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This was such a fascinating story--interesting, funny, poignant and informative. The movie just cannot compare, and I'm surprised the author didn't object.
"Do not give up on this book!"
I am an avid fan of Donna Van Liere's having read most of her novels. However, at first, the heavy southern drawl of the narrator really put me off in the beginning. In fact, I read another book and then returned to this one. I can't tell you how glad I am that I did. This was simply a beautiful story with amazing characters. And after all, the author was depicting life in Tennessee in 1950--hence the dialect and quaint sayings. The story and characters stole my heart as all the author's previous novels have. I highly recommend "The Good Dream."
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This was my first novel by Susan Lewis, and I was not disappointed. I appreciated the author's writing style drawing parallels between past and present. Also, the narrator was perfect for this book.
"Terrific series, great story"
I'd say it ranks above average, considering this is the third in this series for me in a short time span.
I enjoyed the setting and the fact that the characters were human with both good traits and flaws too--even Father Burke.
He is a wonderful narrator which definitely adds dimention.
I did get wrapped up in the story.
I'd definitely recommend this series by Anne Emery and suggest beginning with "Sign of the Cross" first.
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Gerald C. "Jerry" Blaine, 75, of Wilkes-Barre, entered into his eternal rest in the arms of our loving Lord on Thursday, May 16, 2013. It is with great sadness that his passing is announced.
Born June 7, 1937, in Wilkes-Barre, he was a son of the late David J. and Margaret M. (Nickol) Blaine. Educated in the city schools, he attended the E.L. Meyers High School, Wilkes-Barre.
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He and his best friend, the former Charlotte J. Dzanko, celebrated 55 years of married life on Sept. 10, 2012.
He is remembered by those who knew and loved him as being an avid movie-goer and meeting several notable celebrities. He was a personal friend of the local actor the late Mr. Jack Palance.
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Hey! I'm looking for herbs that make wonderful tea. I've had mint and it was delicious! Trade? If you're looking for a certain vegetable, email me and ask because I have a lot so I didn't put all of them on my trading list.
Plenty of threads about herbal teas.
Here is a link that might be useful: herbal teas
I second Daisy's suggestion. This has been asked often and you will get alot of suggestions and even recipes in those backposts.
I find the mint-clan to be prolific in the garden and tasty in the tea cup. Peppermint, spearmint, catnip, lemon balm and more are all in that clan.
i like rosemary tea.
- 1-2 teaspoons of rosemary
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Preparation: Put the rosemary into the hot cup of water. Steep it for 5 minutes. Add a squirt of lime juice if you like.
Here is a link that might be useful: Herb Gardening Advices
My favourites vary depending on how I feel. At the moment it's hyssop because I have a sore throat.
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Again -- it's a vast galaxy with hundreds of millions of inhabited systems. Just ticking off the list of all the star systems they'd like to visit could easily take 700 years or more to finish. Maybe they've been meaning to go back to that system but just haven't gotten around to it yet, because the galaxy is insanely enormously gigantic.
I believe the use of Biogenic weapons was meant to imply that the locals were more or less annihilated. It's entirely possible the world has only recently reached warp travel levels again. It might also explain why things are so hostile as their nearest neigbors are the guys who plunged them into a planetary Dark Age.
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That's certainly a much more plausible and desirable scenario, and a truer one to Federation values, than a single uniform galaxy-wide Federation.
Very possibly true. However, I generally am just speaking about how smaller groups get absorbed into larger ones all the time without it necessarily being a bad thing. I am mostly speaking of mutual exchange of ideas leading to a superior whole.
Cross-pollinating and hybridization.
If we joined a Federation, the countries of the world might merely become provinces but I imagine a leveling of "standard of living" as well as improved conditions for equal access to education as well as other supplies--which I presume would be standardized to "the best" as things improved.
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In need of some help ladies
I am feeling really stressed lately and I think I have PPD... I wanted to vent and let you all know what I am feeling and get some feed back.
I was actually diagnosed with mild depression about 3-4 years ago. I never went back to the psychologist and I ignored it (i know bad idea). My father died about a year later and two weeks after he died I found out I was pregnant with my son. I never really grieved for my dad. I put myself into my pregnancy and tried not to think about it.
Matthew was born and I think I started my PPD or just continued with my depression at this time. I had really bad mood swings and I never really wanted to do much of anything. I slept a lot which I chalked up to having interrupted sleep at night (even though I would go to bed at 10 and sleep till noon most days).
October 08 we moved an hour away from family and friends for my DH's job. So now I was alone with a six month old in a place I didn't know anyone. On top of that, we only had one car so I was stuck at home on top of that.
In Feb. 09 I found out I was pregnant again. Neither children were planned but this one was not wanted. I didn't think I could handle having another child while I was still not myself. I couldn't bare giving up the pregnancy so my son was born 10/17/09. I love him to pieces but I am now finding myself still upset and I think its worse than ever. I want to sleep all the time. I cry more often than necessary. I don't want to do anything besides sit on the couch or sleep.
I find myself having very little patience with both children.. for different reasons ofcourse. With my 19month old, I don't have the patience to deal with him at all. From not wanting to play with him, to losing my patience when he runs from me for nap times. I find myself giving him spankings on the bottom and I don't like it one bit. With Ryan, i want everyone to know I do not have any intention in hurting him... even though the thought has crossed my mind but I would never! I get frustrated when I am trying to tend to Matthew and he is crying for no apparent reason. I make sure he is fed, changed whatever before trying to feed Matthew or do our bed time routine.
I also feel resentment towards my children and my husband. I am stuck home all day every day while DH works normally 1pm to midnight. I feel useless and I know if I didn't have children I could be in school and/or working... doing something with myself. But i am sitting home now with two children with nothing to do besides housework and taking care of children.
Please ladies, I would like some input, encouragement, something. My PP checkup is on Friday but is it smart to wait or should I call tomorrow, if I even need to call at all.
I'm so sorry you are having such a difficult time.
It's a lot all piled on. I would say call first thing in the morning.
I wish I had more or better advise. But letting it out, this post, is a wonderful thing. When we hold things in it just eats away at us, so post post post away!
Can your DH get a ride to work? Is there someway you could afford another car? Having your transportation is nesissary, and the freedom from being house bound is even more important.
