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As leaders of almost three dozen democratic nations began Summit of the Americas trade talks in Quebec City last month, one representative of a potentially lucrative trading market was conspicuously absent: Fidel Castro, Cuba's president.
Almost 40 years to the day of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion (April 17, 1961) that launched Cuba's decades-long alliance with the Soviet Union and Communism and put it on the outs with the United States., the Canadian conference laid the groundwork for an effort by President Bush to put in place by 2005 a hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
While Congress has not voted Bush the "fast track" authority necessary to negotiate trade agreements for the U.S., the president has made no bones about the fact that he's a free trade proponent and that he's going to work to convince Congress ó particularly the Democrats ó to give him the necessary authority (which, in his administration, has been renamed "trade promotion authority").
Stretching from Canada's frozen north through the bottom reaches of South America, the proposed FTAA would also include 14 Caribbean nations, seven in Central America, Brazil, and five Andean nations.
Cuba, though, is like Cinderella — not invited to the ball. He's left on the outside looking in, his source of financial support down the drain with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but still doggedly clinging to Communism, his country's infrastructure for the most part still in the 1960s, and unable to get a foot in the door for making up with the U.S. and opening the doors to American trade and investment.
More than 11 million potential customers for U.S. agricultural products and goods/services of all kinds are just 90 miles off Florida's coast. There but for the embargo imposed by the U.S. on trade with Cuba could be millions of dollars in trade between the two nations. Cuba once was the number one customer for U.S. rice, but now pays exorbitant shipping charges to import it from half a world away.
Although Congress last year overwhelmingly passed legislation that would, in theory, ease the embargo and allow sales of U.S. farm products and medicine, in practice it has meant little. Because amendments prohibit the U.S. government and American banks from providing financing for such sales, Cuba would have to pay in cash, and Castro says no dice. Complicating things even more, the Treasury Department has taken the position that a special license is required for every transaction.
The Bush administration is reported to be in the process of developing rules to implement the legislation and ag groups continue to pressure Congress and the White House to take steps to facilitate the process. But anything involving more open relations with Cuba is like tippy-toeing through a swampful of alligators, given the strong opposition of the politically powerful Cuban-American contingent in Florida and elsewhere.
And even though Castro taunts the U.S. over the lost deals the sanctions are causing, not everyone sees Cuba as trading manna from heaven. The U.S. International Trade Commission says that based on average trade figures for 1996-98, exports to Cuba would have been less than 0.5 percent of total U.S. exports. Other countries that have sold millions of dollars of products to Cuba have been stiffed by Castro and have withheld further shipments. U.S. agricultural interests should be aware that selling to Castro does not mean getting paid, officials of these countries say.
So, nobody's making any bets on a thaw in the icy relations between the U.S. and Cuba anytime in the foreseeable future. After 40 years of waiting for Castro to be overthrown or die, the bearded one still reigns ó and even were he to keel over tomorrow, his brother has been groomed to step in and continue the regime. Under the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, the U.S. must keep up its economic embargo until Castro is replaced and democratic elections are held. Fat chance.


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Keith Urban's 'Cop Car' Video Portrays Wild Love in Flashing Lights
Keith Urban's 'Cop Car' video literally plays out the words to the song about falling in love in the back of a cop car.
There's nothing like young love ... until that young love gets you cuffed in the back of a police car. Urban's video comes full circle, beginning and ending with cop car lights and sirens. A young couple star in the video, finding themselves in trouble after trespassing in a field under a cloudy sky to watch the airplanes fly in.
The country star, who doesn't play a role in the clip, dons dark colors in dim lighting and his black boots tap to the rhythm of the song. The couple happily ride along in the car avoiding the no trespassing signs before pulling the tailgate down to watch the sky traffic. Police sirens fill the air as the cops pull up.
Urban smiles as he performs the song and the lyrics play out on the screen. Simultaneously, the cops question the young couple as the screen flashes (much like the lights) to Urban again. The cop swiftly cuffs the young man as the young girl starts to argue with the men in uniform.
The pair pose for mug shots and the video then cuts to them both sitting in the back of the cop car, laughing and talking, almost immune to the trouble they might be in. She rests her head on his shoulder and forgets about the cops outside the windows.
The 'Cop Car' video shows a split screen of Urban and the couple in strobe light form as he plays his electric guitar. The video concludes with the two young lovers cuddled up, falling in love 'in the back of a cop car.'

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And who scuba dove down to the bottom of the lake to hook up the chains to the dragon?
Surprisingly, i know we're joking, but this is the MOST believable portion of it. I could absolutely see a bunch of bones diving to the bottom of the lake and sacrificing themselves to get a dragon.
You did notice that they weren't all a bunch of bones... right. They are in several states of decay. Bran can pull all the dead as he marches south, from the old boney ones to the new fresh ones. Bran is cool like that.


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The president of the Stroudsburg Area School District teachers' union will not run for re-election next month.
The president of the Stroudsburg Area School District teachers' union will not run for re-election next month.
"It's just time. There are things happening in my personal life that I want to give my attention to, and it's just time to move on," said Glen Galante on Monday evening.
Although Galante is stepping down in his role as president of the Stroudsburg union, he will continue to serve as president of the Northeastern Region chapter of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
He will also continue to serve as one of the Board of Trustees of the state's Public School Employees' Retirement System.
Galante has worked as an instructional support teacher in Stroudsburg School Area District for 21 years, 12 of which he served as president of the Stroudsburg Area Education Association.
Union officers are elected by the local membership to serve two-year terms, Galante said. His term is set to expire at the end of the summer.
The new president would start in September.
The district's union members have a meeting on April 26 to elect new officers, Galante said.
He made the decision about a month ago, which was the deadline to announce whether he planned to run again.
The decision is not related to ongoing negotiations between the teachers' union and school board officials, who are working out a new teachers' contract to replace the one that expires this August, Galante said.
School Board President Rodney Baechtold Jr. did not immediately return a phone call for comment on Monday.
"It won't affect negotiations one bit," Galante said.
"All good things must come to an end," he added.


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Paraplegic Woman Walks Again Thanks to Robotic Exoskeleton [VIDEO]
Usually when we hear the words "robot exoskeleton," we think of science fiction. But for Amanda Boxtel, a woman who was paralyzed from the waist down in a skiing accident 20 years ago, an amazing powered exoskeleton has given her newfound mobility.
After her skiing accident in 1992, Boxtel thought she would never walk again. But the wearable device, which supports her torso and powers her legs, allows the 43-year-old to move around on her own for the first time.
Boxtel called the robotic suit "life-changing" and looks forward to a time when she'll be able to slow dance again. Watch her uplifting story below.
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District Dance Festival
Come see Orchesis, Intermediate Dance and a few special guest performers at this year's District Dance Festival at 7 p.m. at Newport Harbor High School's Loats Theater, 600 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach. Tickets are $12 presale and $15 at the door. Tickets may be bought in the quad during break and lunch through Friday.
Trio Celeste
UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of Arts presents a Trio Celeste concert in tribute to Winifred Smith, one of the most significant supporters of the school. New York-based Trio Celeste will perform Beethoven's Triple Concert with the UCI Symphony at 8 p.m. at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. Tickets are $17 for general admission, $15 for seniors and $12 for children younger than 17 and students with ID. For more information, call at (949) 824-2787 or visit http://www.arts.uci.edu.
Peter Cetera
Pacific Symphony, as part of its Pops Series, presents Chicago singer Peter Cetera in concert at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. The shows are at 8 p.m. and tickets start at $25. For more information, visit http://www.scfta.org.
