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The Undercover Soundtrack – Amanya Maloba
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 30, 2014
'Thoughts circulating in a lyric or a line'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is fashion writer, stylist and author Amanya Maloba @Amanya_M
Soundtrack by Erykah Badu, Tyler The Creator, Peter Tosh, Outkast, Shabazz Palaces, Q-Tip, Florence + the Machine
I'm a notorious lone wolf — I spend most of the day alone. I'm also an avid people-watcher and work best surrounded by movement and chaos. How do I reconcile these traits? People repellents, also known as large headphones, large sunglasses, and an unwavering jawline. These allow me the ability to situate myself in bustling environments and maintain my inner solitude and concentration, without the distractions of small talk. This also means that most of my day is characterized by a continuous flow of music, affecting my disposition and writing. Most of the vignettes in my collection, Harvest, were written as direct results of the combination of the thoughts circulating in my mind with a lyric or mood from one of the many songs I listen to. Though Harvest emerged as a unified collection, the music that inspired it is far from cohesive.
Harvest follows a young girl, Sukari, as she navigates through different spaces and times, learning about herself through her past, present, and future worlds. I wrote many of the pieces while living abroad in London and traveling throughout Europe, so this sense of transience is one that I'm intimate with. Traveling has always brought me comfort knowing that I get to escape from one place and step into the unknown adventures of a new place. Conversely, constant movement generates a certain sense of anxiety, between wondering if my physical self will be safe in the new place, if my soul will be over or under stimulated, and, of course, the dread that arises when your heart longs for someone thousands of miles away and wondering if they feel the same about you. Window Seat by Erykah Badu conveys the simultaneous comfort and anxiety that comes from wanting to escape, and begs the question whether the constant movement comes from a place of bravery or cowardice. I like to think it's a bit of both, and like Badu's voice, the prospect of leaving is at once haunting and mystical.
One of my favorite pieces in Harvest, Dinner is Served (Karibu), is also the most honest and unapologetic. My intention was to write it in such a way that, depending on how much you identify with the protagonist, you'll either feel like someone is preaching your truth or feel uncomfortable in recognising your role as the perpetrator.
I will kill you with every bite you take, but you will continue to eat because I am the finest cuisine you've ever had. I will be your last meal. Dinner is served.
Yonkers by Tyler The Creator echoes the same unapologetic declaration of self between the minimalism of the beat and the (arguably) shocking lyrics. Though I don't co-sign all of the lyrics, the idea of making people who so desperately want to consume you, your aesthetic, and your culture uncomfortable is one that I do support. The beat of Yonkers along with Tyler's vocal delivery make you want to nod your head and enjoy the song, however this is nearly impossible if you're actually listening to the lyrics. This is something that I wanted to achieve with Dinner is Served (Karibu), and to some extent, Harvest as a whole. As a writer I feel no obligation to entertain — I'm not here to make anyone feel warm and fuzzy. My job is convey the truth to the best of my ability regardless of whether the reader feels hurt in facing it.
Another one of my favorite vignettes is Complaints from Five Guests of Heaven. The piece is comprised of five different complaints from guests staying at the mythical hotel. Each of room numbers corresponds to the assassination dates of radical thinkers and activists that I admire. I chose to have these people issue complaints that are in keeping with the manner in which they were killed or their beliefs to show that though many people admire them posthumously, their theories and legacies are largely still being disrespected, making it impossible for them to rest in peace. Mystic Man by Peter Tosh is a song not only referenced in the piece, but is also applicable to the nature of any truly great person. The notion of being rooted at once in the past, present, and future expresses the fluidity of time and also the power of thinking beyond the constricting notions of time. Even though these people were physically murdered (directly or indirectly) for their philosophies, their words and power are still present, confirming Tosh's conviction that he's a man of the future.
Young love
Another theme that runs throughout Harvest is encountering and navigating young love. I've never been a fan of corny ballads or depressing love songs, movies, or books — I don't find the two lovers coming together in the rain cathartic or applicable to any type of love I've ever known or witnessed. Prototype by OutKast and A treatease dedicated to The Avian Airess from North East Nubis (1000 questions, 1 answer) by Shabazz Palaces are two love songs that I can fully get behind. Both speak to the nuances of love rather than some grand notion and both manage to be sensual and sexual without falling into the trap of misogyny. Life is Better by my favorite MC, Q-Tip, manages to beautifully blend romantic and artistic love through the lyrics and blur the distinction between musical styles through its production and composition. The way one type of love illuminates another is true in my own experience and is evident in pieces such as Beignets and Trumpets (I): Visitor, where food, music, and romance are all swirled together with the same sensuality.
Originally the title for Harvest was going to be What the Harvest Gave Me, a nod to one of my favorite Frida Kahlo paintings, What the Water Gave Me. Florence + The Machine has a song by the same name, which is also in part inspired by Virginia Woolf's suicide. The idea of killing off one version of oneself, in Virginia Woolf's case wading into water with stones in her pockets, and stepping into another confirms the power of reinvention that Sukari finds with each place she steps into.
Amanya Maloba is a fashion writer, stylist, and author. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. Her fashion writing and photography has appeared in numerous publications including the Huffington Post, Refinery29, and CollegeFashionista. Amanya has also participated in style campaigns with Finish Line and eBay. Harvest, published in July 2014 by Vine Leaves Press, is Amanya's first collection of fiction. Amanya's style and writing is influenced by her Kenyan heritage as well as her time living in London and miscellaneous travels. Find her on her website and on Twitter @Amanya_M
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'Thoughts circulating with a lyric or a music line' – Amanya Maloba
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 28, 2014
My guest this week admits she is antisocial. She likes to people-watch from behind wide sunglasses, and cocooned inside big headphones. She says her day is characterised by a constant flow of music, which has fed directly into the set of vignettes in the short fiction collection she has just published. I particularly have to thank her for introducing me to one of her special trigger tracks, by Florence + the Machine, as there's something in it I might need for Ever Rest. And so the muse hops from mind to mind; I hope it will to yours too. She is Amanya Maloba and she'll be here on Wednesday with her Undercover Soundtrack.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Kathleen Jones
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 23, 2014
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is biographer, poet and award-winning short story writer Kathleen Jones @KathyFerber
Soundtrack by Istrian folk songs, Tuscan folk songs, Kathleen Jones, Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House band, Ben Webster
I don't use music in the way many writers do. I have to write in silence because the rhythm affects the rhythm of the words. But music is very important to me and I listen to a lot of it while I'm researching a book and beginning to develop the story. I use music in my novels to establish atmosphere and also character. The music that they either like or hate expresses their personalities and sheds light on their backgrounds.
In my new novel The Centauress, virtually all my characters are exiles – Zenobia, the central character, is an internationally famous artist, born in the Italian town of Trieste in 1924 when it was part of Istria, a region that once belonged to the Venetian Republic. After the second world war, Istria was split up, part of it going into Yugoslavia as Croatia and Slovenia, but the city of Trieste remained in Italy – the border is only minutes from Trieste city centre. Zenobia chose to live in Istria rather than Italy, buying a ruined hamlet in the hills to create an artistic community. At the Kaštela Visoko she has collected a group of people around her who have nothing in common but their loyalty to her. 'We're her family,' one of the characters says, 'her protection from a hostile world.' Because Zenobia has been born 'between genders' at a time when such things were poorly understood, the world has been very hostile indeed and Zenobia's life story is controversial. She has lived her life in a kind of exile, neither male nor female, neither Italian nor Croatian.
Lenka, who looks after guests at the Kaštela, is a Roma, and Martin, the handyman, is a refugee from his family in Canada. Toby, Zenobia's assistant, is from Australia where his parents had cut him off when he revealed that he was gay. Freddi, Zenobia's partner, is English – running away from the British upper class system. Ludo, an ageing sculptor and friend of Zenobia, is the only one truly at home in Istria, being a Croat and a communist – very anti the west, complaining that Britain, Russia and the USA divided Europe 'like slicing a cake' after the war.
