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Apple Festival president: 'There's something for everyone'
Published: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 3:58 p.m.
Apple Festival President Renee Elrod
Age: 51
Occupation: Assistant manager of TD Bank
When did you go to the Apple Festival for the first time?
I went for the first time in September 2004. My family had moved here from Hollywood, Fla.; my parents, my husband and my son, we all moved up here together. My first year I volunteered in the Pepsi booth, and that's how I got my foot in the door with the festival. I loved it.
Did you ever think you would become president of the festival?
I asked the question about three years ago of how do you get on the board of the Apple Festival and then a few months later, I got a phone call asking me if I would be interested in being on the board, and so I did. You become a regular board member and then you are invited to be on the executive board, and the president of that ends up being the president of the Apple Festival.
What are your duties as president?
What I have been doing, basically, is overseeing the executive board meetings and the regular board meetings twice a month. Having a really good board makes your job a lot easier. We have a really good board this year.
Were you surprised by any of those duties?
No, not really, because I have been getting a lot of advice from past presidents who told me that August would be my busiest month, and that has proved to be true. Being a part of the community in this way has made it all worthwhile.
What are some of your goals for this year's festival?
We've added some new food and craft vendors, and we have some new musical acts as well. Really, we've just been promoting this as a family festival. The one thing I can say is that it is really family-oriented, and there is something at the Apple Festival for everyone.
What are you looking forward to the most?
I can't wait to see some of the entertainment because I'm usually too busy to watch anything. We've got a great new musical act, a man named Stephen Freeman who is an Elvis impersonator. I've heard he is really good, so I'm looking forward to seeing that.
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SAN MATEO -- SolarCity, one of the nation's leading installers of rooftop solar systems, hopes to raise as much as $150 million in an initial public offering set for this week.
SolarCity Chairman Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur who is CEO of Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX, is doing his part: He intends to purchase $15 million worth of common stock at the IPO price, according to a recent regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Musk's willingness to put more skin in the game could help San Mateo-based SolarCity attract other investors at a time when many on Wall Street remain skittish about clean energy in general and solar companies in particular. Experts say it's highly unusual for IPOs to have pre-committed buyers.
"Musk is giving investors messaging that he believes in SolarCity's business model and investment proposition and is voting with his wallet," said Sam Hamadeh, the head of New York-based financial analysis firm PrivCo. "We think the vote of confidence will help SolarCity's IPO actually succeed and price, despite so many clean-energy IPOs recently having been pulled or postponed."
SolarCity is expected to price its shares after the market closes Tuesday and is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange Wednesday under the symbol SCTY. The company plans to sell 10 million shares at $13 to $15 a share. At the midrange point of $14 a share, the company would raise $140 million and have a market value of roughly $1.2 billion.
Founded in 2006, SolarCity does not manufacture solar panels, focusing instead on installation. While the prices of solar panels have been hammered by a supply glut, hurting manufacturers, installers are benefiting because solar power is now affordable for more consumers.
"There is little institutional interest in anything solar, so marketing this deal will be difficult," Theo O'Neil, managing director of Litchfield Hills Research, said of SolarCity's IPO. "That being said, installing panels here is perhaps the only thing that could make money in solar."
In six years, SolarCity has created a national brand as a leading installer of residential and commercial rooftop systems in 14 states across the country. It also pioneered the concept of a "solar lease," which allows homeowners to switch to solar power for no money down in exchange for monthly lease payments, typically on a 20-year contract. The company intends to expand internationally and has more than 2,000 employees.
Ben Kallo, an analyst at Robert W. Baird, said SolarCity can be viewed as a finance company rather than a solar company.
"SolarCity has a complex business model, and there are potential risks around interest rates and how this company scales up," said Kallo. "I think it will price at the lower end of its range."
Silicon Valley hasn't seen a big cleantech IPO since Tesla's blockbuster debut in June 2010. Other cleantech companies that have gone public, including battery maker A123, which filed for bankruptcy in Octoberand biofuel maker Amyris, have seen their valuations plummet. In April, Oakland-based solar thermal startup BrightSource Energy shelved its IPO plans at the final hour.
"Everyone in the U.S. is watching the SolarCity IPO," said Dallas Kachan of cleantech research firm Kachan. "Cleantech stocks are still underperforming. It's an important bellwether exit for U.S. investors and entrepreneurs. "
Other analysts question the wisdom of trying to go public when financial markets are preoccupied with the battle between the White House and Congress over the looming "fiscal cliff."
SolarCity was co-founded by Musk and two cousins -- CEO Lyndon Rive, a native of South Africa who has been a member of the U.S. National Underwater Hockey Team, and his brother Peter, the company's chief technology officer.
Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch are lead underwriters of the IPO; investors in the company include Musk, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DBL Investors and Mayfield Fund.
Contact Dana Hull at 408-920-2706. Follow her at Twitter.com/danahull.
SolarCity's IPO
Founders: Lyndon Rive, Peter Rive and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk
Chairman: Elon Musk
CEO: Lyndon Rive
Headquarters: San Mateo
What SolarCity does: Installs solar systems on residential and commercial rooftops in 14 states
Number of shares to be sold: 10 million
Expected price range: $13 to $15 a share

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The Prince of Darkness stood victorious.
He peered out at his followers, gazing around with eyes that never seem to blink, and soaked up the adulation. He seemed to know that his triumph -- one that seemed so implausible just a few months ago -- was really a testament to the undying passion of the fans.
"I just want to thank you for helping us get our very first-ever No. 1 record in the U.S.," Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne told the massive crowd assembled on Monday at 22,000-capacity Shoreline Amphitheatre. "It only took 45 (expletive) years -- but we got there."
Yes, there's much gratitude in the Black Sabbath world these days. It doesn't just stem from the surprise hit album -- "13," the first to feature Osbourne since 1978's "Never Say Die!" -- or the accompanying tour, which is a runaway hit at the box office.
It also has to do with what's been going on recently inside the band itself. There has been guitarist Tony Iommi's ongoing battle with cancer, as well as Osbourne's well-publicized substance abuse and marital problems and original drummer Bill Ward's departure from the fold. No wonder that many assumed, not all that long ago, that a full-fledged North American tour for Black Sabbath was a pipe dream at best.
Yet, it's never safe to bet against Sabbath. The British band has survived so much during its legendary career, which began in 1968, and has usually found a way to come out on top. This time around -- during what many believe could be the group's final tour -- Black Sabbath is taking time to smell the roses.
As Iommi told me during a recent interview, "I think everyone now appreciates what we've got and what we get to do."
The heavy metal heroes gave it their all during the Shoreline show, opening with a rousing "War Pigs" and then soldiering on through a mix of old fan favorites and new material for roughly two hours.
The group sounded great -- better than it did when it last played Shoreline, in 2005.
As expected, Geezer Butler was the rock, churning out the heaviest of metal bass lines. He almost makes it look too easy, which might be why he doesn't get his rightful due as one of the best bassists in the business. The biggest surprise was Osbourne, who might have been the target of fans' most pressing concerns but who delivered some of his strongest vocal work in years. He even seemed to mumbling less than in recent years.
Most important, the cancer treatments don't appear to have slowed Iommi down one iota. His guitar work on such classics as "Snowblind" and "Children of the Grave" was as colorful and rich as ever -- and I wanted to marry the lead he played at the end of "Black Sabbath."
Joining the three original members on the road is drummer Tommy Clufetos, who also sits at the throne in Osbourne's solo band (although it was Rage Against the Machine's Brad Wilk who did the drumming on the recording of "13"). Clufetos is no Bill Ward, but he did a fine job on both old and new songs -- for the most part. He played a mammoth drum solo that stretched on what seemed like four hours while the other musicians were offstage. If there is a title for what he played, it should be "The 60-year-olds in the Band Need a Break." It wasn't Clufetos' fault -- he was only doing as instructed, I'm sure. Still, fans didn't come to Shoreline to see the fill-in drummer enjoy such a lengthy spotlight.
