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Higher loan interest rates may have helped banks back on to firmer ground, but now they're helping to crush small businesses, says Eva fernandes.
February 6, 2011 5:44 by Eva Fernandes
The onset of the economic downturn was marked by the falling of a few prominent banks. The collapse of Lehman Brothers may have received a lot of attention, but the precarious period also saw Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch and Royal Bank of Scotland's acquisition of ABN Amro. The banks were at large blamed for getting the economy into the warped state it was, for irresponsibly lending far too much in exchange for far too little.
But two years on and a plethora of measures set up to ensure prudent lending policies later, the banking sector is picking up. But the question is: are the higher interest rates charged on loans and the stiffer lending policies now doing more harm than good?
It is a tough question, because more conservative lending practices and higher returns seem to have done the UAE banks quite a lot of good as the fourth quarter results – and consequently the yearly performance – reveal. The following is just a brief summary of some of the more impressive numbers posted in the past week:
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi's net profit for Q4 rose 71 percent on year to Dh732 million, meaning the bank's net profit was up 22 percent year-on-year to Dh3.68 billion for the year.
RAK Bank (National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah) reported a net profit of Dh1 billion for 2010, an increase of 38.1 percent compared to Dh726.2 million in 2009.
Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) reported a net profit of Dh821 million for 2010, up 2.2 percent over the Dh803 million earned in 2009. CBD reported a 7.7 percent increase of net profits for Q4 this year, from the same period last year.
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) had an impressive comeback in 2010, which saw the bank return to profit. The bank reported a Dh 371 million net profit in Q4 of 2010, which is a welcome contrast no doubt when compared to its net loss of Dh1.213 billion in the same quarter last year.
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Sneaky, but it made even those awfully powdery ELF eyeshadows stay put! (I realize they're not all bad, but if you have any of their lemons, you know what I mean.) So normal eyeshadows definitely stay put. I develop oily eyelids throughout the day, and kept having creases in my makeup on a regular basis. I also dance, which means twice as many products on my face + more sweat during competitions. Between the two occasions, I definitely get my $1's worth. And now that I'm thinking about the price, I really think I would be willing to pay significantly more for this if need be. (Don't get any ideas, ELF.)
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This is the first eyeshadow primer I have ever used. I am a redhead with freckles (on my eyelids) and feel as though this helps create a more even palette in which to apply my eyeshadow. Sometimes I use a base, but this is great and quicker. Eyeshadows seem to last a bit longer when using this too. ELF's prices cannot be beat. Currently, I'm using the eyeshadow primers that came with my Naked 3, and am excited to see how they compare.. Definitely would purchase again!
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you can't wrong with this $1.00 eye primer It works great.. I use this as an eyeshadow primer but also under my eye before applying concealer & this helps a lot to prevent the concealer to settle into my fine lines & creasing .. I think E.L.F has good quality products & for the price..... i have purchased this a few times already & will buy it again.
I really like it! It doesn't do much as a base but it's not supposed to, I don't think. I have combination skin, and find my makeup melts off and eyeshadow creases. Not with this though. I'd Definitely repurchase.
After reading all the rave reviews on MUA I was excited to try this product.
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I want to add that I'm Asian and although I do have eyelids, my lid space is quite small and eyeshadow will crease more often than those with larger eyelid space.
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The cuisine of Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, Jacques Pepin, Eric Ripert and Michael Symon may run the gamut from modern French to traditional Mexican, but they can all agree on one thing: It is time to end seafood fraud.
More than 500 chefs and restaurateurs have have joined Oceana's fight against seafood fraud by signing a letter penned by chef and Oceana supporter Barton Seaver, calling on congress to put an end to the deceptive and possibly dangerous practice of mislabeled seafood. It reads in part:
Recent studies have found that seafood may be mislabeled as often as 25 to 70 percent of the time for popular species like red snapper, wild salmon and Atlantic cod, disguising fish that are less desirable, cheaper or more readily available.
