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Q: concept of composite primary key in Adventure Work Database I wonder to know why EmailAddress Table in Adventure work database uses composite primary key(BusinessEntityID,EmailAddressID(Identity))?
if it's something related to set cluster index for both fields, I would appreciate if tell me how composite primary key physically store(in which order and how data insert)?

A: It is because this way, the same e-mail address can be used by multiple Persons as well as the same Person can use multiple e-mail addresses, i.e., it makes the relationship between person and e-mail address many-to-many.
If the need was merely to enforce that the e-mail address should belong to a person, it would have been enough to make it a foreign key and the column BusinessEntityID not nullable.
Update:
There are 2 tables involved here, Person and EmailAddress.
Each record in Person is identified by a BusinessEntityID. To associate a record from Person with a record in another table T, it is enough to include a column in this table T that refers to BusinessEntityID. Now, if we needed to ensure that all records in T must be associated with some record in Person, then we would place a foreign key constraint on T.BusinessEntityID and make it not nullable. If on top of this, we wanted to ensure that each record in T must be associated with one and only one record in Person, then we could place a uniqueness constraint on the column T.BusinessEntityID.
When we make 2 columns, A and B part of the primary key of a table, we are telling the database that the values of these two columns together must be unique for all records in that table. It has no bearing on the values in each of those columns and any foreign key relationships.
To illustrate:
Person (BusinessEntityID, Name) and PK is BusinessEntityID
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1 | John
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2 | Jane
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3 | Sales Team

EmailAddress (BusinessEntityID, EmailAddressID, EmailAddress) and PK is [Business EntityID, EmailAddressID] where EmailAddress is auto-incremented
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1 | 1 | john@example.com
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1 | 2 | john@contoso.com
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2 | 3 | jane@example.com
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2 | 4 | jane@contoso.com
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1 | 5 | sales@example.com
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2 | 6 | sales@example.com
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3 | 7 | sales@example.com

Data similar to the above is possible to put in the tables in your example. Now what is happening here?
There are 3 entities, John, Jane and Sales Team.
John has 2 personal e-mail addresses. Jane also has 2 personal e-mail addresses. In addition, the e-mail address sales@example.com belongs to the Sales Team but also to John and Jane.
This is a many-to-many relationship.
Additonally, if the composite key in EmailAddress is clustered, the keys are stored in the order in which they appear. Read this for more information.

A: That's because of composition, one email address could not exist without a person.
So BusinessEntityID is also primary key for EmailAddress table


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It was that time of year! January arrived and my much anticipated quilt guild retreat arrived with it. I say it every year, but it deserves a resell, this retreat is my favorite.
This year was more special than most because my daughter flew in to join me. It was a long weekend (Thursday - Sunday) of quilty friends and inspiration.
Can you beleive the above quilt is the result of a round robin? I told the owner that I needed to be part of her round robin group. It is just breathtaking.
This quilt was started last year and it was completed during this retreat.
Rachel came to retreat for one day but was able to finish her Swoon quilt.
Although Xmas was over, we had a few getting a jump start for this year's quilts.
This quilt was a mound of fabric when it arrived on Thursday.
She finished the whole quilt during the retreat. I was super impressed.
This is in my life bucket. It the center of the quilt called Phebe by Di Ford.
I bought the pattern as soon as I saw it because it was a dream quilt.
Seeing someone actually working on it really inspired me to dust mine off.
Nyshma was inspired to finish a quilt that had been banging around in her head for a while.
The above was what it looked like.
She has sent it off to be quilted so it can be put in the special exhibit on Modern Quilting at the Dallas Quilt Show in March.
I actually finished two quilts while at retreat. But I'll leave that for my next post.
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Wow! That is some incredible work!! It is amazing the inspiration we have on each other.
Lots of talented quilters at that retreat. So much eye candy to enjoy! Thank you for sharing.
Sounds like fun, there must be tons of inspiration from seeing what others are doing.


Jay-Z and Beyonce Are Going Vegan for 22 Days -- Would You Try It?
So long, meat and eggs. Hello, plant-everything.
Jay-Z posted a note on his site yesterday saying, "On December 3rd, one day before my 44th birthday*.* I will embark on a 22 Days challenge to go completely vegan, or as I prefer to call it, plant-based!!"
Two exclamation points. He's super excited. And our girl (OK, his girl) Beyonce is getting in on the dairy-free, veggies-only diet, too.
Jay is looking for recs from "professional vegans" for this "spiritual and physical cleanse." So we, of course, find it our own professional duty to suggest a few recipes from our SELFy arsenal.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay, may we interest you in these 5 satisfying vegan meals?
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And if all else fails: Check these three easy vegan swaps you can incorporate into just about any of your meals at home.
Jay has promised to post his progress on his site, so we'll (obviously) be tuning in.
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Big Brother 15 cast member Amanda Zuckerman infamously had 'female troubles' inside the house this past season that we heard far too much about on the Live Feeds. Her fellow cast members enjoyed making endless nasty jokes about her issues with her lady parts. Poor Amanda's female problems were spread far and wide on the Internet as well, which apparently has prompted one company dedicated to treating such troubles to cash in for a bit of free publicity.
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Barclays Report Praises Luxottica
In the company's report, it defined Luxottica as the "best idea for 2015 in the luxury sector."
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MILAN — In its report on Monday, Barclays defined Luxottica Group SpA "our best idea for 2015 in the luxury sector, driven by underlying secular growth, very strong market position, operational gearing and high cash generation." Based on the group's aim for 7 percent medium-term growth, its greater focus on margins and returns, Barclays reiterated its Overweight rating ahead of the group's February update.
Also, easing market tensions, Luxottica's management troubles appear to have been smoothed over, following the sudden departure of two chief executive officers in one month. As reported, former Procter & Gamble executive Adil Mehboob-Khan is expected to join in January, flanking Massimo Vian in Luxottica's new co-ceo structure. Finally, Luxottica chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio has settled the group's shareholding structure, raising his stake to 25 percent of his holding Delfin Sarl, which controls the eyewear company, through a capital increase. According to market speculation, this is a stake that will eventually pass to his wife Nicoletta Zampillo, and which is hers legitimately. Each of Del Vecchio's six children, including Brooks Brothers' chairman and ceo Claudio Del Vecchio, now has a 12.5 percent stake in Delfin, down from 16.5 percent.
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Here we have some more samples of fabulous antique French typography! This looks like it would be for something sooo romantic, but I think actually it has something to do with hardware. Still beautiful though! The original version at the top, is so lovely for collage. And I've included a couple of black and white versions, one more rustic, and one a bit bolder, so that you can use them for your transfer projects, like pillows, towels, etc.
I love these! Thank you! By the way, this is an ad for window and door hardware "all types and all styles".
Thanks for the translation Jacqueline!!
Window and door hardware can also be very beautiful! so its a win win == thank you so much for all the beautiful artwork you share and for the french translation – a beautiful language on my bucket list to learn.
Thank you so much for all you share! I love the French style everything and these just make me love it even more. Thank you again!
oh such beauty! thanks Karen!!!!
LOVE these!!!!!!!! What a SUPER IDEA to transfer them onto towels!!!!!!! ONE QUESTION: If you transfer them onto lets say, cotton towels, like flour sak; would you use iron on transfers??? (Just thinking…. You probably would want to keep them as decor items!)I think I'm going to try this!!!!!! Thanks!!!!
