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Music to Our Ears: The Top 12 Albums of 2012
Ah, it's been a good year for music, hasn't it? Regardless of your preferred genre, no doubt there was a long list of releases that tickled your fancy. There were so many albums I loved and played into the ground this year, but unfortunately, only 12 could make this list. What albums are on your 'Best of 2012'?
#12) Maroon 5 – Overexposed
Alright, look – I never meant for things to be this way. It started with 'Moves Like Jagger' and then it happened: Maroon 5 actually got good. Ignore 'This Love' – it's all in the past, okay? I begrudgingly sat down earlier this year to listen to their latest album, Overexposed, expecting to hate it and then before I knew it, I'd listened to it on repeat three times. So sue me. The record is full of some amazing pop songs with great rhythm and while I may not sing from the treetops how much I love this album, I'm telling you now, so let's keep it between us, okay?
Best tracks: 'One More Night', 'Payphone', 'Love Somebody'
#11) Pink – The Truth About Love
Here's what I love about Pink: Sometimes I'm pretty sure she's kinda nuts. Not in a legit way, but in the way that so many of us are – ambivalent, flip-floppy, wanting everything at once. The best part about this is that she actually sings about it. She's frustrating and imperfect and thinks you are too and guess what – it's all okay! The Truth About Love, her first album since 2008's Funhouse, continues Pink's legacy of being sort of all over the place – charmingly so. Not to mention you can dance to it! What's not to love?
Best tracks: 'Try', 'Truelove', 'Where Did the Beat Go?'
#10) One Direction – Take Me Home
Shut up – I see that look you're giving me. One Direction's second release in about a year, Take Me Home, is pretty good, okay? Forget the absolute travesty that is 'Little Things' (the line about going to bed without a cup of tea drives me batty – it's poor writing and the follow-up line is nonsensical) and concentrate on the positive: they make really catchy music and are relatively unoffensive. Harry Styles is even dating Taylor Swift! The boys have come a long way from their X Factor days and regardless of the fact that they're not really my thing, I catch myself singing along to their songs whenever they're on the radio, so that's enough for me.
Best tracks: 'Kiss You', 'Live While We're Young', 'I Would'
#9) Marina & The Diamonds – Electra Heart
I've been a fan of Marina & The Diamonds for what feels like ages and waited with baited breath for her sophomore album, Electra Heart. While many criticised her for "selling out" and going too mainstream, Marina makes no apologies and absolutely kills some great dance music. The album is a funny and charming take on old Hollywood, American pop culture and romance and it'll keep you moving – what more do you want from your pop stars?
Best tracks: 'Power & Control', 'Primadonna', 'Homewrecker'
#8) Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
Say what you will about Lizzie Grant, aka Lana Del Rey, but Born to Die was a corker of an album. I resisted for so long (it came out in January) and then one day I got tired of my Tumblr dashboard being filled with reblogs of tracks from the record, so I downloaded it and listened and… it was really amazing. Somehow, though she has zero live performance skills whatsoever, Lana Del Rey translates really well on record and managed to create a moody, sultry, summery debut that's worth playing on repeat.
Best tracks: 'Diet Mountain Dew', 'Off to the Races', 'Ride' (Paradise Edition only!)
#7) Ed Sheeran – +
This addition is a bit of a cheat entry considering that Ed Sheeran's debut album actually came out in 2011 – in the UK, anyway. It didn't hit the US until June 2012, which gets it in on a technicality. It certainly deserves its place, too – absolutely every song on + is genius, and Ed is so unassuming that you don't really expect such, well… artistry. Damn good artistry, at that. Many have tried to do what Ed does since he released the LP, but all have failed. He still wears his old hoodies and jeans (even to award shows), he seems like he'd be really sweet to his girlfriend and he's ginger. What more could you want?
Best tracks: 'Lego House', 'Give Me Love', 'Drunk'
#6) Taylor Swift – Red
Who knew Taylor Swift had it in her? Sure, there was the random amazing single – 'Mean' comes to mind here, most recently – but to put a whole album of pop gems together with not a single clunker? That's a feat. (Well, okay, 'Sad, Beautiful, Tragic' is a bit of a downer.) From the moment 'We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together' hit airwaves, I was actively looking forward to Red, and it didn't disappoint. The album represents a true (but perhaps not final) departure from TaySwift's country roots and sets her free into the pop world, and let's all be honest here: she does it well.
Best tracks: 'I Knew You Were Trouble', 'Holy Ground', 'Stay Stay Stay'
#5) Rihanna – Unapologetic
The first time I listened to Unapologetic, I thought to myself, "She's going to get so much s**t for this." Rihanna's fifth studio LP in as many years is by far her most "out there" release – it's dark, it's vaguely depressing at times and occasionally makes you want to punch her (I'm looking at you, 'Ain't Nobody's Business'!) but it's also one of her most sonically interesting and at times uncomfortably personal albums to date. When she sings lines like 'Who knew that the course of this one drive injured us fatally?', you feel a simultaneous pang of frustration and, well, pity. Of course, Unapologetic won't be everyone's cup of tea – and for those who love Rihanna for her club bangers, there is a somewhat disappointing dirth of those on this record – but it provides both a refreshing and a disturbing look into the psyche of one of the world's biggest popstars while employing some pretty great bass lines throughout.
Best tracks: 'Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary', 'Stay', 'Loveeeee Song'
#4) Solange – True EP
Nevermind that this is an EP and not a true full-length release – it had to be on here. You might dismiss Solange only as Beyoncé's little sister, but you'd be missing out on one of R&B's most promising artists. We've all heard 'Losing You' and seen the amazing video behind it, but I'll admit even I wasn't expecting to be as blown away as I was by True. The eight song collection teeters between lo-fi and '80s, occasionally reminding me of early Madonna but always being damn good. From start to finish, the EP runs the gamut of emotions we experience during relationships: adoration, craving, frustration, sadness… you name it, Solange has been there and is ready to tell you about it. I can't wait for an LP.
Best tracks: 'Losing You', 'Locked In Closets', 'Lovers in the Parking Lot'
#3) Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Months after Nostalgia, Ultra was played out in all of our iTunes libraries, we got the good news: Frank Ocean was planning to release a proper commercial album, the end result of which was Channel Orange. Forget the media storm surrounding Ocean's coming out around the time this hit shelves – we're here to talk about the music, and what an amazing collection of songs this is. Moving effortlessly between hip hop beats and heartfelt ballads (um, 'Pink Matter', anyone?), what Ocean accomplishes with this album cements his place in R&B music in every sense. It's gentle while still confident, sexy and sometimes downright heartbreaking. We'll be playing this one for a long time to come.