With about 1,700 different species of seafood from all over the world now available in the U.S., it is unrealistic to expect chefs and restaurant owners to be able to independently and accurately determine that the fish they are getting is actually the one they paid for. We should be able to tell our customers, without question, what they are eating as well as where, when and how it was caught.
Investigations by Oceana and others have revealed that consumers in several metropolitan areas are routinely served something other than what is on the menu or at the fish market. In the Boston area, seafood was mislabled 48 percent of the time, in Los Angeles 55 percent of the time, and in Miami 31 percent of the time.
But seafood fraud does more than mislead consumers, it's bad for the seafood as well. Customers may have no way of knowing whether they are eating an overexploited species or one that was caught illegally.
In July, Representatives Edward Markey (D-MA) and Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced the Safety and Fraud Enforcement for Seafood (SAFE Seafood) Act (H.R. 6200). The legislation requires full traceability for all seafood sold in the U.S. Oceana is currently building support in congrees for this important bill. Show you care about what's on your plate and sign our petition.
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SF Chronicle Top 100 2008
- Robert Lauriston Apr 5, 2008 09:06 AM
Bar Bambino
Cafe Majestic
Nick's Cove
O Izakaya
One Market
Rosso Pizzeria & Wine Bar
Shanghai 1930
Va de Vi (Walnut Creek)
Wood Tavern
Antica Trattoria
Cesar (Berkeley)
Cetrella (Half Moon Bay)
Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton
Dry Creek Kitchen(Healdsburg)
Fleur de Lys
La Taqueria
Mantra (Palo Alto)
PlumpJack Cafe
Scott Howard (closed)
Tres Agaves
re: Robert Lauriston
Most dubious inclusions:
Bay Wolf should be better than it is.
Buckeye Roadhouse is just eh.
I love Flora, but the service is often amateurish. Unless, I suppose, they recognize you as Michael Bauer.
re: Robert Lauriston
I haven't been to Buckeye, but of the restaurants on the list I've been to, I'd have to agree on Bay Wolf and Flora being dubious (I didn't really even like the food at Flora)...and you may not agree with me on this, but it did make me sad to see Dopo on the list and not La Ciccia...for that matter, La Ciccia would rank well above Firefly (and Pescheria) in my opinion...oh well, it is crowded enough already...
Bauer did say that most have full bars, and La Ciccia doesn't, which is probably a point or three against it...but Firefly is also beer and wine only.
Someone mentioned that Mexican food didn't do well this year....I think that reflects as much on the lack of good Mexican food in the bay area as anything.
re: susancinsf
I would be willing to bet that La Ciccia was one of the last 7 that got cut to take the list from 107 down to 100, but agree with you that it should've been included. Pescheria is not in the published list in the magazine so perhaps there is an error online. Pesce is on the list.
I think inclusion of some that you point to, such as Bay Wolf, Flora, Buckeye Roadhouse, has to do with maintaining some geographic diversity on the list. I haven't been to Flora, but think Bay Wolf and Buckeye are OK, nothing fabulous though.
re: susancinsf
Dopo doesn't have a full bar either.
Bauer called La Ciccia cramped and noisy, which it is, and gave it only 1.5 stars for atmosphere and 2 stars overall. I doubt there are any two-star restaurants on his top 100.
re: susancinsf
Yeah, but is La Taqueria any worse than it was last year?
Despite his claims to cover the whole spectrum, he definitely went "upscale" on this list. There's not a single "ethnic" restaurant for which he didn't choose the most upscale (or expensive, if you don't count Jai Yun as upscale) representative. Bodega Bistro is a lot better Vietnamese restaurant than some of the mid-range Cal/American/Italian places, for example. I have trouble believing that Flora is better than Dona Tomas, since it's the same people.