You said DH works from 1pm to midnight? Go online and find a playgroup in your area. You can look at Mommy and Me, meetup.com, among other places. The playgroups normally ALWAYS happen in the morning, so you could use the car while DH is sleeping, you will get some adult interaction and your babies will get to play with other kids, and really wear themselves out!
Also what you can do is go to the mall and walk. I know when you're suffering from depression it is hard to get motivated to do anything, but getting out and being active will help, I promise. People are not meant to be kept in one place all the time, this, I feel, is a HUGE reason you are having such a hard time and that your babies may be a little more difficult than you would like. Children get the cooped up feeling too and don't like it either! I know when DD stay at home, even for one day, we BOTH go crazy! She's so whiney and I have ZERO tollerence for it.
At first being and getting out will seem like "too much work" but give it time, it'll get easier, your kids will learn to listen to your words and learn their bounderies, and EVERYONE will benefit from getting out of the house.
Also if it's in your budget look into a gym with a good daycare and good classes for you. I LOVE my gym days, although since being pregnant those happen MAYBE twice a week,,,, lol (usually a little less!) But it's GREAT to get out, work out, and to have some time without the kids!
I'm not trying to push you into doing something or make you feel worse, I'm just providing options and opinions, as these all work great for me. Take what you will! :)
I hope your days become better, brighter, and happier!
An idle body creates a stir crazy mind!
I've gone through bouts of this too but have come out better than before! Good luck hun and know you can always post on here for support, encouragement, and advise!
Sorry you are going through that. Depression can not be ignored a lot of the times. You may need medication or at least a therapist to talk to. I have generalized anxiety disorder, OCD and panic attacks and it is hard to deal with. Having 2 babies is tough I am sure. You have to remember those babies did not ask to be born and you may love them but when you spank out of anger and frustration is when you lose control and hurt them. You cannot take back what is done so you have to make sure you are careful with what you do as you do it. Does your husband know how you feel? My husband does not understand my anxiety issues so we argue about it. You really need to talk to someone who knows what you are dealing with, you can mention it to your dr but they may just prescribe what they have on hand and not really what you need. A psychiatrist is who you should let give you medications. I went through that once, regular doctors do not understand. You have to reimd yourself taht the 19month old is just that a 19 month old and he is dealing with your depression on top of being a toddler. He feels your feelings too. Good luck.
I went through a period of depression in college, and definitely I think the turning point for me was when I realized what was happening. Like you, I thought I was just sleeping all the time because I was doing so much. I'm proud of you for admitting what is going on. I think you should print out your e-mail and show it to your husband and your doctor, either just have it as talking points, or just give to them to read if there is a possibility you won't express what is really going on.
I think you should call your doctor today. I don't know how it works, but, if they refer you to a psychologist or if they can do anything themselves. If they will refer you, you should call today and then the referral process will be started that much faster. It does make a difference doing something about it now rather than waiting for Friday. You have been dealing with this a long time, and you need to have someone help.
Honestly, when I was on maternity leave, I found caring for Michaela - and just the one baby - completely exhausting. When my husband would come home from work, I would literally hand her over almost as he was walking through the door and just lay down or go on the computer for 30 min or an hour. It has only been in the last couple months where I really love it when I am taking care of Michaela by myself, if my husband is on a business trip or out with friends. Having two kids so close is more than double the work, because one will set off the other (in good ways, too). So, you should recognize that you do have a really hard job, and it's totally appropriate and reasonable for you to feel overwhelmed at times. But, the depression is making it hard for you to do it well.
The other thing is that babies are SO sensitive to especially what Mommy is going through. I wonder when Matthew cries for no reason if he is really crying for you - he wants you to feel better so he knows things are alright. I hope that doesn't make you feel badly, you aren't making him cry, of course. When Michaela was first born, we had problems breastfeeding, and, in hindsight, I know the reason why was just what I'm saying. I was frustrated that it wasn't working and would get upset about it, and try a million different positions and tricks. When I was finally okay that I would have to give her the bottle until she figured it out, lo and behold, it took her a day or two.
Sorry this is long, but, Michaela will sometimes run at bedtime or naptimes. They just have pent-up energy and they don't know how else to get it out. So, let him run a little bit if it's not waking up the baby, and get the sillies out. If you chase after him, it becomes a game. I have cats, and they do the same thing every night, they run crazy through the house and wrestle before they go to bed for the night. Then pick him up and brush his teeth, even if you have to hold him down on the bed to brush them, or whatever you do. I'll also take Michaela and hold her to me and lay down on our bed for a bit until the wiggles stop and then put her in her crib. I play music when I put her down so she has something to listen to as she falls asleep, and to help her calm down. I don't yell, I don't spank, because they have too much energy, so, I have to be the calm one. You have the advantage that you are bigger and stronger. Of course, it's easier for me because Michaela is small - she's still not even 20 lbs. But, it's just something to try.
Also, when I really am too exhausted to play with Michaela, I put her in a gated area, and I lay down in the middle of it, and she plays around me. That is what is so nice about this age, that you don't really have to invent all the games, they just want to be around you. Michaela will spend the time climbing all over me, sitting on me, throwing balls at my head, running her hands through my hair, and she's perfectly happy and I don't have to do anything. Even if she brings me a book, I can just sit up Indian-style and let her sit on my lap, and she's happy to flip the pages herself and look at the pictures if I don't feel like reading the words to her. So, that's something else you can try.
I hope these suggestions help, and I really hope that the doctors can help you with your depression. Please feel free to vent here any time.


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I'm going to be moving from Florida to Missouri in a few months and want to take some of my beloved cannas with me. What's the best way to do so? I don't think they are like irises where they can be out of dirt for along time and I really don't want load up and transfer 20+ pots of dirt full of cannas. Any ideas? Recommendations? Advice? Help!
Well, I just got a live canna plant from Plant Delights Nursery and it arrived in good shape. They took the plant out of a pot and used newspaper to wrap the soil (I would say a 6" pot worth of soil) and then used celophane to wrap the newspaper. For the plant itself (about 18" tall) they packed strip shredded paper around it (not the cross cut kind, but the long strips) and then used some heavier paper wrapped around the plant to hold the shredded paper in place (think a cut up paper bag). This was then put into an appropriate sized box with more shredded paper as packing around it. The box was seriously mishandled by the shipper and arived badly damaged, but the plants themselves were just fine.
