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Train Derailments and Deferred Maintenance
It seems to me that yesterday's derailment of Amtrak's Capitol Limited is the latest examples of the railroads' cutting corners on track maintenance and trying to fatten the bottom line as best as they can. While the need to turn a profit is understandable, but at the expense of train and track safety? Fire departments along the nation's railroads should be especially concerned, since some of the cargoes in tank cars are potential incendiary bombs looking for somewhere to go off and enough of these cars in the same block of cars could wipe out an entire village, even if every fire department in the county responds to the scene of such a disaster. In light of corporate scandals that have begun coming to light, I cannot help but wonder if the executives of the nation's major railroads are not engaging in similar hijinks as the executives of Enron, Adelphia, Global Grossing, and a few others have been caught doing. Maintenance of way forces on most major railroads are stretched so thin that they just are not up to the job of proper maintenance, no matter how many machines they have to work with. This trend toward corporate greed got started back in the 1980s and with derailments on the rise, not to mention the recent corporate scandals, every fire chief and his or her men and women ought to be greatly concerned about the true state of safety on the nation's railroads. What their corporate staff says is one thing and what is reality, when a train piles up a bunch of propane gas filled tankers or a crowded passenger train leaves the rails is something else again. From what I have seen actually watching railroad operations, most freight trains carry their dangerous cargo tank cars grouped together in blocks of 10 or more cars peer block with each block going to different destination, based on how the train is made up. Usually propane tankers are coupled together, clorine tankers coupled together and those tankers carrying food products separated from the haz mat cars by box cars or other types of freight cars.. Not only railroad tank cars are potential time bombs, but so are many tanker trucks traveling the highways. God help the town in which one overturns and breaks open.
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Two seperate issues here.
First, I'm pretty sure the derailment was along track owned and operated by Amtrak. That's a hopeless mess of subsidized nostalgia that should be ended. Then hopefully a successor agency in the northeast corridor could focus efforts on a good rail system there instead of running trains to montreal and florida and chicago where air transport is the better option.
Second is the freight railway system, and that system is seriously overworked in many areas. There are many parts of the system that need not only maintenance, but need new construction of additional track so there is time to take the old tracks o/o/s for heavy maintenance. It's also time for a high-speed/high-capacity freight rail system to complement high-speed/low-capacity air freight, low-speed/high capacity freight rail, and medium speed/medium capacity trucking.
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On a lighter side, tip o' the leather to Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Fairfax, Va. and Washington, D.C Fire and EMS. I have read nothing but glowing reports about this incident. Luckly for them the situation was favorable, with 173 passangers and crew aboard, all were rescued with only 6 passangers with life threatening injuries. Good work!
Reports this morning state that the "blackboxes", much like those in aircraft, have been recovered, and are being evaluated today. Hopefully we'll find out more. There was a heavy train that passed over the tracks minutes before without incident, and the passanger train was moving at a safe rate of speed. Funny though, that Amtrak is rebuilding from a fincacial crisis. I'm not suggesting that they are cutting corners to see profit, but God help them if they are.
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Agree with the tip of the hat. DC Metro area sure sees an awful lot of passenger train accidents...seems like every couple of years.
Amtrak isn't recovering though, just continuing to circle the drain. Just a few weeks ago they threatened to simply cease service if they didn't get the latest infusion of taxpayer support. Congress makes it worse by insisting long, low ridership, money bleeding routes stay open in exchange for funds -- Oink, Oink. There are things like electricity, telecommunications, roads, and even fire protection that are neccessary in rural areas unless we want to have a bunch of illiterate subsitence farmers running around (like most of the rural world) and it's a valuable public service for state & federal governments to subsidize them so they can contribute to the economy. Passenger rail service isn't one of them.
(By the way, Amtrak annual subsidy when you add up direct cash, loan guarantees, and accounting magic works out to be about $750 million dollars a year)Last edited by Dalmatian90; 07-30-2002 at 01:32 PM.
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Shut down of Airways Proof Trains are Needed
First, the shutdown of the airways after 9-11 is proof that the trains are just as important a part of the transportation system as the rest of the transportation network, including the airlines, some of which clearly deserve to go out of business with the way they have abused their passengers. Actually, I meant that it was the freight railroads cutting corners on maintenance, not Amtrak. CSX got into hot water over this several years ago and seems likely to do so again, given the number of Amtrak accidents occuring on their rails. It seems to me that the same corporate shenanigans that brought down Enron, Global Crossing, and Adelphia, to name a few, could be going on at a number of the freight railroads, particularly the major roads in the east. Greyhound could not necessarily handle the traffic diverted when the airways were shut down on 9-11. They only have about 2400 or so buses nationwide, not the 5000+ bus fleet that they used to have. Also, there are many people who are afraid to fly and many more who are priced out of the market and for whom a trip of several days on Greyhound is not a viable option. Not only that the passenger rail system is no where near what it should be. Don't forget that even though airliners are now a lot more difficult to hijack since 9-11, they can still be shot down on take off and that is what these Al Qaida vermin want to do. That is why rail needs to be given a more important role in moving both people and goods, some of our other modes are over worked. By taking some of the passenger load off the highways and airways, it would mean fewer accidents for fire departments to have to deal with. My 1997 head on collision is an example of one of them.
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Hmmm, anyone wanna guess what carried more passengers home in the wake of the unprecedented airline shutdown:
a) Amtrak
b) Rental Cars
Highways backup airports when they're unavailable or people are unwilling to fly. There's no need for a third alternative to massage people's nerves or sense of nostalgia.
Passenger rail needs to focus on the commuter & dense inter-urban routes that can support it, not on sending rails out to every place that already has jetports and interstates serving it.
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Get your back packs on fellow brothers, Im takeing you to school on railroads.
First off ,the most likely cause of that de-railment was something called a "Heat-Kink" it what happens when rail sits in the sun all day and acuteally expands (like any other metal)and bows out a inch or so-that is un-avoidible,especially with welded rail it has to expnad or else it will break. The rail road reported "Visually" inspecting the track sunday night which means nothing.That just means two guys sat in the HI-RAIL truck and drove on the tracks looking for downed trees and such.The railroad should of taken the action to place a speed resrticion on the line- but they didnt.CSX's manegment has a history of being in-compitent and lack common sense.
The tracks that this train was traveling on belong to the CSX corp. out of Jacksonville FL. If you did your homework on this you find Amtrak- only owns two routes in the whole of the United States.
There is a short route in Michigan, there largest is the North east corridor which runs from Washington DC to Bostons South station, this Amtraks high speed corridor.Other than that they are on a Freight railroads rights of way!