I guess what I'm saying is that the list is biased toward Euro-American food, since an "ethnic" restaurant has to be outstanding or loungey-fusiony to make the list (that hip, full-bar factor), while there are a lot of just ordinary Euro-American places on the list.
re: Ruth Lafler
The bias is indisputable. Bauer doesn't go to many non-upscale restaurants, so he doesn't eat much ethnic food, so he doesn't have the background required to evaluate many cuisines. To give him credit, the people he assigns to do those reviews are generally well-qualified. (He's both the main critic and the boss of the food section.)
Flora is much more of a Bauer-style place than Dona Tomas: more upscale, nicer decor, somewhat more formal service, very serious full bar. Comparing his star ratings (Dona Tomas / Flora):
Food: 2.5 / 3
Service: 2.5 / 2.5
Ambiance: 2 / 3
Overall: 2.5 / 3
re: Robert Lauriston
Bocadillos is on the IN list - they did not get deleted.
re: Robert Lauriston
Plumed Horse and Ubuntu are also on newly on the IN list.
re: farmersdaughter
Pescheria is on the "by cuisine" list but is replaced by Plumed Horse on the alphabetical list.
Bocadillos and Va de Vi are on both the 2007 and 2008 lists.
Myth is also on the OUT list.
Not a good year for Mexican restaurants, according to Bauer. Not that I think La Taqueria is one of the top 100 Bay Area restaurants, but the list doesn't feel the same without them.
re: Robert Lauriston
The Dining Room at the Ritz is an out? Huh? If that's not one of the Bay Area's 100 best (I would put it in the 10 best), then this list makes no sense.
re: Lindarita
That really doesn't make sense. If he gives a restaurant four stars, how can it not be in the top 100? Maybe it was just a mistake.
Conceivably he left it out because he believes the chef is going to buy Myth and move over there. But by that reasoning he should have left out Pesceria, since it's closing (or has closed) and won't be reopening in its new location for a while.
re: Robert Lauriston
Do you mean Pescheria on Church, or are we talking about another place? I drove by Pescheria last night, seemed to be folks inside. Where is it moving?
re: susancinsf
Pescheria on Church closed this weekend - building was sold.
re: farmersdaughter
Thanks! I missed that...guess it would be too much to hope for a good Chinese or Thai restaurant to move into that space....
re: susancinsf
Per the Chron, it's going to be a branch of Henry's Hunan.
i was pleased to see silks included in the list. food is very good, the room is gorgeous and the service outstanding. when last there, we had the chef, the sommelier and the head waiter spend some quality time at the table with us. we'll be back.
re: uptown jimmy
Discussion of restaurant reviews goes on this board. It's off-topic for the SF board.
Here is the entire list:
A Cote
Ad Hoc
Amber India
Bar Bambino
Bar Crudo
Bay Wolf
Bistro Aix
Bistro Don Giovanni
Bistro Jeanty
Bo's Barbecue and Catering
Buckeye Roadhouse
Cafe La Haye
Cafe Majestic
Chez Panisse
Chow/Park Chow
Farmhouse Inn & Restaurant
Foreign Cinema
French Laundry
Gary Danko
Hog Island Oyster Co.
Jai Yun
Koi Palace
Kokkari Estiatorio
La Folie
Martini House
Michael Mina
Nick's Cove
O Chame
O Izakaya
One Market
Picco/Pizzeria Picco
Plumed Horse
Poleng Lounge
Rosso Pizzeria & Wine Bar
Shanghai 1930
Slanted Door
Slow Club
Sushi Ran
Swan Oyster Depot
The Matterhorn Swiss Restaurant
Ton Kiang
Town Hall
Va de Vi
Vik's Chaat Corner
Wood Tavern
Yank Sing
Yoshi's San Francisco
Zuni Cafe
re: farmersdaughter
I can't understand why Matterhorn is included in the top 100.
re: wineguy7
Bauer loves the place:
re: wineguy7
I used to go frequently, and always wonder if it's any good these days when I drive by. I think they've received other decent reviews as well. The names started popping up again.
re: Nina
You can't keep up. I was once at around 45 one year...and then the next year, not so much. I once really thought about going for 100 but then even knocking off 45, you'd still be eating out once a week...doable except for location and then I realized, I didn't really want to eat at some of those places regardless.
