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Author: DJ Ron Slomowicz
REVIEW: Donna Summer – Once Upon a Time – 25th Anniversary of Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time
by: Jason Shawhan
It was an incongruous pairing of sound and image. Tourists being mowed down by a runaway car, chaos reigning and, from the car's radio, a familiar, plaintive voice. "That's Donna Summer!" I said to my friends while immersed in the computer game Grand Theft Auto III, trying to avoid rolling their car after taking out several police officers and prostitutes with a particularly vicious sideswipe. It was Summer's voice, from "Sweet Romance," a harpsichord-based ballad from her 1977 opus Once Upon a Time…, now sampled as the refrain for Black Rob's "By a Stranger," which is how it came to be in the game.
Just in time for its 25th anniversary, Once Upon a Time… is creeping back into the zeitgeist. Conceived as a musical storybook for Summer's daughter Mimi, Once Upon a Time… is a concept double album (divided into four acts, one per side on the original LPs) about fairy tales, love and life's cruel realities. The basic narrative follows a nameless girl on her journeys in the land of Never-Never, including her rendezvous with destiny and true love. Timeless archetypes, to be sure, but ones that Summer and her songwriting partners and producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, explored in new ways–namely, by conveying them through the sounds of disco and its adult concerns.
Once Upon a Time… yielded only one hit single, the dreamy and euphoric "I Love You," but the record still went multiplatinum–the first of Summer's four consecutive double albums to do so (in just three years). The record received mixed reviews upon its release, its detractors citing its opera-like conception as heavy-handed; today, it stands as perhaps the most ambitious and fully realized dance music album ever made.
A Nashville resident for the past seven years or so, Summer has long been hailed as the Queen of Disco, but that designation fails to do justice to the many musical forms–from funk and rock to blues and gospel–over which she and her collaborators demonstrated mastery. What is rarely addressed, and what certainly distinguishes the Summer/Moroder/Bellotte (S/M/B) collective from most dance groups, is the strength and versatility of their songwriting. It isn't just the enduring nature of so many of Summer's singles; it's the boldness and reach of the albums on which they appeared.
Love to Love You Baby (1975) and A Love Trilogy (1976), for example, devoted their entire first sides to experimental, vampy versions of their respective centerpieces. "I Feel Love" from 1977's I Remember Yesterday took all the loops and programs Kraftwerk had been working with, injected some soul into the machine and helped pave the way for contemporary electronic music. Act 2 of Once Upon a Time… is devoted to this kind of sound–Eurodisco before it had a name, Hi-NRG and synth-pop several years ahead of their time. The triptych of "Now I Need You," "Working the Midnight Shift" and "Queen for a Day" that comprises side two of Once Upon a Time… is almost curiously removed from time, sounding at once retro and futuristic.
Musically, Once Upon a Time… is a marvel, quintessentially disco yet more than just simple bass-line vamps over thumping kick drums and eighth-note percussion sequences. The chorus to "Rumour Has It" has an amazing lead-in where the hi-hats go double-time, the staccato feel marvelously conveying the movement of a rumor through a community. A similar adventurousness pervades the paranoid delusion of "Faster and Faster to Nowhere"–the only appearance nightmare makes on an album of dreams and fantasies. Using analog vocoders, unearthly screeches swirl in the mix and Donna breaks down in fear; it's the epitome of catharsis on the dance floor.
Nowhere is the ambition inherent in the S/M/B collective's songwriting more apparent than in the funk-sass of "If You Got It Flaunt It." The track takes a Mel Brooks maxim and reworks it as a bluesy strut, wherein the record's protagonist throws shade at "catty creatures" who try to diminish her as a human being. This flirtation with the chords and structure of the blues would lead to one of Summer's finest lesser-known songs, the funky "Love Will Always Find You" from the following year's Bad Girls. S/M/B's experiments with rock reached their fruition with that record, particularly on "Hot Stuff" and the equally imperious title track.
Like their latter-day counterparts Timbaland and Missy Elliott, S/M/B were constantly evolving creatively. Not content with letting any of their songs embody just one particular style, they began to blend tracks together, taking DJs mixes and combining them with artful segues to create a continuous record, one in which the beat didn't stop and the BPM defined an entire side of the record. Take "Queen for a Day" from Once Upon a Time…: In keeping with the rest of the record's second act, the track is completely synthesized; yet as it progresses, it devolves into piano, congas and strings. The effect is staggering. The stop-and-start dance beat of "Dance Into My Life," however, may be the most revolutionary aspect of the album, foreshadowing Summer's Oscar-winning "Last Dance," which actually comes to a complete stop before revving back up again.
The album's centerpiece, and what may be the finest example of intricate composition and arrangement for synthesizers, is "Working the Midnight Shift." The track, a mournful lament about the painful costs of working nights, is equally ethereal and visceral. Half the sequencers seem to be working in a minor key, and at least a couple of banks are putting out a major key, and over it all–those cool glissandos of sound waves–is Summer's voice, weaving a counterpoint with her backup singers. The overall feel is something akin to what Phil Spector might have done with Ralf and Florian of Kraftwerk. Summer was equally at home with R&B, funk, rock, the sexy purr of the clubs and the clarion call of the church. Above all, she meshed magnificently with machine, forever changing the sound of popular music.
On its 25th birthday, Once Upon a Time… sounds as fresh as ever, even as the soundtrack to mowing down tourists in cyberspace on Grand Theft Auto. That said, given the album's energy and conceptual adventurousness, it could just as easily become a Broadway musical. Those are pretty much the two extremes of modern popular culture, and it's rare to find something that can span that much social and emotional distance.
Posted on July 28, 2003 May 17, 2012 Author DJ Ron SlomowiczCategories ReviewsTags donna summer
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Frankie Knuckles: Beyond the Sound Factory (1991 Interview)
Frankie Knuckles: Beyond the Sound Factory
by Andy Reynolds
This is most definitely not Frankie Knuckles' first interview. He is the most popular DJ in the world. He DJs at one of the best nightclubs in the world: Sound Factory. "The Whistle Song" – the first single off his Beyond the Mix album – has hit No.1 positions on radio and club charts across Europe and is getting pop airplay on the top station in New York – Hot97. Frankie's a popular boy. Especially with me. I'm at Sound Factory at 3:30 every Saturday night – other clubs simply don't enter the picture. Sound Factory is about dancing, sweating, and working out whatever needs to be worked out right there on the dancefloor – Sound Factory is therapy. Frankie and I talked about Sound Factory, his music, and his album.
Andy Reynolds: So how do you choose what you play at Sound Factory?
Frankie Knuckles: Vocals are really important to me – good voices, good vocals, good lyrics – as well as the music and rhythms that go underneath them. Sometimes it can be a song that just has a good rhythm to it. I try to stay away from a lot of nonsensical music – songs with samples that have been used, used, and overused. To me, there's nothing that's that exciting about playing a bunch of records like that throughout the evening. There are a couple that I will play – that (I) know automatically will work well – but I generally try to break up the evening.
Andy Reynolds: When you get your crowd up to a peak, what's that like for your up in the booth?
Frankie Knuckles: It's crazy. I never really get a chance to focus in on it because when I do get the room going like that there's a ton of people that try to rush the booth at the same time. It breaks my concentration up.
Andy Reynolds: People have to realize that you have to concentrate!
Frankie Knuckles: Well, on the average, people don't. And I'm not just talking about people that are hanging out. I mean industry people. They have to be in that booth and they always have something they got to say while I'm trying really hard to feed off the energy that's coming back from everybody on the dancefloor. When the room starts taking off, I don't know, I guess a lot of people feel that they need to be right there…
Andy Reynolds: They need to be on that dancefloor. They don't need to be in the booth!
Frankie Knuckles: I agree with you there, but I think they feel the need to be in that booth where all that energy is coming from.
Andy Reynolds: How do you decide where to go from a peak?
Frankie Knuckles: That's generally instinct. That depends – I have to pace myself considering that the fact that I'm playing eleven to twelve hours. I try not to wear everybody out early. I build it up to a certain peak and then I try to change directions a little bit here and there without dragging everybody's energy level down. When I change directions it's to give people a chance to catch up with themselves so they don't wear themselves out too early and say, "well, I can't take it anymore," and then before you know it they're all out of there and the room would be empty by six o'clock. It's like teasing them, you know, but I just like to keep the relationship lasting between the audience and me.
Andy Reynolds: Is that a long night for you?
Frankie Knuckles: Its definitely a long night that actually starts going by pretty quickly – especially between the hours of three and eight in the morning – those hours generally fly by.
Andy Reynolds: How do you feel out the crowd when it's around 9:00?
Frankie Knuckles: I can tell the audience that's there is generally feeling a lot more physical – people hanging on one another, dancing in one another's arms, playing with each other like that – it's kind of a romantic kind of thing and I'll try and play on that for a while. Sort of sleazy rhythms, but not sleazy songs.
We asked him a bit about his album, Beyond The Mix. The project was produced by Frankie, John Poppa, Eric Kupper and Danny Maden. Appearing are the notable talents of David Morales, Peter "Ski" Schwartz, Shelton Becton, Lisa Michaelis, Roberta Gillian and Paul Shapiro.
Andy Reynolds: How do you feel about your first single, "The Whistle Song," a very underground record, being added first at Hot97, New York's No.1 pop station?
Frankie Knuckles: I'm really shocked, I'm going to tell you. Everybody knows that the music on the underground club scene is for the most part instrumental. My whole perception of "The Whistle Song," when me and Eric (Kupper) were working on it, was to make it very underground – (something) afterhours and underground clubs could really relate to. On a commercial level they said it's a nice instrumental, but that's all it is. [Laughs] Well, I mean [laughs], they've definitely blown my mind – being number fourteen on the pop charts in England, and it's number two or number one on most of the radio stations over there. It's really kind of scary. It's great, but I never looked at it as being a pop record! Not at all, not in the least – and for it to be the first single off the album and for it to go pop, that's an amazing thing.
Andy Reynolds: On the album I really like "The Right Thing" – now that's a pop song!
Frankie Knuckles: [Laughs] I get tickled from everybody that has gotten copies of the album and that have listened to it, you know… The thing that I was scared about the most about this album was being able to develop something that Virgin wouldn't be afraid to get behind. I figured if I gave them three songs on that album that could work well for radio, then the rest of the album could be pretty much a piece of cake, because I can do enough club stuff that will work really well for the clubs, and they'll have three songs on the album that they can pull for radio. As it stands they can't make up their minds, you know [laughs], they can pull almost any track off the album, you know, according to them (and work it) for radio, which is really a nice feeling – that they feel that strongly about it.
Andy Reynolds: What do you look for in a mix of your own work? And how do you feel about other people mixing your work?
Frankie Knuckles: I don't know, I've never had anything of my own mixed by somebody before – other than David (Morales). I know David's work and I know his approach, I never preconceive anything where he's concerned, I'm always surprised by anything he does. With this album I'm going to have an opportunity to have some other people come in and mix things. There's a number of people I want to have mix different songs off the album – Bobby Konders, Pal Joey, Tee Scott, David Todd – people that I have a lot of respect for. I want them to be able to play around with some of this stuff. I never thought that this album would warrant this much importance – that people would be calling way in advance to try and get mixes on the album. It's one thing to be a producer and a remixer, but it's another thing to be a producer slash artist, and then the responsibility of deciding who's going to mix your stuff is resting in your lap – a bit different.
Andy Reynolds: And lastly, what is your favorite remix that you've done?
Frankie Knuckles: Favorite record remixed to date would probably be "The Pressure" by Sounds of Blackness. I'd like to think that of all the records that I've ever mixed, that's probably the best thing I've ever done.
Frankie can be heard every Saturday at Sound Factory (New York) – 1 am until 12pm. Some advice on your first visit to Sound Factory from Frankie: "If I have friends who are coming from out of town, I tell them, look, go out Saturday, have a good time running around the city taking things in, then lay down and take a nap and don't get up until about 2 or 3 in the morning. I tell people to get there around anytime between 2:30 and 3:30, from that point on."
Originally published as a cover story in DMR (Dance Music Report), April 17 – 30, 1991. Reprinted with permission of original writer.
At the time this interview of Frankie Knuckles was published, author Andy Reynolds was the Creative Director/Editor of US dance trade, DMR (Dance Music Report), co-owned by Tom Silverman of Tommy Boy Entertainment and Vince Pellegrino of Pellegrino Promotions. Subsequently, Reynolds worked for several dance labels including West End Records (owned by Paradise Garage financial backer, Mel Cheren), where he served as general manager from 1999 – 2002. He is now a book and music publicist and can be reached via email.
Posted on April 17, 1991 April 1, 2014 Author Andy ReynoldsCategories Featured, InterviewsTags dance music report, david morales, dmr, eric kupper, frankie knuckles, sounds of blackness

