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Early C-Sections Can Double Health Risks for Newborns
There's strong new evidence that scheduling a delivery by Cesarean section even a week or two before full term can significantly raise the risk of health problems in newborns.
Researchers at 19 medical centers around the country monitored 13,258 babies born via elective repeat c-section between 1999 and 2002. (Each of the mothers had had a previous c-section, opted to deliver that way again and scheduled the birth in advance, without going into labor.) More than one-third of the babies were delivered at 37 or 38 weeks of gestation, and they had significantly higher rates of respiratory distress, sepsis and hypoglycemia than those born at 39 and 40 weeks.
The babies were also more likely to need CPR, be admitted to a NICU and be hospitalized for five or more days. The rate of problems rose again for babies born at 41 and 42 weeks, suggesting there's a very narrow window for scheduling deliveries to achieve the best outcome for babies.
The results appear in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The findings add to the concerns about early deliveries, described in this recent Health Journal column.
C-sections now account for one-third of U.S. births; an additional one-fifth are born via induced labor. Many obstetricians have assumed that scheduling such deliveries a little early was safe, since most fetuses can survive outside the womb after 34 weeks. But the March of Dimes and many neonatologists warn that important brain, lung and liver development occurs during those last few weeks and that the earlier a baby is delivered before 39 full weeks, the greater the risk of problems.
Before this study, "we didn't really have a great handle on what those risks were, but now we can quantify them," says Catherine Y. Spong, chief of the pregnancy and perinatology branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which sponsored the study. "You double the risk of complications if you deliver at 37 weeks rather than 39 weeks, and even the last few days are important. If you deliver at 38.6 weeks instead of 39.2, you still have a 20% higher risk of problems."
The findings don't apply to cases where the mother goes into labor spontaneously a few weeks early. "Term labor is a signal from baby to mother that 'I'm ready to make the transition' " those babies do well," says John M. Thorp, a professor of maternal-fetal medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who participated in the study. "It's when families and doctors try to circumvent that signal that we can get into trouble."
Why are so many c-sections being scheduled early? It's largely a desire for control on the part of families, physicians and hospitals. "Everybody wants to do them on weekdays at 8 o'clock in the morning," says Thorp, who notes that if doctors waited for labor to begin, many more c-sections would be performed around 2 am, a time that circadian rhythms seem to favor.
"I did two repeat c-sections this morning that would have been far easier for me to do last Friday, but that's just the deal," Thorp adds. "It's really important to wait for 39 weeks."
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Jamaica is on its way to adopting a more lenient pot policies. Earlier this week, the Jamaican government announced that it was seriously considering implementing some changes to the country's marijuana laws, specifically decriminalizing possession of small amounts.
The announcement was made Thursday by Minister of Justice Mark Golding, who indicated that changes would be made to Jamaica's Dangerous Drugs Act later this summer, which would make possession of two ounces or less of marijuana a civil infraction that would result in a fine rather than criminal prosecution.
"I wish to stress that the proposed changes to the law are not intended to promote or give a stamp of approval to the use of ganja for recreational purposes," said Golding. "The objective is to provide a more enlightened approach to dealing with possession of small quantities."
In addition, Golding said that possession of the weed would be decriminalized for religious, scientific and perhaps most importantly, medical use. "It is not only wrong but also foolhardy to continue with a law that makes it illegal to possess ganja and its derivatives for medicinal purposes," he said.
Those previously prosecuted for possession of marijuana many also catch a break. Golding spoke of plans to introduce legislation in the Jamaican Parliament that would eliminate the criminal records of those individuals convicted of being in possession of small amounts of marijuana -- a move, he says, would greatly benefit the well-being of the Jamaican youth.
"Too many of our young people have ended up with criminal convictions after being caught with a 'spliff,' something that has affected their ability to do things like get jobs and get visas to travel overseas," he said.
In the meantime, marijuana is still illegal in Jamaica, at least until the proposed amendments receive final approval from Parliament. With many of the legislators currently in support of more relaxed drug policies, there is a great deal of optimism that the laws are destined to change.
Mike Adams writes for stoners and smut enthusiasts in HIGH TIMES, Playboy's The Smoking Jacket and Hustler Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter @adamssoup and on Facebook/mikeadams73.


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NEW YORK — [artist id="2402281″]Cobra Starship[/artist] frontman Gabe Saporta was hunched over the craps table, a wad of cash in his sweaty hand, while Leighton Meester of "Gossip Girl" hovered above him on perilously high heels. Around them, the smoky nightclub pulsated in full party mode, as pretty people jammed to the music and guzzled bottles of beer.
Multiple felonies were being committed all at once — but no worries! We were on the set of the music video for the song "Good Girls Go Bad," and everyone was having a grand time.
The concept of the video is that Meester runs an underground speakeasy, complete with shelves of booze, gambling tables and a dance floor. The band is in charge of the above-ground deli that acts as a front operation to hide the debauchery within. To gain access to the illegal club, patrons must order the correct sandwich and proceed down a staircase.
"And if you don't look good, I'm not gonna let you in!" Saporta told MTV News during some downtime on the set, tucked into the Lower East Side.
The infectiously dancey "Good Girls" was produced by "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi , and Saporta was initially put off by the fact that the busy producer only had two hours to spend with the band in the studio. Saporta says he gave her a "stinky beat" and popped off a list of foul-mouthed song titles.
"She didn't even flinch!" said an impressed Saporta. "She's a New York girl." Together, they dropped the song's hook in no time, and 15 minutes later the entire track was done. "It's, like, the best song on our album," he said of the upcoming August release, Hot Mess.
By the time Cobra and DioGuardi recorded the song, the band had already decided to collaborate with Meester. "I had heard that Leighton was working on a record and I really, really, really wanted to do a song with her, because I'm a big superfan of hers," Saporta said. He recalled thinking, "['Good Girls'] would be perfect for Leighton because it's already kind of her character in 'Gossip Girl,' like the perfect girl with the bad streak."
They'd been working together on another track, but Saporta quickly sent her the new song, and Meester took an immediate liking to it. "I thought, 'I need to get on that!' " she told MTV News. "It totally is my sound too. Really fun to dance to it. Very edgy and cool."
Meester and Saporta wrote some verses together and returned to the studio to record the song. "It was so awkward for me, because on one hand, I have the idea of how the song should go in my head," Saporta said. "But on the other hand, I'm like, 'I don't want to tell her what to do, because I love her and that's scary.' "
Before shooting on the video ramped up again, Saporta wondered where his band would go now that they're on the brink of breaking into the big time. "When you're the underdog, you get to do whatever you want," he said. "How do we still have the same fun we used to have without pi–ing people off?"


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It's Black Music Month. Enjoy the 2014 series. Support the artists. Buy their licensed music. And turn up as you dance along.
Brief history: In 2010, I wrote a music series honoring Black Music Month on Associated Content's site (republished on Examiner). The focus was to honor new R&B singers, veteran R&B singers, solo rappers, and evenly split the musical salute between female and male rappers. The only artists I was not willing to split up were Salt n' Pepa because they worked as a unit. In 2014, it's about time to salute more artists, but in the spirit of Salt n' Pepa's legacy, R&B groups and rap groups will be included. The pattern in 2014 will be newer R&B singers (from 2000 to present), R&B and/or hip-hop groups, veteran R&B singers, and then solo rappers, still evenly split between women and men.
