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He Didn't Stop Believin'
When the legendary rock band Journey needed to replace their lead singer, they turned to the Internet, where they found clips of an unknown 40yearold singer from the Philippines. Arnel Pineda was just a small-town boy, living in a lonely world, covering Journey songs in noname bar bands, but he had the voice—and the hair—of a naturalborn rock star. Now he's living a dream that goes on, and on, and on, and on…
arnel pineda, who turns 41 this year, has been performing in bands since he was a teenager, and by now he has mastered virtually every kick-ass lead-singer move known to rock. He can launch his compact body off the drum riser and land without twisting an ankle. He plays excellent microphone-cord air guitar. He knows when to do the reach-out-and-touch with the fans in the front row and when to turn the microphone stand upside down and lift it above his head, as if calling down the lightning. He knows how to do these things because he is a professional lead singer and a good one, which means he is a virtuoso whose instrument is his own charisma. He is also adept at the parts of the lead-singer job that involve singing.
Until recently, the only place you could see Pineda doing any of this stuff was in Manila, where he and his band, the Zoo, appeared regularly at bars and nightclubs, or on the YouTube channel of an industrious Zoo fan named Noel Gomez, who has uploaded more than sixty video clips of the band performing live, usually on stages that resemble discarded sets from early-'90s late-night talk shows. It was thanks to those videos, in which Pineda sings the songs of Deep Purple, the Goo Goo Dolls, Heart, Stryper, Styx, Toto, Aerosmith, Bob Marley, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Simple Minds, Bryan Adams, Men at Work, the Beatles, and REO Speedwagon, that he wound up here at the Planet Hollywood hotel in Las Vegas on a Saturday in early March, playing his first U.S. show as the new lead singer of the legendary '80s rock band Journey.
It's a little after 8 p.m., and we've reached the point in "Any Way You Want It" where lead guitarist Neal Schon, who cofounded Journey in 1973, plays a precise yet impassioned hairspray-torch of a solo. This is Pineda's cue to sidle up to Schon and make your-guitar-playing-is-rocking-me-so-hard faces at him, prompting Schon to make equally ridiculous not-as-hard-as-it's-rocking-me-my-brother faces back. It's the kind of thing singers in arena rock bands have been doing during the guitar break since arenas were invented, and usually it's only entertaining if you know, for example, that the guitarist and the lead singer actually hate each other. But when Pineda does it, it's more than a gesture. He has performed this song live many times before, but he's still getting used to performing it with the band that made it famous, so when he does the grooving-on-the-solo thing, he appears genuinely awed,1 not only by the force of Schon's rocking but by the fact that he, Arnel Pineda, is actually being rocked by Neal Schon. When he turns to the audience—where fans have been waving the Philippine flag and their own homemade banners (arnel for president) in his general direction all night long—the look on his face is equal parts glee and disbelief.
"My life is a fairy tale," Pineda told me earlier. "But I'm awake, and I'm dreaming it."
if you're in a long-running classic-rock band and you find yourself without a lead singer, as Journey did last summer, you have several options, aside from retirement. The minute it's announced that you and your frontman have parted ways, aspirants to the position will begin sending you their CDs, whether or not you have asked for them.
But if you're Journey, at least a few of the innumerable bedroom karaoke-ists, tennis-racket axpersons, and car-dashboard drummers your music has inspired will have gone semipro, forming tribute bands that play your music in a Civil War–reenactment kind of way, which means you've also got a vast pool of ready-on-day-one understudies from which to draw. When Judas Priest made their first album without original lead singer Rob Halford in 1996, they drafted Tim "Ripper" Owens, an Akron office-supply salesman who sang Halford's parts in a Priest tribute band; thanks to the 2001 film Rock Star, in which Mark Wahlberg played an Owens manqué named Chris "Izzy" Cole, this is probably the most famous example of a band calling a singer up from the farm team.
It's a major crossroads, this frontman decision. You can bet on the future by tapping a singer who may have his own thing happening, or you can reinvest in your legacy by recruiting a singer who's been practicing your stuff for years. But when Journey parted ways with frontman Jeff Scott Soto last summer, Neal Schon began to wonder if there was another way to go.
What you need to know here is that the lead-singer slot in Journey has always been a high-turnover position, somewhere between "Mr. Pamela Anderson" and "drummer for Spinal Tap" on the volatility scale. Soto was either the third, fourth, or fifth guy to have the job, depending on whether or not you count keyboardist Gregg Rolie (responsible for some of the vocals on the band's first three albums) or Neal Schon (ditto) or Robert Fleischman (who sang live with the band and cowrote "Wheel in the Sky" but never appeared on a studio album). But as far as Journey's fans are concerned, there is but one true Journey vocalist, and his name is Steve Perry. Before Perry, Journey were a chops-flaunting jazz-rock outfit whose first three albums had sold poorly; when Columbia Records threatened to drop the band, their manager, Herbie Herbert, prevailed upon them to hire Perry, who had a supple tenor, a gawky, earnest stage presence, and one of the worst haircuts in rock. Together, he and Journey began writing new songs that showcased two of these three qualities, and by the turn of the decade they'd become one of the biggest bands on earth.
Sometimes pop songs are poetry, and sometimes they're art, and sometimes they're poetry transformed into art and written in airbrush on acid-washed denim. During the Perry years, Journey sang about dreamers on the run, about summer nights, about the lonely road. They once rhymed "walkin' a high wire" with "caught in a cross fire." They made videos so singularly ill-conceived—like "Separate Ways," which is clearly supposed to take place in the kind of gritty urban environment where one might find oneself caught in a cross fire while walking on a high wire but appears to have actually been filmed in the parking lot of an Ikea—that they now resemble_ Flight of the Conchords_ skits. Pete Townshend once said, "If you steer clear of quality, you're all right," but Journey played everything with an aerobic professionalism that suggested that quality was Job One. Most rock critics despised them; they were frequently lumped in with Styx and Foreigner and characterized as "faceless," an allegation the members of Journey say they neither appreciated nor understood.
They were never cool, and they were never dangerous. Cool, dangerous bands advocated the use of drugs, or at least testified to their allure; Journey signed a then groundbreaking endorsement deal with Budweiser and once arrived at a St. Louis gig in a carriage pulled by the brewer's iconic team of Clydesdales. Cool, dangerous bands lured their fans to the dark side using satanic iconography; Journey tempted their fans into arcades to pump quarters into Bally Midway's Journey video game.2 Cool, dangerous bands made parents nervous; any kid who tried to rebel by cranking the soaring and saccharine sounds of Frontiers or Escape deserved to be laughed at through his or her bedroom door (and sat down by an elder sibling for a stern talking-to about the greatness of Black Sabbath).3
But for about a decade, they could basically do no wrong in the eyes of the record-buying public, who fell hard for future classic-rock radio staples like the shamelessly inspirational "Don't Stop Believin'," the shamelessly sentimental "Faithfully," and the shamelessly self-explanatory "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'." 4 Cool, dangerous bands are rarely accessible; Journey wanted to speak to as many people as possible. It didn't matter what kind of car you drove; if you'd ever wished it were a Trans Am, Journey were singing to you. Between 1978 and 1986, every record they made went platinum.
In 1984, Perry made a solo album, _Street Talk, _which spawned the hit singles "Foolish Heart" and "Oh Sherrie"; Schon says its success put a strain on Perry's relationship with the rest of the band. Perry returned to the Journey fold to make one more record, _Raised on Radio, _before taking an indefinite hiatus in 1987, citing vocal and emotional burnout. Journey didn't play together again until 1995. They made a comeback album, Trial by Fire, and scheduled a reunion tour; then Perry injured his hip on a hike in Hawaii. He needed to replace the hip in order to play live, but put off getting the surgery; Schon says the band waited until they couldn't wait anymore. The next time Journey toured, their singer was Brooklyn-born Steve Augeri. He took flak from hard-core fans for sounding too much like Steve Perry, and then he stepped aside, citing a chronic throat infection, and handed the mike to Jeff Scott Soto, who took flak for not sounding Perryish enough. A subtext was developing: Journey's fans felt that no one other than Steve Perry was fit to sing Journey songs in the shower, let alone onstage.
In conversation, the members of Journey jokingly refer to Steve Perry as "He Who Cannot Be Named," like the evil wizard in the Harry Potter books. Later, I ask Schon about this, after reading an interview with their former manager in which it is alleged that Journey are somehow legally enjoined from speaking on the record about Perry.
"Oh, y'know," Schon says. "There's no legal issue. We just try not to. I mean, I didn't say anything inflammatory. I didn't talk about how he still gets paid like a motherfucker even though he shouldn't be. It's stuff like that I'm not allowed to talk about. He sorta just bitches and moans and whines about everything. And he just assumes that every time we bring up his name, that we're sayin' bad things."
no one in journey was excited about auditioning new singers, and none of the tribute-band Steves they looked at seemed like the answer. "I didn't think they had anything new to offer," Schon says, "other than making us a nostalgia act, and I wasn't interested in that."