Music was always going to be a strong part of The Centauress. Zenobia's mother had been an opera singer in Vienna just after the first world war and Puccini had been a visitor to her home. One of the male characters, the delectable Gianfranco, is a professional jazz musician, and Ludo, as well as being an artist, also plays Croatian folk music on the accordion. Martin is an enthusiastic amateur guitarist and Lenka sings in the Eastern European gypsy tradition. Folk and Jazz are two worlds I'm familiar with. Years ago I used to do a bit of folk singing, mainly Celtic, and I live with a jazz fanatic, who used to run a big jazz festival, so many of our friends are jazz musicians.
Although the action moves between Croatia, Venice and New York the novel is set in Istria, near the Adriatic fishing village of Rovinj, and I used the Istrian hill town of Groznjan as one of the models for the Kaštela Visoko. Both Rovinj and Groznjan have thriving folk music scenes and Groznjan also hosts a big jazz music festival there every year. I listened to a lot of European folk music when I was developing the story, including Bosnian and Albanian, as well as Italian because Istria has an Italian-based musical tradition. In the novel, Gianfranco, Ludo and Martin play together at Christmas and Ludo has been teaching them some local folk songs.
This is a typical evening in a café in Rovinj, local musicians playing Istrian folk songs, and it helped me to create the scene.
I had to write a folk song for the novel (to avoid copyright problems) and I based it in old Tuscan atonal melodies and rhythms. It begins
The maid in the olive groves so fine, the olives grew black and green, and I wished that she was mine.
I was fascinated by La Pastorella Mia – an old 14th century Tuscan folk melody which is the kind of elegiac thing that Lenka would sing, so I created a similar rhythm and simple, colloquial phrases.
Oh maiden fair, let down your hair, and let us pick the fruit together, for soon enough comes winter weather.
Like Oh maiden fair, La Pastorella is sung unaccompanied, though in this version, there's a lute for the refrain. It expresses the yearning of a traveller for homeland and lover.
Homeland War
Lenka is what is called 'Roma' locally, a term used for ethnic Romanians or Albanians, one of the groups most persecuted in the 'Homeland War' that divided Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Lenka's parents died in the conflict and she sings the music of exile – songs of lamentation – with great passion. When she sings at the Kaštela and again at Zenobia's funeral, 'all her heart is in her throat'. When I was developing Lenka's character I listened to a lot of music beloved by exiled communities, and particularly the music of the Palestinian diaspora. There is a lament, Dal'ouna (On the Return) sung by Rheem Khalani, that always wrings my emotions. It is just how I imagine Lenka singing, an expression of her anger. I defy anyone to listen to it and not be moved. The CD is called Exile and it's made by Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House band (a wonderfully inclusive fusion of Israeli and Palestinian music).
My other main character, the biographer Alex, who goes to the Kaštela to interview Zenobia, knows very little about music, though she enjoys listening to it. She falls reluctantly in love with Gianfranco, who uses music to woo her. I had to choose something that would convey the moment – he's telling her he loves her, but without words. At the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York he plays a ballad composed by the great Billy Strayhorn, who wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.
The piano rippled, the drummer hushed on the cymbals and the warm clear notes of the ballad floated out across the room, stilling the audience, who put down their glasses and sat without speaking or moving. Alex was holding her breath, watching the concentration on Gianfranco's face as phrase after perfect phrase breathed from the clarinet and melted away into the shadows at the back of the room. It felt personal, as though he was speaking directly to her.
When the last note died into silence, the audience erupted – stamping, clapping, shouting for more. Even the band were clapping. Gianfranco just bowed, keeping his head down towards the floor for a long time, acknowledging the applause. And as he straightened up and turned to put the clarinet away in its case, he looked directly at Alex and held her eyes just for a moment.
Gianfranco chooses to play it on the clarinet, but here, Chelsea Bridge is played by the great saxophonist Ben Webster.
Music has played a much bigger part in the writing of The Centauress than in any of my other books. I'm hoping that it helps to create a solid historical background to the story, as well as contributing to the mood of the prose and an understanding of the characters.
Kathleen Jones is a biographer and poet whose short stories have won several awards including a Cosmopolitan fiction prize and a Fay Weldon award. Kathleen's biography of Catherine Cookson was in the top 10 bestseller racks in WH Smith for eight weeks. The Centauress is her second novel. Find her on Twitter @kathyferber
GIVEAWAY Kathleen is giving away three copies of the ebook (Mobi, PDF or epub). To enter the draw, comment here and share the post. Extra entries if you share on multiple platforms – and don't forget to note here where you shared them so we know to count you! The Centauress will be out in paperback at the end of August
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'The music of exile' – Kathleen Jones
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 22, 2014
My guest this week has written a novel of exiles – artists, sculptors and musicians displaced from their home countries by the border shifts after World War II. The central character is doubly exiled, born between genders at a time when such things were poorly understood. Music helped her create their personalities, guide her research and develop their histories. She drew on a rich heritage of opera, jazz and folk – and even composed her own folk song for the novel. She is Kathleen Jones and she'll be here on Wednesday with her Undercover Soundtrack.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Josh Malerman
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 16, 2014
'Abhorrent combinations… fear not as the music writes the story for you'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is apocalyptic thriller author Josh Malerman @JoshMalerman
Soundtrack by Slumber Party Massacre, Rosemary's Baby, The Fog, Creepshow, Beetlejuice, Danny Elfman, John Carpenter, birdsong
I think Bird Box was written in a trance… a glorious madman's marathon that most writers are gunning for… the uninterrupted completion of a rough draft that didn't see a single day's work end in a question mark. There wasn't any writing myself-into-a-corner (I'm more likely to do that here, writing this, than I was on that run), no cold sweats, no freak-outs. What a month! Bird Box was written in 26 days. But the awesome bedbug-tapping of the keys and the way I talk to myself as I write weren't the only sounds that propelled it.
At first, it wasn't my own. Wasn't any that I owned, I mean. And some of it wasn't really music at all. Here's what I mean.
I'd rented the third-floor attic (former servants' quarters?) of a mansion in Detroit's Boston-Edison neighborhood. The owner of the home, a musician, a woman, occupied the rest of the house. But I had my corner; a kitchen up there, a bathtub, a bedroom. And birds. Finches. Five of them. I couldn't bring myself to keep them caged so they flew freely about the space (a thing that ended poorly for some, but was really nice while it lasted.) I had an idea for a book. A different kind of monster. Fuck vampires, I used to think. And fuck the blues. Both so boring! Gimme something new. A monster burst forth! Splitting the idea-ether, lopping the head off the self-governor quickly. It was infinity, personified, the incomprehensible standing on the front porch, swinging on the porch-swing. Yes! Infinity would chase my Malorie through the foggy black and white world of Bird Box as the birds in my rooms sang out, seven o'clock in the morning, flying from one bookshelf to another.
And how their voices spurred me on.
I bought an album, Birds of North America, to play in the intervals, those rare times when the finches grew tired and simply stared, didn't sing. The sing-song sounds of wild birds spun on the record player, giving my rooms a new feel, and a wider landscape to the book. When Malorie turned her blind head toward the trees, the limbs stretched out farther than they used to. The sky was higher. Room, you see, for all these birds. And there was more. Yes! More music! The landlady played classical guitar downstairs, attempting to revisit a lost passion of hers… writing dreamy-fantastic songs, though she hadn't written a batch in so long.
Ah, what a place of inspiration! And who would stop there? I'd discovered, for myself, the magnificence of mood, the way an album could influence the words on the page, actually making its way into the work of art. How had I not known it before? How could I have listened to talk radio while typing the rough drafts that came before Bird Box?
Can you hear it?
Can you hear the opening of the Creepshow soundtrack in Bird Box? Can you hear it in my book? I can. It's in there. No, not at the beginning of Bird Box, not where it appears in the movie Creepshow, but all over the place… as if the book is beginning once again… over and over… letting you know something is starting something is starting I thought it'd already begun but something is starting.