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Arthur C. Vailas (born 1951) is an American scientist and academic administrator who served as the 12th president of Idaho State University, from July 2006 to June 2018.

Early life
The son of Greek immigrants, Vailas was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He attended the University of New Hampshire on a football scholarship and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Arthur Vailas received his Ph.D. in Physical Education from the University of Iowa in 1979, with emphasis on exercise and connective tissue physiology.

Career
After completing a three-year National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in orthopedic surgery and biochemistry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. As an assistant professor in the Department of Physiological Science at UCLA, his research focused primarily on connective tissue physiology. Vailas was promoted to associate professor in 1988. He relocated to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was also director of the Biomechanics Laboratory. He later was promoted to professor and was granted joint appointments as professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. He served as chair of the Department of Physical Education and later served as Associate Dean for Research and Development of the College of Education. In 1992 and 1995, he received Outstanding Science Achievement Awards from NASA for his work on the U.S.-Russian Space Program.

In 1996, Vailas relocated to the University of Houston as vice provost for graduate studies, and professor and distinguished chair in biology and biochemistry. He also held a joint appointment as professor of mechanical engineering. He later became vice president for research for the University of Houston and vice chancellor for research and intellectual property management for the UH System.

Vailas became president of Idaho State University July 1, 2006. He worked to establish the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, a collaboration with the Idaho National Laboratories and other
Idaho universities, in 2007. In 2009, Idaho State University opened a new campus in Meridian, Idaho, which serves health professional programs.

In 2011, Vailas created the Career Path Internship (CPI), a $1.4 million program which provides students with the opportunity to apply for work in paid campus positions that match their academic and career interests. The program enables more than 200 students to work with area businesses and faculty in a real work experience environment. A recent survey of participants reveals 91% of students felt the program will enhance future employment opportunities.