'Dames of the Sea'
UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts brings "Dames of the Sea" to the stage at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 1 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $18 for seniors and $11 for children younger than 17 and UCI students with ID at the Arts Box Office, (949) 824-2787 or http://www.arts.uci.edu.
South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, presents its production of August Wilson's "Jitney," directed by Ron O.J. Parson. For ticket information and showtimes, visit http://www.scr.org or call (714) 708-5555.
'Jane of the Jungle'
South Coast Repertory's Theatre for Young Audiences presents "Jane of Jungle." The shows are at the Julianne Argyros Stage at SCR, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. For showtimes and more information, visit http://www.scr.org or call (714) 708-5555.
Recycling Event
Crown Ace Hardware in Costa Mesa and (800) GOT-SCRAP team up from 8 a.m. to noon to raise money for Habitat for Humanity and awareness for Mother Earth. The public can drop off any recyclable items, including large scale metal such as old barbecues or bicycles. For more information, call (800) GOT-SCRAP or visit gotscrap.com.
'Priceless' Screening, Lecture
Move to Amend – OC Coalition sponsors a screening of "Priceless" and a lecture by John Goodman on the movement to create a Constitutional Amendment stating that "Corporations are not people and money is not speech." The event is at 6 p.m. at the Irvine Ranch Water District headquarters, 15600 Sand Canyon Road, Irvine. For more information, call Jamshed Dastur at (949) 673-4078.
Alex's Lemonade Stand
From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. the Irvine Spectrum, 71 Fortune Drive, Irvine, hosts Alex's Lemonade Stand in memory of John Taggart. The stand in Carousel Court will offer lemonade, fresh baked goods and a complimentary carousel ride. For more information, call (949) 753-5180.
Clambake Fundraiser
Children's Bureau, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, hosts a Clambake from 6 to 10 p.m. at Oak Creek Golf Club, 1 Golf Club Drive, Irvine. Tickets for the Clambake , a semi-casual event featuring inspired cuisine, a live auction and dancing, are $250 per person. Register at http://www.all4kids.org. All of the net proceeds raised from the evening go toward Children's Bureau prevention programs.
Lemondrop Dance Club
Newport Beach-based Lemondrop Club, which hosts singles parties in Orange County geared for adults around the age of 40 and up, will have its next singles party from 7 to midnight at the Newport Beach Elks Lodge Ballroom, 3456 Via Oporto, Newport Beach. Tickets are $15 and no membership is required. For more information, call (949) 378-6600 or visit http://www.lemondropclub.com.
Relay for Life
Costa Mesa's Relay for Life kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday at Estancia High School, 2323 Placentia Ave. This 24-hour fundraiser commemorates those lost to cancer while honoring those who have survived it. For more information, call (800) ACS-2345.


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overview : Revealing the dark truth that aviation safety improves one crash at a time, Mayday investigates legendary aviation disasters to find out what went wrong and why.
Based on cockpit voice recorders, accident reports and eyewitness accounts, every episode also features interviews, state-of-the-art CGI and gripping reenactments.
Genres : Documentary, Drama
Tags : airplane, investigation, aviation, disaster, airplane crash, forensic
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European Commission - Press release
Innovation Partnerships: new proposals on raw materials, agriculture and healthy ageing to boost European competitiveness
Brussels, 29 February 2012 – The European Commission has today proposed decisive action to meet three key challenges facing our society, in areas that are crucial to growth and jobs: the supply of raw materials, sustainable agriculture, and active and healthy ageing. All three require a more concerted innovation effort across the public and private sector, in order to improve quality of life and position Europe as a global leader. The Commission has therefore launched two new European Innovation Partnerships (EIPs) - on Raw Materials and on Agricultural Sustainability and Productivity - and has endorsed a four-year action plan for the Active and Healthy Ageing EIP, a pilot launched in February 2011. EIPs take a new approach to tackling the whole research-development-innovation chain, bringing together public and private stakeholders across borders and sectors in order to accelerate the uptake of innovation. They each have an ambitious target to reach by 2020, and are expected to start delivering results within 1-3 years. The announcement today comes just ahead of a European Council that is expected to reaffirm the place of research and innovation at the centre of European economic recovery.
The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, said: "We need to innovate to get Europe back on the path to growth and jobs, and to tackle major challenges such as access to raw materials, sustainable agriculture and our ageing society. European Innovation Partnerships will break down silos, remove bottlenecks and focus our efforts on results that matter to our citizens and our businesses."
The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) is a new concept that was introduced in the Europe 2020 flagship Innovation Union. The aim is to address weaknesses, bottlenecks and obstacles in the European research and innovation system that prevent or slow down good ideas being developed and brought to market. These include under-investment, outdated regulation, lack of standards, and fragmentation of markets. Each Partnership is led by a Steering Group chaired by the European Commissioner or Commissioners with responsibility for the policy area or areas concerned. They are joined by representatives of Member States (Ministers), Members of Parliament, industry leaders, researchers, civil society and other key stakeholders. EIPs identify what needs to be done to overcome bottlenecks – from further developing technologies to getting the market frameworks right and stimulating demand – and galvanise action across public and private sectors. They do not replace funding programmes or regulatory processes, but provide a shared platform for cooperation.
Innovation partnership to overcome Europe's raw materials shortages
The supply of raw materials, the lifeblood of today's high-tech industry, is increasingly under pressure. With a view to increasing Europe's own production, under the proposal to set up a European Innovation Partnership on raw materials, joint innovation efforts will support exploration, extraction and processing of raw materials. For example, it has been estimated that the value of unexploited European mineral resources at a depth of 500-1,000 metres is about € 100 billion. New technologies will help to extract deeper, in more remote areas and under harsh conditions. Action is also needed to develop substitutes for critical raw materials and to improve recycling of electric, electronic equipment and other waste. Improved access to minerals will enhance the development of innovative products such as thin photovoltaic layers, energy-efficient lighting, electric cars, advanced passenger jets, infra-red optics and fiber glass.
Vice-President Antonio Tajani, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship said: "We need to join forces to tap Europe's enormous own potential of raw materials. Intensified action is required to make Europe the world leader in the capabilities related to exploration, extraction, processing, recycling and substitution by 2020. It will be the key to Europe's ability to develop today the technologies of tomorrow. Such innovation is decisive for Europe's competitiveness, sustainable growth and new jobs."
Carlo Corazza +32 2 295 1752
European Innovation Partnership for agriculture
Food security is one of the major challenges worldwide in the years ahead, with global food demand forecast to rise by 70% by 2050 (FAO), accompanied by a steep increase in the demand for feed, fibre, biomass, and biomaterial. However, this challenge is accompanied by a slow down in productivity growth – in good part because of a reduction in investment in agricultural research – and increased pressure on the environment and our natural resources. For example, 45% of European soils face problems of soil quality. Around 40% of agricultural land is vulnerable to nitrate pollution and, over the last 20 years, farmland birds have declined by 20-25%.
In short, the key challenge for agriculture in future is not only to produce more, but also to do this in a sustainable manner. These challenges will not be resolved without a major push towards embracing research and innovation – and in particular in bringing researchers, farmers and other players closer together so that we can accelerate the speed of technological transfer from science to farming practice, and provide more systematic feedback about practice needs from farming to science. The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) "Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability" aims to provide a working interface between agriculture, bio-economy, science, and others at EU, national and regional level. It will also serve as a catalyst to enhance the effectiveness of innovation-related actions supported by Rural Development Policy as well as the Union Research and Innovation. Two headline targets have been identified for this EIP - promoting productivity and efficiency of the agricultural sector (reversing the recent trend of diminishing productivity gains by 2020); and the sustainability of agriculture (securing soil functionality* at a satisfactory level by 2020).
