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House of Lords (band)
|House of Lords
|Los Angeles, California
|Hard rock, Glam Metal, AOR
|Years active
|1987–1993, 2000–present
|Frontiers, RCA, Cleopatra, Polygram, Simmons, Victory
|Associated acts
|Giuffria, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Impellitteri, Angel, Manic Eden, Eyes, Great White, Rough Cutt, Shark Island, Thin Lizzy, Fifth Angel, Dokken
|James Christian
Jimi Bell
Jeff Kent
B.J. Zampa
Chris McCarvill
|Past members
|Gregg Giuffria
Ken Mary
Chuck Wright
Lanny Cordola
David Glen Eisley
Michael Guy
Tommy Aldridge
Dennis Chick
Sean McNabb
Matt McKenna
House of Lords is a rock band band from Los Angeles, California.
House of Lords was formed in 1987 by former Angel member and keyboardist Gregg Giuffria after his solo project Giuffria. After listening to demos - originally intended for Giuffria's third record - a record deal with Gene Simmons' company Simmons Record was agreed upon, on Simmon's condition that the band's name be changed (to House of Lords) and a new lead singer recruited.[1] James Christian thus replaced David Glen Eisley, after Christian was suggested by ex-Giuffria and Quiet Riot bassist Chuck Wright,[2] after having worked together in L.A. Rocks.
House of Lords' eponymous debut was released in 1988, featuring a heavier sound than Giuffria with a lower keyboard mix. The album received critical acclaim and the band toured with Cheap Trick, Ozzy Osbourne and the Scorpions in 1989.
The album featured one major hit, "I Wanna Be Loved" (Hot 100 No. 58). The Stan Bush penned "Love Don't Lie" was the second single but despite MTV airplay, failed to chart. After touring, original guitarist Lanny Cordola left in 1990, replaced by ex Shark Island's Michael Guy.
Their next effort was 1990s Sahara and featured a list of guest musicians. Other notable contributions to the album came from Doug Aldrich, Rick Nielsen, Chris Impellitteri, Mandy Meyer, David Glen Eisley, Robin Zander, Mike Tramp, Steve Plunkett and Ron Keel. Deliberately more guitar-orientated than the debut, the album hit No. 120 on the charts and in the wake of the successful single "Can't Find My Way Home" (a Blind Faith cover) was certified platinum in 1991. The single & video also did well on Album Rock radio peaking at No. 10. The second single "Remember My Name" was a bigger hit hitting No. 72 on the Hot 100 and a Top 5 regular on DIAL MTV. Soon after, bassist Chuck Wright and drummer Ken Mary left the band.
Promoting Sahara, House of Lords toured with Nelson, did a short tour with 38 Special, and a final show with Warrant and Tesla at the Universal Amphitheater in Hollywood.[3] Christian cites this as one of his favorite shows with House of Lords.[3]
For 1992's release Demons Down, House of Lords had left BMG.[3] Christian says of Demon's Down: "This album turned out fabulous. We had a great budget and turned in a beautifully crafted album with great songs, no fillers. I was totally happy with the record and hoped we could really take this album right to the top of the charts." Alongside Christian and Giuffria, line up changes for Demons Down consisted of a new drummer Tommy Aldridge, a new bass player in Sean McNabb (ex Quiet Riot), and a new guitar player in Dennis Chick.[3] The album spawned two singles, the title track and the ballad "What's Forever For".
The arrival of Grunge would impact on the airplay and overall success of Demons Down.[3] The band broke up in 1993 despite recording demos to shop for a new label. After the band broke up, guitarist Dennis Chick joined Freak of Nature, the band formed by Mike Tramp after the break-up of White Lion. Chick played on both of their studio albums, released in 1993 and 1994.[4] James Christian recorded and released "Rude Awakening" and spent a short time in the line up of Manic Eden.[3]
After legal delays over the rights to the band name the group reformed in 2000, featuring an extended line up of Christian, Giuffria, Cordola, Guy, Mary, and Wright, although Guy soon departed.
Two years later The Power and the Myth was finished but it was 2004 before it was released by Frontiers Records. The album marked the return of Chuck Wright, Lanny Cordola and Ken Mary, but is the first not to feature Giuffria, who had left the project with keyboard work done by guests Derek Sherinian, Allan Okuye, Sven Martin and Ricky Phillips. Directly after The Power and the Myth was released, Christian released his second solo CD, Meet The Man. House of Lords contacted Jeff Kent to take over the writing of lyrics and melodies due to the band's lowest scores since its inception. After Jeff Kent was finished, the band scored 96% on the 2006 CD World Upside Down with 10 of Kent's lyrical and melodic compositions, and 97% of the 2008 CD Come to My Kingdom with 13 of Kent's lyrical and melodic compositions.
After a further reunion in 2005 for the Firefest festival in the UK, House of Lords released a new album, World Upside Down, adding songwriter Jeff Kent/melody & lyric writer and keyboardist, guitarist Jimi Bell, bassist Chris McCarvill, and drummer B.J. Zampa. Kent also played all the keyboard parts on the 2005 Frontier Record release.
A live album Live in the UK was released in January 2007.