Following the drum marathon, Black Sabbath bounced back -- as always seems to the case -- to triumphantly close the show with such all-time metal classics "Children of the Grave" and "Paranoid." Victory was, indeed, theirs.
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ANAHEIM -- It didn't take David Hyland long to get back into a groove after missing the San Jose SaberCats' past 11 games.
The defensive back -- activated before Sunday's game -- picked off two passes and returned one 34 yards for a touchdown to lead the SaberCats to a 75-34 rout of the LA KISS at Honda Center. The victory clinched the SaberCats' ninth Pacific Division title as well as the No. 2 seed in the National Conference playoffs.
Hyland helped San Jose (11-4) hold its opponent to fewer than 40 points for the 11th time this season and for the fourth consecutive game. The SaberCats defense set up the offense at the KISS 5-yard line or closer three times -- twice via a turnover on downs and the third time on Hyland's second interception.
"There are eight guys out there dominating on every play," Hyland said. "Our up front is unstoppable, and they make it so easy for the secondary. It's a group working together."
With the SaberCats leading 14-10, Hyland stepped in front of an errant pass by L.A. quarterback Kenny Guiton and returned it untouched 34 yards for the score, high-stepping the final 5 yards.
"I've been waiting a long time to do that," Hyland said. "Guiton just made a poor read, and I was sitting right there. He really just threw it right to me."
Two possessions later, Hyland tipped a pass to himself and returned it 24 yards to the KISS 4.
"I wish I was a little taller, it would have been easier," Hyland said with a laugh. "I just decided to tip it to myself, and it worked out that way."
San Jose quarterback Nathan Stanley converted the short field into a score with a 2-yard pass to Dominique Curry with 1:20 left in the first half.
The SaberCats special teams joined in when Simeon Castille recovered a fumble in the end zone with 11:58 left in the game. The kickoff from Nich Pertuit went into the net, bounced away from two receivers and was pounced on by Castille in the far corner.
Stanley took advantage of his field position. He completed 12 of 18 passes for just 144 yards but threw for six touchdowns and rushed for one. Reggie Gray and Curry caught three touchdown passes each as the SaberCats scored a season high in points.
"When the defense locks it down and gets us inside, it's up to us to do our job and score," Gray said. "When we get a get a short field, it makes it such an easier game."
San Jose coach Darren Arbet said the team is beginning to jell at the right time.
"We have a lot of young guys who haven't played together before," Arbet said. "But it's really come together."
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An R-rated horror action comedy fairytale -- how's that for genre bending?
"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" is more Gatling guns and grenades than The Brothers Grimm. It takes the kidnapped kiddies into adulthood, where they've parlayed their fame at cooking a witch's goose into a business. Got a witch problem? Call H&G -- the extermination experts.
But high concept pitch or not, the movie doesn't really work. They were shooting for sort of a witch-hunting "Zombieland," an f-bomb-riddled "Van Helsing" packed with comical anachronisms -- a Bavarian forest past with witch trials, pump shotguns and primitive Tasers, where bottles of milk have woodcut pictures of "missing children" on the labels. They don't hit the target or even come close.
Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) show up just as the village of Augsburg is about to burn a redhead. "Gingers" were a favorite target of witch hunters. Hansel shrugs this barbaric crime off, but Gretel insists that the locals need "evidence." That puts them in conflict with the sheriff (Peter Stormare), who can't get a handle on their "witch plague" and the missing children who come with it. H & G have been hired to do what he cannot.
It isn't long after Hansel mutters "Anyplace we can get a drink in this hell hole?" that the siblings are on the job, chasing lesser witches in pursuit of the Great Witch, played by Famke Janssen as if the makeup is going to do all the acting for her. And there may be trolls involved. ("Trolls are extra," Hansel growls, always watching their bottom line.)
Hansel and Gretel have a groupie (Thomas Mann), and the woman (Pihla Viitala) they saved from burning in the opening scene wants to repay the favor to Hansel, a repayment that involves skinny dipping. And when they're on the clock, they have all manner of clever gear to help them battle the wand-wielders -- pistols, rifles, a semi-automatic crossbow, the aforementioned Taser (hand-cranked).
Writer-director Tommy Wirkola focuses on the fights and flings all manner of viscera at the 3-D camera as limbs are whacked off and heads and torsos explode.
Less attention was paid to the story, and the dialogue is a tad over-reliant on the random f-word to land a laugh.
The cleverest touch? Hansel's mania for candy-covered houses is what landed Hansel and Gretel in that witch's clutches, all those years ago.
Now, he carries an ancient hypodermic needle and takes injections to ward off insulin shock.
The moral of the fairytale? Lay off the candy or a witch'll get you.
'hansel & gretel: witch hunters'
* 1/2
Rating: R (for violence, gore and language)
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Jeremy Renner, Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Running time: 1 hour, 26 minutes


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'The Voice,' The Live Playoffs: TV Recap
It's time to vote. Not just for president of the U.S.–but also for the best contestants on "The Voice."
Readers, if you've been following my recaps, you know who my favorite is, and remains. Okay okay, it was Aquile, but since he lost his spot last week, it's Amanda Brown. And I'm obviously not the only fan. Adam called her unbelievable. And I'm sure it's no coincidence that she was last in the two-hour lineup of his and Blake's team. She is pretty, and she has a sweetness, but what really sets her apart is her voice.
After Amanda, I'd group three in second place: Loren Allred, Julio Cesar Castillo and Terry McDermott.
Joselyn Rivera was okay, but in general the women who do the pop renditions all seem to blend together. And with all the head jerking and jumping and bling, it gets hard to concentrate on their voices. That's where Amanda has been able to stand apart from her female competitors. She doesn't distract too much from the main event.
The show is getting a little dull in that the judges, while in earlier episodes as critical as they were complimentary, have just become fawning. With the exception of Christina with Melanie Martinez, it's just gush gush gush.
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November 15, 2005
One day before the release of a new report about the Graniteville train accident, the NTSB is meeting about ways to prevent future accidents. News 12 is following the National Transportation Safety Board's most wanted safety recommendations.
It's called the NTSB Most Wanted List, and positive train control systems have been on it since 1990.
Now, a preview of the future. This system warns of problems ahead.
Important locally after the Graniteville train wreck in January that killed nine. Many suspect that an improperly placed switch is the culprit. Nine other rail accidents are currently under investigation. In all of 2003, there were 145 collisions and 91 percent were caused by human error.
"With some of the major accidents we've had, I've seen more emphasis on the development of positive train control systems," said Robert Chipkevich, NTSB Railroad Investigator.
But Debbie Hersman, the lead investigator in Graniteville, questioned the timeline of future action.
"When do we expect to go from pilot program to implementation?" Hersman said.
"I think that's something we need to continue to push," Chipkevich said.
"Often when you can't get something done, they study it or do a pilot. I think that's where we are and I don't think we're going to move out of that. I don't think we're going to move out of that environment unless something changes and unfortunately that may be a lot of accidents have to happen before something changes," Hersman said.
So what's the holdup? Many point the finger at cost. To overhaul the US rail industry with positive control systems could cost $350 million. But some estimate that it could cost as high as $1 million a mile.
We're expecting the NTSB to release a lengthy report Wednesday on the Graniteville investigation. It will include interview transcripts and records, everything but a probably cause, which is expected later this month.


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In Austria: bob Breitband and the ZTE MF180
I travel a great deal in Europe. Specifically Germany and Austria. I also use the Internet excessively. UK mobile data roaming rates are absurdly expensive. T-Mobile UK sends me a friendly text whenever I try to use data roaming informing me that it will cost £1 for 3MB, £5 for 20MB or £10 for 50MB. Crazy, and crazily expensive.
