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I went to Binley garage to channge my Pads and disks because my friend the'Mechanic"told me that they are nearly gonne.Guys from Binley told me that they are good for another 12months and i dont need to change them so instead pads and disks I'v asked them to do a full car check, they toped all the fluids checked everything for only 28£. I will use this garage again 100%.
My score is based on the garage trying to get more money out of me, not the repair. As soon as I booked the repair on line I received a call to say the coolant was not included. On the day I dropped my vehicle off they rang to say they had looked over my van and i needed a new tyre and wheel alignment. I had just had a wheel alignment done a few days before. Ten mins later they called back to say my bearing had gone in my water pump this would be extra and gave me a price. I explained the quote had included to change the water pump. The impression I was given is that they were just looking for things to charge for. I new there was no problem with the water pump as I didn't have any problems with the van over heating. I would not recommend this garage!!
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"SpaceShipOne" creator talks importance of PS Air Museum
Palm Springs Air Museum a unique snapshot of history
Palm Desert, Calif. - - One of the most highly-awarded aviators is in the Coachella Valley.
Burt Rutan spoke Thursday with the Old Bold Pilots Club at the Desert Willow Golf Course in Palm Desert.
Rutan, in partnership with Paul Allen, built SpaceShipOne, the first non-government spacecraft in 2004.
The shuttle won them the honored Ansari X Prize, $10 million dollars, for development for the good of humanity.
His speech was just a preview for what he'll talk about at the Palm Springs Air Museum Gala.
It's a museum which Rutan says holds a precious piece of history.
"You can go there and see all the things that made it possible for you to enjoy freedom in America," Rutan said passionately, "From that standpoint, that's the most important museum you can think about."
He says the Palm Springs Air Museum is especially valuable to people who aren't familiar with aviation.
"In fact," he begins,"it's more interesting because they're looking at historical things. This museum, for example, has some artifacts that saved this country and our freedom in World War II."
Rutan continues, "If you don't know anything about airplanes, to go and look at the hardware that kept us free, is something everyone should do."
Money from the Palm Springs Air Museum Gala on Friday, February 8th, goes to preserving those historic airplanes at the museum.
Some of the airplanes on display include: North American B25, Grumman F4F Wildcat, Boeing B17 Flying Fortress, and Douglas F4 Phantom.
To attend the gala, or to plan your trip to the museum, visit PalmSpringsAirMuseum.org.
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New Policies Help English-Language Learners
How Success Can Spring From a Grassroots Effort
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindCharter School Facilities
A Call to Teachers
On the Horizon
Just Released! Helping Your Child Learn Science, Mathematics
New Policies Help English-Language Learners
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced recently two new policies under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) that will give states and school districts greater flexibility with respect to students with limited English proficiency. The secretary intends to implement these policies through regulations that will be proposed in the near future.
Under NCLB, states, districts and schools must include the academic achievement results of all students, including limited-English-proficient (LEP) students, in determinations that measure adequate yearly progress (AYP). Due to language barriers, it is often difficult for LEP students to demonstrate proficiency in reading/language arts in their first year of enrollment.
The first new policy allows states to choose whether to assess only English-language proficiency during a student's first year in a U.S. school or to assess both proficiency and reading competency. This English-language proficiency test does not count toward the AYP goals for the school, district or state. Students who take only an English-language proficiency test do, however, still count toward the NCLB requirement that 95 percent of students in each student group participate in English-language arts assessments.
The second new policy addresses the difficulty states may encounter in demonstrating improvement on state assessments for LEP students who have attained English proficiency. In the past, these students were no longer considered part of the LEP subgroup for AYP measurements. The new flexibility would, however, allow schools and districts to get credit for them as part of the LEP subgroup in AYP calculations for two additional years after they have become English-proficient.
How Success Can Spring From a Grassroots Effort
By Norm Mishelow, Milwaukee, Wis.
As the principal of Barton Elementary, an urban school in Milwaukee with a high-poverty population (78 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunch), I believed we had been doing a pretty good job of educating our children. Our scores were above the district average, and most of our children were on grade level. However, we were not satisfied with "pretty good." Our school mission is to prepare our students to be responsible citizens of the futureall of our students. Therefore, our job as educators is clear: Each child must become a confident, literate, mathematically functional lifelong learner.
Just as in the business world, we must become more efficient, effective and accountable. No Child Left Behind asked us to close the achievement gaps between diverse student populations. No longer could we debate methods of instruction according to what teachers felt to be good teaching. We needed to look at the research and determine which programs would produce student success. With a shared vision, we evaluated the data to assess the strengths and weaknesses of our program. Then we used that information to effect changes within the building.
Our first identified area of weakness was math. There had been a huge decline in math scores across our entire district. Our school community decided to think "out of the box" and adopt our own math program. We found a research-based program that included both computational competency as well as extensive problem-solving skill development. Within a year, our test scores had jumped through the roof! Our fourth-graders' scores increased 40 points. Our teachers were delighted with the program that they had chosen, the parents understood what the students were being asked to do, and the children were learning math.
Another program change took place when one of our teachers who had an exceptionally challenging group of students heard about a research-based reading program in one of her graduate school classes. She contacted the company and received some materials on a pilot basis, which she planned to use with her lowest-level students. Within months, the structured nature of the program brought fifth-graders who were non-readers to a second-grade level. One young man who used disruptive classroom behavior to hide his inability to read became a cooperative student, proudly walking down the hall and reading to anyone who would listen. Word spread like wildfire and other teachers started demanding "in" on the program. A grassroots effort throughout the building brought this program into all classrooms within a year. The resulting rise in student achievement was amazing. Over the last three years of implementation, student test scores have risen dramatically: Students whose reading skills were proficient and above rose from 68 percent in 2002 to 90 percent this year.
Orchestrating reform within our school has not been the responsibility of one person. By empowering the teachers to make responsible decisions regarding the education of our children, the impetus for programmatic change came from the front-line players.
As principal, I see myself as a resource, a facilitator, a supporter and a mentor for the total Barton community. My responsibility is to find funding for materials, implementation and ongoing training, as well as to make sure that the parents and tutors are informed participants in the education of our students.
In addition, my role is to guide the paradigm change from teachers teaching a specific group of students to teachers cooperating in the education of the Barton student body. For the reading block, children are placed into groups based upon their exact instructional level, according to the strict criteria of the program. As children progress, they are re-evaluated and reassigned based upon continuous information gathered by classroom-based assessments. All children, including those identified with special needs, are part of this cross-class, cross-grade-level grouping. This requires the highest levels of cooperation among teachers, specialists, assistants and tutors. Due to the teachers' ownership of the program, teamwork in its implementation continues to be exemplary.
