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Bluefield State College will host its very first Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Dr. Sergei Zhigulov of Russia during the 2010-2011 academic year. Dr. Zhigulov will teach Elementary Russian I on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 p.m. and People's History of 20th Century Russia on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2 p.m. These and Elementary Russian II and the Psyche of Communist Russia, which will be offered in spring 2011, will be offered for college credit. Area citizens are also encouraged to enroll in these courses.
An English teacher, dean of foreign languages, trade union leader, and currently a professor of psychology at Kostroma State University in Russia, Dr. Zhigulov has also been privileged to serve as an interpreter at embassies in India and Iraq during Soviet times. He has also designed the curriculum for the psychology of sports culture, which continues to be a popular major at his university.
Dr. Zhigulov's scholarly writing has been anthologized widely in Russia where he is also a frequent presenter at scholarly conferences. His most recent award winning work is an anthology which he edited in 2008: Group Norms: socio-psychological aspect.
Having been educated in Soviet times, Dr. Zhigulov has remained relevant in his areas of interest and has also been employed as a counselor in a government-funded employment agency in Kostroma.
In 1999, Dr. Zhigulov was selected to participate in the US Department of State's Community Connections program (now managed by the US Agency for International Development), which brought him to Bluefield for a two-week study tour.
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NYSE Euronext's European cash markets will clear through LCH.Clearnet for a further six years, according to an agreement announced today, ending years of uncertainty over the exchange's clearing plans for equities in the region.
The revised contract will commence on January 1 and run through to 2018. It replaces an existing contract that was due to expire on December 31, 2013. The technical elements of the agreement are still being finalised but LCH.Clearnet expects to reduce its fees for clearing blue chip stocks by 20% to €0.04, the firms said this morning.
Roland Bellegarde, group executive vice-president for European equities and equity derivatives at NYSE Euronext, said in a statement: "We are pleased to have negotiated the main terms of an agreement with LCH.Clearnet which would allow our customers to maintain their infrastructure with their existing clearing house. This six-year agreement, once in place, will contribute towards ensuring that market participants have access to a robust, regulated and organised clearing house."
Today's announcement follows years of uncertainty regarding NYSE Euronext's European clearing arrangements after the exchange served notice on LCH.Clearnet, the long-time clearer to its cash and derivatives markets, in May 2010. At the time, NYSE Euronext said that it planned to establish two purpose-built clearing houses, one London-based house for derivatives, and a Paris-based clearing house for cash equities.
But these plans were put on hold following NYSE's proposed merger with Deutsche Börse, which would have involved NYSE Euronext clearing its derivatives and cash business through Deutsche Börse's Eurex clearing house.
Following the collapse of the deal in February this year, however, Duncan Niederauer, chief executive of NYSE Euronext, said that the exchange would reprise its original plan to build a "full service" UK-based clearing house for its derivatives business and in March announced it planned to stick with LCH.Clearnet for cash.
Last week, the build-out of the exchange's derivatives clearing house was suspended for a second time, when NYSE Euronext announced it was being acquired by Atlanta-headquartered IntercontinentalExchange. Ice tabled a cash-and-stock-deal that valued NYSE Euronext at $33.12 a share, or $8.2bn. As a result of the deal, NYSE Euronext will divert its listed derivatives clearing through Ice Clear Europe from around June next year.
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I plan to EBF till my DD is 1 year old, no solids. My Dr. said that was fine, but that most babies don't make it that long, that they stop being satisfied by just momma's milk between 9-12 months. It has always been my understanding that solids are "just for fun" till the baby is a year old anyway, so I don't understand how a baby could stop being satisfied with breast milk till they are a year old. My question is, how do u know? I want to nurse her exclusively for a year, but I certainly don't want her to become unsatisfied and be hungry. Is it "normal" to exclusively breastfeed for one year, it seems like it would be.
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Other human species. Interesting stuff.
What is your knowledge of evolution, physics, biology, genetics, astronomy? How can you be critical of something you know nothing about?
You claim scientists are making stuff up as they go but have no understanding of the scientific method. It is in fact YOU, who is making stuff up about scientists, science and the theory of evolution, which you have no understanding of. I suggest reading and studying a subject before you criticize it. At least I have read the bible, front to back and was brought up in a religious family. I know the christian religion quite well and am able to see it for what it is.
I am also a scientist and understand the rigorous process for something to be published in a peer review journal. The amount of double checking facts and cross-referencing involved. Something you are unwilling to do or make an effort for. The amount of criticism and testing and verification a theory goes through, especially one as controversial as evolution, for it to be accepted is beyond you. So please, don't criticize it when you have no idea how something works and are too lazy to make the effort to understand it.
Fact: Life did not spring into being all at once. It has been a gradual process beginning over 3 billion years ago. Dinosaurs and humans did not share the earth and are separated by over 60 million years. This is a fact that cannot be denied and is overwhelmingly supported by the fossil record. Therefore Genesis is false.
