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'We must address issue of security in Nigeria'
Rafeequat Arinola Onabamiro, a former Permanent Secretary in the Lagos State Civil Service, represents Badagry Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives. In this interview with Joe Agbro Jr., she spoke on her mission in politics, the ongoing discussions on NYSC at the House and other issues. Excerpts
You've been a legislator for eight years now. How has the experience been?
Politics is totally different from what I was doing before. Yes, you would say I've been dealing with people. In the bank, you deal with people, in the public sector, you deal with people. But now, you're really dealing with different kinds of people. Now, I'm having to meet them, I'm having to live with them, deal with them, and I'm having to relate with them. I have several telephone calls, messages from them, almost on a daily basis. It's totally different.
But, it's a challenge to me. And I knew what I was going into when I decided I was going into politics. I retired from the civil service as a permanent secretary. Like now (10:00am), what I really ought to be doing is to still be in bed or have my breakfast in bed, that kind of thing. That's the way to go when you retire but, I figured I still have some energy that I can put into the lives of my people.
I know Badagry is not like Lagos Island. It's not like Ikorodu. It's not even like Epe. For instance, there is no federal presence here. We don't have companies. We don't have anywhere that people can work. The factories we had a few years back; coconut industry and the jute bag company; all of them are not working. People don't have work. We don't even have individuals that we can point to, saying these are the rich people in Badagry, these are the people who can help. We are so few. And the few of us, we are trying to get across together. We want to form something like the Island Club of Lagos, the Ikorodu Club in Badagry so that the few of us that God has been good to can come together and see what we can do for Badagry. My being in politics is to see how I can be an agent of change.
Was that why you recently donated buses to all the unemployed youths in Badagry, popularly known as area boys?
They're not all the area boys in Badagry but these ones have already grouped themselves together. So, I said, let me start with these ones because they already have a basis for a relationship. If those ones' lives' change, it would be an impetus for others.
I told them (Area boys), 'we politicians usually use you during the political era. Between the elections, there are four years, what would you do with the four years? If you have something of your own and can earn your own daily bread, that is the way to go.' One of them even told me when I was campaigning, that he came there purposely to destroy the whole arrangement. I said why? Do you have anything against me? He said no but all the people that had come in the past had just been making promises. And for that reason, he doesn't see why he should believe me. And he wanted to break my windshield; he wanted to destroy the place. That particular day, I had to be smuggled out of there. So, we can't do everything and we cannot get all of them together at this stage. Let's start with these ones and if this goes well and if the others approach me to ask for the same request, it may not be vehicles, it may be something else, then, we'll see what we can do. I would rather do that for people than individual projects. I've had a lot of requests but I try to analyse what would be the greatest benefits to the people and to the greatest number of those that are really in need because it would be a legacy and a thing of joy for me if at the end of my term, I can say that I've touched the lives of people, I've improved the lives of people, and I've engaged them such that they focus on the importance of being somebody.
How do you want to harness natural potentials of Badagry because that's one area the youths can readily come in?
You will be surprised. That's part of the misconception. I don't think there's any youth that want to go into farming. I don't think there's any youth that wants to go into fishing. They all see their mothers and fathers who are into this business as if 'you're going nowhere.' And these boys and girls are in a hurry. We must really identify what their interests are. Like I told you, these boys told me they want buses for transportation. If they had wanted to do fishing, they would have said so. If they had wanted to do farming, they would have said so.
Badagry occupies an important point on the West African trade route but it seems it has not maximised the gains of its position
I think the main issue is that of the Badagry Expressway and the transport situation. In those days, we used to make Mile 2 to Badagry in about half an hour. But, now, you cannot make Mile 2 to Badagry in less than two hours. If you come to Badagry, know that you can't do anything else on that day. It's a day project – coming and going. There's no way you can get back on time to do any other thing. But, thank God for the government of Babatunde Raji Fashola and his insistence that the Badagry road project goes on. Badagry expressway is a federal road but the FG has not done anything. In fact, they wanted to discourage the work. The project has been in the pipeline since Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was governor and the implementation has been taken over by the present governor and we're hoping that we would be able to complete it very soon. I'm sure that by the time the expressway is completed, it's going to open up Badagry.
