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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1974 Doom Tour: 'I'm Amazed We Got Away With What We Did'
By the summer of 1974, the concept of "stadium rock" was still pretty much in its infancy. However, all that would change when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunited in Seattle on July 9, the first date on their famously turbulent 'Doom Tour.'
The quartet originally split after their 1970 tour, which was documented on the chart-topping '4 Way Street' double-LP. In the aftermath, their solo careers blossomed, with Neil Young's 'Harvest' being the most successful effort. But despite the squabbling that led to the group's implosion, they nonetheless knew that their contributions to the others' music couldn't be denied. David Crosby and Graham Nash released an album together and joined Young on a tour that resulted in the still-not-released-on-CD live album 'Time Fades Away.' An attempt to bring Stephen Stills back for a proper CSNY album in 1973 called 'Human Highway' broke down during the recording.
Regardless, in early 1974, impresario Bill Graham made an offer. "Bill called me in my room at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles in early '74," Nash told the Wall Street Journal. "Bill said a lot of money could be made, and we knew Bill was used to putting on large events and had just produced Bob Dylan's 40-date tour. Bill also pointed out that something on this scale had never been tried before, which sounded pretty cool to us."
Dylan's six-week tour, with the Band backing him up, marked his return to the road after the infamous 1966 tour of England and his subsequent motorcycle accident. More than 5 million people tried to buy tickets via mail-order for 650,000 seats among the 40 shows. That tour was captured on 'Before the Flood.'
The foursome signed on with Graham, not just for the possibility of a large payday, but also the cultural statement it would make. "FM radio was making rock albums popular," Nash continued. "And many fans saw our tour as another shot at Woodstock, which they either had missed in '69 or wanted to revisit. The country's mood had shifted, too. Watergate was coming to a head and kids were fed up with government manipulation. They realized that, in large numbers, they had power. Our band stood for keeping it real, which connected with them."
Crosby agreed. "Looking out on the crowds, you could see that people still had the Woodstock vibe and were entranced by the music. But the rush wasn't the size of the audiences. It was what I felt from them. When you sit across from someone and feel what they're feeling, it's a beautiful thing. When you get 5,000 people feeling the same way, it's a palpable rush. When 50,000 people are feeling the same thing at the same time as you're playing, it's this big invisible wave crashing on you. We called that 'the juice.'
Rehearsals began in May 1974 at Young's ranch in Northern California, where Young had built a full-size outdoor stage, and Tim Drummond (bass), Russ Kunkel (drums) and Joe Lala (percussion) were brought in to fill out the band. With roughly 80 songs to choose from — and that's not counting the time each they spent in Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds and the Hollies — and everybody wanting equal time for their songs, Nash said that opening night in Seattle featured 44 songs and went on for more than four hours. That was soon pared back by roughly a third.
But it wasn't long before they were back to fighting again. Young's 'On the Beach' came out a week into the tour and he continued writing at an incredibly prolific pace. He felt that the lack of new material from the other three meant that he was carrying the load.
"The tour was disappointing to me," Young said Jimmy McDonough's book, 'Shakey.' "I think CSNY really blew it. Last time I played with 'em had been two or three years before that. They hadn't made an album, and they didn't have any new songs. What were they doing? How could they just stop? They wanted to put out a live album, and I wouldn't put it out – because it had all my songs on it."
Young began traveling separately and also served as, in Nash's words, the "conscience" of the group. "One night after a show," Nash said. "We all went back to our hotel suite where we had the entire top floor. It was decadent. Every night there were huge plates of food set up, like cold lobster for dozens of people. Neil was disgusted by the excess. There were even pillows embroidered with [opening act] Joni [Mitchell]'s tour logo as well as china and luggage. Hey, we didn't ask for all that. This soured Neil a bit and, in retrospect, he was right."
Of course, there was one excess that couldn't be forsaken. "After that tour," Crosby said. "I realized that cocaine has a terrible effect on everything and that all drugs are not the same. If we had just been smoking pot, we probably would have been the same old band."
Nash told Rolling Stone, "it was a very challenging tour We tried to keep our spirits up and keep ourselves focused as a band, but with all the chaos going on and the distractions and the drugs, I'm amazed we got away with what we did, quite frankly."
To capitalize on the tour's success, Atlantic released 'So Far,' a greatest hits compilation, even though they had only released two studio albums by that point. It didn't matter to the public, who sent it to No. 1.
It wasn't just the drugs that were affecting the performances. The technology that made a concert in an arena or a stadium possible was not conducive to their unique and intimate harmonic blend, which was the group's stock-in-trade. The quieter songs were fine, but when it came time to crank up the volume, their magic was often lost.
"We had good monitors," Crosby told Rolling Stone. "But Stephen and Neil were punching well over 100 dB from their half-stacks. Graham and I simply couldn't do the harmonies when we couldn't hear ourselves. Also, when you play a stadium you almost have to do a Mick Jagger where you wave a sash around and prance about. I can't quite do that. We did what we could, but I don't know how many people in the audience really got it."
In August, they began recording the shows, which culminated at London's Wembley Stadium on Sept. 14. Highlights from the nine shows that were recorded were compiled on 2014's 'CSNY 1974' box set. The wonders of modern editing technology allowed Nash to fix some of the mistakes from the original masters.
"I wanted the album to be the best representation of the experience of the show," he said. "Things were loud. Some of the vocals were out of tune, so I had to tune them. I did everything I could to make it sound as acceptable as possible. If I found one line that was flatly out of tune, I'd go to a different night, find the line in tune and put it there. We did a lot of work to make it feel like it was completely spontaneous and that you were witness to an ideal show."
When the dust cleared, the tour grossed about $11 million, but its members, according to Nash, only walked away with less than $500,000 each, causing them to split with Graham and sign with David Geffen. "It was obvious that between Bill Graham, the promoters and a bunch of others, they all had a good time — let's just put it that way," Nash added. "But I'm really not blaming anybody. It was forty years ago. What the f— can I do?"

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Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping
by James J. McKenna
[2007, Washington, DC: Platypus Media, 128 pages, paperback.]
[Review first published in Midwifery Today Issue 86, Summer 2008, © 2008, Midwifery Today, Inc. Review by Danielle Kimball-Smith.]
I have shared the family bed with my daughter since she was born, believing that it was the best choice in my situation. James J. McKenna, a widely-recognized expert in co-sleeping, confirmed that belief in Sleeping with Your Baby. The book explains that shared sleep provides benefits to both parents and child, including promoting breastfeeding, increasing emotional security for the baby, and allowing the mother to provide an almost immediate response to the baby's needs. This quick response helps the baby breathe more regularly, use energy more efficiently, grow faster and experience less stress.