People complain that the trains arnt fast enough- thats because stupid people go through the crossings with the lights on- that is there own fault not the railroads!Thats the reason why amtrak can do 150 mph is on there own ROW becuase they have no public crossings-So stupid people cant drive out in front of the train!Its not a question of technologie - its a question of can people get any dumber? And it goverment regualtions that keeps passenger train speeds low.
If the railroads did not get out of the stupid Stagers act in the 80- there would be no railroads today- not and opinion - a fact!
Last time I checked airplanes werent that great at carrying coal to fuel a power plant to run the computer!And im sure people would complain even more about traffic if all the goods moved by rail were put in the air or on the road and they get stuck behind a row of trucks on there way home.
Yup acourse we put the haz-mat together, instead of haveing a mile of leaking propane and chlorine ,you only have a few hundred feet of tank cars together- lets say you had a derailment and those cars were spread through out you have more of a chance of getting those car in the bad part of the de-railment.
And this is to dalmation - if your going to complain about rail subsidys why dont you say all the facts, such as Amtrak only gets 790 million,Freight railroads get nothing- they get Zero! They are on there own ! And you complian about the railroads 790 mill. but what about the airlines billions and billions of subsidary for ever diminishing service and fustraitions ? Or the billions and billions Highways get so we can build more highways that will get congested anyway?
Just my facts and opinions from working in this industry.
Yes I know I went off on to railroad crossings ,but its another dangerous issue.
PS. Trains always have the right of way at any crossing- this was settled by the Supreme court in 1949-so its the law of the land like it or not and those red flashing lights and cross bucks are the same as running a red light and stop sign.Last edited by dfdex1; 07-30-2002 at 08:16 PM.
-- 150 miles per hour is still way too slow for intercity travel outside of certain urban corridors. Air travel, even with security checks, is still quicker. And I dare say cheaper and safer than building guarded corridors across the country. We know no teens would ever scale that fence around the tracks...
-- Highway construction is not federally subsidized -- it's payed for by fuel taxes payed into the Highway Trust Fund. Far from being federally subsidized, highway users (through their fuel taxes) actually are seeing $3 billion a year go towards supporting mass transit, which is siphoned off of the Highway Trust Fund. There's about $19 billion in surplus trust money right now -- money designated for highways but instead being used to counterbalance the federal debt.
-- Similiarly the Airport & Airways Trust Fund receives money from excise taxes on air carriers/users/shippers/etc and passes it through to fund airport capital operations and FAA commercial air operations. There's a $13 billion surplus in the A&A Trust.
-- If the railroads would like to start paying federal excise taxes into a trust fund, no problem. There is a major need for freight rail in the U.S., not for long distance passenger rail. There are serious bottlenecks and weaknesses in the railroad grid were the loss of critical facilities could cause mass disruption, and fixing these major capital items is a place a federal intermediary like a trust fund could function.
-- Unlike the Highway and Airport Trust Funds that have generated surpluses, Amtrak has simply spent $11 billion in taxpayer money since 1971 and what do we have to show for it? A northeast corridor that can achieve 150mph for a short while and some track in Michigan?
Go to amtrak.com and run some route times and tell me what the speed of Acela is good for. I can leave Boston tomorrow on Acela at 6:15 and arrive in D.C. at 12:41. I can leave Boston on a regular train at 6:20 and arrive in D.C. at 2:00. That's an hour and fifeteen minute difference for all the work building special guarded track and trains.
For $100 more than the Acela ticket I can get on a plane in Logan and be at Ronald Reagan in an hour and a half. Heck, give yourself an hour to get through security, still a lot, lot shorter than a train ride. Don't know many people going central business district to central business district anymore...probably still need to rent a car, etc no matter which way you go.
-- I was wrong in my assumption since the accident was in MD it was on the Northeast Corridor. The train engineer was confirming this evening he saw the rails bent just before the accident, sure sounds like heat on continous weld rail.
I'm gonna quit from this debate, I probably hijacked the thread. Just there's some federal programs so wasteful they really get my hackles up. There's not much more than the facts that speak for themselves. Amtrak = Subsidized Nostalgia.
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Dal good points.
dfdex1, other then some of the sarcasm, that is one of the best posts I've seen you compose in regards to the railroad incident. The freight companies are on their own because they strangled the market in regards to the right of ways also. They lease their use to commuter railroad companies and then bitch when their freight trains take so long because they can only do 15 mph so they are on schedule for commuter trains to be able to pass. I
As far as the track, I believe Amtrak leases almost all of the tracks it uses. In fact speaking with some MTA guys, they said that they know of no tracks that Amtrak owns other then the east coast corridor that runs through Penn Station and that many of the problems that Amtrak has had over the years is that the freight companies that own the tracks don't and can't maintain them like those used in metro areas for mass transit.
Als Firefighter your on the right track-no pun intended.
Amtrak does "lease" there routes-there called "Trackege- rights"its sort of a railroad lease. There are several forms of this .
A good example is on the Union Pacifics Feather river sub.The STB granted rival railroad BNSF trackege rights over the UP line from the BNSF's Terminal in Stockton to its junction with its own tracks at Keddie Californa on there way to Denver. The STB did this to prevent a monopoly and give shippers another option to ship out of Stockton and surounding industrail areas to Denver.How ever the BNSF does not get off scott free- like Amtrak they must pay a maitinece fee to UP(or other host railroad) in order to fufill there end of the bargin.
Thats about as simple as I can explain it-with out going into detail.
the problems that Amtrak has had over the years is that the freight companies that own the tracks don't and can't maintain them like those used in metro areas for mass transit.
Reason being is alot of states make them let the local tranist
authority use the frieght rr. ROW that go into citys for commuter
Show them enough green- they will!
You are right about the rr bitchin about it too-and they got every right to be! First off commuter trains make almost no money (Accept rush hour- but then that is diluted by the cost of running the trains the rest of the day near empty.)thats why railroads gave them up
So with commuter trains the freight componys cant run thier trains when they want to which means sometimes might arrive near the city early in the morning and it might sit on a sideing till night- but by then under federal law the crew must leave if they worked more than 12 hours.So the railroad has to foot the bill for hotel ,food taxi,and another crew to take that train in to town.So that train is now late.Becuase a empty commuter train has to get back the station to pick up no one.
And this will cause back ups on the system and make other trains sit on a sideing too and burn fuel pointlessly and make its and other cars miss there connection with othr railroads or switchers and locals. They have to pay other crews etc. The rr must put up with customers complaints and potential loss of businuess to trucks and the bills and maintaining track and signals and insurance to a FRA class standerd they dont need- so that money they get starts to dissapear fast.
It is like im building my deck in your back yard type thing. Ive worked with both so I dont favor one but thats how the freight componeys view it anyway.
The trick is to make the commuter operations profitable for the private railroads-cause they dont care if bob smith gets to work in a train-they just care if our oil gets to the customer ontime.