Gone are the days when we can hide behind lists of excuses as to why our children cannot learn. Now we must step up to the plate to hit educational homeruns for each and every child in order to truly leave no child behind. To do anything less is educational bigotry.
Norm Mishelow has been an educator in Milwaukee Public Schools for the past 32 years, of which the last 16 years have been as the principal at Barton Elementary School. Barton was recently named a 2003 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School, the only one in the state of Wisconsin.
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindCharter School Facilities
The first State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program competition, announced recently in the Federal Register, is designed to encourage states to develop and expand "per-pupil facilities aid programs" and to share in the costs related to the management and operation of charter schools.
A per-pupil facilities aid program is one in which a state makes payments to charter schools to provide them with funding for school management and operations. The payments are based on a formula that takes into account the number of pupils in the charter school.
For a state to be eligible to receive a grant, its program must be specified in state law and provide annual matching funds on a per-pupil basis for charter school facilities. States with existing programs are eligible to receive a grant only if they increase the funding level of per-pupil facilities aid programs for charter schools.
July 1 is the deadline for submitting applications. This year, the Department expects to award five grants, averaging about $3.7 million per grant.
The development of charter schools began in the early 1990s as a way to offer increased local control of education, to allow educators the flexibility to innovate, and to provide students increased education options within the public school system.
To access the Federal Register notice about the State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program, visit www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2004-1/022304a.html.
A Call to Teachers
The U.S. Department of Education has developed a new online resource specifically designed for classroom teachers. This electronic news bulletin aims to make those on education's front line among the first to receive information. Subscribers will receive timely updates on education policy, promising practices and professional development opportunities in a reader-friendly format designed to accommodate the busy teacher's schedule.
To sign up, please send an e-mail message to email@example.com.
On the Horizon
National Library Week. For more information, visit the American Library Association's Web site at www.ala.org.
April 20
8:00-9:00 p.m. E.T. Education News Parents Can Use monthly broadcast will focus on reforming high schools and career andtechnical education. Visit www.ed.gov/news/av/video/edtv or call 1-800-USA-LEARN for details.
May 2-8
Teacher Appreciation Week. For more information, visit the National PTA's Web site at www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/
Just Released! Helping Your Child Learn Science, Mathematics
The latest two editions of the U.S. Department of Education's Helping Your Child publication series will help parents and caregivers prepare children to become critical and scientific thinkers in an increasingly technological world.
Helping Your Child Learn Science helps parents to address those often-asked-but-hard-to-answer questions that spring from a child's curiosity: Why is the sky blue? Why do things fall to the ground? How do seeds grow? Drawing from everyday experiences, this booklet illustrates to parents of children ages 3 through 10 how together they can explore and learn about the world around themwithout the need for expensive chemistry sets or books. It suggests enjoyable activities that can be done at home and in the community as well as book titles that cover various science fields from archaeology to astronomy; tips for selecting science toys; and contact information for science camps.
Equally important for helping to develop children's analytical skills, Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics examines what it means to reason and communicate mathematically. The booklet demystifies the notion that math is a "hard" subject that only a few can master, illustrating daily opportunities for learning mathematical concepts. It includes creative activities for exploring mathematics in the home, at the grocery store and on the gosuch as license plate riddles that can be used during a road tripfor parents with children from preschool age through grade 5. It also offers tips and other resources for strengthening children's math skills and building strong positive attitudes toward math.
For a copy of these free publications, while supplies last, contact the Department's publications center at 1-877-4ED-PUBS or download a copy from www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html.
The Achiever is published semi-monthly during the school year for parents and community leaders by the Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, U.S. Department of Education (ED). Rod Paige, Secretary.
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Thank you for your interest in The Achiever, the U.S. Department of Education's biweekly bulletin on No Child Left Behind, the historic, bipartisan education reform law signed by President Bush in January 2002. We are delighted to hear that the newsletter is providing you with the resources needed to help you in your efforts to improve education.
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Farm tractor driver dies after accident with tractor trailer
MARTIN COUNTY - Troopers are investigating a deadly crash between a farm tractor and a tractor trailer on Highway US 64 in Martin County.
Investigating Trooper Brian Allen, said the driver of the farm tractor, Henry Kornegay Jr., 59, of Ayden, died of complications sustained in the accident.
Authorities said they got the call at 10:15 Monday morning.
Allen said the tractor trailer was traveling westbound on US 64 when it collided with the farm tractor carrying a bush hog which was also traveling westbound.
Officials said the tractor trailer, driven by 35-year-old Curtis Benard Jacobs, of Fairmont, was going 65 miles per hour when it rear-ended the farm tractor.
Allen said the farm tractor, owned by Precision Lawn Care Commercial and Residential, broke into two pieces and Kornegay was thrown from the farm tractor.
The Nash Finch Company tractor trailer then went off the road to the right. Jacobs had minor injuries. Troopers said he was taken to an area hospital but was later released with a broken wrist.
Kornegay, on the other hand, had severe injuries from the crash. He was taken to Martin General Hospital before being transferred to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Authorities said he passed away a few hours after the crash.
Jacobs was charged with reckless driving and DWI, for being under the influence of prescription medication. Authorities said Jacobs told them he took Lorazapan, a medication that is prescribed to him, before he started work for the day.
Trooper Allen said they are waiting on blood work to determine exactly how many pills Jacobs took.


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The act of one female on three males. This performance consists of the female, on her knees, performing felatio on one standing male while giving manual pleasure to the other two males, standing on either side of the female. The gyrating motion of the arms and head of the female produces a motion reminiscent of a clumsy pelican.
I couldn't believe how silly Jill looked when she was doing the clumsy pelican on Frank, Bob, and Jim in that video!
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I am new to beekeeping here in Maine; I installed my first package in May 2013 and have had several very interesting, fun, and confusing times to say the least. They swarmed not once but twice (may have added a super prematurely). Both times we "caught" them, 30 feet up in the same spot in the same tree. I think I shall cut the tree down :) We have swarm retrieval down and will now study up on how best to stay ahead of the ladies next year.