McKenna responds with reassuring answers based on scientific data to frequently asked questions such as "Will co-sleeping get in the way of my child's ability to be independent?" and "How long should I co-sleep with my child?" He also outlines the dos and don'ts of co-sleeping with a detailed list of situations when co-sleeping is not a safe choice. For most parents, co-sleeping is safe. It is not considered to be safe when the parent is obese, smokes, uses heavy bedding or is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or if there is a space between the bed and the wall or headboard where the baby could become trapped.
Sleeping with Your Baby strengthened my resolve to co-sleep with my daughter. I believe that we have had more sleep than we would have gotten apart. I am glad that she doesn't have to get stressed out at night by crying when she is hungry. Instead she just starts to move around, which wakes me up to allow her to latch on and then we can both go back to sleep.
Reviewer Danielle Kimball-Smith is a 30-year-old, stay-at-home mom who is passionate about natural childbirth and attachment parenting. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband, nine-month-old daughter and two cats.


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This could make for a difficult lunch hour. You're either going to get a sub sandwich combo, or have a rock icon sign your book.
Next Thursday, Pat Benatar comes to Borders to sign Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir that came out in June. The clincher – it's at 12:30 p.m. But come on, it's Pat "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," "Love is a Battlefield" four-time Grammy winner Benatar.
She may not be what Madonna or k.d. is to the gays and lesbians out there, but don't tell me you didn't belt out "Shadows of the Night" when it came on the car radio driving home on a dark highway with tears streaming down your cheek. No? Just me? OK, nevermind. Anyway, she at least gave the lesbians some love performing at the Dinah Shore couple of years ago.
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Recent rainstorms have pumped more water into Marin reservoirs than ever recorded in early December, while also raising concerns about mudslides with more wet weather on the way.
Rain was expected to hit the North Bay late Monday night and continue into the week, according to the National Weather Service.
"It should continue off and on into Wednesday afternoon before it leaves," said Diana Henderson, meteorologist with the weather service.
The rains should be a little lighter and not of the same intensity that hit the region over the past week. Those storms produced impressive rainfall totals recorded by the Marin Municipal Water District.
The Lake Lagunitas reservoir in the Mount Tamalpais watershed received 10.51 inches in less than a week since the first storm hit Wednesday.
Since July 1, the district has recorded 21.73 inches of rain at the reservoir, which is 213 percent of average for this date. The average is 10.19 inches.
"Obviously it is good news," said Libby Pischel, water district spokeswoman.
The recent rains, on top of already above-average November precipitation, have produced substantial runoff into reservoirs. Pischel said.
Because of the rain and runoff, the district's reservoir storage is the highest it has ever been on this date.
Lagunitas and Phoenix Lake reservoirs were already full as of last week. Nicasio and Bon Tempe both overflowed their spillways Sunday. Soulajule was expected to spill Monday or Tuesday at the latest.
The reservoirs now hold nearly 72,000 acre-feet and are at 90 percent of capacity. There are 325,851 gallons in an acre-foot. Since the Kent Lake enlargement was finished in 1982, the district has never had more than 67,000 acre-feet in total storage on Dec. 3. Before the storms hit, the reservoirs held 59,437 acre-feet.
Given current storage levels and with more than four months remaining in the rainy season, water officials believe there is a good chance all of the reservoirs will be full this winter, Pischel said.
The rain has also saturated the earth and the California Geological Survey is reminding people that when the weather turns rainy, the possibility of landslides increases.
"Landslides tend to recur in the same locations or in areas that have been impacted by wildfires, but can happen on any sloped surface," said John Parrish, California's state geologist and head of the survey.
Other counties have more areas with the potential to slide, but because many of Marin's homes are built into hillsides, the potential for damage to life and property is greater here, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Three or more inches of rain a day or a quarter-inch an hour also increase the likelihood of a landslide as soil quickly becomes waterlogged.
"People usually have time to get out of the way of the big ones; the smaller, faster ones are more challenging," said Chris Wills, who heads the survey's landslide mapping program. "If your residence is on or beneath a slope, the most important thing you can do to protect your safety is to avoid sleeping in lower-floor bedrooms facing the slope during periods of heavy rain."
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In another installment of the Heat Index's 3-on-3 series, our writers give their takes
on the storylines before the Heat face the Pacers on Sunday (6 p.m. ET).
1. Fact or Fiction: The Pacers are the biggest threat to the Heats repeat bid.
Tom Haberstroh: Fiction. In the East? Probably. But the Thunder, the Grizzlies, the
Clippers and the Spurs would probably give the Heat more trouble than the Pacers.
The Pacers defense might be the stingiest of the group, but I'm skeptical of the
offensive firepower.
Michael Wallace: Fiction. The Pacers are the second-biggest threat -- and only if they
get reliable perimeter shooting. I believe a healthy Spurs team is the Heat's biggest
potential threat. They have an efficient, attacking point guard, a big man who's
effective on both ends and floor spacers who knock down threes. And I didn't even
mention Gregg Popovich.
Brian Windhorst: Fiction. I think the Pacers play the Heat with more edge than any
other team in the East. Yes, even more than the Celtics. There's genuine animosity
there and it manifests itself in the games. That said, I just don't believe the Pacers
are a bigger threat than the Spurs, Thunder or perhaps even the Clippers.
3. Fact or Fiction: The Heats streak will still be intact after Sunday.
Haberstroh: Fact. This is the last obstacle that LeBron James has to conquer this
regular season, and I'm learning not to doubt him at this point. He's shooting over
60 percent on this 17-gamer, which is outright baffling for a perimeter player.
Wallace: Fact. The regular-season series will end with the Pacers holding a 2-1
edge and both teams having held serve at home. What does that mean in the
bigger picture going into the playoffs? Absolutely nothing. Regardless of Sunday's
outcome, Indiana is confident it can beat the Heat. Miami is confident the Pacers
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Hickory High: Ian Levy: Team Defense - Product and Process
On his college basketball blog, Ken Pomeroy has been arguing, for quite some time, that
a more descriptive measure of a teams three-point defense is opponent attempts as
opposed to opponent 3PT%. While his commentary has focused on three-point shooting
the same point holds true, to a certain degree, with shots inside the arc. As first it may
seem counter-intuitive for the most accurate description of how well a team defends
certain areas of the the floor not to be field goal percentage. But if we talk the idea
through it quickly seems less radical.