Now, there are security concerns about sending children to different parts in the country to participate in the mandatory NYSC programme. Is the programme really relevant and if so, how can their lives be guaranteed?
I was in the second set of NYSC... I'm glad you raised that point and on the floor of the House, we have some motions that we've been discussing relating to the issue of the NYSC. Most of us do not believe that it should be scrapped. I completely enjoyed my national service and I think it' a very good project. Maybe, if not for NYSC, I would probably never have left Lagos. I served in a village called Yandev (in former Benue/Plateau). It was a new experience for me, going from the city of Lagos to a village where there was no electricity, no water. I saw kerosene fridge for the first time. It was what I was using. We even had an accident because we didn't know how to operate it and my room-mate got burnt. But, it was an experience that I cherish and I think people should not miss out on that. That is the essence of NYSC. That essence, we must preserve. If there are other issues that are now coming up, let us address those issues and that is what we are trying to address on the floor of the House. We have discussed the issue that there should be adequate insurance for each NYSC member really. We've been talking about their allowances, we're talking of the welfare generally of these our sons and daughters in the NYSC. But, apart from that, this issue of security is what we need to address. It's not just NYSC alone. How about the bombings in Kano where police stations were bombed at the same time? Luckily, no NYSC member was involved but lives were lost. The issue is, we must not lose lives. Lives must be protected. Security of Nigerians must be very prime on our mind and we must ensure that we can move freely in any part of Nigeria.
At 62, you look young, what's the secret?
My life has always been an easy one. I don't really let things bother me that much. If I have an issue, I face it, resolve it, and then I move on. If I have a personal issue with anybody, I don't let it bother me so much. I only think about it very briefly and move on. I don't have anything on my mind that I allow to bog me down. And I pray a lot. I believe in God and I always pray that He directs all my affairs. That gives me a lot of peace of mind.
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But I happen to think he is the best thing they've got. If you look at the polls, what you see is people like Barack Obama...
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On a wet track, Lucas di Grassi (BR) in car #1 and André Lotterer in car #2 started qualifying on intermediate tires. When Tom Kristensen (DK) took over #1 and Marcel Fässler #2 from their team-mates Audi Sport Team Joest fitted both hybrid sports cars with slicks. Both drivers were able to complete their respective mandatory timed laps this way. However, as the times had improved by about five seconds on the drying track, the team decided to let the first two drivers, respectively, take the wheel again. This choice gave the team a possibility to improve the average time set by both drivers per car on two new, faster laps. This average determines the grid positions.
Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer achieved grid position three this way with a 1.3-second gap to pole. Lucas di Grassi and his squad, after a good start, only missed the beginning of a final lap by a few seconds – the time had run out.
The third Audi R18 e-tron quattro was running on a completely different strategy. In Belgium, Filipe Albuquerque (P) and Marco Bonanomi (I) are preparing for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Their hybrid sports car uses an aerodynamics variant that is already geared to the endurance race in June. Sports car rookie Albuquerque and his team-mate achieved a solid performance. The Portuguese was initially running on rain tires before his Italian team-mate tackled the 7-004-kilometer track on intermediates. On his final outing, Albuquerque relied on slicks. The duo qualified for grid position seven.
Following the unsteady weather on Friday, a low risk of precipitation is expected for the race. The Spa 6 Hours start on Saturday at 14:30. Eurosport will broadcast the final phase from 18:30 to 20:45.
Quotes after qualifying
Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich (Head of Audi Motorsport: "It was a very thrilling and close qualifying session. The track conditions kept changing. Therefore, it made sense to start on intermediates. The track subsequently improved a lot and with more downforce we fitted the cars with slicks. It was extremely important to start another outing at the end. We were hoping for more than third place. But we're still taking it as a positive result and are now concentrating on the race."
Chris Reinke (Head of LMP): "We experienced an intensive qualifying session because the changing conditions didn't make our work any easier. I think we were at the right place at the right time with our tire choice. The driver changes strategically made sense as well. In such changeable conditions, there are many parameters that can shift. We're not euphoric but can be pleased with the result, The third car that was deliberately on a conservative strategy achieved its target too."
