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Unfamiliar Fishes
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Unfamiliar Fishes is a nonfiction book by This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell, first published in 2011 in print and audiobook versions.[1][2]
The book takes a humorous tone and examines the fulfillment of American imperialist manifest destiny at the end of the 19th Century as America annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded Cuba, and the Philippines in 1898, in an attempt to become a global power. Vowell then tells the story of the culture clash that ensued following Christian missionaries who then moved in swiftly to try to convert the laid back native Hawaiians to the American way. The title comes from a reference of David Malo.
Susan Salter Reynolds in her Los Angeles Times review writes of Vowell: "Her cleverness is gorgeously American: She collects facts and stores them like a nervous chipmunk, digesting them only for the sake of argument. Her curiosity is fueled by indignation. She insists, like a good empiricist, on seeing the people and places she writes about. She is the queen of that great American institution: the road trip."[3] Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times is unimpressed, condemning Vowell's self-indulgent style, writing: "Certainly at a time when ignorance and historical illiteracy are rampant, there is a place for books that make the past relevant and easy to digest for the casual reader. But Ms. Vowell's determination to render history user-friendly often feels reductive and condescending, and her contemporary analogies can be strained."[4] However, another review in the Times, in the Sunday Book Review, by Hawaii resident, Kaui Hart Hemmings, was much more positive: "Vowell deftly summarizes complex events and significant upheavals, reducing them to their essence. . . . While Vowell's take on Hawaii's Americanization is abbreviated, it's never bereft of substance — her repartee manages to be filling, her insights astute and comprehensive. It's not surprising to learn that she spent significant time interacting with islanders and combing through journals and archives. A variety of voices are heard, and all sides are implicated in the old Hawaii's demise."
An unabridged audiobook was released by Simon & Schuster on March 22, 2011. It contained a large cast of readers, and music was performed by Michael Giacchino and Grant-Lee Phillips. The cast was:
- Fred Armisen as David Kalākaua, Henry Obookiah, and George Vancouver
- Bill Hader as Rufus Anderson, Captain James Cook, Robert Dampier, Sanford Dole, and Walter Murray Gibson
- John Hodgman as Amos Cooke and Teddy Roosevelt
- Catherine Keener as Lucy Goodale Thurston
- Edward Norton as Hiram Bingham and Grover Cleveland
- Keanu Reeves as David Malo
- Paul Rudd as Lorrin Thurston
- Maya Rudolph as Sybil Bingham and Queen Liluokalani
- John Slattery as Levi Chamberlain, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Ernest Hemingway
- ^ Vowell, Sarah (2011). Unfamiliar Fishes. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-59448-787-3.
- ^ Vowell, Sarah; Narrated by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, John Slattery, Sarah Vowell (2011). Unfamiliar Fishes (AUDIOBOOK). New York: Simon & Schuster Audio.
- ^ Salter Reynolds, Susan (26 March 2011). "Book review: 'Unfamiliar Fishes' by Sarah Vowell: The 'Partly Cloudy Patriot' author takes on American imperialism and exceptionalism.". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (17 April 2011). "Some Stuff She Knows About Hawaii". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 September 2011.


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I wouldn't believe he was such a grand opportunist if I hadn't read it. This speech could have been made by Martha Coakley and we all know how well she did.
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There are homeless or "formerly homeless" individuals living in subsidized housing in other neigbhorhoods in Newton, just not WABAN (West Newton - of course north of the MA Turnpike, and Nonantum)! I more »
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Great choice! Congratulations Chief Mintz!
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Solid comment! It's a status/priveleg maybe Mike Dukakis? Anyone that Deval owes a favor to who is harmless...
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Call the governor's office and ask for one... ;-)
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Senators and Congressman make the same salary. His pension will be the same either way - it's about ego! He is either done with 'serving' his community or he isn't - which one is it, Barney??
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I love the comment - 'Governor Patrick was noncommittal', enough said... (If Deval is taking requests I am going to put in my dibs for the job, as well!)
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Out of Africa is a 1985 film based loosely on the autobiographical book by Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Blixen) published in 1937, as well as Dinesen's Shadows on the Grass and other sources. The movie received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.
The book describes events during 1914–1931 concerning European settlers and the native people in the bush country of Kenya (British East Africa), from seaside Mombasa to Nairobi, from Mount Kenya to Kilimanjaro, as told from the lyrical, poetic viewpoint of Danish Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. The book was continually in print during the 20th century, and reprinted by many publishers.
The film was adapted by Kurt Luedtke and directed by Sydney Pollack. It starred Meryl Streep (as Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke), Robert Redford (as Denys Finch Hatton), Klaus Maria Brandauer (as Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke), Michael Kitchen (as Berkeley Cole), Malick Bowens (as Farah), Stephen Kinyanjui (as Chief), Michael Gough (Delamere), Suzanna Hamilton (as Felicity, who is based on famous aviatrix Beryl Markham), and supermodel Iman (in a cameo role as Mariammo).


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Your mamas' pussy flute, now tell her to get her panties out of my room.
Wurm Online: The Official Wurm Review
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People should do more research if they think this is a F2P game, unless you spend REAL money you can't own land and alot of other features are only avaiable to paying members which i get they gotta make money, just pointing out since some think this is a F2P game that it is only to a very small limit. No cash shop so either you pay the monthly fee or you play F2P and are basically like the landscape and trees to paying players.