In 2008, the band released their sixth studio album Come to My Kingdom. The album featured the same line-up as World Upside Down, and was produced by frontman James Christian and frequent collaborator Jeff Kent (who played bass prior to McCarvill's joining), who also co-wrote most all of the album's vocal melodies and lyrics. Bassist Chris McCarvill left the band just before the CTMK release due to prior touring commitments with Dokken. He was replaced by Matt McKenna who recorded bass for the band's next album Cartesian Dreams and performed on all the Come to My Kingdom tour dates. The group embarked on a world tour of 39 cities throughout Europe, Brazil, and the United States, commencing between March–July 2008, including main stage performances at Hard in Rio, Rocklahoma and the South Texas Rockfest festivals.
On September 18, 2009, the band's seventh studio album Cartesian Dreams was released. Although bass was recorded by Matt McKenna, Chris McCarvill has rejoined the band following the recording and played bass on the supporting tour for the album in September–November 2009. Jeff Kent has produced the album along with Christian, although this time around he didn't contribute any songwriting to the album.
On July 26, 2011, it was announced that the band would release their eighth studio album Big Money on September 23, 2011, in Europe and September 27 in North America. The album was recorded with the same line-up as the 2008 album Come to My Kingdom, including returning bassist Chris McCarvill, and was promoted with a European tour in October 2011, the band's first tour since 2009.[5]
James Christian released his third solo album, Lay It All On Me in 2013.[6]
In 2014 House of Lords released their ninth studio album, Precious Metal. The album was recorded with the same line-up as the 2008 album Come to My Kingdom.[7]
In April 2015 it was announced that House of Lords tenth studio album Indestructible would be released in the EU on June 5 and June 9 in North America. The album was recorded with the same line-up as the 2008 album Come to My Kingdom, [8] this line-up celebrating ten years together.
According to Christian: The name 'Indestructible' was chosen because we all felt that we have been through a lot in our long careers and what better way to say, 'Hey, I'm still here' than by giving the CD a bold title. He adds: Indestructible features eleven brand new songs... ...The album is heavier in the beginning, but we love songs that are both melodic and heavy, and the idea was to fill the best of both on one CD without sounding like two different bands. I think we have accomplished that.[8]
In addition to announcing an appearance at the Frontiers Rock Festival in Trezzo (MI), Italy on 12 April 2015, jameschristian.com stated 'a European tour in September, with a very special surprise show to be announced soon. More details soon!'[8] As part of the Indestructible Tour 2015, House of Lords will be performing in Japan at Loudpark 2015 on 10 October 2015. The Indestructible tours starts in Helsinki, Finland on 25 September and concludes on 19 October in Pratteln, Switzerland. A U.S. date on 23 October follows.[9]
Band members[edit]
- Current members
- James Christian - lead vocals, guitar, keyboards (1988-1993, 2000-present)
- Jimi Bell - guitar (2005-present)
- Jeff Kent - keyboards, bass, backing vocals, songwriting (2005-present)
- B.J. Zampa - drums, backing vocals (2005-present)
- Chris McCarvill - bass, backing vocals (2005-2008, 2009-present)
- Jeff Batter - Keyboards
- Former members
- Gregg Giuffria - keyboards, backing vocals (1987–1993, 2000–2004)
- Ken Mary - drums, backing vocals (1987–1991, 2000–2005)
- Chuck Wright - bass, backing vocals (1987–1991, 2000–2005)
- BamBam, drums, backing vocals (1993–1994)
- Lanny Cordola - guitar, backing vocals (1987–1990, 2000–2005)
- Robert Marcello - guitar, backing vocals (2009–2010, 2009–2010)
- David Glen Eisley - lead vocals (1987-1988)
- Michael Guy - guitar, backing vocals (1990–1991, 2000)
- Tommy Aldridge - drums, backing vocals (1991–1993)
- Dennis Chick - guitar, backing vocals (1991–1993)
- Sean McNabb - bass, backing vocals (1991–1993)
- Matt McKenna - bass, backing vocals (2008–2009)
Studio albums[edit]
- House of Lords - 1988 (Simmons/RCA)
- Sahara - 1990 (Simmons/RCA)
- Demons Down - 1992 (PolyGram)
- The Power and the Myth - 2004 (Dead Line/Frontiers)
- World Upside Down - 2006 (Frontiers)
- Come to My Kingdom - 2008 (Blistering/Frontiers)
- Cartesian Dreams - 2009 (Frontiers)
- Big Money - 2011 (Frontiers)
- Precious Metal - 2014 (Frontiers)
- Indestructible - 2015 (Frontiers)
Compilation albums[edit]
Live albums[edit]
- Live in the UK - 2007 (Frontiers)
Billboard chart[edit]
|House of Lords
|U.S. Billboard 200
|U.S. Billboard 200
External links[edit]
- James Christian's official website
- Interview with James Christian from House of Lords
- Rockeyez Interview with James Christian 05-2015
- Vocal range of James Christian
- House of Lords Indestructible
- ^ Gene Simmons Takes a Spin as a Record Mogul, L.A. Times, July 12, 1988.
- ^ "Chuck Wright Interview". Music Legends. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f "Biography". jameschristianmusic.com. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Sea of Tranquility - Mike Tramp interview".
- ^ "Big Money - new album". jameschristianmusic.com. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ "Lay It All On Me". jameschristianmusic.com. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ "Precious Metal". jameschristianmusic.com. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ a b c "Indestructible - new album". jameschristianmusic.com. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Latest News". jameschristianmusic.com. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ a b House of Lords chart history, Billboard.com. Retrieved January 23, 2010.


