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WATERBURY — You grow up with high expectations when your dad — a wacky but monumentally respected international musical star — lists your religion on your birth certificate as "musician."
But today, at age 44, Dweezil Zappa is living the destiny his father Frank pinned on him so many years ago, carrying on the Zappa legacy in a stellar tribute ensemble while at the same time passing on some of his more spiritual wisdom about music and guitar playing to enthralled followers who eagerly sign up to take his pre-concert master classes.
Zappa recently held one of those classes — he says one of the largest he's ever presented — last winter at the Ridgefield Playhouse where he was appearing on a tour promoting one of his father's most beloved or notorious albums (depending on who you talk to), Roxy & Elsewhere.
But this spring, Zappa is shelving his Zappa Plays Zappa tour that recreates the Roxy platter from front to back, in favor of playing another mystical and misunderstood guitar genius' material. He is currently appearing as part of the collection of guitar masters headlining the Experience Hendrix Tour, which jams into the Waterbury Palace Theater March 29.
For the second time, Zappa has been invited to appear alongside fellow Hendrix devotees including Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox, Bootsy Collins, and fellow guitarists Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford of Aerosmith, Eric Johnson, Doyle Bramhall II, Chris Layton, Eric Gales, Ana Popovic, Henri Brown, Dani Robinson, Stan Skibby, and Quinn Sullivan.
Having primarily heard the music his father was working on or listening to at home while growing up, Zappa eventually began discovering new sounds on the radio. Besides his father's music he began listening to the Beatles, Queen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Who and of course, Hendrix.
According to his bio, the younger Zappa's ear was attracted to the trailblazing guitar styles of Edward Van Halen and Randy Rhoads. And he listened to their records for hours on end trying to figure out a way to translate what he was hearing in his head to his fingers at the other end of the guitar.
Along the way, he had opportunities to ask his dad for some help.
"I remember asking Frank to help me figure out the song 'Revelation/Mother Earth' from Blizzard Of Oz. I really didn't know anything about chords and in that song Randy Rhoads was using classical music elements that were really new to rock guitar at the time. Frank helped me learn the finger picking intro."
To gain more fundamental knowledge of technique and scales Dweezil Zappa was fortunate to have some assistance from one of the musicians in his father's band at that time, another Experience Hendrix alumni, Steve Vai.
Years later, Zappa welcomed Vai on his first ever Zappa Plays Zappa tour featuring a brand new band recreating and reimagining the vast catalog of Frank Zappa material.
In an exclusive chat with The Newtown Bee, Zappa talks about his affinity for Hendrix, and how he is helping pass on some of his talent to both established and fledgling musicians at his frequent pre-concert master classes, which he will resume once the Experience Hendrix Tour draws to a close April 8.
Newtown Bee: So it looks like the Experience Hendrix organizers thought highly enough of you to ask you back for a second tour. But this year you'll be up there with some new blood including Zakk Wylde?
Dweezil Zappa: Some of the same people were on last year's tour, but the inclusion of Zakk will be a cool dynamic. [Note: Wylde is not on the Waterbury show.] The thing that's attractive about playing the Hendrix Tour is it's so different than what I try to do with my dad's music. We work very hard to be specific about the arrangements, and which versions of the songs we're doing. So if someone was to listen to [the Zappa Plays Zappa] versions of the songs we do and then compare it to Frank's, there is a very strong representation that is commensurate with what the original is. Whereas the Hendrix Tour has more varied interpretations of the music.
Bee: The tunes are so universally known that they are both easily recognizable and embraced for the most part — or at least that's been my impression having seen three of these Hendrix outings.
Zappa: (Tour managers) don't go with everything having to be exactly like the record or a specific live version. So the players on the tour still maintain their own individual style. They're still playing a Hendrix song without trying to necessarily pull off a Hendrix impersonation.
Bee: So how do you approach a Hendrix song — or the Hendrix songs you've been assigned to play this tour?
Zappa: I approach playing a Hendrix song the same way I approach my dad's stuff. When I learn any of the songs, I basically learn it note for note to play it with respect and reverence to what Jimi did. And then I try to match the sound as close as I can to the records as well. To me all those things are parts of the total composition. So to perform that song, I want to play it the way Jimi played it, I don't usually feel like I'm going to reinterpret it in a way that is any better than the way he did it.
Bee: So how does each player end up with the songs they perform on the Hendrix show?
Zappa: Well I only did the tour once before, but they gave me a list of five songs they thought would be good for me to participate in. Some of the people who have been doing it since the beginning, like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, they pretty much play the songs they have been playing every year — people identify with that. I played "Freedom" last time and a couple of songs with Eric Johnson, (including) "Little Miss Lover." I learned all those backwards guitar parts and all this kind of feedback stuff, and Eric handled the rhythm stuff. So the combination of us playing those two parts to duplicate the record arrangement hadn't been done before. That was cool to pull together that way. It sounded good.
Bee: Switching gears, I wanted to talk a little about the master guitar classes that you started hosting on your Zappa Plays Zappa Tours. I was able to attend one when you were in Connecticut last winter.
Zappa: Yes, that was one of the largest ones I ever did. It was interesting to see how it worked for multiple people.
Bee: So they are usually a bit more intimate?
Zappa: It really can vary. I've done them for small groups of six to the Ridgefield group that was more than 50. As word started getting out that these were happening, it started averaging about 15 to 18. I guess it's kind of tricky to schedule because of people's work schedules and stuff.
Bee: Does this cause a major shift in the logistics of how you prepare for the show versus before you did the classes?