EU Agriculture and rural development Commissioner Dacian Cioloş stated: "The key challenge for agriculture in future is not only how to produce more, but also how to produce better. Embracing demand driven research and innovation, as well as improved dissemination of best practices will be essential to this end."
Roger Waite +32 2 296 1404
European Innovation Partnership on active and healthy ageing
Demographic ageing is one of the most serious challenges facing Europe today. The number of European citizens aged 65 and over will double over the next 50 years, from 87 million in 2010 to 148 million in 20601. While this presents a specific challenge for European care and social systems, it is also an opportunity to redesign these systems in the interest of patients, healthcare systems and the innovative industry.
The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing has been set up to respond to these challenges. In November 2011, it delivered a Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) identifying priority areas and specific actions, for public authorities, businesses and civil society (see IP/11/1309, IP/11/519).
Today's Communication from the Commission is the concrete follow-up for implementation of the specific actions. This includes: inviting stakeholder engagement; setting up a marketplace for innovative ideas; addressing regulatory and standardization issues. This will improve elderly citizens' lives, help them to contribute to society as they grow older, and reduce pressure on health and care systems - ultimately contributing to sustainable growth.
The Commission confirms its commitment to support the implementation of the SIP, in particular by:
Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner John Dalli stressed that: "Active and healthy ageing is central for our citizens, for the viability of our health and care systems, and it offers important industrial potential. The Commission is determined to support the rapid implementation of the priority areas agreed by the Partnership in 2011. Our ambition is to achieve tangible results in the next two years."
Vice President Neelie Kroes said "The EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing will help us improve health and quality of life for older people and help ensure our care system is sustainable for the long-term. We urge all stakeholders involved to contribute to our efforts and help us tackle the demographic transition head-on".
Frédéric Vincent +32 2 298 7166
Ryan Heath +32 2 296 1716
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School Discrimination
Children with diabetes sometimes face problems in obtaining the care they need in schools and day care centers.
It's important to understand the legal protections available to you so you can be an effective advocate for your child.
Safe at School
Learn more about the Association's efforts to end diabetes school discrimination through our Safe at School campaign.
Training Resources
Once you are familiar with the laws that protect your child from discrimination, you'll want to know what training resources are available to help you secure diabetes care at school, and how to create written care plans that will help everyone involved with your child's care understand diabetes and their own responsibilities.
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Do you have concerns about other issues, such as school lunches, standardized tests, or post-secondary education?
Learn more about these issues and other special considerations in diabetes care at school.
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Hosted by Ozone Park Zumba, over 10 instructors took the stage at various times leading roughly 400 participants to raise money for Life Vest Inside.
"It's all about staying fit, about giving back eating well, exercising and just staying positive," said Tony Berkel, who helped organize the event. "And you can tell everyone is having a great time."
Life Vest Inside's goal is spread kindness and believes that doing good deeds can create chain reactions causing positivity, and the organization takes part in charity work and community service.
In an attempt to prevent bullying, Life Vest uses educational programs and videos posted on social media to spread the importance of being kind to one another.
"It's all about helping people recognize the amazing and wonderful potential they have to effect real and positive change through simple yet powerful acts of kindness," said founder Orly Wahba in September 2010.
Wahba created the organization after a 7-year-old girl in her community died of leukemia. While distraught and searching for answers, Wahba noticed the sign that said "Life Vest Inside" on a plane. Wahba used the life vest as a metaphor for overcoming hardships in life by being kind to others.
"Kindness is a universal language that everyone believes in and when people come together to dance for kindness like this, that is a really, really powerful thing," she added.
The basement at the zumbathon was so crowded at times that people had to look on from the lobby. Despite being outside of the main hall, Woodhaven resident Angela Euarte said she was having a great time.
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GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul said his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, has been detained by security at the Nashville airport.
"My son Rand is currently being detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport. I'll share more details as the situation unfolds," the elder Paul posted on his Facebook page.
Sen. Paul's communication director Moira Bagley said Paul called her to say he'd been detained. An airport spokeswoman later confirmed the incident to WSMV-TV.
CNN reported that Rand Paul was detained after refusing to allow a pat-down after the body scanner went off.


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Nonprofits still recovering from the recession and serving the thousands of newly needy it created could face a one-two punch from the impending fiscal cliff.
"We're being squeezed by both sides," said Candy Hill, senior vice president for government affairs at Catholic Charities USA. "Governments are reacting by preparing austere budgets … and they're considering taking away the other way we can make money."
The fiscal cliff will trigger sharp government spending cuts and tax increases Jan. 1 unless an agreement is reached to cut the budget deficit.
Economists predict that if no agreement is reached, the economy could contract back into recession.
Regardless of what plan lawmakers agree on, nonprofits expect some of their government funding to be cut. What's more concerning, they said, is the season's spirit of giving could be curbed as Congress decides whether to cap the tax deduction for charitable giving.
When times are tough, local nonprofits say, the community turns to them to provide for the needy. But if the fiscal cliff becomes a reality, there may be more people in need and far less to go around.
"Those who work for nonprofits are made for times like these," said Cynthia B. Nunn, president of the Center for Nonprofit Management in Dallas. "We learn how to do more with less, but we can only take so much of it."
This week, the Charitable Giving Coalition, which comprises hundreds of nonprofit leaders across the country, will meet on Capitol Hill in an effort to persuade lawmakers to reaffirm the 95-year-old tax deduction for charitable giving.
Members of the coalition include Catholic Charities USA and United Way Worldwide, some of the biggest nonprofits in the country.
"Our primary goal this week is to educate members of Congress about where the real impact will be felt — it's the people who get the help," said Steve Taylor, senior vice president and counsel for public policy at United Way Worldwide.
Surging demand
When the recession began in 2008, nonprofits saw demand for their services soar as Americans lost jobs, savings and homes. Some, such as Union Gospel Mission of Dallas, which shelters and feeds the homeless, have been operating at capacity since the downturn.
Bill Thompson, executive director of the nonprofit, said demand at Union Gospel Mission's men's shelter has been high.
"We haven't been able to accommodate everyone who needs shelter," he said.
He's grateful the nonprofit has received enough money to expand its spaces slightly, but he fears what the fiscal cliff may do to donors.
Union Gospel Mission does not receive any public funding, Thompson said, and operates mostly on donations. A change in tax law for donors could devastate his organization if donors see tax hikes in addition to a cap on deductions.
"If you diminish people's ability to give, it wouldn't affect just the upper-crust, wealthy donors," he said. "It would filter down to folks in the middle who donate."
The Bridge, a homeless assistance center in Dallas, also has seen its shelter space fill every night. Officials there have seen a high of 3,000 a month.
The organization receives public funding as well as contributions from private donors and foundations — so it could be hit on both ends, said Jay Dunn, executive director of The Bridge.
In years past, he said, when public funding decreased, private contributions increased and vice versa. Last year the organization saw its best fundraising year yet.
"There are still a lot of legitimate needs in our city," Dunn said. "As the economy has fluctuated, we have seen a variance in our funding. I hope whatever happens, it's in line with continuing to invest in our community."
