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Sunday's easy victory by President �lvaro Uribe in Colombia provides an exception to the recent leftward trend in Latin America. Yet experts say it is too simplistic to cast a center-right victory in strife-torn Colombia as an ebbing of the prevailing tide.
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Yi Ping Zheng, a/k/a "Zheng Yi Ping," a/k/a "Ping X. Zhenh," 46, of Philadelphia, was charged yesterday by indictment with trafficking in counterfeit goods, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that on December 15, 2011, Zheng trafficked and attempted to traffic in approximately 3,000 counterfeit "designer" purses, wearing apparel, wallets, sunglasses, jewelry, watches, umbrellas, key chains and handbag locks.
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Like every ECPI University faculty member, Scott Adams is dedicated to helping students reach their potential. Now, through a new program, he is helping teachers do the same. He's part of a new partnership between ECPI's Richmond/Moorefield Campus and Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS) that helps teachers gain recertification and delivers STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) to the classroom.
Every five years, teachers are required to accumulate a number of recertification points and college credits to maintain their standing. Because teachers must pay for the classes themselves and fit it into their busy schedules, this can be both costly and time consuming. To solve both problems, ECPI took one of its existing classes, Storyboarding for Animation, added specific lab exercises to accommodate teacher needs and created a schedule to fit their work hours, all at a price they could afford.
Every Wednesday at 4:00 pm, 24 teachers arrive at ECPI for three hours of classroom instruction. For three months, they will learn how to go beyond pictures and movies to create an animated web page their students can interact with. The course emphasizes general animation techniques, storyboarding, timeline management, creating vector-based graphics and embedding animated graphic elements into web pages. Once complete, they will be awarded 90 recertification points and three credit hours.
"The final project for the class – a movie and interactive website – will be a tool they can take back to the classroom," says Adams. "We're living in a new era where students don't respond to chalkboards. They want interaction. They want to be engaged. It's got to be more than just reading lines out of a book."
Ernie Longworth, Manager of Instructional Technology for CCPS wanted to work with a technical university, known for its hands-on instruction with real-world applications. "We are excited about this opportunity to cultivate a community partnership with ECPI University," says Longworth. "Chesterfield County Public Schools teachers are learning to use industry standard technology with an emphasis on classroom application. What teachers are learning is immediately transferable to the classroom and helps create quality experiences for students."
A critical component of STEM is to find initiatives that fit well into the K-12 classroom, and deliver them in ways that teachers know will be successful and will want to deploy. Unfortunately, many STEM funding dollars sit idle in programs that teachers do not see as valuable or have no time to deploy. That has not been the case with this class. The response has been overwhelming. The first class filled up following just one email and the University is looking to add more classes to accommodate the tremendous demand. Judging from the responses from the inaugural class, word is likely to spread:
Math can be one of the most boring classes for students, especially for those needing visual stimulation. Classroom instruction, now, is moving toward interactive learning. Adobe Flash is a program that can visually attract students and peak their interest in the subject matter. CCPS Math Teacher Dina Milliner
I realized that there is so much more that I can be doing in my classroom. I am so thankful for this opportunity. The life cycle of a butterfly or the food chain were two things that came to mind when I was thinking about upcoming science lessons. CCPS Science Teacher Courtney Wirt
Adobe Flash is complex, expensive and time consuming to learn. Taking this class will afford me the opportunity to learn this interactive tool and to share it with other educators. As I interact with teachers and students on a daily basis at the Technology Specialty Center of Matoaca High, I will not keep this animation tool a secret. CCPS Earth Science Teacher Keith Lumsden
All students, even at the elementary level, have high expectations of technology use in the school setting. What we are learning can be used in a variety of ways to help fulfill some of those expectations. It can be used to create interactive puzzles, games, drawings and animations that are curriculum/SOL-related. As a computer teacher in an elementary school, it's my job to integrate computer skills with concepts students are learning in the regular classroom. I am constantly looking for new ways to keep students engaged and motivated while trying to accomplish this at the different grade levels. I only see each class once per week, so I need to make that 45 minute session grab student's attention while reinforcing concepts. CCPS K-5 Computer Teacher Paula Willis
It is so much more engaging to be able to learn with visual, audio and interactive tools. Research shows that digital technology promotes understanding and long term memory. Besides the great instruction, I must say that the cost was definitely a draw. Education has taken such an economic hit over the past 4 years and this class allows teachers to continue learning in a cost efficient way. Thank you ECPI! CCPS Technology Integrator Tamara Howerton
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Recent reports of secret meetings among industry reps and the Food and Drug Adminstration over GMO labeling piqued my interest, mostly because this critical aspect was missing: any effort to label GE foods at the federal level could bring the current grassroots movement to a grinding halt by preventing any stronger local laws from ever being enacted. But I am getting ahead of myself.
