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Ten years ago this week everyone's fantasy boyfriend Usher released his diamond-selling juggernaut Confessions spawning five Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits, four of which reached No. 1, solidifying his reputation as a definitive worldwide R&B badass. We've already been celebrating the milestone of the record breaking hit, but our commemoration wouldn't let be complete without a few words from the man himself. We hounded Usher for fifty-eleven days and um-teen hours until he graciously found time in between his busy schedule of shooting The Voice and recording a new album to answer our questions about the anniversary via email (yaaaaasssss!).
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VH1 ALBUM-VERSARIES: A Tribe Called Quest Reminisces About The Low End Theory At 20 (PART II of II)
Yesterday, we brought you the first installment of VH1 Album-Versaries: The Low End Theory at 20, reflecting on A Tribe Called Quest's ground-breaking second album. Before VH1 Rock Doc Beats, Rhymes & Life airs tonight at 10p ET on VH1, dive into the second half of the group's first joint-interview in 14 years and see what they had to say about what it was like making the film two decades later.
VH1 ALBUM-VERSARIES: A Tribe Called Quest Celebrates The 20th Anniversary Of The Low End Theory (PART I of II)
In celebration of A Tribe Called Quest's VH1 Rock Doc Beats, Rhymes & Life hitting VH1 air tomorrow night at 10p ET, we're unearthing VH1 Album-Versaries: our tribute to the group's Low End Theory album turning 20 in 2011. In the pages below, revisit commentary from Sway and Nelson George and immerse yourself in Tribe's first joint-interview in 14 years – one that was conducted just as the Michael Rapaport doc was hitting theaters.
Metallica's Kill 'Em All Turns 30: Rob Halford, Jason Newsted + More Discuss The Seminal Debut Album
30 years ago today, a little known heavy metal band from Northern California released their debut album on a fledgling independent record label run out of a New Jersey flea market. The album, Kill 'Em All, was the opening salvo of the nascent thrash metal movement and the band, Metallica, had a profound effect not just on heavy metal itself, but the music industry as a whole. To mark the album's 30th anniversary, we've asked fellow musicians and Metallica fans what they thought when they first encountered one of the music's most groundbreaking albums. These include metal gods like Rob Halford from Judas Priest, fellow thrash titans Kerry King from Slayer and Anthrax's Scott Ian, our trio of That Metal Show hosts, as well as a few people with personal ties to the band like longtime bassist Jason Newsted and Kirk Hammet's former guitar teacher, famed guitar shredder Joe Satriani.
Styles Upon Styles Upon Styles: The Top 5 Recycled Lines From A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory
Last week, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of A Tribe Called Quest's seminal album, The Low End Theory, and after spending quality time with the LP, it became clear that many artists may have snagged sonic gems from the trendsetting hip-hop quartet over the years. If you're a fan of rap music, you already know that sampling and re-working existing songs is commonplace in the creative process; similar to contemporary art's idea of the "readymade," producers will lift elements from one song and add them to a new canvas to re-envision their use. But what happens when the same thing is done with lyrics?
One little-known fact: Lil' Wayne's"A Milli" is a slowed-down sample of one of Phife's lines from a remix of "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" off Tribe's first album, 1990′s Peoples' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Sometimes referred to as swagger-jacking, a rapper re-purposing the bars of artists before him or her can in other circumstances be seen as a salute-beckoning sign of respect. And in Tribe's case, it should be! In addition to sitting down with ATCQ for their first joint interview since 1998, we also got to chat individually with in-and-out, behind-the-scenes group member Jarobi White to scoop his brains for memories on the group's incredible second album. In honor of its Album-Versary, we present you with Jarobi's exclusive interview clips, and the Top 5 Recycled Lines From The Low End Theory.
VH1 ALBUM-VERSARIES: Damon Dash And Clark Kent Wax Nostalgic On Reasonable Doubt At 15
Welcome to VH1′s new monthly series, Album-Versaries, in which we share fresh stories with you about the creation and lasting impact of some of the most important and influential albums in music history on their milestone anniversaries. Our first installment will focus on Jay-Z?s 1996 LP Reasonable Doubt, which just celebrated its 15th anniversary. This is Part II of a two-part series; Part I, Damon Dash Reflects on Jay-Z?s Reasonable Doubt On Its 15 Anniversary, ran yesterday.
Fifteen years ago, Jay-Z's debut album, Reasonable Doubt, dropped on a largely unsuspecting public. For an independently produced album, it managed to debut pretty strongly on the charts (#23 on the Billboard 200), but it would still be a few years before Jay-Z's became the household name it is today. That said, the LP now stands amongst the most highly regarded in hip-hop history and, in the timeline of Jay's existence as both a person and an artist, represents the point in his life where he left the hustle of the streets behind and instead chose to pursue a career in music.
So, with Reasonable Doubt celebrating such an essential milestone, VH1 exclusively spoke to producers Ski and Clark Kent, as well as the album's co-executive producer and co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, Damon Dash, about their recollections of the recording process. In Part II of VH1 Album-Versaries: Reasonable Doubt At 15, we'll share with you stories Dame and Clark told us about the epic recording session of Jay and Biggie's legendary track "Brooklyn's Finest," how these two feel about the gritty (and possibly unethical) themes of the album now that they have fifteen years worth of hindsight, and whether or not Jay and Dame will ever be able to repair their soured friendship.
There's no definitive way to form a consensus for the best emcee of all-time, but anytime the question comes up, Jay-Z and the Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls) are ALWAYS part of the conversation. In fact, in an MTV survey conducted back in 2006, Jay-Z and Biggie were listed as the #1 and #3 MCs of all-time, respectively. However, back when Reasonable Doubt was being recorded, Biggie was on top of the world, while no one outside of Brooklyn really knew who Jay was. Despite this, and thanks to Biggie's DJ and Jay's then-producer Clark Kent, the pair were introduced in a hoodwinked fashion and eventually laid down a track together, "Brooklyn's Finest."