Yes, you could use iron on transfers, just reverse the image first. Or you could use the citra solv method too. If you check in my DIY section, you will find more info on transfer methods, as well as some images already reversed and ready to go! You can find the info Here.
Can you tell me what is these fonts?? Thanks.
I think I will copy this great idea on a looking glass! thank you!


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AnyClip Launches AI-Powered Platform For Brand Safety
By Ameya Dusane Mar 13 2018 | 08:00 PM	 | 2 Mins Read | Read Mode
Tel Aviv, Israel: AnyClip, the AI-driven video content, and data monetization firm, announced today the launch of AnyClip's Content Platform, an unequaled premium video content and Brand Safety solution for advertisers and publishers. The Platform provides advertisers the unprecedented ability to gain real-time insights into content, ensure Brand Safety, and contextually target ultra-premium content while allowing publishers to enrich their sites with perfectly matched premium content - increasing revenue and improving user engagement and experience.
Industry experts affirm that Brand Safety issues, with brand ads appearing alongside objectionable content, can have serious repercussions for brands. In a recent survey, 78% of marketers said that Brand Safety failures had damaged their brand's reputation.
AnyClip's Content Platform utilizes an enormous, premium, and up-to-date library of content from leading sports, news, and entertainment content producers. The Platform is powered by Luminous™, the first AI charged real-time video analysis engine to truly understand video content and context by identifying, tagging, and flagging video content. In addition to ensuring Brand Safety by flagging and filtering out inappropriate content such as nudity, violence, profanity, alcohol, guns, tobacco, etc., Luminous™ offers unmatched celebrity and brand identification and can thoroughly identify and analyze video according to sentiments and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) categories, such as food and beverage, travel, fashion, etc.
The massive amounts of metadata and meaningful insights produced by Luminous™ greatly benefit advertisers and publishers. Advertisers who join the Platform enjoy a walled garden of safe, positive, and contextually-relevant premium content and unprecedented content targeting. Publishers joining the Platform embed the Luminous Recommendation Engine (LRE™), a premium video content and advertising unit, powered by a smart recommendation engine. LRE™ compares and matches video metadata with webpage metadata and automatically enriches pages with relevant premium video content from AnyClip's content library. The inclusion of perfectly-matched premium video significantly improves user experience, enhances user engagement, and can boost advertising revenue.
"After more than two years of extensive research and development, we are thrilled to announce the launch of AnyClip's Content Platform and offer our industry a much-needed Brand Safety stamp," said Gil Becker, President and CEO of AnyClip. "The Platform addresses the pain points of the entire video ecosystem – publishers can forgo pricey content and access rich premium content that perfectly matches the context of their pages at no cost. Advertisers can sleep at night with our Brand Safety assurance and enjoy a new world of contextual relevance and superior segmentation. Content owners, who want to increasingly monetize on existing platforms, can monetize their assets at scale with little effort. We're excited to pave the way to the future of digital video."
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On the latest episode of the Two Sense podcast, Perfumer & Flavorist sat down with fragrance journalist Eddie Bulliqi at the 2018 World Perfumery Congress to discuss niche fragrance trends and what consumers are looking for in this area.
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"One thing that you are seeing across every single category is that people are becoming more interested in unique profiles."


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Storm Eunice batters UK as London gets first ever red warning
AN ATLANTIC storm battered England and Ireland on Friday with winds of up to 100 miles per hour, prompting warnings from Britain's weather office that Storm Eunice could cause significant disruption, tear off roofs and hammer London.
Eunice, which began in the central Atlantic and was spun up from the Azores toward Europe by the jet stream, has extreme wind speeds that pose a danger to life, Britain's Meteorological Office said.
The storm hit western England, making landfall in Cornwall, where waves lashed the coast, sending plumes of spray over the roofs of cottages, Reuters pictures showed.
Britain's meteorological service issued its first ever "danger to life" weather warning for London and the army was placed on standby as Storm Eunice made landfall on Friday.
"Storm Eunice will bring damaging gusts in what could be one of the most impactful storms to affect southern and central parts of the UK for a few years," Met Office Chief Meteorologist Frank Saunders said.
"The red warning area indicates a significant danger to life as extremely strong winds provide the potential for damage to structures and flying debris."
Hundreds of homes were reported to have been left without power in Cornwall, southwest England, which Eunice hit overnight, bringing gusts of 90 miles (145 kilometers) per hour.
The storm, which BBC Weather said could be one of the country's worst in three decades, is barrelling eastwards toward London.
It has caused the Met Office to issue its first red weather warning for the capital – active between 10 a.m. (10 a.m.GMT) and 3 p.m. – since the system was introduced in 2011.
The Met Office warned of "significant disruption and dangerous conditions due to extremely strong winds," adding that roofs could be blown off, trees uprooted and power lines brought down.
Roads, bridges and railway lines have already been hit causing delays and cancellations to bus, train and ferry services. Another red warning was already in place for parts of Cornwall and south Wales.
"Please take precautions. Please stay safe," Home Office minister Damian Hinds told Times Radio. "It is unusual to have a red weather warning. It is very unusual to have two."
Trains into the capital were already running limited services during the morning rush hour, with speed limits in place.
National Highways also issued a severe weather alert for strong winds covering the whole of the country's strategic road network from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The agency said there was a "particularly high risk" for high-sided vehicles. Key river crossings including the Severn Bridge in southwest England and the QEII Bridge south of London were also closed.
The arriving storm forced Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, to postpone a trip to South Wales on Friday "in the interests of public safety," his office said.
Ireland's meteorological office also issued an alert for Storm Eunice, warning of "severe and damaging winds" and the possibility of coastal flooding.
Another storm, Dudley, caused transport disruption and power outages when it hit Britain on Wednesday, although damage was not widespread.
The U.K. government on Thursday held a meeting of its emergency "COBR" committee to discuss the response to the two storms. Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed sympathy for thousands of residents left without power in northern England by Dudley. Asked about further support ahead of the arrival of Eunice, he told reporters, "The army is on standby."
Schools in the path of the storm announced on Thursday they would shut for the day and residents were urged to remain indoors. Heavy snow was also forecast in Scotland and northern England.
People are being urged to postpone travel plans as Storm Eunice wreaks havoc with transport networks across Britain.
Train operators across Britain urged passengers to avoid traveling on Friday as emergency 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) speed limits are in place in many areas. This is to make it easier for train drivers to brake if they spot objects on the track or damage to overhead wires caused by strong winds.
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Filming starts on new BBC One thriller, The Escape Artist, starring David Tennant
The BBC Media Centre have released further details of David's new BBC drama, The Escape Artist. They say:
The Escape Artist is an original three-part suspense thriller set in the world of criminal law. David Tennant plays Will Burton, a talented junior barrister who specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners, hence his nickname of "The Escape Artist". Will is in high demand as he has never lost a case. But when his talents acquit the prime suspect in a horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to bite him with unexpected and chilling results.Filming begins today on The Escape Artist, a new 3x60-minute legal thriller for BBC One. Created and written by David Wolstencroft (Spooks, Shooting Dogs), The Escape Artist stars David Tennant (Doctor Who, True Love), Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla, Black Mirror), Sophie Okonedo (The Slap, Criminal Justice), and Ashley Jensen (Extras, Ugly Betty).
