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The Battle of the Somme (1916) in 833 Words.
The Somme offensive was the main Allied attack along the Western Front in 1916. Launched on July 1st along a 19 mile front line north of the River Somme between Amiens and Péronne, it eventually ended on 18th November due to bad weather.
Originally intended to be an offensive dominated by French forces, with the British in support, it's primary objective would be to smash the German army and deplete their manpower reserves. This was never going to be a nimble, clever campaign. Oh No. Just brute strength and attrition please waiter.
As it was their show, the decision to launch the offensive in the Somme region was down to the French high command, and it was down to the location of available manpower and resource rather than any grand strategy or plan. Haig preferred an attack in the north of Belgium to check the growing U-boat problem emanating from the Belgian ports but the politics of the situation forced him to comply. So everything was agreed. Hands were shook, backs were patted and cigars lit. The 'big push' was pencilled in for August 1916.
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Despite a monster 8 day bombardment, a mixture of poor quality ammunition and world class underground German bunkers resulted in failure. Wire was not cut, morale had not been broken, defences were still intact and when the infantry attacked the German positions at 7.30am the German machine gunners and artillery were ready and waiting.
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, issued the following statement upon the finding by New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa of no wrongdoing by the NYPD in its counterterrorism efforts:
King said: "I applaud the findings by Attorney General Chiesa that the New York Police Department did not violate any New Jersey laws in its absolutely essential and laudable counterterrorism efforts. The Attorney General is a dedicated public servant who deserves great credit for his service to the people of New Jersey.
"This finding of NYPD's full compliance with the laws is simply the latest in the string of such findings, be they formal or informal. President Obama's homeland security advisor John Brennan, when he recently visited the NYPD officers, announced his 'full confidence that the NYPD is doing things consistent with the law.' FBI Director Robert Mueller has said the NYPD is in full compliance with the law. A CIA Inspector General investigation found no violations of the law by NYPD.
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On Jazz Day, Jason Moran Makes The Case For Relevance
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. On this first international Jazz Day, some renowned musicians will celebrate what UNESCO describes as the universal music of freedom and creativity. Concerts kicked off over the weekend in Paris and New Orleans, and there's a performance tonight at U.N. headquarters in New York. But amid the gala, a question: Is anyone listening?
American audiences for jazz continue to shrink and grow older. Jason Moran intends to meet that challenge. The pianist and composer just took over as artistic adviser for jazz at the Kennedy Center from the late Billy Taylor.
We want to talk with jazz musicians today: How do you keep your music relevant? Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. Go to npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Jason Moran is a 2010 recipient of a MacArthur Genius Fellowship, and he's been called the most influential jazz musician under 40. He joins us from our bureau in New York. Nice to have you on the program today.
JASON MORAN: Good to be here, Neal.
CONAN: And I've read that you perform actually more outside the United States than you do inside.
MORAN: Isn't this a shame? But no, this is partially true. This is true. It's just a part of a trend of a developing jazz musician that can consistently travel to Europe and play small towns all throughout Europe.
CONAN: And those same opportunities not available here?
MORAN: Well, you know, I would love to say that I was - I took a plane to Mobile, Alabama, and then drove two hours to a remote town, and then there was this enormous jazz festival there. This is what traditionally happens in Germany, in Spain, in Switzerland. So there's - there aren't as many. You know, I don't know, this disappearing act that's happened.
But I think there's a way, if we re-seed America to a degree, and that's, you know, that - but we have to start putting the seeds back in the soil again.
CONAN: You spoke about those great jazz festivals in Europe. The New Orleans Jazz Festival kicked off over the weekend. The headliners are Cee Lo Green and Bruce Springsteen.
MORAN: They swing, right?
CONAN: Well, yeah.
MORAN: Well, you know, Cee Lo, I will say Cee Lo has, you know, a lot of knowledge about music. My bassist, Tarus Mateen, used to play with Cee Lo when he was in a hip-hop group - oh my goodness, now I'm spacing on their name. But anyway, Cee Lo kind of comes from a space where music is really integral. I mean, and nobody's going to argue with Bruce Springsteen and his attachment to American music.
CONAN: Yeah, but nobody's going to call it jazz, either.
MORAN: Nobody's going to call it jazz, either, but that's also - you know, sometimes this is just how things develop, and I often wonder, in 50 years, when how will hip-hop be treated, you know. Right now it seems like it's a thing that we'll promote. And I've been on many festivals where Snoop Dogg or any number of hip-hop people have been on the act, as well, even Mary J. Blige on a jazz festival.
So, you know, the music kind of becomes - you know, jazz is the great umbrella that everyone wants to be under for some reason.
CONAN: Well, it provides a kind of legitimacy because, well, you know, what, 70 years ago, this was America's great dance music, not so much anymore.
MORAN: Right, no, not so much. I mean, one of the projects I did last year was I took Fats Waller's music, and I worked with a great bassist and singer, Meshell Ndegeocello, and we made Fats Waller's music a dance party again. So there were very few chairs and, you know, hundreds of people dancing to this music just to kind of put it back in the mind that, you know, that Fats Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music.
So how do we kind of like - for me it's the recontextualization. Or what is the functionality of the music anymore? It's the same when you go to a museum. What's really the function of looking at a Mark Rothko painting, you know, the function of it? Like how - where does the emotion lie? So in music where does it lie?
And are we, as humans, kind of gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as, say, a Charlie Parker record kind of gets us into a dialogue about, you know, our emotions and our, you know, thoughts.
CONAN: Charlie Parker, though, would have regarded himself certainly as an artist but also as an entertainer, and sometimes that distinction, well, some people say the entertainment part has been lost.
MORAN: Well, maybe so. I mean, you know, there's a thing that happens when we start to take the form for granted. So, I mean, even stylistically, if I'm looking at photographs of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington with his 18-piece orchestra, impeccably dressed, sitting behind, you know, equally formatted music stands, all with the title Duke Ellington - you know, like an immaculate set for a stage, as well.