?I was on tour with Big, so I was playing Jay?s sh*t for him every day on the bus," recalls Clark. "At that point, I had made him respect Jay?s craftsmanship." So when Clark accidentally played the "Brooklyn's Finest" beat in front of Biggie during a Unique Studios session with Junior M.A.F.I.A., Big heard it, and said he wanted it. "I told him it was for Jay, and he was like 'you give Jay everything!'"
Demanding that he get on the track too, Biggie accompanied Clark to D&D Studios that night, but didn't actually come inside. Upstairs, once Jay finished his verses for the song (that was then tentatively titled either ?Once We Get Started? or ?No More Mr. Nice Guy"), Clark asked if they could put Big on the record as well. Dame didn?t want to pay "Puff" (pardon, Diddy) for the feature, and Jay was hesitant because he (1) didn?t know the already-popular rapper and (2) had just finished the song, but they both agreed that if Big would do it for free, they'd be game. ?I had Big in a car downstairs, waiting just in case,? explains Clark, who then told them he was going to the bathroom, and came back up with The Notorious himself. ?Put them in front of each other, there was no denying what could happen.? Two months later, after Big had walked away with Jay's re-done verses on cassette, he came back to spit his own, and the song was officially born.
And as for the result? Well, in a review of Reasonable Doubt that was included as part of their 2003 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time feature, Rolling Stone described the track as featuring "two hungry talents seemingly aware that they had no one to outduel but each other.". We also asked Dash to shed some light on this legendary collaboration and how it finally came together and, well, let's just say that a lot of the sticky icky-icky was involved. Watch Dame tell the light-hearted story in his own words in the video we have clipped for you below.
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VH1 ALBUM-VERSARIES: Damon Dash Reflects on Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt On Its 15 Anniversary
Welcome to VH1′s new monthly series, Album-Versaries, in which we share fresh stories with you about the creation and lasting impact of some of the most important and influential albums in music history on their milestone anniversaries. Our first installment will focus on Jay-Z's 1996 LP Reasonable Doubt, which just celebrated its 15th anniversary. This is Part I of a two-part series; Part II can be found by clicking here.
With worldwide record sales of over 30 million units, multiple successful business ventures that have lined his pockets with hundreds of millions of dollars, a best-selling book, and a happy marriage to the "hottest chick in the game," there are seemingly few mountains for Jay-Z left to climb. However, just like any other self-made man, Jay-Z didn't start out at the top. It's hard to remember a time when he wasn't an all-American, endorsement-toting, "Run This Town" business man, but the truth of the matter is that during the early nineties, Jay was running with a wild crew and involved in more than his fair share of illegal activities. Fifteen years ago, Jay-Z the Icon, Jay-Z the Business Man, and Jay-Z the "Best Rapper Alive" didn't exist; at that time, he was simply Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, a crack cocaine dealer turned rapper that, according to hip hop mogul Russell Simmons, "came from Damon [Dash]?s imagination."
Then, on June 25, 1996, Reasonable Doubt dropped. Although it didn't exactly fly off the shelves or spawn any Top 10 singles right off the bat, the LP now stands amongst the most highly regarded in hip-hop history and, in the timeline of Jay's existence, symbolizes the pivotal point when his life could have conceivably gone in two wholly different directions. On the fifteenth anniversary of the album's release, we exclusively spoke to producers Ski and Clark Kent, as well as the album's co-executive producer and co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, Damon Dash, about their recollections of the recording process. Dash and Jay-Z have had a well-documented falling out in recent years, but that didn't stop Dame from sharing some phenomenal stories with us about the brotherhood he and Hov shared during this crucial period in both of their lives, what it was like seeing Jay and the Notorious B.I.G. record their legendary track "Brooklyn's Finest," what he thinks of the gritty, unethical themes of Reasonable Doubt now that he's got fifteen years worth of hindsight, and much more.
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"He was one foot out the door to the street life," recalls hip-hop producer Irv Gotti in VH1′s Classic Albums special on Jay-Z's debut LP. Like many great artists across various mediums, Jay's first work wasn't initially met with universally glowing reviews out of the gate (although it would eventually earn them with the passing of time). Critical of the rapper's flamboyant mafioso persona, a pattern of feedback emerged, praising the emcee for his articulate command of the language and conversational lyrical ability, but totally dismissing the album for its crime-ridden stories as having a "we've seen this before" quality to them: "Jay-Z's street-savvy raps may seem like nothing new, but there's a reason the Brooklyn native is topping the charts," wrote Entertainment Weekly's Dimitri Ehrlich in August of 1996, and the Los Angeles Daily News was cited as saying that his ?sassy way with a lyric transcends the material.? Even The Source magazine's hip-hop braintrust gave the album only four mics in their review (later changed to a "classic" rating of five mics).
To hear Damon Dash tell it, Jay-Z's record industry prospects prior to the album's release were going even worse for him than the media's reception to his work. "I said he will be the greatest rapper of all-time at a time when everyone told me he was the worst rapper," he explained to us about his conversations with the suits who run the record labels. "You understand? I had been shopping him, and everyone told me 'He raps too fast.'" Feedback like this wasn't about to dissuade the pair (alongside silent partner Kareem "Biggs" Burke), though, and they headed into studio feeling confident that they could birth the kind of record that would make their hustle's potential turn to alchemical reality.
"Because we believed in it so much, you couldn't even tell me that it wasn't going to be the best album that was ever made," Dash gushed. "And it's funny because it became that."
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You do need to be displaying the LEX in the column (usually above Inflect) in order for it to add the gloss or root form. However, I cannot reproduce that error message, except by putting 2 Lex items in the same column, so I wonder what version of Accordance and GNT-T you are using. Also, can you post a screenshot of the Set Analysis Display? Are glosses and roots showing up in Instant Details or Parsing?
