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Three buzzes and the reporters watching anxiously for a verdict in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray went crazy.
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Likened by some to the arcane practice of sending up colored puffs of smoke when the College of Cardinals elects a new Pope, jury members in the trial of the doctor accused of involuntary manslaughter in the death of pop singer Michael Jackson decided to sound a buzzer to indicate what they were doing - including whether they had reached a verdict.
One buzz meant the jurors had all gathered - everyone was present.
Two buzzes meant the jurors needed something - a question, a pencil, a potty break, etc.
Three buzzes meant there was a verdict. We heard those buzzes at 11 a.m. Monday.
As the jury deliberated, the courtroom in Department 109 inside the Clara Shortridge Folz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles was packed with reporters and fans of both Michael Jackson and his personal physician.
Judge Michael Pastor continued his daily court duties with other cases. And every once in a while, the assembled observers heard a buzz in the courtroom.
Friday the buzzer buzzed twice a few times as jurors requested more pens and a highlighter. But they did not ask for any testimony to be read back to them. Early Monday it was believed they were trying to understand the many pages of the jury instructions.
The 12 jurors faced an important task - to decide if Dr. Conrad Murray's actions lead to the death of Michael Jackson. The prosecution called it gross negligence; the defense said it did not constitute a crime in the legal sense.
Monday, just before 10 a.m., jurors buzzed twice again. Turns out the jury requested toilet paper and paper towels. The jurors usually buzz twice when they want to break for lunch as well.
The seven men and five women on the jury are charged with the task of determining whether Murray is guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Murray faces up to four years in jail and the loss of his medical license. Sentencing would be up to Judge Pastor.
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Zeitkratzer / Svetlana Spajic / Dragana Tomic / Obrad Milic
Serbian War Songs [VINYL]
Reinhold Friedl's Zeitkratzer ensemble and special guests, vocalists Svetlana Spajic, Dragana Tomic, and diple / gusle player Obrad Milic, explore the possibilities found in traditional Serbian songs from and about World War I, including the classic epic "Assassination In Sarajevo", and songs chosen specifically by Spajic and Tomic.
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Released: 2017
Country: Germany
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Recorded at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in Berlin, Germany, on January 16th, 2016, by Martin Wurmnest.
Frank Gratkowski-bassclarinet, clarinet
Hild Sofie Tafjord-french horn
Hilary Jeffery-trombone
Reinhold Friedl-piano
Maurice de Martin-drums, percussion
Lisa Marie Landgraf-violin
Burkhard Schlothauer-violin
Nora Krahl-violoncello
Ulrich Phillipp-doublebass
Svetlana Spajic-voice
Dragana Tomic-voice
Obrad Milic-voice, diple, gusle
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"Frank Gratkowski, saxophone. Born in Hamburg, 1963.
Started playing the saxophone at 16 and, following a period at the Hamburg Conservatory (Hamburger Musikhochschule), moved in 1985 to study at the Cologne Conservatory of Music with Heiner Wiberny, graduating in 1990.
Further studies with Charlie Mariano, Sal Nistico and Steve Lacy.
Frank Gratkowski has been working as a soloist in various international formations (Grubenklang Orchester, Klaus Koenig Orchester, Musikfabrik NRW, Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra, Bentje Braam, BikBentBraam, All Ears, Zeitkratzer, WDR Big band, etc.). Since 1990 he has been giving solo performances throughout Europe, Canada and USA. With his first solo program, he was a 1991 prizewinner in the Musik Kreativ contest. The release of the solo CD "Artikulationen" followed the same year and a new one "Artikulationen II" in 2002.
Since 1992 he has been working in a duo with the pianist Georg Graewe (CD "VicissEtudes"). The duo is often extended through the participation of different additional musicians, such as drummer Paul Lovens (CD "Quicksand") and bassist John Lindberg (CD "Arrears").
In 1995 he founded the "Frank Gratkowski Trio" with Dieter Manderscheid (Germany), bass, and Gerry Hemingway (USA), drums, (CDs "Gestalten" and "The Flume Factor" ). In 2000 the trio has been extended to a quartet by Dutch trombonist Wolter Wierbos (CDs "Kollaps", "Spectral Reflections", "Facio" and "Le Vent et la Gorge"). Since 2003 also appearing as a Double Quartet plus Tobias Delius, Herb Robertson, Wilbert DeJoode and Michael Vatcher. In 2005 he got the SWR Jazzprize.
In 1999 the duo with the Italian trombonist Sebastiano Tramontana has been formed and since 2001 Frank Gratkowski has been performing with a trio including Wilbert De Jode (NL) on bass and Achim Kaufmann (D) on piano (CDs "Kwast" and "Unearth"). Since 2006 he's working with the Trio Gratkowski / Brown / Winant (CDs "Wake" and "Vermilion Traces/Donaueschingen 2009"). He is also a co-leader / composer of the Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra and got a commission to compose for the ensemble Apartment House by "November Music " (Den Bosch NL) and the "Huddersfield Comtemporary Music Fesitival" (England) in 2009. Further actual projects are Fo[u]r Alto, a saxophone ensemble dedicated to microtonal music and "Artikulationen E" a solo program for saxophone with 8 channel live electronic.
Frank Gratkowski played on nearly every German and on numerous international Jazz and contemporary music Festivals including Vancouver, Toronto, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Quebec, Les Mans, Muelhuus, Groeningen, Nickelsdorf, Barcelona, Lithuania, Warsaw, Zagreb, Prague, Bratislava, Sofia, Bucharest, Odessa and Roma, Huddersfield, London.
He has been teaching saxophone and ensembles at the Cologne, Berlin and Arnhem Conservatory of Music and is giving workshops all around the world.
Furthermore he has performed with Robert Dick, Phil Wachsmann, Radu Malfatti, Herb Robertson, Marcio Mattos, Eugenio Colombo, Peter Kowald, Ray Anderson, Michael Moore, Ken Vandermark, Greg Osby, Kenny Wheeler, Louis Sclavis, John Betsch, Jane Ira Bloom, Connie and Hannes Bauer, Xu Fengxia, James Newton, Muhal Richard Abrams, John Lindberg, Michael Formaneck, Ernst Reijseger, Fred van Hove, Theo Jörgensmann, Phil Minton, Peter Brötzmann, Mark Dresser, Mark Feldman, Hamid Drake, Michiel Braam, Han Bennink, Mal Waldron, Misha Mengelberg a.m.o."-Frank Gratkowski Website (http://gratkowski.com/biography/)
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"Hild Sofie Tafjord has re-written the sonic possibilities of the French Horn and established herself as one of Norway's most arresting musicians. Pushing the limits of her instrument for years, whether acoustically or electronically, she has made her mark as composer, performer and improvisor. Her signature is present in her group playing in SPUNK and LEMUR, Zeitkratzer but takes front row in her solo work.