Instead, Schon says, "I sat in my house for a couple days, hoping the almighty Internet would bring some relief."
He trawled YouTube, looking at all the live footage of male rock vocalists he could find. "You never know what you're getting on a CD," Schon says. "It can be all doctored in Pro Tools. You never know if somebody can sing unless you're watching something live." He found a few singers with potential—a couple of guys in England, doing "a Justin Timberlake–type thing." And then he stumbled on Noel Gomez's Zoo videos.
There are a few clips on YouTube of Pineda singing Journey songs like "Faithfully." His Steve Perry is almost eerily flawless; he nails both Perry's girlish quaver and the grit and pacing Perry borrowed from soul singers like Sam Cooke, and the fact that you can occasionally hear his accent makes the rest of the performance that much more uncanny. But Schon insists that what grabbed him about Pineda was his range. He slam-dunked Survivor. He tore up Toto. He made something out of "Makin' Love out of Nothing at All," and—spoiler alert—what he made out of it was love.
"The hair stood up on my arms," Schon says. "I got up off the computer and told my girlfriend, 'No way—this guy sounds too good. I don't believe it.' "
He went for a motorcycle ride. Thus are important rock-star decisions made. When he got back, he watched the clips again. Then he started calling his band. "I said, 'I found the singer,' " Schon says. "And they go, 'Where is he' And I'm like, 'He's in Manila!'
"And they go, 'Great—so you found a singer who can't speak English.' "
pineda's english is actually fine.
Right now he is trying to save his voice for tomorrow's show, so he speaks softly, which makes him seem as if he's in a state of perpetual awe (and maybe he is).
Pineda may have the most Dickensian backstory in rock history. His mother died when he was 13; his father took Pineda's siblings to live with relatives, and Pineda struck out on his own. He collected scrap metal, bottles, and old newspapers, usually bringing home the equivalent of thirty cents a day. Sometimes he'd sleep at a friend's house; more often than not, he'd sleep in Manila's Luneta Park, alone or with a group of other homeless kids. They drank from a fountain there and bathed in it, too; most mornings, Pineda would wake up sick from the dew. ("All clogged here," he says, pressing two fingers to his sinuses.)
His friend Monet Cajipe played guitar. Sometimes when Pineda wasn't working, he'd go over to Monet's house and they'd sing songs together. "He would bring me to his family," Pineda says, "and say, 'Come on, give some food to my friend,' because I was starving. They would make me sing, and then they would feed me. They would just bribe me with food."
At 15, Pineda tried out for a group called Ijos Band. He'd never sung with a real band before; during the audition, his voice was strong but his timing was weak. The bandleader saw something in him anyway, and when the other members of Ijos groused about having to split their nightly take with an extra man, one of the bandleader's friends came to the rescue, offering to pay Arnel's salary—thirty-five pesos a night—out of his own pocket. Perks of the job included a tiny room under the guitarist's front stairs, where Pineda could sleep.
He went on to cofound a band called Amo, which evolved into a band called New Age, featuring Cajipe on guitar. Like many Filipino bands, they played a mix of original material and covers of American and British rock and pop. While the U.S. occupation shaped Filipino musical culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Philippines truly became a cover-band nation in the '60s, when the islands served as a way station for troops en route to or from the Vietnam War and every nightclub needed bands who could entertain American servicemen with Top 40 rock 'n' roll. To this day, Pineda says, "if you only play original songs, [audiences in the Philippines] will not appreciate you 100 percent. They want to hear you singing other bands' songs that made it to number one. Like Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Journey."
In the early '90s, New Age relocated to Hong Kong, a time-honored path for -Filipino musicians seeking their fortune. It didn't go so well. Playing the same cover tunes every night began to drive Pineda crazy. He was bored, so he drank, took drugs, and generally pursued any and all forms of rock 'n' roll self-destruction available to a boy from Manila adrift on the Hong Kong bar circuit. Before long, he'd wrecked his voice. When he found he could no longer hit the high notes in Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight," he went to a doctor, who told him to retire. He was 27.
"He said, 'You're finished. Your vocal is just done,' " Pineda says. "I did not believe him. I told myself, I can get it back."
He returned to the Philippines, got straight, learned to sing again. He recorded a self-titled solo album in 2000; he and Cajipe started the Zoo. They recorded their first album,_ Zoology_. For a man who'd been told he'd never sing again, it was a happy enough ending. Then, last summer, the phone rang.
When Pineda went to get his visa, the guy who interviewed him at the embassy—"His name is Ben. I can't forget his name," Pineda says—was a fan who'd seen him play with the Zoo a couple of times, so Pineda took a request, and everybody in the office looked up from their desks at the guy singing "Wheel in the Sky."
He flew to San Francisco, spent a day jamming with the band at their rehearsal space. He hadn't slept much on the flight over, so his voice kept cracking, and he assumed he'd blown it, but he almost didn't care. He'd come to America and sung with a band he'd loved since he was 12 years old. He'd shot some home movies of them on his camcorder—a YouTube-able epilogue to his crazy YouTube adventure. He was ready to settle for that. But that jam session led to a long day in the studio, where Pineda sang two new songs and four or five of the Dirty Dozen—nailing most of them in one take—and by the time it was over, he'd passed the audition.
"Arnel cared about getting it right," band member Jonathan Cain says. "There wasn't this arrogance—the Lead Singer Disease that so many guys have when they have fantastic voices."
let us consider the New Guy.
In life, the New Guy gets the office that was once a closet full of printer paper, or maybe still is; the New Guy is told about bogus traditions involving the New Guy picking up the lunch tab; the New Guy spends a lot of time wondering what's so funny.
The New Guy's phone rings, but it's not for him. He disappoints people just by picking it up. _No, I'm sorry—he's not here anymore. Is there something I can help you with _
In rock, being the New Guy is the same, except harder. The jokes you don't know go back to some long, snowy between-concerts bus ride circa 1984. And you're trying to inhabit a stadium-sized myth, not a cubicle. You might win over a few late-to-the-party fans, but your presence alone will always be proof to some people that the band has outlived its awesomeness. A band with a New Guy on vocals is like a late-period Happy Days episode, one of the ones where nobody's left except Ted McGinley and a middle-aged Fonz who can barely zip the leather jacket. And because the only way for a band in this position to shake off the taint of the glue factory is to reunite with its original singer, the New Guy in a rock band is always a dead man rocking.
Tim Owens got seven years with Judas Priest before Rob Halford returned. Anyone not named David Lee Roth who agrees to sing for Van Halen is basically keeping the leather pants warm for Diamond Dave. And however comfortable Pineda's been made to feel during the past few months, he must know on some level that Steve Augeri and Jeff Soto once felt comfortable, too. Toward the end of our interview, as dusk bleaches the color from the desert outside the window, I ask him if he's thought about how long this is going to last.
"Well, of course," he says. "Of course I did. I'm a very realistic person. I like to plan. I like to see the future. If I'm lucky, if I'm still strong, I want to be with them for the next three years. And if they still like me after that, I still want to be with them. And hopefully we will create new Journey music that people will love."
And at some point, I suggest, you'll become essential. People will say Journey without Arnel, who wants that
"I just want to be a part of a band that will be able to reinvent themselves, you know" Pineda says. "And I think they will be able to help me build a future, with my family. They will help me financially. They can help me with that. Because all of us need a good future for our children, for our families."
It's true, we do. The members of Journey talk about Pineda like he's given them their youth back, the way thrice-married men talk about the young wives who've got them doing wheatgrass shots and yoga, listening to the Killers. It's never too late to feel like you're going to live forever. "I think we're reborn, right now, with Arnel," Schon says.
He talks about the band's first show with Pineda in Chile, how Arnel was all over the stage, jumping around, surprising everyone, and making Schon—who's playing a cordless guitar for the first time since the '80s—feel the need to step his game up. "I'm gonna be riding my bicycle a lot, and skating," he says, "and getting myself in tip-top shape so I can keep up with this little guy."
When Journey were off the road last year, during the gap between singers, it gave Schon time to get sober. When we talk, it's been nine months. "I believe I was a functioning alcoholic," he says—he'd stay straight for shows but kill a bottle of vodka on the tour bus afterward, and that went on for years. So this moment is also a rebirth for Schon; he's facing all of it straight for the first time. "I feel like I have 100 percent of myself here," he says, "and I'm really excited about getting out there and being completely in control."
