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In this, our annual Global Retirement Index 2014, we profile the best destinations for good-value living around the world today.
We consider not only a wealth of statistics, but — critically — more than three decades of expertise and current insights from our network of correspondents.
Our experts — expats themselves — live in the places we rank and scout all over their adopted countries on your behalf.
Each year we ask them to respond to a long list of questions designed to get their fresh views on old places, and expert opinions on new ones. All the countries at the top of our Index were in close contention for the number one spot. But our winner — Panama — snags first place by a hair. Along with the world's best range of retiree benefits, Panama has introduced new visas, which make it easier to gain residence there, and made major advances in infrastructure.
This means it simply out scores last year's winner, Ecuador. Because of Spain's economic crisis you'll find more attractive opportunities there than ever to embrace an affordable life in the Old World, lifting that country into fifth place in our Index this year.
Most retired couples in Cuenca…say they live there quite comfortably — all in — for $1,500 to $1,800 a month.
But whatever you see on our leaderboard, just remember, we measure here only the very best havens. So the country last on our list — newcomer to the Index Cambodia — is still one of the best in the world.
In each of these destinations, you'll find thousands of folks who have already found their dream retirements. You can too, and this 2014 Retirement Index is designed to get you started. It covers all the bases, revealing a wealth of choice when it comes to a comfortable life overseas… Let's look at what the top three retirement havens in the world have to offer you…
#1 Panama: Convenient, Easy and Affordable
Panama's allure lies in a rare combination of value and variety. Plenty of places in the world offer one or the other. But how many offer both?
When it comes to attractive retirement destinations, the list is short and Panama is at the top. It's the only country in Central America with a true First World city. But unlike most South American capitals, Panama City is only two-and a-half hours by plane from Miami. (And let's not forget that, unlike some places closer to the U.S. border, Panama is hurricane free).
Nearly everything about Panama is convenient, particularly if you're coming from North America. The currency is the dollar, English is widely understood, and the international community is large and welcoming. The country also has welcoming immigration policies.
Last year, two new residence programs made it easier than ever to move to Panama. Quite a feat, since Panama has always been accessible in that regard. The Pensionado or pensioner residence program — which helped put Panama on the map as a retirement destination in the first place — is the primary reason. For anyone with a government or corporate pension, residence is almost a given. That's regardless of age. The main requirement is simple: your pension must be at least $1,000 a month…and even that rule has its exception.
#2 Ecuador: Still Great Value
Coming second in the Index this year is Ecuador, which remains the perfect-weather, majestic-scenery, affordable place it has always been. The Ecuadorians are just as warm and welcoming and the opportunities for retirement are just as fertile. And Ecuador remains a top destination when it comes to affordability.
Where else can you rent an upscale, fully furnished apartment in the heart of one of the world's largest World Heritage historic centers for just $400 a month? Or take a taxi across town for just $2 or $3?
Most retired couples in Cuenca, the most popular destination for English-speaking retirees in Ecuador say they live there quite comfortably — all in — for $1,500 to $1,800 a month. And that typically includes rent. Two- and three-bedroom apartments can be rented for $300 to $600 and that often includes furnishings.
You'll find Cuenca, a city of 350,000 to 500,000 (depending how widely you throw the net) in southern Ecuador, closer to the country's second international airport at Guayaquil than to Quito. Like Quito, the central historic area of Cuenca is also a World Heritage site and the iconic blue domes of its new cathedral and the red tiles of the ancient Spanish colonial buildings can be seen from the windows and terraces from many an expat residence.
Another place where the scales tip decidedly in Ecuador's favor is in the climate category. In the country's Sierra region, you'll find daytime temperatures typically hover around 75 F, which means you'll find little need for either heat or air conditioning. (International Living editors Suzan Haskins and Dan Prescher, who live in the mountains of Ecuador, say their typical utility expenses…for electricity, water and gas…are rarely more than $30 total.)
Even along the coast, despite the equatorial location, daytime temperatures rarely reach 90 degrees, and you'll experience far less humidity than in many other tropical destinations.
Like other top retirement destinations, Ecuador offers a good private health care system, especially in the three largest cities of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca. And if you're over 65, you can avail of some nice retiree benefits, including a return of money spent on VAT (value-added tax) on your purchases refunded each month — up to about $250.
Ecuador offers something for everyone, whether you're looking for sophisticated city living or the life of a gentleman farmer… And for a small country (about the size of the state of Colorado) it packs a big punch environmentally.
And, as in Panama, Ecuador hasn't lagged in its infrastructure progress. This past February, the country's new $680-million airport opened just outside Quito. In the northern area of the country, a high-tech "City of Knowledge," called Yachay, is being built. Work continues at a steady pace to upgrade and widen the Pan-American Highway. The economy, too, is stable and growing — Ecuadorians themselves are enjoying better-than-ever lifestyles. So if you're on the fence, trying to decide between the top countries on our Global Retirement Index this year, you have a tough choice. Ecuador remains a top contender.
#3 Malaysia: Asia's Best Retirement Haven
Malaysia is the best place to retire in Asia right now, and there's no sign of that changing. A couple can live comfortably in a luxury ocean-view condo on $1,700 a month including rent. (We know of couples living more modestly on even less…try $1,000 a month, including rent.)
The average temperature is 82 F all year round, and you'll find some of the best beaches in the world here. There are cool hill stations, mountain retreats from the time of the British Raj, islands to hop or explore by yacht, and heath care is second-to-none.
Penang Island, in the north east and Kuala Lumpur, the country's capital in the south, are medical centers of excellence. The hospitals are top-notch and the physicians speak English, having been either been trained or completed their postgraduate studies in the U.S. or UK — which makes the cost of health care all the more incredible. You can see a specialist without any need for an appointment for as little as $11. Just turn up. It's the same with dentists.
Infrastructure here is First World and you'll have no problem finding high speed Internet or cable TV (Packages cost from $30 a month). If you chose to drive you'll find the roads are excellent. And when you move to Malaysia you can import a car — and your household goods — duty free.
There is a program that allows non-Malaysians to stay in Malaysia on a social visit pass for 10 years. Called Malaysia my Second Home, it's automatically renewable for an additional 10 years when it expires. If you are retired, you need a fixed deposit of RM150,000 ($46,707), and you can draw down half that to buy a property, go back to school, or for medical purposes. On top of that you must show proof that you receive a pension from the government of RM10,000 ($3,114) per month. As a rule of thumb the older you are the easier and cheaper it is to join the program.
If you chose to buy property Malaysia makes it easier for you as a foreigner than anywhere else in the region. You can buy freehold and there's no limit on the number of properties you can own either, just a minimum purchase price set by the local government (it's $163,500 in Penang).
The country's diverse ethnic mix makes being a stranger here easy. Whether you live in bohemian Penang or Kuala Lumpur, the country's hip capital, you'll meet friendly locals who are happy to stop and chat and welcome you into their home. People are accepting, just ask the international mix of expats all on the same journey as you and happy to share.
Many expats are members of organizations like the American Association of Malaysia and an active social life is easy to find. With good quality dining so cheap (you can have dinner for $3, a gin and tonic is $2) most people find themselves out at least a few times a week. If you want to keep busy and earn some money, starting your own business is an uncomplicated process. There are expats here running cafés, yoga studios, restaurants, and schools and making money through exporting optic fiber cabling.
