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Japanese music recommendations?
i know next to nothing about what's good in japanese music. if anyone has any recommendations i would really appreciate it. If you have a playlist of really good japanese songs, or even if it's just one good song post it. doesn't matter if it's old or new, as long as you think it's good. thanks in advance.
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++ Doll Master ++
too many~~~~~ cannot count all of them
songs i like recently
all CHOBITS cds
all GUNGRAVE cds
all Naruto cds
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One Piece op& ed collection
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Sammurai Champloo
~ You ! Sunflower ~
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School Rumble ~ Ending song 1 ~
Ghost in the shell movie 2~ Innocence OST / 04 - River of Crystals~
D.N.Angle OSTs
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Well, most people start out by expanding from the Anime Openings, Endings and Sountracks. So search around for the artists who did that certain OP or ED and go from there.
That's what I did, you don't have to restrict yourself from songs you only hear in anime or games.
If you're into a slightly trancey type of music, then artists like KOTOKO and the rest of the I've Sound members are a good start.
If you want to find out who did a certain song, a pretty good resource is Anime News Network, and search for the anime. The OP/ED info is usually available, otherwise you'll have to utilize that sticky thread at the top of this Music forum.
BTW: Are you looking for something like J-pop? Or maybe you like orchestral tracks in the soundtracks?
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Good Japanese music exists, but you aren't going to find any of it by talking to people on this forum.
But, if you insist, I'd recommend stuff like the background music in hack, noir, etc. Escaflowne had some damn good stuff, a few HnI songs were okay. Arjuna had nice music too. Almost all the good music is without lyrics. The second lyrics enter the picture, the Japanese tend to lose it.
And yeah, while groups like Jam Project and the pillows aren't bad, they still can't compare to basically all the decent musicians in the US.
And CERTAINLY, Chobits music is bad. It's beyond bad. It's fucking painful. NEVER go near it.
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Um.. It really depends on your taste, but some of my favourite songs are
Shabondama - Morning Musume (I like a LOT of stuff by them, but it's an aquired taste)
Ringo no Uta and Ishiki - Shiina Ringo (favourite artist. I have everything by her.)
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And my laptop playlist is just the Delgados folder dumped into winamp.
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It's all up to personal taste anyway...
And yep, Akino Arai's voice is smooth~
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My favorite anime soundtracks:
Koi Kaze
Elfen Lied
Gunslinger Girl
Da Capo
Kurau Phantom Memory
Last Exile
Witch Hunter Robin
Uta~Kata (not out yet I think)
They share strong instrumentals, i.e. if ever they use synthesized music, you can't tell, since they use a lot of strings. Strings I like.
Oh yeah Japanese music in general, I only get exposed to non-anime J-music when I'm flying on an international flight. Where I live people would rather play 80's music than play anything from Japan.
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For anime soundtracks, if you like instrumentals I'd recommend Rurouni Kenshin Trust and Betrayal soundtrack. Also I really like the music from KOR, some really nice piano songs from there. The Kenshin TV and Naruto series is filled with catchy songs that you might like too.
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Great Japanese Music
Hey, don't know if you've checked out the Bleach series yet, but the opening song is performed by a group called Orange Range. Turns out they also performed the 2nd ending theme for Naruto. I've gotten a hold of some of their other stuff and it totally blows me away. These guys are GOOD! I suppose it depends on what type of music you like, so I'll describe to you the genre or the sound that that might fall under. Here goes: if you took the japanese language, found a few fast talkers, taught two or three of them how to rap in Japanese, then added some insanely talented guitarists, you might come close to Orange Range. It's a big band, I think there's 8 of them, but they really know how to rock out. If you like the opening theme to Bleach, you owe it to yourself to look them up on the web. Turns out they've had quite a few top 50 Japanese Billboard songs (5 maybe?). Anyway, I know its just one band, but anyone who hasnt listened to these guys is really missing out.
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if you like japanese rock, then you will defintely like hajime no ippo ost. their first 3 starting songs are sing by a jrock band called shocking lemon. and i like their 3rd ending song which is a english song sing by an old skool jrock band called saber tiger [note] X Japan's hide was once a saber tiger member.
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L'immoralità (1978)
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Copyright Company and Date: Copyright 1978, Written by Morando Morandini Jr., Massimo Pirri, and Federico Tofi; directed by Massimo Pirri, Produced by Ducale Film and Una Cinecoop
Submitted by Nakuyabi
Simona: At eleven years old, this girl is the not-incredibly-heroic last main character standing.
Simona's Father: Credited as "Vera's Husband" which shows how high he rates on the casting list. He shoots himself.
Simona's Mother Vera: Somehow, she manages to be both a major ice queen and the town bicycle. She gets shot.
Frederico: A kiddy-fiddling serial killer who gets a little sympathy from Simona, and none from anyone else. He gets shot.
Lieutenant: A crooked cop and one of Vera's many conquests who still seems more decent than most of the cast. He gets shot.
Antonio & Company: Thoroughly despicable vigilantes with mafia ties who are after Frederico. They haven't gotten themselves shot yet by the end, but it might be only a matter of time before they do.
If you're a child rapist and murderer, never join any club that wants you for a member.
Italians do not believe in gun control. Period.
A child killer is not necessarily ruthless enough to be a hitman.
Blackmail and bribery are a lot more effective than interrogation.
Even if a girl wants to have your baby, that doesn't mean she plans on keeping you.
Never let both a mother and her daughter seduce you; this never ends well.
Being both frigid and slutty is entirely possible.
If you ever threaten someone with a knife, don't stick around to apologize afterward.
No matter how nice a whore is to you, she still does expect payment.
Suicide is not the answer to your problems; violence is.
0 mins: Nothing quite compares to starting with a guy holding a corpse.
10 mins: Begging a girl for help this way sounds a lot more romantic in theory than it looks in practice.
14 mins: She painted this tortoise yellow for some reason. (A visual pun?
is Italian for yellow.)
16 mins: RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A DOLL!
19 mins: Is he offering to pimp one of his men out to her? Yes, I think he is.
30 mins: The realistic extraction of a bullet. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
31 mins: Now there's a solution even he probably hadn't considered before.
34 mins: The conversation sure took a nasty turn right here.
39 mins: Threatening a little girl is not turning out to be the winning strategy Antonio hoped.
40 mins: RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A RADIO!
42 mins: This wouldn't be the first time she's pointed a gun at him, I guess.
43 mins: You're setting huge steel traps for your pursuers? Way to keep from calling attention to yourself, Frederico!
45 mins: Apparently, someone asked him "How can we convince you you're not a pedophile, just confused?"
50 mins: Uh, did he just do what I think he did with that candle?