Tafjord is active as a solo performer and in groups like SPUNK, Lemur, Agrare, Zeitkratzer Ensemble, Trinacria, Phantom Orchard Orchestra a.o. She has a broad range as an artist and has made music for dance, film, theater, installations and sculptures. She has also worked with performances, given workshops and site specific concerts. She has played and collaborated with numerous mucisians and artists in Europe, Amerika, Canada and Asia, like Fred Frith, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, Evan Parker, Matmos, Wolf Eyes a.o. Hild Sofie participates on more than 40 releases, and her first solo album Kama is out on Picadisk."-+3dB (http://plus3db.net/artists/hild_sofie_tafjord/)
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"Hilary Jeffery is a self-proclaimed 'desert trombonist' and composer, born in Surbiton, England in 1971. A central and sustaining influence on his music is a sense of 'silent space', which he first experienced in the Sahara Desert in the 1990s. Hilary aims to share this experience, creating inner-spaces for listeners and fellow musicians to explore via the medium of his ensemble Lysn. He studied at Dartington College of Arts, University of York, European Dance Development Centre Arnhem, Netherlands Royal Conservatory, and has worked for more than twenty years as a musician playing in many different styles and areas of music including rock, techno, electronica, jazz, pop, afrobeat, contemporary classical and free improvisation. Groups he has played with between 1994 and 2016 include: zeitkratzer, CC Hennix and The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage, Zinc & Copper, Tonaliens, The Barton Workshop, Mir8, Jimi Tenor Big Band, Paul Dunmall Octet, Sand and Germ. Hilary's principal teacher and mentor for trombone playing is James Fulkerson, with whom he studied between 1998 and 2000. In 2013 he started a study of Dhrupad with Amelia Cuni, aiming to apply techniques of this Indian classical music tradition to the trombone. He has received composition commissions for Slagwerk Den Haag, GRM Acousmonium, David Kweksilber Big Band, Apa Ini and Lysn. He has been invited for artistic residences such as at Recollets in Paris (2012), won composition prizes such as the Henriette Bosmans Prize (Netherlands, 2009) and appears in many different recordings on various labels including Aquarellist, Col Legno, FMR, Dilemma, Important Records, Mikroton, New World Records, Soul Jazz, Sloow Tapes, Sub Rosa, Zeitkratzer Records and Karl Records."-Hilary Jeffery Website (http://www.hiljef.com/news/info/)
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"Reinhold Friedl, born 1964, lives in Berlin since 1987. He studied piano with Renate Werner, Alan Marks and Alexander von Schlippenbach, mathematics and musicology in Stuttgart and Berlin. As a performer, interpreter and composer, he has received various fellowships - Eurocréation Paris, the Rome Fellowship (Villa Serpentara) of the Berlin Academy of Arts, STEIM Amsterdam-, as well as various composition commissions. Reinhold Friedl has published articles in newpapers and professional journals and conducted a seminar on "Music and Mathematics" in the department of Mathematics at the Berlin Free University together with Prof. Behrends. He founded and directs the ensembles Piano-Inside-Out and ZEITKRATZER. Friedl has worked as a curator for the Podewil center for contemporary arts Berlin and directed the Off-ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) Berlin 2000. He has been invited to take part in the Jury of the Ars Electronica and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa. As pianist and composer, he has worked with musicians and composers such as Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Phill Niblock, Helmut Oehring, Nicolas Collins, Lou Reed, MERZBOW a.k.a., Masami Akita, Radu Malfatti, Bernhard Guenter, Mario Bertoncini (nuova consonanza), Keiji Haino, and has made countless radio and CD recordings. Lately he realized the "spazialisation piano-project" at ZKM Karlsruhe and Asphodel Studios in San Francisco. The main focus of Reinhold Friedl's work is the inside-piano. He played all respective literature using inside-piano techniques and released several articles in this field."-Reinhold Friedl Website (http://www.reinhold-friedl.de/)
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"Maurice de Martin (*1969), percussionist & composer. He started playing experimental Noise-Rock with the Munich based band Brother Virus. From 1990 to 1995 he lived in New York City, studying drums and improvisation with Dennis Charles, Gene Jackson and Joey Baron and surviving as a street musician - performing in subway stations with Art Blakey's youngest daughter Evelyn. Later he studied composition with the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli, Jazz at the Berlin Universtity of the Arts (UdK) and the south-east european folklore as a scholarship holder of the DAAD in Romania.
During this period he played with some of the genuine representatives of eastern European folklore, like the Romanian wedding band Musica de la Marsa and the Bulgarian clarinet-virtuoso Ivo Papsov. Maurice de Martin tours all over Europe and the US and released more than 25 albums. Besides being member of zeitkratzer, he has his own trio 3D with German vibraphonist Christopher Dell and bassist Chris Dahlgren (NY) and realizes projects between Romanian folklore and improvisation. He also composes and performs music for stage productions, recently with Thomas Ostermaier at the Schaubühne Berlin."-Zeitratzer Website (http://www.zeitkratzer.de/m_de_martin.html)
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"Lisa Marie Landgraf was born in Dusseldorf and Studied in Berlin, Amsterdam and at Bloomington in America with Franco Gulli and Stanley Ritchie. She has sperformed Both as soloist and first violin with the Concertgebouw Orkest, with the Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and with the Musica Antiqua Köln. Recently she has recorded with Tobias Koch the Mozart and Schumann violin and piano sonatas. Her instrument is a David Techler, Rome 1720. Performed at the festival in 2008."-Musica E. Rossi Toscani (http://www.musicaerossitoscani.com/images/fotomusicisti/paglandgrafeng.htm)
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"Born in 1957 Burkhard Schlothauer is German composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator and producer who lives in Gera in Eastern Germany. With Antoine Beuger he was the founder of Editions Wandelweiser in 1992. He performs with Zeitkratzer and the Wandwelweiser Composers Ensemble."-Last.FM (https://www.last.fm/music/Burkhard+Schlothauer/+wiki)
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"The Berlin based cellist Nora Krahl is passionate about contemporary music and has performed throughout Europe, Middle East, Asia and in the USA at festivals as Ruhrtriennale, Munich Biennale, Bang on a Can Summer Festival (USA), the International Conference of ISEA, International Summer Academy for Contemporary Music Darmstadt, SICPP (Boston), Next Generation of ZKM or Baghdad International Theater Festival. She worked with musicians like Lukas Fels, Rohan de Saram, Nickolas Photinos, Todd Reynolds or Vicky Ray and composers as Tristan Murail, Helmut Lachenmann, Martin Bresnick, Johannes Kalitzke and Michael Gordon and Ensembles like Ensemble Resonanz, Reflexion K and Zeitkratzer
Nora Krahl focuses also on acoustic and electronic improvisation. Within the project CHROMATOPHORE she and the visual artist Sena Başöz (Istanbul) are exploring the amalgamation of visual and audio media. In 2013 she founded "The Octopus" (free improvisation Cello Quartet) and since 2015 she works with Juan Felipe Waller in the analog electronic duo Rabiator. Nora Krahl performs in varying groups with musicians as Elliott Sharp, Joëlle Léandre, Jon Rose, Frank Gratkowski, Reinhold Friedl, Audrey Chen or Oguz Büyükberber.
