Lil's big weekend at TOPS!
Lil had a perfect weekend in every sense of the word. QQQs both days at TOPS (Terriers Only Performance Summit). I was blown away by how much fun she had running every single course. Not too shabby considering we have not done AKC for over 3 years. Her course times were off the charts too! SCT for Exc Standard was 81 seconds both days: Lil ran the course in 46.65 seconds on Saturday and 45. 20 seconds on Sunday. In T2B her times were 33:32 on Saturday and 30:21 on Sunday. I have always sensed that Jumpers courses are her least favorite but I think adding Weave Poles like they do in AKC helps break up the monotony of jump jump jump jump jump..YAWN… and maybe a tunnel before jump jump jump jump jump. She ran both Exc JWW with good speed (15- 17 seconds under SCTs). 🙂 Following her 100% Q rate in Excellent, she is now in Masters Standard and JWW.
Other highlights were meeting all the Australian Terriers and their people. What a lovely group of dogs and people (very friendly too)! Icing on the cake was Lil earning the distinction of "Highest Scoring Australian Terrier." I could not be more thrilled to have a partner like Lil! Her kennel name "Just for a Thrill" couldn't be more perfect! Here are videos from this weekend.
I loved both T2B courses. The crowd gets into cheering everyone on, which makes it even more fun.
I love the variety of Standard Courses. Lil had no issues performing obstacles she has rarely even seen the past three years, like the Table, Teeter, and Spread Jumps.
Its a bummer that the videographer lost Lil during the trickiest part of this course. She ran that part beautifully!
After 3 days running Jake and Lil during Sharon Nelson's Seminar, I was curious to see how they would run on the 4th day in a row, especially Jake since I am thinking about running him at Champs which is a 4 day event and he has never done four days of agility in a row. He did very well at the seminar. The couple of times he lost focus he quickly got it right back. However, at the Fun Raiser Trial (day 4), he lost focus and did not come right back. This was very disheartening for me because we have been working on this issue on and off for most of the 8 years Jake has been part of our family. I think four days in a row played a role in his not coming right back but I think having more open space around the courses during the Fun Raiser contributed too. During the seminar, participants tended to sit close to the action to be able to hear Sharon's feedback. Once the chairs were removed the arena looked noticeably larger to me and I assume it looked more expansive to Jake as well. Since Champs is held in a HUGE arena, I am still on the fence about whether I think Jake will be able to stay focused or not at Champs.
As you can see in Lil's Bonus Box run above, she ran very well on Day 4. She loved the firm dirt footing in this horse arena. I did too! Lil has had a very reliable running A-Frame for a few years now. The reason I am asking for a stop (4on) is because this A-Frame is 8′ vs. 9′ and she does not automatically adjust her striding so lately I have been playing around with stopped contacts sometimes and running contacts other times (like when the A-Frame is 9′). So far she does not appear to be confused by mixing things up.
(above) One of Lil's runs at Sharon Nelson's Seminar. Handlers got to pick their own Bonus Box positions. It was great to be able to look at the course challenges and to determine where I wanted to be to meet those challenges.
The thing I need to figure out is how to change my emotional state when he loses focus and does not come right back. If I can remain emotionally neutral, he responds better than when I stress out about it, which he picks up on and makes the situation worse. Sharon gave me some good solid advice about what to do when Jake loses focus and I will be doing my best to "keep my head" so Jake can "keep his head." Time will tell if I am successful.
(above) Lil running Extreme Barrelers at the Fun Raiser the day after the seminar. She earned a 15 point Q (points are based on the dog's speed) which earned her Novice Title with an extra 5 points to spare. Lil has always turned incredibly tight. You can see how she makes 90 degree turns out of each tunnel and also how tightly she turns around barrels which cut her yardage significantly.
I love running more than one dog. Jake is a total blast to run when he is ON but its great having a dog like Lil who is ON 99% of the time and super fun to run too. Lil helps me keep everything in perspective.
Lil's V-NATCH photo with Judge Ron Young.
(above) Lil's Versatility NATCH photo with Judge Ron Young. It was cool that Lil earned this Championship Title under a judge who knew us from the East Coast.
I didn't feel any pressure about this run being for Lil's V-NATCH, because Lil runs Weavers courses well. The only reason we lacked Elite Weaver's Qs is I tend not to enter this class when it is offered late in the day on Sundays, which seemed to be fairly common on the East Coast (this is not a complaint though). I just personally prefer to run Elite Weavers (3 sets of 12 poles) with a fresh dog. But since moving to Colorado in July, I've found many trials offer Weavers on Fridays, so we were able to get 8 needed Elite Weavers Qs (for a total of 13) over the past 6 months.