Black Music Month Turn Up Factor "Turn down for what?": In the middle of female rappers being rough around the edges or way too risque, Da Brat was a happy medium. It wasn't totally unthinkable to see her in a bathing suit or bikini wrap ("What Chu Like") or makeup (Total's "No One Else"), but her fans were more likely to see her with braids ("Sittin On Top of the World") or beads ("That's What I'm Looking For"). She wasn't the type of female rapper to be territorial and could easily mesh well with other female artists (ex. Destiny's Child "Survivor [Remix], Kelly Rowland's "Like This" with Lil Kim, Missy Elliott's "Sock It To Me," MC Lyte guest appearance on "Give It To You"). But she was content to work as a solo artist and rock with Jermaine Dupri's So So Def crew. Fully clothed with barrettes or beads, she was respected by both men and women. Her fame came from talent, not her booty, and lyrics, not her beauty. It never hurts to have all four, but she made a point of not solely relying on being in somebody's spank bank to sell records.
My Connection/First Memory to Artist: One of my childhood friends (mentioned in the feature on Total for Black Music Month) and I used to love watching The Box and Video Soul to keep up with the latest videos. And as Chicagoans, clearly we paid attention to any music coming out of the Windy City. Da Brat made a point of representing Chicago and even narrowed it down to her ZIP code (60644). Although my friends and I were from the south side of Chicago, she was a proud hip-hop representation for all of Chicago's neighborhoods. And she was talented so we pretty much memorized all of her lyrics. Considering several other of my friends -- including myself -- had a crush on Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith, it didn't hurt to see her working with Kris Kross either. We thought that was "Da Bomb" (pun intended). And she was about the only rapper ever who made it perfectly acceptable to wear barrettes, a man's suit, makeup and her bra slightly showing while still dropping lyrics on a song (ex. "Live and Die For Hip Hop").
Numbers Don't Lie: "Funkdafied" skyrocketed to number six on the Top 100 Billboard Charts and stayed on the charts for 20 weeks. The song also did well on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, peaking at number 20 and staying on this chart for 21 weeks. "What Chu Like" peaked at number nine and stayed on the latter chart for 20 weeks. Her top 20 songs included "In Love Wit Chu" on the Hot Rap Songs charts (peaked at number 12, stayed on charts for 10 weeks), "Ghetto Love" on the Top 100 charts (peaked at number 16, stayed on charts for 15 weeks) and "That's What I m Looking For" on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts (peaked at number 18, stayed on charts for 20 weeks).
Additional Two Cents: As with the Chris Brown post, these entries are solely on the strength of musical talent. I do not condone violence nor do I agree with the actions that lead to Da Brat's $6.4 million lawsuit and three-year prison term for the 2007 bottle attack. I do, however, hope for the best with former Atlanta Falcons cheerleader Shayla Steven's health conditions.
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Emailed question from a level 80 Tauren Druid selling Shatter Rounds on the auction house:
Hi Markco,My response:
I play a level 80 Tauren Druid on the US Hakkar realm,
which is a low population server.
From reading your blog, I get the
impression that it is considered easier to make gold via tradeskills on low pop
servers. My goldmaking/auction house skills are still pretty young, but I was
excited when the schematics for Iceblade Arrows and Shatter Rounds came out in
3.3, as I am an engineer/miner. I did my research, and learned that just about
every horde engineer on my server was gnomish. Therefore, I switched my
specialization into goblin engineering, and bought the schematic for Shatter
Rounds as soon as I became honored.
Imagine my dismay when despite being
one of only two or three players on the server that could craft them, and
offering them at lowest price, I couldn't sell more than a stack a day at best.
Even worse, when I advertise giving them away FOR FREE in trade chat during
prime server time (7-10 PM) in order to gague interest, I only ever get one or
two whispers!
This is pretty discouraging, considering that the
primordial saronite I used to buy the schematic is worth plenty of money, not to
mention the cost to respec to goblin engineering. What did I do wrong? Is there
any way to recoup my losses? How could I prevent something like this from
happening to me in the future? Is this because I play on a low-pop server with
not enough demand for hunter ammo? I thought that this was going to basically be
a sure thing that would make me thousands! =(
For starters, you definately should post your story on the Wow Gold Forums (JMTC). Second, you can still make lots of gold off these arrows/bullets as long as you sell them correctly. Only post a handful of stacks and try to get your mats as cheaply as possible. Aim to only make 1-3 gold off each sale. See if that helps and this can still make you a lot of gold, but I wouldn't expect more than 50-100 each day at most on a low pop server with few raiding communities.
And the final email back:
Wow, thanks a lot! I didn't actually expect you'd respond.
thing, I'll post it on the forums. And your prediction appears to be accurate. I
made about 90g from them yesterday, which isn't as much as I imagined having a
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The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 established the Federal Reserve System (aka the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) to regulate the banking and monetary system in the United States.
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President Wilson signed the act created the United States' central bank. The Fed's responsibilities can be split into four general categories.
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- Ensuring the safety and soundness of the nation's banking and financial system.
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A few months ago I made a post showing some of the postcard images of Fort Anne National Historic site that we have at the Annapolis Heritage Society Archives. Through the years, this has been the single most photographed landscape in Annapolis Royal. From community celebrations and historic reenactments to history fanatics and eager tourists, this landscape has been photographed time and again. When you consider the history of the site this attention really makes sense.
This area at the junction of the Annapolis and Allains Rivers was a seasonal encampment site for the Mi'Kmaq and their ancestors for thousands of years. When the French arrived, this spot was used to grow grain for the ill fated deMonts / Poutrincourt Habitation. The arrival of the Scots in 1629 saw the establishments of the first fortifications on this site with the establishment of Charlesfort. Although the site was returned to the French in 1632 it would not remain a French holding. Through the 17th and 18th centuries this fort changed hands between the French and British numerous times as the two European powers struggled to control North America. This tranquil site is in fact the most fought over piece of land in Canada.
Today, Fort Anne National Historic Site is not a place of hostile conflict. It is a place of learning, of quiet contemplation, or recreation and of civic pride. No wonder people keep taking pictures and buying postcards.
All for now,
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Fort Anne Postcards - Part 2
Posted by rgsheritage at 10:20 PM
Labels: Annapolis Royal, Archival Documents, Fort Anne
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Fort Anne is absolutely my most favourite spot for summer reading.ReplyDelete
I used to live in an apartment above what used to be an antique store in the Anna Gloria building. (we had 9 windows that looked out on the basin!)I would grab a small picnic blanket, an apple or two and a tea in a travel mug and my current read and head over to the Fort and find a nice tranquil spot by the water and read for HOURS!
The most fighting I ever witnessed was just a couple of gulls over a clam or fish in the basin.
If you walk out through the sally port to the space under the oak trees you will also find the best spot in Annapolis Royal for a picnic.ReplyDelete
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So i'll start this story out by saying when i was 17 years old i feel absolutely head over heels in love with a girl.. however she said she didn't feel the same way but i knew she did but was afraid to admit it. so i left town to live my life but i always kept going back to i know she loves me....so i gave up trying to pursue her about a year ago. I've been working on myself... b4 hand we both went through so much darkness in the last 5 years and i mean pitch black darkness.... so anyways about a month ago on may 2 to be exact i decided to send her a message telling her how great full i was to have had her in my life and told her to let go of the past because it helped me become the person i am today.... her loved saved me at my darkest hour but she wasn't ready so i had to leave.. so she replied back your welcome and we should catch up.... i said ok but we never got around to it... so i got on facebook like 4 days ago.... and she had posted something about almost being admitted into a insane asylum.... so i IM her to see what was going on and it's the exact same thing that's going on with me... sever synchronicity's of all the same numbers jumping out at us... beginning to see aura's having vision's.... so i call her later that night and we talked for hours and hours about everything and i felt so amazing. the day she was almost admitted to the hospital was exactly 30 day from the day i wrote that letter. ..... now her family has taken away her cell phone and laptop and won't let her talk to me bc they think i'm making it worse.... but i think i'm the only one who can help her and they just don't understand.... i really believe she is my twin flame....
do you guys think i have found my twin flame & what should i do
thanks ahead of time for all the help
Peace, Love and Light


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Helena, January 16, 1997. ( to download text )
Thank you very much. President Aklestad. Speaker Mercer. Members of the Fifty-Fifth Legislature. Fellow elected officers. Mr. Chief Justice and the Honorable members of the Judiciary. Tribal leaders. Lieutenant Governor Martz. Friends and fellow Montanans. And my family. Good evening.