I notice alot of public transit people tend to treat PRIVATE RAILROAD property as it was there own to use as they please.
Bottom line is -Private railroads- like any other pirvate compony have to turn a profit and look out for there interests- it is a businuess not a public intrest fourm.
And they do have a line in michigan."Michigan Corridor"
And to dal. The Acela is near or at capcity everyday, all trains so Amtrak must be doing something right. Each train holds about 2 737s worth- thats two more jets I dont hear at night.
Sorry to keep going on hehehe but I sure do like to talk about trains heheeh
Just my thoughts and opinions
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We use time-diary data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys and the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Study to estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations. Our results indicate that estimates are sensitive to the inclusion of a common household factor that controls for selection into family type. Estimates from the selection-controlled models indicate that single parents in both countries spend more time in child care than married or cohabiting parents, perhaps in part to compensate for the missing parent, but that there is no difference in the time allocation of married and cohabiting parents. There are substantial cross-country differences, however, as single parents in the U.S. work more than other parents and single parents in the U.K. work less.
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- Title
- The effect of family structure on parents' child care time in the United States and the United Kingdom
- Journal
Review of Economics of the Household
Volume 5, Issue 4 , pp 353-384
- Cover Date
- 2007-12-01
- 10.1007/s11150-007-9017-y
- Print ISSN
- 1569-5239
- Online ISSN
- 1573-7152
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Keywords
- Time use
- Child care
- Family structure
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Charlene M. Kalenkoski (1)
- David C. Ribar (2)
- Leslie S. Stratton (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Economics, Ohio University, Bentley Annex 351, Athens, OH, 45701, USA
- 2. Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, P.O. Box 26165, Greensboro, NC, 27402-6165, USA
- 3. Department of Economics, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 844000, 1015 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, VA, 23284-4000, USA


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Swami, Viren and Furnham, Adrian and Balakumar, Nereshnee and Williams, Candy and Canaway, Kate and Stanistreet, Debbi (2008) Factors influencing preferences for height: a replication and extension. Personality and individual differences, 45 (5). pp. 395-400. ISSN 0191-8869
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The present study examined preferences for absolute height and the male-taller norm in a community sample of 901 British individuals. Initial results replicated previous studies, showing that both women and men preferred relationships in which the woman was shorter than the man. Specifically, the ideal male partner for women was significantly taller than the average man in our sample, and there was no significant difference between the ideal female partner for men and the average woman in the sample. In addition, there were weak associations between height preferences and endorsement of several aspects of the traditional male gender role (rs = .04–.23). Height preferences were also correlated with self-esteem (rs = .15–.17), conformity (rs = − .14–.15), and the Big Five personality facets of neuroticism and extraversion (rs = .07–.25). Limitations of the present study and the association between attractiveness preferences and actual mate choice decisions are discussed in conclusion.
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We have isolated STN1, an essential Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene, as a suppressor of the cdc13-1 mutation. A synthetic lethal interaction between a temperature-sensitive mutant allele of STN1, stn1-13, and cdc13-1 was observed. Stn1 and Cdc13 proteins displayed a physical interaction by two-hybrid analysis. As shown previously for cdc13-1, stn1-13 cells at the restrictive temperature accumulate single-stranded DNA in subtelomeric regions of the chromosomes, but to a lesser extent than cdc13-1 cells. In addition, both Cdc13 and Stn1 were found to be involved in the regulation of telomere length, mutations in STN1 or CDC13 conferring an increase in telomere size. Loss of Stn1 function activated the RAD9 and MEC3 G2/M checkpoints, therefore confirming that DNA damage is generated. We propose that Stn1 functions in telomere metabolism during late S phase in cooperation with Cdc13.
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Yanni | |
Yanni in 2007 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Yiánnis Chryssomállis |
Born | [1] | November 14, 1954
Origin | Kalamata, Greece |
Genres | Contemporary instrumental,[1][2] instrumental,[3] crossover,[4] new-age (disavowed by artist)[3][5][6] |
Occupation(s) | Composer, pianist, music producer |
Instruments | Piano, keyboards |
Years active | 1980–present |
Labels | Private Music/Windham Hill/BMG Virgin/EMI Image Entertainment Yanni Wake/Disney Pearl Series |
Associated acts | Chameleon, Shahrdad Rohani |
Website | www.yanni.com |
Yanni | |
Yanni in 2007 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Yiánnis Chryssomállis |
Born | [1] | November 14, 1954
Origin | Kalamata, Greece |
Genres | Contemporary instrumental,[1][2] instrumental,[3] crossover,[4] new-age (disavowed by artist)[3][5][6] |
Occupation(s) | Composer, pianist, music producer |
Instruments | Piano, keyboards |
Years active | 1980–present |
Labels | Private Music/Windham Hill/BMG Virgin/EMI Image Entertainment Yanni Wake/Disney Pearl Series |
Associated acts | Chameleon, Shahrdad Rohani |
Website | www.yanni.com |
Yiannis Chryssomallis[7] (Greek: Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, Giánnis Chrysomállis; born November 14, 1954), known professionally as Yanni (/ˈjɑːni/ YAH-nee), is a Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer who has spent his adult life in the United States.