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What do we still want from Bill Murray? His unpremeditated film career - in which he has parlayed performances as the happy-go-lucky heroes of 1980s-era slapstick into the existentially uncertain leading men of thoughtful comedies such as "Groundhog Day," "Rushmore" and "Lost in Translation" - would seem to be sufficient.
Yet we demand more from this 62-year-old actor, on whose rugged face a playful smirk and a contemplative gaze look equally at home, and he appears happy to give it to us in his life beyond the screen.
Tracking his movements in the wild, as he crashes karaoke parties and kickball games, has become an online pastime; Murray has become the folkloric equivalent of a leprechaun or fairy godparent, popping up at unpredictable yet opportune moments.
His latest role, in "Hyde Park on Hudson," feels true to his resistance to being pinned down in any way. In this film, which is directed by Roger Michell and opened Friday, he plays President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he manages an affair with a distant cousin (Laura Linney), a visit from George VI of Britain and the crippling effects of polio.
It is a part that almost no one, least of all Murray, expected him to play, and it once again raises the question: Why does he do what he does?
On a recent visit Murray, who recently agreed to co-star in "Ghostbusters 3," spoke about his role in "Hyde Park" and serendipity.
Have you been getting good feedback on your performance?
I'm curious to see what people think of it, just 'cause it is not like an ordinary movie. I don't know if it's great or not. We'll see what you get.
Were you surprised that you were offered this role?
I thought, "Can this guy be serious?" I wouldn't have cast myself. But this guy did, and about halfway through I went, "Wow, he really was right." Not to compare myself, but certain personality things were similar, like the way he tried to leaven things and move attention around a room, get everyone their little slice of the sun.
When you're playing a real-life figure like Roosevelt, do you do any additional preparation for the role?
I've always tried to be a little bit loose. This great director we had at Second City (improv comedy theater) said: "You wear your characters like a trench coat. It's still you in there, but there's like a trench coat." So I figured this was like a winter trench coat, because there was just a little bit more character that comes to the party. So I did a lot more reading, a lot more studying.
What did you learn from your research?
People ask, "Did this really happen?" Well, if you read the diaries, it's very clear that it happened. The writing changes. You read this later stuff, when we're at war, and he's not telling his wife, he's not telling the cabinet - they don't know where he is. But he's sending messages by courier to her every day. This girl was the vault. I love that expression: "She's the vault." He could tell her anything, and it wasn't leaving her head.
It sounds as if you also wanted to convey Roosevelt's voice as much as his physical presence.
We had a discussion about it, and we agreed that you don't want to do an impression. You want to get it in you, and then you want to play.
When an actor decides to play a president, it's often a signal of larger ambitions or agendas. Is that the case here?
The thing I was concerned about was: The story that we're going to tell, is it going to be a tearing down of an icon? I don't know if I want to be part of that kind of action, where you trash someone. What was the John Travolta movie, "Primary Colors"? I didn't want to do something where you were really just napalming someone.
There seems to be so much serendipity in your life. Are you actively cultivating these moments or just hoping that they come to you?
Well, you have to hope that they happen to you. That's Pandora's box, right? She opens up the box, and all the nightmares fly out. And slams the lid shut, like, "Oops," and opens it one more time, and hope pops out of the box. That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
Are there days where you wake up and think: "Nothing good has come to me in a little while. I'd better prime the pump"?
Well, who hasn't woken up thinking, "God, nothing good has come to me in a while," right? When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an "Attaboy" or a "How you doin' out there." It's that sort of scene, that remembering that we die alone. We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to, that's part of your obligation.
The roles that you did 10, 20, 30 years ago, are you surprised that they still endure the way they do?
Certainly. When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor. A movie like "Caddyshack," I can walk on a golf course, and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It's like: "Fella, I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don't remember how it goes." But I'm charmed by it. I'm not like, "Hey, knock it off." It's kind of cool.
Did you ever think that the lessons you first learned on the stage of an improv comedy theater in Chicago would pay off later in life?
It pays off in your life when you're in an elevator and people are uncomfortable. You can just say, "That's a beautiful scarf." It's just thinking about making someone else feel comfortable. You don't worry about yourself, because we're vibrating together. If I can make yours just a little bit groovier, it'll affect me. It comes back, somehow.


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Run for the Lakes is April 26-27 in Nisswa
The sixth annual Brainerd Jaycees Run for the Lakes will include a kids' fun run, 5K, 10K and half, full and relay marathons Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27, in Nisswa.
Following is a schedule of events:
Friday, April 26
2-8 p.m.: Health & Fitness Expo presented by Essentia Health at Grand View Lodge's Gull Lake Center.
2-8 p.m.: Packet pick-up and last-minute registration for all races at Grand View Lodge's Gull Lake Center.
6:15 p.m.: Kids' fun run, downtown Nisswa.
6:30 p.m.: 5K run/walk, downtown Nisswa.
7:30 p.m.: 5K awards, downtown Nisswa.
Saturday, April 27
6:30-7 a.m.: Late packet pick-up for the marathon, half marathon, relay marathon and 10K at the Nisswa Community Center.
8 a.m.: Marathon, half marathon and relay marathon start.
8:15 a.m.: 10K start.
10 a.m.: 10K awards.
11:30 a.m.: Half marathon awards.
1:30 pm: Marathon and relay awards.
The all-volunteer race is organized from start to finish by Jaycees and carried out with the support of more than 100 members of the community and several local businesses.
All proceeds from the Run for the Lakes are donated to local non-profits and focus on improving trail systems in the Brainerd lakes area. The event draws more than 1,000 runners.
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A twenty man orgy, can be used for any number of people. For instance to please yourself when your alone you would have a double baller
Man, the cops broke up the forty baller at the beach last night. Lucky there was a 224 baller just down the way or else I'd be pissed off!
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La Pine wildfires: What went right offers lessons
Reducing wildfire fuels in area had positive impact
La PINE, Ore. - Saturday's La Pine-area wildfires "provided a frightening, yet positive example of why hazardous fuels reduction is so important to improving the fire resilience of our landscapes and protecting our communities," a Project Wildfire representative said Sunday.
The rest of her news release:
The Burgess Road Fire was ignited Saturday when high winds blew trees onto power lines, resulting in multiple fire starts in an area east of Huntington Road and south of Burgess Road.
While firefighters are still mopping up, the success of the operation is already being observed by fire management on scene.
"Conditions are especially dry for this time of year, increasing the potential for fires to spread quickly," notes Mike Supkis, La Pine fire chief and Burgess Road Fire incident commander.