I finally decided to bight the bullet and buy a 3G data dongle in Austria. Originally I had thought to purchase something from 3 (Drei), however it seemed that everything advertised was on a two year contract. That's not for me. Ultimately I went for a bob breitband package. This includes a ZTE MF180 3G dongle/stick and a SIM card. Buying the package for €50 was the easy bit. The package itself was €50 for the dongle, with 1GB data gratis, and then €9 for 9GB per month, on a 30 day rolling contract. €9 for 9GB isn't too bad, although if you exceed this limit the cost is €4 per GB, which is bad. The other gotcha is that you need an Austrian bank account to setup a direct debit for the monthly payments. I won't bore you with the details of how I have access to one of those.
After opening the package, inserting the SIM card and then plugging the dongle into my Mint Debian laptop, nothing happened. That's right, nothing. The dongle showed a red light and Network Manager didn't recognise any new modem. Cutting long stories short, I unplugged, plugged in, unplugged, plugged in, fiddled and swore for a good hour with no luck. At the point of the customer support help line answering, magically I obtained a connection. The light on the 3G dongle had turned blue. I had no idea how. All is good for the remainder or the day, except that the connection is slower than anticipated. Using speedtest.net, initially I was seeing a download speed of only 1.6Mbps and an upload of 0.10Mbps. Pretty poor. Later in the evening this increased to 2.6Mbps download and 0.3Mbps upload. Still not great.
This morning, I once again found it impossible to obtain a connection? Why? Why? WHY? I extracted the SIM card from the dongle and inserted it into my Nokia N900 phone. With the marvelous help of bluetooth, I easily obtained a data connection. The connection dropped occasionally, but in general all was good. The problem was not with the SIM.
Now that I had a connection again, I used our Googlian friends to search for "ZTE MF180 Debian" for answers. The answer was easy to find. Apparently, the 3G USB dongle is initially recognised as a CD-ROM drive. Eject the drive and everything works. Network Manager asks for a pin number to unlock the SIM, then one is able to connect. I don't know why the dongle is recognised as a CD-ROM drive, and I don't know why ejecting it fixes the problem, but it does. Thanks to Christian Amsuess for the information. If everything doesn't work as expected after ejecting the CD drive, there is more help on Christian's page.
The network speed is no better today, but at least I'm back online. I wouldn't recommend bob breitband, even with the cool name, and I certainly would not recommend ZTE MF180 dongle. I'm sure ejecting the CD drive every time I need a connection will become annoying, but at least it works.
June 13, 2011 at 02:13
I haven't seen your specific device, but in the US, it is common for USB dongles to have a CD portion on them that houses the Windows installation files, and is set to autorun when you plug it in. AT&T does this at least, and I have no doubt the other wireless providers do it as well, because it's a good solution to their problem of getting the drivers installed.
I'm not entirely sure how you get rid of it though- Sandisk at one point had a utility to remove the CD portion from their U3-enabled USB drives, which was a Windows utility.


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Sick of Waiting Tape 1999
Still Sick... Urine Trouble Tape/CD 2000
Climbing Trees 12" 2001
Sick of Waiting Tables CD 2001
Makshift Patriot 7" 2002
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Art Official Intelligence – Voice Mail Bomb Threat 1997
Non-Prophets – Drop Bass 12" 1999
Non-Prophets – All Word No Play 12" 2000
Sage Francis is a poet/MC/soon-to-be-pianist with much to say, fortunately he took the time to share a little of it with 30. It's an interview that illustrates, among other things, exactly why you should put a little consideration into taping live shows.
Admired for his structure-bending statement construction, highly respected as a battle MC/freestyler, and maybe even more respected as a spoken word poet, Sage Francis is a genuine artist. The man is cautious about his connections, and active with his presence; he ignores the easy money to focus on coming through exactly as intended. While he is able to effortlessly put the out-of-place in their place he found it in his heart to sit through some annoying technical difficulties, and put up with a rather incoherent writer in order to get this interview done.
Sage Francis: What's this for again?
30: 30music.com.
Francis: So, it's like music from the 30s? Or, 30-year-old musicians?
30: No, no, the 30 comes from a random journalism code…
Francis: That means it's the end of the document.
30: Exactly! Yeah, so that's where it comes from.
Francis: Cool, so this must be a hardcore journalistic online magazine.
30: Um… Well, we do what we can. So, starting off, at what point do you think poetry became accepted within hip-hop, outside of MCing?
Francis: Well, obviously within the last couple of years. I mean I've incorporated it in my shows for many years now, and when I first started it was very… People didn't know what the fuck was happening. I don't know, that's what made it so interesting I think, that I would just shut the music off and go completely a cappella, for like five minutes. It was weird to people, but eventually it caught on. I think people saw the purpose in it, and I see everyone across the board realizing that it's actually useful to let your words be heard – cause a lot of times you're rockin' over the beat and it's all about rhythm, and I don't know, dance moves, and fights in the crowd. Sometimes it's good to hear the words.
30: So, would you say you're pleased with what it's become?
Francis: Well, it doesn't please me. Not much of the slam poetry pleases me, not much of hip-hop pleases me. It's just there. Just something new for people to fuck up.
30: (laughs) I guess on an unrelated subject, you seem to be very fond of Kinko's. What's your deal with that?
Francis: I just like to steal from Kinko's. When I did those first run tapes and CDs I just made thousands and thousands of colored covers. And you know they charge such horrible rates. And eventually I learned how to freak the system a little bit, and get more for my dollar. I would go there and just fuck up their machines, and make as many copies as I possibly could without paying.
30: Yeah, you say that the Makeshift Patriot cover was made using stolen material, that was all proceeds of Kinko's?
Francis: Well, that's one of my main things. I go to Kinko's, I sit down, and I give myself maybe five hours to put together a cover. I'll go there with photos and markers, and I'll use whatever materials they have available, and I'll make the cover. And that's it. I don't feel like spending days or weeks toiling over what the cover should look like. I just wanted to make it; get it over with.
30: Speaking of that EP, a lot of the songs on it have existed for quite a while now, but it doesn't really seem like a remix project, more like a revisit project. What made you go back to those tracks?
Francis: Um… Well, "Morning Aftermath" was an A.O.I. remix of "Come Come Now." That was one of my favorite written pieces, one of my favorite songs. Some of my favorite writing I should say. And we were performing it with a live band and when we were performing it the band changed it all up, and I started to dig that version more than the original. So I wanted to record it with that different feel to it. I just thought it was pretty fresh. No one would really believe how we went about recording it, but it was done really shoddily. I dig the beat a lot. Joe Beats did the original beat. But with the way it was all recorded the sound quality wasn't that great. This was just my chance to make it a bona fide studio recording.
"Cup of Tea" is called "Every Midnight" on the EP. It was a remix by, yet again, the band. That's a song that was totally overlooked on the Personal Journals album. It's one of my favorites, again. One of the things I visit on the song needed to be rehashed. I turned it into a really creepy song I guess. I have no idea, it was made more musical and I really like what the band did with it so we decided to record it. This time it has a catchier chorus – the original version didn't really have a chorus at all. There's just a weird reggae feel to the new one.
What else was on that EP… "Makeshift Patriot," which was re-recorded from the original 7", just a little bit. Some changes here and there. The reason I did that was I kind of rushed the first recording of it because I wanted to get it out right away, and there were things I wasn't happy with. So, I needed to tweak it and add a couple samples that I thought were relevant and helped out the song.
30: Yeah wasn't that track available to the public, pressed and ready, very quickly after 9/11?
Francis: Well, first it came out as an MP3. It was written recorded and released as an MP3 one month after 9/11. Then the 7" came out perhaps four months after that, I don't even remember when the 7" came out. It was the same version as the MP3 that was on the 7".