Thanks for the response. When I open my 'Details' box and go to 'Analysis', I get the screenshot below, "Analysis Screen-Open". As you can see, the "Inflected" is what pops up in my first column automatically.
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When I try to move the "Lexical" form above it and click 'ok', I get the screen you see in the screenshot below, "Analysis Screen- Move Lexical".
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Then, if I try to move the "Inflected" into another column, I get the grayed-out areas you see in the screenshot, "Analysis Screen- Move Inflected".
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I am using Accordance 8.1.1, and my GNT-T is version 3.6. In the process of trying to take screenshots of the error, Accordance shut down about 6 times. Finally, my Instant Details and Parsing seem to be working just fine . . . I don't have any problem viewing everything I need to.
Thanks so much for your help.
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By the way, I did have the problem once on my GNT-WH, but it only happened once. If it does happen again, I will just try these same steps. Thanks so much for your help.
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Your whole life. When you finally feel you have gotten better than your opponents, you will end up winning until you face even more powerful opponents and feel pathetic again. It's our curse.
Hmm... that being said, about how hard is the learning curve? I've definitely yet to master key bindings and an understanding of the champions. I guess when it comes down to it, I wish I had been playing for 3 weeks straight and already knew what is going on.
It depends. You have to just get better at the game in general, and you have to find the right champ for you. Try out Ryze, Annie, Ashe and Master Yi. Those are pretty easy characters to play, and they can help you get the basics down.
Well, here's some tips 1.Try Yi, enjoy him, get good as him, then cast him off and set him ablaze once you've gotten good. 2.Try some different Rune/Mastery combinations 3.Find a group of people to play with, yes it sounds dumb but it will actually make you better. You really need to give a bit more information on what you are doing to make you "suck balls" if you want some real help, which if you explain, the much more than knowledgable community will be happy to help.
I don't think I've gotten to the part where I can do mastery or runes. When Purchasing items should I stick with the recommended stuff or experiment with different items? Lucky for me I do have friends to play with. I just need to get more experience.
If you want to know how difficult it will be to jump in, I'd say it's fairly difficult. Many who play this game now have been for several months, and likely had been playing very similar games for years before that. Many people moved to LoL after hearing about it advertized as an improved DotA/HoN, and so people who loved those games are flocking. You'd be amazed at how refined the playstyle has gotten. That being said, I would try to find someone to guide you through some things. For the most part adjusting to hotkeys and such are essential, and require practice, but other things need covered (perhaps some help on sticky topics in this forum?) I'd be glad to help out, and I'm sure many others would as well (they do have a chat channel that will help with this on the LoL client.)
the learning curve for games like this is kinda... i dunno.. odd. Id say after one month you will feel competent. But then after two months you will realize that you are competent, and you will look back on your play from a month ago and laugh at yourself. Then the 3 month mark will come and you will be cursing your hubris a month ago, and realize that you still have so much to learn. In the end you will realize that you pretty much knew everything there was to know about how to play the game after a week or so of playing, but it takes months on end for you to apply that knowledge effectively and on a consistent basis. So.. the "learning curve"...relatively short.. but the path to greatness is never ending. Or at least...if it has an ending I have not spotted it yet
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Serious Fraud Office investigates G4S claim of over-charging for government contracts
Friday 12 July 2013
Whitehall contracts running into billions of pounds are being urgently reviewed after the Government disclosed that two major firms had charged the taxpayer to monitor non-existent electronic tags, some of which had been assigned to dead offenders.
In an announcement that throws the Coalition's privatisation drive into disarray, the Serious Fraud Office was called in to investigate G4S, the world's largest security company, over contracts dating back over a decade.
Serco, one of Britain's largest companies, also faces an inquiry by auditors over its charges for operating tagging schemes.
The firms supply an array of services to the public sector from running courts, prisons and immigration removal centres to managing welfare-to-work schemes and the Atomic Weapons Establishment.
Between them the two companies receive around £1.5bn a year from the taxpayer, but their contracts are worth billions of pounds because the vast majority run for several years.
They were also hoping to cash in on moves by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to hand them further large contracts to operate prisons and supervise offenders in the community.
The process of awarding all contracts was put on hold last night as the inquiries got underway.
The MoJ began investigating all its agreements with the two firms, including the running of major prisons, while the Cabinet Office started scrutinising all other Government contracts with G4S and Serco.
Shares in both companies fell sharply after the announcement by Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary.
Shares in G4S - which suffered torrid publicity over its mishandling of the last year's London Olympics security contract - finished the day 12.6p down at 213p. Serco tumbled by 54p to 626.5p.
Each of the companies relies heavily on Britain both for income and burnishing its international reputation. The move by the Government is unlikely to result in the wholesale loss of contracts, as the firms have few competitors of the same size but is a blow to their standing worldwide.
Mr Grayling's announcement came after an audit discovered G4S and Serco had overcharged taxpayers by up to £50m, billing them for offenders who were dead, back in custody or had left the country. According to one MoJ source, the companies charged for 18,000 offenders when the actual number was around 15,000.
Mr Grayling said latest estimates suggested taxpayers had been overcharged by the companies to the tune of "low tens of millions" since the electronic monitoring contracts were signed in 2005. He also disclosed that ministry staff could have known about the practice for five years and face possible disciplinary action.
He said in a Commons statement: "The House will share my astonishment that two of the Government's biggest suppliers would seek to charge in this way.
"The House will also be surprised and disappointed to learn that staff in the Ministry of Justice were aware of the potential problem and yet did not take adequate steps to address it."
Mr Grayling said he was asking the Serious Fraud Office to investigate the G4S contracts as the company had refused to co-operate with a further audit to rule out wrongdoing.
An investigation by PriceWaterhouseCoopers found that overcharging could have dated back as far back as 1999 when earlier contracts were signed.
Serco has agreed to withdraw from the current tender process for an electronic monitoring contract worth up to £1m, while Mr Grayling plans moves to exclude G4S as it is still attempting to bid.