Malaysians also have a lot of respect for older people; in fact it's an intrinsic part of their culture. A full-time, live-in maid costs just $400 a month, and single older expats hire maids with nursing abilities, who care for them in the comfort of their own home. Betty Cotton, who lived in San Francisco for many years does just that and wouldn't be without her live-in maid. "I moved to Malaysia by myself when I was 85 years old. I live in my own home, I have my own things around me, and if I need anything, anything at all, I have great neighbors who are just a phone call away. I wouldn't live anywhere else."
[Ed. Note: Bill Bonner created International Living more than three decades ago, and today our colleagues there are still showing readers how to live better for less and invest for profit outside the States, outside the dollar, in destinations around the world that are cheaper, healthier, safer, freer. Readers of the Daily Reckoning, get regular updates from the IL crew a few times a month. It's just one small perk of being a member of the free Daily Reckoning email edition. If you'd like to start getting these and a number of other great perks, sign up for the FREE Daily Reckoning right here.]
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Retiring in Canada in 2014? Stay out of British Columbia the way it is being run now. Despite the cold weather, you might retire in the Yukon or in Saskatchewan or Alberta, Northwest Ontario on the shore of Lake Superior, or you might retire maybe in far eastern Canada, maybe in Quebec or perhaps in the Maritime provinces. Newfoundland would be a quite interesting place to retire in…. The constant devaluations of the Canadian Dollar would be a great concern, however.
Just a word to the wise for anyone thinking of applying for any type of Panamanian Visa. You almost have to be a vestal virgin to get one due to the new rule that was implemented by the Panamanian Minister of Immigration last Oct/Nov. If any type of infraction no matter how minor shows up on your FBI report YOU CAN'T GET A VISA PERIOD!!!!! unless you're willing to wait it out two years and then apply without an FBI report, return back from where you came every 6 months and NOT STAY OUT OF PANAMA FOR MORE THAN 30 DAYS or the 2 year wait period starts all over again. I know cause I've been there, done that. Rammer has it that the current administration will be re-elected and the RULE won't change. I spent 2 years researching, planning only to discover that I'm pretty much a persona grata due to my FBI report.
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DeLandite Torrey Peace is back from South Sudan, as civil war threatens
By Pat Andrews
posted Jan 23, 2014 - 1:26:44pm
Torrey Peace arrived for a Christmas visit in DeLand earlier than expected, after
being airlifted out of South Sudan, where she was working for a humanitarian agency.
Peace, a DeLand native and the daughter of residents Fred and Suze Peace, got her
rescue ride Dec. 18, as South Sudan deteriorated in violent civil war.
The Republic of South Sudan was formed in Central Africa in 2011 after a couple of
civil clashes. It is bordered by the Republic of Sudan to the north. The new country has
been wracked by conflict since its formation, and the United Nations and U.S. are trying
to keep South Sudan from being torn apart by tribal factions.
The crisis that ejected Torrey Peace began Dec. 15, when President Salva Kiir
accused former Vice President Riek Machar of trying to overthrow the government.
Marchar, from a different tribe than Kiir's, said the president is rooting out political
Violence raged. The New York Times reported Jan. 9 that the number of dead from
the conflict was close to 10,000.
Fighting began Dec. 15 in the capital city of Juba.
Torrey Peace heard the first gunshots from the secure compound where she lived.
"We stayed there for three days, until we were evacuated," she said. "The American
Embassy started evacuating people."
She was flown on an Air Force jet from Juba to Nairobi, and returned to DeLand from
Before the evacuation, she was able to look down the street and see many displaced
"There were about 2,000 in a compound just down the street," she said.
The displaced people had been able to bring only a few small items with them. They
had no shelter and no access to water.
Many people in Juba and elsewhere just ran when the fighting began. Family
members were separated, she said.
Before she left Juba, Torrey was able to get in contact with another worker from her
humanitarian group in the town of Bor, a site of heavy fighting. The staff member said he
ran into the bush with his family and hid.
"I heard he made it to the Uganda border," Torrey Peace said.
Other humanitarian workers were displaced, as well.
She was told armed men were looting the markets in communities, and some of the
people her program served were shot dead. Others' houses were burned down, or they
simply ran, or both.
"A lot of people, when the crisis started, just ran," Torrey said, adding that about
200,000 people displaced.
"When we were bunkered down in our compound, we heard heavy gunfire, mortar
explosions from the two barracks that were in Juba, and we listened to the radio trying to
figure out what was going on," she said.
Torrey doesn't want to identify the organization that employs her, because she's not
allowed to speak for the agency. Now 34, Peace went to South Sudan in early 2011,
before the country gained its independence.
The newest country in the world has faced many challenges, she said, but its people
were slowly transitioning from living off emergency and relief response to addressing
longer-term needs, including Torrey's area of expertise: food security and livelihoods.
With the latest crisis, humanitarian efforts will be set back to emergency-relief mode,
Torrey Peace said. She plans to return to South Sudan in February, mostly likely helping
with distributing food and meeting immediate needs.
"I'm eager to go back. You see the reports in the media and you hear about it from
people you know who are over there. It makes you anxious to go back and help," she
What do her parents think of all this?
Mom Suze Peace said people often ask that question, and she has a ready answer.
"She doesn't belong to us. She belongs to God," Suze said.
Something can happen to anyone anywhere, Suze Peace said. "I believe God is in
charge of her and all of us. It's really her choice."
She added, "We're proud of the fact that she's brave. She's very kind, and she's out
there in the world."
Fred Peace said going to South Sudan is the decision of Torrey and her husband. He
is happy that even though they are so far away, he and Suze Peace can communicate
weekly with Torrey and her husband, Shannon, through Skype.
"I have wondered throughout Torrey's career," Fred Peace said, "We as Americans
tend to forget the value of clean energy, water and transportation that we have and
others in third world countries don't have. It makes me refocus and have gratitude for
the things we have."
What has Torrey Peace's career involved?
She first got involved in humanitarian work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala
in 2004-06, she said. She then went to the University of Florida and obtained a master's
degree in business, but with the plan of going back to work in the humanitarian and
development fields.
After completing her master's, Torrey worked in Jordan, advising a nonprofit agency
there, then worked in Malawi for eight months before going to to South Sudan.
"My particular area is microfinance — finding ways of making credit available to
low-income consumers, and encouraging people to save and invest money," Torrey
She had started that work in South Sudan before the crisis.
While in South Sudan, she met the man who became her husband, Shannon Oliver,
who is also a humanitarian worker. The couple married in April 2013, then Oliver went to
Kabul, Afghanistan, in September. He had been worried for her when the crisis started.
"Hopefully we'll see each other in March, when he gets a break," Torrey Peace said.
She expects the two of them will work abroad for a few more years.
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Fresh from beginning 2011 in the wild celebration that culminated Mississippi State University's dismantling of the Michigan Wolverines in the Gator Bowl, MSU President Mark Keenum now faces a very different kind of celebrity.
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1962: Sylvia Plath - "Lady Lazarus"
On the surface, Random House's Voice of the Poet series offers something that should be irresistible to any self-respecting lit geek: the opportunity to hear some of the biggest names in 20th-century poetry reading their own greatest hits. In practice, though, it was kind of a mixed bag. For every poet who struck the right notes (T.S. Eliot's fussy, clinical diction seems oddly appropriate to the state of spiritual desiccation he chronicles in his work), there seemed to be plenty of others whose readings were tonally awkward or just plain boring as shit.
Of all the entries in the series I've sampled, however, Sylvia Plath's is far and away the best. While other poets provided readings, Plath offered an actual performance. The album is made up of recordings from two separate sessions. The first, recorded in 1958, shows Plath to be an adept interpreter of her own work: her lips move like surgical implements through each complicated strain of syllables, carving out stanza after stanza in her even, sonorous voice. It's the second session, recorded a mere four years later, though, where Plath comes fully alive as a performer (and, according to most, as a poet). Each of the eight selections from her (then still unpublished) collection Ariel is underscored by a maelstrom of suppressed emotion, and the very best among them is "Lady Lazarus."