Best tracks: 'Pyramids', 'Pink Matter', 'Sierra Leone'
#2) Jessie Ware – Devotion
It's only now, at the end of 2012, that Jessie Ware is starting to get the attention she deserves. Easily one of the best albums of the past five years let alone this one, Devotion is heady and thick, the kind of thing you want to listen to in bed at night with your significant other/friend with benefits while it's raining outside, if you know what I mean. And indeed, Jessie herself touches upon that very theme, sticking with love in its many incarnations – gaining and losing it, longing for it, etc. – as the driving force behind the 11-track release (far too short!). Influences are obvious here, with Sade probably being the easiest comparison, but Jessie still manages to carve out her very own space in music that you'll want to climb right into and never move.
Best tracks: 'Wildest Moments', 'Sweet Talk', 'Taking In Water'
#1) Ellie Goulding – Halcyon
There was rather a lot of chatter surrounding Halcyon, as fans and critics wondered whether Ellie Goulding would be able to live up to the amazingness (the only word that fits) of her 2010 debut, Lights. The worry was needless, however, as her sophomore release not only meets Lights, but surpasses it into a realm of pop perfection that was previously untouched (except for the likes of, say, Florence Welch, who would no doubt be on this list if she and the Machine had released anything in 2012). From the first single 'Anything Could Happen' to the most recent, the tragically brilliant 'Figure 8′, Halcyon is head to toe full of absolute monster tracks. It's deliciously dark while still buoyant and joyful at the same time. Ellie Goulding is leading the pack when it comes to pop music and Halcyon is a great block in her growing catalogue.
Best tracks: 'My Blood', 'Explosions', 'Only You', 'Joy'… hell, the entire album.


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Interview with Stanley Crouch, author of Kansas City Lightning: The Life and Times of Charlie Parker
Described by the New York Times as a "bebop Beowulf," Stanley Crouch's Kansas City Lightning: The Life and Times of Charlie Parker is a love song to the life and times of Bird, one of jazz music's most critically important figures. Mr. Crouch, himself an essential participant in both contemporary criticism and in the delivery of live performance (through his work with Jazz at Lincoln Center), discusses his long-anticipated biography with Jerry Jazz Musician in a recently conducted interview.
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.
Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four.
Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Kansas City Lightning recreates Parker's Depression-era childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Crouch reveals an ambitious young man torn between music and drugs, between his domineering mother and his impressionable young wife, whose teenage romance with Charlie lies at the bittersweet heart of this story.
With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an acclaimed social critic, and the narrative skill of a literary novelist, Stanley Crouch illuminates this American master as never before. (# text from publisher)
On November 22, 2013, Crouch joined Jerry Jazz Musician publisher Joe Maita for a conversation about his book.
"To [bandleader Jay] McShann, Parker seemed to have a crying soul, a spirit as troubled by the nature of life as it was capable of almost unlimited celebration. But the saxophone was all he really had: it provided him with the one constantly honest relationship in his life. What he gave the horn, it gave back. What it gave him, he never forgot."
– Stanley Crouch
JJM In the acknowledgement section of your book you wrote, "I can reconnect with my entire family, all of my neighborhoods, everything I've ever done or imagined, whenever I hear any jazz band heat up and 'put the pots on,' showing how well it can struggle for joy together. No art says 'I want to live' better or more forcefully than jazz. From the whisper, to the mysteriously artful noise, to the exultant and affirmative cry or scream, ever unwilling to be held down, every page of this book is a testament to that." In addition to being a terrific biography of a historic musician, this book seemed like a very personal endeavor – a labor of love. When did you first conceive of this book?
SC I began to conceive it after Clint Eastwood — whom I respect and admire as a director in more cases than not — made what I felt was an extremely bad movie called Bird, in which I didn't see the Charlie Parker whom I knew of or had heard of. I saw Forest Whitaker playing Charlie Parker, and I saw an actress playing Chan Parker in a role of importance far beyond what she actually had in life. In fact, when I did interview Chan the story she told about herself and Charlie Parker was much heavier than the one that they had on the screen, which was the story of the unfortunate woman captured in a marriage with a guy who is a heroin addict, which was definitely true, but she told me many things about Charlie Parker that were not in the film or in the screenplay perhaps — and these were things that wouldn't have taken long to communicate to you but they weren't there.
JJM Much of the primary source material you used for the book consisted of interviews that were conducted in the early 1980's with many of the people — long since deceased — that had touched Parker's life personally and professionally, including the musicians Buster Smith, Jay McShann, his mother Doris Parker, and his first wife Rebecca. Who was your most valuable resource from among the people you interviewed for the book?
"We had to do something a little exciting, something [that] had a little thrill to it. So we'd come down through Nineteenth and Vine and kind of look over into the block where the Cherry Blossom and all the nightclubs were, you know. We would be holding hands and talking boy-and-girl talk."
– Rebecca Ruffin, describing her walks with Charlie Parker through Kansas City
SC Well, in a certain sense Rebecca Ruffin — which was her maiden name when she married Charlie Parker when he was 16 and she was about 18 — was the biggest find for me. She told me many things about Charlie Parker and about Kansas City and how it felt and the way people actually lived during that period. This broke free of a lot of stereotypic and statistically purported information about the lower class during the depression, because, what I call in the book "heroic optimism" was very fundamental to the way that the people looked at life during that period. And, Rebecca's description of her own graduation and Charlie Parker coming to the reception to see her and dancing all night with her was a very big deal to me because it added a kind of teenage romance to the Charlie Parker story that was not imagined by me before. It made me realize that Charlie Parker and Rebecca Ruffin were just like all American teenagers who had a romantic Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland sort of teenage experience. That kind of human quality of Charlie Parker's life is what I was actually most interested in because I don't think we get much of that from other books about Charlie Parker.
JJM Rebecca shared a very personal story with you about the time she discovered Charlie was using drugs. It was really sad and somewhat painful to read, honestly. What was it like for Rebecca to tell you that story?
"Suggie, come upstairs."