Zappa: It doesn't have any effect on the logistics of setting up for the show from a production standpoint, but it does mean that I have much busier days.
Bee: So how do you walk in and find a common thread that can bring together fledgling players with expert guitarists and get them all kind of rowing together at the same time?
Zappa: One of the main things that guitar players want to be able to do is develop the freedom to improvise and play some things that will work in any key. It's a lifetime's worth of work to figure out the strategies of organizing those ideas for yourself. But there are a few shortcuts that may make it easier to take what you already know and organize it differently.
Bee: So you have possession of those shortcuts?
Zappa: My goal is to give people a different framework. In its simplest form, most guitar players are familiar with core scales for improvisation. So people usually find themselves in three of four boxes common to that. So I try to give them both a visual shift of the fretboard, and the mental shift of their perspective to consider other notes, along with a way to compartmentalize the guitar. It's breaking down little ideas that grow into a bigger idea, which grows into more complex stuff. Most people try to develop long phrases when they are learning to play. That's fine at first, but if you're not developed at improvising and you make a mistake, if you're not in the moment you're stuck covering your tacks from where you fell off the rails.
Check out a video of Dweezil Zappa on the Experience hendrix tour here.
Learn more aboutbthe Experience Hendrix Touer at: experiencehendrixtour.com
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Rep. Greg Forristall, R-Macedonia, talks on the phone during their opening day of the 2012 Legislature at the Iowa State Capitol Monday morning.
Recently the Iowa Senate passed a bill that would prevent wage theft from unscrupulous employers. Not one Republican voted for that bill. I find this repulsive, as it takes wages from those who can least afford it.
There are 600 to 1,000 cases of wage theft reported each year, and I'll bet many more cases are never reported out of fear or not knowing how to go about it. $600 million is being cheated from Iowa's workers.
Rep. Greg Forristall, a Republican in the House, says it is overblown. What? How can 600 to 1,000 cases that are reported not be significant? If it happens to one person, it is one too many.
It sounds as though the Republican Party wants to advertise nationwide for business owners by saying, "Come to Iowa, pay your employees as little as you want, don't put anything in writing and cheat them out of what they have earned as we will look the other way."
This is utterly disgusting.
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A rendering shows the proposed veterans apartments that would be built adjacent to the former Brown County Mental Health Center on the northeast side of Green Bay.
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A proposed housing complex for veterans near the newly opened Milo C. Huempfner VA Outpatient Clinic in Green Bay received a major boost this week that puts the project on track for a groundbreaking in late spring.
Veterans Manor, a $7.4 million project pitched by Cardinal Capital Management of Milwaukee, would provide 50 one-bedroom apartments for veterans in the shadow of the old Brown County Mental Health Center, which is being razed this fall. The manor, modeled after a similar operation near the VA clinic in Milwaukee, would provide housing and social services to low-income veterans.


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EDITOR: What is wrong with Wausau City Council member David Nutting's remarks in opposition to the gay pride parade? This is still a country of free speech.
Romans 1:18 says, " The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness." The same passage goas on to say that, "Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a deprived mind to do what ought not to be done."
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You might be wondering about the title of this post. I've had a lot of trouble getting these stories up, and I apologize for that. I've been trying to keep you updated and let you know I was still here and still care about the site even as crazy stuff has come up. However, even with the crazy stuff, it was just my own stupid fault these stories haven't posted on time, and I've learned a couple of things:
1) Fan fiction is still writing, which means that it's hard work and takes time.
This should be obvious. Hell, I've made that point to non-geeks who don't consider it "real writing" for a while now. But I haven't written fan fiction in a long time - not since I was about 12 - and when I decided to do a three part story for Beginning of Line, I didn't write it before the site went up. I figured it would be easy to dash off, and I could leave it for last minute, because it certainly couldn't be as difficult as the "real" writing I do.
Ha. Ha.
I got really into writing the first part, featuring Sam, and it surprised me that it took me several weeks. It surprised me how much I wanted to edit it, and how well I wanted to craft it. It shouldn't have, but it did. Then the second part, though I knew what I wanted that part of the story to be, proved more difficult, and the week it was supposed to go up came at a time when I had a trip planned to L.A. Then all this other stuff happened, and well - hiatus. After I posted that, I swore to myself that I would get the third part up on schedule. But again, life got in the way, and resolving this story took more time than I anticipated, because I didn't take into account that, Wait a minute, I might have to put some actual thought and energy into this.
Props to all the fan fiction writers out there who already knew what it apparently took me running a fan fiction site to figure out. Fan fiction deserves the same attention and care as original fiction. Case closed.
2) Finish the piece before you agree to submit it.
I learned this not only with my own piece, but through several people who submitted stories to the site. I agreed to do a three-part story before I'd written it, and I shouldn't have. It held up the site. As editor, I accepted work based on the promise of a second part without knowing whether it would be finished or not. I shouldn't have. Thankfully, everything's worked out, and I have every single episode through the end of the season (eleven more episodes!) present and accounted for.
Still, it's caused me more aggrivation than it's worth, and you lapses between stories you didn't need.
I'm still very new to this. As I said when I started, I'll be making mistakes and figuring things out as I go. But I'd like to tell you that the bumpiest parts of the journey are behind us! I'll be back on schedule, editing and working with each writer on their story as I was doing before my story came up. I'm already making plans for Season 3, and when the time comes, there will be deadlines that will be strictly adhered to. I will be doing my best to make this site as awesome an experience as possible for all of you.
