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If Benjamin Taylor had made one album and it was 2008's The Legend Of Kung Folk, he would have fulfilled his creative contract with the music gods. The project featured unusually good songwriting and performances, but then, one would expect no less from the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon.
Virtually abandoning the old physical CD configuration with all its old school marketing trappings, Benjamin Taylor currently is all about his new, lively website that interacts with fans and visitors by inviting them to participate in musical decisions while offering free weekly downloads, a sense of artistic community and continuity, and much more.
Benjamin gave the following interview that discusses all of the above in detail, his new recordings, and of course, his famous family in more than a casual way.
(photo credit: David Montgomery)
MR: Hey Ben. Calling you from an Iowa rehearsal hall for the musical Hair. Ever think about getting into musical theater?
BT: It's a completely different world. I was just talking to Yusaf Islam who was formerly known as Cat Stevens, he was trying to make his early songs into a musical. And we were just talking about the idea that subtlety is one of the great tools that he uses in his early songs. It's hard to figure how exactly that translates into a Broadway sensibility.
MR: Exactly, plus musicals really are all about pushing the visual imagination and spectacle of it all.
BT: Walloped upon the head with a platinum-plated sledgehammer.
MR: (laughs) Paul Simon tried it with Capeman, and Harry Chapin tried it a couple of times. But you're right, the subtleties were missed, and people actually had to think while they were being entertained.
BT: It's difficult to be subtle in that context, and it's also difficult to know how to come across in a variety of different ways.
MR: Let's stop here so I can test my recording process. An extremely loud RF noise toasted my recent Peter Frampton interview which totally traumatized me.
BT: One time, I recorded Jamie Cullum on a track of mine, and we went to do three takes really quickly. When I got back at the end of the day, I went back to it and it was some horrible bit rate translation problem coming from my converter and it just sounded like mmmmmmmmmmm. He's one of the most incredible gentleman and nicest fellows you would ever like to run into.
MR: Jamie Cullum definitely is one of my favorite latest artists. If it were just based on his talent, he would be more popular than he is. His latest album is killer, although I'm not as big a fan of his earlier works that seemed tailored to Michael Bubblé's fans. It just seems that no one knows what to do with intellectual or intelligent singer/songwriters anymore.
BT: He was talented enough to know that it was a starting place for him. It was almost like a compromise he had to make at first to get his point across. And then once he had everybody's ears, he started doing his own thing. Everybody was happy.
MR: Still, it's so obvious that a label's marketing an album or keeping an un-recouped group on its roster for more than a minute are done.
BT: I think that those days are pretty much over, at least in this country. There are some traditional record labels that are left in different places, like in Europe and in Asia, that are slow to follow. I think that, for the most part, over here, those days are over forever. No matter how exciting the marketing grid and music ever became, it was catalog artists that made the bulk of the money for the record labels. As a result of having artists like Joe Cocker or my folks, people like that and their repertoire, labels could afford to take gambles on artists and such. But I think the time for that is over, and frankly, the time for catalog artists to find their own autonomy and make their own way is becoming a reality. A lot has changed in music over the past couple of years, for sure.
MR: Which leads us perfectly into Ben Taylor projects. First of all, did anybody ever forward you my psycho HuffPost review of your album?
BT: No, they didn't or if they did, it was among the pack of 300 emails I didn't read that week. I'm sorry.
MR: No problem, but I had a lot of fun with it. I reviewed The Legend Of Kung Folk back when you released it. I really went all over the place with that one, there were songs on there that just killed me. "Wicked Way"? I mean, that's one of the best guy songs I think I've ever heard.
BT: Thank you. Most of the songs that you go back on and say, "Oh, that's a really good song!" are ones that just wrote themselves. It was just an oddity at that point in time.
MR: "It's Only Love" and "She's Gone," more sonic candy.
BT: I got myself in trouble over "She's Gone" because that was the only song I've ever done that I couldn't actually play and sing live. It was promoted as a single in Europe, and they wanted me to play it on the radio, which is the most nerve-racking gig I get. I just couldn't get my pinky to play ball.
MR: You're touring the world now, aren't you?
BT: Yeah, it's an ongoing process that sort of never stops, and now that I've stopped actually releasing physical albums, I kind of go back and spend a couple of months in the studio, then I go out and spend a couple of months on the road and back and forth. It's an extended world tour.
MR: Now you're approaching new media. How are you using new media and social networking to create that direct communication for sales and to build your audience?
BT: For me, it's always been uncomfortable to market myself in the traditional way. To put an album out, service it in the territories you've released it in by hiring a promotion person, a marketing person, a radio indie... And then go around, following the steps, jumping through the hoops, it always seemed like spreading myself too thin, and I really wasn't comfortable being in that position. Also, being an independent artist, I could only get to one territory at a time.
Typically speaking, for me, it's several years between albums every time it happens. Where I am now, I'm just studying what was kind of going on in the visual world by social networks and people marketing themselves on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace ,and everything like that. It wasn't, you know, just to cultivate popularity in that format. You need to service your audience with new content, even if it's just a Tweet on a much more consistent basis than what I was doing.
So, I was looking for a way to get out of the responsibility of having a big expensive push once every couple of years. Also, I was looking for a way to keep my fans engaged on a more regular basis. So, I've been recording for a long time getting ready to put out Kung Folk 2. In the process, I recorded an album of covers, and two albums of originals. They were all so different--both from a production and content perspective--that I decided none of it was thematically cohesive enough to go on one album. Instead, what I'd do is release songs more regularly, and the model I finally settled upon is to do two songs a week--one cover and one original. They're free for the first week of their release, and we release them and distribute them exclusively through my website www.bentaylormusic.com. I'll record different versions of a song and then over a month I know that they'll all come out. It's fun to decide when and where, or how to put out what's next.
MR: How about CDs?
BT: We haven't actually manufactured any physical product.
MR: You did a Sadé cover.
BT: "By Your Side."
MR: What was the original with that one?
BT: The acoustic version of "America."
MR: Let's talk about that. I listened to "American Dub."
BT: That was the most recent one. You got "American Dub" with a sort of live version of "Spell On You."
MR: Very nice alternate version.
BT: I'm glad you liked it. I feel like with cover songs, if a song is good enough to want to cover, you really want to stay away from the production that the original one employed. So with "Spell On You," that was the sort of version I worked up with the ukulele for the longest time. And then we morphed a taste of "Master Blaster" and "Jammin'" into it as well.
MR: Is "American Dub's" topic mainly about keeping an eye on America so it doesn't backslide into the devastating policies of the eight years pre-Obama?
BT: Well, yeah, and it was a song that I wrote just because I was feeling like "what have I been given to be able to make my country a better place?" This is something I ask myself about my actual local community on a daily basis, "How can I help the schools with their music system or how can I do a concert for a local charity that I believe in, in order to help them raise some cash and awareness."
I started thinking about the country on a global level because I started reading the newspaper. Usually, when I do, I'll start thinking, "What do I actually have the power to do?" And for me, it was to write a song about the way I felt about my country. And the song put it pretty clearly: I feel as if America is this incredible, beautiful, Native American woman who's been badly taken advantage of and how, if I can have anything to do with it, I will change things.
MR: That's a big topic. There's so much damage that's been done due to our horrible history with Native Americans. It seems very hard for our country to admit fault let alone deal with its historically dubious decisions.