You know, we take that form for granted about how to present the music, and I think to a degree, we have to rethink just how do we present this music in 2012 and for the future. I mean, it can't be on the same model that happened in 1908 or 1958, you know. It has to continue to move because the way the world works is not the same.
CONAN: I don't know if you saw a piece by Terry Teachout in the Wall Street Journal, but he said effectively that jazz has become a fine arts music, as symphonic music is, and needs to market itself in much the same way.
MORAN: It can. I mean, but there are strands. You know, like the one thing about talking about this form of great music, jazz, is that there's so many different strands, and not every one is under that same kind of DNA code. Some of the people's codes are much more progressive than others. And so each of those kind of like cliques of artists also have a kind of dialogue about how they want to talk about their music.
My great teacher Andrew Hill(ph) said the one problem that he felt was that the music was just under-promoted as a whole, not even the kind of promotion but it's just under-promoted. It's not ever what's in - you know, rarely what's in the public context. So therefore, no one really has any reason to think about it because we don't talk about it.
This morning I was in New York, I'm here in New York, and I was listening to WKCR, and they were playing a special on outlaw country music. It was riveting. For hours I was listening to my roots, Texas country music. You know, but, like, now I had a new respect in the context within which to listen to country music. And now I'm ready to buy all the Waylon Jennings I can.
CONAN: We're talking with Jason Moran, a jazz pianist and composer, music advisor for jazz at the Kennedy Center. He was appointed there in 2011. And we'd like to hear from jazz musicians today. How do you keep your music relevant? And we'll take some calls in just a minute, 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com.
But there are already some upcoming performances listed on the Kennedy Center jazz calendar. One group, Medeski Martin & Wood, has been described as genre-defying. Here's a song of theirs called "Pappy Check."
CONAN: So as you can hear, at least some of the scratching there, a little hip-hop.
MORAN: Right. I mean, how long can we act like that doesn't exist, that that form of music hasn't happened? So it's important that, you know - I mean, the great thing about jazz is what it's traditionally been built on is that it kind of really reflects what current, contemporary is.
So if we don't understand that, you know, in the late '70s, DJs up in the Bronx started scratching on records, and that became a new instrument, then we have to kind of reckon with it as musicians. Or right now people working with a lot of laptops. So these are new forms of communication just as much as a piano is.
CONAN: Let's get Adam(ph) on the line, Adam's calling us from Oklahoma City.
ADAM: Hi, it's a pleasure to be online with Jason Moran. I am a sax player here in Oklahoma City, and one of the best ways we found to reach a wider audience is pop music, and like you were just speaking about. One of my favorite bands that does this is a band, a little trio called Dirty Loops, and they re-harmonize some current pop songs, Brittney Spears, Lady Gaga, Adele, and that's definitely one of the best ways to get a wider audience.
CONAN: And are you getting that wider audience, Adam? Who's there when you play?
ADAM: Yeah, I mean, Oklahoma City is not the biggest jazz, you know, epicenter, but it's definitely more appealing to come see a funky pop-jazz, you know, a mixed-genre group than for someone to see the so-and-so jazz trio or whatever. I do see a bigger audience for these mixed-genre groups, and it does introduce the audience to jazz in a great way.
CONAN: And what kind of venues are up and running?
ADAM: Around here we've got just small clubs. Bricktown in Oklahoma City is the downtown area. There's a lot of clubs and restaurants around. And really a lot of private parties and weddings, too, are of course a great, great venue to play jazz in. But, you know, you don't get to invite an audience to those, so...
CONAN: No, you don't. You have to take it where it's possible to play it, Jason Moran, you've got to be there.
ADAM: And, you know, a quick and easy way to promote your music, as well.
MORAN: Yeah, and also, as the artist, you also have to figure out that balance, too. You know, like when or which songs you're playing and why you're playing those songs. You know, like for me, it was like tackling a song by Afrika Bambaataa, "Planet Rock," you know, like I had grown up with that song, and it meant much more to me than just, you know, kind of the possible crossover portion of it.
And, you know, I think we find if musicians continue to think about finding those songs within our canon, not really just relegating them that it has to be like a Duke Ellington song, or it has to be Ornette Coleman song, but we really look at what kind of sounds infect us as musicians, then those become the best portals, just as much as Charlie Parker songs.
CONAN: Adam, thanks very much.
ADAM: Thank you.
CONAN: I want to hear from other jazz musicians today. How do you keep your music relevant? 800-989-8255. Or drop us an email, firstname.lastname@example.com. More with Jason Moran in a moment, a jazz musician of course himself, now artistic advisor for jazz at the Kennedy Center. This is a tune from his 2001 CD, "Black Stars," a song called "Out Front." I'm Neal Conan. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. It's the first international Jazz Day. We're talking with jazz musician Jason Moran, in some circles known as the future of jazz. It's a reputation that may serve him well in his latest role as artistic advisor for jazz at the Kennedy Center, just the second person to hold that position. Jazz great Billy Taylor held that title for 16 years until his death in 2010.
We want to speak with jazz musicians today. How do you help keep your music relevant? 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Wes(ph) is on the line calling us from Oakland.
WES: Hi, yeah, my name is Wes Walkins(ph), and I run a program called the Jazz and Democracy Project. So I wanted to chime in as far as the function and relevance of jazz music. I use it as a way to teach kids about some of the tenets that undergird the writing of the U.S. Constitution. So I'm teaching kids about jazz as a way for them to really think about civic engagement, U.S. history and government.
CONAN: Kids how old?
WES: I teach elementary, middle and high school.
CONAN: And somebody might notice that jazz, you can debate about when it was invented but some years after the writing of the Constitution.
WES: Exactly, yet still if you think about jazz music being invented by the very people who are outside the democratic promise of this nation, there are some profound things to learn about what our democracy could look like by looking at how great jazz musicians interact with one another onstage.