As always, if you have any suggestions for me on how I can make things better, or just have ideas in general, you can talk to me about them in the comments, the forums, or by emailing me at beginningofline[at]gmail[dot]com.
Thank you all so much for your patience, your understanding, and your support of Beginning of Line!
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January 18, 1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. & LBJ
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been 82 on January 15, and yesterday we observed the national holiday in his honor.
The above photograph shows a January 18, 1964, White House meeting between four civil rights leaders—Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Whitney Young—and President Lyndon Johnson. A civil rights bill was stuck in the House Rules Committee, and the President was determined to get it moving.
Only five months before the photograph was taken, these same four men had spoken before nearly a quarter of a million people during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King, Jr., the final speaker on that day, inspired the crowd with his ringing declaration that "I have a dream."
The House finally voted in February 1964 and sent the bill to the Senate. As the year progressed, LBJ's legislative orchestrations, combined with actions by civil rights supporters on the streets, got the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. The President signed it on July 2, and King, Wilkins, Farmer, and Young were in the East Room of the White House with him. (The story of getting the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 through Congress is told in the Summer 2004 issue … [ Read all ]
Posted by Mary on January 18, 2011, under - Civil Rights, - The 1960s, Uncategorized.
Tags: american history, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., National archives and records administration
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Sex…and the Civil Rights Bill
Forty-seven years ago this past Saturday, Martin Luther King, Jr., touched a nation with his inspiring words. Just six months later in February of 1964, one small but powerful word was added to the House version of the divisive Civil Rights Act.
Representative Howard Smith of Virginia sponsored an amendment to the bill—he added the word "sex" to the list of categories such as race and religion that the employers couldn't consider when hiring someone. He thought the addition was so ludicrous it would kill the bill on the floor.
Smith's track record on civil rights was clear: he protested Brown v. Board of Education, and in 1957 when another civil rights bill (this one on voting) had come before his rules committee, he had said, "The Southern people have never accepted the colored race as a race of people who had equal intelligence . . . as the white people of the South."
But in 1964—whatever his intent for including the word, whether to torpedo a bill he opposed or even to try to gain some benefit from a bill he knew would pass—the word "sex" stuck around in this civil rights bill.
The bill cleared the House and Senate and later, when a conference committee suggested removing the word, committee … [ Read all ]
Posted by Rob Crotty on August 30, 2010, under - Civil Rights, - The 1960s, - Women's Rights.
Tags: american history, Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights Act, Jr., Martin Luther King, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, odd history, Pieces of History, prologue blog, Prologue magazine, random history, Representative Howard Smith, Representative Martha Griffiths, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, weird US history
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Structured Food Delivery Systems
Structured Emulsion-Based Delivery Systems: Controlling the Digestion and Release of Lipophilic Food Components (with Yan Li), Advances in Colloid and Interface Science (2010)
There is a need for edible delivery systems to encapsulate, protect and release bioactive and...
Oxidation in Foods and Beverages and Antioxidant Applications (I&II) (with Eric A. Decker) (2010)
Lipid digestion, emulsions, confocal microscopy, emulsifier type, in vitro digestion model
Influence of Initial Emulsifier Type on Microstructural Changes Occurring in Emulsified Lipids During in Vitro Digestion (with Eric A. Decker), Food Chemistry (2009)
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Modulation of Bulk Physicochemical Properties of Emulsions by Hetero-Aggregation of Oppositely Charged Protein-Coated Lipid Droplets (with Yingyi Mao), Food Hydrocolloids (2011)
This manuscript describes the formation, stability, and properties of colloidal dispersions formed by hetero-aggregation of...
Antiangiogenic effects of citrus Polymethoxyflavones and their derivatives. (with Eric A. Decker, Hang Xiao, and Wasamon Nutakul), Experimental Biology 2011 Annual Meeting (2011)
Behavior of emulsions stabilized by Maillard complexes in simulated GI conditions, ICEF Meeting (2011)
Behavior of lactoferrin stabilized corn oil in water emulsions coated with anionic polysaccharides in simulated gastrointestinal tract. (with Tanushree P. Tokle and Uri Lesmes) (2011)


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1941-1949Correspondence pertaining to ACE's research on brucellosis and other subjects; a letter from a serviceman who had received a "psychoneurotic" discharge and wished to be cleared of the stigma, believing that his symptoms were caused by brucellosis; answering letters from ACE to the above and similar letters from other individuals; and other items. (43 pcs.).
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Mission Statement
To preserve and enhance our unique environment and lifestyle on behalf of the people of Vernon through the provision of dynamic and accountable leadership and effective municipal services.
City Crest
The "V" of the shield represents the name of our City.
The elk represents the wildlife of the area (elk, which were plentiful at the time Vernon was incorporated, are not too prevalent now).
The sheaves represent the importance of agriculture.
The horn of plenty represents the fruit industry.
The lower part comprising the wavy blue lines on the white background depicts the many lakes in the area and the sunburst is indicative of the splendid climate enjoyed in the sunny Okanagan Valley.


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About Janet Johnson, NAMWE Founder and President
When you think of Janet, picture corporate Vice President and CFO meets shop girl in jeans and a t-shirt meets mom working from her desk at home. You can't put Janet in a box because she has done everything and been everything!
Whether Janet is helping her international corporate customer plan their production schedule…
or teaching a small business client how to read their financial statement…
or giving a Reiki session to an individual in pain,
…you're dealing with the same person. For seventeen years, Janet has given her all to each one of her customers and clients equally – regardless of company size, sales, so-called status, etc. Janet is Janet.