Although it may not feel like it at times, NBA players take good shots. In the vast majority
of cases, if a shot has little or no chance to go in, an NBA player wont take it unless the
game situation somehow dictates that this is the best option. There are of course,
stunningly obvious counter-examples see Smith, J.R. but when we applaud teams that
take good shots, or chastise a player for poor ones, we are splitting hairs and ignoring the
countless impossible and improbable shots that they passed up. In that context we can
comfortably say that often, the best defended shots are the ones where the defense
allowed such low-percentage openings that the offense recognized it wasnt in their best
interest to take them.
This idea represents a big and often overlooked measure of quality defense. We look at
shooting percentages to evaluate defense, but that often offers precious little distinction.
Looking at 386 team seasons, going back to 2000-2001, we find the average 3PT% to be
35.5%. The average for the top 38 teams from that time span was 38.3%. The average
for the bottom 38 teams was 32.6%. That means the top and bottom 10% of teams
were separated by just 5.7 percentage points. The other 310 teams from the last 13
seasons were separated by less than 5.7 percentage points in 3PT%. Another way we
can demonstrate this is with variance, a statistical measure of how spread out the
values are in a given data set. Over the past thirteen years the variance in team 3PT%
has been 0.0003. The variance in the percentage of a teams field goal attempts that
are three-pointers is 0.0008, nearly four times the variation. There is a lot of
difference in the frequency with which teams shot three-pointers, but not nearly as
much difference in their accuracy.
This is a huge lesson for both offenses and defenses. Even if you are an average shooting
team, you can make a huge difference for your offense just by taking good shots. The
same thing is true defensively you may only be able to depress an opponents shooting
percentages so much, but you can force them to take difficult and inefficient shots. You
may not be able to keep a team from shooting 40.0% on mid-range jumpers, but if
youve kept your opponent away from the rim and left those mid-range jumpers as the
only option, chances are youve done your job.
Last week I shared some statistical analysis I did with my shot-selection metric, Expected
Points Per Shot (XPPS), estimating that about 19.4% of the variation in Offensive Rating
can be explained by shot-selection. Using a variation on the technique from that post,
borrowed from Evan Zamir, we can illustrate exactly how much of a difference controlling
an opponents shot selection makes. We know from that analysis that TO%, ORB%, XPPS
and Shot-Making Difference explain 97% of Offensive Rating, and in the inverse,
Defensive Rating. From that regression analysis we also know that those factors explain
efficiency with this equation: ORTG or DRTG = (XPPS * 88.55655) + (Shot-Making
Difference * 84.41452) + (ORB% * 48.4174) + (TO% * -128.14) + 15.22669.
The first thing we do is create an imaginary team that is completely average with respect
to each of those variables above ORB%, TO%, XPPS and Shot-Making Difference. This
completely average imaginary team would have a DRTG of 102.83. From here we can,
one at a time, manipulate each variable, measuring the change in DRTG. What I did was
begin by looking at FG% from each area of the floor. One at a time, I reduced the FG%
from each area by one standard deviation, leaving the others at league average,
measuring the change on Shot-Making Difference and the resulting Defensive Rating. I
then did the same thing for the percentage of shot attempts from each area of the floor,
measuring the change in XPPS and the resulting Defensive Rating. When I reduced the
percentage of shot attempts from an area, I needed to replace those shot attempts in
another area of the floor to make sure I still had 100% represented. By that I mean if
I reduced the percentage of attempts that came at the rim, I had to redistribute that
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Zobrist survives Deadline despite rumors
ST. PETERSBURG -- Ben Zobrist knew his name would come up in trade rumors but didn't want to let it weigh on him. If you need further evidence, consider that he was taking a nap during the height of Thursday's pre-Trade Deadline activity.
After taking his son, Zion, to an early morning dentist appointment, Zobrist crashed during the afternoon. While he was sleeping, Rays ace David Price was traded, and a bogus Twitter post that he'd been traded picked up some steam, even being broadcast on ESPN.
When Zobrist woke up, he saw some texts from his wife, Julianna, who was flying back from Los Angeles. She was asking if he had indeed been dealt to the Pirates.
"I started looking around on the Internet to see if I could see anything. At that point, everything had already been taken off," Zobrist said. "When it happened, I was really unaware of all of it going down."
Also in his inbox? Emails from people asking for tickets in Pittsburgh.
But the Rays held on to Zobrist, despite several weeks of rumors and an assumption by many that they would deal him if they traded Price. While everyone in the clubhouse was disappointed to lose Price, they were pleased -- as much as they could be, at least -- that the rest of the group came back to work Friday.
"I'm really happy the team on the field remained intact. Zo, as an example," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "That would have been, I think, a little more difficult only because of the everyday component and the versatility component. That might have been a little bit more difficult to deal with."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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My husband and l lost our mothers this year.
We are about to receive $32,000 from my mother and $184,000 from my husbands.
I have ceased part time work in October and my husband still works part time.
So we are both low income earners.
I have a $46.000 Superfund work only. My husband has around a $100.000 investment with a finance adviser.
We own all we have. Do not have any center link payments, or are on any sick benefit or health card.
We own our house worth $600,000 and a block of land around $180.000 which has been on the market for some time and the price has been dropped to try and sell.
We have no children and aged 59 and 60.
Will we pay tax on the inheritance?
It's important that you liaise with your husband's adviser but there should be no tax to pay if the proceeds from the estate are in cash. If they were in other assets such as shares or property they could carry a capital gains tax liability which would not be triggered until the asset was sold by the beneficiary.
An important decision to make with your adviser is whether the proceeds should be contributed to super – inside super they will not count for Centrelink purposes until you are 65.


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A normal breathing rate for an adult at rest is 8 to 16 breaths per minute. For an infant, a normal rate is up to 44 breaths per minute.
Tachypnea is the term that your health care provider uses to describe your breathing if it is too fast, especially if you have fast, shallow breathing from a lung disease or other medical cause.
The term hyperventilation is usually used if you are taking rapid, deep breaths. This can be due to lung disease or because of anxiety or panic. The terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
Tachypnea; Breathing - rapid and shallow; Fast shallow breathing; Respiratory rate - rapid and shallow
Shallow, rapid breathing has many possible medical causes, including:
Rapid, shallow breathing should not be treated at home. It is generally considered a medical emergency (unless anxiety is the only cause).
If you have asthma or COPD, use your inhaler medicines as prescribed by your provider. You may still need to be checked by a provider right away if you have rapid shallow breathing. Your provider will explain when it is important to go to the emergency room.
