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John Fields and Paul David Hager have a very modern working relationship — and with the Jonas Brothers, they've delivered a string of old‑fashioned hits.
The Jonas Brothers are yet another in a long line of acts that have been dropped by their record company before going on to make it big. When Columbia gave up on the three teenage brothers in 2007, Hollywood Records, a Walt Disney company, immediately snapped them up. A year later, the Jonas Brothers stormed the charts with their eponymously titled album and the hit single 'SOS', both of which went platinum in the US and reached the top of the charts in many other nations, including the UK.
Less then two years later, the Jonas Brothers and their guitar‑based power‑pop have become a global phenomenon, having sold well over eight million albums worldwide. June saw the release of their third Hollywood album, Lines, Vines And Trying Times, which again went to the top in the US and reached the top 10 in another dozen or so countries, including the UK.
The man co‑responsible for harnessing the Brother's talents on their three Hollywood Records albums is engineer, producer and multi‑instrumentalist John Fields, known hitherto for working with alt‑rock and pop acts like Switchfoot, Iffy, the Rembrandts, Paul Westerberg, Rooney, Tina & the B‑Sides and Dovetail Joint.
"It was February 2007," recalls Fields. "I'd done a little bit of work with Hollywood Records' A&R guy, Jon Lind. As I understand it, when the Jonas Brothers came in for their initial meeting with him after they had signed, he asked them what producer they wanted to work with, and they mentioned me because they loved the Switchfoot albums that I'd done. So Jon invited us all to his office, and they performed most of the hits that I'd later record on their acoustic guitars. I wanted to hear them sing in front of me, and they were fantastic. We started recording our first album together a week later, and took four weeks to finish it. At that first meeting I just knew there would be a great chemistry between them and I, and so it proved. I have always wanted to make commercial hit singles, and the brothers are really open to anything. They're not hung up on being cool, or indie cred or stuff like that. They're just into making music."
John Fields recorded and part‑mixed the Jonas Brothers' most recent album, Lines, Vines And Trying Times, at Wishbone Studio in LA, which he has on long‑term lease from two members of Blind Melon. "The studio has a '70s, 32‑channel API desk and a great assortment of microphones," explains Fields, "and I brought all the gear from my garage, including my own HD3 Accel Pro Tools rig. Using this studio full‑time is great, because I have everything set up exactly the way I want it. Also, because I do everything in the box in Pro Tools, I can do sessions with two or three different artists in one day."
Since the second half of 2008, Fields works closely together with mixer Paul David Hager, who has his own mix room at Encore Studios in LA. The duo's to‑and‑fro collaboration, enabled by working in the box, has become fundamental to Fields' way of working. "Working with Paul David is great because he is on iChat all day long, and we are throwing Pro Tools files at each other via iChat all the time. It's like playing football with the files.
"When I'm recording, I work really fast. I want the track to sound like a record immediately, so I'm literally throwing plug‑ins on it on the fly, and I'll be programming effects, and I'll have everything on the vocals that I want, and I'll quickly have created a general picture of the whole track. At the same time, because I'm working so fast, and because I most likely have the artist there, and whoever else, I may be smashing the 2‑bus too hard, and because I'm not really watching it stuff gets louder and out of control, and there may be 'ess' problems on the vocals and the hi‑hat may sound weird, and so on. That's where Paul David comes in, because he fixes all my problems, and also he dramatically improves the sound of the drums. Basically, I throw paint at the canvas very fast and he cleans it up and gets very detailed. He'll also tell me if I he thinks that I have to recut the drums or the bass. Doing that is so fast for me, that I usually will say, 'OK, no problem.' Paul David likes using the SSL, and wanted to do Lines, Vines And Trying Times on an SSL, but I was like, 'No, dude, we do it in the box!' I wanted to be able to juggle all the projects I do at the same time and need to have instant recall. I'll work on a song all day long, and will then send it over to Paul David, and when I wake up the next morning there'll be a Pro Tools file from him in my iChat inbox. I'll double‑click on it, and it will instantly sound like a million bucks!"
Written by Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas II, Cathy Dennis, John Fields
Produced by John Fields
John Fields: "Usually Nick or one of the brothers comes in with a song idea that they play to me on an acoustic guitar and/or a piano, and which I'll record to a click. Nick will sometimes call in on the way to the studio, saying he has a song and he'll tell me the key and will sing me the beat over the telephone. By the time he arrives I'll have a beat going and a recording template ready for him, and he'll cut guitar and vocals. The vocals that he sings right there could be the final vocal. He and the other guys are fantastic singers, and because my stuff is all set up, we don't need to bother with demos. I might work on some keyboards, bass, and program a beat, and we'll overdub the rest of the instruments. I like doing this as quickly as possible. Even before we have a second verse or chorus, they will already sing the first verse and chorus, just to see what it sounds like. Nick will also often play the drums to get an idea down, and my friend, drummer Dorian Crozier, will later redo the drums with super power and super precision, and generally by the end of the evening we'll have a song.
"In the case of 'Paranoid' it was a little bit different, because Cathy Dennis [the British songwriter who has written number one hits for Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears and Katy Perry] had expressed an interest in working with the brothers, and so a session with the brothers and her was booked at my studio. The song started with a little idea from Nick, and after that it was an organic development of somebody sitting at the piano, someone else with an acoustic guitar and somebody typing in the lyrics. We started at 7pm and by the time everyone went home at 11pm we had a track. I sent MP3s to everyone and a couple of days later we had a second session to finish the track. Nick had played a four‑on‑the‑floor rhythm idea on the floor on the drums on the first day. We took a couple of bars from that and looped it and basically played the whole song to that. I wanted some more fluidity in the drums, and a friend of mine from Minneapolis, Michael Bland, happened to be in LA playing with Prince on the Tonight show. He came over and played to the track. His drums were recorded with various non‑glamorous microphones, which went into the API console mic pres, some with the EQ engaged, either API 550 [parametric] or 560 [graphic]. There were no drum samples on the track. That's another reason I like working with Paul David: he works with what I give him. Big mixers like to be comfortable and want to make sure that things sound good to them and often add their own samples. But if I want a drum sample, I put one on.