Meet Janet Johnson, 33 year old first generation Filipina American, Parent Leader, and president and founder of the National Association of Minority Women Entrepreneurs. She is a learning addict, oftentimes taking classes in anything from Dale Carnegie Human Relations courses to becoming certified in Reiki. From a young age, it was clear that Janet was a hard worker. She started working for her parents at 12 years old when her parents started their manufacturing company serving the most prominent cosmetic companies – Avon, MAC, and Mary Kay to name a few. With a skeleton crew of only fourteen employees shipping millions of lipstick tube parts to four different countries each week, Janet learned how to be a resourceful, efficient, and agile entrepreneur.
In 2009, Janet launched her first business, Quail Run Ventures, LLC and soon became known as the financial management and productivity expert serving specifically minority-owned, woman-owned, and veteran-owned businesses. Janet's greatest love (besides her family of course) is teaching. Using her life experience as a learning tool, she helps her clients turn once-frustrating aspects of running a business into aspects that "aren't so bad." "Once hard…now easy," is one of Janet's mottos.
On a personal note, Janet is big into rescuing and giving gently-used books to children in need to the tune (so far) of 12,000 pounds of shipments to three different continents. Empowering entrepreneurs through teaching, community outreach, and family are Janet's three main passions in life.
Janet Johnson graduated from Quinnipiac College in 2000 with her Bachelor of Science Degree in Management and from Quinnipiac University in 2002 with her Master's Degree in Business Administration. As of May 2012, she is a recent graduate from the Parent Leadership Training Institute.
Stay in touch with Janet and connect with her via LinkedIn or Facebook. Thanks!


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Naomi Hebert and Kyle Angelle
Mr. and Mrs. Shane Hebert and Mr. and Mrs. Lance Chavez are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Naomi Brooke Hebert, to Kyle Pierre Angelle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jules Angelle of Cecilia, Louisiana. The couple will be united in Holy Matrimony on Saturday, April 26 at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
Naomi is a graduate of Cecilia High School and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is employed as a registered nurse at Opelousas General Hospital.
Kyle is a graduate of Cecilia High School and Nashville Auto-Diesel College. He is employed as a painter at PHI, Inc.
After the wedding the couple will reside in Cecilia, Louisiana.


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SACRAMENTO – George Runner recently highlighted a new report by the Tax Foundation showing that the average Californian's tax burden worsened in 2010.
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SACRAMENTO – George Runner recently highlighted a new report by the Tax Foundation showing that the average Californian's tax burden worsened in 2010.
"At a time when Californians could least afford it, our state and local tax burden was among the highest in the nation," said Runner. "This new report provides further proof that by every measure Californians are overtaxed."
The Tax Foundation's Annual State-Local Tax Burden Ranking estimates the average total tax burden for residents of each state. This method takes the point of view of the individual taxpayer, counting all taxes he or she pays, no matter to which state they are paid.
According to the report, Californians paid 11.2 percent of their income in state and local taxes in 2010 — the fourth highest tax burden of any state. Only residents of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut paid more.
In 2010 the average California resident earned $43,919 but paid $4,934 in state and local taxes — $3,953 to state and local government in California and $981 to governments in other states.
Runner hopes that next year's report will show some progress given the July 1, 2011 expiration of California's temporary tax increases. But he also cautioned that future tax burdens remain uncertain.
"Sacramento politicians are always scheming up new and creative ways to take more of your hard-earned dollars," warned Runner. "Taxpayers must remain vigilant, knowing that jobs, not higher taxes, are the best way to ensure our state's prosperity."
The full study is available at taxfoundation.org.
Elected in November 2010, George Runner represents more than nine million Californians as a member of the State Board of Equalization. For more information, visit www.boe.ca.gov/Runner.


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The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
I'd hazard a guess that a sizable majority of readers become readers in the first place because at one point in time a book swept them away. An aesthetic appreciation for imagery or turn of phrase is all well and good, but most if not all of us hunger for a novel that seizes us by the throat and drags us into another world. Whatever else it may be, The Daylight War is such a novel, compulsively readable. I found myself putting off real life to finish it, and it was a good feeling. A lot of it is down to Peter V. Brett's deft styling and plotting, keeping his reader hooked without sacrificing artistic integrity. He does it so well that he even manages to keep his reader enthralled despite the fact that — in comparison to his two previous novels — very little actually happens in The Daylight War.
In the aforementioned first two books, Brett introduced readers to his world of fear and faint hope, where humanity cowers behind magical symbols called "wards" to avoid a gruesome death at the claws of demons that rise each night. By the time of The Daylight War's predecessor, The Desert Spear, two men have arisen to offer humanity hope of deliverance from the otherworldly scourge. These two men, Ahmann Jardir and Arlen Bales, were once friends but have become bitter nemeses — in no small part because they represent very different ideals of leadership. Where Bales is a kind of grass-roots champion, holding staunchly to his simple farming origins and attempting to inspire humanity to take responsibility for its own destiny, Jardir takes the path of the heroic conqueror, seeking to unite humans beneath his banner. It's clever stuff: Brett shows his readership the pros and cons of each viewpoint, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each man. Bales is self-effacing and morally centered, but his idealism may not be the pragmatic decision in the face of a fast-approaching war. Jardir is a dynamic leader with a firm vision of the future and a plan to enable humanity's survival, but he is haunted by atrocities committed in the name of the greater good. Much of The Daylight War is concerned with the build-up to the inevitable conflict between the two, but also with the introduction of a new point-of-view character in Jardir's wife Inevera, a previously enigmatic soothsayer.