Matter of conscience
Ultimately, donors continue to give because their consciences compel them to, not necessarily for a tax break, said Brent Christopher, president and chief executive of the Communities Foundation of Texas. However, tax law does affect the size of charitable gifts.
For donors who give through the foundation, some giving $10,000 and some $10 million, Christopher said, these next few weeks are uncertain.
"Many are savvy donors who plan their giving, and they don't know what the rules are," he said. "They might wait and see before making their contributions."
The foundation connects philanthropists to nonprofits, advising donors on where to give and how to take advantage of tax benefits.
High-level donors
Though there are donors from every income level, nonprofits such as the United Way receive a healthy portion of their donations — $500 million of the $4 billion total — from "a small chunk of donors," Taylor said.
And those wealthy donors are likely to be most affected by the change in tax law.
Whatever lawmakers decide, Nunn said, what's at stake are quality social services. A decline in government services may be inevitable, but in the worst-case scenario, nonprofit services may be unable to fill the void.
"When government and businesses cannot conduct the work that supports our community, that's why the nonprofit sector was created," Nunn said.
"But we might have to decrease the number of people or decrease the quality of services.
"But North Texans have always stepped up to give, and I just hope that they continue."


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DC VPs 'Happy' With Nov. Sales Despite Marvel Share Win
While November numbers indicated a market share boost for Marvel Comics with their Marvel NOW! event in full swing and a slew of #1's in the Top 10, Newsarama's monthly chat with DC executives about sales numbers was anything but negative.
In fact, the word "happy" was used quite a bit as the executives focused on the continued success of their New 52 line, as well as the whole comic book industry. And they were downright buoyant about their hopes for 2013.
DC's Senior Vice President of Sales Bob Wayne and DC's Vice President of Marketing John Cunningham talked with Newsarama about the November sales charts released by Diamond Comic Distributors on Friday.
There was little new revealed during the interview, but the executives did give insight into their plans for 2013, as well as their hopes for the Vertigo brand after the departure of Karen Berger, Vertigo's Executive Editor and Senior Vice President.
What follows is our conversation with the two executives about November's numbers, and what they think of the status of the industry as a whole.
Newsarama: Bob and John, I'd like to start with the headline that's on the sales announcement every month, which is who won the market share. In November, Marvel was ahead in both units and dollars. What are your thoughts on their win of the month?
Bob Wayne: We think that Marvel had a really good month with their Marvel NOW initiative. And we're still pleased that we're extremely competitive and that our share, or sales were basically very close to what we had last month in October. And we're still happy with the quality of our books and the storytelling. And we're happy with our overall numbers.
Nrama: After September last year, I discussed with you about how Tom Brevoort told Newsarama that Marvel does better when DC is strong. Do you feel the same way? Do you think the fact that Marvel had so many #1's in the month and did well with them benefitted DC?
Wayne: I think that when there are exciting things and interesting things each week on sale in the shops that it brings people in and it helps everyone. And I think there were a number of publishers who had really interesting success stories during the month. And I think it helped everyone. My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic #1 placed on the chart, and the Mask project from Dynamite, and there's a continuing success with the latest volume of The Walking Dead in trade paperback, doing these bang-up numbers.
So I think there's plenty of stuff happening from multiple publishers. And overall, it's a good time for comic book fans, because there's plenty of interesting stuff for lots of folks out there.
John Cunningham: And Vaneta, we've talked about this before in these interviews, but to me, again, the very interesting and ultimately, at the end of the day, most significant number on those Diamond charts is year-to-date 2012 versus 2011.
I mean, you look at those numbers, the marketplace is up 11.5 percent in units, and 14.6 percent in dollars for the year. Given the amount of growth that occurred last year, due to New 52 and many other factors, to have this year be so significantly ahead of last year, it's not only, I think, sort of unprecedented for the comics market, but it's unprecedented for a lot of different entertainment markets.
And I think that, to me, is the overarching story of this year.
Nrama: Yeah, and I hate to pat you guys on the back too much because, you know, I think we had a nice adversarial relationship going on here the last few months, but....
Cunningham: But....[laughs]
Nrama: But.... I went back and looked at the sales numbers over the last 16 or 17 months, and they show that there was an obvious turnaround for the whole market that started in September 2011. I know you can't take credit for all of the growth, because there are other positives going on in the economy overall. But when everybody thought print was dying, and everyone was worried that the comics industry was dying, you guys said you were going to give the industry a shot in the arm. Now that you are seeing these numbers, do you feel like the medicine that you gave the industry in September 2011 worked?
Wayne: Vaneta, do you have the option of using a larger, you know, typeface, or larger font -- maybe like a 14 point when you put in that particular question? Make sure it really pops out on the screen?
Nrama: [Laughs.] I don't know if I can do that.
Wayne: I just thought I would check.
Nrama: But surely you guys are thinking this stuff, aren't you?
Wayne: I mean, we think that... we certainly think that we have been one of the companies that's been a catalyst to bringing additional attention and to bringing customers that might have lapsed or come back. They're buying.
But I think a lot of other people are doing stuff. You have the return of Valiant. Now you've got Marvel NOW! You've got Image being resurgent with the success of The Walking Dead and Saga and lots of other titles. There are just more things for people to choose from than there were two years ago, that people are talking about and are really buzzed about.
So we're happy to take some credit, and we're also happy to give credit to other people as well.
Nrama: Yet I can't help thinking that when you guys jumped off that cliff, and it seemed to work, it inspired other companies to jump off their own cliffs. You know what I mean?
Wayne: Whatever we can do to push our competitors off of cliffs, we always think is a good thing.
Nrama: [Laughs.] I didn't mean it that way. John, you know what I mean by cliffs?
Cunningham: Yeah, I like that. I got a sort of Carlos Castaneda vibe when you started talking about that, with the jumping off of cliffs.
But I think that is appropriate, because I do think that the comic market is a market that is vibrant and changing, but it's also ruled by its continuity. So it's not always easy to get people in that sort of... you know, that long-term continuity is one of the strengths of our business, and it can be a challenge and be overcome as well.
But I do feel that people are wanting to take those leaps more and more. And I think that's not just true of publishers. I think that's true of the retailers. They really had to jump in and take those chances. And I think the same is true for consumers. So for me, as we round out the year, I just think it's really been one of the more exciting years in comics in a long, long time.
Nrama: OK, that said, when you look at November, with all these #1's and all the "events." Obviously, as a marketing person, you have to grasp onto something exciting happening in the comic, but with all these "interesting and exciting" things that have happened over the last year and half, is it fair to say that the industry has changed to the point where you almost need something like that to call out to the consumer? To make this an exciting month to pick up Batman or whatever? As you market, aren't you looking for those kind of things? Is that something that's part of the industry now, as it keeps up this strength?
Cunningham: I don't know that I feel that that's any more true than it is if you went and looked at the New York Times best seller list, you know, for fiction books. Is the enormous success of a 50 Shades of Grey -- is that an "event?" Or is it just the storytelling coming to the fore?I guess, at the end of the day, this discussion may just boil down to a semantic issue. Is "Death of the Family" an event? Or is it a really well-done storyline? I think for me, at the end of the day, what readers want are really compelling storylines. If some people want to call that an "event," that's one thing. But when we're looking at what we can put pressure on and what we think can be marketed, it's really ultimately what we think of the story that's going on, and what we think the potential is. So maybe that's just the point of differentiation.