I mean Matterhorn?
The list is what it is...still the drop off of reasonably price places is a bit of a drag. It's understandable given the rise in restaurant quality. Still the range of what use to be covered has been flattened. It would be interesting to get a break down of the list on similarities, full bar, palette range, etc. From first glance it seems there's a fat part of the curve there that's semi-similar or within range.
jardiniere gets some love from the chron. i haven't been back since the renovation but i do recall good service, good food. the potato gnocchi was superb. maybe the best i've ever had.
As usual, the Japanese places known primarily for their sushi that made the list are not the best in the Bay Area.
Bauer discusses the ins and outs in his blog today.
Re the Dining Room, "Is Ron Siegel in or out? It looked like he was taking over Myth, yet he's still cooking at the hotel. But for how long?" In that case, why he didn't drop Pescheria, which had already announced it was closing?
Re Tres Agaves, I don't think the "food quality ... plummeted." By the time Bauer revisited, Joseph Manzare and his core staff had moved over to Pescheria. My guess is that none of the B-team left at Tres Agaves recognized Bauer when he revisited, so he got the same erratic food and service the rest of us had been getting since it opened.
re: Robert Lauriston
He did drop Pescheria, he says so in the blog:
"As I mentioned in my introduction to the 2008 Top 100 restaurants, I was faced with a dilemma: I actually wrote up 107 restaurants, all of which I thought deserved a place on the list. My life was made a little easier when I discovered that Pescheria closed on Saturday night, leaving only six. One went back into the Top 100, leaving five to stew over."
And Pescheria is not on the Top 100 list.
re: farmersdaughter
Pescheria was on the online list when I looked at it Saturday, and his intro said 18 new places, which the blog updated to 19. Is it in the print edition?
re: Robert Lauriston
No, not in the print edition - I checked the newspaper and it's not there. Very weird.
re: Robert Lauriston
Looks like the "Sorted by Cuisine" list was not updated properly online - probably an earlier version got onto the website by mistake. http://sf.eater.com/archives/2008/04/...
re: Robert Lauriston
Another place I disagree with Bauer: Cesar (Piedmont) vs. Laiolo, I think Cesar wins on every count: food, wine list, service, price. Laiolo's the nice neighborhood spot, Cesar's worth a detour.
Some more explanations from Bauer on why certain restaurants didn't make the cut:
re: Robert Lauriston
I'd be more interested in his justification for some of the places that did!
re: Ruth Lafler
His reviews usually make it pretty clear.
re: Robert Lauriston
Not comparatively, though, which is what matters when you're making decisions about what does and doesn't make it on the list. In other words, it's not clear to me why he dropped La Taqueria (which he considered good enough for the list before, regardless of anyone else's opinion) and left on some places as ordinary as, let's say, Rivoli.
re: Ruth Lafler
Look at the star ratings:
Rivoli: 3 food / 3 service / 3 ambience / 3 overall
La Taqueria: 2 / 1.5 / 1.5 / 2.5 overall
As he noted, La Taqueria's on their Bargain Bites list, so it's not like he's banishing it to obscurity by removing it from the Top 100.
re: Robert Lauriston
Well then, I'd have to disagree with him about Rivoli. :-)
Maybe it was an exceptional restaurant 20 years ago, but it's pretty humdrum these days. Bauer claims to have revisited it every year (although I find it odd that he apparently goes the same week every year), but he hasn't actually re-reviewed it since 1996.
re: Ruth Lafler
The Chron doesn't usually publish updates unless a place goes uphill or downhill. Makes sense since there are so many new places to cover. Top 100 capsules get updated annually.
