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There's a new tool available to you if you have children in Tennessee public schools.
The Tennessee School Boards Association has a new website to answer your questions.
The association says the site was designed with parents who are new to the Tennessee public school system in mind.
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The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group (1967-1976) consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano, vocals); Richard Manuel (piano, harmonica, drums, saxophone, organ, vocals); Garth Hudson (organ, piano, clavinet, accordion, synthesizer, saxophone); and Rick Danko (bass guitar, violin, trombone, vocals), and one American, Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, bass guitar, vocals).
The members of the Band first came together as they joined rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins' backing group, The Hawks, one by one between 1958 and 1963. Upon leaving Hawkins in 1964 they were known as The Levon Helm Sextet (the sixth member being sax player Jerry Penfound), then Levon and the Hawks (without Penfound). In 1965, they released a single on Ware Records under the name the Canadian Squires, but returned as Levon and the Hawks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965. At about the same time, Bob Dylan recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for his U.S. tour in 1965 and world tour in 1966. They also joined him on the informal recordings that later became The Basement Tapes.
Because they were always "the band" to various frontmen, Helm said the name "The Band" worked well when the group came into its own and left Saugerties, New York, to begin recording their own material. They recorded two of the most acclaimed albums of the late 1960s: their 1968 debut Music from Big Pink (featuring the single "The Weight") and 1969's The Band. They broke up in 1976, but reformed in 1983 without founding guitarist Robbie Robertson.
Although the Band was always more popular with music journalists and fellow musicians than with the general public, they have remained an admired and influential group. The group was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them #50 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and in 2008, they received the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Band's music fused many elements: primarily old country music and early rock and roll, though the rhythm section often was reminiscent of Stax or Motown, and Robertson cites Curtis Mayfield and the Staple Singers as major influences, resulting in a synthesis of many musical genres. As to the group's songwriting, very few of their early compositions were based on conventional blues and doo-wop chord changes.
Every member was a multi-instrumentalist. There was little instrument-switching when they played live, but when recording, the musicians could make up different configurations in service of the songs. Hudson in particular was able to coax a wide range of timbres from his Lowrey electronic organ; on the choruses of "Tears of Rage", for example, it sounds like a mellotron. Helm's drumming was often praised: critic Jon Carroll famously declared that Helm was "the only drummer who can make you cry," while prolific session drummer Jim Keltner admits to appropriating several of Helm's techniques.
Singers Manuel, Danko, and Helm each brought a distinctive voice to the Band: Helm's southern voice had more than a hint of country, Danko sang in a tenor, and Manuel alternated between falsetto and baritone. The singers regularly blended in harmonies. Though the singing was more or less evenly shared among the three men, both Danko and Helm have stated that they saw Manuel as the Band's "lead" singer.
Robertson was the group's chief songwriter, but he sang lead vocals on only three studio songs released by the Band ("To Kingdom Come", "Knockin' Lost John" and "Out Of The Blue"). This role, and Robertson's resulting claim to the copyright of most of the compositions, would later become a point of much antagonism, especially that directed towards Robertson by Helm, who, in his autobiography This Wheel's on Fire, disputes the validity of Robertson's place as chief songwriter, as the Band's songs were often honed and recorded through collaboration between all members. Strains appeared in the 1980s, when the bulk of songwriting royalties were going to Robertson alone while the others had to rely on income from touring. This had not arisen as an issue in the late sixties and early seventies, when a number of Band songs, mostly credited to Robertson alone, were covered successfully by other artists - such as Smith's version of "The Weight" for the Easy Rider soundtrack LP and Joan Baez's cover of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" in 1971.
Producer John Simon is cited as a "sixth member" of the Band for producing and playing on Music from Big Pink, co-producing and playing on The Band, and playing on other songs up through the Band's 1993 reunion album Jericho.
Early years: The Hawks
The Hawks gradually came together as a backing unit for Toronto-based rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins: Helm first (he journeyed to Canada from Arkansas with Hawkins), then Robertson, Danko, Manuel and Hudson. At the time, Hawkins was popular in Toronto, and had an effective way of eliminating his musical competition: when a promising band appeared, Hawkins would often hire their best musicians for his own group; Robertson, Danko and Manuel came under Hawkins' tutelage this way.
While most of the Hawks were eager to join Hawkins' group, getting Hudson to join was a different story. He'd earned a college degree, and planned on a career as a music teacher, and was interested in playing rock music only as a hobby. The Hawks were in awe of his wild, full-bore organ sound, and often begged him to join. Hudson finally relented, so long as the Hawks each paid him $10 per week to be their instructor: all music theory questions were directed to Hudson. While pocketing a little extra cash, Hudson was also able to mollify his family's fears that his education had gone to waste.
During The Last Waltz Hudson states, "There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. And they knew how to punch through music which would cure and make people feel good." The piano-organ combination was uncommon in rock music, and for all his aggressive playing, Hudson also brought a level of musical sophistication.
With Hawkins they recorded a few singles in this period, and became well known as the best rock group in the thriving Toronto music scene.
By 1964, the group had split from Hawkins over personal differences. They were tiring of playing the same songs so often and wanted to perform original material, and they were weary of Hawkins' somewhat dictatorial leadership. He would fine the Hawks if they brought their girlfriends to the clubs (fearing it might reduce the numbers of available girls who came to performances) or if they smoked marijuana. (Alcohol and pills were acceptable, but Canada then had stiff penalties against marijuana possession.)
Robertson later said, "Eventually, he (Hawkins) built us up to the point where we outgrew his music and had to leave. He shot himself in the foot, really, bless his heart, by sharpening us into such a crackerjack band that we had to go on out into the world, because we knew what his vision was for himself, and we were all younger and more ambitious musically."
They recorded two singles and toured almost continually (usually billed as Levon and the Hawks), but they found little success, partly because without Hawkins, they lacked a magnetic frontman.
Also in 1963, Levon Helm met Cathy Smith, with whom he and other members of the Band would have a long association. Smith later met and influenced musicians Gordon Lightfoot and Hoyt Axton, and was involved in the death of John Belushi.
In 1965, Levon and the band met blues singer and harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson. They wanted to record with him, offering to become his backing band, but Williamson died not long after their meeting.