BT: It really, really is. And it's hard to disassociate yourself from history and to wipe the slate clean when the echoes are so painfully clear. But it's important to do it. You know, you can start with an apology, but then the idea is to move forward. It's hard to move forward and backward at the same time.
MR: Do you have any other socially conscious new material?
BT: Yeah, there are a couple that are political songs as such.
MR: Have you thought about going long with that concept?
BT: No. For the most part, I write what I know, which is not really global politics. What I really know is stuff that happens to me on a personal level and stuff that happens to my family on a personal level--the heartbreak that I endure, the nephews that get born, that kind of thing.
MR: Any particular favorites in the batch?
BT: In the next few weeks I'll put out a song called "Turn On The Lights" that I wrote from the perspective of my sister's son while he was still in her womb because he was late coming out, late to be born. We tried everything, even spicy food to try and make him come out but he just wasn't coming out. It bothered me that they were going to try to induce him chemically, so I wrote this song from his perspective to try and make him see that it's time to come out.
MR: Did he listen?
BT: Well, yeah. She was about three weeks overdue, so something was going to bring him out. We produced a really cool version of it, so I get to see him dancing to it now. It's pretty nice.
MR: Very cool. How old is he?
BT: Two, so I've had this song kicking around for a while. And traditionally, it's been a couple of years between every album.
MR: You know it's funny because you can tell you've been looking at the whole functionality of making music since your Ben Taylor Band days. What will future releases be like?
BT: I'm going to release multiple versions of songs. If you go to "America," there's the first one that's pretty much solidly acoustic, and the second one which was this "American Dub" version. It's so electric. Hopefully, at the end of maybe a year of doing this, we'll have three albums worth of material where the same song doesn't go on an album twice, but you have three albums of the same songs too which are thematically cohesive from a production standpoint. This is a cooler way to do it because I'll just be able write the songs and record them however I feel like they want to be recorded. Then maybe have a live version of them.
I'm a big fan of the idea that if the song is good, it will stand up on its own, just by the virtue of the lyrics and the melody themselves. I'm also a big fan of the idea of trying a whole bunch of different ways. Sometimes you get to the end of trying a song three different ways and then you go to record the song and it's nothing like that one, and you say, "How am I ever going to fit this on an album?"
MR: On The Legend Of Kung Folk, you had a team working with you.
BT: I did, but right now, there's my buddy Ben Thomas who I call "Beatzy" because his name is also Ben, so I turn into "Breezy" and he's "Beatzy." Our sort of accessory in crime is David Saw who's been making music for a while. Yeah, we've just sort of been holed-up in the studio trying to figure out what the day feels like more than anything else.
MR: You guys all had a heavy hand in your mom's latest record, Never Been Gone.
BT: We did. Sometimes maybe we were too heavy-handed on that one. The one that she did just by herself in a studio is my favorite track on the album.
MR: I'm a fan of her album The Bedroom Tapes. I know she was going through personal crisis at the time, yet she bravely put that project together herself. Song-wise, it's a really personal record.
BT: Her stuff is so amazingly, sometimes painfully personal and introspective, it really is. She's the person I take after when it comes to putting all my business in the strings of the guitar, letting everybody hear it.
MR: Probably my favorite Carly Simon album is Another Passenger. In its day, I wish somebody at Warners had the vision to promote "Half A Chance" into a hit. The same goes for your dad with "You Make It Easy." What an incredible track from his Gorilla album.
BT: It is an incredible record. Oddly enough, it's what triggered my mom to write the lyrics to "You Belong To Me."
MR: Sorry, you've gotta forgive me, I'm also a huge fanboy of your parents' recordings.
BT: Don't worry about it. I'm totally proud to talk about them--I'm extremely proud of both of my folks.
MR: I haven't interviewed your dad yet, but your mom was super-proud of you in the piece I did on her for HuffPost. You know, beyond being fashionable or culturally intriguing, James Taylor and Carly Simon were and still are among the greatest singer-songwriters. It's strange to think that each of them has now released over twenty albums. And your dad recently has ramped-up his own album schedule.
BT: He is a very consistent worker. He is the hardest working man in show business. In spite of what people say about James Brown, James Taylor has been on the road every year out of the last forty, almost for at least six months a year.
MR: Along with Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and Carole King, your parents were part of a class that not only graduated with honors, but also taught everybody how else to do it. They influenced culture for a generation, and I think people have been using them as role models ever since.
BT: I couldn't agree more. It was really still a time when an artist could come out with a new album or a new song and if they got on a television show or if they got played on the radio, the odds were that a great high percentage of people in that area were watching together at the same time or listening together at the same time. They do really shine to me--and it's not to say that I feel the same about myself, because I think I've got a lot of learning to do, and sometimes, massive footsteps to follow in. They stick out to me as shining examples of how to be true to your music and how to stay consistently pure somehow without having been diluted by the marketing craze that happened.
MR: Let's get back to the marketing of your record. How are you finding Twittering and using Facebook working for you?
BT: The results are immediate. You get feedback as soon as your fans get there, and as soon as you put something that they can reply. You get feedback immediately from them which is really valuable. But for me, on a personal level, I can't afford to have another excuse to spend hours upon hours every day gazing into a window of artificial light. I've never really actually maintained my Facebook and my Twitter accounts. I've had other people who've done it for me from time to time saying hey Ben's out there. It's only over the past two weeks that we put the new Ben Taylor music site up and started releasing new songs that I've actually been on Facebook or Twitter. Recently, only over the past day or so, have I actually been personalizing it, putting some of my own crazy philosophies and random haikus up there.
MR: Do you find them user-friendly?
BT: Every time I have a thought that's good enough to want to share with people, it's too many characters for their fields. They want fewer characters from me. I have to either split it up into little sections or find a different application to put it out there. But it seems to really be geared to people who are less long-winded than I am. I guess it's good exercise, especially considering I'm a songwriter, to try what I have to say things in as few words as possible.
MR: So, you think Facebook and Twitter will kind of help you in your songwriting craft?
BT: I'm hoping so because some of my favorite songs are definitely by my favorite songwriters. One of the things that I would say about them is they know how to take a complex idea and put it across in a simple way. That's the reason I love Neil Young as much as I do and the reason I love, certainly, my father's songs as much as I do. He'll take a very complex idea and put it across in a verse that doesn't have a lot of words. But that's still too many words for Twitter.
MR: Who are some of your other favorite artists? You mentioned Neil Young and your dad. Who else?
BT: Who else do I love? I love Saul Williams and I love Mos Def. I love John Forté, and that's just mostly speaking about current artists in terms of people who know how to take a complex ideas and put them across. I love David Saw who I get to work with a lot of the time. Classically speaking, I love Bill Withers. I love Cat Stevens, I love Paul McCartney, and I love Donny Hathaway and Nina Simone. The list really goes on forever, I guess. I think there are also a lot of artists who I didn't list because it's more on a song-by-song level that I really appreciate their music. It's not a lot of artists that I appreciate for their entire catalogs, but the ones that I just listed, I really do.
MR: Wow, you brought up Donny Hathaway and Bill Withers, one of the overlooked greats!
BT: I think he's maybe one of the best troubadours of all time, and he gets overlooked because he's in that category. He is so deeply soulful and so deeply funky that he gets lumped in with all these sort of R & B artists, all these funk artists, or something like that. But as a singer/songwriter, he's definitely one of my top ten. Yeah, people get lost like that because of the genre that they get put in.
MR: Dobie Gray is another artist like that. It seems that everyone has to be categorized for the masses.
