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MapA map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto
America Septentrionalis Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Title from plate 17. Originally published as 1 map on 20 sheets. LC copy bound. Index map bound-in. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 Sheet of paper (25 x 19 cm.) listing the numbered plates mounted on preliminary leaf. On title cartouche (plate 17): C. Lempriere inv. & del., B. Baron, sculp. Available also through the Library ...
- Contributor: Popple, Henry - Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Seale, Richard William - Lemprière, C. (Clement) - Baron, Bernard
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Monday 3/28
First we have a few upcoming events to tell you about and then we'll get to the daily list of things to do in Fullerton for Monday!
>Register now for the Health Eating on a Budget workshop at the Fullerton Multi-Service Center March 30 at 10:30am. A health educator from SCAN Health Plan will discuss nutrition & guidelines for older adults, as well as inexpensive meals and snacks. The program is free, but registration requested. Call (714) 738-7305).
>The 3rd Annual Women's Conference will be held April 2 at Cal State University. Hosted by US Rep. Ed Royce, the half day seminar will adress issues facing women today with keynote speaker Kristen Bell. To register visit the event site.
To do today!
9am-5pm: Dollar Mania bowling at AMF Carter Lanes gives you $1 games and $1 shoe rental for a $5 cover charge (minimum 3 bowlers per lane).
11am-3pm: Angelo's and Vinci's Ristorante and Woppo's Cucina (their walk-up takeout) offers a lunch buffet and $3 pizza/salad combo lunch special respectively.
11am-3pm: At Revolucion 1910 Cantina the lunch specials are only $5.99 with more than 10 items to choose from.
11am-9pm: Get 5 for $10 wine tasting at Angelo's and Vinci's Ristorante.
11am-9pm: Super Mex has a Monday deal for one FREE kid's meal per adult meal purchase.
11am-10pm: Monday ALL DAY Happy Hour at NYPD Pizza gets you ½ off appetizers and ½ off beer and wine.
11am-12:30am: The Monday special at Les Amis in downtown Fullerton: Buy any two grand sandwiches and get a free petite hummus.
12pm: The Kiwanis Club of Fullerton will meet at the Wyndham Hotel (222 W. Houston Ave.) and new members are welcome. For more information call (714) 255-0925.
12pm-2am: The Weekly Tastings at The Twisted Vine in downtown Fullerton (run through Wednesday) include Flight 1: Salvestrin – St. Helena, CA, $20 for a 2oz pour of 3 wines; Flight 2: Ceago – Lake County, CA, $15 for a 3oz pour of 3 wines; and Flight 3: Create your own beer flight for $12 with a 5oz pour of 3 from the following list: Blache de Bruxelles – White Beer, The Bruery – Saison de Lente, The Lost Abbey – Ten Commandments, Avery – Dugana IPA, or Port Brewing – Old Viscosity.
2pm: Wine Monday at Matador Cantina in downtown Fullerton lets you enjoy wines by the glass at ½ price, with any food order.
3-4pm: The Fullerton College Political Science Department invites students, faculty, staff to join in a discussion of current political events in the Middle East with professor Naji Dahi (Fullerton College Room 1413).
3-6pm & 4-7pm: Happy Hour in Fullerton is easy to find using our HH page.
4-10pm: Locals Night at Commonwealth Lounge means you can show your ID and receive 50% off your entire food bill (dinner menu only, residents of Fullerton).
4-7pm: Manic Monday at The Pint House will treat you to 40% off all appetizers and $2 pints of Coors Light.
4pm-close: Service Industry Night at Matador Cantina treats employees of the service and hospitality industries to happy hour drink specials. Bring a check stub or business card.
4pm-2am: Service Industry Night at Stubrik's gives those working in the service (restaurant) industries 30% off their total bill with proof of employment (restaurant pay stub).
5pm: Martini Monday at Roman Cucina in downtown Fullerton gets you any martini from their menu for $5.
7pm: The OCBG (Orange County Board Gamers) Meetup Group usually meets in downtown Fullerton at CoWorking in downtown Fullerton. The membership is $5/year but new players are always welcome. The group usually plays "Family Strategy" or "Euro" boardgames.
7-10pm: The Matador Cantina will debut their new Signature Spring Cocktails. Each drink is handcrafted by mixologist Ricky Yarnall and offered at $8. Be the first to try the new lineup.
7:30-9:30pm: Enjoy Vic Miller on piano and French Poetry Reading at Max Bloom's Cafe Noir in downtown Fullerton.
8pm: Fullerton College Symphony presents All Beethoven Concert at the Fullerton College Campus Theater for $10, $5 Student/Senior, Under 14 free.
8pm: Test your knowledge at Heroes with Trivia Night. Individual players or teams are invited to try and win prizes of $50, $25 and $10 gift certificates or house cash for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
8pm-11pm: The Mark Hix Big Band will play an all ages show at Steamers Jazz Club & Cafe.
8-11pm: Cheap Date Night at Sunset Lounge means free pool, free darts, $1.75 domestic beer and $2 well drinks. (The bar also has up to $20 in credits to put in the jukebox for 'free' music too.)
8pm-1am: Find out who has karaoke in Fullerton with our Karaoke Guide.
8:30pm: Join the Fullerton Historic Ballroom for their single-classes and dances Weekly Meetup. For $12 you can learn classic dances. For more information call (714) 525-5155.
9pm: Enjoy free pool at 2J's Lounge.
9pm-1am: Come Down will play a free show at Back Alley.
9pm-1am: Slidebar has $5 Martini Monday and $3 Pabst Blue Ribbon cans AND you can hang out with Adult Industry star Angel Vain and her friends while singing karaoke for Money Shot Monday.
10pm: The Continental Room hosts Y LUV with The Gromble and The Have & Have Nots, free (21+).
11pm-1am: Happy Hour at Stubrik's late night is a dollar off draft beers and well drinks.
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A report was given by Terry Loboschefsky, the Heber City Airport Manager. Loboschefsky gave the board an update on the maintenance and updates at the airport. He reported, "Every thing is running smoothly. The summer mowing equipment and been changed out for the winter snowplowing equipment."
Also discussed concerned a SASO permit to Worldwide Warbirds. After discussion the board declined the application and asked Barry Hancock, the owner of Worldwide Warbirds to bring back a new application with more complete information. His request would most likely then be approved at the next meeting.
The next agenda item was board review of the letter the FAA sent to the Airport in response to the capital improvement plan (CIP). The airport must complete the necessary paperwork on this each year. The airport board hopes to do some improvement to the airport's runway. The runway needs to be resurfaced and to get funding for this kind of project specific paper work must be filed with the FAA and Division of Aeronautics. A few minor changes were made and if approved, the airport will receive funding for the runway resurfacing in 2015.
Also conducted that night was an open house for discussion on the Lease/Rates and Charges Policy. The board has had a company by the name of Jviation working on the policy for many weeks. With many modifications the board has requested Jviation to make, the board thinks they can hopefully come to consensus with a recommendation to send to the Heber City Council for final approval.
The purpose of the open house was for the Airport Board to get comment from airport users and hanger owners after they had a chance to review the most recent Lease/Rates and Changes Policy. Many concerned hanger owners have come to recent meetings to offer suggestions. Some hangar owners were confused as to whom the open house was for. This open house was for was for new airport hanger lease owners, not existing ones.
Following some heated discussion between the board and the hanger owners, it is clear there is a much bigger issue at hand with existing leases that needs to be resolved. One sticking point in the discussion is what direction Heber City is going to go between reversionary vs. non-reversionary existing leases. The airport has many of both kinds of leases and there is confusion as to what happens to existing hangar owner's leases at the end of their term or upon the sale of their lease. Some confusion remains such as, if it is a non-reversionary lease now and an owner sold it, would it go to reversionary like the policy that has been drafted says it will?
The Heber City Airport board listened to all the owner's comments, and at their next meeting, will hopefully begin discussions to clarify many of the hangar owner's concerns.
Erik Rowland, Airport Board Chairman, made it clear that the airport board's job is only to take in information given to them, determine what - in their estimation would most benefit the airport - and make a recommendation to the Heber City Council. The Heber City Council has the final vote.


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We are the technology arm of the United Nations University.
C3 – Facilitating the future.
The Campus Computing Centre (C3) is the technology arm of the United Nations University and serves as a change agent for leveraging effective ICT to support and advance the vision and mission of the University. We are committed to serving the needs of the university community and ensuring that the users can make the maximum and appropriate use of the computing environment in their diverse range of activities, including teaching, research, outreach, dissemination, administrative and academic support.
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Our vision is that ICT should permeate everything we seek to do at UNU as an essential and invisible tool that is always available and seamlessly integrated into our activities - to address global pressing problems. At C3 we strive for service excellence by aligning ICT with business strategy and pursuing user-led innovation initiatives that combine efforts, eliminate duplication and encourage sharing of expertise.