How about the soundtrack for John Carpenter's The Fog? That ought to be easier to locate. What with the fog that inspired Malorie to leave her house, one might simply point to the page and declare, I hear it! I hear the atmospheric synth sounds of John Carpenter, the Made Man of horror.Yes, as my collection of horror movie soundtracks ballooned (it's flat out awesome now), so did the story of the book, most pages colored by Slumber Party Massacre, Rosemary's Baby and Beetlejuice (if you can't write to Danny Elfman then… then nothing…then I guess you can't write to Danny Elfman… )
I had no reservations replaying these soundtracks over and over as the birds sang and the homeowner strummed downstairs.
Twenty-six days isn't long enough to go through too many phases. You get into certain music… certain tracks… and live 'em for a month.
And yet, the attic scene needed something more.
Something big
I wish I could cite the songs used for that frantic scene, but I can't. I'd have to call radio stations, talk dates and times, extricate one piece from another. Because, for the attic, I wrote to two songs playing at once. As the local classical music station bellowed, the horror movie soundtracks spun on the table by the radio. Oh, the glory of two unrelated pieces sounding at once.
How can I locate a link for such a sound? Maybe we can try. Go ahead and turn your computer speakers as loud as they'll go. Then play any song you've got on there. Absolutely any song. Now turn on your radio and turn it to the classical station. Blast that fucker, too. Situate yourself somewhere in the middle. Sit down where the twain shall meet and begin typing.
Are you into horror? Do you like writing freaky stories? Are you looking for a new thought… a freshie… something you think you aren't capable of inventing? So am I. Always. And one place to find it is in music. Impossible music… abhorrent combinations.
Why… I'm listening to something like that now… as the door to the office balcony is wide open, the birds sing outside, my girl Allison dribbles a basketball in the driveway… and the soundtrack for Under the Skin spins beside me.
Can you write a novel without music? Of course. But have you tried it with it? Listen closely… you can hear the scope of your story expanding, the boundaries stretching outward, out… until they are as invisible as the medium itself…
Oh, fear not as the music writes the story for you. You are only a conduit. The machine by which those frightening tones will become words… those words sentences… but not before being born as letters. Letters first. Just like the individual notes of the songs that propel you.
Josh Malerman is the author of Bird Box and the singer/songwriter for the rock band the High Strung (whose song The Luck You Got can be heard as the theme song to Showtime's hit show Shameless). If you're in the US, you can see him interviewed by @Porter_Anderson (the very first Undercover Soundtrack guest) at the Writer's Digest Novel-Writing Conference in August. Find him on Twitter as @joshmalerman and on Facebook.
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'Abhorrent combinations… fear not as the music writes the story for you' – Josh Malerman
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 14, 2014
My guest this week says his novel was written in a trance. He rented an attic from a musician, who he could hear practising in the rooms downstairs, brought along a cageful of finches and set them free to fly around him as he typed. You'll see from the title why they seemed like a good idea. These avian muses were also treated to the soundtracks of several movies – Rosemary's Baby, The Fog and Creepshow – which doubtless helped them get further into character. When he needed to crank up the intensity, there would be two songs howling at once – the radio at one end of the room, classical music at the other. My guest reports that sometimes his birds got tired and stared at him. This endearing aural vandal is Josh Malerman, his novel is the post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box, and he'll be here on Wednesday with his Undercover Soundtrack.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – David Penny
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 9, 2014
'Music of raw power, pulling back from chaos and feedback'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is science fictioneer-turned-historical-murder mystery writer David Penny @DavidPenny_
Soundtrack by Tinariwen, Neil Young, Joe Satriano, Grace Potter, Counting Crows, John Hiatt
I'm a frustrated musician. Many writers I talk to wish they were musicians (yes, we know who you are, Mr Rankin) but, when I talk to musicians they often want to be writers. Or actors. As for the actors, well…
For me writing is a constant striving to achieve the same visceral punch I get from great music. It's hard because writing is a different medium, but every now and again, for a brief moment, I like to think I've almost attained that ambition.
I use music to inspire me, to turn off my analytical mind and don a cap of imagination. While writing my first new book for over 35 years (don't ask) I used music as inspiration, but also as a wash of sound through which my hands drifted across the keyboard.
That book, The Red Hill came to me complete in less than a second, the entire idea and thread for a multi-book series. Then it took two years to write. The protagonist, Thomas Berrington, is an Englishman a thousand miles from home, a surgeon working in the final years of the Moorish caliphate that has ruled Spain for over 700 years. For much of that period the Moors were a beacon of civilisation in a Europe shattered by invasion, war and ignorance. They were cultured, scientific, and curious about the world. While the Vikings invaded the north, the Moors were inventing flying machines (1100), algebra, the clock, and studying the stars and medicine. In the book Thomas uses the techniques and instruments invented by the Moors – many of which have developed into those now used in modern operating theatres. His life is settled, deliberately constrained, until a man he can't refuse asks a favour that could get him killed.
Below is the music that inspired me in the writing of the book, but more importantly music that just inspired. What more is there?
This is how I see Thomas dressed in The Red Hill. It's also here because I listen to Tinariwen when I need to get into the emotional world of the Moors before they came to Spain, the world they carried with them. I can hear this music – without the electric guitars, but the Moors did have lutes and some even believe they created the acoustic guitar – being performed in al-Hamra at the time The Red Hill is set – the music rhythmic, dense, ululating. And the performers – you can see their lives etched deep on their faces.
I love everything about Neil Young when he plays electric guitar this way. His acoustic, Harvest Moon period, I can take or leave, but when he performs like this it sums up how I feel about writing. The music is on the edge, barely constrained, constantly threatening to tip over into chaos and feedback, always pulling back from the brink. I love his uncompromising nature. I understand it's also what turns people off his music, but the point is he doesn't care. He does what he does, what he must do. Whether you like it, love it, or loath it, it is what it is. The struggle to write something possessing this raw power and emotion is what keeps me coming back to the keyboard over and over again. It's an unattainable dream, but that's all right, because it means I never need to stop. Just like Neil. And take time to listen to the words.
Also there is this cover of Cortez the Killer by Joe Satriano and Grace Potter. Written by Neil, of course, but included for a couple of reasons – the main one being the dichotomy between the slight Spanish vibe and the words. And it tells the result of the victors in the battle the Thomas Berrington series is about. I can't help wondering how different the world would be today if the Moors hadn't been defeated.
Counting Crows
Another band I can't get enough of, another singer who wears his heart on his sleeve. My wife and I – kids too – have seen this band more than any other, and every time they're different. Some people don't like that, wanting things to sound just like on the album. Us? No – we like different. This song, A Long December, contains one of my favourite lines: about oysters and pearls… listen… Also listen to Miller's Angels – stark, haunting, beautiful.
This song, Have a Little Faith in Me, has nothing to do with The Red Hill, other than I listen to John Hiatt all the time. It isn't my favourite song of his (that's another guitar blow-out, but I'll spare you), but it is his best known and most covered. John Hiatt it the best unknown singer-songwriter in the world. No, don't disagree – he is. He just is. And again, listen to the words and bow down to the man…
I first saw John Hiatt at the Hammersmith Apollo in the 90s and at the end of a three-hour show that blew my socks off he said something that sums up exactly how I feel about writing: 'Hey, thanks y'all for coming. If you weren't here we'd still be playing this stuff, but we'd be doing it in our garage.'
Also try Cry Love. I've included this because Immy from Counting Crows is on mandolin (plus it's brilliant).