I've been out of school too long to attempt anything like a close reading of the poem, but by way of brief summary, it deals with a narrator who, wanting to die, finds herself repeatedly dragged back to the land of the living. Plath draws upon common images of rebirth — the resurrection of Lazarus from the Gospel of John, the myth of the phoenix — but recasts them as obscene parodies: a carnival sideshow, a grotesque striptease, a Nazi medical experiment. The doctors who labor to save her life and the friends and family who crowd around her bedside are seen not as caring or benevolent figures, but as diabolical nemeses and vampiric voyeurs feeding and profiting off her pain. The traditional reading of this poem places it fully in the confessional mode, as an expression of the author's own rage and anguish. It's a compelling interpretation, given Plath's tendency to incorporate biographical details into her poems and, of course, in light of Plath's own tragic death, which looms like a 500 lb gorilla over any discussion of the author's work. Revisionist scholars, however, attempt to place more distance between Plath and her narrator.
(I would also feel remiss if I did not mention, at least in passing, that Plath's appropriation of holocaust imagery as a metaphor for personal pain — be it her own or her fictional narrator's — is narcissistic at best and highly offensive at worst. It's up to the individual reader to decide whether this is something he or she can see past.)
One of the most remarkable aspects of this very remarkable poem, however, is Plath's intense awareness of style. Literary scholar Helen Vendler notes that "almost every stanza of 'Lady Lazarus' picks up a new possibility" for the poet's voice. To bring such a work to life, a reader must be able to keep up with each writhing, twisting line as it darts off into unexpected territory. Plath not only navigates the mottled stylistic patchwork of her poem, but also tames it to such a degree that her reading carries a narrative arc all its own. Plath spits out the opening stanzas like a boast, proclaiming the uniqueness of her "gift," even as she draws comparisons between herself and some of the more horrifying relics of the Nazi death camps. Yet listen carefully around the 30-second mark, where she intones:
Can you deny
The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.
You can hear the arrogance draining away, replaced with a horror so weary and abject it feels spontaneous. When she warns us that "Soon, soon the flesh/ The grave cave ate will be/ At home on me," she sounds nearly in tears. The sense of despair is so palpable, you half expect Plath to falter and beg off, but by the time she lights on the next stanza, a hint of playful mockery has crept back into her voice. It's as though a death shroud has been peeled back from a corpse's face to reveal a frozen, contemptuous grin.
This tension, this back-and-forth tug between the narrator's strength and her vulnerability, is what fuels the drama of this particular recording. It's as though she wants to take back ownership of her life and her condition by feigning a cavalier attitude toward her awful twilight existence. She builds up walls of irony and disdain in an effort to present a powerful and terrible face towards the sadistic doctors and gawping, "peanut-crunching crowds," but her own hurt, bitterness, and fear keep finding a way through the cracks.
The poem ends with a stern warning, not just to the doctors and the rubbernecks, but to God and the Devil themselves:
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
These stanzas are the last reversal, the final frames of every revenge fantasy in which the tormented protagonist visits terrible punishment upon those who have done her wrong. Yet there is nothing triumphant in Plath's delivery, no force behind her blasphemous threat. There is only the infinite fatigue of one who no longer possesses the conviction to lie to herself. How strange and frightening that, in Plath's own hands, her boldest assertion of personal power comes off sounding like a hopeless capitulation.
1998: Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
A few years ago, my cousin complained to me. Following my advice, he had went to see Cap'n Jazz on their reunion tour and told me they were awful. According to him, they had a minimal grasp of rhythm, and their screams were out of tune. Worse of all, the audience was yelling along with them. Not singing along. Yelling.
Cap'n Jazz, fronted by brothers Tim and Mike Kinsella, played avant-garde music for the broken-hearted and the perpetually nostalgic, people who treasured Catcher in the Rye from the very first page. Yes, we all know the word "emo," but Cap'n Jazz went beyond the screams and power chords; they made music that was as tangled and knotty as their emotions. It embodied their rage and sadness in an explosive, responsive way. To me, they were the wimpy, dorky Stooges of that generation, except they knew that was bullshit and rejected themselves as such; they knew that nobody then needed someone to tell them that it was another year with nothing to do.
Their take on emotionally-charged experimentation can be heard on "In The Clear," a song that flows in furious passages that you can sing along to, yet the most powerful moment comes when someone screams half the alphabet and concludes it with "lost!" It's ostentatious, funny and yet incredibly earnest.
This is what I grew up with, what I get and what gets me (or got me back then); even if I didn't have direct contact with the actual music, I instinctively responded to it. I bet the members of the band don't mind not being understood, but I think that's part of their appeal. It's all heart and neurosis.
2003: Paddy McAloon - I Trawl The Megahertz
There's been a long history of pop musicians going off the deep end and into the realm of experimental music. While these flirtations have been common since the 1960s onward, some of the most fascinating cases happen when the transition comes seemingly out of the blue. Tim Buckley's Lorca and Starsailor albums may in some ways be some of the earliest and most radical examples of this transformation, but there are also the classic instances of Scott Walker's and Talk Talk's dark later work, as well as David Sylvian's gradual descent into free-jazz-afflicted folk and onkyo-obsessed songwriting. However, despite the seemingly disparate nature between these artists' experimentally minded compositions and their more commercial work, there's always been something of a common thread. Walker's "Farmer in the City" could easily have fit on Scott 3; Buckley's virtuosic singing seemed to be a natural fit for the Ligeti-esque textures he attempted with Lorca and Starsailor; and Sylvian had been working collaboratively with experimental musicians such as Jon Hassel and Holger Czukay since his debut solo album.
With Paddy McAloon's I Trawl the Megahertz, the aesthetic continuity isn't so readily apparent. McAloon is best known as the leader of the harmonically rich twee-pop band Prefab Sprout, whose pop perfectionism doesn't quite prepare one for the surreal, dark world of McAloon's lone solo record. Of course, despite Prefab's sunny exterior, it was clear with extensive listening that the band's songs often hid their sadness under the catchiest of tunes. Take their hit "The King of Rock n Roll," for example: it's a pretty silly song, until you realize the lyrics come from the perspective of a washed-up one-hit wonder whose goofiest work overshadows all of his attempts at real artistry. But maybe it's for this reason that I Trawl the Megahertz feels like something of a shock: it wears all of its sorrow on its sleeve and does away with McAloon's pop-song mastery in favor of minimalist orchestration, bizarrely bleak spoken word, and an undeniably chilly atmosphere.
I Trawl the Megahertz is by no means an abrasive or dissonant record, but it is undeniably idiosyncratic and heartbreaking. All of these things are apparent from the opening of the title track onward. The title track is nearly 22 minutes long and consists of a gorgeous repeated theme (McAloon's harmonic sensibilities are still in play here) that sounds like it could soundtrack the saddest Disney movie never written, with its lurching strings, vaudevillian whistles, and ghostly guitar. Early in the work, a woman's voice comes in and delivers blunt observational lines, like the unforgettable, "I said, 'Your daddy loves you very much/ He just doesn't want to live with us anymore." It's a beautifully powerful work that suggests what might happen if Robert Ashley's later operas had used full orchestration and were crushingly sincere.