Under Vailas, ISU worked with state government on the Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission, a program that allows faculty from Idaho universities to work with the Idaho National Laboratory to commercialize research. During his tenure, Vailas faced several "No Confidence" votes.

Vailas retired as president on June 17, 2018.

Vailas has served on scientific panels and boards for NASA and the National Institutes of Health. He was appointed to the Texas Council on Environmental Technology and received a congressional appointment to the Board of the Mickey Leland Air Toxics Center. He served as a Commissioner for Idaho in the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, and serves on the Idaho Governor's Council on Science and Technology. Vailas has been a consultant to numerous national health care-related businesses and institutions.

References

External links
2013 Presidential biography

1951 births
Living people
American people of Greek descent
Presidents of Idaho State University
University of Houston faculty
People from Manchester, New Hampshire

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TP-434 is a novel, broad-spectrum fluorocycline antibiotic with activity against bacteria expressing major antibiotic resistance mechanisms including tetracycline-specific efflux and ribosomal-protection. The mechanism of action of TP-434 was assessed using both cell-based and in vitro assays. In Escherichia coli cells expressing recombinant tetracycline-resistance genes, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of TP-434 (0.063 μg/ml) was unaffected by tet(M), tet(K), tet(B), and increased to 0.25 and 4 μg/ml in the presence of tet(A) and tet(X), respectively. Tetracycline, in contrast, was significantly less potent (MIC ≥128 μg/ml) against E. coli cells when any of these resistance mechanisms were present. TP-434 showed potent inhibition in E. coli in vitro transcription/translation (IC50 = 0.29 ± 0.09 μg/ml) and [3H]-tetracycline ribosome-binding competition (IC50 = 0.22 ± 0.07 μM) assays. The antibacterial potency of TP-434 and all other tetracycline-class antibiotics tested was reduced by 4- to 16-fold, versus the wild type control strain, against Propionibacterium acnes strains carrying a 16S rRNA mutation G1058C, a modification that changes the conformation of the primary binding site of tetracycline in the ribosome. Taken together, the findings support the idea that TP-434, like other tetracyclines, binds the ribosome and inhibits protein synthesis, and that this activity is largely unaffected by the common tetracycline resistance mechanisms.


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Drawing Forum and Art Community • View topic - HTML Code in Signature
HTML Code in Signature
Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:40 pm by canadianmaple09
I'd like to put a cool-looking button that links to my ArtWanted portfolio in my signature, but all that displays when I insert the proper code is the code itself, not the button. On the profile edit page it says "HTML off" on the left side, which I'm guessing is the problem. Lower down I set it to allow HTML, but this doesn't fix the problem, and it still says "HTML off" on the left side. I noticed that Brendan and Duey have working HTML in their signatures... is this just something that's allowed for administrators/moderators?
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View from above: Garcia on Dortmund, 'Pharoah'
Jennie Rees
@CJ_Jennie
Nobody is in a better position to evaluate Saturday's Kentucky Derby favorites (and stablemates) American Pharoah and Dortmund than jockey Martin Garcia.
Garcia has ridden Santa Anita Derby winner Dortmund (the Derby's second choice) to a 6-for-6 career record, including two photo finishes. But he's also the regular rider on favored American Pharoah when trainer Bob Baffert sends out the 2014 2-year-old champion for a timed morning workout.
"They're both really fast horses, different kind of horses," Garcia said on the Churchill Downs backstretch this week. "Pharoah can do whatever you want. He's a really talented horse. Dortmund is not as fast, but he can go as far as you want. The more you ask, the more he gives you. He doesn't want to get beat."
Garcia said he's the only person who gets on American Pharoah for workouts, including his impressive five-eighths of a mile in 582/5 seconds last Sunday.
"He did everything so easily, like he was galloping," Garcia said. "You won't believe how he does it. I never asked him to work that fast. He was just galloping, so happy. He looks like he flies in the air. You don't feel anything."
Garcia said that while both horses like to win — as their combined 10-for-11 record substantiates — Dortmund is "not as push-button" as American Pharoah but loves being in a dogfight. American Pharoah has yet to be tested in his four victories, all with Victor Espinoza aboard.
Not surprisingly, Garcia frequently gets asked a loaded question: Which horse has the edge?
"We can't say because they haven't run together," he said. "They are two fast horses, talented horses. We'll see Saturday."
The question gets phrased differently: If you had your choice, which would you ride? He again aced the diplomacy test.
"I'm happy with Dortmund," he said. "I rode American Pharoah first time out and he didn't like the track at Del Mar. He was really nervous, didn't run at all. Then with the one race experience, he won the Del Mar Futurity."
It's just circumstances that Garcia didn't keep riding American Pharoah.
Baffert had Garcia on Holiday Camp in the Grade I Del Mar Futurity and Rafael Bejarano on Lord Nelson. But at entry time, he elected not to run Lord Nelson and decided at the last minute to run the maiden American Pharoah. Garcia was committed to Holiday Camp and Bejarano had picked up another mount.
But Espinoza, who won the 2002 Kentucky Derby on the Baffert-trained War Emblem, had no horse in the Del Mar race and thus ended up on American Pharoah for the 43/4-length triumph.
American Pharoah isn't the only top Baffert horse that Garcia rides in morning workouts but not the afternoon.
"He's a team player," Baffert said. "He knows when I win it's good for business and it's good for Bob Baffert and Martin Garcia. That means more good horses, and he's got a chance to get on that horse. It was just luck he didn't get on that horse."
Not all jockeys are good work riders. Baffert uses a radio to talk to his workout riders, letting them know if they need to pick it up or slow down or work farther, depending on the fraction times reeled off by the horses.
"Martin has really good hands and he gets along with horses," Baffert said. "I have a certain style, the way I train them, and he knows what I want. I have the radio but usually he's pretty right on. I think it helps him when he rides races."
Baffert said Garcia is very candid about how the horses are doing and "he loves the way they're both going."
Meanwhile, Garcia said he's as curious as everybody else how the two stars stack up when they get into the starting gate together for the first time.
"Of course," he said. "All people want to see good horses get together in the stretch and see who is the best horse."
Contact Jennie Rees at 502-582-4042. Follow her on Twitter @CJ_Jennie and Facebook.com/CJJennie


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Edward Donaghy, known as Eddy Donaghy or Ted Donaghy (born 8 January 1900) was an English association football player and coach.

Career

Playing career
Born in Grangetown, Donaghy played for local club Grangetown St Mary's before playing with Football League teams Middlesbrough, Bradford City, Derby County and Gillingham.

Donaghy, a left half, made a total of 13 appearances in the Football League for Bradford City between May 1923 and May 1926.

He left Gillingham in 1928 to play in France, where he played for Cannes alongside fellow Englishman Stan Hillier.

Coaching career
Donaghy coached Dutch side Feyenoord between 1931 and 1935, winning two league titles.

Personal life
Eddy studied in St Mary's College. His brothers John and Peter were also professional players.