"The law often seems like an intellectual exercise", says Wolstencroft, "But scratch under the surface, and it's all blood and guts. I wanted to write a thriller set in the legal world that's as much about those primal feelings as it is about the twists and turns of the case. David Tennant is one of the most accomplished and iconic actors of his generation. I cannot wait to see him in Will's shoes."
Producer, Hilary Bevan Jones, says: "The outstanding cast we have assembled, which is headed by David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo and Ashley Jensen is a testament to David's breathtaking and original script. Directed by Brian Welsh and produced by Paul Frift, I believe The Escape Artist will be one of the most anticipated TV drama events of 2013."
Executive producer for the BBC, Matthew Read, says: "After the incredible response we got for William Boyd's Restless, it's fantastic to be working with Hilary Bevan Jones and Endor again on an original drama that brings together the very best of British talent."
The Escape Artist is produced by Hilary Bevan Jones (State Of Play, Restless) and Paul Frift (The Best Possible Taste, Restless) and directed by Brian Welsh (Black Mirror, In Our Name, the up-coming Mayday) the executive producers are David Wolstencroft and Matthew Read for the BBC.
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Russia Designated Over 150 NGOs Foreign Agents
FILE - An activist protests against a restrictive law targeting foreign-funded NGOs working in Russia, outside the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, in Moscow.
For the past four years, the Russian government has sought to silence critics of government policy, accusing them of being disloyal, foreign-sponsored, or even traitorous.
A central tool of the Russian government in executing this crackdown has been the 2012 law requiring nongovernmental organizations to register as "foreign agents" if they receive any foreign funding and engage in broadly defined "political activity." The use of the term "foreign agent" is a deliberate choice suggesting that these organizations are traitors. The definition of political activity under the law is so broad and vague that it effectively extends to all aspects of advocacy and human rights work.
To date, Russia's Justice Ministry has designated 155 groups as "foreign agents." Indeed, under this legislation Russia has targeted organizations dedicated to defending human rights, fighting torture, preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and even protecting migratory birds.
In February 2016, a court forced the closure of Agora Association, one of Russia's leading human rights organizations, in response to a Justice Ministry suit alleging that the group violated the "foreign agents" law and carried out work beyond its mandate.
Founded in 2005, Agora human rights association is a network of lawyers and advocates who have defended the many Russians accused of political activity under Russian President Vladimir Putin. Among its high-profile clients are the opposition rock group and arts collective Pussy Riot and opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
The people of Russia deserve a strong, democratic government that respects the role that civil society plays in holding governments accountable and providing essential services, rather than stifling NGOs' important work. The United States, said State Department Spokesperson John Kirby, "urge[s] the Russian government to abolish this legislation today and uphold its international human rights commitments."


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Hong Kong "Occupy Central" Protest Scripted in Washington. Leaders Mislead Grassroots
Protest co-organizer Martin Lee sets stage, introduces "Occupy Central" characters in April 2014 talk before US State Department's National Endowment for Democracy.
By Tony Cartalucci
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Theme: Intelligence, Media Disinformation
The slogans, leaders, and agenda of the "Occupy Central" movement are supposedly the manifestations of Hong Kong's desire for "total democracy," "universal suffrage," and "freedom." In reality, the leaders of "Occupy Central" are verified to be directly backed, funded, and directed by the US State Department, its National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and its subsidiary, the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
Despite admitting this overwhelming evidence, many "Occupy Central" supporters still insist the protests are genuine and now some propose that the "Occupy Central" leadership does not truly represent the people of Hong Kong. While the leadership of "Occupy Central" indeed in no way represent the people of Hong Kong, the fact still remains that the protest itself was prearranged at least as early as April 2014, revealed by "Occupy Central" co-organizers Martin Lee and Anson Chan before NED in Washington DC.
The talk titled, "Why Democracy in Hong Kong Matters," spanned an hour, with NED regional vice president Louisa Greve leading the duo through a full introduction of the "Occupy Central" movement, its characters, agenda, demands, and talking points. Anson Chan – Hong Kong's Chief Secretary under British rule – in particular, with her perfect British accent, insisted repeatedly that the issue was China's apparent backtracking on "deals" made with the UK over the handover of Hong Kong in the late 1990's.
Lee, as well as members of the audience, repeatedly stated that Hong Kong's role was to "infect" mainland China with its Western-style institutions, laws, and interests. Lee also repeatedly appealed to Washington specifically to ensure they remained committed to defending American interests in Hong Kong.
Both Lee and Chan would also state that since China appears to be concerned over global perception of how it rules its people, this could be exploited to excise from Beijing concessions over Hong Kong's governance. This included mention of previous protests, including those led by "activist" Joshua Wong and his suspicious "Scholarism" organization that has been tracked since at least 2012 by the US State Department's NDI. And of course, future destabilization was submitted as a viable solution to bending Beijing toward Western concessions.
For those able to listen to the entire 1 hour interview as well as questions and answers, the entire "Occupy Central" narrative is laid bare, verbatim, in Washington DC months before demonstrations began in the streets of Hong Kong. For a supposed "pro-democracy" protest seeking self-governance and self-determination and denouncing "interference" from Beijing, that their leaders are funded by foreign interests, and the plans for "Occupy Central" laid in a foreign capital is ironic at best – utter and very intentional deceit at worst.
Democracy indeed assumes self-governance and self determination. If the US State Department is colluding with, funding, and directing the politicians and protest leaders behind "Occupy Central," the people of Hong Kong are governing and determining nothing – Washington and Wall Street are. Martin Lee and collaborator Anson Chan complain about Beijing dictating policy in Hong Kong, while they sit together in a room full of foreign interests who would dictate Hong Kong's governance instead.
Laid bare is "Occupy Central's" true agenda. It is not about having Hong Kong vote for who they desire to see in power, it is about getting the foreign-backed political cabal behind "Occupy Central" into power, and disarming Beijing of any means to prevent what is for all intents and purposes the "soft" recolonization of Hong Kong, and a further attempt to divide and destabilize China as a whole.
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Bolivians protest self-declared "interim president" and police tear gas thousands of Evo Morales supporters
in World — by Countercurrents Collective —	November 14, 2019
Thousands of supporters of deposed Bolivian President Evo Morales gathered in La Paz, the Bolivian capital city, to demand the resignation of self-declared "interim" leader Jeanine Anez.
Riot police squared off the protesters during street clashes.
Thousands of Bolivians are demonstrating against the coup, which was orchestrated by opposition leaders Luis Fernando Camacho and Carlos Mesa and supported by the country's armed forces and police.
The new Military High Command, the commander in chief, Carlos Orellana Centellas; Pablo Arturo Guerra; Ivan Inchauste; Orlando Álvarez and Moisés Mejía Heredia, swear in the new position Wednesday, at Palacio Quemado, in La Paz. Photo: EFE
Flying national and indigenous flags and chanting pro-Morales slogans, the protest marchers met a forceful police response in Bolivia's administrative capital on Wednesday, facing down volleys of tear gas from armored security forces.
The demonstrators, led by indigenous militia group Ponchos Rojos, were heading toward the presidential palace in downtown La Paz before the clashes broke out.
The protesters responded the police tear gas shells with rocks and other improvised projectiles.
The mainstream media (MSM) have not reported the street protests and clashes on the La Paz streets.
