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November 7th Update
New Fumes, Linear Downfall, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Spaceface and The Flaming Lips' collaborative remake of "In the Court of the Crimson King" is available now on limited edition multi-color vinyl at Dallas' Good Records and will sell online and at more indie record shops in the near future. Titled "Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn," this new version of King Crimson's debut LP is also streaming in full at The Lips' satelliteheartradio.com. The original October 15th post is below with fuller updates in the tweets added at the bottom of this post.
Hey guys! we are trying to get the Playing Hide And Seek With The Ghost Of Dawn Vinyl and Tour Posters up for sale online ASAP! Love y'all!—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) November 07, 2012
"Working on King Crimson music is fun for all of us… The Linear Downfall tracks are awesomeness. Their stuff is fantastic!"
That's how Texas psych explorer Daniel Huffman recently described to The Future Heart working on his latest project: recording a full album remake of the 1969 psych-prog classic In The Court of The Crimson King alongside The Flaming Lips and like-minded artists.
In turn everyone seemed to agree Huffman's take on "I Talk To The Wind" is equally fantastic. By replacing the airy-fairy flutes of King Crimson's version with freak-out electronics — yet not straying far from its mellotron rich textures and serene mood — Huffman stays true to the spirit of the original while bringing its somewhat-dated arrangement into the 21st century.
Huffman – who plays under the stage name New Fumes – is no stranger to Lips fans. He played with them on tour and on their Fight Test EP a decade ago; he's hand-made all their limited edition multi-color vinyl for the past two years; he's a guest on their latest album, Heady Fwends; he's opened numerous of their shows; played their New Year Freak Out; and most recently performed various songs with them during their Guinness World Records setting 24 hour tour. Other "fwends" of the Lips recorded the album's remaining tracks: Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Linear Downfall, and Space Face.
At the start of last month Huffman released his version of "Moonchild" featuring Wayne Coyne as a free download album-teaser (streaming above). Officially billed as "New Fumes with The Flaming Lips," Huffman's epic re-imagination of the album's most free-spirited track is a companion to the version by Space Face that will appear on the album (below – fun idea: with two browsers play both versions at the same time)….
The full album – titled Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn - will be released in conjunction with a late-October-early-November-mini-tour. The heady brainchild of head Lip Wayne Coyne,its tracklist is below with cover art to the right.
1. Linear Downfall "21st Century Schizoid Man"
2. New Fumes "I Talk to the Wind"
3. Linear Downfall, Spaceface, Stardeathand White Dwarfs, and New Fumes with The Flaming Lips "Epitaph"
4. Spaceface "Moonchild"
5. Stardeath and White Dwarfs "In the Court of the Crimson King"
Linear Downfall urge all humans to attend their "Exploding the Moon a Million Times" tour "in support of a beautiful collaborative King Crimson tribute record that is being pressed as you read this!! Please come out and have an awesome time with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, New Fumes, Linear Downfall, and Spaceface! It's gonna be a fun night!"
Figuring out how to play some King Crimson live, by myself. Will 2013 see a band? instagr.am/p/Qvh5eNG3ru/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 14, 2012
The tour runs from a secret October 25th show in Oklahoma City through November 3rd in Lexington, Kentucky. Note the second show is opening for The Flaming Lips' free show at the OKC Zoo – this Halloween's "largest costume party in the midwest." Buy tickets to all other shows via the tweeted links below these official tour posters by Wayne Coyne and Oliver Hibert (with full tour schedule):
Cool new tour poster by @waynecoyne and Oliver Hibert!!! gonna be available at the shows!!! http://t.co/qhdUhgZv—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 10, 2012
The mystery show on Oct 25th is a mystery even to me. I have no information on it.—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 15, 2012
I just left a handful of free tix to the OKC Zoo #FreakNight at the Good Records counter in Dallas.
Go ask for them!—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 21, 2012
Here's a flyer for the show next Sunday at the Loft in Dallas! Tell your friends! instagr.am/p/RD6hm_m3n7/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 21, 2012
here is how to get tix for our Dallas show on Sunday the 28th!!! fb.me/1Rtj8k7a2—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 21, 2012
NEW SHOW: Stardeath and White Dwarfs / @NewFumes / @LinearDownfall / Spaceface at @Loft_Dallas // On Sale Now: tinyurl.com/9pf8fdx—
Spune Productions (@spunepro) October 10, 2012
Here is the event page for our Nashville show!!! DO IT! fb.me/R5gVQ5iY—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 17, 2012
If you live near Kentucky buy your tickets here!! fb.me/1WIIBL079—
Linear Downfall (@LinearDownfall) October 17, 2012
So, you might be wondering, how did this come to be???
At the start of this year The Flaming Lips recorded with Ke$ha in her hometown, Nashville. While there, K money took the band to her favorite local venue, the legendary dive bar Springwater (aka the scene of The Black Keys' latest video, "Little Black Submarine"). The band playing the club on that January night happened to be Linear Downfall. Taking a liking to them, the Lips invited Downfall to record in March at their Oklahoma studio, Pink Floor. When they arrived Wayne asked them to cover King Crimson heavy-psych-prog classic "21st Century Schizoid Man." Linear Downfall guitarist Chance Anthony Cook describes the scenario to The Future Heart: "It was crazy. Wayne told us do it and I didn't think we could but somehow we did because we were under the gun and were like, 'well, we better figure it out'…ha'"
Laying on the pink floor!!! Linear Downfall stayed up all night recording King Crimson cover!!! moby.to/qine1i—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) March 22, 2012
Unbeknownst to Linear Downfall, In the Court and is among Wayne Coyne's favorite music dating back to his '70s childhood, especially "21st Century." "From the first time I heard ['21st Century Schizoid Man'] I just thought that was a fuckin' wicked druggy, futuristic song," is how Coyne described it in his list of "10 Psychedelic Albums To Blow Your Mind" in the recent "Acid Test"-themed issue of Clash magazine.
In Coyne's opinion, "It's just a menacing, evil, but very fucking tripped-out seven minutes of music. It feels like it's music from another dimension. When I say 'psychedelic' that's what I mean: something bad is lurking as well – we're not just free to be ourselves. Once we become ourselves there's some danger lurking, there's some fear. Sometimes what's great about music is you kinda know what's going to happen before it happens. But sometimes what's great about music is you can't know why it's happening. And it's pulling you in – not because you're confused, it's just you're intrigued because you can't quite know why this is happening. We don't alway want to know when we turn a corner what's going to happen there."
For years Wayne has praised the song and the album it opens – he even ripped the LP cover for a 1985 Flaming Lips concert poster (above left) and has been known to rock out to it on long car drives (below):
Downfall were not huge King Crimson fans at the time, nor could they make sense of Coyne's request.
Cook: "He said he really liked that [King Crimson] album… I guess it's just one of those random cool Wayne ideas… I heard the album briefly before. I love that album now…. Recording at Pink Floor was awesome. Wayne pretty much gave us full reign to do whatever and we recorded "21st…", and three originals: "Brain Damage for Breakfast", "Mama J Saves the Day", and "Wasp Song" (we wrote "Wasp Song" there… based on the wasp synth Sean Lennon gave them). It was very inspiring being there and the energy was crazy… we could hear the squirrels chewing on the wires in the ceiling."