Ralf Jüttner (Team Director Audi Sport Team Joest): "This qualifying session was a novelty. All of the top teams not only changed drivers once but twice because the conditions dramatically improved. With car #3, with the Le Mans configuration, we proceeded with a bit of caution, also due to the drivers' lack of experience. They were initially out on rain tires but then quickly switched to intermediates and ultimately to slicks. With car #2 everything fit. André Lotterer's first laps were okay. Then Marcel drove two fast laps on slicks and turned the car over to André again. It was enough for third place. Car #1 was a few seconds too late, that's why Lucas didn't finish his second lap anymore. But the grid position isn't so important for a six-hour race. It's not the best starting base but I'm hoping for a good race."
Marcel Fässler (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #2): "Spa is known for very changeable weather. That's exactly what we had again. The track began to dry and you had to change the tires and drivers at the right time. We didn't do a bad job of that. Maybe I could have driven another lap. But grid position three is good. And we've got a great car. I'd like to thank my mechanics for this because they worked hard during the past week. With third place our starting base for the race certainly isn't bad. We're going to attack tomorrow."
André Lotterer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #2): "Qualifying was very strategic because we had 30 minutes for the four best laps. In the beginning, it was a bit damp when I was running on intermediates. Afterwards, Marcel Fässler was out on slicks. I subsequently continued driving on Marcel's tires. We managed to improve our average. A bit more would have been possible."
Benoît Tréluyer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #2): "It was a pretty good qualifying session. The whole team went about its work with concentration. My team-mates squeezed the best out of every lap. They drove without any mistake in difficult conditions. I'm happy with their performance."
Lucas di Grassi (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #1): "It was a very difficult qualifying session. We didn't have the perfect strategy. We only drove three laps on slicks and one lap too many on intermediates, which cost us a lot of time on average. That's why we're only in sixth place. We had a lot of potential and Tom Kristensen was running well. Tomorrow is a new day, the race is long. We're aiming to clinch valuable points."
Loïc Duval (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #1): "It was a complicated qualifying session due to the changing weather conditions. We had the right strategy but in the end we missed the mark by a narrow margin. Tom Kristensen and Lucas di Grassi did a good job. Unfortunately, Lucas wasn't able to drive two laps on slicks. That deprived us of a better average."
Tom Kristensen (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #1): "These were typical Spa conditions. It was important to change drivers twice because the track was improving. Lucas di Grassi missed being able to drive another lap by only a few seconds. That would probably have moved us further towards the front. I drove two timed laps and was happy with the balance of the car in these conditions. The race lasts for six hours. We're aiming to clinch points for the championship."
Filipe Albuquerque (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #3): "For the configuration of our car these weren't the best conditions. On a dry track, we'd have probably been more competitive. Marco was running on intermediates because the track was still damp and we can't generate enough temperature with the tires. I still switched to slicks. Seventh place was a solid performance because we didn't risk too much."
Marco Bonanomi (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #3): "It was the first qualifying session for us this year. I'm happy to be driving here and to share the car with Filipe Albuquerque. Obviously the result isn't what we'd been wishing for. But the conditions today weren't the best for our car with the Le Mans aerodynamics. That's why we were running conservatively, gathered data for Le Mans and tried our best without taking big risks. We're hoping for dry weather in the race. That would suit our car."
Qualifying results
1 Dumas/Jani/Lieb (Porsche) 2m 01.198s
2 Buemi/Davidson/Lapierre (Toyota) 2m 01.836s
3 Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) 2m 02.499s
4 Nakajima/Sarrazin/Wurz (Toyota) 2m 03.177s
5 Bernhard/Hartley/Webber (Porsche) 2m 03.672s
6 Di Grassi/Duval/Kristensen (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) 2m 03.881s
7 Albuquerque/Bonanomi (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) 2m 06.160s
8 Bradley/Howson/Imperatori (Oreca-Nissan) 2m 12.103s
9 Zlobin/Mediani/Minassian (Oreca-Nissan) 2m 12.751s
10 Canal/Pla/Rusinov (Morgan-Nissan) 2m 13.143s
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In the weather gamble at Spa, the crowd got to see a thrilling qualifying session for round two of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). On a drying track, the best teams opted for a second driver change, in addition to the one driver change prescribed by the regulations. The 2012 World Champions, Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Benoît Tréluyer (CH/D/F) were the best Audi squad. In the Audi R18 e-tron quattro, they achieved position three.