Fact: Rabbits do not chew their cud and Bats are not birds, they are mammals. Therefore Deuteronomy 14:7 and 18 are false
Fact: The universe was not made in 7 days. It is at least 14 billion years old. Genesis false.
Noah's Ark, it is impossible. The dimensions of the Ark are given in the bible, "the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits". That is 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.
Taking into account the mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, flowering plants, trees, mushrooms, algae, lichens, mosses that could not survive in the ocean for the 367 day duration of the flood, it would total approximately 1,800,000 species (this is a very conservative estimate). That's 3,600,000 individuals. Given the dimensions of the Ark, it is physically impossible to fit this many individuals into the boat.
Therefore Noah's Ark is physically impossible.
Also, with the earth now covered in ocean, all of the fresh water fish now inundated with salt water would have gone extinct.
In addition, the amount of fresh water (rain) needed to cover the earth would have changed the salinity of the ocean. Most marine life cannot survive in water of reduced salinity and would have died as a result of the influx of fresh water.
Therefore Noah's Ark is chemically impossible.
Also, if there had been a flood that killed the dinosaurs, the distribution of fossils would have been completely different. They would not have followed the timescale we see today and represented in evolution but scattered randomly and at even levels within the geologic layers.
Naoh's Ark is archeological impossible.
These are just a few examples of the bible's falsehoods. I can go on and on and on.
I will take a quote from earlier in this thread for you to understand:
Take a rabbit, any female rabbit (arbitrarily stick to females, for convenience: it makes no difference to the argument). Place her mother next to her. Now place the grandmother next to the mother and so on back in time. Back, back, back, back, back, back through the megayears, a seemingly endless line of female rabbits, each one sandwiched between her daughter and her mother. We walk along the line of rabbits, backwards in time, examining them carefully like an inspecting general. As we pace the line, we'll eventually notice that the ancient rabbits we are passing are just a little bit different from the modern rabbits we are used to. But the rate of change will be so slow that we shan't notice the trend from generation to generation, just as we can't see the motion of the hour hand on our watches - and just as we can't see a child growing, we can only see later that she has become a teenager, and later still an adult. An additional reason why we don't notice the change in rabbits from one generation to another is that, in any one century, the variation within the current population will normally be greater than the variation between mothers and daughters. So if we try to discern the movement of the 'hour hand' by comparing mothers with daughters, or indeed grandmothers with granddaughters, such slight differences as we may see will be swamped by the differences among the rabbits' friends and relations gambolling in the meadows round about. Nevertheless, steadily and imperceptibly, as we retreat through time, we shall reach ancestors that look less and less like a rabbit and more and more like a shrew (and not very like either).
This is in a nutshell a visual summary of evolution to a small scale, speciation. Speciation has been witnessed in the real world and documented over short periods of time. I don't understand how you can accept this part of the theory over a short period of time but can't accept the small incremental changes accumulating into a large change over an immense period of time. Add in the genetic evidence and fossil record and it just doesn't make sense to me how you can have that position.
I find it interesting you mentioning the human DNA and its length and complexity. Do you know how much of that code is not used? Most of the genes within our DNA are vestigial, or relics from our ancestors and are inactive. Did you realize we have a gene to make yolk sacks? It is a fossil gene. Our genome is loaded with fossil genes. Did you know the human fetus is covered in fur at 33-36 weeks? At the same point in gestation as the chimpanzee. We still retain that gene, but the fur is shed for us and continues to grow for chimpanzees.
I don't see how someone could understand the complexity of the human body and genome and not believe evolution and believe it was designed by some perfect creator. The only way people can believe that is by not understanding the complexity of the eye , or the genome, or nerve endings and their many imperfections. Lack of understanding is what leads to religion. What we don't understand we have called it god. God of the gaps. But the more we knew the less need for a god to fill those gaps. Our increased understanding and knowledge of the facts is what opens our eyes to religion's falsehoods.
If you don't understand how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly then I can't help you. May I suggest reading a few books? And if God wanted to show how nuts the theory of evolution was, don't you think he would have made it a little more obvious? Maybe make the evidence for evolution not so strong? Maybe not make the human genome practically identical to chimpanzee DNA, or not make the fossil record evolving from simple lifeforms to complex lifeforms over billions of years, or not have species embryological development display characteristics of evolutionary ancestors, or not have humans and many lifeforms with vestigial structures, or not have the genomes of humans and other creatures have vestigial genes or genes of common descent and not have the human genome dominated by inactive genes like the gene to make yolk, or not have species display adaptaions to their surroundings through natural selection, or not have the "design" of humans and other species so poorly designed and filled with imperfections, or......I can keep going if you would like.
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Creationists are injecting themsleves into scientific debate, with a motive and no scientific training or understanding, lying to promote their motive and making statements with no evidence to support their claims.
And now there is a growing sentiment in America that distrusts science and scientists and believes there is a conspiracy amongst scientists manipulating evidence.