In case you're wondering about that last comment, yes "literal squirrels… It was just us, Mack [Hawkins, engineer] and the Peacocks outside… Wayne was only there for like a few hours."
That was just the beginning.
In June The Lips live debuted their own version of "21st Century…" with Deerhoof at a special show for the centennial of Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas (Kliph Scurlock's hometown). The following week the Lips tapped Linear Downfall to open the Baton Rouge show of their Guiness World Record-setting "24 Hour Tour" and had Downfall join them on "21st Century" in Deerhoof's place (vocalist Charlee Cook – Chance's sister – shared lead vocals with Wayne).
Over the summer Coyne pursued an idea he had previously only been thinking about: recording a new version of King Crimson's entire debut album with friends. Stardeath and White Dwarfs took on the title-track, and from here things started to take shape. Coyne explained in the September 2012 issue of Uncut magazine, Linear Downfall "stopped by my studio and we did a phenomenal version of "21st Century Schizoid Man." And another group [Stardeath] stopped by and we did the title track. So I thought, there's only five songs on the album, maybe we'll just fill in the gaps and release it."
At around the same time, New Fumes, Linear Downfall, Stardeath and Space Face were planning a tour to play the Crimson LP live along with their original music. According to Chance the intention was "early to mid-October." That plan was delayed when Stardeath's bassist Casey Joseph seriously injured his hand, but by that point it had already fused with the tribute album idea. According to New Fumes, "that's when Wayne said 'let's just use these bands to do it.'"
In August Wayne explained to mxdwn: "[The Flaming Lips] hinted around that we should just do the whole record kind of like we did with Dark Side of the Moon, with a variety of groups. This started to happen, I thought, "Why don't we do it with these groups? [Stardeath and the White Dwarves, Linear Downfall, New Fumes and Space Face] All these groups are good and they can all add something to it, and they all like that record." Yeah, that's exactly what's happening."
The King Crimson tribute album became Coyne's new pet project. Aside from essentially being its curator and executive producer, Wayne sings with Linear Downfall on the LP's climax piece, "Epitaph" – which also features Steven Drozd (Chance: "All this shit is just crazy. We waited ten hours at Bonnaroo to see them now we are recording with them??!!"). Wayne also documented the entire process on twitter, from the first recordings to creating the tour posters:
Wicked cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man happenin right now!! moby.to/z1ttnv—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) March 22, 2012
One million clicks… Makin Stardeath, New Fume, Linear Downfall, and Space Face poster twitvid.com/PRMQO—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 09, 2012
Cool new poster for Bunch of Freaks Playing Strange New Music USA tour.. moby.to/zmqh36—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 09, 2012
An example of how Coyne directed these sessions is the free "Moonchild" download (discussed and streaming above). Originally it was all New Fumes and just a few minutes long. Then Wayne added a lead vocal and requested Huffman add an extended, trippy ending – ala the 1969 version. New Fumes quadrupled the track's length and perfected the mix with input from Coyne. When the vocal blend was right, they released it for free.
An obvious comparison to this project is The Lips' full LP cover of Dark Side of the Moon with Stardeath (and a little help from "fwends" Peaches and Henry Rollins). But unlike that album – originally issued as an iTunes exclusive in 2009, then physically for Record Store Day 2010 – this isn't a Flaming Lips production. It's more a way for Wayne to have some fun recording and create a new version of an album he's long cherished, so he can hear it anew. And Coyne isn't done: there's rumors of other classic psych albums done like this as well.
Yes, read that last sentence over again and let it set in.
As with most Flaming Lips-related projects of the last couple years, In The Court of The Crimson King has been created at a rapid pace. New Fumes' began tackling "I Talk to the Wind" on August 16th in his Texas "Dome" home. By August 24th he was in Oklahoma finishing the track with Wayne. All but one song had been completed and mixed by the start of September. There was no master-plan – each of the bands simply explored where King Crimson's tunes could go, feeding off Coyne's unpredictable, spontaneous energy. As Chance puts it, "Wayne is very much, so in the moment. For instance when we recorded with him and Steven it was literally him walking in the door and saying so what we're gonna do is go ahead and start on "Epitaph" and we were like sounds good to me. Charlee actually was on a break from work and just didn't go back and took a write up so we could record."
Hot off the press- Poster collab with @waynecoyne for "A Bunch of Freaks Playing Strange New Music" USA Tour instagr.am/p/RI8iw_iFcp/—
Oliver Hibert (@OliverHibert) October 23, 2012
Huffman pressed the limited edition vinyl on October 22nd and 23rd for its "secret" record release on the 25th. Additional updates from the tour that followed and how you can purchase the record have come via the tweets added below. Follow updates at twitter/LinearDownfall, facebook/lineardownfall, facebook.com/newfumes, twitter/NewFumes, twitter/SpaceyFaces, facebook/StardeathAndWhiteDwarfs and twitter/STARDEATHontour.
Each multi-color vinyl copy of Playing Hide and Seek is a one of kind creation by Huffman:
Experimenting with "fluorescent" vinyl for this "Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn" record. instagr.am/p/RFoiR7m3qc/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 22, 2012
Fluorescent Vinyl is not easily captured with iPhone cam. "Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn" instagr.am/p/RFzFx3G3hR/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 22, 2012
Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn instagr.am/p/RGN7BQm3iC/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 22, 2012
This is one of my favorites so far… instagr.am/p/RF2UQoG3jI/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 22, 2012
Transparent "fluorescent" psychedelic vinyl. Camera does not capture the true colors. #PlayingHideAndSeekWit instagr.am/p/RGbOORG3uv/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 22, 2012
@NewFumes God damn, dude. Them records look fucking gorgeous!—
Kliph Scurlock (@KliphScurlock) October 22, 2012
Trying out this Florescent vinyl today was fun! Thanks @robotgas for letting me use your makeshift light tab instagr.am/p/RGmWsuG3nu/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 22, 2012
Hey @lineardownfall @stardeathontour @normaldaze theflaminglips , great job y'all!!! It sounds bad ass! My instagr.am/p/RG4kj2G3oD/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 23, 2012
Back at A&R, making these King Crimson cover albums. Should finish up today! instagr.am/p/RIECqeG3mz/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 23, 2012
These records are done!!! http://t.co/czIBkxwB—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 23, 2012
telly.com/HGJ1T – Yo @lineardownfall @theflaminglips cool looking special pressing! #PlayingHideAndSeekWithTheGhostsOfDawn—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 23, 2012
Fluorescent records looking good in their packaging!!! #PlayingHideAndSeekWithTheGhostsOfDawn instagr.am/p/RLdwepm3iA/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 24, 2012
Getting really excited about this!!! http://t.co/oxUOGQsL—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 15, 2012
and this!!! http://t.co/SvqgXkaO—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 15, 2012
4 weirdo bands do their own version of classic Kjng Crimson album!! moby.to/lcczeh moby.to/x0bbhh moby.to/look7a—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 24, 2012
We will announce all the details about tomorrow's OKC secret show later this afternoon! so stay tuned in to Facebook or Twitter!—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 24, 2012