Pineda's arrival lets them zero out the odometer. "Had I known Arnel was around fifteen years ago," Schon says, "singing even better than he is now—Goddammit, I would have called him!"
journey may not want to be thought of as a nostalgia act. But they are clearly totally fine with being an act that benefits from nostalgia. When I ask Cain why people still care about Journey in 2008, his response is basically a definition of the term:
"It's music they grew up to," he says. "Fell in love with. Had sex with. Got married to. Graduated from high school or college with. It's a moment frozen in time, and when they remember those moments, they remember those songs. Y'know, the '70s and '80s were awesome times. There was a lot less trouble in the world. And it's like people wanna go back to that simpler place and time. We see these housewives—they used to come to our shows when they were teenagers, and now it's like The Big Chill. They come back, they get a room, and they come see Journey. And I see 'em in the bars and buy 'em a drink and talk to 'em. Or there'll be a daughter that's bringing her mom to a Journey show as a birthday present, because she didn't get to see us back then. And you're like, 'Oh my God—I'm part of this.' "
How Journey's fan base will respond to the band's new incarnation is another question. Journey's new album, Revelation, will be available in June, exclusively at Wal-Mart. In this regard, they're following in the footsteps of the Eagles, who've sold 2.9 million copies of their album Long Road out of Eden through the big-box retailer since last October.
The album package will consist of a CD featuring eleven new Journey songs with Pineda on vocals, a DVD of the Planet Hollywood show, and a third disc featuring Pineda-sung rerecordings of eleven Journey classics whose original iterations featured you-know-who. Depending on how you look at it, this rewrite of the band's history is either a huge vote of confidence for Pineda or the rock 'n' roll equivalent of trying to prove to yourself that you're over your ex-girlfriend by dating a woman who looks exactly like her. And it's a move guaranteed to piss off more than a few Journey fans—even the album's producer, Kevin Shirley, compares it to "roxing the Holy Grail."5
I get a hint of the backlash that may be on the way when, a week or so before the Vegas show, I post a thread on the Journey message board at Melodicrock.com, an Internet forum for people with strong opinions about power balladry and Night Ranger side projects. I ask people to tell me their Journey stories; I ask people what they think of Pineda. I give out my e-mail address. Within minutes, my in-box fills up with e-mails—angry, passionate e-mails.
I hear from a few thick-and-thin super-fans, from plenty of reasonable people ready to give Arnel a fair shake, and even a few early Pineda converts. But I also hear from people frustrated by the band's -inability to hold on to a lead singer and from people who resent the band for continuing on at all. But mostly, I hear from people who have not stopped believing in Steve Perry. They compare him to Elvis, John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, and God. They describe the post-Perry band as "a second-class rendition of Journey." They send me all-caps e-mails—Steve Perry really brings out the caps-lock in people—that begin "IT HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT YOU ARE LOOKING TO WRIGHT AN ARTICLE ABOUT WHY JOURNEY IS NO LONGER JOURNEY BUT NOTHING MORE THEN A TRIBUTE BAND TO THE BEST SOFT ROCK BAND EVER." They send me photomosaics of Steve Perry created out of many, many tiny little pictures of Steve Perry.
"You want to know why the 'fascination' with Journey all of a sudden" writes Thomas Cordea of Fort Wayne, Indiana. "With the hiring of a blatant 'sound-alike' singer, the world is 're-awakening' to the fact that THEY MISS STEVE PERRY LIKE MAD.… That is the real 'hidden' storyline of your article, not this latest frontman hire."
Maybe. But this latest frontman hire still seems like the first smart move Journey have made in years. They've got a guy who can sing the Perry material on tour. They're excited about making new music with him. And the fact that they discovered Pineda on YouTube has given them a ready-made PR hook. In a clicky, viral, cell-phone-delivered media moment where even the twice-weekly cult-of-the-amateur hour that is _American Idol _seems like a rusty piece of star-making machinery and Simon Cowell like a snooty gatekeeper, Journey—Journey!—seem like innovators, in touch with the forces shaping the culture. For a band prominently featured in people's memories of the Carter administration, this is pretty impressive.
This doesn't change the fact that they're Journey—emblematic of the way '70s rock betrayed the '60s in the '80s, part of the problem that punk's loogie-hawking historical rebuke supposedly solved. The middleman-eliminating YouTube story line can't make them cool; neither can the existence of a Journey-branded "Virtual Island" in the online nerdiverse Second Life. But coolness accrues in unexpected ways; once-verboten things slip out of cultural jail under cover of irony.
five signs the journey revival is imminent or possibly already here, in descending order of cultural impact:
1. David Chase uses "Don't Stop Believin'" in the last scene of the last episode of The Sopranos. It either is or isn't the last song Tony Soprano ever hears. (A week after the episode airs, Hillary and la famiglia Clinton parody this scene, right down to the onion rings, in a viral-video campaign ad.)
2. Drolly doleful indie rockers—Badly Drawn Boy, Of Montreal—begin slipping ironic-but-maybe-sincere "Don't Stop Believin'" covers into their live sets. Kanye West does, too—at the shows he played in Europe shortly after his mother's death, it often followed "Hey Mama," the one he couldn't get through without crying.
3. Literate classic-rock obsessive Craig Finn and his Brooklyn-via-Minnesota meta–bar band, the Hold Steady, reference Journey in song: My name is Steve Perry, but people call me Circuit City.… My name's Neal Schon, but people call me Nina Simone.
4. Petra Haden, formerly of the late, lamented three-girls-and-a-guy alt-rock band that dog., records an a cappella cover of "Don't Stop Believin'." Haden: "My favorite part is singing that guitar solo. I always end up laughing at the end. I shouldn't, because it's supposed to be so serious. But I always do."
5. Some aspiring George Romero with access to a camcorder and a backyard uploads a no-budget horror short called "Journey of the Dead" to YouTube. Synopsis: "Steve Perry (former lead singer of Journey) saves a Rock and Roll loving couple from an attack by Rock Star Drummer Zombies. After a violent and bloody battle with the zombies, Steve Perry emerges victorious (as always) and then finds himself engaged in a karate showdown with the ultimate evil lead singer mastermind, Freddie Mercury!" Best quote: "Hey, zombie-breath—you picked the wrong day to not be dead! Now you're going to have to face Steve Perry!"
tapping somebody who can do Perry as well as Pineda can may indicate that the band want that uncomplicated approval they got from their audience during the Perry years, as opposed to the problematic tough love they're getting now. Or maybe Neal Schon—who started Journey, spent years building an audience through tireless touring (traveling, in the early days, in four-door station wagons, rolling into the venue just in time to jump onstage and play—who says Journey weren't punk) before having Perry foisted upon him in 1977 for reasons of commercial expediency, and has spent the post-Perry years being accused of sacrilege for daring to continue playing in the band he founded in the first place—wants to prove that it is he and his bandmates who make it Journey.
But when I ask Schon if he's at all tired of Journey being defined by Perry's presence or absence, he answers, "Um, no. I think he contributed so much to the sound of the band. Those songs are gonna be embedded in everybody's heads and hearts forever."
I get a slightly different take from Steve Perry, who calls from his home near San -Diego. Perry, who's finally started working on his first album of new material since leaving Journey, doesn't want to talk about the vocalists who've followed in his footsteps, Pineda included. "I only know that they've been through three guys," he says, "and I've never heard any of them. I stay away from it, because it's really none of my business now. We have children together, which are the songs we wrote, but that's about all."
But he will talk about what it was like when he joined a Journey already in progress in 1977, shedding a little light on what it might feel like to be Pineda now. "You've got to remember, they didn't want to make it with a lead singer," he says. "They wanted to make it without one."
I ask him about the scene in VH1's Journey_ Behind the Music _episode in which Perry declares that he "never really felt like part of the band." Was that because Schon resented having to hire a frontman
"What that meant," Perry says, "was that there was a period of time where I always felt that I had to prove myself. But along with that, you have to print that I can't blame them. It was [Neal's] band. Herbie Herbert built that band around Neal because he's a star on his own, from a guitar standpoint. There's nobody who plays like Neal Schon, to this day. I still miss his playing. We don't get along, but I love his playing.
"They wanted to make it on their own goalposts that they had in mind. There's nothing wrong with that. And I hope you print that, because it's important that people know that. I'm not bitchin'. I'm not whining. I completely understand how they felt and why."
the security people at the Planet Hollywood show—even the women—have the hired-muscle intimidation factor of pit bosses. For all I know, they are pit bosses. But at the end of the Planet Hollywood show, when Journey come back out to redo a couple of songs for the DVD—"We have to do one of the new ones again," Schon says cheerfully, "because we fucked it up!"6—the crowd-control policy is relad and people are allowed to come down the floor-seat aisles and up to the stage to scream and clutch at Pineda, presumably because this will make the show look more exciting on-camera. Someone hands him up a tiny Philippine flag on a wooden stand, the kind a diplomat keeps on his desk, and he stares at it for what counts, in rock-show time, as a long moment, before handing it back.