Ms Krahl works as a performer, musician and composer in theater plays and with dancers. In 2015 she premiered her own solo compositions Guerin for Cello, thunder sheet and electronics as well as "in between words" for cello solo at Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin). In 2016 she premiered Verrine and she did direct her first music theater piece "Persona non Grata" in NYC. She works with the German director Karin Beier at Schauspielhaus Köln and Deutsches Schauspielhaus or at Columbia University NYC. She did compose and produce the music for the Turkish documentary Film "Kepi" and collaborated with the Japanese Dancer Aya Irizuki in the projects SILK and Static Air.
Ms. Krahl was awarded numerous scholarships by the Berlin Senate, DAAD (German Academic exchange Program), Paul-Sacher Foundation Basel, Ensemble Modern, Allianz Kulturstiftung and the State of Niedersachsen. She was awarded artist residencies in Istanbul by the foundation of the arts (Germany) and in New York City by the State of North Rhine Westphalia (Germany). Ms. Krahl holds a German music diploma from the Folkwang University of the Arts, where she studied with Professor Alexander Hülshoff. Furthermore she attended masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum, Christoph Richter, Valentin Erben and Enrico Dindo.
She taught at Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, and she runs workshops and masterclasses about "the Cello in the 20th and 21st Century" for example at University of Music Mannheim, Bogazici Üniversitesi and MIAM the Music Graduate School of ITÜ Istanbul."-Nora Krahl Website (http://norakrahl.com/?page_id=846)
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"Ulrich Phillipp (* 1956 ) is a German contrabassist of free jazz and new improvisational music.
Phillipp founded the Wiesbaden improvisation ensemble with Dirk Marwedel and Wolfgang Schliemann. He is one of the founders of the Wiesbaden musician co-operative New Jazz (1979), from which the ARTist collective hervorging in 1983. In addition to the concert activity, the inclusion of other genres, such as Tanzimprovisation, where Phillipp performed with Fine Kwiatkowski, Günter Christmann , Erhard Hirt and others. He also worked with Birgit Ulher and Roger Turner . In 2013 he was involved in the Grand Orchestra of the ensemble."-Wikipedia (translated by Google) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Phillipp)
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"Svetlana Spajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана Спајић, born August 19, 1971 in Loznica, Serbia) is a Serbian traditional singer, performer, pedagogue, cultural activist and translator. Apart from performing Serbian traditional music, she is known for cooperation with world-renowned artists like Marina Abramović and Robert Wilson.
She sang in groups "Paganke", "Moba", "Drina", "New Ritual Group", "Žegar živi", "Belo Platno", "Pjevačka družina Svetlane Spajić" (Singing Company of Svetlana Spajić) and other.
She is associate with International Cultural Network "Project Rastko" since its founding in 1997, "Radio Svetigora" and other cultural institutions. She had authored broadcasts dedicated to traditional culture.
She graduated from Philological Faculty in Belgrade (dept. of English and German Languages), as well as from International School for Holocaust Studies at the Institute Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel.
Since 1993, she is dedicated to fostering and preserving Serbian traditional culture, collecting and learning at the field, from source singers of the oldest generation. Her repertoire of Serbian archaic lore from all Serbian ethnic territories also covers the oldest traditional forms from Drina river region, like songs "per voice", cantos and songs "per bass".
Aged 24, in Thessaloníki she was selected, as the youngest member, into the elite Inter-Balkan traditional ensemble made from the best traditional artists of the Balkans (Thessaloníki, First Inter-Balkan Culture Festival, 1995).
She participated in both domestic and international music and theater projects, and performed with world-renowned vocal artists and musicians: Yanka Rupkina, Stella Chiweshe, Domna Samiou, Sainkho Namtchylak, "Balkan Beat Box", Antony Hegarty...
Concerts and lectures, she held in prestigious concert halls, festivals and institutions: WOMAD, WOMEX, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Teatro Real (Madrid), Dom (Moscow), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)...
For many years she is collaborating with the composer and instrumentalist Boris Kovač and is a member of his chamber orchestra "New Ritual Group".
She participates in projects of famous world artist Marina Abramović, and in 2011 she was engaged in the theater project "Life and Death of Marina Abramović" led by the eminent director Robert J. Wilson."-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Spaji%C4%87)
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"Obrad Milic is an authentic folk artist, diploma player, gusle player, singer and a storyteller from Zegari (Dalmatia). He collected the tradition from the earliest childhood by storytelling, mostly from his father. He was born in 1938 and the material for his debut album, which he recorded at the age of 77 (in 2015) in Belgrade.
Obrad Milic is an authentic folk artist, diplomat, guslar, singer and narrator from Zegar (Dalmatia). He adopted the tradition from the earliest childhood by oral tradition, most of the father. Born in 1938, he recorded the material for his debut album at age 77 (2015) in Belgrade."-Discogs.com (https://www.discogs.com/Obrad-Mili - - - - - - /release/9883958)
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1. When The Clouds Come From The Sea (2:43)
2. Haven't I Told You My Darling (1:14)
3. Assassination In Sarajevo (4:32)
4. The Battle At Mackov Kamen (4:10)
5. When I Go To War (6:53)
6. Shvabo Came (5:03)
1. Last Night Dorde Went Through Valjevo (1:05)
2. There Is No Spring Without Water (6:08)
3. King Peter Song (4:17)
4. The Boat Is Sailing (5:12)
5. Salute To Zivojin Misic (4:31)
6. Encore (3:08)
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"Zeitkratzer and its special guests Svetlana Spajić (voice), Dragana Tomić (voice) and Obrad Milić (voice, diple, gusle) present traditional Serbian songs from and about World War I.
Within its 20 years of existence, Reinhold Friedl's ensemble zeitkratzer has proved its interpretatory mastership on a wide range of fields such as contemporary / avant-garde composers, electronic artists, industrial underground - and, probably most surprising on this list, also in traditional music / folklore as documented on the two albums "Volksmusik" and "Neue Volksmusik".
For "Serbian War Songs", a selection of traditional songs from and about World War I, the "modern composition supergroup" (THE WIRE) have invited some special guests: the renowned singers SVETLANA SPAJIĆ and DRAGANA TOMIĆ (who both worked a.o. with ROBERT WILSON) and the diple / gusle player OBRAD MILIĆ. REINHOLD FRIEDL and SVETLANA SPAJIĆ (probably the most acknowledged expert for traditional songs in Serbia) selected some traditional Serbian songs from and about World War I, and OBRAD MILIĆ contributes "Assassination In Sarajevo", a song in the classic epic form he had learnt from his father Bogdan, a famous gusla player at the beginning of the 20th century.
Commissioned by Berlin's Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, the performance was recorded and mixed by longtime zeitkratzer sound engineer MARTIN WURMNEST and mastered by MIKE GRINSER at D&M."-Karl Records
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Monday, May 2, 2011
Check out my new hole
For nearly 20 years, I've contemplated piercing the upper part of my ear. I've had my lobes pierced since I was 10, but a cartilage piercing in the upper ear is a bit more complicated. It was one of those things I always figured I'd get around to doing when I had something special to commemorate – maybe an anniversary, or perhaps I'd have it done while traveling in some exotic locale.