Yanni continues to use the musical shorthand that he developed as a child,[8][9] blending jazz, classical, soft rock, and world music[4] to create predominantly instrumental works.[10] As this genre of music was not well suited for commercial pop radio and music television,[3][11] Yanni achieved international recognition by producing concerts at historic monuments and by producing videos that were broadcast on public television.[11] His breakthrough concert, Yanni Live at the Acropolis, yielded the second best-selling music video of all time.[12] Additional historic sites for Yanni's concerts have included India's Taj Mahal, China's Forbidden City, the United Arab Emirates' Burj Khalifa,[13] Russia's Kremlin,[14] Puerto Rico's El Morro castle,[15] Lebanon's ancient city of Byblos[16] and Tunisia's Roman Theatre of Carthage.[17]
At least fourteen of Yanni's albums have peaked at No. 1 in Billboard's "Top New Age Album" category,[18] and two albums (Dare to Dream and In My Time) received Grammy Award nominations.[19] Through late 2011, Yanni had performed live in concert before more than two million people in more than 20 countries around the world, and has accumulated more than 35 platinum and gold albums globally, with sales totaling over 20 million copies.[20] A longtime fundraiser for public television,[2][21] Yanni's compositions have been used on commercial television programs, especially for sporting events.[19][22][23] He has written film scores and the music for an award-winning British Airways television commercial.[22]
Yanni has employed musicians of various nationalities and has incorporated a variety of exotic instruments[4] to create music that has been called an eclectic fusion of ethnic sounds.[8] Influenced by his encounters with cultures around the world,[21][24] his music is said to reflect his "one world, one people" philosophy.[21]
Yanni was born November 14, 1954 in Kalamata, Greece,[1] the son of a banker[25] and homemaker.[citation needed] He displayed musical talent at a young age, playing piano at the age of 6.[1] His parents encouraged him to learn at his own pace and in his own way, without formal music training.[1] The self-taught musician continues to use the "musical shorthand" that he developed as a child, rather than employing traditional musical notation.[8][9]
Yanni set a Greek national record in the 50-meter freestyle swimming competition at age 14.[19][26]
In November 1972, Yanni moved from Greece to the United States to attend the University of Minnesota beginning in January 1973, majoring in psychology.[1] For a time he earned money by washing dishes at the student union.[27] Yanni later explained that learning English forced him to read each paragraph several times in what he called a slow and frustrating process, but which helped him memorize the material and do well on tests.[27] He received a B.A. degree in psychology in 1976.[19]
During his time as a student, Yanni played in a local rock band and continued to study piano and other keyboard instruments.[1] Upon graduating, when he dedicated himself exclusively to music for one full year and found he was the happiest he had ever been, he said he decided music would be his life's work.[27]
In 1977 Yanni joined the Minneapolis-based rock group Chameleon, working with its founder, drummer Charlie Adams.[1] After leaving the band, Yanni moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of movie soundtrack work.[19][28] While in Minneapolis, he also worked closely at times with choreographer Loyce Houlton to provide music for various dance works produced by the Minnesota Dance Theatre.[citation needed]
In 1980 Yanni recorded his first album Optimystique, which Atlantic Records re-released in 1984 and Private Music re-released in 1989.[1][22]
Yanni formed a band in 1987 and began to tour in 1988 with an ensemble including pianist/singer John Tesh and drummer Charlie Adams, promoting his early albums Keys to Imagination, Out of Silence, and Chameleon Days.[19][22] A highlight of the tour was a performance with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra that elicited a positive review, considered seminal to Yanni's public recognition, from a Dallas Times Herald critic.[22] Yanni's emergence was said to be "timed perfectly" with the growing popularity of contemporary instrumental music.[22]
Yanni gained visibility as the result of his November 1990 appearances in People magazine[29][30] and on The Oprah Winfrey Show with actress Linda Evans,[11][29] with whom he had been in a relationship since 1989.[22][31] However, high-visibility appearances on public television, best-selling records and videos, and overflow concerts earned him recognition beyond his relationship with Evans.[31]
Dare to Dream, released in 1992, was Yanni's first Grammy-nominated[19] album. It included "Aria," a song based on Léo Delibes' The Flower Duet (Lakmé, 1883) and popularized by an award-winning[22] British Airways commercial. A second Grammy-nominated[19] album, In My Time, followed in 1993.
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Yanni's breakthrough[4][8] concert, Yanni Live at the Acropolis, was filmed in September 1993 at the 2,000-year-old Herodes Atticus Theater at the Acropolis of Athens, an album and VHS being released in 1994.[19] Acropolis was Yanni's first live album, and used his core band with a full sixty piece orchestra,[19] the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra which was arranged and conducted by Iranian-American musician Shahrdad Rohani.[32][33]
Without financial backing, Yanni risked $2 million of his personal fortune in the Acropolis production[4] in a strategy to boost his artistic profile and open new markets for his music.[8] The resulting video was broadcast on PBS and became one of its most popular programs ever, seen in 65 countries by half a billion people.[19][34] It became the second best-selling music video of all time (after Michael Jackson's Thriller[20]), selling more than 7 million copies worldwide.[19]
In March 1997, Yanni became one of the few Western artists permitted to perform and record at the Taj Mahal in India.[35] Yanni followed in May 1997 with performances at the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, becoming the first Western artist in modern times permitted to perform at the historic site.[35] These two events formed the live album and video, Tribute, released in November 1997.[35]
After negotiating the demands of gaining permission to perform at the Taj Mahal and Forbidden City in 1997, breaking up with Linda Evans in early 1998, and completing a long world tour later in 1998, Yanni halted his music career.[11][36] Yanni later related that he had become depressed, and returned to Greece to live with his parents for three months before traveling the world.[11] He didn't do an interview for two years, later explaining, "I traveled. I wanted to see other people's ideas of life, get out of the American dream."[11]
In 1999 Yanni released his compilation project, a five CD box set of called The Private Years which also featured a DVD of his concert film Yanni Live at the Acropolis.
In 2000, after the two-year hiatus, Yanni released If I Could Tell You, his first studio album in seven years. The album sold 55,000 copies in its first week and landed at No. 20 on the Billboard charts, his highest debut to date.[11] Yanni described the album as more of an even-tempered "listening" album, less dramatic than the live concert albums Live at the Acropolis or Tribute.[37] He explained that he himself created all of the album's sounds, including apparent vocalizations, through the manipulation of sound in his studio.[37]
The music in Yanni's 2003 album Ethnicity represented many of the world's cultures, Yanni saying it uses ethnicity to reflect the color and beauty of a multicultural society.[38] The album was released near the publication date of Yanni's autobiography, Yanni in Words.[38] On October 23, 2003, Yanni performed a keyboard instrumental version of The Star-Spangled Banner before Game 5 of the 2003 World Series.[39]
For the first time in his career, Yanni brought vocalists to the forefront in the Ric Wake collaboration Yanni Voices, the artist's first studio album in six years.[40] PBS broadcast video of a November 2008 Voices Acapulco concert weeks before the album's March 24, 2009 release by Walt Disney Records' Disney Pearl Imprint, the album release preceding a tour produced by Pearl's Buena Vista Concerts division.[40]
The album Yanni Mexicanisimo, released in November of Mexico's bicentennial year 2010, was a tribute to that country through Yanni's collaborative interpretation of its folk music.[41] It involved collaboration with singer-songwriter Pepe Aguilar and singer-actress Lucero.[41]
The Truth of Touch album was released in February 2011, Yanni's first studio album of new material since Ethnicity eight years earlier.[19] Truth of Touch's varied content reflected contemporary instrumental, electronic, and cinematic influences, and crossed over into popular, new age, and world music.[43] Though Yanni said that Truth of Touch was started by experimenting with new sound designs,[12] Allmusic's James Christopher Monger said that the album shows Yanni returning to his instrumental roots, and should appeal to fans of his music from the mid-1990s.[44] Three of fifteen tracks on the predominantly instrumental album included vocals from respective Yanni Voices vocalists.[44]
In April 2012, Yanni released the Yanni Live at El Morro, Puerto Rico live album CD and DVD which were recorded and filmed at two outdoor concerts on December 16 and 17, 2011 on the grounds of the Castillo (Fort) San Felipe del Morro ("El Morro"), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[45] The recorded concerts were broadcast on PBS beginning in March 2012, the production constituting Yanni's tenth collaboration with that organization.[45]
Yanni performed in China in the February 9, 2013, CCTV Spring Festival Gala (annual audience 700 million[46]) with Chinese zither artist Chang Jing[47][48] in what was the first year that CCTV had invited foreign artists to perform.[46]
Yanni's 2010-2014 tours included new vocalists, distinct from the 2008–2009 Yanni Voices vocalists, though the setlists remained predominantly instrumental.[49]