In the winter I store mine in the basement. I dig them, let them dry, and wash off any excess dirt. Once they are dry again, I put them on a small table. I only have one variety at this point, so I just pile them up. They really are tough plants!
I agree with above, they are very tough plants. Everyone talks about how to overwinter these in cold climates, but I just dig mine, cut the leaves off, dry a couple of days & pile them in large paper bags til spring. As long as they are cool & dry, they can be out of the soil for months, assuming you have healthy mature rhizomes. If you are moving during winter months you could not plant til spring in Missouri anyway.
Last year I moved mine from Ohio to Florida. Since mine were going right back into warm ground, I put them in plastic dish pans with some of the soil. They did fine and I moved them three times in a year. Since it will be cold at the other end I would do like all of the above. Cut off to about ground level, dry and store in something that gets some air. Don't forget to mark them if you have different kinds as you will want to know what they are at the other end. Color, foliage, and height.


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Generally I was disappointed by what Season 8 had to offer.
UI - Looks alright, the color choices are not what they are listed as (I was promised a TNG LCARS, I got beige colours instead.). There seems to be a bug with the chatbox upon entering a new map, it isn't visible until you click anywhere on the screen.
Rep system - Briefly took a look at the Nukara Prime and Events rep systems, and although it does look cool, with ground combat being as bugged as it is, I seriously doubt the usefulness of this system. The Events tab looks dreary and just something else to grind for.
PVE - I did notice this sneak peek at some kind of new event, however t seems any details about it are top secret.
PVP - Nothing much has changed, although the warp core and specific traits will have a definite effect. http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps5b0de665.jpg
Ship warp cores: Impressive, looking forward to tanking even better than I already am.
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Sam Warburton has become the latest player to be ruled out of Wales' tour of New Zealand after fracturing his jaw in Saturday's defeat to South Africa in Cardiff.
The Cardiff Blues openside was one of the stand-out performers against the Springboks and his development had been pegged as a major bonus for the squad as they prepare for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
With his regional team-mate Martyn Williams rested from the tour, the No.7 jersey will now likely pass to Dragons flanker Gavin Thomas or Scarlets youngster Rob McCusker for the opening Test against the All Blacks on June 19. Ospreys lock Ian Gough has been added to the tour squad.
"A scan after the game has revealed a fracture to Sam's jaw which will prevent him from playing for at least a four-week period," Wales team physiotherapist Mark Davies said. "He picked up the injury in the first half but was able to continue to play a part in the game and actually made no mention of it himself until after the final whistle, later on a closer inspection has obviously revealed the full extent of the problem."
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Once you buy a movie ticket from Fandango or a cup of coffee from Starbucks, Blippy automatically publishes those purchases in a stream of updates that other users can follow, Twitter-style. The idea is to share this information with your friends and maybe start conversations about what you're buying.
The site has been in private testing for several months, but it's starting to offer more invites to the public.
Co-founder Philip Kaplan – known for founding the F**ked Company website to mock failing companies, as well as advertising network AdBrite – told me a little more about the company's story.
The idea was incubated at venture firm Charles River Ventures, which brought Kaplan on as an entrepreneur in residence back in June. While there, Kaplan played with different startup ideas, most of them finance-related.
Meanwhile, Charles River partner Saar Gur connected him to two young aspiring entrepreneurs down the hall, Ashvin Kumar and Chris Estreich, who were also trying to come up with the next big thing. (Kaplan says he already knew the pair from one of their projects, personalized song site GreetBeatz, because he'd offered to write heavy metal songs for GreetBeatz.)
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Water samples collected off the coast of Canada had revealed traces of radionuclides linked with the radiation leak at the crippled Japanese nuclear plant Fukushima.
The good news was that the concentrations of the two forms of radioactive cesium detected by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), cesium-134 and cesium-137, were too low to represent a radiological hazard.
This, as the Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), operator of Fukushima nuclear power plant, disclosed on Tuesday that radiation levels from previous readings have been "significantly undercounted."
"These errors occurred during a time when the number of the samplings rapidly increased as the result of a series of events since last April, including groundwater reservoir leakage and a major leak from a storage tank," Tepco told Bloomberg.
Scientists from WHOI had forecast that radionuclides from the Fukushima plant devastated by a tsunami in 2011 will reach Alaska and British Columbia in early 2014. It will travel south over two years with its trace amounts reaching the coast of Hawaii.
"The reason why we see such low levels of radiation in these samples is because the plume is not here yet. But it's coming. And we'll actually be able to see its arrival," Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the WHOI, said in a statement. "That baseline data is critical."
Meantime, the levels of radioactive cesium will arrive at the U.S shores by April, the scientists said on Monday.
"We expect over the rest of 2014, levels will become detectable starting first along the northern coastline. But the complex behavior of coastal currents will likely result in varying intensities and changes that cannot be predicted from models alone," Mr Buesseler said.
Researchers said they have detected radioactive cesium-137 in the ocean but this should not be surprising, according to Mr Buesseler. He explained the radionuclide has actually been present since the 1950s-1960s nuclear weapons tests.
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The brokeyest broke state in the nation (which means it is also one of the brokeyest broke entities in the world, as it has the world's 8th largest economy) has long served as the place where the far left has conducted field experiments for their policies. How's that working out? Neil Munro tells us
(Daily Caller) The Golden State has fallen on hard times, with a poverty rate that is now twice as bad as West Virginia's and substantially worse than the rates of poverty in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas.
Democrat-run California earned its last-place rank under the federal government's new measure of poverty, which incorporates more detailed analyses of welfare payments and the local costs of food, gasoline and housing. (View the new census data report)
The state's costs are boosted by its environmental and workplace regulations, and by 38 million residents' competition for housing close to the sea.
Hooray, they're #1, they're #!!!!!1!!!! I'm betting they really want to lean on the liberal trope that there are no winners and losers, so everyone should get a blue ribbon for competing.
The new measure, dubbed the "Supplemental Poverty Measure," revised the California's poverty rate from 16.3 percent up to 23.5 percent.
The report estimates that roughly 8.8 million people in California were poor during between 2009 and 2011, when Democrats controlled the state legislature and governorship, as well as the White House. (snip)
The new measure supplants a poverty gauge developed in the 1960s. It incorporates the economic impact of welfare programs, transportation and child-care costs, changes in child-rearing practices – especially the impact of single parents raising kids – plus differences in the region's average prices and health care costs.