When she went into their room, all the shades had been pulled down. Charlie, who hated to cross the upstairs hall to bathe, was standing next to the tin tub he used to wash up.
"Yes, Charlie?"
"Go over there and sit on the bed."
She had no idea what Charlie was doing — was he going to give her a gift? Some kind of surprise? On the windowsill, there was a small mirror Charlie used to pick ingrown hairs from his face. Charlie was out of her line of sight, but when she looked in the mirror, she saw him put one foot up on a chair, remove one of the ties with the tight, small knots from the rack on the oak dresser, put it around his arm, and pull it tight. Then he removed a hypodermic needle from the dresser and pushed it into the crook of his arm. When Rebecca saw the blood rush up into the needles, she screamed and ran over to him.
"Charlie, what are you doing?"
He smiled, removed the needle, wiped the blood from his arm, loosened the loop, and put the tie on. Then he took his coat from the closet, looked at his wife ad kissed her on the forehead. "Suggie, I'll be seeing you," he said, then went downstairs, got his saxophone, and was gone.
Crouch's partial telling of the story about Rebecca discovering Parker's drug habit
SC Well, the first thing is that when you've interviewed a lot of people your ear kind of gets tuned to whether or not they're telling you the truth or whether they are making up what is today called "urban legends." I could tell that what she was telling me actually happened, not only by the way she looked but also because she tended to talk in the first person. That world was extremely alive to her, and in the instance you bring up, she describes it by saying, "Charlie's upstairs. He calls me, and I go upstairs. I open the door and I go in, and Charlie tells me to sit on the bed." She then describes herself as seeing him shoot-up the drugs — he took one of the ties hanging on the mirror, put it around his arm, and then he shot up the dope. She then got scared, gets the kit that the drugs came out of and then took them to his mother. The story goes on from there.
But at that point in the book I wanted to tell her story in a very straight way that was not melodramatic and didn't use a lot of adjectives, because the power is in what actually happens. One of the things that Hemingway taught American writers is that some things are felt stronger when you get out of the way of the story. The feeling you got while reading the story was what I hoped readers would experience — as if they were standing right next to Rebecca, seeing this happen — and not as though it were "Stanley Crouch telling us how horrible it is that Charlie Parker was beginning to use drugs." It's a feeling of actually seeing it and responding to it.
JJM What this story demonstrated very clearly is how his drug use affected those who loved him, and that's something that you don't really think about when you're engrossed in his greatness as a musician. We know how the drugs impacted his life, but they also devastated important personal relationships with his wife, mother and son. Did Rebecca indicate to you what Parker's mother Addie may have done to help him with his addiction?
SC Well, his mother was dead when I began the book so I couldn't find out what she did, but Rebecca did everything she could do, and she became accustomed to the life that Charlie Parker began to live after he became addicted. There's much detail in the book about the shift in his life that came about, and also about the resolve that Rebecca had to be a strong wife — she understood that she was in a very terrible situation and so was he, but at that particular point she didn't feel that she should abandon him or abandon their marriage. She just felt that she should figure out how to live up to the problems that they were faced with, and I think that in today's atmosphere of constant self-obsession and ideology Rebecca Parker would not necessarily be understood because the empathy that leads to what is dismissed as self-sacrifice today would not actually be understood.
JJM You describe Parker's father as "an incorrigible whisky head who left home when Parker was nine." Did he have any contact with his father after that?
SC He didn't have any that Rebecca saw except that his father turned up at their reception after they got married. She said that no one would actually know what Charlie Parker was doing or what he and his mother were doing unless they wanted you to know. So we don't know how much Charlie Parker saw his father or how much time his father took visiting him or how many places his father took him to and how much time his father spent with him when he was a younger guy. But we do know that on the day of his marriage to Rebecca his father turned up, and she saw him and she describes him, and talks about how she could tell what kind of work he did by the way his shoes were polished. She explained that he was a charming, good-looking guy like his son.
JJM Who were the influential adult male role models during Parker's youth?
"If you had a chance to hear Buster stretch out, it would have sounded something like what Bird did later on. It's just that Buster didn't care about stretching out."
-Jay McShann
Listen to "Kansas City Riffs," by Buster Smith
SC Buster Smith was a very big influence as a saxophonist and also the way he carried himself, which is described in the book by Orville Minor, Clarence Davis and Jay McShann. They all remembered Buster Smith very vividly because he was the guy who didn't constantly pat himself on the back as a highly respected jazz musician could have. Orville Minor describes him as always being a shirt-and-tie guy who didn't talk a lot of "stuff." He was interested in talking about things that were going on in the world, and about the culture of America. So, he did all that, and he could play so well that people felt that they should call him "Professor Smith." As Orville said, "If you didn't believe that he was a professor, if you were on the bandstand with him you found out very quickly that he was because he was 'bad' on that saxophone. You would say, 'Oh, well, he does know a lot of music.'"
Charlie Parker was mentored by Buster Smith and he was the kind of guy, like most young guys, who picks up as much as possible from an admired influence as they can. So the way Charlie Parker spoke, and given his interest in the world, I'm sure he got those things from being around Buster Smith because he would ask questions a lot. If he was around Buster Smith, who liked him and knew he was very talented, he would have told him things that he asked him about Smith himself, and about Smith and Lester Young and some other members of the Blue Devils hoboing back to Oklahoma City after being stranded in the early 30's during a tour of the East Coast.
Some naïve people who reviewed the book didn't understand why I wrote so much about Buster Smith, but they didn't realize how connected he was to Charlie Parker. He was connected to him as a saxophonist and as a person, and as Buster Smith was telling me about his life I'm sure it was a life he told Charlie Parker about.
JJM Parker actually called him "Dad" at times…
SC Yes he did.
"Kansas City was a kind of experimental laboratory where the collective possibilities of American rhythm were being refined and expanded on a nightly basis."
– Stanley Crouch
Listen to "Kansas City Shuffle," by Bennie Moten
JJM On Kansas City, where Parker grew up, you wrote "It was a city where corruption sprawled in comfort and a child could get the idea that right was wrong and wrong was right; the mayor was a pawn, the city boss was a crook, the police were corrupt, the gangsters had more privileges than honest businessmen, and the town was as wild with vice as you could encounter short of a convention of the best devils in hell." How did this environment help shape the decisions Parker would make?