In March 2014, Yanni released his seventeenth studio album, Inspirato, a collaboration with operatic tenor Plácido Domingo and producer Ric Wake that, like Yanni Voices five years earlier, highlighted vocal performances.[50] In Inspirato, distinguished operatic vocalists performed remakes of songs that Yanni had previously released over his career, the songs' titles and lyrics being predominantly in the Italian language.[50]
In the 2010s, Yanni's international tours included performances in (alphabetically) Argentina, Armenia, Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, Oman, Panama, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States (including Puerto Rico).[51]
From childhood, Yanni accepted a wide variety of musical styles, listening to radio stations from Northern Africa, Arab countries, and Europe.[5] He observed that "there were no rock stations or classical stations--each station would just play everything."[5] Yanni's music has been said to reflect his encounters with cultures around the world[21][24] and embody his philosophy of "one world, one people."[21] In this vein, Booth Newspapers' Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk perceived the eclectic inspirations of Yanni's music to be an element of his success: Yanni's "Middle Eastern and Oriental scales and mixed meters sound just exotic enough to entice his middle-of-the-road fans, but not so authentic as to mystify folks who grew up with a backbeat, so you can't lose it," adding that certain songs "leave you with a sense that you've just heard a bit of a steel drum or a Greek bouzouki or a Japanese koto or possibly all three."[52]
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Yanni's musical influences include music from Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as classical, rock and roll, and electronic music.[12] Yanni explained that the 1970s, with its new technology and electronic instruments, were particularly influential at that stage in his career, and that even recently his Truth Of Touch album (2011) was started by experimenting with new sound designs.[12] Having been exposed to classical music very early in life—listening to Bach at age 8[28]—he counts several classical pianists and composers among his influences, citing Beethoven as a favorite[10] and Chopin as "No. 2 favorite."[28] Yanni mentioned being influenced not only by classical composers like Mozart and Bach, but also rock and roll bands such as Led Zeppelin, the People!, and Black Sabbath.[28]
Yanni explained that "the most influence I've ever had from music was doing (soundtracks for) movies, ... mostly instrumental music," mentioning his love for the work of Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams.[28] The Augusta Chronicle's Kelly Jasper noted that most of Yanni's music is instrumental, indicating that Yanni surmised that the lack of lyrics is what allowed his music to become popular internationally.[10] Yanni went on to say, "There are no lyrics in my music for the most part, so the whole message is transmitted through the rhythm, melody, and sounds, and I think that has to do with crossing all the borders and being able to go to different countries."[10] "It is very difficult, if not impossible, to lie with instrumental music because it deals in emotions only."[37] He has also said that words operate in a different area of the brain,[9] and lyrics "tend to put a song into a box."[20]
However, Yanni performed with four vocalists in the forefront in Yanni Voices (2008-2009),[40] and performed with two vocalists on tours (2010-2012) and in the Yanni Live at El Morro, Puerto Rico concerts (December 2011) and CD/DVD (2012).[49] In late 2011 Yanni remarked that he tends to prefer instrumental music "because it's more open, but the human voice too can be the most expressive instrument known to man. There is power to it."[20] Referring to his creative experiences on the 2009 Voices project, Yanni explained that "while most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument."[53]
"These lines really don't exist. They are made up—completely—and they perpetuate this illusion that somehow we're all different from each other. I think the world would be a much better place if some day, we stopped pretending that these lines exist and we concentrated on our similarities rather than our differences."
While Yanni has said New Age is "a spiritual definition more than a musical definition,"[3] his music has been said to be "adopted by"[2][12] the New Age movement as it gained mainstream momentum. His music is also called contemporary instrumental[2] and has been described as "an instrumental blend of fusion-jazz, world music, classical, and soft rock."[4] However, at least as early as 1988, Yanni was said to shun labels such as "Greek" and "New Age," emphasizing that "when someone says new age music, I think of something that you put on in the background while you're vacuuming the house. I don't want to relax the audience; I want to engage them in the music, get them interested."[5] Distinguishing his work from what others have called ambient mood music, Yanni pointed out in 1994: "New Age implies a more subdued, more relaxed music than what I do. My music can be very rhythmic, very energetic, even very ethnic."[54]
In 2012, Yanni remarked that he has never liked putting art into categories or assigning labels, adding that he always composed music "to honestly reflect the lessons learned and the experiences I have shared throughout my life."[12] For example, Yanni's university study of psychology influenced his music: "When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have."[12]
The genre of Yanni's music made it unsuitable for most commercial radio or for music television.[3][11] In 2012 Yanni expressed the importance of PBS to his career, saying that the network "always allowed me to present my music without any censorship or influence, and encouraged me to be the artist that I am," and had been "a great part of my career for over 20 years."[55]
Yanni took an unconventional path to recognition, for example, by risking his personal fortune to fund historic-monument events such as his 1993 Acropolis concerts, by producing specials on public television, by creating alone in his home-built studio, and by performing many of his own production duties—thus by-passing the conventional music industry.[11] In 2000, The Los Angeles Times' Don Heckman wrote that Yanni was "a living metaphor for Success on Your Own Terms, the dream of every American with an idea that is either ridiculed or ignored."[11]
In an early-career review in the Dallas Times Herald in the late 1980s, Yanni's concert with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra was described as "exhilarating, moving and inspiring."[22] In 1995, The Los Angeles Times' Don Heckman wrote that Yanni's music is "based on sweeping romantic melodies underscored with energetic Mediterranean rhythms."[31] More analytically, the Hartford Courant's Steve Metcalf "deconstructed" Yanni's music as being "from a harmonic standpoint, constructed of materials found in a lot of late-19th, early 20th century classical music. It is essentially tonal, tinged with mild whiffs of dissonance here and there, sometimes rhythmically frisky, graspable on first listening, and self-evidently mood-inducing. There are two basic moods to Yanni music: struttingly heroic with martial overtones, and dreamily contemplative. ... A kind of peaceful, easy-feeling link between pop music and classical music."[6]
More recently, Allmusic's Mark Deming characterized Yanni's compositions and performances as having "a pronounced sense of drama, dynamics, and romanticism," writing that Yanni has a "commanding performance style."[1] In 2012 Howie Grapek remarked in The Palm Beach Post's PBPulse that "there are few modern-day composers with a unique sense of music and style which is truly their own. To compare new-age music with classic rock is a stretch, but for Yanni, it is possible. This Greek composer marries contemporary new-age spirituality with today's pop attitudes and delivers a unique sound."[56] Yanni has employed musicians of various nationalities, and has incorporated a variety of exotic instruments from around the world from an Australian didgeridoo to a Peruvian charango, to perform with his classical orchestra, rock rhythm section, and electronic keyboards.[4] His music has been described as "an eclectic fusion of ethnic sounds, from Native American chants to African rhythms and Asian harmonies."[8]
The Morning Call's John L. Moser wrote that "trends come and trends go," but that Yanni's music "seems to defy trends and... feels like it's music for all time."[28] Moser interviewed the composer, asking if he intentionally tries to create "something that's going to last forever as opposed to something that's just going to sell 1 million copies right away," Yanni replied that "There's no way you can create art to last forever... so you can't have that in your mind."[28] Instead, describing his creative process, Yanni explained that his knowledge of music and instruments and his experience in different cultures is a "primordial soup that comes together and it shows itself and it appears. And it's fluid. It's effortless."[28]
Yanni's popularity with the public and his success on public television have contrasted sharply with views of some critics.[6] The more extreme criticisms have been paraphrased as characterizing Yanni as a "no-talent poseur" whose music has little intellectual weight, while his fans' opinions have been paraphrased as calling Yanni a "highly original artist whose profound spirituality has created a unique kind of music."[6]
Continuing to use the "musical shorthand" that he developed as a child rather than employing traditional musical notation,[8][9] Yanni hires someone to perform the tedious process of making conventional written charts for orchestra members.[37] Even so, since music is an auditory domain, Yanni must train the musicians in what cannot be conveyed in that writing.[37]
"Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind. And if any one of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us have the same capacity and capability, because we're all the same."