Salem: We Cater to Normal People Too
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I can already see a fail for this game, only a small number of people are willing to play permanet death games where they can lose everything they worked on for months and lose real money on items they buy (if not a F2P game they will have to have atleast an item shop to keep the game running) from a zerg guild that i guarantee you will be on a game like this, lots of people kill others just for the sake of making them peoples gaming unfun and permanet death won't stop those guilds or people.
Great, underated game
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This game isn't that good, i can see maybe playing it when your main game has downtime but other then that this game isn't worth it, crap movement in space is one thing but it is also extremely user unfriendly and boring. I give this game a 5 out of 10 at best.
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Originally posted by nerovipus32
I find this comment funny since i spent 8 years in South Korea and played alot of the games before they were "westernized" and they are just as easy as what people would call dumbing down there then they are in NA. i have played both versions of alot of Korean games and most the time the only difference is the translation and sometimes in Korea they have a vigor component in the game so you can't play for too long since kids were dying at their keyboards and committing suicide over there cause of games. The only other difference i have seen is some Korean games have permanent death and that is one of the dumbest features in an online game espciallly if you have been paying for that game for 6 months then you die and it is all gone, what alot of people that have never played games with permanent death don't understand is even if you die cause of lag or go link dead, your character is now gone and you gotta hope you can sweet talk a GM into reviving him/her which in most cases isn't gonna happen. If you have never played a Korean game before it came to the West then you can't talk shit in comparision cause you don't REALLY know, they are just as easy in Asia as they are in the West, i know from experience.
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Got into Beta and played it for abit and am now done with it, it isn't to bad if you like Diablo, but that is basically what the game is a more graphic Diablo, nothing new or innovating just a game that could easily be called a sequel to the Diablo series, they are that similar. If it is P2P or B2P i'll just wait for the new Diablo cause this is just a Ripoff of that series.
Rift tops SWToR?
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I'm not a fan of either game but taking ratings from a site like this to try and prove a point is stupid, ratings are easy to manipulate on these sites when it comes to ranking, they still got games on this site with an 8.0 and above review rating that are shutdown cause they were crap. I don't see rift lasting as P2P passed the end of this year, just look at their own server population page, go throught the day and check for yourselves if you like, you will be lucky if you ever see a heavy server, lucky to see more then 4 medium servers at 1 time and all the rest at low population.
Silkroad Online: 'R' Version Launches
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This game is no different then Silkroad, they changed a couple things threw an R behind the name and put it out as a new version to get veteran players that no longer need to buy stuff from the Silkroad item shop move over and start buying again, this is a tactic that F2P games have been using alot in 2011 and for the future to come so they don't have to actually make a new game. Here are just a couple examples of games that used this exact same tactic (i have played all my examples), Asda made Asda 2 exact same game few tweaks and the addition of 2 in title, Karos has Rosh exact same game again a few tweaks and new name but advertised as a sequel, Battle of immortals has War of the Immortals exact same game new name, VERY FEW tweaks at all yet advertised as newer version. F2P games are trying to get away with tweaking their old game calling is new and getting veteran and new players to spend money in games that are basically the exact same game.
General: Should SOPA Be Stopped?
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SOPA for the win, they need to pass it already.
sad sad day for rift.
General Discussion « Rift
Rift is trash anyway, just go look at their OWN server status page through the day, you'l be lucky to see 1 server on high and i mean lucky, the rest of the time you'll be lucky to see more then 3 medium servers at one time the rest are low population servers including European servers, there is no way they even have 50000 players since a heavy server is no more then 1500 people at most and they never have a heavy server.
Rift or SWTOR?
General Discussion « Rift
Even on the Rift board you can't get 50% for Rift, that is sad and shows how weak the game is. SWTOR is just as weak though, that is why i voted neither.
Rift or SWTOR?
General Discussion « Rift
Neither, they are both pieces of crap.
Why hard mmorpg's were better...
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
All games are a time-sink. Comparing WoW hard modes to EQ pre0raid dungeons is laughable, ahrd mode in WoW is still easy, with a couple add-ons and 2 macros i can Watch TV and still be in the top 5 in dps hard mode. Lets not forget that unlike WoW, where you only need around 30 people to raid, EQ required twice as many people and you had to actually have certain classes for every raid since some bosses would emote that only say rogues could damage them for a certain amount of time or monk, etc, etc. Raiding is EQ isn't just about going in and spanking a boss, you had to be paying attention or 1 dumb person could wipe the whole raid, not so with WoW and all these others games since WoW, we have dumbed down the games today for instant gratification people. The WoW generation has destroyed gaming, now it is just let me get end-game in a month so i can bitch about nothing to do and then move on to the next piece of garbabe i can finish in a month.
[Request] List of New MMORPG release on 2010/2011
LFGame « General Discussion
Originally posted by ahmun
Lime Odyssey isn't even out yet and they just got done with their first Closed Beta test, so your gonna be waiting awhile to play that game, they don't even have a date for their next Beta testing of the game. It is Aeria Games, so you maybe waiting til summer before that game goes live, Aeria Games is pretty slow when it comes to opneing new games, toke over a year after their first Closed Beta just to get Eden Eternal out.
Should crafting be an integral part of the game? Or just a "diversion?"