David Penny is the author of four science fiction novels and several short stories published during the 1970s. Near-starvation led him down the slippery slope of work, which distracted him from his true calling. He has now returned to writing and The Red Hill, a Moorish mystery thriller, is out July 13 2014. He is currently working on two new books: the follow up to The Red Hill, and a thriller set in the world of industrial espionage. You can find out more about David and his writing at his website and you can connect on twitter @davidpenny_
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'Music of raw power, pulling back from chaos and feedback' – David Penny
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 8, 2014
My guest this week describes his writing as a constant state of striving – to achieve the same visceral punch of great music. His books come to him that way too – protagonist, thread and plot in one hit. In fact I've actually seen this thunderbolt descend; I was with him on a course one day when he told me he'd just seen an entire plot and its characters in an instant. After that comes the hard work, of course, and music helps him return to that state of fever. The novel he is talking about this week is the first in a crime series, set in the final years of Moorish rule in Spain, and its soundtrack is full of sweat, guitars, lutes and bass. He is David Penny and he will be here on Wednesday with his Undercover Soundtrack.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Rohan Quine
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 2, 2014
'Sadness and longing in the wildest pleasures'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is magical realist author Rohan Quine @RohanQuine
Soundtrack by Sinead O'Connor, Dead Can Dance, Suede, Lana Del Rey, Kim Wilde, Soft Cell, This Mortal Coil, Roxy Music, Madonna, The Orb, The KLF, Ministry, Genesis, Marc and the Mambas, Marc Almond, Kode9 and the Spaceape, Bronski Beat, Donna Summer, Erasure, Bauhaus, Bryan Ferry
Since women are a bit cooler than men, I'll start with the women in the following cast of principal characters – a cast loosely spread across all five published tales (The Imagination Thief and four novellas – The Platinum Raven, The Host in the Attic, Apricot Eyes and Hallucination in Hong Kong). Aptly here, Alaia Danielle is a singer. She's morally upright and somewhat high-tension, with cool good taste and a large, cerebral compassion. Her dignity and the humanity beneath her seriousness were partly conjured up by the majesty with which Troy by Sinéad O'Connor builds up, from controlled quietness into a world-bestriding anger that's just as controlled. Performing, Alaia emits a wordless song with the viscerality of Diamanda Galás and the ethereality of the Cocteau Twins; but the best single suggestion of her was the sublime The Host of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance.
Pippa Vail is a sweet, depressive dreamer who sits on her high-rise tower-block balcony in silence, while her rich inner life seeps out across the town spread below her; her prominent green eyes look wet and hurt, as if she's been crying, though there are no tear-stains. Evoking the swell of silent beauty she hears in the sky, from within the unending loneliness of her high-rise balcony-grave, many early tracks by Suede influenced my creation of her. Two amazing examples are Still Life and – appropriate for her high-rise location – High Rising.
Evelyn Carmello is sunny, tough, sassy and social, looming large in her small home-town of Asbury Park, near New York. Lana Del Rey's 2012 album fed into her, but Evelyn is lighter. Starcrazy by Suede was useful as a very Evelyn example of another kind of Suede heroine: joyously functional in the real world, she's a dirty-sexy streetwise party-girl, although that scene is mostly now in her recent past. I can also hear in Evelyn an echo or two of that cool-eyed, dirty-city classic Kids in America by Kim Wilde.
Angel's Baby Doll is the self-image of the character Angel (see below). I birthed her from somewhere in the vicinity of two beauties by Soft Cell: the divine Torch; and Sex Dwarf.
Ravens in the tower
Constant in the Chocolate Raven is a yearning for the everyday external world to transcend its qualities of dullness and flatness, to attain the colours and lights living in her mind. The music that helped create her, therefore (especially when she's on that Dubai skyscraper terrace, creating the tower in the mountains from convulsive blasts of energy she fires across the night-time desert), was music that radiates a transcendent beauty undercut by regret that such beauty will always be up against such a deadweight. Salient examples were Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil and To Turn You On by Roxy Music. The Chocolate Raven's creation of the Platinum Raven is in itself a song to the siren.
In that nightclub tower where the Platinum Raven presides, events of the brightest darkness, decadence and beauty occur. The dance-floor is a cat-walk where every night those anorexic models float past us, beautifully drugged-out and weak and untouchable, forever down the runways of their airport lanes, expressionless in damage through the night-lit clouds with their make-up flashing soft in the lights, like perfection, clad in shreds of lightest silk that conceal the needle-marks. The album Erotica by Madonna was in the mix here, being steeped in this heightened feeling of darkness beneath legendary nightclub fabulousness; yet this album's world-class attitude and sass are permeated by a simple, universal sense of the sadness and longing that enrich even the wildest pleasures and highest achievements we're capable of while alive. The title track Erotica is a fine example – as is the track Deeper and Deeper, beneath whose easy hedonistic surface lies a perfect evocation of the natural evanescence of your every past joy and your every future joy.
The Platinum Raven's conspirator in that tower is a DJ named Amber, whose infernal nature and allure reflect the fact that he happens to be the continuation of Rutger Hauer's psychopathic character in the film The Hitcher. Soundtrack-wise, however, he's evoked by what he might spin: late in the main room, Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb; then later still in the VIP room, something from the legendary album Chill Out by The KLF, such as the track 3am Somewhere Out of Beaumont.
Damian West is a gangster whose gauntness of expression indicates much danger and paranoia. The sound of the inside of Damian's head was well suggested by the colossal charisma of The Fall by Ministry. Another contribution was made by the claustrophobic immensity of that slick little slice of hell, Mama by Genesis.
Angel Deon (in some novellas called Scorpio) is an androgynous creature whose spiteful sleek depraved face radiates decadence and damage from its sharp beauty. He is shadowy, effete, both unhealthy and luminous; his head is a fantastically dark cavern of jagged riches, and musically he's pure Marc and the Mambas, plus tons of the darker output of Soft Cell and of Marc Almond solo. To locate my creation of Angel, I'd pinpoint somewhere between two stunning Mambas tracks: The Animal in You; and My Former Self.
Lucan Abayomi is a charismatic gang-leader, drug-dealer and Angel's boyfriend, whose smile spells trouble, violence, sex and danger. He was partly born from that dubby bass in lots of dubstep from around 2006, redolent of nocturnal high-rise housing estates, lonely concrete spaces and bass speakers booming out of car windows. We can hear part of his origins in two by Kode9 and the Spaceape: Nine Samurai; and Sine.
Shigem Adele is an effusive, flamboyant nightclub host, a lovable and neurotic survivor, whose warmth can illuminate a roomful of people. He was born somewhere between two classic electronic dance tracks: the haunting anguish and defiant beauty of Why? by Bronski Beat; and the iconic sensuality of I Feel Love by Donna Summer.
Kim Somerville is newly in love with Shigem, being quiet, observant and loyal, with a tinge of thoughtful pessimism:
In an absent way he sings along to the lyrics of the track playing quietly on the club's sound system; and I am struck by his voice, which is clean, vanilla, supple, pure and filled with earnest beauty. It's a voice of great wholesomeness, picturesquely sad and honest, redolent of goodness – and a little white lie, I think.
That was inspired by the voice of Erasure's Andy Bell, always to be heard with Vince Clarke's keyboards, as in the beauty of two representative Erasure tracks: the grandeur and exuberance of Run to the Sun; and the sombre grandeur of Crown of Thorns.
Finally, my narrator Jaymi Peek. Most of the time he's subtle or elusive in nature, being a humorous clear lens and benign observer. In his broadcasts, though, he becomes a charismatic and empowered face who projects himself addictively into the imaginations of a global audience – the assaultive power of which is suggested in Double Dare by Bauhaus, whose message never dates. (I hereby stake a musical claim: the first 15 sentences of the long paragraph at the bottom of this page, narrated by Jaymi, constitute what must be the most precise verbal description ever written, by anyone silly enough to try it, of the exact sound of the first 40 seconds of Double Dare.) As with the Chocolate Raven's projection of the Platinum Raven, one of Jaymi's missions in his wildly varied projections is perhaps to help himself (and us) to transcend all that needs transcending. Echoing the Song to the Siren that I mentioned above for her, I shall therefore end here by returning to that song for Jaymi too – but this time it's Song to the Siren by Bryan Ferry, from 2010. This is a sound so rarefied by its own expensive exquisiteness that its surface feels laminated and sterilised from all reality, residing forever in some elite suite of perfection above us, with nowhere higher left to go before the air would run out altogether…
Rohan's novel The Imagination Thief and four novellas – The Platinum Raven, The Host in the Attic, Apricot Eyes and Hallucination in Hong Kong – aim to push imagination and language towards their extremes, to explore and illuminate the beauty, horror and mirth of this predicament called life, where we seem to have been dropped without sufficient consultation ahead of time. He's on Twitter at @RohanQuine and has a website www.rohanquine.com
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'Sadness and longing in the wildest pleasures' – Rohan Quine
Posted by Roz Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 1, 2014
My guest this week writes urban fiction imbued with magic realism and horror. His characters are drawn directly from soundtracks, from music that expressed their desperation, loneliness, fragility and streetwise sass – Sinead O'Connor to Madonna; Dead Can Dance to Suede and Soft Cell. He is Rohan Quine and he'll be here on Wednesday with his Undercover Soundtrack.