Call 911 or go to the emergency room if you are breathing rapidly and you have:
The provider will do a thorough exam of your heart, lungs, abdomen, and head and neck.
Tests that may be ordered include:
Treatment will depend on the underlying cause of the rapid breathing. Treatment may include oxygen if your oxygen level is too low and nebulized respiratory treatments if you are having an asthma or a COPD attack.
Kraft M. Approach to the patient with respiratory diseases. In: Goldman L, Schafer Al, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 83.
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HONG KONG, Jan 11 (Reuters) - China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd , the country's largest coal producer, said on Friday that it has won the auction of a shale gas block in southern China as part of its efforts to further integrate its energy business.
Shenhua Geological Exploration Company, a wholly owned unit of Shenhua Energy, has won the tender for the 1,189-square-kilometre Baojing Shale Gas Block in Hunan province via an auction held by the Chinese government last year, it said in a filing with the Hong Kong bourse.
The move was part of the state-owned giant's strategy to "broaden its presence in the energy market and optimise its business model as an integrated energy company," said Shenhua Energy, which also owns power plants and railways and ports.
Shenhua also announced on Friday that it had won official approval to build a 3.28 billion yuan ($527 million) thermal power plant in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Big state Chinese power firms have been named among the winners of the country's second shale gas auction, the Ministry of Land and Resources said announced in December.
Non-oil companies may have won most of the blocks offered in China's second shale gas auction, media and industry officials have said, which may mean lucrative opportunities for service companies such as Schlumberger, Halliburton and China's Anton Oilfield Services Group.
China, the world's top energy user, has yet to start large-scale shale production, but is believed to hold the world's largest reserves of the gas, trapped in rocks and requiring a technology called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to unleash.
Shenhua said it will invest 874 million yuan ($140.42 million) in the exploration of the shale gas block over three years, but it also cautioned against investment risks.
"The shale gas exploration and development is in the preliminary stage in China. There are uncertainties in the exploration achievements of and the development prospects for shale gas resources in the Baojing Block," it said.


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Hull KR have sacked head coach Craig Sandercock with immediate effect.
The Robins announced the move on Thursday night and have put assistant Chris Chester in charge ahead of Sunday's home game against St Helens.
A statement from the club said: "The club has made the decision not to renew Craig's contract in 2015 and, with that in mind, have placed Chris Chester in charge of first-team duties initially until the end of the season whilst a full review of all off-field operations is carried out.
"The club would like to thank Craig for all his hard work over the last three years and wishes him well in the future."
Hull KR are currently outside the top eight in the First Utility Super League after winning just seven of their 19 matches so far this season.
Sandercock was appointed as the successor to fellow Australian Justin Morgan at Hull KR in October 2011 after being recruited from Newcastle IKnights, where he was assistant coach.
He was out of contract at the end of the season and was thought to be in talks over a new deal until recently.
Sandercock is the fifth coaching casualty so far this year after Salford, Bradford, Wakefield and London Broncos all made a change in the first half of the season.
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Lewis & Clark head men's basketball coach Bob Gaillard has announced the hiring of former NBA great Terry Porter as a volunteer assistant coach for the Pioneers, joining the staff of Gaillard, Dinari Forman, Mark Swenson and Ryan Wells.
Porter spent 17 years in the NBA as a player, beginning his career with the Portland Trail Blazers as the 24th overall pick in the 1985 draft from current Division III power Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He spent a decade with the Blazers (1985-1995), leading the team to the NBA Finals twice.
Porter continues to hold the NBA Finals single-game record for the most free throws made without a miss with 15 (June 7, 1990 in Detroit), while being the Trail Blazers' all-time assists leader with 5,319. In 1993, he received the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award. On December 16, 2008 the Trail Blazers retired his #30 jersey.
Following his playing career, Porter went onto coach the Milwaukee Bucks from 2003-2005. He then was named the new head coach of the Phoenix Suns from 2008-09.
"In addition to his great NBA career, Terry brings an exemplary work ethic and proven coaching skills that will allow him to be an invaluable asset as an example and inspiration to our students/athletes," said Gaillard.
The Pioneers are set to begin the 2010-11 season at home versus Masters College on Nov. 15. The team will open Northwest Conference play on Dec. 3 with a match-up against defending conference champion Whitworth College.


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Cuyahoga Valley National Park will open new exhibits about the Ohio & Erie Canal and national canal system in May. We changed the name of the exhibit building from Canal Visitor Center to Canal Exploration Center.
The new name reflects the style of the new exhibits. They will allow people to explore stories that reflect different ways that this transportation system intersected with life.
One storyline is the role of the canal in the economy. This presented a challenge for planning the exhibits. We had assistance to address this challenge. A historians' roundtable allowed input from subject-matter experts. We also have a terrific exhibit design team, led by Krister Olmon Inc.
John Larson from Purdue University participated in the historian's roundtable. He specializes in the first half of the 1800s, especially the role of public projects like canals in economic change.
The U.S. was young; it just turned 50 years old during canal construction. Much of the economy still looked toward the colonial powers in Europe. We did not have a national economy based on trade between regions of the country.
Political leaders focused on "internal improvements" like canals to link regions of the country and promote a national economy.
We use words from a speech given in Akron on the day the canal opened in 1827 to express the expectations for economic growth that came with the canal system:
" … BEHOLD comfortable, nay elegant dwellings, large stores and ware-houses, filled with the merchandise of foreign climates and the productions of our own … a busy population industriously pursuing all the various vocations of civilized life -- and this interesting scene owes its very existence to the almost magic influence of yonder great work -- internal improvement."
One exhibit room focuses on details of the economic story. It displays items shipped to and from Ohio as trade between regions of the country picked up. Crates and barrels represent agricultural products, coal, and other goods shipped out of Ohio.
A window display of consumer goods represents arrivals. Good historical documentation backed up our decisions about display objects, including the records of David Beardsley, a canal toll collector based in Cleveland. In the course of this life, he handled $1.4 million in tolls.
Canals brought cash into Ohio, first as payment to those who built them and then through fundamental economic change. The exhibits compare how people experienced the economy before and during the canal era.
Before canals, consumer goods and money were scarce. People bartered for some goods and made much of the rest. The canal era introduced consumer culture into Ohio. Fabrics made in new textile mills in New England, luxury foods and European tableware all came into Ohio.
The rise of a consumer economy had advantages, but also challenges. One related to currency. The nation did not start with standard money. Even some canal companies issued their own money.