OK, so divorce isn't exactly what I had in mind. It still seemed like a good excuse, so I marched into the nearest piercing studio on Saturday afternoon and handed my credit card to a woman with so many holes in her face she could double as a sieve.
Some of you are aware of my acute needle phobia. It's true that I'm terrified to the point of hysteria of IVs and blood draws, and I'm not overly fond of vaccinations, but there's something different about piercing. Don't ask me to explain the distinction, because then I'd have to think about it and I'll be forced to acknowledge that my phobia has more to do with some sort of weird vascular hangup than with an actual fear of sharp, pointy things, and then I will have typed the word "vascular" and I'll have thrown up a little in my mouth.
Regardless of the reason, I wasn't afraid of the piercing. Good thing, since it kinda hurt. Here's a look at the process and the end result:
I'm rather fond of it. It's still a bit tender and I'm a little terrified of catching it on my hairbrush. Overall though, I'm pleased with this small gesture to commemorate a major life event.
When it comes right down to it, most of my treasured possessions have some sort of tie like this. Nearly every painting or piece of artwork in my home is something I picked up while traveling.
Open my jewelry box and you won't find a lot of flashy, expensive stuff. What you will find is the inexpensive necklace I bought myself to commemorate my first big manuscript rejection. The delicate little pearl earrings I'm wearing in the photo above were a gift from two of my beta readers when I left the company we all worked for and took a job that would allow me more free time for writing.
Do you tend to collect sentimental objects or experiences to mark major life events? Please share!
I'll be busy shopping for sports cars. Isn't that the next step in the divorce process after body mutilation?
31 comments :
- Anne Gallagher said...
That actually does look like it hurts. But the earring is way cute. Can you change it after a while or is that the only one you can wear there?
- May 2, 2011 at 3:29 AM
- Shain Brown said...
I have done both anything from trading my car on impulse, I stopped smoking, and many other things that really do not need to be expanded on. I am currently at a point in my life where buying something usually doesn't have the longevity I am looking for especially when it is something sentimental that I want to last.
A few years ago I thought about a brow piercing, but so far I keep putting it off due to the impact it might have on my professional career. Right now I tend to stick with less obvious rewards.
Congrats on treating yourself.
- May 2, 2011 at 4:30 AM
- Sarah W said...
I have...(I'm counting)... five piercings in each ear.
Each set has a story -- including the last set, which only happened because I'd already paid for the starter studs my eight-year old had chosen for her birthday before chickening out at the very last moment.
Prufrock had teaspoons, I have ear piercings . . .
- May 2, 2011 at 4:42 AM
I am totally into sentiment. Instead of piercing I like tattoos. :) I have three--so far :)
They all resemble my faith but also have to do with some of my books. Very often my characters have tattoos or get them during their journey. In the first book I ever wrote, which will probably never see the light of day, my character got a tattoo that I decided I also wanted to get. :) So I did. :)
What color sports car will you get??
- May 2, 2011 at 4:47 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
A couple of things:
- You do realize you still typed vascular, twice, right? Or was that on purpose?
- There is something about the expression and the angle in that third photo that makes you look absolutely gorgeous. I'm not saying you don't normally look lovely, but this is different.
- I had the cartilage of my upper ear pierced when I was an angry young lad. I actually had two lobe piercings in each ear, and then the one pierced higher up. I think it was the left, but I can't remember.
I try not to collect super important heirlooms, because I'm terrible at keeping track of them.
- May 2, 2011 at 6:14 AM
- Jen J. Danna said...
I love that you did this to commemorate this particular life event. Looks great! *two thumbs up*
- May 2, 2011 at 6:15 AM
- Heather M. Gardner said...
You will get it caught on your brush. Also, consider mentioning it to your hairdresser before they go to town on your head. Post earrings will push into your skull while you sleep. There are really pretty earrings out there with delicate chains to an ear cuff.
Best of luck!
- May 2, 2011 at 6:36 AM
- Summer Frey said...
Looks great, but not the process...I got my left ear pierced about midway from the lobe to the top. Turned out to be the worst place ever for me--constantly infected, hurt like a bitch, etc, so I took out the earring and let it heal. Sad, because I loved how it looked. Now I have a sentimental lump of scar tissue to remind me not to pierce my ear there again.
- May 2, 2011 at 6:51 AM
- C. said...
I'm a music person, so usually big moments are marked with making a mixed CD that reminds me of the experience. Its what keeps me from going completely digital; there's something about pulling out a CD that's hand- labeled that takes you back to the moment you created it and why.
- May 2, 2011 at 6:57 AM
- Linda G. said...
Okay, gotta admit...that pic with the rod through your ear kind of squicks me out. *shudders* But the earring is cute, and all's well that ends well. :)
- May 2, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Teri Anne Stanley said...
I got piercing when I broke up with my high school sweetheart...just one extra hole in one lobe, but WAY back then it was TREZ edgy. So there, you ex-boyfriend, you!
- May 2, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Jason said...
Too funny...I actually have this exact piercing. Got it in college at UOregon, because I wanted to do...something...and I couldn't go through with the nose stud.
That was 14 years ago and I still have it.
Your brush will get caught on it and your hairdresser will yank on it, but there is good news: it won't hurt because there aren't many nerves there, and it really can't yank out through the cartilage. Mostly you feel the tug because your entire ear moves and you THINK it should hurt. But it doesn't. :)
I remember getting it done but I didn't have the visuals you posted here. Might have been a good thing since I'm a total wuss with needles. I do remember more blood than I expected, but also that it hurt way less. That's when my pierceist (is that a word?) told me about the nerves in that part of the ear.
The next year I did both my ear lobes (they made it to graduation) and while they bled less, they hurt a hell of a lot more.
So now I'm 33...and I don't want to take it out. Maybe it doesn't fit me anymore, but it's a little reminder of my youth I suppose. I've thought about it, to be professional I suppose, but then I think why bother? My work doesn't care, and if I become a writer definitely no one will care. Part of the mystique.
I do buy things to commemorate events, but haven't for awhile. No idea what I'll do if I get a manuscript sold...but it will be something. :)
- May 2, 2011 at 8:54 AM
- Jeffe Kennedy said...
I had my belly button pierced, to celebrate losing an ugly amount of weight. I wanted that for a long time and still love it!
- May 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM
- Harley May said...
Super-cute, Tawna!
The photos right after made me woozy, but lovely, all around.
I don't have any crazy piercings or tattoo's and don't plan on commemorating a huge mile stone with either of those things, but a motor cycle? Yes. It will be more expensive than a piercing or tattoo, but it will be a big reward when a book deal comes.
When I get an agent, I want a trip to New York. Those are my things: motor cycle and New York City.
Love you.
- May 2, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Allie Sanders said...