Stuffin these records with @NewFumes tellin ghost stories!! scared and excited at the same time twitpic.com/b757k6 twitpic.com/b757kn—
Jake Ingalls (@spaceyfaces) October 25, 2012
Tomorrows secret show is at THE HILO! 1221 Northwest 50th Street. $3. +21. YES! SEE YA THERE! @NewFumes @lineardownfall @spaceface—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 25, 2012
Here's the story on this record
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 25, 2012
FREAK NIGHT PRE-PARTY! Tonight (oct 25) at The HiLo OKC! @STARDEATHontour @NewFumes @LinearDownfall and Spaceface! get there early! $3 +21—
matt duckworth (@ROCKworth) October 25, 2012
FREAK NIGHT PRE-PARTY! Tonight at the HiLo! @STARDEATHontour @NewFumes @LinearDownfall and Spaceface! get there early! $3 +21—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 25, 2012
Detail of Freak Night poster by @zacharyancox instagr.am/p/RNWYI4m3ly/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 25, 2012
Cool posters got printed for tomorrow night's show! By @zacharyancox instagr.am/p/RNV4vom3le/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 25, 2012
There will be 20 of these for sale at the show at the HiLo tonight. King Crimson cover album @lineardownfall instagr.am/p/RN75RAm3vK/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 25, 2012
AH!!! Tonight at The HiLo! @STARDEATHontour @NewFumes @LinearDownfall and SPACEFACE! Early show 9:30 $3 +21 DO IT!!!!!!!!!—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 25, 2012
Spaceface is on!!! Get to the HiLo! instagr.am/p/ROsSyJSL00/—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 26, 2012
@denniscoyne and @newfumes backstage, checkin out Spaceface at the Hilo!!! Get up here!!! instagr.am/p/ROxAXzNSKJ/—
matt duckworth (@ROCKworth) October 26, 2012
HiLo is crazy! @linearDownfall in killin!! instagr.am/p/ROy19byL6Q/—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 26, 2012
We just blew the power at The HiLo!!—
Ford Chastain (@fordchastain) October 26, 2012
Fun party tonight at the HiLo! @stardeathontour was epic. @lineardownfall schooled us all instagr.am/p/RPQ0vTG3u1/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 26, 2012
Gonna be radical show tomorrow night !!!!!! Dress up motherfuckers!!! telly.com/HOEMK—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 26, 2012
On the news this morning will @amanchor !!! Thanks everyone Sorry I was late!!!! moby.to/9limb6—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 26, 2012
Great intense rehearsal last night!!! telly.com/QO39E—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 26, 2012
Mega chrome cape motherfuckers!!!come on!!! Freak Night Tonight!! telly.com/ONUOL—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 26, 2012
New Fumes is 1 of a kind @newfumes 👽 @ Zoo Amphitheatre instagr.am/p/RRJjFPg64G/—
Mary Beth Babcock (@marybethbabcock) October 27, 2012
Neil Young, @deerhoof & Tame Impala in pre-set playlist @theflaminglips freak night… @KliphScurlock curated, for sure!—
Jennifer Sowell (@skeeloco) October 27, 2012
Oh yeah!!!! Cool shit happenin at the Zoo!!! telly.com/PPEAM—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 26, 2012
Space girl in a space bubble at the OKC Zoo instagr.am/p/RRXiRwG3jp/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 27, 2012
Bring your ticket stub to the BLUENOTE after the show and get a free FLAMING LIPS specialty shot!!!!!—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 27, 2012
Headin to VZd's!! Then Blue Note !!!! Crazy fuckin show!! Bubble WOMAN!! WTF!!!ha ha!! moby.to/hhym2v moby.to/d7bwkx—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 27, 2012
where's the after party? I'm almost done working—
(@zacharyancox) October 27, 2012
Blue note, vzds, other room. All in 30 mins:)—
matt duckworth (@ROCKworth) October 27, 2012
Check out a few photos of @theflaminglips and @stardeathontour form last night Freak Night at the @zooamp. flickr.com/photos/poppes/…—
Nathan Poppe (@NathanPoppe) October 27, 2012
Freak Night dancers doing the MJ instagr.am/p/RTIAitkTrl/—
(@zacharyancox) October 27, 2012
In pink floor w Spaceface and Linear Downfall. Only one person at a time in the studio. One take one track a instagr.am/p/RT43gkG3ml/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 28, 2012
LOVE PIT AT THE WOMB!!!!!! twitpic.com/b8alho—
Womb (@WombGallery) October 28, 2012
Thank you OKC!!!! Freak Night was Magical !!!! moby.to/zrsei4 moby.to/12eizm moby.to/kmp2yp—
Wayne Coyne (@waynecoyne) October 28, 2012
Okay Dallas, you must come see my friends @LinearDownfall play tonight. Very awesome band from Nashville.
@STARDEATHontour is playing too!!!—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 28, 2012
Having breakfast with @waynecoyne … He's showing us his fucked up leg. instagr.am/p/RViz6em3jQ/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 28, 2012
DALLAS TONIGHT! @STARDEATHontour @NewFumes @LinearDownfall and Spaceface! At The Loft, 1135 S Lamar St. Doors at 7. show at 8.—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 28, 2012
Off to Dallas to open up the show at the Loft!! With @LinearDownfall @NewFumes and @STARDEATHontour twitpic.com/b8apgi—
Jake Ingalls (@spaceyfaces) October 28, 2012
Just had lunch with @waynecoyne and @NewFumes so yummy!! Thanks Wayne!! http://t.co/bTAHXA0A—
Linear Downfall (@LinearDownfall) October 28, 2012
Linear Downfall in Dallas! Wicked!!! instagr.am/p/RWgtHRtSFJ/—
matt duckworth (@ROCKworth) October 29, 2012
A message from @waynecoyne and @LinearDownfall
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 29, 2012
telly.com/QDYZV – The Love Pit and @lineardownfall taking over Caesar's 24 hr tacos in Dallas!!!—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) October 29, 2012
A nice wrap up on Freak Night!!! newsok.com/flaming-lips-f…—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 30, 2012
Don't forget! Thursday in Memphis, Friday in Nashville, and Saturday in Lexington! We are super excited!!!—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) October 30, 2012
Going to Memphis first thing in the morning. Taking this dude to see his friends @lineardownfall instagr.am/p/ReZe_JG3qZ/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) November 01, 2012
It's All Saint's Day!!Come to the hi-tone and get blasphemous with us @STARDEATHontour @NewFumes and @LinearDownfall !! twitpic.com/b9eu2b—
Jake Ingalls (@spaceyfaces) November 01, 2012
Rollin to Memphis! We at the Hi-Tone tonight! @STARDEATHontour @STARDEATHontour instagr.am/p/RgEkCItSJX/—
matt duckworth (@ROCKworth) November 01, 2012
Memphis!!! I'm playing at the Hi-Tone tonight w @STARDEATHontour @LinearDownfall and @spaceyfaces—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) November 01, 2012
Memphis! Get to the Hi-Tone!!! @newfumes bout to go on! @STARDEATHontour on next! instagr.am/p/Rgw9IBSL-k/—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) November 02, 2012
Hangover jam at the Spaceface house!!! @STARDEATHontour instagr.am/p/RiV3U-yL2Y/—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) November 02, 2012
Space girl with fornicating elephant jewelry! Nashville! instagr.am/p/RjQnL3m3vn/—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) November 03, 2012
We made it! Our van broke down today:( but don't fret… We just made it to Nashville! @newfumes on now! instagr.am/p/Rjk5ZXyL8Y/—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) November 03, 2012
Thanks to everyone for coming out to the shows this week! We love y'all so much, and we can't wait for you to… fb.me/2dmeAXTjJ—
STARDEATH (@STARDEATHontour) November 04, 2012
You can stream the King Crimson cover album we did at satelliteheartradio.com
@theflaminglips @STARDEATHontour @LinearDownfall @spaceyfaces—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) November 04, 2012
I'll have a few King Crimson cover albums with me tonight at the Loft if anybody wants one. http://t.co/NUv11TFY—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) November 06, 2012
Just dropped a few King Crimson cover albums off at Good Records in Dallas! http://t.co/1apxQOsk—
Daniel huffman (@NewFumes) November 08, 2012


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(SportsNetwork.com) - After playing for nine teams in 16 major league seasons, most recently for the Los Angeles Dodgers, longtime utility man Jerry Hairston Jr. said Wednesday he is retiring.