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The price of independence: $1 billion
by Marina Walker Guevara May 30, 2007 January 7, 2022
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By Nathaniel Heller, Tom Stites and Ben Welsh
Anti-terrorism funds enlisted in war on drugs
By Ignacio Gómez G. and Gerardo Reyes
An alliance gone bad
By Prangtip Daorueng
Sustaining an unpopular regime
By Marina Walker Guevara
Billions in aid, with no accountability
By Sarah Fort and Sarah Fort
A repugnant choice
By Sarah Fort
Operation 'targeted killings'
By Yossi Melman
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Despite an offer of $6 billion in cash from the United States in the weeks leading up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, the Turkish Parliament voted against allowing U.S. troops to use Turkish territory as a base for launching a northern front against Iraq.
With that rejection, the United States quickly learned that Turkey was no longer the predictable NATO ally of the Cold War years. Many in Washington were outraged, including then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who later blamed Ankara's lack of cooperation for some of the subsequent U.S. misfortunes in Iraq.
The grant resulted in part from an aggressive lobbying campaign headed by a former speaker of the House of Representatives, Louisiana Republican Bob Livingston, whose lobbying firm has represented the Turkish government since 2000 for an annual retainer of $1.8 million, Department of Justice records show. However, that didn't slow down the Washington lobbyists for the Turkish government, and it certainly didn't stop the flow of U.S. funds to a country with a long history of human rights abuses. In 2003 Congress appropriated a $1 billion grant to Turkey as a disincentive, in part, for Ankara to unilaterally invade northern Iraq, where Turkey has fought its own war against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for many years.
As war preparations were under way, many in Congress were disappointed that Turkey was unwilling to let the United States use Turkey as a staging ground for an invasion of Iraq. Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a California Republican now serving time in prison for an unrelated bribery conviction, introduced an amendment that would have deleted the proposed $1 billion Economic Support Fund grant to Turkey from the 2003 war supplemental bill.
But in the weeks leading up to the vote, lobbying records filed with the Department of Justice show that Livingston lobbyists reached out to, among others, then-Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and his staff; members of the House and the Senate Appropriations committees; the office of the vice president; and Marc Grossman, who was then the undersecretary of state for political affairs. The lobbyists also accompanied the then-Turkish ambassador to the U.S., Faruk Logoglu, to meet with several members of Congress. Many of those visited, including Republican Reps. Ander Crenshaw of Florida, Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Dave Hobson of Ohio, later voted against the Cunningham amendment to repeal the grant.
The day the amendment was up for a vote, on April 3, 2003, Livingston arranged for a delegation of Turkish officials to stand outside the House floor, a tactic that allowed him to introduce the Turks to his acquaintances on their way into the chamber, The Washington Post reported.
The Livingston Group also brought in another former member of Congress, Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., a longtime associate of Livingston's who has helped the former House speaker represent Turkish interests before Congress. Lobbying records show that before the amendment was voted on, the former congressman called Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., and Paul Wolfowitz, then deputy secretary of defense, "to discuss issues affecting U.S.-Turkish relations." The day of the vote, the Livingston Group paid Solarz Associates $200,000 in "fee sharing" on behalf of the government of Turkey, lobbying records show.
Livingston declined to comment for this story, and Solarz did not return calls.
The amendment to rescind the grant was ultimately defeated by a large margin, but a condition was quietly added to the billion-dollar grant as the bill made its way through Congress: Washington would retain the right to cut the funding if Turkey did not cooperate with the United States in Iraq or if it deployed troops into northern Iraq.
Because of the attached strings, the Turkish government ultimately decided not to accept the grant, and Congress rescinded the funding in 2005. In contrast with other coalition countries that readily aligned themselves with Washington and secure significant increases in economic and military assistance, the Turks seemingly wanted to remain independent — and keep open their options in northern Iraq.
Inscrutable partner
Experts say that promises of lucrative foreign aid no longer carry the influence they once did with Turkey. "Dealing with Turkey today is much more like dealing with Germany or France," said Ian Lesser, a Turkey specialist at the German Marshall Fund and a State Department official during the Clinton administration. "It's a more complicated, less predictable scene. There's no question about it."
A State Department spokesman said the only purpose of the $1 billion grant was to help stabilize the Turkish economy and restore investors' confidence. But a source with firsthand knowledge of the Turkey-U.S. negotiations over the money said the grant was "a gesture by the U.S. government to get Turkey to cooperate in Iraq."
Tuluy Tanc, minister consular at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, said in an interview with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that the Turkish Parliament and government were not willing to accept a grant that had political conditions attached. He said that Turkey had no intention of going to northern Iraq but added that in the past, Turkey had had "reason to follow the PKK [Kurdish] terrorist organization into northern Iraq with the agreement of the Iraqi government," then headed by Saddam Hussein.
In mid-April 2007, Turkey's top military officer, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, asked the government to approve operations against the PKK in northern Iraq. Such a move would risk a major rift with the United States, and most analysts do not expect a Turkish military venture into northern Iraq anytime soon. But the move by Buyukanit was symbolic in expressing the Turkish military's frustration with what it perceives as Washington's lack of action against the PKK, a separatist insurgent group that Washington, the European Parliament and Turkey consider a terrorist organization.
The PKK retreated from Turkey to northern Iraq in the late 1990s and represents ethnic Kurds' aspirations for sovereignty in the region. The PKK-Turkey fight has claimed 30,000 lives, most of them civilian, and both sides have been accused of widespread atrocities. Kurds make up about 20 percent of Turkey's population of 71 million.
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Turkey has provided logistical support and has granted American forces permission to fly through Turkish airspace to and from Iraq. Still, in several instances Turkey has complained that the United States is not doing enough to crack down on the PKK.
Competing agendas in Iraq
Lesser said that since the beginning of the war, the U.S.-Turkey relationship has been characterized by mistrust and suspicion over competing agendas in Iraq. "The Turks might have wanted a seat at the table on Iraq and were not comfortable with the fact that they weren't going to have a seat at the table. There was suspicion and mistrust that we [the United States] weren't taking Turkish interests seriously," he said.
As a result of the tensions over Iraq, the United States has lost popularity and diplomatic influence in Turkey, a country it values for its strategic location and secular administration in the Muslim world. "Public opinion counts in Turkish politics now, and it has become very, very negative toward the United States," Lesser said.
Tanc said that Turkey wants the United States to succeed in Iraq and that the two countries' difficulties at the beginning of the Iraq war have been overcome. He mentioned the 2003 wrongful arrest of a dozen Turkish special operations forces in Iraq by U.S. forces as an example of the misunderstandings that occurred between Turkey and the United States. "But I believe that our relationship goes deeper than that," Tanc said.
With one of the strongest armies in the region, Turkey continues to be a major buyer of U.S.-made weapons. In December 2006, it was announced that Lockheed Martin would be upgrading Turkey's F-16 fighter jet fleet under a $635 million contract. In addition, Turkey has been part of a multinational program led by the United States to build the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, called Lightning II, which has been described as "a next-generation strike aircraft." Turkey reportedly will soon embark on a 15-year, $11 billion program to buy 100 of the fighter aircraft.
The United States also channels assistance to Turkey through the Foreign Military Financing and International Military Education and Training programs. Between 1998 and 2004, Turkey was the top recipient worldwide of IMET grants, at $16.8 million. The IMET program imparts military skills and allows the building of person-to-person relationships with strategic foreign allies. But the program has occasionally come under fire when, as occurred in Indonesia, forces trained by the United States later committed gross violations of human rights against their own citizens.
In recent years, research and advocacy organizations have criticized the U.S. government for continuing to grant military assistance to Turkey despite its human rights record. "Turkey is so valuable that Washington turns a blind eye to human rights abuses and lack of democracy, and supports the country's bid to become a member of the European Union despite the objections of leaders within that body," said a 2005 report by the World Policy Institute, a policy think tank in New York. The most recent human rights assessment of Turkey by the State Department stated that members of the security forces "occasionally tortured, beat, and otherwise abused persons."
Human rights advocates point to the Kurdish southeast area of the country, where about 375,000 residents have been displaced since the confrontations between the state and the PKK started in 1984. According to figures cited by the State Department, Turkish security forces killed 52 people in the southeast and east areas in 2005. State-sponsored village guards — Kurds armed and paid by the government to fight the PKK — have terrorized the population for years, according to Human Rights Watch, forcefully recruiting men as village guards and seizing land from its owners.
Lesser said that though Turkey still has much to accomplish with respect to human rights, the country has undertaken important structural reforms under European pressure.
U.S. officials, for their part, appear to have left behind — at least rhetorically — the days when Wolfowitz called on Turkey to apologize for not allowing the United States to attack Iraq from its territory. "We have dealt with areas in which we disagree, about Iraq in 2003 and other issues where we have had differences. But despite those differences, we remain friends," Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told Turkish reporters in February 2007. "So our relationship with Turkey is a strong one. It is a relationship which can withstand the occasional disagreements because we are, after all, not children."
Assistant Database Editor Ben Welsh contributed this report.
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The price of independence: $1 billion