So far I haven't done much in my life I am ready to commemorate in a permenant way. When I got married I got a ring but that's pretty typical. This month I graduate from college and it is the five year anniversary of my first date with my husband. I am getting a new piercing. I have a few other things in the future I plan on celebrating with tattoos or piercings but those are a ways off yet.
- May 2, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Kathryn Rose said...
My sisters and I all got our rooks pierced when our dad passed. (That little ridge right under where you got your latest hole.) I love it, but it was sooo painful. Worst part was: I didn't even consider ahead of time that I was piercing my phone ear. Grr...
- May 2, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- BarbN said...
My daughter wanted a tragus piercing for her 17th birthday. Trust me, it was better than some of her alternative birthday gift choices. and since she wasn't 18 I had to go with her. She was fine, I almost passed out. Just the picture of yours brought on a wave of dizziness. Somehow I think multiple piercings are not in my future, though my lobes have been done since I was 12.
but I do have a collection of fun little things, tchotchkes, that I've acquired for various trips and/or life events. They are my treasures. I have a special shelf for them, it's sort of an altar but don't tell dh because that would freak him out. :-)
- May 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- TAWNA FENSKE said...
Anne, I have to wait 6-8 weeks before changing it, but then I can try something different. It can't be a regular earring though -- has to be something specifically designed for a cartilage piercing like that.
Shain, in looking at the "menu" in the piercing shop, I was amazed at how many different spots there are to pierce. And they all have different names for the type of piercing. Go figure.
Sarah, do you keep earrings in all the piercings? That sounds kind of cool!
lynnrush, my brother is the same way with tattoos :)
Matthew, yeah, that was on purpose. I was being ironic. And THANK YOU for the kind words about the photo. It was just a random shot I grabbed standing in my front yard holding the camera in one hand, but I kinda like it.
Jen, thank you! Now seemed like as good a time as any.
Heather, I like the ring a lot, so I'll probably skip the posts. Thanks for the tip on the hairdresser and the chain idea.
Summer, I've had several friends warn me they had the same piercing and it ended up infected, so I plan to be cautious.
C, it's funny you say that, I've had the same thought about mix CDs being a lost art. I do occasionally make playlists on my iPod, but it's not the same thing.
Linda G, kinda gross, huh? I thought twice about posting it, but figured the folks here aren't too easily squicked out.
Teri Anne, what is it about lost love that causes us to poke holes in our bodies?
Jason, we'll have to compare ear holes when you guys come out here to do the Bend Ale Trail!
Jeffe, I've considered the belly button. Still might do it someday...
Harley May, yeah, I asked the piercer to take the pics, but I couldn't actually see what she was doing until I got out to my car and looked at the photos. I was like, "holy crap, that's a huge needle!"
Allie, well now you have to tell us WHERE you're getting the new piercing?!?!
Kathryn, was that a cartilage piercing, too, or did you do it in the fleshy part?
BarbN, what the @#$% is a tragus?
Thanks for reading, guys!
- May 2, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- DrCarrieT said...
It looks great! (I want one.)
- May 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- Susan Flett Swiderski said...
My daughter and one of our sons have multiple piercings and tattoos. More power to them ... and to you. My plain ol' boring lobe piercings are plenty for me. Looks great on you, though.
And I'm a big fat sucker for the sentimental. Don't have any "bling" in my jewelry box, but I do have a "lucky rock" in there.
- May 2, 2011 at 2:37 PM
Actually, I memorialize the travels of strangers by rescuing the castoff mementos they collected while traveling; dish towels to be exact. It's amazing how many people seem unable to resist a linen dish towel with animals, maps, and flowers from their exotic vacation destinations. They never use them, then send them to Goodwill where their $15 purchase (or even more), slides into my pile for a buck. You have no idea how many cute animals live in Australia until you own a dozen "Animals of Australia" dish towels. Sports are also big, including golf towels from Scotland or towels from England explaining the truly weird terms used in cricket. My personal favorites are the ones with recipes, usually something like guacamole, margaritas, or scones. Next time you are in town come over and you can paw through the collection and pick one. Also, you may have one of the 200 huge ShamWows I have, don't even ask how I ended up with this obscene number of "as seen on TV" items, but they are really, really useful.
- May 2, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- Noelle Pierce said...
Tawna, that looks awesome! I got mine pierced with a gun at one of those mall kiosks, and I have a post in it (with a little rubber backing, rather than the metal kind), but I occasionally put a hoop in. That never lasts long because it gets sore after a while. :D
I am inconsistently sentimental. It does not bode well for when my kids, if they want to see things like their first blankie or first tooth. But if they want first birthday cards, I'm all over it!
- May 2, 2011 at 4:55 PM
- Ben Langhinrichs said...
I am always in awe (or something that might pass for awe if I didn't look so petrified) by people who will pierce anything at all. If anybody is ever going to poke any holes in me, I hope they'll do me the kindness of killing me first.
Nonetheless, they look cute on you.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:48 PM
- Tim VanSant Writes said...
I have a hole in my head, but that's beside the point. And no one wants to talk about my pointy head.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:51 PM
- jen said...
Yikes. It looks great (the result, not the process). I say anything commemorating a divorce is perfect (looking forward to sports car pictures!)
I buy lame-o practical stuff for major life events. Cameras, bean bags....you know, practical :)
- May 2, 2011 at 8:41 PM
When my sister passed away (almost four years ago) my daughters and I all got that exact peircing in her memory (she had it but none of us did, even though between my girls and I, we have had many different body parts poked, lol, oops).
My youngest went with the "orbital" and the elder went with the post. I had two hoops done, for the two baby girls my mother had on shared birthdays. Yours is lovely, a great way to mark your next life phase.
- May 2, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- C Annison said...
the end result looks lovely but the process looks scary :0
- May 2, 2011 at 11:08 PM
- Becky said...
I'm happy for you!
You are WAY tougher than I am.
- May 3, 2011 at 4:42 AM
I almost always faint when my blood is drawn or I get vaccinated. Also I run like the wind if a wasp gets close to me.
I also have a fear of balloons popping and certain flowers. Compared to those two fobias the fear of needles is very rational.
I always buy a piece of jewellery after a test (I just finished High School), specially math and swedish tests since they're the hardest and I need a pick me up afterwards. So most of my jewellery reminds me that I got through school even thought I had to switch schools because of bullying and had to have a year off just to recover.
The earring looks great, makes me want to get one too, despite the process looking painfull.
I've seen pictures of the chains Heather talked about and I agree that they look really pretty.
- May 3, 2011 at 4:48 AM
- Sarah W said...
I always keep earrings in the cartilage piercings, since they close so quickly -- I once took them out for an hour-long job interview and had to get one of them redone.
I mostly use breakaway hoops, so when my longsuffering stylist (or curious infant) yanks one out, no harm, no foul.
Oddly enough, only my, uh, lobe-holes are super sensitive. The others never get infected.
- May 3, 2011 at 7:51 AM
Nice! It looks great!