Last month, Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association and one of the leaders of the GMO labeling effort, recently published an article about how "representatives of Wal-Mart, General Mills, Pepsi-Frito Lay, Mars, Coca-Cola and others" met with the FDA on January 11 "to lobby for a mandatory federal GMO labeling law."
The story was then picked up by Tom Laskawy at Grist, who reported that at the meeting, a Walmart representative said the retail giant would no longer oppose GMO labeling and that "other food company executives agreed, saying that the fight had become too expensive, especially given the prospect of more state-level initiatives."
The story kicked into high-gear when the New York Times' Stephanie Strom covered it last week, adding a few new details, such as the meeting being attended by "20 major food companies" as well as two GMO labeling advocates: Gary Hirshberg, co-chair of the Just Label It federal campaign, and Charles Benbrook, professor at Washington State University. The Times story gave the impression that the meeting is something to celebrate. After all, if Walmart comes to the table, that's a big deal.
But missing from both of these accounts is the ominous potential downside of federal GMO labeling: a sneaky legal concept known as preemption. Most advocates don't find out about it before it's too late.
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Alison McGhee's second novel, Shadow Baby, begins with this image, glimpsed through a crack in a church window: an old man, turned into a shadow by moonlight, trudging through the deep snow and hanging lanterns in tree branches so that skiers will find their way home. The watcher is Clara Winter, author of book reports on nonexistent books, melancholy dreamer, and all-around eccentric 11-year-old girl. In one deftly rendered moment, McGhee presages the drift of Shadow Baby: A clever little girl watches an old man, and the old man teaches the little girl to discern possibility in the cast-off things of the world.
Like Clara Winter, Alison McGhee is a masterful spinner of stories. This Minneapolis writer's first novel, Rainlight, drifts through the lives of a dozen residents of North Sterns County, New York, spiraling around an auto accident that has briefly linked them. Shadow Baby, which takes place in the same upstate terrain, is the second in a planned four-part series that, the author explains over coffee on a sun-streaked Thursday afternoon, maps out the physical and sensual topography of her childhood home. "My husband tells me I need to break out of North Sterns. But it's in my bones. It's the place where everything is set."
McGhee's terra familiaris is the foothills of the Adirondack mountain chain, six million acres of state-protected wilderness spreading north from Utica nearly to the Canadian border. Aside from the seasonal incursions of nature enthusiasts, much of it is a backwater of scattered farmsteads and hardscrabble hamlets, pushing tentatively into mist-shrouded mountain hollows. During the winter, the Adirondacks are the snowiest place in the continental United States. The roads become impassable, and the landscape a quilted patchwork of snowdrifts and chimneys hissing smoke from wood fires. If you lived here during the winter, you would learn to look after yourself.
The summers are solitary also. If you were a scrawny and precocious girl raised in the Adirondacks, you'd say goodbye to your schoolmates in April and retreat to your family's barn, where you'd lie in drowsy splendor, perfumed by the smell of fresh-cut hay, to read. You'd read indiscriminately and voraciously from whatever was on hand: potboiler biographies, tattered public-library copies of pioneer epics, illustrated books about China. You'd learn to see with your imagination, and later, when you grew up and came down from the foothills, the world beyond the Adirondacks would be a familiar place: You'd have already taught yourself how to live fully in it. If you were Alison McGhee, this is how you would learn to write.