Serco had also been the leading bidder for prison contracts in Yorkshire, but Mr Grayling will delay their award until the fresh audit is complete.
An urgent review of contract management across the Ministry of Justice's major contracts has also been launched and will report by autumn, he said.
G4S and Serco were also among companies preparing to bid for a range of payment-by-results contracts to supervise low to medium-level offenders across England and Wales.
Ian Lawrence, general secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers union, said: "We've long maintained that these companies are unfit for purpose when it comes to holding important public contracts. The outcome of the initial investigation into G4S and Serco suggests a good deal of malpractice has been discovered."
Ashley Almanza, the G4S group chief executive, said: "We place the highest premium on customer service and integrity and therefore take very seriously the concerns expressed by the Ministry of Justice. We are determined to deal with these issues in a prompt and appropriate manner."
Serco Group's chief executive, Christopher Hyman, said: "Serco is a business led by our values and built on the strength of our reputation for integrity.
"These values lie at the heart of the many thousands of our people who are endeavouring to deliver the highest standard of service to our customers around the world. We are deeply concerned if we fall short of the standards expected of all of us."
Sadiq Khan, the shadow Justice Secretary, said: "Given the scale of the allegations, the Government must immediately call in the police and the Serious Fraud Office to investigate both companies as fraud has potentially taken place."
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* G4S faced fierce criticism last year following the botched handling of its Olympics security contract. It failed to deliver the numbers of security staff it had promised and the Government was forced to bring in additional armed forces personnel. The firm will take a £70m hit over the bungled contract with Games organisers, Locog.
* Earlier this week an inquest jury ruled an Angolan man who died after being restrained by three G4S guards as he was being deported from the UK was unlawfully killed. Jimmy Mubenga, 46, died on a plane bound for Angola in October 2010. The Crown Prosecution Service said it would reconsider its decision not to bring criminal charges in the wake of the verdict.
* In January, multimillion-pound plans by three police forces to outsource services to G4S collapsed. Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, David Lloyd, said the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Strategic Alliance had discontinued negotiations with the firm.
However, last month it was revealed Lincolnshire's police force now spends the lowest amount per head of population on policing in England and Wales after it handed over the bulk of its back-office functions to G4S.
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Located just past Phutawan Resort where the trail to Tonsai begins, Railay Cabana is the antithesis of the upscale resorts found at Railay West. No more than a dozen simple but spacious cold water bungalows are nestled on a hill with a limestone cliff rising up behind. Both the smaller old bungalows and newer editions were fully booked when we arrived, but we were told they all have either one double or two twin beds with fans, wood floors and mosquito nets. The big porches sure look inviting. This is a family-run spot with chickens clucking about beneath the mango and banana trees. There's no WiFi, little English is spoken and the young lady who wandered over to the reception desk a good 10 minutes after we arrived couldn't even provide a business card. The atmosphere lends a sense of being miles from the nearest civilisation, but all of the beaches, including Tonsai, are no more than a 20 minute walk away. Railay Cabana is an especially good choice for long-term budget stays somewhere other than Tonsai.
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All the characters from the first three Mortal Kombat games return for the ultimate battle. You can play as Kano, Reptile, Mileena, Kung Lao, Shang Tsung, Sindel, Sketor, Stryker, Nightwolf, Sheeva, Kitana, Scorpion, Sonya, Smoke (Cyber Ninja), Rain, Jade, Baraka, Johnny Cage, Ermac, Noob Saibot, Sub-Zero (Unmasked), Sub-Zero (Classic), Jax, Rayden, Cyrax, Liu Kang, Smoke (Human), Kabal, Goro, Kintaro, Motaro, or Shao Kahn.This game is one-on-one martial arts fighting. The player can choose from over thirty different characters, all with their own fighting style and their own special moves. Trilogy differs from the other games in that you can play combinations of people that otherwise isn't possible, such as old Liu Kang vs. new Liu Kang, etc.
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From my own experience using the pthread library, if a thread is created with default attributes, then its stack size is 10 MB. It may be platform specific. If you are interested in reducing the stack size, you can use the pthread_attr_setstacksize(). In order to estimate a proper value for the stack size, you can use a script called "checkstack.pl". It is shipped in the Linux Kernel sources (under the "scripts" directory). See also http://www.kegel.com/stackcheck |


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Evening teacher and counselor Ron Williams had attended a workshop presented by a young English professor, Charles Wolfe, from Middle Tennessee State University, now a widely known expert on country music history. The topic was using traditional music as a starting point in creative writing lessons for high school students. Williams obtained permission from his boss to drive his students around the county looking for old folks to document their musical traditions, naively assuming that they would easily find local traditional musicians, who had been waiting anxiously over the years for a group of emotionally disturbed adolescents and their longhaired teacher to pull up in a State van in their front yard to record their performances of fiddle tunes and ballads passed down through the centuries.Amazingly, it turned out that this was what happened.
There's a particular recording from these sessions that I'm interested in, a 4/4 version of the tune "Irish Washerwoman", which I'd always known as a jig. I've heard it played this other way around town a few times and had a hell of a time tracking down a source recording — I eventually got an mp3 from a guy in the UK, but by that time I'd set a search agent to watching for a copy of the LP for sale. One showed up mint in shrinkwap for $13 the other day (quite an improvement over the $200 the one seller at Amazon wants), and I snagged it. It arrived today, and now I have to take apart my turntable so I can hook up a line out and rip the whole thing.
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]]>I get a lot of undeserved credibility in the old-time scene just for the way I look — white, middle-aged, beardy, not visibly queer. I get more credibility for having been to Fiddle Tunes as a teenager — somehow this means I grew up with the music and have it in my blood. I didn't, and I don't, and it shouldn't matter anyway. Part of the reason I placed my most recent tattoo where I did is that it's visible while I'm playing the fiddle, something that in my (admittedly limited) experience is fairly rare in the older generation of players and almost unheard of in the contra dance scene. At least around here. I don't know if that's a generational thing or what, but I feel like "has visible tattoos" is a signifier of a group of people I like and feel part of but can't quite articulate the group boundaries of. I'd like to see more of us in the old-time community.