This is all despite the large number of lefties working in the entertainment and tech industries, making boodles of money and refusing to give back. A large number of 1%ers failing to help the 99%ers.
The massive influx of illegal aliens sure doesn't help. They've caused many southern California emergency rooms to shut down, and approximately one third of the California prison population is comprised of illegals. Then you add in the "progressive" nanny state policies and high taxes, the job killing uber-environmental policies, support of unions policies, and other workplace policies, and you end up with Brokeifornia having the worst poverty rate. Congratulations!
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It ought not to be a surprise that the news of a £12m investment in High Speed 1 services to and from Thanet triggered a row over whether the government was playing pork barrel politics.
In about ten days time, the government would have been prevented from issuing the news under what are known as purdah rules. This prevents government and councils from making announcements that might be construed as favouring particular parties.
With news of an imminent announcement buzzing around last week, UKIP leader Nigel Farage cheekily pre-empted the official news by declaring it unofficially, tweeting: "Great news which would never have happened if I weren't the candidate there!" He went on to claim that it was evidence of what UKIP could do to bring attention to an area "even before taking office."
His point was to suggest that the Conservatives are searching around for good news to spread because they are on the back foot in Thanet, where he is standing. Of course, the Conservatives denied any such thing, with the departing South Thanet MP Laura Sandys describing his intervention as unbelievably arrogrant.
But UKIP has a point, however irritating others may find it.
This is not the first announcement in recent weeks that could be construed as designed to benefit the Conservatives.
Notably, there was the news that the government was to appoint an independent consultant to review the decision by the Labour-controlled council not to pursue a CPO for Manston. This review will conveniently not report back before the election.
Some of the gloss came off this a touch this week with a highly critical report by the transport select committee, which took the Conservative-controlled Kent County Council and in particular its leader Paul Carter to task over its failings in helping Thanet council.
A gift to opposition parties who are probably rushing to the printers to get new election leaflets published.
Then there is the question of exactly what kind of boost the £12m investment will provide and whether it is actually new. The press release rather hid the major downside of the announcement, namley that the scheduled upgrade of the line won't be completed until 2019 - a four years away.
As to the journey times, the average reduction will be ten minutes off. Not bad but again, the press release refers to the "potential" for a reduction rather than a guaranteed one.
On the question of how genuinely new this all is, the waters are rather muddy.
Network Rail confirmed a year ago that it was working towards an upgrade on the HS1 line to bring journey times down to about an hour from Thanet to London at a cost of £10m. If this was separate from this week's announcement, then the PR people missed a trick by overlooking the fact that it could be a £22m investment.
The conclusion seems to be that they are one and the same.
Nigel Farage has admitted that he may not win his bid to become the MP for Thanet South.
In a book serialised by The Daily Telegraph, he concedes he is facing a real battle and that if he fails it "would be curtains for me."
In one sense, this could be seen as a little defeatist and may have the effect of giving his opponents more impetus. On the other hand, this kind of candour does stand out from the earnestly positive remarks many candidates are choosing to post about their campaigns.
Twitter is full of would-be MPs posting update of their activity on the ground, usually accompanied by comments such as "brilliant day campaiging in x [insert name of constituency] and a great reaction on the doorstep."
Oh, and a deadly dull picture of activists holding leaflets, flags and banners.
Nevertheless, it is a risk for any politician to acknowledge they may lose.
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UKIP is not terribly keen on unelected quangos and there is one in particular that it would really like to scrap: the Electoral Commission, an organisation charged with overseeing all elections and ensuring they are properly run.
Why? Well, it is clearly a quango and Ukip's policy appears to be that all such appointed bodies should be wound up to save taxpayers' money. There is, in the case of the scrap to become the next MP for Thanet South, an additional reason.
The commission has just ruled that the FUKP party created by comedian Al Murray can be registered and the name can be used on ballot papers but its logo cannot. This decision turns on the issue of whether voters could confuse FUKP with UKIP. The commission says not - but has said that the acronym won't be allowed on the ballot paper and neither will the party's logo, an inverted version of UKIP's own emblem.
UKIP is irritated because it feels there will be some confusion among voters and Thanet South is likely to be a tight contest which could turn on just a few votes.
This is not to say that Al Murray has any chance of winning. It is about whether the votes he gets, coupled with the votes other minority parties secure, could deprive Nigel Farage of victory.
There are already eight listed candidates for the seat and the possibility that there will be more to come before the deadline of April 8. Add in the fact that Al Murray's FUKP party will appear before UKIP on the ballot paper and you can understand why the party is annoyed.
Still, UKIP has had a small boost with a Survation poll giving Nigel Farage an 11 point lead in Thanet South - and that lead is over Labour rather than the Conservatives. The poll is interesting because respondents were asked not just the party they would support but named the individual candidates.
While Nigel Farage is very much a Marmite politician, he obviously has greater voter recognition than his rivals. As interesting was the fact that Labour leapfrogged the Conservatives in this poll. That is probably a reflection of the efforts its candidate Will Scobie - a genuinely local person - has and continues to put in to the campaign.
Why is David Cameron apparently digging his heels in over a decision about plans for a grammar school annexe in Sevenoaks? Reports have suggested that he has ruled no announcement will be made this side of the election.
Many Conservatives are baffled by his reluctance, given that giving the scheme the green light would send a strong signal the party had not turned his back on selection completely as UKIP continues to promise "a grammar in every town."
One explanation may be that the case presented by The Weald of Kent Girls Grammar, which is proposing the scheme, is not so clear cut as some have made out, not least because of the 10-mile distance between the site in Sevenoaks and Tonbridge.Would that qualify as an annexe?
Another may be a cold political calculation that however many parents there are who would like more grammars, there is a perception that they are not the agents of social mobility they once were in giving bright children a "good" education they could not otherwise afford.
UKIP says it would give 20% of places to children from poorer backgrounds, although no-one has explained what would happen if fewer than 20% of such children did not pass.
And, at the end of the day, the Conservatives probably believe this is a decision that will have very little impact on the outcome of the election - not least because Sevenoaks and Tonbridge and Malling are about the party's safest seats in the county.
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If the purpose of party conferences is to send your supporters and candidates away with a spring in their step and a glint in their eye about their electoral prospects, Ukip can claim it more than achieved that after its seaside trip to Margate.