Nrama: There's been this counting going on of your ongoings, to see if you're really at "52," or if you're publishing only "51" (which I think is true in February), and it occurred to me how this title of "New 52" that you guys are carrying has a strength, in that it's become a brand, but it's also kind of locking you into a number. What do you think of the moniker "New 52," what do you think it means to your customers, and where do you hope to take it? Do you have a plan for that? And is it still specifically related to the number of books you have, or are you hoping to evolve it beyond that so you can change your line a little bit?
Wayne: I think it's always been both related to the number of books that we have, and it's been related to other aspects as well, starting back when we did the weekly stunt/event/publishing thing that we called 52 six years.
Nrama: Are there discussions about that sticking?
Cunningham: Yeah, actually, to be frank, you always enter into these things wondering, on an initiative like this, what your "out" point is. And it just keeps surprising us that it has taken root in the marketplace. It means something to our readers. It means something to our creators. It means something in the retail community.
I think we've always been around "52" number since we launched it, in terms of where we're going. But I think it's got lasting potential at this point, so we sort of feel, at this point, we're going to ride it until we feel like it's not an advantage.
But I think the point of your question calls out that it's been a very effective brand.
Wayne: In between my office and John's office are the guys that work on our international development. And they have posters and signage for "New 52" in various language, because it's been adopted by some of our publishers in other countries.
So it has a life beyond even our own publishing plan. It has a life with people who are adding to it by bringing us into other markets.
Nrama: Interesting. I know anytime I see anything with the number 52, I think of DC. Even "52 Pick-Up," when my kids try to play that, makes me think of DC. It's nuts.
Wayne: It's working!!
Nrama: I want to talk about Before Watchmen, because you guys have done really well with that series, and you've added a few additional mini-series. And it seems like Watchmen has become a brand of its own, like how on the covers you can see that bold yellow and black and know what book it is. But J. Michael Straczynski recently said in an interview that he believed the Before Watchmen stuff is now coming to an end. Can you verify that? And what are your thoughts about the timing of now letting that end after its success?
Wayne: The Before Watchmen project was always seen as a limited project of interlocking mini-series, so it's wrapping up pretty much as it was originally planned. The only thing that was going to change is we have the two issues of Moloch and the issue of Dollar Bill, that weren't originally announced, but everything else seems to be pretty much the same, as we announced it.
We don't have anything on our schedules, on our long-range planning right now, for there to be another. Our main focus, right now, is preparing the world of readers who wait for the trade, the collected edition readers, the people who bought over 2 million copies of the Watchmen book over the years, for us to reach out to those people when we have these in book form.
And we have a number of people that really haven't seen those books and gotten the message yet that there are other stories involving those characters. So that's our focus for the new future.
Nrama: Assuming that means you're marketing Before Watchmen to the bookstore market as well as the direct market, and you also have some more New 52 collected editions coming out soon, it's obvious in the numbers today that you continue to do well in the graphic novels. Are you guys supporting those collected editions and graphic novels in a different way? Is there a reason it's doing so well in that market?
Wayne: I have to assume it's because of the hard work by John and myself and the people who work with us. It's the only thing that does it.
Nrama: Yeah, right, Bob. Of course. Just that.
Wayne: OK, OK... also the fact that we have all these great stories from great creative people, and editorial work, and the way that the entire company has worked to expand the book format and keep as many of our books available for reorder as possible.
John, I'm sure you can add to this.
Cunningham: I think it's important to note that we look collected editions with the direct market as the primary market, but the bookstore market is a very significant one. So we're very happy to see November, in the face of a lot of competition out there.
And by the way, looking at those Bookscan charts for the last month or so, it's been an extremely great holiday season for the overall category. The Walking Dead obviously performs very well there. The Chris Ware book from Pantheon is driving huge numbers, as well as what we've seen with our books.
But what we were most gratified about was, for the New York Times list for November, we had the No. 1 hardcover four weeks running. One with Totally MAD, which is a licensed book, but a great history of MAD's 60 years. Two weeks with Superman Earth One Volume 2 at No. 1. And last week, [Fables: ] Werewolves of the Heartland making the list.
So as we talked about those numbers on the direct market side looked really good year-on-year, we're seeing the same thing no only for us, but for the entire book sector when we look at the book trade side of the market too.
That's another reason we're extremely bullish when we get to the end of the year, because we tend to look at this sort of holistically.
Nrama: With the departure of Karen Berger being announced this week, I'm sure you guys can understand there's a lot of people that way, "Oh no! Vertigo's leaving!" because she's so synonymous with that brand, with that imprint. Can you guys offer any insight into the importance of the Vertigo brand, what its status is now, how you guys intend to market that brand, and what your hopes are for Vertigo going forward? With the new Harlan Ellison book being a DC book, what's the purpose of the Vertigo brand?
Cunningham: I think the way we conceive of Vertigo both up to this point and going forward is that it's the place in house where we do the most cutting edge, critically acclaimed titles that DC publishes.
And as we talked about last month, we spent the summer, especially around San Diego and New York [comic conventions] announcing a lot of new series.So when we look at 2013, we've got a new series from Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy, The Wake, Jeff Lemire's Trillium, Neil Gaiman returning with Sandman. We'll have new volumes of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as well as some new things that are coming that Bob and I are aware of, that I can't announce here.
I think, once we look down that slate of 2013 to see where it's going, I think we have the stories and the books there, and we're going to have to do the work to make sure they get out to the readers.
Karen was an extremely valuable member not only of DC's family, but the entire comic book community. And everyone's going to miss her. But we've got a 2013 line-up to go forward with, and we'll develop where it's going from there.
But I do think Vertigo readers are going to see, regardless of the situation, they're going to see a plethora of great books to read in the next year.
Nrama: As the last question, since it's December, as I mentioned, I really went back and looked at past sales numbers. But I also looked back at the last few years for you guys at DC. And in 2010, Diane Nelson announced her new executive staff for DC entertainment, and the phrase they used was "no fear." Then the reboot in 2011 was the realization of that phrase. John, you said the "overarching story" of 2012 was just continuing that growth, even industry wide. So my challenge to you is, what's the story of 2013? The big picture of the business for DC?
Cunningham: You know, I'm sitting here trying to think it through and figure out how to go about answering that question.
This might be kind of imprecise, but where I sort of go to is, when you launch the New 52, you're starting out this brave new world and starting to tell interesting stories, but you've got to populate out that world.
Now that we're through our first year of New 52, that next year is "filling in" greater and greater details of that world, and how those characters and their stories start to interrelate to one another.
That's what I think of when I see what's coming down the pike on the DC side for 2013. We can see, in some of our long-range planning, where stories are going to come together, where larger threads are going to come from. And I think it's that sort of interrelated, very complex, long-term storytelling that comic fans really hunger for.
So we, obviously, knew by going out and rebranding and starting with new #1s and the New 52 that there was a potential boost there, but I think we all sort of knew that the long-term payoff there was to have a clean slate where you could begin a new world of storytelling. So that's how I feel about 2013, from this perspective.
Nrama: Bob, would you agree?
Wayne: Yeah, we recently -- John and I both recently had the opportunity to sit with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee and Bob Harras and hear the various beats of where they're guiding us into 2013 and beyond. And so, I think you can tell we're just a little bit excited by some of the storytelling things that are coming up. Our readers and retailers are going to share that when we get those plans ready to go.Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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R&B singer Billy Scott (real name: Peter Pendleton) has died at the age of 70, following a brief battle with liver and pancreatic cancer. Best known for his beach musical hits such as "I Got the Fever" and "California," Scott will also be remembered as a champion of his beloved genre.