This terrifies me. This allows people to disregard facts and evidence and say whatever they want without having to be held accountable.
I recommend looking in to it to anyone......Well, perhaps not to the theists, but certainly to those who are interested in discovery over forgery.
To resort to methods they preach against is the ultimate display of a sense of how finite their way - fear of the unknown and the use of that fear to dominate - are, and that reality is swiftly approaching. The less frightened people are, the less easily are they controlled. I can't believe it's taken this long, to be honest.
☆ I've only ever considered what I'm about to say, but have never spoken of it or queried anyone about it before, but when I see the war on atheism etc on the internet, I've only ever seen people of Anglo Saxon descent bashing atheism under the banner of some sort of Christian based religion. If there are any religious people of Anglo Saxon, Mayan or African descent who would like to answer my question, this is it:
☆ When the Holy scriptures were written over X amount of time, your ancestors were far separated from the scribes who wrote them. Your ancestors worshipped their own deities and had their own belief system about the afterlife and so forth.
Christianity was forced, raped, burned and slaughtered in to the lives of your ancestors and those they co-habitated with, as they were in to mine, and those ancestors - YOUR ancestors - were pried away from their beliefs ~ Pagan, Mayan etc.
How does that affect you from a mental standpoint? Knowing that a foreign people's religion, as immensely flawed as it is, was oppressed in to the lives of your bloodline. How does that float your boat?
Interesting, no?
When observing the complexity of the human eye in February of 1860, Darwin said this: "About the weak points I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder"
When observing the amazing pea**** and it's beautiful feathers, Darwin said:"I remember well the time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over, but I have got over this stage of the complaint, and now small trifling particulars of structure often make me feel uncomfortable. The sight of a feather in a pea****'s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!"
Order came from chaos?
I think the argument of order in the universe is one of the main arguements one can have against evolution and the claim that an explosion, which came from nothing, created order from the orbiting of planets to the smallest organisms.
People ran with Darwin's theory yet Darwin himself doubted it and he had good reason to.
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That's a very old quote. At the time science was incapable of revealing the mysticism behind the evolution of the human eye.
It took over a hundred years after Darwin died before it was studied and documented that the human eye was comparatively a whole different type of evolution with other animals/mammals.
Something to do with light sensors in the brain, as far as I remember.
2 different types of light sensors in animal (human) brains and human eyes evolved from the other sensor to that of animals.
Evolution in animal's eyes began from Sensor A, for example.
In humans (great apes), apes, lesser apes and very few species of monkey, it was Sensor B.
That's about as good as I can give you, you'd have to look it up.
Doesn't it bother you these creationist websites have to lie? Yet you still go to them?
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About the weak points I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.
For the life of me I cannot see any difficulty in natural selection producing the most exquisite structure, if such structure can be arrived at by gradation, and I know from experience how hard it is to name any structure towards which at least some gradations are not known.
Darwin did not doubt evolution. Stop lying.
The argument of the eye from creationists is one of irreducible complexity and has been completely rejected by both logic and science and is why Intelligent Design is classified as a pseudoscience.
Pseudoscience: a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status.[1] Pseudoscience is often characterized by the use of vague, exaggerated or unprovable claims, an over-reliance on confirmation rather than rigorous attempts at refutation, a lack of openness to evaluation by other experts, and a general absence of systematic processes to rationally develop theories.
If you REALLY want to know about the evolution of the eye, I suggest you research the facts and not read lies from creationist websites.
Here is a start:
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But I know you won't. You will keep spewing lies and never learn the facts because you don't want to know. You would rather believe your lies than make the effort to research anything yourself. Doesn't the bible tell you not to lie?
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Religion and Science fulfil to completely different purposes and for the sake of both we should keep them separate, especially since within this absurd argument Science for some begin to take over the function religion used to have.
You do not even need to move away too much from the Bible to see the formation of the different spheres: The whole idea that there was the word can also be seen as "there was information", or rather in-formation. This brings us directly into quantum physics (Heisenberg indeterminacy principle). On this level there is only pure chance. No patterns can be observed whatsoever, thus arbitrary information stored on a sub-atomic level generates variation. If pure chance starts on such a basic level, why do we need to suspect design in something infinitly less complex like the pea****'s tail feathers?
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The most surprising thing about Restaurant Shiro is how little it's changed in nearly 25 years
By Erica Wayne 04/14/2011
When erstwhile PW reviewer Melody Malmberg wrote what was very possibly the first review of Restaurant Shiro in June 1987 (it was less than a month old), her comments were prescient. She said, "Next time, I'd better make a reservation; and in subsequent months, if I forget to reserve, there will probably be a line out the door … Word is getting out quickly about this terrific, small, mainly seafood, Franco-Japanese-California restaurant on sleepy Mission Street."