The do-overs end the night with a sort of anticlimactic thud, but overall it's been a good show, particularly for Pineda. Almost half the crowd—and this is an unscientific estimate based on what the nonwhite people looked like when I turned around—appeared to be Filipino, and from the first note he sang, they were his. And while none of the new Journey songs will make anybody forget "Don't Stop Believin'"—as always, the words "Here's another one from the new album" are the classic-rock-show audience's cue for a bathroom break—some of them are pretty affecting.
Kevin Shirley described "After All These Years" to me as "like 'Faithfully: Part 2'—it's a gem," and it kind of is. Like "Faithfully" (Journey's greatest gift to wedding DJs), it's a soaring, soulful ballad, readable as both a pledge of eternal fealty and a love letter to the fans. But the "all these years" theme adds the weight of long-term commitment to the mix; a song like this is how you tell your audience you'd marry them all over again. And while it's not anywhere near as good as "Faithfully," you can imagine it someday becoming part of the canon. Someday it will be performed by a singer in a smoky room—some Hong Kong piano bar, maybe—and traveling salesmen far from hearth and home will shed a tear or two, and maybe that's all that matters.
Afterward, there's a bottleneck in the lobby of the theater. As everyone shuffles slowly toward the doors that lead to the mezzanine above the casino, someone in the crowd starts singing the Nah nah, na nah nah / Na na na nah nah refrain from "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'," the last song of the night. (It's the one song in Journey's catalog where you can most clearly hear the Sam Cooke mannerisms in Steve Perry's delivery, and Pineda nailed it—an Asian guy imitating a white Californian imitating a black guy from Chicago, on a stage in a Las Vegas hotel with "Hollywood" in the name. The mind reels.)
Then, as if the air-conditioning has started pumping karaoke spores, other people join in and start singing Nah nah, na nah nah / Na na na nah nah, too. It only lasts for a few seconds, but those seconds are maybe the most sincere moment of community I've experienced at a rock show in a long, long time—and they feel like proof that the Pineda-fronted version of Journey has succeeded in giving people the kind of life-affirming Journey experience they were looking for.
Later there's a VIP meet-and-greet in a high-ceilinged Planet Hollywood banquet room. Trickling in like they've timed their entrances, the band pose for pictures and sign T-shirts, albums, ticket stubs. The energy is a little flat until Arnel appears, wearing a shiny long-sleeve T-shirt, his hair pulled back in a ponytail. People immediately crowd around him, waving digital cameras; somebody shouts, "Move back, move back!" He makes it to the other side of the room, still swarmed by fans—many of them Filipino, many of them girls. I try to ask Arnel a couple of questions about the show, which yields a brief interview, reproduced here in its entirety:
Q. How's it going, Arnel A. Hey, man!
Then someone else gets his attention and he's off, posing for another photo. Instead, I interview Patty Zaragoza, who's a flight attendant "representing the Cathay Pacific cabin crew." She doesn't know much about Journey, but she's a fan of Pineda's—she used to see him perform in Hong Kong, at a bar called Grammy's. She gives me a blue Cathay Pacific lanyard, in case the one that came with my Journey backstage pass ceases to function. I turn around to try to get another word or two with Pineda, but he's mobbed. The crowd swallows him. He is, at least for now, a rock star.
the day before the show, I ask Kevin Shirley if he feels Pineda has fully processed everything that's happened to him during the past few months.
"No," Shirley says. "No, I don't think he has. I think the record needs to come out. I think he needs to go on tour. I think he still has a lot of fear about whether he can play this set every night. But he can. I feel very confident. But yeah—once all that settles in, and maybe once he gets his first royalty check. In the meantime, it's like, 'Can you buy me a sandwich I'm the lead singer of Journey!' "
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Given the helplessness of conventional statistics to determine who the most valuable batsmen and bowlers are in a series or a tournament, the Neanderthal system of Runs Tally and Wickets Tally suffices, as the Orange and Purple Caps are prominently celebrated every few days as movement happens on those respective fronts.
We do a comparison here of the Orange Cap contenders currently – that is, the highest run-scorers of IPL 2012 so far, with who the highest impact batsmen actually are. And then of the Purple Cap – the highest wicket-takers of IPL 2012, and who the highest impact bowlers really are. Whatever the tenor of the disagreements, some interesting extra insights do emerge.
Despite Sehwag being the highest run-scorer, right now Gautam Gambhir is the highest impact batsman of IPL 2012. He nudges out Virender Sehwag very slightly only because of a marginally higher Runs Tally IMPACT (very interesting, given that he actually has scored 11 runs less than him in the tournament so far – but Runs Tally IMPACT measures the proportion of runs scored by him in the context of every match, and Gambhir's proportion is slightly higher).
By no means do we want to take away from Ajinkye Rahane's outstanding performances (we hope they get him into the national squad, in fact) but the fact is that, despite being second on the run-scorers list, he is 11th on the Impact list.
His Strike Rate IMPACT has been barely reasonable (just about manages to stay positive). He has not absorbed any pressure this season - the only player amongst the top 10 run-scorers who has not absorbed any pressure. He also has the highest batting failure rate (not managing an IMPACT of 1 in a match) amongst the top 10 run-scorers, alongside Gayle and White - both of whom however have done better than him both on Strike Rate and Pressure Impact.
Rahul Dravid is low on the Impact list (9th) as compared to the run-scoring list solely because of his negative Strike Rate IMPACT (-0.14).
Robin Uthappa also suffers on the Impact list because of his negative Strike Rate IMPACT (-0.22). Mandeep Singh also just about manages a zero Strike Rate IMPACT. Both of them are also the lowest amongst the top 10 run-scorers, when it comes to Runs Tally Impact – proportion of runs scored in the context of every match, which means they scored more runs in relatively high-scoring matches than low.
Kevin Pietersen, 12th on the run-scorers list, with 305 runs in his 8 matches, is 4th on the Impact list – he is very high both on Runs Tally IMPACT and Strike Rate IMPACT and also has had the highest impact on the remaining batting parameters – Pressure, Partnership Building and Chasing Impact.
The highest Strike Rate IMPACT batsmen (which calculates strike rates relative to every match; minimum 5 matches) so far are Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, AB de Villiers, Kevin Pietersen and Chris Gayle. According to conventional cricket statistics, the highest strike-rates are by AB de Villiers (3rd on the Strike Rate IMPACT list), V Sehwag (1st), Irfan Pathan (8th), Chris Gayle (5th) and Cameron White (6th).
The highest Pressure IMPACT batsmen (which calculates the pressure of falling wickets that a batsman has successfully absorbed; minimum 5 matches) so far are Kevin Pietersen, Rohit Sharma, Chris Gayle, Sourav Ganguly and Robin Uthappa – the last two on cue, as Pune Warriors was found by us at the start of the tournament to be the side that was likely to absorb the most pressure. Conventionally, it is not possible to calculate this, of course.
The highest Chasing IMPACT batsmen (which calculates the impact batsmen have while chasing down targets; minimum 5 matches) so far are Kevin Pietersen, Rohit Sharma, Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle and Shaun Marsh.
The bowling charts are a little more in synch – at least at the top – where Lasith Malinga and Morne Morkel are perched, on both charts. Sunil Narine – this year's most noticed bowler and the best spinner by a distance, is the fourth highest-impact bowler in this IPL.
Muttiah Muralitharan, who has played just 5 matches so far in IPL 2012, is the third-highest impact bowler despite taking just 8 wickets (not even in the top 15 wicket-takers). His high Economy IMPACT takes him to these heights – as does his low failure rate (failed just once out of the five times he has played) -- an indication of how much RCB have blundered by not playing him right through the tournament (it may cost them heavily).
Three players who are high on the wicket-taking list go low on the Impact list due to their inconsistency – high failure rates as bowlers (failure rate means not being able to register an impact of even 1 in a match). Munaf Patel has taken 12 wickets but has a high failure rate of 56% - failing in 5 out of his 9 matches.
Kieron Pollard also has taken 11 wickets but with a very high failure rate of 63% - failing in 5 out of his 8 matches as a bowler. Umesh Yadav also has taken 10 wickets but with a high failure rate of 55% - failing in 6 of his 11 matches. Jacques Kallis also has a high failure rate of 45% - failing in 5 of his 11 matches as a bowler.
Amit Singh has taken 10 wickets in his 9 matches but has a lower impact because of his negative Economy Impact (-0.18).
The highest Economy IMPACT bowlers (which calculates economy rates relative to every match; minimum 5 matches) so far are Lasith Malinga, Sunil Narine, Muttiah Muralitharan, Dale Steyn and Daniel Vettori. According to conventional cricket statistics, the highest economy-rates are by Sunil Narine (2nd on the Economy IMPACT list), Lasith Malinga (1st), Ankit Sharma (7th), Wayne Parnell (19th) and R Ashwin (9th).