CONAN: Jason Moran, I know that you've thought about the relationship of the origins of jazz in slavery and there in New Orleans, that this is something I know that's dear to your heart.
MORAN: Yeah, I mean, I thought it very - it's great to hear about his - he's doing a great job because if a kid can't think about the simple nature of kind of what their function is in their own environment or their own society, it's going to be difficult to then kind of navigate the rest of the world.
You know, so as a musician, then you think about, like for I know myself and many others, it's a place of therapy, and, you know, and we talk about this way of which people who were not traditionally given the voice of freedom could speak their mind freely through the music, like in code.
And that, you know, and that their neighbors understood that code, you know, and this - and so it's a journal entry. I mean, these musicians, John Coltrane or Miles Davis or whomever you want to talk about, they really encode their music, and then, you know, and there are followers that they infect, and people spread the gospel.
CONAN: Wes, thanks very much for the call, appreciate it.
WES: Thank you.
CONAN: This sort of follows along the same lines. This is a question for you from Libby(ph) by email: To sustain relevance of a genre, we need to nurture young musicians, get them interested in some way in that style. What do you think is important to nurture the next generation of jazz musicians?
MORAN: Well, you know, the biggest thing is just study. I mean, time on the instrument is, you know, you can't really battle time on the instrument. It's just like, you know, any golfer. You know, it's like any basketball player. It's like any economist. Really, it's studying data consistently, and you figure out the technique that is involved with this area of expertise whether you're shooting for expertise or not. So, you know, I'm at that point right now, and I have four-year-old twins, and at some point in the near future, they have to just start playing an instrument, and they have to be engaged with now thinking, like, OK, I have to practice a couple of times a week for maybe an hour and just understanding what that feeling is, you know, whether they become musicians or not.
I was just talking with an artist-friend, Carole Walker(ph), and she was talking about her daughter spending an entire weekend trying to make sure that she figured out how to make this replication of a painting, you know, exact as her mindset. But she spent, you know, basically 48 hours painting, you know, like that - the passion will come from the time on the task, and there's kind of no shortcut.
And I think if we got away from the shortcut society, then we might enable more students to kind of get back some of the artistic leanings that they might already inherit.
CONAN: You are a teacher, too, I think at the New England Conservatory?
MORAN: Correct.
CONAN: And do you find that lack of practice, lack of technique, if you will, is a problem?
MORAN: No, I don't find lack of technique as much as a problem as lack of understanding of themselves as human beings. And, you know...
CONAN: Well, that's kind of a problem across the board, not just with musicians.
MORAN: But I think, you know, like what students really would - are enamored by is how these musicians, you know, how their favorite musicians kind of accomplish these tasks, or how did they get to this idea, you know, what were the steps involved to getting there. And they want to find out that process, and I want to engage them in thinking about their own personal process that goes further than just their time in the practice room.
Like their parents teach them how to teach, you know, teach them how to learn. You know, like their brother teaches them how to learn. And so how you kind of digest music or influence really is a product of your environment, and so you have to take that environment into account.
CONAN: Let's get John(ph) on the line, John's with us from Nashville.
JOHN: Hi, how are you doing today?
CONAN: Good, thanks.
MORAN: All right.
JOHN: Love the show, just wanted to say really briefly that, you know, I didn't grow up with a lot of music. And with jazz, I kind of came to it later in life, in high school and college and kind of fell in love with it. And I really learned that jazz is really more of a - I learned it more as an approach and technique that you can apply to any style of music.
And working down here in Nashville as a session guitar player, I've played with a lot of different artists in a lot of different genres, and I find something about my jazz training that I can apply to every musical situation that I'm in, whether it's working with a country artist or a hip-hop artist, reggae artist, the list sort of goes on and on.
And I think to me that's really the only way I've really been able to kind of stay in touch with it and keep it relevant is sort of just recognizing it as more like a vocabulary and a language that you can communicate with, rather than sort of drawing a line around it and say OK, this is jazz, and this is not jazz, and so I want to play jazz or not.
And it really is something that you can apply just - it's music, and you can apply it in every musical situation. And thanks very much, and I'll take my answer off the air.
CONAN: OK, John, thanks.
MORAN: Yeah, that's amazing - I mean, just like I already reflected on this outlaw country music I was listening to today, and I found myself responding to it the same way that I would respond to, say, a Herbie Hancock record or a Henry Threadgill record. Like I'll respond like oh, yeah, like mm, like with the same kind of passion because at that one level, at that greatest level that Duke Ellington talked about, there's good music and bad music, you're really shooting just for the good music thing right there as a musician.
And sometimes the style can become like a - you know, something that you have to kind of navigate, you know, as a forager, like going through the forest. So we don't want to get hung up on those weeds, either. I mean, I know people who go fishing, and if they fish in lily pads, then there's a certain lure that you have to use to catch that largemouth bass, you know. So you want to make sure that you're kind - you're kind of slick enough to slip through those weeds as a musician. So like a person like him, who's in Nashville, can function in a bunch of different styles.
It's the same for jazz musicians. I mean, jazz musicians have been on some of the greatest Motown records, they have been on some of the greatest R&B records, rock records, pop records, hip-hop records, you know, the list goes on because the musician becomes fluid in the environment.
CONAN: Well, let's listen to another group that's going to make its debut at the Kennedy Center next year. This is a group called Soulive, their song called "Liquid."
CONAN: Not hard to imagine people dancing to that.
MORAN: No, no. And that organist, Neal - Neal Evans, he and I both studied with the same teacher at Manhattan School of Music, Jaki Byard, you know, so I know who Neal is from when he was a kid, you know. And so, you know, I know that some of this stuff continues to seep into his music. And it's - and people go through a process, and then they find their space that they want to inhabit, you know.
So it's not just the 1940s and 1950s that serve as influence for jazz musicians, but then there's, like, there's funk and soul and, you know, and R&B and hip-hop that have come along after that that have really started to change the landscape for the music, and we have to kind of accept that, you know.