With Bob Dylan
In late summer 1965, Bob Dylan was looking for a backup band for his first U.S. "electric" tour. Levon and the Hawks were recommended by blues singer John Hammond, who earlier that year had used Helm, Hudson and Robertson on his Vanguard album So Many Roads. Around the same time, one of their friends from Toronto was working as secretary to Dylan's manager Albert Grossman. Her advice to Dylan: "You gotta see these guys."
After hearing the band play and meeting with Robertson, Dylan invited Levon and the Hawks to tour with him. The group was receptive to the offer, knowing it could give them the wider exposure they craved, but they simultaneously feared that their music was too different from his. They thought of themselves as a tightly rehearsed rock and rhythm and blues group and knew Dylan mostly from his early acoustic folk and protest music. Furthermore, they had little inkling of how internationally popular Dylan had become.
With Dylan, they played a tumultuous series of concerts from September 1965 through May 1966, marking Dylan's final transition from folkie to rocker. The tours, among the most storied in rock history, were also marked by Dylan's reportedly copious use of methamphetamines. Some, though not all, of the Hawks joined in the excesses. Most of the concerts were also met with the heckling of folk music purists. Helm was so affected by the negative reception that he left the tour within three months and sat out the rest of that year's concerts, as well as the world tour in 1966.
During and between tours, Dylan and the Hawks attempted several recording sessions, but with less than satisfying results. Sessions in October and November yielded just one usable single ("Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window"), and two days of recording in January 1966 for what was intended to be Dylan's next album, Blonde on Blonde, were equally unsuccessful. However, by the time the album's sessions were switched from Columbia's New York studios to Nashville, Robertson had replaced Mike Bloomfield as Dylan's primary guitarist. The other members of the Hawks were not invited to Nashville, though Blonde on Blonde's credits also list Danko on bass and Hudson on keyboards and sax.
With Mickey Jones on drums (replacing Sandy Konikoff, who had taken over when Levon Helm departed), Dylan and the Hawks appeared at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, in May 1966. The gig became legendary when, near the end of Dylan's electric set, an audience member shouted "Judas!". After a pause, Dylan replied, "I don't believe you. You're a liar!" He then turned to the Hawks and said "Play it fucking loud!" With that, they launched into an acidic version of "Like a Rolling Stone".
The Manchester performance was widely bootlegged (and mistakenly placed at the Royal Albert Hall). The recording of this gig became one of the most famous of Dylan's career, often inspiring a rapturous response in those who heard it. A 1971 review from Creem stated "My response is that crystallization of everything that is rock'n'roll music, at its finest, was to allow my jaw to drop, my body to move, to leap out of the chair ... It is an experience that one desires simply to share, to play over and over again for those he knows thirst for such pleasure. If I speak in an almost worshipful sense about this music, it is not because I have lost perspective, it is precisely because I have found it, within music, yes, that was made five years ago. But it is there and unignorable." When it finally saw official release in 1998, critic Richie Unterberger declared the record "an important document of rock history."
On July 29, 1966, while on a break from touring, Dylan suffered a motorcycle accident, and retired into semi-seclusion in Woodstock, New York. For a while, the Hawks returned to the bar and roadhouse touring circuit, sometimes backing other singers (including a brief stint with Tiny Tim). Dylan invited the Hawks to join him in Woodstock, where they recorded a much-bootlegged and influential series of demos, subsequently released on LP as The Basement Tapes.
Music from Big Pink and The Band
Reunited with Helm, the Hawks began writing their own songs in a rented large pink house in West Saugerties (near Woodstock). When they went into the recording studio, they still did not have a name for themselves. Stories vary as to the manner in which they ultimately adopted the name "The Band." In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either "The Honkies" or "The Crackers", but these names were vetoed by their record label; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as "the band" and it stuck. Initially, they disliked the moniker, but eventually grew to like it, thinking it both humble and presumptuous. Rolling Stone referred to them as "The band from Big Pink."
Their first album, Music from Big Pink (1968) was widely acclaimed. The album included three songs written or co-written by Dylan ("This Wheel's on Fire," "Tears of Rage," and "I Shall Be Released") as well as "The Weight", the use of which in the film Easy Rider would make it probably their best known song. While a continuity certainly ran through the music, there were stylistic leanings in a number of directions. Never a specifically "psychedelic" group, the Band's first record did contain at least one song ("Chest Fever") demonstrating some similarities with that genre. In contrast to his guitar playing with Dylan, Robertson opted for a more subdued, riff-oriented approach.
After the success of Big Pink, the band went on tour, including a performance at the Woodstock Festival (which was not included in the famed Woodstock film due to legal complications) and an appearance with Dylan at the UK Isle of Wight Festival (several songs from which were subsequently included on Dylan's Self Portrait album). That same year, they left for Los Angeles to record their follow-up, The Band (1969). From their deliberately rustic appearance on the cover, to the songs and arrangements within, the album stood in contrast to other popular music of the day. Although it should be noted that, by this point, several acts, notably Dylan on John Wesley Harding and The Byrds on Sweetheart of the Rodeo, had made similar stylistic moves. The Band featured songs that evoked oldtime rural America, from the civil war ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down") to unionization of farm workers ("King Harvest (Has Surely Come)").
These first two records were produced by John Simon, who was practically a group member: he aided in arrangements, and played occasional instruments (piano or tuba). Simon reported that he was often asked about the distinctive horn sections featured so effectively on the first two albums: people wanted to know how they had achieved such memorable sounds. Simon was slightly embarrassed to admit that, besides Hudson (an accomplished saxophonist), the others had only rudimentary horn skills, and achieved their sound simply by creatively utilizing their limited technique.
Rolling Stone magazine lavished praise on the Band in this era, giving them more attention than perhaps any other group in the magazine's history; Greil Marcus's articles in particular contributed greatly to the Band's mystique. The Band was also featured on the cover of Time Magazine's January 12, 1970 issue.
A critical and commercial triumph, The Band, along with works by The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, established a musical template (sometimes dubbed country rock) that later would be taken to even greater levels of commercial success by such artists as the Eagles. Both Big Pink and The Band also influenced their musical contemporaries, with both Eric Clapton and George Harrison citing the Band as a major influence on their musical direction in the late 1960s and early 70s. Indeed, Clapton later revealed that he had wanted to join the group.