BT: It's hard for them not to be, even I resist it as hard as I can. It's always the first question I ask somebody once they tell me they're a musician. I ask, "What kind of music do you make?" It helps us to be able to classify things, and it helps to understand them that way. Before we actually hear the music, we want to know what's it like, who else they sound like.
MR: Right, not everybody's on the same level. It's less offensive than simply a need for the brain to process information.
BT: That's why when people ask me who I sound like I usually tell them I sound like Bruce Lee.
MR: What are your hobbies other than music?
BT: I like Kung Fu a lot. But even my Kung Fu practice has become so musical nowadays that I would almost say that I didn't have any other interests other than music. That's what my girlfriend tells me. No, it's hard, I really don't like to do anything else except for playing music and listening to it and recording it. It really can take up all of your time. I can sit there on the internet just freaking-out, listening to things that people whose taste I respect have suggested to me and it would take up my whole day.
MR: You can be the adviser to someone else's career.
BT: I've become a reasonably competent engineer and producer. It really is when I stop or get too sick of listening to myself, I can be refreshed by having somebody else's musical perspective and producing somebody else's project.
MR: So, you're doing did a private concert soon in New York with your mom?
BT: For one of the songs we produced for her last record Never Been Gone, she did a video contest. There's going to be a party at the Tribeca Film Festival for it. And we're going to play a concert there.
MR: How long is your concert going to last...a couple of songs or maybe more?
BT: I don't know. It is hard for me to stop playing until someone tells me to, so I'll play as many songs as they ask. I think it's going to be a good hour-long concert.
MR: Your sister Sally had three really fine records, but then she took a pause.
BT: She was making an attempt to forge her own musical identity and be an independent artist, really, before all of the tools were in place for people to own their own music and do it. And then she did a lot of legwork, put in a lot of really hard hours before it was really possible to do it. I think that she just got frustrated by it. I think that if she had stuck to it a little bit longer, it would have paid off a lot more than she feels like she was actually rewarded for all the work that she did.
MR: So she's not working on a music career?
BT: No, recently she's not really been nurturing her musical self. She's mostly been taking care of this baby and this baby is worth taking care of, he's a very good boy. But at the same time, I hope that when he goes off to kindergarten or preschool or whenever they get their first major baby hiatus, I hope she starts focusing on her music. I think that she has a lot to offer. The next cover song is called "Tomorrow" from the movie Bugsy Malone that we always loved when we were kids. I had her come by the studio a few months ago and record a vocal, just to be playing guitar on it, and then I made a pretty cool track around it. I made a big production of it with huge amounts of harmonies. It's a harmony circus, but I think it's my favorite one of the covers. She sounds so beautiful. I think that being a mother has done something different to her voice, she sounds like I never heard her sound and better.
MR: On The Legend Of Kung Folk, you two sound wonderful together. Besides genetics, you guys have chops and make terrific choices.
BT: Wait until you get a load of how she sounds on this track. I think maybe we'll put it on the week after next. Again, I'm trying to stagger the acoustic stuff, or rather, I should say the more traditional and the more modern productions between the originals and the covers on a week by week basis. I haven't figured out exactly what we're going to do next week. We got a couple of new songs that are originals. The week after next, we'll do "Tomorrow." I can't wait for people to hear it because she sounds better than ever.
MR: Of course, you know about the Carole King and James Taylor Live At The Troubadour release.
BT: I was hoping to be involved a little bit more on this Carole King, James Taylor tour than I finally end up being. I was hoping to open up some shows for them. But in the process of sort of us trying to figure out if that was going to work or if that was going to be too much of a circus, my dad and I decided to do a father/son tour for at least a handful of dates after he gets done with it. That's cooler for me, I look forward to it.
MR: A few years back, your mom released an album of covers titled Into White that featured a cover of your dad's "You Can Close Your Eyes." It featured the sweetest three-part harmonies from your mom, sister and you. Still, I couldn't help but feel there was an obvious missing voice.
BT: It was really nice to do that song and even though his voice wasn't on the song, I tried to sound as much like him as I could. Actually, his voice was on it because he wrote it. We all do love each other on some level. I really liked that three-part harmony and piano rendition of it. "...Close Your Eyes" is one of my top three songs my dad's ever written, and my mom and sister feel the same way about it. When I came to my mom about doing an album of covers, there was no way that song was not going to go on.
MR: In the '70s, your mom and dad recorded an unreleased video duet of it at Warners that's proliferated on the Internet. It was just them harmonizing to acoustic guitar, and it was sublime.
BT: My mom and my dad shared their opinion with me that you always have to separate the art from the artist because otherwise, you wind up disappointed. I think their respect for each other's music has always been obvious and shines through in any event.
MR: Can you sum up in what ways Ben Taylor will be marketed in the future?
BT: You have to go out on the road, promote the stuff, promote the site by handing out flyers, give people codes to download the show they were at the following morning by going to the site. In this day and age, the valuable thing isn't necessarily people's dollars as much as it is their e-mail address's and their loyalty. The idea is to just strengthen the site and put as much content up there as we can, and then go out and promote it just the same way you'd go out and promote an album.
A record, in a traditional way, is really just a record of an artist's music over a period of time. We're going to stay true to that, we're going to promote, we'll do an onslaught of three months where we just keep on refreshing the site on a week-by-week basis, two songs at a time. And then we'll go out and promote that into an album. We'll actually manufacture CDs of the content. The question of 'if it should be sold at the show', I haven't gotten to think about that yet. Maybe it's not important to do that as much as it is to get the people who are there interested in going to download the show that they were just at.
MR: That makes sense because it will keep your site lively and it won't just feel like a big fat advertisement or a shopping cart.
BT: It's what I hope to do. Right now, we're just doing two songs a week and putting them up on the music page. But eventually, especially if I have so many versions of the songs, I hope to have a page for every song which will include several different versions of the song that you can download. Also maybe have a video of me playing it, and a description of why I wrote it, how I wrote it, who I wrote it for. Along with contributions from people, from the patrons that I have that listen to the songs that mean something to them, I'll have a little forum where they can discuss it, and part of the page where they can post pictures. They can draw pictures about it or whatever they want. I want to actually fill the site based around the songs.
MR: A strong song is pretty undeniable.
BT: And what is it that people really like about the music they're listening to? Is it that everybody else likes it? Or is it the video? What is it? At the end of the day, I think it's really going to have to come back to the song. Even me--and I love when people put out great albums with the whole thing is listenable from start to finish--but generally speaking, I'll go iTunes and I'll just download the three songs that I want to hear from that album. I won't even download the whole album. I think that in terms of singer-songwriters wondering why we're doing what we're doing, in four or five years, is it going to be marketable? I think it's the idea of us just going back to saying how can we write a really good song and put it out there. It's going to be easy this way.
MR: What's your about advice for new artists coming up in the ranks?
BT: It really is getting back to singles. The single market has been dead for such a long time. I feel like, for the independent digital artist, the single is where it's at. I think the good news is that it's not very expensive to make a recording of a song if you can write a good one. All you have to do is put it up on Facebook or You Tube or one of these sites, and you have the potential for a lot of people to hear it. The question is how to generate revenue from that attention because that's not really well defined. There aren't many good examples of that. Quite the opposite. There are a lot of examples of people who have millions and millions of hits on YouTube, but they can't figure out how to turn that into a success because it's too fickle and it's too day-by-day. More good news is that you don't have to spend a lot of money to get it done anymore. And you can at least get it out there.