(above) Lil's Versatility NATCH run at Mountain Dog Sports on Friday.
Having recently participated in Paula Goss's Advanced Distance workshop, I knew exactly how I wanted to handle Chances courses this weekend. I knew WHERE I wanted to be, and WHEN I wanted to be there to show my dog the correct path ahead. I handled Round 1 and 2 the same way with Lil and Jake and both dogs ran the course beautifully.
I made the same mistake with Jake both rounds and pulled him off a hoop but I was so happy with how well he ran this course both rounds. This was a tough weekend for Jake. He found the temptation of huge mounds of horse poop along the one side and the back of the arena to be too much to resist on about half of his runs. But on Sunday, I only lost him to horse poop on one run.
The Chances course on Friday was one of the most challenging courses I've encountered. There was only one Q in the entire Elite class. Lil didn't Q due our only missed dog walk / tunnel discrimination of the weekend, but I loved how well she ran the uniquely challenging portions of this course. The coolest thing for me was that I knew exactly WHERE I wanted to be to send her out to 2 jumps after the second tunnel….which was as far away as possible from the tunnel exit when she emerged. My plan worked beautifully.
Another challenge I felt really good about was the left turn after the first tunnel. Once again, I knew WHERE I needed to be.. and WHEN I needed to be there in order to pre-cue that left turn before Lil ran into that first tunnel. Plus she totally aced running through the "box" in the center of the course twice. The first time was straight through 2 hoops to the far entrance to the purple tunnel. The second time was from the exit of the purple tunnel OUT to the jump.
Jake's contacts were PERFECT all weekend long. So were his tunnel/ contact discriminations. There were many things to feel good about which helped balance out numerous Es due to Jake wolfing down huge mouthfuls of horse poop. SIGH. Good thing we don't need no stinkin' Qs. HA HA and true!
(above) a few of Lil's runs plus Jake's run during a lunch break from Paula Goss's Advanced Distance Workshop.
Paula Goss is a fantastic agility instructor. She has a great eye and set up challenging courses that could be worked from a variety of distances so each team was challenged yet not over-faced. She also shared some great tips for training and course analysis. I left the workshop with fresh ideas for what I want to practice at home.
I really don't know how she kept going and going and going….like the energizer bunny for 3 days straight…. especially because it was HOT and SUNNY. Amazing! Plus her vibe is so upbeat and fun AND her demos of handling moves are inspiring to see and then try to mimic. Paula's handling is precise and graceful, yet totally punchy and dramatic when it needs to be. I have a long way to go before I will be capable of handling anywhere close to Paula's level but I am totally jazzed about trying.
Jake and Lil are so confident running big loops with great speed and distance, I decided to try something new. Instead of a digging out a simple circular luge track with a bisecting line, I designed a track that would allow us to practice GO ONs, GET OUTs, as well as a variety of tighter and wider TURNS.
On a side note, the A-frame can be incorporated if the grass is dry or barricaded if the grass or contacts are slippery.
There are 2 more loops in my grand design 🙂 but that part of the yard has a lot of heavy snow so digging will have to wait until the snow melts down a bit. Plus there are plenty of fun options to explore with the current set-up.
What a nice break from winter we all had in Arizona attending 2 NADAC Trials and a 3-day distance workshop with Paula Goss, which I'll be writing about in a separate post.
Here are a few of Jake and Lil's runs. They both ran so well on turf and stayed perfectly clean. What a nice change of pace from running in horse arenas around Boulder.
Lil ran a great Jumpers Bonus Box course on February 1, which happened to be her 6th Birthday. I could not be more proud of her. She ran with full confidence and really nice speed. Feel free to MUTE the audio. I was a total blabber mouth but Lil is used to me doing that and ran really really well in spite of it….. or maybe because of it (GASP)!
Jake's new 4-on contacts were stellar and he earned his Open Touch N Go Title. The only time he didn't stick a contact was when a disconnect occurred between us earlier on course. He still hit within the contact zone but since stopping 4-on is now part of our criteria, I asked him to return to a 4-on once as a test. It seemed to have a calming affect on him. After a brief pause and praise, I released him and he appeared completely centered, reengaged, and I could tell he did not perceive it as punishment. If I had to guess, he experienced it as a reset (physically and mentally) and he finished the course running beautifully. I wish I had a video of that run.