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When using Amazon, you'll want to check the average customer rating (from zero to five stars) and the "most helpful" positive and negative reviews, which address vital issues such as the all-important boredom factor.
At Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville and Downer's Grove, co-owner Becky Anderson says her staff will want to know the gift recipient's gender, age, interests and maybe a book that he or she has recently read or enjoyed.
From there, the bookseller can recommend go-to books such as "Gone Girl" for mystery lovers, Jo Nesbo's "Phantom" for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" fans, as well as techie humor and fiction set on the Great Lakes. A book that inspired a movie the recipient loved is a great way to go, Anderson says; this season that might mean "Life of Pi," or "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln."
Libraries are another great source of free book advice, says Andrew Medlar, a youth materials specialist at the Chicago Public Library. Medlar, who gives about 30 children's books a year to his nieces and nephew — he uses a spreadsheet to prevent duplicating gifts — says you can also check the library's new "Celebrate Bookamania Every Day" list of kid-lit recommendations available at chipublib.org.
Among his picks: "Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs" and "A Kiss Means I Love You," a picture book about non-verbal communication illustrated with photos of Chicagoland families.
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My stepfather, a book lover, gives me an Amazon gift certificate every year, and I can't think of a more perfect gift. I get to choose the books and, believe me, I know what the recipient wants better than anyone.
If your recipient is local, or you're willing to go online and identify their local bookseller, a bookstore gift certificate is a great way to give a little joy — and help preserve a brick-and-mortar store for the readers of the future.
How's that for a gift that keeps on giving?
Nara Schoenberg is a lifestyles reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

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Classic sandbag. This is overhanging, has tough sizes, and there is one hand jam 3/4 the way up. For feet, rand smears in the crack are the way to go. It is totally sweet. TR it if you want, but better yet, haul out a pad and boulder it. No, your fingers will not rip off and stay in the crack if you fall. Go for it! This is one of my favorite boulder problems EVER. Really, EVER.
Walk toward End of the Road Rock, as per the description for EOTRR and Spelunk Spire. Past Muscle and Fitness (the very overhung right leaning offwidth in the left side of the a-frame accross the stream to the right), after the trail begins bending around to the right (north of) of the formation containing MAF, locate a trail heading up a small sage brush covered hill to the left. It is very vague for the first ten yards or so, nearly non-existent some years, and marked by a short dead pine tree nearby. The trail soon becomes more distinct, and shortly thereafter dives down into an aspen grove. Once out of this aspen grove, head right toward the obvious rock formation (Spelunk Spire, named for the pointed summit at the western most end). At the formation head right until the very last boulders. Looking up to the left you will see a splitter finger crack so perfect it defies reality.
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HUG YOUR KURVES WITH KARDASHIAN KOLLECTION DENIM — available at all Sears locations and online!
It's All About the Denim Baby!
Hi dolls! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I just wanted to share this brand new promo image for our Kardashian Kollection denim line! Isn't it HOT?!? LOL. We thought it only appropriate to wear JUST our jeans for this shoot and I think it turned out fab! I hope this doesn't sound too cocky, but I reeeeally love the way my butt looks in these jeans! LOL. Definitely getting this photo framed :)
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I stumbled upon this and added the word bubble. What should go in it?
I'll post the best ones tomorrow and give credit to the authors.
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The debacle brought forth by the New York Times Benghazi whitewash and comments from Fox News Benghazi sources referring to the report as "baloney" lead me to re-purpose a graphic created back in 2011 (almost 2 years ago to the day)...
Also, in case you missed it, check out my collection of 34 Benghazi memes here.
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The New York Times is being accused of publishing a whitewashed version of the attack in Benghazi that concludes it wasn't terrorism, and liberals are EATING it up...
Power Line and The Weekly Standard (among others) destroy this myth here and here.
I thought this would be a good opportunity to compile some of the graphics that have been swirling around social media since September 11, 2012 that others have created along with myself that remind Democrats that terrorism or not (and it was terrorism) Benghazi is significant for a more important reason...
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From a Photoshopper who goes by BKeyser on Flickr. Check out his (really really) good stuff here.
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During the government shutdown last October I found this graphic made by some genius liberal...
Forget the guns part, I'm more interested in the FREE healthcare. Recently a cartoonist did a "composite sketch" of what the bozo who created this might look like...
I'd say it's pretty dead on.
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Some you've seen, others you probably haven't...
It is inevitable that some liberal will find this post and comment on how disgusted, sexist, homophobic, racist and misogynistic it is.
They'll only say that as they'll have no comeback because they'll find such photos of Reagan and Bush simply don't exist (I already checked...it was an act of futility).
h/t The People's Cube for the opening entry to this gallery.
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It's been a while since I've done one of these. Check out one I did for Democrats a couple of years ago here.
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Sheer genius from Michael Ramirez...
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What would we call them?
Handicapped? Disabled? Both words apply perfectly here.
How about Liberty Challenged?
Whatever it is, this would be their symbol...
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I created this graphic for my online shop Culture Correct...
If we were being honest here this has been true since forever, but especially so since 2008. It's why "low-information voter" was coined, only someone who is not actually paying attention would continue to put their faith in liberal politics. Therefore...
By design it's meant to be simple and not overtly political in look to help really smack the view unexpectedly with a dose of truth... :-D
If you're interested in the stickers check them out here (please note the stickers are currently for "pre-order" meaning I am in the process of getting them printed).
For shirts you can order here.
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Anyone who has tried to buy wine at a winery, take a special bottle to a restaurant or buy wine on a Sunday knows Indiana's laws are confusing and restrictive.
Neighboring states aren't much better. Indiana and Kentucky prevent direct winery-to-consumer shipping while Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio allow it. All four of those states allow Sunday sales while Indiana does not.
The American Wine Consumer Coalition, Washington D.C. issued a report and grade for all 50 states. It's called "Consuming Concerns: The 2013 State-by-State Report Card on Consumer Access to Wine."
The forward in the report bemoans the existence of laws 'from the 1930s that are still "in place in most states, despite a cultural, economic and commercial reality that is starkly different (today)."
David Honig, a wine writer, publisher of one of the country's biggest online wine magazine – Palate Press – and attorney, says the laws make no sense unless viewed through the lens of distributor protection.
"A wine lover can have their favorite bottled shipped to them, but only if (a) they've been to the vineyard or winery in person, and (b) left a copy of their Indiana Driver's License, and (c) the winery has an Indiana shipping license, and (d) only if the winery does not have a distributor in the state," Honig said. "These laws don't protect minors from their plans to set aside the usual adolescent need for instant gratification to order an expensive vintage for delivery in a week or two. Nor do they protect Hoosiers from bathtub gin or other adulterated hooch.
"They don't even keep the streets, playgrounds, and schoolyards safe from Hillside Select swilling bums, hiding their $250 bottles in plain brown bags. They protect distributors, the top tier in the three-tier system, from suffering the indignity of seeing somebody enjoy a bottle of wine without getting a cut."


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The Bolts add depth to their system while trimming their camp roster, plus the lineup for Wednesday's preseason game against the St. Louis Blues in Orlando.
The goalie acquired last month agrees to a two-year deal while the Bolts also add AHL depth on defense.