Almost 25 years later, Shiro is still a terrific, mainly seafood, Franco-Japanese-California restaurant. It's a little bigger, having annexed the space next door a few years back, and Mission Street is a little less sleepy. But the most surprising thing about Shiro is how little it's changed. Walk in and (aside from prices, which have about doubled in the interim) the interior, wait staff and menu retain much of their original style. (That's meant as a compliment. Congrats, Shiro, you don't look a day over 5!)
When it opened, chef-owner Hideo Yamashiro created a venue that Merrill Schindler described as "fairly minimalist … with abstract art on the wall and non-abstract food on the plates." Gault-Millau said Shiro's cuisine combined "a Japanese eye for high-quality, ultra-fresh fish with the French art of saucing …" Other details, their glowing review continued, were "carefully thought out: good desserts, handsome waiters who are there when you need them but disappear when you don't, and several tasty wines for well under $20." (The 2011 selections are mostly north of $35, but still tasty.)
Vintages change, but much of the menu has remained pretty constant since opening day. My guess is there'd be a riot among loyal patrons if certain faves were ever cut. (Check out the sample menus on Shiro's Web site for a little mental masturbation.) Our latest Shiro meal last month was prompted by a visit from a Florida transplant (gone from Pasadena for the past 10 years) who wanted to show his East Coast wife what he, lots of critics and many Angelinos — judging from the consistently stellar ratings from Zagat — consider to be one of the finest restaurants in Southern California.
And what did he crave? The signature catfish (a two-pound beauty), served whole, its skin scored and stuffed with ginger slices, deep-fried and served with a bouquet of fresh cilantro and a sweet and pungent ponzu sauce ($30.50), the same recipe and presentation Mel raved about during her 1987 visit. Like Green Street's Dianne Salad, Shiro's catfish has become the stuff of legend. I've never been in when it wasn't available, and I can rarely resist it. We, a party of five, devoured three of the beasts.
Despite the fact that Shiro's other entrees are relatively generous, they're all dwarfed by the gargantuan proportions of the catfish.
Even the Maine lobster medallions and sea scallops with "crustache" sauce ($32.50) looked puny by comparison. I always feel the need to share with tablemates who've ordered the "normal" dinners. The companion who chose (to me not very interesting) Atlantic salmon with dill mustard sauce ($28.75) cleaned his plate in record time and gladly accepted multiple chunks of sweet fish flesh and crunchy skin from me, while the lobster orderer helped to strip down a second to its bones.
Another old favorite that's usually on the menu is Shiro's appetizer ravioli, filled with shrimp mousse and served with shiitake mushroom sauce ($10). Two of us were seduced by a "special" of similar ravioli filled with black truffle mousse and served with a truffle cream sauce. The price was twice that of the standard, but the dish was only half as satisfying. (Dare I say anything could ever be over-truffled?) The asparagus and tomato salad with tarragon dressing ($10.75) was interesting, but I would probably have preferred walnuts over the sweeter pecans that garnished the plate.
Some of the recipes I think are Shiro's most stellar weren't on the menu the evening of our last visit. Among the usual starters is a seafood salad with tarragon-citrus dressing that Merrill Shindler once wrote he'd "gladly drink straight from the bottle …" And the simple PEI mussels steamed in garlic butter are always delectable. I used to occasionally order the main-course Chilean sea bass a la japonaise until I learned the fish was endangered; it still sings to me (but not as loudly as the catfish).
Once through appetizers, entrees and three bottles of wine ($50, $47 and $75), we still managed to make room for three desserts (all $8.50) and five spoons. I'd been hoping that baked figs with balsamic vinegar sauce and vanilla ice cream, date mousse cake or chestnut mousse cake with chocolate sauce would be among the night's offerings, but no such luck. So we tried the apple tart with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce, a chocolate torte soufflé with coffee ice cream and crisped wontons filled with poached pears and raspberry sauce (all good but a bit small — about a bite apiece as we rotated plates).
As we headed home for nightcaps of single malt and liqueurs, our Florida ex-pat revisited our dinner with laudatory reminiscences. We could tell he was fixing the details in his mind to recite to envious Tallahassee friends and to store away nostalgically until he and his wife could come back for a follow-up dinner on their next trip west. Lucky us, who don't have to wait that long!
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Sullivan County District Attorney Jim Farrell announced today that James McDonnell, 21, of Liberty, N.Y. was sentenced to 5 years in state prison and 5 years of post release supervision for Burglary in the 2nd Degree, a class C violent felony on May 22, 2012 in Sullivan County Court.
McDonnell admitted to breaking into a home on State Route 52 in the Town of Liberty with two other men, Christopher Wallace-Hill, 24, and Brian Hendrickson, 21, also both of Liberty, on December 6, 2011, and stealing a computer, electronics, jewelry and other property. Farrell said that the resident of the home left their house early in the morning and upon returning just 3 hours later discovered that the home had been burglarized and various property stolen.
All three men were arrested after an investigation by the New York State Police and the Village of Liberty Police on December 14, 2011. "The police did a terrific job in apprehending these three individuals and my office will continue to vigorously prosecute home burglars. We will ensure that home burglars are held accountable and receive state prison sentences.", Farrell said.