I have been playing around with asking for 4-0n the A-frame with Lil but after seeing her response at this trial, or should I say lack of response over the first two A-frames at our first trial since training a 4-on, I decided I didn't like it for her. I think her long history of running over A-frames trumped her short history (under a month) of stopping 4-on and I really didn't like how it caused her to shorten her striding down the A-frame which made her dismount higher. So instead of trying to "make her stop" and potentially creating an issue with Lil and the A-frame, I decided to just say GO ON like I always have and she went back to her typical style of running over A-frames.
For the record, the only reason I had contemplated switching Lil from running to 4-on was because NADAC trials can have 8′ or 9′ A-frames and Lil doesn't automatically adjust her striding when she goes from 9′ (at trials around Boulder) to 8′ (in Southwest Colorado and at Champs). A stopped contact would have saved us the hassle of needing to train a few sessions on 8′ A-frames before we encounter those shorter A-frames in trials.. and at Champs, which is not convenient since I don't have an 8′ A-frame. Oh well. Its not the worse thing in the world.
I almost scratched Jake's last two runs after he lost focus on a Chances course mid-day. I thought he was mentally done but I'm glad I changed my mind because he finished up the day with two fantastic runs, including this Open Weaver's course. Jake has a bunch of Open Weaver's Qs. The reason I have not moved him up to Elite is because I don't think he needs to weave three sets of 12 poles and Open Weavers has two sets of 6 and only one set of 12.
Too bad the video starts mid-course because Lil ran the opener super fast and weaved the first set of poles much faster than she has been weaving lately. I have wondered why her weaving has slowed down this past year. Is it mental? physical? emotional? Or maybe its due to weave pole bases being a little wider than the poles we train on at home. Regardless, I was very pleased with how well she ran this course.
Jake has been running so well lately, I ran him very similar to the way I ran Lil in Tunnelers and Weavers… just a few feet less in terms of distance but the same basic handling. YEY Jake!
Lil ran this course beautifully with me mostly staying inside a self-imposed Handler's Box. I lost my nerve while leading out and released her before I got to my intended position but other than that, I stayed in my box, and Lil ran with full confidence. YEY Lil!
It was so much fun to run agility outdoors and to reconnect with friends from Champs and Yellowstone Dog Sports. Plus I love having Sarah Fix as a judge. She always creates such a fun, upbeat vibe and this trial was no exception. Also agility folks in Phoenix are very welcoming. We'll be back next winter for sure.
I am LOVING what I'm seeing on the A-frame from both dogs. Stopping with four feet on (4-on) looks easy for them to do.
I can see that Jake knows his job and is preparing to stop the entire descent with no hesitation before reaching the bottom. The way he is performing 4-on looks much easier on his body than jumping off from high in the contact zone (his natural MO) and I think 4-on might even be lessening the force in which he hits the up ramp due to early anticipation of the stop at the bottom.
This morning's session focused on distance. I wanted to test Jake and Lil's understanding of WHERE to do 4-on. I really LOVE this style of 4-on for Jake because he has to plan ahead and reduce his momentum all the way down vs. with 2o2o, he would sometimes descend too fast and land hard into 2o2o which made me cringe years ago when I used to ask for a 2o2o.
Lil's running A-frame has been fast and consistent for a few years now. The reason I decided to mess with it is because in NADAC, A-Frame ramps can be 8′ or 9′ long and Lil was not able to transition from one to the other without training a fair amount in-between, so after thinking about it on and off for the past 6 months, I decided to see if I could train a performance that would allow her to transition back and forth without any extra training in-between the two different A-frame ramp lengths.
I'm not sure what Lil's end performance will look like on the A-Frame but I loved what I saw today. I find it amazing that she only started showing me she is able to stop 4-on a couple of days ago yet today she made it look easy. At this point, Lil often pops into a last minute and super soft 2020 when I'm ahead. Although I have never asked Lil to do a 2o2o on the A-Frame, she has been doing 2o2o since puppy hood on a variety of objects, so its not surprising that she is offering it on the A-Frame, especially because it requires less effort than stopping 4-on. But when I said WAIT, she was able to stop 4-on at the very bottom of the A-frame which impressed me. I guess this tells me she really doesn't know what MARK means on the A-frame… yet.