Hairston announced his retirement on Twitter, saying he decided it was his "best opportunity."
"Game will not miss me but I will miss it and (my) teammates immensely!" he wrote.
Hairston, 37, broke into the majors with Baltimore in 1998 and played parts of seven seasons for the Orioles. He also appeared in games for the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers and Dodgers.
He played every position except catcher and pitcher, making more appearances at second base than anywhere else, and won a World Series with the Yankees in 2009.
Hairston was a .257 career hitter with 70 home runs, 233 doubles, 420 RBI and a .324 on-base percentage in 1,442 games.
He signed a two-year, $6 million deal with the Dodgers in December 2011 and made over $21.2 million in his career.
According to a report, Hairston signed a deal to be an analyst for Dodgers games.
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The Great Falls Fire Department is warning residents of a scam that is using their name and asking locals to donate money for charity. The Montana State Fire Chiefs Association says people across Montana need to be on the look out for scams using the names of local Firefighter Stations.the association was made aware of a scam asking Montana residences to mail in donations for charity to an address in Milwaukee after a relative of a Montana fire fighter received the solicitation.
"When your giving to a charity with the Great Falls Fire Department, is going to give your donations. You will be giving it right to a Firefighter from Great Falls who will then, you know then we give it to the charity at the end of the event," explains Battalion Chief, Jamie Jackson.
To help keep the public from getting confused or worse falling victim to a scam, the Great Falls Firefighters say they fund raise in person, never by mail, phone or online.


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With the creeper missing two limbs, "DD" holds the Creeper at bay, but when it looks like the Creeper is about to win, the farmer appears out of nowhere shoots a spear into the creeper's head, and then stabs him around ten times with the knife the creeper used on his son. Cut to 23 years later, the older son has turned the Creeper into a tourist attraction. Inside the barn, the farmer is sitting in a chair next to his harpoon launcher waiting for the creeper to wake up in a few days.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
On Hiatus Until Fall
Sunday, March 03, 2013
What if you didn't have to guess?
As my friend Rick Lester says, "prayer should not be a marketing strategy." On this blog, I've written several times about the importance of using data to make decisions. Often times companies have years of transactional data that can be invaluable when developing strategy for future campaigns. That said, I've somewhat neglected another important tool that I've used throughout my career to help guide decision-making - market research. Combined, market research and data analysis form a formidable team. One should not be chosen over the other, but they should be used in tandem, and if done so, the need to guess is almost virtually eliminated.
Data analysis is best used to help inform future operating decisions that closely align with past performance. For example, when rescaling a house, marketers can be relatively certain which seating sections can withstand a price increase by analyzing sales patterns and looking for sections that are in constantly high demand. We can also tell which households are most likely to subscribe and what package and price point to pitch based upon their interactions with us. But what happens when you are faced with the unknown? Over the years at Arena Stage, I've been faced with challenges that have very few, if any, precedents. There wasn't any data to pull from, either internally or from other companies. We were in uncharted waters. And that's when market research became critical.
Since moving to Washington, DC seven years ago, both at Americans for the Arts and Arena Stage, I've depended on the wise counsel of Mark Shugoll, CEO of Shugoll Research. Throughout the years, Shugoll Research has conducted many studies that have helped inform my decision-making, and below are just a couple of instances where market research was invaluable:
Arena Restaged. In January 2008, Arena Stage moved from its SW DC home into two temporary locations - a theater in the basement of a Marriott in Arlington, VA and the Lincoln Theatre in NW DC on U Street. We would remain in these temporary locations for two years and eight months while the Mead Center for American Theater was built. During that time, we had to minimize patron attrition caused by the move, and work to grow our audience base, as the new building would require a significantly increased patron base. I searched the country for a good precedent to learn from, but not a single one surfaced. Feeling on our own, I turned to Shugoll Research to help map out a strategy. I wanted to know what barriers existed for our patrons in moving to our temporary locations. What would motivate them to stay with us through the construction years? What competitive advantages existed at our temporary locations that were good selling points? How we could make the move less onerous? We tested messaging, sales strategies and tactics. From that, I learned a great many things. I learned that if our patrons got lost on their first trip to our new theaters, they wouldn't return. I learned that we had to make sure that parking and public transportation was readily available. I learned that dining options were incredibly important. From this, I spent months on signage plans. With the Crystal City Business Improvement District, we installed more than 100 new directional signs within a two mile radius of our temporary theater in Virginia. In coordination with the MidCity Business Association, we aggressively marketed the restaurants on U street and offered valet parking for every performance, as the neighborhood had very few parking options. We sent out personalized websites to each of our subscribers which among other things offered up step-by-step directions from their house to the new theaters. For these efforts, Arena Stage was recognized with the Box Office of the Year Award from INTIX and the Helen Hayes' Washington Post Award for Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community. More importantly, we were budgeted to experience 7% attrition during the move and only realized 1.9% - and it all started with market research.
Branding. Forget the high gloss, four color brochures that list your mission statement and vision. We all know that our brands, regardless of what we say, actually live in the minds and hearts of our customers. Over the years, I've almost always found a disconnect between what an institution thinks their brand is and what their customers view their brand as being. In 2008, Shugoll Research conducted a series of brand focus groups for Arena Stage. Only two years later, we would be opening the Mead Center for American Theater, so as a new marketing director, I wanted to test the current state of our brand before launching a rebranding campaign repositioning Arena Stage as a national center for American theater. Inside the company, it was clear to most at the time that Arena Stage was a home for American voices, something that Molly Smith had focused on since coming to Arena Stage in 1998. But when tested in focus groups, less than 20% of our subscribers and donors knew that we focused on American voices, and almost none of the single ticket buyers. We had to be much more aggressive in marketing our brand, so we developed a tag line ("Where American Theater Lives"), commissioned a series of spotlight articles on the American voices in each season, developed a new color palette which was a play off of red, white and blue, and eventually put the word "American" in our new logo and name. Two years later, we retested and found that more than 80% of those asked knew our American focus.
Customer Service. As I've written about previously, I view customer service as a very valuable competitive advantage. So, how is your organization doing? Beyond diligently tracking and responding to complaints, what are you doing to monitor customer satisfaction? We've hired Shugoll Research to develop and deploy customer satisfaction surveys, and benchmark us against peer organizations and ourselves for the past several years. I'm proud to report that we've received "industry leader" marks every year since 2008. But more importantly, each year we learn where we can improve, and we know where we should invest time and resources to improve our customers' experience. For example, in our first year in the new building, we received exceptionally high marks for our parking lot; we were delighted to see that our parking attendants were routinely going above and beyond to take care of our patrons. And the patrons noticed. That said, some of our elderly patrons reported that it was a challenge to walk up the ramp from the parking garage to the main lobby. So we responded by offering valet parking at the same price as standard parking for those who needed some extra assistance.