Um, what was the other thing… the other one was "Hang Time," but that was a new one. That was on Sick of Waging War. Yeah, that was a new song produced by Meaty Ogre from Chicago.
And the spoken word at the end was "Hey Bobby," which was a last minute entry. I had another spoken word piece on there before it called "Underbite Ben Finds God," but I replaced it with "Hey Bobby," because I thought it was a logical follow-up to "Makeshift Patriot."
30: Personal Journals and Makeshift Patriot were both released on Anticon. I am wondering, what exactly is your relationship with Anticon?
Francis: Um… Anticon… Well I know who they are, and I'm good friends with a couple of them. Initially they asked if they could put out a Sage Francis album, so I said, "Yeah, I'd be glad to give you an album." So we went out to California and recorded most of the songs there. I did what eventually turned into Personal Journals. Then after Personal Journals came out they asked me if I wanted to follow up with another record, and I didn't want to give them another album at the time. But I did have those six tracks that I thought could work really well as an EP, especially considering the condition of the world right now. I just put out a Makeshift Patriot album on vinyl, I thought could help a few DJ sets. I think it's dope just to have it on vinyl; make it available for the DJs.
30: I don't know how often you're able mess around on the net, but did you see that they played "Makeshift Patriot" out of Fifth Element as the anti-war march went by?
Francis: Yeah, the protest went by the store and they were playing it. Yeah, [Dee] Jay Bird told me about that. That's pretty exiting. It's just things like that. I mean, man, that song should be the theme music for such events. It's like, that song's not going to change anything in the world, what it's going to do is, hopefully, motivate somebody who has the ability to change things. We all have to change things on our small levels, and immediate lives. I'm very honored that they would do that for me.
30: Yeah I gotta say it's definitely… I don't know… it's… da… at… sorry, I guess I kind of trailed off there.
Francis: It's OK, I do that fairly often.
30: Um… Yeah, so, you were saying that Anticon kind of came about just based on interest, I read recently that Epitaph is also interested in your work…
Francis: Yeah! I had a meeting with them the other day. They came to my show in Newport Beach, the president [of the label] was there. He's apparently a big fan of Personal Journals and a lot of the stuff that I've been doing. He's been to a couple of shows and… I don't know, we've been talking. I've never really worked with a major label and – I mean that's not a major, major label, but as far as I'm concerned it's pretty fuckin' major. If I went with them it would have to be this big deal, you know. I don't know, I don't know. I've just been working the independent angle for way too long that if I'm about to give up some albums for a label, and give up my own individual approach it would have to be something really special. And I imagine Epitaph is one of the labels that could do that. They have a good reputation with their artists and there are some artists on that label that I would love to have as labelmates; it's a pretty intense lineup.
30: Yeah, from an outsider's perspective it seems that you and Epitaph would be a good fit.
Francis: Yeah, it's the most exiting label news I've got since Def Jam contacted me a few years ago. I just feel like Def Jam was looking for the next white boy, you know. I just got that whole vibe from 'em. I got that vibe from Atlantic as well. I shun them.
30: Yeah, I think I saw that MTV was going to be doing some kind of battle where the winner got a Def Jam contract or something like that. No interest in entering that?
Francis: Nope.
30: So, you're pretty close with the RhymeSayers crew…
Francis: Very close
30: How did that all come about?
Francis: It started out when I was doing a show in Milwaukee with Slug, DJ Abilities, and… actually it was just them. That was the first time I met Slug. This might have been '99… '99, 2000 - one of those years. Slug had heard of me, and I'd definitely heard of him. I actually had his song that I played on my radio show, when I had one… "Scapegoat," as everyone knows. Anyway, so we did that show together, and he was really skeptical about me I think – as a hop-hop artist, or rapper in general – he gave us a really distant and cold vibe. But after the show he was all hugs and um… it was lovely, he was just very cool to me. Eventually he asked me to join along on this tour he was doing. So, just on the tail end of one of his tours, we did a few shows together. It was great, we just vibed off each other. And the whole RhymeSayers crew kind of accepted me as an outside member. I don't know how to explain it, I'm really cool with all of them. I think it's mainly because Slug put in a good word for me. Every time I go back to Minneapolis it's all love, it's one of my favorite places to be. Then after that first tour we did the big Fill in the Blanks Tour, and we did the whole thing. We've done random shows here and there. We've recorded four, maybe five songs together now.
30: Really? And have they all been released already?
Francis: No, three of them haven't been released. One of them probably will never be released. There are two main ones that both of us like a lot, and we'll see whose album comes out first; probably share one, share the other.
30: That's smooth. I was going to say, the only one that I've heard is "Embarrassed," and that one is unbelievable.
Francis: Yeah, that was spur of the moment, like jump in Eyedea's crib and spit a verse out. That verse was mine, it was actually from four years ago. I just had it hanging around I never found something that could get the rhythm of it, but that one did. That one did so I rocked that.
30: A lot of your lyrics kind of dwell on your frustration or even angst. What makes you happy?
Francis: Um… Food. Food makes me happy. Sex makes me happy. Just the release of the demons makes me happy. What else… Performing a good show and not hurting myself makes me happy. Performing a good show and hurting myself if it's done correctly makes me happy. Let me see… people being happy makes me happy. I don't know, you're right, I'm really not happy all too often. Just the company of great people makes me happy. I don't think there's just one thing that I could do that makes me happy. Even, like I said, sex – I don't even think sex makes me happy. I think sex makes me fuckin' depressed in a weird way.
30: That's kind of odd.
Francis: It's been like that for long time. It's a very psychological thing, obviously. Brainfucking.
30: I guess that kind of makes segue into how you're frequently portrayed with Xs over your eyes, or face. Is there any significance to that besides maybe the oblivious?
Francis: There's a few things they probably are. I just like it. (laughs) Just shut down, I don't want to see anymore, leave me out of it. "I've seen enough," maybe that's what it's saying. Fuckin' leave me out of your picture.
30: You seem to have a fascination with the concept of archiving, or maybe I'm being over analytical…
Francis: With archiving? Yeah, that's very true. How did you make that assessment?
30: Um… Just various things that you've written I guess… I guess I can't cite a specific example off the top of my head. I could probably email you something.
Francis: Um, I save everything. I've become less of a packrat, but archiving… I get scared that things will be forgotten, or they'll go away. I grew up with that. That's why I saved all my tapes - tapes of me rapping when I was like eight, nine, ten, eleven years old. All the writing I've ever done, I've saved. And that's probably why I cater to the message board on the website. Anything that happens I like to just put it in there and hopefully it exists forever somewhere…
30: Yeah, I wanted to comment on how actively involved you are on your board and how accessible you are to your fans, followers, and really anyone else who needs to get a hold of you. How are you able to maintain this level of accessibility?
Francis: Well, it's not so hard. You fuckin' make a visit to your computer once a day, or once every two days, look on your message board, see what the people are asking about, answer their questions, give some extra information they may be interested in… Just keep an interaction between people. I don't understand why other people don't do it. It's not like you really have to… I can't answer every single email I get, like I used to, but I can answer questions that many people can see on my website, and if they ever really wanted to do some research they could probably search anything on my website and find the answer.
30: Still, I think you definitely deserve a lot of credit for that. There are a lot of acts who have boards and don't take make even close to the effort you do to keep in touch.
Francis: Well, I think one thing is that people stay away is because they're not comfortable with why they do things. Maybe they like to keep the mystique somehow by not talking to their fans, but I don't really give a shit about that. I have enough mystique in my life, I don't have to hide.
30: So, You also had a DVD and documentary in the works, right?