From there, the record moves into a frosty Philip Glass-like suite of instrumental pieces that eventually give way to the two other tracks with vocals, "I'm 49" and "Sleeping Rough." "I'm 49" sounds quite similar to the territory that Oneohtrix Point Never has been mining recently with its pastiche of talk-show voices, electronics, and beautiful cascading arpeggios. "Sleeping Rough," on the other hand, is an unbelievably devastating song featuring McAloon crooning like a slightly less depraved Scott Walker. "Sleeping Rough" is perhaps the only transparent reference to the experiences that inspired I Trawl the Megahertz's elegiac glacial tone. "I'm lost, I'll grow a long and silver beard," McAloon sings. While this lyric could be read as a meta-commentary on the stylistic change of the record, it becomes heartbreaking when you realize that the singer/composer had temporarily gone blind due to illness while writing this material. However, despite the seemingly bleak-sounding nature of I Trawl the Megahertz's various components, McAloon's arrangements and tonalities make it clear that the singer remained hopeful and artistically forward-looking, despite the seemingly dire situation of his health.
Much of the album's arrangements are quite reminiscent of a number of contemporary experimental musicians who have recently made forays into more texturally rich material. Sean McCann's Music for Private Ensemble comes to mind when listening to the mixture of MIDI, live orchestration, and natural sounds on the album's instrumental tracks, and the record's title track would not feel too out of place on a Julia Holter record. McAloon may never work with this particular set of tools again, but it's clear that he has many like-minded contemporaries employing similar resources in their own work nowadays. I Trawl the Megahertz may be an anomaly in McAloon's discography, but it's an anomaly that sounds more beautiful and relevant than ever.
1987: Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
For as legendary and influential as Britain's Rudimentary Peni have been among fans of goth and deathrock, they're not widely appreciated outside those tight-knit circles. There's nothing particularly surprising about this fact. Between the band's jagged, lurching, and mercilessly compressed compositions and Nick Blinko's strangled delivery, RP were destined to be an acquired taste from the start. Add to that the group's peculiar working habits — long stretches between releases, refusal to tour (or even perform live, for the most part), and Blinko's well-known aversion to doing interviews — and it's actually kind of a miracle anyone outside the UK was able to learn about these guys at all in the pre-internet days of the 1980s.
Truth be told, they might have escaped my attention if not for Southern Records' recently initiated project to reissue the band's out-of-print discography, which was serendipitously preceded at the beginning of this year by Chelsea Wolfe's excellent Latitudes session Prayer for the Unborn, an EP's worth of reworkings of Rudimentary Peni songs. Wolfe's own exposure to RP was perfectly in keeping with the group's cult status: one day she walked in on her roommate listening to them. Wolfe became fascinated by the records, their intricate black-and-white album art (designed by Blinko himself), and the group's bleakly surreal, existential lyrics — so much so that some of the selections off Prayer were composed without her even having heard the original songs they were based on.
Cacophony is considered by many to be the band's finest work, and it is undoubtedly their most ambitious. The album was recorded following the first major disruption in the band's career, a four-year hiatus during bassist Grant Matthews' bout with cancer. Cacophony finds Blinko assuming control of the songwriting duties, which had chiefly belonged to Matthews prior to his illness ("Well, I thought that Grant felt that his lyrics weren't relevant anymore or something," Blinko explains in a rare interview from 1992). Under Blinko's lead, the band fully detached from its anarcho-punk roots and grew into an honest-to-goodness deathrock band. Leftist politics was Matthews' thing; Blinko was all about Lovecraft. The album shows a deep immersion in Lovecraft's life and work, appropriating his mythology (both literary and personal), lapsing into his grandiloquent diction, and tracing the sordid lineage of his macabre visions. While RP were never strangers to the gothic (their previous album had sported tracks titled "Cosmic Hearse" and "Flesh Crucifix," after all), Cacophony was the album that would forever endear them to the black eyeliner set.
In terms of its complexity, diversity, and sheer density, the record was a giant leap beyond anything the band had previously attempted. While Blinko's voice seemed to max out at a piercing rasp in the band's early work, his vocals on Cacophony are so protean and unpredictable one could almost believe he was playing host to a demonic legion. He employs well over a dozen voices throughout the record: inhuman utterances (the dry croaking on "Crazed Couplet" and "Nightgaunts," the ghastly keening at the end of "The Only Child"), distinct musical personae (the clinically detached narrator of "Better Not Born" and the reedy, crisp diction of the speaker on "Dream City"), and dramatic spoken word interludes (the frantic newscaster at the end of "The Evil Clergyman," the Shakespearian monologue in "Brown Jenkin," and the wizened New Englander who mourns Lovecraft's wasted talents on "Imps of the Perverse"). There's also Gregorian chant, drinking songs, and a track that's mostly just fart noises.
The dramatic shifts in persona are matched by a musical accompaniment that's ready and able to change tempos or time signatures at a moment's notice. The album contains some of RP's heaviest tracks up to that time (check out the plodding riff on "Zenophobia" and Jon Grenville's thundering rhythm on "The Only Child"), pointing towards the almost-heavy-metal leanings of their more recent work. Yet other tracks, like the instrumental "The Evil Clergyman" or "Dream City" move into a post-punk territory that sounds like a more amped-up version of The Cure. And while Blinko may be the most visible member of the trio on this release, it's impossible to calculate just how important Grant Matthews is to making these songs pop. Matthews' bass sits high in the mix and works its ass off to earn that place of prominence. He continually finds unique ways to introduce wrinkles into what could otherwise have been overly-pat melodies.
Trying to take Cacophony in as a whole is an experience not unlike trying to look upon one of Lovecraft's Great Old Ones. The totality of it is too mottled and gnarled, its form dictated by a geometry not of this universe — it's not for nothing Piero Scaruffi dubbed the album "the Trout Mask Replica of British Punk." But sinking into its peculiar madness is a sweeter fate than that experienced by Mr. Delapore or Robert Olmstead. The more time you spend with this eldritch tome, the more you may come to realize you've developed a taste for its ghastly pleasures.
1985: The Ramones - "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg"
In 1985, The Ramones penned "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg," a song that's obviously not as popular as "Blitzkrieg Bop" or "I Want To Be Sedated." In fact, The Ramones, at the time, were in their wilderness years, hopping from producer to producer and releasing albums with the hope that one would "break" them. They wanted to be popular and live the good life. As we all know, it didn't happen that way.
The Ramones were not known to take on causes or make strong opinions on serious matters, but "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" was an exception. The track was inspired by Ronald Reagan's visit to a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, where many Waffen-SS soldiers are buried. Reagan's discourse during his visit was that, while he didn't excuse the systematic mass murder of millions of people, these soldiers were "victims" or just "simply following orders." To many ears, the then President was making excuses for genocide.
The Ramones were notorious for their occasional use of Nazi symbols — thanks to main songwriter Dee Dee's fascination with WWII memorabilia — but this time, the band didn't joke about Nazis in love. While Joey was Jewish and helped pen the song, it is said that Dee Dee was the one who wanted to say that there was no excuse for that kind of demonstration. The track is also notable song because it criticizes a Republican politician, something they had stayed away from since Johnny became a supporter of the conservative party. (Johnny plays on the song, but he requested it be renamed to "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down" for Animal Boy.)
The story of the Ramones is filled with clashes of personality that (arguably) held them back during their lifetime, but it's amazing that a song so polarizing to the various individuals could not only happen, but also become one of their finest moments.
1989: Haruomi Hosono - "Pleocene"
I should tell you that, on a Saturday night early in 2012, I told my roommates that I was staying in and found something on the internet. It was late, around 1 AM I think, when I found this thing on the internet, and it became very important to me, inarguably the most important thing. Around 4 AM, when my the roommates returned from the bars, I was awake with this thing in my room.