McGhee, who is now a teacher of creative writing at Metropolitan State University and a warm, soft-spoken presence, recalls North Sterns with a nostalgic air. "It was such an idyllic rural childhood," she says. "It was pretty isolated, too. I ate those biographies like candy. They were like drugs--so formulaic. I'd read with no screens. I'd just go to the barn with my books and eat them up.
"There was one in particular--My Side of the Mountain--where a child runs away to live on a mountain. When I look back now at how much that one permeated into Shadow Baby, it's almost embarrassing."
McGhee's childhood idylls instilled in her a writer's curiosity for everything, and she developed, in particular, a fascination with China--a place as far away as the moon to this child of the Adirondacks. "In the fourth grade I did a report on Chinese tea--not a Clara Winter book report, but a real one--so maybe that was what started it. I don't really know. It was just something I'd always been interested in."
Accordingly, when McGhee went away to college near Burlington, Vermont--"It was like a metropolis after North Sterns"--she majored in Chinese and eventually found herself studying in Taiwan. "It was all a dream come true. But it was also very familiar. It felt perfectly natural, like a place I'd known all my life."
McGhee's affinity for Chinese culture played prominently into her first published novel, Rainlight. In it, a North Sterns woodsman named Starr Williams dreams of visiting the terra-cotta warriors of Xi'an, an obsession his friends and family accept as an endearing peculiarity. Williams never makes it to China, but Rainlight imagines the ancient imperial capital of Xi'an and ranges even further; by novel's end McGhee has flitted into the hearts and minds of Starr Williams's family and cautiously excavated their stillborn ambitions. Consider the remembrances of Starr's wife: "When I was eighteen I walked the beach and knew the hugeness of the world, wondered what would be. Within myself I held secrets, secrets of the body: eggs of my unborn children, skin I would touch with my long fingers, footprints lost on sand."
Shadow Baby is also concerned with closely held secrets. Like Rainlight, it is a sort of interior mystery, wherein the characters attempt to draw meaning from apparently arbitrary turns of fate--in this case a baby lost in childbirth, a mysteriously missing father, and an accidental trailer-park fire. Clara Winter, who is both the author's alter ego and the type of preternaturally sensitive child populating William Trevor novels, plays the sleuth throughout, drawing connections from her hermetic, bibliophilic experience. "Books are sacred," she tells us in one typically flowery aside. "Books are to me what the host is to the priest, the oasis to the desert wanderer, the arrival of winged seraphim to a dying man. After I finish making up a book report, I myself want to read the book. I myself feel as if the book is out there, searching for me, with an ending I don't know, a future waiting to be written."


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Revenue Commissioner Myron Frans and Minnesota Management & Budget Commissioner Jim Showalter discuss Gov. Mark Dayton's proposed budget and tax reform plan for FY 2014-15. The governor's budget covers our $1.1 billion deficit, pays back $1 billion we borrowed from our schools and invests in our state's greatest resource: Minnesotans. He proposes to pay for these investments by making our tax system fair and balanced, and by reforming how government works so we deliver better services at a lower cost.You can read all about Gov. Dayton's plan and follow the budget process at www.mn.gov/governor/budget.
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"Who knows who will get that job [in Pittsburgh]?" Gibbons told the Star. "I just had a feeling that I might be better off staying in Kansas City."
Gibbons was one of seven candidates the Pirates have interviewed. Eric Wedge, their first interview, agreed to become the manager of the Seattle Mariners.
The Pirates also interviewed bench coach Jeff Banister, Ken Macha, Bo Porter, Dale Sveum and Carlos Tosca. Gibbons replaced Tosca in Toronto in 2004.