Muttiah Muralitharan, Daniel Christian and Harmeet Singh have broken the most partnerships in this IPL so far. And Kevon Cooper, Umesh Yadav and Siddharth Trivedi have built the most pressure on the opposition (by taking wickets in succession).
Most years, the Orange Cap winner is not the highest impact batsman of the tournament. The Purple Cap winner is the highest impact bowler a little more often (but not always) simply because there are fewer variables in the circumstances in which wickets are taken in any cricket match, whatever the format.
However, by not combining the various facets of batsmanship and bowling, and only awarding the highest tallies, the sport that perhaps has the most nuances amongst field sports is actually unable to acknowledge those who performed the best in various aspects.
And often misses the mark when it comes to awarding the most deserving players. Sadly, there are many alternatives to ensuring this does not happen (Impact Index is certainly not the only solution). But they do nothing.
They just perpetuate this wrong year after year.
For more information, please go to www.impactindexcricket.com

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Monday, September 25, 2017
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Pulsating Pain on Right Side of Neck
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PETER Kildemand has been confirmed in the Danish team for Saturday's World Cup final, as reported by the Advertiser earlier this evening.
The Robins number one scored 12 points as the Danes won Event Two in Vastervik, but Nicki Pedersen and Niels-Kristian Iversen will come into the team for the final with Hans Andersen and Bjarne Pedersen making way.
Kildemand has kept his place along with Mads Korneliussen, with Secher admitting his decision was a tough one.
He told www.monsterenergyswc.com: "I picked Mads because he was absolutely the best gater for the Danish team tonight. I didn't have any doubt about him after the meeting.
"I had doubts whether I should go for Peter or Hans because they were almost even in my opinion. They both scored 12 points and they both made good starts. They also gave it a go on the track.
"It went to Peter because I thought he was more of a fighter than Hans tonight – that's what made the difference. But it was a very tough call for me. Hans was gating so well.
"The meeting I had with the riders after the event was a tough one. Hans will still be involved in Bydgoszcz. It's his home track in Poland and I'm sure he can provide important information about it if we need it. He'll be there and he is a team player.
"He told me 'I'm up for that. No problem.' That tells you something about the rider. Of course he is disappointed and so was Bjarne Pedersen, who also gave it a good go. But they're there for the team, they're there for Denmark and I am proud of them."


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Adam: Biographical Information
Adam and Hagar were the parents of Friday Johnson and Violet Washington, who may have ties to Drayton family plantations in Charleston, South Carolina.
We do not as yet know if Adam and Hagar were enslaved on Drayton family plantations, or who their last slaveholders were.
Violet Washington, age 32, opened a Freedmen's Bank account in Charleston, South Carolina on August 14, 1869. On her application, she stated that she was born in Georgetown County, South Carolina. In her application, Violet stated that her parents were Adam and Hagar (both deceased), her brothers were Friday Johnson and Peter Gilliard, and her sisters were Maria, Fanny and Diana (all deceased).
Violet's husband was Stephen Washington. They lived on Green Street near Dr. Bellinger and had no children in 1869. Violet was a seller in the Lower Market.
Violet's brother Friday Johnson opened a Freedmen's Bank account on October 4 1871. The family information on his application agrees with that on Violet's account record: their parents were Adam and Hagar, they were born in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Friday names his brother Peter in his account record but lists him as deceased in 1871.
This family is of interest to us for our Drayton family research for several reasons: 1. A Patsey Johnson accompanied her cousin Ellen Wilson when Ellen opened her Freedmen's Bank account. Ellen was born and raised on Drayton Hall Plantation, Ashley River.
2. Bowens/Johnson descendants recognize Violet Washington as a family member although they are not sure exactly where she fits into their family line.
3. As we shall develop as we add records for this family, in the decades following the making of these two Freedmen's Bank records, Violet Washington, sister of Friday Johnson Person:Friday Johnson (3) continued to be closely associated with the Friday Johnson who fits directly into the central Bowens/Johnson lineage Person:Friday Johnson (1). Are the two Friday Johnsons related to one another? Are they the same person? The answer awaits further research.
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Freedmen's Bank Record 3341, Violet Washington, Charleston, South Carolina, August 14, 1869(transcription and image to be added)
Freedmen's Bank Record 5352, Friday Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina, October 4, 1871 (transcription and image to be added)
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Lindsay Lohan is heading to OWN.
Oprah Winfrey has landed an interview (as well a short reality series) with the troubled actress, set to take place once Lindsay emerges from rehab, Access Hollywood has learned.
"OWN will air an exclusive interview with Oprah and Lindsay Lohan that will tape and air in August and an eight-part documentary series with Lindsay for 2014," a spokesperson for the network told Access on Friday.
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The 27-year-old star is currently fulfilling a court-mandated 90-day rehab stint, scheduled to end on July 31.
Lindsay checked into the Betty Ford Center in May as part of a plea deal stemming from her June 2012 car accident case.
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Alex Gemignani, Cass Morgan, Krysta Rodriguez and More Set for York's NEO Reading of SAINT EX
The York Theatre Company will present the first reading of new works in the new program NEO Reading Series: Saint Ex, with Book & Lyrics by Sean Berry and Music by Jenny Giering. Directed by Kent Nicholson with music direction by Matt Castle, the cast will feature Alex Gemignani (Assassins) in the title role, with Haley Bond (York's Pietro D'Amore), Charlie Brady (Les Misérables), Amy Justman (Company), Carl Kimbrough (A Christmas Story, tour), Omar Lopez-Ceparo (American Idiot), Cass Morgan (Memphis) and Krysta Rodriguez (The Addams Family). Composer Maury Yeston (Dreamgirls) acted as mentor; John Arthur Pinkard is the producing mentor. One night only performance set for Monday, December 17th at 7:00 p.m at The York Theatre at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).
The reading is free and open to the public.
Best known for his classic of children's literature, The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) lived a life of romance and high-flying adventure. Saint-Ex tells the story of this famed aviator's struggle between his love for his fiery Salvadorean wife, Consuelo de Carillo, and his dedication to the men with whom he shared a lifelong passion for the plane. A heartfelt, original musical, Saint-Ex soars with the thrill of flight and captivates with the mystery of the private grief that would drive Saint-Exupéry to craft one of the world's best-loved and most enduring books.
NEO (an acronym for "New, Emerging, Outstanding") celebrates songwriters primed to pen the next generation of musicals. (Since the first NEO concert 7 years ago -- recorded by England's JAY Records-- musical theatre fans and York supporters eagerly anticipate each incarnation.) The York Theatre Company has recently embarked on a new yearlong mentoring program that brings together established writers and upcoming producing partners to help encourage the growth of new works.


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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Infectious Diseases
Histoplasmosis- Can it go Away After a Month?
Husband was exposed to Histoplasmosis that killed his friend and he has been sick now for a month since. We are still waiting on test results, but would like some more info while waiting...He`s had a fever for over a month ranging from 100-103.5 on and off each day. Body aches, sore joints, headaches and nightsweats. His xray shows scarring on his lungs. Tb test was neg. along with a ton of other tests, just still waiting on Histo test.
But now my husband hasnt had a fever for almost 15 hours (for the first time in over a month) - Can histoplasmosis cure itself after he`s had such strong symptoms for so long and has the lung scarring??
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devour magic on enemies was fucking retarded anyway, rest I agree with Conrad.
But stop all the complaining like making whine threads about it, have u ever tried to be a subpar class for just one season? You are more than viable at the moment, I mean, extremly viable yet again.
Try to have played a Paladin for most of your WoW career and still sticking to it, having no good spec for what, 9 seasons in a row? (Talking 3v3, not 2v2 protholy).
no1 said we arent in a good spot, but everyone agrees that demo is boring and doesnt require you to do much, everything is instant cast and you don't really feel like you have outplayed anyone. Its like playing bm hunter instead of MM.


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2009 Life Without Lupus® Gala
Over 500 guests gathered at the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation's black tie event at Times Square's New York Marriott Marquis on December 7th for the nation's largest lupus fundraising event.
Leaders in health care, industry, advertising, and government joined in recognizing the honorees that helped to make it such an inspiring decade for people with lupus.
2009 Gala Honoree — A Decade of Creative Leadership
Kevin Roberts, worldwide CEO of the communications and advertising powerhouse Saatchi & Saatchi (of Publicis Groupe).