Focusing on user needs rather than on the system; always seeking to engage users as active collaborators in various stages of the innovation cycle.
ICT should be easy to use and require zero to minimum training.
Embracing an integrated, shared services approach, providing end users with seamless provision of ICT services across the University.
To adopt principles of environmental sustainability throughout all our ICT activities.
To reduce complexity and duplication throughout all our activities by recommending the improvement and standardization of business processes, rationalizing ICT architectures and minimizing customization.
Consider the total cost of ownership when making strategic decisions and to fully investigate open source alternatives wherever possible.
Develop and promote a consistent user-centric computing environment across the University
Strengthen the overall ICT capacity by aggregating the individual ICT units to provide 24/7 support coverage worldwide
Adapt and transform new concepts and technologies to meet changing requirements; generate and incubate our own breakthrough ideas that will lead to new services
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March 10, 2006
Reader's Scripts
If you do not have your reader's scripts by the time you test, please do the following:
Reader Scripts for Mathematics
If your district has not received reader scripts for math, please be advised that there may be items that could be compromised by not using a reader script. For example, look at the following mathematics assessment objectives for grade 3 and 4:
6.3.02 Identify and write (in words and standard form) whole numbers up to 100,000.
6.4.02 Identify and write (in words and standard form) whole numbers up to 1,000,000.
These objectives could be measured by an item that requires a student to identify in words a number written in standard form. If a teacher reads the standard form of the number in a question in words instead of digit by digit, this could give away the answer.
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Lance Weller
B.A., The Evergreen State College, 1989
AA, Tacoma Community College, 1985
Biographical Note
Lance Weller is an American writer whose novel Wilderness was published by BloomsburyUSA in September 2012.
Weller has written for as long as he can remember and is a past winner of the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Born in Everett, Washington, Weller now lives in Gig Harbor, Washington with his wife and four enormous dogs.
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Latest Publication Title
Wilderness: A Novel, 2012
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Thirty years after the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, the book's protagonist, Abel Truman, has found his way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel, now an old and ailing man, and his heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. As much a novel of the American Civil War as a story of redemption, Annie Dillard has called Wilderness "a book in the great tradition of the novel" while Jeffrey Lent calls it a "brilliant, singular achievement."
Wilderness is Lance's first published novel. He is currently working on another novel, American Marchlands.


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Cohort 25 teachers focus on single most important element of education
It goes by many names: literacy proficiency, literature fluency, reading comprehension. It all boils down to the single most important aspect of education: the ability to read well. It includes understanding what has been read, and communicating thoughts clearly to others in the written word.
It is the focus which the University of Hawaii Cohort 25 candidates have chosen as their guide, and earlier this month they sponsored an event which highlighted their cause.
They chose the national holiday — the 4th of July — to hold a "Literacy Carnival".
The holiday which emphasizes and celebrates the freedoms we enjoy was perhaps the most appropriate day of all to encourage literacy. After all, one of the most important elements of a free society is the ability to obtain information and knowledge from which good choices can be made. Coupled with the freedom to express ourselves-- using the power and elegance of the written word-- gives us much to celebrate.
Samoa News was able to visit with University of Hawaii professor, Dr. Deb Zuercher, who travels to the territory often in her capacity as an instructor at the UH Manoa College of Education to offer training and guidance as a Cohort adviser.
She explained more about the Cohort's goals this year, saying that Cohort members have chosen as their primary focus a drive to improve literacy proficiency levels among the teachers and school children of the territory.
In short, the Cohort teachers want to help their students become better readers.
"Reading fluency is the single most important element of education" said Dr. Zuercher, and the foundation upon which all learning takes place."
She went on to say that student and teacher test data reveal that reading is the content area that has the lowest proficiency percentages in the territory. She said there is a positive side to this, because reading is the area that needs the greatest teacher intervention. "These Cohort teachers have set out to positively impact student engagement, by making reading fun as well as cool" she said.
Thus, the idea of a Literacy Festival came about.
Voluntarily funded by the Cohort teachers themselves, they formed committees for activity centers, decorations, food and entertainment for the event. They also raised funds and ordered $2,000 worth of brand new books for children of all ages, which they distributed as prizes and gifts during the all-day fair.
Preparing for the Literacy Carnival — and for the year ahead — the Cohort teachers completed UH literacy courses to learn content and strategies.
Strategies like "read aloud -think aloud" use guiding questions, predictions and connection to prior knowledge to aid students' reading comprehension.
Choice boards provide different ways for students to summarize core content from reading passages by drawing cartoons, composing lyrics, integrating technology to design Powerpoint or Keynote presentations, acting out passages through Reader's Theater, or writing letters, journals or Facebook blogs. eReaders and iPads are increasingly encouraged as innovative mediums to engage students in reading.
Vocabulary is developed through strategies such as cubed definitions, games like Taboo or Memory Matching, and word morphology analysis.
Learning English grammar through instructional activities such as sentence mapping, conventional tutorials and writing workshops also impact reading comprehension.
Fluency is strengthened by implementing strategies like "popcorn reading", read aloud, paired-reading, choral reading and punctuation mark clapping.
" 'Drill and kill' phonics programs have taken the joy away from reading" said Dr. Zuercher, who wants students to discover the joys of reading for pleasure. "Teachers can renew joy in reading with contagious excitement, engaging in the power of words to convey stories once again."
Research from the National Reading Panel (2012) suggests that students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives. Further, there is ample evidence that one of the major differences between poor readers and good readers is the difference in the amount of total time they spend reading. Given this research, teachers are uniting to encourage students to spend more time reading.
There is an added bonus to reading proficiency: "The fact is, the more you read, the better you write" said Dr. Zuercher.
(She made the suggestion that students find one short story a day in Samoa News which they can read at home with their families each evening, and she encourages families and churches to play an active role in requiring silent sustained reading.)
The Cohorts participate in service learning within the community as part of their education program, and partnering with parents and community stakeholders is a teacher education standard.
The Literacy Fair was part of the service learning component for this Cohort, and according to Cohort Coordinator Patricia Sataua, it was the hard work and dedication of the teachers themselves that made it so successful.
"The English content knowledge and instructional strategies learned in their summer classes and demonstrated at the Literacy Carnival will be implemented in the Cohort teachers' elementary classrooms when school begins in August," Dr. Zuercher said.
She added, "Reading proficiency is the necessary foundation to academic achievement for our students. It is the most important focus of the teacher education program because reading comprehension influences all other content knowledge proficiency. The University of Hawaii is in full agreement with the ASDOE priority of positively impacting literacy levels in American Samoa."
Sharing some of her favorite thoughts on the subject, she quoted President Harry Truman: "Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers," and from Confucius: "No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."


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Complications abound. A beautiful golden girl turns up dead, and a friendly game of two-handed canasta turns into a deadly game of survival with ever-rising stakes: 15 billion dollars worth of U.S. government bullion. But 007 knows that Auric Goldfinger's rules remain brutally simple: heads I win, tails you die.
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"Goldfinger is the most preposterous specimen yet displayed in Mr. Fleming's museum of superfiends...maniacally readable...excellent pieces of descriptive writing." (Observer)
"Goldfinger marks a turning point in the series. It separates the early books from the later ones, in that James Bond's character becomes more introspective as Fleming discloses his hero's thoughts more often, thus enabling the reader to dig deeper into Bond's feelings." (Raymond Benson, author of High Time to Kill)
I read, I write, I listen to books. I have worked as a scriptwriter for many projects some of which you can buy on Audible!
"One of Fleming's better books"
"Goldfinger" is, in my opinion, one of Fleming's better James Bond books. The story is pure hokum, but it's told at such a fast pace that you don't need to worry about it. Raymond Benson called this "The Fleming Sweep" in his "The James Bond Bedside Companion," and it's in full force here. It's that drive that pushes the story along practically daring you to stop reading.
This is also one of the rare occasions where the movie follows the book fairly well. The movie is plotted a little tighter and has more urgency but the book has better characterization- no surprise there.
I'm a fan of Simon Vance's reading of the James Bond canon. He does it with a nice variety of voices and just the right hint of snobbery that Fleming includes in every story. I'm only a couple titles short of having the whole series for the time being, and Goldfinger is one of the best, right behind From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and (maybe) Thunderball. Vance does a wonderful job with all of them.
If you're wondering if the books are for you this is a good one to test the waters with, even though it's the book that ends the first half of the series. The books that follow have a different tone and villain(s). SMERSH is the primary villain in the first half, directly or indirectly. After Goldfinger SPECTRE takes center stage and the Russians play a much smaller role.
If you've read all the books before (I did over 25 years ago) then this is a nice way to "relive" them. I Definitely recommend the series.