"The final vocals were mainly from the first session, with some replacements and overdubs during the second session. My vocal chain for the whole album was Neumann U87, API 2124 mic pre, Anthony Demaria Labs ADL1000 compressor — just kissing it slightly — and [Empirical Labs] Distressor in Opto mode 10:1, into Pro Tools via the 192 modules. Guitar cabinets were recorded using SM57s and Royer [ribbon mics] going into the API console, or using a Line 6 X3 Pro direct to Pro Tools. Ken Chastain, another friend of mine from Minneapolis, did some percussion and sound effects and sent those to me as a Pro Tools file. Steve Roehm added a sci‑fi‑like vibraphone part, and that was the whole track. I later also played some more guitars and in the chorus a Fender Jazz Bass, using a Line 6 Bass Pod XT Pro, and direct into Tools.
"I then added a Vacuum synth [plug‑in] bass in the verses, and lots of synthesizer stuff and effects, most of them designed to create a sense of paranoia. I have a lot of hardware keyboards at my studio, including a Nord Lead from 1997, which I use all the time, and a Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08, but I did not really use them on 'Paranoid'. Instead most of the keyboard sounds come from Digidesign's Xpand, which I love, and Vacuum, their analogue, monophonic‑sounding synth plug‑in. They come with Pro Tools 8. The Pro Tools 8 plug‑ins actually work with version 7, you just have to put them in the appropriate folder. Other Pro Tools 8 plug‑ins I used were Boom, which is a drum machine with 909/808‑ish sounds that allows you to tune each drum sound, and the AIR plug‑ins, which we used a lot on the vocals. We were also using [Digidesign's time‑stretching tool] Elastic Audio, which doesn't sound as good on drum sets, because the cymbals become wacky, but it really sounds great on things like tambourines, and it can do wonders on acoustic guitars."
John Fields: "As I said, I don't really have a separate mixing stage: recording and mixing happen at the same time, and I work very fast. Because of this there can be a lot of slop in my songs, and if it doesn't bother me, I leave it. If there is some kind of final stage, it may literally just involve me printing my MIDI files to audio, and fixing some crossfades and double‑checking edit points. In fact, I usually print my MIDI to audio pretty early on, because it stresses the computer if you have five or six MIDI synths open. At some point I decide: 'No more changes, I'm going to print these.' But I'll always have the original MIDI track right next to the audio, in case I need to make a change. The many synths on 'Paranoid' are often stereo tracks, and called things like 'string pad', 'freaky synth', 'bubble', 'piano', and 'glass pad'. The 12 in the name of many of the drum tracks refers to the [Pro Tools] Playlist. Every time I revised it, I kept the old one. Maybe I did nine drum takes and then comped one. So another thing I may do towards the mixing stage is delete all the older Playlists. Deleting older Playlists can clean out, like, 2GB of space. I keep everything I record, but still don't have massive files, because I make my decisions fast, so I don't record that much. The final 'Paranoid' Session file was just 4.12GB!"
Paul David Hager: "I normally would have mixed a project like the Jonas Brothers' album on an SSL, because everything is right in front of me, or using my Chandler summing mixer. But John and I thought the last record we mixed in the box, Ballas Hough Band for Hollywood Records, sounded very good, as did the Jonas Brothers. The great thing for me in working with John is that we have totally different ways of mixing. Typically, John will have his basic tracks done, and he'll send me those, and I'll work on them and send what I do back, and he'll continue overdubbing on that, and will send that back to me again. So we bounce the mix back and forth; it's truly a collaboration. For me, it's rarely a matter of simply sitting down and doing a mix.
"Basically, John will get a basic feel going and I'll tweak things and clean up the drums, and work on the vocals, and in the case of the Jonas brothers will make sure each of the three brothers has their own identity, and so on. Also, with the Jonas Brothers, Jon Lind will listen to the end result, and will ask for adjustments, which I will incorporate. And three weeks after I mixed 'Paranoid', Radio Disney asked for a verse line to be changed. Making changes like this is made much easier and quicker by mixing in the box, of course, and it's another reason why all the Disney stuff pretty much stays in the box.
"My normal mix approach is to listen to the rough very quickly, and to just open the Pro Tools file and throw up the faders and listen to where they left it. Most of the time I have sent over a sheet with details of how I like the producer/engineer to prep things. That makes things a lot faster. The other day somebody sent me a file that wasn't rendered to zero, and that had a thousand fades in it, and somehow the fades had become corrupted when going from Pro Tools 8 to 7.4.2, so I had to get another file and render it on another machine and import that. That took a lot of time. Obviously, I don't have these issues in working with John. I have Pro Tools 8 on my laptop, but I don't like it very much. I don't like the greyness and John had problems with Beat Detective. I also found that there are some weird things happening with version 3.1.1 of [plug‑in package] Sound Toys in Pro Tools 8. It's important that John's system and mine are near‑identical, so I went back to 7.4 as well. The other problem is that things can get lost when you open and/or transfer Pro Tools files. With analogue, you painstakingly double‑check your mix when you recall it. With digital, you assume that that little flanger thing on that guitar part that happens for just two seconds is still the same. But sometimes it's not, and that can be tricky. So you want to use the exact same versions of Pro Tools wherever possible."