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He believes that FGM has become a prevalent cultural practice as a consequence of a lack of water.
FGM involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. The practice, normally conducted by traditional surgeons, causes severe bleeding and is linked to many health issues, including cysts, infections, infertility as well as complications during childbirth.
It's outlawed in many countries and the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling upon member states, civil society and all stakeholders to take concrete actions towards its elimination, yet the practice persists. The U.N. predicts that some 86 million young girls worldwide are likely to undergo the procedure in one form or the other by 2030 if current trends continue.
Gwada was commissioned by a local consortium the Citizens' Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda (CCEDU) that sought to answer governance issues among communities that circumcise and those that don't. In Kenya, communities that circumcise believe that those that don't are not capable of leading and this has raised governance issues. Gwada admits he made the discovery by accident.
But he says it's no surprise that intervention strategies to stop the practice aren't working because the wrong policies have been employed.
"Every thing is wrong, the policies are wrong, legislation is wrong because they were not informed by what made the communities start the practice in the first place," Gwada tells IPS.
His research has not been made public but was shared recently with selected stake holders ahead of release.
Caroline Sekyewa the programme coordinator of DanChurchAid, says the research finding is convincing because in the communities that practice FGM, a girl who has gone through the ritual is regarded as "clean". DanChurchAid is an international NGO that runs education programmes in two communities that practice FGM in Uganda - the Pokot community in Karamoja region, northeastern Uganda and the Sabiny community, who are found on on the foothills of mountain Elgon.
"Its may not necessarily mean that the provision of water is the solution to FGM, largely because culture has hijacked the practice, but the this could inform the intervention strategies towards its elimination," Sekyewa tells IPS.
She says the organisation will also target policy makers to provide water in the affected areas. In Pokot, a region where FGM is rampant, women walk several kilometres to fetch water and the situation is complicated with insecurity caused by armed cattle rustlers.
An underground water aquaffer has been discovered in the Turkana region on the other side of Kenya, which borders the Pokot. Sekyewa says such a water resource, shared by the border communities, could solve the problem.
Beatrice Chelangat is an ethnic Sabiny from Kapchorwa district of Uganda, close to Kenya's Turkana region, who has defied the dictates of her FGM-practicing culture and is campaigning against it. Chelangat's works with civil society organisation, REACH, which conducts sensitisation campaigns about the dangers of FGM.
"There is a common belief among the Dodoma community of Kenya that a woman can catch Candidiasis [yeast infection] and other forms of diseases if they are not cut," Chelangat tells IPS.
She says the research could be a new weapon in the fight against FGM.
Gwada agrees: "This new finding is going to compel a review of the understanding of the FGM procedures and intervention strategies including policies and legislation."


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Europe's fisheries commissioner warned Wednesday that future quotas will be lowered systematically in the absence of reliable scientitic data from EU states on stock sustainability.
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"(We are) appalled because the plundering of our marine resources shows much remains to be done to safeguard our marine biodiversity," spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a statement.
"The monetary value of the black coral and sea turtles confiscated in the Port of Manila is tiny compared to the ecological devastation they represent -- hundreds, possibly thousands, of hectares of coral reefs and all the ecological complexity they represent, either killed or seriously damaged," Lacierda said.
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Updated: 09/22/2005 - More disagreement today at the state Capitol over proposals to loosen the state's strict tax-and-spending limits.
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Updated: 09/20/2005 - Software problems are expected to delay the launch of new voter registration systems in Colorado.
Updated: 09/20/2005 - A former Catholic high school teacher already accused of sexually assaulting Colorado students in the 1960s is now accused of abusing a student in Missouri.
Updated: 09/20/2005 - Federal and state authorities are preparing for the possibility of a major hurricane.
Updated: 09/19/2005 - Vail Resorts is waiting to hear whether any of the 7,000 Harrah's Casino employees uprooted by Hurricane Katrina want to work at a ski area this winter.
Updated: 09/19/2005 - Governor Bill Owens is defending President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath, saying Bush had no power to send federal troops in to Louisiana without a request from that state's Democratic governor, Kathleen Blanco.
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Updated: 09/16/2005 - Sharply rising natural gas prices are raising fresh worries for thousands of households over winter heating bills.
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News Link: Californian Dave Turner capped a 65-day expedition to Sam Ford Fjord on Canada's Baffin Island with a solo, 39-hour, single-push ascent of a 4,750-foot new route on Broad Peak. Turner climbed the elegant north arête and headwall of the 6,000-foot granite-walled mountain, with no bolts and no stop for a bivouac. The route went at VI 5.10 A3 60°. He descended the south ridge and gully, the only previously established route on Broad Peak.
In early 2008, Turner soloed the first complete ascent of the east face of Cerro Escudo in Patagonia, a feat that helped earn him the Robert Hicks Bates Award for outstanding young climber from the American Alpine Club. Turner's Baffin trip was supported in part by a Lyman Spitzer Cutting-Edge Award from the AAC.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13— In 1990, when Congress passed the Americans With Disabilities Act and placed new obligations on state governments to remove barriers to accessibility, the Supreme Court's revival of interest in states' rights still lay a few years in the future. Few people would have predicted the coming collision between the new law and the new federalism.