I want to thank Kryss Kuntz, our wonderful signer, for agreeing to have me do the spoken part of her State of the State Address here this evening.
By the grace of God and the People of Montana, it is my honor--and pleasure--to be back here with you in this magnificent chamber tonight where we celebrate together the continuation of our democracy. I am grateful to have the opportunity to discuss with you and the People of Montana where we have been, where I believe we ought to be going and what we ought to be doing to get there.
To that end, I intend to depart somewhat from tradition here tonight. I do not intend to provide a long list of accomplishments and a longer list of requests. We have been preparing our budget and legislative program for more than a year. And our elected citizen representatives have been gathered in this historic building now for less than two weeks. Our preparations largely speak for themselves, and there will be scheduled opportunities in coming weeks to discuss each of these plans and proposals, as well as your own, in the great detail they deserve.
We could discuss at length the many positive changes and accomplishments that our mutual efforts together have produced over the last two years. Sweeping, and by all accounts, successful welfare reform, a massive reorganization of the Executive branch, sound financial management, tax relief totaling almost $70 million and the largest infrastructure and highway repair program in our history are a few that come to mind.
There most certainly have been instances of frustration where progress or reform may not have been as rapid or expansive as each of us might have desired. But that is the nature of democracy. And viewed in retrospect, there is a remarkable collective record of achievement. That should greatly inspire all of us to enthusiastically continue our diligent--and I must add patient--efforts to shape and remake a way of life that enriches the legacy we received from our ancestors.
I could recount many success stories I have watched unfold as a product of your service and hard work. There were the very visible and welcome improvements in our Workers' Compensation system, which was losing $200,000 every day for almost 13 years before you charted a new course. Our new welfare initiative, Families Achieving Independence in Montana, will handle caseloads in the next biennium projected to be 30 percent below the 1995 high. That drop translates to a $9.9 million biennial reduction in the Executive Budget. And those savings occur without reducing grant levels, which remain among the average of most Western states.
I must admit being tempted to continue this litany. I am tempted because I think everyone involved--legislators, other elected officials, state employees and our fellow citizens--should be immensely proud of their efforts. They should take heart--and you should take heart--in the notion that we CAN accomplish whatever we set our minds to. As Yogi Berra is said to have said, "Ninety percent of this game is half mental."
But we could not begin to discuss all of the details of our joint progress, nor the complexities and ramifications of a new 1,000-page budget and hundreds of important bills even if we stayed here all night, which I assume most of us would rather not do.
Better, I believe, to invest this brief time together after two years to discuss relatively briefly a new, general direction I think our state should be moving in and some of the steps I recommend we take together to get there.
We start with the articulation of a premise that I think most Montanans already sense lurking in the back of their minds: Everything is changing. Nothing seems to stay the same anymore. As Bill Gates, the computer genius, puts it: "Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."
This change touches virtually all aspects of life and everything we do in this country and in this state. There are new forms everywhere, new numbers, new programs for our computers, new faces in our neighborhoods and stores. One day a report says some food causes heart disease; the next day the same food is harmless. Recent callers to Chicago and elsewhere discover there is a new area code for an old city overnight.
Jobs that people thought would be there forever are gone the next morning. We even see that today's criminals and the crimes they commit have changed, often into an awful, senseless unspeakable kind of violence and often committed by those we once thought of as imbued with innocence and incapable of such depravity, our young people.
And these changes seem to come at us more rapidly too, like the snowflakes we see at night now coming at us in the high beams of our pickups and cars. The pace of life and its changing demands seem to move more quickly all the time. We may not feel in control.
The accumulation of such changes, large and little, over time has created a disconcerting sense of social unease among many, a restlessness and lack of inner peace, a fear about the direction of change, the randomness of crime and the seeming unpredictability of life. And, also, perhaps this unease produces a generalized suspicion and resentment often aimed at strangers or large institutions.
A major constant in life is now uncertainty. What we have or had is familiar. What's coming is unknown--and it might not be good. This uncertainty and fear can seriously corrode our innate sense of hope and optimism.
Of course, change is not new in America or Montana. Because it is so seared into my memory and life experience, I often recall the story of my grandfather, who was a very good logging camp cook near Libby. One day huge logging trucks came to the lumber industry. As a result, isolated logging camps were no longer needed. And so, neither were my grandfather's skills as a logging camp cook. Many Montanans--too many--have had this same experience over the decades.
My grandfather's method of protesting the loss of his job to such change was to never learn to drive.....Grandpa's protest did little, in fact, to improve the life of his family or alter the course of human history.
But there is a lesson in this for me that I will never forget. Change is coming. Change is coming quickly. And if we do not adapt to it, if we do not think to see it coming and plan accordingly, if we do not seek to take advantage of the opportunities presented by change, then we all, across Montana, will once again lie down on the tracks of economic and social development and let the train of destiny run over us.
We will, like my grandfather in Libby, forever consign ourselves to seeking rides from others who do have a license to drive, and who DO see change as an opportunity.
Instead of fearing change, I say: The world is changing--thank goodness.
We need no longer be confined by geographic and economic isolation because we are big, far and wide--if we invest in, say, fiber optics, training, telecommunications and technology that leaps around the world in the time it takes to push the ENTER button on a keyboard.
We need no longer be the predictable hostages of unpredictable world prices for ores, woods, grains, livestock--if we invest in, say, our local infrastructure sufficiently to attract investments in processing these resources and manufacturing products right here in Montana. And we can encourage saving for our community's future through endowed philanthropy, which I hope you will favorably consider. Montanans need no longer be infected with that familiar virus of fatalism that sadly corrodes hope and limits expectations.
Change has freed us from the old ways of taking merely the economic crumbs that fall from the national table elsewhere. Fate need no longer be our master. The choice now can be ours, if we are bold and imaginative and as courageous and tough as those ancestors of yours and mine who first came here and succeeded because they endured. Enduring in Montana back then was a colossal accomplishment.
Enduring in Montana today means falling behind. We could give up--and probably get by, too. But that would not seize the moment of opportunity. That would virtually abandon any hope of building our own future, and that of our children, on our own terms. We want a Montana where they--and we--can choose the jobs we want to support our families and the landscape we want to inhabit.
But that kind of positive future packed with opportunity will not happen by chance. I guarantee you. It will take planning and hard work--and a willingness to see things differently and to try things differently.
I believe we ought not to fear failing from trying....We ought instead to fear failing to try.
My assignment tonight is to provide one humble opinion about the State of the State. The state of the state is and has been improving. But the state of the state is not yet as great as it can be, though I believe in the very depths of my soul we can make it great together.