Once I feel she is anticipating stopping with 4-on , I might early release her most of the time. Actually I might early release Jake sometimes too. But these will be future decisions. Right now I'm just enjoying seeing how quickly my dogs learned HOW to shift their weight back enough to be able to stop withe ease on a full-height A-frame…and the dog walk too.
Mountain Dog Sports hosts GREAT trials. The vibe is always positive and fun and last weekend's trial was no exception.
I had one goal coming into this trial and it was that my dogs run with their usual gusto and focus in what I consider to be a very challenging environment for Terriers…. an active horse arena. A little background……. Lil struggled the first time we trialed at this site in October. She lacked confidence and even lost focus a couple of times which is rare for her. Surprisingly Jake ran pretty well in October. He only checked into the Mouse Hotel in one corner of the arena once.. and gratefully he checked right back out after one or two JAAAAAAKE HEREs!
So with the sole goal that my dogs run fast and focused, I decided to run with them a lot more than I usually do. Not sure how they would have done had I used more distance (maybe just as well) but I was very pleased with how well they both ran… AND for all the Qs they racked up!
Lil ran 13 courses and Qed 10 of them. Jake ran 10 courses and Qed 5 of them. Jake also earned High in Trial for Open dogs. I could not be more proud of how well both dogs ran.
What a fun way to spend a weekend!
(above) The top row of photos are rotated 32.5 % so the A-Frame is horizontal. The photo on the upper right is the same photo as the large photo below, just cropped and rotated.
I sort of already knew this but it really sunk in after watching the video footage of my dogs running over a full-height A-frame yesterday. You can watch the video I grabbed the screen shots from on yesterday's post.
(above) Compare Lil's jumping arc over a bar and jumping off the A-frame. Incidentally, the Border Collie has a similar arc when jumping in extension but that is entirely different topic.
(above) Here is an example of how well many Border Collies (and other breeds) can collect and load well at top speeds, which makes it possible for them to jump UP at a steeper angle than an Australian Terrier. The typical BC structure allows dogs to change the angle of their trajectories dramatically when jumping bars (running on flat ground, then UP and OVER jump, then back to flat ground) and also when running over A-frames (flat ground, then UP and OVER the A-Frame, then back to flat ground). Longer legs also play an important role when running down the A-frame because like walking sticks, longer legs help dogs hold themselves back against the forces of gravity and momentum far better than shorter legs do.
I think its fairly common for agility folks to attribute all "performance issues" to "training issues" but the more I observe dogs run agility, the more I see that structure can solve many riddles re: "why dogs do what they do" vs. assuming all performance riddles are caused by inadequate training. In the case of my particular dogs, once it became clear to me that their longer backs do not allow them to load very well, I was able to see that its more natural for ATs to jump in extension vs. in collection (if they are running fast). I also recognized that there is a limit to how high an AT can jump in extension with ease. But that is a different topic.
Back to the topic of this post….I had a big AH HA yesterday…. drum roll please….
The structure of an AT influences how they jump on and off A-Frames the same way it influences how they jump over bars. ATs jumping arcs are naturally longer and flatter when jumping on and off the A-frame because they don't load as deeply as longer-legged dogs. Duh. 🙂 As a result, their first stride on the A-frame is going to be lower than a dog who is able to load deeper and their dismount is going to be higher to avoid face planting due to their jumping arcs being flatter.
This AH HA doesn't mean I'm giving up trying to influence what they do on the A-Frame. I'm going to continue to try to decrease Jake's speed on the approach slightly to soften his first stride on. I'll also be continuing to experiment with various verbal cues to see how Jake and Lil respond to them in order to encourage the safest performances possible for each dog.
Lil and I are developing a new start line routine. She has always preferred to stand at the start line, but since head bobs and nose touches have become linked to standing, I needed to change her position, at least for the time being. So for the past week I've been heavily rewarding SIT in Lil's day-to-day life. I've been very careful to reward in ways that do not cause Lil to move her head and so far so good. Lil's head has remained perfectly still and she is sitting faster and straighter with each passing day.
One thing I have noticed about Lil's sit position is its rather slouchy. Her front feet are not deep under her body and her head is not held high. This position can easily morph into the dreaded (HA HA) vulture pose which could easily lead to head bobs or nose touches. So one thing I've been doing a little here and there is asking for SITs with front feet on a Mark bucket. At first this was hard for Lil to do, but after maybe 10 reps over the course of a week, it became second nature.