I'm not sure whether the important word in that last sentence was "community" or "see". And I don't know what other hyper-local scenes are like. But it feels to me like there's a weird missing demographic in old-time music in Seattle, some combination of mid-20s to early-40s, female, queer. Maybe I just haven't been to enough Subversive Square Dance Society events.
In any case, one thing I'm going to do is, as much as possible, bring tunes to jam sessions which were either written or made popular by people who aren't old white guys. Many, if not most, of the fiddlers who I would like to sound like are younger women. Some are queer. Some aren't white. Some are classically-trained, some aren't. I'll be trying to post about them regularly here. Which is not to say I'm abandoning the canon of old white guy music. I just feel like if I'm going to have this unearned credibility, I ought to do something with it: I'm personally kind of ashamed that a group of folks I was in recently didn't know who Rayna Gellert is. This doesn't reflect on them — she plays in a style that they, for the most part, don't — but apparently I have been insufficiently enthusiastic in talking her up.
I'm going to try to change that this year. I'll start with the posts next week, I hope. For now, a concert recommendation: Porterbelly Stringband, The Barn Owls, and Sawdust Hill are playing at Conor Byrne tomorrow (Saturday, January 3) at 9pm. I don't know anything about Sawdust Hill, but Brittany Newell and Noah Frank of the Barn Owls and Porterbelly are two local fiddlers I really enjoy and respect. I was one of the oldest people at the last concerts of theirs I went to, and I'm only 40. I have no idea if it'll have any effect, but I'll post about the show to the old-time Seattle mailing list, and I'll be there myself. One way to even out that weird demographic dip might be to reliably come out in support of people in that valley. Let's find out.
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Ed Haley died in 1951, leaving a number (I don't know how many) of unpublished recordings with his descendants. BMI manages the performance rights for 73 of them; see the table below for the full list. Fourteen of them were first published in 1975 (the copyright date on the vinyl says 1976, Wikipedia says 1975, and it doesn't matter much for our purposes) by Rounder Records as the album "Parkersburg Landing":
According to Cornell's copyright status cheat sheet, those 14 arrangements (or compositions, if they're original) will enter the public domain 95 years after the publication date. So, in 2070 or 2071. That's 120 years after Ed Haley died, mind you. The rest were published in 1997, which means they enter the public domain either 70 years after the creator's death or in 2048, whichever is later. In this case, that's 2048, nearly 100 years after he died.
Does this affect you? Well, if you play any of the tunes below, it might. Are you playing in a public venue? How sure are you that the version of Arkansas Traveler you play isn't very similar to Ed Haley's version? If the place you're playing in doesn't have a BMI license and you play Ed Haley's version of one of these tunes, the venue could be sued by BMI. For the next 34 years, at minimum. Do you want to make and sell a CD which includes one of these arrangements? You owe the Harry Fox Agency 9.1 cents for each copy you distribute.
To be safe, you should probably stick to playing tunes which you wrote or which you're playing exactly the way they're printed in a book published before 1923. Traditional music, learned from other musicians in the folk process? Better keep that at home. Play it in public and someone is probably owed money, and just about the only way to know is when you get the threatening certified mail.
Just so you know, in case Jon Stewart wants to include this tonight, 85 NYPD officers were killed after 9/11.
—Brian Kilmeade, Fox News
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, here's what those 85 NYPD officers were killed by:
1: Assault
1: Fall
1: Fire
1: Gunfire (Accidental)
1: Stabbed
2: Automobile accident
2: Duty related illness
4: Heart attack
10: Gunfire
58: 9/11 related illness
(Four are unaccounted for in this tally.)
Unless criminals in New York are armed with mesothelioma weapons or time machines, it looks to me like there are closer to a dozen officers who have been "killed" (the implication clearly being "by bad guys, because cops have such dangerous jobs and could be killed at any moment and you'd better respect that") since 9/11. In 13 years. I'm not counting that one "accidental gunfire", because that was a white cop killing a black cop — it wasn't an accidental shooting; it was an accident that the victim turned out to be a cop.
This isn't to say that police don't have tough jobs. I wouldn't want to do it. But I'd rather be a cop than a NYC taxi driver. I don't have the stats handy, but I think I read that they're about 30 times more likely to be killed on the job than NYPD officers are.
So, you know. There's that.
]]>It's definitely a story to inspire parents to do the right thing when they hear their kids being bullies. But, probably because I'm a cynical asshole, I decided to do a quick fact check. The story had details which could easily be verified:
Chad [Hymas] was a senior at West Jordan High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the captain of the basketball team.
Well, that more or less checks out; Chad Hymas played basketball for West Jordan High school: Deseret News. I don't know if he was the captain, but that's not important.
The cheerleader in the story isn't named ("we'll call her Jenny"), presumably because the story is really about what Chad's father did. But it does say that her story made the news:
Her story made the local news, which was quickly picked up in syndication and reprinted in newspapers across the country. Soon people that usually didn't come to basketball games were showing up, but not to watch the game. They came to watch Jenny.
That ought to be easy to find; plenty of newspaper archives from that period are online and searchable. Chad Hymas graduated from West Jordan High in 1992, and West Jordan's sports were covered by the Deseret News, so let's search the Deseret News for stories about a cheerleader in a wheelchair at West Jordan: search
Huh. You'd think that something would turn up. I mean, if you remove "West Jordan" from the search, you do get some results, including one from 1994 which mentions a former cheerleader now in a wheelchair because she didn't wear a seat belt. And I just found a link (pdf) with a different name for the cheerleader — Melanie — and the detail that she was interviewed by Katie Couric.