The Foundation is deeply indebted to Saatchi & Saatchi for continued pro bono commitment to shaping the words and visuals that so powerfully communicate the challenges and aspirations of the lupus cause. This includes the creations of the iconic orange "loop" for lupus awareness. '
2009 Distinguished Public Service Award — A Decade of Community Leadership
Garth Graham, MD, MPH, the HHS' deputy assistant Secretary at the Office of Minority Health, accepts the award from Foundation President Richard K. DeScherer (L) and Executive Director Margaret G. Dowd.
As the successful champion for a new nationwide lupus education medical school curriculum for physicians and community-based health care providers, Dr. Graham is leading the drive to dismantle racial disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of lupus. The Foundation has led the country in addressing gender and racial disparities in lupus for a decade.
2009 Scientific Leadership Award—A Decade of Scientific Leadership
David C. Stump, MD, executive vice president of research and development for Human Genome Sciences, David C. Stump, MD.
HGS is paving the way for what could be the first drug approval for lupus in 50 years.
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Way to nerd that up…
Leigh has started another blogging event: The Not Only Breakfast Club. The first theme is nerdy food. That's right up our alley!
Hubby and I are engineers. We're pretty much about as nerdy as it gets. We both got degrees in Aeronautical engineering. Our families like to say we're rocket scientists even though neither of us work in rocketry. A lot of our friends are also enginerds. We often have to call each other out for "nerding" something up. You know, when someone takes it to that next level of nerdiness.
Some non-nerds can't handle the nerdiness that we can bring to a party. One day after work, we were hanging out with my big bro and his fiancee. Big bro is an enginerd as well. Future sister in law asked if we knew what big bro was talking about when he said he writes "code" all day. I think she was looking for sympathy from us. We laughed and said of course we knew. In fact, I write code about 40 hours a week at work!
Anyways, back to the food. I saw this and almost laughed out loud. Take a look at it. Do you think this food is nerdy?
Come on, you can't even handle how nerdy this food is. If you don't see why this guacamole is nerdy, you are clearly not a nerd. Who remembers high school chemistry? Remember Avogadro's magic number? 6.02×10^23 molecules in a mole? I remember struggling with this concept back in high school. Then one day it just all clicked. There aren't actually even 6 avocado's in this guac, only 5 in fact, but it's still a great name for the guac.
Not only is this guacomole perfectly fitting for us, it also tastes AMAZING! And it comes in these two packets so you can save some for later. We threw one packet in the freezer to enjoy later. Definitely grab some the next time you are at TJs.
While I didn't actually make any nerdy foods, I did use nerdy food in an awesome meal. I used my go-to turkey burger recipe and added a dollop of the nerdy guac and a handfull of sprouts. So tasty! Hubby had his on a bun and I just ate mine without.
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Oh, if only there were a Trader Joes here *le sigh*
This post made me lol (literally) because my husband's in the process of getting an Aeronautical Engineering degree 🙂
OMG! thats freaking hilarious! Must show my other nerd friends…
Definitely showing "nerd" boyfriend this. He'll probably run right over to Trader Joe's after work. Great catch!
This is too funny! I haven't been to TJ's in a while so I've missed the Avocado's Magic Number. Great find and thanks for sharing!
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That is so cute! No fair there's no TJ here!
Haha, that IS pretty darn nerdy. What a great find!
My non-nerd g/f sent this to me to see if I'd understand the reference. I'm an EE, so I started laughing as soon as I saw the picture. 🙂 Luckily, I'm used to her odd looks when I start chuckling over something geeky like that. 🙂


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Vanarama Conference
Forest Green 2
Alfreton 0
VETERAN striker Lee Hughes bagged his 300th career goal to maintain Forest Green's 100-per-cent start to the season against Alfreton Town today.
Goals in each half from the evergreen Hughes and Clovis Kamdjo saw Forest Green comfortably home.
Rovers were handed a pre-match blow with left-back James Jennings set to miss the season after a scan revealed ACL damage to his knee.
Earlier, buoyed by back-to-back victories, boss Ady Pennock resisted the temptation to tinker and named an unchanged side for the third consecutive match.
Rovers hit the ground running. Elliott Frear''s first-time cross saw Jon Parkin's glancing header fly wide after good foraging from former Premiership star Hughes.
Frear's incisive running was causing the Derbyshire outfit problems and from one such burst, Anthony Howell saw yellow on 21 minutes.
The game hit a stalemate, but a contentious penalty appeal against Forest Green turned the tide in Rovers' favour on 31 minutes.
Alfreton appealed for a Chris Stokes handball, but the ball was quickly recycled to Parkin who broke from deep to find midfielder Sam Wedgbury, who allowed Rob Sinclair to feed the supporting David Pipe. His arrowed in cross fell to Hughes, who used his predatory instincts to smash home his second goal of the season.
Rovers were rocking. Stokes' buccaneering run allowed Frear to find the leaping Kamdjo, to plant his header into the arms of Alfreton keeper Jon Stewart.
Alfreton had a great chance to net parity on 58 minutes. Bradley Wood's arching ball from the right picked out the unmarked Joe Ironside, who somehow missed the target with a poorly directed flying header.
Rovers responded as the tempo started to rise. Danny Coles watched his header crash the underside of the bar from a Sinclair corner.
However, Alfreton remained a threat. Jake Sheridan beat Pipe to pick out Chris Smith, who slashed wide.
Rovers have a streetwise look this season and they bagged a second on 69 minutes.
Sinclair's corner picked out Kamdjo, who nodded in his second goal of the season to put Rovers in the box seat on 69 minutes.
Pennock made a double change on 80 minutes with goalscorer Parkin being replaced by Luke Rodgers and fans' favourite James Norwood coming on for Sinclair.
Smith saw a header blocked by Oliver as Alfreton looked for a late riposte.
With two minutes to go, Stokes left the field clutching his left hamstring, to be replaced by Marcus Kelly.
Forest Green: S. Russell; D. Pipe, L. Oliver, D. Coles, C. Stokes; R. Sinclair (J.Norwood 80), C. Kamdjo, S. Wedgbury, E. Frear, J. Parkin (L.Rodgers 80), L. Hughes.
Subs not used: K.Guthrie, A. Bangura.
Attendance: 956
Away fans: 43
Star man: Clovis Kamdjo. Rovers' new midfield warrior,bossed the game from start-to-finish.


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MARATHON runners from across Swindon will toe the line tomorrow at the 34th London Marathon, with warm weather forecast for across the capital.
Kirsty Heber-Smith and Pete Dewhirst, who met through local running group Shin Splints, will be taking on the 26-mile challenge for Goldenhar UK which supports youngsters like Morgan Sharpe who has the rare congenital defect.
Another of the thousands raising money will be Jennifer Merritt, 28, of Common Platt, who is running for Multiple Sclerosis Trust.
Just four week before she was due to take her wedding vows in May 2011, Jennifer suddenly went numb from the waist down.
By October and after persisting symptoms – mostly odd, uncomfortable sensations – the then 26-year-old was diagnosed with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, throwing her life off course.
Now the business analyst at Nationwide has gone through remission and even though she could be struck by an attack at any time in the future, she strives to put her fears aside each day and instead spends her time much more productively.
"It's been tough," she said. "I did have some niggles during and since the Bath Half in March because I was running a little too hard, when it should have been at my marathon race pace.
"My morale has been quite low during training over the past few weeks, so I have been trying to focus on why I am doing it.
"The main reason is to prove to myself I can get through this. It's been a three-year journey and I have come from doing 10 kilometres races and half marathons."
Andy Sears, a member of Highworth Running Cub and joint owner of Andrews Butchers, who have branches in Highworth, Wootton Bassett and Marlborough, will be running his fourth London Marathon hoping for a big personal best.
Meanwhile, Gary Tubb, 52,of Walcot, will put his strength and stamina to the test as he covers 26 miles for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. He wants to ensure other children receive the care his son Ben did, who had juvenile dermatomyositis.
Matt Jones, 33, a self-employed tiler from Copse Avenue will be going into tomorrow's race with legs more tired than many others after running the Paris Marathon last Sunday.
He is lining up in Greenwich, a week after his trek around Paris, in aid of Age UK.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Problems with air conditioning systems in Kanawha County Schools are continuing, but school officials say they don't regret starting the school year earlier than in years past.
Parents had initially voiced concerns with the announcement of an early August start date partly because they feared it would submit students to hotter temperatures if the air conditioning in their schools failed — a problem the district has faced for years.
For some parents, those fears have become a reality.
"It's miserable. If the temperatures continue to climb in these schools, students won't be able to concentrate or, worse, it will make them sick," said Amy Carpenter, a parent of students at Sissonville High and Middle schools, both of which have faced issues with air conditioning.
"We're all helpless. I know [school staff] have complained to the board several times, but nothing has been done. They want to open the windows to let air in, but they're not allowed because of safety reasons.
"We're almost into a month of school. What's the reason it hasn't been fixed? We've known all this time when school was going to start," Carpenter said. "It just needs to be fixed. Just fix it, period."