Paul David Hager: "'Paranoid' was an exception to the usual collaborative way of working that John and I have, because I was away for a week while they continued working. At the end of the week, I received three songs that were virtually finished, and I just mixed them. 'Paranoid' was one of them. But it was still all in the box. 'Paranoid' is a fairly simple song, but there are a lot of keyboards that come and go, and the verses were so lush, particularly the second verse with the Simple Minds‑like keyboards and the backwards stuff, that it was hard to really make sure that the chorus made a splash when it kicked in. The chorus gets busier and more driving, but it doesn't necessarily get huge‑sounding in the original version. So I did my best to make it explode in the choruses. You have to get psychologically excited and build up a bit of an adrenalin rush for the choruses.
"The rough of 'Paranoid' was in good shape when I got it, and I started by cleaning up the drums and adding some crack and personality to the snare. Normally, I start a mix by working on the vocals first, and try to create something around that, and then I add in the drums, and the bass and guitars, always double‑checking them against the vocals, making sure that they support the vocals. I didn't do this with 'Paranoid' because the rough had a good balance, and with a song that had so many elements that were already in the ballpark, I tried to focus more on beefing up the track and making it come together. Also, John will often hit the stereo bus too hard, so I will pull everything down and start with the drums again, and work my way up from there to get everything to breathe a little better. You can hit the stereo bus pretty hard in Pro Tools, but it's better to allow some headroom, because you can do more with the track. Basically, I tried to take what John did and make it more 3D."
Drums: Waves SSL Channel, SSL EQ, C4 & Renaissance Bass, Cranesong Phoenix, Massey CT4, Digirack Expander/Gate III, TL Labs TL Space
Paul David Hager: "John will usually not put any plug‑ins on the drums; they sound good when they're going in. So I will put on some SSL Channel EQ and start beefing them up. But once I'd beefed up the drums, I had to brighten up the guitars and the vocals, and so on. The four‑on‑the‑floor in the verse also sounded big and thick, and when the drums start playing a disco beat in the chorus, it was a matter of keeping it moving and keeping the thickness in there. I think John uses an [AKG] D112 for the kick, Shure Beta 57 for the snare, top and bottom, AKG 414 for overheads, and a Coles overhead in the centre. I'd suggested the Coles to him; I'd just cut a record with Devo, and using the Coles had a nice '70s/'80s vibe to it. There's also a track called 'Sinair', and the track next to it is a stereo room mic, recorded with a Neumann SM2.
"I usually boost the kick somewhere between 50 and 100 Hz and then again around 4‑5k, to get a nice crack, so it cuts through with the bass guitar, but not too clicky. I submixed the top and bottom snare mix to a snare VCA track, which is my overall snare fader. I used the [Waves] SSL Channel on the snare. Usually, I try to find the warmth of the snare, and add something in the 200Hz range — in the case of 'Paranoid', 250Hz. Then I'll find the crack, which is in the 4‑5k range, and bring that up a little bit as well. I'm always EQ'ing into compression with the snare, so it really cuts through in the track and sits just right. Because the snare hits the compressor, it brings the gain back up, and that creates that snap that everyone is so used to having these days. In general I use the SSL Channel mainly for the EQ, and if I use the limiter it's always after the EQ, so it's shaving a little from the top. It hits the transients with 3dB, but my ratio is low at 2:1 and I make it super‑fast. That goes on everything apart from the toms.
"As you can see in the Mix window, I use the Cranesong Phoenix plug‑in a lot. In fact, I use it pretty much on everything. There are five different ones, and some of them are good for bringing out the mid‑range, others more for adding top and bottom. It simulates the effect of tape, so it makes Pro Tools sound more analogue. The three buttons on the left recreate the bias of a tape machine: the first one is linear, the second one boosts the top end and the third one boosts the bottom end. Sapphire is a setting I often use on the snare.
"I also created two separate submix tracks for drums. One is called 'Drums' and is dry without compression, and then I make an Aux fader, 'Compress', on which I send different amounts of things to a compressor, in this case the Massey CT4. I don't send too much overheads into the compressor, because John really hates splashy cymbals, and I don't want to pump the overheads. The same with the room mic. The Waves C4 is a dynamic compressor/EQ that is there to tighten up the bottom end a little bit. Especially with a four‑to‑the‑floor kick the tendency is for the low end to be filled up too much, and if there's a dB or two too much the CT4 will keep it in check. To the right of the 'Compress' and 'Drums' tracks is a 'verb' track, which has a TL Space [reverb] plug‑in, and after that an Expander/Gate, just to give it more of an '80s gated‑snare sound. The toms are sent to a separate reverb track, and only have the TL Space plug‑in without the gate."
Percussion: Digirack Compressor/Limiter Dynamics III (LD3), Waves Q6, SSL Channel & S1 Imager, Abbey Road TG12413
"To the right of the drum tracks [in the Mix window] are 12 tracks from percussionist/programmer Ken Chastain, which are all pretty much 'candy' stuff. Ken will give us a bunch of stuff as a Pro Tools file, plug‑ins included, and John and I will mute or unmute as required, but we pretty much keep 90 percent of what Ken does. There are only a few things going throughout the track, the rest come in once and a while. 'Verseloper' is a loop that went through the verse to add to the four‑to‑the‑floor vibe. I have an LD3 on the 'Verseloper' and the 'boom kik'. I sent the kick and snare to the LD3 and used these to trigger it, so that every time the kick and snare sound, Ken's tracks get ducked a little bit. That makes space for the real kick and snare to sit there and tightens things up. I do that a lot. I like to let the real drums bleed and add other stuff for some character."