Wallace-Hill and Hendrickson both previously entered pleas of guilty to burglary and are scheduled to be sentenced on July 10, 2012. Both men are also expected to receive state prison sentences when they are sentenced for their roles in the burglary.


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Kansas landowners presently have 3.1 million active Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres of which approximately 364,000 acres are scheduled to expire on September 30, 2009. Establishment of CRP cover (grass, legumes, trees, and shrubs) has resulted in tremendous environmental benefits to our landscape. CRP has greatly reduced wind and water erosion, improved air quality, and reduced the amount of sediment, nutrients, and pesticides in our water resources while providing benefits to resident and migratory wildlife.
As your CRP contract nears its end, you will be making decisions on what to do next with your land. While much of the CRP land in Kansas is productive and potentially could go back into crop or hay production, many acres of CRP land are environmentally sensitive and should remain in permanent vegetation. These areas, if maintained and managed as permanent cover, will continue to provide many of the environmental benefits listed above. Known as conservation buffers, these patches of vegetation have the potential to:
Following is a brief discussion of primary buffer practices for Western Kansas. For more details concerning qualifications for Continuous CRP and incentives, contact your local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) or Farm Service Agency office.
Grassed waterways are natural or constructed channels that direct concentrated runoff to stable outlets without creating a gully and reduce off-site sediment delivery. Before converting CRP to crop production, concentrated flow areas should be located and left in grass to control gullies. Grassed waterways work best when combined with other conservation practices like residue management, terraces, and contouring.
A field border is a strip of perennial vegetation at the edge of a cropland field. They can eliminate end rows, provide space to turn machinery, and reduce inefficient use of crop inputs (fertilizer, herbicides, etc.) due to overlapping. Field borders can also act as a filter for runoff water exiting a field and provide wildlife habitat. Field borders must be at least 30 feet wide, or wide enough to eliminate end rows and turn equipment. However, if enrolled in Continuous CRP, field borders cannot be used to turn equipment.
Cross wind trap strips (CWTS) are strips of permanent vegetation which are established within cropland in an orientation that is perpendicular to the prevailing wind. Optimum orientation will generally be east-west or northeast-southwest in western Kansas. CWTS reduce on-field wind erosion by reducing field length and trapping windborne sediments that perpetuate detachment of soil particles. CWTS also provide nesting and brood rearing habitat for upland birds. To be eligible for CRP (CP24), at least 2 strips must be established per field, and cannot exceed 10 percent of the field.
Each strip shall:
Optimum distance between strips depends on site conditions such as existing barriers or windbreaks and soil type. For example, a half mile long trap strip 25 feet wide would measure 1.5 acres; therefore, up to 11 strips could be established in a 160-acre quarter section leaving a distance between strips of 200-to-240 feet that can be adjusted to fit equipment.
Windbreaks consist of multiple rows of trees and shrubs designed to protect soils from wind erosion, livestock from chilling winds, and crops from water sapping summer winds, manage snow, and benefit wildlife.
Herbaceous wind barriers are narrow strips of tall perennial grasses or annual crops established to protect soils and crops. If tillage is used to prepare soils for planting, herbaceous wind barriers reduce erosion, manage moisture, and protect crops. They improve snow distribution with subsequent crop moisture responses. If the expiring CRP field has a tall grass component such as switchgrass, tall or intermediate wheatgrass, the tall perennial grass can be left in place in narrow bands a minimum of 30 inches wide. Wider barriers provide greater wildlife benefit and additional sediment trapping capacity. Arrangement and distance between barriers is similar to CWTS and is dependent upon cropping sequence and tillage system in order to adequately control wind erosion.
Conservation buffers are not the entire answer to protecting soil and water resources. However, when applied in the correct locations and maintained properly, they return conservation benefits far in excess of the small footprint of land taken from traditional production.
For more information on conservation buffers or if you are interested in installing one more of these practices, please contact your local NRCS office.
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In June 2014 I was in Chicago for a week. While there I had a half day recording session with two musicians for whom I have great respect for in terms of their extremely unique playing and personalities: Fred Lonberg-Holm and Frank Rosaly. Continue reading
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In November I went to Mexico City for a visit. Largest city in the western hemisphere (population), tons of energy, lots to see. The photo is of a wall in the old residence of Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán.
In January the drummer Frank Rosaly was visiting the bay area and we had a concert of improvised duos and quartet with Jordan Glenn and Larry Ochs at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Here is the recording of two duets I played with Frank.
Speaking of drummers from Chicago: Tim Daisy, the person who I first collaborated with in Chicago (15 years ago!) will be visiting the bay this month. Tim's bringing new music for a trio with Safa Shokrai and myself named Steel Bridge. We'll be performing at the Center for New Music on February 21st and recording the music for an album to be released on Relay Recordings.
One last thing: tour dates for my solo project Tonal Masher are coming together for May. I'll be performing in Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and Denmark. Details to come.