SC Well, the ongoing irony of that much corruption is that you could also have an artistic community that Mary Lou Williams herself described as "heavenly." She described it as a "heavenly city" because a musician could actually play all of the time, and Charlie Parker, Buster Smith, Lester Young, Gene Ramey, Jay McShann and all of these guys developed from playing their instruments all of the time in all kinds of situations, in all kinds of styles, all kinds of tunes and in all the keys. They learned how to improvise on the spot, and they learned how to deal with modulations — the changing of the keys. They went through all this stuff all the time, all day.
They could play jazz at night, and then go out to the jam sessions, and they could end up in the park with a bunch of other musicians. Eventually, Charlie Parker would be sitting there on the bench by himself, still playing the saxophone until he felt that it was late enough in the morning for him to go get the other musicians and wake them up and play some more. So this was why all these guys could play and that was where their reputations came from, because they met the challenge of improvising, making sense on the spot, figuring out how to handle all the notes that were going on around them, and how to make artistic objects at high speeds. All of those beautiful melodies that Charlie Parker was able to play are the result of the kinds of decisions that he learned to make, and he learned how to fit in.
Sonny Rollins told me once that a musician can practice by himself a lot — as they do — but one long night on a bandstand will teach you many more things than you can learn by yourself because you're playing different songs, you're playing with different sets, you're playing in different keys, and you're playing different emotions that all get worked out on the bandstand. Kansas City was that kind of atmosphere, all the time.
JJM You point out in the book that the saxophone was central to the sound and character of Kansas City jazz…
"The primacy of the saxophone, paired with the local players' feeling for the blues, was central to the sound and character of Kansas City jazz. This penchant for saxophones would not only give rise to powerful reed sections that swung, shouted, and crooned the blues, but would also prepare the way for local giants of the instrument, men destined either to blow themselves into the pantheon or to arrive in Kansas City on the whirlwind of legend."
– Stanley Crouch
Listen to Chu Berry play "Limehouse Blues"
SC Oh, without a doubt, and Kansas City musicians loved to bushwhack musicians from the east coast who thought that they were going to come through this "country-boy-town" and stomp all of the local guys like they were grapes being prepared for wine. But usually, when they came to Kansas City they ended up playing the role of the grape, not the local guys. Buster Smith describes in the book how Chu Berry started playing "Body and Soul" at medium tempo and then played all those combative and advanced chord changes. Lester Young and all these other guys heard that and slipped out of that club quickly, and then Buster Smith stood up and said, "I told you all not to mess with that man!" They weren't invincible by any doubt, but…
JJM There's a great story you tell in the book about Benny Goodman coming through Kansas City and challenging Buster Smith on stage at one of the clubs. Someone described it as if Smith "chewed him up and spit him out."
SC Yes, Jay McShann told that story.
JJM A well-known story in Parker's biography is the time that he decided to test his mettle on the bandstand of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Keith, in which his playing caused the musicians to laugh him off the bandstand. In a 1950 interview with Marshall Stearns, he said that they "laughed so hard it broke my heart." How did this event change Charlie Parker's life?
"Bird had gotten up there and got his meter turned around. When they got to the end of the thirty-two-bar chorus, he was in the second bar on that next chorus. Somehow or other he got ahead of himself or something. He had the right meter. He had the groove all right, but he was probably anxious to make it. Anyway, he couldn't get off. Jo Jones hit the bell corners — ding. Bird kept playing. Ding. Ding. Everybody was looking, and people were starting to say, 'Get this cat off of here.' Ding! So finally, finally, Jo Jones pulled off the cymbal and said 'DING' on the floor. Some would call it a crash, and they were right, a DING trying to pass itself as under a crash. Bird jumped, you know, and it startled him and he eased out of the solo. Everybody was screaming and laughing. The whole place."
– Gene Ramey
Listen to "Lady Be Good," a 1940 recording of the Jay McShann Orchestra, featuring Parker on alto
SC Well, it made him confront what every jazz musician has to confront at some point, which is finding out how much he knows and how much he does not know, and Charlie Parker thought he could play but he actually couldn't play. Bassist Gene Ramey was there the night that they laughed at him and threw Charlie Parker off the bandstand, and he said they talked about how Parker got turned around in the song and didn't know where he was, but that he would figure it out, and that they weren't going to stop him forever.
JJM It was a real turning point in his life because a lesser man probably would have quit after having this experience. Instead it may have revealed his true character…
SC You're absolutely right. That was the point in which he decided how good he was going to be. Now anybody could have said, "I am going to become the best saxophone player in the world," but doing it is a little bit harder than saying it, and Charlie Parker was prepared to do whatever he had to do to become the best saxophone player in the entire world, and he did become that in a very short time.
JJM It was important to him to be a great saxophone player, but he also wanted to be different. He wanted to stand out.
SC Oh, yeah. Well, he couldn't get the kind of recognition he sought if he didn't have something that was unique to him. All of the people he admired — people like Buster Smith, Lester Young, Chu Berry — were musicians who had something very unique about their playing, and he sought that uniqueness in his own playing. As we know, he finally got it.

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"Is this for real?
I have recently returned to Britain after some forty years absence to a find a nation that appears to be hog-tied by petty rules and regulations. Many are so restrictive that any serious attempt to resuscitate our already ailing economy is almost certain to encounter some, largely pointless, but insurmountable, legal obstacle.
I was recently confronted with one such asinine ruling last week when, after a meal, I asked for an Irish coffee at one of my favourite local eateries. The waitron informed me that, unfortunately, she was unable to oblige as this was not permitted under the terms of the establishment's liquor licence.
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Could it be that some Whitehall nincompoop actually sanctioned the issue of two slightly divergent licences to cover this contingency? If so, why is he or she not engaged in drawing up more constructive legislation designed to facilitate the operation of Britain's businesses rather than confounding them?
This makes about as much sense as being condemned to drink offensively lukewarm coffee because, to serve a hotter and far more palatable beverage may constitute a risk to health and safety. Ludicrous - Britons have become, not the beneficiaries of a nanny state but its unwitting victims. Meanwhile poor old nanny is showing distinct signs of dementia."
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If you have recently returned you will soon become accustomed to the fact that new petty regulations are added weekly, almost all of which are inspired by unelected EU bureaucrats. This might be one of them. Thee EU is in effect a factory for the manufacture of regulations and it will not discontinue until the whole edifice implodes, because to do so would put them out of a job.