Following Evo Morales' forced resignation and flight from Bolivia for political asylum in Mexico earlier this week, opposition Senator Jeanine Anez declared herself "interim president".
While right wing opposition lawmakers argued Anez's declaration was valid under the Bolivian constitution, the ousted president's Movement for Socialism Party, in Spanish, Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) slammed the move as illegal and boycotted the legislature.
Evo Morales resigned under pressure from top military officials after weeks of opposition protests over the result of October's presidential election, in which the opposition, and U.S.-based Organization for American States (OAS), alleged "irregularities", the claim not supported by any fact.
Washington and its partners in the OAS have hailed the socialist leader's ouster as a triumph for democracy, though it did little to quell the unrest in Bolivia.
A Reuters report headlined "Morales' shadow looms large in Bolivia as clashes test new leader", from La Paz, said:
Bolivian security forces clashed on the streets of La Paz with supporters of unseated president Evo Morales on Wednesday, firing tear gas to clear the protesters.
Supporters of Evo Morales carrying colorful flags and banners marched in the capital while his party's lawmakers looked to unseat Jeanine Anez.
Anez, 52, said she wanted elections as soon as possible and denied a coup had taken place against leftist leader and newly-exiled Morales, who hinted he could return to Bolivia.
Anez, who has already overhauled some of Morales' policies, faces a challenge from lawmakers of Morales' MAS, who have a majority in parliament and have threatened a rival session to nullify her presidency.
Police also fired tear gas in the city center to break up crowds after thousands of Morales supporters marched into La Paz from nearby El Alto, many carrying the colorful "Wiphala" flags of regional indigenous groups.
Many previously marginalized indigenous groups saw their power and affluence rise significantly under Morales, a former coca grower who was Bolivia's first indigenous president.
Bolivia's Attorney General says there have been at least seven fatalities in the 23 days of conflict, including in the cities of La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba.
People in La Paz were split on Anez. "She does not represent the people, but the big elites, the society that has money but does not represent the poor," said bread seller Ruth Moscoso.
At the government palace, where Anez later unveiled her core team of ministers, she said she planned to call elections "in the shortest possible time."
Britain Brazil Colombia congratulate Anez
Conservative-led Brazil, Colombia and Britain congratulated Anez.
A U.S. official said Washington would "look forward to working with her and Bolivia's other civilian authorities as they arrange free and fair elections as soon as possible."
Anez recognizes Guaido
The Reuters report said:
The religious conservative arrived to take on her new role carrying a bible in a symbolic break from indigenous leader Morales. She has already recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido over Morales ally President Nicolas Maduro.
Morales' loyalists say the move by Anez to declare herself president was illegal because Congress did not formally accept Morales' resignation, and tried to hold a counter meeting on Wednesday.
Workers Council's deadline
The deadline given by the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) to restore democracy has expired on Wednesday, amidst a illegal presidential succession that cannot be easily consolidated because it was carried out by breaking several legal procedures.
For instance, with the intention of legitimizing an act of succession that occurred without the legally required quorum, Anez cited article 170 of the Bolivian Constitution according to which the President can be dismissed from his duties in case of death, resignation, absence or definitive impediment.
If this politically driven interpretation of the constitutional text does not achieve greater support among citizens, however, the COB could initiate an indefinite strike.
Police attacks Senate's President
Adriana Salvatierra, the legitimate President of the Senate, was violently assaulted by the police as she was trying to enter the Senate on Wednesday in order to comply with the constitutional rule that automatically proclaims the head of the upper chamber the Interim President when the President steps down, after Evo Morales was forced to resign on Sunday.
In a press conference that followed the attack, Salvatierra told reporters that she was ready to open the parliament session and assume the presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia as mandated by law.
"After the attack, we can observe that we have no guarantee for us to fulfill our legislative mandate," she said from her office at the Legislative Assembly in La Paz, as she suffers from minor injuries from the attack.
She recalled that ousted President Evo Morales's instructions were very clear about avoiding violence and clashes between supporters and opponents of the socialist party.
She lamented the violence of the attack by security forces and condemned the radicalization growing across the country, after Morales' resignation left a political vacuum that the conservative opposition was quick to fill.
On Tuesday, opposition Senator Jeanine Anez declared herself president of Bolivia.
However, she made the move without meeting with the constitutional requirements, as the Parliament did not reach the legal quorum since the lawmakers of the MAS, who represent the majority in Congress, could not attend the session due to a lack of guarantees for their security.
Large numbers of police around the central Plaza Murillo in La Paz appeared to block MAS lawmakers, including former Senate head Adriana Salvatierra, from entering the government building.
Salvatierra had resigned publicly but said on Wednesday that her resignation letter had not been formally accepted. "I'm still a senator," Salvatierra told journalists.
Legitimize coup: 4,000 twitter accounts created
With hashtags such as #EvoAsesino, #EvoDictador or #EvoEsFraude, the messages of these accounts denounced that the first indigenous president is a corrupt and accused him of having "stolen" the October elections, as well as celebrating the presidency of Jeanine Anez and declaring that the coup finally led to "democracy and freedom" to the Bolivian people. Photo: Pagina 12
It's becoming more and more clear the role of social media as yet another political party able to legitimize or remove any Government, especially through social networks.
A few days after the consummated coup against Bolivian President Evo Morales, there have been more than 4500 new Twitter accounts created, without almost any followers, with the hashtag #BoliviaNoHayGolpe installed. The exact number, up to preparing this report, was 4,492.
Luciano Galup, director of the Menta Communication consultancy, was the one who announced that there were thousands of messages against the figure of Evo Morales from accounts almost without followers.
He acknowledged that as a result of an effervescent society, which in the face of a crisis may want to participate in the debate, some of these accounts could, in fact, be genuine.
Galup expressed that the majority had been created to install a sense of democratic disruption in Bolivia worldwide.
"These types of coordinated actions do not have much impact on domestic politics. A Trending Topic has no effectiveness on people who live those experiences and occupy those territories. But worldwide they can function as propaganda," Galup explained to Argentinean media outlet Pagina 12.
For the analyst, the campaign in networks against Evo aims to legitimize the coup and wash the face of the incoming illegitimate government. "Dictatorships and coups need to legitimize themselves against the concert of nations because there may be sanctions. It works like a foreign policy, not a domestic one," he said.
Since Sunday the images illustrating the coup in Bolivia have flooded the Internet: Evo announcing his resignation to avoid an escalation of violence, Fernando Camacho entering Palacio Quemado with a bible and a rosary, fires and looting of the houses belonging to the leaders of the MAS, mobilizations in the streets for and against of the coup, senator Jeanine Anez demanding the Armed Forces to intervene to "prevent a bloodshed", Peru preventing the plane that took Evo to Mexico from flying over its territory, prisoners rioted in the most important prison in La Paz.
"When countries acquire relevance from their conflicts, their meaning is disputed at the global level. The Bolivian case is particular because it has the characteristics of a traditional coup d'etat, with the Armed Forces asking a president to resign, so it has a lack of legitimacy of origin that forces it to have to defend what is happening internationally," Galup explained.
With hashtags such as #EvoAsesino, #EvoDictador or #EvoEsFraude, the messages of these accounts denounced that the first indigenous president is a corrupt and accused him of having "stolen" the October elections, as well as celebrating the presidency of Jeanine Anez and declaring that the coup finally led to "democracy and freedom" to the Bolivian people.