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It appears the Mets pitcher does understand the game as he has a spare ball, but the "coolness" of the equipment does not mean you are an adequate bowler. You can buy the best of equipment out there and still suck.
Mets pitcher Shaun Marcum enjoys bowling in his spare time, and I think it's safe to assume that the right-hander is pretty good at it too, seeing that the incredibly cool, red eyed skull with a hole in its head bowling ball being shown off is the one he uses strictly for picking up spares, according to Mets PR man Jay Horowitz. This is Shaun Marcum's new bowling ball. He uses it just for spares. It doesn't spin as much as his strike ball. twitter.com/Jay_HorwitzPR/… — Jay Horwitz (@Jay_HorwitzPR) March 20, 2013 If that's the one Marcum uses just for spares, I wonder what his "strike" ball looks like? Probably contains the heart of a grizzly bear that he killed with his bare hands or something. If intimidation factor is huge in bowling, then Shaun Marcum and his menacing bowling ball have it in spades. [MLB via Hot Clicks] The post Mets P Shaun Marcum has a crazy skull bowling ball he uses only for spares appeared first on Last Angry Fan.
It is obvious this writer knows nothing about the sport of bowling and seems to be condescending towards it. There are several athletes from the MLB, NBA, NFL, NASCAR and others who enjoy the sport of bowling.
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Aztec boosters call revelations 'shocking'
"It became clear the replay official (Angelis) had become disproportionately focused on the Camera #5 shot (which had player traffic obscuring the football at certain points) and on the issue of 'clear recovery,' " Thompson stated in his letter to Weber. "He failed to ask the communicator (Bunn) if there were additional clips available for review before making his final decision. Concurrently, the communicator (Bunn) was not sufficiently aggressive in notifying the replay official that additional thumbnails (video evidence) were available. Finally, the technician (Moon) who had a view of the television line feed, did not notice or did not interject that a definitive view of the play was being shown on the air."
The revelation of BYU alumni working for the league in the replay booth raised concerns at SDSU of a conflict of interest. In his letter, Thompson stated that the MWC "was convinced no malfeasance had occurred and that a combined human error was as the root of the missed replay call." He stated the league still has confidence in these crew members.
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After the announcement of Angelis' incorrect replay decision, the league's coordinator of officials called the replay booth during a timeout in the game to find out why the play wasn't ruled a fumble.
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After the game, the replay crew members were told by league officials there was a replay angle that provided indisputable evidence of the fumble and a clear recovery of that fumble by SDSU. Upon being told this, the replay crew said they had no knowledge of such a "look" and (Angelis) again asserted that the video evidence he had seen was not sufficient" to rule it a fumble, the letter states.
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Later after viewing DVDs they had recorded, the replay crew members "finally saw the definitive replay and were horrified to learn of their mistake," Thompson stated.
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Q4 2012 Earnings Call
February 04, 2013 5:00 pm ET
David Hafner
Kevin B. Thompson - Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, Treasurer and Director
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» SolarWinds Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
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David Hafner
Thank you, Fara. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to SolarWinds' Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Earnings Call. With me today are Kevin Thompson, our President and CEO; and Mike Berry, our Executive Vice President and CFO.
Following prepared remarks from Kevin and Mike, we'll have a brief question-and-answer session. Please note that this call is being simultaneously webcast on our Investor Relations website at ir.solarwinds.com.
The press release with our results for the fourth quarter and full year 2012 was issued earlier today and is also posted on our Investor Relations website. Please remember that certain statements made during this call, including those concerning our business and financial outlook, competitive advantage, expansion plans, areas of focus for 2013, growth strategy and expectations, estimates regarding our market opportunity and approaches for attacking this market opportunity, acquisition strategy and evaluation criteria, product development efforts, sales and marketing efforts, opportunities for the companies -- for the company and our products, and our ability to capitalize on these opportunities are forward-looking statements.
These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions described in our SEC filings, including our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, which we anticipate filing with the SEC on or before March 1, 2013.