CONAN: You now have an institutional position, obviously performer, pianist, composer, your eight, I think good - well-selling albums, but now an institutional position at the Kennedy Center that gives you the ability to be an important force. What are you going to try to do?
MORAN: Well, you know, I think about the music. Right now, we're talking about kind of how jazz functions within the music forms. But for me it's also about that context outside the forms, so how does jazz and comedy interact. I mean, they've had a long history, but it's a long, now-forgotten history, unfortunately. But Richard Pryor and Miles Davis used to work together all the time, you know.
Or how does jazz and art? I mean, I work with so many contemporary visual artists and performance artists. Like next week at the Whitney Museum - or in two weeks, I'll have a residency with my wife, Alicia Moran, called "Bleed," where we spend five days in the museum presenting 27 different events. Maybe a quarter of them are actual jazz events, as they are kind of how the music intersects or how kind of art and music intersects.
CONAN: She's an opera singer.
MORAN: She's an opera singer. You know, or how does jazz and dance, how do those - I mean, there's so much to kind of discuss. And I think sometimes we kind of lose sight that the music has a wider context. So I want to continue those dialogues, I mean. And that's - those are the kinds of things that I want to foster, kind of creating new works too, you know?
Not only just looking at the past of what, you know, great choreographers that worked with great musicians back in the 1930s or '40s, but OK, now it's 2012. So what do Bill T. Jones and Cecil Taylor have to discuss onstage in sound and in movement? For me, that's riveting. I want to be in the audience for that, you know? And this is the kind of dialogue that I think other musicians are kind of also eager to have.
CONAN: Here's some emails, Joe(ph) in Shawnee Mission, Kansas: I play as a hobby around Kansas City. Friday night, we opened a dinner set with "Knives Out" - seemed appropriate to us - a Radiohead song introduced to the jazz world by Brad Mehldau.
MORAN: Right.
CONAN: A local group, the Westport Art Ensemble, has provided new perspectives on songs like "Eight Miles High," "I'm So Lonely I Could Cry." And Pat Matheny, among others, has looked to Jimmy Webb's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."
Talking about going across genres. This is Fisher(ph) in Charlotte, North Carolina: Talk about gender bending - genre bending, excuse me - my band, Church's Band, mixes classic hymn texts with jazz, blues, neo soul, you name it. Jazz will always stir the soul of those willing to listen.
And this from Stacy(ph)) in Jacksonville: My daughter is a middle-schooler at a performing arts school in Jacksonville. She idolizes Mr. Moran. She's a pianist with a jazz band at her school. Being relevant to middle school musicians is a real challenge. Will you come to visit our school to give a master class?
So you get a gig out of this.
MORAN: Of course.
MORAN: Any good fan. No, you know - yeah, that's - see, and that's, you know, one of the questions I wanted to ask some people who have just kind of, they say, come to the music late is like, what is that moment? See, for musicians, it's different. So I was a pianist at age six and hearing Thelonious Monk at age 14. That's the moment, OK? It's like, OK, I want to sound like that. I want to do what he does. I want to look like him. But for a person who doesn't play an instrument, then how do they find that - you know, what is the sound that hits them that says, oh, I want to learn more about this, you know?
CONAN: You could hear Thelonious Monk even in that little clip that we played of your music. You could hear the Monk still in there.
MORAN: Oh, he's always there. He's always there.
CONAN: We're talking with Jason Moran, jazz pianist and composer, musical adviser for jazz at the Kennedy Center. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
Let's go next to Michael - Michael, a caller from Oklahoma City.
MICHAEL: Yes.
CONAN: Hi. Go ahead, please.
MICHAEL: I actually serve on board - the assistant board of directors for the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. And one of the things that we've started doing is trying to get like jazz musicians and big band and folk and all sorts of different genres to come play with the philharmonic, which kind of exposes that audience to a whole new audience, like a whole new genre of music. And for me, I found all sorts of jazz musicians and other musicians that I've never even heard of before that now I love and listen to all the time.
MORAN: Right. I imagine you'll be getting a lot of calls very soon...
MORAN: ...from musicians. Oh, I want to play.
MICHAEL: Yeah, and I think it's really spectacular. You know, even if you're into jazz, it's pretty cool to see some bands that you know play with an entire philharmonic behind them.
MORAN: Right.
CONAN: Have you ever had that opportunity, Jason Moran?
MORAN: I have. Very rarely, but I've had it, and it's a very - I mean, it's not like playing in a club once you look back and there's a hundred people sitting next to you and that are actually going to perform with you, not just look at you. So it's quite a thrill and a rush, that I know musicians, you know, generally function in more intimate environments are kind of, you know, clamoring for these opportunities because they're also writing music for those opportunities, but are constantly searching for the outlet. So it's amazing that you're kind of doing that down there in Oklahoma. And I hope that continues to work.
MICHAEL: Thank you. We love it.
CONAN: Good luck, Michael.
MICHAEL: Thanks.
CONAN: Let's see if we go next to Joshua(ph), Joshua calling from Denver.
JOSHUA: Hi. This is Joshua. I have a band that's called Ghost Star(ph). And what I've done is I've stopped booking myself at jazz venues. I've actually been booking myself (unintelligible) you would hear maybe punk rock music or maybe hip-hop music and just been playing in a jazz format, kind of an insurgent, if you will, of jazz music. (Unintelligible) to really turn people on a bit to the music that - (unintelligible) what jazz music is. And I think calling it jazz is kind of crippling, though, because there's already kind of a built-in connotation of what people think jazz should sound like.
CONAN: Crippling to call it jazz. Interesting.
MORAN: Mm. Yeah. I mean, there - and there's been kind of a nice debate happening around that very subject about the name of jazz and what it represents or what it did represent and how does it change and where - and what do we call our music. That becomes the bigger issue. Where - what do I call my music that I make with my ensemble, The Bandwagon? Or what do you call Ghost Star's music, you know? That you even...