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
I think crafting should be an integral part of any game, crafting is a great alternative when you get bored of just killing shit all day and i agree they should beable to make stuff that is better then stuff that drops in the game world, but not better then raid items or hard instances cause then that would defeat the purpose of raiding/instances. That is the problem, once you give 1 aspect of a game the upper hand you gotta sacrifice it somewere else, so if you make crafting items better then raiding items no one will raid and vise versa, just a balancing act, but i think crafting should be better then just a side project like most games today make them.
We suck when it comes to freedom,
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion
You're already bitching about ArcheAge freedom, it hasn't even come out in Asia yet. I hate to break it to people in NA/EU area, but your not seeing this game for atleast a year after release in Asia, that is how Korean/Chinese games are, they play it til the playerbase is bored over there, then send it to NA/EU area and call it new so they don't have to make a new game right away if they don't want too which extends the shelf life of these games. When you talk about a New Korean game being made just remember, it'll be a year minimum after release before you get to even play it unless you live in Asia.
Sadly SWTOR is losing its appeal too fast for me at level 50.
Reviews & Impressions « Star Wars: The Old Republic
Sadly this is how games are since WoW, games are all about instant gratification nowadays and if someone can't get max level in a month the game is somehow considered crap, but on the other hand the game ends up being crap cause the same people that rushed to end-game say there is not enough end-game for them, so it is a lose lose when it comes to these kinda players. Back when i played EQ getting half a level or even a level in a day was an accomplishment, but now we get these new generation of gamers that want everything to be soloable, easy, and fast to level. It is the WoW generation that has ruined MMOs with their wanting games to be just as easy as WoW (which is extremely easy to play) and instant end-game gratification, not to mention the ability to solo all content, cause if it is too hard it needs to be nerfed.
Come play RF, great free game, new player events going on now provides and extra exps free items
General Discussion « RF Online
RF is a shitty game, not only is the gameplay dull and boring the pvp is trash as well, the person with the most Pots wins cause in RF the potions have no cooldown so all you do is sit there and keep spamming pots til one of you run out then whoever has the most pots wins. Give it a try if you want, but i played it and my OWN opinion is, this game is shit.
Why the MMO community should continue to support SW:TOR
General Discussion « Star Wars: The Old Republic
I did my part, i bought the game, but it didn't hold my interest way to easy to max level, i am waiting on firefall now.
Give me 1 thing. that SWTOR Does 100% diffrent or new from any mmorpg every made
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Taiwan-born, Australian educated, Johnny Chueh heads up Ocean Alexander, the company his father founded in 1978. Compared to his fellow Taiwan Yacht Industry Association members, his business model is unique.
Ocean Alexander HQ
'We are no longer solely a boat manufacturer. We are a brand that extends beyond yachts to everything and anything on water,' he explains.
With a background in finance, he took over the company in 1999, when Chueh implemented a paradigm shift.
'In 1999, we bought out our international dealerships and created our own factory stores that are locally run. Retail is the largest side of our business – all factory owned. Now, 80% of our revenue is internal. Today, we build our own boats, have an alliance with Christensen for the larger yachts, we have an insurance and financial arm, own marina berths and we run the marketing and sales arm of the Tiara brand on the US west coast.'
The advantages of this diversified model are having 'multiple levers' the company can activate when market forces impact on each strand. 'From a business perspective, with marinas, service, factory, brokerage, insurance and finance, we have more levers to adjust our interests and better control and sustain our P&L through the ups and downs. It doesn't mean we aren't impacted, but it means we can adjust early and have a better cushion.
'The Ocean Alexander brand equity is expanded to other avenues – still marine – but it means we can manipulate the levers in each area and remain competitive.'
The other advantage is 'not being at the beck and call of a sales force', according to Chueh. 'We have freedom because we have our own distribution.'
With three factories in Kaohsiung, Ocean Alexander still produces yachts, positioning itself at the larger end of the spectrum. 'We are focusing on producing larger yachts and complementing the range with other brands. We are working with Christensen on the 160ft+ yachts, but to our specs and with our tooling, brand and distribution. It is an alliance which does deliver cachet for us, particularly in the US which is our major market. But the synergy is fruitful on both sides – their design and our engineering and distribution channels.'
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There is freedom in design and production as well, says Chueh. The company is able to evaluate who is doing the best work and commission them. 'There is no 'sacred cow' operating procedure,' explains Chueh. 'On every project we take stock to get the best result. On the new Ocean Alexander 112ft Tri-Level Motoryacht, which is truly be world-class in its category, we collaborated with designer Evan K. Marshall and engineer Gregory C. Marshall. We see who is building and who is the most capable. We utilise the best resources available.'
The Tiara brand fills a niche in the company's offering. 'Tiara makes boats to 58ft, and the Ocean Alexander range starts at 62ft. There is not much product overlap, but there is customer demographic overlap with people feeding up and down between the two.'
After pulling out of Australian marina operations which it held with D'Albora, Ocean Alexander is in discussions with an Australian company to carry its brand once more.
'We are also looking at some other brands on the east coast of the US,' Chueh adds. 'We are very open to investing in other brands. Our dealers can sell at every level, whereas from a factory perspective, we have to focus on doing one thing and doing it well, otherwise it could harm our brand.'
The company had an ill-fated relationship with Italian marque, Azimut which lasted just four months. 'There are many opportunities out there. The challenge is where to place our investment.'
The US accounts for 70% of sales. Since 2010, Ocean Alexander has opened four offices in China.
With its population of over one billion people and rising affluence, China's yachting potential is growing from a small base, the US is 'surprisingly strong' and the market in Europe, he observes 'is in the doldrums'.