An interactive exhibit presents different currencies and asks visitors to decide which a shopkeeper should accept. Counterfeit dollars and raised notes--bills which have been altered to reflect a higher value--are some of the choices.
A FINAL exhibit focuses on elements of our economic system that developed during the Canal Era. One is the rise of New York City as the country's major financial center. The Erie Canal across New York, combined with the Hudson River, provided the primary route between east and west in the canal system.
Commerce funneled through New York City. Before the Canal Era, New York sat in the shadows of the port cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston; by the end of the Canal Era, it dominated.
One of the questions that we face even today is how much to invest in public infrastructure. The canal system represented a huge public investment. State governments did the heavy lifting, including taking on debt.
The short-lived nature of the canal system, which faced serious competition from railroads within a few decades, could make it seem like a mistake. Yet it accelerated economic growth at a critical time for the country.
The exhibits do not try to answer the question of whether canals represented a good investment. Instead, they present a variety points-of-view and provoke thought to let visitors form their own views.
The opening of Canal Exploration Center will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 17. Special activities will occur. The building is at 7104 Canal Road, at the Hillside Road intersection, in Valley View. For more information, call 330-657-2752 or visit online at www.nps.gov/cuva.
Editor's note: Vasarhelyi is chief of interpretation, education and visitors services at Cuyahoga Valley National Park.


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The Senate Public Safety Committee Tuesday dismissed a two-bill package touted as a streamlining of death penalty appeals that would spare families years of grief and save the state money.
Taken together, the measures proposed to eliminate the automatic appeal of capital cases directly to the state Supreme Court, giving justices the option of whether to hear a capital challenge only after it has exhausted normal appellate channels.
Under current law neither the inmate nor the court has any choice. All death penalty cases are sent directly to the highest court for a review, dragging out legal proceedings for years.
"By speeding up the death penalty for those who commit murder, California will ensure justice is not necessarily delayed or denied," said Sen. Joel Anderson, a La Mesa Republican who carried the package. "Appeals would still be allowed if there were actual grounds — just like any criminal case."
Anderson drew opposition from disparate groups, including the statewide lobbying arms of public defenders, district attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union. These critics said the lengthy days can be blamed on a shortage of defense lawyers versed in capital punishment as well as general court backlogs. They also worry about putting an innocent person to death.
Regardless of the debate in the Capitol, Californians could have the final say. An initiative is likely to qualify for the November ballot that would repeal capital punishment and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Anderson's primary support came from Marc Klass, a well-known advocate for victims whose daughter, Polly, was kidnapped, assaulted and killed by a parolee who has been sitting on death row for nearly 16 years.
Klass' frustration boiled over after the committee rejected Senate Bill 1514 and was on the verge of voting against Senate Constitutional Amendment 20.
"You people don't care about my daughter, You don't care about any of the victims," Klass told the panel. After he was admonished and told part of the solution involved money, Klass demanded: "How much does it cost to do nothing? How much does it cost to let this go on year after year? How much does it cost to have Richard Allen Davis on death row for 30 years?" Davis stole into a bedroom of Klass' suburban Petaluma home, kidnapping by knife point and later killing the 12-year-old Polly. It took nearly 13 years for his automatic appeal to reach the state Supreme Court, which summarily upheld his conviction. His appeal is now before a federal court.
Anderson presented the committee with a series of enlarged mug shots of notorious murderers, including Davis, awaiting execution for a dozen years or more.
"We're talking about coldblooded killers," he said.
But critics, even those accustomed to sparring over law and order issues, said the measure is flawed. Daniel Felizzatto, a deputy district attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, warned there would be "unintended consequences," from backlogged appellate courts to potentially putting the wrong person to death.
"The main reason for delay is defendants do not have attorneys appointed for them. This bill does nothing to resolve that problem," Felizzatto said.
Allen Hopper, an attorney for the ACLU, said every state but Alabama requires automatic appeals in capital cases.
Hopper added that appellate courts would have to hire specialized staff to handle death penalty appeals that are notoriously complex. "This is not going to save money ... It' going to cost more money," he said.
California spends about $184 million a year on the slightly more than 700 still on death row, according to supporters of a repeal.
The committee rejected Anderson's measures on party-line votes, with Democrats opposed.


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Real Money readers have often heard me refer to investing in quality, attractively priced businesses as the holy grail to investment. The economy doesn't matter, we are quick to say, if one invests in a quality business that's selling at an attractive price. Just buy a quality, attractively priced business, Warren Buffett preaches, and let the upside take care of itself.
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Francisco, Johnson looking to platoon at third
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez entered Spring Training hoping that Juan Francisco or Chris Johnson would begin the regular season as the club's starting third baseman. But with a little more than a week left in the Grapefruit League season, Gonzalez is planning to platoon the two players at third base.
"I think both of those guys are playing such great baseball," Gonzalez said. "Right now, I think it would be unfair to choose one as a starter."
Francisco is hitting .352 (19-for-54) with five home runs and a .667 slugging percentage. Concerns about him handling an everyday role center around his ability to hit left-handed pitchers and the offspeed pitches he'll see more consistently during the regular season.
Johnson is hitting .368 (21-for-57) with three home runs and a .561 slugging percentage. Along with sharing the third-base duties, the right-handed infielder could occasionally give first baseman Freddie Freeman a chance to rest.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Congressman Newt Gingrich has been married three times. His first and second marriages ended because he began relationships with the women who would later become his second and third wives. He has been accused of having multiple additional affairs. While Congressman Gingrich was leading this private lifestyle, he publicly campaigned on family values, publicly shamed other representatives who were caught in similar behavior, and led the charge to impeach President Clinton for matters relating to his affairs.
Newt began a relationship with his first wife, Jackie, when he was 16 and she was his geometry teacher. He married her after high school, they had children shortly thereafter, and were married for roughly 18 years. During that time Jackie supported Newt while in College and during two unsuccessful Congressional campaigns. His campaign staff has stated that Newt carried out multiple affairs during this time. After a successful 1978 campaign, Congressman Gingrich moved to D.C..
In 1980, Newt began a relationship with a woman he met at a political fundraiser, Marianne. Newt divorced Jackie in February of 1981 and married Marianne in August. Congressman Gingrich was accused of negotiating divorce details while his wife was recovering from surgery, and then refusing to pay child support and alimony to speed up the divorce process.