The focus given Inevera is, for me, something of a mixed bag. Her perspective on events certainly makes it clear just how at sea all of these characters are, as well as affording Brett a chance to expand his world and complicate some of his system of magic. That said, Inevera's personality, while interesting and fully realized, is not particularly original or refreshing: what you see — it turns out — is more or less what you get. Inevera has family ties to humanize her and a harsh back-story to justify her cold-blooded decisions, but she remains the more-or-less archetypal "Machiavellian femme fatale." While much of her back-story is interesting and fun to read, it is yet another retelling of the same years we have seen depicted twice already from the perspectives of the two male protagonists, and may for some readers add up to a lot of page space for not a lot of new (or at least unexpected) information. Even once the story returns to the modern day, Inevera's perspective often serves to remind readers of something they were probably fairly clear on already: that Inevera is jealous of her husband's romantic affections and resents the intrusion of the other main female, Leesha Paper.
Indeed, perhaps because Inevera (probably the series' most overtly sexual character) is the major figure of this installment, much more focus is given in this book to sex, romance, and jealousy — particularly female jealousy. Obviously, the strain between Inevera and Jardir over Leesha's presence or importance is a major plot point, but we also get two marriages, numerous marital disputes, a sizable focus on how homosexuality works and is regarded in this universe, and seemingly endless love triangles (a sizeable number of which Leesha seems to drop into headfirst, until I wasn't sure whether to feel sorry for the woman herself or her legion of confused suitors).
This isn't to say that nothing involving demons happens. There are several substantial revelations on that score, and two major battle sequences, but these points come in more or less at the end of the novel, and the whole sequence of events takes place over only a single month. If I had to accurately title this novel, I would not choose The Daylight War — warring is firmly subordinate to politicking, mostly sexual politicking. This isn't a bad thing by any means, but readers who may have been led to expect a bit more action from previous installments may find themselves eager for a bit more conflict and a faster pace to the Jardir/Bales rivalry over and above the Leesha/Inevera one or any of the other romantic spats.
On the whole, though, I must say that Brett has crafted an effective and engrossing installment for his DEMON CYCLE, and if events are moving a bit slower here, the book does not feel much the poorer for it. The interpersonal conflicts are fascinating in their own right, and once the action does begin, it is as gripping as ever and builds to a shocking finale that — though perhaps just a bit too rushed to have the emotional impact it should have had — left me gasping for more.
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Second-grader brings gun to LR school
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Authorities in Little Rock say a second-grader at Daisy Bates Elementary School is recommended for expulsion after bringing a cocked and loaded pistol to school to show a friend.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Department said Thursday that the 8-year-old boy had the gun in his backpack and showed it to a friend, who alerted a teacher.
The boy, who is not being named because of his age, told a sheriff's deputy he had hoped to play cowboys and Indians with the .22-caliber revolver.
The investigative report says the boy's father was shaken and told deputies the pistol should have been in a locked gun cabinet.
The report says the school principal will recommend the boy be expelled.
Donor says he offered internship
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A member of a Los Angeles temple says he offered an internship to U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor's office without the lawmaker's permission in an auction that the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" said he won.
Chad Brownstein informed the Arkansas Democratic senator Thursday in a letter Brownstein provided to The Associated Press. Pryor asked the FBI a day earlier to investigate who offered his internship in the auction benefiting the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis says he won the internship in the auction and planned to include it in a prize package for a "hottest girl" TV show. The temple has returned his money.
Brownstein, who has donated to Pryor's campaign, says he'd suggested putting the internship up for auction but didn't realize it'd be posted.
Arkansas Supreme Court: Medical-case records not under FOI law
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In an opinion released Thursday, the state's highest court said a lower court did not err in its decision about the litigation files and documents attorney Luther Sutter requested.
The Saline County Circuit Court previously ruled that the records Sutter wanted were not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Sutter had asked the state Supreme Court to overturn that decision. He argued that an attorney's file about a medical malpractice case was public record.
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Leeanna Brooke Morgan pleaded guilty to one charge of illegally transferring someone's date of birth and mother's maiden name for the purpose of misusing a Social Security number.
Prosecutors claim she texted the information to a man who allegedly used it to commit financial identity fraud.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Morgan will be sentenced at a later date, though she faces up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 under federal law.
Prosecutors say Morgan worked as a service representative at the Social Security office, where she processed applications for new and replacement Social Security cards.
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The hotel opened at Third and Main streets in 1923 and its guests included Ernest Hemingway and Clark Gable. The Stuttgart Daily Leader reports that the property is set to be auctioned on May 30.
The hotel is now vacant, but residents in Stuttgart hope the downtown icon can be revived. The hotel was added to the 2005 Most Endangered Historic Places List after preservationists found that a lack of maintenance threatened the integrity of the building.
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Suspect jumps in Black River during chase
NEWPORT (AP) - Authorities in north Arkansas are searching for a burglary suspect who jumped in the Black River during a police pursuit.
Jonesboro television station KAIT reports that authorities are searching for the suspect on both the Jackson and Independence County sides of the Black River.
Authorities say they're looking for a burglary suspect from Diaz.
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Villa Vezzosa D is a cozy and welcoming apartment that is part of an ancient country house. It sleeps two people. It is appoximately 35 square meters (375 square feet). It features a shared swimming pool, a shared patio, a shared garden, winter heating and WI-FI Internet access.
You will be roughly 4.5 km (2.8 miles) from the medieval hamlet of Citerna, where you will find shops and the stop for the local bus. You will find the closest restaurant at 1 km (roughly 1100 yards) and a grocery store at 800 meters (880 yards).
