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Archive for February 9th, 2012
Outsourcing iSoul To China!
iEmpire: Apple's Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think By Arun Gupta
Behind the sleek face of the iPad is an ugly backstory that has revealed once more the horrors of globalization. The buzz about Apple's sordid business practices is courtesy of the New York Times series on the "iEconomy. In some ways it's well reported but adds little new to what critics of the Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, have been saying for years. The series' biggest impact may be discomfiting Apple fanatics who as they read the articles realize that the iPad they are holding is assembled from child labor, toxic shop floors, involuntary overtime, suicidal working conditions, and preventable accidents that kill and maim workers.
It turns out the story is much worse. Researchers with the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) say that legions of vocational and university students, some as young as 16, are forced to take months'-long "internships" in Foxconn's mainland China factories assembling Apple products. The details of the internship program paint a far more disturbing picture than the Times does of how Foxconn, "the Chinese hell factory," treats its workers, relying on public humiliation, military discipline, forced labor and physical abuse as management tools to hold down costs and extract maximum profits for Apple.
To supply enough employees for Foxconn, the 60th largest corporation globally, government officials are serving as lead recruiters at the cost of pushing teenage students into harsh work environments. The scale is astonishing with the Henan provincial government having announced in both 2010 and 2011 that it would send 100,000 vocational and university students to work at Foxconn, according to SACOM.
Ross Perlin, author of Intern Nation, told AlterNet that "Foxconn is conspiring with government officials and universities in China to run what may be the world's single largest internship program – and one of the most exploitative. Students at vocational schools – including those whose studies have nothing to do with consumer electronics – are literally forced to move far from home to work for Foxconn, threatened that otherwise they won't be allowed to graduate. Assembling our iPhones and Kindles for meager wages, they work under the same conditions, or worse, as other workers in the Foxconn sweatshops."
The state involvement shows Foxconn and Apple depend on tax breaks, repression of labor, subsidies and Chinese government aid, including housing, infrastructure, transportation and recruitment, to fatten their corporate treasuries. As the students function as seasonal employees to meet increased demand for new product rollouts, Apple is directly dependent on forced labor.
The real story of the Apple-Foxconn behemoth, then, is far from being John Galt incarnate. Their global dominance is forged in the crucible of China's state-managed authoritarian capitalism. Since the 1980s China has starved rural areas to accelerate the industrialization of coastal cities like Shenzhen, where Foxconn first set up shop in 1988. Scholars who study China's economy and labor market link rural underdevelopment to the creation of a massive migrant work force that serves as the foundation of the country's industrialization. Deprived of many rights, migrants are recruited to work in Foxconn's city-sized complexes by government employees with false promises of good-paying jobs that will help them escape rural poverty. A large percentage of migrant workers are student interns as they are recruited from poor rural regions like Henan and sent to work in coastal metropolises like Shenzhen.
Apple's formula for mammoth profits, which topped $13 billion last quarter, starts with a highly flexible workforce. Foxconn wields military-style discipline to turn workers into flesh-and-blood robots who can fulfill exacting specifications and orders for new and constantly updated product lines, such as five generations of iPhones in four years. Workers are driven to crank out more computers in less time at lower costs because they are disposable. Of 420,000 employees at "Foxconn City" in Shenzhen, which abuts Hong Kong, half had less than six months service. The inevitable and systematic abuses crush the dreams of young rural migrants, argue scholars, making the suicides a logical outgrowth of the iEconomy as much as the iPad. Simply put, nothing will change unless Apple and Foxconn are forced to because their empires are built on these practices. (Foxconn denies everything.)
Speaking by Skype from SACOM's office in Hong Kong, Debby Chan Sze-wan says that in Henan province alone more than 100 vocational schools and 14 universities supply students to Foxconn. "Vocational students are required to do internships. Many student workers are as young as 16. They have to work the same positions as other workers, including working on the night shift." (One worker spoke to SACOM about irregular shifts, lamenting, "day and night shifts are sometimes changed two to three times a month. The change of shift is unbearable. It is difficult to adjust our body clock.") In June 2010, Foxconn signed an agreement with an additional 119 vocational schools in the southwest municipality of Chongqing to supply student workers.
SACOM and others report that schools teaching journalism, hotel management and nursing threatened students with failure if they did not take a factory position. The Chinese government-owned Global Times noted that "automotive majors at a vocational school in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, were also forced to serve as interns for Foxconn before they were given their diplomas."
One study found in some Foxconn factories, which employ 1.3 million people in China, up to 50 percent of the workforce were students. Foxconn probably prefers it that way because it does not have to sign contracts with the students. Chan says this frees the company from having to pay into social welfare insurance that covers unemployment, healthcare, pensions, disability and maternity leave. In 2010, noted SACOM, "Foxconn ceased to recruit new workers in Shenzhen. Instead, a high number of vacancies were filled by tens of thousands of student interns."
Not just students are shipped off to Foxconn, says Chan, "teachers have to come to manage them in the factories." SACOM found that near one facility nearly all the rooms in a seven-story hotel had been rented by vocational teachers accompanying students. Government authorities apparently charge teachers with recruiting students and tech colleges have quotas for interns to be sent to Foxconn, according to a student paper from China Europe International Business School.
SACOM notes, "It is believed that Foxconn alone cannot mobilize such a high number of students." Another account states, "Many high schools in Zhengzhou are required by local authorities to make arrangements for their students to intern at Foxconn factories in Shenzhen."
There appears to be a simple reason why many vocational schools eagerly force their students to take hazardous industrial jobs: greed. Evidence comes from another Apple supplier in China, Wintek, where students seem to have it worse than Foxconn. Wintek gained notoriety for making workers use n-hexane, a toxic compound, to clean iPhone touchscreens because it evaporated much faster than rubbing alcohol, enabling workers to increase their output. In 2010 interns told SACOM there were 500 students at the plant who worked 11 hours a day, seven days a week with a maximum salary of 500 yuan, less than $80 a month. According to the report, "Wintek pays the students' salaries in accordance with law, but the lion's share goes to the schools directly." Over the course of a year, 500 students could net a school more than a million U.S. dollars in income.
The China Labor Bulletin found schools stealing wages to be common: "The key issue in forced internships appears to be the entrenched relationship between schools and businesses, a relationship actively encouraged by the Chinese government." They added that "it was not unusual for schools to deduct a 'commission' from the interns' salary or get paid directly by factories for providing cheap labor," despite the illegality of the practice. As for redress for abuses, "students have little or no legal recourse when they are cheated out of their pay or forced to work long hours in hazardous conditions."