Should any of the risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual company results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. These statements are also based on currently available information, and we undertake no duty to update this information, except as required by law. Cautionary statements regarding these forward-looking statements are further described in today's press release.
In addition, some of the numbers during this call will be presented on a non-GAAP basis. Our use and calculation of these non-GAAP financial measures are explained in today's press release, and a full reconciliation between each non-GAAP measure and its corresponding GAAP measure is provided in the tables accompanying the press release. Each non-GAAP item in our forward-looking financial outlook that we will...
Pardon the interruption gentlemen, we are unable to hear you at this time.
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Kevin B. Thompson
Hello, everyone, this is Kevin Thompson. I think, maybe, we had a small technical difficulty. So we're going to start again just to make sure that all of our remarks are heard.
So starting again, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us on our fourth quarter 2012 earnings call. I'm pleased to report that we finished what has been a very successful 2012 on a high note, delivering a strong fourth quarter, with total revenue reaching $73.5 million, reflecting 32% growth over the fourth quarter 2011 and for the eighth straight quarter, meaningfully exceeding our outlook.
For the full year 2012, total revenue reached a record $269 million, we delivered non-GAAP operating margins of 53.8%, our highest level since before IPO in 2009 and our total revenue growth accelerated to 36% in 2012 as compared to 30% for 2011.
I believe the strength in our 2012 performance demonstrates the success we have had in significantly increasing the number of problems we solve for IT professionals. This success has transitioned SolarWinds from being just a network management company into an IT management software company, with a portfolio of products that solve a connected set of problems for IT pros in organizations of all sizes.
We believe our 2012 results highlight our ability to create competitive advantage in new markets at economics consistent with our historical businesses, while remaining completely committed to the foundation principles of our unique and disruptive business model. These foundation principles include a go-to-market model, which leverages the Internet to reach our potential buyers, products, which are easy to evaluate, implement and use, that are priced at a fraction of competing products, a focus on the IT pros who use our software to solve their IT performance problems, a global development model that allows us to build products at a cost that we believe is among the lowest in the software industry, a sales model that is completely dedicated to selling from the inside and a financial model that delivers operating margins that are among the highest in software, while at same time, allowing us to invest for growth.
Importantly, before moving on to a discussion of some of the highlights of the fourth quarter results, I would like to thank the entire global SolarWinds team for all of their effort and hard work over the past year. The work you have done and the progress you have made allowed us to continue to defy the conventions of how enterprise software is built, purchased and used.
In 2012, we made significant investments in order to build awareness of the problems our products solve across IP markets and around the world. We meaningfully expanded the number of IT problems we can address and the users we are relevant to. In the process, we completed 5 product acquisitions, which have allowed us to grow broader and deeper in the markets we serve. As a result of all these activities, we accelerated our year-over-year revenue growth rate, reaching 36% for 2012.
However, despite these significant investments, your commitment to doing things the SolarWinds' way also enabled us to deliver non-GAAP operating margins of 53.8% for the full year, along with helping us to generate consistently strong free cash flow, which totaled $150 million for the year.
As I mentioned earlier in my remarks, total revenue for the fourth quarter increased to $73.5 million, representing growth of 32% versus the fourth quarter of 2011. Our growth in total revenue was driven by a combination of solid growth in license and maintenance revenue that were both well ahead of our outlook for the quarter. License revenue for the fourth quarter increased 31% year-over-year, reaching $33.1 million. Maintenance revenue also continued a series of rapid growth quarters reaching $40.5 million, reflecting 33% growth over the fourth quarter of 2011.
Our fourth quarter 2012 growth in new license sales reflects another strong and consistent quarter across both our global commercial business and our U.S. Federal business. Commercial new license sales grew 29% year-over-year in the fourth quarter, driven by solid results across each of our major geographies, despite the fourth quarter being the toughest compare from a growth perspective in 2012.
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At the time of this letter to Hugh McCarten in late 1970 Lloyd was living in his parents' house in Exeter, NH. It would be another 18 months before moving to New York.
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Leaving so soon?