Stage Fright, Cahoots, and Northern Lights - Southern Cross
Following their second album, the Band embarked on their first tour as a headlining act. The resulting anxiety from fame and its hang-ups was especially evidenced by the group as its songs turned to darker themes of fear and alienation: the influence on their next work is self-explanatory. Stage Fright (1970) was engineered by musician/engineer/producer Todd Rundgren and recorded on a stage in Woodstock, New York, but the fraying of the group's once-fabled unity was beginning to show. Similar to the previous record, The Band or sometimes called The Brown Album, Robertson takes on the majority of the songwriting. However, the trademark vocal style of the Band's three lead singers was much less prominent on this work.
After recording Stage Fright, the Band was among the acts participating in the Festival Express, an all-star rock concert tour of Canada by train that also included Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. In the concert documentary film, released in 2003, Danko can be seen intoxicated participating in a drunken jam session with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Joplin while singing "Ain't No More Cane."
At about this time, Robertson began exerting greater control over the Band. This has become a point of antipathy, especially between Helm and Robertson. Helm charges Robertson with authoritarianism and greed, while Robertson suggests his increased efforts in guiding the group were due largely to some of the other members being unreliable. In particular, Robertson insists he did his best to coax Manuel into writing or co-writing more songs, only to see Manuel's talents overtaken by addiction.
Despite mounting problems between the musicians, the Band forged ahead with their next album, Cahoots (1971). Cahoots included tunes such as Bob Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece," "4% Pantomime" (with Van Morrison), and "Life Is A Carnival," the last featuring a horn arrangement from Allen Toussaint. Toussaint's contribution was a critical addition to the Band's next project.
One of their most notable later albums is the live recording Rock of Ages (1972), recorded at a 1971/1972 New Year's Eve concert and featuring the line-up, bolstered by the addition of a horn section, in exuberant form. The horn arrangements were written by Allen Toussaint. Bob Dylan appeared on stage for the concert's final four songs, including a version of the rare song "When I Paint My Masterpiece".
In 1973, the Band released Moondog Matinee, an album of cover songs. There was no tour in support of the album, which garnered mixed reviews. However, they did open for the Grateful Dead for two summer shows at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey. They also played at the legendary Summer Jam at Watkins Glen. This massive concert took place at the Grand Prix Raceway outside Watkins Glen, New York on July 28, 1973. The festival, which was attended by over 600,000 music fans, also featured the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band.
Next, the Band reunited with Dylan, first in recording Dylan's album Planet Waves, released in January 1974, and then for the Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour, which played 40 shows in North America during January and February 1974. Later that year, the live album Before the Flood was released, documenting the tour.
In 1975, The Band released Northern Lights - Southern Cross, their first album of all-new material since 1971's Cahoots. All eight songs were written exclusively by Robertson. Despite poor record sales (due to the elongated period of inactivity by the band) the album is favored by critics and fans alike. Levon Helm regards this album highly in his book, This Wheel's on Fire: "It was the best album we had done since The Band." Highlights from the album included the Helm sung New Orleans sounding "Ophelia" and Rick Danko's emotionally driven vocal on "It Makes no Difference," both of which were performed live in The Last Waltz. Another notable song from the album was the epic story "Acadian Driftwood" which was also performed at the Last Waltz, but not included in the movie. The album also produced more experimentation from Hudson switching to synthesizers, heavily showcased on "Jupiter Hollow."
The Last Waltz
Main article: The Last Waltz
Helm with The Band, at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 1976
By 1976, Robertson was weary of touring. After having to cancel some tour dates due to Manuel suffering a severe neck injury in a boating accident in Texas, Robertson urged the Band to retire from touring with a massive Thanksgiving Day concert on November 25, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. The concert featured a horn section with arrangements by Allen Toussaint, and a stellar list of guests, including Hawkins, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond.
The concert was filmed by director Martin Scorsese, and was subsequently combined with interviews, as well as separately-recorded soundstage performances with country singer Emmylou Harris ("Evangeline") and gospel-soul group The Staple Singers ("The Weight"). Released in 1978, the concert film-documentary was accompanied by a triple-LP soundtrack.
"The Last Waltz" was primarily Robertson's idea, with the remaining members not wishing the group to fold. Subsequently, "The Last Waltz" focuses almost exculsively on Robertson, exaggerating his so-called leadership of the band, and his stage presence during the concert. Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson are almost absent from the film, which largely ignores their massive contributions to the collaboration.
At a private screening of "The Last Waltz", Ronnie Hawkins laughed at Robertson's heavily made-up face, and his monologuing about life on the road:
The world weary angst with which these and other lines were delivered was making Ronnie laugh. Hell, he'd been on the road twenty years and it hadn't killed him. I'd nudge Ronnie to make him stop, and then Robertson would come out with something like, 'Yeah the road has taken many of the great ones: Hank Williams, Otis, Jimi, Janis, Elvis. It's a goddamn impossible way of life." The Hawk howled at that one.
After one more studio record, entitled Islands, featuring a version of "Georgia On My Mind" for Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign, the Band split.
Initially, all of The Band's members remained active in music to one degree or another.
Robertson became a music producer and wrote movie soundtracks (including acting as music supervisor for several of Scorsese's films) before a highly praised comeback with a Daniel Lanois produced, eponymous solo album in 1987.
Helm received many plaudits for his acting debut in Coal Miner's Daughter, a biographical film about Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role opposite Sam Shepard in 1983's The Right Stuff while the remaining members interspersed session work with occasional solo releases.
In 1984, Rick Danko joined members of the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and others in the huge touring company that made up "The Byrds Twenty-Year Celebration." Several members of the band performed solo songs to start the show including Danko who performed "Mystery Train".
Hudson has released two acclaimed solo CDs, The Sea To The North in 2001, and LIVE at the WOLF in 2005, both featuring his wife, Maud, on vocals. He has also kept busy as an in-demand studio musician, and even contributed an original electronic score to an off-Broadway production of Dragon Slayers, written by Stanley Keyes and directed by Brad Mays in 1985 at the Union Square Theatre in NYC.