But the clash was on full display on Tuesday in the courtroom. In a case from Tennessee, the justices heard arguments on whether the states are constitutionally immune from the damage suits that the law authorizes for failure to make public services, programs and activities accessible to people with disabilities.
The state was sued by six people who could not gain unassisted access to county courthouses that lacked elevators, including one man, George Lane, who left his wheelchair and crawled up two flights of stairs to attend his own arraignment on a misdemeanor traffic charge in the Polk County Courthouse in Benton.
The testy argument made it clear that the decision was not going to be an easy one for a court that has been sharply divided in a series of state immunity cases. But if the damages question was not contentious enough, beyond it lay a deeper issue, discussed only obliquely but clearly on the minds of the justices and the lawyers -- whether Congress had authority to apply the disabilities act to the states in the first place.
A complex web of recent constitutional doctrine surrounds this case, Tennessee v. Lane, No. 02-1667. The court's recent precedents have limited the ability of Congress to make federal laws binding on the states. Congress can breach the states' constitutional immunity from damage suits, the court has ruled, only by invoking its power under the 14th Amendment to enforce, by ''appropriate'' legislation, the amendment's guarantees of due process and equal protection. Legislation will be deemed appropriate under these precedents only if it remedies a documented pattern of constitutional violations by the states.
Against that background, much of the focus of the argument on Tuesday was on how to characterize a state's failure to make its services accessible to people with disabilities. Architectural barriers to entering a courthouse do not amount to a constitutional violation ''even under the most creative interpretation,'' the solicitor general of Tennessee, Michael E. Moore, told the court. Mr. Moore said that ''in the myriad contexts to which it applies,'' the law ''imposes obligations on the states that go far beyond what the Constitution itself requires.''
Mr. Moore said Mr. Lane was offered accommodations to enable him to go to his hearing, including being carried upstairs or having the hearing moved to the ground floor. ''So long as the court in question offers its service in an authorized venue,'' there is no violation, he said.
William J. Brown, the lawyer for Mr. Lane and the five other plaintiffs, said that to the contrary, the purpose of the law was to ensure that people with disabilities do not have to ''suffer pain and public humiliation as a condition of citizenship.'' The Constitution protects the right of access to a courtroom, Mr. Brown said, adding: ''We all have a right to get to the civic center of our public life.''
The Bush administration entered the case to defend the law. Paul D. Clement, a deputy solicitor general, said this case should not be governed by a decision in 2001 that held the states to be immune from suit by their employees for violations of a separate section of the disabilities act that bars employment discrimination. Mr. Clement said that although states' employment discrimination might not have been well documented, Congress's decision to open the states to suit under the public services section was based on a finding of ''persistent discrimination in critical areas.''
''That depends on what is meant by the term 'discrimination,' '' Justice Antonin Scalia said.
Mr. Clement replied that Congress had found examples of inaccessible polling places that deprived people with disabilities of the right to vote.
''An inaccessible voting place proves nothing at all,'' Justice Scalia said. ''It just shows that the state didn't go out of its way'' to provide help.
Mr. Moore, the Tennessee solicitor general, emphasized the breadth of the law and what he described as ''its indiscriminate application to every facet'' of state activities. Several justices readily agreed. When Mr. Clement said that it was ''clear that Congress was reacting to a real problem,'' Justice Scalia interjected with evident sarcasm, saying, ''And it solved that problem by requiring access to state-owned hockey rinks.''
The outcome of the case could well depend on how the court chooses to frame the question: whether the justices look at the particular situation of access to court, or whether they look at the full breadth of the statute. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which sits in Cincinnati, rejected Tennessee's immunity claim on the ground that access to court was a due process right deserving of special solicitude.
But Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist observed that the court had typically examined statutes as a whole rather than by particular applications.
The deeper issue was what the consequences might be if the court decided that the public services part of the law exceeded Congress's authority under the 14th Amendment. As an alternative basis for the disabilities act, Congress also invoked its power to regulate interstate commerce, a power that clearly justifies, for example, prohibiting discrimination in employment. It is less clear whether the commerce power extends to essentially noneconomic activities like access to courthouses or voting booths.
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Before they sold remote controlled helicopter massage chairs, America's favorite mall store, Brookstone, sold precision tools. This ad is from The Whole Earth Catalog. Perhaps we'll be seeing a Brookstone Heritage collection with USA made hacksaws and pipe wrenches with painted handles.
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* The good news in Israel is that most meat here is imported from South America, where a lot of meat seems to be grass-fed and finished. Best sources are Uruguay, where I'm told that *all* meat is grass-fed/finished or Argentina where *most* is grass-fed/finished.
* Grass-fed/finished kosher meat is available in Tsfat with a 100 kilo (!) minimum (there's a 10 kg minimum at Pesach and Rosh Hashana): 052-256-9929
* Grass-fed meat from Uruguay and Argentina available at the Mahane Yehuda Shuk in Jerusalem for about 35 shek/kilo!!!! (A new and very exciting find for me - found in Aug 2010)
* Free-range organic kosher chicken (try finding that in the States!!) - A farm in Yad Natan raises free-range organic kosher-certified chicken. They deliver every three months after shechita and will even store for you if you want to order more than you have room for in your freezer. Tel is 08-684-8653.
