to suffer from the negative impacts of fracking."
Walter: So you're an undertaker by trade?
Posted by RTS1416 (anonymous) on March 26, 2013 at 8:34 a.m.
I don't understand why people want to copy and paste obscure articles and post them seemingly without reading the contents. Two of the above articles have nothing to do with sand mining, one is a commentary by a single individual and the third is based on arguments occurring between land owners who have sand deposits and those who do not. The same article states how land is returned to the state it was found, native grasses and pine trees replanted as the land owner prefers, not left a useless quarry pit.
Posted by 76Ytown (anonymous) on March 26, 2013 at 10:58 a.m.
RTS: "Two of the above articles have nothing to do with sand mining, one is a commentary by a single individual and the third is based on arguments occurring between land owners who have sand deposits and those who do not."
You may want to re-read the threads in order. In rebuttal to Walter's comment, I wrote. "Ok, so we'll circle back to the article about what used to be 100 acres of farmland is now dedicated to the transloading business."
All sources cited are reputable sources.


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This practice outlines a universally applicable procedure to validate the performance of a quantitative or qualitative, empirically derived, multivariate calibration relative to an accepted reference method.
This practice provides procedures for evaluating the capability of a calibration to provide reliable estimations relative to an accepted reference method.
This practice provides purchasers of a measurement system that incorporates an empirically derived multivariate calibration with options for specifying validation requirements to ensure that the system is capable of providing estimations with an appropriate degree of agreement with an accepted reference method.
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President Evo Morales has been waging a campaign against every living former president and anyone else of prominence who dares to oppose him.
"A good man is hard to find." So goes the old adage. But not, it turns out, in Bolivia—South America's poor, landlocked country in the heart of the continent.
There, good men are easy to find—if you know where to look. Mainly, there are two places: inside the country's prisons or outside its borders. Why? Because the hard left, populist Movement Toward Socialism, known as MAS, government of indigenous President Evo Morales has been waging a relentless 6-year-long campaign against every living former president of the country and anyone else of prominence who dares to oppose the stranglehold on power he's establishing with the help of the Castro brothers and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
Take the former presidents. It's receded a bit into the background, but the most wanted man in Bolivia is supposed to be former President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada, currently living in exile in the United States. He's accused of "genocide" in the deaths of some dozens of protesters Morales whipped up in 2004 to hold a group of tourists hostage in a remote village and blockade the capital of La Paz. But since it's taken a half a dozen years for Bolivia's government to not achieve his extradition, it makes you wonder how really keen they are to secure it. Knowledgeable people believe that the only person who wants to avoid this extradition more than Goni is Morales himself. As long as he's abroad, Goni is a permanent political cause celebré for Morales's regime—one that he can wield at any time to whip up his supporters or distract restless citizens. Once home, Goni would just be a liability. A political "show trial" would call attention to Bolivia's "justice" system and, worse, risk turning today's bogeyman into tomorrow's martyr. (Plumbing the motives of these populist, "justice-for-the-people" Latin American leaders and their governments exhausts the depths of one's cynicism!)
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But, besides Goni, there are the other former presidents. Morales's predecessor, and erstwhile ally, Carlos Mesa, has been charged with corruption. His predecessor, former Supreme Court chief justice and interim President Eduardo Rodriguez, has been charged with, in effect, treason (since, on his watch, the military permitted the United States to remove and dispose of, for safety reasons, some obsolete, shoulder-fired Chinese air defense missiles). Former President "Tuto" Quiroga has been charged with approving "illegal" contracts with foreign oil firms...that were perfectly legal at the time.
Then there's the case of the former prefect (governor) Leopoldo Fernandez, who's been jailed without trial since 2008 (when some vigilantes he's accused of organizing had a fatal shoot-out with some Morales-backed marchers descending on the departmental capital to occupy it.) He continues to languish in prison despite provisions in Morales's own "constitution" providing that no one can be imprisoned without trial for more than 18 months.