Pricing. We spend a lot of time discussing pricing at Arena Stage. As marketers, we want to devise strategies that keep our institutions accessible to our communities all while developing price points that lead to sold-out houses. Get too aggressive with your prices, and your percent paid capacities will drop (hence why the Metropolitan Opera announced that it would be lowering prices next year). But if your prices are too low, then you are leaving money on the table, something that most non-profit arts organizations can't afford to do in today's economic climate. So are you charging the right price for the right seat at the right time? To help us navigate pricing, we sought the assistance of TRGArts and Shugoll Research. TRGArts created heat maps, advised us on the rescaling of our halls, and analyzed sales data to determine optimal price points. Shugoll Research conducted focus groups and surveys to determine price elasticity, and to procure feedback from customers. Did our patrons think we were over-priced? would they be willing to pay more for certain dates/times? what could we do to make our pricing more attractive to our patron base? One of the most interesting questions we ask is how satisfied patrons are with the value we provide. Each year we ask the question, our satisfaction ratings on value are in the "industry leader" range indicating that customers perceive that they are getting good value for the money they spend on a ticket. Something every marketing director loves to hear.
The days of reading tea leaves, consulting the gods, and leaping into the unknown are over. A healthy combination of data analysis and market research allow modern day marketers to make informed strategic decisions. I for one am thankful, as I've never been particularly lucky when it comes to guessing. In decades past, I know I would have been fired.
Sunday, February 03, 2013
The Subscription Equation (and other tactics)
And if you don't already, find ways to thank your subscribers throughout the year. For example, there is a theater on the west coast that partners with a winery each year to give their subscribers a free bottle of wine when they renew their subscriptions as a way of thanking them for their support.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
I have a hit! Should I extend?
So, now you have a hit on your hands, and you know you have to strike while the iron is hot. Sometimes hit productions can be few and far between, so what you do next could make or break your season. When a hit does occur, many entrepreneurially minded non-profit producers start to consider an extension to their previously announced runs. Before announcing an extension, here are a couple of things you should consider:
[note to reader: I chose to use relatively large round numbers as the arithmetic is easier, and they illustrate arguments in a more succinct manner. These concepts are easily scalable for smaller or larger houses.]
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Is Your Organization Fun?
I attended a session entitled "The Curated Arts Experience" featuring Ceci Dadisman, Deeksha Gaur and Nella Vera. During this session, Nella started talking about something really fundamental – having fun. She gave several great examples of organizations that went out of their way to create fun and memorable experiences for their audiences. Immediately prior, we were treated to a lunch session featuring cdza, a trio of guys who create musical experiments. With their experiments, they make classical music fun and accessible, and in doing so have millions of viewers worldwide. I have to wonder how many people have been introduced to classical music via their performances?
Cdza's success is really pretty simple:
Sunday, October 21, 2012
The Plight of the Newspaper (and Preparing for the Future)
Just recently the theater world received news that veteran Philadelphia Inquirer arts writer and critic Howard Shapiro, after 42 years with the paper, was reassigned to cover South New Jersey in what seemed like an attempt to make him miserable enough to leave. And it looks like it worked.
Every great arts city has a great newspaper. Every great theater town, a well respected critic. If your city is affected by cuts to arts coverage, let your voice be heard. Activate your bases. Support outlets with extensive arts coverage with your advertising dollars. That said, I advise non-profit arts organizations to prepare themselves for the possibility that their local newspaper could go out of business. Cultivate relationships with bloggers, social media mavens and other influentials in your community. Develop online communities where your audiences can speak to one another. Produce and distribute original content yourself. Diversify your advertising strategies. Budget resources to grow your database. Hopefully these efforts will be for naught, but if the day comes that your local newspaper declares bankruptcy, you'll be better prepared.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Good Intentions Can Interfere with Success
But, artists and arts administrators are a resilient bunch. One of our strengths is our never say die attitude. We confront each challenge head on in a "show must go on" fashion. We are inherently hard working. To make it in this field requires years of rebounding from rejection. When the going gets tough, we redouble our efforts.
After years of struggle, the fight in us undoubtedly begins to wane, as we contemplate the permanency of the current climate. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing. In moments of crisis, we ring the alarm and all hands arrive on deck to face the upcoming challenge, but this response is unsustainable for years on end. After downsizing, one human being can only do the work of three for so long before collapse. Our initial reaction of working stronger, harder and faster must give way to working smarter.
In the past few months, I've seen a couple of instances where hard working marketing departments, desperate to keep their heads above water, were working well beyond capacity, but were resistant to taking measures to improve efficiency for fear that if they took any time away from their current tasks, they would risk imminent financial peril. All while knowing that the current situation was unsustainable, they continued each day just like the prior, hoping that the financial climate would improve before they hit the point of exhaustion.
But for those already at the point of exhaustion, I'd like to offer up a few quick suggestions to improve efficiency in hopes of lightening the load:
Maximize Success to Minimize Risk. Often times marketing departments get into trouble when they have one business line or product performing very well, and a couple of others underperforming. Our natural instinct is to abandon the overperforming product in order to focus our attention on improving the underperforming others. Please don't do this. If you are understaffed and under-resourced (and who isn't), where and how you use your limited resources is incredibly important. If you reappropriate resources to aid underperforming products, at best you will most likely see minimal results, whereas if you applied your resources to the overperforming products, your returns could be exponentially better. High tech firms have built incredibly successful business models off of failure. They expect a very high percent of their products in development to fail, banking on the revenues from the one or two that will take off. And when a product does hit, the entire efforts of the company are focused on maximizing results. A good rule of thumb - spend 75% of your efforts on improving the results on overperforming products, and 25% on improving underperformance. All too often, we do the opposite, thinking that helping struggling products is what is best for the organization.
Analysis & Measurement, Before Action. Just a few weeks ago, I was in a meeting with a senior marketing executive in charge of a sizable national advertising campaign. He had a hunch that he was under-promoting a certain section of his business in the New York market, and had set aside a significant amount of money to test a new print campaign in New York dailies. When I understood what he was trying to accomplish, I asked him how he would measure success. He responded by saying that it was very hard to measure the exact outcomes of his new campaign, and besides, with his reduced staff and resources, he was doing his best just to get the campaign done and out the door. This is a common occurrence. When resources are cut, one of the first things to go is analysis, tracking, reporting and measurement. But when looking to work smarter, the one thing you need is what you have just cut. Before launching any major marketing campaign, make sure you have the tools in place to track results, analyze sales and measure success. Over the years, I have had more than one staff member get frustrated with me when I asked them to set aside the time they would normally spend promoting a production in order to create more sophisticated reporting tools. But without clear and reliable data, your campaigns will never improve, and if you do see an uptick, you won't be able to replicate what worked.