Argentina's Congress to discuss text rejecting coup in Bolivia
Argentina's Chamber of Deputies and Senate was scheduled to hold sessions in which lawmakers will urge President Mauricio Macri to reject the coup against Evo Morales, demand the restitution of the constitutional order, condemn human rights violations and provide asylum to deposed officials.
"As Argentineans who have a deep tradition of peace and respect for the people's will, we urge the executive power to speak out against the civic-military coup which has interrupted the democratic and constitutional order," says the draft text that will be discussed.
On Tuesday, lawmakers from Victory Front (FPV), Renovator Front (FR), Network for Argentina, Evita Movement, We Are (Somos), Left and Workers Front (FIT), and Republican Proposal (PRO) presented five draft texts related to the political situation in Bolivia.
Among these are pronouncements to halt the coup and the interference of the army, appeal to the restoration of democracy, and reject systematic human rights violations.
The calls in both houses of the Parliament were motivated by the silence that the Macri administration has maintained so far with regard to the Bolivian events, which Argentinean lawmakers have described as "intolerable facts which cannot be accepted under any circumstances or with any excuse."
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Farewell (So It Seems) to Pence Kobach
It ended on the most ironic of notes for a Republican administration. In disbanding the Pence Kobach "voter fraud" commission, the federal government put the blame on a lack of cooperation from states. The fault-finding would normally run in the reverse direction: The "feds" are supposed to be the culpable party, bulldozing over state sovereignty. Come to think of it, that is how many states did view the blundering Pence Kobach operation. But in this case, with a need to pin the failure on someone, the White House did not find the federalist uprising at all to its liking.
The administration wisely shut this initiative down. Pence-Kobach generated nothing but bad press and became a magnet for lawsuits. It earned the distinction of being sued by, among other parties, one its own members. Unable to produce a report that would have been taken seriously anywhere, in courts or legislatures, where it might have counted, it was useless. Why, then, continue and sink even lower?
It is not clear what this experience teaches other than the trap that zealotry sets for itself. The Commission's goal was exactly what its founding suggested: riding on the president's claim that fraud denied him a popular vote victory in 2016, a mostly familiar cast of "vote fraud" crusaders hoped to slap a spanking new cover, marked "federal government-approved," on their old tall tale about an electoral process corrupted through-and-through by illegal voting. The plan was certain to fail.
It is true that commission time and again stumbled badly. But what it set out to do would have been hard to pull off anyway. Across the states, the years following the Florida recount debacle have seen a sharpened, data-driven and sophisticated focus on the very real problems with election administration. There has been true progress, much of it bi-partisan, representing a major step toward vitally needed professionalism. Election officials, civil society organizations, scholars and policy experts have produced valuable research, and they have launched and collaborated on productive reform initiatives. Given its leadership, staffing and objectives, Pence Kobach stood no chance of hawking its counterfeit product to an informed election administration and reform community, or counting on it to let its sales job pass without critical comment.
Category: Election Administration, Election reform, Pence Commission, Pence Commission on voting fraud
Tags: election reform, Pence Kobach Commission, Voting Rights
Professor Lessig's Electoral College Litigation
It happens often that calamitous election outcomes are attributed to democratic dysfunction, and reform proposals follow from there. Those Republicans who are not deeply cynical about voter ID--and there are a fair number of those--sincerely and mistakenly believe that they lose elections because of illegal voting. Years ago, they convinced themselves that structural bias would keep Democrats in power in the Congress until the nation adopted mandatory term limits. Democrats in 1971 famously believed Richard Nixon reinvented himself politically through dark manipulations of television advertising, and to weaken his reelection prospects, their ranks in the Congress enacted a short-lived law that limited candidate media expenditures.
Of course, not all reform proposals born of frustration are misconceived or doomed to fail. But there are risks, some of which are apparent in a new reform initiative from Professor Lawrence Lessig's: litigation to establish that states may not allocate Electoral Votes on a winner-take-all basis (WTA). His argument is not entirely about a change in the rules to achieve preferred outcomes or prevent bad ones. He does contend that, by driving active campaigning to a handful of states, WTA limits meaningful participation in the election to a handful of states whose voters see the most paid advertising and enjoy--if that is right word--the most visits from candidates and their surrogates.
Professor Lessig's next argument, however, is more political. He sees WTA as putting more power in the hands of older white voters in industrial heartland states. It is fairly clear, then, that this proposed litigation is a response to the election of 2016, grounded in the belief that a change in the allocation would work a shift in the balance of national political power. And we have seen a reaction like this before. In 2012, the Democratic nominee won Pennsylvania, and those who were bitter about WTA were Republicans state legislators who threatened to shift a Congressional-district based allocation. Indeed the same move among Republicans is now underway in the State of Virginia and Minnesota.
So this is one risk: guessing wrong, as the Republicans did in 2012. Had they succeeded then, the congressional district-based allocation of electoral votes would have benefited Hillary Clinton in 2016. Politics is not static, and the judgment about the political effects of specific allocations is hazardous.
Another risk is misreading, or reading narrowly, the requirements of democratic participation in the concrete setting of the politics of the era.
Category: Electoral College, Lawrence Lessig, political reform, progressive politics
Tags: Electoral College, Lawrence Lessig, political reform
Pence-Kobach, the First Day of Hearings, and the Von Spakovsky Affair
The Pence-Kobach Commission just conducted its first public hearing, and its leadership may have hoped to use the occasion to recover a degree of credibility or measure of respectability for its operations. If that was the plan, it did not work out well. The Vice Chair Kobach started the day in retreat from claims, published the Friday before, about illegal voting in the last New Hampshire Senate election. This is the latest example of his utter disregard of the facts and appetite for sweeping, false claims that have been enough to disqualify him as a serious participant in the national discussion of voting rights.It certainly makes a mockery of his leadership of a presidential Commission supposedly conducting an impartial inquiry into the risks of illegal voting.
Then the Campaign Legal Center released an informative email that it obtained by FOIA request to the Department of Justice for materials relating allegations of voting fraud in the 2016 election. An employee of the Heritage Foundation, whose identity was redacted, complained to DOJ about the inclusion in the Commission of any Democrats or "mainstream" Republicans. The author protested that Democrats would only obstruct a productive inquiry, and that "mainstream" Republicans and "academics" would be useless. The author admonishes the Administration to think twice about its embrace of bipartisanship and to consult with the Heritage experts who know something.
The email was sent in February of this year. In June, President Trump appointed one of these Heritage experts, Hans Von Spakovsky, to the Commission. It turns out that Von Spakovsky also wrote the email, a fact now confirmed by Heritage but originally denied by Von Spakovsky in response to an inquiry from ProPublica.
So the Administration chose to appoint to the Commission an individual who strongly objected to a bipartisan inquiry but also to a formal role for social scientists trained in data collection and dispassionate analysis. The story should not end there.