Can you imagine the future within our reach? It's very exciting. I know many Montanans can see this future. But they also know we cannot get there individually. It must be a collective enterprise, like a statewide barn-raising or the community-wide sand-bagging we see so routinely in Montana when an impending natural disaster forces us to set aside the very few things we disagree about and concentrate on a mutual objective of building something positive and protective--together. People still need each other in this world. A beauty of life in Montana is that we still know we need each other in this world.
Four years ago tonight Montana faced a financial calamity in the form of a projected $200 million General Fund deficit, and a Workers Compensation system on the brink of bankruptcy with premiums rising regularly. Working together--legislators, the Executive branch, Democrats-Republicans, workers-employers, all kinds of Montanans--we not only eliminated that government deficit, we produced a surplus, which was returned to the people who sent us here.
And, working together, the recovery of our Workers' Compensation system is almost complete. We will propose some more reforms this session. But our Workers' Comp system is now one of the nation's lower cost systems and has reduced premiums an average of 36 percent over the last 18 months.
Our economy is growing at a healthy, steady pace; Montana's private sector creates one new job about every hour, around the clock, and unemployment rates in recent months have dropped to the level of the 1970s. Montana's state government has successfully completed one of the largest government reorganizations in our state's history. Our books are in order and Montana enjoys some of the highest financial ratings possible.
Additionally, we have launched a far-reaching infrastructure and highway improvement program to mend many of the postponed maintenance problems of yesteryear. This is a mammoth undertaking, one that continues in our Executive Budget, one that will take years to complete.
But we know the state of the state can be better. What can we do to elevate Montana up the ladder of economic expectations and achievements?
We believe we can make a major step forward through a program we call "Today and Tomorrow"--"Today" because it would take a portion of coal severance taxes from today's production and invest them--all of them, every single penny--within Montana, securing an even higher return for the citizens of "Tomorrow". Currently, those taxes--about $20 million per year--flow into a savings account that already totals almost $600 million. It is invested in various forms of financial instruments, more than 80 percent of which do not involve Montana. The income goes into the General Fund to pay for various programs.
For 20 years Today and Tomorrow would instead invest that new $20 million annually in projects, all in Montana, at today's lower prices, that would produce an economic benefit far in excess of any interest earned from going into a savings account. Today and Tomorrow's investments would create Montana jobs today building infrastructure improvements and research and development projects that would help create a stronger Montana economy and culture tomorrow.
Today and Tomorrow investments would generate more than 3,400 jobs every year building new water and sewage plants and bridges, repairing or replacing old schools, adding computers to schools, strengthening university research and development, rescuing historic sites and properties such as Virginia City and conserving undeveloped land and open rural spaces so future generations can enjoy the same inspiring shoulder room we have sometimes taken for granted.
These $20 million can also be leveraged with matching federal and private money and, we estimate, could actually total more than $100 million each year. Think for a moment what that much money can do for our future--at today's prices.
And think about the open spaces of rural land that we see every day surrounding our communities. Everything in Montana begins with the land. We must never forget that. The land was here before any of us. And it will still be here long after all of us are gone. But what we do--or don't do--with the land during this brief stewardship can be our living legacy to our children and theirs. That's why we included land stewardship in the Today and Tomorrow program, a program for the state to buy easements on private lands--again, at today's prices--to keep them forever open, productive and clean.
I do not--we do not--want to wake up some years down the road and see what has happened to this land because we did not have the courage to confront the issue in 1997, because it really did not seem painful enough back then. Look around at other popular states and see if you think conditions there improved by not planning ahead.
True, Today and Tomorrow is a bold program. It would involve change, changing for 20 years the way we invest those coal tax funds. It will require a three-quarters vote of these legislative bodies, clearly a high standard. Some have predicted it will fail, as some things always do. Although I will make no predictions, I hope for and expect the best, because I truly believe it is good for Montana--today and tomorrow. It is time to try.
"There is," as General George Patton once said, "a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear." I think the time is right and the opportunity for such change is here, and I believe a significantly large majority of Montanans agree. I fervently hope they make themselves heard in coming days. And I exhort you to listen to them, seek their guidance, follow their will. We cannot be afraid to set sail for a new world.
And while we are discussing our state's physical infrastructure, let us also address its social infrastructure. We propose to address, finally, the long-delayed or ignored problems of the past in our corrections system. In fact, we have more than a 100-year history, predating our statehood, of inadequately addressing the corrections issue and then deflecting responsibility for the system's difficulties.
Listen to this history. It may sound dreadfully and painfully familiar: When the Montana Territory was created in 1864, it had no prison. Three years later Congress had a design for a $100,000 prison; it appropriated barely 40 percent of the actual cost--only $40,000.
Three years later the territorial prison opened a 14-cell facility. Twenty-eight days after the first inmates arrived, the prison was overcrowded. Within 60 months, 80 prisoners were sharing 28 cells.
Ninety days after becoming a state, Montana's prison board concluded it could not operate nor renovate the prison and opted to "privatize" the entire prison operation for 70 cents per prisoner per day.
In 1911, the prison had 474 cells--but 650 inmates. By 1931 we had 721 prisoners and a special legislative committee declared the crumbling old blockhouse a public disgrace. Still, that blockhouse stayed in operation another 28 years.
In 1958, the Legislative Council called for a new prison with a capacity of 950 inmates. A generation later, in 1977, a new prison was actually built to accommodate 334 inmates, only 35 percent of the capacity recommended 19 years before.
The current prison facility is designed to house 850 inmates. It currently houses 1,313.
Another 100 prisoners are waiting in county jails and another 250 are in Texas. We project about 3,000 total prisoners by the year 2000. As you can see, the pattern has continued.
What this condensed historical chronology reveals is our society's effective and consistent inattention to an ongoing problem for more than a century. There has been a lack of financial and political commitment to make it function properly and an overabundance of inattention until something serious goes wrong.
Then great surprise and public dismay are expressed, usually aimed in the direction of corrections professionals who had been warning of impending difficulties managing a seriously-strained system cobbled together with baling twine and Band-Aids.
As history has repeated itself, repeatedly, the process of denying the message and condemning the messenger is thereafter followed by an intense, although brief, period of apparently serious inquiry and a new round of profound proposals which are soon doubted, dilluted, delayed or deserted.
And the sad cycle begins all over again.
As Governor, I am responsible for our corrections system; that is unmistakably clear. The buck stops here and I intend to do everything I can or know how to do to interrupt and to terminate that insidious cycle with a modernization program to meet the needs of today, not those of a generation ago.
That does not mean that we should rely upon a corrections approach that ignores prevention, rehabilitation and diversion. Some people suggest we must turn to prevention as a criminal justice strategy. I say, we already have. We never abandoned prevention.
Indeed, already, for every single inmate inside our prison there are three more diverted outside to probation, parole or community-based incarceration--more than fifty-one hundred by the end of fiscal year 1996. And that figure is estimated to jump to nearly 6,000 in the next 30 months.
Other prevention efforts have involved substantial investments--millions of dollars worth--made in programs to identify and deal with societal risk factors that increase the probability of criminal activity among the young: Medicaid Outreach, MIAMI, Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Programs, expanded child care, Family Preservation Services, Youth Alcohol and Drug Treatment, Permanency Planning, Montana Youth Alternatives, DARE, and the Out-of-Home Placement program.
Your commitment to prevention has not only reduced costs, it has prevented unreckoned human tragedy. The Family Preservation Services program has worked to stabilize and strengthen at-risk families while simultaneously decreasing out-of-home placement of children as well as combating child abuse and neglect. Your increased investment in quality day care--and that's what it is, an investment--is and will remain an extremely important part of our welfare reforms, affecting as it does some 5,000 Montana children.