In 2007 Helm released a new album, an homage to his southern roots called Dirt Farmer, which was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album on February 9, 2008.
In 1983, the Band reformed and recommenced touring, though without Robertson. Several different musicians were recruited to replace Robertson and to fill out the group. The reunited Band was generally well-received, but found themselves playing in smaller venues than during the peak of their popularity.
While the reunited Band was touring, on March 4, 1986, Manuel committed suicide in his Florida motel room. It was revealed later that he had suffered for many years from chronic alcoholism. According to Levon Helm's autobiography, in the later stages of his illness, Manuel was consuming eight bottles of Grand Marnier per day.
The band participated in former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters' The Wall Live in Berlin concert in 1990, and in Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert celebration in New York City in October 1992. The group was the opening band for the final Grateful Dead shows at Soldier Field, in Chicago, Illinois in July 1995.
Richard Manuel's position as pianist was filled first by old friend Stan Szelest (who passed away not long after), then by Richard Bell. (Bell was best known from his days as a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band.) The reformed group recorded Jericho in 1993 with much of the songwriting being handled outside the group. Two more post-reunion efforts followed, High on the Hog and Jubilation, the latter including guest appearances from Eric Clapton and John Hiatt.
The Juno Awards of 1989 hosted a special reunion of several band members when The Band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. This was also the year that Robbie Robertson won 3 awards for his self titled album. With Canadian country rock superstars Blue Rodeo as a back-up band, Music Express called the 1989 Juno appearance with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, and Garth Hudson a symbolic "passing of the torch" from The Band to Blue Rodeo.
In 1994 Robertson appeared with Danko and Hudson as The Band for the second time since the original group broke up. The occasion was the induction of The Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Helm, who has feuded with Robertson for years over accusations of stolen songwriting credits, did not attend.
On 10 December 1999 another member was lost when Rick Danko died in his sleep at age 56. He had been a long-time drug user. In 1997 he had been found guilty of trying to smuggle heroin into Japan. He told the presiding judge that he had begun using the drug (together with prescription morphine) to fight life-long pain resulting from a 1968 auto accident. No drugs were found in his system at the time of his death. Following the death of Rick Danko, The Band broke up for good.
On 15 June 2007, The Band's late-period keyboardist Richard Bell died from multiple myeloma.
Although The Band received The Grammy Award's Lifetime Achievement Award on 9 February 2008, there was no reunion of all three living members, as Levon Helm held a "Midnight Ramble" in honor of the event in Woodstock, NY.
The Band has influenced countless bands, songwriters, and performers, from the Grateful Dead and Beatles to Eric Clapton and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The album Music from Big Pink, in particular, is credited with contributing to Clapton's decision to leave the super group Cream. In his appearance with the Band during the Last Waltz, Clapton announced that in 1968 he'd heard the album, "and it had changed my life", he said. Its influence includes The Beatles' production of their back-to-basics album Let It Be, and Fairport Convention's recording of Liege & Lief, an album that established British folk rock as a distinct genre. Meanwhile, the Big Pink song "The Weight" has been covered numerous times, and in various musical styles.
In the nineties, a new generation of bands influenced by The Band began to gain popularity, including Counting Crows and The Black Crowes. Counting Crows indicated this influence with their tribute to the late Richard Manuel, "If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dead)" from their album Hard Candy. The Black Crowes frequently cover Band songs during live performances, such as "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down", which appears on their DVD Freak 'n' Roll into the Fog.
Chicago's Umphrey's McGee has covered both "Ophelia" and "Don't Do It". Both were covered for the first time at their New Year's Eve concert from 2004, Wrapped Around Chicago. "Ophelia" appears on that release. They have also covered "The Weight" twice with Huey Lewis on vocals.
Southern-based "jam band" Widespread Panic has covered "Ophelia" consistently from 1987 to 2007, and in 2006 they began covering "Chest Fever" as well.
In 2004 southern rock-revivalists Drive-By Truckers released the track "Danko/Manuel" on the album The Dirty South. My Morning Jacket's southern rock/alt-country sound is often compared to the Band.
In January 2007, a tribute album, entitled Endless Highway: The Music of The Band, was released which included contributions by My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Gomez, Guster, Bruce Hornsby, Jack Johnson and ALO, Leanne Womack, The Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, Jakob Dylan, and Rosanne Cash, amongst others.
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- A Change Is Gonna Come
- Acadian Driftwood
- Across The Great Divide
- Ain�t Got No Home
- Ain�t No More Cane
- Ain�t That A Lot Of Love
- Akua Tuta
- All La Glory
- Amazon
- Amazon (River Of Dreams)
- American Roulette
- Ancestor Song
- Apple Suckling Tree
- Atlantic City
- Back To Memphis
- Beautiful Thing
- Bessie Smith
- Between Trains
- Blaze Of Glory
- Blind Willie Mctell
- Blue River
- Blues Stay Away From Me
- Brainwash
- Breakin The Rules
- Broken Arrow
- Caldonia Mission (live)
- Caledonia Mission
- Carry Me
- Change Is Good
- Cherokee Morning Song
- Chest Fever
- Christmas Must Be Tonight
- Clothes Line Saga
- Country Boy
- Crash On The Levee[Down In The Flood]
- Daniel And The Sacred Harp
- Daniel & The Sacred Harp
- Davy�s On The Road Again
- Day Of Reckoning
- Don't Do It
- Don�t Ya Tell Henry
- Driftin� Away
- Endless Highway
- Evangeline
- Fallen Angel
- Ferdinand The Imposter
- Ferdinand The Imposter (outtake - Demo)
- Forbidden Fruit
- Forever Young
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Twenty-seven-year-old James Michael Puebla Berling of Centreville was charged with impersonating a police officer, unauthorized use of a vehicle and reckless handling of a firearm.
Authorities say a state trooper saw the Fairfax County Police car speeding along Route 29 in Centreville about 1 a.m. on March 16. The trooper followed, and police say Berling stopped the car and fled on foot. Police say he was wearing his father's uniform shirt when arrested.
Police said the firearm charge stemmed from a separate complaint of a suspicious noise at Berling's home.