Just for kicks, I elongated Lil's legs (below) to show how the angle of her back is similar to longer-legged dogs when her front feet are on the Mark bucket.
Now, back to the slouchy sit. A friend suggested I ask for Sit Pretty (begging) but the thing that doesn't work well with Sit Pretty and Lil is she positions her rear legs in a way that makes the position very stable and easy to maintain.. but she is not really sitting.. its more of a very low crouch. I assume she learned to do this in anticipation of "Sit Pretty to Stand back to Sit Pretty," which is difficult for dogs to do but great for conditioning so we do it now and then.
Since I don't need or want any duration of Sit Pretty at the start line, I decided to train a new trick that will position her front feet deeper under her body. Below is a video of this new trick. Its pretty simple. Starting in a SIT, Lil lifts POPS her front feet up and back onto the ground, while maintaining a SIT position with her rear feet.
Already I can see how well this trick is influencing her sitting position. Even before I cue POP, her front feet are already in a good, non-slouchy position under her body in anticipation of the next POP. The rep at 0:16 is exactly what I'm looking for: a small, fast popping up of front feet with feet landing a tiny bit deeper under her body.
After watching the video I see that I have to be careful to reward her in ways that keep her weight shifted back. In some reps, she leaned forward to get the reward, which is the opposite of what I'm looking for. This is still very new for her so she sometimes offers a lingering Sit Pretty, which is fine since POP is still a new trick.
My end goal is to be able to cue POP from any position and from any distance… but that will take a while… or maybe not. Lil is a super fast learner and this is an easy trick for her to do.


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Since its opening in 2001, Szimpla Kert has been a Budapest landmark and a trend setter for many ruin pubs to follow. Today, Szimpla is as popular as ever and remains a good place to party almost any night. Szimpla hosts concerts and movie nights. If you are looking for a challenge sign up for one of their backgammon tournaments.
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Spend a fun filled day outdoors on Margaret Island and stay for the party at Holdudvar when the sun goes down. This alfresco restaurant, bar and art gallery comes alive on summer nights with a young crowd dancing under the stars.


The future home of the Malaysian Consulate to the United Nations will be only a few doors east of its present address at 313 East 43rd Street in Manhattan. Located between Second Avenue and Tudor City Place, the Consulate is well-situated in Turtle Bay, a neighborhood with a colorful history.
Long before the United Nations came to midtown Manhattan in 1952, the area was lined with slaughterhouses and tenements until the 1920s. During the 19th century, it was known respectively as "Goat Hill", as goats roamed there; "Dutch Hill"; and finally re-named again in the 1850s as "Corcoran's Roost", a shanty Irish community founded by Jimmy Corcoran. Real estate developer, Fred F. French, built Tudor City, a pleasant complex of apartment buildings and gardens, during the 1920s.
Marin Architects was invited to provide conceptual design for the new mixed-use building. The new building includes consulate offices on the first floor, a large event space with a terrace, and residential units on the upper floors. Marin incorporated elements of Islamic decoration into the architecture, particularly in the façade of the front of the structure, allowing light to naturally flow into the building.


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Remembering Provo's Fallen Heroes
It's National Police Week, and Provo is making an extra effort to honor its law enforcement officers who have given their lives to protect the community. Not everyone is aware that Provo has had 5 fallen officers throughout its history. Below is a brief description of these fallen heroes. As you go about your week, take time to pause and reflect upon those who put themselves in harm's way daily to keep you safe.
Master Officer Joseph Shinners
Died January 5, 2019 Age 29 Homicide: Handgun
Master Officer Joseph Shinners was killed while trying to apprehend a wanted fugitive in Orem. A team of officers located that person in a shopping center parking lot near 50 West Univesity Parkway. When another officer attempted to arrest the man inside a vehicle, the suspect fought and began to drive away with the officer. Officer Shinners ran to the aid of the officer, entered the truck, fought for control of the suspect's gun, covered the officer with his own body, and was shot. Officer Shinners fired back and struck the man once. Officer Shinners was a three year veteran of the Police Department and a member of the Patrol Division. He is survived by his wife and son. Posthumous Awards: Medal Of Valor, Purple Heart, Master Officer Rank
Officer Trent Halladay
Died on July 22, 2006 Age 37 Cancer: Linked to Meth Lab Exposure
Officer Trent Halladay was diagnosed with liver cancer at 36 years old. Two doctors independently testified that Officer Halladay's cancer was believed to be the result of the many clandestine methamphetamine laboratories he investigated and dismantled while assigned to the Utah County Major Crimes Task Force. At the time of his death, he served as a reserve officer for the department. Survived by his wife and two sons, Officer Halladay is buried in the Spanish Fork City cemetery.