Vocals: Waves SSL Channel, Massey CT4 & De‑Esser, AIR Ensemble
Hager: "The main vocal is Nick's, on which I have a Waves SSL Channel, adding a bit of high‑mid and high frequencies to brighten it up and using a little bit of compression, a Massey CT4 for more LA2A type‑compression, giving some colour, and the Massey De‑Esser, which is probably the best de‑essing plug‑in out there. Joe's vocal had a similar treatment. All the vocals go to a group that has a little overall EQ and compression and which sends to reverb and delays. We printed the long delay reverb effects back to a separate track."
Fields: "We also used the AIR plug‑in on the vocals, which is an example of the Pro Tools 8 plug‑in working in 7. The AIR sounds like a chorus effect and it makes the vocals sound kind of freaky."
Guitars & bass: Waves SSL Channel, L1 & Q4, Cranesong Phoenix, Focusrite D3, Sound Toys Tremolator, Digidesign Recti‑Fi, AIR Talkbox
Hager: "The verses are synth bass and the choruses are real bass, DI'd. There is nothing on the synth bass, and the real bass has a Waves Q4 EQ to add a little mid and pull out a couple of frequencies that were building up in the bottom. It also has the Cranesong Phoenix Dark Essence plug‑in. The chorus rock guitars were grouped to a subgroup, where they were compressed with a Focusrite D3 compressor and a Phoenix. Most of the guitars required very little EQ, maybe a little bit here and there to brighten them up. Any other guitar effects were printed when they were tracked."
Master processing: Digirack Trim, Massenberg EQ, Focusrite D3, Cranesong Phoenix
Fields: "Four plug‑ins were added by both Paul David and I. Trim is the first one, and it allows Paul David to pull things back and prevent overloading. The next one is the Massenberg EQ plug‑in, which is adding some treble to the two‑bus, and then there's a Focusrite compressor/limiter with a very light 1.5:1 setting, and finally an Iridescent Phoenix plug‑in. For me it is a mystery what the Phoenix plug‑ins do, but Paul David loves them and uses them on the mix, and vocals, and drums. They have this voodoo analogue effect and definitely make things sound better." .
"I did my first in‑the‑box project as far back as 2001," says John Fields, "when I did an album called Biota Bondo for Iffy. I worked under OS 9, and at 16‑bit/44.1kHz, and I think the album still sounds awesome. I've never cared about bits, and it's been so long since I listened to analogue, I have no idea what it sounds like.
"I now work 24/44.1. Working in 96k is a waste of time, because you have to go down to 44.1kHz/16‑bit for CD anyway, and even lower for download formats. Plus I've seen people's systems choke because they're trying to keep their drum sound at 96k, and in the end it doesn't sound any better anyway. I went full‑time over to recording and mixing in the box at the beginning of 2007 when I recorded, mixed, and produced Calling The World for Rooney. I don't need a controller; I just use a Mac keyboard and the Kensington Expert Mouse trackball. It has four buttons that you can program, and it allows me to whip the cursor across the screen in nanoseconds, and you can't do that with a regular mouse. The Kensington is the one thing I have to have. I also still work in Pro Tools 7.4, rather than 8, because of stability issues, and because Beat Detective does not work in 8! I use Beat Detective a lot, for many reasons. I'm very particular about swing and feel, and in modern music there are so many layers of electronics and live music together that you sometimes have to lock things together with Beat Detective. I do a lot of programming, and even when I'm working with the greatest, tightest drummer in the world, when you use Beat Detective on the drums, it will really lock in with the programming. People might call it 'feel' to have a rushy fill. I call it rushing."
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"Red Birds" by Z
[Now waiting for public transit]
(Verse 1)
Cross dreams with a piece of mind
Them clean streets need a curb, then you'll see it lines up right?
You look good in them 3-d glasses
We're all paper cutouts without them, get to walking around
That old window; you winded yet?
I sent a check and a letter - forgot the address
A rock to padlock, pocket your past effort
I followed you half-steppin'; the first to break even
Yep... Treated slots as a constant
Pairing Black & white together, 'til it's obvious
But look man, I'm a lobbyist
I've got a place to yell, and I know the cost to switch
So don't wait for me.. don't worry, I got it
It ain't selfish if I do it on my own
And I made the me, that never worded you proper
Call back for them 5-4-3-2 dial tones
So throw that, overlay away
I can tell you wouldn't go back
Photographs will fade and
You don't need to know
I would, walk along the graves of
Everything you say cause
I don't need a phoenix to figure out
How to wake up
Wake up with it
Don't take much to run it; we got them singin' like
La la-la-la, la-la la l-la
Sayin' pardon my cardinal, c-cardinal yeah
(Verse 2)
Don't cross that shadow with me, nah
A half-addict, back at it with Pete Rock
Now I won't tell you the category that we fall
Think of Blackbird with a level-headed key card
- though. Far-fetched the bar set
Wake up in the morning like, "We in New York yet?"
A sore neck sells, and a new watch works
It's last letter like you knew mine first, haha
(hold up) Them ain't dead words, those are red birds
Setting beds to cement, until your head hurts
Sit down, split how, you give out
Fitted crowns, the crutch reads, kick now
Feeling like the first bars from 'Lost Ones'
Without a seventh floor penthouse to fall from
Oh well, put a compass to chest
And stay late on my monthly rent, then let 'em know like

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Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England
Edited by Rory Loughnane, Edel Semple
|Publication Date
|November 2013
|Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF)
|Palgrave Macmillan
|Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of essays that draws together leading and emerging scholars to investigate performances of transgression on the early modern English stage. Building on recent scholarship in studies of performance, politics, gender, sex, and race, this collection seeks to assess, respond to, and look beyond the last concentrated critical discussion of transgression in the 1980s. This collection explores areas of study that have been previously neglected in scholarly discussion and seeks to challenge critical orthodoxies and assumptions about the power and effect of onstage performances of illicit, deviant and disorderly behaviour. Contributors examine a wide range of onstage activities - from drunkenness and spitting to murder and rebellion - and offer fresh insights into the cultural work of theatre in Shakespeare's England.