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Fake antivirus scams: It's a $120m business – and alleged ringleaders have just been frozen
Or maybe?
Couldn't we just defenestrate* the lot of them?
That would get them out of Windows.
(* From the thirteenth floor at minimum for luck, or from orbit just to be sure.)
Heyyy! NICE e-bracelet you've got there ... SHAME if someone were to SUBPOENA it
Is it only me?
That sees "Healthkit" and reads Heathkit?
Or am I just showing my age.
Munich considers dumping Linux for ... GULP ... Windows!
Re: Your phone works on electricity
Sorry, still wrong.
I mean opening the raw source of the message as a single unit, headers, attachments, the lot exactly as it was received and prior to any unpacking of the message contents.
Your suggestion will show the html source for the body of the message, but will not show the headers.
You can also see the headers if you wish, but the body will not be included in that view.
There seems to be no way to view the entire raw message source, headers and all in a single view.
In Thunderbird for instance, "Ctrl-U" will show the view I want to see.
(I'm talking about Outlook 2010 as the version which can't quote html contextually.)
And just to add to the fun of winmail.dat, the old (now defunct) Outlook Express would go one step further and decide that as it is not the full-blown version of Outlook, the winmail.dat attachment should be completely ignored, and no hint of it's existence is given (until you look at the raw source of the message of course, which was something tha Outlook Express _would_ do) so people would reply to the sender, stating that there was no attachment received.
Older versions of Outlook used IE as the rendering engine for html messages. 2007 used Word itself but by Outlook 2010 the rendering engine is taken from Word instead which often makes a dogs breakfast of that job too, unless the mail came from another Outlook user where it was written using the same dodgy html that Word generates.
Re: An amazing piece of work?
You will note the first line of my statement was "In html mode"
I was being quite specific on that point.
An amazing piece of work?
In html mode, please show me an example of contextual quoting.
Because Outlook uses the core editor from Word, it won't allow you to quote contextually, as it refuses to allow you to break up the quoted material into blocks for Question/Answer, Q/A, Q/A...
Even if you do use the necessary keystrokes to break the quoted material, when you re-open the reply thus generated, the quoted material will all be merged once again.
Outlook can turn a single line email into several kb of html cruft with every line of text having it's own font and style settings (even when they are identical to all of the previous lines).
Then there's the boondoggle that is MS-TNEF formatted RTF mode that merges everything into a file called winmail.dat, which can of course only be opened natively by Outlook. Plugins exist for various other clients, but is yet another example of how Microsoft try to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish existing standards such as MIME encoding which were already designed with this use in mind.
One of the most common things I do when receiving a message that looks a bit suspicious is to open is in raw text mode so that I can properly inspect the content and headers. Guess what? Outlook won't let you look at the raw incoming message!
What's amazing is how after all these years, Outlook still can't get such simple things right.
Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game
Re: Condition
Rarely an issue?
Try Honeywell's security camera recorder web interface. It requires Java AND ActiveX.
The worst of both worlds, it requires IE, and makes no guarantees about running on any recent version of that.
Internet Explorer rename?
A sows ear by any other name will still never be a silk purse, and will still smell just as bad.
Help Australia's PM and attorney-general to define metadata
Bad poll
There's no "None of the above." option in any of the questions!
Turnbull says NBN 'most reckless commitment of Commonwealth funds in our history'
Johnny Hart had it right.
From the comic strip BC.
Wiley's Dictionary.
Politics: A many handed game in which mudballs are trumps.
Facebook: Want to stay in touch? Then it's Messenger or NOTHING
Farcebook. Who needs it!
The sheer amount of time people waste on it each day is staggering.
Don't have an account, don't want an account, don't need Farcebook.
Too easy.
True fact: Your CAT wees ... like a racehorse
To call this research
Is definitely taking the piss.
LOHAN in FIGHT to DEATH with brace of cantankerous canards
Alternate control method.
From the "makes sense to me" school of engineering, I would probably have opted to use the pivot purely as a pivot point, and moved the control horn forward of backward along the canard through a suitably sized slot in the body. Drive the system via an L shaped link to convert the horizontal movement of the servo control movement to a vertical movement of the control arm of the canard protruding through the slot. This would take the control torque away from the threaded rod of the pivot.
Apple wheels out sueball cannon, again
What I'd love to see
I'd love to see Judge Koh reply "Denied! Award halved for being greedy and vexatious."
then add "Want to try for double or nothing, or will you stop wasting the court's time?"
When will the judiciary finally slap down these stupid patent squabbles?
Microsoft blinks, extends Windows 8.1 Update deadline for consumers
And what of unsold stock?
With all of the unloved stock sitting on shop shelves around the world, I can just see the poor rube that purchases one only to find that they can't apply any security patches.
Or will Microsoft send someone to each of these shops to perform the update so as not to leavh customers stranded? HA!
UN to debate killer drone ethics
Survive bureaucracy and a committee? Maybe.
If you could get the entire commitee gathered together in one place, a LAWS drone could do the job just fine.
The icon should be self explanatory, though the black helicopter should precede it of course.
Red Hat to ship RHEL 7 release candidate with a taste of container tech
Re: Centos?
Even given that Centos now receives active support from Redhat, I still doubt that Centos can remove all of the trademark branding from RHEL 7 without a considerable level of due care.
So I suspect that months is the more likely answer, though probably fewer of them than the likes of Scientific Linux et al.
US taxman blows Win XP deadline, must now spend millions on custom support
Can you envisage the following conversation?
(IRS) Microsoft support?
(MS) Yes, how can I help you?
(IRS) We seem to be having issues with some of our computers running Windows XP.
(MS) Sorry, XP has reached end of life and is no longer supported except where extra support fees are to be paid.
(IRS) Sorry, I missed that because the the boss was just asking about scheduling Microsoft and its staff for a tax audit. Could you repeat what you just said?
(MS) Of course. I was asking for a full description of the problem you are experiencing so I can get our staff onto the problem..
Come to Oz for sun, surf, ratting on co-workers and surveillance
To quote Benjamin Franklin
"They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Internet is a TOOL OF SATAN that destroys belief, study claims
Re: So to be safe
I was thinking more in the realms of the Babel fish entry in the guide.