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Blazer Buttons - A Lesson in Self Expression
6 comments:
- L.A.S said...
Great post about individual style and the fun journey, big or small, of making clothes your own. My only question: Working button holes?
- October 16, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- Enzo AGC said...
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- Giuseppe said...
It's amazing how a simple thing like a change of buttons can totally tranform a garment. Little fixes like that are a good thing to have in one's mind while thrift shopping.
- October 16, 2009 at 10:40 PM
- tintin said...
It's great when there's a connection. My Canadian Airborne blazer buttons mean the world to me. Mostly because I earned them. Same with my Statue of Liberty blazer buttons. But the buttons I've always lusted for were a set I found at the Chicago Tender Buttons. They were from the military buttons from the American Revolution. Two large and four small. $3,000 for the set. I couldn't then and still can't but what a thrill that would be.
- October 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- Enzo AGC said...
Giuseppe - Agreed in full. I'm up in Boston a fair bit in the winter. The next time we should me up and go thrifting. I can take you to a killer vintage spot that the polo guys raid for inspiration at least once a season.
tintin - I remember reading the post about your Airborne buttons. Great stuff. Tender's collection here in the city is amazing. I didn't realize that they had other locations. Maybe when The Trad, the book finally comes out (hint, hint, nudge, nudge) you'll be able to reward yourself with them.
- October 19, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- Garry said...
I love the rhetoric on this quirky feature, Men get off on these luxurious nuances!
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DRAPER, Utah, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: FLXT) today announced that it is finalizing work necessary for inclusion of its sensors in a seat occupancy system for buses with Pink Power Technology (PPT), a luxury technology company based in Mumbai, India. Please see www.pinkpowertech.com for more information.
India has one of the most extensive busing systems in the world, with some 2,000 different carriers serving tens of millions of passengers on a daily basis. Many times these seats are sold out months in advance. Earlier this year, the government announced plans to roll out at least 85,000 buses in the next five years in its bid to improve public transport. PPT is well-connected in India's bus industry and has been eager to develop a system that will meet clients' demands for occupancy detection on their bus fleets.
Development has already progressed rapidly since PPT first contacted Flexpoint two months ago seeking their partnership for development. In particular, PPT was impressed by Flexpoint's thin-film Bend Sensor® technology and the ease with which it can be installed in virtually any seat. PPT is an enthusiastic partner and is pleased by the Bend Sensor's® many competitive advantages, most notably durability and reliability. Flexpoint has since been working closely with PPT executives and engineers on the passenger detection system, which utilizes Flexpoint's Universal Sensor. The companies are now exploring the means through which data from the sensors will be aggregated and transmitted for monitoring. Several solutions have already been identified .
"This system should be completed and ready for rollout by late 2012/early 2013. Flexpoint currently anticipates that an initial order could fall in the $250,000 - $1,000,000 range and could escalate substantially from there as PPT outfits more and more buses with our combined system. They are looking at placing sensors in tens of thousands up to hundreds of thousands of seats. We are excited to be working with PPT on this system, which utilizes one of our innovative plug-and-play solutions to meet the demands of their clients," said Clark Mower, Flexpoint CEO. "We have been impressed with their diligence on this project and are gratified to see it moving along so quickly. This project represents progress in our business strategy and we look forward to providing further updates as they become available. We have had numerous inquiries for similar systems from companies located in a variety of international destinations and this system will enhance our opportunities for these other areas as well."
About Flexpoint:
Flexpoint Sensor Systems (OTCBB: FLXT) is an innovative technology firm specializing in developing products that feature the Company's patented Bend Sensor® and related technology. The Bend Sensor® is a groundbreaking sensing solution that is revolutionizing applications in the automotive, safety, medical and industrial industries. The Bend Sensor's single-layer, thin film construction cuts costs and mechanical bulk while introducing a range of functions and stylistic design possibilities that have never before been available in sensing technology. Flexpoint's technology and expertise have been recognized by the world's elite business and academic innovators for over 17 years. The company is setting a new standard for sensing solutions in the "smart" age of technology.
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It wasn't all that long ago energy and mineral resources were rushing pell-mell into Africa in a bid to exploit its vast wealth, but in the continent's western nation of Guinea activity has been brought to an abrupt halt because of the ebola virus outbreak that's struck the country killing 84 people.
Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) reported it had evacuated six members of its international staff out of Guinea and gave local workers leave until the crisis is brought under control. Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) has apparently contributed $100,000 to help contain the virus' spread. So far, more than 120 people have been struck with the virus, one of the most lethal known to man as it's reported to have a 90% mortality rate when left untreated.
Inspired by an earlier outbreak of the virus, the 1990s movie Outbreak perhaps overstated its horrific symptoms -- e.g., the liquefying of internal organs -- but internal and external bleeding is a possibility (giving it its former name, ebola hemorrhagic fever), though the World Health Organization says it's more commonly characterized by the sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache, and sore throat. That, however, is followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and ultimately death if untreated.
Where much of western Africa is just beginning to come to terms with its vast mineral wealth, Guinea is home to one of the world's richest mineral deposits, the $50 billion iron ore resource in the Simandou mountains. Vale, Rio Tinto, and BSG Resources are locked in a lengthy and complicated legal battle over who has rights to the resources, though it's possible the country itself will just take control of them once more (it's alleged the country's former dictator improperly stripped Rio Tinto of its rights and sold them to BSG who in turn took on Vale as a partner).
Guinea is tragically poor, raped by its own government over the years, but has vast mineral wealth. In addition to the iron ore in Simandou, it also has one of the world's largest reserves of bauxite and significant quantities of diamonds, gold, uranium, and even oil in the waters off the country's coast. With the virus outbreak and the fear it is spreading to surrounding countries, with both Liberia and Senegal closing their borders.
In an abundance of caution, miners are putting their staff on "lockdown," even though the primary concern is the spread of the disease in the densely populated capital rather than in the rather remote mining areas of the country.
The miners might not feel any financial impact from the virus at the moment, since Vale, for example, has seen its interest in Simandou suspended until the government decides how it wants to proceed. But if the virus spreads to neighboring countries -- and there are cases being reported in Liberia, Mali, and just today Ghana -- interest in the African continent might wane ultimately undermining the continent's efforts to become a major mineral power.


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The Facts And The Figures Of The GM Bailout: Part 1
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It's no secret that General Motors is an extraordinarily healthy company that's making some of the best vehicles on the road today. And with public support for the U.S. auto bailout on the rise, it would seem that many have turned the corner on the idiotic Government Motors nickname for the automaker. Unfortunately, that's not the case… and we're not here to curb idiocracy. But what we can do is provide some factual information about the bailout, the current status of GM ownership, and the money repaid after the restructuring.
Current GM Ownership
As you can see, individual and institutional investors — the common citizen, mutual funds, investment firms, etc. — make up the biggest piece of the ownership pie, at 44.9 percent. The U.S. Treasury comes in second at 32 percent while the Canadian Government at 9 — both for providing the funds needed to restructure The General. Furthermore, VEBA — the Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, created to service GM's health care liability for UAW-represented retirees, owns 10.2 percent; it's important to note that this isn't the UAW itself, but rather an agency working for GM's UAW member-retirees. Lastly, GM's U.S. pension plans own 3.9 percent of the automaker.