Don't Save Your Way to Trouble. Several months ago, I visited a client that was deep into their subscription campaign. The campaign was going well, but the company was financially struggling for other reasons. The marketing director, being incredibly conscientious, thought that every dollar saved, was a dollar earned for the company, and started to decrease the amount of money he spent on his subscription campaign in order to come significantly under his budgeted expenses. He wanted to save, and give back the money in order to help the company. His intentions were admirable, but his plan would have placed the company in an even worse financial position. His cost of sales reports were showing that for every dollar he spent on the subscription campaign, he was selling five dollars worth of subscriptions. This wasn't the time to under-invest, in fact, this was the perfect opportunity to spend more if cash flow allowed. If your cost of sale is below $1, for every dollar you don't spend, you place your company at additional risk. You only want to consider cutting your marketing expenses if your campaigns are resulting in negative net revenue, and even then, it is risky if you are cutting acquisitions.
Sometimes working smarter means doing the opposite of what's intuitive. Have the courage to challenge systems, the ability to measure results and the good fortune to discover efficiencies.


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Can the Tigers survive a Hurricane attack? Unfortunately, not this year.
There is a legend taking the floor Thursday against Butler, and his name is Mike Muscala. No player may have ever been more valuable than the Moose, and he will be the difference against the Bulldogs.
The Hilltoppers streaked their way to the Sun Belt's conference auto-bid into the tournament, but that is about as far as their talent can take them when they draw a team of Kansas' caliber.
I understand that most normal people only start paying attention to college basketball now, after the season is over and before the NCAA Tournament begins. They need help filling out their brackets! (Can you sense the Valley Girl voice and the sarcasm there?) Anyway, ESPN gives you 10 players from mid-major teams that you should already know by now. If you don't, well, you haven't been reading here enough.
The Crimson are talented thanks to Tommy Amaker's recruiting, but not talented enough to keep up with the New Mexico Lobos for a full contest
The Gaels used size and an efficient offense to prevent MTSU from gaining any momentum on transition buckets, and will now move on to face Memphis in the second round.
The North Carolina A&T Aggies advance to the second round to face Louisville after withstanding a Liberty charge in Dayton. And of course, there was a missed shot at the buzzer.
The NCAA Tournament officially tips off in Dayton tonight. Join us on our open game thread as we break down the games, and talk about what each win means for the next team in the bracket.
It would appear that Pittsburgh, with a bigger, more physical lineup, would have the edge between these two talented and underrated squads. But there is an X Factor looming...
The 15-versus-2 matchup in the NCAA Tournament doesn't typically produce a number of upsets; the teams are usually seeded in these spots for reasons. However, that doesn't mean Albany can't upset...
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Monday people across the country honored Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. For one local man, the holiday is not only a day of remembrance for the civil rights leader, but also a day of reflection. Dr. Tom Carpenter is the Director of Education at St. Ambrose University and also a guest preacher at the AME Church in Davenport.
He is an ordinary man with an extraordinary story of courage and conviction. Carpenter grew up in New York City in the fifties and sixties, and from an early age he knew he wanted to help end discrimination and fight for equality.
"The summer I was 13 I hitch hiked down south to North Carolina and I was picketing the school board," said Dr. Carpenter.
Carpenter says even though he was beat up nearly everyday that summer, the experience helped fuel the fire inside him and was the start of a lifelong commitment to fighting for equality.
"These were terrible times and terrible things happened to African Americans, but I never lost sight that each of us has a personal responsibility to see what's wrong and try to fix it."
Even his wedding day to his first wife, who later passed away, was put on hold for the cause.
"We had planned for some time to get married on August 28th 1963 and when it was announced there would be this massive gathering in Washington D.C., I said well we are going to have to postpone our wedding."
Dr. King was at that gathering at the Lincoln Memorial and it's a moment Carpenter says he'll never forget.
"Not all speakers are magnetic and captivating and they were kind of dragging on and going on and on, and on until Dr. King got up to speak and he just galvanized everybody, you could hear a pin drop nobody was moving, we just all stopped and just listened."
Carpenter says it was one of many events he took part in. From the March on Selma to protests turned violent on the streets of New York City, he was there.
"There's a picture of me holding a bloody woman on the front page of the daily news in 1968 from those demos."
He says while it wasn't easy, the experiences he had and the people he met showed him just how powerful a person can be.
"It takes all of us to come together and support the kinds of things that will make a difference."
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Despite increasing deaths, the U.S. population as a whole continues to grow, boosted by immigration from abroad and relatively higher births among the mostly younger migrants from Mexico, Latin America and Asia.
"These counties are in a pretty steep downward spiral," said Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer and sociology professor at the University of New Hampshire, who researched the findings. "The young people leave and the older adults stay in place and age. Unless something dramatic changes — for instance, new development such as a meatpacking plant to attract young Hispanics — these areas are likely to have more and more natural decrease."
The areas of natural decrease stretch from industrial areas near Pittsburgh and Cleveland to the vineyards outside San Francisco to the rural areas of east Texas and the Great Plains. A common theme is a waning local economy, such as farming, mining or industrial areas. They also include some retirement communities in Florida, although many are cushioned by a steady flow of new retirees each year.
In the last year, Maine joined West Virginia as the only two entire states where deaths exceed births, which have dropped precipitously after the recent recession. As a nation, the U.S. population grew by just 0.75 percent last year, stuck at historically low levels not seen since 1937.
Johnson said the number of dying counties is rising not only because of fewer births but also increasing mortality as 70 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 move into their older years. "I expect natural decrease to remain high in the future," he said.
Among the 20 fastest-growing large metropolitan areas last year, 16 grew faster than in 2011 and most of them are located in previously growing parts of the Sun Belt or Mountain West. Among the slowest-growing or declining metropolitan areas, most are now doing worse than in 2011 and they are all located in the Northeast and Midwest.


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Sat, June 02, 2012
It is late Spring here at the winery. The vineyards and Olive Orchards have finished flowering and it looks to be a good size crop for both. We have set up to beehives in the back of the property and hope to have some honey by the fall. We also have a brand new Chicken Coop and nine chicks getting ready to move in. Eggs and Honey by fall. Our most recent extra virgin Olive Oil has been bottled and is tasting great.We are also producing really fantastic Olive Oil Soap (100% organic).
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Release Date: 2002 |
Album Rating: 5.0It just sounds like a lame wrestling name.
I need this. Grreat review.Digging: Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
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Unfortunate album title.
nice review fist
Album Rating: 3.0I really don't see anything special in this. It's just your typical alt/indie-rock album that gets duller and duller as it goes on. I mean there are some great songs on here like "These Days" and "Break Your Frame" as a whole this album is painfully average.
Album Rating: 4.5Unfortunate album title.
Its not really an unfortunate album title. Its in reference to a certain band member's alcohol addiction. That's why the next album is called "12 Small Steps, 1 Giant Disappointment"... because the system failed and the guy ended up killing himself.
As for the album itself, it is far beyond average. There are a lot of subtle things going on there, and an excellent atmosphere that's maintained.Digging: Nero Di Marte - Derivae
Unfortunate album title.
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Album Rating: 4.5This is a fitting review for the album.
Have you heard the acoustic version of "Single"? It's heartbreaking. How sick is that?
Album Rating: 4.0Joey Cape takes his sound from lagwagon and softens it a bit with more acoustic and overall more indie sound.
Turns out it still sounds pretty good!
Album Rating: 5.0One of my favorite albums ever. Simply perfect. If you like Bad Astronaut, check out Cape's new project with Thom Flowers (guitarist for BA), Afterburner.