Although she was active in his political career, Newt separated from his second wife (Marianne) around 1988 and then reconciled around 1994. At that time, Congressman Gingrich became Speaker of the House and began a relationship with a congressional intern named Calista. After a six year affair, Congressman Gingrich divorced his second wife and months later married Calista in 2000. Newt was 57 and Calista was 34. During the divorce proceedings, Congressman Gingrich refused to participate in the discovery process and finally claimed that he and Marianne had an "understanding" about his affairs. Marianne denied this claim, and in a subsequent interview stated that she could end Newt's political career in a single interview.
At the end of both his marriages, Congressman Gingrich proposed to his new wife before asking his current wife for a divorce. Marianne stated that this was very telling of Congressman Gingrich's character. Before marrying Calista, Congressman Gingrich asked the Catholic Church to annul his 18 year marriage to Marianne.
There have been numerous accussations of additional affairs during all phases of Congressman Gingrich's life, including a woman who claimed she had a relationship in the 1970's with Gingrich before he was a Congressman. Strangley enough, this woman states that Gingrich sought oral sex only so that he could later deny sexual relations if they were discovered. This was the same tactic used by President Clinton when he was accused of adultery.
As Speaker of the House, Congressman Gingrich led the charge to impeach President Clinton. He has acknowledged that while he was doing this, he was carrying out an affair with his current wife. When asked about the hypocrisy of these actions, he has noted that President Clinton committed perjury to cover the affair and this was what he was impeached for and not the affair itself.
However, in 1983 Congressman Gingrich made speeches in response to the affairs of other Congressional members lamenting the moral decline of leadership in America and claiming that the country cannot remain free without moral leaders.
After making plans to run for the Presidency in 2012, Congressman Gingrich stated that his work ethic and love of country caused him to work too much and led to his affairs, by stating that he loved his country too much. He acknowledged that his behavior was wrong and that he knew it was wrong when he was doing it.
Days before the South Carolina primary, Speaker Gingrich's second wife was interview by NightLine and stated that when she confronted Newt about his affair with Calista, he confirmed that he had indeed spoke to Marianne on the phone each night from Washington with Calista in the room with him. She also stated that Newt asked her for an open marriage and to allow the affair with Calista to continue. She stated that she denied the request.
The next day, Congressman Gingrich was asked about the interview in a CNN debate. He forcefullly rebuked the moderator for asking such a question in a Presidential debate and stated that the media was covering for President Obama by attacking each Republican candidate.
The timeline below shows Congressman Gingrich's time in office compared to his relationships with his wives. The lighter color represents when Congressman Gingrich began his relationship with his spouse and the darker color represents the time they were/are married. The time that Congressman Gingrich was Speaker of the House is denoted in a darker color.
First Marriage
At the age of 16, Newt Gingrich began to have an affair with his geometry teacher, Jackie Battley. Some reports indicate that Jackie was nine years older than Newt, while other state that there was seven years difference between the two. Newt and Jackie would meet in secret and largely hid their relationship while Newt was still in High school.
On June 19, 1962 Newt and Jackie were married. Newt was 19 years old and Jackie was 26-28. Newt was a Freshman in College and his parents boycotted the wedding in protest to the age difference. Jackie supported Newt through his college education, including his PhD in History. The couple had two daughters, one in 1963 and the other in 1966.
Jackie had undergone surgery for cancer of the uterus during the 1978 campaign. After the couple separated in 1980, she had to be operated on again to remove another tumor. According to Lee Howell, Newt's Press Secretary in 1974 and 1976, and L.H. "Kip" Carter, who was Newt's Campaign Treasurer in 1974 and 1976, Newt brought his two daughters to visit their mother in the hospital and brought a legal pad to discuss some terms of the divorce. Jackie got angry and not long after than, Newt stopped paying child support. The couple was divorced in February of 1981. The story is recounted in teh PBS documentary "The Long March of Newt Gingrich."
When asked about the situation, Jackie described the situation similarly, but did not mention any legal pad. She asserted that the divorce was mostly a surprise to her.
He can say that we had been talking about [a divorce] for 10 years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise. He's a great wordsmith ... He walked out in the spring of 1980 and I returned to Georgia. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said Daddy is downstairs and could he come up? When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery ... To say I gave up a lot for the marriage is the understatement of the year.
The story was first reported in a 1984 Mother Jones article that was widely circulated among Newt's opponents and used against him during subsequent campaigns. When asked about the validity of the story, Newt claimed that he had been seeking a divorce for 10 years and that he did what was necessary to finally end the marriage.
All I can say is when you've been talking about divorce for 11 years and you've gone to a marriage counselor, and the other person doesn't want the divorce, I'm not sure there is any sensitive way to handle it.
Anne Manning
Anne Manning was a volunteer on Newt Gingrich's unsuccessful 1976 campaign for congressional office. At the time, she was married to a professor at West Georgia who was a colleague of Professor Gingrich, Tim Chowns. In the spring of 1977, she was in Washington to attend a census-bureaus workshop when Gingrich took her to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. He met her back at her hotel room.
I did have a relationship with him, but when it suited him, he would totally blow you off. ...
We had oral sex ...He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, "I never slept with her." (Before leaving he said) "If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying."
Kip Carter, who lived a few doors down from Newt and his wife in 1976, claimed to have come across Newt and either Anne or another woman engaged in oral sex in a car.
We had been out working a football game --I think it was the Bowdon game-- and we would split up. It was a Friday night. I had Newt's daughters, Jackie Sue and Kathy, with me. We were all supposed to meet back at this professor's house. It was a milk-and-cookies kind of shakedown thing, buck up the troops. I was cutting across the yard to go up the driveway. There was a car there. As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me his little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then.
Second Marriage
Congressman Newt Gingrich met met Marianne Ginther, the 28-year-old daughter of an Ohio mayor in January of 1980. Congressman Gingrich was 36 at the time. The met at a political fundraiser and began to have a relationship months before Congressman Gingrich separated from his first wife. They spoke often on the phone while Congressman Gingrich was still married, and he told her that he and wife were in counseling and would most likely divorce. That summer, after Newt and Jackie's divorce was final, Marianne went to Washington to visit him. Soon afterward he introduced her to his mother and stepfather.
They were thrilled because they hadn't wanted Newt to marry [Jackie]. I think his stepdad wanted to be able to say, 'Look, we always knew this wasn't going to work.'
Newt and Marriance were married on August 8, 1981, six months after the divorce was final between Newt and Jackie.