The Palm Beach Post's Howie Grapek remarked about an April 2012 performance that the show was not a one-man keyboard show, but spotlighted individual long solos showcasing the band members' talents, and that Yanni "loves giving them the opportunity to shine individually."[56] Booth Newspapers' Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk commented that Yanni "has great sidemen – always has."[52]
Yanni's concerts are known for their lighting and other technical aspects.[57] Yanni's longtime lighting designer remarked in 2013 that the lighting is critically timed to Yanni's music itself, accommodating its variety of time signatures, further observing that since Yanni plays mostly theatrical venues rather than arenas, the lighting can include subtle moves and color.[58] The lighting also emphasizes band members' solos, as well as specific moments in the concerts.[58]
Commenting on Yanni's "great lighting" on the stage and "plenty of reverb in the audience," Booth Newspapers' Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk remarked that a Yanni concert "can be an intoxicating experience."[52]
During live concerts, Yanni's band members are individually showcased.[52][56] | ||||||||
In addition to performing at historic venues such as Royal Albert Hall[59] (London; 1995 & 2014), Yanni has been permitted to perform at such world landmarks as the Acropolis of Athens (Greece; 1993), the Taj Mahal (Agra, India; 1997), the Forbidden City (Beijing, China; 1997), the Burj Khalifa (the world's tallest building; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 2011),[13] the Kremlin (Moscow, Russia; 2011),[14] the Castillo San Felipe del Morro ("El Morro" UNESCO World Heritage Site, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, U.S. territory; 2011),[15] the ancient city of Byblos (UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lebanon; 2013),[16] and the Roman Theatre of Carthage (Tunis, Tunisia; 2014).[17]
Rising in popularity with the new age music boom of the 1980s and 1990s, Yanni's music became more well known through adult alternative radio airplay, appearances on public television and in television commercials, as well as international music tours.[1] Yanni's music has been used in television shows and televised sporting events, including the Super Bowl, Wide World of Sports, U.S. Open Tennis Championships, U.S. Open (golf), Tour de France, the World Figure Skating Championships and the Olympic Games.[19][22][23] He wrote music for ABC's World News Now.[3]
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Yanni's "Acroyali/Standing in Motion" was determined to have the "Mozart effect" by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (April 2001) because the composition is similar to Mozart's K 448 in tempo, structure, melodic and harmonic consonance and predictability, characteristics thought to decrease seizure activity and to enhance spatial-temporal performance."[60]
During Yanni's October 2011 tour of China, Yanni became the first Western artist to be invited to adopt a giant panda (bear) cub at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, a "privilege... usually reserved for countries rather than personalities."[61] "Officials from the research base invited the musician to adopt the animal, saying their decision was made from the inspiration and harmony that derives from his music."[62] Yanni named the panda "Santorini," also the name of a Greek island, explaining that the Greek word irini means 'peace'."[61][62]
In February 2013, Yanni and Celine Dion were the first non-Chinese artists invited to perform (separately) in China at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, a CCTV televised event with an annual audience of 700 million.[46][47][48]
Billboard named Yanni No. 5 "New Age Album Artist" of 2012.[63] He was named to the same list in 2011 (ranked No. 1), 2010 (No. 4), 2009 (No. 3), 2007 (No. 4), and 2006 (No. 4).[63]
Yanni's albums Dare to Dream (1992) and In My Time (1993) received Grammy Award nominations for Best New Age Album."[19]
The PBS specials Yanni Live at the Acropolis and Tribute received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries, Movie or Special, in 1994[64] and 1998,[65] respectively.