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Album Rating: 4.5One of my favorite albums ever. Simply perfect. If you like Bad Astronaut, check out Cape's new project with Thom Flowers (guitarist for BA), Afterburner.
http://www.myspace.com/afterburnermusicAwesome. Thanks for that! I can't check it out at work, but as soon as I get home!
One of my favorite albums ever. Simply perfect. If you like Bad Astronaut, check out Cape's new project with Thom Flowers (guitarist for BA), Afterburner.
Album Rating: 4.5I checked out his new band, Afterburner. Its almost all acoustic and keyboards... I hope they inject some drums and some electric guitars back in to this new band.
I can't find this anywhere. Anyone know where I can find it?
Album Rating: 4.5I bought all three of their albums through the iTunes Music Store.
Album Rating: 4.5Strongly recommend you purchase them. Best way to do it is to order through Honest Don's on Fat Wreck. They're not exactly all over record stores. I did manage to find them on the net though...for a low price.
Album Rating: 5.0Or just go to Amazon. That's what I did.
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Album Rating: 5.0Way more people need to listen to this.
Great review, and a great album.
Album Rating: 5.0Been listening to this a lot lately. Album is just spectacular
Album Rating: 5.0Incredible album one of the best alt/indie albums I have ever heard.
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|Philadelphia Jan. 3. 1797
I recd Yesterday your favour of 23. of Decr. from Boston.
The old Patrioch has got a Name of Old Scrathum, or old Scratch or Some Such Oddity that will amuse the Blackguards for a time. Mrs Storers Verses are very shrewd
The Story of my Muleness, or Incapacity to talk, I almost wish were true.—On Some Occasions.
Dr Walters Politeness to be sure is con Spicuous. It is enough at present to think about Thorns under the Pillar of P. of U.S. at Philadelphia.
I wish you would find out whether Gardner did write Aurelius or not—and if not who did.
Those Reports which were so full of harm, which you Suppose came to my Ears, I knew not.
I have never been able to get sight of one of the hand Bills which were distributed in this City & state in such Numbers and at such an Expence. They carefully conceal them from me. All I have heard of, is one—which announced that if Jefferson was chosen he would keep open House and Table for all jolly Irish Hearts: whereas if Adams should be chosen he would live as close as Washington."
These continual Successions of Elections of P. Governors senators Representatives & every thing will get the whole People into an habit of Lying & fear.
Mr Jeffersons Letter to Mr Madison was Yesterday in the mouth of every one. It is considered as Evidence of his Determination to accept—of his Friendship for me—And of his Modesty and Moderation.
I had a Visit Yesterday from Mr De L'Etombe which I consider as an intended beginning of Intercourse. He disclaimed all Authority. it was a Visit of a Man, a Philosopher and an Acquaintance of Eighteen years. It was to assure & convince me that the Directory never had a thought of interfering in our Election, not a Wish to oppose me or impose any other &c. a long Conversation ensued, too long to relate now at length. I told him in Brief that I must Support the Courts taken of the United states, and the system of impartial Neutrality but if belligerent Powers, untill it should be other wise ordained by Congress—consistent with these Duties I should be allways friendly to the French. He went away professing to be well satisfied. Perhaps more of this may turn up.—I may give you a more particular detail of this Interview. Whether he was sent by others I knew not.


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The London Games are inspiring Keith Kaiser to compete in his own "Faux-lympics." He tried out the basics of gymnastics at SIGS Sportsplex in New Albany.
Keith tried his hand at vault, rythmic gymnastics, pommel horse, the rings and the high bar.
He was an old hand with the ribbon and hula hoop, but students at SIGS outshined him on the high bar and tumbling.
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By the early 20th century its medicinal value was linked to the presence of these vitamins. Today, it is used in the treatment of rickets and other diseases, and as an ingredient in animal feeds.
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It is always a joy for me to write about something that occurs in my life and that I wish to share with my readers.
Every Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., my friends and I have traveled to the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church at 7 Harris St., Newburyport, to enjoy the luncheon that is put on for anyone to enjoy. Only a small donation is suggested from those who can afford to give to the program.
This year the church celebrates the 20th anniversary of the lunch program and everyone is very excited about having a celebration at a Monday luncheon soon.
Many people are involved with this effort. Father Constantine Newman, whom I respect very highly, has been involved with Annunciation Church for several years and has performed many services that I've been fortunate enough to attend. I've been to funerals, Christmas Eve services, as well as going to many of the fundraising events that the church has held in Nicholson Hall, Yankee Homecoming, the fall craft and jewelry show, and have the privilege of helping the women serve on Mondays when they've been short of help.
Father Constantine, as he is known by his parishioners, has vast experience, plus he teaches at the University of New Hampshire along with his wife, who is a very gracious and caring woman. He certainly is an asset to the members of his parish. They both teach the "classics" to their students at UNH, and you can tell by his enthusiasm that he loves everything he does in his two careers. He earned his PhD at Johns Hopkins University and attended seminary at Holy Cross in Brookline. He is well trained, don't you agree?
The members and volunteers who every week serve, cook and visit with all their guests are the following: Don Argyrople, the overseer of the lunch program, who shops, sends recipes to members of the parish who contribute to the main meal, coordinates with Michael, who has been present in the kitchen every Monday for the past five years. Don's wife, Jill, worked with Don at the kitchen project for several years and now teaches Sunday school to the teenage members of the church. Michael Murphy is a faithful volunteer who has worked hard to coordinate the servers, getting the meal out on time and taking care of last-minute emergencies in the kitchen. He has been extremely dedicated and is very well loved by everyone who works with him. Peter Mamakos helps out at the kitchen every Monday. The wonderful women who are so faithful are Mary Dollas, Barb Carolan, Mary Clare Francis, Ann Peralta, Margaret Seaman, Helena Greene and Connie Mathieu. The enjoyment and sincere love that these volunteers show is pure dedication.


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Even if an elite journalist is actually committed to being fair, unless he actively fights to overcome the worldview of the vast majority of his colleagues, bias is going to creep into coverage. It's only natural since reporters are humans.
But what if we had a news media where you actually had questions which were contrary to the liberal Democrat worldview? Hard to imagine, granted, but our friends at Investor's Business Daily have done just that. Here are just a few that they would like to see asked of President Obama:
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There ain't no use re-hashing my thoughts about the team's performance last Sunday Night, but given that I have also got the unique perspective of being able to compare Marc Trestman's 2013 Chicago Bears to Marc Trestman's Montreal Alouettes, I thought I'd give that a try.
From the get go, I was skeptical about what kind of a match Trestman would be with the Bears. Not that I hate the man, but I wasn't sure he'd be the right fit in the Windy City, given the notorious rabidness and impatience of fans there (sounds familiar, all of a sudden). I famously committed the following contribution to Windy City Gridiron, as the Bears were kicking the tires on the old coach last January:
Since then, from this casual fan's account, it looked like the pre-season went like a charm for coach Trestman. My biggest doubt, his relationship with Jay Cutler, warranted little controversy. It did look like the Dour One would give the Trestman system a chance.
It's not like I had doubts that Trestman would find a way to adapt his system to his players. He successfully did that in Montreal when he got there, and got Anthony Calvillo, a mad bomber used to calling his own plays, to cut down on sacks behind an average line by going to 3-5 step drops and getting rid of the ball fast. AC turned that into two more Grey Cups and a HoF career.