MR: What about after it's out there?
BT: The advice that I have is hold on to as much of it as you can because nobody's got the answer. You have to make your own, and nobody's got a model out there that will work for everybody. It's going to be different for everybody. So you may as well just personalize it and make it your own from the music itself to the business. And then the other advice I find myself giving people all the time is that the technology has become so incredible that anybody can sit in their room and make a track that you might have heard on Britney Spears' or Lady Gaga's latest album or on the radio or on a commercial station.
The technology is available for everybody for a relatively cheap cost. The question again is, can you actually write a good song? Within five years, any kid that's sitting in study hall is going to be able to create a song which will be competitive from a production standpoint. It's already getting too easy. So, you got to back to getting on stage and playing the guitar or playing the piano, actually make it through a performance. But that will be an unusual thing.
MR: It's true. There's a mentality out there that playing an instrument is more about samples, effects, all that, and not really about the instrument itself.
BT: From the standpoint of somebody who spent ten years just trying to figure out how to make the right shapes work to accompany himself, that does make you feel curmudgeonly and resentful. And I don't mean to date myself, but the way forward is really to study the fundamentals. The unusual thing is to be able to do it organically because everyone in "show-and-tell" is actually going to be pouring out some ridiculous kick ass DJ-ing.
MR: Including your nephew very soon.
BT: Without a doubt. I've already got him working on the decks. It's the first thing that we've been able to get him to do? But he can't play the guitar yet. It's going to take him awhile.
MR: Is Uncle Ben going to teach him?
BT: We'll see. Right now I'm focusing on teaching him how to play the drums because I don't know how to play them well enough and I figure I'll confuse him unless there's an opportunity to learn what I don't know rather than what I do. One of the things I like in Kung Fu school is that they always say in order to learn something, you need to see it once, practice it once, and then teach it once. That is the way that you learn things. Until you've completed all three steps, you won't have learned it. I feel like that's the greatest thing about having kids around. You get an opportunity to further what you know by teaching it to them.
MR: Beautiful. Speaking of relatives, I'll say it. I love Livingston, the man and the music. What is he up to lately?
BT: Livingston remains one of the best performers I've ever seen. He really has the performance thing down to a science. He teaches a performance class at Berkeley in Boston. My sister and I sat in on it the other day to see what it was like. His class is a performance. He's teaching other people to do what he does so well, and thus, become even better at it himself.
MR: What did he show you as a kid?
BT: He showed me how to be irreverent and had to. He was the first person who really made me question my own parents' authority, so he was more helpful on a social and a real life example than he was as a musician. I don't think we ever talked very much about music until last week when my sister and I sat in on his performance class. But man, was he insightful about it. He said make eye contact with the people in the back because those are the people who you fix and lock because as soon as you lose them, you'll lose the rest of the crowd. I said, wow, that's something I never even thought about. I get up there on stage and close my eyes and get lost in my songs. I've got a lot of room on the performance level. I think this is true of him too. The most I have to learn about performing, I will learn by starting to be a good audience. I don't have enough practice with that, I've got to be a better audience.
MR: Nice. Advice from both Ben Taylor AND Livingston Taylor for this interview!
BT: That's right. (laughs) My whole family are people who will sit you down and tell you one thing or another. The cool thing is that everybody has their own way of getting their own music across, and for me, the reason I started doing this thing independently is both of my parents proving it time and time again in the conventional way. In an expensive studio, with a great producer, you know putting their stuff out on the radio. So for me it's way too intimidating to try and do that. For me, the way for me to do it is on a laptop over the internet. I can't see being a conventional artist because it feels....there's too much pressure.
MR: And it affects the art when you're always thinking marketing and big budgets, doesn't it?
BT: The most important thing about recording is just make sure that the tape is rolling when the magical take happens, and we seldom have the magical take happen when you're in an expensive studio. You just assemble the musicians and you get everybody together there, and it's all riding on the three-day session in the studio. But it's usually when you're at home at 3:30 in the morning, and you're just sort of playing through a song; if you had the foresight to actually hit record before you played, you might have ended up with some magic.
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I also don't want to bore my readers with the same comparative assessment of competitive Hoovers as they could so easily find in the latest volume of consumer reports. However, if I stay abstract, I find I don't have far to reach to find "Saracha". It is a chili sauce made in California by the Huy Fong Foods company. Aside from having steadily gained popularity for the past decade until it has almost become as popular as Tabasco (which for the record is recognized by the auto-spell check on my laptop where Saracha is still not), it is remarkable because it has the single, least functional applicator tip/cap of any condiment on the market.
The sauce has a wonderful, slightly chunky texture, which can only ever flow through its stingy, little, green, "easy-pour" nozzle for a fraction of a moment before it clogs uselessly. There seems to be two ways of dealing with this clogging, the most reasonable of which is simply not practical in an actual saucing situation. So I, like most impatient saucers, wind up squeezing as hard as I possibly can until the blockage gives, and the pressurized sauce comes splattering out all over my new designer hoodie, to say nothing of whatever expensive nonsense my dining companions happen to be wearing. The only reason I can come up with for such a successful company not to have changed its applicator tip is that most high fashion is still made in China (see Huy Fong) by (often) under-aged people working in sweatshops under perfectly unconscionable circumstances...
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Our analysis of the financial health of listed cement firms (>70% of total cement capacity) suggests that the stress in the system at small-and medium-sized firms is increasing: (i) 40% of companies made PBT (profit before tax) losses in the last two quarters (20% of system capacityJaiprakash Associates, Dalmia Bharat, Century Textiles, Kesoram Industries, Prism Cement, Heidelberg Cement, Sagar Cements, NCL Industries, Mangalam Cement, and KCP); (ii) 15% of firms (Kesoram Industries, Prism Cement, Sagar Cements, Mangalam Cements) are making cash losses; and (iii) 60% of small- and medium-sized firms have net debt/Ebitda>4x.
Our conclusions for large caps are: (i) they will have to sustain production discipline for longer and this makes their earnings growth more dependent on price increases than volume growth; and (ii) half the capacity addition over the next two years is by small and medium-sized firms which increases the demand threshold for large caps before they benefit from price increases or volume growth.
East is the next south: Our analysis on a regional basis suggests that capacity addition stress is high in east India, which accounts for 18-23% of current capacity for the large caps (Ultratech, Ambuja and ACC). East India capacity should grow by 25% next year. High additions have been impacted by a delay in commissioning of Ultratech's expansion in the east (earlier scheduled for FY14). With current expansion plans, utilisations in the east are expected to decline from 75% in FY14 to about 67% in FY16 (assuming demand growth of 8% for the next two years). This further puts stress on large-cap volume growth as half of capacity additions by large caps over the next two years is going to be in east India (Ultratech: 4.8 mn t; Shree Cement: 4 mn t; ACC: 3.5 mn t; Ambuja: 0.8 mn t). This has impact on volume upside from expansions and current margins.
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text: Mitchell City Councilman Phil Carlson will be resigning his seat in Ward 3 in April. Carlson, who is an attorney for Mitchell law firm Tinan, Smith, and Bucher, has accepted a position as Attorney for the Consumer Protection Division of the South Dakota Attorney General's Office in Pierre. He will begin his new job on April 24. Carlson's last council meeting will be on April 21. His family will be moving to Pierre.