He began […] by showing a picture of Melanie, his disabled high school friend. […] He told how his dad led him and his buddies – all popular basketball stars and school leaders – to quit shunning Melanie and befriend her. A few days later, she was voted head cheerleader at their large Utah school, and Katie Couric, TV anchorwoman, interviewed her at one of the school's basketball games. As a result, 7 million viewers saw Melanie with her new friends.
I know not everything's online, but surely some news archive would have a blurb about Katie Couric interviewing the local inspirational cheerleader.
But why would Hymas make up a story like that? I mean, he's kind of the villain of the story. His father is the hero (and Melanie is the MacGuffin).
Turns out, Chad Hymas wound up in a wheelchair himself, paralyzed after a farm accident. And he's an inspirational speaker now. (Salt Lake Tribune, ChadHymas.com) Who portrays himself as an asshole in a story? Someone who wants you to be impressed by how he's changed.
Now, it could just be one of life's little ironies that an able-bodied person who had a formative experience involving personal growth thanks to someone in a wheelchair became himself a person in a wheelchair selling able-bodied people formative experiences involving personal growth. Stranger things happen. But I'd really expect to be able to find a story about a cheerleader in a wheelchair at West Jordan in the early 90s if that were the case. Maybe I'm just not searching well, but I can't find anything about "Jenny" or "Melanie" on Google, in Lexis-Nexis, or in NewsBank.
I can find a tiny photo of Hymas on stage in front of a photo of a young woman who is presumably Jenny, or Melanie. So his story must be true, right? Or at leas true-ish?
In this video, here's how Hymas tells the story:
He showed up at my high school unannounced and uninvited during lunch. Walked into the cafeteria, asked us all if we would follow him. We went over to the girl's table, and we got to know her. Eight days later, she was voted the head cheerleader of the third-largest high school in the state.
He tells it slightly differently in this video (warning, mainly pop-country music, with voice interspersed):
The next day at school, the exact same situation. I'm sitting in the corner with my buddies, Melanie's sitting at the middle table, when my dad walked in on us. "Melanie, my name's Kelly Hymas; this is my son Chad, and these are all of his friends." And he introduced them all by name. And then he asked her, he said, "how would you like to go to McDonald's today, and grab a milkshake?" We went to McDonald's that day and I got to find out who she was. I carry that with me because I think about her every day. Today I get to go through just a little bit of what she went through every single day of her life.
Those stories don't conflict, really. They just have different levels of detail. But isn't that a classic tell of a story that isn't exactly true? The teller thinks that more detail makes it sound more true, and so keeps adding details?
Speaking of details, Hymas's web site prominently quotes the Wall Street Journal calling him "one of the 10 most inspirational people in the world!" And it's true that he's been included in a story about inspirational speakers in the Wall Street Journal. But it's not a story listing the ten most inspirational people in the world, and what it actually says about him is that he's "[o]ne of the hardest-working inspirational speakers". His site targeting workplace safety speeches says that he has been "Voted Most Influential Safety Speaker in the World". Well, ok, by whom? Someone probably did give him an award for safety speaking; I can believe that. Universally declared the most influential safety speaker in the world? Not so sure about that. That's the sort of thing that makes his big motivational story about the disabled girl who became the captain of the cheerleading squad not pass the smell test for me. There's probably some truth to it, but how much?
I dunno. Maybe this is just a long post about how I suck at searching news archives and have a heart three sizes too small. But I'm not buying it.
(Paul Smith describes himself as, among other things, a "story consultant".)
]]>It's the end of the year, which means it's time for DJ Earworm's annual United State of Pop mashup. This year's offering: Do What You Wanna Do
Billboard has a brief interview with DJ Earworm about this year's process, and this screenshot of his work in progress from a couple days ago is fascinating.
]]>And then Peter Beagle's mother died. She was 100 years old; not to sound heartless, but it can't have been that much of a surprise when she died. But from what I understand, that threw the audiobook project off as Beagle handled the funeral and such. I got the impression that some of the funds he'd raised for the audiobook project went towards funeral expenses, although I can't find anything to support that now.
And then, for months, silence. In January of 2007, there was this note in his newsletter:
The manufacturing problems that delayed the Conlan Press CD audiobook editions of THE LAST UNICORN (and the free illustrated hardcover collector's edition of TWO HEARTS) have now been solved, and all orders should be shipping by late March or early April.
The March 2008 newsletter had this:
All three of these delayed items will definitely be coming out in 2008. For the most up-to-date details, remember to check the new UPDATES page at Conlan Press. Actual release dates will be announced there first.
(The "updates" page at Conlan press has always been out of date — right now it's dated July of 2013.) The February 2009 newsletter had a note that the audiobook and illustrated hardcover were "delayed and not yet shipping". In May of 2009, the newsletter had this gem:
If you make just one purchase, or convince someone else to do so the same…and if enough of the other readers who get THE RAVEN do likewise…if that happens, then the financial crisis I've been in since my mother died in 2006 will finally be over. If that happens, I'll be able to pay back all the money I've had to borrow to survive. If that happens, the Last Unicorn audiobook and the special hardcover Two Hearts will come zooming out at last from Conlan Press […]
Here's April of 2010:
Finally, there's MAJOR GOOD NEWS about the long-awaited LAST UNICORN audiobook/TWO HEARTS hardcover combination. It is now firmly scheduled for release in mid-November, just in time for Christmas shipping. Hurray! (There's also one other bit of news about this project, but we can't shout it from the rooftops until we get confirmation that the contract has been signed. Once we do know this for sure, though…oh boy! It's really great news, and you're going to like it.)
The June 2010 newsletter revealed the really great news:
Exactly how long it will take him to finish his contribution isn't clear, because he's working on these new drawings while also spending 60-70 hours a week designing the upcoming feature film version of The Hobbit. But he has said he thinks he can have them done by September…and if he's right, then the previously-delayed book (and the associated Last Unicorn audiobook) will be shipping before the end of the year.