1. God refuses to prove that (S)He exists, because proof denies faith, and without faith God is nothing.
2. Man then counters that the Babel fish is a dead giveaway because it could not have evolved by chance. So the fish proves that God exists, therefore (S)He doesn't. Q.E.D.
3. God says that (S)He hadn't thought of that, and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
"Oh that was easy" says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white, and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing."
(Or words to that effect anyway.)
So in many ways, the Internet is the equivalent to the Babel fish.
So to be safe
We should steer clear of zebra crossings.
(Or so Douglas Adams tells us.)
Brussels' antitrust boss not budging on planned Google competition deal
Do we assume?
The settlement also obligates the competing search engines to clearly show Google search entries in their results?
VMware drops vSphere 5.5 Update 1 into sysadmins' laps
Requires Adobe Flash?
Mega Fail!
A management tool that requires a continuing source of security embarrasment (flash) on top of a browser, (another cause of security headaches) on top of Windows.
Collect the whole set!
(Not that Java would be a better option.)
Windows 8.1 Update 1 spewed online a MONTH early – by Microsoft
Release date?
Let me guess. The official release date would have to be April 1st, wouldn't it?
After all, Windows 8 can be best described as a bad joke, and suggesting that a point release will fix it would have to warrant an exclamation of "April Fool!"
Australian bureaucrats to journalist: 'Give us back our bits'
Too easy
Returning the data?
Everyone should know the answer to this one.
Just reverse the polarity.
(After all, it always works in the movies!)
UK citizens to Microsoft: Oi. We WANT ODF as our doc standard
Re: Very long term
"Microsoft's format is published and freely available."
Except that the OOXML "Standard" <cough> is replete with instances of backward compatibility features (often optional of course <cough><splutter>) that are described along the lines of "Treat version X feature the same way that versoin X does." but with no details on exactly how the proprietary format version X actually performed said function. The documentation for version X being proprietary and not available.
It leaves Microsoft as the only ones that could possibly implement the OOXML standard in full, while they point at their competition on performance issues over exactly such ill defined behaviour.
Even then, Microsoft railroaded OOXML through as an IEEE standard by stacking the ballot by having Microsoft business partners join IEEE, purely for the purpose of filling seats at meetings and in doing so, ensuring that objectors were not able to attend these meetings in enough numbers to make a difference.
Despite that, several modifications to the original OOXML standard as proposed by Microsoft were pushed into the final OOXML standard that made Mocrosoft Office only partially compliant to their own standard. Microsoft however were uninterested in making changes to Office so that it does comply.
In other words, it is a standard that even Microsoft don't comply with.
Magnets to stick stuff to tablets: Yup, there's an Apple patent application for that
Super Saiyan Vegeeta
I have a toy my kids left behind when they grew up and moved out. One of them now with an 8 year old kid of his own.
It comprises of a base upon which the model Vegeeta stands, the feet being held by magnets in the base. The magnets and metal slugs in the models feet, are used to provide power to a yellow LED in the head of the model. When you push the button on the base, the electronics within the base make the appropriate noises, and power up the LED in the model in harmony with the sound effects.
Magnets to hold the two electronic units together in correct alignment? - Check!
The magnets allow the two electronic units interact? - Check!
Year of manufacture 2002.
I'd claim that as over 11 years of prior art, not to mention patently obvious.
Forget unified communications, we want universal comms, Microsoft insists
Universal comms
And of course this means that all of the protocols are open, fully documented, royalty free, and have no patent restrictions, proprietary dependancies, or other legal entanglements. <cough!>
NBN to be built even if cost-benefit analysis shows no ROI
Cost-benefit analysis
I wonder if there has been / should be a cost-benefit analysis done on a politicians wages.
It would probably make the NBN look like a steal by comparison.
Apple and Samsung STILL in bitchfight over banning ancient mobes
Wishful thinking.
If only for once the judge would decide that enough is enough, and hand down a judgement that the patents involved in the case from both warring parties are now null and void.
Then rip, shred and burn the patents, bury the ashes and salt the earth where they lie, with some silver nitrate for good measure, just to ensure that they never rise from the grave.
The judgement should also include payment by the warring parties of the courts costs for the time the case has wasted, at a rate equal to the combined rates charged by the lawyers of both parties. (With tripple damages of course.)
Then dismiss the case "with predjudice" and demand that the parties never darken the courts with such stupid bickering over such trivial rubbish henceforth!
<Sigh> Unfortunately very unlikely to happen. </Sigh>
Coroner suggests cars should block mobile phones
First rule
The first rule of driving: Everyone else on the road is an idiot.
So expect the worst possible behaviour from them and drive to give yourself the chance to react when they inevitably do something stupid or unexpected. You will rarely be disappointed.
LOHAN lays mitts on second Iridium sat comms kit
Warranty void if broken
The seal on the side states "Warranty void if broken"
I wonder what the warranty has to say about dropping it from 113,000 feet?
I can also picture the following scenario:
Lester: Hey, I want a new one because this one is not working!
Sales Droid: Sorry, you obviously didn't read the label. "Warranty void if broken."... Next!
MIND CONTROL HAT makes CHOPPER do what BRAIN says
Someone really should let Steven Hawking have a go with this!
It would provide a huge profile boost to the project if the good professor could be seen with an ear to ear grin while piloting this thing, making it do what his muscles can no longer do.
Thousands rally behind teen girl cuffed, expelled in harmless 'explosion'
How things have changed!
I read this article shortly after having finished reading the document mentioned below.
It covers the development of rocket propellants in the early parts of the 20th century.
It is rather heavy on the chemistry, but the author (Yes, he is an actual rocket scientist (or chemist at least)) manages to cover a great deal of the same sort of tomfoolery that was demonstrated by Ms Wilmot, and does so in a very readable way that kept me entertained for the length of the book.
The difference is that when things went awry in their experiments, it was more than a plastic bottle that went pop-fizz. The other difference was that back then, the government and armed forces actively encouraged such experimentation.
It's well worth the read.
On the expulsion and criminal charges issue, I agree that it is a way out of proportion knee jerk reaction by a rather paranoid establishment. Disciplinary action to reinforce the need to think harder on the possible consequences of her actions before she commits them would be a more appropriate response.