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Anderson Cooper is a true American Patriot who cares for the grieving families and victims of this senseless and preventable tragedy.I too am an American Patriot and I can't believe the audacity of these tinfoil conspiracy nuts who torment the survivors and spit on the graves of the children.
There should be laws against conspiracy thugs !
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There's no question that the (non)reporting from the Lame Stream Media has created more distrust from the informed public and it's tragically unfortunate and cruel when a (real) Sandy Hook Victim family member sees that people are doubting as they are grieving. But look- The media that says a 130 pound lone nut, not been seen by neighbors for 3 years, shot dead 28 people in 5 minutes carrying 60 lbs of weaponry are the same media that told us:
1. Al Qaeda hates us because we are free.
2. Bin Laden did 911 (within hours of the first plane strike).
3. Saddam Hussein tried to buy enriched uranium from Niger.
4. Saddam Hussein had Weapons of mass destruction.
5. We would be greeted as Heroes in Iraq.
6. JFK was killed by a lone gunman.
7. MLK was killed by a lone gunman
8. We SHOULD trust out paperless trail voting machines.
9. WTC Building 7 has collapsed (building 7 was visible in reporter's background but later collapsed).
I could name 100 more mainstream media lies. It's just unfortunate for the (real) victims that the Sandy Hook incident coincidentally occurred 5 weeks after Obama signed the UN Gun Treaty, which further casts doubt upon its authenticity.
I watched Ricki Lake yesterday as she broke down in tears over a cancer-stricken little girl. Her eye whites were red and real liquid tears streamed down her face, which is the way I have ALWAYS known a person to cry. The fact is, I have not seen ONE interview with a Sandy Hook Parent or teacher where a single real tear is present... NOT ONE! (If one exists then show me) Does that mean for sure that Sandy Hook is a Hoax? I have no idea. But what is the likelihood?
And so far, the MSM has not produced a SINGLE piece of solid evidence that supports the official story. To the contrary, EVERY video feed or picture of the actual event I've personally studied seems to show contradictions to the official story. As long as the Media fails to report the true facts, there will be a growing distrust from true Patriots that are paying attention. I ask this question: Whose fault is that- The patriots OR the (non)reporters? . So forgive me for questioning...plllllleeeease!
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part of it is this;
islam is a communist force in the world
and communism is trying to get a foot hold into this country and stop us from being a free people
communism wants to take away our rights to own guns
because this is a threat to someone's agenda
an agenda to make us into -like all the other
muslim countries
slaves afraid of the rulers and the rulers having total control
like what happens in all the muslim countries....
the rat hole is made up of all kinds of players and some sold out long ago
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JPMorgan, BofA Results May Show Weaker Revenue as Lending Stalls
U.S. banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. may report weak revenue for the first quarter after lending by the industry dropped in almost every category.
Bank loans and leases fell $87.4 billion to $6.97 trillion from the end of 2010 through March 30, or 1.3 percent, according to Federal Reserve data. Deposits at U.S. banks rose the same percentage to $7.97 trillion, showing households and businesses are still hoarding cash instead of borrowing, analysts said.
"While loan growth tends to be seasonally weak in the first quarter, this quarter is tracking worse than seasonality would suggest," Barclays Capital Inc. analysts led by Jason Goldberg wrote in an April 8 report. "We fear companies have been disappointed."
Investors will get their first look at the quarter's results tomorrow when New York-based JPMorgan, ranked second by assets in the U.S., is scheduled to report. The biggest lender, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America, will report April 15, followed next week by New York-based Citigroup Inc. and San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co., ranked third and fourth by assets.
Profits may have increased even with declining revenue as lenders set aside fewer funds to cover loan losses and in some cases released reserves they've already built up, said Matt Burnell, a banking analyst at Wells Fargo. Cost reductions may also help the bottom line in a smaller way, Burnell said.
New Regulations
Lack of loan demand is just one of the constraints on revenue facing banks as new regulations limit proprietary trading and fees on overdrafts and debit cards. Bank stocks trailed this year's 5.3 percent rise in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, with the 24-company KBW Bank Index little changed.
While trading revenue was credited for bolstering last year's profit, lenders still depend on net interest income, the money made on lending and securities investment. That accounted for 46 percent of 2010 revenue at Bank of America and 53 percent at Wells Fargo. The figure was 50 percent for JPMorgan and 63 percent for Citigroup.
JPMorgan, led by Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 55, may report adjusted net income rose 41 percent over the year-earlier quarter to $4.68 billion, according to the median estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Revenue probably declined 9.5 percent to $25 billion, analysts estimate.
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Bank of America, headed by CEO Brian T. Moynihan, 51, may report a 2.8 percent decline in profit to $3.09 billion on a 19 percent decline in revenue to $26.5 billion, according to a Bloomberg survey of 14 analysts. The bank told investors in January that net interest income would decline in the first quarter from the last period of 2010, and then level off "sometime in the second."
Revenue may fall 20 percent at Citigroup, led by CEO Vikram Pandit, 54, and 1.3 percent at Wells Fargo, headed by John Stumpf, 57, according to Bloomberg's survey. First-quarter profit may rise 41 percent to $3.56 billion at Wells Fargo, and decline 36 percent to $2.84 billion at Citigroup, according to Bloomberg's survey. Spokesmen for all four banks declined to comment.
Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Chris Kotowski estimates that banks in his coverage universe, which includes the four largest, will say loans outstanding declined by about 1.5 percent, according to a March 24 report.
Weak spots include U.S. consumers, who are cutting credit-card use and slowing home purchases. Closed-end residential mortgage loans fell 3.3 percent in the first quarter, while credit-card and other revolving loans fell 1.2 percent, according to the Fed. Consumer and residential home loans account for about 54 percent of total defined bank lending, Fed data shows.
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Some of the biggest banks are still constrained by weak balance sheets or aren't replacing loans with new ones when they mature, CreditSights Inc. analysts led by David Hendler wrote in an April 10 note. For example, JPMorgan may cut as much as $10 billion from its credit-card portfolio in the first quarter, and said its residential real-estate book may decline as much as 15 percent per year, Hendler wrote.
Lenders may not get much help this time from investment-banking and trading revenue, which analysts are predicting may fall for the fourth straight year-over-year quarter. Guy Moszkowski at Bank of America lowered first-quarter earnings estimates last month at Citigroup and JPMorgan, as well as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, saying trading revenue won't rebound as much as he had expected from a weak fourth quarter.
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One area of strength may be commercial and industrial loans, used by companies to purchase inventory or improve technology and other capital-intensive parts of their business. Total C&I loans increased to $1.25 trillion in the week ended March 30, the seventh week of increases in the last nine, Fed data show. Wells Fargo's average loan balance advanced 1 percent in the first quarter, fueled by C&I lending, Goldberg estimates.
"That's likely to continue; the business sector is doing well in general," said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, and a former Fed economist. Demand isn't stronger because the cash hoard held by U.S. corporations "limits their appetite" for bank loans, Stanley said.
Nonfinancial corporations based in the U.S. held $1.89 trillion in liquid assets, including cash, at the end of December, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
"That seems to be the one bright spot," said Burnell at Wells Fargo. For everything else, "you're still looking for negative loan growth."


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Yes, they are really blue. My oldest also has really blue eyes but my only daughter has green eyes.
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Across from me in the cushy tan sofa, a woman is dozing over an English newspaper. The headlines reads "EU summit puts off the tough decisions"... Hmm, not exactly light Sunday afternoon readings (or is it Saturday? I lose count). She has long curly dark brown hair that is half-dry and is dressed fashionably in jeans and a black leather jacket. She looked a little anxious when asking whether the seat was taken, and a little taken aback when I blurted out "no" in English (caffeine hasn't quite sank in then yet). Is the newspaper part of an effort to brush up on her English? I wonder. Did she have a rough night? Is she waiting for someone?
I'm sitting on a plane that is about to take off for Hong Kong. Looking out on the tarmac at Beijing, I can't quite believe my first two weeks here are already over, and Hong Kong International Film Festival is just around the corner.
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I've always thought about coming home.
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Vaughn Armstrong, definitely. I count twelve onscreen characters:
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- Korath (VOY "Endgame")
- Klingon Captain (ENT "Sleeping Dogs")
- Kreetassan Captain (ENT "Vox Sola", "A Night In Sickbay")
- Admiral Maxwell Forrest (ENT regular)
- Captain Maximilian Forrest (ENT "In a Mirror, Darkly")
And a lot of Trek voice work - New Worlds, Armada II, Bridge Commander, Starfleet Command III, Elite Force II.
No Trek actor has ever topped this, or ever will.
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Directed by Michael Wilson, the production will officially open March 5, 2013, and continue through April 28.
The cast will feature Tony nominee Danny Burstein as Matt Friedman and Sarah Paulson as Sally Talley.
Talley's Folly, according to the Roundabout, is a "funny and heart-warming play about finding love when you've nearly given up looking. At the end of World War II, Matt Friedman, a Jewish immigrant who has spent his life keeping others at a distance, returns to the small town where he first met Sally Talley. Nothing like her conservative Protestant family and neighbors, Sally is a nurse with deep misgivings about the country's future. After a lifetime of believing they'll never truly belong in the world around them, Matt has worked up the courage to ask Sally for her hand, and convince her that they do belong -- together."
The design team includes Jeff Cowie (sets), David Woolard (costumes) and Rui Rita (lights).
Talley's Folly premiered in 1979 Off-Broadway at Circle Repertory Theatre and moved to Broadway in 1980. Lanford Wilson received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Show times will be Tuesday-Saturday at 7:30 PM, with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM.
Roundabout subscribers get first access to tickets. Call (212) 719-1300 or go on-line at roundabouttheatre.org. In November tickets will go on-sale to the general public online at roundabouttheatre.org, by phone at (212) 719-1300, or in person at the American Airlines Theatre Box Office (227 W. 42nd St, between 7th and 8th Aves).


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Despite becoming increasingly silted up over the past three years, the Swansea Channel into Lake Macquarie will provide adequate depths at most stages of the tide for out-of-lake Heaven Can Wait yacht race boats up to approximately 1.9 m draft, according to the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol's Lake Macquarie Division.
Swansea Channel and Lake Macquarie
Planned dredging of the channel during September by Lake Macquarie City Council should alleviate any problems in time for the 2008 HCW 24 hour race.
With the current, undredged channel, some minor difficulties can occur, but with the assistance of the Patrol vessel, are easily overcome, said divisional commander Frank Jarvie said that the channel was experiencing a build up of sand between Pelican Marina and the 'drop-over' at Mark's Point.
'A vessel of 2.2 m draft was recently escorted into the lake, although progress was halted when the vessel became stuck and required a tow. The same vessel, however, left the lake unassisted.
'Obviously it's best for deeper-draft yachts to come through at the top of the tide, but we would not expect any yachts up to 2 m draft to have any problems, especially once the work on the channel is completed,' Frank said.