51 mins: What exactly did they do? They're still fully clothed...
57 mins: People really shouldn't leave candles burning unattended like that.
58 mins: Did she just steal a gun? Yes, she did.
61 mins: RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOTS!
62 mins: Uh, yeah, that's real subtle... (I'm guessing most exported versions cut out the next half-minute or so.)
65 mins: Dude, she's on your side! Is this how you show your gratitude?
67 mins: Frederico, you are an IDIOT!!!
68 mins: Antonio, so are you!
69 mins: That's lame, Frederico; lame, lame, lame, lame, LAME!
82-83 mins: RANDOM GRATUITOUS PEEP SHOW! That does it, everyone: just die, already.
95 mins: Apparently, he thinks he's got a vampire to kill.
96 mins: RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOT!
99 mins: RANDOM GRATUITOUS WING-WANG!
100 mins: Right down to business. Goodbye, Lieutenant. Somehow, I don't think we'll miss you all that much.
101 mins: Goodbye, Vera. I
we won't miss you.
103 mins: Ciao, Frederico. If you wanted to live, you really should have split a lot sooner.
Credits: And so they all died. Yay! A happy ending.
Even if you don't speak Italian, it shouldn't be too difficult to guess what the title means. L'immoralità is what's called a giallo, a rather loosely-defined category of artsy Italian cinema that typically includes a lot of sex and violence, but in a rather understated way. This particular example of the genre is a crime drama which plays out something like a cheesy juvenile horror flick, but without so much as a hint of humor, even of the unintentional kind. The point of virtually all the sex and violence is not to titillate you, but rather to make you squirm very uncomfortably in your seat, and at this it succeeds all too well.
As with most giallos, L'immoralità also racks up quite a body count, although more are implied than actually shown. The very first scene, for instance, shows Frederico digging a shallow grave to bury his latest victim, a young (as in barely pubescent) girl he's indicated to have raped and strangled. He buries the shovel along with her, gets back into his van, and is almost immediately spotted by his pursuers when he gets back on the road. Of course, most of us are probably already rooting for the police to catch him at this point, but if they did, this would be a really short movie, wouldn't it?
To be sure, Frederico is having a bad day; the cops avoid a lengthy car chase when they promptly run him off the road, forcing him to flee on foot as they fire their sidearms after him. Though their aim isn't all that great, one of the officers does manage to wing him before he escapes into a lush forest with swampy undergrowth nearby, and he's also forced to abandon his overcoat at one point while wading through the water. On the other hand, the first person he meets on the other side of this forest is the young and seemingly naive Simona, who takes pity on this sick puppy of a man much the same as she might on a literal sick puppy and puts him up in a small storage shed where she keeps some of her other pet projects.
Even more to Frederico's advantage, as is gradually revealed to us and as he discovers while recuperating, is that Simona's parents are both very wealthy and very miserable, and nobody in her family gets along very well with any of the neighboring townspeople or each other. The town is a wretched hive of corruption and hypocrisy where very nearly all that distinguishes the local law enforcement from the mafia's enforcers is the uniforms. Simona's mother Vera is a brazen slut as contemptuous of all her paramours and all of the gossips in town as they are of her. As for Vera's husband and Simona's father, he's an old man in a wheelchair who's evidently well aware of his wife's wanton ways, and is mostly holding on to his life just to spite her as she's waiting for him to die.
From this situation arises the particular personal intrigue that keeps Vera from turning Frederico over to his pursuers immediately the way most people would when she discovers him. She knows all about his crimes, as she makes clear from the start when she questions him about his past. In one chilling scene, she even gets him to offer up his rationalization for why he does what he does: he insists he didn't really want to kill his victims, but they wanted to stay young and beautiful forever and he obliged. As for why he raped them, he explains that he doesn't "feel manly" with women his own age. (This inspires another rather sickening thought: is the order of those questions and answers meant to imply Frederico is a necrophiliac as well? Ugh.) While Vera is appropriately skeptical of everything he says, she has some chilling intentions of her own: she plans both to make Frederico her latest sexual conquest, and manipulate him into killing off her husband for her.
With such a wretched lot surrounding little Simona, you might be guessing that she's the one providing the moral anchor for this movie, but here you'd be guessing wrong. Certainly, she is by default the most sympathetic character, in good part because everyone dumps on her for a lot of things that aren't really her fault. Also, while it's horrifying to see the prey welcoming the predator into her home and tending to his injuries in ways that must be sorely tempting to him (such asmemorablygiving him a pair of her panties to use for a bandage while he's removing the bullet from his arm), one can hardly help but admire her compassion, however badly misplaced it may be. We can even muster some sympathy for her stubborn refusal to reveal anything she knows about Frederico to the police and the vigilantes when they bring her into the station and show her pictures of some of his other victims, considering how harshly Antonio in particular interrogates her.
What keeps Simona from being at all heroic is that, as her interactions with everyone else in this story gradually reveal, she's also remarkably cynical and jaded for her age. The only person for whom this little girl has any genuine affection is her father, who's shown giving her some firearms training when we're first introduced to him and for whom she regularly goes into town to buy ammunition and equipment to help him maintain his impressive gun collection. Her mother Vera, in contrast, seems to have passed on some of her worst personality traits, and it's obvious that Simona knows full well about her mother's many affairs even if she doesn't know all the specifics, and that the mother and daughter hold each other in mutual contempt. It's also clear that Simona is well aware her family is the talk of the town, and though she never hears anything they're saying behind her back, she surmises their attitudes and despises them just as much as they despise her.
Worst of all, Simona is shown to have already picked up Vera's perverse attitude toward sex as a means to an end, and she ultimately manages to outdo her mother for sheer depravity in what may be the most notorious sex scene of all time. Knowing full well that her mother has brought Frederico into the house and is planning to seduce him, Simona decides to seduce him first. While poking around the house, he catches her taking a bath and she lets him stay to watch as she gets out and dries herself off. Then, laying herself out on the bath mat, she tells him she wants to have a baby andto put this as delicately as possiblehe does everything he can to give her one. Dare I mention, by the way, that I'm not spoiling anything except maybe your desire to see this film by telling you this? A still frame ripped from this sordid scene (in which a body double filled in for the eleven-year-old Simona, of course) is shown in the upper-right corner of the cover art on the official DVD case.