Category: Pence Commission, Pence Commission on voting fraud, voter fraud, Voting Rights
Tags: Pence Commission, The Pence Commission on Voting Fraud, voter fraud, Voter ID
If "Love" Knows No Bounds: On Criminal "Intent" and the Scope of the Campaign Finance Law
This is a piece I posted yesterday on Just Security on the campaign finance law issues raised by the facts emerging about the Trump campaign-Russia contacts. It responds in particular to the constitutional and related concerns that some commentators have expressed about an ostensibly expansive application of the law in these circumstances. ----
If the Trump campaign solicited support from Russians in the race against Hillary Clinton, did it, or any of its staff, have the mental state required for prosecution under federal criminal law? The discussion so far has largely centered on Donald Trump Jr.'s actions in scheduling the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, and for a number of commentators, the issue seems to be his own personal liability. Professor Andy Grewal has made the point that the bar for establishing criminal intent is high. He is not alone in this judgment. Professor Saikrishna Prakash agrees.
It is without doubt correct that people should not go to jail for breaking a law unless the rule they violate is clear and they had the requisite intent to violate it. This is, of course, especially imperative when they are engaged in core First Amendment-protected activities like participating in a political campaign.
In the case of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, however, this argument can be--and has been-- both overstated and misdirected. Now that Jared Kushner has provided his account of the meeting, there is additional material useful in analyzing the campaign's culpability.
Moreover, in sorting out these issues, it is essential to keep in mind what conduct the campaign finance law does, or does not reach. Commentators like Professor Prakash and Eugene Volokh fear that even if the Trump campaign, its candidate and it senior staff sought and received Russian Government help, an overly expansive construction of the campaign finance laws to reach this conduct could present major constitutional risks. For example, journalists might be liable for seeking or accepting from foreign nationals information intended to damage a political candidacy. These concerns are also off the mark, because the there is nothing exceptional or overbroad in a reading of the law that covers the Trump campaign conduct.
Category: 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump, Enforcement, foreign national contributions, foreign nationals, Russia in 2016 election, Russia-Trump Campaign Investigation
Tags: Donald Trump, enforcement, foreign national spending, Russia in 2016 election
Writing about The Russian Matter and Campaign Finance–And Also Questions of Political Ethics
A reader has asked whether I am abandoning this site for others in writing about the campaign finance issues in the Russia-Trump campaign matter. Not so. But I did agree to write on this subject for Just Security, and I have touched on other related issues for Lawfare
Here are the various Just Security postings grouped together. (One earlier posting relates to another subject altogether, but all the recent ones address the Trump campaign-Russia issues.)
Also, there are always interesting questions to be asked about the ethics of political speech and action, not just the governing law. I wrote for Lawfare yesterday on President Trump's defense of the June 6 meeting at Trump Tower. He takes it to be nothing more than politics-as-usual. I question that.
Category: 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump, foreign nationals, Russia in 2016 election, Russia-Trump Campaign Investigation
Tags: Donald Trump, Russia in 2016 election, Russia-Trump campaign investigation
Russian Intrusion and Partisan Pressures: Aspects of Election Administration Reform After 2016
Catastrophic Attack and Political Reform
More on When Collusion with a Foreign Government Becomes a Crime
"When Collusion with a Foreign Government Becomes a Crime"
The Supreme Court and the Political Parties
The Political Parties and Their Problems
The Pence Commission: Of "Public Confidence" and Trojan Horses
Legal Process and the Comey Firing
The Trump Executive Order and IRS Politics


typically between 45 and 75% ABV (alcohol by volume), about doubly strong as other types of alcohol based drinks like whisky and vodka.
Also known as "The Green Fairy" or "La Fee Verte", Absinthe was the drink linked to La Belle Epoque and Bohemian Paris. It had been given to French soldiers during the 1840s to treat malaria so they brought the drink home along with them. Absinthe bars opened all over Paris and special Absinthe hours or "L'heure verte" came about daily. By the middle of the 19th century Pernod, distillers of Absinthe, were making over 30,000 liters of Absinthe every single day for the French people to purchase!
Legend says that Dr Pierre Ordinaire developed Absinthe in the Swiss town of Couvet within the 18th century being an elixir or tonic for his customers. The Absinthe recipe in due course got int the hands of Henri-Louis Pernod who first distilled Absinthe in Couvet and later in Pontarlier, France as of Pernod Fils.
– Thujone, in wormwood, was believed to be comparable to THC in cannabis and considered to be psychoactive.
It had beenfurthermore alleged that an Absinthe drinker murdered his entire family – merely the excuse that the prohibition movement were seeking to influence the authority to ban Absinthe. The buying, selling and use of Absinthe in France was made illicit in France in 1915 and in many other countries during this time period.
Many studies have shown that Absinthe, including vintage Absinthe, only contains very small quantities of thujone and is perfectly safe to drink. Absinthe has actually been legalized in several countries since the 1990s and there has been an Absinthe resurgence in many countries, including the USA who may have only recently allowed a few brands to take a sale.
To experience Absinthe, you can either order bottles of Absinthe on the web or produce your own Absinthe making use of essences from AbsintheKit.com. These essences are widely-used by the Absinthe industry and are also made using traditional herbal ingredients such as wormwood, aniseed and fennel. Just mix with either Everclear or vodka to make your own Absinthe. You can find four various kinds of essence available.
I hope that you've now learned information about Absinthe, the mysterious drink which has a quite interesting past along with a great taste.


Michael Staniak is an Australian artist whose experimental, digital media-inspired paintings explore process, materiality and abstraction in a digital era. His work is informed by online acts, culture and aesthetics as it questions the changing effects of technology upon contemporary image production and consumption.
Michael Staniak, born 1982, is an Australian artist based in Melbourne and a graduate of the Victoria College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne (BFA, MFA) and the Middle Tennessee State University. Selected solo exhibitions include BLUE TIMES, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna (2014), Slow Pictures at Artereal Gallery in Sydney (2014), Internet Blueprints at Art Brussels with Steve Turner Contemporary (2014) and Image DNA at Steve Turner Contemporary (2014). Selected group shows include Dashboard at Kalpany in Milan (2014), Merge Visible at Horton Gallery in New York (2013), #Pseudoreal at Judith Charles Gallery in New York (2013) and Primal Mutation at the Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (2012). He received the Australia Council's Artstart Grant in 2013, the Stirling Group Award in 2009, the Acacia Award in 2007 and was a finalist in the Metro Gallery 2012 and 2010 Art Award selection. He was also a pavilion curator for The Wrong new digital art gallery in Melbourne, Australia (2013) and is the founder and Director of Paradise Hills Gallery, an artist run initiative in Melbourne Victoria.


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Keith Emerson talks ELP's Brain Salad Surgery track-by-track
By Joe Bosso 17 February 2014
"We felt as if we could do anything. Musically, lyrically and visually, we really went for it."
When Emerson, Lake & Palmer released their fifth album, Brain Salad Surgery, on November 19, 1973, the band's extravagantly audacious blend of outer-limits progressive rock, fantastical re-imaginings of classics and lush, pastoral pop balladry reached both a creative and commercial peak. ELP's previous efforts reached sizable but somewhat disparate audiences – art rockers flocked to Tarkus and Trilogy while curious classical adventure seekers embraced Pictures At An Exhibition – but with Brain Salad Surgery, the trio put the mainstream directly in their crosshairs without sacrificing their prodigious instrumental chops.
"We were still ascending when we made Brain Salad Surgery," Keith Emerson says. "We were enjoying a sensational amount of success, and I suppose we felt as if we could do anything – and we certainly tried. Musically, lyrically and visually, we really went for it."