At the time of his death, Scott was working with Charlotte, N.C.'s booster clubs to bring beach music to local schools. From the Examiner:
Beach Music Association International's president Harry Turner revealed that Billy Scott's illness came about suddenly, and just within the past couple of weeks.
Billy Scott just celebrated his 70th birthday on Oct. 5, and was described to have been in good health and spirits on his birthday, but a few days later he became ill, complaining of stomach pains that continued to worsen for the singer. Scott's health was so rapidly declining that he was forced to back out of an appearance at the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Oct. 11.
Scott's health issues became so worrisome for the singer that he eventually checked himself into a Charlotte hospital and tests determined he had liver and pancreatic cancer.
"It was unbelievable. I've never seen a cancer move so fast," Turner said.
He saw Scott for the last time Thursday night. Despite his deteriorating health and weight loss, Turner said his friend was in high spirits.
"He was one of the most amazing people you'll ever be around," Turner said.
Billy Scott was originally from Huntington, W. Va. and raised on a musical diet of rhythm and blues and soul. In his early career as a member of The Scottsmen and various incarnations of The Prophets, he was labeled an R&B singer.
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As many web devs know, it's relatively easy to build a site which results in memory leaks when viewed in Internet Explorer. IE team members have written MSDN articles on leak patterns, and other sites have posted articles with varying tone, depending on the author's frustration with the problem.
These memory leaks often occur as a result of circular references between Jscript objects and objects within IE's DOM (document object model). Since the Jscript engine and IE have independent memory management schemes, each side can't see the entire cycle of these circular references.
Internet Explorer 7 improved the situation by releasing all references to Jscript objects attached to the DOM tree when IE navigates away from that page. This allows the Jscript engine to then garbage collect those Jscript objects and recover that memory. We've also made the same changes in IE6 on Windows XP SP2 (shipped originally with the June Update). However, as some web developers have pointed out, those changes don't solve the problem entirely. IE still leaves behind anything not attached to the tree when we tear down the markup. In addition, sites that users keep open for extended periods of time, such as Web-based mail, can still cause IE's memory usage to continually grow if the site doesn't take care to avoid the leak patterns.
So no, it's not perfect, but we're also continuing to invest in improvements for future versions of IE.
In the meantime, tools and best practices can help web developers find and remove leaks today.
Drip and sIEve (joint SourceFourge site) are two such tools. Many of you may already be familiar with them, but a little extra visibility never hurts. Both applications host Trident – IE's rendering engine – and add detection of memory leak patterns. They let you track memory and DOM usage while using a site and then detect any leaks when you navigate away from that page. Drip is an open source project under the BSD license. Based on Drip, sIEve improves the usability in a few ways including non-modal dialogs and a real-time graph of DOM usage instead of memory usage. If you have questions/comments about the tools themselves, try the documentation, forum, or mailing list. And if you're interested in taking a more active role in the project, contact Matthias Miller through the forum or mailing list.
Those tools will you help find the leaks, and here are a few articles that provide more information about removing them, or better yet, avoiding them in the first place:
- "Understanding and Solving Internet Explorer Leak Patterns"
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24 March 2009
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- In what seems to be a rising and concerning phenomenon in Egypt, a 13 year old kid killed his father and uncle in order to make himself eligible to attend a special concert for orphans by the infamous Haifa Wahbi on Orphan's Day.
Amid nation-wide calls to make Orphan's Day an official holiday, to encourage more people to go to orphanages and stuff, the pop music idol Haifa Wahbi announced that she would hold a fund-raising concert on Orphan's Day exclusively for orphans. That's where our story starts.
Tutu Adalât, one of the Lebanese singer's army of fanboys, gunned down both his father and his uncle; apparently just to be able to attend the concert.
Reports indicate that at 9:58 pm GMT yesterday the Southern Alexandria Police Department received several phone calls from local residents saying that they had heard a number of gunshots. Two CSI and police task force units were immediately dispatched. However, the task force never made it to the crime scene because they were eaten by grues in a dark street, and the CSI unit arrived seven hours later due to traffic congestion.
Primary investigation revealed that two bodies were found in pools of blood, with multiple gunshot wounds. Several 9mm bullet cases were also found on the floor near the corpses.
The first body belonged to the boy's father, aged 47, with gunshot wounds in his right testicle and left little toe. How those minor wounds managed to kill him is still unknown. The second body belonged to the boy's uncle, aged 46, with two gunshot wounds in the forehead - again, how he died from such minor injuries is not yet understood.
Tutu was arrested later that night while smoking Hashish, and was questioned by the police in the traditional Egyptian way. He eventually confessed that he was responsible for the crime and even started telling stories about his mother.
Tutu is expected to face charges of intended killing, which could get him a life imprisonment or the death penalty.
UnNews reporters interviewed some random people in the streets and alleys of Egypt. Here is a sample of public opinion concerning the case:
- "She [Haifa Wahbi] iz very beyoutiful. I kill my fazer too to go to her party [sic]." ~ another 13-year-old boy
- "Zis is bad, it iz za mistake of za gavarment. Za prezident must war Israïl [sic]." ~ a 19-year-old college student
- "Oh, did you watch yesterday's Oprah episode? It was wonderf-- what? [...] what father-killing? Why do I even care?" ~ a spoiled 17-year-old girl
We also had the chance to interview an eye witness, Hajj Dsooki el-Menyawi, the local coffee shop owner who is aged 103 and blind. We asked him if he seen what happened and he replied, "Back... [coughs] back in za days [coughs harder] za king was ve-- [cough and chokes]..." El-Menyawi then fell silent and died.
- Khalil Gibran "Crazed boy makes himself orphan". The Prophet, March 24, 2009
|This article features first-hand journalism by an UnNews correspondent.


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If it wasn't enough to have already won the Dirksen Derby this season (watch the rad video below), Harry Kearney just upped the ante for the season and won the toughest of the tough, the one, the only – Legendary Baker Banked Slalom.
Harry was up against some of the best in professional snowboarding – Gigi Rüf, Josh Dirksen, Temple Cummins, Terje, Lucas Debari and Scotty Wittlake to name just a wee bit of the talent.
Harry's time of 1:43.35 would place him in the winner's circle.
Here he is post comp with his bro Hagen and Rob Kingwill who got 2nd in the fakie race to none other than Terje and designed this year's contest poster. Congrats, Harry! Keep sliding sideways fast. Real damn fast.


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Joan Osborne
Where: Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road in Londonderry
When: Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $60 at www.tupelomusichall.com
Blues music, says singer Joan Osborne, "rescued me at a time when I needed rescue." She's acknowledged her roots many times over the years, beginning with Sonny Boy Williamson's "Help Me" on her first record in 1991. But Bring It on Home, due March 27, is Osborne's first full-length album of blues and soul covers.
"I knew that, someday, when the time was right and my voice was ready, I wanted to make a recording like [this]," she said in a recent press release. Osborne spoke with the Hippo from her home in New York about the new album, her upcoming show at Tupelo Music Hall and the Americana supergroup side project Trigger Hippy.
With Bring It on Home, you seem to be trying to recreate the songs the way that you remember them.