"Despite the already extreme conditions, however, we are seeing higher levels of suppression success, thanks to the fuels treatment efforts in this area over the past few years," Supkis added.
The 168-acre Burgess Road Fire encompasses a section of land owned by Deschutes County known as the New Neighborhood.
"This 515-acre parcel was thick with overgrown and dead bitterbrush intermixed with lodgepole pine," explained Katie Lighthall, program Ddrector for Project Wildfire.
"With the help of National Fire Plan funding in 2005, contractors mowed the overgrown brush on this parcel and created space between the trees, reducing the potential for tree-to-tree ignition in the event of a fire," Lighthall added.
"Fires are a natural occurrence here in Central Oregon, so we must take responsibility for our property to mitigate our potential losses and those of our neighbors," Lighthall said.
In keeping with that responsibility, Deschutes County and Project Wildfire returned to the New Neighborhood in 2009 under a FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation grant for a quick and inexpensive "maintenance mow" to provide continued fire resistance and protection for nearby residences along Huntington Road and in the Crescent Creek subdivision.
"Fuels treatments on landscapes and defensible space projects on individual properties do not ensure that fires will not start or that evacuations will not be necessary," Lighthall said. "They do, however, greatly reduce the impact that fires will have on the landscape, and in neighborhoods adjacent to those landscapes."
"As an incident commander, my highest priority is the safety of our firefighters and that of our communities," said Supkis. "Without the previous hazardous fuels treatments on this acreage, our firefighters could not have safely carried out their suppression operation yesterday and through the night."
Project Wildfire is a local collaborative group focusing on one mission – preventing catastrophic losses from wildfire in Deschutes County.
The group is comprised of a 50-50 balance between public fire and land management agencies and private citizens, groups and officials who meet regularly and support mitigation efforts across the county.
"Deschutes County is no stranger to collaboration," said Supkis. "We are extremely fortunate to have strong working relationships with neighboring fire agencies and law enforcement when an emergency situation calls for a coordinated effort."
On the Burgess Road Fire, this effective level of coordination included a smooth evacuation of nearby residences by the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office and a unified suppression response from mutual aid partners, including the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, as well as local fire departments including the Sunriver, Walker Range, Sisters, Redmond, Cloverdale, Black Butte Ranch, Jefferson County and Crescent Rural fire departments.
This type of collaboration and Project Wildfire's last decade of success point to an effort taking shape across the country, called the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy.
Under an umbrella of active collaboration, private and public agencies, entities, groups and individuals come together to address the three most prevalent challenges/goals across the landscape today: fire resilient landscapes, effective wildfire response and fire adapted communities.
"The three goals are interrelated, as we can see on the Burgess Road Fire," said Lighthall. "Hazardous fuels treatments allow for safe and effective fire suppression and a chance for communities to better understand their roles and responsibilities when living in a fire prone environment such as central Oregon."
Success stories such as these witnessed on the Burgess Road Fire provide timely and measurable demonstrations of the Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy at work.
For more information about Project Wildfire, visit www.projectwildfire.org. For more information about the Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy, visit www.forestsandrangelands.gov.


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Obama Administration Confirms Broken Promises
OMB's Mid-Session Review Underscores Alarming Budget Deficit, Painful Jobs Deficit, Disappointing Leadership Deficit
Earlier today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released an update of its budget estimates, the Mid-Session Review, and the data confirms the failure of the Obama Administration's economic and fiscal policies. According to OMB's report, the federal budget deficit is estimated to exceed $1.3 trillion this year. The President's budget priorities call for $45 trillion in government spending over the next decade, with no serious plan to control the explosive growth of debt that stifles job creation today.
In response to OMB's report, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (WI-01) issued the following statement:
Key Facts from OMB's Mid-Session Review
Missed Deadlines and Continued Evasiveness
By law, the Office of Management and Budget is required to provide an update of their budget estimates by July 15 of each year. Today's report is 48 days late. This marks the third consecutive year the President has failed to meet his legal obligation to issue this mid-year report by their mid-year deadline.
When the Obama Administration first missed this deadline in 2009, then-OMB director Peter Orszag explained publicly that the delay was simply the result of transitioning to a new administration. The Obama Administration's excuse for ignoring its statutory requirements for the past two years as well is less clear.
More troubling, the belated release of its Mid-Session Review highlights a consistent pattern of missing statutory deadlines, which has become a hallmark of the Obama Administration and its allies in Congress. The Administration has ignored its legal requirement to respond to Medicare's looming insolvency. Senate Democrats have ignored their legal requirement to propose and advance budgets. It has been 855 days since Senate Democrats last passed a budget resolution. In fact, they didn't even propose a budget this year.
Finally, OMB's Mid-Session Review further perpetuates confusion regarding the Administration's budget priorities. Does the President stand by his actual FY2012 budget from February, or is his partisan budget speech from last April now official policy? In testimony before the House Budget Committee, the director of the Congressional Budget Office made clear: "We don't estimate speeches." But today's report fails to deliver any specifics on the President's April budget "framework." The Mid-Session Review also does not specify the cost of the additional government spending policies the President is expected to propose in yet another speech next week.
Regarding the evasiveness of the President and his party's leaders, Chairman Ryan recently explained: "They don't want to commit publicly to the kind of tax increases and health-care rationing that would be required to sustain their archaic vision of government."
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I've got a TBH that is probably too hot for the queen's own good. I'm interested in feral bees and would rather not replace her with a "production" queen if i can reasonably get around it. I know i'm in AHB territory so hot hives are a concern on several levels. This may mean that i ought not let them raise their own, but if there's a way, i'd really rather do it that way. Looking for input here.
I have other hives that aren't as hot, yet, that could serve as a source for queenage, but they are Langs. Could i use this resource and if so, how would one go about providing eggs/larva to the de-queened TBH? Could i graft comb containing eggs/larva into the TBH?
Do i need to wait four days after removal of the existing queen and then go back in and remove all queen cells? or is there a different protocall to follow? What would be the timing on introducing the eggs/larva?
If the above wont work, can a new queen be introduced along with a nuc into the TBH? A nuc from the TBH?
Secondly, when the dispatching of the current queen is to occur, any suggestions on a good way to find her? There were a lot lot lot of bees in this hive the last time i saw it. It was back in November i think. I know, too long, but have had a few "obsticals". Hope to get out there within a week or so. By then it "mite" not even be an issue.