See, what I found on the internet was a song, but first it was a black-and-white video shot from the passenger seat of a car to music. The car in the video drives slow down a road empty but for its dirt and coursing foliage; a single moth flashes white hot early on, lit up by the car's headlights, but other than that. Then the road becomes paved, teeming with life, or signifiers of life: cars passing other cars, a tunnel, lights that threaten overexposure: structures and infrastructures that humans build. The camera wobbles, but I don't know that it trembles, because trembling requires a person to tremble, and there are no people in sight.
Midway through this video, credits somehow roll, and I became very nervous for the song, absurdly. This song is the single most important thing, and it wouldn't be right to do it so wrong. But the car continues and ends, as the song does, abruptly, early, wrongly, as expected.
I found the song in its complete version that same night, not much later. I got to know it, and I was so happy. By the early morning, the song became for me a part of a record, but I still prefer it alone and disfigured, as it was that one time on camera.
2003: The Speaking Canaries - "Get Out Alive: The Long Version"
There's never been more a more dangerous threat to rock than restraint, never a more pernicious maxim than nothing in excess. Well, that might not be a rule that can actually be generalized for every case, but it goes some way in describing the pleasure of listening to The Speaking Canaries' fourth album, Get Out Alive: The Long Version. That's not to say there aren't quiet moments, and it's also not to say that the album's more violently noisy passages won't suddenly erupt into well-executed, "anthemic" (maybe even "catchy"!) indie rock choruses. But there is an equal portion of the album displaying the band's mastery over a build-and-release aesthetic that folds into sheer fucking joyousness — the contrasts that frame and heighten the excess. So, an expansive opener verging on half an hour long is immediately followed by a more restrained song that features glockenspiel and falsetto singing, followed again by a hectic clanging racket.
Although The Speaking Canaries' main guy Damon Che is better known as Don Caballero's drummer (which he does a little here too), it's his guitar playing that's the protagonist in this particular tale, employing everything from chaotic six-string torture, to hacking and jittery math-rock, and all the way to pinch harmonics and back again, almost to the point of note-per-minute showoffery. Che is also the vocalist in this project, and when the lyrics turn out to be not-cutesy metaphors or surreal evocations ("She'll spear your heart in the Fox Chapel/ She'll stomp it on Squirrel Hill") and are instead grounded references to Pittsburgh geography, they serve to pull the album back down to more earthly realms. Other times — as with the barely intelligible spoken narratives low in the mix on "Last Side of Town Pt.1" or the shrieked exchanges with a mysterious Ingrid on "Life-like Homes" — they push things further from the everyday. This is most evident with Che's periodic yells and whoops, which feel like pure expressions of some uncontainable whatever. Or at least until you compare them to the joy-yelps on the previous album, Songs for the Terrestrially Challenged, which appeared in exactly the same places on the completely re-recorded version as they did on the first version. So, maybe it's not the same story on Get Out Alive. But planned or not, the spontaneity and joie de vivre feel real all the same, transmitted as they are directly and without need of the messy matter of meaning.
And about the album title's qualification: there are a few different versions of the album (the CD and LP versions have the subtitle The Last Type Story), but you should be listening to "The Long Version," the 76-odd-minute CD-R incarnation. Cobbled together from bits of EPs and extended versions, it's a perfect junkyard assemblage. It's the least diluted and most comprehensive version; constraints are least in evidence. Over the course of its running time, there's scarcely a concession to coherence or to the usual standards of contemporaneous indie rock good taste (though no Van Halen covers on this one; you'll have to go to back to Songs for the Terrestrially Challenged for not one, but two of them). Sure, the production varies on the tracks and the levels of the drums fluctuate, but it just doesn't matter when the album is so busy delivering its consignment of exuberant rock.
After the release of Get Out Alive, a few new songs were performed on a WFMU radio show, and there were whispers on the internet that a new album had been recorded. But alas, it never emerged. For better or for worse, Che reformed Don Caballero (without any other original members), and a couple of their newer songs were somewhat Canaries-esque, but we haven't heard from The Speaking Canaries since.
2001: Lift to Experience - "To Guard and to Guide You"
Criminally overlooked and tragically short-lived, Texas trio Lift to Experience were simply too pure and beautiful to be long for this world. Their double-disc concept album, The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, was their first and final record before the band split to pursue their separate careers. LTE's potent mixture of prog rock, post-punk, and shoegaze was enough to garner them some favorable press, but their album's bizarre narrative arc, which placed Texas at the center of a biblical apocalypse and recast the three band members as prophets of the coming Kingdom of God, must have proven a little too much for audiences (stateside, at least — they apparently developed quite a following in Europe), and the group quickly faded into semi-obscurity.
It was a good six or seven years after album was released before I discovered it, having been gifted with a burned copy by fellow TMTer Paul Bower during one of his visits to Chicago. I fell immediately under its spell, drawn in by the extraordinary power of the music, but also out of a peculiar sense of kinship with the band's frontman, Josh "Buck" Pearson. Pearson grew up as part of the Word of Faith Movement of the Pentecostal Church, which advances a radical version of the Prosperity Gospel. When Pearson was four, his father stopped working to support his family, believing that all their material needs could be met through faith in God alone and that little things like "jobs" and "salaries" were redundant, if not outright blasphemous. Pearson's mother wisely filed for a divorce, but Pearson continued to be an active member of the Pentecostal church throughout his youth.
I've spoken briefly about my own history with some of Christianity's more peculiar outgrowths. While my experiences were nowhere near as extreme as Pearson's, I couldn't help but perceive a pained spirituality in his writing that felt achingly familiar. Music is a pretty common medium for young people to work through their religious ambivalence. Many approach the subject with a healthy dose of irony, poking fun at its contradictions and excesses, and in this regard, Lift to Experience was no different. The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads was full of absurd juxtapositions of supernatural grandeur with earthly squalor and mundanity. What made it so remarkable, however, was that its irony did not create distance between the artists and their subject. Pearson's voice was not that of the Enlightened 21st-century Rationalist scoffing at the backwards ways of the masses of ignorant theists. He felt too intensely the beauty of his object and identified too closely with his protagonists, and when it became necessary to dig beneath their veneer of ecstatic fervor to uncover some uncomfortable truth, it was evident that he was also digging into himself.
Keeping this in mind, it's probably no surprise that "To Guard and to Guide You" was one of the tracks I found most personally moving. Like the rest of the songs on the album, its lyrics draw extensively from other sources, Christmas hymns ("Angels We Have Heard on High") and country songs ("Under the X in Texas"), but most significantly from a common Christian prayer, the Angel of God:
Angel of God my guardian dear,
To whom God's Love commits me here,
Ever this day, be at my side
To light, to guard, to rule and to guide me.
With its brevity and its sing-song, nursery-rhyme quality, the Angel of God is a children's prayer, and if it was not the first prayer that was learned by heart, it was certainly among them. The prayer forms the song's refrain, with Pearson only flipping the wording of the last line to make it "To light, to rule/ To guard and to guide."
I remember being taught, from a very early age, about my guardian angel. I was told that he (or she, but we tended to refer to him with masculine pronouns in my house) was chosen by God to watch over me from the moment of my conception, to look out for my physical and spiritual well-being. I was taught to invoke him often to ask for help and guidance, and as a result, my angel never felt like an abstract concept or a fairy tale, but rather a genuine presence in my life, such that, to this day, I recite that prayer every time I take a trip or get behind the wheel of a car. Such that, were I to lose all belief in God and to renounce my Catholic faith in its entirety, I would feel my guardian angel's loss as the passing of a lifelong friend.