Typically, these cases remain "pending." This is the way of Bolivian "justice:" Accuse someone of crimes and then never reach a verdict, leaving the accused—in that arch Nixon-era phrase—"slowly, slowly twisting in the wind." Further evidence that, under Morales's putatively "revolutionary" government, an old joke among miners in the Andes still applies: "The three things, above all, to avoid are Chilean women, Peruvian partners, and Bolivian justice." It takes little imagination to realize what three such disparate things have in common!
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Former Prefects Mario Cosio of Tarija Department and Manfred Reyes Villa of Cochabamba, also a former presidential opponent of Morales, are in exile, accused of corruption. Ruben Costas, the prefect of Santa Cruz Department—epicenter of opposition to Morales—and the former president of the Senate Oscar Ortiz, also a Santa Cruz politician, are similarly charged with abuse of public funds. So, too, has been the highly respected and long-time governor of Bolivia's Central Bank Juan Antonio Morales. And there are many others.
The latest victim has been Senator Roger Pinto, a leading opposition voice in Bolivia's MAS-dominated Congress. He's been granted political asylum in neighboring Brazil after fleeing threats against himself and his family for exposing the drugs trafficking connections of the Morales government uncovered since the arrest in Panama last year of the former head of Bolivia's counternarcotics police, General Rene Sanabria, for running a cocaine smuggling operation.
While there are a couple of rogues in this gallery, the vast majority of those accused, locked up or in exile, are decent, honorable men—often esteemed professionals in their fields—with long records of service to their country. Their real "crime" has been to oppose Morales and his drive for a monopoly of power.
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Small wonder, then, that at the Organization of American States General Assembly, held earlier this month in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, Bolivia joined Ecuador, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other leftist/populist governments in pushing to neuter the organization's independent Inter-American Human Rights Commission. The reasoning here is very sophisticated. It runs: If you're going to violate your citizens' human rights (in the name of "justice for the people," naturally) the last thing you need is some pesky bunch of commissioners running around calling attention to the fact! Or, worse, vacating your courts' decisions because they violate human rights conventions to which your government subscribes!
But why should anyone care about any of this? Simply this: The deafening silence from the media and the liberal nongovernment organization community about this pattern of judicial abuse in Bolivia—and in far more salient countries elsewhere in Latin America—underscores their selective indignation and hypocrisy on issues that are supposed to be sacred to their cause.


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If you haven't noticed from the dozens of posts on our website today, the Utah Arts Festival is happening as we speak. The four-day festival showcases the finest in art, music, film, spoken word, performances, writing and many other areas as a chance to inspire and promote artwork throughout the community, and just have a good time. As you can see,
City Weekly
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Today is the final day of the festival, and I bring you the first of two concert interview posts, all complete with photos of
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
that feature bands such as Spell Talk, The No Nation Orchestra, Birthquake, Swagger, Rotten Musicians and the band we'll be chatting with today, The Lower Lights; not to mention hundreds of pictures from booths and other spectacles from around the festival the past few days.
The Lower Lights
(Paul Jacobsen -- upper third from the right -- is the spokesman for this interview.)
Gavin: Hey, Paul. First off, tell us a little about yourselves.
Paul: We're a collective of musicians, all with our own individual projects/groups. We've all crossed paths in one way or another – playing shows with each other, playing on each other's albums, etc.
Gavin: What got each of you interested in music, and who were some of your favorite acts and musical influences growing up?
Paul: With so many diversely influenced members of the group, there's no blanket big enough to answer this question for everyone; I wouldn't dare try. But I do think that you'll find some touchstones in common or at least some similar tent posts that we lean on a bit as we make music together – stuff like the old Sun Records-era Johnny Cash, The Louvin Brothers, the Americana songbook with special emphasis on the Hank Williams chapter. But you're just as likely to hear somebody reference a Radiohead song or My Morning Jacket or Wilco or The Weepies or something. The end result doesn't sound that way because it then goes through our Lower Lights filter, whatever that is.
Gavin: As local musicians in the scene with various bands and projects, how did the original core members all meet each other and formally become friends?