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Situated in downtown Seattle, in the Pike-Pine Corridor—which The New York Times calls "Seattle's happiest urban makeover: from a warren of shabby flats and greasy spoons to an arty but not oppressively gentrified hamlet just across the freeway from downtown"—the Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue is within walking distance of the waterfront and the almost-100-year-old Pike Place Market.
Rooms feature views of the skyline, plush pillow-top beds, granite baths with eco-friendly Pure amenities, Wi-Fi, iPod docking stations, and 37-inch flat-screen TVs. Upstairs, urban flair is the name of the game at Frolik Kitchen+Cocktails, home to downtown Seattle's largest outdoor patio.
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Right in the thick of it all, the recently renovated property is also not far from top attractions like the Space Needle (ride to the top for an out-of-this-world view), Seattle Center, and the Seattle Art Museum and its nine-acre Olympic Sculpture Park. We recommend a trip to Pioneer Square for the famed Underground Tour, which takes visitors through the subterranean ruins of Seattle before the city was destroyed by fire in 1889.
"Convenient to the shopping and financial districts, as well as just about every other downtown attraction, this traditional hotel offers casual comfort without a lot of fuss."-- Read Fodor's Review of the Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue
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I would want to suggest that you guys in the United States could register a 501(c)(3) non profit status this should be focused towards financing grass root beekeeping organisations both in the USA & in the developing countries.
Fundraisers would help in sourcing for the funds .
You could have a regional office here in Nigeria.
Check and see what Bees Abroad are doing.Lets talk more
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the act of ejaculating into your partner's nostril.
man 1: "man, that ho i was with last night said i couldn't cum in her mouth so at the last second i pulled out and gave her an Australian Booger Blaster."
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Competition for your tool-buying dollar has become more intense than ever. In a retail atmosphere where profit margins are razor-thin, shelves are loaded with a multitude of high-quality tools, and educated consumers are less likely to base their purchasing decisions on tool color alone, the latest tool-selling battlefield has become warranty coverage. This has led many manufacturers to risk the potential financial costs of warranted repairs and product replacements to attract and keep customers. And those that are not eager to expand their coverage might soon be influenced to follow suit if such foot-dragging is perceived by buyers as a lack of confidence in their tools.
Focusing on power tools (both corded and cordless) and nailers, we took a look at the enhanced offerings being made by tool companies to determine what has really changed for the customer amid all the hype. In most cases, little additional benefit will be realized by the tool buyer from the new warranties themselves, but new service agreements can add appreciable value.
Our goal here is to equip you with the information you'll need to decide if a warranty brings value to your purchase, and we have intentionally left warranty coverage offered by specific manufacturers unidentified.
Warranties Defined
There are two basic types of warranties applied to tools and other goods: implied and express.
Implied warranties are provided for by state law and include unwritten coverage of both the warranty of merchantability and the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. These intuitive clauses are based on the legal principle of "fair value for money spent" and simply mean that a product should be good enough to sell and should work like it is intended to. Consumers' rights to such coverage cannot be superseded by more specific express warranties; however, an implied warranty's term can be limited by an express warranty if it is of "reasonable" duration. Also, in some states it is possible for goods to be sold with the implied warranties disavowed; beware of phrases like "as is" and "with all faults."
Express warranties are governed by federal law and are expressed, or written out, with specific promises made by the manufacturer about the remedies they offer if the product is found to be defective. By law, these warranties must be designated as either full or limited and live up to the requirements of each.
Full warranties, (not to be confused with lifetime warranties), are restrictive to the manufacturer and therefore very rare. When we discuss tool warranties, we are talking about limited warranties almost without exception. Such an express limited warranty must explicitly state its terms and conditions, including what is covered and for how long, remedies and their fulfillment, and how state laws might affect customer rights under the warranty. This final item requires the following disclosure: "This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state." In addition, if a limited warranty seeks to restrict implied warranty terms or deny liability, similar disclaimers are required. Curiously, even though the use of these statements is legally mandated by the Federal Trade Commission, many of the warranties we looked at omitted the necessary boilerplate.
New Trends in Coverage
In 1975, Congress passed the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act to make warranty terms available to the consumer before the sale and thus enabling the modern, competitive use of express warranties as marketing tools by manufacturers and retailers. Today, tool buyers are experiencing an upswing of warranty awareness that is unprecedented in scale; never in recent history has the warranty of a tool been so visible, figuring prominently in displays, advertising, and packaging.
From one-year coverage, the standard of just a few years ago, to three-, five-, and seven-year and now lifetime warranties, where will it end? Interviews within the industry lead us to believe that we are riding out the apex of a marketing fad that will settle down in a year or so, but for now, here's how this trend affects tool buyers.
Warranty Term Escalation
The increases in the duration of limited warranty periods typically only cover defects in materials and workmanship. Adding years to this coverage is of questionable value because most true manufacturer's defects are found very early in a tool's service life. Short of a recall situation, it is probably a rare case when an imperfect material or assembly just begins to cause a noticeable problem five years down the road. And by then, depending on the tool, it could already be close to the end of its useful life anyway. One nailer manufacturer told us that only about 1 percent of their tools ever make it in for a warranted repair. This inflation of warranted years seems to be mostly a numbers game without overwhelming tangible benefits. Remember, a warranty is only a contract. A five-year warranty does not guarantee that a tool will last that long, it only says what the manufacturer will do for you if it doesn't.
Warranty Extensionsand Service Agreements
In addition to escalating standard warranties, companies are more and more offering extended warranty terms and/or service programs, some of which are only available if you apply for an upgrade within an allotted deadline. Some of these service programs offer significant benefits with more liberal repair and replacement policies, even replacing common wear items.
Service agreements range from one year to lifetime; some take effect after the original warranty is expired and others start concurrently. Be sure to read the fine print to know exactly what is covered when and for how long. There are pretty surprising exceptions and limitations to some service programs, so check ahead of time to make sure the tool you're interested in is even included. Overall, these "wear and tear warranties," service programs that replace normal wear parts, represent the best added value to the customer, truly the best thing to come out of the warranty wars.
Additional Coverage
"Repair cost limitation" is another feature popping up in some warranties. These clauses can limit the amount you pay for repairs either during the warranty or after it has lapsed and are based on a set price per tool or a certain percentage of the price of a replacement tool. Cheaper repairs will still remain cheaper and in some cases, you can decide to forgo the repair and use the trade-in value of the tool toward a new one.