Touching Lives One Martini at a Time
"Like a French Nail Varnish"
The narrative is terse and witty with a great narrator. Fleming was a journalist before he became a novel writer and he has the ability to craft a great story with necessary, but minimal exposition. I read all the Bond novels in seventh grade and haven't since. Listening to the novels is a lot of fun because you pick up the dry wit of Fleming a lot better.
There is a great travelogue sequence in the novel. I also like how the plot was unveiled. At no time do we know more than Bond, however, the audience is never treated poorly. Plot points are revealed naturally through exposition. Bond's internal monologue sets up the next set-piece or reveal. Fleming knows how to keep you interested. Even his bad novels, and there are a few of those, have a great narrative flow.
I love his ability to do the various voices naturally. There are a great deal of accents and foreign words and phrases in Fleming's books and Vance handles them well. He also does women's voices well, without resorting to major register-changes. Instead, he smooths out the gravel in his voice, gives a hint of accent. I actually prefer the Bond novels in audio form because of Vance. He handles exposition well. He hits beats and knows where punchlines are.
Fleming's novels rarely deal with the emotional lives of characters. In fact, I can only think of three where you may care about someone. What is fun about the novel is that it exists purely in the realm of a fantasy. Great food, drink, sex, cities, danger, gambling. And there is lots of humor. Goldfinger is just a lot of fun. But don't expect to care.
The best Bond novels are From Russia, with Love; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and Diamonds Are Forever. Casino Royale is good, but so violent. If you don't care so much about the character progression, just listen to Russia. Vance reads it well and it is a great Cold War fantasy.
"Better than I expected"
I rank it on a scale of 1 to 10, about 8.5
I am comparing this story to the movie I saw back in the sixties. For a
change, the movie actually stuck fairly close to the book, with some Chauvinistic deletions. Certain subject matterwas not transferred from book to movie. I love the suspense and the pure evil of Goldfinger. The scheme was well thought out!
I can't think of one that has not been done already.
I may check out some other early Fleming novels for comparison.
"unexpectedly enjoyable"
The parts of the book I enjoyed the most were unexpected, probably because of how those parts differed from the movie that I've seen several times (though not recently). The James Bond presented here was more human and "rough", hardly the polished playboy of the Sean Connery-portrayed Bond of the movies, and I liked that better. More like the Daniel Craig Bond than the Connery Bond. Sadly, he's more chauvanistic than the character even in the 1964 movie, but I can write that off as a product of the author's time and place.
Nevertheless, it's still an enjoyable secret agent romp with a good villain, good Bond, and a typical happy ending. The narration was very good, and definitely helped keep the story moving.
"Gold is the KEY!"
This is a great listen and I highly recommend it. I love the 007 books, actually much better than the movies, and this audio DOES NOT DISAPPOINT!
"Better plot than DAF, not as good as some others"
This was my second listen to Goldfinger and it held up about as well as I remembered. It is a solid novel although the plot is a bit more unbelievable than many.
It is like many of the other Bonds; a combination of smart decisions and luck.
SV is an excellent performer. All aspects were great.
No, but again, it was my second listen.
"One of best books ever!"
Yes, I think even the females in my life would like this one.
The scene where he finds the card cheating set up.
Bond of course.
I've listened to more than 100 audio books and this is one of the best!
"Good story, not Flemings best, in my opinion."
Murder, Smuggling, Super-villans
Very similar to Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die. Similarities exist in both stories between villans which are running personal smuggling ring, with a loose attachmnt to James Bond's arch enemy SMERSH.
Simon Vance does a great job during his performance. For now on anytime I read a Bond novel I will always have Vance's character voices in mind for characters such as Bond, M, etc.
I listened to the book over a couple nights before bed.
Good book, a little far fetched in the end, but wraps up into a good story.
"Good stuff."
Worth the money. Worth the money. Worth the money. (How many times do I have to write this?)
The action-oriented espionage classics by Ian Fleming are always an enjoyable read, or in this case, listen. The audio is great, and the narrator's voice and accent create an enthralling, believable production of the literature.
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Sandy Carter: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) -- Off the Record
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I just finished my final business trip of the year...with the SOA Consortium! The SOA Consortium has grown from 11 members to 81 members this year. Richard Soley, the Executive Director of the SOA Consortium, shared that the Consortium has the fastest first year growth on any user group he has been involved with in 18 years of user community experience!!! IBM was one of the founding sponsors of the SOA Consortium. As a vendor neutral organization, the Consortium is an SOA advocacy group comprised of end users, service providers, and technology vendors, committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies and mid-market businesses successfully adopt SOA by 2010. This is not about Standards. This is about the evangelism of SOA in the marketplace and ensuring that companies the right level of help to be successful. This year the SOA Consortium has achieved a number of successes: 1. Conducted CIO Executive Summits in New York, San Francisco, Brussels and Jacksonville, and produced a whitepaper and webcast with the findings from the New York and San Francisco Summits. 2. Collected and published a set of over 20 customer case studies submitted by members that have been widely circulated showing the business value of moving to SOA 3. Recruited client members from companies and the US Government, including Wells Fargo, Kohl's, Avis Budget and the US Army, in addition to having analyst members such as Hurwitz and Associates 4. Produced webcasts and podcasts on the topics of 'Executive Insights on SOA Adoption', 'SOA Governance', 'SOA/BPM Relationship', 'Enterprise Architecture of the Future', and 'CIO SOA Concerns' 5. SOA Consortium moderated and staffed 4 panels at key Gartner events as well as having booths in the Gartner showcase areas, and have been invited to even more Gartner events in 2008, due to 2007 success 6. SOA Consortium produced over 10 well received and often blogged deliverables and press releases, all of which list IBM as a founding sponsor IBM has had a significant influence on the organization as one of the four founding sponsors with actions such as co-leading and driving one of the three Consortium sub-groups (Executive Suite SOA), which produced the highly regarded and downloaded set of customer SOA case studies Here are the podcasts....! Take a listen! Live from the SOA Consortium - Sandy Carter of IBM Live from the SOA Consortium - CIO SOA Concerns [Read More]


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And then there was none: The Phils and Ryan Howard avoid arbitration as Howard signs a three-year contract worth $54 million.
The Phillies and Ryan Howard have both avoided the need to go and meet the three-men arbitration panel, as Howard have just hours ago signed a three-year contract with the Phillies for $54 million. The former NL Rookie of the Year for 2005 and the NL Most Valuable Player for 2006 have had the last three of his arbitration years bought out by the Phillies. This means that Howard will now be wearing Phillies red pinstripes until the end of the 2011 season, when he will become eligible to become a free agent.
Howard will become the highest paid Phil as he will be paid $15 million for this season, $19 million for 2010 and $20 million for 2011, as well as receive $1 million from the Phils if they trade him to another team before the end of his present contract.
With Howard's signing, the main core of the Phillies will be playing in Philadelphia for the next several years, as they prepare to defend their 2008 World Series Championship. This mean that the Phils now just need to: 1) find a right handed bat to come off the bench, 2) a left handed reliever to take J.C. Romero's place during his 50 games suspension, 3) find out who will be the fifth member of their starting rotation and who will be heading for the bullpen and 4) who will be the catcher behind Carlos Ruiz.
Nice job, Ruben. Now let see if you can get the right handed bench bat and the left handed reliever that the team needs before the pitchers and catchers arrive for spring training this upcoming Thursday. GO PHILS!!!!
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Congrats on signing Howard! It seems like all the Phillies pieces are falling into place.
Julia – Thanks. Yes, it does seem that everything is coming into place. Maybe Junior is channeling is inner Gillick and not his inner Wade.🙂
Jenn – Oh, yes, it is. Now the team can concentrate on other needs.
Hopefully now Howard can concentrate this spring on avoiding his typically slow start, knowing he's set for the next three years. Go Phillies!
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Contrary to popular belief, we do not need a right handed bat off the bench, we have one in Chris Coste. by using Paulino as the #2 catcher you have freed up Coste for PH duty. he plays 1B and 3B as well as catcher and has been a very good PH during his time with the phils. The problem has always been that you try not to use your back-up C as PH in case Ruiz gets hurt.
RRRT – I also hope that Howard will now concentrate on his hitting and fielding, but it will depend on more than just him avoiding having a bad start. The big guy also needs to avoid swinging at the junk. As long as he is unable to hit those nasty pitches, the pitchers are going to keep throwing them.
Fan in Jerusalem – Well, a right handed bat off of the bench needs to complement Greg Dobbs, the left handed bat off the bench, who seems to be able to get a hit everytime he comes off the bench. Is Coste the one who can give the Phils that same kind of bat from the right? If he is, then he should be able to stay with the team after spring training. If he is not, then the Phils are certainly going to be needing someone from the right side coming off the bench.