Your endorsement of our permanency program has allowed us to develop permanent placements for children, reducing the numbers of foster care children. And we are proposing important new reforms to facilitate adoptions and properly place children in permanent, loving homes.
As further evidence of our commitment to prevention, the Executive Budget proposes significant increases in prevention services, including new efforts focused on teen pregnancy prevention, targeted case management for children at risk and $5.4 million in community grants for prevention, treatment and juvenile placements.
In the adult corrections system since 1993 our community corrections capacity has grown by 50 percent and probation and parole staff increased approximately 40 percent. Our Executive Budget recommends further significant increases for both community corrections and probation and parole.
Yes, there are costs--sometimes large costs--associated with properly building and funding a modern corrections system. Our plan proposes adding 1,400 prison spaces by the end of fiscal year 2001. Let me point out too there are also costs to NOT properly building and funding a modern corrections system.
There may be room for debate over details of a strategic plan; no one in our Administration has ever said take everything or leave it all. But there is no room for debate over protecting the basic personal security of our citizens. That is one of the most fundamental obligations of government. And as a former prosecutor who too often witnessed up close the ravages of crime on the lives of victims and their loved ones, I take that obligation to provide security extremely seriously.
As we discuss this important issue, let us also strive to keep things in perspective. Probably any inmates are too many for a perfect society. But while our total inmate population of about 2,000 seems like a lot--and it is--for Montana, that number is barely five weeks' worth of newcomers into the Florida prison system, which has a total of 64,000.
For the most recent year's figures available, Montana has the fourth smallest prison population of any state. We even rank below South Dakota, which has 100,000 fewer people.
Let us remember too that while we do have a total of 7,600 individuals involved in our correctional system--from community corrections through Death Row--that also means that we have 872,400 law-abiding citizens in our state, people who are not involved with our corrections system. Those people have rights, too; those are the people we are working for and working to protect.
Theresa and I have been blessed with being the parents of five children, each unique and each loved beyond measure. Like you, we have dedicated our time, our talents and our treasure to our children with every ounce of effort and resource we can muster. We have not done so perfectly, as I'm sure they may recall, but we have tried diligently to teach them what they need to know to have a chance to be peaceful and productive people.
Each of them has progressed through our public school system and three have gone on to college and graduate school, both public and private, with two remaining to follow. Collectively, their teachers may have spent more waking moments with our children than anyone else and, as parents, we will be forever grateful for the care, counsel and knowledge shared by those skilled professionals. Teaching--there is no more noble endeavor anywhere on this planet. And we, along with all Montana parents, would like to thank our teachers and all who help prepare our children for life.
As the education of our children properly dominates the lives of our families, it rightfully dominates our General Fund budget. The Executive Budget proposes increases for larger enrollments in our schools and higher education system. But, in addition, in order to keep pace and comply with our constitutional obligation to equalize educational opportunity, per student allocations are increased as are those for teacher retirement, school construction and transportation.
Importantly, investments in technology and distance-learning are recommended for both schools and higher education as well as funding for the accountable school improvement project. Montana has expended relatively few resources to measure the performance of public education from classroom to classroom and school to school. Without a school "report card" it is difficult for parents, teachers, administrators, trustees or legislators to make key decisions and evaluations about the state of our public schools. The school improvement project responds to this need.
Parenthetically, let me add that each of the recommendations in the Executive Budget, including and most especially those that involve education, have been carefully reviewed and refined. Not one requests anything that would just be nice to have. We ask only for what is essential.
We must continue the continuous struggle for tax reform. Our Executive Budget provides $65 million in new and ongoing business equipment tax reductions and another $70 million in property tax relief.
Clearly, the property tax situation has urgently seized our immediate attention and will not escape remediation. But it should not escape our attention either that what we are presently experiencing, again, with our property tax system is further confirmation of the necessity for comprehensive tax reform. Now I have learned many profound and humbling lessons in my temporary stewardship of this office. None, perhaps, were more profound or more humbling than those associated with tax reform.
We will come to grips with the projected and unacceptable property tax increases. And the solution will last for a while, at least until the next time the Legislature convenes. But even if we achieve every measure of success with one or a combination of the proposals we have discussed, we will not strike at the roots of the problem. We will hack at the branches once again and await the next emergency call to action.
Our taxation system was designed during the Industrial Age with an almost exclusive emphasis on tangible assets. We are living now in the Information Age when markets and assets move electronically around the world at the speed of light and many of our most valuable assets are intangible--our air, our scenery, our safety, our civility and our way of life. Yet our tax system reflects little, if any, of these new realities. We have a Model T tax system in a microchip world.
Additionally, our state's diversity is wonderful to look at, to taste, to learn about, to live in and among. But our diversity is a positively awful place in which to equitably reform taxes. One area's relief is another's burden. And vice versa.
In spite of the travail, I cannot let go of this issue. The unfairness and inefficiency of our tax system toward the people who live here constantly gnaws at the core of my soul. There are each year in our state nearly ten times as many visitors as there are permanent residents--about eight million visitors and about 880,000 Montanans.
These visitors may sometimes drive too quickly for our tastes. But they also bring many positive benefits. They help remind us by their compliments and their appreciation what a spectacular corner of God's good earth we share here. And, not least, they economically support some 60,000 jobs with a total economic benefit of $1.2 billion. And we are delighted to see figures indicating that our strategy to steer visitors to the under-utilized areas of Montana, particularly in the east, is succeeding so well.
Tourism, as you know, has become our Number 2 industry, still far behind agriculture. The facts are: Montanans, because of our relatively few numbers and our relatively large size are asked to support a massive infrastructure. We have, for instance, more miles of highway per person than 47 other states.
In our continued diligence to make our tax system fair for Montanans, we must somehow find a way to allow these visitors to shoulder their fair share of the costs of their presence in and use of the Big Sky Country and its facilities. During their stay they do pay their accomodations tax and some portion of gas taxes, as resident Montanans do daily.
But under our current tax system, nine out of ten people in Montana this year do not pay their fair share for the use of our most valuable resources. Those nine are visitors. Out of fairness, the rest of us should change that.
I want to make it perfectly clear that I am ready to work in good faith with the Legislature and other interested Montanans to fashion a comprehensive tax reform proposal that uses all of the revenue generated by a constitutionally-capped sales tax to reduce the escalating property taxes our fellow citizens disdain. The sooner we make that decision the better we will be.
I travel around this huge state an awful lot--many thousands of miles in these first four years, and many thousands more miles in my years as a prosecutor before that. Traveling Montana is a rich blessing, even with the icy roads. I've even become familiar with certain bumps in the same places every year.
Late on those long nights when the stars are so bright they make midnight shadows, I have often thought that the only time we get in trouble over disagreements in Montana is when we really have not been listening fully to each other. It occurs to me that 98 percent of all Montanans probably agree on about 98 percent of anything they are discussing.
Human beings, especially human beings in an age of instant communications, have an intriguing fascination with conflict. Conflict, even superficial conflict, is an integral part of our drama, our literature, our entertainment, our news. In fact, the surest way to be ignored today is to have a quiet conversation or a unanimous vote...
In our wonderful eagerness to improve things and to find and debate better ways with our Made in Montana candor, let none of us ever forget that 100 percent of the conflict really concerns only two percent of the issues. That really is true.
The old ways of winners and losers in public service will no longer work, if it ever did. We need each other too much and there is too much to be done to waste even one ounce of energy on such old-fashioned ways. We should instead appreciate even more the divergent views of our diverse regions and peoples, realizing that such variety merely reflects the overpowering natural diversity of this wondrous landscape where God, family and even chance have brought us together as temporary stewards.