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Man Utd v Villa club connections gallery: Peter Schmeichel
The Birmingham Post headline said it all: "The secret is out - Peter Schmeichel unveiled at Villa."
The transfer story that eluded even the most diligent of press hounds finally came out into the open on Friday July 13 to much fanfare.
Check out this picture gallery of Peter Schmeichel at Villa.
The Post said: "Villa had truly stunned the sporting world" with their shock swoop of the former Man Utd No.1 and how right they were.
Their football writer, Ged Scott, continued: "By landing the Man Utd legend in one of football's best-kept football secrets of all-time - and on a free transfer too - Villa pulled off English soccer's transfer coup of the summer.
"Obviously it cannot shade the £45m Real Madrid have lavished on making Zinedine Zidane the world's costliest footballer.
"Yet, as can be construed by the lengths they went in stage managing the theatrics, Villa's cloak and dagger operation to unveil Schmeichel before an almost speechless audience of Midland journalists tops it, in terms of shock value at least.
"They smuggled the 6ft 4in, 16-stone Scandinavian through the gates of Villa Park in the back of a battered Mini with blacked-out windows is one thing."
John Gregory was thrilled with the capture, which eclipsed Man Utd's £28m signing of Juan Sebastien Veron on the very same day.
He said: "Peter is a winner. He has a fantastic reputation in the Premier League from his United days and is not going to want to stain it."
The man himself, Schmeichel, was equally delighted to be heading for B6 although he admitted he had one fear.
He added: "Whenever I played at Villa Park for Man Utd I was always given a hard time by the fans at the Holte End. I'm hoping for a better reception now I'm playing for Villa.
"There shouldn't be any problems now I'm one of them. We all want to do well for this club."
The fans certainly took to him, although, in the end, Schmeichel only stayed for one season.
The treble-winning Man Utd stopper was a big influence in that short time, though, before he moved to Man City.
His leadership qualities were such that he took over as captain whenever Paul Merson was out of the team.
He also displayed an amazing spirit of adventure, frequently venturing upfield if Villa were trailing in the closing minutes - and even scored a stoppage time goal at Everton.
That made him Villa's oldest-ever goalscorer - even though we lost the game 3-2.
Villa eventually opted against renewing his contract as they looked to nurture the young goalkeepers in their ranks for battles ahead.
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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. — Art Sherman is not a complicated man. He is 77 and proud of a life that is longer on memories than it is on bankroll. Sixty years ago, he was a kid from Brooklyn learning about horses from a crew of cowboys.
He survived them and became a jockey before finding his true gift on backwater shed rows like this one. He has known plenty of characters, but not many like the ones he is surrounded by now.
There are Perry Martin and Steve Coburn, the breeders and owners of their famous colt.
There is Victor Espinoza, the jock who rides him. What they share is a horse named California Chrome, and they all fell hard for him in their own way.
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His name was pulled out of a cowboy hat — for real — and combines his birthplace with the term used by horse people for the flashes of white on a horse. California Chrome sports bobby socks on all four feet, and his face is creased by a white racing stripe.
He is carrying the hopes of a battered sport on his back along with the curiosity of those who do not really care about horse racing but prefer their narratives dented and dusty and with a whiff of tall tale.
California Chrome won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, and on the first Saturday in June, he will try to become the 12th horse to sweep the Triple Crown.
"My horse is an extra-special horse," Sherman said, matter-of-factly. "If it's meant to be, he'll win this race and he'll be immortal."
The Odd Couple
Is California Chrome extra special by design or destiny? Martin and Coburn, the owners, make a case for both. They are friendly but not overly familiar partners. Martin lives in Yuba City, Calif., and Coburn 166 miles to the east in Topaz Lake, Nev.
They met when they were part of Blinkers On Racing Stable, one of the syndicates that allow horse enthusiasts to own a small piece of a runner while learning the game.
They were among the partners in Love the Chase, a small filly who managed only a single victory in six races. When it was time for Blinkers On to get rid of her, Martin and Coburn decided they wanted to try their hand at the breeding game and they might as well do it together.
Martin bought into the theory that a good horse could come from anywhere. He chose the stallion Lucky Pulpit, who stood for a bargain basement $2,000, which seemed fair for a runner who had won only three of his 22 starts.
Martin understood, however, that the female side of the family can be far more important to passing on the traits of a runner. In Love the Chase, he and Coburn had a bloodline rich in stamina and class. California Chrome descends from the mare Betty Derr, whose line includes another California-bred horse, Swaps, the 1955 Derby winner, as well as Iron Liege, the '57 Derby champ.
Martin was so convinced that he had built a classic horse that before California Chrome ever walked onto a racetrack he sent an email to Sherman, the trainer, with the header "The Road to the Derby," laying out the races the colt would run to get there.
Sherman thought his new clients were earnest but perhaps a little goofy.
"It's everybody's dream, but not every dream comes true," he said. "They must got somebody up there looking out for them. Chrome has hit every one of those races in the plan."
As Coburn, 61, tells the story, it already has the whiff of an American folk tale. Three weeks before Chrome was born, he said, he had a dream that sent him tugging his wife awake so he could deliver a prophecy.
"I believe it's going to be a big chestnut colt with a white blaze," Coburn told her.
When Carolyn Coburn first laid eyes on the foal in his stall, she called to her husband.
"Come here," she said. "There is your dream."
When he looked inside, he was inspired.
"This horse is going to do something big," he told his wife. "I don't know what it is, but we're going to stay in the game to make sure this colt gets to be the best that he can be."
In the weeks before the Derby, he proclaimed Chrome's victory on the first Saturday of May "a done deal."
"It will be 36 years this year since there's been a Triple Crown winner," Coburn said. "He will be the first California-bred to ever win a Triple Crown."
The Jockey
There was a birthday cake waiting for him in the winner's circle May 23, along with a dozen of his colleagues — all of them race riders, many of them half his age. Victor Espinoza was spending his 42nd birthday at Santa Anita Park, riding a few races atop a couple of decent horses.
He was having quite a month. Victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness were behind him, and another crack at a Triple Crown awaited him in 15 days at the Belmont Stakes. He was not yet ready to talk about the mile-and-a-half Test of the Champion, as the Belmont is known.
"I'm still having fun from the last two wins — I'm not thinking about the next race," Espinoza said.
Espinoza had been in this position before, in 2002 when War Emblem went to New York with a chance to sweep the series. He does not remember what he did then to celebrate his 30th birthday. He does remember not having terribly much fun. He was in his prime and on top of the sport, but it had not been easy for him to get there.
He had grown up afraid of horses and had to work at making them comfortable with him. He struggled with his English. Espinoza was being pushed and pulled by the pressure of the Triple Crown attempt and the demands of a tough boss, the trainer Bob Baffert, who had come close to winning a Triple Crown with Silver Charm in 1997 and Real Quiet in 1998.
Espinoza's previous bid for history ended before it started: War Emblem scraped his knees after stumbling at the start, and from there the Belmont got worse: He finished 19 lengths behind a 70-1 shot named Sarava.
"I thought that was my shot," he said, "and that was it."
Espinoza kept his head down and continued to grind out a living at the top of the national jockey standings. Over the next five years he averaged more than 200 victories and more than $12 million in purses by being what his agent, Brian Beach, called a steady Eddy.
But one morning last August at Del Mar, Espinoza was working a horse on the racetrack when he saw a flash of white blow by him. He saw the ivory face and the matching socks. Espinoza asked around and found that the horse's name was California Chrome.