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By RICHARD SHAWStaff reporter
The Carbon County Commission met Oct. 16 and dealt with a number of issues, including a request from residents on cleaning up washes in the Spring Glen area.
The residents that attended approached the commission about the growth of trees and brush that has taken place in three washes in the area that concerns residents.
"There is a lot of over growth and debris in some of the washes in the area," explained Lynna Topolovec who represented some of the residents views. "We need a cleanup in the washes so we don't have a flooding problem in the future."
The problem of flooding has been a major concern of many residents in the Helper, Spring Glen and Carbonville area since the Spring Glen Canal project began three years ago. That project piped all the irrigation water that used to flow in the canals, but with the covering of the waterways, the drainage that they had supplied for the last 100 years also disappeared.
"All of these washes are part of the flood control for the area and we are concerned that with the debris and the large trees in some of them real problems could result," stated Topolovec.
She also brought up the fact that some of the trees are blocking the view onto 2000 West creating a traffic hazard.
A discussion then ensued between commissioners and the residents that were attending about the problems and the solutions.
It was brought out that the county could solve some of the problems, just as they had a couple of years ago when some of the growth got out of control. But the commissioners were also cautious about the situation.
"We can take care of what is on county property," advised Commissioner Mike Milovich. "But on private property we can't do anything."
County Attorney Gene Strate also pointed out that in some cases the county would need an easement to cross private land to get to the problems.
Apparently in the past, there were some kinds of problems with getting to some of the areas that needed attention, but no one in the meeting had the details of the situation.
The commission finally decided to have Evan Hansen, the county engineer look at the area and determine what areas fall under the counties ownership.
In another action the commission reviewed the recommendations from the restaurant tax board that met the first part of October on two requests that had been submitted to them.
The first request had come from Carbon High School for money to purchase an electronic timing system for track and field events.
The request had been submitted by the principal, Robert Cox, and he had asked for $3195 for the equipment. The restaurant board recommended that the total amount be funded.
"Can we give money to the school district?" asked Commissioner Tom Mathews.
The county attorney wasn't sure but said he could do some research to check state statute to see if the award could be funded.
The commission voted to grant the funds, pending a positive out come of Strate's research.
The other request came from the Rocky Mountain Mine Rescue Association for $18000. The restaurant tax board however had recommended only $3000 for money to run advertising for the organizations annual rescue competition in Carbon County.
Discussion ensued between commissioners concerning the viability of spending such money to whether the county could fund a private organization such as the rescue association at all.
"Things have changed and the tech center is now behind the event, not CEU," said Milovich. "I'm not sure that this is an appropriate use of RT money."
Commissioner Mathews felt that the support of this event was important and he suggested that the mine rescue event would probably bring more money into the county than a 30 school track meet would, referring to the money just granted to the high school for equipment.
"The difference in that is that the equipment for the school district is permanent expenditure with the equipment being used year after year, while this money is for advertising for one year," said Milovich. "Based on some calculations, I recently did the amount of money expended for this advertising will not return in revenue to the local businesses."
The commission decided to hold up any kind of action until the next meeting so some of the issues discussed could be resolved.
In a delayed restaurant tax board decision, the commission granted the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources $15,000 to build rest rooms at the Gigliotti Pond in Helper. The funds had been recommended by the board this past summer, but because the property DWR wanted to build the structure on was privately owned, the commission had held up the approval until DWR had worked out a property transfer with Ross Gigliotti who is leasing the property for the pond to the state.
In other business the commission did the following.
Bids were opened for a backhoe for the counties road department. The bids for the machine were submitted from Century Equipment Company for a Case 580 for $63,000; from Wheeler Machinery Company for a Catepillar 420 for $60,505; and from Scott Machinery for a John Deere 310 for $57,500. The commission referred the bids to Ray Hanson, county road supervisor for review and recommendations.
The commission approved a contract with the state to collect motor vehicle taxes and fees. This had been delayed from the last meeting because some questions had been raised about the increases the state had included.
The commission approved zone changes and conditional use permits for seven gas wells in the county. Two of the wells are near Hiawatha, three west of Highway 10 near the juvenile detention facility, one near Four Mile Hill and one on the other side of Four Mile Hill.
The commission delayed action on a resolution regarding the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act study that is being done in the Carbon County area. Commissioners felt some work needed to be done on the language in the resolution as proposed.
The commission was introduced to the new county water project coordinator; Dean Stacy. Stacy works for the state in preparing and helping with water plans for the local area.


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Reliable Server Pooling - A Novel IETF Architecture for Availability-Sensitive Services
In: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2008)
IEEE Computer Soc. (2008), S. 150-156
Buchaufsatz / Kapitel / Fach: Informatik
Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen » Institut für Experimentelle Mathematik (IEM) Essen
Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) is a light-weight protocol framework for server redundancy and session failover, currently still under standardization by the IETF RSerPool WG. While the basic ideas of RSerPool are not new, their combination into a single, resource-efficient and unified architecture is. Server redundancy directly leads to the issues of load distribution and load balancing, which are both important for the performance of RSerPool systems. Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate the performance of such systems with respect to the load balancing strategy required by the application. The goal of our paper is - after presenting a short overview of the RSerPool architecture and its application cases - to provide a quantitative, application-independent performance analysis ofRSerPool's server failure handling capabilities with respect to important adaptive and non- adaptive load balancing strategies. We will also analyse the impact of RSerPool protocol parameters on the performance of the server failure handling functionalities and the network overhead.


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Virginia Mae Griggs, 97, of Galesburg died at 9:42 a.m. Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at Rosewood Care Center, Galesburg.
Durbin, Kenneth
Kenneth Harold Durbin, 85 of Abingdon, died at 9:06 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at the Care Center of Abingdon.
(Lowry) Wallace, Virginia A.
Virginia A. (Lowry) Wallace, 87, of Roseville, IL passed away at 4:05 PM Monday March 9, 2015 at the Roseville Rehab and Heath Care Center. She was born August 23, 1927 in Warren County to H.K. and Carrie (Hawk) Thomas. She married Hubert Lowry and later married Leo Wallace both preceded her in death.


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Friends, family, co-workers and police had been searching for Lawrence Stearns, 29, since Monday night.