JOSHUA: Yeah.
MORAN: ...titled your band Ghost Star(ph) like already says a lot about what - you know, a different kind of concept of what I'm going to imagine as a listener. And so I'm intrigued, you know?
JOSHUA: Yeah. I think one of the things is, is that - I talked to the Bad Plus(ph) recently. They came into town. See, I started a radio program here in Denver called "The Jazz Odyssey." To be honest, what I do is I play your kind of music, and I play music of the Bad Plus. I'll even play stuff of Jon Hassell and even get me even further out to maybe people of more what we would call mainstream and playing it all on one radio show. But I see a connectivity just because of the time that we live in versus simply a genre. And so what I've done is I'm just bringing it to the people and just letting them decide what they want to call it, but it's in our hearts, we're playing jazz (unintelligible) should it matter if it's called jazz.
MORAN: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's an interesting - it's a big conundrum that, you know, that we won't solve, but...
CONAN: Certainly not on this program.
MORAN: Not on this program. But you know, but I think the bigger issue that's - for some people is then, is then: how do we relate to the history of jazz, you know? So how does it relate to Scott Joplin? How do we relate Jelly Roll Morton in all this, you know, musicians from 100 years ago? And how does this, you know, music, this freedom music continue to retain that unbelievable kind of trait that it would accomplish any goal that was not necessarily presented to a people - how does this music in a contemporary form still retain that aspect that draws people in?
CONAN: Joshua, thanks very much for the call.
JOSHUA: Thank you.
CONAN: And good luck with Ghost Star. Jason Moran, how are you going to celebrate International Jazz Day, the very first one, other than listening to Waylon Jennings records?
MORAN: Oh, right. I'm actually going to go to the concert tonight. You know, it's beautiful to actually sit in an audience and watch a great concert rather than actually have to be on the stage.
MORAN: So I'm going to go watch, you know, these musicians, Herbie Hancock and Christian McBride and, you know, Stevie Wonder, and enjoy the music. That's what I'm going to do.
CONAN: Have a great time. Thanks very much for your time today.
MORAN: Thank you.
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Groupon's board meeting ended with no change to its management, despite some public pressure on CEO Andrew Mason. George Stahl reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Groupon.
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The new emergency preparedness chief will coordinate preparation for and response to natural and man-made disasters. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, joined by Council-members Jack Weiss and Tom LaBonge, Fire Chief Douglas Barry and LAPD Deputy Chief Michael Downing, named African American Fire Captain James Featherstone as the new general manager for the City's Emergency Preparedness Department.
"With the threat of fires, earthquakes and terrorist attacks, it's not a question of if a wide-scale emergency will strike Los Angeles, it's a question of when," Mayor Villaraigosa said. "James Featherstone has the training, experience and drive to prepare our city for times of emergency and to serve our city in times of crisis." Featherstone brings over two decades of experience in emergency management and fire prevention to the Emergency Preparedness Department. An alumnus of the National Fire Academy, his has worked for nearly 20 years at all levels of the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD); in leadership positions within the United Firefighters of Los Angeles; in service in the United States Navy; and as Interim Assistant General Manager of the City's Emergency Preparedness Department.
Featherstone also participated in the response to the 1992 riots, the 1993 firestorm and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. In the spring of 2000, he was selected as a Fire Plans Officer for the Democratic National Convention and he was instrumental in the development of LAFD's Operation and Tactical Plans for the event. "The need for emergency preparedness has changed completely since the attacks of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, and there is more to readiness than transistor radios and canned food," said Councilmember Weiss, who chairs the Council's Public Safety Committee. "Guided by Jim Featherstone's experience and leadership, the City will be better prepared for all types of emergencies."
Featherstone is also a member of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112, where he served on the Executive Board, as a Negotiation Team Member for 19 years, and as Chief Negotiator for five years. Featherstone is also a Member and past Executive Board Member of the Stentorians of Los Angeles, which represents African Americans in the Fire Service.
LA's Emergency Preparedness Department works with LAFD, LAPD and other law enforcement and emergency management agencies to prevent and respond to natural, man-made and technological disasters. As head of the department, Featherstone will be responsible for developing and implementing innovative strategies to prepare the City for emergencies. A native of Washington D.C. and veteran of the United States Navy, James G. Featherstone began his years of service to the City of Los Angeles in 1986 with the Fire Department. In January 2006, Jim was selected as the Interim Assistant General Manager of L.A.'s Emergency Preparedness Department. In this role, he spearheaded a reorganization of the department.
While working for the LAFD, Featherstone served tours as a department public information officer, academy instructor, Chief Officer's Staff Assistant, station commander, and task force commander. In 2004, Featherstone was transferred to the LAFD Tactical Training Section. As the section's Tactical Training Officer he oversaw all WMD training, simulations and exercises. Over the course of three years, he developed and led numerous homeland security exercise and evaluation efforts in Greater Los Angeles.
Featherstone is a veteran of the 1992 Civil Disturbance, 1993 Firestorm, the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, and numerous local major emergencies and regional campaign incidents. In the spring of 2000, Featherstone was selected as a Fire Plans Officer for the 2000 Democratic National Convention (DNC). He was instrumental in the development of the fire department's Operation and Tactical Plans. During the operational phase of the DNC, Featherstone was assigned as the Metro Area Command Plans Officer.
An alumnus of the National Fire Academy (NFA), Featherstone completed the NFA's residence curriculum of Incident Management courses. He also works as an Adjunct Instructor at the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center at Texas A&M University. Professional studies and field experience in command and control and company operations gave him a solid foundation in both emergency planning and incident management.


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A former Williams High School employee was found guilty Tuesday of inappropriately touching two female student athletes and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
After more than a day of deliberation on counts of statutory sex offense with a 15-year-old, sex act with a student by school personnel and indecent liberties with a student by school personnel, the jury found Robert Alfonzo Clapp, 46, guilty on all counts.