Fifteen Yanni albums peaked at No. 1 in Billboard's "Top New Age Album" category.[18]
In addition to earning a B.A. in psychology in 1976 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,[19] Yanni received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the same institution on May 6, 2004.[24][27][66]
Yanni has had a collaborative relationship with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in its fundraising efforts since the early years of his career,[59] reportedly raising more than $13 million for that organization.[2] The Yanni Live at El Morro, Puerto Rico production (2012) was Yanni's tenth collaboration with PBS.[45]
To assist the conservation efforts the World Wide Fund for Nature (the World Wildlife Fund, WWF), Yanni sponsored a symbolic "Panda Adoption Kit" program in which he guaranteed $50,000 in donations.[67]
Yanni's autobiography, Yanni in Words, co-authored by David Rensin, was published in February 2003, coinciding with the release of his Ethnicity album. The book became a New York Times best seller in the nonfiction category on March 2, 2003.[68]
Year | Album Title | Billboard New Age (peak)[18][69] | Billboard 200 (peak)[18][69] | Further Notes |
1984 | Optimystique | |||
1986 | Keys to Imagination | |||
1987 | Out of Silence | |||
1988 | Chameleon Days | 2 | ||
1989 | Niki Nana | 2 | ||
1990 | Reflections of Passion | 1 | 29 | |
1991 | In Celebration of Life | 3 | 60 | |
1992 | Dare to Dream | 2 | 32 | Grammy-nominated (New Age)[19] |
1993 | In My Time | 1 | 24 | Grammy-nominated (New Age)[19] |
2000 | If I Could Tell You | 1 | 20 | |
2003 | Ethnicity | 1 | 27 | |
2009 | Yanni Voices (English language) | 1 | 20 | No. 2 selling New Age Album (2009), No. 5 (2010).[70] Peaked as Billboard No. 20 Top Internet Album[18] |
Yanni Voces (Spanish language) | 2 | Peaked as No. 5 Billboard Top Latin Pop Album and No. 13 Billboard Top Latin Album.[18] | ||
2010 | Yanni Mexicanisimo | 2 | No. 7 selling New Age album of 2011[71] My Passion for Mexico (2012) has same tracks | |
2011 | Truth of Touch | 1 | 91 | No. 1 top-selling New Age album of 2011[19][71] No. 10 selling New Age album of 2012[70] |
2012 | My Passion for Mexico (English title) | 7 | Yanni Mexicanisimo (2010) has same tracks | |
2014 | Inspirato | 1 |
Year | Tour / Album | Billboard New Age (peak)[18][69] | Billboard 200 (peak)[18][69] | Notes[51] |
1987 | Out of Silence | |||
1988 | Chameleon Days | |||
1990 | Reflections of Passion | |||
1991 | Revolution in Sound | |||
1992 | Dare to Dream | |||
1993 | Yanni Live, The Symphony Concerts 1993 | |||
1994 | Live at the Acropolis | 1 | 5 | Released following the Sept. 1993 Acropolis concerts |
Yanni Live, The Symphony Concerts 1994 | ||||
1995 | Yanni Live, The Symphony Concerts 1995 | Royal Albert Hall | ||
1997 | Tribute | 1 | 21 | Taj Mahal and Forbidden City |
2003–4 | Ethnicity | 1 | 27 | Billboard rankings are for studio album |
2006 | Yanni Live! The Concert Event | 1 | 84 | 2004 concert; No. 4 selling New Age album of both 2006 and 2007[70] Peaked at No. 6 Billboard Top Independent Album (2006)[18] |
2008–9 | Yanni Voices | 1 | 20 | Billboard rankings are for studio album |
2010 | Yanni in Concert | — | — | South America (September) and Puerto Rico (November) |
2011 | Mexico (January), Panama (February), and U.S. (March–May) | |||
Eastern Europe and Asia (October–November) | ||||
Yanni Live at El Morro, Puerto Rico | 1 | 109 | December 2011; subject of 2012 CD and DVD; No. 5 selling New Age album of 2012[70] | |
2012 | An Evening with Yanni | — | — | Mexico, U.S., Canada (March–August), and Chile, Argentina, Brazil (September–October) |
2013 | World Without Borders | — | — | Middle East, China, Eastern Europe (March–July) |
World Tour | — | — | Mexico, Puerto Rico, Eastern U.S. | |
2014 | S. & N. America, Europe, Middle East, South Asia, N. Africa |
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Bob McGinn reported in Sunday's Journal Sentinel that the Packers have decided to let James Jones leave as a free agent. I'm not surprised. In fact, here's what I tweeted less than 24 hours earlier:
I like JJ, but not sure TT needs to keep him. Boykin is pretty good and draft is deep at WR. Money might be better spent on D.
— Michael Rodney (@PackerUpdate) February 22, 2014
I entered the 2013 season fully expecting the former San Jose State star to re-sign with the Packers, but that was before Jarrett Boykin went from a complete unknown to a viable No. 3 receiver. That, along with having to extend both Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb in the next 12 months, made the idea of committing multiple years and millions of dollars to Jones seem very unlikely. And while it makes sense to move on, there's no question he'll be missed. Not only was the 30-year-old a productive receiver, but he had grown into a real leader in recent years. But the Packers will be just fine. Besides Nelson, Cobb and Boykin, the organization seems to really like unproven youngsters Kevin Dorsey, Myles White and Chris Harper. Plus, GM Ted Thompson has proven quite adept at finding quality receivers in the draft. If Jones' career in Green Bay is indeed over, he'll leave with 310 catches, 4,305 yards, 37 touchdowns and one Super Bowl ring in seven seasons.


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quote:Tammy Nunez ?@tammynunez 1h #tulane could be getting another impact d-line addition from LSU. We will know for sure later in August
quote:On the bright side, the Green Wave might pick up a defensive lineman who is graduating from LSU. "I think I'm getting an LSU guy, another one," Johnson said.
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quote:Damn what happened to this dude. Not saying it is him but regardless a disappointing career to date.
quote:Not maclin and he will ball this fall for LSU
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quote:I saw him play 2 full games in high school. I would have been shocked had he ever become a contributing player at LSU.


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Southern Californians and music fans alike should instantly recognise the name KCRW. It's a public radio station that's become increasingly popular thanks to its use of modern methods like podcasts and streaming Internet radio broadcasts in its efforts to educate music fans in the latest and greatest new acts. In the past, KCRW hosts have helped showcase the likes of Beck, Adele, Florence & the Machine, Coldplay, Dido and Massive Attack.
Now there's an app from KCRW that aims to take 'listeners on an audio adventure of artists especially selected by DJs' from the station. Pretty exciting, huh?
KCRW Music Mine – an iPad only app – is dedicated entirely to music exploration using The Echo Nest's music intelligence platform to track down the best new artists. The app offers up to 100 artists at a time with lists updated daily in tandem with the on air playlists for KCRW. Listeners who want to learn more can then find videos, photos, blog posts and more behind each artist as well as discover the musical talent.
The format of KCRW Music Mine lends itself to users who don't have a lot of time on their hands for messing around with configurations. Intead it's an app that's simple to browse and quickly find something of interest.
For fans who just want to kick back and relax, they can jut tap the KCRW's 24 hour, all music stream Eclectic24 and enjoy the music, or they can listen in to full shows by many KCRW DJs.
KCRW Music Mine sounds like the ideal companion for KCRW fans and a fantastic app for music enthusiasts keen to find something new to love. I can certainly see some lazy Sunday afternoons being lost to checking out new music.
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Editorial: Eskom hand-out gets red card
Parastatals are not primarily seen as development drivers or even as providers of services answerable to citizens, but as a source of patronage.
Parastatals are not primarily seen as development drivers or even as providers of services answerable to citizens, but as a source of patronage.
A former ANN7 employee says he fears for his life after turning down a severance package and was threatened by an alleged ANN7 bodyguard.
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Atul Gupta says he's confused at the reaction to the landing of a family aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force Base, and SA should be thankful to them.