Sergeant Norman Kim Nisson
Died January 11, 1995 Age 39 Traffic accident
Sergeant Nisson was killed on January 11, 1995, in a three-car traffic collision while serving court papers in American Fork Utah. His vehicle was struck from behind while at the corner of 500 east and 620 south and pushed into oncoming traffic. At the time of his death, Sergeant Nisson was a member of the detective division and had been a successful hostage negotiator with the department. Survived by his wife and two daughters, Sergeant Nission is buried in the Orem City Cemetery.
Officer Frank J Tucker
Died June 16, 1904 Age 35 Accidental: Shooting
Officer Tucker died when his duty weapon accidentally discharged. Tucker was working a security detail at the Elk's Carnival in Provo. Seated in the sheriff's office in the Utah County building, he stood up to leave. His revolver fell from his belt and struck the floor, where it discharged. The bullet entered Officer Tucker's hip and ranged upward through his heart. He died almost immediately. Officer Tucker left a wife and four children. He is buried in Provo City Cemetery.
Officer William Strong
Died June 27, 1899 Age 59 Homicide: Handgun
Officer Strong was murdered by a transient he arrested in the city train yard. Strong had returned from retirement for the purposes of patrolling the depot at night for vagrants. Shortly after midnight, Officer Strong took a man into custody, unaware that he had burglarized a store in Scofield. At 400 S. University Ave., the suspect removed a .38-caliber revolver from his bedroll and shot the officer through the heart. Married and the father of four children, Officer Strong is buried in Provo City Cemetery.
Marshal Albert O. H. Bowen
Died October 16, 1873 Age 44 Homicide: Handgun
Marshal Bowen was murdered at a Provo saloon 400 west center street. During the evening of October 13, 1873, Bowen responded to a report of an intoxicated man waving a gun. When Marshal Bowen attempted to disarm the man, he was shot in the side of the head with a .36-caliber revolver. He lived for three days, dying on the thirteenth birthday of his eldest son. Marshal Bowen was married and the father of nine children. He is buried in Provo City Cemetery.
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More than ever, it's important to do our small part to support each other in all the ways we can. Perhaps even search out a new shop, get to know the owners of your favorite shop a bit better, and of course, hopefully discover a wonderful handmade gift for someone special this holiday season.
We are so grateful to have the support of so many wonderful small shops and businesses around the country, so wherever you are, we hope that you'll shop local this Saturday too.
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Mock Trial team ranked No. 4 in the country
South Carolina Law's Mock Trial team is currently ranked No. 4 in the country, up nine spots from last year's already impressive No. 13 ranking. The team is also ranked as one of the overall top 10 teams since 2016, according to Fordham University School of Law's Trial Competition Performance rankings for 2018-2019.
It's an impressive feat on its own, made all the more impressive by the fact that the program was almost eliminated 11 years ago. In fact, the team's success rests on a foundation built primarily by two alumni of the program — Joseph Bias '10, general counsel for Midlands Technical College, and Brett Bayne '11, an attorney with McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC.
In 2008, as the country entered the Great Recession, university budget cuts threatened the program's very survival. Bias, then a second-year student, pushed for funding from law school alumni to keep the team alive.
"I was in a situation where we were devoid of resources but full of passion for the law and the school, so we had to be creative about how we used time and money to be able to keep the program alive," Bias says. "The alums we reached out to were very supportive. As trial lawyers, they understood the need for us to develop advocacy skills before a case dropped in our laps as associates."
Then in 2013, Bayne took the reins as advisor and head coach, putting the team on track to becoming the national contender it is today.
"Brett really took the ball and ran with it, and now the Mock Trial program is an integral part of a future trial lawyer's education at USC," says Bias, who still actively volunteers with the program. "He's done a superb job of keeping former team members, like me, engaged. I think that input and involvement has been instrumental in helping the competition teams advance to their lofty heights."
Of course, the wealth of talent and unflagging dedication of the team's members doesn't hurt either. As their reputation has grown, earning a spot on the roster has become a highly coveted honor.