Believe it or not, everybody manages to get even more despicable in the scenes that follow. Following what leads they have, the Lieutenant and his police show up at the family mansion accompanied by Antonio and his vigilantes. After their search of the grounds around the mansion turns up nothing, Vera tells them off and sends them on their way, but Antonio and his goons circle back on their own soon afterward carrying big guns and demanding to be let in to search the house. As if to remind us that they're no heroes either, the vigilantes casually proceed to run roughshod over the family's property rights and privacy, forcing their way in over Vera's protest and ransacking the house until her husband finally scares them away with a couple of well-placed shotgun blasts. Frederico, who's still in the bathroom with Simona during this raid, pulls a knife and threatens her with it (just in case you had any scrap of sympathy left for him) even though he doesn't really need to; she sides with him against the home invaders anyway.
After the vigilantes are gone, Frederico makes a rather lame apology to Simona for threatening her (though to be honest, I can't think of any way he could have apologized that wouldn't have sounded lame), while Vera gets into an argument with her husband when she starts taunting him for failing to hit anyone with those shotgun blasts. He responds in kind, goading her for not having the guts to kill him herself. Later, Vera tries once again to convince Frederico to murder her husband, and later still she sneaks down to the cellar where she's keeping him and does the horizontal mambo with him while a horrified Simona watches them through a key hole. Yeah, you'd never have guessed a child-molesting serial killer would be such a chick magnet, would you? In case you still have any sympathy for either of them, Simona later calls her mother out for her vile behavior, and Vera in turn chews her out for having behaved no better.
The next day, the Lieutenant turns up again to remind us there are truly no heroes in this movie. To be sure, like the hero of a mystery, he's deduced with a little help from Simona that Vera is hiding Frederico in her house, and has come to talk her into turning him over to him. However, he's also trying to blackmail her into giving him a free roll in the sack with her. Treacherous slut that she is, he doesn't have much difficulty closing both deals with her, and she locks Frederico into his room before taking the Lieutenant up to her room with her. While Frederico hammers on the door and screams at her to open up and curses her for selling him out, Simona heads up to her parents' rooms only to have the door to her mother's bedroom slammed in her face (of course) and then find the door to her father's study locked with no response to all of her knocking. Climbing out on the roof through an adjacent window, she makes her way through the window into his study...
Frankly, were it not for the final twist to the story (which is also sort of given away in the cover art on the DVD case), I might seriously have considered giving this movie a skull rating. However, after watching this movie establish how perverse and vile pretty much everyone in it is, I couldn't help feeling a certain powerful satisfaction watching so many loathsome characters finally meet a richly deserved demise. Also, where other movies uses the hypocrisy of the characters as an excuse to promote sexual libertinism or some such nonsense, this one uses it to deconstruct that excuse by showing just how far down the road to total depravity an argument from hypocrisy might take us. The title is apt, considering that were it not for everyone else's immorality, Frederico would never have found refuge from his pursuers for as long as he did.
All of this is not to say L'immoralità is a good movie, or that you'll find much to enjoy in it. You'll need some patience and stamina to watch it all the way to the end, and a good deal of intellect to parse out the point to all of this depressing depravity. Still, it does arguably have a happy ending if you like seeing despicable people get shot. (Working from a certain point of view, one could make the case that Easy Rider had happy ending using the same kind of argument.) For that, and for having a unique twist at the end that only a giallo could have, I believe this movie to be worth the pain and discomfort one must endure in order to watch it all the way through to that end.
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February 11, 2012, 03:26:29 PM »
Here's Frederico's last victim, as seen in the very first scene.
The police blaze away at Frederico.
Simona's father teaches her how to use guns.
Frederico ain't too proud to beg.
The Lieutenant: he even
Vera: ice queen
The people in Forensics do their job.
Granted, it would hurt like crazy to get caught in one of these things, but the screams of the unfortunate vigilante would bring all of his friends within a five mile radius running.
Vera gets frisky with Frederico; what a slut!
He's all smiles now, but you should hear some of the things he was saying when he thought she couldn't hear him.
Simona purloins a pistol.
Antonio the thug vigilante; note his pal Angelo in the background, who seems to have some kind of fetish for black gloves throughout the film.
"Our little secret, Simona."
Yeah, she's not so innocent.
Remember what I said about subtlety at 62 minutes? This is what was on the screen. (Then the movie showed everything
Antonio and his thug vigilantes aren't too subtle either.
Simona's father makes his opinion of the home invaders known.
Angelo gets the point.
Antonio continues to behave like a jerk.
Vera's husband dares her to pull the trigger.
"I have shades like Antonio's! You must obey!"
Simona doesn't like to watch, but she watches.
"I like it here with my childhood friends.
Here they come... those feelings again!"
Yeah, I guess he might think he needs one of these for Vera.
"Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tock...
His life's seconds numbering, tick, tock, tick, tock..."
Clip from the film I propose to use if the review is published:
Frederico warns Simona not to look as he extracts the bullet. (Pardon any distortions: the original film was made in the standard PAL European 5:3 ratio rather than the NTSC American 4:3 fullscreen ratio.)
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So, we have this old family picture that's been hanging in my parents house as long as I can remember.
This is the picture. The first time I remember talking to my Mom about it was back in the 90s...this was about when I started getting interested in genealogy. I remember her telling me that many of the male Robinsons in this picture used to travel back to England when there was no work in Philadelphia.
The youngest child in this picture is a baby and was born in 1907, so I'd date it 1907-1908. The couple in the middle are Mary Robinson (nee Crossley) and John Raynor Robinson. They are my 2nd Great Grandparents and they moved to Philadelphia from England in 1868. The rest are their children, the children's spouses and their children. My mom had most of the people labeled (she and I had changed some as we learned more). The exception being the 2 ladies on either side in the back row, they have always been unknown. They are clearly dressed differently than the other women. We had speculated that maybe they were servents, then chuckled about that idea!
So, the back row is: Unknown Girl, Thomas, Jonas, James, Mary Elizabeth and Unknown Girl
Middle Row: Ida (wife of Thomas), Mary (wife of Jonas) with little Rayner on her lap, Mary and John Raynor, Lillian (wife of James) with Baby Howard on her lap, George Smith (husband of Mary Elizabeth). Seated in front of Ida and Mary is James B Robinson (my grandfather's brother), on the stool next to him is Jonas and Mary's daughter, Rebecca, on the stool in the middle is Samuel Raynor (my grandfather), on the floor next to him is Lillian Smith, next to her is Mae(or Mary), they are Mary Elizabeth's children.
Well, I came across another picture while cleaning out my email. And this one has an additional sibling in it.