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Collateral damage

By Nathaniel Heller, Tom Stites and Ben Welsh

May 22, 2007
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Anti-terrorism funds enlisted in war on drugs

By Ignacio Gómez G. and Gerardo Reyes

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An alliance gone bad

By Prangtip Daorueng

May 31, 2007
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Sustaining an unpopular regime

By Marina Walker Guevara

May 31, 2007
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Billions in aid, with no accountability

By Sarah Fort and Sarah Fort

May 31, 2007
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A repugnant choice

By Sarah Fort

May 31, 2007
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Operation 'targeted killings'

By Yossi Melman

May 30, 2007
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An interrogation role model

By Yossi Melman

May 30, 2007
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Renditions vs. rights

By Marina Walker Guevara

May 30, 2007
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The price of independence: $1 billion

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May 30, 2007
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Despite an offer of $6 billion in cash from the United States in the weeks leading up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, the Turkish Parliament voted against allowing U.S. troops to use Turkish territory as a base for launching a northern front against Iraq.

With that rejection, the United States quickly learned that Turkey was no longer the predictable NATO ally of the Cold War years. Many in Washington were outraged, including then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who later blamed Ankara's lack of cooperation for some of the subsequent U.S. misfortunes in Iraq.

The grant resulted in part from an aggressive lobbying campaign headed by a former speaker of the House of Representatives, Louisiana Republican Bob Livingston, whose lobbying firm has represented the Turkish government since 2000 for an annual retainer of $1.8 million, Department of Justice records show. However, that didn't slow down the Washington lobbyists for the Turkish government, and it certainly didn't stop the flow of U.S. funds to a country with a long history of human rights abuses. In 2003 Congress appropriated a $1 billion grant to Turkey as a disincentive, in part, for Ankara to unilaterally invade northern Iraq, where Turkey has fought its own war against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for many years.

As war preparations were under way, many in Congress were disappointed that Turkey was unwilling to let the United States use Turkey as a staging ground for an invasion of Iraq. Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a California Republican now serving time in prison for an unrelated bribery conviction, introduced an amendment that would have deleted the proposed $1 billion Economic Support Fund grant to Turkey from the 2003 war supplemental bill.

But in the weeks leading up to the vote, lobbying records filed with the Department of Justice show that Livingston lobbyists reached out to, among others, then-Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and his staff; members of the House and the Senate Appropriations committees; the office of the vice president; and Marc Grossman, who was then the undersecretary of state for political affairs. The lobbyists also accompanied the then-Turkish ambassador to the U.S., Faruk Logoglu, to meet with several members of Congress. Many of those visited, including Republican Reps. Ander Crenshaw of Florida, Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Dave Hobson of Ohio, later voted against the Cunningham amendment to repeal the grant.

The day the amendment was up for a vote, on April 3, 2003, Livingston arranged for a delegation of Turkish officials to stand outside the House floor, a tactic that allowed him to introduce the Turks to his acquaintances on their way into the chamber, The Washington Post reported.

The Livingston Group also brought in another former member of Congress, Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., a longtime associate of Livingston's who has helped the former House speaker represent Turkish interests before Congress. Lobbying records show that before the amendment was voted on, the former congressman called Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., and Paul Wolfowitz, then deputy secretary of defense, "to discuss issues affecting U.S.-Turkish relations." The day of the vote, the Livingston Group paid Solarz Associates $200,000 in "fee sharing" on behalf of the government of Turkey, lobbying records show.

Livingston declined to comment for this story, and Solarz did not return calls.

The amendment to rescind the grant was ultimately defeated by a large margin, but a condition was quietly added to the billion-dollar grant as the bill made its way through Congress: Washington would retain the right to cut the funding if Turkey did not cooperate with the United States in Iraq or if it deployed troops into northern Iraq.

Because of the attached strings, the Turkish government ultimately decided not to accept the grant, and Congress rescinded the funding in 2005. In contrast with other coalition countries that readily aligned themselves with Washington and secure significant increases in economic and military assistance, the Turks seemingly wanted to remain independent — and keep open their options in northern Iraq.

Inscrutable partner

Experts say that promises of lucrative foreign aid no longer carry the influence they once did with Turkey. "Dealing with Turkey today is much more like dealing with Germany or France," said Ian Lesser, a Turkey specialist at the German Marshall Fund and a State Department official during the Clinton administration. "It's a more complicated, less predictable scene. There's no question about it."

A State Department spokesman said the only purpose of the $1 billion grant was to help stabilize the Turkish economy and restore investors' confidence. But a source with firsthand knowledge of the Turkey-U.S. negotiations over the money said the grant was "a gesture by the U.S. government to get Turkey to cooperate in Iraq."

Tuluy Tanc, minister consular at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, said in an interview with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that the Turkish Parliament and government were not willing to accept a grant that had political conditions attached. He said that Turkey had no intention of going to northern Iraq but added that in the past, Turkey had had "reason to follow the PKK [Kurdish] terrorist organization into northern Iraq with the agreement of the Iraqi government," then headed by Saddam Hussein.

In mid-April 2007, Turkey's top military officer, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, asked the government to approve operations against the PKK in northern Iraq. Such a move would risk a major rift with the United States, and most analysts do not expect a Turkish military venture into northern Iraq anytime soon. But the move by Buyukanit was symbolic in expressing the Turkish military's frustration with what it perceives as Washington's lack of action against the PKK, a separatist insurgent group that Washington, the European Parliament and Turkey consider a terrorist organization.

The PKK retreated from Turkey to northern Iraq in the late 1990s and represents ethnic Kurds' aspirations for sovereignty in the region. The PKK-Turkey fight has claimed 30,000 lives, most of them civilian, and both sides have been accused of widespread atrocities. Kurds make up about 20 percent of Turkey's population of 71 million.

Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Turkey has provided logistical support and has granted American forces permission to fly through Turkish airspace to and from Iraq. Still, in several instances Turkey has complained that the United States is not doing enough to crack down on the PKK.

Competing agendas in Iraq

Lesser said that since the beginning of the war, the U.S.-Turkey relationship has been characterized by mistrust and suspicion over competing agendas in Iraq. "The Turks might have wanted a seat at the table on Iraq and were not comfortable with the fact that they weren't going to have a seat at the table. There was suspicion and mistrust that we [the United States] weren't taking Turkish interests seriously," he said.

As a result of the tensions over Iraq, the United States has lost popularity and diplomatic influence in Turkey, a country it values for its strategic location and secular administration in the Muslim world. "Public opinion counts in Turkish politics now, and it has become very, very negative toward the United States," Lesser said.

Tanc said that Turkey wants the United States to succeed in Iraq and that the two countries' difficulties at the beginning of the Iraq war have been overcome. He mentioned the 2003 wrongful arrest of a dozen Turkish special operations forces in Iraq by U.S. forces as an example of the misunderstandings that occurred between Turkey and the United States. "But I believe that our relationship goes deeper than that," Tanc said.

With one of the strongest armies in the region, Turkey continues to be a major buyer of U.S.-made weapons. In December 2006, it was announced that Lockheed Martin would be upgrading Turkey's F-16 fighter jet fleet under a $635 million contract. In addition, Turkey has been part of a multinational program led by the United States to build the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, called Lightning II, which has been described as "a next-generation strike aircraft." Turkey reportedly will soon embark on a 15-year, $11 billion program to buy 100 of the fighter aircraft.

The United States also channels assistance to Turkey through the Foreign Military Financing and International Military Education and Training programs. Between 1998 and 2004, Turkey was the top recipient worldwide of IMET grants, at $16.8 million. The IMET program imparts military skills and allows the building of person-to-person relationships with strategic foreign allies. But the program has occasionally come under fire when, as occurred in Indonesia, forces trained by the United States later committed gross violations of human rights against their own citizens.

In recent years, research and advocacy organizations have criticized the U.S. government for continuing to grant military assistance to Turkey despite its human rights record. "Turkey is so valuable that Washington turns a blind eye to human rights abuses and lack of democracy, and supports the country's bid to become a member of the European Union despite the objections of leaders within that body," said a 2005 report by the World Policy Institute, a policy think tank in New York. The most recent human rights assessment of Turkey by the State Department stated that members of the security forces "occasionally tortured, beat, and otherwise abused persons."

Human rights advocates point to the Kurdish southeast area of the country, where about 375,000 residents have been displaced since the confrontations between the state and the PKK started in 1984. According to figures cited by the State Department, Turkish security forces killed 52 people in the southeast and east areas in 2005. State-sponsored village guards — Kurds armed and paid by the government to fight the PKK — have terrorized the population for years, according to Human Rights Watch, forcefully recruiting men as village guards and seizing land from its owners.

Lesser said that though Turkey still has much to accomplish with respect to human rights, the country has undertaken important structural reforms under European pressure.

U.S. officials, for their part, appear to have left behind — at least rhetorically — the days when Wolfowitz called on Turkey to apologize for not allowing the United States to attack Iraq from its territory. "We have dealt with areas in which we disagree, about Iraq in 2003 and other issues where we have had differences. But despite those differences, we remain friends," Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told Turkish reporters in February 2007. "So our relationship with Turkey is a strong one. It is a relationship which can withstand the occasional disagreements because we are, after all, not children."

Assistant Database Editor Ben Welsh contributed this report.

This article first appeared on Center for Public Integrity and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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Persecution in 2022
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Global: The 50 countries where it's most dangerous to follow Jesus in 2022
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The World Watch List 2022
Around the world, more than 360 million Christians live in places where they experience high levels of persecution, just for following Jesus. That's 1 in 7 believers.
"The numbers are astonishing. But behind each number and statistic, there is a human story," says Christian human rights organisation Open Doors on its website. The annual World Watch List provides an unparalleled glimpse into the 50 places around the world where it costs the most to be a Christian.
For the first time, Afghanistan is number one on the Open Doors World Watch List. It had previously been number two, and rose because of an increase in violence after the Taliban took over the country in 2021. North Korea, the steady number one since 2002, has dropped a place, even though persecution actually increased.
Persecution has also increased considerably in Indonesia, which is one of the biggest risers – jumping 19 places on the list. The main cause is an increase in violence, including several bomb attacks. Turkey fell 17 places as violence decreased significantly, with no Christians killed and fewer churches attacked.
Around the world, 5,898 Christians were killed for their faith last year. Of these, 4,650 were in Nigeria – yet again, more believers are murdered for following Jesus in Nigeria than the rest of the world combined. In the past year, more than 5,000 churches and church buildings were bombed, attacked, destroyed, looted, burned down or forcibly closed – to try to stop people worshipping Jesus.
Open Doors highlights the main trends:
1) Extremism and violence continue to rise
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has been in headlines around the world and their success has bolstered Islamic militants in other countries.
2) Violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa remains a hotspot for violence from Islamic militants. This is particularly severe in Nigeria, but also in Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Mali, Cameroon and Burkina Faso.
3) The global church is increasingly a refugee church
More than 84 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced and many of these are Christians fleeing persecution, which increased their vulnerability to discrimination, extortion, human trafficking and sexual violence.
4) Control tightens in China and elsewhere
The Chinese Communist Party demands conformity – an ordered, controlled society where freedom of speech and belief is carefully restricted. The authorities in China use increasingly sophisticated techniques to keep watch on citizens. In some regions, surveillance cameras are now in all state-approved religious venues. Other states have enthusiastically adopted this approach, most notably Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Malaysia. Where China leads, others follow.
Photos: The caves of Göreme in Cappadocia, Turkey, became a refuge for early Christians who were fleeing persecution.
The stories from the World Watch List can feel overwhelming – and it may seem like the situation is getting harder for Christians everywhere. But there's also some good news. In 2021, persecution became less severe in Turkey (which fell 17 places on the list) and Nepal (which fell 14 places). Iran is taking steps towards religious freedom. Recently, Iran's Supreme Court has decreed that belonging to a house church does not make Christians 'enemies of the state'. In December 2020, Iraq's parliament passed a bill making Christmas Day an annual national holiday in the majority-Muslim country.
Above all, the World Watch List shows that the church is active and alive. Persecution is rising – but that only happens where the church is actively sharing the gospel and living it out.
As you ponder this article, consider the words of 1 Corinthians 12:26: "If one part [of the Body of Christ] suffers, every part suffers with it." Pray through this year's report and let it move your heart. Learn how the Body of Christ is hurting, and how Christians are finding joy in Jesus even in the midst of pain. And remember we really are one Church, one Family.
Source: Open Doors
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Environmental fights drive China's Harbin to uproot drug factory
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With neighbors and local officials raising a stink over strange odors and air pollution coming from its Harbin, China, facility, Harbin Pharmaceutical Group decided to relocate manufacturing to the city's outskirts.
Rather than try to remedy the problem, Harbin Pharmaceutical will fork over 700 million yuan ($110 million) to build a new factory in the Hulan Development Zone, located in the Harbin suburbs, a city official told state news agency Xinhua. Construction started in July and is expected to take about 17 months to complete.
Issues surrounding the plant go back years, but didn't come to a head until last year, when the Chinese pharma titan racked up 1.23 million yuan (nearly $200,000) in environmental violations. Chinese officials in the Heilongjiang province discovered exhaust gas discharge and the burning of toxic waste coming from the factory, traced back to high levels of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia gas in the air. Some living near the plant even claimed the air pollution was so bad, they contracted tracheitis, which is a bacterial infection of the windpipe, according to the National Library of Medicine. State broadcaster CCTV also reported the factory discharged wastewater containing twice the legal limit of a nitrogen compound into a nearby river.
When the factory was built back in the 1960s, according to Xinhua, the area surrounding it was undeveloped--that is, until residences began to pop up and families started to move in. Since then, Harbin has grown into China's second-biggest drugmaker by market value, producing traditional Chinese and Western medicines.
GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) recently decided to close a a 60-year-old API plant in Thane, Maharashtra, India, for some of the same reasons. The area around the plant, once all industrial, is now a "mushrooming residential" area, the company says. GSK decided to close the plant and lay off its 330 employees because the expense to upgrade it would mean it would no longer be cost competitive.
- here's the story from Xinhua
Chinese plant spews toxins into air, water
Harbin faces Chinese regulators for environmental violations
GSK closes 50-year-old India plant, 'retires' 330