This card, found in Lloyd's apartment — along with a staggeringly diverse collection of books, manuscripts, DVDs, BluRays, laserdiscs, vinyl, paper ephemera, action figures, his Western saddle and the bust of Elvis, among much, much more — is a nice reminder that when Lloyd first moved to Las Vegas, he stayed for a considerable time in the El Cortez. He loved that it was the oldest casino still operating in Las Vegas, in all its dingy glamour, its façade unchanged, the first casino Bugsy Siegel owned.
The card of course also reminds us that Lloyd did leave too soon. Perhaps we can extend his stay here on mardecortesbaja. Please feel free to suggest in the comments how best we could try to do that.
For starters, here's a link to the precursor set of his on-line writings, Nowhere Confidential, dating from his 2004 arrival in Fabulous Nowhere into 2006, as he was about to start mardecortesbaja, and containing links to even earlier collections of posts, among them the Report from Gotham and the Report from the Beach, when he was living in Ventura, California.
March 22nd, 1950 — February 19th, 2015
Lloyd Fonvielle, a writer whose prolific career encompassed erudite essays on photography, screenplays for Hollywood and freewheeling short stories about the American West, died on Feb. 19, 2015 at his apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was 64 years old. The cause of death was hypertension and COPD, according to the Las Vegas coroner's office.
Mr. Fonvielle was a working writer in Hollywood for more than twenty years. His produced screenplays included The Lords of Discipline (1983), The Bride (1985) and Gotham (1988), starring Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen, which Mr. Fonvielle also directed. In 1996 he wrote Little Surprises, a 36-minute comedy directed by Jeff Goldblum that earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short. He was accorded story credit on the 1999 blockbuster The Mummy, and on Cherry 2000 (1985), which he also executive produced.
Among his writings on photography were the introduction to a book on the iconic photographer Walker Evans, published by Aperture, and the preface to Election Eve, a book of photographs by William Eggleston, published by Cotty Chubb. Essays on ballet and diverse other subjects also appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Slate.
Mr. Fonvielle was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on March 22, 1950. His father was an Episcopal minister and his mother a grammar school teacher. He grew up in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., where an obsession with movies began at an early age. He attended prep school at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and spent a year at Stanford University before dropping out to pursue his writing. In 1983 he married Toni Bentley, a dancer with the New York City Ballet and a writer. They separated in 1992.
For thirty years Mr. Fonvielle lived in New York City and Southern California before relocating to Las Vegas in 2004. There he reinvented himself as a blogger and author of Western fiction. His blog, Mardecortesbaja.com: A Journal of Visual Culture was a platform for his literate, highly opinionated, often irreverent views on popular culture, art, history and religion (with the occasional vintage pin-up thrown in), attracting hundreds of thousands of page views.
Mr. Fonvielle was an early adaptor of Amazon as a vehicle for publishing his noir novellas and Western short stories, which found an enthusiastic audience among discerning readers. He passed away at his writing desk – in other words, he died with his boots on.
Mr. Fonvielle is survived by his mother, Laura Roe Fonvielle, sisters Libba Marrian, Lee Rossi, Anna Gratale and Roe Goch, as well as numerous nephews and nieces. At this time, funeral arrangements have not been made.
Text by Hugh McCarten; photograph by Langdon Clay (ca.1978)
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At the moment, plans for this site are undetermined. The family intends to keep it open for the foreseeable future. Perhaps it can be used to publish some of Lloyd's writing, letters, ephemera, and images.
[The post was edited on March 8th, 2015, to include the fact that Mr. Fonvielle married.]
This book is a Valentine to the American West — a little raunchy at times, a little violent at times, but so was the American West. There's a kind of romance at the heart of every story, though, and you can experience the whole collection as a free download from Amazon for five days starting on Valentine's Day.
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This is a kind of synthetic folk song, like "Old Man River" — a Tin Pan Alley evocation of the existential laments found in the black musical repertoire. "Synthetic" doesn't mean phoney — it's more like a paean to the sublime vernacular expressiveness of the spiritual and blues traditions. You might see it as a form of minstrelsy, in which a white artist wants to say something he or she can't say in his or her own persona but can say in blackface.
Blackface wasn't always patronizing — sometimes it facilitated a profound and humble and loving tribute to black style, black culture. The performance history of "That Lucky Old Sun" has transcended racial boundaries. The best versions of the song have been done by black artists — Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin — just as the best versions of "Old Man River" have been done by black artists.