Based on those rules, I would have been expelled from primary school, but that was back in the 60's where common sense (and the feel of a leather strap across the back of the legs for more serious infractions) was the norm.
Damn religious extremism and terrorism for making common sense a casualty of war.
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Swap the payload swivel with a hollow one, an inward flanged tube sitting inside an outward flanged tube with ball bearings sandwiched between the flanges.
That way you can pass the safety tether through the middle of the swivel.
(A ball retaining plate like used to support the platter in a microwave oven can be used to reduce the number of ball bearings needed without having the all bunch up at one location.)
Use a length of line for your tether in a "Y" configuration between opposing shroud lines of the chute and place a small fishing line type swivel at the junction of the Y. That way, as the chute opens, the "Y" becomes a "T", pulling the safety pin.
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Re: If only australia was a country
Forget the Kangaroo, an Echidna suppository would be far more appropriate.
(Flame? Post suppository side effects of course.)
Linux kernel dumps 386 chip support
6502 / Z80? Hah!
Doesn't anyone else remember the fun to be had hand-keying the PDP 8 bootstrap sequence on the front panel switches?
The 6502 was simple, but the Z80 had so many more registers to play with.
Ah the memories!
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EU Browser ballot screen?
I wonder if Microsoft have learned their lesson, or are all Windows 8 users going to be limbered with IE as the default browser again? Will they offer a ballot screen in the tablet/mobile editions?
How much will it cost them this time?
Samsung chucks 'free' Galaxy S III at dragon sketcher
Strong Bad would be totally unimpressed!
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Re: "young adults?" pffft....
Or lawsuit for trademark infringement.
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The Paradox of Modern Iran
"Paradox" HA!. "Oxymoron" is closer to the mark.
Religion and Government should never be mixed together.
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Re: Of course...
It's absolutely ridiculous!
I have a desktop calculator at work, the design of which is a rectangle with rounded corners, with the buttons being squares and rectangles, once again with rounded corners. It's other innovative feature is that the icons (read "Buttons") are below the screen!
It uses mechanical buttons rather than a touch screen, but in terms of basic design appearance, the iPhone is nothing more than an expensive knockoff of a calculator that I have had for over a decade.
Apple's use of "Design Patents" is an example of patent abuse at it's worst. It should never have been granted in the first place, and the granting examiner should be fitted out for a white cane immediately!
Judge: Patent litigants behave like animals
Re: Light in the dark.
Fuzzy, you are not quite right. Patents were designed with a specific purpose. The idea was that an inventor was given a limited time monopoly on an invention in exchange for making the design and methods available to the public. It was intended to provide an alternative to "trade secrets" and encourage dissemination of knowledge.
Examples of trade secrets still in use are KFC's 11 herbs and spices, Coca Cola's formulation etc.
They don't dare patent their secret because it would entail full disclosure.
I'm not for one second defending software patents, though I can reluctantly accept that pharmaceutical patents due to the R&D required to develop the product though testing, clinical trials, FDA approval, with the implicit risk that the development investment may never make it to market due to dead ends at any point along the process.
Software and design patents (like Apple's rounded corners on icons) are not being used to disseminate information, but instead as a corporate version of "Keepings off" that kids used to play in the schoolyard before political correctness tried to outlaw it. They are using them as landmines for any who tread close enough to their turf, and bury the actual working knowledge beneath vague patent speak with a strong peppering of pluralities and jargon to allow the patent holder to blur the meaning to cover as many surrounding ideas as possible.
Instead of a pixel sized dot, they are more like a bottle of ink on blotting paper. They are now used as weapons of corporate warfare.
I would love to see corporate bodies who try to pull this sort of stunt with dubious patent claims and unwarranted lawsuits hit with huge fines as a disincentive against bring their corporate squabbles into the courts. The current tendency to "sue and see what sticks" mentality needs to be stomped on hard.
Judge Posner receives my heartfelt appreciation for his stance.
California clears way for Steve Jobs' 'private Apple spaceship'
It represents Apple's corporate philosophy.
Just like their iPad, iPhone and other hardware. Rounded corners enclosing a walled garden.
(The mushroom cloud because Steve Jobs did declare thermonuclear war on Android.)
Oz has to go nuclear, says Adelaide U scientist
The mighty atom.
Thunderbirds are go!
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Re: I suppose
The TomTom does indeed run linux.
Unfortunately, that doesn't extend to the management utility "TomTom Home" which is available for Windows and Mac only. Hows that for a kick in the teeth?
Take the benefits of the linux code, then exclude that very community from being able to update their maps etc. if they happen to be using Linux as their preferred desktop environment.
Try and raise the issue with them and you get a response along the lines:
"At TomTom we take all customer comments, feedback and suggestions seriously and therefore we have passed your comments on to our 2nd Line team, Product Management and Marketing Team."
End quote. And later when I replied: "Ouch! Not the mythical 2nd Line team, Product Management and Marketing Team. That part of the phrase has been offered up verbatim on several prior requests, and in each case, nothing further ever eventuated." they came back with:
"I am glad to see your concern into this issue. Please be assured that I have really spoken to the Senior Department regarding the feedback you had given in the previous email. I have explained them as to what really the query is. Hopefully in the future updates w get see some development on this subject."
Needless to say, TomTom has provided no further feedback, and there is still no news of any linux client.
New patent will give iPhone screen interactive 3D
(a) How it will have cope with someone like Marty Feldman?
(b) Would Steven Hawking's eye and cheek operated wheelchair computer interface count as prior art?
TomTom axes 10% of workforce
And I'm still waiting on a linux equivalent to their TomTom Home software!
You can't buy online map updates without it, but the damn thing only runs under Microsoft Windows.
Online support staff keep telling me that they have passed it to to the second level support and marketing teams, but invariable that is the last you hear of it. Now they are firing exactly the people that are needed to create such software. Figures!
Samsung gets a win in Oz patent battle
Plus of course the fact that there are those of us that point blank refuse to live in Apple's walled garden, and therefore will never purchase any Apple product.
So it becomes impossible to harm Apple sales to me, as they would still only get 100% of nothing.