Villa Vezzosa D is located on the ground floor.
To stay at Villa Vezzosa D you will need a car. You will be able to park it inside the entrance gate.
Villa Vezzosa D is one of the holiday homes available in a small complex. Please find a general description of the complex below, and please scroll further down for a description of Villa Vezzosa D.
Villa Vezzosa is a large classic old farmhouse in the country surrounded by a garden. There is a sunny swimming pool in the garden. You'll be in the verdant countryside between Tuscany and Umbria, a short distance from the lovely towns of Citerna and Anghiari, which are on the list of "The Most Beautiful Towns in Italy". Villa Vezzosa sits at the edge of the tiny village of Mancino, a cluster of ancient stone homes. Here you won't find tourist hoards, but the real inhabitants of the place, cordial and hospitable, and you'll be able to taste the way of life (and the food and wine!), which are genuine Italian country-style.
At Villa Vezzosa you'll find five small vacation apartments. The garden and pool are available for all guests, and there is a spacious patio furnished with a table for each apartment, along with a barbecue grill and brick wood oven, and a large salon with fireplace. The pool is heated by solar panels. Villa Vezzosa can accommodate up to 15 guests. The entire structure can be rented as a whole under the name Villa Vezzosa Grande.
The nice couple who own it live on site in a separate home, and are available to give you information and are happy to let you taste the organic fruits and vegetables from their garden.
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The swimming pool is 5 meters (16 feet) large by 12 meters (39 feet) long, 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) deep. It is heated. The swimming pool area is equipped with a table, chairs, sun umbrellas, deck chairs, sun loungers and external showers. From the swimming pool you will enjoy a pleasant view of the surrounding countryside and of the greenery. You will share the pool with the other guests staying at the complex. It is open from the beginning of June until mid-September, from 9 am to 8 pm.
The patio is 50 square meters (540 square feet) large. It is partly shaded by a roof. It is equipped with a table and chairs. The patio is shared with the other guests staying at the complex.
The garden is 300 square meters (3230 square feet) large. It is partly shaded by a porch. In the garden you will find a barbecue and a wood-fired pizza oven. The garden is shared with the other guests staying at the complex.
Other roomsLaundry room
You will be able to reach the laundry room from the garden. Here you will find a washing machine, an iron and an ironing board at your disposal. Living Room
You will be able to enter the living room from the patio. The ceiling has characteristic exposed wood beams and terraccotta tiles. Here you will find a matrimonial bed (160 cm/62 inches, wider than a queen-size bed). The furnishings include an armchair. The dining table can accommodate four guests. In this room you will find a satellite television. The room has a window with a view of the swimming pool.
You will be able to enter the kitchen from the living room. It is equipped with a four-burner gas cooker, an electric oven, a refrigerator with freezer and an Italian-style coffee-maker. The kitchen has a window with a view of the patio.
The bathroom is equipped with a washbasin, a toilet and a shower. You will be able to enter the bathroom from the kitchen.
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A view of the bar at the new Connor's Steak & Seafood at the Gulf Coast Town Center in San Carlos Park. / Special to news-press.com
Connors Steak & Seafood
10076 Gulf Center Drive, San Carlos Park
Food: ★ ★ ★ ☆
Atmosphere: ★ ★ ★ ☆
Service: ★★★½
Price: $$-$$$$
Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday
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Noise level: Conversationally loud at capacity
Etc.: Outdoor seating, full-liquor bar, takeout available, medium-length wine list with glasses available in six or nine-ounce pours, lengthy lunch menu with all entrees below $10, private banquet area, reservations encouraged.
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Sesame pork dumplings, $7
Lobster crab bisque, $3.50 (cup), $4.50 (bowl)
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Colorado BBQ chicken, $12
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The bar is an interesting place from which to review the new Connors Steak & Seafood.
From the two chairs at the far end a spot secured after a gracious but beleaguered hostess explained that at 5:50 p.m. on a Saturday there was an hour-and-a-half wait for the main dining room you sit as witness to the inner workings of this new, sprawling Gulf Coast Town Center restaurant.
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The woman at table 119 wants a banana daiquiri.
Thats not on the menu. Id need fresh bananas, the barman calmly tells the waitress. Ill get them from the pantry, the waitress answers, rushing to the kitchen and returning minutes later with three bright yellow bananas that are soon whipped into a rummy cocktail.
This is the heart of Connors, a spacious steak and seafood restaurant where the customer is always right, the seafood is always fresh and the steaks are thick, beefy and, at their pricey best, dry aged giving them a mineral twang thats hard to match.
This is the third Connors within the small chain. The original opened in Knoxville, Tenn. in 2004 with a Huntsville, Ala. location following in 2008. This latest incarnation looks like something youd spy on a Texas edition of HGTVs House Hunters. I can imagine a young couple walking in, marveling at the high ceilings and intricate stonework, appreciative of the beige-y neutral tones and dark-wood accents. Fortunately, its likely within their budget at least where menu items are concerned.
Connors keeps its prices mostly reasonable, especially at lunchtime when main courses are divided into $8, $9 and $10 sections, the portions still ample, the flavors classic and simple if not avant-garde.
Dinner is along the same lines. For $7 you can start with a half dozen Asian-style steamed dumplings, each tender purse filled with ground pork and green onions and then bathed in a sauce of sesame and soy. Should some of that sauce dribble onto your lap as the server extends the plate over your shoulder expect sincere and profuse apologies, a free drink and the appetizers cost removed from your bill, all without so much as a word of complaint from the dribbled-on diner.