Newsletter – Month One
It's the beginning of a New Year, and here's the start of an ongoing newsletter for show information, album announcements, and a way to include something about what's going on here in California by sharing a photo and a live recording.
I took the photo above at Death Valley two days before Christmas. It was my first visit to the park, and this was taken at Golden Canyon after sunset, and as you can see, at dusk the sky was purple. Beautiful.
Also in December I performed Island in the Sky, a graphic score I created based on the region of the same name in Canyonlands National Park in 2013. On this performance I was joined by the exceptional talents of Kristina Dutton, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Teddy Rankin-Parker and Safa Shokrai. There have been a few performances with different line ups, but this particular combination of players felt quite right. Here is the recording from our performance at Studio Grand in Oakland.
One last thing: in December the Broken Trap Ensemble had our very first recording released by Astral Spirits. Cassette and download only, I have a few copies, and you can find it at the Monofonus Press site.
Shelton Ochs Quartet – Two Night in July
This past weekend was full of music – I played two shows & had a recording session with the Shelton Ochs Quartet – where I'm joined by Larry Ochs (of ROVA saxophone quartet), Kjell Nordeson (of Cylinder, Exploding Customer, AALY Trio among many others) and now Mark Dresser (of many things including John Zorn & Anthony Braxton). I'm obviously the rookie of the bunch. Larry has been very generous and has pushed this project along and got Mark to come up from San Diego to play these local shows. We're set to play at the Stone in New York in September, so this was a way for us to dig into the music before we get there.
Playing with Mark was great – he's got so much background in playing the new music, on so many levels, that it could be daunting if I thought about it too much. It's sinking in a bit after the fact, which is a good thing, particularly because playing with him was such a good experience and totally comfortable. The energy he brings to the music is HIGH. He expects clarity in the charts and intention of the music. These are more good things.
We had a rehearsal on thursday at my space in Oakland, and an extended soundcheck / rehearsal at Duende on the Friday afternoon before our show there that night. We got a lot done in a few short rehearsals. The show on Friday went well – had a decent turnout, and we really dug into the music, a third of which was brand new, and all had changes from past performances. Dresser! It was the first time in I don't know how long that I played with someone who did so many things that I'm not used to hearing. Larry totally brought it, and Kjell's drumming has become even more focused since he moved down to San Diego to study percussion and pursue his PHD at UCSD.
The Saturday show at Center for New Music had a different energy – we cut two pieces of mine that just don't seem quite ready for primetime. More ideas than finalized compositions. We still spread it into two sets, as 8 pieces with extended improvisation lends itself to a lot of music. But the focus was even more. Though the vibe & energy of Duende added to our energy, the listening room aspect of CNM allowed us to explore the music in a very different way.
After this weekend, I'm extra excited about the shows in New York in September – the 7th & 8th – 10pm both nights at the Stone.
Ton Trio II at the Layover June 24, 20013
Ton Trio II (with Scott Brown & Alex Vittum) returned to the Layover on Monday night as part of the series that has been going on since January, put on by the Oakland Freedom Jazz Society – run by Fernando & Tracy from VAMP music & art. We hadn't played since recording at Tiny Telephone during Memorial Day weekend, so I was looking forward to dusting off the charts and seeing what we could do to freshen things up. We played three sets and I really liked how we stretched out – Alex sounded great on the drums, and Scott had some particularly nice bass solos. By the time our third set wrapped up we had a nice audience, and there was generally a good feel in the bar that night. Unfortunately at the end of the show, after I had plugged next week's show by Vijay Anderson, I was told that series had been discontinued! Turns out that Layover wasn't making enough money to justify having the series (they were contributing from the bar). The free jazz/improvised music doesn't bring out the hard core drinkers, especially on a Monday night, and that's where the bar has to make their money.
This is part of the whole thing. Any bar or restaurant or venue that chooses to book this kind of music needs to actually have a vested interest in it. It's not a money maker. It doesn't get people dancing (which leads them to drink). It's music mainly for listening. I like to perform in casual environments like the Layover, because I think that what we're doing with TT2 can attract a wider audience of people who aren't familiar with free jazz, so you might get some new ears. I see rock shows all the time that have elements that challenge the listeners. I think jazz music should do the same thing – introduce new sounds to the audience, and I think the audience should be willing to accept that. It's strange that audiences can embrace experimentalism in rock, but not so much in jazz.
I was hopeful with a place like the Layover taking a chance on this kind of music. Right now in Oakland there are lots of new bars & restaurants, without the huge amount of customers, so it seems like the perfect time for these places to take a chance on doing something new & interesting, rather than having yet another ipod DJ night. A weekly series is a valuable commodity, and over time (years sometimes) an audience will grow and word will get out that there's this kind of music on this night that is interesting & unique. I imagine that in the months to come I'll talk to people and they'll ask about the series at the Layover, and I'll have to tell them it's over. Hopefully by then we'll find a new home for the series.