High Court reinstates Oz Galaxy 10.1 ban
Simplest solution
Place the injunction on both the iPad and the Galaxy Tab.
Then neither can be sold until the case has run its course.
That would both make the conflicting parties think very hard before starting these stupid lawsuits.
At the same time it would prevent the plaintif from gaining an unfair sales head start over their competition by employing the courts as an anticompetitive weapon.
Whinging Brits reflect on epic Oz road trip
Pom bootnote clarification
Actually, the term Pom is a phonetic abbreviation of POHM. (The H being silent)
Going back to Australia's convict past, the acronym expanded to "Prisoner Of His/Her Majesty".
The whingeing part was probably because such transportees weren't too happy about the idea.
These days, Australians by and large do pretty much as we please, so now the acronym instead refers to those stuck back in old blighty, under the thumb of Her Majesty's government.
It is indeed.
The opal miners in Coober Pedy quickly found out that it was a great deal more comfortable living underground than above. The walls you see are the natural rock colours.
(Coober Pedy is from the Aboriginal term Kupa-Piti, which translates to "White man's hole". I will leave it to the imagination of the reader to interpret their meaning :-))
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Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) was recognized Friday, Nov. 1, for his dedication to helping service members, who were subjected to toxic chemicals in the Department of Defense's (DOD's) secret chemical weapon tests, receive the medical care and disability compensation they need in conjunction with service-related health issues.
Former senior Navy officer and Cal Maritime graduate Jack Alderson, who initially brought the issues to Thompson's attention, presented the Cal Maritime award. Thompson represents California's Fifth Congressional District, serving all or part of Contra Costa, Lake, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
"It is an honor to be recognized with this award," Thompson said, adding, "but I didn't do it (help the veterans) for an award, I did it because it was the right thing to do. These folks were abandoned after battle."
In 1998, Alderson contacted Thompson, who he knew through his work in the Humboldt Harbor District, and told him about a top-secret DOD project he and numerous colleagues had been a part of in the 1960s. The project, under the umbrella of military work known as Project 112, was created under President John F. Kennedy during the Cold War to improve the military's knowledge of and tactics using chemical weapons.
"These were the first air hot tests of chemical weapons," Alderson said.
Alderson told Thompson how, at the age of 31 and in his ninth year in the Navy, he and hundreds of other colleagues who were also seasoned sailors, received orders to be part of this classified Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) on unincorporated Johnston Island, nearly 800 miles south of Hawaii. Alderson and his men received "extensive" training and spent three months testing chemical weapons in the environment and on monkeys in the Pacific. The weapons were sprayed aerially onto barges, which were observed and maintained by crews on nearby tugboats. Although the crews were never directly sprayed, they came into close contact with the monkeys and the sprayed areas in routine clean up and upkeep operations. The only protective gear they wore, Alderson recalls, was gas masks, rubber booties and gloves, and coveralls.
For 40 years, DOD denied Project SHAD even existed. In 2002, DOD admitted that between 1962 and 1974 it tested harmful chemical and biological weapons by spraying them on ships and sailors in Project 112, which included Project SHAD, and exposed at least 6,000 service members (without their knowledge) to things like Vx nerve gas, sarin nerve gas, E. coli, Francisella tularensis bacteria and Bacillus bacteria.
When Alderson first came to Thompson, he informed him that everybody under his command, including himself, had become sick, plagued with cancer and respiratory problems and could not receive help under their veterans benefits because the government would not acknowledge project SHAD happened, let alone that the testing had caused serious medical issues for those who worked in the testing area. Alderson says he has so many cancers that he "can't remember their names or numbers," including prostate cancer and malignant melanoma. His lungs are also riddled with asbestos.
When his office started investigating, according to Thompson, he found out that the Pentagon had been lying for 40 years, not only about the existence of the project, but what the soldiers were exposed to.
"They (the service members working on SHAD) thought they were being sprayed with simulants, but we found out they were actually being sprayed with the real deal," Thompson said, calling the operation "Draconian."
"They exposed our U.S. service members to dangerous chemicals that have subsequently caused them serious medical problems," Thompson said. "What we want done is to make sure everybody who was exposed gets notified and will be able to get medical help."
Congress contracted the independent Institute of Medicine to conduct a study of health effects associated with chemicals used in Project 112 and Project SHAD. The study determined that there were no long-term health effects directly linked to SHAD. In October 2008, Thompson and Alderson testified in front of Congress about Project SHAD, and about the medical conditions that Alderson and his peers suffer from today, and found out that the vaccinations crews were given to protect them from biological weapons and chemical weapons were never tested by the Federal Drug Administration. "You can't even vaccinate to protect against a chemical weapon," Alderson said, adding when he found out, it was the first time he felt like a test subject.
Numerous reports from other government agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noted that long-term exposure to the chemicals used in SHAD do have disastrous health effects. The IOM study was deemed inaccurate, as it did not take into account the level of exposure to specific agents and failed to account for the duties assigned to crewmembers.
In 2010, Congress passed a provision, co-authored by Thompson, that requires the Veterans Affairs administration to conduct another study with IOM to examine the health impact of SHAD.
In the last year, Alderson has undergone major heart surgery and receives cancer treatment at his local VA clinic every two months. He says without the benefits from the VA, he would not be able to afford treatment without using Medicare.
Alderson hopes the government will honor the laws set forth at Nuremburg and not order soldiers to work in hazardous conditions, but rather ask for their participation and dutifully inform them of all risks associated with their participation. "I would have volunteered because I took my duty seriously, but I wish I would have known and been informed," he said.
Alderson is grateful for Thompson's help and says that it is because of Thompson's determination and unwillingness to drop the issue that he and so many of his peers can receive medical care in the wake of illness after SHAD.
For Thompson, it is Alderson who is the real hero, not just for serving his country, but for his continuous work on exposing Project SHAD and for his commitment to caring for the men he worked with and who served under him.
Thompson said he will not stop working on securing health care for the men who worked on Project SHAD until they are all receiving stable, secure help.He is currently working with Congress to conduct a second study by IOM on health issues related to the project, which will be finished in 2014.
"We have to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again," Thompson said. "When brave men and women sign up to serve their country they may face an enemy, but they should never feel threatened by their own government."