Referring to the Taiwan International Boat Show, scheduled for April 2014, Chueh is blunt. 'It won't do anything for us,' he declares.
'In my opinion, the show will attract two types of buyers: those looking for custom yachts and those looking for a cheaper price. We don't build custom at all. We offer set beam, steering and length. Our boats cost 30% more than Taiwan-builds. When it comes to our brand, nobody asks where it's made. They are buying the brand and the designer expertise.
'Our focus is the US and China. We occupy our own niche. Our buyers don't look at Sunseeker and Azimut. They aren't looking for speed. Our boats are beamy and have king size beds!'
Johnny Chueh Ocean Alexander
While China does tempt with its massive market of millionaires – one million of them in 2012, according to Bloomberg – Chueh is realistic. 'The yachting market is so far not that big. Yachting, which is showing off to people with your yacht will take off in China where there are a billion people to impress. Boating, which is having fun on the water will not.
'In Taiwan which has a small population of just 20 million, it's almost non-existent. As far as the recreational market in Taiwan goes, I am pessimistic. There is no infrastructure, there are no marinas, no small yachts for people to enter the market, people don't like the sun as a rule and they can't swim.
'Hopefully, I am wrong. But I will take a 'wait and see' approach.'
Ocean Alexander will promote the 120 and 112 models at Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, 'both to be built here', he confirms. Designed, engineered and constructed to be approved for RINA classed chartering, the new 112 will provide state-of-the-art construction along with safety measures commonly found on much larger vessels.
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For the fourth time in two games, the Detroit Red Wings and Anaheim Ducks paused for a fight. This time around, it was Wings enforcer Jordin Tootoo throwing down against the Ducks' Matt Beleskey. Off a faceoff in the Ducks' zone, Beleskey cross-checked Tootoo on the back, then the Wings forward retaliated with a slash and both dropped the gloves. The two pugilists put on an entertaining show, too — each player fell to the ice once, only to keep up and keep swinging, before the refs stepped in after 30 or so seconds. The Wings won the game, 2-1.
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Huygens' principle
Huygens considered light to be a wave. He envisioned a wave crest advancing by imagining each point along the wave crest to be source point for small, circular, expanding wavelets, which expand with the speed of the wave. The surface tangent to these wavelets determines the contour of the advancing wave. Figure 1 illustrates Huygens' construction for a plane wave (a) and for a spherical wave (b).
Huygens' principle for (a) a plane wave and (b) a spherical wave.
Huygens' principle can be used to derive the law of reflection and the law of refraction. Note that the observed laws of geometric optics follow from the assumption that light is a wave.
Because light is a wave, the superposition principle is valid to determine the constructive and destructive interferences for light waves. Interference in light waves is not easy to observe because the wavelengths are so short. For constructive interference, two waves must have the two contributing crests and the two troughs arriving at the same time. For destructive interference, a crest from one wave and a trough from the other must arrive at a given point at the same time.
Young's experiment
Thomas Young first demonstrated interference from light waves with a double slit. The schematic diagram for this experiment is shown in Figure 2.
Schematic diagram of Young's experiment, demonstrating interference between light waves.
The single light source is located at S 0, and the light goes through two very narrow openings at S 1 and S 2. (A single light source is necessary because the light waves must have identical frequency and phase. The light beam is also considered to be of one color.) Each of the slits act as a source for circular expanding waves. The points of intersection of two crests, one from each slit, are points of constructive interference. The point of intersection of a crest from one slit and a trough from the other slit is a point of destructive interference. Therefore, the interference pattern called fringes, consisting of alternating light and dark bars, will be seen on the screen.
To better understand how these points are formed, Figure 3 illustrates the rays coming through two slits that are directed to the point P on the screen.
The paths of two waves from the slits to the point P.
The difference in path length of the two rays is given by d sin θ = l 2 = l 1. If the path difference is a whole number of wavelengths, then constructive interference takes place. If the paths differ by a half number of wave lengths, destructive interference occurs. Using n to represent any integer, the two cases may be written
where λ is the wavelength and d is the distance between the two slits. Note : This figure is not to scale: The distance to the screen ( L) is much greater than the distance between the slits ( d).
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Don't be put off by the name, a tribute to its past identity—this charming restaurant inside the Jerome Grand Hotel is the standout choice in town for fine dining, good wines, and wonderful vistas. Burgandy interior walls hung with local artists' work create a warm and romantic setting. Signature dishes include achiote-rubbed pork tenderloin and sea bass with a poblano chile–chardonnay lemon sauce. The roasted butternut squash soup, with just the right blend of sweetness and spice, is divine.
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Once you find this place, you are in for a treat... there are no road signs directing you here, so grab someone and ask... it's worth it. The roasted butternut squash soup ($7) was absolutely fabulous; "The Stack" was unusual and so delicious: "spring mix salad, topped with avocado, a lean patty of beef, carmelized onions, minced garlic, muchrooms tomatoes and balsalmic dressing drizzle, topped with crumbled blue cheese and sprouts" ($14.50); field
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ATLANTA -- Atlanta Braves left-hander Tom Glavine threw three simulated innings Monday, another step in the 300-game winner's plans for a rehab assignment this week.
Glavine, on the 15-day disabled list with a tender shoulder, made approximately 50 pitches to teammates David Ross, Martin Prado and Greg Norton. The 43-year-old hopes his arm will be strong enough for an appearance Saturday at AAA Gwinnett.