Hearing those childish words crop up in the middle of an indie prog-rock song tugs at those deep and buried corners of my consciousness and calls forth only the best associations that I have with Christianity. I don't know what Josh Pearson's relationship with God is like. I don't know how sincerely he identifies as a Christian these days or what being a Christian means to him personally. But whatever bad shit he experienced as a result of his parents' religious belief, I'm sure that he has a memory, not much different from my own, of sitting on his mother's knee while she rehearsed the words to that simple, ancient prayer, pressing each syllable into the tender folds of his heart where they could grow to form a shelter for the difficult years ahead.
2003: Cave In - Antenna
What does "selling out" entail? Is it simply to sign to a major label? Is it to get a ton of money in exchange for playing music? Of course, at some level, I do understand the basic ideas of "selling out." Metallica "sold out" with the Black Album, Celtic Frost "sold out" with Cold Lake, Chumbawamba "sold out" with "Tumthumbing." I get it. You compromise your sound and ideals in order to gain a ton of money and fame. You want your song on the radio and to rub shoulders next to Amanda Bynes. Still, there's no accepted limitations of what constitutes being a sellout. Someone's success story and well wishes are another's curses and angry tweets. It's what fuels the most heated and nightmarish drunken arguments between music fans at 3 AM.
Cave In sold out. Yep, they signed to RCA (a big and powerful label back then) and shed their sometimes heavy and angular (Until Your Heart Stops), sometimes psychedelic and layered (Jupiter) sound and embraced what you might call "traditional songwriting." The guitars sounded big and compressed, and Stephen Brodsky's voice recalled Brandon Boyd from Incubus. Basically, it's a picture of rock radio in 2003.
Still, I can't help to think that Cave In's way of selling out wasn't such a cut-and-dried case as one might think. Even though the songs had a structure and sound made for the masses, the band had always modified their approach to reach different ground. Moreover, listening to "Seafrost," "Youth Overrided," and the intro to "Penny Racer," you can hear both fragments of their old sounds as well as things to come. Which is exactly why I think the album is worth revisiting. The band might shift gears often (or not, considering how much time they spend going in and out of hiatus), but there are elements that remain constant for them. Above all, their gift for songwriting is unmatched by most of their peers; they are able to make complicated music (to various degrees) with great lyrics that unfold before your ears and remain etched in your memory.
Like most things in life, selling out is not so easily explained, and in the case of Cave In, it yielded solid music, regardless of its mission.
1989: My Dad is Dead - The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get
Cleveland, like its rust belt neighbor to the north, Detroit, has had a rough go of it for the last few decades. In many ways, the cities mirror each other: loss of industry and white flight have left the cities with more infrastructure than they need and well more than they can maintain, resulting in inner-city wastelands of abandoned homes, shuttered shops, and factories, and while a viral YouTube video proclaimed Cleveland's problems not QUITE the equal of Detroit's, the two cities' fates grow more similar yearly.
But despite being the home of the absurd Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland's reputation as a source of great bands has never equaled Detroit's. No Motown, no Stooges, no White Stripes. Even smaller Akron, 40 minutes to the south, lays claim to Devo, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, and more recently, The Black Keys. Long-running experimental rockers Pere Ubu may be Cleveland's most critically-beloved musical export this side of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
Of course, that can't be the whole story: a city of its size is bound to produce more than a few diamonds in the rough, and local son Mark Edwards' My Dad Is Dead was exactly that. From 1985 until 2009, Edwards and a rotating cast of bit players pumped out some 11 full-length albums (depending on how you count), all while remaining almost entirely under the radar. 1989's The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get was a coulda-been breakthrough for the band. Released on the Long Island label Homestead Records, which boasted at the time a roster including Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and Nick Cave (Sebadoh's The Freed Man holds the catalog number immediately before The Taller You Are…), it's remarkable on two counts: how good it is, and how little it's known.
Edwards plays nearly every sound heard on the album, which covers everything from pretty, jangly guitar instrumentals to Joy Division- and Devo-referencing New Wave numbers. Perhaps it's Edwards' nasal, thickly Cleveland-accented singing voice in combination with the depressed, neurotic lyrics of songs like "Seven Years" and "The Only One" that kept the band from a wider audience. Some writers have speculated that the birth of grunge blotted out what audience there would have been for the nervier (some might say wimpier), wiry indie rock of the type Edwards made, but in retrospect, it seems that My Dad Is Dead may have been both after their time and ahead of it.
A few years ago, Edwards finally quit Cleveland and moved to Chapel Hill, and officially ended the MDID project in 2010. Listening to The Taller You Are in 2013, nearly 25 years after it poked its head out between albums by Thurston Moore and Lou Barlow and then quickly vanished, it sounds more immediate and relevant than it has any right to. Score one for Cleveland.


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Rick Santorum's weekend interview with the Wall Street Journal reinforced the impression that his candidacy provides the clearest contrast with Mitt Romney's latest attempts at branding himself—described here in the Washington Post. The contrast is not likely to favor Romney, and with the big evangelical endorsement going to Santorum this weekend, the former Pennsylvania senator might be in the strongest position of the remaining "not Romneys."
At the end of that Post profile comes this quote from Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of rhetoric and communication at the University of Pennsylvania, about the image Romney projected after his New Hampshire victory speech:
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In other words, the most effective rebuttal the Romney campaign has yet produced to the accusation that he "looted" companies for profit is: "Who, me?" but leaving that aside, his family-man image is certainly a plus, especially if you think Newt Gingrich is Romney's main rival. And, given the polls and attack ads, that would be a reasonable conclusion. But as difficult an opponent as Gingrich can be, Santorum remains a challenging matchup for Romney.
Santorum, too, has a reputation as a family man—more so than any of the other candidates, arguably. And Santorum's campaign remains one of only two that isn't really about President Obama per se, and therefore possesses its own raison d'être (Ron Paul is the other). Santorum worries about the breakdown of the family, and he has concrete plans to address that. He worries, too, about blue-collar workers, and has a plan to specifically address that as well. And then there's this, from the Journal interview:
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I think this overstates the extent to which Santorum refuses to pander; I've watched many of his town hall events, and he's certainly not immune to pandering. But Gingrich's natural instinct on the campaign trail is to agree with the premise of virtually any question a voter asks him, and then attempt to steer his answer in his own direction. And Romney's habit of trying to be all things to all people has, to conservatives, defined his candidacy. Santorum does, indeed, best his rivals when it comes to the self-discipline to avoid pandering.
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AUBURN, Mass. — The Auburn Police Department reports arrests made on charges of unlawful possession of ammunition or community gun, domestic assault and battery, shoplifting at Macy's and possessing class C drugs, police said.
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Beautiful you, right there on the page. Hauntingly, achingly beautiful Laura. Your words moved me, as usual.
I'm sure that momma thought you were wearing your special best as you touched her hand in love.
Oh, the business of a breeze… a transaction with heaven … when we need it most.
Peace for you, Laura, as He continues to stir.
The mama turned her head to suffer, and to save you from the suffering! But as CS Lewis reminds us in Mere Christianity, we are hard-wired to God's ways of Right and Wrong, of knowing suffering, sharing with each other through God's relationship with us.
John 3:8 NRSV The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
Absolutely gorgeous, dear Laura. Oh, my. thank you.
Tears. And a big sigh. And the knowledge that Haiti is now a part of your heart as it is mine. I'm glad we share that.