In September of 2010 there was this update:
He had hoped to be done by now, but his real job — John is part of the design team on the movie version of The Hobbit — has been particularly time-consuming lately, what with Guillermo del Toro stepping out as director on the project, and a whole new regime coming in. As soon as John does complete his illustrations the book will go to press, and the Last Unicorn audiobook will ship along with it on release.
Then nothing, for quite a while.
No updates on the audiobook/hardcover project, anyway. I did get, out of the blue, a film frame from a 35mm print of The Last Unicorn in the mail in April of 2011. That was nice. Not so nice was the email, two months later, from Connor Cochran throwing his former employee under the bus:
You are receiving this because at some point in the last few months you sent a message to one of the following email addresses: firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, or [redacted]@conlanpress.com. Those accounts were all being handled by Conlan Press's one employee, [redacted]. Unfortunately, [she] left the company in late April in order to deal with getting divorced — pretty much overnight she quit, packed, and moved back to Sacramento to be closer to her family and old friends. She gave no notice, and left huge stacks of jumbled, unfinished work behind her. It was quite the mess.I am writing now to ask your patience as I correct these problems and find and train new staff. First up is untangling and completing all the backed-up product shipping. Once that is done I can begin answering individual customer emails, get delayed manufacturing back on track for this year's crop of new releases, and return to finishing the Extra Deluxe LAST UNICORN books many of you are waiting for.
I don't care how badly an employee screws you over, you don't send email to all your customers naming and shaming her. I think my jaw literally dropped when I read that.
In June of 2012 I wrote to ask if there were any updates on the project, since at that point the Updates page on their web site was dated August of 2011 and didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. Namely, that the project was on hold until Howe could finish the illustrations. For the book that was a freebie add-on to what was originally ordered. I never heard back about that, but the newsletter a couple weeks later had this to say:
Just waiting on John Howe to finish his special illustrations for TWO HEARTS. Right now we're confident these items will be shipping before the end of the year.
The July 2013 newsletter estimated a release date of "early 2014″. Then in April of 2014:
For everyone who has been waiting so patiently, we have a spectacular announcement. Despite being deeply buried in his work on Peter Jackson's ever-expanding Hobbit movies, famed artist-designer John Howe is nearly finished with his special pencil illustrations for our fancy Two Hearts hardcover. If he continues to turn them in at the current pace, then this long-awaited project and The Last Unicorn audiobook will be ready before the end of the summer, and released as soon as they come in from their respective manufacturing sources.
September, 2014:
John Howe has exactly one and one-half drawings left to go! Then we manufacture and print and ship, which will be very sweet indeed.
Which brings us to today's newsletter, December 2014:
The Last Unicorn Audiobook/ Two Hearts hardcover combo — ready to send to press just as soon as John Howe (the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit artist) finishes his final two drawings.
The Conlan Press Updates page is still dated July 2013, and says that the audiobook/hardcover is "finished but not yet manufactured", but then contradicts itself in the very next paragraph by saying that they'll go to press when the illustrations are finished. That doesn't sound finished to me, and clearly it wasn't (and isn't).
I'm sorry for whatever happened to Peter when his mother died, but this project is now nine years overdue, the last four years apparently due to the illustrations in what was supposed to be a free add-on to the main product. It's not Last Dangerous Visions-late yet, but the potential is there.
I am unimpressed.
Update, 2014/12/29: The site FansAgainstFraud.com links here in its latest update. Hi! I personally think that Hanlon's razor applies here — I don't think Connor Cochran is intentionally perpetrating a fraud; I think he's just not good at the business he's running. The only inexcusable thing I've seen him do is send out that email blaming his former employee for everything. Failing to place an order with the comic publisher for the second half of a series you're selling doesn't make sense to me except as incompetence — I can't think of a way to spin that as fraud. So, you know, check out the fraud site and read Cochran's rebuttal and decide for yourself. (I do note that Conlan Press's updates page is still dated July 2013, another point in favor of "just not good at this job", as far as I'm concerned.)
]]>In reaction to Marc Ribot Talks Respecting Artists' Rights:
"I am opposed to the efforts from technology corporations to exploit works that they identify as "orphan works" online with no compensation to the creators."
The problem here is that you can't stop technology corporations from exploiting orphan works without also stopping artists working in audio collage, remix, mash-up, and folk music from reusing and reinterpreting material for which the rights holder can't be found. It means that if I want to make an album of folk music, I had better be damn sure that I can produce unambiguous evidence that the music I'm playing is in the public domain, or that I wrote it in a vacuum, not borrowing any phrases or musical ideas from someone who died less than 90 years ago. I can't make music which is too obviously influenced by people my grandparents could have met, let alone myself.
I agree that copyright is broken in ways which hurt artists (and I am going to keep using that word, artists, because "content creators" is the language of those very technology corporations the "content creators coalition" is ostensibly fighting against, and it makes me sick), but breaking it even further by tying the hands of new artists to protect established (and the estates of dead) artists doesn't make sense to me.
What we're calling "orphan works" today would have been in the public domain prior to the changes to copyright the Copyright Act of 1976 made. By removing the requirement for copyright renewal after 28 years, the 1976 Act _caused the problem_ of orphan works — works which may still be covered by copyright, but for which no rights holder can be identified. Marc Ribot is asking people to support a broken status quo which has only been the status quo for 36 years, and I can't get behind that, sorry.
]]>Wildly overblown claims about an epidemic of sexual assaults on American campuses are obscuring the true danger to young women, too often distracted by cellphones or iPods in public places: the ancient sex crime of abduction and murder. Despite hysterical propaganda about our "rape culture," the majority of campus incidents being carelessly described as sexual assault are not felonious rape (involving force or drugs) but oafish hookup melodramas, arising from mixed signals and imprudence on both sides.