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UPDATE: Truck strikes three vehicles, plows into Henderson Walmart | GALLERY
HENDERSON, Ky. - Henderson, Ky., police have identified the people involved in the crash at the city's Walmart Wednesday night, and said the two people who were taken from the scene to Methodist Hospital suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The driver of the truck that struck three vehicles in the store parking lot and then side of the building has been identified as 44-year-old Lisa Powell of Henderson. Two of the vehicles that were struck by Powell were unoccupied at the time of the incident.
The two people who were injured in the crash were in the third vehicle. They were identified as Strother and Lenora Roberts, both 75. The release does not identify who was in the drivers seat of the car. The pair was taken to the Methodist Hospital. Both were treated and released.
Powell and two passengers in her truck were not injured.
A Toyota Tundra truck plowed through three vehicles in the Walmart parking lot around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday before hitting the shopping center on the grocery side.
The passenger in the third and last vehicle struck was injured and transported by ambulance to Methodist Hospital. The truck's driver also had a few scrapes and bruises, but no other injuries were reported, said Corporal Jeremy Conrad with Henderson Police Department.
The identities of the woman driving or the female passenger injured were unavailable at press time.
Police spoke with the truck's driver and her two passengers, who where not hurt, and got their accounts of what caused the woman to lose control of her vehicle.
"She said she blacked out," said Conrad. "The passengers said she backed out of the parking spot, put it in drive and just mashed the gas."
Jorden Gibson was he was sitting in a van out in the parking lot waiting for his father and brother's girlfriend to return from the store when he saw the truck hit a blue car, strike a red truck and then plow into a white car.
"I saw the people in the white car, they hit their heads and everything," he said.
Rebecca Mills was putting away her purchases in the trunk of her car when the truck struck the blue vehicle parked next to her. The blue car had been facing the same way as her vehicle, but the force of the collision knocked it in the opposite direction and left the front end badly mangled.
It was a close call for Mills.
"If I had been getting in to leave, it would have got me," she said.
Mills daughter, Hannah Mills, who was also shopping with her, made the 911 call to Central Dispatch to report the accident at just after 9 p.m. Wednesday night.
It was a switch for the younger Mills. She works at Central Dispatch and is used to taking 911 calls, not making them.
GALLERY: Truck strikes three vehicles, plows into Henderson Walmart
Her co-worker Jennifer French also happened to be stopping by Walmart for some late-night shopping when the accident occurred. She was pulling into the parking space nearby in a different row from Mills when she heard the truck's engine rev up.
"I just thought it was teenagers," French said. "Then I saw the blue car go flying, I was pulling in, and I saw them go through."
After the truck struck the three vehicles, it rammed into the building underneath the Walmart sign, close to where aisle nine is in the shopping center. Conrad said the truck knocked a hole in the store, but didn't actually go through the building.
Henderson Fire Department and ambulance service also responded at the scene.
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Boys and Girls, Ladies and Gentleman - things are getting real as we're down to a bakers dozen of ladies vying for the love and affection of our often times shirtless bachelor and ex-Kansas State linebacker Sean Lowe. In case you missed it last week we came out with our official CBR Oddsmakers list for all 13 of the ladies. So far things have been pretty normal - I mean we haven't seen him take ladies around the world or on super adventurous dates yet. Can this guy really be this boring? Don't worry, if last week's preview is any indication Tierra is about to show us just how bat-**** crazy she is!! Maybe we'll actually get a crazy exotic date too. Well, no matter what things are moving fast for Sean and the ladies and the crazy side of the ladies - both good and bad - will likely come out over the next few weeks to say the least. So, let's just get things started (most likely with our obligatory shirtless Sean shot). 8:01PM - Hell ya... Roller derby on this episode - nothi...
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Re-evaluation of a barge's taxable worth costs San Pat entities $300,000 plus
CORPUS CHRISTI - SINTON — Four San Patricio County taxing entities will refund more than $300,000 in revenue to a barge owner, who successfully protested a tax bill for a barge, initially valued at $14.9 million by the San Patricio County Appraisal District.
The barge was leased to Crowley Marine at the Kiewit yard in Ingleside. Taxes on the property already had been paid for 2009, when the value of the barge was reviewed by the San Patricio County Appraisal Review Board.
The board, which heard the protest March 16, agreed to reduce the barge's taxable value to $1.4 million, according to documents from Tax Assessor-Collector Dalia Sanchez.
Appraisal Review Board members Leonel Farias, Sam May and Chairman Myron Rodrigue could not be reached for comment Monday.
San Patricio County Commissioners Court voted unanimously Monday to refund $71,202.44 to the barge's owner GE Credit Corp. The money will come from the county's general fund and road and bridge fund, County Judge Terry Simpson said. The county drainage district will refund $10,762.50, Sanchez said.
The city of Ingleside refunded $95,027.10 last week to the company, City Manager Jim Gray said. The money was shifted from various accounts including the general and utility fund.
Ingleside Independent School District will refund about $154,622.67, Superintendent Troy Mircovich said. The money will come from the district's fund balance.
Mircovich said the lost funding won't cost the district teachers or programs. It will come from the district's fund balance, essentially a rainy-day fund.
"We were being conservative with our money," Mircovich said. "This is one of those hits you can't be ready for."