Guess we'll see how things will develop during spring training.
He does deserve a good contract but it might be tougher on him this season if he has another drought like he did last year. The pressure may be a little more and hopefully it doesn't affect his bouncing back. He's definitely a slugger.
Well, if he can concentrate on avoiding the junk, and figure out a way to break out swinging on opening day, he should be okay. On pressure, it'll only affect him if he lets it.
I think it was a good move and keeps everyoen happy. No more arbitration with him which is the best thing that came out of this.
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I think so to. Now for the team to concentrate on the little things still left, and Howard to concentrate on getting out of the box smoking.


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2012: The Year in Jazz
Here's a look at significant happenings across the jazz world over the past 12 months:
International Jazz Day
Jazz everywhere now has an official day to call its own. In 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization named pianist Herbie Hancock a Goodwill Ambassador. He wasted no time in making an impact in that role, partnering with UNESCO and the Thelonious Monk Institute to present International Jazz Day events in Paris and, on April 30, sunrise and sunset all-star concerts at Congo Square in New Orleans and the United Nations World Headquarters in New York respectively. The three-hour sunset concert featured several dozen all-star musicians from around the globe.
Latin Jazz Grammy Restored
The Recording Academy restored the Latin Jazz category to the Grammy Awards, in a June announcement that was seen as a major victory for Latin jazz musicians and fans. They'd protested vehemently after the Academy's trustees reduced the award categories from 109 to 78 in 2011. Drummer Bobby Sanabria led the drive to get the category restored. A judge dismissed a musicians' lawsuit against the Recording Academy in April, but the trustees relented on Latin jazz and a few other categories two months later.
Silver Anniversary
Jazz at Lincoln Center is in the midst of celebrating its 25th anniversary season as an arts organizationone that has grown quite robust under the leadership of Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis. The organization, which is blessed with a sleek concert hall, influential donors and big bucks in its till, is working to make an impact outside the Big Apple. JALC is also evolving by working to build a global audience for jazz through social media and its website. It now broadcasts concerts over the Internet, and is preparing hundreds of concert recordings so they can be made available online. In October, JALC opened a new venue in Qatar, a small peninsula nation on the Persian Gulf. Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha, a new 4,500 square-foot performance room at the St. Regis Doha hotel, is the first in a series of jazz clubs that St. Regis and JALC plan to create through a global partnership.
Economic Issues
Jazz is hardly immune to the ups and downs of the economy. At times, it seems most vulnerable. We saw it this year on the club and festival front, and the impact of Mother Nature. We saw it after Superstorm Sandy in late October. Many musicians weren't able to get into New York City for gigs, or to leave their Big Apple home base for gigs elsewhere across the U.S., eliminating much-needed income in some cases. The storm damage wiped out more than a few home studios and/or instruments.
The Jazz Foundation of America staff worked tirelessly to help New York-area musicians with food, warm clothing, emergency needs and rent subsidies for some who had gigs canceled. Saxophonist Joe Lovano and bassist Mark Egan were among more than a dozen jazz musicians who took part in a Hudson Valley Musicians for Hurricane Sandy Relief benefit concert, which took place at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center in mid-November. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band partnered with Ropeadope, Okayplayer, the Jazz Foundation of America and the NYC Food Truck Association to form Renew York, with to aid musicians affected by the storm, much as they'd helped with similar post-Katrina efforts in New Orleans.
More than a handful of area jazz clubs were impacted, with weeklong closings in some cases. The Blue Note was shuttered for five nights, the longest closure in its 31-year history. Programming at the Jazz Gallery was suspended even longer. Lacking electricity in Greenwich Village, Small's Jazz featured jam sessions by candlelight and flashlight.
Clubs Come, Go and Come Back
The club scene was in great flux throughout 2012. New York's fabled Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel closed for good in February after a 32-year cabaret run. Feinstein's, the high-end supper club at the Loews Regency Hotel in Manhattan, is closing in January 2013 after 13 years at that site. Singer-pianist Michael Feinstein intends to move the club to a new space. Owner Alvin Reed closed Harlem's Lenox Lounge, a jazz club that opened in 1942, after the landlord doubled his monthly rent. Drummer Cecil Brooks III closed his Cecil's Jazz Club in West Orange, N.J. to concentrate on playing music and producing records. Café Paradiso closed in Ottawa, where it had been the center of the jazz scene in Canada's capital city.
On the plus side of the equation, renowned architect Frank Gehry signed on as pro bono designer of a new home for the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles's Culver City neighborhood. A $10 million fundraising campaign is underway for the Jazz Bakery, which lost its lease at the Helms Bakery complex in 2009. Its new home will be next to the Kirk Douglas Theater. SFJAZZ's new SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco is set to open on January 21, 2013. New York's Kitano New York hotel expanded its jazz programming with an adjacent new supper club, Jazz at Kitano. Two years after the Cape May Jazz Festival folded due to financial and organizational woes (after presenting 34 weekend festivals in 17 years), a full-blown event returned to New Jersey's southernmost point in November with the Exit 0 International Jazz Festival. Producer Michael Kline's Spy Boy Productions plans to make the event a twice-a-year phenomenon like its predecessor.
Credit Where Credit is Long Overdue
"Solar" is a classic Miles Davis composition, right? Wrong. Library of Congress's jazz specialist Larry Appelbaum found proof that the instrumental was actually written by Chuck Wayne. The guitarist failed to register the song for copyright, which was filed in 1963 by Prestige Records identifying the composer as Davis. Appelbaum found a recording from 1946 in the Chuck Wayne Collection in which one clearly hears the famous theme. The tune is titled "Sonny" after Sonny Berman who also can be heard on the record. Ironically, the "Solar" melody of this song ended is engraved on Davis's tombstone.
Stamp of Approval
In June, the United States Postal Service and its French equivalent, La Poste, released a joint pair of commemorative stamps, one honoring Miles Davis, the other honoring singer Edith Piaf. The Davis stamp featured David Gahr's classic profile photograph that became the cover of the trumpeter's A Tribute to Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1970).
Stamp Perpetual Honors for Brownie, Mingus and Davis
Wilmington, DE officials dedicated a statue in Kirkwood Park November 9 to honor native son, trumpeter Clifford Brown, who died 56 years ago at age 25. Groundbreaking was held last April for a memorial to Charles Mingus in Nogales, Ariz., where the bassist was born in 1922. The memorial is set to open in April 2013 during the Charles Mingus Hometown Jazz Festival. The city of Alton, Ill., announced plans to honor native son Miles Davis with a life-sized statue of the trumpeter in the heart of the downtown entertainment district on Third Street.
Awards Galore
Drummer Jack DeJohnette, saxophonist Von Freeman, bassist Charlie Haden, singer Sheila Jordan, and trumpeter and jazz advocacy activist Jimmy Owens were honored in January 2012 as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters. 2013 honors will be bestowed in January 2013 to singer/pianist Mose Allison, saxophonist Lou Donaldson, pianist Eddie Palmieri and Village Vanguard owner Lorraine Gordon.
Sonny Rollins won musician of the year, tenor saxophonist of the year and best record honors with Road Shows, Vol. 2 at the Jazz Journalists Associations' 2012 Jazz Awards. Pianist Horace Silver received the JJA's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jazz-related winners at the 54th Grammy Awards in February were Chick Corea for "500 Miles High," off Forever (Concord, 2011) (Best Improvised Jazz Solo); drummer Terri Lyne Carrington for The Mosaic Project (Concord, 2011) (Best Jazz Vocal Album); Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke} and drummer Lenny White for Forever (Best Jazz Instrumental Album). Singers Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse won the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category for their take on "Body and Soul."
Trumpeter/composer Arturo Sandoval won the Latin Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album for his Dizzy Gillespie tribute CD, Dear Diz (Every Day I Think Of You) (Concord, 2011). Sandoval was touring Spain with Gillespie in 1990 when he defected from Cuba. Chick Corea won the Best Instrumental Album category for his Further Explorations (Concord, 2012), with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Paul Motian. Conguero, bandleader and salsa singer Poncho Sanchez and singer/songwriter Milton Nascimento received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Latin Recording Academy during the weeklong Latin Grammy Awards celebration in Las Vegas in November.
Drummer Jamison Ross won first place at the 25th annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in September. Drummers Justin Brown and Colin Stranahan finished second and third respectively.
French singer Cyrille Aimee, now based in Brooklyn, NY, took first-place honors in the first Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in Newark, NJ. Aimée was a 2010 Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition finalist.
Drummer Roy Haynes received the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
Pianist Kenny Barron and bassist Ron Carter received lifetime achievement awards at the eighth annual DC Jazz Festival in June.
The United Nations appointed pianist Danilo Perez as U.N. Artist for Peace to recognize his efforts to promote music programs for children living in extreme poverty in his native Panama.