Composition of U.S. Treasury Support
General Motors received two bouts of financial support from two separate presidential administrations during the depths of the recent economic recession: $13.4 billion came from the Bush administration — a decision the former President said he would make again — and $36.1 billion from the Obama administration, making up a total of $49.5 billion. This can be further broken down to $6.7 billion in loans, $2.1 billion in preferred stock, and 912 million units of common stock.
Moneys Repaid
So far, the new General Motors has repaid $23.1 billion in a combination of debt repayment ($6.7 billion), preferred stock repurchase ($2.1 billion), interests and dividends ($0.8 billion), and the Initial Public Offering ($13.5 billion). For those curious about the time frame, it goes something like this:
- April 2010 — GM repays $6.7 billion in loans
- November 2010 — GM goes public and has the biggest IPO in history
- December 2010 — GM repurchases Treasury's $2.1 billion in preferred stock
Since the Treasury has an equity stake in GM, it now owns 500 million common shares; this, notably, does not result in any official/legal debt owed by GM to the government, one way or another. What's more, General Motors does not in any way, shape, or form control when or how the Treasury rids itself of its remaining ownership — and the Treasury does not involve itself with the company's day-to-day operations. And while many are eagerly anticipating the day that GM is 100% free and clear of any kind of government ownership, the company's stock should be trading at approximately $50 a share for the Treasury to break even on the bailout; higher than $50 a share, to make a profit (if you believe in interest, that is).
The GM Authority Take
At the end of the day, the automotive bailout stabilized the industry and allowed it to regain its footing in a disastrous economic environment while saving an estimated one million jobs across the entire automotive ecosystem. And today, this same industry is earning profits, creating jobs, and making excellent products that are safe, fuel efficient, practical, and — in some cases — inspiring. Anyone have a problem with the facts?


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2012 election is shaping up as a big one in the House for Hispanics. There are currently 29 in the House — including a Pacific islands delegate and Puerto Rico's resident commissioner — according to the Congressional Research Service. That number is virtually guaranteed to increase by at least three or four seats because of once-a-decade redistricting that's created new Hispanic-majority districts in California and Texas. On top of that, Hispanics could win more seats in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Florida.
Jose Hernandez worked in farm fields with his Mexican-immigrant parents before becoming an astronaut. Iraq War veteran Julius Melendez is the third generation of his Puerto Rican family to serve in the military. And Tony Cardenas, the youngest of 11 children of immigrant farmers from Jalisco, Mexico, has served in the California Assembly and on the Los Angeles City Council.
Next year, all of them could be coming to Congress.
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"It's a watershed election for the Latino community," said Rep. Raul Grivalja, D-Ariz. "Our ability to influence decisions is evident and present and our ability to motivate voters is critical."
Hispanics are the fastest-growing group in the United States, increasing in population by more than 15 million between 2000 and 2010, according to U.S. Census data. They make up more than 16 percent of the U.S. population, far more than their share of roughly 5 percent of the seats in the House.
In comparison, there are 44 blacks in the House, including two delegates, according to the CRS, a record number. Blacks comprise roughly 10 percent of the House, compared to about 12 percent of the U.S. population. There are 10 Asian-Americans in the House, according to the CRS, including two delegates, roughly 2 percent of the chamber compared to roughly 5 percent of the U.S. population.
Both parties say Hispanic candidates are pivotal in this year's race for control of the House.
Democrats, who need a net gain of 25 seats to take a majority, say Hispanic candidates could make up a fifth or more of that margin. Republicans, challenging in fewer districts because of their large current majority, have recruited strong Hispanic candidates for a handful of districts seen as opportunities to snatch Democratic seats.
The competition for Hispanic votes in congressional races — whatever the backgrounds of the candidates they're voting for — mirrors the presidential contest. While Hispanics as a group have historically favored Democrats, Republican Mitt Romney has indicated he will compete vigorously with President Barack Obama for their support.
Democrats say maximizing Hispanic turnout is a key to electoral success. Republicans, in turn, say chipping away at Democrats' margins with the group is crucial.
Obama injected fresh energy into the competition when he announced he was easing enforcement of immigration laws for hundreds of thousands of younger illegal immigrants and offering them a chance to stay in the U.S. and work. That is expected to motivate more Hispanic voters to turn out for Democrats in November.
California is expected to be the center of Hispanic increases in Congress. Democrats are running two Hispanic candidates likely to win in the fall: Cardenas, a Los Angeles City councilman, and Juan Vargas, a state senator and son of Mexican immigrants. Republican David Valadao, a state assemblyman and son of Portuguese immigrants, is likely to win a GOP-leaning district.
In competitive seats in California, both parties are running Hispanic candidates against incumbents who are not.
Hernandez, the former astronaut, is a Democrat challenging first-term GOP Rep. Jeff Dunham in the newly drawn 10th Congressional District. As a child Hernandez helped his parents in the field and went on to study engineering in college. He makes his roots a big part of his appeal to voters, telling the story of how he watched the Apollo 17 launch on TV and his father laid out how he could become an astronaut himself.
"I was able to rise from the fields of California and touch the sky on the space shuttle Discovery as an astronaut," he said when he announced his campaign last October.
Democrats also have high hopes for Raul Ruiz, a medical doctor who grew up in a trailer with his Mexican farmworker parents and has received three graduate degrees from Harvard. Ruiz is running against GOP Rep. Mary Bono Mack, who has been in Congress since 1998. Democrats say the seat will be competitive this fall.
For the GOP, a prominent Hispanic candidate, Abel Maldonado, California's former lieutenant governor, is one of its best chances to pick off an incumbent. Maldonado is running against endangered Democratic Rep. Lois Capps, who has seen her district turn more conservative with redistricting. Maldonado's campaign ads highlight his background — his parents are Mexican immigrant farmers who eventually built their own farming business — and show him standing in a strawberry field and talking about what he learned from his father.
In one ad, as the camera pans over California farmland, Maldonado says: "It's time to teach Washington the lessons we've learned growing up."
Hispanic candidates are figuring prominently in other states where the Hispanic population has grown quickly.
In New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham is favored to take the state's 1st Congressional District, after Rep. Martin Heinrich decided to run for the Senate. In Nevada, State Assembly Speaker John Oceguera is taking on GOP Rep. Joe Heck in one of the Democrats' top targeted races. If she wins a crowded primary for Arizona's new 9th Congressional District, Leah Campos Schandlbauer, a former CIA agent, could give Republicans a prominent Hispanic on the ballot in what's likely to be a fiercely contested race.