An honorable mention goes out to companies that warrant their repairs independently from the overall tool warranty, especially when it has lapsed. And at least one manufacturer even adds a six-month warranty to the entire tool after any out-of-warranty repair is made.
An extra special coverage, perhaps unique to one nailer brand, is a replacement policy for tools destroyed by natural disaster. The tools must have been registered and proof of purchase and disaster documentation are required, but for the poor guy who returns to a flooded-out shop filled with ruined tools, this replacement policy would be worth a little bit of paperwork.
Limitations & Conditions
With limited warranties, the manufacturer gets to call the shots for a lot of the little things. According to the FTC, you can be required to send in a warranty card or abide by a certain registration date to enact a limited warranty or an additional service agreement. Most manufacturers try to make it easy for their customers though and don't push these things, but some do; always read the fine print. If you have to send in a warranty card, only fill out the essential information required and request that your personal information not be sold or shared for third-party marketing purposes. Many mail-in card programs are run by an outside contractor that makes its living this way.
Manufacturers don't have to keep a supply of parts for an infinite time to honor lifetime warranties or service agreements. In fact, the fine print will usually specify that the lifetime is limited to as long as replacement parts are in stock. After this, the company can offer you a substitute tool, perhaps even a used model. These considerations can be checked out ahead of time if you are concerned; one power tool brand told me their policy is to keep more than seven years' worth of inventory for tools covered by their one-year service agreement and more than 15 years supply for tools with two-year service coverage.
Another limitation allowed manufacturers is to reduce coverage to certain user categories. For example, a major brand of stationary shop tools offers a five-year term but then limits it to one year if used for commercial, industrial, or educational purposes. Who decides what constitutes commercial use can be a thorny subject. In general, however, ambiguity of conditions or limitations is usually decided in favor of coverage if a legal dispute ensues.
Legal Rights
Fortunately, since federal law governs express written warranties, the FTC says there are certain inalienable consumer rights that cannot be disclaimed by manufacturers or retailers. An important one to note is the specific prohibition of "tie-in sales provisions" in which part or all of a warranty is denied because the consumer didn't use accessories, service, or even parts from the manufacturer. You cannot be limited to using something that will bring more sales to the brand if a suitable substitute is used. Remember, this even includes parts and service. You can take your tool to anyone for service or even do repair work yourself without affecting your warranty coverage under federal law as long as you don't screw it up. Manufacturers are not required to cover under warranty any problems caused by faulty workmanship or material by someone else. Certain parts such as specific switches and accessory batteries can be required by manufacturers legally, but replacing the correct brushes or a suitable power cord should be fine.
Manufacturers also cannot actually preclude or limit implied warranties of their product. This is a common violation found in writing on many warranties, and even if it is presented with a suitable-looking disclaimer, all states provide for implied warranties and you are covered regardless of the verbiage on the express written warranty of the manufacturer.
Warranty Fulfillment
One of the most important things to remember is to keep proof and date of purchase along with the most comprehensive wording of the warranty available at the time of your purchase. The version written in your owner's manual is not always complete. Don't rely on a customer service person to know what the warranty coverage was five years ago. Claims cannot be pursued in some cases without having all the documentation. Some manufacturers will just go by the date code on the tool or by the filing date of a mail-in card if it was sent, but not all.
When taking a tool to a service center, keep in mind that they make a lot of "warranted" repairs based on their own judgment. Being polite, cleaning up the tool, and presenting it in a clean case can mean a lot more than what year a card was mailed in. Many repairs are made and not charged as a goodwill measure by service centers but be prepared to follow what you have in writing.
In our 2006 Tools of the Trade reader survey, professional tool users like you rated the importance warranties have in their purchasing decisions behind quality, durability, precision, performance features, ease of use, brand reputation, versatility, availability, price, ease of maintenance, and service–in that order.
So whether this trend is seen as a marketing ploy or not, tool companies are clearly confident enough in their tools to expand their product coverage, which is great news for all of us.
–Michael Springer is senior editor of Tools of the Trade.


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I'm really interested in doing a TEFL course in Latin America, and I needed help
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and I'll be graduating in May with a BSc in Biology. I'm a 4 year Athlete - I'm
a rower, I am not a city person at all, I would much rather be outside hiking or
running or kayaking then shopping or going to a museum for the most part. I
tutored English and math to fellow athletes for a while. I'm originally from
Canada and I currently live in the US. I do not speak Spanish, but I'm going to
start learning soon in preparation for my course. It is really important to me
that a course help me with job placement, because when I finish the course its
going to be extremely important that I get a job as quickly as possible, as I
will be extremely low on funds and I will have to start paying back my loans. So
knowing this about me, what courses would you recommend and which courses offer
the most job placement support?
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Abused: The Postville Raid tells the story of the largest, most expensive and brutal immigration raid in the history of the USA. On May 12, 2008, in Postville Iowa, 900-armed ICE agents arrested and chained 389 immigrant workers from Mexico and Guatemala. The federal government horded these workers through a makeshift judicial assembly line designed to convict them of a felony and deport them. A community was decimated and families torn apart; the Constitution was trampled, the rule of law neglected, due process overlooked, and the human rights of immigrant workers brazenly violated.
"The story of Postville will open your eyes and shake your deepest human and patriotic convictions."
Erik Camayd-Freixas Certified Federal Interpreter
"It really is a phenomenal piece of work. I don't think I've ever really seen anything that so fully exposes the injustices and lack of due process facing immigrants."
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This incredible documentary will be followed by a discussion with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 organizer Eri Fernandez and a worker from the Mercado Campaign on the importance of protecting immigrant workers rights.


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Petition started to reinstate fired Pocatello coach
Petition gets more than 1,000 signatures in 24 hours
POCATELLO, Idaho - It's become an international news story that started in Pocatello. Pocatello High School girls basketball coach Laraine Cook was fired over a Facebook photo where her fiance had his hand on her breast. But there are people showing their support by hitting the Web and adding their name to a petition on Change.org (see http://chn.ge/1fsVwIU).
Nikky Prause is a former Pocatello resident and Idaho State University professor. She heard about the story in Los Angeles, where she currently lives, and decided to start the petition, citing clear sexism on School District 25's part.
"The fact is that they kind of stepped over and said not only is this sexual, it's offensively sexual," Prause said Saturday afternoon. "I find it very confusing and it looks like a lot of other people do too."