Paul: I'd say Scott Wiley -- our producer/engineer/guitarist/jack of all trades -- is probably the hub. Most of us have made at least one album -- usually more -- with Scott producing. He has a nice little black book of great musicians around here, and Scott's credibility/experience helped us rope in ridiculously talented -- and diverse -- players like Colin Botts, Ryan Tilby, Dylan Schorer, Mark Smith, Ryan Shupe, Pat Campbell, and the rest of what we call the varsity squad. Our JV is nothing to be ashamed of, but varsity is varsity.
Gavin: When did the original gathering take place of playing hymns together, and what influenced everyone to come together and play these?
Paul: We had a few false starts, as you might imagine, trying to wrangle the schedules of so many busy people. But, we finally got together for a few days in October of 2009, just getting whatever time we could from everybody. While most of us, in one way or another, have wanted to take a stab at these songs, just to see what we could do, I think if credit is going anywhere it has to go to Pat Campbell -- drums, percussion -- who probably planted the seed of the idea before the rest of us. He wrote a bit about
his take on it all here
Gavin: How did the idea come about to form a band to play these songs together, and where did you get the name from?
Paul: At first, it wasn't really a band in the traditional sense of "you sing, I play guitar, she plays bass, he plays drums." There weren't, for the most part, any real assignments. You start fleshing out the arrangements and naturally the songs start to tell you what they need, who should play what, all that. We never really know who's going to do what until we dive into the thick of it. And it's not a traditional band in that the lineup is constantly shifting. I don't think we really planned on playing shows, at first. It was more of a project than a band. The idea of trying to take the songs into a live setting came about later. We did, however, have to come up with a name, which everyone in bands knows is one of the necessary evils of being in a band. We compiled lists and lists of mostly unusable names before finally gravitating towards The Lower Lights, which is derived from the old hymn "Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy." The chorus goes, "Let the lower lights be burning..."
Gavin: From those sessions, you recorded the first album,
A Hymn Revival
. What was it like for you putting that album together, and how was it figuring out how each song would be composed?
Paul: The first album was surprisingly easy and fluid. We'd have a bunch of people in the main room, recording a song while a few people in the hall started working on an arrangement for another song, and somebody else might be working up an idea outside. We only really stopped for meals or because it was getting late and people had long drives home. Part of the reason, I think, that it was so seamless was that all these incredible musicians were able to shelve their egos and try to get the most out of the song, rather than worrying about getting their fingerprints on it. It's inspiring to see such great players decide, "Maybe I don't need to play on this song" or "What if I just do a little thing in the bridge?" It takes confidence to do less. And even more to sit out.
Gavin: Once it was released, what was it like going around and performing live, and how did local audiences take to a show which is essentially church songs at night?
Paul: Like I said earlier, we made the album without really thinking about performing it live. One big challenge was learning how to make the group modular and make the songs work with whoever could make the gig. That often means divvying out parts during soundcheck, or during the show sometimes. And, for me, that's one of the big draws of playing with this group – getting to see how the songs change depending on who shows up. I like a certain amount of unpredictability. As for local audiences, we've had a great response. We've played a really wide variety of shows and have never really felt like we were doing anything but playing music. We try to approach it like you would if you saw Gillian Welch or Blind Boys of Alabama or something – nobody really flinches when Gillian plays "By The Mark" or when Tom Waits sings "I've Been Changed." We're just playing what we think is really great, timeless music that happens to be rooted in gospel and the Christian tradition. The hope is that folks can appreciate the show on a few different levels, coming at the songs from wherever they may be. We try to treat the songs with respect and play them with heart, and we've been lucky that people have responded to that.
Gavin: Considering the massive body of work to choose from, how do you go about picking which songs to perform? And how much of a challenge is it picking from really familiar material to the obscure?
Paul: We're lucky to have a lot of rabid music fans in the group, all influenced by a lot of different music. We just say, "Come with some ideas" and they do. Pat Campbell brought a lot of Hank Williams. Debra Fotheringham -- vocals, guitar, percussion -- brought the beautiful Irish hymn "Be Thou My Vision." Dustin Christensen -- vocals, guitar, keyboards -- brought some great old stuff he heard on Willie Nelson records. And those are just three examples. At the end of the day, we kind of figure that the best song wins. If it's familiar, great. If it's not, we believe the song will win listeners over. The balance of familiar-to-obscure kind of happens naturally, as a lot of familiar songs are known because they're good.