That's Camille Paglia, writing for Time this morning. I feel like at this point maybe the best reaction to Camille Paglia is not to feed the troll, but here's a snack:
In Washington State, felonious rape does not have to involve force or drugs:
Rape in the third degree.(1) A person is guilty of rape in the third degree when, under circumstances not constituting rape in the first or second degrees, such person engages in sexual intercourse with another person:
(a) Where the victim did not consent as defined in RCW 9A.44.010(7), to sexual intercourse with the perpetrator and such lack of consent was clearly expressed by the victim's words or conduct, or
(b) Where there is threat of substantial unlawful harm to property rights of the victim.
(2) Rape in the third degree is a class C felony.
Section A, there? Clearly expressed lack of consent, via words or conduct, is all it takes for it to be a class C felony. And assuming Paglia isn't counting alcohol as a drug (which she clearly isn't, thanks to that "mixed signals and imprudence" bit), then we can move up to a class A felony, rape in the second degree. One of the conditions for that is "[w]hen the victim is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated", and if you're passed-out drunk, I suspect that counts as being one or the other. (To head off the "if they're both drunk, aren't they both victims" argument: if one person is so drunk they aren't awake, and the other is so drunk they have no self-control but are still up and moving, which do you think is culpable?)
What Paglia is calling "felonious rape", Washington calls "rape in the first degree", but both first and second degree rape are class A felonies here. And I bet that's the case in a lot of other states.
Camilla Paglia isn't just full of shit; she's a sloppy and lazy thinker. It's embarrassing to watch. I do agree with her on one point from that piece, though: "Real crimes should be reported to the police, not to haphazard and ill-trained campus grievance committees." This is true. There is nothing at all to be gained by the victim of a sexual assault on campus going to the campus authorities to report the assault. If you're going to report it, go straight to the real police. The campus authorities are looking out for the institution, not the students, as so many cases have shown. The real police might not be much better, but at least they don't have that built-in conflict of interest.
In summary: why the hell does anyone pay attention to anything Camille Paglia says?
]]>With that in mind, here are a number of questionable job postings for unpaid (or under-paid) internships I found on Craigslist Seattle just now. I titled this post "Naming and Shaming", but it turns out that most of the companies looking for naive suckers and well-off students unpaid interns don't say who they are in their listings. Hmm.
There were a bunch of blatantly illegal listings at law firms last time I looked, but I'm not seeing them now. And a bunch of the ones above are only questionable, not blatant. But it seems like a lot of employers, and especially a lot of small businesses, don't know what the law is. I encourage everyone who sees a questionable listing for an unpaid intern on Craigslist or elsewhere to contact the employer with a link to the DOL's fact sheet and ask them if they're in compliance.


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Mythical Tunes From the 70s by DeadlySick
Some of the tunes that definied the decade.
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Dance Yrself Clean by DeadlySick
indie rock, dance, 80s vibe, indie folk, experimental
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To throw away your bed sheets in a hot night with your lover.
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"I have to be honest. Every now and then, I do things that you don't see very often."
Everything from his lumber-chopping practice swings, to his fidgety wiggling in the batter's box, to his crazy eyes and spirit-inspiring speeches; Hunter Pence is one of a kind.
Like Pence, the Giants themselves are one of a kind. Their maddening style of play and uniqueness is a reflection of the city they play in-- a place I'd certainly call maddening and unique in its own right.
Nothing against Houston and Philadelphia, but Hunter Pence belongs here.
He belongs here because of his crazy ways and his crazy eyes. The fact that he rides a go-ped to the ballpark just seals the deal. Oh yeah, and he's a good baseball player.
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REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - A car exploded at a crossing on Turkey's border with Syria near the Turkish town of Reyhanli on Monday, killing at least nine people including Turkish citizens and wounding dozens more, officials said.
Witnesses said they saw the car drive up to the Cilvegozu border post, one of the main crossing points for Syrian refugees into Turkey, shortly before the explosion.
"We don't know whether this was a suicide bomb or whether a car that was smuggling petrol across the border blew up," one Turkish official told Reuters.
The mayor of Reyhanli told CNN Turk that nine people were killed, four of them Turkish, and that the car which exploded had Syrian licence plates.
Television footage and photographs showed severe damage to a series of vehicles at the border, where a gate was blown open and part of the roof collapsed.
Turkey is a staunch supporter of the near two-year uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has harboured both Syrian refugees and rebels. Violence has sometimes spilled over the border.
Five Turkish civilians were killed in October when a mortar shell hit a house in the Turkish border town of Akcakale.
Turkey has also responded in kind to gunfire and mortar rounds hitting its territory along the 910-km (565-mile) border and is hosting six NATO Patriot missile batteries meant to defend it against attacks from Syria.
Tensions have increased in recent weeks after NATO said it had detected launches of short-range ballistic missiles inside Syria, several of which have landed close to the Turkish border. Turkey has scrambled warplanes along the frontier, fanning fears the war could spread and further destabilise the region.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan interrupted a cabinet meeting to be briefed on the explosion, Turkish media reported.
The Cilvegozu border gate, several kilometres outside Reyhanli, sits opposite the Syrian gate of Bab al-Hawa, which the rebels captured last July.
Refugees cross back and forth and Turkish trucks also deliver goods into no-man's land between the two gates, where they are picked up by Syrians.
Speaking from scene, Syrian opposition campaigner Osama Semaan said he believed the explosion was an attack by Assad loyalists in response to an offer of talks from opposition Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz Alkhatib.
"It seems it is a deadly message from the Syrian regime after Sheikh Moaz offered it to talk in northern Syria," Seeman said.
Alkhatib said on Sunday he was willing to hold talks with Assad's representatives in rebel-held areas of northern Syria to try to end a conflict that has killed some 60,000 people.
(Reporting by Jonathon Burch and Ozge Ozbilgin in Ankara, Daren Butler in Istanbul, Khaled Oweis in Amman; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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