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The wisdom of Our Ford
I have long regarded Andy Ford as one of the most deeply intelligent human beings I know, and one of the best. My admiration only grows when I read a transcript of his recent contribution to the Senate Select Committee. Andy is one of those rare individuals who is able to help you to think more clearly. In these times, advocacy of this quality is gold dust.
Thanks, Andy, and bless you.
"I'd like to say something about how the ABC – specifically ABC radio, but also ABC online – helps to create and sustain and support musical communities around Australia. I'm talking about audiences, obviously, but also communities of musicians – and that's at every level. I think that we're about to lose some very important planks in that support with the removal of some specialist music programs from RN and Classic FM.
You always hear the expression 'the music industry', and I never really know what that is. I think if you were to ask most musicians, they wouldn't feel they were part of an industry. As a composer, I feel more like a cottage gardener. My work is mostly pretty solitary. And even when musicians form up into bands or orchestras, they're still making individual contributions – you know: they study alone, they practise alone. The same goes for listeners. We might be sitting in the middle of an audience with 2000 other people, but our experience of a song or a symphony is essentially a private matter.
As individual musician and listeners, then, we depend on institutions for information and commentary and a sense of community. Institutions such as libraries and newspapers; universities and conservatoria; and above all, I think, public broadcasting. And ABC radio is especially important in this regard –Triple J and Classic FM, ABC Jazz . . . and Radio National, which offers the broadest range of musical experiences I can imagine. Often you're hearing music you can't easily hear anywhere else, especially on RN; and significantly, you're hearing it presented knowledgably. ABC Radio – whether it's coming live out of the transistor in your kitchen or you're listening online or to a podcast – isn't just a purveyor of music; it's also a guide to that music.
You're also hearing Australian music – not enough of it on Classic FM, not in my opinion – but more than you'll hear anywhere else. And you're hearing Australian performances by Australian performers.
Now among the hundreds of thousands of listeners around the country are the musicians of tomorrow. It's more than forty years ago, but I can still recall the eagerness with which I listened to the radio as a child. I remember hearing certain pieces of music and finding out about them. And I remember my excitement at hearing new pieces – music so new that it was being played for the first time. This is the kind of excitement that's felt by young listeners to New Music Up Late on Classic FM. And it's an example of what we're about to lose. Well, I don't think we can afford to lose it.
I also want to say something that tends to get overlooked. The ABC has traditionally been not just a curator of our musical culture, but also an entrepreneur. Once upon a time it had orchestras, choirs, even a dance band. But even with those gone, on a small scale and at a local level it's continued to be a partner, recording concerts and making studio recording. These have diminished over the past twenty years, and the result isn't just a loss for radio listeners. A lot of small concerts that were once possible because of a modest recording fee from the ABC, no longer happen at all. The fee might have been only $200 or $300, but it provided a safety net for, say, a young string quartet. Audiences miss out, and musicians lose a meagre supplement to their mostly meagre incomes. And by putting new music online only – as is proposed with New Music Up Late – instead of on air, you reduce composers' royalties to a fraction of what they were. And they were never that much.
By cutting funding from the ABC, you also cut funding from musicians and from music itself."
wieder einmal in Wien
A good night's sleep on a long-haul flight is still a novelty for me, and as we start the descent into Zürich I'm grateful to the ingenious flat-bed seats provided by Swiss Air. I can't say I dreamt of chamber music but there was pleasant, if vapid, in-flight music, and memories of past journeys to Europe, each one having the sense, like this one, of being a point of transition. When I was twenty, I left Australia for the first time, also from Melbourne, also headed for Vienna. Then, it was to study at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien with Professor Zettl; now, Keith and I are the elders, listening out for what the youngsters have to say to us in music. It strikes me now, as always, as as much a privilege as a responsibility. Prompted by conversations recently had at CMA and among playing colleagues, I've been thinking a lot about what it is we might be 'listening for'. It's a question I've often been asked, and one to which I never feel I've given an adequate answer, perhaps because my thinking has never been fixed, as it still is not. More on this anon.
Continuing this, a few days later in our snug hotel, with the magnificence of the Rathaus between us and the city centre, we have been mulling over our second audition session, which was held yesterday at the Haydn Institute, only three streets over from the Johannesgasse, where I reacquainted myself with the aforementioned Konservatorium. Now that we have heard eight groups — two piano trios and a string quartet played in Melbourne; two quartets and three trios in Vienna — there are indications of what will be on offer in Melbourne next year during the international competition. There is also a strong sense of privilege and responsibility, and an even greater feeling of deeply affecting emotional connection. These are, after all, so very much like the people we were, twenty or thirty years ago — eager, hopeful, nervous, in love with music and wanting more than anything to be a part of it for life. Except that, when I was their age, I was all in for a solo career. There is something specially moving about hearing young people who, already in their early twenties, are devoted to the beauty of musical sharing, which is at the core of chamber music.
At this stage, then, Keith and I are keenly listening, and I am making copious notes in my (I like to think) fashionable little Moleskine notebook, pending more leisurely late-night discussions over a handy Glühwein or two. It's a hard life.
vale Peter Sculthorpe
I was thirteen years old when I first heard the name Peter Sculthorpe. The school orchestra was introduced to his Sun Music II, still one of Peter's most modern-sounding works and an almost incomprehensible aural and technical challenge for us, and a bit of a stretch for me as a novice cellist. It already struck me at the time as inhabiting the same imaginative world as the sere and eerie reddish brown outback scenes of Russell Drysdale, rather than the more hedonistic Streetons and Conders I was infatuated with then, and it had a haunting aura that has stayed with me ever since.