Two members of the girls' track team testified that Clapp put his hands beneath their running shorts and underwear, touching their vaginas, while stretching them for injuries in March 2011 and fall 2010. Clapp was employed part time as a first responder with the high school's athletic department at the time. He often treated students' injuries as part of that job.
The trial began Jan. 28. It was Clapp's second trial on the charges. His first trial was declared a mistrial in June after jurors couldn't reach unanimous verdicts. Clapp declined to enter into a plea agreement with the state after the first trial.
Clapp and his wife showed little outward emotion when the jury returned the verdict and he was sentenced.
Following the verdict, defense attorney Rick Champion asked the court for a mitigated sentence on the statutory sex act, which is a B1 felony — just beneath murder in the state's sentencing statutes. A mitigated sentence would have placed Clapp in prison a minimum of 12 years, Champion said. Clapp had no prior criminal record and was a dedicated husband and father, Champion said.
Champion also asked the court to arrest judgment on the second count, which involved the same victim and incident, and to impose a probationary sentence on the indecent liberties conviction.
Alamance County Assistant District Attorney Lori Wickline opposed the mitigated sentence.
Superior Court Judge Shannon Joseph sentenced Clapp to a minimum of 192 months and a maximum of 240 months in prison — between 16 and 20 years. She issued a consecutive, suspended six- to 18-month sentence on the indecent liberties charge. Clapp will be on 24 months' probation when he is released from prison, she ordered. The judge arrested judgment on the count of sex act with a student.
He must also register as a sex offender for 30 years after his release from prison and have no contact with the victims.
"This was not your fault," Joseph said, addressing one of the victims who sat with her family in the courtroom. The girl had testified that Clapp touched her for an extended period of time during track practice on March 23, 2011.
Nearing the end of deliberation Tuesday afternoon, the jury asked the judge to clarify state law.
"If we have proof beyond a reasonable doubt of 'penetration, however slight, into the genitals' but not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the penetration was 'willful' and of 'a sexual nature' … must we still rule guilty in count one?," a note from jury foreman Ralph Butler said.
The judge ruled that language regarding touching of "a sexual nature" isn't included in state statutes and instructed the jury that Clapp's "conduct at issue must be intentional and not accidental."
The language recalled a defense of accidental touching that Champion tried Thursday to have the judge include in jury instructions. The judge denied his motion to include that defense.
Outside the courtroom, Butler said one juror had a question about criminal intent versus accidental touching.
"The law says, accident or not, it doesn't matter. We had to vote accordingly," Butler said. "We went through everything. That's why it took a while for us to come to a consensus. But I think we came to the right decision."


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State Route 260 from Overgaard to US 60 Study
The Arizona Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Federal Highway Administration and the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, has initiated a study to identify alternatives that would improve traffic flow on SR 260 from Columbia Lane east of Overgaard to the intersection of US 60 in Show Low. The alternatives will include concepts such as constructing additional lanes and consolidating access points in the study area.
The study will evaluate improvements to the existing roadway that would provide for current and future traffic demands in the region. The alternatives will be evaluated for potential environmental, social and economic impacts. The study results will be used to help ADOT plan for the future transportation needs of the region.
The purpose is to develop a long-range plan to provide added capacity to and improve operations on SR 260 from east of Overgaard at milepost 309.4 to the intersection of US 60 in Show Low at milepost 340.1.
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Inside, the body's own stem cells switched on to
close gap
A husband and wife research team has found a way to use the
sleeve-like cover on bone to heal serious bone injuries faster and more
simply than current methods. And they've developed an artificial sleeve
that spurs fast healing when a car wreck, bomb blast or disease leaves
too little cover.
Melissa Knothe Tate, a joint professor of biomedical engineering and
mechanical & aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve
University, and Ulf Knothe, an orthopedic surgeon at the Cleveland
Clinic, announce their work at the annual meeting of the Orthopedic
Research Society in New Orleans this week.
Knothe used the technique on a wheelchair-bound patient who suffered
from cerebral palsy, hip dysplasia and a curved spine exacerbated by
legs of differing length. To lengthen her shorter leg while correcting
her hip dysplasia, he replaced the hip joint with a long-stemmed
prosthesis, in the process cutting and spreading the femur to match the
length of its mate. Around the newly-created gap in the femur he left a
section of the periosteum, the bone's sleeve-like cover, intact to
envelop and heal the gap.
Inside the sleeve, bone grew and matured around the prosthesis stem.
The patient has since learned to walk again.
Why does the sleeve work?
"The sock-like sheath on the outside of the bone is a habitat for
stem cells," Knothe Tate explained.
In testing on sheep in Switzerland, animals that had the periosteum
operation to bridge a 1-inch gap in their leg stood within 24 hours and
had substantial bone filling the gap within two weeks. In the lab,
Knothe Tate and fellow researchers found that direct and angular
pressure on stem cells from periosteum stimulated the cells to develop
into bone. They believe the pressure of standing and shifting weight
drove the bone growth in the sheep.
"Just like in the embryo, given the right trigger, the cells build
bone like crazy," Knothe Tate said.
She tested the periosteum process against the standard bone graft
technique of packing the gap with spongy bone taken from the pelvis and
included a third model in which the gap was packed with spongy bone and
covered with periosteum. The results showed the periosteum alone healed
fastest and with the greatest density. "Surprisingly, including the bone
graft slowed the healing process." she said.
In addition to better results, the surgical procedure is simpler for
the doctor and patient, the couple says. That's no small matter: of the
nearly 8 million bone fractures that occur in the U.S. annually, about
1.5 million result in bone grafting operations.
Compared to the process called distraction osteogenesis, which uses
pins inserted through the skin and into two lengths of bone to pull them
together and bridge a large gap, the perisoteum procedure is far less
invasive and less likely to result in infection and other complications.