Tracy Mains, a Kanawha City Elementary School parent, called the school "a total breeding ground for bacteria," saying the temperatures in some classrooms have been higher than 80 degrees.
"I couldn't really care less when they're in school as long as the A/C is equipped to deal with the heat and the humidity," Mains said. "Students' glasses are fogging up from the heat."
But school board member Becky Jordon says the cooling problems have little to do with the early start date.
"You can't predict the weather anymore. It was in the 70s the first week of school. We're going to continue to have this early start," Jordon said. "There are so many buildings … it's never 100 percent perfect. I own rental property and have everything maintained, but I can't predict what's going to happen. You can service it how you're supposed to, but things happen."
Terry Hollandsworth, maintenance director for Kanawha County Schools, and his team of 10 workers have responded to several complaints about HVAC systems since school has started, and are continuing to make repairs.
While more than $20 million has been approved for HVAC upgrades and other facility repairs in recent years, Hollandsworth said more funding is still needed to get all of the system's units replaced.
Units at South Charleston High School, for example, are nearly 25 years old, Hollandsworth said.
Kanawha County Schools maintenance workers have responded to complaints at South Charleston High, Andrew Jackson Middle School, Riverside High School and others, Hollandsworth said.
"The early start date hasn't affected anything," Hollandsworth said. "The units in some of the schools are very old. We're focused on getting these schools up and running and we're going to continue to chase them down."
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Hi all,
I posted in Introductions about my Dad's case - recurrence after resection and I'm wondering how to be sure that there is no lymph node involvement when there is recurrence?
I didn't see anything about lymph nodes in the latest CT scan report (Jan 2013) and the biopsy was just on one of the recurrent tumors. Are there scans that are better than others in detecting lymph node involvement or are there blood test markers to look out for?
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Starting mid-September, Bob's Red Mill will be taking its "No Grain, No Gain" challenge to thousands of racers and fans of cyclocross all across the United States. With over 40 cycling events in our calendar this year, we're bound to have a blast while we stuff ourselves into skin-tight lycra, race our hearts out and (after we catch our breath) cook and share something like 15,000 steaming hot bowls of our World Porridge Making Championship Steel Cut Oats.
What in the World is "Cyclocross"?
Cyclocross bike races are usually held on closed courses with the majority of the course covering grass, trails or obstacles. A typical course includes several man-made or natural obstacles that require a rider to dismount the bike and climb stairs, carry the bike over barriers, or run with the bike through otherwise impossible terrain. These events take place between September and January, so it's typical wet, muddy and cold. Races are generally timed and last between 45 to 60 minutes on a closed circuit of 1.5 to 2 miles.
Cyclocross is considered one of the most demanding types of bike racing because it requires speed, agility, mounting and dismounting techniques, physical power, and running while carrying a bike. For spectators, cyclocross racing offers a festive, exciting, high-energy event because each race consists of many laps, so they get to see the riders pass by very frequently.
One of the neatest things about cyclocross is how inclusive the sport is. Most series have categories that range from beginner to elite so even people who don't train per se can get in on the competitive thrill. Even better is the fact that it's a timed event; when it's over it's more or less over for everyone on the course, so no one watching the finish line can tell the slow-pokes from the sandbaggers. Check out this clip that captures the leitmotif of the sport.
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Whether you're an elite or newbie racer, to run your body for a full hour of 100% effort, you're going to need carbs. Carbs fill the glycogen stores your muscles use when you're really putting the hammer down. But choosing the right kind of carbs can make all the difference in performance. That's where our Steel Cut Oats come in. When Steel Cut Oats are digested, the starchy carbohydrates are released slowly and more evenly. That keeps your energy flowing and your hunger in check. What's more, research shows that people who eat high fiber carbs burn more fat than those who practice that old habit of "carbo-loading" on refined grains. If that doesn't grab you, well, there's always the fact that they're incredibly comforting and delicious.
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That's darn compelling, isn't it? Well that's why we're taking our mission of porridge proliferation on the road. We're going to demonstrate the indefatigable benefits of Steel Cut Oats and our other fantastic whole grain products. We'll be sponsoring, racing and serving at all the major cx series, including the U.S. Cyclocross Nationals, U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross, North American Cyclocross Trophy, Ohio Valley Cyclocross, Cycle-Smart International (Northampton, Ma), Seattle Cyclocross, and our beloved Cross Crusade here in Portland.
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To show the power of Steel Cut Oats in action, we've teamed up with some of the fastest whole grain evangelists in the country. With 20 red and yellow clad Team Bob's Red Mill racers in Portland, Oregon; Louiville, Kentucky; Madison, Wisconsin; and New England, you're bound to see whole grain heroes armed with our centuries old training secret at just about any cross race you attend.


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PeterB wrote:I did. You said that you realised that you could change traffic lights by an act of will by doing a mudra at just the right moment. Which prompted a response from another former member saying that she could do that sort of thing too.
Vepacitta wrote:That would be a handy skill to have!
I want it!
David N. Snyder wrote:Vepacitta wrote:That would be a handy skill to have!
I want it!
In some cities, it's not that hard to do. All you have to do is drive the speed limit. For example, in Denver the traffic lights are time coordinated so that if you drive the speed limit, you will make all green lights. They even adjust it a little for rush hours and higher traffic times so that if you stay in the flow of traffic without changing lanes and driving aggressively, you can make the green lights. No special powers, needed, just the compassion to drive the speed limit and not put others' safety at risk.
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by BuddhiHermit on Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:14 pm
I was reflecting on green lights today, and I realised that I have been changing them at will for the last 6 months at least.
There are 3 sets located in power places, obviously, along my path to work.
I have found that by merely willing it, these lights change to green every time I approach.
Mind you, it is not down to simple willing, but requires a special hand mudra to be performed at each location. Thankfully, it is the same mudra for all 3, and it is guaranteed to work every time after sunset. Peter B, you may wish to try it yourself, and discover your own power places.
I have found that willing my left hand to reach forward, while driving, and approaching a red light, that I can cause the light to change to green, as mentioned. The trick is mainly in performing the mudra correctly, as I have found I must reach out towards the steering wheel, placing the heel of that hand on the wheel, at about the centre of the rim. Then I must curl my fingers inward until they meet resistance. Pressing on through the resistance causes a clicking sound, a blue light (probably manifesting from the third eye) appears on the dashboard, and there is a sudden increase in the intensity of light right before me. Clearly, the manifestation of such power causes the offending traffic light to change to green.
The msg directly above yours is from Zen Forum International. It is the msg that PeterB alluded to several msgs above.Kenshou wrote:What the heck am I reading?
BuddhiHermit wrote:My experience suggests that close to 10% of the population have experienced stream entry where that is defined as a Transpersonal experience. (Can we avoid getting bogged down in detailed proscriptions and definitions?)
Perhaps 2% of those have any idea of what it's about. The rest try and forget it, as it just complicates an already difficult life.
1% or less, try to build on the experience.
Knowing this makes minimal difference to one's progress along the Way.
On the other hand, isn't it wonderful, just BEING a Stream enterer, or maybe an Arahant.
The only problem I have found, is that the moisture from the stream tends to dissolve the adhesive of those Gold or red or blue stickers, - but if you look carefully, you can still see where they have been.
PeterB wrote:I have qualms about referring on one forum to another. But I am grateful that Tilt reproduced the above post from ZFI because a current concern I have is the claiming of attainments, and I think Buddhihermits references to the wonderful nature of BEING a Stream enterer or may be an Arahant needed a context.
PeterB wrote:The context of the thread Tilt has quoted from makes it clear that the claim to change traffic lights was not a humorous claim. Furthermore it was in conversation with two other people not currently posting on ZFI who I would suspect may have problems with reality.
We do not need to re-litigate an old thread from another forum, but this msg viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5352&start=60#p85127 above does raise a question or two.PeterB wrote:For anyone who follows the link, just to make it clear that my concerns were not about genkaku who is one of the sanest people I know, nor Linda nor Luz...
PeterB wrote:I did. You said that you realised that you could change traffic lights by an act of will by doing a mudra at just the right moment.
a more interesting IMO question would not be what to make up people that claim certain attainments but what to make of people that do so sincerely and know how important it is and so are a little bit mad. i don't think pity is the right word but sympathy would be nice... sympathy and some compassionate re-educationa current concern I have is the claiming of attainments
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On June 23rd at 1:00 PM, the Amazing Max (Magician Max Darwin) will be presenting a special performance of The Amazing Max and the Box of Interesting Things for children with special needs. This sensory-friendly presentation of the hit Off-Broadway show will be adjusted to the sensitivities of children with autism and other special needs. Handicap accessible seating will be available, as well as a quiet area reserved for any children who may feel overwhelmed during the performance.