Family members first reported Stearns missing late Monday night when he didn't return home after he had plans to check his hunting traps. At about 4 p.m. Tuesday, a canoeist called 911 to report a car in the Grand River at Bur Oak Landing, near the intersection of 90th Avenue and Lake Forest Drive in Polkton Township.
Sgt. Brian Buter of the Ottawa County Sherriff's Department said Stearns' car most likely entered the river from the boat launch. A strong current caused the car to drift about 300 yards downstream from the launch and settle into sediment in the river.
Buter said the incident remains under investigation.
After work at around 4 p.m. Monday, Stearns told his co-workers at Burnips Equipment Co. in Coopersville that he planned to check on some hunting traps before returning home to spend Christmas Eve with his wife and three children. His father, Gary Stearns, said his son last sent a text message to his wife at 4:06 p.m. Monday to inform her of his plans.
"He never made it home," the elder Stearns said. "Nobody ever heard from him again."
Family members began searching for him at 8 p.m. Monday. They contacted the Ottawa County Sherriff's Department at about 11:30 p.m. about the missing man, Buter said.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Coopersville resident Todd Foreman and his two sons spotted the man's car in the river. The three originally planned to get fresh air during a Christmas Day canoe trip from Eastmanville to Grand Haven when they came across friends looking for Lawrence Stearns.
Foreman agreed to help with the search, but said a prayer with the group before leaving.
"Almost anytime I do it, (God) answers," Foreman said about praying.
Two miles later, one of Foreman's sons pointed out a car concealed by weeds and difficult to see. Foreman said they could see the car's antenna.
Carl VanderKolk, the owner of Burnips Equipment, said he and some employees joined the search efforts on Tuesday.
"Larry was a nice guy," VanderKolk said. "I couldn't think of a worse thing to happen. I feel bad for his family."
Gary Stearns said his son enjoyed trapping otters and beavers.
"He loved to hunt, fish and trap," the father said.


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An Oklahoma City man admitted to wearing diapers and drinking baby formula while pretending to be autistic at a
Oklahoma City man ordered to trial in 'diaper' case
An Oklahoma City man admitted to wearing diapers and drinking baby formula while pretending to be autistic at a
Mark Anthony Richardson Jr., 21, said in the Oct. 5 interview that he has never had a girlfriend, Detective Priscilla Helm said at a preliminary hearing on a sexual battery charge.
"His explanation for his behavior was his inability to have a relationship with females and he wanted to be close … to females," she testified.
He wrote a letter of apology to the woman who changed his diapers and her daughter, the detective said.
He was charged with sexual battery — a felony — for allegedly groping the woman's daughter while she slept in September. The woman and her daughter did not talk to police about it until after they learned Richardson was faking.
The daughter, Cassandra McIlroy, 19, testified he grabbed her breast over her shirt. She said, since she thought he was autistic, she just told him, "No. Don't do that." She said her mother, Tami Landers, said he didn't know what he was doing and she should go back to sleep.
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May 1 | Around the World in 90 Minutes and Send-off Party - Peace Corps
May 1 | Public Morals, Science, and International Trade: Animal Welfare and the WTO
May 2 | Conservation and pizza: Matt Diatz, the Wilderness Society
May 4 | Bay Area Conservation Symposium
May 4 | The Last Grrr-rah
May 1 | Around the World in 90 Minutes and Send-off Party - Peace Corps
6:30 to 8 p.m.
South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
Travel the world through the eyes of international Volunteers at one of this year's biggest Bay Area Peace Corps events. Expose your senses to photos, clothing, art, music and more from returned Peace Corps Volunteers who have served around the globe. Have your questions answered and talk with local Peace Corps staff about the application process.
This is a great event for all past, present and future Peace Corps Volunteers (plus family and friends, too) as we will also be celebrating those preparing to depart for Peace Corps assignments overseas!!
About the Peace Corps: Read more or watch a video about what it's like to be a Volunteer including what Volunteers do, where they go, and the many benefits of Peace Corps service. Or apply now to begin your life-defining experience.
May 1 | Public Morals, Science, and International Trade: Animal Welfare and the WTO
Christoph Hermes, Visiting Fellow from the EU Commission
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
223 Moses Hall, 12-1:30 p.m.
Many citizens care about the humane treatment of animals. This has led the European Union, the United States and others to enact a variety of animal welfare laws. Examples range from the US Animal Welfare Act to the recent European ban on seal products. At the same time, the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) impose certain limits on trade restrictions. Is there a conflict between animal welfare laws and the WTO? Christoph Hermes is a lawyer at the European Commission in Brussels and has represented the European Union in numerous disputes in front of the WTO. He will present the relevant WTO rules and explore to what extent they leave countries regulatory space to enact animal welfare measures.
Sponsored by the Center for Institutions and Governance and the Institute of International Studies.
May 2 | Conservation and pizza: Matt Diatz, the Wilderness Society
5:00PM, 103 Mulford
Please join us for our last "meeting conservation" talk for the semester.
Matt Diatz , a lead scientist at the Wilderness Society , will talk about his multidisciplinary career in conservation, coming from humanities, field work, advocacy and policy making and some of their recent conservation projects.
Featuring Yummy Sliver Pizza!
May 4 | Bay Area Conservation Symposium
On Saturday , May 4, UC Davis , join us to the Bay Area Conservation Symposium
Email us to carpool from campus . Details and RSVP (it's free!) at :
May 4 | The Last Grrr-rah
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Time: 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join your fellow seniors and young alumni on Cinco de Mayo Eve (May 4) to celebrate your upcoming alumnihood! The East Bay's #1 rated taco truck, Tacos Sinaloa, will be parked on the Alumni House patio to serve their authentic tacos (carne asada, chicken, carnitas, al pastor, and veggie). We'll keep the margaritas flowing and the music bumping.
Graduating Seniors: This is your last hurrah before finals and graduation! Your young alumni friends will be on hand to welcome you into the young alumni community.
Young Alumni: This is your chance to welcome your younger friends into the Cal Alumni family!
This event is open to graduating seniors from the class 2013 (December 2012 grads, too!) and young alumni from the classes of 2000–2012. Price includes five tacos and one margarita. Additional taco and drink tickets can be purchased on-site. ID required for alcoholic beverages. Dress to impress!
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By BRENDAN McGAIR
PROVIDENCE -- Per Rhode Island College:
Rhode Island College Head Men's Basketball Coach Bob Walsh has stepped down to become the Head Men's Basketball Coach at the University of Maine.