Knothe, who has worked with patients suffering bone cancer or bone
loss from traumatic injuries, knows that sometimes there is not enough
periosteum to make a sleeve.
With support from the Case-Coulter Translational Research Program,
the couple designed an artificial periosteum and Knothe Tate produced
the novel implant, a sleeve made of materials approved by the Food &
Drug Administration for other treatments. In sheep testing, collagen,
collagen and cells scraped from periosteum, and pieces of periosteum
were tucked into the artificial sleeves. Sheep treated with pieces of
periosteum healed fastest, followed by those with collagen and cells.
"The next step is to bring the technology to the clinic, to broaden
its access to the general public beyond the top clinics, for example for
patients relying on hospitals in rural areas, as well as for soldiers
injured on the battlefield," Knothe said. "You can sterilize the
membrane in an autoclave, along with the surgical tools. Its modular
design makes it easily adaptable to a variety of clinical situations."
The couple has filed for a patent on the artificial periosteum and is
now working with other researchers to develop optimum materials to
speed healing.
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McCann likely to miss first two weeks of regular season
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- As Brian McCann progressed through the first couple weeks of January, he held out hope that he could be ready by Opening Day. But now that Spring Training has arrived, the Braves catcher seems to have accepted the fact that he could miss at least the first two weeks of the regular season.
"It's not going to do me any good to come back if I'm not 100 percent," said McCann, who underwent right shoulder surgery on Oct. 16.
Braves orthopedic surgeon Dr. Xavier Duralde inserted anchors into the posterior portion of McCann's shoulder and repaired a labrum tear that was more significant than expected. The prognosis was that the six-time All-Star might not be ready to return for six months.
With that timeline in mind, McCann is hoping to be ready when the Braves open a two-game series against the Royals on April 16.
"Hopefully, I can make that day," McCann said. "Whatever they tell me to do, I'm going to do it and I'm going to be in here doing it. Whenever I can whip a baseball as hard as I can and then wake up the next day without any pain, that is probably when I'll be able to play."
McCann's rehab activities remain limited at this stage of the recovery process. He completed three sets of 25 throws from a distance of 60 feet on Sunday. McCann's work from an offensive perspective has been limited to hitting balls off of a tee.
McCann will learn more about his schedule after he and his teammates undergo their annual preseason physicals this weekend.


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VIENNA - Austrian parliamentarians and invited guests are gathering to watch the premiere of an opera depicting how Nazis methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children at a Vienna hospital during World War II.
"Spiegelgrund" is the work of Austrian composer Peter Androsch, whose great grandfather died in a concentration camp. Friday's performance will mark International Holocaust Day in Austria — a nation still atoning for its role in atrocities committed by the Nazis during the war.
The opera is being performed in a chamber of parliament used for special sessions and ceremonial events, and shown on Internet, starting at 1600 GMT (11 a.m. EST).
Since the war, Austria has gone from denial to full recognition of its part in Nazi atrocities.
The world marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday.
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My life changed even more than in the preceding years when I migrated north. There were times when I felt I was still adjusting to being a wife, a stepmother, and a mom. Changing countries added yet another dimension to the changes I was experiencing. I had accepted these changes when I agreed to marriage, and then to relocating. My acceptance of them, however, did not make them any easier to bear.
I have mentioned already that the move made me more self reliant and resilient. Becoming a mom without any outside support brought about changes as well. I slowly came to be more demonstrative (I certainly could not help hugging my children) and more creative with my time (cooking was often done on the fly while keeping an eye on two toddlers). I quickly learned to be less strict about the neatness of my home – the children seemed to bring with them a little chaos and I did not have a servant to help me clean up. I definitely learned to go with the flow as young children cannot be rushed to eat, to wake up, or even get ready to go out.
Moving north altered my marriage too. I believe the move made our marriage stronger. We learned to rely on another, to trust in one another, and to get comfort from one another. My husband and I have spent much time together talking together as friends. We have planned things together, steadied one another during rough patches, and laughed together.
My life did change when I migrated north. And it is a life, with all of its ups and downs, that has been lived for each moment.
If you have missed any of my Migrating North posts, head on over here.
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to teach little ones when to
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okay to wake (yellow light).
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Makes a great night light
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Built-in Discipline Timer (red light)
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Changeable faceplates
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ESSAY- Mutual respect? Iran gets but never gives
While the focus last week was on the failure of President Obama's campaigning to help Democratic candidates in Virginia and New Jersey, a much more important presidential issue was taking place on the other side of the world. With the beatings of Iran's pro-democracy demonstrators while that country's supreme leader was totally rejecting President Obama's overtures, we were witnessing the destruction of the president's "audacity of hope" foreign policy on our own election day.
Calling negotiating with the United States "naïve and perverted" even after several personal messages from Obama, the 70-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei– whose word is both political and religious law in Iran–- demanded that Iranian politicians not be "deceived" by American good will at the same moment that Democrats were discovering the president has lost his coattails and Khamenei's security forces were yielding batons and tear gas on a few hundred, and maybe thousand, demonstrators still holding out hope over last spring's questionable Iranian election.
With wishes of engaging Iranian powers, like Khamenei, President Obama had expressed only lukewarm support for those pro-democracy demonstrators when they numbered in the hundreds of thousands and before many of them were jailed and murdered. Even as Khamenei spoke, demonstrators were being beaten and the Republicans in Virginia and New Jersey were emerging victorious, the president said he still wanted "the U.S. and Iran to move beyond suspicion, mistrust, and confrontation" and is still seeking a "relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect."
In thumbing its nose at President Obama's continuous outreach, it's almost as if the Iranian government is doing everything possible to prove President Bush's claim that the country is a member of the "axis of evil." Bush's confrontational approach, however, did little to alter Iranian behavior, and President Obama's appeasement method is obviously failing in both word and deed.