Your words take me there yet again – sweat clinging; heart pulled in a million directions and then the breeze. His breath that beckons us to turn…and see.
oh…this mama's heart is praying with you and for that mama….sorrow mixed in with the joy of kindergarteners graduating…((hugs))
The breeze took your prayers straight to God's heart. And if I know our God, He reached down and comforted that woman that night. Thank you for sharing your experience, Laura. It comes with a blessing.


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Posted: March 30, 2013|
CORNWALL warmed up for the start of the new season with a convincing 11½-3½ win over the Royal Navy at West Cornwall.
The pre-season friendly between the Senior Service and the county's top amateur team has been staged annually at Lelant (West Cornwall) or Trevose, where the first meeting took place in 1969.
Cornwall begin the regional summer Channel League campaign with a cross-Tamar derby against Devon, the defending champions, on Sunday, April 7 at Tavistock Golf Club.
Last year Cornwall finished runners-up to player-captain Adam Bridgewater's Devon in one of the closest Channel League title chases for some time.
Another close-run contest looks likely.
Cornwall's first home league match is against Wiltshire at West Cornwall on April 21.
Devon's first away match is against Gloucestershire at Bristol & Clifton on the same Sunday.
North Devon course Saunton will stage the popular 72 hole West of England Amateur Stroke Play Championship over three days at the end of next month.
The West of England Open takes place from Friday, April 26-28.
Saunton is the stage for Devon men's opening order of merit event, the Easter Challenge Cup on Monday, April 1. England boys international Ashton Turner beat Royal North Devon teenage ace Jimmy Mullen to win the South of England Youths Championship in a dramatic play-off at Rye.
Turner – from Kenwick Park, Lincolnshire – carded a closing five birdie 64 to make up five shots on 19-year-old leader Mullen on level par 272, following a last round 69.
The 16-year-old claimed the coveted winner's Bernard Darwin Salver with birdies on both play-off holes.
ST MELLION Fossils were edged out 5-3 at Bowood in the first match of their tie.
Results: Ladies' March Sunday Medal Division One: 1 Yvonne Newton (94-20=74), 2 Samantha Peach (93-13=80)
Division Two: 1 Karen Cook (93-21=72), 2 Linda Radley (110-34=76)
Midweek Medal Division One: 1 Evelyn Postles (90-19=71), 2n Vera Nancekivell (89-16=73), 3 Elaine Marshall (91-12=79)
Division Two: 1 Hilda McKinley (98-25=73), 2 Rosie Ring (94-21=73), 3 Meg Norris (94-21=73)


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Home defender Steve Akrigg inadvertently gave North End the lead when he headed new signing Keith Keane's cross into his own net.
Joel Byrom grabbed the second from the penalty spot after Chris Holroyd had been upended in the penalty area.
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Two men who were nabbed by the Georgetown County Sheriffs Office Internet Crimes Division for separate incidents have been sentenced for their crimes.
Billy Jo Lynch, 31, of Greer and Rickey Joe Sansom, 23, of Greensboro, N.C., entered guilty pleas last week in front of Circuit Court Judge Larry Hyman, according to S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson.
Lynch pled guilty to one count of criminal solicitation of a minor. He was arrested March 1, 2012 after he was caught e-mailing nude photos of himself and soliciting a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
Lynch was sentenced to three years suspended upon two years probation. He also must register as a sex offender.
Sansom was arrested last September. At the time he was an after school counselor for children 5-12 years of age in Greensboro.
Sansom was communicating on the Internet with what he believed to be a minor female child. During the online chats he solicited sex from the girl, said Sheriffs Office spokeswoman Carrie Cuthbertson.
Sansom plead guilty to criminal solicitation of a minor and was sentenced under the youthful offender act to three years probation and he must register as a sex offender.
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The world went right ahead,
I remained where i was,
They progressed, they advanced,
Only at loss- I was
Each day each year time went by
It was 6 years ago that you bid me goodbye..
I looked for your in every face,
but never found your hiding place...
Could not spend a day missing you,
Wonder how fast 6 yrs flew,
With your memories , I lived my life,
Never in reality could I be your wife..
People say you wont return,
So in this pain, will I always burn?
Where are you and why do you hide?
I was and will always be by you side...
You were not wrong my love,
Just come back to me now,
Let her do what she wants,
I dont care for her haunts and taunts...
Time wont wait , it will fly,
I want us to live, not cry an die,
I love you and trust you from my soul,
I scream that from south pole to norh pole!
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Photo Stories
July 12, 2002 - Jack Leiss, senior epidemiologist at Analytical Sciences, Inc. in Durham, NC, sent us this photo, printed in Buzzworm Magazine, of a flight attendant spraying DDT above passengers' heads, circa 1955. Although banned in the U.S. in 1972, DDT was sprayed aboard U.S. aircraft until 1989. International flights continue to be treated with other toxic pesticides, usually synthetic pyrethroids, despite harm to human health.
According to the Association of Flight Attendants - AFL-CIO, Australia, New Zealand, India, Uruguay, and other countries require that incoming aircraft be treated with specific pesticides that are not approved for use in the passenger cabin in the United States. On flights requiring pesticide applications, flight attendants must walk down the aisles and spray over the passengers' heads after announcing that the spray is non-toxic. United requires that this announcement be made, despite an internal company document dated 1987 that acknowledges health effects associated with exposure to the in-flight sprays, as well as their recent admission that the non-toxic claim "is not entirely true."
One airline attendant describes passenger's clothing, skin, and hair being soaked with pesticides. The Association of Flight Attendants have accumulated hundreds of poisoning incidents between June 1989 and November 2001.
Passengers on domestic flights may also have reason for concern. Pesticides may be sprayed on planes making domestic flights at the discretion of the airlines. Many pesticide products are registered in the U.S. for use on aircraft, including in passenger cabins. Additionally, the same planes are occasionally used for both domestic and international flights.
Symptoms of exposure to pyrethroids include nasal stuffiness, headache, nausea, incoordination, tremors, convulsions, facial flushing and swelling, and burning and itching sensations. The most severe poisonings have been reported in infants, who are not able to efficiently break down pyrethroids. With orally ingested doses, nervous symptoms may occur, which include excitation and convulsions leading to paralysis, accompanied by muscular fibrillation and diarrhea. Death in these cases is due to respiratory failure.
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- The production of _j63 [eta] and {_w63 [omega] mesons in 3.5 GeV p+p interaction in HADES (2011)
- The study of meson production in proton-proton collisions in the energy range up to one GeV above the production threshold provides valuable information about the nature of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. Theoretical models describe the interaction between nucleons via the exchange of mesons. In such models, different mechanisms contribute to the production of the mesons in nucleon-nucleon collisions. The measurement of total and differential production cross sections provide information which can help in determining the magnitude of the various mechanisms. Moreover, such cross section information serves as an input to the transport calculations which describe e.g. the production of e+e− pairs in proton- and pion-induced reactions as well as in heavy ion collisions. In this thesis, the production of ω and η mesons in proton-proton collisions at 3.5 GeV beam energy was studied using the High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer (HADES) installed at the Schwerionensynchrotron (SIS 18) at the Helmholtzzenturm f¨ur Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt. About 80 000 ω mesons and 35 000 η mesons were reconstructed. Total production cross sections of both mesons were determined. Furthermore, the collected statistics allowed for extracting angular distributions of both mesons as well as performing Dalitz plot studies. The ω and η mesons were reconstructed via their decay into three pions (π+π−π0) in the exclusive reaction pp −→ ppπ+π−π0. The charged particles were identified via their characteristic energy loss, via the measurement of their time of flight and momentum, or using kinematics. The neutral pion was reconstructed using the missing mass method. A kinematic fit was applied to improve the resolution and to select events in which a π0 was produced. The correction of measured yields for the effects of spectrometer acceptance was done as a function of four variables (two invariant masses and two angles). Systematic studies of the acceptance for different input distributions were performed. The measured yields were normalized to the number of measured events of elastic scattering. Systematic errors due to the methods of the data analysis and the background subtraction were investigated. Production angular distributions of ω and η mesons were measured. Both mesons exhibit a slightly anisotropic angular distribution. The Dalitz plot of ω meson production shows indications of resonant production. However, the deviation of the distribution from the one expected by phase space simulations is not large. The Dalitz plot of η meson production shows a signal of the production via the N(1535) resonance, The contribution of N(1535) to the production was quantified to be about 47%. The angular distribution of η mesons does not show significant differences between resonant and non resonant production. The total production cross section of ω mesons in the reaction pp −→ ppω was determined to be 106.5 ± 0.9 (stat) ± 7.9 (sys) [μb] where stat indicates statistical error and sys indicates systematic error, while that of η mesons was determined to be 136.9 ± 0.9 (stat) ± 10.1 (sys) [μb] in the reaction pp −→ ppη


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It is an exciting time in California to promote strong and meaningful pro-immigrant policy priorities. We are excited by the opportunities that CIPC membership can provide in strengthening our collective voice in Sacramento.