Mary Elizabeth Robinson, ?, Thomas C Robinson (my great grandfather), Lilly Mae Robinson, Jonas Robinson, James H Robinson and John Raynor Robinson. Lilly was born in 1889. I'll guess she's about 3 or 4 here and say this photo was taken in about 1903. I think this is the house they lived in on G Street in Kensington. So, now I'm wondering if one of the gals on either end in the more formal picture is Lilly? And is the other one another unknown sibling. Everyone in that back row seems to be a child of John Raynor and Mary Robinson. So it makes sense to me that the 2 unknowns are also children of Mary and John Raynor and that perhaps they are dressed differently since they are unmarried. Now, the question is...can I find a name for the other Robinson Girl. The 1890 census would be so helpful here! It's a shame it was mostly destroyed! This picture also has an unknown woman, which could be Thomas wife, Ida, but it really doesn't look like her. I think Ida is very distinctive looking. Maybe she's the other missing girl?


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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett's company is planning to close a small Virginia newspaper that it bought from Media General earlier this year.
The 10,000-circulation Manassas (Va.) News & Messenger, which began publishing in 1869, has been struggling to compete in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. It will print its last issue on Dec. 30.
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Wednesday it has no plans to close any of its other newspapers.
The Manassas closing will eliminate 33 jobs. An additional 72 corporate positions that Berkshire acquired with the Media General deal will be eliminated.
The Omaha World-Herald reported the closure on Wednesday. Officials at Berkshire's newspaper unit, which is run by World-Herald executives, declined to comment on the closing.
Buffett said the Omaha World-Herald announced the closure because it oversees Berkshire's newspapers, but he didn't respond to questions about the decision.
After Berkshire bought the Media General newspapers, Buffett said Berkshire may buy more newspapers as long as they cover their communities well and aren't very large.
The Manassas newspaper certainly fit Buffett's criteria as a small publication, but Terry Kroeger, who oversees Berkshire's newspaper division, told the Omaha World-Herald that the News & Messenger had a difficult time maintaining a sense of community in the area it covered, and it had been losing money for years.
The News & Messenger, which is based in Prince William County, Va., is also competing directly with several other media outlets in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the Washington Post, in which Buffett's company has a large ownership stake.
"We didn't see any way to really turn it back into a profitable enterprise, reliably, so what made the most sense was to just cease publication," Kroeger said to the Omaha World-Herald. Kroeger said he recommended the closing to Buffett.
Outsell Inc. media analyst Ken Doctor said the closing appears to be a result of Berkshire's initial review of the Media General newspapers it bought. Doctor said the Manassas newspaper didn't appear to be in a strong position in a competitive market, so it didn't fit well with Berkshire's model.
"They really prefer to be in communities where they can be the big dog," Doctor said.
Along with the Manassas newspaper, a companion newspaper, NOVA Weekly, and two websites associated with the publications will close. The employees losing their jobs will receive severance pay and assistance finding other jobs, the company said in a statement posted on the News & Messenger's website.
Aside from the 62 Media General papers Berkshire bought earlier this year, Buffett's company owns the Buffalo News, the Omaha World-Herald and several other newspapers in Nebraska and Iowa.
Buffett said in May that he was looking to purchase newspapers in cities and towns where residents care deeply about where they live.
"If a citizenry cares little about its community, it will eventually care little about its newspaper," Buffett said.
Newspapers remain a relatively small part of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns an assortment of more than 80 subsidiaries and holds major investments in companies such as Coca-Cola Co., Wells Fargo and IBM. Berkshire's subsidiaries include insurance, manufacturing, railroad, utility, furniture and restaurant firms.
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Classical pianist and composer Tara Kamangar's new album, East of Melancholy, guides us along the border between Iran and Russia.
The two countries share a 1,200 mile border as well as a rich cultural history in the area of the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus mountains dating back to 4000 BC.
In both countries, music has been a passion and articulation of identity.
Kamangar performs the works of Russian, Armenian, and Iranian composers and talks about what classical piano music can communicate that other music forms cannot.
This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. Michel Martin is away. Classical pianist and composer Tara Kamangar grew up in central California's agricultural regions. Her father had given up medicine in Iran and become a fig farmer in the United States. You can hear the layers of her heritage for Persia's rich history which she brings to the concert halls of Los Angeles and New York.
LYDEN: in her new album "East Of Melancholy" she guides us along the 1,200 mile border that Iran shares with Russia - a rich history in the area of the Caspian Sea in the caucuses of mountains dating back to at least 4,000 BC. In both countries, music has been a passion and articulation of identities and also sporadically suppressed. You're listening now to "The Lark" composed by the father of Russian classical music, Mikhail Glinka.
LYDEN: Tara Kamangar joins us now from our studios in New York City. Tara, welcome to the program.
TARA KAMANGAR: Thank you, Jacki, for having me.
LYDEN: I have absolutely loved reading descriptions of these works. I've been lucky enough to visit some of that territory and I'm thinking of the poetry the migrations, the revolutions, both former empires. "East Of Melancholy" - elaborate on that just a little bit.
KAMANGAR: The title, "East Of Melancholy", I chose because it's the translated title of a book of poems by an Iranian contemporary poet Sohrab Sepehri. And I think it speaks to the fact that a lot of the pieces on the album are inspired by poetry - both the Persian and Russian ones.
LYDEN: Well, I also note in your work here that the Russian composers were really influenced by folk music from the Caucasus and there's a great quote by Glinka who lived between 1804 and 1857 he says love with us is always mixed with sorrow. There 's no doubt that our melancholy, our plaintive song, which is the child of the North, also has an oriental strain. Just listen to the Volga boatman's mournful song - one almost feels the Tartar's domination. And that's going back to the 19th century. So you're really drawing on strains of this mixing.
KAMANGAR: Yes, yeah I love that quote. There's a Russian proverb that says scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tartar. Also with Glinka it's interesting that he's known as the father of Russian classical music and he was also moving around a lot. He had a cosmopolitan upbringing and he was taught several languages as a child including Persian. And he went on to write the first opera sung in Russian based on Russian folk music and he inspired summary composers after him, even like Tjeknavorian wrote the 1st opera sung in Farsi.
LYDEN: Let's listen to the "Fantastic Dances" clip. This is the "Dance Of Elegy."
LYDEN: Tell us what's going on here.
KAMANGAR: This is a work by Tjeknavorian, he was born in Iran, but of an Armenian family, and who's actually the conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic for 10 years. And this particular sweep the fantastic dances was written when he was only 20 years old. I got the score directly from Tjeknavorian he's still really active in Iran he just finished the sixth Opera. And he's doing such amazing work under such restrictions. For example one of his operas it wasn't allowed to be performed in Iran due to the women and men not being able to sing together and they performed it as a puppet opera. And it's really - I have a film of it and it's really mesmerizing.
LYDEN: Wow. So here's a composer Mr. Tjeknavorian working under theses really difficult circumstances but he has at least managed to accomplish many many pieces. What was the effect of the 1979 revolution on the classical music in Iran?