I'm not sure what you mean by "same week every year," the dishes in the capsules sound like different seasons to me:
2008: slow-braised pot roast with wild mushrooms ... chopped romaine with crisp bits of pita, dollops of feta and shavings of cucumber; and a ragout of crab and shrimp with a shallot and thyme souffle
2007: slow-braised lamb shank with eggplant, feta and tomato gratin, and green beans with mint aioli
2006: grilled leg of lamb is served with garlic and mustard butter and bacon and shallot jus; blue nose bass is enhanced with gazpacho vinaigrette and a scallion and olive aioli
re: Robert Lauriston
Ah. I think I misunderstood what the dates referred to under "revisited." At any rate, I find it hard to believe that he revisits well over 100 restaurants a year in addition to the ones he visits multiple times for reviews (not to mention all that pizza). For all we know, he's taking the names of the dishes off the menu on the website.
I don't understand why he likes Chow so much. Yeah, the prices are kind of low for organic fare, but the menu is boring and the execution is mediocre.
re: Morton the Mousse
Chow was a bit of a revelation...about 10 years ago. I still like it but I have to agree and wonder why it makes his Top 100. My guess is it reminds him of the midwest or something.
re: Morton the Mousse
And voilà, Bauer's blog entry today, "Should Bo's and Chow be in the Top 100?":
From that blog entry: "I agree that the chicken can be dry at Bo's and the service spotty, but the brisket and ribs are good enough that it makes the flaws seem like endearing blips."
From the Top 100 capsule: "[Bo's] meat - whether it's beef brisket, pork ribs, links or chicken - is perfectly done with just the right amount of smoke from oak and applewood logs that enhances without dominating."
re: Robert Lauriston
I can't fault Bauer for this:
"However, I do try to create a list that has a broad appeal and cuts across price categories, which is becoming increasingly harder in today's economy."
I can fault him for laziness of not looking elsewhere and not going beyond a specfic comfort zone (the middle western palette).
re: ML8000
Yeah, but if you approach the list from a different point of view, it can have some value even if it's not something that a lot of Chowhounders would find valuable. Just look at the list and say, "where would be a good place to eat [take someone to eat] if the diners had Bauer's palate?" Unfortunately his palate is not representative of a lot of ours, but maybe it is of the people living in the Bay Area generally.
re: farmersdaughter
I think the list has value. I read it and I use it as a reference and I understand how to read between the lines and a critics biases. You can't please everyone but the Bay Area is way more diverse and sophisicated then what he likes.
At one point the list was much more diverse and open, if not a bit uneven but hey, that's the Bay Area. A little funk and weirdness has always been part of the deal...or maybe that died with the dot com boom and bust and the real estate prices. Oh well...so it goes.
re: ML8000
I agree with you, I was just trying to point out that if you look at the list a different way it can have some value. It's unfortunate that it doesn't represent the true diversity of the Bay Area food scene (other than Bauer's artificial diversity by including restaurants like Chow on the list in an effort to show economic diversity), but other than either not buying the Chron or writing a letter to the editor, there's not a whole lot one person can do. Which is why I take the list (and other critic's reviews) with a huge grain of salt.
re: farmersdaughter
Okay, I get it. Sorry if I misread. I do agree...a huge grain or a pound of salt. On a wider note, the list points to a trends in the Bay Area. Read over a few years and how the list evolves is interesting.
re: farmersdaughter
The Top 100 list is mostly the same usual suspects you'll get from most other guidebooks.
The arbitrary cutoff at 100 means he's leaving out places that are just as good. The Chron's advanced search gives a more complete list.
re: farmersdaughter
The editor of the Chronicle's food section didn't force out Stan Sesser and Patricia Unterman in order to hire Michael Bauer because he believed that Bauer's much narrower taste was more representative of the average Chronicle reader's.
He did that because he is Michael Bauer.
re: Robert Lauriston
I don't understand. Who was Michael Bauer before he became the food critic at the Chron? I don't have any clue as to where he came from - am I supposed to know?
re: farmersdaughter
Michael Bauer was the editor of the food section and fired two really good critics so that he could be head critic.
At least that's my impression of what RL is saying.