When you cover someone else's material, especially songs that are such a part of American music history, you want to bring something unique to it. But you also need to know where to stop with that and realize that if it doesn't serve the song, then it is just a stunt and you don't want to do that. So it's a fine line … you want the song to be the star, really, and not have it be obscured by needing to make it different. There were certain things that we attempted to do, [but] "Shake Your Hips" [the lead single] was something we just did without thinking about it at all. Jack, my co-producer, was in the rehearsal studio with the band, and we were all just standing around and he just started to play that lick. Everyone knew what he was playing and they all fell in behind him, and I knew the song and the words to it, so we just started doing it, and the tape was rolling for the rehearsal and we all blasted through it and looked at each other when it was done and said, 'Well that just feels really good, so let's just do that.' Part of it was we just tried to reconfigure these songs — the Muddy Waters tune is an example where I turned it around a little bit and gave it a little bit different reading and perspective.
"Unqualified" and "Rhymes" were also updated a bit.
Yeah, but this is material that I love and respect, so I don't want to play too fast and loose with it. If the song doesn't need a lot to make it work, then I'm going to let the song have its head.
"Roll out the Big Wheel" — how did you find that one?
That was one that a friend gave me, by a lesser-known Bay Area R&B woman from the '40s and '50s. My good friend, a bass player, grew up around the Oakland, California, blues club scene, and he had a line on some of that music and gave me that CD years and years ago ... a rarity and no one else that I was working with had ever heard of Olive Brown or knew the song. It's such a straight-up pleasurable tune, and that's such a great thing about blues music — you get these powerful, female characters who just swagger in, take no prisoners and lay down the law. One of the great things that drew me to this music when I first fell in love with it were these larger-than-life female characters — so I thought that would be a perfect addition to the record.
Speaking of female characters, "Game of Love" is a woman's song written by a man — Ike Turner — originally sung by Tina Turner. That's interesting given that couple's history.
Yeah, it's pretty ironic. But that was Tina's power. We all now know the situation she was in was not a healthy one, yet she was out there every night being this goddess of female power. She can just command this power on stage like nobody else, and even Ike had to respect that, he wasn't going to mess with that at all. He was writing for that powerful female voice even though behind the scenes he had to have all the power. On the stage, he realized he was going to mess around with Tina's power at his own peril.
You can take a song from a man's point of view and flip it around to a woman's and make it work. Are there songs that you like and thought about doing but couldn't approach because it's not possible to flip it that way?
There's a Nina Simone song, something that she brought to it, every time I heard her version and then we'd try and couldn't do anything to it. I said, 'Nina Simone just kicks my ass every time, so I'm just going to let her win, she's clearly the better woman than I — so going to let that be!' There was a handful that we tried and I decided that they were just for somebody else to do because I'm not woman enough to pull this off [laughs].
You said in an interview that music doesn't exist until someone connects with it. With this record, are you trying to make people connect with the music so they get it like you do?
Oh sure, that's definitely part of it. For me, this music made such a difference in my life; it just gave me so much that's really valuable in my world. If I can turn other people on to it and send them to the source, and if they then have any similar connection to it, that would be an amazing thing to do. I've tried my best to do something interesting with these songs, but you can always go back to the source. There's always a huge, rich vein that you can mine of Americana … it's not like people don't know that, but maybe people have forgotten about it or don't have time. I've had younger people come up and say, 'You know, when you talked about Ray Charles on your album Relish, I was a 12-year-old girl and I didn't know who Ray Charles was. Then I went and heard his music and it blew my mind.' That has a lot of meaning for me, that a kid would buy a pop record and would be able to connect to something so much deeper through it — that is a really special, cool thing.
Was there any song that stood out above all of the others that you just felt like you had to put out there?
When you're in the studio and making records, the song that you just did becomes your favorite song and you fall in love with it, then you have to move on to the next song and that becomes your favorite. I had a lot of favorites through the course of making the record, but choosing one would be tough. I think maybe John Mayall's "Broken Wing" might be one — I had a real deep connection with that one. It might be the closest to pure blues on the record — so that's a favorite — but I could also say that about "Rhymes," the Al Green song, because we sort of amped it up and turned it on its head and made it into this big party song, [because] this music is very inclusive and it invites everyone in … so it has a special place for me. It's hard to choose one.
What do you mean when you say music rescued you?
Music saved me because I was kind of struggling with myself as a person and there were things that I was disconnected with about myself that music allowed me to reconnect with. In this music, in particular, there is just a matter-of-factness about it. Life has a lot of sorrow in it, and you can either let it overwhelm you or turn it around and create something with it and make it into fuel and energy and power and also make something that connects you with other people. That enables you to get outside of your own head and get out into the larger world. There was incredible value for me in the moment when I really first connected with this music, and it made a huge impact on me.
Were you a singer at that point or did it help you realize you were going to become a singer?
I think singing is a physical thing and it's about your body and it's a very immediate expression, [and] there was really a sense of wonder for me about that. Before I started getting into music, I was studying filmmaking at NYU to become a documentary filmmaker. That's a very interesting world and a wonderful art form in itself, but it does take — from the inception of the idea to the finished product takes a huge amount of time and money and technical equipment, and it's something that is sort of the antithesis of singing, where you open your mouth and you sing. I think there was something about that that was freeing to me [that] connected me back to that aspect of myself, which I think I was disconnected from. So that is how it saved me.
Did your experience of working with The Funk Brothers on their documentary inform what you did on this record — is their spirit in there for you?
Good question. I think the thing that they were very generous with was they really accepted me in doing this kind of music and accepted me as a legitimate performer, [and] that sort of stamp of approval was very valuable to me … it gave me the courage to say, OK, you can do this. Just because you're a white girl from a little town in Kentucky, it doesn't make any difference. If you can do this and be accepted by the people who do this for real, then it's OK. Go ahead and do it and not be intimated or afraid.
What can fans expect to see when you come to Londonderry at the end of the month?
They can expect to see this amazing band that I work with. Each of the guys individually is a great player and collectively they have great charisma and chemistry together. They are the ones who played on this record, and we are going to do a lot of the material from this new record — if not every single song, most of the songs. It's going to be like a house party. This music is really fun and energizes me.
A question about Trigger Hippy — I love Jackie Green. What can fans expect down the road?
That is like a rock 'n' roll side project. It's really fun for me to be part of a band, and we're all writing and contributing ideas and it's really fun to do. We've done seven or eight shows now, some last summer throughout the South and around Jackie's birthday in the Bay Area and Sacramento. It just seems to keep building momentum, and the fan reaction is really just more than we could have hoped for, so it's really cool. We're going to do some more stuff. We were just in a studio in Nashville in February and I think we're going to be playing the Wanee Festival in April in Florida — we're starting to get some really interesting offers, and it's cool and fun. It's pretty rock 'n' roll … and it's so fun working with Jackie because he is such a great multi-instrumentalist with a soulful voice — it's really great to have a soulful partner with a lot of these duet tunes. That's a really cool aspect of it for me.


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TAMPA, FLA. — Speaking on the eve of the Republican National Convention, Ron Paul reassured hundreds of ecstatic supporters at a rally here Sunday that the revolution he began is far from over.
"Let me tell you, I was a little afraid to come down here," Paul told the crowd at his Sun Dome rally. "I wasn't afraid of Hurricane Isaac. But there have been a lot of news headlines that say the Revolution is over....They're saying the Revolution isn't happening — they wish!"
It was likely to be one of the last speeches of Paul's political career — the Texas Congressman's presidential campaign will officially end when the Republican Party nominates Mitt Romney this week, and Paul is retiring from Congress at the end of this year. But he promised his legions of fans on Sunday that the movement will move forward, even in his absence.