Sinatra's version above is way too white — it's like an academic commentary on an African-American song. It doesn't enter into the black idiom the way the song's (white) composers entered into it. Bob Dylan, a white singer who has always had a special feel for the blues idiom, has performed the song a number of times over the years.
Above Dylan sings it back in 1985, when his voice was stronger and sweeter than it is today. It's a lovely performance but it's got nothing on the version that closes Dylan's new album Shadows In the Night, which is moving beyond my ability to convey, except to say that I've listened to it twice and it's made me cry twice.
Black blues singers regularly performed, but rarely recorded, Tin Pan Alley songs written by white composers. (Ray Charles, whose musical taste acknowledged no boundaries, offered his version of "That Lucky Old Sun" on an album that also included "Old Man River" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".) White artists have often been moved to try and sing the blues — with mixed results. This is all part of the complex conversation of American musical culture.
Dylan's version of "That Lucky Old Sun" on his new album is one of the most eloquent contributions to that conversation in the whole history of American recorded music.
Thanks to reader Ken for bringing the 1985 performance to my attention!
This is one of Irving Berlin's most brilliant songs — a lovely melody with deceptively simple lyrics. The iterated question "what'll I do?" has a casual feel, but becomes an existential cry of hopelessness, particularly with this line — "When I'm alone with only dreams of you . . . that won't come true . . . what'll I do?" That first ellipsis requires a subtle but perceptible pause to achieve the full impact of the line, suggesting a sudden realization or final acceptance of the unthinkable — this love affair is over forever.
When Sinatra first recorded the song in 1947 he didn't make use of that pause — he was more concerned with delivering a mellifluous vocal performance than with plumbing the song's emotional depths. By the time of the 1962 recording above he'd grown as a dramatic artist and sang the line about as well as it can be sung. Gordon Jenkins's arrangement for the 1962 recording isn't ideal, though — it's a little overblown, going for emotional effects he should have left to Sinatra.
Dylan delivers a superb rendition of the song on Shadows In the Night. He knows as well as the 1962 Sinatra how dark the song is and his aged voice gives it an edge that makes it even darker. He doesn't go for the pathos in the lyric in any obvious way — his phrasing, like Sinatra's in 1962, is casual and straightforward, allowing Berlin's words to take the song where it's going . . . straight into a terrifying emotional abyss.
A brilliant performance of a magical song — one of the highlights of Sinatra's years at Capitol, which were pretty much a non-stop parade of highlights.
Dylan sings it on Shadows In the Night with the same emotional commitment Sinatra brought to the song, though Dylan's vocal doesn't have the subtle perfection of Sinatra's, with its mix of masterful musical calculation and dramatic intimacy. This is the one song on Dylan's album to which Dylan doesn't bring anything new. His is just an excellent rendition of an excellent song.
This version of the song is a classic, and deservedly so. It's from 1945, when Sinatra was most appreciated for his crooning — the smooth tones and easy delivery that made him a sensation, mostly with young girls. You might argue that Sinatra is more concerned here with his star persona as a dream lover than with emotional expressiveness. You don't get a feeling he's really broken about by being alone — more that he's putting the moves on somebody to rectify the situation.
That's niggling, though, in the case of such a lovely musical treasure.
Dylan's cover of the song on his new album is something else again.
This is the voice of a man who's gotten on a bit in years, who feels his isolation keenly. His hopefulness is mixed with weariness and with rue. His voice is not what it used to be, so he can't use it to project a dream boat image, which makes his wishing and longing all the more poignant. Dylan's version cuts deeper than Sinatra's and is a classic in its own right.
A pitch-perfect interpretation of this lovely song, both musically and dramatically. Sinatra's almost conversational tone, wistful and self-deprecating, is backed by a subtle and tasteful arrangement by Gordon Jenkins. It's one of the high points of Sinatra's years at Capitol.
Dylan's cover of the song on his album Shadows In the Night is nearly as good. He also sings it in an almost off-hand way, bemused but perfectly sincere when he gets around to the song's thematic climax, the matter-of-fact declaration of a love that's never going to change. Dylan has more miles on the odometer that Sinatra did in 1959, when he recorded the version above, so his interpretation is inflected with a bit more resignation, but both Dylan and Sinatra get to the heart of a miraculous entry in The Great American Songbook.