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One of the big things that all the Democrats and media like to get worried about is the seemingly large percentage of Clinton supporters who seem poised to jump ship from the donkey party if — when — Barack Obama wins the nomination.
While I will agree that it makes perfect sense to do something like that. To choose to vote for someone whose values are completely at odds with your own just because some guy had the nerve to run a successful campaign against your candidate of choice. I mean, that's what a smart, thinking, reasonable person would do, right?
However, it seems that there's a long history of voters — on both sides of the aisle — of talking out of their ass during the big primary battles…
It is true that between 25 and 45 percent of Democrats who voted for Clinton have told pollsters that they would vote for John McCain in the fall rather than Obama, but is that threat credible?
There is considerable evidence that some of those voters are letting their emotions do the talking — and following in a long tradition by doing so. According to ABC News' polling unit, in the spring 1992, only 63% of Democrats who voted for someone other than Bill Clinton in the primaries that year said they would vote for Clinton over George H. W. Bush that fall. In 1996, 66% of Republicans who voted for someone other than Bob Dole in the G.O.P. primary said they would support Dole against Clinton that fall. Al Gore suffered the same apparent dropout problem; only 64% of Democrats who voted for his rivals during the primary said they would be there for Gore in the fall…
"People say these things in the heat of a primary," said a midwestern Republican consultant. "By the fall, they have found other things to be angry about. And they come home."
I don't know. I'm still convinced that we should saddle the country with a heavily conservative-weighted Supreme Court for the next several decades just because the historic female candidate who who was forced to deal with overt sexism lost out the historic black candidate who was forced to deal with overt racism.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Orioles - Signed Trachsel
Baltimore Orioles - Signed P Steve Trachsel to a 1-year, $3.1 million contract.
If Plan B for the Orioles in case of an injury to a starting pitcher was really just "quickly find a bad pitcher that Peter Angelos has heard of" they might as well have saved themselves the trouble and kept Rodrigo Lopez. Dollars to donuts says the new master plan when they go 74-88 this year is to go on their new, shill radio station in October and bemoan their worst luck in baseball history
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Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.1. Free Rob Base Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:04 PM (#2297041)
That projection is optimistic, IMO. $3 million? Ouch. Chan Ho Park must be kicking himself.2. Spahn Insane Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:09 PM (#2297052)
That projection is optimistic, IMO.3. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:17 PM (#2297065)
Really? Wow. My first thought was "dude--those projected peripherals suck arse." I'll defer to Base's knowledge of him, though, as I've not seen him nearly as often in recent years.
That's better than Mark Redman's projection.4. Spahn Insane Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:20 PM (#2297070)
Redman hasn't signed yet, has he?5. ligtreb Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:20 PM (#2297071)
Yikes.6. Honkie Kong Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:25 PM (#2297072)
giving up 190 hits and 69 BBs and having an ERA of just 5.19? that sounds a bit wrong.7. Free Rob Base Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:27 PM (#2297075)
translated, of the 259 baserunners, 92 score.
when you add in 24 HRs, 68 out out of 235 score or about 30%. is that normal?
My first thought was "dude--those projected peripherals suck arse."8. Honkie Kong Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:42 PM (#2297087)
I think he will walk more than the 69 projected. Last year he pitched 164 innigns and walked 78. Last year his ERA was 4.97. Going from the NL East with a very good defense to the AL East with an Orioles defense, I would think he ERA would rise to something well above the 5.19 projected. I'd be shocked if he pitched well enough/stayed healthy enough to pitch 164 innings this year.
I decided to waste some time and look it up9. Honkie Kong Posted: February 13, 2007 at 10:47 PM (#2297096)
projected for next year : 70/245 = .285
career ER/BR : 777/3260 = .238
So actually, it is above normal.
career runs / BR : 868/3260 = .268
this doesn't count BR put on by errors.