"I fell crazy for that horse," he said. "I told Brian about him and that someday I'd like to ride him."
The Trainer
There is the crow of a rooster and Art Sherman is walking his shed row, running his hands over the flank of a horse, gripping the ankle of another. He smiles as he passes the empty stall, the one that belongs to California Chrome, the colt who has taken him further than he ever thought possible.
"I never thought I'd be in this position," he said. "If a good one came along, I had owners that would sell them before I could develop them."
His father was a barber, and his clientele included horseplayers who took a look at tiny Art and decided that he had the perfect makeup for a jockey. Now, all he needed was to learn about horses.
"I learned the fundamentals," Sherman said. "I learned how committed you had to be to be in this business."
Sherman is proudest of his career as a trainer. His wife, Faye, helped keep the family afloat by working at Bay Meadows Racetrack for 30 years. Art Sherman had a part-time job taking bets, too.
"Making a living was tough," he said.
But over 53 years of marriage, Art and Faye built a family around horses.
They will all be in New York for the Belmont, and that is what Art says he is going to appreciate most of all. As for California Chrome, Art Sherman is philosophical. Sixty years on the racetrack have taught him that fairy tales seldom come true.
"He's done everything I could ever want in the horse," Art Sherman said. "He doesn't have to prove anything to me."


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STANFORD, Calif. - The University of California women's golf team finished in 16th place of the Stanford Invitational hosted by Condoleezza Rice by shooting a 893 (307, 298, 288, +41). Senior Jacqueline Williams led the Golden Bears through on the weekend, shooting a 221 (73, 75, 73, +8).
The Golden Bears continued to go low after a rough Friday outing. Their score of 288 on Sunday was tied for the fourth lowest third round score of the 17 teams. After Williams, who is tied for 32nd individually, the Bears received a low score on the day of 71 from freshman Hannah Suh. Her 71 was the lowest single round Golden Bear score of the weekend. After Suh, who finished with a 224 (78, 75, 71, +9) on the weekend, junior Nicola Roessler and senior Joi Pentin both contributed a score of 72. Roessler finished the weekend with a combined score of 223 (77, 74, 72 +10), which Pentin finished with a 225 (78, 74, 72 +12) Sophomore Morgan Thompson turned in her third straight 80 that was dropped from the day's total. She finished the weekend at 240 (+27). Sophomore JoEe Kok competed as an individual and shot a 76 on the day, and finished the tournament with 233 (83, 74, 76, +20).
The 2012 Stanford Intercollegiate was a 54-hole event played at the par-71, 6,130-yard Stanford Golf Course. It was the final tournament in the fall schedule for the Golden Bears, which saw them win one tournament at the Cougar Invitational in Pullman, Wash. Cal will return to the course on February 16th at the Peg Barnard Invitational in Stanford, Calif.
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Ben Affleck is Batman. You might have heard about it. The guy who once turned down directing the Justice League movie, and who went from Gigli to Best Picture in less than a decade, is now expanding his strange career even further. There's a lot to process about the pick, and plenty of reasons to think it's either a disaster or the best thing ever. Where do Katey and Eric fall? Check out our Great Debate as we process the news
The biggest thing that I'm still trying to wrap my mind around fully is the way in which the movie takes her out of the action completely and saddles her with a plot that is far less interesting than what is going on with Kick-Ass. I understand taking her out of the costume, but why waste her talents on a Mean Girls rip-off?
Yesterday, Jim Carrey surprised everyone by publically distancing himself from the upcoming film Kick-Ass 2. Citing a change of heart after the horrifying Sandy Hook massacre, the comedian used his Twitter account to say hes not ashamed of the project but no longer feels any level of support for it. Not surprisingly, his viewpoint generated plenty of debate here at Cinema Blend.
As a big-budget, summer blockbuster zombie movie, World War Z had pretty much no choice but to go with a PG-13 rating, which makes it by far the most bloodless zombie movie of recent movie. Because it's such a big movie, with more scenes of zombie hordes overrunning a city than close-up moments of zombie destruction, it gets away with it to a certain point. Can a PG-13 movie really be a zombie movie, or do you need the blood to even understand the story?
Sean praised in particular Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as the mysterious Mr. Gatsby. Kristy on the other hand openly admits to hating the movie, declaring DiCaprio miscast and....
While Kevin Feige says that Iron Man will be a part of The Avengers 2, its clear that a new hero has to step up and assume the charismatic leadership role that RDJ has provided on screen for the past few years. Eric and Sean got together and threw out some ideas for Iron Mans successor.
Were just a few days away from the Oscars, and the arguments between Argo and Lincoln and Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain are only getting louder. At some point or another, the Cinema Blend writers have either argued for or against every single nominee, but in our personal meetings, theres actually one debate that seems to crop up more than any other. Will Seth MacFarlane be great or godawful on Sunday?
In his review, Sean called it "silly, incoherent and cartoonish to a fault." For her part, Kristy's disappointment was so crushing that she had a meltdown only GIFs could properly depict. Yet when it comes to whether we should hope for a Die Hard 6, they found themselves ready to spar in a Great Debate.
A cursory scan of Twitter revealed more of a schism in the sci-fi fanbase than we would have expected. Abrams, after all, is the guy who helped launch Lost, reboot Star Trek and idolize Steven Spielberg in the largely supported Super 8. Hes the perfect guy for this new gig right?
Yesterday word hit that Warner Bros is in talks with Steven Spielberg's Amblin about relaunching Gremlins, which has spurred both cheers and outrage from fans of Gizmo and the gang. Here at Cinema Blend we're divided on the issue. Sean's already exhausted from the recent rash of '80s remakes, and Kristy is optimistic about its possibilities.
It was the news we had been waiting for, but not the news we were expecting to get. After months of speculation about who might direct the Star Wars Episode VII that Disney and Lucasfilm have been promising for months, word came down that Man of Steel and 300's Zack Snyder was directing a Star Wars movie
Steven Spielbergs Jurassic Park is an undeniable classic. Not only was the film a true phenomenon when it was first released making nearly a billion dollars worldwide as a critical hit it has aged marvelously with effects that look as good as ever. The same things, sadly, cant be said about the franchise as a whole.
From the moment Les Miserables first screened for critics, nearly everyone seemed content to declare the Best Supporting Actress race over, with Anne Hathaway's performance as Fantine so powerful she could easily walk away with every award there was. Then neither the NYFCC or the NBR chose her for their awards, going with Lincoln's Sally Field and Compliance's Ann Dowd, respectively
It's just a rumor for now, but a completely fascinating one, and one that opens up all kinds of strange possibilities for the story a Justice League movie would tell. The biggest hurdle, of course, is that Gordon-Levitt isn't Bruce Wayne, and would be a tie-in to Nolan's universe in which, of course, Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne. Would a Justice League really do away with Bruce Wayne entirely and stick with a character Nolan invented for his third Batman film?
Its not a controversial thing to say that Skyfall is one of the best James Bond films ever made. In reality, its almost becoming fact. The film makes brilliant use of absolutely everything we love about 007 while operating within a story that is both action-packed and cerebral. But perhaps whats most exciting about the movie is just how excited its making everyone for the future of the franchise.