The Bolts have solidified their bottom lines with the addition of left wing Sean Bergenheim.
Lundin Calling! Mike is back in the fold for another go-around, and Teddy Purcell has also been re-signed.
It's official, Pavel Kubina returns to the Tampa Bay Lightning for his second stint with the team.
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Tree Cookies
Serves 18
- 1 18-ounce tube refrigerated ready-to-bake sugar-cookie dough
- 3 1.08-ounce tubes M&M's Minis
- Heat oven according to the label directions. Cut the dough into 1/4-inch slices. Arrange on an ungreased baking sheet. Using green, yellow, and brown M&M's Minis, design Christmas trees as shown in photo.
- Bake until golden as the label directs. Cool on wire racks.
Nutritional Information
- Per Serving
- Calories 147
- Calcium 23mg
- Carbohydrate 20g
- Cholesterol 10mg
- Fat 7g
- Fiber 0g
- Iron 0mg
- Protein 2mg
- Sat Fat 2g
- Sodium 123mg
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City's Aim4Peace program hosts Peace Ride to stop violence
The City of Kansas City, Mo., Health Department's Aim4Peace program has partnered with the Redline Riders Motorcycle Club to present the Third Annual Peace Ride on Sunday, July 15 from noon to 4 p.m. The event will be at the Blue Valley Park in the Main Shelter, 2301 Topping Ave.
"The Third Annual Peace Ride is an opportunity for residents to join the historic biker associations in our ride for peace through our streets," said Chris Pace, president of the Redline Riders Motorcycle Club. Pace encourages residents to join the movement to stop the shooting and sign a Commitment to Peace agreement, which will be made available at the event.
The Peace Ride begins at noon with fun for the family, vendors from the community and plenty of hot rod bikes. At 1 p.m. the bikers will take off on the 24-mile ride through various parts of Kansas City. When the bikers return from the ride at approximately 2 p.m., presenters and attendees will discuss the history of African American motorcycle clubs and their part in the peace movement to stop the homicides.
Gift certificates and other items donated by area motorcycle dealerships will be given away to Peace Ride participants and guests.
For more information about this event, call Aim4Peace at 816-513-7902 or email email@example.com. More information on the Aim4Peace program may be found online at www.kcmo.org/aim4peace or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aim4peace.
Media inquiries on this topic should be directed to Jeff Hershberger, public information officer, at 816-840-2548 (pager). Follow the Health Department on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, at www.facebook.com/kcmohealthdept, www.twitter.com/kcmohealthdept and www.youtube.com/user/kcmohealthdept.


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February 15, 2012
A free conference for anyone interested in becoming the owner of a franchise business in Placer County will be held Friday, March 2 at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln.
The conference will take place from 7:30 a.m. to noon. It is sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).
The event's planning committee includes representatives from the Placer County Office of Economic Development, city of Roseville Office of Economic Development, city of Lincoln Economic Development Committee, Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce, Sierra College, Drexel University, FranNet West and Nimbus Marketing and Public Relations.
"The conference will be a great chance for individuals and groups to find out more about what it takes to own franchise businesses and where the opportunities are," said Placer County Economic Development Director David C. Snyder. "We expect at least 10 franchise companies to attend because they want to enter the South Placer market or are looking to expand their presence here."
He noted the schedule includes time for open networking.
The schedule features a panel discussion titled "A Day in the Life of a Franchisee." It will be moderated by FranNet West President Cari Lyn Vinci and will include representatives of franchise companies.
The conference also will include presentations on such topics as "A Changed World at Work – Threat or Opportunity," "How to Find the Right Franchise to Replace/Create a Six-Figure Income" and "Financing Your Franchise Business."
Thanks to the generous support of sponsors, the conference is free for participants.
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Video game voice actors are the stars of today's entertainment - so why aren't they treated as such?
Polygon had great timing with this feature, considering all the hubbub that's been made of David Hayter's supposed absence from Metal Gear Solid 5. Does a voice actor make the game, or are they an asset to be thrown away and replaced at a whim? It's hard to picture anyone but our favorite actors performing the roles we've come to associate them with, but without the face time of Hollywood talent, can they pull the same weight?
We often hear the phrase that we need to "vote with our wallets" with regards to supporting or not supporting games, but more often than not, when that phrase comes up, the discussion is centered around game play features, shady business practices, or DRM. Gaming is a very strange medium in that it has relatively few public personalities, and even fewer of these people can have any sort of leverage over the work they're involved in.
It's a shitty situation where people don't always get the recognition they deserve, and this article is a fascinating dive into just that problem.


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YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) -- Police investigating the shooting death of Eastern Michigan University football player Demarius Reed are offering $5,000 for clues to his killer's identity and say they're looking for anyone who attended a party at the apartment complex where he was found dead.
A statement from police on the Ypsilanti school's website says the party at University Green Apartment complex took place Thursday night and into Friday morning.
Reed was found shot multiple times Friday at the off-campus apartment complex in what police say may be a robbery.
University President Sue Martin says the campus community "can all come together to support his family at this time." She says his funeral is Saturday at Holy Temple Evangelistic Church of God in Christ in Harvey, Ill.
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New! Click here to read about the intermodal I-STEP program.
Click here to read how "TSA Takes Multi-Prong Approach to Maritime Security".
More than 80 percent of the world's trade by volume is conducted by ship and 99 percent of overseas trade by volume enters or leaves the United States by ship. A transportation system this vast can only be secured through the combined efforts of federal, state and local governments and private industry. The U.S. Coast Guard is the lead federal agency in securing the maritime transportation mode and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plays a significant role as well. TSA's Port and Intermodal Division is engaged in this unified national effort primarily by providing expertise in credentialing as well as passenger and vehicle screening techniques and procedures. Some of the major initiatives TSA's Port and Intermodal Division has participated in include:
Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)
In accordance with the requirements of the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) and the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, TWIC will serve as a common credential for all personnel requiring unescorted access to secure areas of MTSA-regulated facilities and vessels. To obtain a TWIC, an individual must first pass a security threat assessment to ensure they are not a security risk. For more information on the TWIC program click here.
Screening Initiatives for Ferry Operations and Cruise Line Terminals
TSA has tested a variety of technologies, practices and techniques for passenger screening systems in the maritime environment. Pilots and surge deployments have been conducted in San Francisco, Cape May, N.J. and Jamestown, Va. These tools include TSA-certified explosives-detection canine teams and explosives trace detection and advanced X-ray technologies. By testing and combining these assets in various combinations, TSA is creating a knowledge base to assist maritime operators with screening requirements as well as developing the capability to quickly deploy a suite of security assets in the event of a threat.
The Port Security Exercise Training Program (PortSTEP) brings together federal, state and local governments and private institutions to test responses to specific security events. The program fosters strong communication between public and private organizations and enhances their ability of these groups to recognize and respond to major security incidents. More than two dozen exercises were conducted in 2005 and 2006.
These programs, along with other initiatives led by the Coast Guard and CBP, achieve a safer, more secure, efficient and resilient maritime transportation system.
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Federal government funds unique graduate program and computer-assisted surgery research
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced funding today for two pioneering research projects at Queen's University.
"I am grateful to NSERC for its continued support and provision of funding that encourages collaborative partnerships between multidisciplinary researchers," says Vice-Principal (Research) Steven Liss. "The CREATE program is invaluable in training highly qualified students and professionals who have the necessary skillset and industry connections to make a smooth and productive transition to the workplace, while the CHRP program supports Canadian researchers in the creation of innovative health services and technologies."
James Cordy has been awarded a $1,650,000 Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grant. The grant will be used to fund a unique School of Computing graduate program in ultra-large scale software systems (ULSS).
"With our existing industrial relationships and global leadership in ULSS research, Queen's local expertise in professional development, and our strong ties with leading international research institutes, we are in a unique position to offer this, the first and only graduate program of its kind worldwide," says project leader Dr. Cordy, a professor in the School of Computing and ACM Distinguished Scientist in Software Engineering.