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Obie Benson (Renaldo Benson), (born June 14, 1936, Detroit, Mich.—died July 1, 2005, Detroit,), American singer and songwriter who , lent his powerful bass vocals to the legendary Motown group the Four Tops. Benson founded the group with Lawrence Payton, Abdul ("Duke") Fakir, and Levi Stubbs in 1953. They initially played nightclubs, often performing with such jazz greats as Count Basie and Billy Eckstine. The group signed with Motown Records in 1963 and soon scored hits with pop-inflected tunes such as "Baby I Need Your Loving " (1964), "I Can't Help Myself" (1965), and "Reach Out, I'll Be There" (1966). In 1969 Benson ... (100 of 120 words)
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But then Einstein brings you back to Mays and you realize that in telling you the story of Willie's time, he is telling you more about Willie than a standard chronological biography might. The "Say Hey" Kid was such an icon on and off the field that knowing the world that shaped him means knowing more about the man who shaped it in turn. The baseball statistics paint the black and white lines around the portrait (with a stunning power and poignancy in this era before expansion-diluted pitching, tiny hitter-friendly parks, and steroid-fuelled video game freaks), but the stories color in the man inside the lines.
He grew up in the South, lived with racism but refused later to vocally and visibly support civil rights efforts while fiercely defending his privacy and rights. He was the first young African-American player (his signing and rapid rise to the majors signaled the death of the Negro leagues, says Einstein) and played with a youthful exuberance and unmistakable laughter, yet was universally respected by players of all races and granted (and accepted) the honor of the unspoken role of team leader. Later in his career, when his manager gave him a powerful role as a coach on the field, the manager was asked in an accusatory tone at a press conference why he would do that. "Because Willie Mays knows more about baseball than I do. Do you have any hard questions for me?"
For readers who lived through the time spanned by Willie's career (1950 through 1973) Einstein's mixmaster style blending presidential personalities, cultural clips, and stark stories of racism in the era spanning Jim Crow, Brown vs. Board of Education, Bull Conner, and civil rights rallies (and riots burning African-American inner cities), this is as much a memoir for the reader as a biography of the man. Younger readers may be lost in the many passing allusions, reading with Google at hand will help.
One final anecdote on how the older Mays ended up seemingly out of place in a Mets uniform to end his career. Giants owner Horace Stoneham was going bankrupt and couldn't afford to pay Mays what he asked for during a final contract negotiation, so he dealt Mays to the Mets for a minor leaguer, even at that point in Mays's career an imbalance so obvious that reports assumed that the Mets also paid cash for Mays to help keep Stoneham and the Giants afloat. Einstein reports that in fact Stoneham wanted to deal Mays to a team that could afford to give him a lucrative long term contract to take care of Mays after his playing days, and that the Mets, the National League New York franchise like the Giants when Mays started there 20 years before, were the only acceptable option.
Years later, Einstein asked Stoneham how much money he actually got from the Mets in the Mays deal.
"He said, 'There was no money.'
'None. Do you think I was going to give him up for money?'"
In Willie's time, some things were more valuable than money could buy.
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[O]ne of the best nostalgia books in years."Boston Globe
Willie's Time is the story of an eraa beautifully written memoir of a tempestuous, complicated, devastating, and exhilarating period in Americatwenty-three years that paralleled the baseball career of the most gifted and exciting player in history."Gene Shalit, the Today Show
One can only recall lovingly the man and his joyous vitalityand this Einstein does brilliantly. He masterfully superimposes Mays's career onto the political and social events that framed it."Library Journal
Absorbing reading."Publishers Weekly
Entertaining, enjoyable, and, yes, even educational . . . Charles Einstein's memoir of the life and times of Willie Mays is a superb blend of sports lore and American history."Christian Science Monitor
Baseball fans of whatever vintage, as well as anyone interested in recapturing a slice of the past, should greatly enjoy this knowledgeable and affectionate biography."New York Post
A private, guarded man, Willie Mays isn't easy to know. Einstein seems to know him well. He writes boldly, with love, and from direct experience. The result is a ...


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