KAMANGAR: So all the pieces on this album were composed before the 1979 revolution of course there's a lot being composed today but I felt that a lot of these works were being sort of forgotten. The effect of the revolution was that a lot of the best performers and teachers left the country and so there were few performers remaining in Iran to preserve and promote the works and also prior to 1979, there was a lot of funding going into Western classical music. For instance, they had the annual Shiraz Festival which was a music festival set in the ruins of Persepolis with artists coming from all over the world like for instance Houdie Menduin(ph), Shtaukousen(ph), John Cage, Ravi Shankai(ph) etc. etc. And after 1979 that was discontinued. And also even during the Iran-Iraq war there was really no music performance allowed during this time. The atmosphere was really kind of perpetual mourning. And actually selling pianos was even banned during that time.
LYDEN: Let's go to this track. I want to play little bit from Spartacus.
LYDEN: I had never heard of Aram Khachaturian and this ballet that we're hearing, Spartacus. This is one where there's a love theme. We are seeing the reunion of the hero and his wife and you write that it's in the style of a classical Armenian lament. A lot of lamentation going on in general. In these pieces.
KAMANGAR: Yes, and I think you can hear - in Armenian music you often have this descending chromatic line and you have that in this work. And I just love the harmony changes. This is originally a ballet and it was arranged for piano just a few years ago by a Brooklyn -based pianist Matthew Cameron. And at first I discovered this from a performance of his own YouTube before the score was actually printed. And I just fell in love with it I couldn't stop - I wanted a repeat. And actually learned from ear because the score wasn't available and I couldn't get in touch with him.
LYDEN: I'd like to be just a little personal - tell us a little about your own family. Your father left the practice of medicine in Iran before the revolution. You have two brothers, one of them Saular has quite a high profile in tech. How do they inspire you?
KAMANGAR: We're a very close family so I'm really lucky to have very supportive parents and many parents probably wouldn't like that their child becomes a musician, they prefer more stable profession but my parents are big music lovers. My mom studied the piano in Iran and my dad studied the violin and all Persian instruments. And he want to be actually a professional violinist and his father told him that musicians aren't respected enough in Iran so if you want to be a musician you should move West but if you stay here you should be a doctor. So I think for my brothers and I, we actually all play piano and violin and music is kind of what we all have in common as a family.
LYDEN: Has your brother Saular encouraged you to put these pieces on YouTube?
KAMANGAR: I kind of did that myself but I think he was happy about it. He is a great pianist himself and we played duets together. So he's always been supportive.
LYDEN: I just thought that as the former CEO of YouTube he might have, I don't know, done a work around or something for you.
KAMANGAR: That would be great I wish he could up my view counts.
LYDEN: Exactly. So when you perform these pieces now what kinds of audiences are you searching for in terms of their own backgrounds or age range of parts of the country?
KAMANGAR: I really would love for this music to be heard I think anyone who hears it will appreciate it and maybe be interested even to learn more about Iran I know some of my American friends after seeing Persian miniature paintings or reading Persian poetry they were inspired to learn Farsi or learn more about the country and that's always been the case for me for other cultures. And I'm hoping that the inclusion of the Russian Romantic composers, so the more familiar works, will encourage more people to pick up the album because I know that I probably wouldn't pick up a novel of completely unknown works but hopefully the Russian works will service as a good bridge to the Iranian ones.
LYDEN: Absolutely and I can say that there's a love story behind almost any one of these pieces and you've got a lot of those. This is classical music with a back story.
KAMANGAR: Yes I love that about it. I love knowing the story behind the work.
LYDEN: Let's go out on "Etude." Do you want to tell us a little bit about this piece?
KAMANGAR: Sure, that's a composition of mind I couldn't album. And I thought it fit into the album to the mood of the piece. Is definitely melancholic and restless. So I think it works with the flow of the album.
LYDEN: I've been speaking with classical pianist and composer Tara Kamangar. Her new album is called "East Of Melancholy" and she joined us from our New York bureau. Tara, thank you so much for speaking with us it's an exquisite album.
KAMANGAR: Thank you so much for having me. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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STOCKTON - More than the juicy turkey, savory stuffing, whipped potatoes and pumpkin pie, the arrival of Santa on 34th Street and the lineup of football games, Thanksgiving is, and always has been, about family.
STOCKTON - More than the juicy turkey, savory stuffing, whipped potatoes and pumpkin pie, the arrival of Santa on 34th Street and the lineup of football games, Thanksgiving is, and always has been, about family.
It's that sense of belonging that had nearly 100 volunteers serving food to 635 guests at the Salvation Army's annual Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday.
"I don't have no family," said Pamela, a single mom who declined to give her last name as she sat with her young son and niece. "The Salvation Army is like family. It's welcoming."
At tables of eight, with enough to feed 450 people at one time in the gymnasium of the group's Weber Avenue facility, volunteers and guests sat together enjoying a traditional Thanksgiving feast.
Mia Carmona, 39, and her mom, Diana Carmona, 62, were enjoying the food while waiting to serve meals to others.
"Normally, we eat dinner and go to Jackson or someplace to gamble," Mia Carmona said of her family's Thanksgiving tradition.
Although she moved to Stockton in January from Ventura County, where she volunteered at the Salvation Army, Carmona didn't waste time finding a way to help her new community on a holiday.
"I just figured there's a greater need in Stockton," Carmona said.
The need is great, as Salvation Army Capt. Cristian Sibaya discovered when he arrived with his wife earlier this year from New Mexico to lead the local chapter. He also found a community willing to help.
"This would not be possible without the Stockton community," Sibaya said. "I'm excited to see how many called and wanted to be here."
Employees of the California State Automobile Association donated most of the 24 turkeys, weighing 15 to 20 pounds each, that were cooked and served.
Others volunteers began preparing the dining room three days earlier, mopping the floor and setting up tables with plastic covers and chairs in intimate groupings.
Guests were seated and served by an army of volunteers of all ages, including students from Cesar Chavez and Lincoln high schools, Delta College and University of the Pacific.
Carlos Tovar, a 13-year-old student at Sierra Middle School, tagged along with his sisters, Lincoln High students and in his first venture as a volunteer anywhere, zoomed around the room delivering loaded plates of food.
"It's fun," Tovar said. "It feels good you can help out people who don't have homes or can't buy food."
Several of the volunteers came as a family and spent part of their time together giving back to others.
Danny Reynolds arrived about 11 a.m., just before the doors opened, and immediately found the closet where a bucket and mop were stored and began preparing for cleanup duty. His daughter, Erin, a senior at California State University, Sacramento, helped serve food.
"When my kids were young, we would always come here," Danny Reynolds said. "We haven't come in a few years, but I sent texts to my kids. They're all in college."