For last 3 full years though
Is this a better way than BABIP to check if a pitcher is getting lucky?
whoops forgot to take HRs out of it.10. CrosbyBird Posted: February 13, 2007 at 11:04 PM (#2297112)
becomes 193/744 = .259
$3 million? Ouch. Chan Ho Park must be kicking himself.11. I Love LA (OFF) Posted: February 14, 2007 at 10:29 AM (#2297473)
Trachsel has at least been an above average pitcher in 3 of the last 5 seasons. Chan Ho has been a below-average pitcher in 5 of the last 5 seasons.
Trachsel has at least been an above average pitcher in 3 of the last 5 seasons. Chan Ho has been a below-average pitcher in 5 of the last 5 seasons.12. There are no words... (Met Fan Charlie) Posted: February 15, 2007 at 06:04 PM (#2298326)
Anyone who watched Trax pitch last year knows he ain't doing that again though. He's DONE.
The only silver lining for him landing in Baltiomore is that he won't get a chance to crap his pants in the post-season again....13. Styles P. Deadball Posted: February 17, 2007 at 03:43 PM (#2299313)
The Orioles have a gift for signing guys where my first reaction is, "Why the hell do they think HE can help?"14. Optimus_Primate Posted: February 19, 2007 at 09:53 PM (#2300167)
On the other hand, Jason Marquis has won more games over the last three years than Barry Zito or Jason Schmidt. Jim Hendry told me so.
How come there wasn't a Transaction Oracle for the Twins' signing of Ramon Ortiz? Softballs that large will seldom be lobbed in your direction.15. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: February 19, 2007 at 10:26 PM (#2300180)
How come there wasn't a Transaction Oracle for the Twins' signing of Ramon Ortiz? Softballs that large will seldom be lobbed in your direction.16. Nobody ##### with DeJesus Posted: May 04, 2007 at 03:19 AM (#2354035)
Maybe Dan is waiting for Mark Redman to sign, so that we can get all our laughs in on the same thread.
Along those lines, there are rumors the Royals are talking to Redman. Ouch!
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Government bonds should be excluded from the European Union's planned financial-transaction tax because the levy would drive up sovereign borrowing costs, a panel of European debt-management officials said.
Primary issuance, secondary-market trading, related derivatives and repurchase agreements all affect borrowing costs, which would rise unless transactions involving government debt are exempt, according to an April 18 letter to senior EU finance aides that was obtained by Bloomberg News.
The proposed tax "underestimates the impact of the proposal on market liquidity," said the two-page analysis signed by Anne Leclercq, director for treasury and capital markets in Belgium's finance ministry in Brussels. "This impact would substantially reduce the attractiveness of sovereign bonds and jeopardize diversification of the investor base, in particular for those sovereign issuers for which liquidity is at the heart of their strategy."
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ISSUE 46 - 04 January 2005
A powerful earthquake and deadly tsunamis have killed nearly 150,000 people living along the Indian Ocean. Millions more have lost their homes and livelihoods and face grave health risks. Among the affected are tens of thousands of pregnant and nursing women. Like all expectant mothers, these women need adequate nutrition and access to vitamins, medicines and antenatal care to deliver safely. Even in the best of circumstances, more than 15 per cent of these women would need emergency obstetric care. The trauma caused by the earthquake and tsunamis could push this risk even higher.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York - Amid reports that over 5 million people in the Indian Ocean region have been directly affected by the earthquake-triggered tsunamis, local authorities and humanitarian agencies are racing against time to assist survivors who urgently need clean water, food, shelter and medical care. As emergency assessments are underway in many of the areas affected, it is becoming increasingly clear that the particular needs of women require urgent response.
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Other special needs are often overlooked. Women and girls, in addition to needing access to water, food, shelter and medical care, have particular hygiene needs which must be considered if they are to be able to carry on their daily lives with dignity, yet these needs are often overlooked in the larger emergency response. In some of the affected communities, women who have lost all possessions do not have access even to the most basic of clothing items which are required in order for them to participate fully in community life. Yet, in many cases, it is women and girls who assume the primary burden of caring for other family members and for obtaining the survival needs for the family.