In Florida, which has an August primary, Democrats have two Hispanic candidates — businesswoman Gloria Romero Roses, who was born in Colombia, and lawyer Joe Garcia, a Cuban-American — in the race to take on Republican Rep. David Rivera, a Cuban-American whom Democrats see as vulnerable. Republicans have two prominent Puerto Rican candidates vying to take on former Rep. Alan Grayson in Florida's Orlando-area 9th Congressional District: John "Q" Quinones, a county commissioner and former state representative, and Melendez, the Iraq War veteran and a member of the local school board. Both are appealing to the district's sizable Hispanic population.
There has been one big disappointment for Hispanic growth in the House in 2012: Texas. It was poised to have the most new Hispanic members, with the state adding four new seats in 2012 thanks to large Hispanic growth. But at most two of the new seats will be represented by Hispanic lawmakers. The state is also losing two long-time Hispanic lawmakers, Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, who is retiring, and Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who lost a primary to a non-Hispanic opponent, though Gonzalez is likely to be replaced by Joaquin Castro, a state lawmaker, Harvard Law graduate and second-generation Mexican-American.
Gonzalez, the chairman of the House Hispanic Caucus, said he still believes Hispanic influence is on the rise in the House, and he noted more Hispanic candidates running in competitive districts in 2012.
"Our power will only increase as time goes on," said Gonzalez. "Because of demographics, as goes the future of the Latino family, so goes the future of the United States."
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When it comes to this time of year – you know, the "official" start to the holiday season – fancy feasts and festive holiday parties mean good times…and GOOD FOOD. It's all too easy to over-indulge, making way for yet another New Year's resolution to work off all the pounds you put on in just a few short weeks. But it doesn't have to be that way. If you plan and take a proactive approach to managing all of the temptation of holiday treats around you, you can still have a merry ole time that doesn't involve gorging yourself. We know it isn't easy, but try these 10 things to help you maintain your weight and keep from stuffing yourself and still remain in the holiday spirit.


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It's about protection for Freelancers being paid for their work in NYC. Our previous blog item explains the basic concepts of it. The actual law goes into effect on May 16, 2017.
What Issues are Likely to Come Up Under This Law?
The law literally provides for triple damages if the work was done but not paid for and no contract was ever given[1]. We will ask for this wherever possible, subject to watching out for cases in which it might make us file the case in a different court than we had originally wanted.[2] The judges who will be applying this law for the first time will be reluctant to impose double damages plus attorney's fees as it is, and many will balk at imposing treble (triple) damages. On the other hand, the law does say this, and the threat of an appellate court saying that this should have been imposed will be valuable leverage toward getting the cases settled. I also anticipate that many of the lower state court judges will be looking for ways to avoid imposing double damages plus attorney's fees, because these are concepts that will make them uncomfortable. You, as a Freelancer, should be sure to retain a law firm that is serious about taking every judge who refuses to do this up on appeal. Otherwise, this powerful law will lose all its teeth.
Will a series of e-mails that go back and forth qualify as a "contract" for the purposes of this law?
If the e-mails, when read together, contain the information required to be provided in the new law, the answer will probably be yes[3]. Where the Company has exchanged e-mails with the Freelancer which make out the most important contract terms, I do not think that courts will find the Company liable for failing to provide a contract. In order to avoid liability for failing to provide a contract, the Company will probably admit that the e-mails constitute a contract, and this will probably lead to fairer results for everyone. Where important terms (i.e., clear scope of the work to be done, or total price to be paid), are missing from the e-mails, and the missing terms do not readily appear in any document the parties agree was exchanged and relied upon, a "contract" will probably not be found. This will be a violation on the part of the Company, exposing it to additional liability.
What Defenses to Payment Will We be Hearing?
The Company[4] will always say that the work wasn't done properly, and sometimes there might be a legitimate dispute behind it. For example, let's say the case goes to trial and there is a verdict that the work was 90% complete, or, that the work was completed with defects equal to 10% of the agreed value which were the Freelancer's fault. The defense will argue that the Freelancer should only get 90% of the agreed price, because that's all that was really performed. However, the law clearly provides for double damages to a freelance worker who prevails on an "unlawful payment practice" claim", §§ 20-933(b)(1), 929. Therefore, after a verdict like that, we will claim that the Freelancer gets double damages on 90%, or 180%, of the agreed price, in addition to the attorney's fees. I am very confident that we're going to win on that issue. Before the law was signed, management attorneys lobbied the City Council and the Mayor for a "good faith" defense to the double damages rule, but without success. A "good faith" defense against double damages would have effectively repealed the rule, because the Company will always say that it felt it was justified in not paying for the work.
How Will the Application of this Law Be Defined in More Detail in Coming Years?
The thinking process behind the new law was to give Freelancers the same legal protections that employees now have in wage cases. This means that the playing field and the rules will be staked out by the lawyers who represent employees in wage and hour cases on our side, and the lawyers who defend those same cases for management on their side. On either side, the employment lawyers will have a very distinct advantage over attorneys who don't usually go to court, or practice in other fields and are handling as a favor to clients they represent in other types of cases, or who are personal friends.
Guidance on this law will come from the first decisions that are actually made by judges, and from the appeals taken from those decisions.
In our next blog post, we'll talk about more of the defenses we're likely to see in the Freelance cases, possible solutions to some of the problems we'll commonly face, and the pros and cons of choosing the different courts to bring the cases in.
[1] Statutory damages in the amount of the value of the contract for not providing a contract in a case where any other violation is proven, § 20-933(b)(2), and double damages for the payment violation, § 20-933(b)(3).
[2] NYC Civil Court jurisdiction is limited to $25,000, NYC CCA § 201.
[3] General Obligations Law § 5-701(b)(3).
[4] Someone who hires a freelance worker is referred to in the law as the "hiring party". I use "Company" here, but it can be a company, an individual, or any kind of organization that is not governmental, see, § 20-927 – Hiring Party.


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Small-Town Police Blotter Becomes a Big-Time Best Seller
In Bozeman, Mont. the local police blotter has been turned into a funny, best-selling book that has readers snatching it off the shelves. WSJ's Caroline Porter reports.
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Before I was so unbelievably sick, before the flu and this damn UTI came knocking on top of my already present morning sickness and overall pregnant and Forty-ness......we went to the fair. We have a pretty ok little fair here. You'd really expect more, if you were from the midwest and accustomed to huge fair events - which we are.
But it's ok. You know there are the animals....
and heck even the Little Birth of Cool braved petting some of the critters.
This slide pic is one of my faves. The big boy was the student of the week, and got to bring home his class mascot.
So we took it to the fair - and he took it on rides and through fun houses and the like.
But you know as always, the good stuff is the fair food. I was a little disappointed at the lack of deep fried foods on sticks, frankly. Florida fairs have MUCH better selections!
My corn dog was nasty, and I think I'm going to swear off of them. The twins didn't seem to mind theirs - but we checked theirs and it seemed just fine. I got the funky one.
The best meat product we had was this delicious grilled chicken.
Mmmmm this is deep fried cheese cake with caramel sauce. But when is one dessert enough at the fair? NEVAH! So we also had deep fried Milky Ways.
And, I learned at the end of the night .......that my son is a Sith Lord. Who knew?