Golden Age at Bar 355 June 9, 2013
My newest group is Golden Age, and I'm using it to focus on the more angular / rock-ish ideas I write down from time to time. With Ton Trio II I'm focusing on the swing, and this group is steering in a different direction. I enlisted Mark Clifford on vibes, Matthew Golombisky on electric bass, and Jordan Glenn on drums to play a date back in April at Cafe Royale set up by our friends at SF Offside. I brought together some new ideas, and retrofitted a few pieces from the Kodachrome Music suite that I wrote a few years ago, and even a piece written for Flockterkit. The group dynamic is working in this quartet, and the way Matthew plays electric bass really pulls the material together in ways that keep it really unique in terms of the music I've been writing recently. I'm excited about the rhythm section combination of Glenn & Golombisky, one of the best things is that both of them are able to take basic musical kernels into compelling directions, and when they do it simultaneously it's a good thing indeed. Pairing with a vibraphonist in the front line is one of my favorite things to do, and Mark has a unique style in improvising that is well suited for this music. We shared the bill with solo sets by Lake Millions (Joshua Pollock) guitar & electronics, and Moe! Staiano, drums & guitar. A more intimate audience this night, that's what a Sunday in Oakland can be like…
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Dirty Snacks at Makeout Room June 3, 2013
Mark Clifford is a vibraphone player – a very good one, and he writes music too. I met him a few years ago at MamaBuzz Cafe, where he was playing in duo with a bassist. A random encounter that has proved to be fruitful – he's definitely one of my favorite musicians to work with, as he's a great player, an interesting composer, and he keeps pushing himself. He's got a lot of interests musically, but not eccentric. We've played together notably in a quintet called "These Are Our Hours", my new group "Golden Age" and a recent collaborative quartet with Kyle Bruckmann and Anton Hatwich. The group he leads is called Dirty Snacks, and it brings together a few of his interests including through composed song forms, stretched over bars polyrhythms and variety of orchestration into an indie rock-ish starting point. We played at the Makeout Room on June 3rd at the Makeout Monday – the long running monthly show in the Mission. We shared the bill with Karl Evangelista's Grex and Moe! Staiano's Surplus 1980.
The lineup for this show, and the one Mark wants to stick to (I think) was Mark, vibes & voice; Elise Cumberland, voice; Hannah van Loon, violin; myself, alto sax& bass clarinet; Marty McGinn, keyboard; Scott Brown, electric bass; and Geneva Harrison, drums. A strong lineup for sure. We were able to really work on the material and the show felt great – the most complex of the tunes not giving any problems, excellent performances from everyone in the group, and a crowd that showed up early to actually listen! If you've ever wanted to see a vibraphonist lead a band and sing at the same time (on only a few tunes), then you'll want to keep an eye out for the next show.
Ton Trio II at Duende – May 18, 2013
Ton Trio II is my newest trio with the young bassist Scott Brown and the "secret weapon" drummer Alex Vittum. We've been playing as a trio since early December 2012 at a monthly show at the Layover, a bar in downtown Oakland that is now having creative jazz type music on Monday nights thanks to Fernando Carpenter from VAMP records. A few months back Jeff Parker contacted me about doing a show together, and things aligned for a night at Duende, a new Basque themed restaurant that is also in downtown Oakland, and has a dedicated performance space for our kind of music. (It's a great time here in Oakland – places actually opening up that respect this kind of music!)
The space is in the upstairs area, and while sound comes in from the restaurant area, the character of the space makes it worth it. Ton Trio II played the first set, and we went through seven of our tunes. The room felt good and we played one of the best sets we've had to date. Making it all the better, we had a really great turnout, including a lot of friends. Jeff's Trio with Chad Taylor (drums) and Chris Lopes (bass) sounded excellent. They have such a connected way of playing together – and there's a lot of nuances that you can miss if not paying full attention.
Omid Zoufonoun made a very nice two camera video of our set. Keep an eye out for it on the youTube
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>For competitive multiplayer gaming, or LAN gaming I¡¦d definitely consider the Keira as my mouse mat of choice. It¡¦s got all the features that you need to help give you that edge: brilliant DPI tracking without any rough obtrusive textures, light weight, stable, affordable<
The Corepad Keira received 8 out of 10. Check
Corepad released brand new pads and webshop
Corepad announces new sizes of the very popular ORIGINAL DeskPads and brand new finely textured plastic mousepads, the Keira series
New sizes DeskPads up to 120 x 60 cm and brand new plastic mousepads
The Netherlands – November 17, 2011 - Corepad, the manufacturer and distributor of PC gaming accessories, introduced the
Corepad DeskPads in new sizes
The Corepad DeskPad series are made of very durable, extreme large, flexible and smooth cloth. These huge mousepads will cover most of your Desk and are available in 3 sizes. It's supposed to put your keyboard or Laptop on as well. Besides that your arms lean comfortable on the surface.