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Michael Bauer has noted in his reviews that he's from the Midwest and the son of a butcher. I think this explains part of his perspective and likes and his palette reference. It's also been noted he enjoys the company of men and if a restauranteur sees him at his place, having young and freshly scrubbed male waitstaff serve him often helps the review. Apparently most in the restaurant biz know what he looks like.
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Michael Bauer grew was the food editor and restaurant critic for the Dallas Times Herald before the Chron hired him to head its food section in 1996.
To me, Patricia Unterman and Stan Sesser were two of the three best critics who have worked around here in my adult life. (The third is Jonathan Kauffman, who left the East Bay Express for Seattle Weekly.) Bauer's not as bad as, say, Jim Wood, but San Francisco deserves better. As a critic, he has improved somewhat on the job, but I think his narrower taste has been bad for the local restaurant scene.
Bauer's recent update review of Michael Mina, in which he gave it four stars, is a classic example of what's wrong with his work. In his 830 words, he finds room to name the designer, gloss the chef de cuisine's résumé, count the number of restaurants the eponymous executive chef has opened in the last three months, and describe the color of the waiters' outfits, but, except for one sentence, the descriptions of the food could have been written by someone who sat at the table without eating.
Full disclosure, for the past two years I've been a part-time reviewer for the SF Weekly, so sort of a competitor. But I don't think my opinion would be any different if I weren't.
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Then why do you guys give this guy so much credit?
Personally, I find regular people's opinions much more valuable. Thank you Chowhounds!
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Unfortunately, whether or not chowhounds approve of Bauer, he has a tremendous amount of influence on the local dining scene, down to the fact that restaurants put dishes on their menus that will appeal to his known tastes. And since San Francisco food trends often spread to other parts of the country, he's influencing what almost anyone who is eating in a contemporary American restaurant is eating. The ubiquity of beet salad with goat cheese (which I've seen on menus all over the country) is apparently due to the fact that when that combo was first introduced, Michael Bauer liked it.
Here's link to the archived article "Eating in Michael Bauer's Town" which provides some insight: http://web.archive.org/web/2003061805...
re: Robert Lauriston
Too late to correct a typo in my post above: Bauer was hired by the Chron in 1986, not 1996.
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It's getting better, but I find that problem fixating on the non-food descriptions to be pretty much across the board with reviews in SF. The shorter the review, the less the talk of the food. Why someone would waste their word count talking about the industrialized rustic interior is beyond me.
Whenever I grab a publication for help picking out a dinner spot, I routinely find myself breaking into laughter from the flowery prose about the hue of the walls, followed by some travel anecdote from the cuisines region. It's as if the restaurants publicist phoned it in, or they secretly wish they were a travel reporter instead.
One general inconsistency here:
The Chron's reviews include ratings from zero to four stars. There are 138 restaurants with three, three-and-a-half, or four stars. Obviously not all of them can make the top 100, but how can any restaurant with less than three stars make the cut?
The logical explanation would be that he's looking for a modicum of diversity in price and location, but one of the 2.5-star places is Bar Bambino.


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M. Sanjayan is an American conservation scientist, writer and Emmy-nomiated television news contributor, specializing in the role of conservation in improving human well-being, wildlife and the environment. He is also referred to as Sanjayan, using one name as is Tamil custom.[1] He is executive vice president and senior scientist at Conservation International and host of the upcoming television series Earth – A New Wild, produced by National Geographic Television in association with Passion Pictures, which will air on PBS in February 2015.[2]
Prior to Conservation International, Sanjayan was lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy. His scientific work as been published in peer-reviewed journals Science, Nature and Conservation Biology and his expertise has received extensive media coverage, including Vanity Fair,[3] Outside, Time and The Atlantic,.[4] His television experience includes serving as a correspondent for Years of Living Dangerously, the 2014 Emmy-nominated climate change series and hosting and contributing to television programs on The Discovery Channel[5] and the BBC.[6] In 2009, he appeared as a guest on Late Show with David Letterman.[6] He also writes for The Huffington Post.[7]
In May 2012, CBS News named Sanjayan its science and environmental contributor[8] and his 2013 CBS Evening News report on elephant poaching was nominated for an Emmy in the investigative journalism category.[9]
National Geographic Society recently selected Sanjayan for its Explorers Council, a distinguished group of top scientists, researchers and explorers who provide advice and counsel to the Society across disciplines and projects. Sanjayan is also a Catto fellow at the Aspen Institute and a senior advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Born in Sri Lanka, Sanjayan and his family moved to Sierra Leone in 1972.[10] He moved to the United States to study at the University of Oregon, where he received both a B.S. in biology and a M.S. in ecology.[10] In 1997, he earned a Ph. D in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.[11]
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Alvin McBurney (Alvino Rey), guitarist and bandleader: born Oakland, California 1 July 1908; married 1937 Luise King (died 1997; two sons, one daughter); died Draper, Utah 24 February 2004.