It's a good year for people who like to see unexpected names take over awards show, now that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has been tapped to host the Oscars, while at the Golden Globes old pals and funny ladies Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will be holding court. It gives a lot of reason to be excited about both shows in a way we wouldn't be otherwise
Much as we love Pitch Perfect, the big release of this weekend is undeniably Looper, the time travel thriller in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a hit man in the future, who's suddenly assigned to assassinate himself, only 30 years older and played by Bruce Willis
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Are Eastwoods best days still ahead of him? Or should he have stopped working a while ago? Mack and Sean had differing opinions about the state of Eastwoods career, so they took it to the Great Debate forums, where they hammered out the specifics of Clints past, present and future.
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So it's eight days until Dolphins camp starts and the issue is receiving corps changes that can be summed up like this:
Out with the known and cranky.
In with the new and friendly.
That's pretty much concludes what the Dolphins did at receiver to benefit coach Joe Philbin, quarterback Ryan Tannehill and general team chemistry. Mike Wallace's 10 touchdowns will be missed. I would have kept him. But his issues crystallized with a mid-game benching for the second half of the season finale, which most teammates understood, followed by a bizarre post-game scene where Brandon Gibson answered media questions for Wallace.
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Ben and Adrian's sausage wedding is finally here! Next week, our favorite couple are walking down the aisle ... or are they? Ben and Adrian turn to their exes for advice on whether or not they should go through with the marriage.
Meanwhile, Ricky is desperate to get laid by his baby mama, so he makes one last ditch effort to get Amy in the mood for love — by wooing her with flowers and romance! Word to the wise, Ricky: Flowers are pretty, but diamonds are a girl's best friend.
While Ricky and Amy are cozying up, George makes a dinner date with Camille, Leo's sexy secretary. Too bad she's a no-show! Will he chat up Kathleen instead?
Amy and Ricky may finally get around to doing the dirty! These two have been totally "will we or wont we" about their naughty sleepover, but at the end of the finale, Amy shows up at Ricky's bachelor pad with an overnight bag! Someone's about to get lucky.
We're happy for Ramy, but we have some terrible news about Secret Life's other power couple.
Here's the deal: Adrian goes into labor and Ben takes her to the hospital to deliver her baber asap. They experience an excruciating loss when their little girl dies in childbirth!
Brenda Hampton says, "The possibility is so far outside the realm of what Adrian and Ben are thinking that they won't see it coming. She's taken good care of herself, she's done all the right things, but … these things happen. I think even though viewers are going to know what is going to happen, they too will be overwhelmed with emotion."
Kenny Baumann says, "There are really interesting, subtle character moments with Ben and Adrian in regards to getting married: What they think about their past, are they still looking outside their relationship and thinking about the future, are they drawn to other people and are they drawn to ex-loves?"
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Meanwhile, Adrian is emotionally and physically shut in after the tragic loss of her child. She won't leave her house and she's too traumatized to talk about her feelings with her friends or fam. Poor girl! Ben's stepmom Betty tries her hand at getting Adrian to open up — do you think she'll succeed?
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It doesn't really matter, because Grace is way too busy with her new boy-toy to think about whether or not she should get back together with Jack! Meet Daniel, a sexy college dude who might have a cute friend for Adrian! When Adrian swings by Daniel's apartment, she meets his buddy Omar and they have an instant luv connection. Omar tells Adrian that a mutual friend of theirs has left town.... Hmmm, who could that be?


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With the impending release of Office 2013 do you/we think that using Outlook with z-push will be feasible?
Z-Push 2.x enables EAS 14 - check!
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My HD2 supports HTML mail.
Admittedly it's running Android ICS!
I've just tested it myself and I can include (e.g.) email@example.com as a participant in the meeting (sent from email@example.com) and it will 'book' as expected...
If you just include the resource as an 'invitee' what happens?
Answered my own question by trying it out: No, it won't!
That's because the DL isn't in AD. I got around this by using both (internal & external) for GAL and then hiding the user mailboxes from GAL.
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That may sound like a dumb/strange question, but I'm struggling to to find an answer in the forums. I'm looking to streamline my setup by getting GAL and authentication from Active...
Sorry to have to play the bad-guy, but just check you are permitted to take your mailbox with you - I'm assuming 'organisation' is an Organisation, not a service provider.
Generally speaking most...
In 6.0.16 it's on the admin console: Global Settings, AS/AV, set 'Kill percentage' to 100
I assume there's a similar setting for 7.x
How are you 'connecting' Exchange to the remote calendar?
ZCS will sync remote calendars published in ICalendar format. Just check the box and enter the URL when creating a new calendar.
Did you run 'zmfixperms -extended'?
I seem to remember that was necessary when I replicated a ZCS server from a backup.
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What browser (& version)?
What PDF authoring tool is it? (Acrobat, PrimoPDF, GhostGum etc.)
Is this ONLY seen PDF-ing from the print-layout in ZCS?
I'm afraid you'll have to be a bit more specific about your requirements. What are you looking to achieve?
I think I've been cited:
Woot! Validation at last...
Have a look at http://www.zimbra.com/forums/users/56018-one-entry-multiple-calendars.html#post240978 where I describe this.
Hope it...
I don't know if this will match your requirements exactly, but this is the story of 'Staff Whereabouts':
Once upon a time someone (HR) decided that they would like to have a single calendar where...
It does! ActiveSync maintains a continuous connection to the server (Zimbra, Exchange, Z-Push, whatever) so that any new mail can be 'pushed' to the phone.
Remember that mobile devices don't have...
Thanks for the comment.
No, I don't rely on domain and indeed there are no issues without it. It was just an observation really.
The way I tell users to setup their phones is "Follow the...
Just came across this one, can't see anyone else mentioning it so I thought I'd just point it out.
I've just tested my first Android client on z-push and the username field is formatted...
Thanks for that, I'll make sure that zimlet 'doesn't get upgraded' when I go up to 7.1.x !!!
What mail server is it on Windows?
That's exactly the issue I came up against.
Initially I had a shared calendar which all users could subscribe to. However, this got very confusing very quickly as people didn't know whether to...
I think that may be asking too much from a simple 'to-do list' feature.
What you describe is getting towards a work breakdown structure (WBS) - much beloved of project managers. Have a look at...
I think the confusion is where the limit is between 'modification' and 'derivative work'. The way I read that is that:
A) If you customise your FOSS implementation of Zimbra you must retain the...
I didn't use the wizard in the end, I went down the 'copy to new installation/upgrade' route rather than a 'migration'.
Sorry - chickened out!
All migrated now!
Setup the new hardware on 8.04-32, like the old box and migrated with the conventional rsync & 'upgrade'


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CLARKS SUMMIT - Hoping to enhance the district's ability to provide behavioral health services to students, the Abington Heights School Board unanimously approved an agreement Wednesday that allows local counselors to advise officials how to deal with at-risk students.
Under the agreement with the Scranton Counseling Center, counselors from the center will meet twice a month with a team of district administrators, nurses and teachers to discuss challenges some students are experiencing and how they can be addressed, district Superintendent Michael Mahon, Ph.D., said.
The services will complement the district's student assistance program, which is designed to identify students whose barriers to learning are affecting their education experience, Dr. Mahon said.
For example, if a teacher notices a student's grades slipping or their physical appearance changing, they might inform the assistance team. Before moving forward with any interviews, officials need parental consent.
Counselors will also offer small-group counseling for mental health services, develop suicide-prevention training and, if needed, conduct mental health evaluations with the at-risk students, Dr. Mahon said. The agreement runs through 2014.
The Scranton Counseling Center provides outpatient behavioral health services for at least two school districts in Lackawanna County - Dunmore and North Pocono.