The album would be the inaugural release by the band's newly formed Manticore label and would differ from the extensively overdubbed Trilogy in that the group plotted out the music as a largely live creation. At the start of 1973, Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer purchased an abandoned cinema in Fulham, London, and converted it into a rehearsal and production facility, using an upstairs foyer to assemble and run through new compositions.
"That was the general idea, to play the album live," Emerson recalls. "I pretty much had the whole concept in mind. We had taken a bit of a break to be with our families, so that gave me a fair enough time to put down enough hand-written ideas for the Karn Evil 9. I then approached Greg and Carl with a sheaf of manuscript papers, and we set about rehearsing, going over the material and being sort of repetitive about it."
Once the epic Karn Evil 9 was worked out – the 30-minute sci-fi tale of man vs machine would spill over from side one and encompass the whole of side two – ELP loosened up with the deliciously lighthearted honky-tonk saloon spoof Benny The Bouncer. "We liked to get the serious stuff out of the way and then do something fun," Emerson says. "We had done Are You Ready Eddy? and The Sheriff before. It was always a nice little breather to soften the mood, both in the studio and on record."
To complete the lyrics to both Karn Evil 9 and Benny The Bouncer, Lake recruited his old pal and former King Crimson bandmate Peter Sinfield. "Greg had always been a prolific songwriter and lyricist," Emerson notes, "but at this particular time he needed the influence of somebody he had confidence in. Pete brought a lot of fantastic ideas and lines to the songs."
Recording took place between June and September of 1973 at London's Advision and Olympic Studios, with Lake, as he had done on the group's previous albums, serving as producer. "It was a pretty straightforward time in the studio," Emerson says, "even with some of the new pieces of equipment we were using, like the Moog Apollo. Because we were so rehearsed, there wasn't a lot of mucking about. We didn't have Pro Tools and all the things that exist now. If a person made a mistake, you didn't say, 'Oh, we'll fix that later.' We really had to get it right as we played together."
Originally, the album was to be called Whip Some Skull On Ya – a slang expression for fellatio. The eventual title of Brain Salad Surgery, nicked from a lyric in Dr. John's hit Right Place, Wrong Time, dismayed artist H.R. Giger, who had been commissioned by Emerson to create the jarring and groundbreaking cover art. When Emerson explained that Brain Salad Surgery carried the same connotation as Whip Some Skull On Ya, Giger was greatly relieved.
By the decade's end, Giger's work would become famous from the film Alien, but in 1973 he was still regarded as something of an underground artist. Emerson had been made aware of the Swiss surrealist by Manticore's Peter Zumsteg, who drove the keyboardist to meet with Giger at his Zurich studio. "The second I walked in, I was absolutely amazed," Emerson says. "The artwork represented the music we were working on as fully as I could have imagined. The next day, I told Greg and Carl, 'You've got to some with me to see what this guy is doing.' I think they were kind of reluctant at the beginning, but once they saw his stuff, they were incredibly intrigued. I'm so pleased with where we went for the cover. I think it's one of the best pieces of album art I've ever seen, to be honest."
The across-the-board success of Brain Salad Surgery – helped in large part by the nearly constant spins of Karn Evil 9's First Impression, Part 2 on FM radio – cemented Emerson, Lake & Palmer's worldwide popularity, and the group capitalized on their fame with a stage show so grandiose (over 36 tons of gear, complete with levitating, spinning keyboards and the world's first discrete quadrophonic PA system) that the only band who could top them was... Emerson, Lake & Palmer! And, sure enough, in 1977 they did just that, bringing a 70-piece orchestra on the road for the budget-busting Works tour.
On April 7, 2014, Razor & Tie will issue a three-disc 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Brain Salad Surgery, which includes the remastered original album, an "alternate album" that features previously unreleased material and a DVD-A of new 5.1 mixes of the original album. You can pre-order the Deluxe Edition and various bundles of the set at elp.merchnow.com.
"It's always hard to pinpoint why a particular album hits the mark and lives on and on," Emerson muses. "Out of all our other records, this was our biggest, and even today, it's the one that most everybody knows. It really touched a nerve with a lot of people."
On the following pages, Emerson recounts the writing and recording of Brain Salad Surgery track-by-track.
ELP, circa 1973 (from left): Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer
(Image credit: Razor & Tie)
"We wanted the opening to be startling, and this number certainly does take you by surprise. What was surprising to me was when the song gave the media the idea that we'd become born-again Christians. I've got no objection to born-again Christians, but that certainly wasn't the case, nor was it the intention behind the song.
"To me, the lyrics are a little bit like Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale. I didn't really connect any kind of religious element to it at all. I just thought it was a damn good song. Every kid at school knew the Jerusalem – it's so majestic.
"I remember, back in the '60s, I worked on an arrangement of it with The Nice. It didn't come across somehow, but with ELP it came together quite nicely. I think we knew how to embrace the sense of drama in the music and organize it properly, and I think that Greg felt comfortably singing it, which helped, as you can imagine.
"I used the Moog Apollo on it. This was when the Moog company decided to go polyphonic. I would help Bob Moog out on his different inventions. The Apollo sounded incredible. It wasn't an easy song for Carl to lay down the drums on. It was a little bit like when he had to put on the drum parts for Lucky Man, from the first album. Greg had already recorded his guitar work, and of course, there was no click track to work from. These are the challenges with recording."
Tocatta
"I'd first heard Alberto Ginastera's Tocatta from his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1969. It just completely blew me away. When Carl and I got together, he was very keen on doing music by Bartok and some other composers because he knew that I liked the classics. When this piece came to my attention, I started to play it and Carl said, 'What the fuck is that?' He was excited and wanted to try it. I don't think Greg was too into it at first.
""I used a Minimoog on this and, of course, a Hammond organ – they were lined up in locality to each other. Carl had quite an arsenal of equipment for making his drum sounds. We wanted to do something quite extraordinary, and I think he really pushed himself to the limit on this track. The music lent itself to experimentation – it wasn't the kind of thing you could sing along to. We all got caught up in that feeling of adventure: If somebody did something exciting, somebody else extended it.
"After we'd spent about two weeks recording, it came to management's attention that we should get permission from the publishers, which, in this case, was Boosey and Hawkes. I approached them and they said, 'Nope. Sorry. We don't think Maestro Ginastera will want to give approval to this.'
"I wasn't going to take no for answer. I got his Alberto's number and spoke to his wife. The next day, I was on a plane to Geneva with Stewart Young, our manager, and we found ourselves in Alberto's apartment. He served us a brilliant meal, and we talked about music and synthesizers – he had a rough knowledge of synths and was interested in. At the end of the lunch, he wanted to listen to my adaptation of Tocatta.
"I had the tape with me, so we went into his studio. I think he had a Revox reel to reel tape recorder. I played it for him, and when it was over he had a strange look on his face. He seemed to be extremely astounded, and he said something like 'That is terrible.' I interpreted that as literally that – terrible. I thought, 'Well, that's it. We obviously can't use that one.' But then I learned that in French 'terrible' means the same as 'formidable' or 'unbelievable.' He was, in fact, overwhelmed by the recording, so all was fine."
(Image credit: Neal Preston/Corbis)
Still... You Turn Me On
"Greg did the writing on this song. Like with Lucky Man, it was introduced right at the very end of the recording. We had kind of developed a trend where I would work on the epics like Trilogy and Tarkus, and Greg would come up with the 'Greg Lake ballad,' which were quite important for the appeal of the records.