An entrée of red snapper and pearl couscous is neater; the fish delicately moist and drizzled with lobster beurre blanc and pomegranate glaze. There are fish and chips fried to golden brown perfection, and salads with flaky, smoky salmon on plentiful beds of greens.
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A fried-green tomato appetizer tasted of rubbery breading and starchy tomatoes one lunch, a pair of heavy gravies undercutting the fruits acidity. Seafood gumbo, while spicy and comforting, can be overwhelmed by okra, the vegetables slimy nature giving the soup an odd mouth feel.
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Sandy Hook and Pre-emptive Civilian Disarmament
by William Norman Grigg
Civilian disarmament advocates insist that the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre illustrates the dangers of inadequately restrictive firearms laws. That assumption is impossible to reconcile with the fact that Connecticut's state government regards individual firearms ownership not as a right but as a highly conditional privilege subject to revocation without notice, on the whim of an unaccountable bureaucrat.
In 1999, the Connecticut legislature enacted
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The gun confiscation measure was enacted in October 1999, about a year and a half after the last pre-Sandy Hook mass shooting to occur in the Nutmeg State. The assailant, Matthew Beck, was an ex-employee of the Internal Revenue Service who at the time was employed as an accountant at the Connecticut Lottery Corporation.
A few months before the March, 1998 massacre, Beck had been granted a medical leave for stress-related symptoms. His application for a promotion had been denied. Several of his co-workers and relatives had become concerned about his emotional state. Some of his close friends believed that Beck suffered from suicidal depression. But nobody had expected that he would arrive at work one morning, take out a Glock, and start gunning down his supervisors.
As is always the case in episodes of this kind, the shooter ended the rampage on his own terms, killing himself before the police arrived. The on-scene security guard was similarly useless: The only aid he provided was to suggest to the victims that they take refuge in a wooded area nearby.
Just weeks after the shooting, State Representative Michael Lawlor introduced the gun confiscation measure.
State police Lieutenant Robert Kiehm explained to the Associated Press that the purpose of the measure is to give police officers the power "to take some proactive steps instead of waiting for something to happen."
"The value of this law is not so much that police will seize your guns," Lawlor insisted when it took effect in October 1999. "It gives police a system to investigate a person who poses a threat. If the police never confiscate a person's guns, they can at least look into the person's behavior and perhaps prevent a tragedy by intervening."
During the first decade following its enactment,
Connecticut's gun seizure law resulted in the confiscation of at least 2,000 firearms from people who were never charged with crimes
. Nearly all of the seizures followed reports from concerned relatives – generally spouses -- of the victims. Attorney Rachel Baird, who has represented a dozen Connecticut residents whose firearms have been confiscated, insists that none of them posed any credible threat to anybody, including themselves.
who is now the state's Under Secretary for Criminal Justice Policy and Planning
, invokes a variation on Dick Cheney's
"One Percent Doctrine"
("Even if there's just a 1 percent chance of the unimaginable coming due, act as if it's a certainty") to justify the gun confiscation program. "Maybe it would have been just a suicide or a single murder of a spouse, but potentially one of these guys along the road could have been a mass shooting," he told NPR.
The standard set out in the Connecticut confiscation law – namely, that guns can be seized from anyone who presents "a risk of imminent personal injury to others" – would justify the pre-emptive disarmament of the police force. After all, the police constitute a body of armed individuals who are trained to employ violence and are rarely held accountable for injuring or killing others without a morally sound reason to do so.
If Lawlor's defense of the measure – that it is justified by the prevention of "just a suicide or a single murder" – were applied seriously, it would buttress the case for disarming the police in Connecticut. Between April and June of 2011,
there were four police suicides in Connecticut
, a development that prompted authorities to convene
a special statewide conference on suicide prevention
. That argument is enhanced even further by the case of Hartford Police Officer Robert Lawlor (no relation, as far as I can determine).
In May 2005, Officer Lawlor was part of a federal task force called the Violent Crime Impact Team (VCIT). He and his partner, ATF Agent Daniel Prather, were deployed on the streets of Hartford looking for firearms to confiscate.
On the evening of May 7, Lawlor and Prather – who were decked out in street attire -- were harassing somebody on a street corner when the officer spotted a black Maxima with a young black male sitting behind the wheel.
Lawlor strode up to the car, flashed his badge, and ordered the driver, a young man named Brandon Henry, to stop the car and keep his hands in plain sight. He had neither probable cause nor "reasonable suspicion" to justify the contact. A few seconds later, five shots erupted and Henry, in a panic, pulled away in the car. While the officers called for backup, Henry collided into another vehicle before staggering from his car and running away, depositing a bloody trail in his wake.
Although he had been shot in the chest, Henry survived. His passenger, 18-year-old Jashon Bryant, did not. Lawlor, who had approached the vehicle from the passenger side, had shot Bryant in the head. A thorough search of the vehicle turned up a tiny amount of cocaine. No firearm was ever found.
Testifying under oath later,
admitted that he never saw a gun in the car – and never heard Lawlor mention one at the time of the shooting. An
official investigation by the State Division of Criminal Justice
concluded that "the use of deadly physical force was not appropriate." In other words, Lawlor had committed criminal homicide.
Unlike the people whose guns were stolen by Connecticut police, Lawlor's background demonstrated that he was clearly a danger to the safety of others.
He was investigated
for a 1990 on-duty shooting in which a 15-year-old boy was needlessly wounded. He was sued on multiple occasions by professional colleagues, who accused him of malicious harassment and reckless driving that resulted in injuries to several other officers.