As I reported last fall, The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center is a traditional children's magic show with many a modern twist. Max Darwin manages to enthrall children while still entertaining adults, all while gracefully executing sight-of-hand tricks and improvisational comedy.
The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things special needs friendly show will beperformed at the MMAC Theater located in the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center at 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between Amsterdam and West End Avenues) in the Lincoln Center area.
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Team Sky has withdrawn Colombian rider Sergio Henao from racing to conduct further tests after its monthly review provoked questions over his blood values.
The 26-year-old, who was born at altitude in Rionegro and lives and trains in the region outside of the racing season will be subject to an "altitude research programme", Team Sky has announced.
Henao has been withdrawn from racing for eight weeks, meaning he is unlikely to start the season's opening Grand Tour, the Giro d'Italia, which begins in Belfast on May 9.
Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford said on teamsky.com: "Our experts had questions about Sergio's out-of-competition control tests at altitude - tests introduced this winter by the anti-doping authorities. We need to understand these readings better.
"We contacted the relevant authorities - the UCI (International Cycling Union) and CADF (Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation) - pointed to these readings and asked whether they could give us any insights.
"We've also taken Sergio out of our race programme whilst we get a better understanding of these profiles and his physiology.
"We want to do the right thing and we want to be fair. It's important not to jump to conclusions."
Team Sky is well aware of the benefits of altitude training - with Tour de France winners Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome training at altitude to improve performance - but the longer-term effects are not so clear.
Brailsford added: "Our own understanding is limited by a lack of scientific research into 'altitude natives' such as Sergio.
"We are commissioning independent scientific research to better understand the effects of prolonged periods at altitude after returning from sea level, specifically on altitude natives.
"The independent experts are looking to use WADA-accredited laboratories and Team Sky will make the data and findings available to WADA, the UCI and CADF.
"Sergio will help with this programme and we expect him to be out of the race schedule for at least eight weeks. Once we have completed our assessment, we'll decide on the right steps and give a full update."
It is the second blood anomaly Team Sky has been part of.
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, the 2012 Tour of Britain winner, faces anti-doping disciplinary action after his blood passport data was found to contain anomalies.
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CONCORD, N.C. -- OK, who took Rick Hendrick and Chad Knaus during the NASCAR media tour and what do you plan on doing with them?
Wednesday afternoon's stop at Hendrick Motorsports was like a trip to the fictional town Santa Mira, Calif., made famous in the science fiction novel "The Body Snatchers" by Jack Finney in which sleeping people were replaced by perfect physical duplicates.
On one side of the room was Hendrick all but guaranteeing one of his Sprint Cup drivers will give him an 11th championship. On the other side was a relaxed Knaus, saying he wasn't haunted that his No. 48 team all but gave away the 2012 title.
Really? A few years ago, Hendrick was more conservative with his preseason predictions than U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts is with his rulings. A few years ago, Knaus would have spent the entire offseason beating himself up for letting the championship slip away to Brad Keselowski.
What happened to them? Hendrick was tossing one-liners left and right, offering driver Kasey Kahne $20 to "go finish your haircut," and referred to himself as a 60-year-old (actually 63) with the body of a 70-year-old.
Knaus was laughing about what a "pain in the ass" he can be and was almost apologetic for how much fun he and Jimmie Johnson's team have had since the end of last season.
Maybe the older you get, the more comfortable you are being yourself. Hendrick basically confirmed that was the case for him late last year at an art gallery showing of Johnson's book, saying the older he gets, the less he stresses over what people say about him.
Regardless of what brought on this transformation. it's good to see Hendrick and Knaus enjoy the spoils of their success. One of the saddest things in sports -- in life -- is watching individuals so wrapped up in getting to the top that they don't enjoy the ride there.
There have been times when Knaus looked absolutely miserable trying to achieve the perfection that led to five straight titles from 2006 to 2010. There have been times when Hendrick was so worried about how he or his organization was perceived that it overshadowed the greatness he has accomplished.
Now both are as open as Lance Armstrong on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
"Last year, he kind of shocked all of us by throwing down the gauntlet that all four cars would be in the Chase," four-time champion Jeff Gordon, who made that happen by slipping in at the regular-season finale, said of his boss. "That was a lot of pressure. Rick typically in the past has been a guy that didn't make those kinds of demands."
And Knaus in the past typically would have driven himself crazy after a pit-road penalty for a missing lug nut and pinhole fracture of an oil line in the season finale turned a win and likely sixth title into a missed opportunity.
Instead, he sounded amazingly philosophical as he discussed how the communication and performance of the team was better than he had than during any of his five titles.
"We can't sit back and reflect on the bad things and negatives," Knaus said. "If you do that, you're just going to beat yourself to death."
It would have been easy to do. Had the final race played out in the 48 team's favor, Johnson would have moved within one title of Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty in Cup championships (seven). That Knaus will admit, just not begrudgingly.
"It was going to be very difficult for them to ... they were going to have to make something happen," Knaus said of Keselowski's team. "I think we could have won had that not happened, but it is what it is."
He was so nonchalant, it was scary.
"You get a little older, you understand more," Knaus said. "I know we've got quite a few more years to try to win championships. To lose our head and blow whatever time it is we do have off, being upset or disgusted over the performance of last year or ending result, there's no benefit to that."
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But there's a reason for this that goes beyond age. It comes from years of preparation, of building an organization that is ready to handle any and all challenges.
Hendrick noticed that in a Tuesday meeting with his crew chiefs as they discussed where they were with the "Gen 6" car. There was no sense of panic. Everybody was working together.
"They're clicking," Hendrick said. "This is a tough sport. There's a lot of talent out there. They all have good equipment. It's going to come down to who has the breaks and hits it right.
"But I don't know if any organization has better chemistry than we do between our four [drivers]."
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Updated 10:47 pm, Thursday, February 21, 2013
From inside the lines to out, Express-News staff writers Blake Hurtik, Lorne Chan and Terrence Thomas take a look back and a look ahead at the high school sports landscape.
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3 - McCutcheon siblings at Johnson who advanced to the state wrestling tournament. Tim was entered in the 195-pound class, Jeremiah was in the 285-pound class and their sister Ashley, a sophomore, is in the 128-pound class. The state wrestling tournament began Thursday in Austin.
3 - Consecutive seasons Sean Rodriguez led Poteet boys basketball in scoring. Rodriguez, a senior, averaged 23.2 points per game this season, but the Aggies missed the playoffs.
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3 - Area swimmers who enter today's Class 5A state swimming meet in Austin with the best times in their respective events: Marshall's David Moore (200-yard IM), Reagan's Andrew Skowronek (100 butterfly) and Johnson's Raquel Grays (100 freestyle). Prelims begin today at Jamail Texas Swim Center: 10 a.m. for 5A and 4:30 p.m. for 4A. Finals are Saturday at 9:30 a.m. (5A) and 3:30 p.m. (4A).
100 - Career victories for Poth softball coach Carilee Robbins, who reached the milestone in the Pirettes' 12-7 win over TMI on Feb. 16 at the Navarro tournament. Robbins is 101-39 in five seasons at Poth.
1,450 - Career points scored by Churchill senior guard Leslie Vorpahl. She scored 35 in her final game Tuesday, an 80-65 loss to Wagner. She plans to play collegiately at Tulane.
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All-State honors: Four area football players have been named to the Texas Sports Writers Association's All-State first teams. Alamo Heights LB Nick Uretsky in Class 4A, Devine RB Jordan Fraga and Navarro OL Brian Bormann in 3A, and Sabinal TE Dustin Barton in Class A. The 5A team will be released today.


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EUGENE, Ore. - A driver in a mid-size U-Haul fled police in West Eugene on Wednesday afternoon, leading officers on a chase past the city limits where sheriff's deputies joined in.
Multiple witnesses reported seeing the van driving on two deflated tires with numerous police vehicles in pursuit.
A photo from the scene shows the U-Haul hanging off the side of the road.
Police said the chase started in West Eugene around 3:21 p.m. and continued outside the city limits, ending around 4 p.m.
No one was hurt.
Police arrested the driver, Lane Allan Harris, 43, of Portland, on charges of eluding police, driving with a suspended license and unauthorized use of a vehicle. A spokeswoman said additional charges related to the pursuit are likely to be brought against Harris.
His passenger, 26-year-old Natasha Leanne Lucero of Portland, was arrested on one count of unauthorized use of a vehicle.
An officer initially tried to stop the U-Haul because an officer suspected it might be involved in an active case, a spokeswoman said. As of Thursday morning, police said they were still investigating any possible connections.
The investigation closed both north and southbound lanes of Northwest Expressway between Awbrey Lane and Irvington Drive during rush hour Wednesday while police investigate the van.
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