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I had to pinch seam mod & "custom mod" the bracket that helps support the plastic lower trim. I am handy with a grinder & welder if needed. I just finished this today & will post more about my experience as I encounter stuff.
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Looks good I went with Kumo ATs 235 65 17 cut off pinch seems and no lift.
Please give us a couple more pics of different angles. Preferably one looking down over the front fender. I am interested in how much poke you have. Also, any rubbing?


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You've booked your family photo session, and now it's time to choose your clothing. If you have a family of 3, that's 3 complete outfits. Family of 4? 4 outfits. Family of 6? SIX outfits! You get the point. Here are some tips on what to wear for family photos.
This is my family at one of our favorite vacation spots, Destin. We have years of beach pictures on our walls, but this is the first year that I hired a photographer for our pictures. We won't get into how "happy" my boys were about me scheduling pictures while on vacay… Beyond getting my kids ready for pictures and dragging them AND my husband there, choosing our outfits is definitely the most stressful part about family pictures. Here are 3 of my best tips to choosing great coordinating outfits.
#1. Choose an inspiration piece.
My #1 biggest piece of advice for EVERY family session is to choose an inspiration piece first. That is one outfit, dress, or shirt that you will use to pull everything else together. It should be your favorite of all the outfits. You want to love it! This can be a pattern or color. Then use the color or colors in this piece to choose every other family member's outfit.
Can you guess the inspiration piece for our family pictures? If you guessed my dress, you are right! I LOVE maxi dresses for moms and daughters at photo sessions. Why? Well, they give photos movement and add interest to your pictures. They also cover up your legs. (Not that I don't want to see your legs!) But if you sit down in a short dress, you have to sit a very specific way, and it limits my angles for photographing you. I also find, that we are always pulling down a short dress. With a maxi dress, you don't have this problem. Some of my absolute favorite vendors for maxi dresses are Forever 21, Free People, and Vici. If you can find a great inspiration piece, all of the other outfits will fall into place easily.
My boys (including husband) were not happy about stopping vacation time for family pictures. However they were great sports, and these pictures will mean so much to me forever!
#2. Choose coordinating colors and tones.
Since we have so many beach pictures already, I wanted to do something a little different at the beach. My most important request was using the jetties. I love how the rocks give a different vibe to the pictures. Usually when you think beach pictures, you thing of pastel colors. Think colors that you see in a sunset. But we've been there, done that. I wanted something different. When I found this rust colored dress from Forever 21, I knew it was perfect. I wore my favorite OMI bracelets with white and gray beads. So I chose those shades for my boys' and husband's shirts and shorts. I knew they would complement the rocks beautifully. Notice how nobody matches. The key to a great family picture wardrobe is coordinating, NOT matching.
One more piece of advice while we are on the color subject. Keep the colors of your home in mind when planning outfits. You are going to want to display these pictures in your home, and you want them to look good with your home's color palette. This is one reason why I love neutrals for pictures. They look great everywhere.
My boys are NOT fans of family pictures. But can you tell that one of them LOVED climbing the dunes. He is the monkey of the family.
If your family is anything like mine, they are going to moving around. A LOT. You want everyone to be comfortable with what they are wearing. You definitely don't want fights over wardrobes when you are getting out of the car. My go to for my boys is a pair of simple khaki shorts. This year we did khaki and gray. And the best part of pictures at the beach??? We didn't have to worry about shoes! Remember, once the stress of choosing the outfits and getting everyone ready is over, you want to relax and love on your family.
I love these dunes in Destin. They aren't the typical beachy feel that you get on the gulf coast. I love how unique they are!
I hope this helps you wrangle in some ideas on what to wear for family pictures. For more ideas, visit my What to Wear board on Pinterest. Some of my favorite places to find clothing for boys is Old Navy and H & M. These are also great for girls, but also check out Bailey's Blossoms and Zara. As always, feel free to email me with pictures if you need any help. I love this stuff!
HUGE thank you to Heather Clark Photography for these beautiful pictures of my family.


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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Fate Of The Furious' Plus Clapbacks And Feuds
Published April 21, 2017 at 9:42 AM EDT
The first thing you should know about this week's show is that PCHH regular Glen Weldon has a strict rule against seeing Fast And The Furious movies, and while he would have waived it if he absolutely had to, we fortunately had willing correspondents in beloved fourth chairs Gene Demby and Chris Klimek, so they joined me and Stephen Thompson for our first segment. We talk about whether you can rightly exclude considerations of quality from a discussion of anything, whether there's any point in preferring a film full of explosions to be smart, and whether Vin Diesel's acting choices are bringing all of us down.
Our second segment takes you to our recent live show in Chicago for a segment we did with NPR's own Sam Sanders. Sam has been writing recently about tweetstorms, and we used that as part of a broader conversation about the culture place and execution of the "clapback" (whether it still needs quotation marks is up for debate, but we'll play it safe). Sam explains a couple of his favorite recent examples, Stephen compares the whole thing to awards-show feuds, I return to one of my favorite/least favorite TV writers, and Glen is just uncomfortable about the entire thing.
Then, also from Chicago, we close with what's making us happy this week. Stephen discusses how a favorite piece of theme music has become synonymous with rough days on the job. Glen tells a delightful story about his youth and how it intersected with walking around Chicago and also recommends a graphic novel. Sam is happy about new seasons of a couple of different interesting shows, and he's also happy about staying in touch with his love of Prince. (And Sam and Glen have restaurant recommendations if you are in Chicago.) And I am happy about one play, another play, and a musical I got to see in New York.
Thank you so much to those of you who came to see us in Chicago, and thank you to those of you who listen every week. Find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter: the show, me, Stephen, Glen, Sam, Gene, Chris, producer Jessica, and producer emeritus and pal for life Mike.