PAWTUCKET – For five innings Monday night, Anthony Ranaudo was on easy street. Or so it seemed.
Yes, Ranaudo held the Toledo Mud Hens off the scoreboard through five frames, yet an interesting development took place in the fifth that may help explain why the tall right-hander struggled in the sixth inning.
As much as Ranaudo's fastball was working earlier in the contest, it disappeared in the fifth. Luckily, he was able to dip into his breaking pitches, most notably his curveball, and work his way around a leadoff walk.
PAWTUCKET – Daniel Nava is officially a member of the Pawtucket Red Sox. The struggling outfielder/first baseman joined the Triple-A ranks on what was a busy Friday at McCoy Stadium.
Manager Kevin Boles wasted little time of throwing Nava into the fray, placing the switch hitter in the No. 3 spot in the outfield and in left field. Nava is looking to get back on track after getting off to a .147 start in 17 games for the Red Sox.
PAWTUCKET – Matt Barnes will not be part of Pawtucket's rotation at the onset of the 2014 International League season. A sore shoulder limited the 23-year-old to just one inning in spring training.
Just how much time will Barnes miss? Red Sox Director of Player Development Ben Crockett didn't provide a definitive timetable at Tuesday's PawSox Media Day fete at McCoy Stadium, though it was encouraging to learn that the Barnes is pitching in extended spring training down in Fort Myers, Fla.
PAWTUCKET -- From the PawSox:
PAWSOX 2014 ROSTER RECAP – The Pawtucket Red Sox Opening Night Roster is highlighted by 8 players who at one point last season were members of the 2013 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. Those elite eight will receive their World Series rings prior to Boston's home-opener this Friday afternoon at Fenway Park. They are pitchers Drake Britton, Rubby De La Rosa, Brayan Villarreal, Allen Webster, Alex Wilson, catcher Ryan Lavarnway, and infielders Brock Holt & Brandon Snyder.
PAWTUCKET – This might be hard to fathom considering the dreary weather outside, but the Pawtucket Red Sox kick off the 2014 International League season this Thursday night at McCoy Stadium.
To that end, here's a video where PawSox Team President Mike Tamburro was asked about what the start of a new Triple-A season means to him. Tamburro also shares his thoughts on the ballclub and new PawSox manager Kevin Boles.
Click here and happy baseball season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivr3IE0VZfs&list=UU30UG0gQ8OoHkSxa18-tx4w
SAN ANTONIO – In his final game in a PC Friar uniform, Bryce Cotton made a fan in North Carolina head coach Roy Williams.
After watching Cotton torch his Tar Heels for 36 points, Williams pointed out, "I've coached a long time, guys. I've had a lot of people play great against me. Lindsey Hunter is an NBA coach, he got 47 points against us one year. Anthony Peeler of Virginia got like 45 against us one night, and we won the game. We held Big Country, Bryant Reeves, to zero and Randy Rutherford got 43, but we won the game."
If there's one thing I regret about the article regarding the yeoman's work on the part of Providence College's athletic training staff, it's that there's no quotes from Ken White, the school's strength coach.
Like head athletic trainer Bryn VanPatten, White has been plying his trade at PC for some time – he's currently in his 10th year at the college. One quote that didn't make the article - http://www.woonsocketcall.com/node/10821 - should help shed some light on the working relationship between VanPatten and White.
The brackets for the divisional tournaments in boys' basketball have been released and there's two preliminary games of note set for Friday night.
In Division II, defending champion and No. 10 seed Cumberland travels to Central Falls to face the seventh-seeded Warriors. The two II-North rivals squared off twice during the regular season with C.F. posting a 65-51 win at Cumberland on Dec. 20. The Clippers returned the favor last Wednesday with a 49-47 triumph at the Warriors' gym.
After this Thursday night, no one will be allowed to wear the No. 3 jersey for the New London (Conn.) High boys' basketball any more.
Prior to the Whalers' 7 p.m. home contest against Hamden High, the program will retire Kris Dunn's number. Dunn earned McDonald's All-American honors as a senior at New London High before coming to Providence College in the fall of 2012.
PAWTUCKET — The boys' and girls' basketball programs at Tolman High School will stage "Pink Out Games" next Friday, Feb. 14 at the James W. Donaldson Gymnasium. All donations raised at the two games will go directly to the American Cancer Society.
The Tolman girls square off against Narragansett at 4:30 p.m. At 7:30, the Tolman boys will take to the floor against North Providence.
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Below you'll find the Rhode Island High school football divisions that will be in place for the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
1. Bishop Hendricken
2. La Salle
3. Cranston East
4. Portsmouth
5. Barrington
6. Cumberland
7. East Providence
8. South Kingstown
9. Cranston West
1. Woonsocket
2. St. Raphael
3. Mt. Hope
4. Central
5. Rogers
6. Warwick Vets
7. Coventry
8. Shea
1. West Warwick
2. Johnston
3. Tolman
4. Westerly
5. North Kingstown
6. Chariho
7. Moses Brown
PROVIDENCE – Providence has defeated a top 25 team for the first time this year. Here what Ed Cooley and players had to say following Saturday's 81-68 victory over Creighton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5zW2CdLUo.
BOSTON – Nothing is etched in stone, but it wouldn't be surprising to see the PawSox' catching situation in the hands of Dan Butler and Christian Vazquez when the curtain goes up on the 2014 season.
PAWTUCKET – The 37th annual Pawtucket Red Sox Hot Stove League Party at McCoy Stadium is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 25. The event will run from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
New PawSox manager Kevin Boles and new coach Bruce Crabbe will give fans a preview of what the 2014 club may look like. Several PawSox players and top Red Sox prospects will attend the party and will be available for photos and autographs.
The list of players expected to attend include pitcher Steven Wright and outfielders Bryce Brentz and Alex Hassan.
By BRENDAN McGAIR
BOSTON, MA - The Boston Red Sox today announced the 2014 field staffs for their minor league affiliates, including managers, coaches, and athletic trainers.
Director of Player Development Ben Crockett made the announcement.
The manager for Short-A Lowell is the only position remaining to be filled for next season. The rest of the 2014 staffs are listed below:
Pawtucket (Triple-A, International League)
PROVIDENCE - From the importance of Bryce Cotton to his team's porous defense to the status of suspended freshmen Rodney Bullock and Brandon Austin, Ed Cooley covered it all following Providence's 76-64 win over Yale on Tuesday night.