Pianist/composer Myra Melford won the $75,000 2012 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music from the Herb Alpert Foundation.
Trombonist Daniel Blacksberg, Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen, pianist/composer Matthew Mitchell and saxophonist/composer Greg Osby were among 13 Philadelphia-area artists receiving $60,000 no-strings-attached Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 2012. The honors recognize their artistic achievements and the potential to use the fellowship to advance their work.
Drummer Jimmy Cobb received 2012's Donostiako Jazzaldia Award from the Heineken Jazzaldia festival in San Sebastian, Spain.
The Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame in Memphis honored saxophonist Charles Lloyd in April, when he returned to play a concert in his hometown for the first time since 1964.
2012's jazz inductees into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in November included bandleader Jimmie Lunceford, composer and cornetist W.C. Handy, saxophonist George Coleman, educator W.T. McDaniel, singer Memphis Minnie and trumpeter Willie Mitchell.
Bassist, vocalist, composer and bandleader Esperanza Spalding won a Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award in the performing arts category at a Washington, DC, gala in November.
Clarinetist Don Byron, guitarist Bill Frisell, drummer John Hollenbeck, pianist Vijay Iyer and flautist Nicole Mitchell were among the 21 performing artists in the first class of Doris Duke Artists, a new initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Each will receive an unrestricted, multi-year cash grant of $225,000, plus as much as $50,000 more in targeted support for retirement savings and audience development.
Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer also won the Greenfield Prize, awarded this year in the field of music, from the Hermitage Artist Retreat and the Greenfield Foundation. The prize includes a $30,000 commission of an original work of art, a residency at the Hermitage in Englewood, FL, and a partnership with a professional arts organization to develop the work.
Other Notable Moments
Commemorative Performance
The New York Pops orchestra celebrated the 65th anniversary of singer Ella Fitzgerald's Carnegie Hall debut with on March 16, with a commemorative performance featuring Patti Austin singing Fitzgerald's classic Sings the Gershwin Songbook (Verve, 1959).
There's an App For That
Blue Note Records launched an innovative new app that enables users to explore and discover music spanning the entire history of the label from 1939 to present. The app is housed on the online music streaming service Spotify.
Minted Fresh Music
There's a new jazz record label on the blockwith a production twist. Iridium Live will release live recordings from the New York midtown club by the same name. In additional to traditional sales vehicles in stores, online and at the club, releases in the Iridium's Freshly Burned series will be available for purchase immediately following performances.
Close Call
Blind jazz-rock guitarist Jeff Golub stepped onto the tracks at a New York subway station in September but was only grazed by a train as the motorman screeched it to a halt. Golub had his guide dog at his side but mistakenly believed he was stepping through a door onto a subway car. He said the train hit him on the leg before he was able to climb back onto the platform with the help of fellow straphangers.
Nobody Wins This One
Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, the headliner at the first Miami Nice Jazz Festival on October 26, took to the stage at Miami's Gusman Center, but said she would not perform because of a contract dispute. After getting half of her $17,000 fee in advance via wire, final payment at the concert was by regular check, not cash or a certified check as specified. Bridgewater then walked off stage. Organizers said she left with the check even though she didn't perform. If that didn't cause enough of a stir among area jazz fans, the Miami Jazz Festival, which was scheduled on November 17 and 18 with acts including Trio Da Paz and pianist Monty Alexander, was canceled because of poor ticket sales.
2012 Final Bars
There were many losses in the jazz world during 2012, ranging from pianist, composer and bandleader Dave Brubeck and composer Clare Fischer to drummer Pete La Roca, saxophonists Red Holloway, John Tchicai and David S. Ware, and singer Etta James. A comprehensive listing follows.
Accordionists Juri Kravets, Frank Marocco and Krzysztof Puszynski; accordionist, pianist and composer One Eivin Pedersen.
Balafon player Kélétigui Diabate.
Bandleader, arranger, composer and musical director Mort Lindsey; bandleader, composer and arranger Jairo Varela.
Banjoist/guitarist Reg Quantrill.
Bassists Bob Badgley, Jimmy Bond, Lloyd Brevett, Joe Bruno, Joe Byrd, Freddie Deronde, Charles Flores, Victor Gaskin, Chris Giles, Dick Kniss, Takayoshi Matsunaga, Chuck Metcalf, Richie Pillot, Jacky Samson, Nabil Totah, Nick Tountas and Zbigniew Wegehaupt; bassist and artist manager John Levy; bassist, singer and broadcaster Wally Wrightman; bassist, organist, composer and arranger Ed Lincoln; bassist, percussionist and singer Dalio Arce Vital; bassist, trumpeter and accordionist John Forrest (aka Blackie); bassist and composer Eric Moseholm.
Cellist Denis Van Hecke.
Clarinetist Pete Kennedy; clarinetist, saxophonist, producer and writer Joe Muranyi; clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Lee Childs; clarinetist and composer Tale Ognenovski; clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader Jacky June; clarinetist, arranger and bandleader Maxim Saury.
Composers Sadao Bekku, Richard Rodney Bennett; composer, pianist, singer, conductor and educator Marvin Hamlisch; composer, arranger, conductor, songwriter and pianist Ivan Lane; composer, lyricist and pianist Billy Barnes; composer, producer and author Ilhan Mimaroğlu; composer, conductor and clarinetist Severino Araújo; composer and trombonist Harry Betts; composer and educator Peter Cork.
Cornetist, pianist, singer and bandleader Ernie Carson.
Drummers Tom Bruno, Ed Cassidy, Bob Dartsch, Robbie France, Charles Hooper, Sonny Igoe, Jimmy "Junebug" Jackson, Eddie Jenkins, Vinnie Johnson, Bobby Malloy, Larance Marable, Tony Marsh, Bruce Morley, Bill Rowe, Pete "La Roca" Sims, Sune Spångberg, Paul van Wageningen; bass drummer and singer Lionel Batiste; drummer, guitarist and singer Osvaldo Fattoruso; drummer and educator Derryl Goes Faber; drummer, composer and performance artist Adam Noidlt (Frank Köllges); drummer, bandleader, composer, arranger and educator Wade Barnes; drummer, percussionist, educator and author Elliot Fine; drummer and educator Frisner Augustin; drummer and comedian Klaus D. Huber; drummer, saxophonist and artist Walter Malli; actor, performance artist, director and drummer Steve Ben Israel; drummer, singer and guitarist Osvaldo Fattoruso; drummer and broadcaster Bob French (Wiki).
Guitarists Mickey "Guitar" Baker, Roland Bautista, Joe Cinderella, Pete Cosey, Jerry Gordon, Rune Gustafsson, Ubaldo de Lío, Hans Samer, Patrick Saussois, Steven Springer, Yomo Toro, Bert Weedon; guitarist, Chapman Stick, Warr guitarist and educator Frank Jolliffe; guitar, mandolin, harmonica and kalimba player Phil Mathieu; mandolin and guitarist and educator John McGann; guitarists and singers Michael Burks (aka Iron Man), Paul Ponnudora,; guitarist and promotor Raúl Abzueta; guitarist and bassist "Mighty" Joe Young; guitarist and educator John Scott Henderson (Louisville-based, not to be confused with the L.A.-based guitarist Scott Henderson); guitarist, singer and songwriter John C. Marshall; guitarist and producer Alex Merck.
Keyboardist, singer, songwriter and producer Larry Butler.
Lyricist Hal David.
Multi-instrumentalist Nitro Deluxe (Manny Scretching Jr.).
Organist Leon Spencer Jr.; organist and composer Jon Lord.
Percussionists Luis Abreu, Manolito González, Manuel Vásquez "Mangüé" Goyoneche, Lala Kovačev, Manuel "Manolo" Labarrera; percussionist, composer, and arranger Ralph Ferraro; percussionist, composer and educator Obo Addy.