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Everyone from Nick Szabo, who developed the concept of smart contracts, to Blockchain Capital Managing Partner Brock Pierce has been touting Bitcoin's value as a vehicle for international money transfers lately, but it appears that TransferWise CEO Taavet Hinrikus has not received the memo. Hinrikus was recently on a panel with MasterCard President of International Markets Ann Cairns at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and he did not seem threatened when asked about the new Bitcoin-based alternatives to his service, such as Align Commerce, that have popped up over the past year.
Although Hinrikus appeared to be bullish on blockchain technology, he said the Bitcoin experiment is nearly over.
This response from the TransferWise CEO does not sound dissimilar from a Medium post made by former Rebit.ph Head of Product Luis Buenaventura. After co-founding and working at Rebit.ph for over a year, Buenaventura came to the conclusion that Bitcoin does not make international remittances cheaper due to the costs associated with the "last mile" on the recipient's end.
Although Hinrikus noted his appreciation for blockchain technology, he made no indication that his company is currently looking at implementing (or even testing) any sort of distributed ledger technology. On the other hand, MasterCard's Cairns said that the credit card processing giant is currently testing out blockchains for a variety of possible use cases.
The day after the panel discussion featuring Hinrikus and Cairns took place, BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov was interviewed in the same exact spot. He took on the role of defending Bitcoin against the pessimism from the TransferWise and MasterCard representatives.
In other words, Bitcoin's open, permissionless features are not found on any of the private blockchains currently in development by R3, Digital Asset Holdings, or any other startup. Bitcoin is also backed by an exponentially larger amount of hashing power than any other public blockchain.
The only requirement for someone to receive bitcoin is for them to have a bitcoin wallet and access to the Internet. This is a much lower barrier to entry than anything attached to the legacy banking system – at least when it comes to digital payments. Bitcoin's censorship resistance also makes it useful for getting around capital controls in more economically-restrictive countries.
TransferWise may not see the value of Bitcoin now, but at least three Bitcoin startups (Align Commerce, Abra, and Freemit) believe they're missing out on a huge opportunity. Only time will tell who has it right.
Kyle Torpey is a freelance journalist who has been following Bitcoin since 2011. His work has been featured on VICE Motherboard, Business Insider, RT's Keiser Report and many other media outlets. You can follow @kyletorpey on Twitter.


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Clippers see Mfiondu Kabengele and Terance Mann…
Clippers see Mfiondu Kabengele and Terance Mann as their type of guys
The Clippers sought prospects who fit their hard-working, team-first culture and found two Florida State products
Florida State's Mfiondu Kabengele, left, and Terance Mann react during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Connecticut in the Never Forget Tribute Classic Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
By Mirjam Swanson | mswanson@scng.com | Southern California News Group
PUBLISHED: June 21, 2019 at 1:11 pm | UPDATED: June 21, 2019 at 3:17 pm
MANHATTAN BEACH — A few years ago, Mfiondu Kabengele was an unknown Canadian high school hooper without the handles to suffice on the wing nor the height then to impress in the post – and zero scholarship offers because of it.
On Thursday, he became a first-round pick in the NBA Draft. The Clippers sent a second-round pick and a 2020 first-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets in order to nab the now 6-foot-10 power forward from Florida State at No. 27 overall.
Kabengele, 21, proved his value as a player, a worker and a teammate with the Seminoles, who were the first major program to offer him a scholarship after discovering him playing in Chicago against junior college teams for Don Bosco Prep School in Crown Point, Ind.
Coming off the bench, Kabengele – the nephew of Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo – led the Seminoles to the most single-season victories in program history and to consecutive Sweet 16 appearances. He was the runaway selection for the ACC's Sixth Man of the Year as well as a member of the conference's All-Academic team.
And when he heard his name called Thursday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, he opened his sleek blue blazer to reveal all 17 of his FSU teammates' names stitched inside – including, of course, guard Terance Mann, whom the Clippers would select a little while later at No. 48.
Both of them are exactly the Clippers' kind of guys, President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank said late Thursday night when he addressed reporters at the Westdrift Manhattan Beach hotel.
"We just have great comfort and understanding first in who they are as people, because we start there," Frank said. "I can't give enough credit to our scouts. They do an unbelievable job in terms of acquiring information to learn what's inside here (head) and here (heart), and they try to talk to as many people as possible who've been involved in their lives, from the beginning until this point."
Turns out the Clippers had some relatively direct lines of inquiry to learn about Kabengele and Mann, Frank said. An FSU assistant coach worked one of the Clippers organization's mini-camps last year and Mutombo played for the New Jersey Nets when Frank coached there.
"So it's amazing," Frank said. "Just a small circle, the NBA community."
The Clippers planned to have their draft picks and their families come to L.A. on Sunday, when they'll have dinner with team officials, before attending the NBA Awards activities the next night, Frank said.
Then they'll get to go home for a short break before reporting for work June 30, when they'll start "practicing with the group" before participating in Summer League action – where they'll be joined by another Canadian prospect. Oshae Brissett, a 6-8 small forward from Syracuse who wasn't drafted Thursday, tweeted Friday morning that he'd accepted an invitation to join the Clippers in Las Vegas.
Really excited to play with the @LAClippers in Summer League‼ No where close to being finished, but ima let my game do all the talking🤫 #KillMode
— Oshae Brissett (@Obrissy) June 21, 2019
At Monday's awards event, the Seminole teammates could see members of their new team honored: Lou Williams and Montrezl Harrell are finalists for the Sixth Man of the Year award and Doc Rivers is a finalist for Coach of the Year.
The focus is on team success, Frank insisted, but still he'll be rooting for Clippers on Monday.
"I'm really, really optimistic that Lou Williams is gonna be Sixth Man of the Year for the third time," Frank said. "I'm very biased, but I think Doc did as good a job as he's ever done in terms of being a Coach of the Year candidate. Hopefully, he gets rewarded for the unbelievable moment, what he did for Dirk (Nowitzki)."
With about 10 seconds left in a February game at Staples Center, Rivers grabbed a courtside mic and made an impromptu speech honoring the Dallas star.
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On Thursday, Kabengele spoke to those on-site in Brooklyn about his appreciation for Rivers' reputation and coaching history.
"I remember watching him as a kid," said Kabengele, whose 22 points, along with Mann's 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists, spurred FSU's second-round victory over Ja Morant and Murray State in the NCAA Tournament in March.
"I remember when the Lakers and Celtics (played in the NBA Finals) back in '09 and '10, just the way he carried that team and dealt with all that talent, the way he just managed everybody. And then, as he transitioned to the Clippers, the way he stayed competitive, acquiring great picks and getting great guys like Lou Williams and Montrezl Harrell.
"He just overall cares about the players. Everyone I've talked to talks about what a great coach Doc is."
Dear Twitter, @MfionduK wanted to share this night with all 17 of his @Seminoles teammates. He has each of their name & number stitched in his blazer. This picture speaks for itself but let's join him in recognizing the 2018-19 @FSUHoops team #18strong #foreveraNole #6thman pic.twitter.com/39kEa3QiCU
— Dennis Gates (@coachdgates) June 20, 2019
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Mirjam Swanson
Mirjam Swanson covers the Clippers, the NBA and the LA Sparks for the Southern California News Group. Previously, she wrote about LeBron James and the rest of the Dream Team at the 2004 Olympics (where, yes, they took bronze), Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open on one leg, and had a tour reporting on city government, education and the occasional bear in a backyard.
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