Meet the 2015 Organizational Membership
- ACLU Berkeley/NorthEastBay
- ACLU of California
- American Immigration Lawyers Association -Northern California (AILA NorCal)
- Alliance for Justice
- American Friends Service Committee
- Anakbayan Silicon Valley
- API Equality – Los Angeles
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles
- Asian Law Alliance
- Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Building Skills Partnership
- California Association for Bilingual Education
- California Food Policy Advocates
- California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ)
- California Pan Ethnic Health Network
- California Primary Care Association
- California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF)
- Canal Alliance
- Central American Resource Center–CARECEN – Los Angeles
- Central American Resource Center–CARECEN–of Northern California
- Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)
- Chinese for Affirmative Action
- Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice – California
- Community Health Partnership
- Council on American Islamic Relations – California Chapter
- Dominican Sisters of San Rafael
- East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
- East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
- Educators for Fair Consideration
- Episcopal Diocese of California, Migration & Immigration Task Force
- Friends Committee on Legislation of California
- Full Court Press Communications
- Immigrant Rights Commission (City & County of San Francisco)
- Immigration Action Group
- Immigration Legal Resource Center
- Immigration Task Force of the California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
- Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (IM4HI)
- Justice for Immigrants Coalition of Inland Southern California
- Justice For Our Neighbors-Bay Area Immigration Taskforce
- Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA)
- L.A Community Legal Center and Educational
- Latino & Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel & Pomona Valley
- Latino Community Foundation
- Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Miguel Contreras Foundation
- Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Northeast Valley Health Corporation
- Our Family Coalition
- PICO California
- Physicians for a National Health Program -California
- Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
- San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium
- Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network (SIREN)
- Special Service for Groups
- Street Level Health Project
- Teamsters Joint Council 7
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Action Council
- Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California (UUJM)
- Unitarian Universalist Refugee and Immigrant Services and Education (UURISE)
- Vida Consortium
- Vision y Compromiso
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CIPC members will demonstrate the power of immigrant communities to elected officials through our shared statewide advocacy efforts.
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Members will have access to a members-only page on the CIPC website that tracks a list of legislation pertinent to immigrant communities, including pro- and anti-immigrant measures. The legislative tracking page will house links to fact sheets, sample letters of support, and bill statuses in a timely manner.
Biweekly Legislative & Advocacy Updates
Members will receive biweekly email updates that include advocacy alerts, legislative updates, and other general announcements within the immigrant rights movement in California.
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In 2013, CIPC provided discounted registration to regional trainings in Oakland and Los Angeles. Similar discounts and events will be provided in 2014. Where feasible CIPC will also hold special events for members. In 2012 CIPC held a wine & cheese reception for members following the Statewide Immigrant Advocacy & Organizing Conference.
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Georgetown Pro Bono Project
"Through the Pro Bono Project, I had the opportunity to work with an attorney representing a DC neighborhood seeking an injunction to keep a historic landmark from becoming a bus depot. Even as a 1L, I found that I could make a real difference, providing needed research to support the attorney's work in the courtroom. I had a great opportunity to watch a talented professional in action with people who cared deeply watching on. The neighborhood got their injunction - observing real justice done by our legal system is worth leaving the classroom to see."
- Christopher Peterson, Class of 2015
The Georgetown Pro Bono Project is designed to provide Georgetown Law students, including 1Ls, with opportunities to to engage in hands-on, law-related volunteer work. The Project matches students with pro bono placements at area nonprofits and legal service providers where they assist with a wide variety of tasks, including: performing intakes and interviewing clients, investigating cases, filing court pleadings, accompanying clients to court, performing legal or policy research, evaluating court proceedings, among other tasks. Projects range in time commitment from around 5 hours per week to 5 hours over the course of the semester, and are designed to accommodate busy student schedules. Participating in the Georgetown Pro Bono Project is a great way to give back to the DC community, gain practical experience, build professional connections, keep up your language skills, and accumulate hours towards the Pro Bono Pledge.
The organizations that participate primarily provide legal services to low-income individuals living in DC or the surrounding metropolitan area. For a list of the organizations looking for volunteers this spring, click on the following link: Spring 2015 Pro Bono Service Project Employers. Some of the practice areas represented include:
Child Abuse & Neglect
Criminal or Juvenile Justice
Poverty Law
Disability Rights
Domestic Violence
Civil Rights
Elder Law & Probate
Labor & Employment
Family Law
Housing and Homelessness
Tax Law
To Participate: to participate in a project this fall, please sign up and indicate which project(s) you are most interested in here: http://apps.law.georgetown.edu/forms/index.cfm?formid=1025.
Please complete and submit this form by Friday, January 16th, 2015. Final placements will be emailed to you by Wednesday, January 21st. We will do our best to match as many interested students as possible and to pair you with one of your top choices.
Feel free to stop by Room 212 anytime to speak with the Pro Bono Coordinator about the Georgetown Pro Bono Project or other pro bono-related questions.


text: Krista Kelley Walsh Adjunct Instructor of Studio Arts (Drawing) Biography Krista Kelley Walsh teaches introduction to drawing at Hamline University in the Department Of Studio Arts and Art History. She a multidisciplinary visual artist which includes studio work, collaboration, performance, and public art. She has an extensive background in teaching, exhibition, and community arts advocacy. She has received numerous grants including the Jerome Foundation and Minnesota State Arts Board. She has a 30 year exhibition history, most recently Artists on the Verge at the Weisman Museum of Art, MN. She was recently commissioned to create work for the Community Arts CSA program by Springboard for the Arts and MN Artist. Walsh holds a BA in art from the College of St. Catherine and MFA from the University of Minnesota. TEACHING STYLE Professor Walsh teaches an introductory level drawing class that includes numerous observational strategies: gesture, contour organizational line, negative shape, structural analysis, cross contour, planar analysis, value, and spatial perception. Along with a foundation of observation the class examines drawing as expression and communication by addressing materials, line quality, composition, the study of master artists, experimental drawing, and content development in a series. Students produce a full portfolio of quality drawings and a personalized sketchbook.Professor Walsh is passionately interested in how observational drawing introduces specific cognitive skills that will enhance academic achievement. "Drawing in my beginning class is a verb, never a noun. You only learn to draw by doing it." -Krista Kelley Walsh


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