ULSS are national or global computer software systems that process the financial, healthcare, communications, leisure and networking infrastructure that underlie every aspect of modern life. These systems pose unique challenges for software developers and maintainers as even a minor failure or outage risks bringing entire economies to a halt.
The program aims to train over 80 students in its first six years in the specialized methods, advanced design concepts and professional development skills needed to populate this industry and bring knowledge to practice in the real world.
David Pichora has been awarded a $371,970 Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) grant to advance his research in computer-assisted surgical technology for fracture surgery.
"Advanced computer-assisted surgical technology will aid surgeons in repairing fractures in a way that improves accuracy and is less invasive for the patient. It will also help to reduce patient exposure to x-rays during surgery," says Dr. Pichora, professor of surgery and of mechanical and materials engineering at Queen's and orthopaedic surgeon at Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital. "We're on our way to developing computer-assisted systems that will meet these requirements, but more research is needed to advance both our techniques and the technology."
This grant from NSERC will enable Dr. Pichora's research team to make significant advances on previous innovations and to further develop the Image Guided Surgery Suite at Kingston General Hospital.
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Though we know Urban Meyer stepped down as Florida's head coach due to health reasons, we're still digging for all the specifics. An Orlando TV station, WKMG-6, reports that Meyer suffered a heart attack during the 2009 season.
It should be stressed here that WKMG is relying on a single anonymous source for this story, so this report certainly can't be confirmed at this time. Here it is, for what it's worth:
A source confirmed to Local 6 sports director David Pingalore on Saturday that Florida head coach Urban Meyer, who is resigning, suffered a heart attack during the season.University of Florida athletics director Jeremy Foley announced on Saturday that Meyer would resign after the Gators' game against Cincinnati in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day.According to Pingalore's source, Meyer did not inform the team about the issue during the season.
If true -- and once again, that's a big -- IF -- this is a startling development. Stay tuned for the inevitable confirmation/denial.
UPDATE: During his Sunday press conference, Meyer categorically denied that he suffered a heart attack during the 2009 season. Like so many other rumors over the past weekend, this one has been shot down.


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Popular Resistance Committees
|Popular Resistance Committees
لجان المقاومة الشعبية
Emblem of the Popular Resistance Committees
|Major actions
|Jamal Abu Samhadana (2000-2006)
Kamal al-Nirab (2006-2011)
Zuhir al-Qaisi (2011-2012)
|Active region(s)
|Gaza Strip
Palestinian nationalism
Violent resistance
Islamic Fundamentalism[1]
|Designated as terrorist organization by the United States.
|Means of revenue
|Hezbollah (alleged by Israel)
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) (Arabic: لجان المقاومة الشعبية, Lijān al-Muqāwama al-Shaʿbiyya) are a coalition of various armed Palestinian factions that oppose the conciliatory approach adopted by the Palestinian Authority and Fatah towards Israel. Active in the Gaza Strip, the military wing of the PRC is the Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades.[2]
Set up in late 2000 by former Fatah and Tanzim member Jamal Abu Samhadana, the PRC are composed primarily of ex-Fatah fighters and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades members and are alleged by Israel to be inspired and financed by Hezbollah. The PRC specializes in planting roadside bombs and vehicle explosive charges - directed against military and civilian convoys.
The group is believed to be the third strongest faction active in the Gaza strip, after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.[3] The PRC is described as a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States.
The PRC have been involved in a number of bombing attacks on both military and civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, including the following:
- The November 20, 2000 bombing of a bus full of children as it passed near Kfar Darom, killing two
- The October 8 shooting attack on a bus carrying airport workers near the Rafah terminal on October 8, 2000, wounding 8 civilians, and a similar attack on a car on the road from Kerem Shalom to the Rafah terminal, killing the woman driver
- Mortar attacks on April 28, 2001 on the Netzer Hazani agricultural Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip (wounding five, one seriously), and similar attacks on Kfar Darom on April 29 and on Atzmona on May 7 of the same year.
- The February 14, 2002 killing of three Israeli soldiers using large explosive charges designed for tanks, and similar killings of three more soldiers on March 14 and one more on September 5 of that same year.
- The May 2, 2004 killing of the unarmed and pregnant Tali Hatuel, and her four daughters aged 2 to 11, on Kissufim road. The PRC and Islamic Jihad jointly claimed responsibility, also claiming that the attack was in retaliation for earlier Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killings of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi.[4]
- The January 13, 2005 killing of six Israeli settlers at the Karni Passage near Gaza, carried out together with Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.[5]
- On February 4, 2008 the Israeli Air Force assassinated the PRC's top military leader, Amer Qarmut (Abu Said) in response to a joint suicide bombing by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Dimona, which killed one Israeli.[6]
- On March 6, 2008 the PRC detonated a roadside charge near the Kissufim crossing, killing an Israeli officer and wounding three others, one critically.[7]
In addition, the Palestinian National Authority arrested several PRC members, accusing them of being responsible for planting the explosives which, on October 15, 2003, destroyed a US diplomatic convoy at Beit Hanoun, killing three security guards and severely wounding a diplomat.[8] The PRC confirmed the men were PRC members, and initially claimed responsibility for the attack, but later denied carrying out the attack, saying it was against Palestinian interests. Following the attack, the US demanded that the Palestinian Authority find those responsible and bring them to justice. Palestinian officials said that because of lack of progress in the attack investigation, the US halted financial support for the PA and placed unofficial sanctions on its accounts. After heavy US pressure, the PA tried four "suspects" in a Palestinian military court, but intelligence agencies dismissed the tribunal as a "mock trial" and said while the suspects were PRC activists, they were not those responsible for the attack. The men were released in March 2004, less than one year after the attack.
On July 17, 2004, Jenin Martyr's Brigade, a part of the PRC, kidnapped Palestinian Civil Police Forces Chief Ghazi al-Jabali at gunpoint in an ambush of his convoy which wounded two bodyguards. Al-Jabali was only released after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat agreed to PRC demands that he be fired.[9][10]
The PRC are also involved in Rafah's smuggling tunnels [11] which have been used to smuggle weapons, explosives, fugitives and civilian supplies etc.[12][13][14][15]
The PRC claimed responsibility for the assassination of Moussa Arafat on September 7, 2005.
In early June 2006, PRC leader Jamal Abu Samhadana was killed by IDF forces. As the man considered responsible for a number of attacks, including the bombing of a children's school bus near Kfar Darom in November 2000 and for the 2003 infiltration into an IDF outpost in Rafah that left several soldiers dead, he was considered one of the most wanted Palestinians on the IDF's hit-list.[16]
On Sunday, June 25, 2006, PRC, together with Hamas and Jaish al-Islam ("the Army of Islam") launched a major attack via tunnel near the Kerem Shalom outpost. Eight Palestinian fighters used a nearly one km tunnel that they had dug over the past several months to cross the border between Gaza and Israel. The unexpected attack ended with one soldier- Corporal Gilad Shalit- captured, two dead and four wounded. Two of the Palestinian attackers were killed while the other six made it back to the Gaza Strip with Shalit. Shalit was released five years later in a prisoner exchange.[17][18]
The same day of the tunnel attack, Eliyahu Asheri, an 18-year-old Israeli student, went missing near the West Bank. The PRC shortly claimed responsibility for kidnapping and murdering him. Spokesman for the group, Abu Abir, also announced that the PRC had formed special units in the West Bank whose sole purpose is to kidnap soldiers and settlers, in accordance with the continued Operation "Cavaliers' Wrath." [16][19][20]
On August 8, 2007, the PRC announced that it would form a political party to run in future Palestinian elections. It vowed, however, to keep its armed wing intact.[21]
In August 18, 2011, Israel accused the PRC in committing the 2011 southern Israel attacks in which 8 Israelis were killed in firing and suicide bombing on two buses and a car near the Israeli-Egyptian border north to Eilat. On the evening of the same day, the Israeli Air Force, working with Shin Bet,[22] bombed the homes of The Popular Resistance Committees' members in Rafah. Among the dead as identified by the group were their commander, Kamal al-Nairab and their military chief, Immad Hammad,[23] and at least two more top members of the group and another member.[22] The airstrike occurred in the southern Gaza Strip, close to the Egyptian border.[24][25] The PRC responded to the raids in saying that it vows "double" revenge for the attack.[22]
On March 9, 2012 an Israeli Air Force strike in Gaza killed the secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees, Zuhir al-Qaisi (Zuhair al-Qaissi).[26]
Hezbollah connection[edit]
According to Israel, the relation between the PRC and Hezbollah is more than coincidental. Israel alleges the organization enjoys financing and technical support from Hezbollah since its founding, and is a sort of proxy of Hezbollah's influence in the Gaza Strip.[27][28] The organization outwardly projects this relation through its mimicry of the Hezbollah flag which also bears a fist clenching a Kalashnikov rifle and stylized writing.