I love his music, but coming to love it was a gradual process. In 1981 I was selected to premiere his Nocturnal, an austere and enigmatic piece (which Peter soon withdrew) that revealed its secrets only when it was recast as the beautiful piano concerto the following year. But it didn't matter. I was already hooked, and started to collect and learn everything I could find, including Mountains, a test piece for the Sydney Piano Competition. We began to correspond, and I had the temerity to ask Peter to write a piece for me, emboldened by his evident and genuine interest in younger colleagues, and what I sensed to be, correctly as it turned out, a rare generosity to share his time and ideas. It took a while, and I had to be patient, because Simori didn't emerge until 1995. It was worth the wait, of course.
I wish I had known him better. Over the years, we met at festivals, concerts, recording sessions, parties, exhibitions, film screenings. My favourite times, though, were just going to Woollahra for lunch and a play of the piano, especially when we looked at the folders of juvenilia which Peter had kept unpublished but which held tender and affectionate memories for him. The other times I would say I treasure are the idyllic yet strenuous days and nights at Dartington Hall in Devon, where Peter was guest composer during the summer school and festival, valued both for his music and for his entertainment value, particularly after midnight, when charades might or might not have taken some very imaginitive turns.
I'm still getting my head around what it means that he is gone, but am very proud to have known him a little, and very happy to have discovered his music so early and to have had it in my life and fingers. It's a unique and magical body of work and Peter was an extraordinary artist of genius to have given it to us.
Lullaby in Edo and the genesis of a trio
A brief piece written for Limelight Magazine, May edition. I'm publishing it here as I can't seem to locate it anywhere in that journal.
My second piano trio A Book of Lullabies began life as a song for mother and child, a setting of a well-known folk tune from Tokyo, known as 'Lullaby in Edo' (Edo eventually grew into modern Tokyo), for a young Japanese friend, Tomoe Kawabata-Ito, who had recently been blessed with a lovely little boy, Ryutaro. Contemplating its haunting simplicity gave me great pleasure, so I kept writing, selecting six further lullaby-like melodies from around the world. Soon, I had a virtual 'lullaby odyssey' that began in Australia with the indigenous 'Maranoa Lullaby', made famous by the extraordinary aboriginal tenor Harold Blair, followed by 'Nina Bobo' from Indonesia, 'Kun Mun Kultani Tulisi' from the epic Finnish poetic collection, the Kanteletar, 'The Skye Boat Song' from the Scottish Highlands (the ancestral home of clan Munro), 'Iesus Ahatonnia', otherwise known as 'The Huron Carol' from North America and the Zulu lullaby 'Thula Mama'. Each of the songs tells a fascinating story, and more than one involves an expression of great sorrow and pain. The author of the 'Huron Carol', for example, was a Jesuit missionary, Jean de Brébeuf, who wrote the hymn for the Hurons amongst whom he lived and worked, in their native language. He earthly fate was finally to be tortured and more or less boiled alive during the Iroquois invasion and annihilation of the Huron nation in 1649.
I came to realise that I had stumbled into writing what would become a piano trio for my friends, the delightful Jo and John Strutt, who had commissioned such a work as way of celebrating their sixtieth wedding anniversary. All three of us love a good tune, so seven of them seemed about enough. The only one that didn't make it into the final piece was the delightful 'Flower Drum Song' from China, written for pianist Andrea Lam (who was initially bemused by the subject matter: a wife at the end of her tether because of a husband with the irritating pastime of banging on a flower drum). That certain folk melodies endure and are loved and passed on by whole communities is well documented, although the reasons why are subtle, mysterious and fascinating. Over the years, I have often wondered what it is about great music that needn't be complex to be profound, or difficult to be challenging, or obscure to be thought-provoking. So, in this work, I aimed to keep all of the materials simple, so as to reflect and stay true to the nature of the songs themselves, while suggesting the haunting aura of the eras and situations which gave rise to them. In the final version, the trio begins with an introductory passage based on a figure from 'Nina Bobo' (which replaces 'Maranoa Lullaby' as the opening movement) and ends with a similar, complementary return, during which the pentatonic Maranoa melody transforms into the similarly diatonic Indonesian one, suggestive of the wishful notion that in music it might be more possible than not to understand each other and find a natural and common humanity in song.
The trio receives its Sydney premiere at the Independent Theatre, North Sydney on May 20 at 11am. It's a Musica Viva Coffee Concert and will be recorded for broadcast by ABC Classic FM.
Exciting time ahead for the Australia Ensemble
Two weeks ago, a dinner was held at the University of NSW to celebrate the enormous contribution made by Emeritus Professor Roger Covell AM, outgoing Artistic Chair of the Australia Ensemble. Music was played, including Roger's own Fanfare, a choral serenade from the Burgundian Consort led by Sonia Maddock, and a movement from a Haydn Symphony from the Australia Ensemble. Old friends were reuinted, wine and food were enjoyed and speeches were made, not least the speech made by the guest of honour, in the form of "a few brief words", in Roger's inimitable style.