Click here to hear exactly what Cooley had to say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRGM52nFwlE
Per Providence College:
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Providence College men's basketball Head Coach Ed Cooley announced today that sophomore Kris Dunn (New London, Conn.) will have surgery in the next several weeks to repair an injured shoulder and he will miss the remainder of the season. Dunn injured his shoulder during the team's exhibition game on November 2 versus Rhode Island College.
Welcome to the final day of fall high school sports in Rhode Island, otherwise known as Super Bowl Sunday.
The big game of note in the area takes place at 3 p.m. with defending Division II champion Cumberland squaring off against West Warwick. The Clippers and Wizards each finished with 5-2 records in league play – a mark that was also equaled by three fellow division foes.
As a result of that unprecedented five-way tie for first place, one team was eliminated while West Warwick was awarded the No. 1 seed in Division II-B.
By BRENDAN MCGAIR
As promised, myself and fellow sports writer Branden Mello, he of the Kent County Daily Times, have returned to talk more about Sunday's Division II Super Bowl between West Warwick and defending champion Cumberland.
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M State of the Market Report: Two-Person Double-Wall Tents (2010)
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In the past four years since our Double-Wall Tents Review Summary and Gear Guide Overview, a lot of manufacturers have made the move to add lightweight offerings in their double-wall tent line-ups. Many now use designs that both cut weight and make set-up much faster. In some cases the weights are getting low enough to challenge the benefit of choosing a single-wall shelter when the advantages are brought into the equation. This new State of the Market Report (SOTM) will serve to bring a portion of the last Review up to date with the latest trends and design features, plus give some background for beginning backpackers.
In this SOTM report, we focus on double-wall tents made for two people that have a Trail Weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) or less. Trail Weight refers to the tent body and rain fly, plus the minimum stakes needed to set the tent up. It does not include stuff sacks, extra stakes, gear lofts, or footprints.
- Introduction
- When Only Two Will Do
- Double-Wall Tent Design
- Poles
- Inner Tent
- Rain Fly
- You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Go Light
- Achieving Lower Weights
- Tents Included in This Report
- Big Agnes Copper Spur UL2
- Big Agnes Fly Creek UL2
- Big Agnes Seedhouse SL2
- Big Agnes Seedhouse 2
- Big Sky International Convertible
- Big Sky International Evolution
- Big Sky International Montana
- Big Sky International Revolution 2P w/porch
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- MSR Hubba Hubba HP
- Nemo Espri 2P
- REI Quarter Dome T2
- Sierra Designs Clip Flashlight 2
- Sierra Designs Lightning XT
- Sierra Designs LT Strike 2
- Sierra Designs Vapor Light 2
- Tarptent Scarp 2
- Terra Nova Laser
- The North Face Meso 22
- Vaude Hogan Ultralight
- Vaude Power Lizard UL
- Evaluation Criteria & Ratings Summary
- Favorite Double-Wall Tents
- Trends
- Acknowledgments
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Session Details
669. Social Media and Scholarship: The State of Middle-State Publishing
Wednesday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Beacon A, Sheraton
A special session
Presiding: Alexander Reid, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York
Speakers: Heather Duncan, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York; Matthew K. Gold, New York City Coll. of Tech., City Univ. of New York; Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville; Richard E. Miller, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick; Daniel Schweitzer, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York
Responding: Alexander Reid
For brief statements, visit alex-reid.net after 15 Dec.
Session Description:
As our profession seeks to understand electronic publishing, the emergence of middle-state publishing (e.g., blogs, Twitter) adds another layer of complexity to the issue. The roundtable participants will discuss their use of social media for scholarship and how middle-state publishing alters scholarly work and the ethical and professional concerns that arise.
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- The CEO of a U.S. tire company delivered a summary of how some outsiders view France's work ethic in a letter to the French industry minister: "The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three," he wrote.
- Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark believes a second American Revolution may be sparked if unConstitutional gun laws are enforced throughout the Nation.
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Barack Obama Sworn In As U.S. President For A Second Term
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Dear kapi,
BTW Documentation is there for you http://www.freeswan.org/doc.htmlIPSEC is Internet Protocol SECurity. It uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. Authentication ensures that packets are from the right sender and have not been altered in transit. Encryption prevents unauthorised reading of packet contents.
But in my personal openion I think you need netfilter/iptables
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Perfect balance of Mizuno MP-69 Irons
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Perfect balance of Mizuno MP-69 Irons
By golfonlineau on Nov 26, 2012 06:20 AM
As the Mizuno's leading golf in 2011, Mizuno MP-59 and MP-69 Irons don't disappoint us. Beautiful performance, silver head, perfect attribute and the superior quality together make the MP-69s.
On the course, the Mizuno MP-69 Irons performed beautifully. They offer a penetrating mid ball flight that works extremely well in almost all conditions. Compared with Mizuno MP-59 Irons, the MP-69s fly just a bit lower than that of their slightly more forgiving counterparts. The leading edge of both sets offer just enough roundness as to not come in too sharp and be prone for digging and combine that with the versatility it offers to hit large varieties of shots in any condition.
The Mizuno MP-69 Irons sale are modern take on classic blades, but with as much forgiveness as this style of iron will allow. The concave muscle back on the rear of the blade is a larger then you would expect, but it really adds forgiveness without losing any of the visual appeal or performance of a blade. Anything slightly off-centre still maintains the feel and flight of a centre hit, although you will know about it if you really mis-hit it.
Following on the highly-successful Mizuno MP-68 Irons , the new blades have been designed to offer workability and high levels of feel to the more accomplished golfer. Mizuno engineers designed a 4D Muscle innovation that means golfers can expect a slightly higher trajectory with the longer irons, and a more penetrative ball flight in the shorter sticks where distance control is crucial.
Blending the input of Mizunos PGA Tour staff members with state of the art design and simulation tools, the MP-69 irons are the perfect balance of patented Grain Flow Forged feel, and unmatched workability. I really feel I can grow into best price golf clubs and I've already become a more solid ball striker as a result of the immediate feedback. When struck pure, they just feel amazing. Now if I could just get my putting up to snuff, I'll sneak into single digits in no time.
Perfect balance of Mizuno MP-69 Irons
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