Lake Macquarie City Council is scheduled to work on removing the 'humps' from the section mentioned above at the beginning of September, with the aim of completion by October.
That means that yachts coming up to the lake for the Heaven Can Wait 24 Hour Yacht Race on the October long weekend (October 4-6) are unlikely to experience any problems coming through the channel.
'We are happy to accompany any yachts who think they may have a problem through the channel, and if necessary use our boat's wash to help them over any bumps – or even provide a tow if absolutely necessary. However, we don't believe towing would be required,' he said.
With the Lake Macquarie Division of the RVCP an important part of the HCW 24 hour race – it provides on-water support and rescue services, and receives a portion of the funds raised for charity – Frank said that boats coming up or down the coast to the lake should log in with Coastal Patrol for their passages.
'If boats log in with us, and let us know they are coming up for the HCW race, we will certainly look after them,' he said.
'As they approach the entrance to the channel, we can advise on conditions, and also take care of booking bridge openings for them.
'In addition, any deeper-draft boats can advise us of their drafts, and we can accompany them through the channel if required.'
RVCP Lake Macquarie can be contacted on VHF Channel 16 or Channel 88 27MHz – or via Coastal Patrol stations up and down the coast – or on phone (02) 4971 3723.
Tides at the Swansea Bar (seaward side of the bridge) for the weekend before the race according to the Bureau of Meteorology are as follows:
Saturday, September 27:
Low tide (0.42 m) 1235 hrs
High tide (1.71 m) 1850 hrs
Sunday, September 28:
Low tide (0.38 m) 1323 hrs
High tide (1.67 m) 1933 hrs
Tidal over-run out of the lake means that high tide at the 'drop-over' is two and a half hours after high tide at Swansea Bar; however the tide range at this point is minimal.
Full information on the 2008 HCW 24 hour yacht race, including the NOR and course map, along with channel charts and tide times for the Swansea Bar, are now available on the event's website at www.heavencanwait.com.au.
Details of how to join the club and enter for the race are also now up on the website
For further information, please contact Shaun Lewicki on 0458 494620, email info@.heavencanwait.com.au.


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Jennifer Sirangelo Named Chief Executive Officer of National 4-H Council PR Newswire CHEVY CHASE, Md., July 31, 2013 CHEVY CHASE, Md., July 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National 4-H Council's (Council) Board of Trustees announced today that Jennifer Sirangelo, executive vice president and chief operating officer, has been appointed to the top post at the organization. Sirangelo, who joined Council in 2006 to grow support for the 4-H movement worldwide, will succeed the current CEO, Donald T. Floyd, Jr. who is retiring after 22 years with National 4-H Council. Sirangelo will officially assume her new position on January 1, 2014. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130731/DC56679) "What an incredible testament to the outstanding leadership within 4-H that we have been able to select one of our own to lead this organization into the future," said James C. Borel, chairman of National 4-H Council's Board of Trustees, executive vice president, DuPont Company and a 4-H alum. 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Published: Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 8:00 a.m.
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Expect these no-shows at the Oscars this year.
Batman for best picture.
Clint Eastwood going after his first acting win as a crusty coot in Gran Torino, probably his last on-screen role.
Heath Ledger, the late Aussie actor who gave the years most raved-about performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight, accepting a supporting trophy for what is the safest bet of the night.
On a more positive note, however, there also wont be the same old opening monologue, endless movie clips, an abundance of canned segments, silly prefab presenter banter and embarrassing interruptions of impassioned speeches.
At least thats the plan, say filmmakers Bill Condon, 53, and Laurence Mark, 59, the unflappably enthusiastic first-time producers of the 81st edition of the annual test of viewer endurance known as the Academy Awards. The show airs Feb. 22 on ABC.
When it comes to entertaining the masses, it doesnt really matter what is on the ballot, Mark insists. His and Condons primary objective is to celebrate all the movies of 2008. Blockbusters, sleepers, art-house fare, you name it. Attention will be paid to movie history, too, but no clips of Gone With the Wind.
In other words, these fellows arent losing sleep over how the voters went for the low-profile Holocaust-themed drama The Reader over superhero sensation The Dark Knight in the top contest.
We have enough great material to attract a crowd, Condon says. Its the academys job to honor the best movies, not what will provide the highest ratings. We both feel they show great integrity in what they do.
They did provide us with lots of movie stars, Mark quickly adds. That would include Brad Pitt of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Angelina Jolie of Changeling, Hollywoods very own prom king and queen, who each are competing for acting honors.
Nearly impossible task
Condon also suggests there are plenty of horse races among the 24 categories, especially the best-actor and supporting-actress contests, even if the crowd-pleasing Slumdog Millionaire has been best-picture top dog at nearly every other awards show. And The Dark Knight is still up for eight awards, he says.
Even better: The best-song category, a prime time for bathroom breaks thanks to often ill-conceived staging, has only three nominees: Peter Gabriels WALLE ditty and two Bollywood-infused numbers from Slumdog Millionaire.
Not that they expect it all to be a breeze. Says Condon, who wrote and directed 2006s Dreamgirls with Mark as producer: This makes doing a movie musical look easy. It is very intense.
Barack Obama might have them beat when it comes to tough new jobs. But the daunting chore faced by these Hollywood vets may run a close second as they attempt to re-establish the Academy Awards as an event thats worth watching. To do so, they must convince an increasingly awards-show-adverse public (the Golden Globes just suffered its second-lowest ratings since 1995) that a bloated and often clumsy pageant of self-promotion can be must-see, instead of must-flee, TV.