Known as the "Father of the Pedal Steel Guitar", Alvino Rey was an innovative musician and bandleader whose early work led the way to the exotic soundscapes of Martin Denny, George Cates and Esquivel. He was, in addition, the possessor of a keen eye for talent with many of the finest arrangers of the post-war years passing through the ranks of his orchestra, among them Billy May, Ray Conniff, Johnny Mandel and Nelson Riddle.
It is for his development of the pedal steel guitar that Rey will be best remembered. Among the first musicians to play an electric guitar on the radio, he added pedals to his standard lap steel to shift the tuning, thereby creating an instrument he dubbed the console guitar. This led to a partnership with the Gibson Guitar Company that would culminate in the pedal steel that is today synonymous with country music.
He was born Alvin McBurney in Oakland, California in 1908, the family moving to Cleveland when he was 10. A banjo given as a birthday present not only sparked his interest in music, but also encouraged a fascination with technology; he removed the needle mechanism from his mother's wind-up Victrola and used it as an amplification device within the banjo's body. By 1927 he was playing professionally alongside a local bandleader, Ev Jones, and in 1928 he joined Phil Spitalny's Orchestra in New York. In 1929 he adopted the sobriquet Alvino Rey in deference to a contemporary craze for Latin American music.
Following short stints with Russ Morgan and Freddy Martin, in 1934 Rey joined Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights, based in San Francisco. Heidt's band was notable both for its use of novelty performers, including the blind whistler Fred Lowery, and for the harmonies of the King Sisters Quartet. Rey, who was by this time playing electric guitar, married Luise King in 1937 and two years later, she and her sisters Alyce, Donna and Yvonne joined him when he formed the Alvino Rey Orchestra.
"Blue Rey", with its unusual vocal effects, quickly became their theme song and they maintained a hectic touring schedule. The group featured a 10-man horn section, including six saxophonists; three of whom, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and Herbie Stewart, would go on to feature in Woody Herman's famous "Four Brothers" sax section. Drummers of the calibre of Don Lamond and Mel Lewis passed through the orchestra's ranks and use was made of innovative young arrangers such as Ray Conniff, Neal Hefti and Billy May.
In 1942, the orchestra enjoyed a big success with "Deep in the Heart of Texas" and quickly followed it with the novelty hit "Strip Polka". They appeared in the movies Sing Your Worries Away (1942) and Larceny with Music (1943) and Rey was named the top guitar player in America in a national poll. The Second World War, however, led to the band's dissolution and Rey joined the US Navy.
At the end of hostilities Rey reformed his orchestra and had further hits with "Cement Mixer (Put-Ti Put-Ti)" (1946) and "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" (1948). In the early 1950s changes in musical taste led to a reduction in the size of the band. He continued to work closely with the King Sisters, producing several of their albums and serving as musical director on their television show during the late 1960s.
Rey joined Jack Costanzo, Irv Cottler, Emil Richards, and Jimmy Rowles in an instrumental supergroup known as the Surfmen, and recorded with the "Space Age" music legend Esquivel. By the 1970s Rey was in semi-retirement in Utah and made his last public appearance, in Salt Lake City, in 1994.
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