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I just wanted you to know your song off of your new CD called "I will see you again" is such a beautiful song and it means SO SO VERY MUCH to me!!
My 22 yr old son Michael died in an auto wreck last year on August 28th 2011. That was the WORST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!!! I listen to it all of the time to have some comfort that I will see him again!!! You will never know how muh that song and all of your songs mean to me!!!You will be in Indianapolis in November but there are no tickets left on the floor! I have really bad arthritis and I have to have my knee replaced and I can not climb stairs for the upper levels! I would love to see you sing me and my son's song in person in Indianapolis but maybe when you come again maybe I can see you sing that BEAUTIFUL SONG!! It has been really hard, I miss my precious son SO SO VERY MUCH! And I can not wait until I see him again!! Thank you so much for your BEAUTIFUL MUSIC that helps me get through each and every day! One of your BIGGEST FANS!! Love Always, Donna Wierciak
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Carrie Underwood will debut her new single, "Two Black Cadillacs," when she performs on The 40th Anniversary American Music Awards on Sunday November 18th at 8/7pm central on ABC. The third single from her Platinum certified album Blown Away follows the albums' No. 1 singles "Good Girl" and title-track, "Blown Away," which together have spent three weeks atop the country airplay charts in 2012, more than any other female country artist this year.
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The VLC media player (erstwhile VideoLAN Client) is a high portable free media player. It supports various audio- and videocodecs, DVDs and Video-CDs and lots of streaming protocols. It can be used as a streaming server for uni- and multicast in IPv4 and IPv6 networks with a hudge bandwidth. It is a part of a complete streaming solution of the VideoLAN team. You can serve the whole college campus with TV a single receiver. That was also the inducement for the project.
VLC can be embedded in almost all browser with the mozilla-plugin. Also it can play media files directly in the browser. You can test it at the ZDF ZDF Mediathek. This mediathek supports VLC native.
Especially the stability is a highlight of the program, which can play almost every file and format. For example you can play incomplete or broken media file(incomplete downloads). All standard features of commercial program are implemented. Additionally several filters can be activated in real time. For example you can watch videos, which is recorded in portrait format, in a 90° angle. Also you can add color filters.
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National Jersey Queen to be selected
The 58th National Jersey Queen will be selected Nov. 3 at the conclusion of Junior Day activities at The All American Jersey Shows and Sale in Louisville, Ky.
The 2012 National Jersey Queen will begin her reign when she is introduced with a court of two alternates at the National Jersey Jug Futurity on Nov. 4. Later that evening, the new Queen and her Court will assist with The 60th All American Jersey Sale, then preside over the Diamond Anniversary of The All American Jersey Show, the world's largest Jersey show, on Nov. 5.
She will succeed the reigning Queen, Cassandra Krull of Lake Mills, Wis.
Scholarships totaling $1,000 are presented to the Queen and alternates from the Charlene Nardone National Jersey Queen Fund.
Participants in the National Jersey Queen Contest must meet three requirements. First, they must be at least 16 years of age, but not older than 22, on Jan. 1, 2012. Second, they must be either the current year's or a former state or regional Jersey queen, or an exhibitor in the 2012 Western National Junior Jersey Show or The All American Junior Jersey Show. Third, they must be a Junior Member in good standing or Lifetime Member of the American Jersey Cattle Association.
Candidates for National Jersey Queen are evaluated on the quality of their application, interview, general dairy and Jersey breed knowledge, and public speaking, both prepared and extemporaneous. Each of the contest elements is described on the USJersey website at www.usjersey.com/YouthProgram/natlqueen.htm.
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During the late 1930s, Wade Mainer was the most-recorded country musician in Charlotte. Today his distinctive two-finger banjo style and old-time music continue to make him popular at festivals across the United States.