"Ultimately, numbers do count. Numbers count even when they don't count all the votes. And we have the numbers!" Paul added. "A bunch of other people are joining us, and they're saying 'The Ron Paul people are right!'
For the most part, the speech was a gussied version of Paul's standard stump speech, hitting libertarian high notes, including ending the Federal Reserve, getting out of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and legalization of hemp, marijuana, and raw milk.
Still, Paul's message was eagerly anticipated by his legions of followers, many of whom have become unsettled by the relative silence of the Paul campaign this summer.
Sunday's rally, at the University of Southern Florida's Sun Dome stadium, was an opportunity for Paul to rally his supporters and draw attention to his message before the GOP convention officially begins on Tuesday. Paul, who has declined to endorse Mitt Romney, will not speak at the convention.
But Paul didn't seem to sad about being left out.
"I just got a call from the RNC," he joked during his speech. "They said they changed their mind. They are going to give me a speech. I can have an hour to say whatever I want — tomorrow night. Just kidding!"


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Golf Glance
All Times Eastern
Site: Doral, Fla.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: TPC Blue Monster at Doral (7,334 yards, par 72).
Purse: $8.75 million. Winner's share: $1,575,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m., 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m., 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Sunday, 1-6 p.m., 10:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m.) and NBC (Saturday, 2-6 p.m.; Sunday, 3-7 p.m.).
Last year: England's Justin Rose won his first World Golf Championships title, beating Bubba Watson by a stroke. Tiger Woods withdrew after 11 holes in the final round because of soreness in his left Achilles tendon.
Last week: Michael Thompson won the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens for his first PGA Tour title. Geoff Ogilvy was second, two strokes back. ... Dawie Van Der Walt won the Tshwane Open in his native South Africa for his first European Tour title.
Notes: Woods has won the event six times — in 1999 at Valderrama in Spain, 2002 at Mount Juliet in Ireland, 2003 at Capital City in Atlanta, 2005 at Harding Park in San Francisco, 2006 at The Grove in England and 2007 at Doral. He also won regular tour events at Doral in 2004 and 2006. Woods tied for 37th last week in the Honda Classic, closing with a 74. He won the Farmers Insurance Open in January for his 75th PGA Tour title. ... Top-ranked Rory McIlroy walked off the course in the middle of his second round at the Honda Classic. He told three reporters who followed him that he was "not in a good place mentally." An hour later, his management company said he couldn't concentrate because of a sore wisdom tooth. In his only other events this year, he missed the cut in Abu Dhabi and lost in the first round of the Match Play Championship. ... Phil Mickelson won in 2009. He won the Phoenix Open last month for his 41st PGA Tour title. ... Matt Kuchar won the first WGC event of the season, beating Hunter Mahan two weeks ago in the final of the Match Play Championship. ... The Tampa Bay Championship is next week, followed by the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Houston Open and the Masters. ... The European Tour will be in India next week for the Avantha Masters.
Online: http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com
PGA Tour site: http://www.pgatour.com
European Tour site: http://www.europeantour.com
Site: Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Trump International Golf Club-Puerto Rico (7,506 yards, par 72).
Purse: $3.5 million. Winner's share: $630,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Friday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3-5 a.m., 7:30-10:30 p.m.; Monday, 3-5 a.m.).
Last year: George McNeill birdied the last three holes for a two-stroke victory over Japan's Ryo Ishikawa.
Last week: Michael Thompson won the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., for his first PGA Tour title. Geoff Ogilvy was second, two strokes back.
Notes: Patrick Cantlay is coming off a victory Sunday in the Web.com Tour's Colombia Championship. The 20-year-old former UCLA player became the second-youngest winner in Web.com Tour history. ... Michael Bradley won the tournament in 2009 and 2011. ... South Korea's Si Woo Kim is playing on a sponsor exemption. The 17-year-old Kim earned a tour card at the qualifying tournament, but won't become a full tour member until he turns 18 in June. He missed the cut at Pebble Beach in his lone start of the year. ... Three-time tour winner Camilo Villegas is making his first appearance in the event.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
Site: Santiago, Chile.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Prince of Wales Country Club (6,903 yards, par 72).
Purse: $650,000. Winner's share: $117,000.
Television: None.
Last year: Paul Haley II won the inaugural event in his third tour start.
Last week: Patrick Cantlay won the Colombia Championship, finishing at a tournament-record 18 under for a four-stroke victory. The 20-year-old former UCLA player became the second-youngest winner in Web.com Tour history.
Notes: The tournament is the third of the season. Kevin Foley won the Panama Claro Championship two weeks ago. ... The tour is off next week. Play will resume March 21-24 with the Louisiana Open.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
Next event: LPGA Founders Cup, March 14-17, JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Wildfire Golf Club, Phoenix.
Last week: Stacy Lewis won the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore for her sixth LPGA Tour title. South Korea's Na Yeon Choi was second, a stroke back.
Online: http://www.lpga.com
Next event: Toshiba Classic, March 15-17, Newport Beach Country Club, Newport Beach, Calif.
Last event: Bernhard Langer won the ACE Group Classic on Feb. 17 in Naples, Fla.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
ASIAN TOUR: SAIL-SBI Open, Wednesday-Saturday, Delhi Golf Club, New Delhi. Online: http://www.asiantour.com
eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR: Irish Creek Classic, Wednesday-Saturday, The Club at Irish Creek, Kannapolis, N.C. Online: http://www.egolfprofessionaltour.com
LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR: Mission Hills World Ladies Championship, Thursday-Sunday, Mission Hills Haikou, Sandbelt Trails Course, Haikou, China. Online: http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com
JAPAN LPGA TOUR: Daikin Orchid Ladies, Friday-Sunday, Ryukyu Country Club, Okinawa, Japan. Online: http://www.lpga.or.jp
THE LEGENDS TOUR: Fry's Desert Golf Classic, Saturday, Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club, Tucson, Ariz. Online: http://www.thelegendstour.com


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Hopefully you all are winding down your school year and settling into your summertime routine! I know I am! It will take me a couple of weeks to program myself to sleep in, though. My challenge now is to make sure my two kids get their summer reading going as they prepare for another year in high school next year! As I pulled up their summer reading assignments I started thinking back to when my son, Derek was in the second grade! He was in what we called a dream class with a small number of students, many of them teacher's children or neighbors that we knew really well. Several of us moms were talking and said that we needed to keep our boys reading over the summer. So...we decided to make a book club! There were six boys and all of the moms taught with me (which was wonderful!) We all belonged to different community pools and knew that the boys would enjoy organized book chats while visiting each other's pools. We scheduled six different chapter books with six different pool party dates! We had a "Book club host" that organized snacks and the craftivity/book discussion. Basically, each parent signed up for a date and a book and the boys did their activity... then played! The pools worked well for us but you could do playgrounds, dollar movies, tea parties for girls, painting pottery, park activities, sports days, or whatever interests your kids might have.
Book clubs are a great way to keep your kids reading.
As far as choosing the books you could use there are tons of resources out there! Check out some below. I personally love the Spaghetti Book Club because it is "kid reviews" of the books.
Reading to Kids has a wonderful list of teacher recommended books by grade levels for book clubs! Love it!
Book Clubs Resource has some tips and suggestions for running a book club and getting your books.
I have made some Summer Book Club freebies here for you to use if you decide to do a book club with your kiddos!
I'd also love for you to check out my Summer Book Club packet I just posted on TpT! Please follow me on Teacherspayteachers for more teaching resources and packets!
Thanks friends and happy reading this summer!-Yvonne


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