* From Eliezer in Bat Ayin: Kombucha (750ml), Honey Wine - Mead 7.5 alc, Ginger Beer and Root Beer - both non alcoholic, Raw Sauerkraut and Kimchi, starter cultures for kombucha, water and milk kefir. Email me for contact information.
* Small goat dairy in Tsfat offering raw milk, yogurt, labane and soft cheese - 0527-141-713
* AMAZING goat farm (organic grass fed milk) located on the road to the Stalactite cave just West of Nes Harim. Chut Ya'aren I think it's called - Tel 02-9997811
* Raw milk and yogurt is available from Duchan store in Pardes Hannah
* Raw milk and yogurt also available in larger quantities from a West Bank farm. Email me for contact information.
* Raw cheese from Switzerland is supposedly available from Eden under the name of Appenzeller (not kosher)
* Kerrygold butter (listed as "Good" in the WAPF guide) WAS available at the Mega chains (K-LBO Kahrut symbol) - this seems to not be distributed in Israel anymore - let me know if anyone sees it...
* Organic ghee is available from Eden Market and other HFSs (also listed as "Good" in the WAPF guide - I haven't seen a kosher one.)
* Raw organic goat cheese: Contact is the Gordons at (054) 484-9094.
* Raw parmesan cheese (don't know if it's kosher or not): Found at Super Bubba supermarket on Yirmiahu St. in Tel Aviv. Parmigiano-Reggiano from Modena, with certification: http://www.parmigiano-reggiano.it/en/where/purchase_guide/symbols_marks.aspx
* Delicious organic veggies from Ben's Farm in Tirosh - he delivers to the Bet Shemesh / Jerusalem area - www.bensfarm.co.il. His cherry tomatoes taste like candy!
* Organic produce (including fruit, eggs, honey) from Tzora Kibbutz - email me for contact information.
* For those in the Jerusalem area, free-range eggs are available from a farm in Nes Harim - these have much orange-er yolks than those of Givat Olam, which are also free-range, but I think not as free ;) www.yotav.co.il
* Free-range eggs from Givat Olam (these are preferred by the WAPF chapter leader, but others are widely available as well). They are available at Eden and many other natural food stores throughout the country.
* Pillar Rock canned wild salmon (http://www.oceanbeauty.com/brands/pillar.htm) is available at Eden Market. (I checked with the woman who manages the WAPF Shopping Guide and she said it looks ok and will add it as "Good".)
* There's a farmer in Itamar who delivers organic grains in Yerushalaim area (may be also elsewhere). His name is Barak, phone # 0577 526 923.
* You can also buy bulk from Nitzat Haduvdevan.
* There is a kosher-certified product by Billington's that seems to offer the same product that is endorsed by NT (Rapunzel brand Rapadura). It is an unrefined cane sugar. It is sold at Bio-Center in Givat Hen.
* Kfar Tapuach - www.organics.co.il
* Organic grains, dry fruit, produce: http://www.vitaminglobal.com/
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The Color of Change Is Green
August 27, 2009
Max Schulz
A mini-media controversy has erupted over conservative TV and radio show host Glenn Becks remarks that he thinks President Obama is racist. A black activist organization called Color of Change has led the charge for a boycott of Becks highly rated Fox News Channel program. This has led Beck to return fire at Color of Change and its co-founder, Van Jones, who presently serves as the presidents green jobs advisor.
Beck has dredged up quotes from Jones in which he describes his path to communism and anarchism. This comes just several months after it was revealed that Obamas top energy and environmental advisor, Carol Browner, was associated with the organization Socialist International.
The White House doubtless cant be too happy with the ongoing Glenn Beck tumult, even if it ultimately succeeds in costing the hated Fox News Channel sponsors and revenue. What the controversy really serves is to shine the spotlight on one of the seamier aspects of President Obamas push to transform Americas energy economy. And what it shows is that the green jobs and clean energy campaign waged by the Obama administration appears to be a lot more about radical politics than about the environment.
The curious thing about the troops manning the effort to create a clean, green economy in the age of Obama is that they are not the stereotypical environmental activists one normally thinks about. Sure, the greens at the major environmental organizations are on board with Obama (though some think hes not going far enough). But the real leaders of the new green jobs movement arent environmentalists at all; theyre labor union officials and inner-city community organizers like those at Color of Change. Their interest is not protecting the environment as much as it is hijacking the green zeitgeist to agitate for economic justice, airing ethnic, racial, and other grievances, and grabbing government cash.
Last September these groups came together to stage a massive pre-election rally in cities all over the country called the Green Jobs Now National Day of Action. Most of the major environmental organizations were represented, like Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. But what raised eyebrows were the numerous decidedly non-environmental outfits that signed on, including ACORN, MoveOn, and Codepink. Lesser groups, such as the Hip Hop Caucus, Art in Action, Voto Latino, and Democracia USA, participated as well.
Helping lead the charge were a number of Oakland-based organizations tied to Van Jones, a Bay Area activist and author who would be brought into the Obama administration as green jobs czar in March. One is Color of Change, which describes its mission as "dedicated to strengthening Black Americas political voice." Previous Color of Change campaigns centered on calling for release of the so-called Jena 6 and fanning post-Katrina recriminations. Other groups involved in the new green jobs push include the Ella Baker Center, which Jones helped found in 1996 to protest what he claims is racist policing, and the organization Green For All.