Gavin: Over time, you've picked up several extra performers who rotate through, to where you currently have over 30 musicians who call themselves members. What influenced the decision to bring in so many people?
Paul: Part of it is just having a lot of talented friends. Maybe that sounds arrogant, but nobody's stupid enough to say they want to make an album with a bunch of talentless people -- and if they are, who wants to listen? For me, I love how fluid it is. We love what each individual has to offer creatively and how that changes the dynamic of the group and of each song. Maybe we could do this with fewer people, but I sorta think it wouldn't be as interesting or textured or nuanced. What you don't really hear, from the outside, is that the lead vocal you love on one of our songs might be the ONLY time that person made it to the studio during the whole five days of sessions. And her schedule just so happened to intersect with that song. Same thing with a guitar solo or piano part or whatever. We're just capturing moments and trying to put ourselves in the position to make some great music.
Gavin: Considering how many are involved at any given point, how hard it is to coordinate live performances and recordings and work as an ensemble?
Paul: It's a challenge. We just have to accept it as a given that we'll always be missing someone. Colin Botts, for instance, was a huge huge part of our first album and then moved across the ocean to -- I think -- study, and maybe get a masters in Celtic music. Dominic Moore, who sings a lot and is a really important part of coming up with ideas for the albums, has never lived in Utah while the group has existed. And while their absence is a gaping hole you can see from space, we just sorta roll on and try to align our shows with their time in Utah whenever we can. We have had a comment or two from people who were disappointed when --Individual They Came To Specifically To See -- wasn't at a particular show. But most people get that this group is a fluid, modular, living thing and that that's part of what keeps the shows interesting and dynamic. We do have a few musicians who have played almost every show -- Ryan Tanner & Debra Fotheringham come to mind -- but not many.
Gavin: Over the last couple of years, you've released a B-side album, a live album and a Christmas album. Coming from what is respectfully a highly religious state, what is the demand like to have new albums out? And what kind of a challenge has it become to almost cater directly to that audience?
Paul: On the demand side, I think if the quality is high -- and we try to hold ourselves to a pretty high standard -- people, religious or not, will always want more music. If Leonard Cohen put out an amazing album every year, I don't think anybody would complain. We don't have an exclusive music/marketing algorithm we plug in to figure it out; we just make albums when we feel like it's time. It's extremely uncalculated, actually. As for catering, I'm firmly in the camp of never trying to cater to an audience – just make your music with some heart. I'm guessing you're asking if we make any effort to cater to the LDS audience, and the answer is we don't, beyond the obvious fact that we are recording hymns and Christian songs, some of which have roots in Mormonism. But the truth is, we are just trying to find a way to make these songs that for many of us have been wallpaper since we were young, come alive for us. If it resonates with us, if it makes us wanna stomp our feet, or gives us the chills or whatever, then it's good enough.
Gavin: This month, you have a brand new album,
A Hymn Revival: Volume 2
. What was it like recording this album compared to the first, and what issues did you have to deal with?
Paul: We tried very hard to maintain the approach of the first album– be open to ideas, trust instincts, work fast, keep it simple, free up our musicians to do what they do best. If anything, the issues we had to deal with were worrying us if we could do it again and not allowing our expectations get in the way of just making music. Otherwise, I think we did a decent job of keeping the process organic and open. We're not without our internal challenges and debates and all that, but I think we do a pretty good job of at least trying to get out of the way of the songs.
Gavin: This year, you're playing the Utah Arts Festival for the first time, even though some of you have been here with other bands. What are your thoughts on playing the Festival?
Paul: We can't wait. Pat Campbell really pushed for us to apply, saying the group was made for this kind of show, and we all tend to agree with Pat. It should be really fun and a good way to get in front of some people who might not have thought they'd like what we do.
Gavin: Moving on to local stuff, what are your thoughts on the local music scene, both good and bad?