Erin was the only one of his three daughters who was free to join him Thursday.
"It's so great to start a tradition of volunteering," Danny Reynolds said. My kids are helping the community with a lot of nonprofit organizations. My wife and I helped in the community and wanted to teach our kids. We set a good example for them. When they were little, I used to take them to the blood bank, and now they give blood."
His sister-in-law, Tammy Johnson, also joined Reynolds and his daughter. She'd lost her husband this year and was having a tough time as Thanksgiving approached.
"I told her maybe (volunteering) would help. I'm very glad she came," Reynolds said.
Feeling a part of family and the broader community is what continues to bring Viola Garcia to the Salvation Army's dinner.
"My mom used to bring us every year. We've been doing this for a long time," Garcia said.
She sat at a table with family members, including her great-granddaughter, Dulce Valles, who was holding the newest member of the family, her 2-month-old son, Abram to experience the traditional dinner.
"I like the welcoming feeling, the environment," Garcia said. "It's nice, because they don't do this every day. It seems to be going out of style, with people thinking about Christmas before Thanksgiving."
The holiday that celebrates the nation's start and calls on us to be grateful for what we have wasn't lost on those who shared their meal together at the Salvation Army.
"I posted on my Facebook page that during this time of year, there a lot of people who have lost somebody," Reynolds said. "We should not only pray for those people that have had a loss but invite them in and let them be a part of what you're doing. A lot of people need people."
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Overview Edit Edit
While being a kekkei genkai, the use of this nature transformation has only been done by Hashirama Senjuand those who possess his exact DNA. His ability to use this technique was one of the reasons he was given the title of the First Hokage, and with Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees he created the foundation of Konohagakure.[3] This technique also allowed him to completely reshape battlefields to his advantage. A highly coveted ability, several people have tried to replicate his power, with a few achieving weaker versions of it through experimentation with Hashirama's cells.[4][5] As Obito Uchiha noted, Wood Release is very hard to control due to the sheer life force within Hashirama's cells, which can potentially overwhelm any who are infused with them. Danzō Shimurademonstrated this when, after his chakra levels were depleted, he almost turned into a tree as the cells overpowered him.[6]
A derived technique of the Wood Release is the Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands. This technique produces a "sit" (座) seal on the user's right hand that can suppress a tailed beast's chakra as well as its influence over its jinchūriki. Hashirama's necklace aided in this technique's execution, but its exact purpose was unclear. After Naruto Uzumaki destroyed the necklace,Yamato implied that he could no longer suppress theNine-Tailed Demon Fox's influence.[7] Nevertheless, when Naruto began transforming during his training to control the Nine-Tails at the Falls of Truth, Yamato stated that he would try to suppress the beast,[8] though it is unknown whether this would have been successful due to the transformation stopping through other means. In addition other Wood Release techniques are also capable of binding and suppressing the tailed beasts' power.[9]
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The first person to attempt to make Hashirama's power his own was his rival, Madara Uchiha. Having used their confrontation at the Valley of the End to acquire a portion of Hashirama's flesh, Madara later applied it to the wound he sustained in his chest.[10][11] In addition, Madara used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as a catylyst to cultivate Hashirama's cells, resulting in the creation of a flowering tree made up of Hashirama's artificial body. The White Zetsu stored within the Demonic Statue were later pulled out through the tree by Black Zetsu, each gaining the ability to use a weaker version of Hashirama's Wood Release in the process.[12][11] Madara later used Hashirama's artificial body to repair the otherwise fatal wounds sustained by Obito Uchiha during his mission at Kannabi Bridge, giving him the ability to use Wood Release as well.[13] When Madara was later reincarnatedin a state beyond his prime by Kabuto Yakushi, he once again gained access to Wood Release.[14]
After Hashirama's passing, Konohagakure once attempted to replicate Wood Release through implanting Hashirama's cells into various shinobi, which consistently ended in failure and the subject's death. Ultimately, the research was ceased and deemed forbidden.[15] Orochimaru, another who desired the First Hokage's abilities, injected Hashirama's DNA into sixty children, with the sole survivor gaining the ability to use Wood Release as a result.[16] Orochimaru also performed a similar procedure on Danzō Shimura by implanting the First's cells into his right arm. While Danzō was capable of using this power, his version appeared cruder and caused a significant drain of chakra with each usage, causing Danzō to avoid using it as much as possible.[17] Orochimaru himself would later acquire this coveted ability after taking over the body of one of White Zetsu's parasite clones.[18][19]
After reviving the Ten-Tails in an incomplete state, Madara and Obito were able to improve their control of the beast through the use of Hashirama's cells.[20] Obito also demonstrated the ability to channel his Wood Release techniques through the Ten-Tails' body while attached to it.[21]
Trivia Edit Edit
- Wood Release parallels the real-life ninja art "mokuton-no-jutsu". One example of real-life mokuton-no-jutsu is Tanuki-gakure: the practice of climbing a tree and camouflaging oneself within the foliage.
- Wood Release has the most techniques seen out of all the nature transformation kekkei genkai.
- In the anime, the Moulding Mushroom appears to drain chakra from Wood Release users.[22]
- In the anime, Hashirama left behind a scroll detailing his various Wood Release techniques. Danzō later obtained this scroll and gave it to Yamato in the hopes that he would one day refine his Wood Release to Hashirama's level.[23]
- A replica of Hashirama's face formed on Danzō's right shoulder after Hashirama's cells were integrated into his body.[24] Madara gained a similar replica of Hashirama's face on his chest after being reincarnated and modified by Kabuto.[25][26]


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General Comments: Futures were higher as New York and Sao Paulo rallied, but London closed a little lower. Trends have turned sideways for the short term in New York, and the market has firmed in Sao Paulo as the government has modified its producer loan program to greatly extend payment terms. The new Brazilian harvest is just a couple of months away, and traders expected big offers to develop on rallies. No one had been paying much attention to the reports of rust in Central America and parts of South America and prefer to concentrate on Brazil and also on improving production conditions in Vietnam. Rains have increased in Vietnam and crop conditions have improved. But the decreased exports from Central America have changed some ideas, and chart patterns also show the potential for a low to be developing. Reports of rust in Central America and the production cuts that it are still in the press, and major crop losses are being estimated by traders and producers. Current crop development is still good this year in Brazil, and there are showers around. Production ideas remain big there. Central America crops are mostly harvested. Colombia is reported to have good conditions.