Pianists Ian Bargh, Charles Bell, Borah Bergman, Jean-Francois Boillat, John Vernon Bow, Bubi Chen, Jodie Christian, Jerome Eisner, Jean Fanis, Eddie Fritz, Walter Günthardt, Paquito Hechevarria, Basil Hunter, Maurice "Moe" Lavallee, Reginald "Reggie" Lewis, Anthony Maonde, Pat Murray, Ian Pearce, Austin Peralta, Ray Pitts, Omar Sharriff (Dave Alexander), Jeff Sweet, Rob van den Broeck, Charles "Manny" Williams, Don Wilson; pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Dave Brubeck; pianists, arrangers, composers and bandleaders Graeme Bell, Jef Gilson, Fritz Pauer, Rob Pronk, Hal Schaefer, Shimrit Shoshan; pianists and composers Jose Roberto Bertrami, Burrell Gluskin, Pete Saberton, Bernardo Sassetti; pianist and organist Carol Britto; pianist, organist, bandleader, composer and arranger Clare Fischer; pianist and NARAS past president Mike Melvoin; pianist, guitarist, arranger and educator George Mesterhazy; pianist, arranger, composer, conductor and songwriter Ivan Lane; pianists, composers and arrangers Lee Rodgers Grant, Jimmy Walter; pianist, composer and saxophonist István Regős; pianist and bandleader Noel Kelehan; pianist, bandleader and artist manager José Curbelo; pianists, singers and composers Sergio Mihanovich, Uldis Stabulnieks; actor and keyboard player Sherman Hemsley; pianist, composer and conductor Gaspero C. Trainito; pianist and conductor Noel Kelehan; pianist and kecapi player Bubi Chen; pianist, composer and singer Uldis Stabulnieks; pianist, singer, composer, educator and lawyer Steve Prosser; pianist, drummer and bandleader Stan Greig; pianist, bandleader, composer and educator Ken Chaney.
Saxophonists Bucky Adams, Flavio Ambrosetti, Robert Barnes, Bill Beyea, Totti Bergh, Bill Caldwell, Doudou Chancy, Lol Coxhill, Joki Freund, Willie George, Salvador Guerzo, Andy Hamilton, Red Holloway, Lasse Hörnfeldt, Ben Kynard, Nobuyuki Morikawa, Dick Oats, Frank Pantrini, Joe Pompei, Carl Randall, Al Seibert, John Tchicai, Bill Tillman, Larry Unthank, Vince Wallace, Vinnie Walsh, David S. Ware, Edwin "Rocky" Wynder; saxophonist and clarinetist Bill Beyea; saxophonist, writer and educator Paul Wagner; saxophonists, clarinetists and flutists Bill Caldwell, Jackie Kelso (John Kelson), saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, bandleader and educator Hal McKusick; saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist and pianist Byard Lancaster, saxophonist and flutist Sean Bergin; saxophonists and arrangers Derek Bridge, Salvador Guerzo, Tommy Newsom; saxophonist, bandleader, composer and arranger Dieudonné Nino Malapet; saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, pianist, composer and arranger Robert W. "Housewine" Roden; saxophonist, composer and poet Faruq Z. Bey; saxophonist and composer Tomasz Szukalski; saxophonists and educators Rick Britto, Ken Revell; saxophonist and bandleader Von Freeman; Cambodian king, film maker, pianist, saxophonist and composer Norodom Sihanouk; saxophonist, composer and arranger Ray Pitts; saxophonist and bandleader Félix del Rosario; saxophonist, painter and sculptor Günther Klatt.
Singers David Allyn, Ayten Alpman, Fontella Bass, Georges Bellec, Tetjana Bojeva, Nina Bundy, Marie Ellington (Maria Hawkins Cole, who was the wife of Nat, mother of Natalie), James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, Kay Davis (Kathryn Wimp), Ray Desforges, Edwin Duff, Nello Ferrara, Etta James, Guy Konkèt, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Moore, Anne Marie Moss, Alf Pearson, Pery Ribeiro, Kelly Ryan, Jody Sandhaus, Jill Seifers Walsh, Carrie Smith, Dottie Smith, Kathy Taraschi, James Van Buren, Italia Vaniglio, Andy Williams, Leroy Wofford; singer and former Puerto Rico legislator Ruth Fernández; singer, vibraphonist, drummer, percussionist, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, composer, arranger, producer and impresario Johnny Otis (Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes); singer, saxophonist, percussionist, composer and bandleader Jimmy Castor; singers and actresses Rebecca Dorsey, Betty Rhodes; singer and percussionist Jimmy Sabater; singer and songwriter Christiane Weber; singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lucio Dalla; singer and composer Art Jenkins; singer and actor Pery Ribeiro; singer and arranger Todd Buffa; actress, singer and concert producer Janet Carroll; singers and guitarists Ben Tinker, Seydina Insa Wade; singer, actor and author Tony Martin; singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger Magro Waghabi; singer, broadcaster and writer "Uptown" Janice Brown; singer, pianist, trumpeter, singer, guitarist and composer Terry Callier; singers and percussionists Luisito Ayala and Sammy Ayala; singer, vibraphonist and drummer Hazy Osterwald; singer and bassist Ray Lamere (aka Sugar Ray); singer and banjo player Bruce McNichols; jazz poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez.
Sitarists Ustad Shamim Ahmed Khan, Jalal Zolfonoun; sitarist, composer, bandleader and educator Ravi Shankar.
Theremin player, flutist, guitarist, bass guitarist and singer Barbara Buchholz.
Trombonists Eddie Bert, Joe Ciavardone, Jerry Dorn, Jerry Heath, Frank Parr; trombonist and educator Jimmy Harrison; trombonist, pianist, arranger and music educator Eddie Harvey; trombonist, trumpeter, bandleader and broadcaster Bruce Davis; trombonist, bandleader and composer Frode Thingnaes; bass trombonist Mike Wimberly.
Trumpeters Chuck Austin, Bill Brimfield, Jean-François Canape, Lou Colombo, Raymond Court, Ted Curson, Maurice D. Davis, Frank Gay, Fred Gérard, Don Ingle, Cornelius "Bruce" Johnson, Virgil Jones, Warren Luening, John McAndrew, Tam Mott, Khalil Shaheed (Tommy Hall), Erwin "Whitey" Thomas; trumpeter and vocalist Art Jenkins; trumpeter, pianist, neverlur player and writer Andreas Lunnan; trumpeter, composer, bandleader, educator and actor Abram Wilson; trumpeter and actor Rafik Katschanow; trumpeter, saxophonist, clarinetist and pianist Russell Leroy (Rusty) Mason; trumpeter, arranger, composer and educator Jim Edison.
Vibes players Phil Kraus, A.J. Mantas; vibes player, pianist and composer Teddy Charles; vibes player, pianist and arranger Margie Hyams.
Violinist and composer Gale Hess.
Washboard player Joe Shenton.
Latin percussion instrument developer and inventor Ray Enhoffer.
Music agent and record producer Daidy Davis-Boyer; producer, booking agent, executive, marketing and public relations person and special events coordinator Gloria June Powers; producer and cabaret impresario Donald Smith; producer and Enja label co-founder Horst Weber; music publisher Howie Richmond; music publishing industry executive Frances Preston; record producer Carl Davis; producer, singer, drummer and philanthropist Charles Newel (Chuck) Huggins; record producer, label owner and jazz party organizer Mat Domber; manager, producer and record label executive Alan Mintz; record producer and recording engineer Howard H. Scott; show, festival and record producer Manny Fox.
Orchestra contractor, conductor and trumpeter Jules Chaiken.
Television variety show producer and director Bob Henry; television producer and host Dick Clark.
Club owners Doug Cole, Howard Coleman Sr., Keith Crombie, Tony Goldman, Jerry Krantz, Richard Harding; club manager Curtis Moses.
Dancers Jeni LeGon, Juanita Boisseau Ramseur; dancers and choreographers Remy Charlip, Niles Ford, Ethel Winter.
Founding chairman of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission Pierre Juneau.
Festival organizers Günther "Papa Jazz" Blaschke, Bo Gronningsaeter, Heinrich Schultz; jazz festival founder and artistic director Xavier Brocker; concert promoter Julius Pischl; concert and festival producer, librettist, playwright and director Isaiah Sheffer.
Graphic designer Eiko Ishioka; artists Frederick J. Brown, Viredo Espinosa, LeRoy Neiman, Jan Sawka.
Instrument accessory designer Jim Marshall.
Executive Vice President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, press agent, manager and recording executive Phoebe Jacobs; Lincoln Center executive and philanthropist Martin Segal.
Broadcasters Ray Briem, Alan Grant, Achim Hebgen, Hal Jackson, Bob Jones, Nomvula Motsa, Gil Noble, M. L. Thatch, Chuck Workman; broadcaster and world music promoter Erwin Frankel; broadcasters and historians Günter Discher, Jamal A. Muhammad; broadcaster and educator Nomvula Motsa; broadcaster, musician and actor Cocky "Two Bull" Tlhotlhalemaje.
Filmmaker Claude Santiago.
Photographers Calvin Hicks, Jim McCrary, Roger Prigent, Ken Regan, Dennis Scharlau.
Writers Mary Campbell, Geoff Chapman, Gerard Conte, Rolf Dahlgren, Neil Leonard, Rampholo Molefhe, Werner Panke, Josef Skvorecky, Dita von Szadkowski; writer, photographer and vibraphonist Ueli Dust; writer, broadcaster and photographer Jimmie Jones; editor, writer and broadcaster Yozo Iwanami; writer and composer Hans G. Helms; writer and broadcaster Richard Pedraza Consuegra; jazz researcher and archivist Annie Kuebler; editor, collector and discographer and Ellington expert Sjef Hoefsmith; musicologist Franya Berkman; historian Eric Hobsbawm; writer and educator Jean-Pierre Moussaron; writer and editor Jean-Louis Ginibre.