Wade Mainer was born on April 21, 1907, near Weaverville, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains above Asheville. In the mid-1920s, he moved to Concord to join older brother J. E. who had found work in the cotton mills there. Both young men had learned music from a fiddle-playing uncle in the mountains. They formed a band called Mainer's Mountaineers to play at social events and fiddlers' contests. J. E. played fiddle, Wade picked banjo, and John Love and Zeke Morris joined in on guitars.
The Mountaineers made their first radio appearance on WSOC (then a Gastonia station) and caught the attention of Crazy Water Crystals distributor J. W. Fincher of Charlotte. He hired them for WBT's Saturday-night Crazy Water Barn Dance in 1934, and later sent them out to broadcast daily shows on stations in New Orleans, Asheville, and Raleigh. Along the way they stopped at an RCA field session in Atlanta to record their first records. The initial release, Maple On the Hill, became one of the 1930s major sellers and remains a country classic. Wade estimates that the disc earned the band $18,000—at a royalty rate of one-half cent per record sold. Today, historians point to Mainer's Mountaineers as one of the most influential stringbands of the pre-WWII era, "an important link in the evolution from the older stringband sounds of the 1920s to the new bluegrass style of the 1940s," one scholar says.
Wade began a recording career as a band leader in his own right in 1936, though he continued to play with J. E. off and on. His first session took place at 208 South Tryon Street on February 14, 1936, and almost all of his pre-World War II records were waxed in Charlotte or Rock Hill. By 1939, he had recorded nearly one hundred sides. This number far surpassed the sixty songs cut by the popular Monroe Brothers, for instance, and it indicates that Wade Mainer was one of the best selling artists of his day.
Mainer's most frequent partner in his Charlotte area sessions was guitarist Zeke Morris. On several occasions the duo expanded to a trio with the addition of Steve Ledford or Homer Sherrill on fiddle. When Zeke married, Wade replaced him with Clyde Moody, who soon went on to become a member of the very first line-up of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. The voice of young Julia Brown was featured in one Charlotte session in January 1938, in the song When Romance Calls. The title was apt, for Julia was to become Wade's wife, and she still sings with him in concerts today.
A high point of Wade Mainer's career came in February 1941 when he received an invitation to perform at the White House for President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. "His most vivid recollection of the event came when he spilled some ice cream on the First Lady's dress," say historians Ivan Tribe and John W. Morris. "Fortunately she didn't seem to mind, and helped to put the embarrassed mountaineer at ease."
After World War II, country music veered from the old-time sounds of the 1930s, and in 1951 Wade Mainer hung up his banjo. He moved to Flint, Michigan, to work in a General Motors plant and became active in an area church. He remains a resident of Michigan.
During the 1960s folk music revival, a new generation of old-time music enthusiasts sought Mainer out and persuaded him to take up banjo once again. Some of them founded Michigan-based Old Homestead Records—now a major folk music label—in part to rerelease his early recordings. Wade became something of a celebrity as one of the few old-time southern musicians easily accessible to northern audiences. When he retired from General Motors in 1973, he began performing more often at folk festivals, and today he and Julia spend part of each year crisscrossing the United States in their camper and playing music.
-- from George Holt, ed., The Charlotte Country Music Story (Spirit Square Arts Center and North Carolina Arts Council, 1985)
To the surprise and delight of their many fans around the world, Wade and Julia continue to share music and memories from their home in Michigan, Wade now 103 and Julia 91. Wade was honored by President Ronald Reagan with the National Heritage Fellowship in 1987. Master music historian Dick Spottswood completed a book Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years (University Press of Mississippi) in 2010. An in-depth interview with folklorist David Holt can be found on YouTube
Nearly all of Wade's 1930s Charlotte and Rock Hill recordings are available in two 4-volume CD collections from Britain: J.E. Mainer, The Early Years 1935 - 1939 (JSP77118) and J.E Mainer, Classic Sides 1937 – 1941 (JSP 77124). Most of his later work for the Old Homestead label also remains in print.
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