It wasn't quite on a par with David Steel's exhortation to his party to "go and prepare for government" but the mood in the hall at the end of the Ukip Spring conference in Margate was definitely one of optimism that the party is on course to end up with enough MPs to have a stake in who governs the country and how it is governed after May 8.
What was interesting was the efforts over the two days that the party is making to spell out what is is for as well as what it is against, what it is positive about rather than what it is negative about.
Although the headline findings of the recent Survation poll - commissioned by one of its donors Alan Bown - was good news for Nigel Farage in his bid to win Thanet South, some of the other findings were less positive for the party.
Which explains why it has now cast itself as the defender of the NHS. Speaker after speaker came to the platform to declaim they would go to the end of the earth to save the NHS. If you closed your eyes, you could have been at a Labour conference - provided you overlooked the bits about immigration placing the NHS under an intolerable strain.
This was a not-so-subtle bid to appeal to disaffected Labour voters, which party strategists say is where they are increasingly picking up support.
In his own keynote speech, Nigel Farage said the party's campaign would be overwhelmingly positive and vowed to steer away from smears and American-style negative campaigning he clearly expects to be targetted at Ukip in the coming weeks.
There was a whiff of David Cameron's entreaty to his party to "let sunshine win the day" when he became party leader. Whether the party can stick to this remains to be seen.
The other striking feature about the conference was that it was pretty much gaffe free.
A message has clearly gone out to candidates that they cannot afford to be "off message" and to think carefully about what they are saying in the media. (Paradoxically, the embarrassment caused by the fly-on-the-wall documentary "Meet The Ukippers" has probably helped).
Its MEP Patrick O'Flynn told the conference he did not want candidates to wake up on May 8 to think whether an unguarded remark or slip of the tongue captured by the media might have cost them victory. That may be tough to keep to but it is a sign the party is desperate to be seen as more professional - even if it makes it rather less colourful.
As to how it will fare in Kent on May 7, Nigel Farage slightly rowed back from his prediction on Saturday that the party could be on course to win "four or five seats" in the county, telling me that it was becoming increasingly difficult to draw predictions from national polls about what would happen at a local and regional level.
There is however a growing feeling that there may well be surprise results that confound the pollsters. With so much focus on Thanet South, insiders are saying that in constituencies like Thanet North and Dover and Deal, they are in with a shout.
It was probably not the wisest thing to predict victory quite so explicitly but we have come to expect Janice Atkinson, the Ukip candidate, to be forthright.
Not for her the cautious understatement.
But her declaration that she was going to win Folkestone and Hythe on May 7 - "our own private polling shows that," she said - was the kind of uncompromising forecast that gives party spin doctors palpitations every time she makes a speech.
Nigel Farage certainly doesn't look ill but that hasn't stopped him being the target of unfounded rumours that he is. The speculation, he claims, was spread by the Westminster lobby and although untrue had triggered some concerns among party donors.
He decided the only way he could draw a line under it was to tackle it head on in public.
And it seems he is enjoying himself after his dry January. Asked if he was making up for it with a 'wetter' February, he said: "No, let's just say we re back to normal."
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On the political Richter scale, the news that the leader of the Labour opposition group on Ashford council is to back Ukip represents a minor tremor rather than a major earthquake.
Despite Ukip's best efforts to portray the declaration of Harriet Yeo as a major coup, it falls well short of what they really want, which is the defection of a Labour MP.
Mrs Yeo is not even joining Ukip so she is not actually a defector at all - and says she doesn't agree with many of its policies.
Having said that, any party would be glad to win over the support from a rival party and Ukip, which tends to specialise in this sort of thing, won't be unhappy about the coverage the story has got, even if one broadsheet went slightly over the top by declaring the councillor as a top Labour figure.
Of arguably more significance are the comments by the Labour prospective parliamentary candidate Brendan Chilton. His warning - in remarks recorded without his knowledge - that Labour councillors were in danger of being wiped out by the Ukip advance - ought to be (another) wake-up call for the party.
Labour cannot hope to form a majority government if it fails to win seats in Kent but the signs are that will prove beyond them. As Cllr Chilton put it: "They [Labour councillors] may not exist after May if Ukip move at the pace they are."
They have two official target seats - Chatham and Aylesford and Dover and Deal - but the polls are not indicating that the party is picking up enough momentum to deliver them victory in May.
Not surprisingly, Cllr Chilton is rowing back furiously and unconvincingly to limit the damage, saying that he may have to "eat his hat" because "it looks like the opposite will happen" - the kind of spin that alienates voters rather than engages them.
Perhaps he should have stuck to his guns. His frank assessment of the situation Labour finds itself in is precisely the sort of thing party chiefs need to hear but instead they are keeping on with the platitudes about "getting a positive response on the doorstep". With an election two months away, it may all be too late.
There seems to be a degree of confusion about the events surrounding Cllr Yeo's ousting as the leader of Labour's five (now four) strong opposition group.
Cllr Yeo was booted out of the job for failing to attend meetings and deal with constituency business and deselected as a candidate. She claims it was all accomplished without her being given a chance to appeal and done by text.
What is clear is that the party seemed very keen to present the change in leadership of the group as completely innocuous. The news was relayed to the Kentish Express as a minor change in personnel and nothing too contentious. Cllr Yeo's name was not even mentioned.
What seems to have happened is that word got out that Cllr Yeo was contemplating a switch to back Ukip some time ago. She has admitted she spoke with Nigel Farage late last year and that may have leaked.
She believes that was the real reason she was ousted athough acknowledges that she did indeed miss some meetings because of poor health.
We aren't being told Labour's side of the argument because it has pulled the shutters down and is referring all questions to the regional press office.
Tags: Ashford, UKIP, Nigel Farage, election, Thanet, Labour, Harriet Yeo
Categories: Nostalgia
Conservative county councillors did their best to put a gloss on their streetlight switch-off U-turn at the authority's budget meeting but it has been an unnecessarily messy episode which the opposition parties understandably exploited.
The ruling administration did what it could to make the best of a bad job but had to face accusations that it had not actually saved any money, after spending £3m on installing the technology needed to move to part-night lighting - effectively neutralising the predicted saving of £3m up to 2017, when it says bulbs will be replaced wih LEDs.