In 1987, the couple separated. Newt claimed that he received a phone call on his birthday from his wife declaring that she was leaving. When he got home, he found only the guest bed and a TV. Newt and Marianne maintained separate residences for 6 years and worked out a separation agreement that was notarized, but never filed. In late 1993 or early 1994 the two reconciled and moved back in together. Marianne and Newt separated again on May 10, 1999 and Newt filed for divorce on July 29, 1999. In May 2002, Newt asked the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta for an annulment based on the fact that Marianne was reportedly previously married.
Marianne Gingrich had been diagnosed with possibly having MS months before Newt filed for the divorce. During the court proceedings, Congressman Gingrich refused to participate in the discovery process so that he would not have to disclose any funds that he spent on potential mistresses. Recent news stories had claimed that Congressman Gingrich was having an affair with a staffer. Eventually, Congressman Gingrich's own lawyer agreed to depose the woman with whom Gingrich was rumored to be having an affair. Congressman Gingrich's lawyer then stated that Speaker Gingrich had been having a six year affair with Callista Bisek, a staffer.
In response to this announcement, Congressman Gingrich stated that he and Marianne had an agreement of sorts with the affair. Marianne denied any such agreement, but did state that her husband had tried to convince her to be more acceptive of the situation. The divorce was eventually settled.
When speaking about their relationship in an interview weeks later, Marianne Gingrich stated that she should have been clued in that something was wrong when he asked her to marry him so quickly. She notes that the same thing was done to her; Newt proposed to his third wife before asking his second for a divorce just as he had proposed to the second without asked the first wife for a divorce.
He was impressed easily by position, status, money. He grew up poor and always wanted to be somebody, to make a difference, to prove himself, you know. He has to be historic to justify his life. ...
He asked me to marry him way too early. And he wasn't divorced yet. I should have known there was a problem. ...
It's not so much a compliment to me. It tells you a little bit about him.
Third Marriage
For years prior to his divorce from Marianna, Congressman Gingrich had been seen at breakfast with a young Congressional staffer. Although he initially denied the affair, the discovery process in his second divorce forced him to admit that he had been carrying on a 6 year affair with Callista Bisek. Newt and Callista were married on August 18, 2000. Newt was 57 at the time and Callista was 34.
Comments on other Congressional Affairs
In July of 1983, Gingrich made a name for himself in the House by demanding that Representatives Daniel Crane and Gerry Studds be expelled for having affairs with House pages. Among the statements that Congressman Gingrich made about the affairs were the following:
A free country must have honest leaders if it is to remain free. We are in deep trouble as a society... People are looking for a guidepost as to how they should live, how their institutions should behave, and who they should follow.
Our decisions are not made today about two individuals; our decisions are made today about the integrity of freedom, about belief in our leaders, about the future of this country, about what we should become.
I would say to you unequivocally—it will probably sound pious and sanctimonious saying it—I am a sinner. I am a normal person. I am like everyone else I ever met. One of the reasons I go to God is that I ain't very good—I'm not perfect.
Focus on the Family Interview
In March of 2007, Congressman Gingrich was interviewed by James Dobson for Focus on the Family. This was the first time that Congressman Gingrich publically admitted to having an affair.
Congressman Gingrich also acknowledged that he was having an affair while pursuing an impeachment of President Clinton for similar transgressions. Congressman Gingrich stated that President Clinton was being impeached because he committed perjury and not because of the affiar with Mrs Lewinsky.
The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge.
The standard is: In a court of law should somebody who's popular get away with perjury? And I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept felonies and you cannot accept perjury in your highest officials.
Clinton Impeachment
When asked about his role in impeaching President Clinton while carrying out an affair, Congressman Gingrich noted in 2011 that President Clinton committed perjury.
Christian Broadcast Network Interview
In March of 2011 Congressman Gingrich was interviewed by the Christian Broadcast Network at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition and spoke about his past marital indesrections. He seemed to make statements indicating that his passions for the country caused him to work too much and this led to his infidelity.
Marianne Gingrich Interview
In January of 2012, Newt Gingrich's second wife, Marianne Gingrich granted an interview to ABC which took place three days before the South Carolina Primary. In that interview, Marianne confirmed that Newt was cheating with Calista for six years prior to her divorce. She stated that he confirmed to her that he had called her at home each night from Washington while Calista was in the room with him and told her that he loved her.
The major accusation of the interview was that when Marianne confronted Newt about the affair, he asked her for an open marriage and to simply allow the affair to continue. She stated that she refused this request. The news story alsoconfirmed that Newt left his first wife shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer and that he left her shortly after she was diagnosed with MS.
Marriane: I said to him: Newt, we've been married a long time ... and he said, Yes, but you want me all to yourself. Calista doesn't care what I do.
Nightline: What was he saying to you, do you think?
Marianne: He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.
Nightline: He wanted an open marriage?
Marriane: Yea, that I accept the fact that he had somebody else in his life.
Nightline: and you said?
Marianne: No, no, that is not a marriage.
CNN Debate
The day following the Nightline interview with Marianne, CNN hosted a Republican debate. The first question in that debate was directed towards Speaker Gingrich and asked if he wished to respond to the allegations of the interview. Speaker Gingrich lambasted John King for asking such a question in a Presidential debate and was widely applauded.
[1] Website: Vanity Fair Article: The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich Author: Gail Sheehy Accessed on: 05/13/2011
[2] Website: ABC News Article: Gingrich Admits to Affair During Clinton Impeachment Author: Jake Tapper Accessed on: 05/13/2011
[3] Website: Esquire Article: Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican Author: John H. Richardson Accessed on: 05/13/2011
[4] Website: Huffington Post Article: Newt Gingrich: Marriages, Divorces, Affairs Timeline Author: Ashley Reich Accessed on: 05/13/2011
[5] Website: Politico Article: Newt Gingrich: 'I was doing things that were wrong' Author: MAGGIE HABERMAN Accessed on: 05/13/2011
[6] Website: Salon.com Article: Newt's glass house Author: STEPHEN TALBOT Accessed on: 05/13/2011
[7] Website: Mother Jones Article: Newt Gingrich: Shining Knight of the Post-Reagan Right Author: David Osborne Accessed on: 05/13/2011
[8] Website: About.com Article: Callista Bisek and Newt Gingrich Marriage Profile Author: NA Accessed on: 05/13/2011
[9] Website: ABC News Article: Newt Gingrich: Leading Clinton impeachment wasn't hypocritical Author: Stephanie Condon Accessed on: 05/13/2011


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The popular stand-up comic performed two shows at Hereford's Courtyard in April to raise money for the Edgar Street outfit to pay off a tax bill.