Francis: I have, and I don't know what the hell is going to happen with it. Because I've lost faith in random people who were trying to help out and do things with me. I just don't know what's the best thing to do. I think a DVD takes as much dedication and as much spirit as an album does, and without me being fully involved in it I don't think I would be comfortable with it coming out. So, what I would have to do is actually take a big chunk out of my schedule, sit down and put together this DVD with whoever wants to help out. But this guy who was doing it was talking about how he wants to do this and that, and how he wants to put it out next month. When he said that I was like "whoa." I just stepped away, I was like, "Na, no thanks dude." But I do archive as much video footage as I can, I'm trying to look for interesting stuff. And it exists out there, but it's rare that I get my hands on it. That's why I hate people at shows with video cameras 'cause I never get a copy of my show. I just want to smash their fucking face with the camera… They're sitting up in the front row… You know it's just been so many years that I've politely asked for a copy of a show, and I've never got one. I just realized these guys aren't trying to help the cause at all.
30: With all these projects, as we just talked about the documentary, and you have the other musical endeavors as well, how are you able to draw the lines between them?
Francis: I think different styles of writing and different trains of thought lend themselves to different projects and they get categorized in that manner. I just did an album with Buck 65 called Sleep No More. It's a concept album, and the vibe that I got off the beats and the production, which were done by DJ Signify, and his direction as far as what the subject matter entailed really lends itself to me, catering to the certain subject matter that I left out of the Non-Prophets album. Because the Non-Prophets album had more of a hip-hop feel. Very rappy, very, maybe punch line, or catchy chorus oriented – that kind of shit. And I just need to always balance myself out with different things. Like when I did Personal Journals it was just pretty heavy material, you know. So, all the stuff I did following Personal Journals was more of a lighthearted nature, and just trying to balance my brain, and feel better about being a complete artist. I want to be rounded out a little bit. I'm trying to learn instruments. I think what I need to do is just play piano and just shut the mouth for a couple years.
Sage expects DJ Signify's Sleep No More to be out around 4 months from now
30: (laughs) That sounds a little crazy…
Francis: I mean all I do is talk, talk, write, write, and it may be grinding on my soul a bit too much.
30: What were you listening to at age 17?
Francis: Let's see… Let me do some math in my head really quick… Well, I obviously was listening to Public Enemy. Um… It was all hip-hop, I didn't really start listening to anything outside hip-hop until around '96. Yeah, I'd say the main thing would be Public Enemy and KRS-1.
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Thu Feb 27, 2003 9:51 pm
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whats the obsession with putting in the symbols/number for apostrophies, begining and ending qoutation marks and periods?
I know you and journalism....but.....to type it up for your interview?
Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:07 pm
Sage Francis
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dummy up
Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:14 pm
hugh grants hooker
he didnt type it up.
its either a problem with a browser or isp.
alot of aol people have trouble's with that.
Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:21 pm
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oh, alright....well....i prefer to dummy down...thanks
Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:37 pm
hugh grants hooker
man, ya got alot of hate for video cameras. smash their face? lol. i want to be at that show.
have the members of gruvis at the door demanding all videos before exiting the building.
ha ha
nobody really helped with footage? thats lame assed.
adam from pensacola
Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:40 pm
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Posts: 67
Location: :noitacoL
If you wanna copy of Makeshift Patriot at Iowa City
let me know...I guess you probably would...
I'm sure I can find an address on here but if you wouldn't mind or if somebody else can...post an addy.
Skylar Johnson
Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:03 am
Joined: 11 Aug 2002
Posts: 32
the piano is great
i like just making stuff up improv
it is so much fun
it is pretty easy to come up with some pretty beautiful combinations
and you really don't need to know much
it's all about parallel motion and tempo and playing each hand off each other
i love it
i got my piano for free but i have paid to move it three times
but that is a modest fee of about 500$ total, worth the loot to transport
Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:33 am
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I taped you in Charlotte for Trilogy when they had you here. If you want a copy bad enough to shatter my face for holding the camera, I would gladly mail you a copy.
Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:26 am
Sage Francis
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I really do want a copy.
sage francis
po box 2509
providence, ri
Fri Feb 28, 2003 12:38 pm
the godfather of troll
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Sage Francis wrote:
I really do want a copy.
sage francis
po box 2509
providence, ri
you should have let me tape your show when I asked then Fag
I would have sent you a vhs copy
Fri Feb 28, 2003 1:39 pm
hugh grants hooker
he told me that you dont hold the camera right.
it wouldve been all shitty looking.
Fri Feb 28, 2003 6:15 pm
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Posts: 67
Location: :noitacoL
Next week.
I get paid next week. I'll copy it then and send you a copy.
During the second chorus the dude next to me was goin' crazy and hit the camera outta my hand it did like a 360 kick flip and I caught it right where he hit it outta my hand (no fault of his for gettin' into Makeshift) but it turned off so it skips during a line or two and then I was flustered to get it back on that I accidently hit the stupid negative button so for a split second the screen turns negative....but it's still good footage. You grabbed my camera and that shit looks dope as hell when you're rappin' into it.
Next week it will get sent out...
Skylar Johnson
Sat Mar 01, 2003 2:31 am
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Posts: 260
one of the best interviews in a while. Interviewer was on top of his shit, for once.
Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:56 am
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Jewish Women Ceramicists from Germany after 1933
Cabinet Exhibition
In the early 20th century, women in Germany were finally finding acceptance and visibility in the male-dominated field of art. Yet they were still largely side-lined to the applied arts, such as textile design, graphic design and ceramics, rather than being embraced as equal players in the male-ruled field of the fine arts. With the rise of the National Socialist regime in the 1930s, Jewish women applied artists were among those whose work possibilities and means of independent existence were threatened. Some had the foresight to leave Germany and their timely exits saved their lives.
Margerete Loebenstein was a well-known ceramics designer and co-founder of the successful Haël ceramic workshop in Velten, around 25 miles north of Berlin. In 1933, she was denounced by the local National Socialist group for "subversive activities." Shortly thereafter, she decided to sell her company. Haël was sold, well below its value, to an NSDAP member who invited the young Hedwig Bollhagen to take over as artistic director of the workshops. Margerete Loebenstein left her German homeland to begin a new life elsewhere. This exhibition follows her to England and shows her attempts to re-establish herself as an artist.
Other Jewish women, who left Germany in the 1930s, settled in Palestine and worked in the field of ceramics. These skillful women chose Palestine for both ideological and pragmatic reasons.
Trained in Germany, they brought their technical expertise with them.
Moreover, they had sharp visual sensibilities, a strong sense of determination and the willingness to address the challenges of life in a new environment. What local clays are appropriate for pottery? How should the glaze recipes be adapted? How does one build a kiln? How can one communicate without knowing the local languages?
Hedwig Grossmann from Berlin, Hanna Charag-Zuntz from Hamburg and Eva Samuel from Essen are considered the founding mothers of modern Israeli art ceramics. As refugees and pioneers, they and their colleagues developed new ceramic traditions in Palestine and Israel. This exhibition looks at their work and at the influence of German ceramic traditions in the emerging State of Israel.
10 October 2013 - 1 June 2014
Libeskind Building, basement, Rafael Roth Learning Center
with the museum ticket (8 euros, reduced rate 3 euros)
This exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin is part of the Berlin theme Year "Diversity Destroyed: Berlin 1933-1938." The Museum is also participating in the theme year through the online project "1933: The Beginning of the End of German Jewry."
Nora Herz in her studio
Berlin, 1935
Collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin
© Jewish Museum Berlin
Traces of most Jewish women who studied ceramics in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s have disappeared. There are many reasons for this: perhaps a woman stopped working, changed her name, or emigrated with no trace. She may even have been murdered during the National Socialist regime.
By comparing photographs, we have been able to identify Nora Herz at work in her studio, but many questions about her remain unresolved. For example, under what circumstances did she leave for the United States in 1937?