In other cases, the state education bureau will withhold funds reserved for vocational schools if they fail to meet quotas for interns.
Corporate Socialism
The use of hundreds of thousands of students is one way in which China's state regulates labor in the interests of Foxconn and Apple. Other measures include banning independent unions and enforcing a household registration system that denies migrants social services and many political rights once they leave their home region, ensuring they can be easily exploited. In Shenzhen about 85 percent of the 14 million residents are migrants. Migrants work on average 286 hours a month and earn less than 60 percent of what urban workers make. Half of migrants are owed back wages and only one in 10 has health insurance. They are socially marginalized, live in extremely crowded and unsanitary conditions, perform the most dangerous and deadly jobs, and are more vulnerable to crime. Finally, the state rigorously enforces the registration system, often packing migrants back to the countryside if they lack the proper documents. It's the very picture of the Foxconn workforce.
But that is just the beginning of state subsidies. China's growth model over the last 30 years is based on "heavily intervening" in the process of economic development while retreating from "the social and civic sphere by providing social and labor protections," according to scholars Ngai Pun and Jenny Chan. Foxconn is taking advantage of the latest phase, known as the "Go West" strategy, which is enabled by the government's "massive investment in interior infrastructure including airports, highways, power grids and high-speed rail."
Outright plunder is sometimes the tactic, and government officials are notorious for grabbing collectively held lands in China to benefit themselves and well-connected corporations. Debby Chan claims some of Foxconn's new facilities have been a result of such land confiscations. (As elsewhere, privatizing the commons in China also serves the goal of turning rural peasants into industrial laborers.)
A SACOM video features Foxconn boasting that the building of its Chengdu Technology Park in Sichuan Province "had strong government support at the state, provincial, city and local levels." For the facility, which will be able to spit out 40 million iPads annually on 50 production lines, the local government "increased cargo flights to Hong Kong and set aside the biggest block of land in its tariff-free zone for the company to help cut costs." SACOM's video also showed packed public buses being used as Foxconn's transport fleet, and workers' housing that was supposed to be "resettlement housing for rural farmers."
In Foxconn's Zhengzhou complex that manufactures iPhones, the government "fast-tracked approval for the factory in 16 days, including clearances for fiscal subsidies and preferential corporate income tax rates." The government provided the land to Foxconn as well as renting it a renovated factory and rooms for 100,000 workers. The city is also talking of spending more than $4 billion to expand the airport so it can accommodate more cargo flights.
In Chongqing "employment promotion officials granted Foxconn a discounted corporate income tax rate of 15 percent" and lengthened an airport runway by 400 meters "to meet increasing transportation and logistical needs." For Taiwan's computer industry, Chongqing offers "direct charter flights, entry permits for Taiwanese citizens upon arrival, cross-border Chinese Yuan's trade settlement services, 10-year subsidies on income taxes, export tax rebates and export custom declaration services."
The New York Times feature on China's role in Apple's empire touched upon this, explaining how government subsidies enabled a glass-cutting factory to have engineers, workers, glass samples and a whole manufacturing wing on standby to service Apple's possible needs.
Wages of Misery
The justification for soup-to-nuts state funding of corporations is they provide jobs and a rising standard of living. That's not the case with Foxconn. The high turnover – less than 5 percent of Shenzhen's workforce has five years or more seniority – and consistent worker accounts of being misled about wages as recruits and shorted on earned overtime pay once in the factory point to how Foxconn squeezes workers for profit. That, in turn, is the result of Apple's strategy of squeezing suppliers. One executive who's worked with Apple told the New York Times, "The only way you make money working for Apple is figuring out how to do things more efficiently or cheaper. … And then they'll come back the next year, and force a 10 percent price cut." While Apple's profit margin tops a rarified 30 percent, Foxconn ekes out a puny 1.5 percent. (Though don't cry for owner Terry Gou, who has to make do with $5.7 billion.) In the case of an iPad, labor costs in China amount to 2 percent of the final retail cost.
Despite headlining one article, "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad," the Times highlighted environmental hazards and overtime, glossing over wages, working conditions and abusive supervision. (Even then the Times barely scratched the surface of how Foxconn and other Apple subcontractors have trashed the environment and poisoned workers as documented in these studies.)
SACOM found that after the spate of suicides in 2010 compelled Foxconn to raise wages (which weren't really raises because housing and food subsidies were cut), the pay of frontline workers ranged from 50 to 61 percent of the minimum living wage depending on the city. To make a sufficient wage, workers must take on overtime shifts. But if they decline even one overtime shift they get iced out for the entire month. One student worker in Chengdu summed up the dilemma, "If there is no overtime at all, I will only receive the basic salary. Hence, I have no choice."
This is backed up by an eye-opening paper published in 2010 by Pun and Chang, titled, "Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: Foxconn, Global Capital, and the State." The two academics found that for migrant workers in Shenzhen their average pay, even with overtime, was 47 percent of what city residents earned, and amounted to only two-thirds of the living wage calculated by SACOM.
Military-Style Management
To meet production goals Foxconn relies on "military-style management … on the shop floor." Workers say "military training" starts during the recruitment phase, such as being forced to stand in the sun for hours with no water. In Chengdu, some workers claimed that for up to one month before work began they had to line up in formation and "stand still as a soldier for hours." Even the China Daily reported that the state-controlled Shenzhen Federation of Trade Unions said Foxconn has a "quasi-military management system." According to scholars as well as business publications, Taiwanese managers in China refer to their management style as militaristic.
The workers believe the goal is "to indoctrinate the idea of absolute obedience." This reflects Foxconn founder Terry Gou's principles that a leader must be "a dictator for the common good," and "a harsh environment is a good thing." One SACOM report stated, "New workers are always reminded by the management that they should obey all the instructions of the superiors without question." Another apparent goal is to train the workers to stand all day. One female worker in Shenzhen said, "We have to stand all day long. Even worse, we have to stand like a soldier. I am totally exhausted after non-stop work."