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The Avatar system can be accessed from the Avatar Manager button in the My Iczer page, and the Avatar section of the shop. There are nine categories of Avatar. Main body, Hair, Equipment, Armor, Background, Moral Support, Accessories, Backpack and Potions. There are also some Special Avatars that allow you to have something a bit more unique.
All avatars can be purchased with either Gran, Fight Money, both, or one or the other. Look below the Avatar to see what payment options are available. Before you buy anything, hit the "Preview" button to see what it looks like on your avatar. This makes sure it looks right. There are lots of strange and unusual avatars around, and not all of them look right with all of the equipment or backgrounds. The Avatar system may also stop you from using equipment not designed for your pose.
Main Body  Hair  Equipment  Armor  Background  Moral Support  Accessory  Backpacks  Items  Special Avatars  Partners
These are potions, oils and incenses. They have limited uses and they convey some real benefit to your Iczer. While they don't affect the outcome of duels, they do affect the rate in which your Iczer progresses, and gets treasure battles.


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Marley Makanani stayed alive just long enough for her grandmother to say goodbye. However, the sight of the 3-year-old's swollen and bruised body is not how Betsy Lindsey wants to remember her beautiful, granddaughter.
"Her eyes, her smile would just light up so many people's lives, she was just a happy little girl," said Lindsey.
In November, Tasha Nihau-Lindsey said she entrusted her three young daughters in to the care of her cousin, Ezekiel Wakinekona and his wife on the Big Island.
A difficult decision, the single mother said, to give them a better life until she could provide for her family. That was the last time she saw her daughter.
Nihau-Lindsey said on Friday her cousin's wife called saying Makanani nearly drowned in a bath but Nihau-Lindsey and her mother say the young girl suffered traumatic injuries to her face, burns over her body, blunt force trauma to her abdomen, bite marks and her eyelashes were cut off.
Makanani was taken to the North Hawaii Community Hospital, then flown to Kapiolani Medical Center where she died Sunday.
"He killed her, he killed my baby that's what he did. He killed her. Why would you do it, especially to her? She's so pure and I don't understand," said Nihau-Lindsey.
Nihau-Lindsey said there were times Wakinekona didn't answer or return her calls and the children seemed distant over the phone.
Nihau-Lindsey said Child Protective Service workers told her Makanani's sisters Journey, 6, and Taimani, 2, also suffered abuse.
She said she held her child and sang her a song before praying God would look over her baby girl.
"I told her I loved her always and forever, and they came in and told me heart stop beating so I felt like she let go. She figured mommy, 'I'll let go for you,'" said Nihau-Lindsey.
Big Island police charged Wakinekona with manslaughter in connection with the death of Marley Makanani.
Police said the child was found unresponsive and experiencing trouble breathing at Wakinekona's home in Waimea.
Makanani's sisters were placed into the custody Child Welfare Services.
In a court document, it said Makanani's sisters had multiple bruises and one sister told police in quotes "Uncle Eze" did this to her.
The family is pleading for anyone who may know something about Makanani's death to go to authorities.
Makanai's mother and grandmother want to set up a foundation in memory of Marley Makanani. Her mother named after music legend Bob Marley.
Wakinekona appeared in court Tuesday afternoon and is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing on Thursday.
He was being held on $60,000 bail.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner released the cause of death and said Makanani died of brain damage due to near drowning along with head trauma due to child abuse.


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#100468 - 04/09/03 07:30 PM googlewashing
Registered: 03/22/00
Posts: 1981
Is it going to make the OED?
Any thoughts?
many internet users adore Google. It has become the world's biggest search engine purely on the basis of being a good product, without recourse to expensive marketing campaigns.
This mixture of passion and protectiveness has led to a bit of a flap over allegations that searched results on Google were being fixed.
The claim was that people had worked out how to fool the search engine's ranking system into putting some webpages above others in an attempt to manipulate public opinion.
The term "Googlewashing" was coined to describe the practice. (This should not be confused with the more innocent "Googlewhacking").
Further discussed here
#100469 - 04/09/03 10:18 PM Re: googlewashing
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
fool the search engine's ranking system into putting some webpages above others
Good grief, is that even possible? And how could that affect "public opinion"? Is there a poll on Google sites somewhere? I've never seen a place to vote on one. I like, though, that google seems to have become a verb.
#100470 - 04/09/03 10:21 PM Re: googlewashing
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/13/01
Posts: 4189
Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...
Googlewashing sounds a mite synonymous with hogwashing...seriously.
#100471 - 04/10/03 04:06 AM Re: googlewashing
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
Posts: 3065
Loc: Jakarta
Hogwash gives 63,400 hits on Google, including http://hogwash.com/, the homepage for Hog Wash Orange Cleaner and Degreaser. I don't think I've ever cleaned or degreased an orange in my life. How do you do this? Is it just a matter of spraying the orange with the cleaner and degreaser?
#100472 - 04/10/03 05:03 AM Re: googlewashing
Registered: 03/06/02
Posts: 1692
Loc: UK
Hog Wash Orange Cleaner and Degreaser
It may be a pithy title, but it's not appeeling, has no zest and gives me the pip.
I suspect it's an orange scented wash for cleaning and degreasing hogs.
#100473 - 04/10/03 08:49 AM Re: googlewashing
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/13/01
Posts: 4189
Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...
Hog Wash Orange Cleaner and Degreaser
They also have Hogwash Wallpaper (but the link won't work).
Hogwash Wallpaper!...what a great idea! We could print-out all the Hogwash® games he ever hosted, make a wallpaper pattern out of them, have one of those secret home decorations, and surprise tswum for his birthday!
#100474 - 04/10/03 09:00 AM Re: hogwash home decor
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/13/01
Posts: 4189
Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...
Or maybe one of these would make a cute wallpaper design:
The Hogmaster® would feel right at home!
#100475 - 04/10/03 09:06 AM Re: hogwash home decor
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/24/02
Posts: 7210
Loc: Vermont
those are great, WO'N!_________________________
formerly known as etaoin...
#100476 - 04/10/03 11:24 PM FWIW Department
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Registered: 06/11/01
Posts: 2636
Loc: Caribbean
Orange cleaner, and there are a ton of them in the stores these days, are cleaning products that have orange oil, presumeably extracted from the rind, as an active ingredient. I don't know if it's more effective than traditional cleaners but it has been a "hot item" in retail for a couple of years now, starting with "As Seen on TV" infomercials. It has been an active ingredient in "Goo Gone" for years, and I know for a fact that Goo Gone is excellent for removing adhesive messes.
-Joanna (just the facts) Friday
#100477 - 04/10/03 11:30 PM Re: Joanna..
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Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 10538
Loc: this too shall pass
..a woman after my own hearth.
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Fred WILLIAMS
Australia 1927 – Australia 1982
England 1951-56
Beachscape, Erith Island I
blindstamp: lower right 'Veritable Papier d'Arches?FIN/FIN'.
Signed lower right of image D in black ink "Fred Williams.". Not dated. Not titled.
image, overall 55.6 (h) x 77.6 (w) cm
Purchased from Gallery admission charges 1983
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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Today's ride
I guess it's the passing of daylight savings time and the impending arrival of winter (despite the lack of anything resembling cold weather – we still have tomatoes ripening in our backyard), but lately my internal clock has been a bit askew. Â Right now, it's 8:15 PM – my wife and I are lying on the couch, listening to Neil Diamond Christmas songs – but it feels like it's 10:15 PM. As the days shorten and the nights lengthen, the precious few hours of daylight become ever more dear. Â These times have always been my favorite part of the year; the weather is cooling, leaves are falling, and the holidays are underfoot. Â I've always enjoyed the days with the fewest hours of sunlight – and no, I'm not particularly a fan of The Cure.
That said, I knew when I set out on my bike this morning that I would have ever fewer days like today in the coming months.  The high temperature today crested at 72º F, quite a bit above what I would consider normal.  I dressed for cool/cold weather – Icebreaker long-sleeved shirt, a t-shirt over that, plus my trusty Swrve cycling knickers, knee warmers, and sock pulled up far too high.  I also brought a shell but ended up not needing it.
My riding goals today were simple: bike to campus to take care of a little (electronic) paperwork, then ride the Greenline, and finally visit Kroger and Buster's for some provisions. Â I left home around 9:30 this morning and had a lovely ride to campus. Â I hadn't biked in some time, at least a week, so I took it easy. Â Traffic was light and the weather was not too unpleasant.