Thanks to Jones, in fact, inner-city Oakland may well be the heart of the green jobs movement. Its Mayor is Ron Dellums, for a quarter century one of Congresss most left-wing legislators. (In 1977 Mother Jones noted -- approvingly -- that he was the first "dues-paying socialist" to serve in Congress in over a century.) Dellums and Jones collaborated to pioneer the Oakland Green Jobs Corps (OGJC), which disperses tax dollars to eligible groups to run so-called green-job-training programs. According to OGJC documents, "The program will have a special focus on providing green pathways out of poverty by recruiting and training people with barriers to employment (e.g., lack of job skills, lack of education, language/cultural barriers, or history in juvenile/criminal justice system)."
Jones is an interesting character. He is perhaps the leading proponent of harnessing the green jobs wave to benefit low- or no-skill candidates, many with troubled backgrounds. The organizations with which he has been affiliated have seized on the promise of green jobs to benefit inner-city communities.
Jones is as an affable and charismatic messenger of the green gospel with its inner-city twist. A skilled quotesmith who has become a go-to guy for reporters looking to add flavor to stories about the environment, he talks often about the green economy being not just for the Ph.D., but also for the "Ph.-do." Another Jones aphorism for disaffected youth is that "you can make more money if you put down that handgun and pick up a caulk gun."
Jones talks up the need for a "green New Deal" that will "help our Rust Belt cities blossom as Silicon Valleys of green capital." But scroll through the websites and reports of the many organizations with which hes been connected, and one begins to suspect that this "green" commitment is less about nature than about welfare--for inner-city residents without the skills or knowledge to compete in a 21st-century economy, and for the professional poverty organizations that collect the money for government job-training programs.
Perhaps thats not surprising given Joness radical past, as brought to light by Beck and others. In flattering 2005 profile of Jones in the East Bay Express, he said that he was radicalized shortly after the Rodney King verdict when he was caught up in a mass arrest at a rally protesting the decision. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary. … I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist." He would help found an organization called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) that, according to the Express, "held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia."
He claims to have been converted to green activism after meeting Julia Butterfly Hill, the activist who spent two years living in a California redwood tree a decade ago to prevent loggers from cutting it down. After befriending her, he decided that environmentalism could be the cure for Americas urban ills.
Will it work? The idea of greening the inner-city to improve the lives of its poorest residents would seem to rely on two fallacies. The first is the notion that government must undertake a rescue mission to the inner city because society has failed to provide opportunities for urban blacks. Yet over the last several decades, as the economy has steadily expanded, millions of construction jobs were created in urban centers all across America. For the most part these have been filled by Mexican and Central American immigrants, not by blacks, who largely have absented themselves from this employment boom.
The other fallacy is that inner city green jobs proponents are serious about anything other than seeking more and more taxpayer money. Shortly before the election, the Apollo Alliance (on whose board Jones sat) released a study concluding that five million green jobs could be created for an investment of $500 billion. Obama had cited the same jobs target -- five million -- but for less than one-third the cost ($150 billion). The co-director of the Apollo Alliance dismissed the discrepancy to the Wall Street Journal, saying the number is less significant than the message. "Honestly," she was quoted saying, "its just to inspire people."
A $350 billion discrepancy no doubt buys a lot of inspiration. Whats telling, though, it how utterly divorced from economic reality these green-jobs pleaders are. If Jones and his compatriots in the green-jobs movement truly wanted to help poor minorities, they might start by taking a long, hard look at the history of government-run job-training programs. In terms of money wasted, skills not imparted, and opportunities lost, the history of such programs is abysmal. According to journalist Jim Bovard, one of the foremost experts on government job-training efforts, "Many, if not most, of the participants in federal jobs and job-training programs would be better off today if the programs had never existed." Theres not much reason to think that green-jobs-training efforts will prove any different.
Original Source: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/27/the-color-of-change-is-green
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Hatsan's Galatian air rifle is up to just about any challenge that comes its way. Whether you like to hunt, shoot spinners, pop tin cans or punch holes in paper targets, this precharged pneumatic repeater will give you continued pleasure and excitement when you see how accurate it is.
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Things I liked: This is my first, have shot others, very well built and rugged, a real solid feel, does not have that "ping" sound when shot as do lesser style guns. The adjustable trigger, butt plate and cheek rest are great added features of this gun. Very well pleased with accuracy! Good job Hatsan!
Things I would have changed: the manual leaves something to be desired, especially for 1st timers, the mounts on the sling are pretty cheesy.
What others should know: I removed rear site and mounted a scope, wish that it had a sleeve that would replace the front sight, doesn't really matter though, can't see front site while looking through scope
Gator Proof -- Wow! You've really had a tough time with your gun. That's not something that usually happens with a Hatsan PCP. I'm glad Hatsan is taking good care of you. No one wants to use their warranty, but it's nice to know that the company stands behind their rifles and will resolve issues.