At least Conservative council leader Paul Carter was upfront in acknowledging that had the council known that the cost of LEDs was to fall significantly, it might not have embarked on the switch-off. (His claim that it had saved money was less convincing).
Opposition in Kent appears to have been more vociferous than other areas, which may have something to do with its size and rural nature.
To be fair, it did consult pretty widely at the outset.
Having said that, perhaps councillors did not do themselves any favours by appearing rather dismissive about residents' fears over security and crime, insisting the perception of an increase in crime was not matched by the reality.
Any public figure who spending thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money on outside PR agencies and consumer research companies can expect to be asked to account for it.
Kent crime commissioner Ann Barnes says appointing outside consultants was necessary to secure an "independent" review of the communications strategies adopted by the force.
Communications are important for any public body especially for the police.
But we doubt many people will regard it as that important to pay a PR firm close to £14,000 for an insight into what was being done and what might be done better - especially given the common complaint that they don't get to see many police officers on the street these days.
It is equally hard to justify the £2,400 spent on media training for the crime youth commissioner Kerry Boyd, whose term of office is to end shortly but whose activity has been so low profile as to make her virtually invisible.
Perhaps the advice was to not say anything or do anything in public or before the media.
It proved one of the few local flashpoints in the Rochester and Strood by-election, so what have the parties made of the government's decision to call in the plans for 5,000 homes at Lodge Hill and hold a public inquiry?
Strangely, it has produced an unlikely consensus between UKIP MP Mark Reckless and Kelly Tolhurst, the Conservative candidate.
Mr Reckless says he is delighted he will not rest until he has 'won the war'. Kelly Tolhurst declares she will "continue to lead the campaign against it."
Perhaps they should stand on a joint ticket. No, we can't see it either.
Tags: streetlights, KCC, Ann Barnes, PR, Lodge Hill, Mark Reckless, Kelly Tolhurst
Categories: Memory | Precept
The fate of Manston Airport is still - excuse the pun - up in the air.
But the MPs on the transport select committee lifted one or two interesting stones on what seems a very complex issue of who owns the airport site when they quizzed a variety of witnesses at a hearing this week.
The hearing made for an uncomfortable experience for Pauline Bradley, the director of Manston Skyport Ltd and the two interim directors of Kent Airport Ltd who were repeatedly pressed on the issue of the extent to which the former owner Ann Gloag was involved and how she potentially stood to benefit on the back of the business park scheme envisaged by the new owners.
MP Tom Harris articulated what many people think about the sale when he asked Ms Bradley if she could understand "why people might look at this and think it looks slightly fishy" given that "a lot of people are about to get very wealthy on the back of a £1 purchase?"
In a reply that lacked a great deal of conviction, she said that there had never been any attempt to disguise Ms Gloag's financial stake and there was no question that she would exercise any financial control. Which is of course an important distinction but it took a while to prise out the fact that Mrs Gloag has a 20% stake.
In one of the more dramatic moments, Sir Roger Gale read from a report which he said revealed that Mrs Gloag had no intention of running the airport for two years. While it was unclear who wrote it, the MP quoted a section which stated that "in the process of creating the JV [Joint Venture] steps should be taken to restructure the HGT shareholding such that it cannot be easily identified" and that "the perception that the site is under the conrol of a non-controversial JV partner would be commercially advantageous from a planning perspective."
I got the distinct impression that the committee members were not awfully impressed or totally convinced by the evidence put forward by the owners but we will have to wait and see. And it is likely that we may have to wait until after the election to find out what the select committee recommends.
If you can hear the sound of car gears crashing around County Hall, it is probably connected to the latest policy U-turn.
After a reversal on plans to axe the number of communty wardens comes the news that the great streetlight switch-off is to be effectively scrapped.
We were told when it was first introduced that a pilot scheme would run for a year and then be reviewed. But the Conservative administration has clearly got the jitters and are to phase it out. There will still be a review which as I understand it will focus on issues.such as whether the switch-off has led to more crime and if so, where.
The new policy is to invest £40m in replacing every single streetlight with new LED bulbs, which have the advantage of being more energy efficient and can de dimmed and are cheaper to run - once you have made the initial outlay.
KCC invested an awful lot in its pilot swith-off scheme and there will be some questions about why it went to such great lengths to do so.
The odd thing is that when KCC first announced about deciding to replace the bulbs in its 120,00 streetlights in October, there was no mention of the possibility that it could be an alternative to the night-time switch off.
But the switch-off has gone down badly in many communities and there have been claims it has led to increased crime rates. When opposition parties at KCC called for an end to the scheme last September, they were told by the Conservative Mr Brazier that "most rational people know there is nothing to fear."
The fear that seems to matter among Conservatives is the fear that it will cost them votes at the forthcoming election.
Al Murray hit the campaign trail in Thanet South this week and rival candidates were probably gritting their teeth as he effortlessly secured a huge amount of media coverage.
There were plenty of jokes, repartee with reporters and mugging for the cameras. It is all slightly surreal and you have to wonder whether, by May 7, the joke may have worn a bit thin.
But he is doing a good job of pricking the pomposity of politicians who, during interviews, like to preface their answers to questions with the refrain "I am glad you have asked me that" - normally followed by an answer that has absolutely nothing to do wth the question.
Tags: streetlights, Al Murray, Manston, Sir Roger Gale, select committee, KCC, Conservatives
Categories: Politics
As Operation Stack gets close to being in place for a record number of days, gridlocking much of the county, the debate about how to deal with it continues.
Kent County Council has advocated buidling a series of lorry parks which would be open round-the-clock as somewhere for HGVs to park overnight but would also provide some capacity to hold lorries during Operation Stack.
There are three main problems. One is that building these won't come cheap. The authority is borrowing £10m to hold in reserve to help buy land where necesary, which it wold then hope to recoup from a private operator who would run it as a commercial concern
The second is that these parks would be relatively modest, with spaces for about 800-900 HGVs in total. That is nowhere near enough to avoid the need to turn the M20 into a lorry park when there are problems getting across the channel.
The third is that if anything happens, it won't be for a long time. KCC says it hopes to open one near Westenhangar, Folkestone by 2017 but the politician in charge, Cllr David Brazier, warned this week that even that may be optimistic.
Kent County Council has unfortunately squandered years and a considerable amount of money pursuing an earlier proposal for a huge park off the M20 at Aldington, near Ashford, that would have been capable of holding up to 3,000 HGVs.