London; earthenware, glazed, ca. 1950-1960
Gift of Frances Marks, Jewish Museum Berlin
Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein's work changed stylistically when she immigrated to Great Britain. In Germany her designs had been radical and avant-garde, with vivid colors. She first found work in the Staffordshire potteries and had to adapt to the local taste and market, where restrained colors and decorative, floral motifs were preferred. Over the years, she struggled to find a new style, but failed to repeat the huge commercial success that she had experienced in Germany.
Manufacturer: Kad va-Sefel Workshop
Rishon le-Zion; earthenware, glazed, 1934-1979
Collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Eva Samuel arrived in Palestine in 1932 and initially concentrated on making small, folkloristic figures, based on the different ethnic groups that she encountered. Her color range was extremely restricted as she relied on glazes imported from Germany at great expense. Eva's business partner was from Hamburg and they employed primarily German-speaking women to assist in their workshop. Among them was Mira Liebes, who went on to have her own career.
Israel; terra-cotta, engobe, 1950s-1960s
Collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin
The pioneering ceramicists in pre-State Palestine wanted to use their technical knowledge from Europe to create something new, yet connected to the locality. Hedwig Grossmann researched extensively to find the most suitable clays for making pottery:
"I tried to free myself from the Middle European forms, colors and glazes and worked only with local clays and self-made Engobe colors."
Hedwig Grossmann-Lehmann, 1966
Haifa, Israel; terra sigillata, earthenware, ca. 1976
Collection of Angelika and Heinz Spielmann, Hamburg
Raised in an orthodox, Zionist family, Hanna Zuntz immigrated to Palestine in 1940. Following a visit to Italy, she became enchanted by Roman ceramics and intrigued by an ancient, red-gloss, pottery technique called "terra sigillata." A potter of extraordinary technical ability, she rediscovered this lost technique. She worked local clay into thin layers and fired the objects at very high temperatures, managing to achieve a surface shine, without burnishing or using glaze.
Cookie holder for coffee set, ca. 1960
Manufacturer: Lapid, Tel Aviv; semi-vitreous china, wicker handle
Collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin
As a ceramic industry in Palestine began to develop in the 1930s, the production range was expanded from sanitary ceramics, such as sinks and toilet bowls, to domestic ceramics.
In 1952, Dr. Berta Rosenthal set up a small department for hand-decorated home ceramics at the Lapid factory in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The chief designer was a German immigrant, Elisabeth Cohen-Silberschmidt, who introduced European, modern, design elements.


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"Automatic consistency," explains Psychology professor Robt. Cialdini. "Sometimes it is not the effort of hard, cognitive work that makes us shirk thoughtful activity but the harsh consequences of that activity. Sometimes it is the cursedly clear and unwelcome set of answers provided by straight thinking that makes us mental slackers. There are certain disturbing things we simply would rather not realize. Because it is a preprogrammed and mindless method of responding, automatic consistency can supply a safe hiding place from troubling realizations. Sealed within the fortress walls of rigid consistency, we can be impervious to the siege of reason." In short, we might have to change if we allow ourselves to think. Therefore, we shouldn't assume such people are either lazy or incapable of cognitive thought. Are some who post here "impervious to the siege of reason" because they fear the change that results from cognitive thought?
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Baseball team earned a 4-2 win on Thursday afternoon, taking the first game of a three-game Southland Conference series against Stephen F. Austin at Jaycees Field. The teams will play the second game at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
The Islanders (31-21, 16-9 Southland) got an early run and led the entire way against the Lumberjacks (27-26, 14-11 Southland) in the opener of the final regular season series. Trevor Foss (8-6) was in control throughout, surrendering just four hits and two runs in the final inning on a home run by Hunter Dozier, the favorite to win the Southland Conference Player of the Year award. He walked one and struck out eight SFA batters.
The win keeps the Islanders in contention for the regular season Southland Conference Championship, with the winner being decided over the final three games of the season. The Islanders would need one more win and a Central Arkansas sweep of Sam Houston State, or two more wins and UCA taking two-of-three from SHSU.
All but two Islanders picked up a hit, with Eric Weiss and Jordan Lee leading the way with two apiece. Zach Taylor, Cody Stephens, Jonathan Gonzales, Brad Porras and Kyle Danford recording one hit each. Weiss, Porras and Brandon Tierney each added an RBI for the team.
The scoring started immediately, with Texas A&M – Corpus Christi plating the first run of the game in the top of the first inning. Taylor led off the game with a single and moved to second on a wild pitch. He advanced to third when Stephens hit a ball to the shortstop, with Taylor beating the throw to third base on the fielder's choice. Weiss hit into another fielder's choice on the next play, with Stephens beating the throw to second and Weiss beating it out at first for the RBI as Taylor came in to score for a 1-0 lead.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi added three more runs in the top of the sixth, with Weiss starting the inning with a leadoff single and moving to third on a single by Gonzales. Porras hit an RBI single through the left side to score Weiss as Gonzales moved up to second.
Lee added a hit in the inning, reaching on a bunt single to the left side and forcing a bad throw to allow Gonzales to score on an error by the third baseman and Porras to move over to third base. Tierney followed with an RBI groundout to the shortstop that allowed Porras to score an unearned run that made it a 4-0 game.
It would be all the Islanders needed, as Foss did not allow SFA's third hit of the game until the bottom of the sixth inning. He gave up just four hits total in the game, the last coming with two outs in the ninth as Dozier hit a 1-1 pitch over the left field wall with a runner on as Foss was working towards getting the final out. He induced a groundout back to the mound against the final batter of the game as the Islanders claimed the 4-2 victory.
The two teams will play a night game on Friday, with Trevor Belicek getting the start against Kyle Cross of SFA.
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A measure that would authorize a Red River flood diversion project should reach the Senate floor Monday, North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Wednesday.
The nearly $2 billion proposal, which would move water around Fargo in a 36-mile channel during times of serious flooding, is part of the 2013 Water Resources Development Act.
Authorization would allow construction to begin, but the federal funding would need to be appropriated each year to cover the construction costs, which would be shared by local, state and federal governments.
The Republican Hoeven, who appeared with his Democratic colleague Wednesday at a public meeting about flooding, touted both the decision to hear the bill next week along with a recent funding increase for project design.
"Both of those are good steps and big steps," Hoeven said.
Hoeven and Klobuchar said they have spoken with President Barack Obama about the project. Shortly after that meeting the administration bumped up its 2013 allocation for design and engineering from $4.5 million to $7.4 million.
"The president has mentioned several times actually in that past week ... at public events mentioning the flooding in the Midwest and that our concerns should be there," Klobuchar said. "So I think he's well aware of it."
The water bill still will need to go to the House after the Senate.
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NEW YORK -- Without much to cheer for, New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden took to saluting the Warriors' Stephen Curry instead.
Curry grabbed a third-quarter rebound, and the crowd roared knowing he had notched a triple-double and come through with yet another command performance at The Garden in the Warriors' 126-103 win Friday.
"Once I got the last (rebound), I heard a couple rumbles in the crowd and kind of put two and two together," Curry said.
Golden State scored a season-high amount of points, with Curry racking up 27 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists after having scored 54 points in the building last season. With the Warriors leading by as many as 27 points and New York showing little sign of life, Curry needed to play only 30 minutes and went 9 for 19 from the field and 5 for 11 from 3-point range.
Klay Thompson added 25 points as the Warriors, who have won five of their past six games, crushed the Knicks after losing at Chicago by 20 in their previous game.
New York's defense appeared nonexistent as Curry and Thompson consistently got open looks, backup Steve Blake turned ankles and Jermaine O'Neal added 15 points and six rebounds off the bench.
Curry came out firing with 20 first-half points.
"What I liked the most about tonight is he forced the Knicks defense to tell him what they wanted him to do, whether it be shooting the basketball or passing the basketball," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. "That's what the great players do.