In Chicago, Coach T's inherited an arguably worse OL, and from what I saw at the game, Jay Cutler mostly stuck to the early Montreal 2007 game plan. The run game was used to vary play calling, set up play action and screens; he tested the physical matchup of Marshall-Taylor, but did not insist. Whatever pressure the Steelers brought was mostly handled with quick plays or by stepping up into the pocket.
The most amusing part was to be able to call a few plays from the Montreal Alouettes playbook, just by looking at formations I could see very well from my upper end zone seat. It is trite to say that the CFL and NFL games are quite different, but I could tell that coach Trestman used the Canadian game as a mad experiment opportunity, and he was able to apply what could be applied to his own brand of West Coast offense once he got to Chicago.
All proportions kept, Marc Trestman appears to benefit from the same type of personel he inherited in 2007: shaky OL play, a good quarterback still with room to grow, a complete RB who can run, catch and block in Matt Forte, a big physical go-to WR in Brandon Marshall. All that remains to be seen is whether he'll be able to win a couple of championships with it.
Are the Bears ready to take the next step this year? I doubt that: their OL is still a shambles, and offensive depth is not what it should be. Provided he doesn't thinker with the defense, I could see the Bears giving the young Packers a run for their money for several more years, though.
Whether the FO will have the patience to stick with a coach who's not necessarily one of the good ol' boys network, if, for instance, the relationship with Cutler sours or the offense stalls in the cold months, is another matter entirely.
As for Bears fans, as long as he's winning, they'll overlook the fact that he's no gregarious Ditka, but rather a pro who expects his players to act as adult pros. Once that stops, it remains to be seen whether his intellectual appearance and apparent aloofness will have endeared him to Chicago.
I resisted the temptation to bring a sign that would have read "Coach T, we need you back in Montreal" - The Alouettes are mediocre for the first time in 11 seasons, but Montreal is in Marc Trestman's rear view mirror, and he's not looking back. Anyway, who can read signs way up in the bleachers, where even game light doesn't reach?


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When you can wind down by enjoying Rioja and tapas in a bar that stays open all night, is it any wonder that Spain has become so popular with ESL teachers?
But don't worry, despite the stiff competition for work, there are jobs available throughout the year, and our overseas partners are able to find help even if you have little or no ESL experience!
PLEASE NOTE: Due to popularity, all positions in Spain have been filled for 2009. Keep checking back for availability, or look at one of our other destinations.
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Details about i-to-i ESL jobs in Spain
Your monthly salary can be as much as $1640* per month, with positions available in Madrid and throughout Spain. You can choose from a short, 3-month contract or stay for 9 months and maybe longer if you decide to renew it. You'll only have to teach for 4 to 6 hours each day and have plenty of time off (the Spanish spend more time off work than the citizens of any other country in the world except Iceland!), so you can truly explore this exciting country!
- Salary: Monthly earning of up to $1640*.
- Accommodation: Our in-country partner will point you in the right direction. Flat shares are usually available with locals.
- Locations:Madrid and elsewhere in Spain.
- Contract length: From 3 to 9 months. (renewable)
- Student age range: Anywhere from 5 to 70 years of age!
- Orientation and training: There is an initial introduction to the school and a short induction course wherever possible.
- Teaching: The well-resourced schools teach general and Business English.
- Cost of living: Expect this to be about $415* each month.
*Currency conversion accurate at time of publication.
i-to-i's overseas partner has set the following requirements for all candidates:
- Native English speaker – you must have an EU passport.
- ESL-certified (100-hour or 120-hour ESL course recommended).
- University degree is an advantage, but NOT a requirement.
- Aged 21 or older
- A bubbly, enthusiastic personality!
Teaching and Employment
- What age and level of students will I be teaching?
From 5 to 70 years old.
- How many students will there be in each class?
Rarely are there more than 12 people in your class.
- How long are the classes?
Between 60 and 90 minutes.
- Are there any teaching resources?
Yes, the school will be well-resourced.
- Will I be teaching alone or team teaching?
The classroom will be all yours!
- What kind of school will I be teaching in?
Private language schools/academies.
- How much will I be paid?
Depending on the hours you work, up to £1000* per month.
- How many holiday days will I receive per year?
You will have free time over the school and public holidays. This includes 3 weeks over Christmas and 10 days for Easter.
- What are my working hours?
WMonday to Friday, between 8am and 5pm, usually with 4-6 hours of lessons each day.
- Can I renew my contract?
It's possible, but will have to be discussed with your school.
- What happens if I need to break my contract?
Simply give one month's notice.
- What will my accommodation be like?
Our in-country partner will point you in the right direction. Flat shares are usually available with locals or you could take over a departing teacher's room/apartment.
- What visas do I need?
One of the requirements is to have an EU passport, so no visa is needed.
- How does the recruitment process work?
- Send the required documents to us at i-to-i.
- Once submitted, our partner in Spain will arrange a telephone/Skype interview. If you pass this, they will search for a teaching job for you.
- You will then travel to Madrid for face-to-face interviews.
- If successful, you will be given a contract and start teaching within the week.
- When should I book my flights?
You'll have to purchase and book your own flights, but it's best to wait until your teaching contract is signed.
- Who is my contract with?
TYour contract will be with your employer: the language school or institute. It will not be with i-to-i or with our overseas partner. If you have any problems while working, you'll have to take them up with the employer themselves, rather than i-to-i.
*Currency conversion accurate at time of publication.
Recommended Training
While you can find work with limited ESL skills, our in-country partners suggest taking our top courses, the 100-hour Online ESL Course or the 120-hour Weekend ESL Course to give you the best chance of finding a good job. This will qualify for more specialised and challenging ESL jobs with higher salaries.


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Even if they lift the FIFA Club World Cup for the second consecutive year, Barcelona are unlikely to consider their trip to Japan a success. In their semifinal match against Asian champions Al-Sadd, David Villa broke his leg. It's possible that he will be out for the rest of the season and miss Euro 2012 as a result. Barcelona will play a strong side and go for the trophy, but it wouldn't be surprising if that injury altered Pep Guardiola's attitude towards the final slightly. This is in stark contrast to their opponents, Santos FC.
For Santos, this tournament is just as important as the Brasileirao and the Copa Libertadores. Given their attitude towards this season's Brasileirao, the Club World Cup might be even more important to them than their domestic league. A victory over Barcelona would be the highlight of their season, and the highlight of the young careers of budding stars like Neymar and Ganso.
Both of those players, along with future Porto player Danilho were brilliant against Kashiwa Reysol in the semifinal. Borges, the journeyman veteran striker who was the top scorer in Brazil this past season, also had a brilliant goal in that match. Santos look like they're highly motivated and in top form, and there's no reason to believe that Barcelona will simply walk through them.
In this match and occasionally in the future, the replacement for David Villa is likely to be Isaac Cuenca, the up and coming winger/forward who has made a name for himself both for scoring goals and looking funny. He's a lanky player with spectacular dribbling skills, and he's displayed a decent finishing touch as well. How he and Eric Abidal play against Danilo will be interesting to watch, and the battles down that flank could be the most entertaining in the match.
If you live in the United States, you'll be rolling out of bed early for this one. Kickoff is at 5:30 a.m. ET from the Toyota Stadium in Japan.
For more on the Club World Cup final, check out FC Barcelona blog Barca Blaugranes.