I left campus around 10:30 AM and headed to the Greenline on High Point Terrace. Â Here's what the Greenline looked like as I entered it this morning.
Empty. Â Just how I like it.
The traffic was pretty low today.  I guess most people were shopping or rubbing lotion on their bellies, distended from the orgy of food that is Thanksgiving.  I cannot claim to be innocent of such crimes against moderation, hence my ride today.
I pedaled on an on to the Visitor's Center at Shelby Farms then found a bench for a respite. Â The day was rather windy; at times I could feel the wind pushing against my chest as I was relaxing, and my bike as I was riding, making my ride a bit more wobbly than usual. Â Here's a few pictures from Shelby Farms.
Pretty retro clouds.
Angry retro clouds!
Clouds, please stop making faces at me. Â Kthxbai.
After half an hour or so of being battered by the winds at the edge of Patriot Lake, I decided to head back to campus. Â Biking west, I came upon this lovely mural.
I know, it's been up for a while. Â But having had such a busy fall, this is the first time I've seen it! Â How exciting. Â I must meet the one-legged cyclists who posed for the mural.
After stopping at campus for a moment, I left for Kroger to pick up a few necessities. Â Then I left for Buster's for a bottle of prosecco, which has been shooting up the charts at my home. Then I biked home, just in time to watch my team get destroyed by its archenemy. Â WDE, that's all I can say.
Anyway, here's a map of my ride.
You can see how I rode on Southern to campus, then through Chickasaw Gardens on the way home. Â Altogether, it was a really great day to ride, if not to watch college football. Â I hope your day was similarly enjoyable. Â Look for more adventures soon …


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At this week's State Board meeting, agency staff presented information on a new resource that will help educators better prepare for the requirements of No Child Left Behind. I have included an overview of this information in today's message. I am looking forward to working with you during the next several months as we formally introduce the Illinois Assessment Frameworks. As always, your feedback will be most beneficial to us.
Also included in today's message:
· State Board Hears District Presentations
· State Board Announces Important New Resource
· Fall Data Collection Update
· Special Needs Transportation
· RFP Issued
· Safe and Drug Free Prevention Resources
· Nutrition Grants
· Newsclips
Board Approves Five-Year Renewal for
The Illinois State Board of Education today approved a
five-year renewal of the charter of the Prairie Crossing Charter School of
Grayslake to Begin
Prairie Crossing has an enrollment of 260 students and
has been in operation for four years.
It will operate for the 2003-04 school year under the final year of its
original 5-year charter. It is the
only charter school in
State Board Hears Presentation From Three Districts In Financial Difficulty
The number of
schools in financial difficulty continues to increase. To understand why this is
happening and to better predict its occurrence, the State Board has adopted a
new financial designation system based on the Financial Profile and has also
designated three staff as Regional Financial Consultants to work with districts
in financial difficulty on a daily basis. Because the Board members feel it is
also critical for them to hear directly from districts to understand the
specific financial issues facing them, we invited three such districts to
present at this week's board meeting. Representatives from
State Board Announces Important New Resources for Educators
At its monthly meeting, the Illinois State Board of Education announced the completion of the Illinois Assessment Frameworks which will help educators better prepare students to meet the assessment requirements of No Child Left Behind beginning in the 2005-06 school year.
The Assessment Frameworks concentrate on math, reading, writing, science, and social science and are more focused than the State Goals for Learning. Teachers, curriculum developers, and state test designers will all be working from the same page to help ensure student success.
The Framework for each subject consists of Assessment
Objectives at each grade level, linked directly to the Illinois Learning
Standards and providing clear, concise statements of what students will be
expected to know and do on
The primary goal of the Assessment Frameworks is to help educators make good choices about what should be taught and the emphasis to place on specific skills and topics when they are planning lessons and making curricular changes that will best help students learn. Additionally, the Assessment Objectives specify what is considered "fair game" to be tested on the state assessments beginning in the 2005-06 school year and beyond so districts will have ample time to make any needed curriculum changes.
The new Assessment Frameworks are expected to be
available on-line within the next few weeks, and we will be communicating with
you soon regarding other ways we plan to help all
Fall Data Collection Update: Fall Housing & Immunization Go Electronic
The Fall Housing/Enrollment Report (87-03) and the
Immunization Survey (70-11) will be collected online via IWAS this year and will
be available on Sept. 30. The
Unfilled Positions Survey, which has been on IWAS the past two years, will be
available the first week in October.
Paper copies of these three data forms will not be
accepted this year. Questions
should be directed to the
The Teacher Salary Study and the Reduction in Force surveys will continue to be collected on paper forms which will be mailed in September.
Fall Housing/Enrollment Report
A viewable form of the survey will be available on IWAS the week of September 15. Users will be able to access the system on September 30.
Schools are required to report their enrollments as of September 30th and forward their completed form to the district superintendent by October 15. The district superintendent will review school documents and submit them to ISBE by October 29. District Superintendents also have the option of entering data for some, or all, of the schools in their districts.
Immunization Survey
Users will be able to access the Immunization system on
October 1. The due date for
submitting the Immunization School Survey is on or before
Public Schools: 1) the school level data must be submitted to the district-level IWAS administrator (usually the district superintendent); 2) the district superintendent (IWAS district-level administrator) must electronically approve and submit the data to ISBE.
Nonpublic Schools must submit by school level (school administrator, principals, etc.,) directly to ISBE.
Unfilled Positions Survey
The Unfilled Positions Survey will be available on IWAS
the first week in October. As in
years past, districts are to report the number of unfilled positions as of
Teacher Salary Study
Data forms (paper) for the 2003-04 school year were mailed out this week. They are due back to ISBE on
Reduction in Force Survey (86-28)
The data collection forms will be mailed out in paper format to school districts in mid-September to collect both the 2002 and 2003 district level data. These forms are due back to ISBE in late fall after all the 2002 and 2003 dismissals, recalls and re-employments are finished. Questions should be directed to Niann Chern at 217/782-3950.
USDE Memo Regarding Special Needs Transportation
Communication between local school districts and transportation providers is critical to addressing transportation issues for special needs students. The United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services has issued a memorandum which encourages effective communication in this regard and we support their effort. The complete text of the memorandum can be accessed at http://www.isbe.net/funding/PDF/SpecialEdpdf/special_needs_transportation.pdf
RFP Issued
A Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued by the State
Board of Education on
Schools That Work (HSTW) is the
nation's first large-scale effort to engage state, district and school leaders
and teachers in partnerships with students, parents and the community to improve
the way high school students are prepared for work and further education. It provides a framework of
goals, key practices and key conditions for accelerating learning and setting
higher standards. Schools are
encouraged to eliminate the general track of studies and to strengthen their
courses in math, science and language arts.
The funding period for the grants is from
A webcast was recorded to assist respondents to the RFP in lieu of a bidder's conference. It was designed to answer questions and provide specific information about requirements, fiscal information, proposal format and criteria for evaluation. The webcast may be accessed directly at http://www.isbe.net/webcast/cd_01.htm. The complete RFP and webcast may be accessed through the ISBE homepage at www.isbe.net. Click "Grants" on left and scroll to "RFP's and Competitive Bids."
For more information on this RFP, contact Dora Welker at 217/782-4620.
Safe And Drug-Free Prevention Resources For Schools
ISBE and Prevention First, Inc. (PFI), a nonprofit training and information organization, have entered into a partnership to inform schools about the wide variety of scientifically based prevention resources available to them through PFI.
Research shows that prevention efforts in schools work
to help children and teens avoid drugs, violence and other risky behaviors. PFI
PFI also houses a clearinghouse containing pamphlets, handouts, posters and myriad other items on drug use, gambling, anger management and more. The items are available by mail order.
Library services and clearinghouse materials are free to
all adults in
We are pleased to announce that
For 57 years, the National School Lunch Week has been celebrated in October to help raise awareness of, and garner support for, the role that school foodservice and nutrition programs play in education. This year's theme, Wild about School Lunch, highlights the enthusiasm and energy of school lunch personnel in this endeavor.
Visit the American School Food Service Association's Website at www.asfsa.org/meetingsandevents/nslw/for menus, proclamations, a toolkit, logos, activities and more to plan your NSLW celebration.
Grant Funds Available for Nutrition Program Start-up and Expansion
Share Our Strength has announced funding opportunities for current or potential program sponsors to increase the number of children participating in after- school and summer nutrition programs. Fund amounts of $15,000 will be awarded for start-up costs incurred in initiating and supporting sites, and expansion grants are available to increase program participation at existing sites. The grant applications are due September 30. Visit www.greatamericanbakesale.org for the grant application. Click on the "Childhood Hunger" button.
Newsclips may be accessed at http://www.isbe.net/news/2003/newsclips/091903.htm
Robert Schiller
State Superintendent
of Education