It stubbornly stuck with this idea for far too long in the face of people telling it that it would go nowhere and was not viable.
What ought to be quite clear now is that this is an issue the government cannot afford to leave to KCC and others to sort out. This has been its line for many years - overlooking the obvious point that the M20 is not KCC's responsibility but the Highways Agency - which is accountable to the government.
More importantly, Kent is the gateway to Europe and as such, the problems created by Operation Stack have economic repercussions way beyond the undoubted damage done to businesses and residents in Kent.
Every day that lorries are stuck on the hard shoulder of the M20 means that somewhere, a business is losing money, suppliers are missing delivery dates and hauliers are having to reorganise their schedules.
As the economy improves, the road network around the south east will come under crippling pressure if the government just sits back and says that the job of finding solutions is left to councils. It is stating the blindingly obvious, but the amount of commercial traffic travelling through Kent to and from Europe is not going to reduce.
If the coalition is prepared to spend £42bn on the High Speed Two project, it really ought to be able to allocate money to help tackle the problems caused by Operation Stack.
Kent County Council has signed off on another contract to management consultants Newton Europe, this time for a fee of £5.5m to oversee the authority's specialist childrens services. It is already paying the same company £5.4m for a contract to advise on how to cut the costs of care for the elderly and vulnerable.
To be fair, it seems that the company has delivered savings in adult care and the hope is that it will do the same for children's services.
The company website in unsurprisingly gushing tones describes itself as one which delivers "transformational, award-winning change" across a variety of sectors - including building submarines - and is a place where "initiative, creativity and versatility" thrive.
There is even a testimonial from KCC itself - with the website featuring an equally glowing reference from social care director Mark Lobban, its commissioning director who praises the "strategic transformation through evidence-based commissioning" that its partnership has achieved.
There is nothing wrong with Newton Europe soliciting testimonials from its clients, of course.
But some might feel it would be better for the council to keep more distance from those it is paying significant sums of taxpayers' money to.
Tags: Op Stack, Kent County Council, Newton Europe, social care
Categories: Private Sector | Prostitution
If the election battle for the key Kent constituency of Thanet South was not already interesting, the news that comedian Al Murray - or his alter ego the pub landlord - is throwing his hat in the ring has made it even more so.
Announcing his intention to stand via a video address in which, among other commitments, he pledged to make beer a penny a pint came out of left field. Interestingly, an interview he gave to The Independent in 2013 criticised comedians who embraced politics, saying their role was to lampoon them.
It appears his main target is Ukip - his party's logo is an inverted pound symbol in gold - and his opening salvo in the video was to declare that the time was right for a tilt at Westminster.
"It seems to me UK is ready for a bloke waving a pint around offering commonsense solutions," he declared, leaving no ambiguity as to who is in his sights.
His confused rivals reacted in the only way they could - by adopting a jocular tone saying it would liven up the campaign and desperately trying to avoid looking either panicked or po-faced.
Ukip to its credit came up with the best one liner, saying it welcomed the news of "a serious rival at last" while its leader Nigel Farage saying "the more the merrier." Laura Sandys, the out-going Conservative MP, said there were already enough comedians standing - note the plural.
How will all this go down with the voters in Thanet South is anyone's guess. His parody of a hyper-nationalistic landlord is sometimes affectionate, sometimes cutting.
Is he serious about winning? Or simply standing to poke fun at politics and politicians? If it is the latter, there is a good case for arguing that his candidacy is unnecessary.
Many voters already look on politicians as a joke and don't need a comedian to remind them of that or deflate the egos of those standing for office.
There was an interesting debate about fracking at County Hall this week. Or rather, there should have been but in the grand tradition of council meetings, our elected-representatives decided that it was more important to debate whether there should be a debate.
This stemmed from a petition submitted by the Faversham and Mid Kent Green Party candidate Tim Valentine and signed by nearly 3,000 people. Under KCC rules, this automatically triggered a debate at the meeting of the authority's environment scrutiny committee.
The only problem was that, according to the council's legal eagles, no such debate could be permitted as to do so and to adopt a presumption against any fracking applications, would compromise the council's position because it was the relevant planning authority dealing with them.
So, we were treated to one of those debates about constitutional procedures which councillors seem to relish. A clearly exasperated Cllr David Brazier, cabinet member for the environment, said he could not understand why "intelligent people" had signed the petition" when a cursory glance at KCC's website would have indicated why such a call was not likely to succeed.
I am not sure how that would have gone down that well with the public but that's County Hall politics for you.
As it was, after some ill-tempered exchanges, the Conservative majority on the committee voted to close down the debate much to the irritation of the opposition representatives.
Tags: ukip, Al Murray, the pub landlord, election, Conservatives, Thanet South
Categories: Politics
It has been a tumultuous year in Kent politics and 2015 is shaping up to be just as turbulent. Here is how the politicians saw things - in their own words:
"We have picked up the jigsaw pieces from different boxes and put them in new boxes where there is real synergy." Some mystifying jargon from John Burr, the KCC director in charge of re-organising the way the council is run.
"We are not the masters now, the people are the masters. We are the servants of the people. We must never forget that." Newly-elected Rochester and Strood UKIP MP Mark Reckless victory speech has uncanny echoes of Tony Blair in 1997.
"By-elections are different; there is a chance for people to vote in way they haven't done before." Conservative leader David Cameron calls for people to vote tactically to stop Mark Reckless in the by-election.
"You should tell that to Mrs Cameron" The Prime Minister's retort to a reporter on the campaign trail in Rochester who said he was looking fit and whether he had been working out.
"People who have got through [to Britain] call and say 'We've got through. This is El Dorado and we're staying here'. Natasha Bouchard, Mayor of Calais addressing MPs on why hundreds of migrants were gathered in the French town.
"It was poor judgement and naivety on my part rather than words spoken with any malice." Janice Atkinson Ukip MEP and prospective parliamentary candidate for Folkestone and Hythe after being caught on camera describing a supporter as "a ting tong from somewhere."
"I did ask about the mafia issue" - Thanet council officer Mark Seed on reports that potential investors in ferry firm TransEuropa had crime links.
"The only reason I agreed to do the documentary was to help people better understand the role of police and crime commissioner." Kent crime commissioner Ann Barnes on that Channel 4 documentary.