Part 2. Hatsan sent me an old style gun tank which is shorter and their hope of curing my problem. No luck, then they sent me new breech seals and trying the shorter gun tank and new seals I was able to increase fpe to 27pfe. Still very far below specs. I have 4 Hatsans: 125 th .25 matches fact. Specs. At44×10 in .22 matches F.Specs. BT65 Elite exceeds F. Specs. Galation even with new breech seals still near 40% weaker then F. Specs. At 100 yards my AT44W-10 in.22 as well at BT54 .25 both pass thru 1" plywoow backing. Galation IV can't even fully sink pellet. The 125 break barrel .25 will hit 100y board but buries pellet about same depth. (It short 750fps 24.5 fpe) so any suggestions would be so helpful. Hatsan says send it in again and if they can't cure they will replace. So at least you guys, Hatsan will take care of you. I am not over joyed I got a lemon over 50 yards because that is why I bought it. But in the end I believe Hatsan will stand behind me. But wish it worked now.
I am directing this toward Ms Edith because she has been so helpful to Hatsan owners. Rick Eustler has been a prince as well, I have had, before sending my Galation into Hatsan USA, some unbelievably accurate targets. Like 13 round .25 one hole group at 25 yards of one ragged hole .270 ctc with out to outside .446 (again 13 shot group)? I have target saved in log book as proof. I have actually nailed those plastic colored push thumb tack with a single shot twice in a row quitting because rain was starting. Then things went "South".Power as high of .39.05 JSB 25.4g. That was May 25h. After receiving back from warranty my power had dropped to a low 25.39fps. Hatsan is excellent at matching or exceeding their published factory published specs. The Galation lV, my model is rated at 44fpe, but mine down to 25.39 at my figures a 41.20% below published factory FPE. Hatsan was unable to repair the hammer smushing the air cylinder valve nut. They are great company for CS. See next p
Edith, you are still a peach, or should I say, a Georiga peach ( I hear they are the best). I sent the gun to Hatsan USA, they replaced the trigger along with other things. They were puzzled by why my air cylinder nut was being smushed by the hammer, even though the gun shoots great. They sent it back with a free air cylinder for the future. They air cylinder they sent was an old style without the nut. Hatsan warranty just keeps improving. Thanks to you and Rick from Airgunweb. BTW, because of your efforts on behalf of air gunners, Hatsan USA have changed the old warranty rules on trigger adjustments. We all thank you for that. Be Well.
Gator Proof: Adjusting a trigger too light can make it go off even if the safety is on. This is not unique to this rifle, but not all guns have that response to a very light trigger.
Thank you Edith, That is great news. Here is a puzzle for you and B.B. Last night I had my Galation on a sling, with muzzle up with the safety on. It fired a pellet in the ceiling as I was in the middle of the kitchen. I immediately checked the safety and it was IN THE LOCKED OUT POSITION.? So any idea why? I had adjusted afjusted the trigger a couple weeks back. I had it so light that it fired upon the flipping the safety off. With that said, I reset the trigger to a perfect place for my style of shooting. I have not had any problems since then. But that misfire event is a puzzle to me. Help?
Gator Proof--The president of Hatsan USA has written me back and said they will change the statement on their website. Adjusting their 2-stage trigger as recommended by them will not void their warranty.
Edith, you are a peach. I assume your are married to B.B. I feel honored to have you on our {the consumer} side. Be Well
Gator Proof--I looked at HatsanUSA's website, and you are correct. I've emailed the president of HatsanUSA and brought this to his attention. Such statements discourage buyers and don't allow people to enjoy the gun as the mfr originally intended. I'll let you know what he says.
DO NOT MODIFY YOUR AIR RIFLE CAUTION – The components of your airgun were engineered and manufactured to deliver optimum performance. Any modification or tampering with your airgun may cause a malfunction and will VOID THE MANUFACTURER'S LIMITED WARRANTY. Any change in performance such as a lowered trigger pull, force, and shortened trigger travel indicates a possible modification, tampering, and wear which VOIDS THE MANUFACTURER'S LIMITED WARRANTY. Such airgun should be inspected, replaced, or properly repaired by only qualified HatsanUSA personne. Thanks Edith, Good to know the proper names of the rifle nomenclature. This is on the Hatsan Warranty section that I read to mean concerning trigger adjustments. You can see why a person might get confused. "
Gator Proof--The barrel cap is not the crown. It covers the crown. The crown is what's finished on the end (muzzle) of the steel barrel itself. Also, the trigger is adjustable, Hatsan made it to be adjustable and they expect customers to adjust it. It does not void their warranty to adjust a part the manufacturer made to be adjusted. Now, if you "adjust" it in a way they don't recommend -- such as stoning the sear, replacing parts or doing something other than what they recommend in their manual -- THEN you'll have voided the warranty. Just want to be sure people don't avoid making manufacturer-approved adjustments that could enhance the enjoyment of shooting.
Jeffery, Try unscrewing your front barrel cap, I think they are called a crown. Once you remove that cap, lube site up and I think you will find that the front sight will slide off. If you are not happy with how tight your groups are, order an Air Stripper. They really work at factory setting. However, mark it, and then you can slide the brass cone to suit your distance needs. I believe you will find that both AA 25.4grain and JSB 25.4 grain are the only 2 pellets you will ever need with this gun. When you hit the 1, 000 pellet mark I think you might find your Galation is reborn. You may then wish to tweak your trigger. One thing to check before your warranty is expired is this. Unscrew your air cylinder and check you nut and screw that hold down the black washer. If you see any damage to the nut, call for a RMA. PS, Don't tell Hatsan if you adjusted your trigger. The way I read the warranty language is trigger adjustments are cause to void your warrenty.