Having joined the ensemble in 2000 after a year's exchange with the previous pianist David Bollard in 1998, I am still a relative newcomer at a mere fifteen years of service, or fourteen if you insist they be consecutive. Such a period pales in comparison with Roger's 47 years of service to the university and, listening to his speech, which covered aspects of his career at UNSW from the beginnings of the music department, through the years of UNSW Opera, to the formation of the Aus Ensemble and beyond, I was struck by how much I hadn't known. Among the tales, generously and humorously embellished by Roger, was the tribute paid to former Chancellor of UNSW Gordon Samuels, also a former Governor of NSW, between whose sassy and delightful wife and daughter I was fortuitously seated at dinner. Much has always been made of the role of Roger and Murray Khouri, founding clarinettist of the ensemble, who conceived the notion of a resident musical group and advocated for its inception, but Roger was explicit in his praise for the role of Gordon, who worked the university ropes to ensure that it happened, for which we can all be grateful. So often, valuable ventures in the arts and other fields can grow or wither, depending on the efforts of one or two gifted, insightful people of energy and integrity. That this happened in 1980, and was subsequently supported and nurtured, can be largely attributable to Roger and Gordon, although there are many other people to thank for their generosity over the years. The fundraising efforts of the UCommittee were extraordinarily generous, as were the contributions of members of our now defunct advisory committee, who gave of their time and expertise without exception, freely and enthusiastically.
When Roger dropped his bombshell earlier this year, we were both surprised and unsurprised. Such a long time with us has left an indelible mark, and I will miss the gravelly, considered tones at meetings as we were gently advised, chided, congratulated, questioned, prodded and, from time to time, bemused. A hard act to follow, that one. So, we do not intend for it to be followed, exactly, and have split Roger's former role into two: Publications Specialist, who will produce all of our programmes and supporting literature; and Artistic Chair, who will take responsibility for chairing the artistic processes, including programming and artistic review, among other things.
Change is good, but we are all nervous of it until it doesn't feel so much like change any more.
Happy Christmas, all .
New projects
A bit of a flurry of activity lately, what with Australia Council grants to be applied for and a 2014 diary to fill. It's been a while since I did anything about getting my Arthur Benjamin series with Tall Poppies going again, so I'm pleased to say that we have put together a programme and gathered a gang of magnificent colleagues to record a new disc next year. Grant outcomes are notoriously difficult to predict, so it's possible that, should we not be successful, I will be looking to setting up a Pozible fundraiser. Somehow, the thing will happen: to that end, I am determined.
For those who haven't been subjected to my enthusiasm for Arthur Benjamin (1893—1960), let me give the background, in brief. 'Benjy', as he was known to his friends, was a Sydney-born, Brisbane-educated pianist and composer, who left for London in 1911 and, after fighting in the First World War, made a career first as a distinguished pianist and teacher, and gradually established himself as a composer. During the 1930s, he worked alongside his former piano pupil Muir Matheson at Gaumont, producing a substantial body of film music. Scores from this period include both 'Scarlet Pimpernel' films, along with Hitchcock's first version of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much.' For an extensive biography, I will upload the one I wrote for my defunct website.
In previous projects, I recorded most of his piano music, with the exception of an early 'Novelette' and the late 'Etudes Improvisées', both of which I will be recording for the current project. The second disc was devoted to chamber music with piano, featuring the sonatinas for cello and violin, the viola sonata and other works.
For this third CD, we collect the songs (to be sung by the bewitching Sara MacLiver), remaining piano pieces and two early chamber works, held by the British Library in manuscript. Benjamin's earliest surviving major work is the 'Clarinet Quintett in C minor' [sic], dating from 1914. The manuscript shows evidence of having been used in performance, although I have no details of the event, but the piece has not been performed, in any case, for great many years, and remains unrecorded. In typesetting it, as I am doing right now, for a performance by Cathy McCorkill and strings in our Australia Ensemble series next year, I am loving its Brahmsian ardour, its more ethereal Elgar-like touches, and enjoying getting to know a younger and developing Benjy, having become used to his more refined and slightly more taut and wizened later style. Cathy will record it with a quartet comprising four of my favourite players: Natsuko Yoshimoto and Wilma Smith (violins), Imants Larsens (viola) and David Pereira (cello).
Finally, an intriguing Sonata in E minor for violin and piano, a work he wrote while interned in Karlsruhe camp during the final year of the war. After repatriation, he returned to Australia in 1919 and 1920, before settling back in London for almost the rest of his life (he spent most of WWII in Vancouver). It was then that he performed the sonata in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, to at least one admiring review. 2014 will be a bumper year for the sonata, which has not been heard for almost one hundred years. A performance on May 11 at next years Canberra Festival, although not qualifying as the Australian premiere it is claiming to be, will be a very welcome addition to an imaginative programme of music written during the time of war.
The other project? Oh yes… My three piano trios. Each will be recorded by the ensemble for whom it was written. Having recently premiered my second trio 'A Book of Lullabies' at the Huntington Festival, I'm glad to confirm that my colleagues Dimity Hall and Julian Smiles have agreed to record it next May. It was commissioned, along with my third trio 'Ein Altdeutsches Liederbuch', by the lovely John and Jo Strutt, who were at Huntington for the premiere and who are a pleased as punch that my friends Helena Rathbone (of the Australian Chamber Orchestra) and Howard Penny (of ANAM) will join me to premiere and record it in 2014. The series was set in motion back in 2007 by Chris Marshall in Christchurch, who commissioned my first trio 'Tales of Old Russia', which was extensively toured by the Eggner Trio in 2011.
Roll on 2014!
Roger Smalley
An article about Roger's Variations on a theme of Chopin for the Australian Music Centre's Resonate magazine.


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