"The way he would introduce the songs to us was funny – and fairly typical: Greg would come into the studio and say, 'I've been thinking…' And then he'd put his guitar on, strum away, and Carl and I would be like, 'Hey, that's all right. That sounds good.' You know, I always love to hear other people's compositions. I find it rather challenging to try to find what it is I need to do to bring something out of what somebody else has written. Like on this song, I played a harpsichord. It's good fun, that challenge – and I always enjoyed doing that with Greg's music."
Benny The Bouncer
"This one came about rather like Are You Ready Eddy? From Tarkus, only with a bit more structure. We had gotten the major concept and the big tunes out of the way, and we became fun. We decided to loosen up, we started jamming, and Benny started happening.
"Greg sounds great on this, that gruff accent and the bellowing voice. [Sings] 'Benny was the bouncer at the palais de dance!' Brilliant. He sounds like an authentic West End Bouncer, if you ask me.
"Carl plays the brushes, and that totally works with the tune and the honky-tonk piano sound that I got. I used an upright piano that I detuned so that it was a little 'off' and old-sounding. It was a good piano, but it got shipped around a lot – I don't know what happened to it.
"It's a sort of shock value, this song, a nice release. You don't want to telegraph each thing as you move along your way. Benny The Bouncer is lighthearted and it moves into the more serous piece…"
Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 1
"I thought the piece might turn out to have more of a fugal development. It's not really a fugue, though; it's more of a counterpoint – you get one theme ending and another one starts underneath it. I guess the closest you get to it is a canon.
"It evolved pretty much like all of the other ELP concept albums: me at home, writing on manuscript paper, doing scribblings and things like that. My main concern was that I was coming up with something memorable and that it could be played by an orchestra one day. The whole piece was worked out instrumentally; we had no idea where we were going lyrically; we didn't even what to call it. I didn't think up with the title; it actually came from Pete Sinfield. He was doing a play on the word 'carnival.'
"Once I had it all written down instrumentally, I went to the rehearsal studio and ran it through with Greg and Carl, how the bass should go, how the drums should go. Of course, they came up with their own ideas, and I'd say, 'Yeah, that's cool. We can use that – I'll change what I'm doing then.' For a month we went over and over it, playing it all day. Finally, we felt good enough to bring it to the recording studio. You can't just bash out a piece like this; you've got to really know what you're doing.
"There's the main hook part, the sort of anthem riff – at some point it developed into a bohemian or Jamaican feel. I think it gave Carl a lot to work with so he could add a lot of syncopations on the drums."
"There is a bit of Beatles in the lyrics – 'roll up' and the idea of a show, like with Sgt. Pepper. I was a bit nervous about that, but I thought we were going something very different from what they had done. The music along with H.R. Giger's artwork, it was definitely more bizarre."
"Pete was in the studio writing a lot of lyrics: 'Here behind the glass is a real blade of grass. Come inside, come inside.' It had a real commercial element to it, and the riffs were very strong.
"This particular part of Karn Evil 9 got played on the FM radio a lot. I think the fact that it started off side two didn't hurt. You had to flip over the vinyl, and this was the first thing you heard – [sings] 'Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.'
"It's a tight, well-constructed piece of music. The solos were plotted out well – the keyboard solo into the guitar solo into a bit of a drum solo. The tempo might slow down just a bit at one point. Carl's a brilliant drummer, of course, but all drummers can vary slightly in time. That's just the nature of a human being playing an instrument. Again, no click tracks."
Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression
"I was dabbling at the piano, and before you knew it, I had something pretty nice. It's a jazz piece, really, partially inspired by Chick Corea, perhaps.
"There weren't many electronic keyboards around at the time, so I used a regular piano. I liked to do crazy things like sticking pins in the keys, and knives occasionally. I didn't do anything like that on this track.
"I had a Minimoog on top of the piano, and that's what I used for the marimbas. There's a bit of steel drums, too – again, the Minimoog. I found it to be a very versatile piece of gear. I played everything at the same time; there were no overdubs. Luckily, I had three hands at my disposal." [Laughs]
Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression
"It's very heraldic. As with most of my compositions, I like to have some bravado, especially as we near the finish. Tchaikovsky's Pathétique ends on a very somber note. The third movement is what everybody applauds, but you get to the fourth movement and everybody's in tears. You can't really clap for that.
"I didn't want any of ELP's music to send people away crying, so I went for something more anthemic and rousing. It's not really cheery per se; there's a bit of foreboding, particularly the way it all ends. There's a lot of light and shade in this cut, the soft and the loud.
"There are three oscillators in the Moog synthesizer, and I detuned them slightly to give them a particular ring, very much like what I did on pianos. That worked really well on the synth horn parts. Oh, and you hear the voiceover l did, like a computer voice – I did that as a joke.
At the very end, that's the Moog going crazy – it's sped up to sound like an out-of-control computer. I programmed each note one at a time, twenty-four notes in the pattern. They sort of ping-pong off one another as it goes faster and faster and sputters out. It took a while to program, as you can imagine. Live, we had a set design and a bunch of lights that responded to the notes and then kind of blew up. It was pretty cool."


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Ohio's Hospice LifeCare Appoints Three New Board Members
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Ohio's Hospice LifeCare announced the appointment of three new members to its board of directors. Brian Hinkle, Gereese Ruwe and Gene Thorn will serve on the board for the community-based, not-for-profit organization.
"We are pleased to welcome Brian Hinkle, Gereese Ruwe and Gene Thorn as board members," said Kurt Holmes, executive director at Ohio's Hospice LifeCare. "They bring extensive experience and expertise in their respective fields to our community and will be great assets to our organization."
Brian Hinkle has 20 years of experience in the banking industry. He currently works in business development and has built strong relationships in Ashland County. He also serves on the boards of Ashland County Community Foundation, Mohican Area Growth Foundation, and American Red Cross. Hinkle is the chair of the Culture and Diversity Committee with American Red Cross and is a Rotary International member.
Gereese Ruwe is a retired teacher and education administrator. She most recently served in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area until her husband began a role with The J.M. Smucker Co. in Wayne County. Ruwe is an active member of the Medina and Wadsworth communities. Her passion for hospice care began when her father received hospice care.
Gene Thorn recently retired as the chief financial officer at Cleveland Clinic – Union Hospital in New Philadelphia, Ohio. He also served as the chief financial officer for Doctors Hospital in Massillon, Ohio, before moving to Union Hospital. Thorn is the past president of the Buckeye Boy Scout Council, trustee of the Austin Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation, and trustee of United Way of Tuscarawas County.
"We are thankful for the service of each of our board members and their commitment to furthering and upholding the mission of Ohio's Hospice LifeCare," said Holmes. "Through community member support, we are building on the legacy of our founders by providing superior end-of-life care to communities in our region that we are privileged to serve."
Ohio's Hospice LifeCare, a not-for-profit organization established in 1982, is an affiliate of Ohio's Hospice that serves communities in Wayne, Holmes, Ashland and Medina counties. It embodies the spirit of neighbors caring for neighbors with a commitment to relieve suffering, ease fears, and provide companionship along life's last journey. Ohio's Hospice LifeCare addresses patient and family needs wherever the patient calls home. Services also include access to the Stanley C. and Flo K. Gault Inpatient Pavilion, providing short-term patient care to manage acute symptoms, adjust medications, or stabilize patient condition.
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