Djalili's gigs generated around £20,000 for the Bulls and helped them settle the outstanding £78,000 HM Revenues and Customs demand.
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They are now set to play in the Southern League Premier Division after being accepted subject to confidential conditions.
Djalili says he feels for the supporters but believes they will continue to rally around the 90-year-old club.
He said: "I am very sad for the fans. It seems that everybody wanted Hereford to survive except for the people who had the power to do something about it.
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Marsalis Music and Redeye distribution are proud to announce the release of a rare new album by New Orleans' own Marsalis family August 24, 2010 entitled "Music Redeems." One of the most famous New Orleans' multigenerational jazz families and recent winners of the National Endowment for the Arts 2011 Jazz Masters Award honoring the family's lifetime achievements and contributions to jazz, gathered together last June at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for a very special evening. The night was full of celebration, appreciation, and performances as Patriarch, Ellis Marsalis received The Duke Ellington Jazz Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. There is another huge honor on the horizon for the Marsalis family. For the first time in the National Endowment of the Art's 29 year history, the NEA is presenting a group Jazz Masters Award (the nation's highest honor for their lifetime achievements and contributions to Jazz music) to the Marsalis family in January 2011.
The incredible, sold-out concert was recorded by Marsalis Music and features performances from sons Branford on saxophone, Wynton on trumpet, Delfeayo on trombone, Jason on drums, poet Ellis III, and special guest, family friend Harry Connick Jr. The evening inspired lively performances of repertoire with special meaning to Ellis and the Marsalis Family, punctuated by family stories and anecdotes about growing up in New Orleans. "I've played for presidents and queens and every other thing - nothing made me feel better than seeing my name up there with the Marsalis'," Harry Connick Jr. said of the evening.
It is no coincidence that "Music Redeems" will be out just days before the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as all proceeds from the album will fund community programming at the Ellis Marsalis Center For Music. The education center is the heart of the New Orleans Musicians' Village community, and was conceived in 2005 by Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. in partnership with New Orleans Habitat for Humanity following Hurricane Katrina.
In conjunction with the Marsalis Family album campaign to support the music education center, Marsalis Music will launch an online campaign (http://www.musicredeems.com) based on this motto and theme, "Music Redeems." Despite the damage inflicted by the storm and the recent challenges the city faces in response to damage from the oil spill, the culture of New Orleans still lies in its music; the idea of "Music Redeems" expands the project's local New Orleans roots to a universal theme with which everyone can identify. The goal of the campaign is to highlight the transformative power of music, individually and collectively, by offering fans the opportunity to share their own stories of the redemptive power of music and the role it has played in their lives and read the stories of others.
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Dairy farmers were the object lesson in a portion of President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night devoted to government regulation.
"We got rid of one rule from 40 years ago that could have forced some dairy farmers to spend $10,000 a year proving that they could contain a spill, because milk was somehow classified as an oil," Obama said. "With a rule like that, I guess it was worth crying over spilled milk. (To hear audience response to his "crying over spilled milk" joke, listen to the audio above.)
'I'm confident a farmer can contain a milk spill without a federal agency looking over his shoulder. But I will not back down from making sure an oil company can contain the kind of oil spill we saw in the Gulf two years ago," he said.
Early last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that oil-spill regulations dating back to the 1970s would not apply to bulk milk tanks. Milk had initially been included because of the butterfat it contains.
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Obama's win shows a lack of American virtue among voters
The following is a work of opinion submitted by the author.
Wonder what it's like to be a conservative today? It's a lonely place, my friend. Tuesday night I watched the election with my brother. The two of us sat in his living room, tense, hopeful, resigned. We know the country is changing. That doesn't mean it's good.
At 9 I said, "He's done for, isn't he?" and he replied with a monosyllabic "Yep."
On the way out I gave him a hug. "It's you and me against the world," I teased him.
"Sometimes it feels that way," he said.
For those of us who are conservatives — and in reality, there are many of us still — there's a calm and profound sadness this week. Wednesday morning, my friends at the coffee shop next door greeted me with gentle camaraderie. One of them is a long-time educator, a former superintendent, the other an entrepreneur who sold many years ago. One squeezed my hand in silence. The other, always the gruffer of the two, said matter-of-factly, "That's the end of it."
He wasn't talking about the election.
On Facebook, acquaintances I like very much are crowing success and sagely mocking our sense of mourning. "Don't worry, it's not the end of the country," they say — and it's probably true in the sense that they mean it. A place named America continues to exist, and might keep afloat for a while.
Out there are my friends and millions of others I'll never meet. Well meaning, cheerful, and utterly blind to the flow of ideas and consequence. They don't understand that the place is built on a specific piece of knowledge and that the fact of their vote is the proof that the knowledge is lost.
Samuel Adams said, "If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security."
The philosophical definition of virtue is a certain interior stoicism and mental toughness — action chosen through careful reason, a spartan austerity inside and out, a public orientation toward good. It's nothing so trite as "nice."
We don't have that virtue anymore, and we are enslaved, happily, voluntarily, almost ecstatically so. People whose daily lives are ever more tightly yoked to one another, even by a still relatively benign government, aren't free. People who labor under the burden of massive debt aren't free. People whose activities are endlessly monitored and moderated, even for their own good, aren't free, although they can be made to think they are.
"I can still do whatever I want," you say, but if I pressed you, you couldn't reasonably prove why it should be so.
Once we were a nation led by Washington and Lincoln. Humans here fought and died for timeless truth, for principle and for the natural dignity of man. "Meh," you say, I know.
On Election Night I watched people weep in the street and wave tiny flags to undermine those same principles, for someone to feel our pain, to lessen our burdens, to grant us a favor, to have a tattoo and pink hair. Worse, it's a struggle we find equally noble. We think the two things are the same.
"Times change," you say. They do, but where the flow of ideas leads us does not.
Recriminations about the candidate will abound, but the country was presented with a decent man with an ideal skill set for the problem at hand, and we voted on ideology instead. No conservative candidate could have won with an electorate so thoroughly steeped in a wild perversion of the principles and ideas it was founded on, and no electorate with virtue and knowledge could be so easily diverted from the core ideas it depends on to continue.
On Tuesday, Dick Polman wrote conservative ideas are "just not very popular." It was intended as the highest insult. To be cool, to be relevant, to be right, is to be one with the masses, nothing more or less. That's not news to us. We're just filled with quiet grief and despair, on behalf of even our most liberal friends. Polman's words are all too true.
Lisa Morgey lives in Pitman, N.J., and runs a small screen-printing business.
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