Prause, who stated she extensively studied sexual images for her clinical science doctoral thesis, said if she put this image with others that were considered sexual, it would look out of place.
"From a pure science perspective I can say that image does not look sexual," Prause said.
Prause is not alone in thinking the school district should have left the issue alone after Pocatello High School handled the matter internally. Petitioners are signing from all over southeast Idaho, as well as Las Vegas, NV, West Haven, Utah and Atlanta, Ga.
Many petitioners are questioning the reasoning behind the district's decision. On Oct. 22, a short time after the district received an anonymous letter with the picture, district officials gave Laraine Cook two options: quit or get fired. Cook refused to quit, and was promptly terminated.
Furthermore, the latest information from the district shows it saw this as a violation of the Code of Ethics for Idaho Professional Educators, and submitted this to the Professional Standards Commission, which could revoke her teaching certificate.
Jon Cummings, a Pocatello resident who signed the petition, said the punishment does not match the crime.
"One little mistake and your whole livelihood goes down the drain," Cummings said. "It looks really bad on Idaho, and makes us look like a bunch of prudes."
Cummings said parents aren't upset about the image -- they're upset about the district's handling of the matter, especially as they fired Cook and not the man who was touching her chest, fellow Pocatello High School coach and fiance, Tom Harrison. Cummings said this one matter shouldn't overshadow the positive example she's set for the team.
"Does that mean the girls will say, 'Oh, the guy's got his hand on her boob. Looks like I'm going to have to take a picture with a guy's hand on my boob'?" Cummings said. "No, that's not how it works."
Prause sent a link to the petition to School District 25 Superintendent Mary Vagner, Community Relations' Shelly Allen and Human Resources Director Douglas Howell, as well as local media outlets. When she sent it at 6:00 p.m. Friday, it had 429 signatures. As of 6:30 p.m. Saturday, almost 1,100 people had added their names.
"To me, the bottom line underlining all of this, is, 'Did she post something that was offensive?'" said Prause. "And what we're saying is, 'It's not offensive, so it's not even an issue.'"
Prause also said the petition is meant to reinstate Cook, and was created before she knew Cook could lose her teaching certificate. She said she plans to find out if she can add to the current petition or create a new petition.
We also spoke with Cheryl DenHartog over the phone Saturday, who stated there is a Facebook group to raise money for Cook's legal defense and any other expenses she has.


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As climates change, the lush tropical ecosystems of the Amazon Basin may release more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorb, according to a new study published Feb. 6 in Nature.
An international team of scientists found that the amount of yearly rainfall was the driving factor behind the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) taken up and released from Amazonia in 2010 and 2011. During a wet year, the Amazon forests were roughly carbon-neutral: Forests "inhaled" more carbon dioxide than they "exhaled," but biomass burning, which releases carbon dioxide, compensated for the difference. In contrast, during a very dry year forest growth stalled and biomass burning increased, resulting in the region "exhaling" substantial amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
"Amazonia is changing: We are observing more very wet years and more very dry years," said John Miller, one of three lead authors on the new paper, and a scientist with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. "If these trends continue, the region may become a net source of carbon to the atmosphere, moving carbon embedded in ecosystems into the atmosphere as greenhouse gas, thus accelerating global warming." NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Until now, scientists have struggled to measure the carbon balance of Amazonia, which stores enormous amounts of carbon in its thick forests and masses of leaves. Scientists have been eager to understand how climate change could influence the regional balance of processes that send carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (fires, decomposition, respiration) and pull it out of the air (photosynthesis). Global observations cannot sense the "breath" of tropical continental regions, and ground studies cannot sample the vast Amazon Basin.
The scientists led by the three co-lead authors of the study – Miller, Emanuel Gloor from the University of Leeds in England, and Luciana Gatti from the Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares in Sao Paulo, Brazil – used aircraft to collect air samples between the surface and 14,500 feet (4.4 kilometers) above four sites across Amazonia, every other week for two years. They then analyzed this air with high-precision carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide sensors. Carbon monoxide also is a product of biomass burning.
The concentrations of the gases—and the changes in those concentrations as air masses traveled over the Amazon Basin from the Atlantic to the Andes—provided the basis for the first carbon budget estimate of the entire Amazon Basin.
The study also relied on ground observations of carbon dynamics in forests, coordinated by researchers at the University of Oxford.
Both years of the study had similarly high temperatures, but very different precipitation and biomass burning patterns: 2010 was extremely dry, 2011 wet. The team discovered that in dry 2010, fires released roughly two-thirds more carbon into the atmosphere than during the wet 2011 (0.5 vs. 0.3 petagrams, or 500 million metric tons vs. 300 million), since drought conditions in the Amazon tend to increase fire severity, and fires release carbon stored in trees into the atmosphere.
Overall, during the dry 2010, the team found that two processes made the Amazon Basin a net source of carbon for the atmosphere. The billowing smoke from fires "exhaled" large quantities of carbon, and drought-stressed Amazonian vegetation "inhaled" relatively small amounts of carbon due to depressed photosynthesis as shown by ground plot data.
In 2011, by contrast, fewer fires and relatively stronger plant growth meant less carbon dioxide was sent into the atmosphere and more was absorbed by growing plants. However, the region did not take up and store more carbon than it sent into the atmosphere. Rather, the Amazon was carbon-neutral, neither adding nor removing carbon from the atmosphere.
"We know that the Amazon undergoes a warming trend similar to the rest of the globe. There is also an increase in both droughts and severe floods," said Gloor. "It is unclear how the Amazon forests will change in the future. For the first time we have observed the basin-wide carbon balance during a very dry and a wet year, which gives us an indication of what changes to expect."
Gatti said the team wants to continue the aircraft-based measurements over the Amazon Basin. "We need to understand how sensitive these ecosystems are to climate change and the potential for feedbacks that could further affect our climate," she said. "A longer-term effort will be needed to fully understand the future carbon balance of the region."
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February 10, 1975
Landover, MD US
Capital Centre
Rock and Roll, Sick Again, Over the Hills and Far Away, In My Time of Dying, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Kashmir, No Quarter, Trampled Underfoot, Moby Dick, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog, Heartbreaker.
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Press Reports: Led Zeppelin Delights and Disappoints
Last Monday night, Led Zeppelin destroyed the Capital Centre.