The absolute power inevitably leads to abuses. In another paper Pun and Chang cite a study by the independent Foxconn Research Group in 2010, involving interviews of 1,736 employees in 12 separate factory areas and 14 investigators who took one-month positions in the company. It found that 38 percent of employees had their privacy violated and 16.4 percent – one in six workers – were "subjected to corporal punishment by management and security personnel," according to Ross Perlin (who is fluent in Chinese and translated parts of the study at my request). Twenty-eight percent of workers said they were abused or insulted. "Public humiliation and confession … is a frequently used management method," write Pun and Chang. "Line leaders, who are also under pressure, tend to treat workers in a harsh way to reach the productivity targets."
Pun and Chang conclude, "Foxconn employees experience long hours of repetitive work for very low income. They submit to management scrutiny on the job, and their low income and limited free time restricts their options outside of work. Many young men and women workers rarely stop working except to eat and sleep, simply to make ends meet. The result is a community of people under intense stress with few resources, a situation conducive to depression."
In May 2010, the same month six Foxconn workers died after hurling themselves out of buildings, a letter issued by Pun and eight other mainland Chinese and Hong Kong academics connected the dots between state policies, global capitalsim and the effects on the workforce. The writers maintained that because young migrant workers never think of "going back to farming like their parents … they see no other option when they enter the city to work. The moment they see there is little possibility of building a home in the city through hard work, the very meaning of their work collapses. The path ahead is blocked, and the road to retreat is closed. Trapped in this situation, the new generation of migrant workers faces a serious identity crisis and, in effect, this magnifies psychological and emotional problems."
For some, the way out is suicide, writes UCLA professor Russell Leong: "It's my belief that workers internalized their oppressive conditions because they could not find ways to resolve the oppressive 'relations of production' – treated as part of the machinery of the production assembly line they became demoralized, dehumanized, and finally, desperate. So their only option was a very human one: to throw away or destroy their own bodies as a gesture of frustration – and of defiance."
As much as Foxconn and Apple laud their audits, their devotion to the law and their ethics (Steve Jobs emailed an Apple user critical of the suicides, "We do more than any other company on the planet"), the companies ascended to the top on a heap of bodies. They are hardly unique, and that's the problem.
As far as labor practices goes, Foxconn is no different than its rivals, and it's impossible to escape. It assembles electronics for everyone including the iPad's rival, the Kindle, and the Acer computer I'm writing this on. All that matters is that Wall Street is happy because Apple has more cash on hand than the U.S. Treasury.
Apple and consumers alike could easily pay more as labor accounts for only 7 percent of costs. Tripling wages and benefits might add $100 to an iPad. But that would set a bad example. Apple's profits might decline a notch and Wall Street would dump its stock. Consumers would still have their toys but might buy fewer smart phones, tablets, iPods, Xboxes, laptops, desktops and other digital sundries.
Giving Foxconn workers a job with a living wage instead of one that cripples them by their mid-20s would pressure other Chinese companies to do the same. And then more demands would be made: Why can't the factories stop poisoning waters, lands and workers, fouling the air and frying the planet?
It's not that we can't have advanced technology, a healthy society and a green economy. We just can't have it with the Foxconns and Apples of the world, where dictatorial billionaires make closed-door calculations based on market share, revenue and profit at the expense of everyone, and everything else.
So don't expect anything to change in Apple and Foxconn's hell factories, unless workers in China (and wherever else Foxconn goes next) rise up and make it change. In the meantime, enjoy your iWorld.
© 2012, agentleman.
No Justice In Hati…
Impunity in Port-au-Prince By AMY WILENTZ
IT has been painful to watch as Jean-Claude Duvalier, who inherited the brutal dictatorship that once ruled Haiti, swanks around the hot spots of Port-au-Prince, flanked by the dregs of his regime — including former members of the dreaded secret police, the Tontons Macoute — as if he were just another member of the capital's thoughtless, partying elite.
Since his return in 2011 from a 25-year exile, Mr. Duvalier — Baby Doc — has managed to insert himself into semi-polite society, even finagling a seat near the new president, Michel Martelly, at the memorial ceremony for the victims of the 2010 earthquake. The president has filled many positions in his government with former Duvalier officials and their relatives. In short, he is rehabilitating Mr. Duvalier — and along with him, the extrajudicial code he and his father, François Duvalier, governed by. Last month, Mr. Martelly proposed a blanket pardon of Baby Doc — who has been accused of corruption and human rights abuses — telling The Associated Press, "I do believe that we need that reconciliation in Haiti."
A day later, after a cry of indignation from Haitian and international groups, he claimed he had been misunderstood. But it turned out his pardon wasn't even necessary. On Jan. 30, the investigating judge on the case recommended that all human rights charges against Mr. Duvalier be dropped and that he be tried instead in a lesser court on charges of financial malfeasance. Amnesty International called the investigation "a sham."
It is the continuation of Haiti's tradition of impunity (the veiled meaning of "reconciliation") that has led directly to the convulsed, inconclusive and violent gyrations the country has made in its attempt to move toward democracy since the overthrow of Baby Doc. Haiti will not achieve real democracy if its justice system remains unwilling to condemn the crimes of the past, punish the perpetrators and make it clear that such abuses will not be tolerated in the future.
In nearly 30 years of power, the Duvalier regimes offered impunity for their operatives. The army and the Tontons Macoute committed gross violations of human rights, including arbitrary arrest, prolonged incarceration without trial, starvation and torture of political prisoners and the persecution and killings of their associates and families.
The violence persisted after Baby Doc fell. While he and his family fled to France aboard a United States cargo plane, crowds wielding rocks and machetes destroyed the homes of known Duvalierists and hunted down and killed dozens of Tontons Macoute.
They did this, a Haitian friend once explained to me, because they knew the courts could not or would not bring the Tontons Macoute to justice. These killings were mostly revenge murders — score settling — and no one in the crowds was jailed or prosecuted for them.
While the country was ostensibly laying the groundwork for democracy, known perpetrators of human rights abuses were only occasionally arrested. Most were promptly released; many escaped. Few have been brought to trial, and even fewer convicted.
In 1987, elections were aborted when a mob of former Tontons Macoute descended on a polling place and slaughtered 34 voters. More were killed in other polling places. It took nine years for Claude Raymond, the former head of Baby Doc's army and the suspected mastermind of those attacks — if one can use such a term — to be arrested. (In that time, he even presented himself as a candidate for president, though he was excluded from participating in the elections.) He was never tried and died in prison in 2000.