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Greg LeMond says UCI should lose responsibility for policing doping as Change Cycling Now summit opens
Two-day conference in London will conclude today with press conference this afternoon
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The two-day Change Cycling Now summit got under way in Central London yesterday, with three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond calling for responsibility for overseeing the policing of doping within the sport to be taken away from the UCI. The conference concludes today, with the 14 delegates expected to announce an action plan of their vision for cycling's future this afternoon.
"Myself and Eric Boyer called for independent doping back in 2008," stated LeMond to his fellow attendees, who included the French former rider, who went on to manage Cofidis until June this year.
"The Amaury Sports Organisation [ASO, owner of the Tour de France] were all for it, but unfortunately, the UCI was not," added LeMond, quoted on the website Inside The Games.
"There has to be transparency provided by a third party, no question," he continued. "The UCI should be focused on promoting the sport, not unilaterally policing it.
"Doping, its operation and its sanctions should be the responsibility of a body that is clearly outside of UCI jurisdiction and there has to be a system that looks much more closely at the source of doping and supply rather than just on those who dope.
"At the moment, there is no incentive for riders to confess and reveal what's going on because it's only them who're being punished."
Attendees at the summit, originally the idea of Jaimie Fuller, chairman of compression clothing business Skins, include Garmin-Sharp manager Jonathan Vaughters, blood doping expert Michael Ashenden, former rider Jorg Jaksche, journalists David Walsh and Paul Kimmage, Andy Layhe of the anti-doping campaign group, Bike Pure, and two members of the Cycling Fans' Voice group set up to lobby for fans to have a say in how the sport is run.
Gianni Bugno, president of the pro riders' association, the CPA, is due to attend today and address the meeting, as is the US Anti-Doping Agency's CEO, Travis Tygart.
Ashenden, who pioneered the UCI's biological passport programme but left earlier this year due to a dispute over new contractual terms it was seeking to impose on him, was first to speak.
He set forth the issues the sport currently faces and made the point that the problems confronting cycling go well beyond the US Postal scandal, in contrast to some – notably the UCI itself – who insist that it reflects the actions of a past generation of riders and that the war against the cheats is being won.
"This is not just about Lance Armstrong," insisted Ashenden. "This is about the whole issue of doping within cycling and the negative impact the UCI's approach has had on its credibility."
Boyer, who has in the past been critical in the French press of Vaughters, who succeeded him in 2009 as president of the professional teams association, the AIGCP, said that their past differences were behind them.
"It is true that in the past we have had our differences, but we now realise we share a common goal in making a better future for cycling and everything is fine," he explained.
"We have spoken about the past during the day and are now committed to helping Change Cycling Now force change for the benefit of everyone in the sport.
"We have worked together through the day to accomplish our mutual aims and I look forward to doing so again in the future."
In a statement released after the conclusion of yesterday's opening session, Andy Layhe, co-founder of Bike Pure, said:
We (Bike Pure) feel strongly about the issues raised at today's first sit down meeting. It was a highly constructive day and evident from the offset that the energy and passion for urgent transformation of the way in which the sport is governed was going to be the catalyst for the day's agenda. Off the back of the Lance Armstrong scandal, the sport sits in a precarious position, where the desire for a new way forward has to be grasped urgently. Someone has to take responsibility at the top of the chain for what has happened in recent weeks, the UCI have ignored fundamental issues and must be held accountable for the damage that has been incurred. If this were a government scandal or failings at the top of a multi national company, people would have been fired, lost their jobs for the complete mishandling of the situation.
Cycling has seen numerous fresh starts, new beginnings and strong vocal support for change but being present in today's meeting it's clear that this present group of individuals have an awful lot to offer in regards substantial and long lasting change for the better of the sport. The desire and feeling emanating from the meeting room today was more than satisfying to see and this will be evident in the proposals put forward during Monday afternoon's press conference.
We have a fundamental opportunity, and all those associated with the sport can do their part. Once proposals are published, we urge cycling fans to get behind the proposals for change and do their own part in shaping a sport that they can be proud of, which will hopefully produce productive leadership and change.
Do we (roadcc) have someone going to the press call at 1.30?
posted by Gkam84 [9369 posts]
3rd December 2012 - 11:04
We don't, they were going to stream it but bandwidth issues apparently. We will be covering it though
posted by Tony Farrelly [4201 posts]
3rd December 2012 - 11:30
Yeah, I saw that, I did suggest a 4g phone and youtube.....
posted by Gkam84 [9369 posts]
3rd December 2012 - 11:59
LeMond's comments make a lot of sense but I also just saw he plans to run for the UCI presidency too. Maybe he can do something there.
posted by new-to-cycling [47 posts]
3rd December 2012 - 15:05
I hope LeMond does not run for the presidency, for his sake and for cyclings. It would be worse than Lance's "comeback", in the dirt it would (and should) dig up. Browse around to find out about his "iron shots" in 1989, and think it over for a while. NOTE: EPO was available before 1989. Some cyclists knew about it.
There are one or two riders who actually pretty certainly did not dope, but had potential. Of course they couldn't make the grade and had to quit cycling. (E.g., Christophe Bassons. The was an American also who I read about, but forgot his name, sorry).
The focus on Lance has the sad side effect of leading people to not think logically about the problem as a whole, and to search desperately for new heroes in the wrong places.
Charlie Horse
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