Let us not build walls between us. Let us instead develop strong new habits of the heart to build bridges among us so that we can not only come to understand each other better but come to work with each other better.
Five years ago, minus a few days, in another room in this hallowed building I announced our candidacy for Governor by promising--and I quote--"If elected, we will serve with honor and strive to instill, by example, a respect for the simple values of honesty, integrity, ethical behavior, common decency and personal regard for every person."
We have tried to live up to that promise. Tonight I repeat that vow. And I know Judy joins me.
May God bless Montana as we seek, together, to build a new future on this vast landscape. May God bless our elected legislators as they work, together, to focus their collective citizen attentions, imaginations, diversities and dedications on the issues before them. And may God bless us all, each and every one, for our shared time together in--and our shared love of--this truly special corner of our truly wondrous land.
Thank you. And good night.


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Area photographer garnering international kudos
Published: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 2:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 2:35 p.m.
Chris Aydlett won "Commended," or third place, in the Nature in Black and White division of the London Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.
Wildlife photography tips
Here are some tips from Chris Aydlett on shooting wildlife:
Find an easy place to get to, such as a local park or beach area.
Take time to scout an area to find wildlife.
Make many trips to the scouted area at different times of the day to see what animals come and go.
If you don't own large zoom lenses you can rent them, or get closer to the subject.
Have patience. Sometimes it takes days, months or even years to get that one image.
Sign up for nature tours. The guides know the area and can cut your scouting time.
No. 1: Enjoy your time out in the wild, even if you do not get the shot.
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That's quite a step up from shooting yearbook photos for Mattamuskeet High School in Hyde County.
"I didn't think I had a chance to get it because it's so competitive," the Wilmington man said.
But he'd also hoped to place a little higher.
"With second place, you get an all-expense paid trip," he said.
Aydlett, 37, is an accomplished photographer, having also received two Fujifilm Masterpiece Awards for digital art and commercial imagery and won recognition from the Professional Photographers of America and the Southeastern Professional Photographers Association.
He learned the basics while shooting for the yearbook. He said the inch-thick yearbook was studied by other high schools because of its quality.
Everything was shot in black and white except senior class photos, and all on film.
"I actually do miss that a little bit," he said of his hours in the darkroom.
He works at the Sherwin Williams store at South College Road and South 17th Street. With 18 years' experience, he has plenty of vacation time for his photography trips. His wife, Debby, generally accompanies him, helping with the equipment.
The paint retailer is supportive and featured his London award in a company newsletter, Aydlett said.
"Grand Raven," the striking image that won him the recognition, was shot on the south rim of the Grand Canyon.
"Thinking the bird would fly away as soon as he got out of his car, he grabbed his camera," says a description at the museum's website. "But it stayed, watching him and giving him time to select a rock as a substitute tripod. Turning the strong midday light to his advantage, Chris created the shot in black and white, to give the scene impact and boost the metallic gloss of the raven's plumage."
Read more about the contest at http://bit.ly/1eizhoW.
Aydlett enjoys shooting in nature.
"Wildlife and landscapes are the most peaceful things to shoot," he said.
He noted the irony of a lovely shot in Antelope Canyon in Arizona. A slender ray of sunlight beams through the red desert rocks in land sacred to the Navajo people.
He'd booked a photography tour that blocked the canyon opening for a minute or two. The photographers jostled for space.
"There were all these people and it was very noisy, but the photo is so peaceful," Aydlett said.
He's also particularly pleased with a shot of Stonehenge that he shot while in England for the award.
Aydlett has worked as a freelance photographer for The Virginian Pilot, which includes northeastern North Carolina in its circulation area.
His first big commercial job was shooting the historic Chowan County Courthouse, built in 1767. His image was used as a fundraising poster when the building was remodeled in 2004.
He moved to Wilmington in 2006 and began taking commercial jobs such as weddings and family portraits.
He traveled to Thailand with his church, Corinth Baptist Church in Elizabeth City, to document a mission trip there.
And he went to Nicaragua with his brother's friends to shoot a surfing trip there. Shooting in the water can be tricky because the light is different above and below the surface, he said.
He tries to take two trips a year, and plans to go to Panama in January.
"My grandfather told me the best thing in life you can do is travel," he said. "When you're lying in the nursing home, you don't think about all the things you bought. You think about the good times you had."
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Come see me Sunday, September 16th at the Ghoul Girls booth at Comikaze Expo! Time TBD (most likely from noon on...) I'll be signing prints, taking pix and hanging out in creepy Ghoul Girls style! Hope to see ya there!
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I can't wait!!
I don't guess you ever make it out to Dragon Con or anything on the east coast?
Aw man, I really want to go to Dragon-con! If they ever want to bring me out, I'm there! (-; Same goes for any con on the East Coast! ^______^ I hope to go one day! Stay posted on here, or to my website for my schedule for the coming yr.! www.TraciHines.com
I wish I could, but I can't.
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I am communicating with a helmut mounted blue tooth which makes it so I can talk on the phone or ask Siri for help while riding. The speakers do not interfere with the road noises around me so they are safe. Ride today was short and I arrived early afternoon which gave me some time to take care of some great issues and rest. The heat, 95 was really noticeable today and even with the short ride took a toll. Forecast is not as hot and I'm riding north. Michele is shipping me my old saddle as the new one is causing problems and winning the battle. I've ridden almost 600 miles on the new one, it has been fit tested for me yet is tearing me up. Well see how the old one feels. Other than that my body has no complaints. Some thoughts; for $6.00 you can get enough breakfasts to feed 3 people, portions are large! Armadillos don't do we'll crossing roads. You need to have a taste for boiled peanuts. While in GA I am a GA Bulldog fan, favorite food is pecans and peaches. I'll see what I am in SC. For Ms Cronin's fabulous first grade class; I have not seen any bears or cheetahs but I have seen three very large snakes. I like bears much better.
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RADM Elizondo was selected by Surgeon General Regina Benjamin as the Chief Professional Officer for the Health Services Officer category effective August 10, 2010. He began his USPHS career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Since his transfer from the U.S. Air Force, he has served in a variety of positions including a PA clinician, Assistant Health Services Administrator, Chief Physician Assistant (PA), Regional Minority Health Consultant, Deputy Regional Health Administrator (DRHA), and currently as the Regional Health Administrator (RHA) for HHS/OASH Region VI.
RADM Elizondo's first assignment was as a clinical PA providing care for Federal inmates at Federal Medical Center Fort Worth, in Texas. Shortly after his arrival, he was promoted to Assistant Health Services Administrator. This promotion entailed responsibility for a multimillion dollar contract to operate a secure wing for inmates to receive care in a community hospital when required. He also coordinated a BOP-sponsored PA training program for staff in collaboration with the Department of Defense and the University of Nebraska. All participants graduated with a Master of Physician Assistant Studies Degree and successfully completed their national board certification. For his next assignment, RADM Elizondo was appointed Chief PA for the BOP and served in that capacity in Washington, DC.
In 2000, RADM Elizondo transferred to the regional office as the Regional Minority Health Consultant to address issues related to health disparities among minority and disadvantaged populations. He also worked with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on issues related to indoor and outdoor air including asthma in children.
In 2004, he was appointed Deputy RHA and in 2006, he was promoted to RHA in Region VI. As RHA, he serves as the senior Federal public health official and scientist in the region. In this capacity, he performs essential functions for the Department in three major areas: prevention, preparedness, and agency-wide coordination. He also serves as the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Region D Senior Health Official for Pandemic Influenza. During the most recent Presidential transition, RADM Elizondo also served as Regional Director (RD) until a permanent RD was named.