In 1991, Haiti's first fairly elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was ousted from office, and in 1994, at least 23 of his supporters were killed by paramilitary forces in Raboteau, a shantytown on the western coast. In 2000, after Mr. Aristide returned to power, 16 of the perpetrators were arrested and found guilty. But after he was overthrown and exiled for a second time, Haiti's supreme court overturned 15 of those convictions. Only one person connected to the attacks has been incarcerated; he was tried and convicted — of mortgage fraud — in New York. Another person tried in absentia had his Florida lottery winnings garnished and distributed to victims of the massacre.
Today, besides a few bright points — like the conviction last month of eight police officers for killing prisoners after the earthquake — impunity remains the country's fallback position. It has made a functioning justice system, and therefore democracy, impossible.
That's why Mr. Duvalier must be prosecuted for his crimes against humanity. If they are dismissed, it will send a cheering message to past and future perpetrators of similar abuses. If he is tried and convicted, those who have relied upon impunity will know that they, too, risk a turn in the dock.
The Haitian people want justice, and the international community must support them. Two days ago, on the 26th anniversary of the overthrow of Baby Doc, a small but vocal crowd of his regime's victims protested in front of the Palais de Justice. They painted the words "Aba impinite" — down with impunity — in blue spray paint on the court's white wall.
Amy Wilentz is the author of "The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier."
© 2012, agentleman.
Poverty Hurts Us All
The White Underclass By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Persistent poverty is America's great moral challenge, but it's far more than that.
As a practical matter, we can't solve educational problems, health care costs, government spending or economic competitiveness so long as a chunk of our population is locked in an underclass. Historically, "underclass" has often been considered to be a euphemism for race, but increasingly it includes elements of the white working class as well.
That's the backdrop for the uproar over Charles Murray's latest book, "Coming Apart." Murray critically examines family breakdown among working-class whites and the decline in what he sees as traditional values of diligence.
Liberals have mostly denounced the book, and I, too, disagree with important parts of it. But he's right to highlight social dimensions of the crisis among low-skilled white workers.
My touchstone is my beloved hometown of Yamhill, Ore., population about 925 on a good day. We Americans think of our rural American heartland as a lovely pastoral backdrop, but these days some marginally employed white families in places like Yamhill seem to be replicating the pathologies that have devastated many African-American families over the last generation or two.
One scourge has been drug abuse. In rural America, it's not heroin but methamphetamine; it has shattered lives in Yamhill and left many with criminal records that make it harder to find good jobs. With parents in jail, kids are raised on the fly.
Then there's the eclipse of traditional family patterns. Among white American women with only a high school education, 44 percent of births are out of wedlock, up from 6 percent in 1970, according to Murray.
Liberals sometimes feel that it is narrow-minded to favor traditional marriage. Over time, my reporting on poverty has led me to disagree: Solid marriages have a huge beneficial impact on the lives of the poor (more so than in the lives of the middle class, who have more cushion when things go wrong).
One study of low-income delinquent young men in Boston found that one of the factors that had the greatest impact in turning them away from crime was marrying women they cared about. As Steven Pinker notes in his recent book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature": "The idea that young men are civilized by women and marriage may seem as corny as Kansas in August, but it has become a commonplace of modern criminology."
Jobs are also critical as a pathway out of poverty, and Murray is correct in noting that it is troubling that growing numbers of working-class men drop out of the labor force. The proportion of men of prime working age with only a high school education who say they are "out of the labor force" has quadrupled since 1968, to 12 percent.
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan released a famous report warning of a crisis in African-American family structures, and many liberals at the time accused him of something close to racism. In retrospect, Moynihan was right to sound the alarms.
Today, I fear we're facing a crisis in which a chunk of working-class America risks being calcified into an underclass, marked by drugs, despair, family decline, high incarceration rates and a diminishing role of jobs and education as escalators of upward mobility. We need a national conversation about these dimensions of poverty, and maybe Murray can help trigger it. I fear that liberals are too quick to think of inequality as basically about taxes. Yes, our tax system is a disgrace, but poverty is so much deeper and more complex than that.
Where Murray is profoundly wrong, I think, is to blame liberal social policies for the pathologies he examines. Yes, I've seen disability programs encourage some people to drop out of the labor force. But there were far greater forces at work, such as the decline in good union jobs.
Eighty percent of the people in my high school cohort dropped out or didn't pursue college because it used to be possible to earn a solid living at the steel mill, the glove factory or sawmill. That's what their parents had done. But the glove factory closed, working-class jobs collapsed and unskilled laborers found themselves competing with immigrants.
There aren't ideal solutions, but some evidence suggests that we need more social policy, not less. Early childhood education can support kids being raised by struggling single parents. Treating drug offenders is far cheaper than incarcerating them.
A new study finds that a jobs program for newly released prison inmates left them 22 percent less likely to be convicted of another crime. This initiative, by the Center for Employment Opportunities, more than paid for itself: each $1 brought up to $3.85 in benefits.
So let's get real. A crisis is developing in the white working class, a byproduct of growingincome inequality in America. The pathologies are achingly real. But the solution isn't finger-wagging, or averting our eyes — but opportunity.
© 2012, agentleman.


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Football Assistant Coaches and Player Quotes
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - WVU assistant coaches and players spoke with members of the media Friday morning.
Junior Running Back Dreamius Smith
On his ability to block
That's just something that I wanted to pick up and improve on. My junior college coaches stressed that a lot, so I knew I had to bring that here and show that not only can I run the ball, but I can help out blocking, too. I'm still working on it, and it can always improve.
On how important blocking is in this offense
Blocking is one of the things coach Holgorsen and (running backs) coach (JaJuan) Seider stress most here. They all know we can run the ball, but they want to see what we can do when the ball's not in our hands. If we just show we can block, it will do nothing but help in the long run.
On how often he is being used out of the backfield
Every time and then, I'll swing out and do a couple routes. It just depends on what the play call is. Every back that we have can do that. The ones who get in will get a chance to do that.
On his strengths
I would say my vision and just lowering my shoulder to get those extra, tough yards. I can always break a long run, but I'd say my strength is fighting in between the tackles and getting those tough yards.
Redshirt-sophomore wide receiver Cody Clay
On his health
I had a little problem with my hamstring, but everything is fine.
On how much he has seen his position evolve
We started off doing just fullback stuff, then we moved to tight end stuff. Now, they have us doing a lot of tempo stuff, where we'll go from fullback, to tight end, to wide receiver in three plays. It was actually good that I was out for a few days so (sophomore) Garrett (Hope) and (freshman) Ellijah (Wellman) could really figure all that stuff out and I could sit back and coach them a little bit.