Academy president Sid Ganis has his reasons why he recruited Condon and Mark to tackle an assignment that often is a logistical nightmare for even the most stalwart showmen. As he told Variety: Both of them are busy, working filmmakers, both are smart, tasteful, elegant - and theyre fun.
But why did this savvy duo decide to take on what seems an impossible challenge? Sid said he was open to new ideas, Mark says, and I thought, Wow, we could shake things up and be free to do so. Even if we cant guarantee everything will work.
Besides, these longtime Oscar buffs just couldnt say no. I get a big budget to do a show for one night, Condon says, Its a lot of fun.
Says Marks: We are flying by the seat of our pants. I get a kick out of that. There is no possible way we can plan for everything that happens.
Besides, the pair cant do much worse than last years effort put on by predecessor Gil Cates, when the dark crime yarn No Country for Old Men took best picture amid a slew of low-grossing, downbeat titles. The ratings plunged to 32 million viewers, a loss of nearly 8 million from the year before and the least-watched ceremony ever.
The gold standard for Condon was 1968, when the musical Oliver! won best picture and Broadways Gower Champion produced and directed.
It was the year of Hello, gorgeous, Mark says, referring to how Barbra Streisand memorably greeted her statuette when the Funny Girl star tied with Katharine Hepburn for best actress.
It was held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Condon recalls. It was very sleek and midcentury modern. There was a real theatrical imagination behind the show. Elegant, not all glitzed up.
Picking up on that theme, the producers hope their version is appropriate and elegant, especially at a time of economic hardships and a foggy future. It is time to tap your troubles away, and we hope this will do that, Mark says.
Mistakes are our friends
With slightly less than a month to go, there is a lot of planning and preparation ahead. But Condon and Mark already have a blueprint, one that involves tossing aside tradition in favor of surprise.
The only thing you must do is give all the awards out live onstage, Mark says. You have to respect that. But there are many ways to do that, mind you. What is in the works:
The host from Oz. The producers were out to make a statement when they selected X-Men star Hugh Jackman after a string of comedians such as Jon Stewart and Ellen DeGeneres.
Yes, Wolverine has animal magnetism galore. But the Australian actor, who previously handled the Tony Awards with aplomb, also has some considerable musical chops after starring in The Boy From Oz and Oklahoma! on stage.
He can sing, dance and looks great in a tuxedo, Condon says. At some point in the evening, Jackman will perform in a production number that was conceived by his Australia director, Baz Luhrmann.
A cozier atmosphere. Condon doesnt just want a ceremony. He wants to throw a party.
If that means dismantling the Kodak Theatre to better encourage a sense of community among the attendees, so be it. You dont have to have large columns or a big staircase or 20-foot-tall Oscars on stage, he says. Thats not in the bylaws.
They have hired David Rockwell, who designed the theater, to make adjustments and create sets.
Room for spontaneity. Both producers believe the show has relied on too much pre-recorded material.
That tradition started a few years ago, when they tried to avoid mistakes, Condon says. But we have decided that mistakes are our friends. Out of more live segments will hopefully spring more spontaneity.
Mystery presenters. When it was announced that the identity of the awards presenters would be kept secret, more than a few Oscar watchers questioned the move. Why not publicize who will appear?
Do you actually think anyone tunes in to see someone present an award? Mark says. They suddenly hear so-and-so is presenting, and young males will watch? Well, no.
One switch: Instead of lining up last years winners and stars with upcoming movies to tout, Condon and Mark are reaching out to those names associated with a 2008 movie. And there will be a few blasts from Hollywoods past, too.
Three-hour show, not three-hour speeches. Both vow to adhere to the three-hour mark. We have done exercises to see what we can better speed along and streamline, Condon says.
As for having the orchestra play off long-winded speechmakers, its a situation they would rather avoid.
Its so ungracious, Condon says. We will do everything we can not to have to do it. We will still put a little fear into the winners not to go on. However, the 45-second rule still stands. Marks suggestion: Dont thank your laundress.
Jack Nicholson -probably. One connection Mark will try to capitalize on is his long association with the epitome of Oscar cool, whose mischievous leer is always welcome, even if he didnt appear in a movie this year.
He does embody Oscar, says Mark, who was involved with Terms of Endearment and As Good as It Gets, for which Nicholson won two of his three Academy Awards.
The show went way out of fashion in the 60s and 70s, Condon says of the man behind the shades. He singlehandedly brought it back when he was nominated for Easy Rider.
Applause-free In Memoriam tribute. Regular Oscar watchers often cringe when homage is paid to those in the movie business who died in the past year. That is because the audience cant help but clap harder for better-known names, essentially turning the solemn segment into a popularity contest.
Not this year. We cant control the applause, Condon says, but we can control what you hear on TV.
If Condon and Mark can manage to channel the spirit and drive they usually invest into what they do and put it into the Oscar show, it probably cant help but make some sort of difference.
It is fun putting on a show, Condon says.
Yeah, Mark says. Hes Judy Garland. Im Mickey Rooney.
Intermission is over. Back to work. We have to dash and beg someone to present foreign film, Mark says. We are hoping for Hillary Clinton.
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Distribution-Free Learning of Bayesian Network Structure in Continuous Domains
In this paper authors present a method for learning the structure of Bayesian networks (BNs) without making any assumptions on the probability distribution of the domain. This is mainly useful for continuous domains, where there is little guidance and many choices for the parametric distribution families to be used for the local conditional probabilities of the Bayesian network, and only a few have been examined analytically. Authors therefore focus on BN structure learning in continuous domains. Authors address the problem by developing a conditional independence test for continuous variables, which can be readily used by any existing independence-based BN structure learning algorithm. The test is non-parametric, making no assumptions on the distribution of the domain.


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