Paul: We're all musicians in the local scene and, obviously, if you look at the group, we think it's important to create community. We try to support each other in our individual projects and think the whole scene would be better if we could all do that. We're lucky in that people will come out to see us, partially because they are in some ways already familiar with the songs, so we don't have to worry about getting people over the "Will I Like The Songs" hurdle. It can be tough to get people out to shows in Utah. But I think community is really important in making good music, spurring each other on.
Gavin: Is there anything you believe could be done to make it more prominent?
Paul: Quality. If the music is good, it does a lot. It challenges other musicians to be better. It inspires us to push ourselves. It battles the ridiculous stigmas of "local can't be as good as national" and "if I haven't heard it, it can't possibly be any good." The gimmicks will wither. Good music doesn't.
Gavin: Not including your own projects, who are your favorite acts in the scene right now?
Paul: Ha. That's excluding a lot of our favorite music. And, again, I can only speak for myself. But I love the music -- and hard work -- of the one-two punch of The Trappers -- who rock! -- and The Folka Dots -- who sing each and every light out. Libbie Linton and Spencer Harrison are gonna come out with a great album soon. The Devil Whale are awesome – Brinton is a fantastic writer and those guys have all really gelled as players. The Poorwills put out a great album last year that didn't get enough love – unbelievable harmonies and I've loved Glade's voice/writing for a long time. A few of us play with Jay William Henderson so that's cheating but, man, his new album is phenomenal. Cory Mon is a good dude who doesn't get enough love for his leprechaun hippie blues funk. I could go on forever.
Gavin: What's your opinion on the current airplay on community radio and how it affects local musicians?
Paul: KRCL has been great to a lot of us. We love them and wouldn't even have a shred of a chance of airplay without them.
Gavin: With so many sources out there to get music off the Web, both for publicity and sharing, what are your thoughts on putting out free tracks for anyone to listen to?
Paul: That there's a Pandora's Box of a question. To keep this under essay length and to avoid a "get off my lawn" rant, I'll just say that I think you sort of have to give some music away nowadays. As a music fan, I will always buy my music, but it is nice to get a taste, when you are less familiar.
Gavin: What can we expect from all of you over the rest of the year?
Paul: We'll be playing out quite a bit with the new album, maybe even doing a bit of touring. In October, we close out Provo's Rooftop Concert Series again for the third year – it's becoming a bit of a tradition. We'll be doing two Christmas shows at The SLC Masonic Temple in December, after having a really great experience there last year. And we're talking about going back to the studio to record the next album.
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Why you should buy a PS3 in 2014
The PlayStation 3 may not be new, but with PlayStation Now, PlayStation Plus, and a huge backlog of games, Sony's console still has a lot of life left.
Uncharted dev not making game set in space
Naughty Dog copresident says company's recent tour of SpaceX has no relation to future game.
Naughty Dog visits SpaceX
Uncharted developer gets tour of Elon Musk's private aerospace company.
All Uncharted 3 maps now free
Two years after launch, Naughty Dog makes all multiplayer maps free, adds one new one.
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Website for retailer's German arm features product page for unannounced game for Sony's next-generation console.
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Dominic Monaghan of Lost and Lord of the Rings fame says he is "really excited" about unannounced game.
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The rules and ethics of using social media for journalism are still being worked out in a grand experiment, of which ABC reporter Nadine Shubailat was lucky to be a part today. While reaching out to possible victims and family members on Twitter for interviews, she encountered... some resistance:
Good friend of mine lives < 10 minutes from Sandy Hook Elementary and has a daughter in kindergarten. Trying to get a hold of him. #newtown
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WASHINGTON (AP)— Can the government make Americans carry health insurance? The Supreme Court takes up the constitutional question at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care law Tuesday.
The Obama administration argues:
— Mandating that nearly everyone has insurance or pays a penalty falls under the federal government's powers to regulate interstate commerce and collect taxes.
— The law fixes a crisis in the health care system, which makes up nearly 18 percent of the national economy.
— Without additional money from healthy people that the insurance mandate would bring in, insurers couldn't reasonably be required to cover everyone, including those who are already sick, at affordable rates.