On what he has seen from the backups at his position
They're both just really tough guys. And they're going to have a little bit of trouble with the receiver stuff, because neither of them had really done that. That's what I came here to do. They're both in the fullback position and the tight end position and are going to be really helpful for us.
On being able to play different positions to stay on the field during up-tempo times
It's tough for defenses to adjust to that – with me going from fullback to tight end to receiver. It's hard for them to match that up well because they have different packages that they have to adjust to what we're doing.
Redshirt sophomore Linebacker Isaiah Bruce
On his position in the defense
They have had me all over. I have mostly been playing on the outside and just a little bit on the inside. This is just exploratory at this point and seeing where everyone can fit on the line. If they feel like it will help the team, it may become permanent. If not, then I will play more middle. If you know the middle you should know the outside as well because the same principles apply for our type of defense. It really should not be about depth. Everyone should know everything.
On playing on the outside
I like it. I get to rush a little bit more. I haven't rushed off the edge since 10th grade. It is a little bit more fun right now, even if we are in camp. I am just taking it all in. There is less traffic on the outside and so much in space. I feel sometimes I am just away from everything, but I need to be a little bit more patient. There is less traffic and you do not see everything in front of you, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I definitely have gotten a lot better at being patient and slowing down, waiting for the play to come to me instead of chasing it down. If the ball is going away, I need to stay and be patient because there is always a chance of cutting back, and if he cuts back, that is my play. I need to make sure I do my part, my one-eleventh, to make sure we have a successful play.
Redshirt-senior defensive lineman Will Clarke
On redshirt-senior Shaq Rowell and the defensive line's depth
I like how he (Rowell) clogs that hole and makes running backs bounce out to (sophomore defensive lineman) Eric (Kinsey) or myself. I am very confident in our depth. It allows us guys that start to get more of a break and everyone to catch their breath. We will be fresh when we come on the field. We have been critical in film and (have) been using self-motivation and group motivational techniques on the defensive line to develop the younger players.
On his final camp
I am excited that camp has finally ended, and I am ready to play. It will be my last one, but it is camp so I won't miss it too much.
On entering the Big 12 and perception this season
The Big 12 throws the ball a lot, which gives opportunity to get a good pass rush on a lot of teams. This league is a defensive end's dream I guess you could say.
Defensive Coordinator Keith Patterson
On discipline during the game
I believe that you have to strain people. They have to surrender to your way of doing things and conform to what we're trying to accomplish as a whole.
I think sometimes players can have the right intentions and play outside the framework of the defense. I believe that you have to strain people to get them to become disciplined. The picture for our players is that a diamond doesn't become a diamond without intense heat and pressure. Maybe the politically correct way to put it is that we apply a lot of heat and pressure on our players and our coaches to try to get them uncomfortable and maintain that discipline when the bullets start flying on the field. When you come to that adversity you have to focus and concentrate on the big picture, which is your assignments and responsibilities.
I think we are instilling confidence. We're tough on the kids. We strain them and have very high expectations on the field in the mental and physical aspect. What people don't see is that we have a genuine caring attitude toward our players in the locker rooms and in the meeting rooms. We tell our players not to mistake that loving and caring attitude as softness either. Our kids know we love them and care about them, but on the same end it's tough love.
On two deep and player substitutions
This is a game about matchups and it's become more so that way. You have to defend from sideline to sideline and from goal line to goal line. You can't do that by just putting this group of people on the field and letting them go. You can't allow the offense to create mismatches. And that's when the personnel and substitution patterns come in place.
On aggressive coaching style
I try to create chaos on the sidelines during practice. The way I see it, if I can create that environment and players can still concentrate and carry out their assignment and know what their responsibilities are, then the game is going to be easy. Then I'm the motivator. I will call the defense, encourage, and make adjustments. It's completely different. I don't coach games like I coach practice. I try to strain people and surrender them to doing things the way I want them to do it. If they'll do that, and they carry it out, we will become a unit.
On camp overall
At times we showed good things. At times we didn't look so good. That's what camp is for. It's a process. I told them yesterday that fall camp isn't over for me. It won't be over next week. Even though school is officially starting, to me, next week camp is still not over. We don't have an opponent. We can continue to progress as a defense. We can continue to focus on us. Camp isn't over for me.
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He's a little more conservative than me, at least at this point in his life. There was a time when we were probably the same when it came to attacking and throwing the football. I threw the football 89 times one game. But what I didn't do is make the defense play honest. They knew when they went into a game that I was going to throw it. I wasn't going to make you consistently stop the run. What we've done is learned to understand that what matters is who wins the game. He's kind of put my ego to the side a little bit. That doesn't mean we can't go a ton of yards. It's an evolution of the offense that occurred, and I'll give him the credit for that because it definitely wasn't me.
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Rnd 1: With yellow, ch 4, join w sl st in 1st ch to form ring, ch 3, 11 dc in ring, join w sl st in top of ch 3 (12 dc).
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Hidden inside the sinners pit of the antique library are cursed tomes, heretical books, treatises on witchcraft and black magic, and precious volumes of Kabbalah, all of them written in strange and lost languages. Each book has been placed precisely in the pit, positioned according to exacting rituals; their function - to prevent chaos from emerging from the pit. The Keeper is entrusted to stop the souls of the damned from escaping - something they attempt continuously - by touring the labyrinth and keeping the power contained in the books strong enough
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SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS is the seal that keeps the souls of the damned from flowing away...
But the power of the old Keeper is waning, and the sinners pit has felt this, using the breath of the damned to slowly shift the volumes which compose the Sator across the labyrinth in order to open a passage for their souls into our world.
Thus, the four Acolytes of the Keeper have been entrusted to recover the holy books that have been moved across the labyrinth. Each volume contains a key which lets one understand some of the arcane words of the 'Sator' and thereby regain control of the labyrinth. The Acolyte who first recovers the four holy books that the Keeper has asked him to find will be able to access the Sator and become the new Keeper.
Each player represents an Acolyte and tries to be the first to recover the four books that the Keeper has entrusted to him (the four books in the color of his pawn).
The sinners pit is an intricate labyrinth of Footbridges and mobile walkways that can be moved by gears and pulleys. They can be turned and pushed in order to create a safe path over which the Acolyte may safely walk the abyss.