Playing material both old and recent, and several cuts from their upcoming album, Physical Graffiti, the concert was close to rock heaven: with hard-driving guitar work, a powerful rhythm section, amazing vocal performance, flashy, sexual stage presence, solid keyboard and mystic Mellotron playing, and to top it off, a stunning array of stage gimmickry, the Led Zeppelin concert was certainly one of the most exciting and musically com¬plete in Washington in over a year.
But it was also a disappoint¬ment. The problem with Led Zeppelin is that they used to be a blues-rock band, carrying on the tradition they inherited from the Yardbirds. As a blues-rock band, Led Zeppelin made two out¬ standing albums, Led Zeppelin I and Led Zeppelin II, both in 1969, which are classics in that genre.
After achieving commercial success with the second album (helped along with the AM success of "Whole Lotta Love," a grueling six American tours in two years, and an overgrowing FM following), the band almost completely abandoned their Chicago blues roots, and made three albums which attempted to establish their own musical identity.
For the most part, it has been a failure. Led Zeppelin III was acoustically oriented and a disap¬pointment, lacking for at least one stellar effort. Their fourth album had a heavy metal crunch to it, and wasn't a bad album, but just couldn't hold its own against Led Zep I or II. Their last album, Houses of the Holy, was a trendy vinyl (reggae, Mellotrone), and a piece of pretentious garbage.
In context to albums by other good bands, the last three Led Zeppelin discs would be con¬sidered solid works, but con¬sidering that the same band in a blues format had accomplished a good deal more musical creativity and virtuosity, then Led Zeppe¬lin's last three outings have indeed fallen short of fulfilling their potential.
But the magic of Led Zeppelin has been able to keep their blimp from running into the ground. Their five albums have sold more than 11 million copies on Atlantic Records, outselling the Rolling Stones 2 to 1.
They have broken all sorts of concert attendance records, even those set by the Beatles. The Capital Centre con¬cert sold out in a record three hours. In New York, 120,000 tickets for six shows sold in thirty-six hours. Boston was sold out in one hour and twenty minutes. When the tour is com¬ pleted next month, Led Zeppelin will have grossed over 5 million dollars.
But don't let anyone think it wasn't a good concert. On stage were four competent musicians, who used to be four fantastic musicians. For the most part, they played well, but the musical perfections they once were showed clear signs of erosion.
Robert Plant, a disciple of Alexis Korner, is perhaps one of the best blues singers to come out of England. However, his singing of the concert opener "Rock and Roll" was awful. He was weak as well on other songs, but he also sparkled on some, particularly his delivery of "The Song Remains the Same." The stallion-like Plant evoked a stage presence which gave his lyrics greater impact, constantly swaying and flowing with the movements of the songs.
Drummer John Bonham and bassist John Paul Jones held together a strong rhythm section. But Bonham's drum solo during "Moby Dick" was rather point-less, despite the eerie sounds created when he hooked up the drumskins to a synthesizer. Jones demonstrated his depth as a musician by handling the key-board chores, which included organ, synthesized piano, synthe¬sizer and Mellotrone (a keyboard apparatus which has all the instruments of the orchestra on tapes).
But certainly it is guitarist. Jimmy Page that is the howitzer shot that made Led Zeppelin heard 'round the world. Playing both the six string and eighteen string guitars, Page filled the Capital Centre with three hours of guitar thunder and lightening. Firing his axe from his crotch, Page sent out scortching solos and frenzied blitzes via a variety of phase shifters', echoplexes, wah¬whas and other gadgets, proving why Mr. Page is one of the most important rock guitarists of the past thirteen years.
But, like the other musicians, Page was inconsistent, often find¬ing progressions in solos leading to nowhere, and being out of step with the others. Typical was "Dazed and Confused," which was both electrifying but yet at times sloppy. It was quite a visual display, as the guitarist tossed aside his pick and played his Gibson with a violin bow.
"Stairway to Heaven," "Black Dog." and "Heartbreaker," were done well, and Page's ripping into the opening chords of "Whole Lotta Love" brought back memories of Led Zeppelin at their best.
For a concert, it was great. For a Led Zeppelin concert it was marginal, a far cry from their performance five years ago at the Meriweather Post Pavilion when they opened the concert for the Who.
But most of the 18,000 at the Capital Centre were seeing Led Zeppelin for the first time, and the sometimes faulty musicianship was so easily diverted by the very presence of the band. Over two dozen engineers bathed the Led Zeppelin in a variety of multi¬colored lights. Concert "toys" were added, including a huge flashing "Led Zeppelin" logo on a backdrop screen, dry ice machines, smoke bombs, flashing lights, mirrors, and, my God, even a laser!
Back in the days when Led Zeppelin remained true to their musical capabilities, one would not find an elaborate concert show. Instead, only the band, their instruments, amps, and a big empty stage.
But those were different time's. People listened to Led Zeppelin then because they played some really great music. Today, people listen to Led Zeppelin because they're, Led Zeppelin. (J.Ramsey|3-75)
Led Zeppelin - A Heavier Than Air Craft For Sure
When Led Zeppelin descended on Washington, 18,700 concert tickets were snapped up in three hours. Some people who could not get tickets vented their disappointment just as, perhaps, disappointed Viennese did when they could not get into a Mozart recital. They threw bottles at the police. The tempestuous behavior by disappointed ticket seekers called to mind the sporadic violence in gas station lines last whiter during the oil embargo, the other recent shortage of a life-sustaining commodity.
Rock music is to the youth culture what gasoline is to the more adult culture: it is that without which life lacks tang. (Courier, Feb 19, 1975)
Newspaper report: Led Zeppelin fans start riot
LANDOVER, MD - Several hundred youths trying to crash a sold-out Led Zeppelin concert last night began throwing rocks and hollies at police. Fifteen persons were arrested.
Sgt. Robert Law of the Prince Georges County police said about 70 officers called to the scene were showered with debris. We have several police cars damaged and windshields broken." Sgt. Law said last night. "The tires on a police cruiser were slashed and windows were broken." No injuries were reported.
The concert went on as scheduled inside the Capital Centre. The 18,700 tickets for the show by the British rock group were sold within hours, the fastest sellout in the history of the new arena in suburban Washington D.C.
Sgt. Law said the disturbance was started with "disorderlies trying to crash the gates." (Feb. 1975)
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Concert description
This could be very good show but the sound is so horrible that makes this bootleg recording for hardcores only. Interesting renditions of Dazed And Confused and Moby Dick, when Bonham thrown a couple of rhythm exercises known from basic structure of Whole Lotta Love ... played later as an usual encore!