The Gupta family, owners of the New Age newspaper and Sahara, are planning what has been described as possibly the "wedding of the century".
What was seen as a major coup for the SABC and the New Age soon degenerated into a farce as a Brics briefing broadcast was lost in translation.
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The image of burning tyres and looting shops appears to have been President Zuma's main concern during his address at the New Age media briefing.
The New Age has welcomed Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille's urgent request for an inquiry into the newspaper's funding.
A meeting between DA MP Wilmot James and the "New Age" bosses was a constructive discussion on issues of media and politics, the newspaper has said.
The Democratic Alliance leader wants a commission of inquiry to investigate the legality of "public money" used to fund the New Age newspaper.
The "New Age" has reported that Helen Zille sent Atul Gupta a letter on May 25 2009, thanking him for his donation to the party.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has been part of a bitter public spat on Twitter after being asked about receiving money from the Gupta family.
The New Age newspaper has been mostly cleared with regard to its reports claiming that state money paid for Julius Malema's recent trip to London.
The chairperson of the ANC in Free State Ace Magashule has spoken out about the scramble for power and resources in the ANC.
Suspended ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has apologised to all those he has offended in the past but insists his ideas won't change.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has denied a New Age report where he accused state security operatives of a smear campaign against him.
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26 February 2013 The Department of Basic Education, in partnership with Lead SA, has announced a major initiative to raise awareness and educate South Africa's 10.2-million learners about the scourge of rape. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has issued a directive to all provincial education departments to instruct schools across the country to call special assemblies at 8am on 1 March, where learners will be addressed about rape and sexual crimes. "Following the singing of the National Anthem, we want principals, educators, learners or activists to address the assemblies for 15 minutes about rape and sexual crimes. The focus will be on education/awareness and more importantly what to do," Motshekga explained. She added that the department would provide guidelines for the talks, adding that NGOs were encouraged to assist with the morning's talks.Rape Response booklet and pledge
A Rape Response booklet and pledge, based on the Bill of Responsibilities which includes a statement on violence and rape, will also be circulated. The booklet and a poster, which will help to guide educators on how to cope with this sensitive topic, can be downloaded from www.education.gov.za. Motshekga urged educators and learners to adopt the pledge, which will be available in all 11 official languages, at the assemblies. The department has also called on all schools to prepare worksheets for learners about violent and sexual crimes. "We want boy and girl learners to complete these worksheets at home, with their families if possible, and return them to their teachers," said the minister. March is South Africa's Human Rights Month, and Motshekga stressed the need to teach youngster about their rights and responsibilities as outlined in the Bill of Responsibilities.'Take the message home'
She encouraged ordinary South Africans to adopt the pledge as well, after it has been taken by millions of learners on 1 March. "Take it to your offices, factories and homes ... we call on civil society to support the StopRape initiative." She further appealed to learners to report any form of abuse from anyone to the authorities. Lead SA said it hoped the 10.2-million learners would "take the messages home so that society at large can act. The 'StopRape' message needs to reach every corner of South Africa. Let's all unite and fight rape with one voice." Proudly South African and Shout SA have already come out in support of the awareness programme. Proudly South African said it would include the messaging in its national "Ubuntu schools" campaign, which was launched shortly after the gang rape of a Soweto teenager in April last year. Source: SAnews.gov.zaRelated links
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text: Wayne Mills had hunted his 1,000-acre lease in Culpeper County, Va., three days a week since the opening of archery season in October. In late summer and early fall, he got trail-camera shots of two really nice bucks, so he passed on several borderline shooters. On Nov. 6 he spotted a 10-pointer chasing does. "I passed him, too, at 35 yards, but decided I would take him if he gave me another chance," he said. As Wayne watched the buck running back and forth in the woods, he heard a grunt and looked up. A doe was running down an old road with a massive buck on her tail! She bolted into a meadow; a spike and the 10-pointer point took off after her, and the monster followed. "I only got a glimpse of him, but I knew he was the one," Wayne said. He hunted the stand a few more days, but didn't see "the one" again. On Nov. 12, a front came through and changed the wind. Wayne slipped over to another treestand that overlooked a mowed trail through planted pines about 100 yards from where he'd seen the giant the last week. At daybreak, he did a little grunting and waited. At 7:07 a.m. he spotted a deer behind a pine tree and raised his binocular. "When he stepped out I saw tall tines and mass," Wayne said. He settled the crosshairs on the buck's shoulder, and the T/C Black Diamond boomed. The buck ran directly away and around and through the pines. Wayne watched the deer for as long as he could, and thought he heard him crash. He went to the spot where the animal had been standing—no blood. He went to the last place he had seen the deer and started working the line the animal had fled. "He was lying under a pine about 30 yards away, and as I got closer I saw the drop," Wayne said. "I pulled his head up and said, 'Lord what have I got here?'" What he had was a main-frame 10 with 26- and 27-inch beams and a 255/8-inch spread. Oh yeah, and a 7¾-inch drop-tine. The Virginia blackpowder giant grossed nearly 180 and netted 167 B&C, and "is the deer-of-a-lifetime for me," Wayne said. Wayne's Keys to Success: November 12 is a magical day. It's uncanny the number of rut-crazed giants that are shot on that day every year from Iowa to Virginia, no matter the moon phase or temperature. Take off next month and hunt the 12th and a few days before and after if you can swing it. Wayne kept his wits and watched and listened closely as the buck ran off after the shot. Sometimes a muzzleloader bullet doesn't exit a deer, and there's no blood at or near the hit site. Start there and draw a line to the last spot where you saw the buck. Continue in the direction you heard him crashing away. You should eventually find blood and, in the end, your dream buck


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I had a teacher named Mr. Mark May in sixth grade, and he was always using this expression. He generally stated it after someone would give him an excuse for why they didn't have their homework.
He heard everything from, "My dog ate it," to, "The wind caught it up."
He would respond by saying, "Be that as it may, I have to give you and F on it, since it isn't here for me to look at."
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Published by Activision and created by Guitar Hero veteran developer, Vicarious Visions, Inc., and built exclusively from the ground up for the iPhone and iPod touch, the Guitar Hero app takes full advantage of the platforms' functionality and features all-new, innovative gameplay that will keep players rocking out as they strum, tap, slide and whammy to the hottest tracks from bands they know and love. The game also features a robust avatar customization mode that lets players personalize their game; built-in social integration so gamers can share their scores with their friends on Facebook, check leaderboards and get updates through in-game news feeds; intuitive new mechanics that challenge fans to tap, strum and whammy their way to the top of the Rock Ranks; and the ability to download new tracks from an in-game music store; wannabe rock stars will be shredding on guitar or ripping it up on bass whenever, wherever they want.
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