To move Footbridges, each Acolyte may read from the book Incertus Movet in Aere Sospeso, which is a kind of users manual explaining how to manipulate the walking passages to meet his needs. The more Footbridges the Acolyte moves during his turn, the farther he will be able to walk.
Whats more, he will be able to use the content of his own Liber Fidei, a set of prayers, thoughts and ascetic books, to perform apparently impossible actions (such as the manipulation of time and space) thanks to the power of his faith...
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The ``Sator Square'' is a four-time palindrome that dates back to 79 AD. The five words of the title, when written line by line, form a square that reads the same in all four directions. This construct has been ascribed religious or mystical powers at various points in history, but now is used to name an interestingly-themed maze race game. Each player tries to be the first to recover their four lost books from the ``abyss'', a 14 by 14 grid that functions as the game board. A series of walkways in six different configurations are initially laid out, but there are not enough walkways to cover the grid. Through the game, players shift and rotate bridge pieces on the grid, and slowly advance their Acolyte (playing piece) along the created paths to reach their four books.
The setup of the game is a bit more elaborate than most. The four books for each player are placed onto the grid using a special set of cards. These cards ensure a different setup for each game. Then the walkways are placed, and this process takes a few minutes as each player in turn lays one of the footbridges on the grid, placing a book on them if appropriate. The walkways will not be continuous but each book must end on a bridge. This set up defines the initial strategy and moves for each player, but through the game the walkways move enough that this strategy will need to evolve. Lastly the cards are dealt out, and there are two types of cards in the game. The common deck is called the ``Incertus Movet in Aere Sospeso'' deck, and these cards create the ability to move or rotate specific pathway pieces. In addition, each player gets their own set of eight ``Liber Fidei'' cards. These are a set of prayers that allow a player to do some powerful things with the maze, but they are used only one time each.
Each turn, a player gets six action points that can be allocated to card play. Before playing cards, a player can swap cards by spending one or two of their six points. Spending one means discarding two cards from the hand, and drawing one from either the common ``Incertus'' deck or one from the personal ``Liber'' deck. By spending two, two cards are still traded for one but the card selected can be chosen from the choice of deck. Swapping cards becomes useful later in the game when the ability to move a specific type of walkway becomes critical.
Playing cards requires action points. The Incertus deck has two types of cards - those that allow rotation, and those that allow movement. In either case, one of the four different walkway types is shown on the card and only that type can be moved or rotated by playing that card. Rotating a piece 90 degrees takes two action points, and rotating 180 degrees uses four points. Movement cards use points equal to the amount of movement; one point for one square, etc. The Liber cards have various uses and each action will take two to five action points. The obvious purpose in playing the cards is to set up the path to get the books. The subtle and clever use of the cards is that they determine how far your Acolyte will move. Each play of the Incertus cards generates one movement point for the Acolyte, while playing the Liber cards creates no pawn movement. This mechanism forces the bridge maze into constant movement, as players must move or rotate pieces in order to move their Acolyte to collect the books. It also means that players tend to work on the immediate next few steps each turn, rather than define a long-range path strategy that. Pick up one book before thinking too hard about how you'll get to the next one, as by that point the board will look quite different.
The Liber Fidei cards are inscribed with a lot of Latin and each is powerful. One lets you move an opponent's Acolyte, while another lets you place a Gargoyle. Once placed, the Gargoyle can only be removed when someone discards three cards from their hand for this purpose, and until then the walkway where the Gargoyle sits on cannot be moved or rotated, and no Acolyte can pass through it but must instead plan to travel around it. Other Liber cards let you make multiple move or rotations in a single play, move your Acolyte faster than normal or even jump over empty squares of the abyss onto a new footbridge. Once played, the Liber Fedei cards are placed face up so that everyone knows which powers are still available, as each player starts with the same set of eight cards. The trade-off for use of these powerful cards is that often they are the only card that can be played due to their action point requirement, and the Acolyte will not move unless that is part of the Liber card's power.
The game ends as soon as one player collects their fourth book. Collecting the books happens simply by moving the Acolyte to the space where the book stands. Players must not only ensure quick and efficient movement for their Acolyte, but also must keep pace with the success of the others or risk falling back. Every rotation or move of the walkways can help or hurt players, so it is very possible that your plans will be thwarted indirectly by someone else just doing what is right for them. Using the Liber cards when most effective and spending to swap cards rather than use what you have are both ways to get advantages. There is some luck in the card draws and even in the initial placement of the books; though the setup cards make each game different, there are certain combinations that simply require more land be covered for some of the players. The game does not suffer from this, though, but rather these help to increase the game's replayability.
The game works well with families as the ideas are straightforward and the actions are short-term in nature. The brooding religious theme, carried through in the colors, graphics, and extensive use of Latin on the cards (none of which is needed for the game play) gives the game a distinctive feel. Combined with a simple but effective set of mechanisms to move the bridge pieces, the game feels nicely original in a world with a lot of retread designs.
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The New York Islanders announced today that Mark Streit will be the new captain for the team. Streit becomes the thirteenth captain in the history of the organization. He also becomes the first Swiss-born captain of an NHL team.
Arthur Staple of Newsday was the first to report that the Islanders would most likely name Streit captain, before the team made it official in a press conference this afternoon.
The Islanders captaincy was left vacant when Doug Weight retired early this summer. There was a lot of wonder over who would become the next captain. It seemed that the three nominees were Streit, Kyle Okposo and John Tavares.
It has been said by many people close to the team that Streit is well respected amongst his peers and has great leadership skills.
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Jean Monnet Student Research Paper Prize for EU Law
The Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) and its affiliated Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Law are pleased to announce the 2015 Jean Monnet Student Research Paper Prize for European Union Law. In an effort to further expand Stanford's EU law research activities, this student writing competition recognizes excellence in student scholarship in EU law at Stanford.
The Jean Monnet Research Prize includes a cash prize of $1,500 for the best student research paper. The top paper will be published in the TTLF's European Union Law Working Paper Series. Other excellent papers may also be given an opportunity to be published in this working paper series.
The competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, who are enrolled at Stanford University in the 2014-2015 academic year and write an EU law-related research paper during this academic year. The EU law topic of the research paper may be freely chosen. Interdisciplinary papers with a substantial legal focus are welcome. Papers written for any purpose are eligible.
Submitted papers must be in Word format (double spaced) and in English. Paper submissions should include a one-page abstract of the paper, a brief resume of the student (indicating the current program affiliation at Stanford), and a statement that the paper was written during the academic year 2014-2015. Students should also provide evidence that they have been enrolled at Stanford in the academic year 2014-2015.