RADM Elizondo served as Deputy Commander of the Secretary's Emergency Response Team during Hurricane Rita and as Commander of the Secretary's Emergency Response Team during part of the Katrina response. During the early response to Hurricane Katrina, RADM Elizondo was assigned, by then Surgeon General VADM Carmona, as the lead for the Federal response associated with the care of evacuees housed in the Dallas-Forth Worth area. When the rapid deployment force teams were established, RADM Elizondo was appointed as the first commander of Rapid Deployment Team Force 4, which was comprised of officers from Texas and Oklahoma.
Prior to being commissioned in the Corps, RADM Elizondo served as an enlisted Hospital Corpsmen in the U.S. Navy, as a Warrant Officer and commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and Kansas National Guard, and as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force. RADM Elizondo keeps his national certification and his Texas State PA Permit current and maintains his clinical competency through clinical practice at the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Fort Worth, TX.
RADM Elizondo's uniform services awards include the PHS Meritorious Service Medal, USNR Meritorious Service Medal, BOP Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, and the Crisis Response Service Award. His non-uniform service awards include the HHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service, the Attorney General's Award for Career Enhancement, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons Assistant Director's Award for the Health Services Division.
RADM Elizondo holds bachelor degrees from the University of Washington and Wichita State University, master degrees from Wichita State University and the University of Nebraska, and a doctorate (Ph.D.) from Kansas State University.
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Sergei Prokofiev composed his first two piano concertos while still a student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. This was a time when he was enthusiastically embracing many of the new directions pursued by the modernists, particularly where dissonance and a percussive approaches to the piano were concerned. Nevertheless, during his final year at the Conservatory in 1914, he performed the first of these two concertos (completed in 1911 and published as Opus 10 in D-flat major) in a competition involving the five best piano students and won the grand prize, a Schreder grand piano.
Bear in mind that this was a piano competition, rather than a composition competition. The concerto provided a platform on which Prokofiev could flamboyantly show off a broad spectrum of technical skills, all of which were laid out as a series of episodes with little sense of overall structure except for the opening theme that recurs in the middle and at the end of the work's single movement in three sections. Think of Frédéric Chopin stringing together his 24 preludes (Opus 28) with a bit of orchestra filler to get the general idea, and then throw in the dissonance and percussive technique to dispense with any strong commitment of traditional harmonic grammar.
This was the concerto that Yuja Wang brought to this week's concerts by the San Francisco Symphony (SFS), conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT), at Davies Symphony Hall. This is not the first time Wang has performed a Prokofiev concerto with SFS. She performed the second concerto (Opus 16 in G minor) in the spring of 2009 (having performed the second movement a month earlier at the YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert, also conducted by MTT, at Carnegie Hall) and took it on the SFS six-city ten-concert Asian tour at the end of 2012.
While Opus 16 is just as demanding as Opus 10, it shows far more respect for conventional concerto structure with its four-movement form and greater attention to interplay between piano and orchestra. Opus 10 is far more exhibitionist and unabashedly indulges in many of the raw qualities of a brash young composer taking his first crack at a concerto. There is thus the hazard that the soloist will focus only on the exhibitionism, doing little more than bang out one technical stunt after another.
Wang was not such a soloist. She apparently was willing to give her part enough study to appreciate the thematic qualities within the welter of all those notes. As a result, she came up with a highly nuanced interpretation of the score, which made a strong case that this concerto deserves a place in the Prokofiev canon as something more than a particularly overt instance of youthful enthusiasm. She responded to the loose episodic structure of the composition by seeking out rhetorical techniques that would endow each episode with its own individual character. The result elevated the concerto from merely a display of technical virtuosity to a studied interpretation of a young composer's new thoughts about what a concerto could be.
None of this changed the fact that this was a concerto that was all about the piano. In this respect MTT was duly supportive, guiding the orchestra through the flow of episodes emerging from the keyboard. Prokofiev's few moments of attention to instrumental color were all given their due, but MTT did not seem to have any problems with letting this be Wang's show.
They then joined forces for a "programmed encore" involving an entirely different batch of virtuoso demands. This was the scherzo movement from Henry Litolff's Opus 102, the fourth of five compositions he called "Concerto Symphonique." This composition involved a bit more interplay between piano and orchestra, but ultimately this movement is a perpetuum mobile for the pianist. Basically, the piano explores a single theme that permeates both the outer sections and the trio of this movement in scherzo form. The beginning of the trio provides the one brief moment of pause when the pianist can catch his/her breath. While the trio is scored as an instrumental chorale, the piano then intrudes with the same theme it has been playing since the beginning of the scherzo. Both Wang and MTT clearly appreciated the wit of this structure, providing a bit of refreshing comic relief in the wake of Prokofiev's onslaught.
Following the intermission it was MTT's turn to bring nuance to the performance. The second half of the program consisted entirely of a collection of three pieces by Claude Debussy that he called Images pour orchestra (images for orchestra). Each of the "images" was inspired by a different country. The first, "Gigues," evokes impressions of Britain. This is followed by the Hispanic elements of the three-movement "Ibéria," after which this "musical journey" returns to France with "Rondes de printemps" (spring rounds). At last night's performance MTT swapped the ordering of "Ibéria" and "Rondes de printemps," probably because the final movement of "Ibéria" brought the entire program to a dazzling conclusion.
After all of the pianistic display, Images provided a first-rate platform for appreciating the instrumental richness of SFS sonorities. Nuance was again the order of the day in "Gigues," in which the thematic material almost seems to emerge from the obscuring mists associated so often with the British Isles. The themes are more suggestive of Scottish jigs than of the gigue form encountered so often in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Similarly, there are suggestions of French songs in "Rondes de printemps." However, the "Ibéria" triptych tends to be the most recognizable with its Spanish references. Probably none of these are explicit quotations, but the suggestions are all crystal clear. This "Spanish journey" climaxes in a wildly raucous street fair in which Debussy exhibited his skill for depicting everything happening at once.
The Prokofiev concerto was introduced by four short pieces, each by a different composer:
- Gabriel Fauré's Opus 50 "Pavane"
- The third entr'acte from the music that Franz Schubert composed for the play Rosamunde (D. 797)
- The sixth of the orchestral pieces that Antonín Dvořák called "Legends" (Opus 59, originally composed for four-hand piano)
- Edvard Grieg's orchestral version of his song "The Last Spring" (Opus 34, Number 2)
In the context of the concerto, these pieces tended to provide a calm before the storm. Unfortunately, that sense of calm ran the risk of becoming a sense of bland. The Schubert selection was the most vulnerable, while both the Fauré and the Dvořák were sustained more by instrumental color than by a compelling flow of the thematic rhetoric. Only the Grieg, composed only for strings, emerged as a truly riveting performance, particularly when the four-part harmony rises to the heights of four lines divided across the two violin sections. MTT's reading of this short piece provided a vivid reminder of just how expressive Grieg could be, with even a few hints of eroticism in that expressiveness.