"He's a kid that's not afraid of the lights, and just looking at him beforehand, especially coming off a poor performance against Chicago, he was anxious about tonight."
One game after Curry matched a season low with five points against the Bulls, he responded with his third triple-double of the season and fourth of his career.
The Warriors notched season highs in first-half points with 73 and matched their first-quarter points mark with 38, scoring at will as the Knicks were booed off the court heading into the locker room at halftime.
"We got beat not in the half court but more in transition," said Knicks coach Mike Woodson, who was subjected to chants from the crowd calling for his firing.
"That was the worst (defense) of the year I thought."
New York was led by Carmelo Anthony's 23 points, but he struggled going up against Andre Iguodala and made only 7 of 26 field goal attempts. The Knicks committed 18 turnovers.
What little fire the Knicks had surfaced when Tyson Chandler was ejected after picking up two technical fouls in two minutes late in the fourth-quarter while going back and forth with reserve Warriors big man Marreese Speights.
"You're going to try to take it out on somebody, so I guess I got to be that guy," said Speights, who finished with 12 points.
Former Knicks player David Lee added 10 points and six rebounds, with his return to the lineup giving the Warriors their regular starters along with Curry, Thompson, Iguodala and Andrew Bogut for only the second time this month. The Warriors moved to 24-10 in games with that lineup.
"I wonder where I'll be next year," said Blake, who is in the final year of a four-year, $16 million contract he signed with the Los Angeles Lakers. "If I had the opportunity to be here, I would love it.
"I already knew from the outside that they were a special team. I didn't realize what a great group of guys it was and how nice it is to play for Coach Jackson. Those are all things that I'll be looking for, for a place I'd like to finish off my career at."
Warriors (36-23) at Toronto (32-26), 1 p.m. CSNBA
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Thank you for all you do to make the world a better place for companion
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September 9. 2011 20:00
Really like the article. As a Florida resident my Golden retriever swims in a pool at least several times a wee, more the summer and after getting dirty in her daily dog park visit. Is it necessarymto rince her off with a hose or in the show after each swim and how, if at all should it change her every four to six week bathings. She is Completely brushed at least every other day.Thanks
September 13. 2011 01:46
We always have the bag of Tasty Rewards out when cleaning ears, clipping nails or giving our dogs a bath. They just watch the bag and wait patiently! As for the Bath Fresh Mist - what a great product for between bath times or when the dogs get caught in the rain - it takes away that "wet doggie smell" immediately.
Rich and Lisa Jelinek
April 30. 2012 05:18
If you have a small dog, and the dog gets smelly often, if you keep its ears clean and learn how to clean out the scent glands (a vet. will show you how, it's quite easy but not a nice procedure), your pooch will be far less smelly.Don't forget to clean the ears, too!Dominuns tecumLeonie
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High Tide: From Mexico Governor Sues Over Wal-Mart Links to Libor Lies
A roundup of corruption-related news from Dow Jones and other sources. You can also receive a weekly newsletter version of Corruption Currents here.
A Mexican state governor implicated in the Wal-Mart Stores bribery scandal sued a former lawyer-turned-whistleblower for the company and sought an apology for being named in connection with the scandal. (Reuters)
The former News of the World reporter whose evidence led to the 15-month prison sentence for a U.K. police officer slammed News Corp. for its role in the case. News Corp. publishes this blog. More on the sentencing here, here and here. (Guardian, AP, Bloomberg, NY Times)
Reporters protested when a U.S. judge moved an FCPA hearing into his chambers. (Main Justice)
The FCPA Blog runs a China corruption blotter, continues its Confucius series and picks up the light sentences handed to two Technip executives in France. The FCPAProfessor runs his weekly roundup. Tom Fox talks about amnesty amid compliance. Mike Volkov discusses improving corporate governance through self-evaluation.
A Czech prosecutor said the country's former defense minister will stand trial after a former U.S. ambassador accused him of asking for a bribe in a high-profile corruption case. The minister denied any wrongdoing. (AP)
Indian police investigating an allegedly corrupt official discovered, in addition to stashed gold, silver and cash, a currency-counting machine. (Sydney Morning Herald)
China's increasingly hacking U.S. media companies Symantec got a black eye in the recent spate of hacking cases. The hack of the New York Times started with a phishing email. More here and here. (Al Jazeera, Forbes, NY Times, BBC, BBC)
The very firms hired by financial institutions to help clean up problems like fraud and money laundering are under scrutiny from federal authorities for mixed results, and in one case, enabling wrongdoing. (Dealbook)
The European Union froze $1.2 billion earmarked for building Polish roads because of suspected fraud by contractors. (Reuters)
A Florida man pleaded guilty to swindling about $2.3 million from Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney. (AP)
Money Laundering:
An Indian businessman extradited home from Indonesia to face money laundering charges was remanded into custody. (IANS)
Cyprus now has a chance to improve itself on money laundering. (Transparency International)
Lessons for the anti-money laundering officer from the HSBC Holdingssettlement are here. (USA Recht)
A United Nations human rights report on Israel's settlements paves the way for more sanctions and greater isolation. (Haaretz)
Diplomats say Iran is prepared to ramp up its nuclear program. The EU foreign policy chief is concerned. More here and here. (AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, NY Times)
A client alert from Reed Smith discusses the next round of Iran sanctions.
South Korea warned of tough measures in the face of what it thinks is an imminent nuclear test by Pyongyang. North Korea covered up its nuclear site and has increased activity there. Seoul launched a civilian rocket. Clinton thinks there's still hope for change from Kim Jong Eun. (Reuters, NY Times, Reuters, Reuters)
A look at the Al Nusra Movement, a part of the Syrian opposition the U.S. has labeled a foreign terror organization, is here. Washington, Moscow and the U.N. will meet with the Syrian rebels this weekend, though Russia played down the report. (Al Monitor, Reuters, Reuters)
A member of the Mexican Zetas cartel who is on the U.S. Kingpin Act blacklist pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges. More here. (news release)
More questions about whether the Pentagon is buying Iranian crude are here, here and here. (Daily Beast, Time, Washington Post)
Terrorism Finance:
How does the Taliban make money? (The News International)
Cigarette smuggling is financing terrorism in Africa. (Guardian)
Myanmar's government was urged to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. (Eleven Myanmar)
General Anti-Corruption:
The depth of the lies in Libor rigging are only beginning to emerge. (Bloomberg)
The loss of land rights in Vietnam is causing anger at corrupt officials. (AP)
A new wrinkle emerged in the U.K. probe of Barclaysas it sought emergency funding during the financial crisis. The bank, saying the probe is ongoing, neither denied nor confirmed the revelation. More here. (Financial Times sub req, Reuters)
The European Union criticized Romania for its lack of anti-corruption controls. More here and here. (Reuters, The Financial, EUBusiness)
FIFA chief Sepp Blatter said reforms will only work if they're adopted worldwide. The latest on FIFA and match fixing is here. (Quartz, The Independent, AP, Declan Hill)
The Philippine president warned that unabated corruption breeds more corrupt leaders. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
How does Weibo help fight corruption in China? (KYC360)
A man who formerly helped oversee Nigeria's police pension program pleaded guilty to stealing $145 million, but walked out of court a free man. (AP)
One case provides a look at corruption at the Kremlin. (The Atlantic)
Norway, Sweden and Denmark asked Uganda to return aid that was allegedly misappropriated. (AFP)
Thailand anti-graft crusaders want commitments from business leaders to fight corruption. The country's place on a corruption index improved. More here. (Bangkok Post, Bangkok Post, CIPE)
Slovenia's prime minister faced pressure to resign amid allegations of corruption. Instead, he named himself finance minister. (OCCRP, AFP)
Transparency International wants to bring the anti-corruption fight to the Millennium Development Goals. It separately said Saudi Arabia made a solid first step toward anti-corruption.