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It's been amazing seeing all of the projects come to life with their amazing style! So since you are probably here to get the full instructions on how to make your own lip balm, let's cut to the chase! Here you go!
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Natural Lip Balm recipe and video
It's been amazing seeing all of the projects come to life with their amazing style! So since you are probably here to get the full instructions on how to make your own lip balm, let's cut to the chase! Here you go!
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- Lori at The Nova Studio said...
Ooo, this recipe sounds lovely! I'm so sad that this is the last video :( But I am also happy that we finally got to see your pretty face in one of them ;) Great work, Debbie!
- November 20, 2012 at 11:57 AM
- Anne-Marie said...
Great video (and recipe), Debbie! I've really enjoyed watching all of your videos and seeing the great projects you've put together. :)
- November 26, 2012 at 1:18 PM
- Debbie Chialtas said...
Thanks Lori and Anne-Marie!! I was so lucky to work with Robert Mahar at Kin Community. He was my first wholesale customer ever, became my crafty friend, and eventually became the producer for Kin Community. It's neat how connections can work out (he wrote the introduction to my book, The Art of Soap, too!). It's a small world!
- November 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Can this be put into tubes, also?
- December 2, 2012 at 12:20 AM
- Debbie Chialtas said...
Hi Heather! This recipe is pretty soft. I would increase the beeswax if you want to use tubes.
- December 3, 2012 at 9:44 AM
- breemoix said...
Hi debbie, is there a way to flavor it? esp vanilla or flavoring? and what bout food coloring or some way to dye it a color?
- December 5, 2012 at 11:29 PM
- Debbie Chialtas said...
Hi Breemoix,
Since it has honey it's already sweet which you may like as is. You can find flavor oils online in many flavors, and you can color it with lip-safe micas, but food coloring might not incorporate since this is an oil based recipe. If you search online for lip balm recipes you will find many variations. Have fun!
- December 6, 2012 at 9:25 AM
- Courtney Viqueira said...
Hey there, I tried this out (with a double batch for Christmas presents, and I had a really hard time getting the honey to incorporate. I can't tell how long it should take to fully mix it... do you have any tips/hints?
- December 24, 2012 at 7:47 PM
- Debbie Chialtas said...
Hi Courtney - I looked up problems with incorporating honey and found this tip:
Do not add honey prior to melting your oils. The honey will burn. If your honey burns, it will not incorporate into your oils.
It's probably too late since you were making it for Xmas presents, but maybe it will help in the future!
- December 26, 2012 at 2:21 PM
hi, i wanted to know if like i wanted to add a strawberry flavouring to the recipe, do i still have to add the coconut oil and sweet almond oil?
- February 20, 2013 at 3:29 AM
- Debbie Chialtas said...
Hi Michelle! You would just add a few drops of flavor oil to the recipe. Don't reduce the other oils.
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Bridge 99 Brewery, Bend's newest
About two weeks ago I got a chance to meet the owner and sample the beers of Bend, Oregon's brand-spanking-newest brewery, Bridge 99 Brewery—Central Oregon's 22nd brewery. Beer writer Brian Yaeger was in town, doing a final sweep of breweries for his forthcoming guidebook, and we joined him to meet with owner/brewer Trever Hawman and his wife Angel at Wubba's BBQ Shack for a couple of hours one evening. Their beers are currently only on … Continue reading →


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Spurs win Game 5 and Danny Green continues to light it up!
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Strike Zone at 7:16 pm.
Aaron Portzline at 7:30 pm.
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Brislington and Hotwells women jailed over £48,000 heroin find
Posted: April 17, 2014|
POLICE managed to stop a kilo of heroin from hitting Bristol streets but just missed a similar delivery the previous day. Bristol Crown Court heard the net closed in on three people involved in bringing the drug down from the Manchester area.
Though a £48,000 batch was confiscated, a similar consignment was thought to have made it through.
Three people pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply a Class A drug in January.
They were mum-of-two Anji Williams, 31, of Sutton Road, Brislington; Gary Perkins, 34, of Highview Walk, Manchester; and Jacqueline Clark, 55, of Napier Court, Hotwells.
Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC was told Williams co-ordinated the delivery while Perkins and Clark took lesser roles.
The judge jailed Williams for six years, Perkins for four years and four months and Clark for two years and six months.
He said: "This was a substantial conspiracy involving the delivery of heroin from the Manchester area to Bristol on January 29.
"Around one kilo was seized by the police.
"I have no doubt a similar amount was successfully delivered on the previous day, a significant amount of heroin that no doubt found its way onto the streets of Bristol."
Mark Hollier, prosecuting, said an intelligence-led police operation focused on the sale of heroin from Manchester and Liverpool to Bristol.
He said suspects were put under surveillance, and it emerged Williams co-ordinated a delivery by Perkins to Clark in Bristol.
Telephone communication provided more evidence, the court heard, and in due course Perkins was arrested with £17,500 cash after delivering a kilo of heroin.
Robert Duval, defending Williams, conceded his client had a significant role.
He said: "She was working for a third party. It is completely impossible for her to disclose details of that. She was selected because of her provenance."
Mr Duval said his client's partner was well known in Bristol's criminal fraternity and had just been released from a six year jail term for supplying drugs.
Catherine Spedding, defending Perkins, said her client was a family man who borrowed money in desperation from a "loan shark" and was put under pressure to be involved in the conspiracy in an attempt to re-pay his loan.
Timothy Rose, defending Clark, said his client was the grandmother of Williams' children and she had no knowledge of what was being delivered, though accepted it was drugs by her guilty plea.


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Al Di Meola is an acclaimed
jazz fusion and latin guitarist.
With a musical career that has
spanned more than three decades,
he has become respected as one of
the most influential guitarists
in jazz to date.
Al Di Meola - Official Website
Larry Carlton is a smooth jazz,
jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist.
He has divided his recording time
between solo recordings and session
appearances with various well-known bands.
Larry is one of the most influential
jazz guitarists of all time.
Larry Carlton - Official Website
John McLaughlin also known as
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a
guitarist, bandleader and composer.
His music includes jazz,indian classical music,
fusion,western classical music and flamenco.
In 2003 McLaughlin was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone
magazine list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
John is the one of the greatest and
one of the important musicians of our times.
John Mclaughlin - Official Website
Jeff Beck is a blues rock guitarist.