Women of the UK: burn your bras...Or not." Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch tweet in response to a Ukip claim that for every bra bought in the UK, £1 went to the EU.
"These statistics, while accurate, could lead to an entirely misleading impression being given about how hard members work for their communities." Cllr Gary Cooke, KCC cabinet member for democratic services explains why the council stopped publishing meeting attendance figures.
"Conclusions were drawn where there was no evidence to support those conclusions." Kent County Council leader Paul Carter on why he withdrew a report suggesting government welfare reforms were behind rising crime, homelessness and food banks.
"It is now not beyond the bounds of possibility that we hold the balance of power in another hung parliament." Ukip leader Nigel Farage after his party's crushing European election victory in May.
"Nigel Farage is a pound shop Enoch Powell and we need to watch him." Comedian Russell Brand on BBC 'Question Time' takes a dig at the party leader
"As we entered the studio, and his personal make-up artist straightened his chest hair for him, I kid you not, I realised that perhaps he might be a bit lighter weight than expected." Nigel Farage retort at Russell Brand on BBC Question Time.
"Over the past few decades, flood defences in many areas have been neglected, and local people left to fend for themselves.Those days are coming to an end." Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg visiting Kent to announce £17m of flood defence work
"I am out but not down" Ashford MP Damian Green after losing his job as policing minister in what was culled a cull of middle-aged ministers from the cabinet
"I don't think it would have made much difference" - Liberal Democrat candidate Geoff Juby on whether the presence of his party leader Nick Clegg on the Rochester and Strood campaign trail would have helped. He went on to lose his deposit in the party's worst result in a by-election
"The New Ways of Working Programme has progressively implemented the approved phased redevelopment of several key hubs" - what else but a Kent County Council officer's report on "re-organisation"
Tags: Mark Reckless, David Cameron, UKIP, by-election, Rochester, Strood, Kelly Tolhurst, quotes, flooding, Nick Clegg, KCC, Paul Carter
It being the pantomime season, it was a smart move by the makers of BBC's Question Time to rope in Russell Brand and UKIP leader Nigel Farage for its final programme of the series.
I am not sure whether it left the audience desperate for a re-run and neither was it clear who was the villain and who was the hero.
It began with a question that seemed to offer Brand an open goal - was the adverserial nature of politics leading to its decline - but he appeared unusually nervous and fluffed it, which must have taken David Dimbelby by surprise.
Still, at least the audience was in a rather frisky mood and a few more than heated exchanges from the audience seats only served to remind those watching how tame the panel seemed.
At some points you sensed that Russell Brand and Nigel Farage had more in common than they were prepared to admit and couldn't decide who was the villain - both characterising themselves as "outsiders" - but Brand stuck the knife in with a good one-liner about Farage being a "Poundland Enoch Powell."
Although I did wonder whether, like Blue Peter, this was something he had prepared earlier. The cameras at one point showed him leafing throuh what could have been cue cards - who would have thought he needed those?
Farage generally kept his cool but was rather less animated than he usually is. He correctly surmised that it would be counter-productive to try to best Brand.
Instead, he chose to focus his attack on Labour's Mary Creagh and the floundering government representative Penny Morduant, who had she been playing in a football match, would have been substituted very early.
Creagh was reasonably good but too often lapsed into a recital of Labour's commitments that has most people tuning out and wondering about other things.
I expected Penny Morduant, who gamely appeared in the ITV programme Splash, to be rather better. After a belly flop like that, she may be inclined to turn down future invitations.
But she was on the defensive from the start after Dimbleby chose to remind the audience and viewers that she had been found out for making a speech in Parliament in which she used some rather fruity words - apparently as a dare from certain Naval friends.
Not a good position to debate a question about how mainstream politics might be in decline.
Dimbleby crowbarred a question about social mobility and whether we ought to have more grammar schools right at the end, which was a mistake as the panel only had a few minutes to debate what could well be an election flashpoint next May.
Brand lamely admitted that he "didn't know much about grammars" and opted for a rambling riff about other issues, leaving Farage with the easiest of tap ins at goal.
It was all entertaining stuff but the audience seemed more up for a fight than the panel.
The curtain dropped after what seemed no time at all but the audience was probably thankful the cast did not come back for an encore.
And if you wanted me to name the person who came across the best, it was the journalist Camilla Cavendish, who was easily the sanest person there.
Tags: UKIP, Farage, Queston Time, Canterbury, Russell Brand, Conservatives, immigration
Categories: Politics
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At a time when rock and roll really struggled to get a foothold in 2011, it was reassuring to see soulful, R&B performers kicking up the ante. We saw it in performers like Adele, who delivered probably the best album of the year, "21", an album that was chock full of believable heartbreak. However, if Adele hadn't made that album, Charles Bradley's "No Time For Dreaming" might qualify for that covetted spot. It's a brilliant album that perfectly recaptures the glittering sound and sweet feeling of 1960's R&B performers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and it, too, has believable heartbreak. Bradley is 62 years old. This is his very first recording. He spent most of his life working as a chef. However, the transplanted Brooklyn native was lucky enough to see James Brown perform at The Apollo Theater in 1962. This impressed Bradley enough to become a James Brown impersonator under the name "Black Velvet". But it wasn't until he fell under the auspices of producer Thomas Brenneck and The Menahan Street Band that Bradley's aching, soul-searching voice found its true outlet. "No Time For Dreaming" sounds like it could've been recorded at Stax Studios with The Bar-Keys and Booker T. & The MGs. It's amazing to hear The Menahan Street Band playing with that kind of soulful accuracy. What's so impressive about this album isn't just Bradley's voice---which, by the way, is sensational---it is also the choice of songs, most of which Bradley wrote. Nearly all of these songs convey the feeling of the current social environment the way all those Stax, Atlantic and Motown songs conveyed America under the Civil Rights Era. That is definitely apparent in "The World (Is Going Up In Flames)" and the semi-autobiographical "Why Is It So Hard?". The most dramatic song on this record is also the most personal, "Heartaches and Pain", where Bradley recalls his darkest moment, when he found out his brother had been murdered. If Otis Redding had lived long enough to make his own version of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?", it might have sounded like this. "No Time For Dreaming" not only recalls a time where soulful R&B songs had a deeper meaning but that they can regain that meaningfulness once more. Bradley has just given us a few more of his own. Let's hope he becomes a huge star.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.


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