At the same time Corepad introduced a
black and white version of a finely textured plastic mousepad, called the Keira
The Corepad Keira gaming mouse pad series are made of a finely textured hard plastic material, optimized for the next generation gaming mice. The tracking capability of this surface is the best, which results in extreme precise mouse movements. The Corepad keira series is for everyone who demand a consistent precision, accuracy and medium friction. The non-slip rubber base prevents the pad from sliding.
The new and old Corepad products are available from the BRAND NEW
Corepad webshop
aswell as from various other online retailers around the globe. Just check the "buy" section on this website.
About Corepad©
Corepad is a manufacturer of "gaming" surfaces and replacement mouse feet, selling in various countries as of 2003. At this moment Corepad has many different surfaces on the market and do have the most models of replacement mouse feet around the world. Corepad is working on other nice products which will be released beginning of 2012. All Corepad products are developed in co-operation with professional users to ensure the best performance and durability.
6 new models of replacement mouse feet (Skatez) released
6 new models
Corepad Skatez
(replacement mouse feet) available from our
Features of the Corepad Skatez
* To replace existing (worn, damaged or lost) mouse feet for gaming-optimized response
* Reduces the friction between the mouse and mouse pad
* Provides a smoother gliding experience
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Child Left Behind law
Springfield , Ill. -- More Illinois schools and districts
met the standards of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) last year
than the year before, announced Interim State Superintendent
of Education Randy Dunn at todays release of the Illinois
State Report Card for the 2003-2004 school year. In 2003-2004,
133 more schools and 110 more districts met NCLB Adequate
Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements.
We are encouraged by Illinois results this year
and know that the hard work of educators and students is paying
off, Dunn said. We praise Illinois teachers and
schools for their commitment, and we pledge to help them continue
this growth and improvement.
But while the hard work of Illinois educators paid off, Dunn
said that changes are needed to NCLB to ensure that the law
is truly measuring the progress of all students. In 2003-2004,
235 school districts, or 69 percent of Illinois districts
that were labeled as not meeting standards, failed to make
AYP solely because of how the federal law requires states
to measure outcomes for students with Individual Education
Plans (IEP) and limited English proficiency (LEP). Dunn said
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the performances of those students.
Special education and bilingual students have unique
needs. Labeling them as a sub-group and setting an arbitrary
target ignores those needs and flies in the face of common
sense. It is unfair to these kids, their teachers and their
communities, Dunn said. Dunn further noted that bilingual
students who perform at a high enough level are removed from
their bilingual student sub-group, creating a ceiling on the
amount of progress the sub-group can ever show under NCLB.
Dunn also challenged districts to address the concern that
more needs to be done for special education and bilingual
students, and to ensure that improper assumptions about students
with disabilities are not being made. Dunn noted that although
the measurement tools used by NCLB are imperfect, districts
must still ensure that special education students are making
progress. He encouraged federal lawmakers to consider measuring
academic progress for special education and bilingual
students, instead of looking solely at their performance on
statewide tests; and he argued that districts should be allowed
broader latitude to offer accommodated tests as part of the
Individual Education Plans required for all special education
students by the Individuals with Disabilities in Education
Act (IDEA). Districts must be held accountable for the
services they provide to special education students, but No
Child Left Behind is not accurately measuring what theyre
accomplishing, Dunn said.
As we looked at this years results, it really
highlighted a problem with NCLB, said Dunn. NCLB
has created a situation where some good schools are inappropriately
labeled as failing. To truly measure how well our schools
are serving IEP and LEP students, we should be measuring the
progress those students are making on an individual basis.
Educators are working hard, students are working hard, and
its discouraging for them to be labeled as failing when
theyre achieving good progress.
This years State Report Cards were released with accurate
data six months earlier than in the previous testing cycle.
The Illinois State Board of Education worked closely with
local districts to correct data errors impacting more than
half the states schools in preparation for distribution
of the 2003-2004 School Report Cards.
The data correction process began in September, less than
one week after Interim State Superintendent Randy Dunn was
appointed by the new State Board of Education. After appointing
seven new members to the Board, Governor Blagojevich charged
the Board and Dunn with improving the way the agency works
with local districts. Days later Dunn launched an aggressive
effort to finalize School Report Card data, re-opening the
data correction period so that schools and agency staff could
work together to correct errors. These efforts saved many
schools from being incorrectly labeled as not making AYP.
The new State Board provided correct data to schools in mid-November
of the testing year. In comparison, four schools did not receive
2002-2003 corrected NCLB data until June of 2004, a full 16
months after the testing.
Responding to a call from Governor Blagojevich to improve
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to schools and increase agency accountability for data accuracy
throughout the process. The agency will also make changes
to the timeline so that schools have their final data much
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in the year. In addition, the State Board has begun efforts
to work with the Illinois Parent Teacher Association and other
groups to redesign School Report Cards so they are more parent-friendly.
The 2004 Illinois State Report Card is available at www.isbe.net.
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