Much of Beck's recorded output has been instrumental,
with a focus on innovative sound and his releases
have spanned genres ranging from blues-rock,
heavy metal,jazz fusion and most recently
an additional blend of guitar-rock and electronica.
He was ranked 14th in Rolling Stone's list of
the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
and the magazine has described him as
one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock.
John Scofield is a jazz guitarist and composer,
who has played and collaborated
with many famous and well known jazz artists.
At ease in the bebop idiom,
Scofield is also well versed
in jazz fusion, funk,blues,
soul and other forms of modern music.
John is one of the most influential
guitarists in jazz fusion music.
John Scofield - Official Website
Pat Metheny is a jazz guitarist and composer.
One of the most successful and critically
acclaimed jazz musicians.
His style incorporates elements of
progressive and contemporary jazz,
post-bop,latin jazz and jazz fusion.
Pat is one of the most innovative and
best jazz guitarists of all time.
Pat Metheny - Official Website
Lee Ritenour is a jazz guitarist,
recording artist,composer and producer.
Ritenour is considered to be a pioneer
in the contemporary jazz genre of music.
He has appeared on over 3000 sessions,
recorded over 42 albums.
Ritenour has experimented with
different styles of music.
A true fusionist,he has often incorporated
elements of funk, pop, rock, blues,
world and classical music with jazz.
Lee Ritenour - Official Website
Carlos Santana is a fusion rock guitarist.
Santana became famous in the late 1960s and
early 1970s with his band, Santana,
which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion.
The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based
guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms
featuring percussion instruments such as timbales
and congas not generally heard in rock music.
Santana continued to work in these
forms over the following decades.
Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana
at number 15 on their list of the
100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Carlos Santana - Official Website
Robben Ford is one of the premier
electric guitarists today,
particularly known for his blues playing
as well as his ability to be comfortable
in a variety of musical contexts such as jazz.
He has played with various well-known artists.
Robben Ford - Official Website
Allan Holdsworth is a guitarist and composer.
He has released twelve studio albums as
a solo artist and played many different
styles of music over a period of four decades,
but first drew attention for his work in jazz fusion.
A player noted for his advanced knowledge of the
fretboard and innovative playing.
Allan Holdsworth - Official Website
Frank Gambale is a jazz fusion guitarist.
Gambale is the undisputed genius who
originated the sweep picking technique
and elevated it to a precise art form
now standard in the guitar lexicon.
A gifted composer, brilliant innovator and author
of numerous instructional books and DVDs.
Frank works and collaborates with the most
influential jazz musicians of today.
Frank Gambale - Official Website
Mike Stern is a jazz fusion guitarist.
He was hailed as the Best Jazz Guitarist
of 1993 by Guitar Player, and in 2009 was
listed on Down Beat's list of 75 best jazz guitar players.
Mike Stern has established himself as one
of the premier jazz and jazz-fusion
guitarists and composers of his generation.
Scott Henderson is a jazz fusion
guitarist best known for his
work with the band Tribal Tech.
Henderson developed the technique
of fusion guitar solos mixed with
funky rhythm between solo sequences.
He is respected guitarist between
the modern guitar virtuosos.
Henderson has more recently
moved back to his blues roots.
Scott Henderson - Official Website
Bill Frisell is a guitarist and composer.
Bill is one of the leading guitarists in
jazz fusion since the late '80s.
Frisell's eclectic music touches on
progressive folk, classical music,
country music, noise and more.
He is known for using an array of
effects to create unique sounds from his instrument.
Bill Frisell - Official Website
Larry Coryell is a jazz fusion guitarist.
As one of the pioneers of jazz-rock
perhaps the pioneer in the ears of some.
Larry Coryell deserves a special
place in the history books.
He brought what amounted to a nearly
alien sensibility to jazz electric guitar
playing in the 1960s, a hard-edged,
cutting tone, phrasing and note-bending
that owed as much to blues, rock
and even country as it did to earlier,
smoother bop influences.
Larry Coryell - Official Website
Fridrik Karlsson is a jazz-funk
fusion guitarist and musician.
Also known as the guitarist of
the super jazz funk group Mezzoforte.
Fridrik is currently engaged
on various projects including
guitar work on the movies.
His TV work includes accompanying
world famous singers and artists.
Musician past few years playing
and composing spiritual new age music.
Fridrik Karlsson - Official Website
Greg Howe is a fusion guitarist and muisician.
Greg music style balances between
jazz fusion and funky music
to modern heavy guitar shredding.
Howe has continuously made himself
available as a session musician for
many of the world's biggest pop stars.
Greg is respected among the new modern guitarists.
Tony MacAlpine is a heavy guitarist.
He is best known as an instrumental
solo guitarist,although he has worked
with many different bands and musicians
in the form of guest collaborations.
MacAlpine influenced and contributed much to
the neo-classical metal genre of the late-1980s,
becoming known for his instrumental rock-based
style of playing that incorporated highly
advanced shred techniques and,in later albums,
elements of jazz fusion, as well.
Tony MacAlpine - Official Website
Guthrie Govan is one of the upcoming
fusion guitarist and musician.
Govan comes from the school
of modern heavy guitar shredders.
He is respected between guitar solo shredders.
Govan is guitar virtuoso with theoretical knowledge,
down-to-earth feel, sophisticated harmonic vocabulary.
Govan blends in fusion elements of
hard rock,progressive rock and jazz.
Govan Guthrie - Official Website
Mario Tomic is one of the upcoming
jazz fusion guitarist and musician.
Musicians builds a sound on old
school of jazz rock music and
modern contemporary jazz music.
Mario also blends jazz elements
with other musical styles, such as
progressive rock,new age and ambient music.
He is appreciated by listeners
and music supervisors.
Mario Tomic - Official Website
Alex Machacek is one of the upcoming
heavy jazz fusion guitarist,best known for
his innovative style and the ease with
which he shifts from legato to staccato
guitar playing technique.
Machacek's early influences were
heavy metal in the mid-1980s, he was
exposed to jazz and quickly got hooked.
Alex Machacek - Official Website
Alex Hutchings is one of the upcoming
fusion guitar players anad musicians.
Alex mixes in his musical style different
elements of various musical genres
such as jazz, funk and blues.
He has composed music for various
television/radio programmes and short films.
Alex's focus in the coming years
is to continue growing and developing.
Alex Hutchings - Official Website