- ^ http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief005-24.htm
- ^ Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (September 15, 2009). "HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4181628,00.html
- ^ "Middle East | Gunmen kill Jewish settler family". BBC News. 2004-05-03. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ nrg
- ^ "Middle East | Israeli killed in suicide bombing". BBC News. 2008-02-04. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ "IDF soldier killed near Kissufim crossing - Israel News, Ynetnews". Ynetnews.com. 1995-06-20. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ "Palestinians bomb US convoy | World news". The Guardian. 2003-10-16. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ Civil Police (al-Shurta Madaniyya) GlobalSecurity.org
- ^ Arafat appoints West Bank and Gaza Strip police chief - Al-Jazeera.
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- ^ a b Ynet
- ^ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/731196.html
- ^ "UK demands release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit". CNN. August 28, 2010.
- ^ "JPost | French-language news from Israel, the Middle East & the Jewish World". Fr.jpost.com. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ "Abductors present Eliyahu Asheri's ID card - Israel News, Ynetnews". Ynetnews.com. 1995-06-20. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ cordover.blogspot "Big Gun Politics: Can Armed Political Parties Fairly Participate in Political Processes?" Cafe Cordover by Adam B. Cordover
- ^ a b c "Israel launches strikes on Gaza after attacks – Middle East – Al Jazeera English". English.aljazeera.net. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ "Israeli airstrike targets Gaza after 7 killed in southern Israel". CNN. August 19, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ "UPDATE 1-Israeli air strike kills chiefs of Gaza's PRC group". Af.reuters.com. February 9, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ Issacharoff, Avi (April 10, 2011). "IDF strikes Gaza in wake of deadly terror attacks; senior Palestinian militant killed – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News". Haaretz. Israel. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ Issacharoff, Avi (2012-03-09). "IDF strike in Gaza kills leader of Popular Resistance Committees Israel News". Haaretz. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ "מיהו ארגון ועדות ההתנגדות העממית? - וואלה! חדשות". News.walla.co.il. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
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External links[edit]
- The Leading Palestinian Terrorist Organizations (August 2004) from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S)
- The Resistance Committees: Between a Movement and a Party
- (Arabic) Salah al-Deen Brigades Official website


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An Orrick family got hit by the same tornado twice Saturday. The EF-2 tornado hit their home and business.
A 72-year-old grandmother, who has trouble walking, lived in an apartment above the family business. She needed to make her way down all the stairs to get to the basement. One of her grandsons wanted to make sure she survived.
"I was downstairs working in the restaurant. I was worried about my grandma, so I ran upstairs, grabbed her up. She can't walk well so I threw her on my back and ran down the stairs with her," Tim Heady said.
Heady's mother, Cheri Heady, is proud of her son and thankful he managed to get her mother-in-law into the basement of her family's restaurant, Fubbler's Cove.
"They are all OK. I'm very, very grateful for that," Cheri Heady said.
When the tornado hit, she and several of her six children ran to the basement at the family's home. Many of her other children ran to the basement at the family's restaurant.
"I had one son I couldn't get ahold of on the other side of town. It was devastating. I panicked," she said.
The family survived and is now reunited and cleaning up both their homes and business. They aren't alone. Neighbors and volunteers are helping families get back on their feet.
"They've been amazing. We have an amazing town," Cheri Heady said.
She says her son is amazing and remains humble. Tim Heady says he is not a hero but did get an "attaboy" from grandma.
"She just said thanks. She couldn't believe it. She is 72, and I don't think she's ever been through anything like that in her life," Tim Heady said.
Ten people survived the tornado in Fubbler's Cove basement, including employees and neighbors who had nowhere else safe to go.
The family is now focused on rebuilding.
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The Dambusters: Fred meets a wartime legend
Next month we'll be marking one of the most famous raids in wartime history and a group of legendary airmen known as The Dambusters.
In 1943 this specially-formed unit under commander Guy Gibson attacked a series of dams in Germany in a bid to cripple the Nazi war effort, using an ingenious bomb designed to bounce along the water - a bomb tested off the coast of Kent and Dorset.
Well 70 years on there are only three Dambusters still surviving and only one in this country. His name is George ''Johnny'' Johnson.


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Don't Go Broke 'Gradually, Then Suddenly'
NEW YORK (BankingMyWay) -- In Ernest Hemingway's 1920s novel "The Sun Also Rises," the character Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. "Two ways," he answers, "Gradually and then suddenly."
If things keep going as they have been, that could happen to a lot of Americans over the next few years.
Two current news items make Hemingway's 1920s relevant today. First, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the typical American household's income has fallen to the lowest level since the late 1990s, continuing a four-year decline. Adjusted for inflation, average income is about $50,000 a year, nearly 9% less than in 1999.
In the second item, the Labor Department reported that in August wholesale prices had the largest one-month gain in more than three years, suggesting that higher inflation could be on the way.Both trends would seem to be gradual, with the damage mounting slowly over the years. But the effects can snowball quickly. To understand that, turn to another bestseller, Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference." Many changes, says Gladwell, happen gradually, then suddenly. A pot of water on the stove gradually gets hotter, then suddenly leaps into a boil. A virus gradually moves through a city, then suddenly becomes an epidemic. The same thing can happen with savings and investments. As wages gradually decline, people put less aside. And as costs rise, the money they save is worth less and less. As a result, more people retire with inadequate nest eggs. So, instead of spending their early retirement years living off their annual investment income, they must start spending principal, the nest egg that should produce those earnings and which, ideally, should be untouched for the first 10 or 15 years of retirement. As the principal gets smaller, the earnings shrink, forcing the retirees to take more from principal in the years that follow. The vicious cycle speeds up, until all the money is gone -- years ahead of schedule. The BankingMyWay Retirement Income Calculator shows the problem. If a 45-year old had $250,000 in savings earning 8% a year, put $10,000 aside every year, while inflation averaged 3%, she could retire at 65 with $4,603 in monthly income from her nest egg, which would last for 30 years. But if she started with the same $250,000, faced inflation of 5% and, because of a falling income, could save only $8,000 a year, she'd end up with just $2,947 a month. Of course, if she dug into her principal in order to spend $4,600 a month, she'd run out of money very quickly. In fact, if inflation were 5% instead of 3% in the 20 years before retirement, she'd have to spend even more than $4,600 a month to maintain her standard of living. Hopefully, things will not turn out this badly. If the economy strengthens, wages may start to rise. And, despite many dire predictions, inflation has been very modest for years -- in fact, in launching a third round of quantitative easing on Thursday, the Fed defended its policy in part by noting the lack of inflation resulting from previous QE programs, despite widespread criticism by Fed watchers in the past that QE policy would drive inflation too high. Still, the possibility of losing money "gradually and then suddenly" should not be taken lightly. The key to minimizing the damage is to spend less in order to save more, to avoid long-term financial traps like an overly large mortgage, and to preserve the option of working longer. Then, if your wages rise and inflation doesn't, you'll be ahead of the game -- perhaps able to retire early or live better after you do. --By Jeff Brown More on the American economy:
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