Overnight News: Certified stocks are slightly lower today and are about 2.743 million bags. The ICO composite price is now 131.83 ct/lb. Brazil should get scattered showers. Temperatures will average near to above normal. Colombia should get a few showers, and Central America and Mexico should get mostly dry conditions. Temperatures should average near to above normal. LIFFE stocks are now 12,162 lots. Colombia produced 617,000 bags of Coffee in March, up 7% from last year. It exported 678,000 bags of Coffee in March, up 12% from last year. Brazil exported 2.513 million bags of Coffee in March, from 2.261 million last year. The ICO estimates 2012-13 world Coffee production at 144.6 million bags, up 6.4% from the previous year.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are mixed. Support is at 136.00, 134.00, and 132.00 May, and resistance is at 141.00, 144.00, and 147.00 May. Trends in London are mixed to down with objectives of 1990 May. Support is at 1995, 1970, and 1950 May, and resistance is at 2045, 2060, and 2080 May. Trends in Sao Paulo are mixed to up with objectives of 179.00, 186.00, and 187.00 September. Support is at 172.00, 170.00, and 168.00 September, and resistance is at 176.00, 177.00, and 180.00 September.
General Comments: Futures closed mostly a little lower. ISO once again said that there would be a big production surplus this year to keep bearish ideas alive. Ideas of weak demand and big supplies keep traders negative to prices. Traders know that ther might be less production in India and Thailand, but expect Brazil to produce enough to cover any losses. The market could be in a new down trend. So far, no new demand is being reported, and chart patterns continue to look weak. Reports indicate that Brazil will start harvesting next month and that a big offer is expected. Exports from Brazil continue to be very strong overall despite the port problems.
Overnight News: Scattered showers are expected in Brazil. Temperatures should average near to above normal.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are mixed to down with objectives of 1725 and 1610 July. Support is at 1760, 1740, and 1710 July, and resistance is at 1780, 1790, and 1800 July. Trends in London are down with objectives of 486.00 and 481.00 August. Support is at 487.00, 484.00, and 481.00 August, and resistance is at 496.00, 500.00, and 505.00 August.
General Comments: Futures closed lower on what was called follow through speculative selling. Charts show that the market may have failed against some important resistance areas. The flow of Cocoa from western Africa is strong now. Weather continues good in Africa and as some crop size estimates for next year start to increase. Ideas are that current low prices should create new demand and that the main crop harvest is over in Western Africa and much of Asia so that supplies on offer could also be less. For now, though, the market seems to be in a longer term trading range. The weather is forecast to be warm and somewhat wet in West Africa this week. For now, traders expect good mid-crop production from West Africa, and wire reports said that the harvest started this week in Nigeria. Malaysia and Indonesia crops appear to be in good condition and weather is called favorable.
Overnight News: Scattered showers are expected in West Africa. Temperatures will average mostly above normal. Malaysia and Indonesia should see episodes of isolated showers. Temperatures should average near normal. Brazil will get mostly dry conditions and warm temperatures. ICE certified stocks are higher today at 4.629 million bags. LIFFE stocks are now 6,422 standard lots, 137 large lots, and 7 bulk lots.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are mixed. Support is at 2110, 2075, and 2035 May, with resistance at 2170, 2190, and 2220 May. Trends in London are mixed. Support is at 1430, 1410, and 1400 May, with resistance at 1460, 1480, and 1495 May.


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September 15, 2012
Robert A. Eggers, Bob, died Aug. 31 at the Almost Like Home memory care facility in Denver. A resident of Dillon from 1977-1998, he worked at Henderson Mine, Eagles Nest and Breckenridge golf courses.
He's survived by his wife, Bonnie; daughter, Kristine and Dennis Rubba, their sons Nicholas and Michael of Fort Lupton; son, Douglas and Lori, their sons Matthew and Blake of Gainsville, Va.; son, Rob and Rebecca, their sons Jacob and Zachary of Bend, Ore.
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We've heard a lot about poo-power here at Inhabitat, and we're all about it as a totally renewable source of energy. That's why we were stoked to learn about the Bristol Robotics Lab's (BRL) current research into using urine for energy. They're looking into Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) – bio-electrochemical systems that create energy through breaking down bacteria – and believe they are on the path to creating urine powered robots that run on MFCs as well as urinals that have the potential to create energy.
Bristol Robotics Lab has been researching the use of MFCs and has already developed robots that run on the fuel they create. MFCs take chemical energy and turn it into electrical energy via a catalytic reaction. BRL has been able to use waste — rotten fruit, grass clippings, seafood shells — to feed the MFCs and has successfully used the energy produced to power robots. They are also trying to advance the use of MFCs by "stacking" them (placing them in a denser environment) and allowing them to run simultaneously off of one food source in order to optimize the energy produced.
The researchers believe that by switching out the food sources they've been using after successfully "stacking" the MFCs they will be able to produce energy-creating circuits that could generate large amounts of power from urine. While this technology could be used to power a lot of things, they happen to specialize in robots so they're hoping they'll have some urine-energized bunnies soon. One of their goals is to be able to produce a urinal that turns the waste that people put into it into energy. This technology could be used in the porta-johns that are ever present at outdoor music festivals. Imagine if all the waste from an outdoor concert was powering the amplifiers on stage — now that's some rocking pee-power.
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This isn't the first suicide attempt by the Teen Mom star. She attempted suicide last year and and announced that she had been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder.
Speaking to Good Morning America from jail, Amber explained the circumstances. "I had taken 30 Suboxone [a drug used to treat opioid addictions] within 3 days. The depression took over. I would take 4 or 5 at a time."


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Are you better off than you were four years ago?
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yes, in spite of 'you didn't build that' Obama.
JohnLocke (anonymous profile)
October 8, 2012 at 8:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
HAHAHAHAHA! Good one. I get it...it's funny because people really do build national and global infrastructure from scratch every time they start a new business. Obama's so out of touch.
Kingprawn (anonymous profile)
October 8, 2012 at 12:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Is it better to be on, or off?
billclausen (anonymous profile)
October 8, 2012 at 1:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Uh, governments of all kinds build infrastructure. In our country the peoples' money (taxes) build infrastructure for the benefit of all. The comment was just dumb and indicative of someone who does not value individual contribution but believes that big government solves all problems.
In fact, our infrastructure is decaying because our government has not been allocating the necessary tax revenue to maintain it. Figures from our local gov published last week indicate they are spending a small fraction of what is really required for local road maintenance.
JohnLocke (anonymous profile)
October 9, 2012 at 9:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"...big government solves all problems." @JohnLocke
I agree.
Kingprawn (anonymous profile)
October 9, 2012 at 12:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The whole "you didn't build that" issue had nothing to do with infrastructure. And if you want to get technical, half the infrastructure being built in California is built by private developers as a condition of their projects. So, no, government is not building that.