Also at Wednesday's meeting, board President Cathy Ann Hardaway said members of the school board have held several negotiation sessions with the district's Education Association in recent weeks.
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Syrians hold talks in Moscow
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December 27, 2012
A Syrian government delegation has held talks with Russian officials in Moscow on proposals to end the Syrian conflict.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on December 27 that a Syrian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Makdad met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Their meeting comes ahead of talks expected on December 29 in Moscow involving Lakhdar Brahimi, the international envoy on the Syrian crisis. '
Brahimi earlier this week met in Damascus with President Bashar al-Assad and other officials.
Russia, a longtime ally and weapons supplier to the Syrian regime, says it is not protecting Assad, but wants Syrians themselves to negotiate a resolution to the conflict.
Moscow has criticized Western and Arab states who have backed antigovernment rebels.
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Dewey Beach — Kaya Wellness and Yoga founder Heather Shafer, left, presents a $650 check to Dewey Beach Mayor Diane Hanson at a Jan. 11 town council meeting.
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This hat of super-soft Lion® Cashmere Blend with a delicate stripe of red and white hearts matches the Queen of Hearts Receiving Blanket pattern. Note that this pattern can be made from the amount of yarn that is left from making the blanket. Perfect for Valentine's Day or just because!
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The Board of the Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation met January 11-12, 2013. The purpose of the meeting was to chart a course for ACAT in the near future. The Board spent the better part of a day pinpointing the goals that ACAT wanted for its credential holders and prospective credential holders. We decided that the main goal for ACAT was to make the credential recognizable to the public, to the employers, and to prospective credential holders who may be seeking recognition in a second career. We think that a good place to devote our resources is to social media, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., to the community colleges, to the Department of Labor's Employment Task Forces, and to other agencies that offer employment options for those seeking a new or alternative career.
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Creation finds distributor
The new film about Darwin, Creation, will be distributed in the United States after all, according to a story in the Hollywood Reporter (September 24, 2009).
Darwin's Darkest Hour
Darwin's Darkest Hour — a new drama about Darwin's decision to publish his work on evolution — will air on October 6, 2009, on public broadcasting stations around the country.
Views on evolution among the public and scientists
"Nearly all scientists (97%) say humans and other living things have evolved over time," while only 61% of the public agrees, according to a new report (PDF, p. 37) from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
NCSE encourages federal scientific integrity
NCSE recently offered its advice on ways the federal government can promote and protect scientific integrity.
Creationism/evolution among Eastern Orthodox laity
A recent survey among Eastern Orthodox laity in the United States provides interesting data on their attitudes toward creationism and evolution. According to the report (PDF), published as Alexei D. Krindatch, The Orthodox Church Today (Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute, 2008), the survey was conducted from September 2007 to May 2008. Information was gathered by a mail survey of a nationally representative sample of lay members of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America (GOA) and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the two largest Orthodox denominations in the United States. There were nearly 1000 respondents from 103 parishes.
Rabbis in support of teaching evolution
The Clergy Letter Project's "Open Letter Concerning Religion and Science From American Rabbis" was the topic of a story in the Chicago Tribune (September 19, 2008), beginning, "For Rabbi Gary Gerson of the Oak Park Temple B'nai Abraham Zion, evolution does not oppose religious belief but strengthens it
Alliance for Science evolution essay contest
The Alliance for Science -- a non-profit organization which seeks "to heighten public understanding and support for science and to preserve the distinctions between science and religion in the public sphere" -- is holding its third annual essay contest. The theme is "In Darwin's Footsteps," and students are encouraged "to identify and write about a single scientist, a group of scientists, or a scientific organization that best exemplifies the character and quality of work that sustained Darwin throughout his career."
Creationist initiatives denounced in ASBMB Today
Two articles in the August 2008 issue of ASBMB Today react to recent creationist initiatives. ASBMB's president, Gregory A. Petsko of Brandeis University, pulls no punches in his column, beginning, "They're at it again. Armed with another new idea from the Discovery Institute, that bastion of ignorance, right-wing political ideology, and pseudo-scientific claptrap, the creationist movement has mounted yet another assault on science.
Ayala interviewed in HHMI Bulletin
NCSE Supporter Francisco Ayala was interviewed about evolution and creationism for the August 2008 issue of HHMI Bulletin (pages 38-39), published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Responding to a question about whether the controversy ended with the decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover,
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2009
Explore the Grand Canyon with Scott and Gish! Seats are now available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon -- as featured in The New York Times (October 6, 2005). From July 3 to 10, 2009, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run conducted by NCSE's Genie Scott and Alan ("Gish") Gishlick.
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I am horrible about blogging but I saw this set of questions and love it. I thought I would take a bit and answer them here so as I progress I can look back at the answers.
1 - stats? - already in spark tracker
2 - How tall are you and do you like your height? 5'6" yes I like it except when I need something out of the top cupboard.
3 - A picture of thinspiration - What features do you like about this person? healthy look of the person
4 - What is your greatest fear about weight loss? Putting it back on.
5 - Why do you really want to lose weight? I want to live long enough to meet my future grandchildren and be healthy enough to play with them and travel with my husband.
6 - Do you binge? yes I am a stress binger - I am trying hard to change that.
7 - Does your family know you are trying to lose weight? My husband does - I tell my small daughters I am working on being healthier.
8 - Workout routine? I don't have one yet except try to be more active each day.
9 - Did people ever make comments about your weight in a negative weight? Of course.
10 - What is the hardest thing you gave up? Diet pepsi - I am still struggling without I do ok for awhile then go back to it.
11 - Your favorite thinspo blog? I read lots on sparkpeople and look at skinny taste everyday.
12 - What do you normally eat? I don't like to get into a routine of eating the same thing I get bored with that then will end up eating something I shouldn't.
13 - Are you losing in a healthy way? Yes this time I am.
14 - What is your ultimate weight goal and when do you expect to reach it? 150 I reach it when I do - it is too far away still so I am looking at the smaller goals first.
15 - Are you a vegan or a vegetarian? no but I find myself eating more meatless meals.
16 - When did you first decide to lose weight? I have been losing weight my whole life but never keep it off - I got serious about it in September 2012
17 - Do you have an eating disorder? If stress eating is then yes : )
18 - What food is your weakness? sweets
19 - When is the last time you eat fast food? probably 3 weeks ago
20 - Favorite diet? I gave up on diets and am following my spark
21 - What are your clothing sizes? I started at 24 and am at 18 now.
22 - what is the lowest weight you remember? as an adult 190
23 - did the media play a role in you wanting to lose weight? no
24 - How do you feel? Great I feel better and still motivated
25 - Have you ever purged? NO
26 - What excites you about reaching your goal weight? Better health and being able to keep up with my family
27 - How do you deal with being around food? I make sure I have healthy options
28 - Do you want a gap between your legs? Of course no one I know likes having their thighs rub together
29 - Definition of beauty? Beauty is an internal thing - it does not come from a persons looks
30 - 10 facts about you - I am changing the way my family eats. I can do more physically. I am a better mom and wife because of my change. I love being outside. I love experimenting when cooking. I am ever changing. I love music. I love the beach. I am going to do this. I am never going back to the way I used to be.
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Very motivating!
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Nice work...Now that some of this in writing, you'll keep it as lifestyle changes instead of DIET...Just remember, your start size and where you are now. Great job!!!
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A former NFL great visited the Queen City on Wednesday night.
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