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Frontier's Board provides guidance and counsel for the company:
David Braben, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Founded Frontier in 1994, 30 yrs gaming industry experience
David Walsh, Chief Operating Officer
Joined Frontier in 2000 from ARM, 12 yrs gaming industry experience
Jonny Watts, Chief Creative Officer
Joined Frontier in 1998 from Sensible Software, 25 yrs gaming industry experience
Neil Armstrong, Chief Financial Officer
Joined Frontier in 2010, ACA with 24 yrs experience
David Gammon, Non-Executive Chairman
Joined Frontier in 2012. Experienced NED and serial investor
Jonathan Milner, Non-Executive Director Joined Frontier in 2012. Experienced entrepreneur and business leader. Co-founder and CEO of Abcam plc
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About Frontier Developments
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Frontier was founded in 1994 by David Braben, co-author of the seminal "Elite", to carry forward his groundbreaking work and development ethos into projects with a scale and ambition that only teams of skilled professionals can tackle.
David plays a very active role in the company. With a talented team of developers and experienced managers he has helped Frontier successfully to navigate three exciting decades of the ever-changing technology landscape of mass-market gaming platforms and overseen Frontier's emergence as one of the worldwide games industry's leading independent developers.
Frontier's development strengths are immersive, fun gameplay design and unparalleled artistic quality underpinned and enabled by cutting-edge technology development and a talent for getting the best out of hardware and UI.
We are developing a growing number of self-published titles using digital distribution channels on the major gaming platforms.
QUALITY. Quality in all aspects of what we do is our primary objective, and the key factor in what makes a successful game. Our highly talented people use robust processes and tools to deliver innovative, successful, top quality games on time and to budget.
INNOVATION. In an industry littered with 'me too' products, Frontier's track record for delivering successful games that 'raise the bar' in a wide range of different genres is remarkable, and stands as testament to our belief that in order to have true success its necessary to challenge convention and 'think different'.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. We are 'only as good as our last game' and strive to always improve every aspect of our performance.
A FOCUS ON PEOPLE. Frontier is no more and no less than the sum total of the skills, experience, and motivation of the many talented individuals we are proud to call our colleagues. We foster a friendly, open, professional working environment where all are encouraged to contribute their ideas. We believe in being 'agile' (lower case 'a') and building teams of talented, motivated people to do extraordinary work. We are very keen to develop all our people's potential to the full. We hold annual performance / career reviews and ongoing training, and promote from within.
Uniquely Diverse Track Record
Our track record consists of a uniquely diverse set of games, each linked only by their success and Frontier's underlying drive for innovation, timely delivery and above all, quality.
We have created games that have defined genres, been critically acclaimed and sold many millions of copies (see our Games for details).
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The Kaepernick 911 calls were released on Tuesday, and people have been quite curious to see just what they contain. Will they serve to clear the NFL pro in the sexual assault investigation? Colin Kaepernick says he's glad the calls have been released, according to TMZ.
The 911 calls released both came from the apartment the night the incident took place. Both callers indicated that there was a woman on the bed, nude, refusing to leave. One caller has been identified as Ricardo Lockette of the Seattle Seahawks. He indicated that the woman wouldn't leave until she spoke with someone else at the apartment, seemingly Kaepernick, and that her link to the other person was that she wanted to get intimate with him.
Though the Kaepernick 911 calls have been released, authorities are still investigating and have not released other information regarding the rape kit or other tests done on the woman making the allegations. TMZ released the 911 calls, and both of them were made around midnight on April 2. One man was identified as someone with security and both callers said that a woman would not leave.
Kaepernick, Lockette and Quinton Patton of the 49ers have all been named as suspects in the sexual assault investigation. The woman alleges that she smoked marijuana at the apartment and started to get intimate with Colin. She claims that she got undressed, eventually blacked out and woke up in a hospital bed. Police talked with the woman at the hospital and a rape kit was done.
The 49ers star denies having done anything wrong and the investigation continues. For his part, Colin tweeted that he is supportive of the tapes being released. He says that earlier information regarding the alleged incident was "totally wrong."
Colin adds that he looks forward to things getting resolved and he is "glad the truth is getting out." Will the investigation clear the three stars of having done anything wrong? There are still some murky details missing regarding just what went down that night, but many think that the Kaepernick 911 calls released do show another side to this complicated story.


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Cheerios will no longer contain GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, after General Mills agreed to drop the GMOs following consumer pressure, the Los Angeles Times reported on Jan. 3.
Cheerios will no longer include two GMO products — bioengineered corn starch and sugar cane, said General Mills, one of the world's largest food manufacturers.
While the Cheerios move was hailed by many as a positive step, General Mills said the move away from GMOs applies only to original Cheerios, and it continues to maintain on its website that GMOs are safe.
General Mills also conceded that other cereals may continue to contain GMOs, writing, "But some Cheerios varieties use other grains, such as corn, that may be grown from GM seed."
The Cheerios move was not about food safety or about consumer pressure, General Mills said in a blog post. General Mills continues to stand behind the use of GMOs.
Still, the Cheerios move comes after a year-long campaign by a consumer activist group for General Mills to drop the GMOs. GMO Inside, which opposes GMOs, had encouraged consumers on Facebook to urge General Mills to drop the GMOs.
Meantime, the Cheerios Facebook page was full of praise from consumers happy that Cheerios will no longer use GMOs.
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"The Real Housewives of New York City" season six premiered last night on Bravo, and during the debut, the cast were celebrating at their very own premiere party.
Luckily for fans on Twitter, photos quickly surfaced, showing off each of the looks of the gorgeous ladies.
"At the premiere party for #RHONY!!" read a message posted to Bravo PR's official Twitter account on March 11. "Tune in at 9 PM ET for the season premiere!" The account also posted a photo of the cast on the red carpet, along with the hash tag, "Empire State Of Mind By Bravo."
Aviva Drescher, Heather Thomson, Kristen Taekman, LuAnn de Lesseps, Ramona Singer, and Carole Radziwill were seen in the photo. Noticeably missing from the cast was Sonja Morgan -- but only because she was in Austin, Texas where she appeared on the SXSW edition of Andy Cohen's late night show, "Watch What Happens Live."
In the photo, the cast is seen with mostly long looks, except for Kristen, the newest addition to the show, who wore a lime green mini-dress -- which definitely set her apart from the rest of the women.
Ramona Singer may have also gone short, but since her lower half is blocked by fans in the photo, it's hard to be sure.
For more of the women of "The Real Housewives of New York City," tune into the show every Tuesday night at 9 p.m. on Bravo.


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Don't wait for St. Patrick's Day to make homemade Irish Cream Liqueur. Any time of the year is a good time to be Irish! This homemade Irish Cream is spiked with rum, brandy, bourbon and whiskey. One glass and you'll be dancing the Irish jig too!
Homemade Irish Cream Liqueur Recipe
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 1/4 cups total mix of Irish Whiskey, brandy, dark rum, and/or Kentucky bourbon
- 2 Tablespoons chocolate flavored syrup, like Hershey's
- 2 teaspoons instant coffee crystals
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Directions: How To Make Homemade Irish Cream Liqueur
- Blend all ingredients well in large mixing bowl on low speed, or in a blender on high for 30 seconds, or use a large whisk.
- Chill overnight to let the flavors mingle.
- Cover and refrigerate any leftovers.
- Use within 7 days.
- Serves about 10-15.
Serving Suggestions:
- Pour over ice cubes and serve on the rocks.
- Drizzle 1 teaspoon chocolate syrup down the inside of a straight glass. Gently pour in Irish Cream, being careful not to disturb the syrup.
- Homemade Baileys Irish Cream can be used in a number of desserts and puddings like this Baileys Irish Cream Cheesecake recipe.
More Irish Recipes
Healthy Irish Soda Bread Recipe
Traditional Irish Soda Bread Recipe
Baileys Irish Cream Cheesecake Recipe
White Chocolate Baileys Irish Cream Mousse Pie Recipe
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