Obama concedes strains between U.S., Pakistan; says it's important to get relationship right
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Conceding strained ties, President Barack Obama on Tuesday welcomed Pakistan's review of its relationship with the United States, saying it was important for the two countries to get their partnership right.
Obama spoke alongside Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani before the two men held private talks. The meeting comes amid heightened tensions between their countries following a series of incidents that have marred trust.
"There have been times — I think we should be frank — in the last several months where those relations have experienced strains," Obama said of the dynamic between the U.S. and Pakistan.
The breakdown in the relationship followed the shooting death of two alleged Pakistani assailants by a CIA officer and the U.S. Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May. The tipping point came in November, when U.S. forces returned fire they believed came from a Pakistani border post, killing 24 Pakistani troops.
Pakistan broke off ties with the U.S. following that incident and launched a debate about new terms of engagement with the U.S., including on the sensitive issue of CIA drone strikes on targets inside Pakistani borders.
U.S., China, South Korea warn nations to keep nuclear material from falling into terrorists' hands
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea, the United States and China issued stark warnings Tuesday about the threat of nuclear terrorism during the final day of a nuclear summit that has so far been upstaged byNorth Korea'slong-range rocket launch plans.
Nearly 60 leaders have gathered for the two-day conference meant to find ways to keep terrorists from detonating an atomic weapon in a major city. The leaders were to release a communique Tuesday about their efforts to lock down the world's supply of nuclear material by 2014.
Much of the drama, however, has centered onNorth Korea'sstated plans to launch a satellite on a long-range rocket around the April 15 celebration of the birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. Washington and Seoul view the launch as cover for nuclear missile development; North Korea says the satellite is part of a peaceful space program and will help in forecasting the weather.
President Barack Obama and South Korean PresidentLee Myung-bakon Monday pressured China,Pyongyang'smain ally and economic supporter, to use its leverage to persuade the North to back away from the launch.
Although North Korea wasn't mentioned in opening summit comments Tuesday by China, the U.S. and South Korea, the launch was still a major point of discussion in leaders' meetings on the sidelines. Lee and Italian Premier Mario Monti met Tuesday and urged North Korea to cancel its launch plans, Lee's office said.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
For Tamera Garrett, living with a child affected by a growth disorder has been a rollercoaster ride of struggle and success.
Recently, however, all of the concerns about whether she and her husband Mark were doing the right thing by treating their 10-year-old daughter, Madison, with daily injections of growth hormone were put to rest.
"I had a parent come over to me and say, 'I never wanted to say anything before, but Madison never looked healthy, she always looked like she was going to break and now she looks really healthy,'" Tamera says.
Diagnosed with idiopathic short stature less then two years ago, Madison began growth hormone therapy a year ago. Prior to medical intervention, Madison had never grown more than 1.9 inches in a year. Since beginning therapy, she's gained 17 pounds and 3 inches—now standing just over 4 feet.
More importantly, Madison's growth has put an end to renal infections that have plagued her since babyhood.
"I don't care how big she is—I'm not giving her two shots a day so she can be a model or professional ball player—I just want her to be healthy."
It's a clarification Tamera has used against those who've criticized her choices.
"I've had some parents say, 'My children think you have an issue with short people.' But I'm only 5-feet 3-inches, I don't have an issue because I am short," Tamera says.
Still, there's nothing selfish or vain about treating a child affected by a growth disorder for the sole purpose of advancing their height, says Dr. Richard Levy, chief of pediatric endocrinology at Rush University Medical Center.
"It's been argued that by making the shorter children grow taller, we're upping the level at which kids are considered to be short," Levy says. "While statistically I have great sympathy to that, I face parents and children in rooms every day and have to act in their best interest."
And for parents and children affected by growth hormone deficits, doing something about it never comes easy.
"We've had Madison talk to a counselor, just so she knows it's not a punishment," Tamera says. "Sometimes she doesn't want to do the shot and I point out how far she's come. It's better now that she can wear clothes from the regular store—in the second grade she was still wearing Baby Gap. She really likes it when we go on a big shopping spree and when something doesn't fit she thinks it's kind of cool."


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