The whole "you didn't build that" had to do with businesses, especially small businesses. Obama claimed without the help of government, those businesses could not exist. Which is an absolute crock. We all know how difficult it is to run a business in this state, in spite of California's overbearing government.
So it was a perfect quote to seize upon. It's only gotten more difficult to run a business in this country, no thanks to the government that Obama created. Which didn't build it.
sbdude (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 9:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
So 150 years of publicly financed infrastructure didn't and doesn't aid business but Obama created our government?
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 10:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
@sbdude & @JohnLocke,
He said "somebody" helped, not "government". Teachers were referenced. He also mentioned, "roads and bridges" in a sentence that preceded the "you didn't build that" statement. So, yes, President Obama did specifically reference infrastructure immediately prior to the statement with which you and I take issue. It was a clumsy thing to say.
Kingprawn (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 10:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Baraka Obama, July 13, 2012, Roanoke Fire Station #1, Roanoke, Virginia:
"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn't — look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
binky (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 10:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree with Obama on this one despite all the disingenuous attempts to parse and twist his words into something else.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 10:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The internet is a great example of government helping to build infrastructure so that people can benefit (and UCSB played a big role in that too).
Anyone who works in technology knows the government funds all kinds of research, private/public partnerships, and other initiatives that benefit the private sector. As with any investment portfolio, not all of them bear fruit but many do.
Abel Maldonado could learn a few things from this thread.
EastBeach (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 1:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I thought Al Gore built the internet!
Botany (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 1:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
How many people here are comfortable with Bain Capital subsidiary Intercivic supplying voting machines?
Despite our many and varied disagreements on issues, I think we all want a free and fair election?
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 1:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm glad you brought that up, Botany.
What you're repeating is the result of dishonest men being dishonest:
The fallout from Obama's speech and Gore's speech are similar examples of what's wrong with American politics. Both men's words were twisted and taken out of context, given an entirely new meaning, then feed to the sheep.
If anyone's ever put words in your mouth that you didn't say, you might understand.
EastBeach (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 2 p.m. (Suggest removal)
:: "Al Gore and the Internet" (by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf)
:: "Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.
:: "No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
:: "Last year [1999] the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role.He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective. [continued...]"
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binky (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 2:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I would take Obama's comment further--much to the chagrin of many people. Anybody who is successful is in the right place at the right time. They also have God-given talent.
Yes, people who are successful usually get there by working very hard, but it's God who gives them the talent, and when they brag of their own works, they mock God.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 3:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You guys need to loosen up a little. It was supposed to be a joke.
Botany (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 3:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
well it's not a joke that 51% of responders to this weird poll feel better off than 4 years ago (though 5% feel worse about it)! This thread mirrors the nation and this means obama wins it in a squeaker, though his Electoral College numbers will likely be robust. Abel, hope you're reading this. PS at least we got the Thorns to spread their bile elsewhere!
DrDan (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 3:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I get it, Botany! A Goddamn laugh-riot!
Praise the Lord.
السلام عليكم
binky (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 3:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"I thought Al Gore built the internet!"
He may have built it, but we made it better.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 4:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
yeah, micro-serfs obeying our mighty cloud lords, masters of the ether, the tech-savvy scientific 1%...those whom Tea Partiers fear and thus despise...we made the internet BETTER?! how would that be...?
DrDan (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 5:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
With our (often free) content and ideas, we made the internet more than just a scientific or military device.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
October 10, 2012 at 5:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
blah blah blah blah.. this country isn't a 7-11 or a McDonalds drive thru...Jorge Bush's crap takes awhile to clean up.
bimboteskie (anonymous profile)
October 11, 2012 at 4:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wait a minute, I thought the Bamster told us on numerous occasions if, "He couldn't get it done in 4 years kick him out"!! Now your telling me we need 4 more?? You lib's kill me....
Priceless (anonymous profile)
October 12, 2012 at 7:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"You lib's kill me..." @Priceless
Let me be the first to send my condolences.
Kingprawn (anonymous profile)
October 12, 2012 at 8:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Romney is a charlatan.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
October 12, 2012 at 9 a.m. (Suggest removal)
ex-Gov. Romney is a chameleon who changes with the wind...any good Republicans who loved him in Tampa should be dismayed how he contradicted most of what he righteously proclaimed six weeks ago there...now, he says, he will NOT lower taxes for the rich as one example. Now, he will save Medicare and Social Security by privatizing them. How can you believe these assertions?...you libertarians kill me.
Romney is a highly conflicted man, a fine speaker, a man who hides his religion, who will ban abortion if he can, who offers support to Netanyahu over attacking Iran, who wants to increase the military budget AND pay down the national debt AND balance the budge. I'm not sure he's a charlatan, Ken, but he is a Houdini and in the end...even his supporters do not really trust him.
DrDan (anonymous profile)
October 12, 2012 at 1:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Romney is a highly conflicted man, a fine speaker, a man who hides his religion, who will ban abortion if he can, who offers support to Netanyahu over attacking Iran, who wants to increase the military budget AND pay down the national debt AND balance the budge. I'm not sure he's a charlatan, Ken, but he is a Houdini and in the end...even his supporters do not really trust him." -DrDan-
In other words, he's a typical politician.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
October 12, 2012 at 4:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Romney is a Robot and Ryan is Pee Wee Herman.
bimboteskie (anonymous profile)
October 12, 2012 at 4:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Has Obama ever held a real job? Not a political position.....a real job.....?
Romney is typical of what has made this country great...I'm not sure if he will solve our problems, but I do know that he doesn't cry like a little baby when he is opposed (can't say the same about Obama). Obama has a very thin skin, I don't think he was ever questioned in his life. When you run a real company and have to make real $$ decisions you have to be able to take opposition and turn it positive. When Obama is confronted, he goes back to same playbook....."war on the poor"....or even better "war on women"? what a joke.
susl07 (anonymous profile)
November 5, 2012 at 9:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I guess being the Leader of the free world is not a "real job"
talk about crying, now you with your thick skin can go on crying for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!
rblacumbre (anonymous profile)
November 11, 2012 at 9:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"when you run a real company..." get real yourself! It's over: four more for O!
DrDan (anonymous profile)
November 11, 2012 at 1:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Elizabeth Warren 2016
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
November 11, 2012 at 1:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)


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- Wisconsin's governor picks the person in charge of natural resources in the state.Since the mid-1990s, the governor has appointed the DNR secretary.That leads some people to think it's simply a political appointment.Democratic Reps. Janet Bewley (Ashland), Chris Danou (Trempealeau), Nick Milroy (South Range), and Dianne Hesselbein (Middleton) want to change that. They introduced a proposal that would put that job in the hands of the Natural Resources Board.The idea is in its early stages.Northern Wisconsin Republican representatives didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
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