Lawlor is the kind of fellow who speaks of himself in the third person when explaining to a reporter that he's willing to bend the rules to get things done – and that his problems reflect the fact that his professional colleagues just aren't worthy of him.
"If you're a boss, is it easier to bring Bobby Lawlor down or is it easier to take 40 other officers and bring them up to my level?" Lawlor said to the Hartford Courant following the 2005 shooting. "I've had problems with supervisors because ... I fight for the little guy and I know policy and procedure better than the supervisors."
"Policy and procedure," from Lawlor's perspective, apparently justified subornation of perjury in order to protect himself after he needlessly shot and killed Jashon Bryant.
About a week after the shooting, a minor-league drug dealer named Jaime Diaz called the Hartford Police to report that he had the gun Lawlor had supposedly seen in Henry's car. Diaz, who insisted that he didn't know Lawlor, provided a detailed statement to police describing how he came into possession of the weapon. Two weeks later, Diaz contacted the Police again to recant his statement, admitting that he was actually a confidential informant who had worked with Lawlor as part of a narcotics task force.
Ten years earlier, Lawlor – once again, acting on "policy and procedure," as he understood the concept – refused to arrest Diaz on a narcotics charge. Now that he was in serious trouble after gunning down an unarmed 18-year-old kid, Lawlor called in the favor.
In July 2006, after the State Division of Criminal Justice ruled that Lawlor's shooting of Jashon Bryant was not legally justified, the officer was confronted by several of the victim's relatives outside the Hartford Superior Court.
When Lawlor returned a week later for a pre-trial hearing, "The entrance to the [courthouse] was lined with blue,"
reported the local NBC affiliate, WTNH
. "State and local police in uniform were there to guard Officer Lawlor from friends and family of the man he's accused of killing...."
Although there was no serious dispute about the facts of the case, Lawlor was acquitted in 2009. It shouldn't surprise anyone that he displayed not a scintilla of regret over the fact that he had needlessly killed an unarmed and terrified 18-year-old boy.
"No mistakes were made," Lawlor defiantly sneered at Bryant's father and sister
as the bereaved relatives confronted the killer outside the courthouse
. "Being sorry, to me in my personal belief, would be admitting some sort of wrongdoing. I did nothing wrong."
Lawlor did find it appropriate to express sympathy toward someone he considered a worthy victim. After the trial, Lawlor – who by that time had retired with a full pension -- whined that the verdict brought to an end "the longest four and a half years of my life."
He promptly filed a lawsuit
against the prosecutor who had filed criminal charges against him.
If Connecticut's pre-emptive disarmament law had really been intended to mitigate public danger, Michael Lawlor would have been required to surrender his firearms, rather than using them to confiscate guns from other people. But if sociopaths in uniform are required to give up their guns, how would they be able to disarm the rest of us?
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Posted: Dec 31 2012, 10:48 AM
Like MOST citizens who own personal firearms for whatever reasons they choose, not ALL take part in the type incidents that took place at Sandy Hook, Columbine, the mall or movie theater I believe most would agree. Just as MOST police officers (such as myself) are not a fair representation of Lawlor or any of the other 'out of line renegades' you so often point out. There is far more good being done by law enforcement officers than the bad things that are being constantly reported. I'm not advocating that law enforcement officer's bad behaviors and actions be overlooked or swept under the rug, just report the good things along with the bad. I know good doesn't sale and isn't as sexy as bad, but EVERY profession has its individuals that stray away from the pack/herd and its really not fair to judge the whole for what a few have done.
Posted: Jan 01 2013, 12:49 AM
All issues aside, and yes its really sad that any child or anyone is killed, whether by a firearm or by an abortion or by drowning or what ever, but the facts are that gun control doesn't work,,, for the people. Sure it works great for the government. But the people? It is proven, the facts speak for themselves. As the climate change guys would say. The science is in. It is a closed subject If you disarm the regular people only criminals and the government, (wait I repeated myself) will have guns, and if they don't have guns they will hack you to death with a machete or something. A firearm is an equalizer. That is all it is. Its for the man sitting at home with his wife and kids when an armed intruder or intruders burst into his home with intentions of criminal activity. People die everyday. People murder others everyday. 8000 deaths each year from a gun? Many many more people are killed, murdered by other weapons each year. Gun crime is a very small percentage.I would love to live in a world where guns weren't needed by people, for a free people, but that is not the reality we live in. There are evil people in the world who would rob, rape, and murder all the time, if they were not afraid of getting shot.
Why should anyone be punished for others misdeeds? Why should my rights be trampled? When it won't help?
Posted: Jan 02 2013, 3:35 AM
They say there is a video camera between the office and the rest of the school and to get through Adam would have had to be on camera shooting something in the office, some windows they say, then give us the video , so we have anything to believe from all the lies they already told!?! My god hates lies and ploys on his sympathy assholes!
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The Green Bay Packers arent sure whether theyll have Sam Shields available this Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings, but theyre certainty well-prepared for the worst case scenario.
A week ago at this time, the fourth-year cornerback sat out of practice with a hamstring flare-up, but still was listed as probable. The only problem was his pre-game workout didnt go well and he wound up being a late scratch in Sundays 27-13 loss to the New York Giants.
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Whitt also took the high road despite finding out roughly 90 minutes before the game arguably his best cornerback would not be playing. It pushed House into the starting lineup and left Hyde in the slot in the nickel sub-package for the entire game instead of rotating with Williams like he has been at times.
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