Besides the attack on demonstrators, Iranian negotiators backed away from the deal to ship low-level uranium abroad for processing into fuel for a research reactor– instead of keeping it handy for a potential Iranian nuclear bomb– and Israel reported capturing 600 tons of Iranian arms shipped in violation of the U.N. embargo.
Just before we went to the polls, meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received scorn from Arabs for not aggressively confronting Israel when Israel agreed to limit, not completely halt, settlements in the West Bank as a pre-condition to resuming talks. Instead of taking the opportunity to get back into negotiations, the Arab governments turned their backs on the only true democracy in the Middle East– and on U.S. diplomacy in the process.
After the election, demonstrators in Pakistan blamed not the Taliban or al-Queda for two bombings– and 130 dead– in a women's and children's market in Peshawar, shouting instead that America was forcing Muslims to murder themselves.
Meanwhile, after pushing "our man in Kabul" into a run-off he didn't want, the administration spent the week after his challenger dropped out trying to legitimize Afghanistan's initial election which we had loudly claimed was fraudulent.
At the same time, President Obama can't decide between two bad options to produce an Afghan policy while his pull-out of Iraq is stalling due to fears that that country will crumble into an all-out, three-sided civil war.
Wouldn't it be great if, like Pontius Pilate, President Obama had the option of simply washing his hands of the Middle East?
But he doesn't. The Middle East is where the oil is. And we Americans use the oil like nobody's business.
With 4.5 percent of the world's population, we annually burn 26 percent of the world's petroleum production, most in our personal cars and trucks. With our 251 million vehicles, we also produce 45 percent of the world's automotive greenhouse emissions.
It really doesn't make any difference who wins the gubernatorial elections– or even the presidential elections. Until we individual Americans begin thinking beyond our gasoline tanks, we are dooming our children to generations of confrontations and failures in the most volatile region of the world. To paraphrase the Bible, "there will be resource wars and rumors of resource wars" until we get a handle on our driving of 2.9 trillion miles annually.
As President Obama is unfortunately proving, there is no policy that works for an addict trying to appease the wishes of his crazed dealer.
Thank God– or Allah– that the Saudi Arabian dictatorship right now is fairly happy to quietly rake in hundreds of billions in oil revenue instead of opening its repressive society to international scrutiny. If that changes, we'll see President Obama, ala President Bush, holding hands with the Saudi king.
A former journalism teacher at Virginia Union University, Randy Salzman is a transportation researcher who lives in Charlottesville and writes about transportation when his transportation ideas aren't being written about.


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Dark Chocolate Truffles with Wheat Germ
Dark Chocolate Truffles with Wheat Germ
Nutrition FactsServing Size: 1 truffle (12g)
Servings Per Recipe: 30
Calories 50
Calories From Fat 45
- % Daily Value
- Total Fat 5g 8%
- Saturated Fat 2.5g 13%
- Trans Fat 0g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
- Monounsaturated Fat 0g
- Cholesterol 5mg 2%
- Sodium 0mg 0%
- Potassium 10mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate 4g 1%
- Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
- Sugars 3g
- Protein 1g
- Vitamin A 2% Vitamin C 0%
- Calcium 0% Iron 2%
- Vitamin E 2% Thiamin 0%
- Folate 2% Phosphorus 0%
- Magnesium 0% Zinc 0%
A decadent piece of chocolate is the perfect way to top off a meal and stay satisfied without overindulging. It's also a nice gift to bring to friends. These truffles are made with dark chocolate rolled in wheat germ instead of cocoa for a nutty richer depth of flavor.
Yields 30-32 servings
8 ounces good quality bittersweet or semi sweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces
1/2 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons Kretschmer Original Toasted Wheat Germ (or Kretschmer Honey Crunch Wheat Germ)
1.) Line baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
2.) Place chopped chocolate in medium bowl.
3.) Heat cream to gentle boil in small heavy-duty saucepan. Remove from heat. Add chocolate. Stir until mixture is smooth and chocolate is melted. Refrigerate 25 to 30 minutes or until mixture is thick enough to form into balls.
4.) Using very small ice cream scoop or melon baller, drop rounds of chocolate onto cookie sheet. Shape or roll into balls; coat with wheat germ. (Note: If chocolate becomes too soft to shape, return it to refrigerator until it is cold enough to manage.)
5.) Store in airtight container in refrigerator. Remove at least 15 minutes before serving to bring to room temperature.
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NEWARK, Calif. — April 22, 2014 — Today Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) announced an update to its tablet accessories product line with the new Logitech® Ultrathin for iPad® Air, iPad® mini and iPad® mini with Retina display, which improves the flexibility and design of its award-winning predecessor with an even thinner and lighter keyboard cover, and a new multi-angle slot that adds the freedom to adjust the viewing angle.
"The way we use the iPad is changing," said Mike Culver, vice president and general manager of mobility at Logitech. "The iPad is no longer just for content consumption; it is for content creation wherever you go. The Logitech Ultrathin has evolved with the new ways in which we use the iPad making it thinner, lighter and more flexible than ever before. It is the other half of your iPad."
Its new, flexible, multi-angle slot securely attaches to your iPad with a magnetic clip, so you can tilt your iPad to the perfect angle for more comfortable typing. Its Bluetooth® keyboard features well-spaced keys with an optimized layout – complete with iOS® shortcuts – to provide a familiar, fluid and comfortable typing experience.
The Logitech Ultrathin sports an improved design that is even thinner and lighter than before, at only 6.4 mm thick and at about two-thirds the weight of the iPad. The cover perfectly fits and complements the iPad. It securely attaches to your iPad with a strong magnetic clip, and with the Ultrathin's high-grade aluminum construction and matching finish, you can hardly tell them apart.
The suggested retail price for the Logitech Ultrathin is €99.99 for iPad Air and €79.99 for iPad mini and iPad mini with Retina display. It is expected to be available in Europe at Apple Stores and on Logitech.com in May 2014. For more information, please visit www.logitech.com or our blog.
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