Tauqir Sadiq, the former Pakistani oil and gas chief, was arrested in Abu Dhabi on suspicion of embezzling $850 million, an official confirmed to the BBC. He denied receiving kickbacks.
A KPMG survey of audit committee members found risk management programs need to become more "dynamic" to move with changing world. (news release)
China's battle against sugar smugglers working across southern borders is failing. (Reuters)
Pakistan's Supreme Court summoned the country's anti-corruption boss over a letter he wrote to the judges. The top judge warned against delaying the vote in a major election. (AP, AFP)
The SEC's outgoing enforcement chief praised the tenure of his colleague Lanny Breuer at the Justice Department, who himself is stepping down. (Main Justice)


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In 2012, 1,402 North Dakota children were victims of maltreatment as determined by the North Dakota Department of Human Services. This amounts to 9.1 victims for every 1,000 children in the state.
The latest Insights on Children publication from North Dakota KIDS COUNT at North Dakota State University focuses on the rate of child abuse and neglect in North Dakota by county. The report shows that the rate of child abuse and neglect in North Dakota rose consistently in the latter part of the 1990s, from 6.9 per 1,000 in 1998 to a high of 11.2 per 1,000 in 2004. The rate then decreased, dropping steadily to 7.6 per 1,000 in 2010. The trend has now reversed, with the rate increasing to 8.5 per 1,000 in 2011 and 9.1 per 1,000 in 2012.
The negative child outcomes of abuse and neglect are many. In addition, adverse childhood experiences, such as child abuse and neglect, directly impact outcomes later in life. "The effects of child maltreatment can be seen long after the abuse takes place. It can lead to a variety of long-lasting impacts well into adulthood," said Karen Olson, Program Director for North Dakota KIDS COUNT.
Research shows these negative outcomes can be combated with education, increased awareness, and community engagement. Moreover, protective factors have been identified to strengthen the prevention and treatment outcomes that include: parental resilience, social connections, stable family relationships, parental employment, and a variety of other factors. Overall, lowering the rate of child abuse and neglect in North Dakota will improve child outcomes, and will likely result in an overall healthier North Dakota.
More information about child abuse prevention measures is available from Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota at http://www.pcand.org and the North Dakota Child Protection Program through the North Dakota Department of Human Services' website, http://www.nd.gov/dhs/services/childfamily/cps/.
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Is it coach wooten of Dematha High? I know he does not coach there anymjore but was he that good of a coach or just a great recruiter? Could be the combination of the two.
Has to be a combination of both. Great players can get you alot of s but you need a good coach to get titles. Alot of times you see a great team not reach their potential. That is where a good ach comes in to help that team reach their fu potential.
Here is an article about the coach at Dunbar High in Texas breaking Coach Wootens mark at 1275. This was from 2003. His players call him the "dinosaur"
good article. I love hearing about coaches staying in one place for a long time. Like Joe Pa, but it might be time for him to go after that drubbing they took against USC.
i think its a sign for joe pa to go when u rock baseball cleats to a football game. Hes a legend but hes way past his prime
I think those are coaching cleats. Available at your local Play It Again Sports.
You think coach wooten rocked chuck taylors as his classic trademark?
black low top chucks
I think Bobby Hurley from St Anthonys has to be up there. He has pulled some kids from rough streets and transformed their life using basketball. There is even a book about their 2004 season i believe and it is called " Miracle at St. Anthonys." The book is ok but it follows the players and hurley and his dedication to the program. His son is a rising superstar coach at St Benedicts which since he has taken over the program has risen to a top team in the nation every year. The father and son refuse to play each other unless they meet by chance. St Anthonys, St Benedicts, St Pats and Patterson Catholic make up the best in north jersey which is some of the finest basketball in the country
Why dont they play each other? That is a great story and a great chance to begin a tough rivalry.
he is some explanation
Milton High GA coach David Boyd recently won his 500th game. Just a congatulations to another great long tenured coach
500? thats is impressive. I having a party for my 500th post.
The montrose christian coach Stu Vetter has Won 738 games, and lost only 98. Pretty amazing record.
Legend Status
Hard to lose many games with the talent he gets. Yet 98 losses is absurd with all those wins. School is a recent feeder to Nova and GTOWN
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Evans-Roshell Park in Holt area to get $350,000 facelift
Published: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 12:21 a.m.
An aging park in Holt will be getting new life, thanks to $350,000 from Tuscaloosa County.
Evans-Roshell Park, which started as a sandlot that was adopted as a Tuscaloosa County park in 1983, has largely been used for recreational play on its single baseball field and two basketball courts.
That will soon change, however, as the county installs a picnic pavilion and splash pad, which is an area with no standing water but typically using fountains or nozzles to spray water. Other improvements include a walking trail around the 4-acre park, new fencing for the baseball field, renovated restrooms and expanded parking, said Commissioner Jerry Tingle, who represents the eastern part of the county, including Holt.
"The park has been around for a long time, and it's not used very much, and part of the reason is because it's not user friendly," Tingle said. "I don't think the lights have been turned on at the baseball field in eight or 10 years."
With the splash pad and other improvements, however, Tingle said he's hopeful the area will attract more children and families. There is no other Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority park in the Holt area.
"We are just going to keep pushing forward with our county projects and get things out there that the kids really need and the families need," Tingle said.
Construction crews have already cleared some brush on the site, said Gary Minor, PARA executive director. Renovation of the bathrooms will be next, Minor said. Construction on the park is expected to be completed by spring, he said.
"We are still in the planning phase as far as engineer drawings, but PARA is doing some of the little things right now," Minor said. "It won't be a long project. It will be complete by late spring next year."
One of the things that Tingle said he'd like to see at the site is a playground, but it's not in the intial plan, Minor said, and will take more funding. Tingle said he's confident he can get the additional money for the project to come to fruition.
"If we can't do it all the way that I'm outlining, I'll go back and get more money because Holt has been left behind," Tingle said. "There's nothing else in the Holt area."
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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Friday, March 22, 2013
With all the jobs we have popping up Aiken County, there aren't many locals who have the skills to fill them. (WRDW-TV)
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW) -- There's Bridgestone, Tognum America and BAE Systems, too. Aiken County is becoming the place for manufacturing, but there's a problem filling a huge number of jobs.
"We've been able to find people who we would consider in our operator-type jobs, but the positions that we're having difficulty filling are more around the industrial maintenance technicians as well as engineering positions," said Fran Jones, the vice president of Administrative Services at the Aiken County plant.
She says right now, they'll have to fill about 60 percent of those engineering and industrial maintenance technician positions with workers from outside the area.
"I would love to hire local," she told News 12. "I would love to have folks who will choose those career paths."
That's the goal of a summit in Aiken on Friday morning. State, county and school leaders -- along with manufacturers themselves -- are looking for the answer to this question: How does Aiken County get more locals certified for manufacturing work?
"Right now, we have a summer camp that eighth graders can go to the career center and get a jump start on seeing what these kinds of jobs are like," said Aiken County Public School District Superintendent Dr. Beth Everitt.
Everitt says the manufacturing mindset has to start young, and some student apprenticeships are already offered at Tognum America, a large diesel engine manufacturer.
"But we really need to think about where the next generation of workforce is going to come from and how we're going to prepare the skill level that our advanced manufacturers expect," said Aiken Technical College President Dr. Susan Winsor.
Windsor says being bad at math has almost become "cool" for many students, but a new direction starts today.
"The school district and the technical college and USC Aiken are talking to kids, but we need the manufacturers engaged. Let them demonstrate that manufacturing is not a dirty environment," said Will Williams, the director of the Economic Development Partnership of Aiken and Edgefield Counties.
EDP commissioned the study, which was made public Friday morning.
Williams says the big selling point for manufacturing jobs in Aiken County is the average salary of $58,000.