Each year, about 50 second-year law students compete for approximately 22 spots on the team. Hopefuls must put in hours and hours of time and research, building an entire case from start to finish and competing in a rigorous trial setting where they are evaluated on their trial skills, performance and potential. Skilled elocution is a must.
If the tryouts sound daunting, they are meant to be. Those lucky enough to make the team are then expected to spend at least 20 hours each week on team scrimmages, researching and drafting trial materials — on top of their regular academic workload.
"Practice makes perfect," Bayne says. "To be good, you have to put in the hard work, time and energy."
And the team is good. The hours of practice and grunt work produce high-performing individuals like Megan Rudd, a 2019 graduate and team standout. In a competition that Bayne notes as one of this season's biggest highlights — the national championship round of the Mockingbird Challenge Invitational — Rudd helped lead her team to victory in six tough rounds against the best teams in the nation. She also was named Best Overall Advocate at the Puerto Rico Trial Advocacy Competition, and Outstanding Advocate at the National Trial Competition Regionals — a win that secured South Carolina Law's spot at nationals.
In addition to two regional championships and sending two teams to nationals, the 2018-2019 season accolades include being thrice-named Most Professional Team, four Outstanding Advocate awards, a national finalist, two national semifinalists, claiming Best Overall Advocate and Best Direct Examination at the Puerto Rico Trial Advocacy Competition, and of course, winning a national championship at the Mockingbird Invitational.
Overall, the program has notched nine regional and national competition victories and more than a dozen "best" or "outstanding advocate" awards since Bayne began coaching.
So, where do they go from here? Bayne foresees the team broadening its horizons by entering more out-of-state competitions and increasing the recognition of both the team and South Carolina Law, with more wins.
"Our goal for this coming year is the same as every year — to try the case we wanted to try at the competition and, in so doing, improve as advocates," Bayne says.
Of course, the team has set its sights on attaining the crown jewel of the competition circuit — the national championship at the National Trial Competition, a goal he says the team has had from the beginning.
But the ultimate objective is one that Bayne, as an alumnus of the program and a practicing attorney, understands from experience: The invaluable opportunity Mock Trial offers students to exercise the legal knowledge they learned in the classroom and the acquisition of skills that can only be gained from experience in the courtroom.
"Winning is great, but my primary goal is to graduate 20 to 25 3Ls each year who are among the best trial advocates in the state on the day they walk across the graduation stage," Bayne says. "If we accomplish that goal, we've won, regardless of the competition results."
Brett Bayne and Joseph Bias are the two alumni who are primarily responsible for revitalizing the Mock Trial program.
2019-2020 results... so far:
Mock Trial on Fire
In October, Mock Trial team members (l to r) Ariyanna Gore, Jake Lampke, Austin Nichols and Peri Imler took home a national championship, beating 23 other teams from around the country to win the 2019 Lone Star Classic.
In February, Alex Sloope, Jake Hofferth, and Chris Paschal advanced to the national round of the National Trial Competition after taking the top spot in the regional round.
Other UofSC Law teams made it to the semi-finals of the Mockingbird Challenge National Trial Competition and the Palmetto State Classic Mock Trial Competition. In all three, a South Carolina Law student received either a Best Overall or an Outstanding Advocate award.


According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Applications Survey, mortgage rates showed little movement last week and were virtually unchanged from the week before. Rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances and FHA loans fell slightly, while rates for 15-year loans were flat from the previous week. Jumbo loans saw an increase from one week earlier. But though rates were steady, demand for mortgage applications fell. In fact, both refinance and purchase activity were down from the week before. The week-over-week drop puts demand for loans to buy homes 4 percent higher than at the same time last year. But, despite the improvement, analysts say application demand should be much higher, as the number of interested home buyers has grown. One explanation is that, though there are many buyers active in the market, they are having a harder time finding homes to buy, which has depressed demand for loans. As more homes become available to buy, the numbers will begin to catch up with the current level of interest in buying a home. The MBA's weekly survey has been conducted since 1990 and covers 75 percent of all retail residential mortgage applications. More here.


The highly anticipated, much awaited Bhaag Milkha Bhaag had a grand opening. (pun intended – read the post completely, u will understand :-)) People thronged to the theaters during office hours to see the legend come alive. I too saw it first day first show at Cauvery Theater (technically first day first show but not technically technically, if you know what I mean!) The main drawing point was Farhan Akhtar's 6 pack abs and his athletic look. Man, was I impressed!
Another point that caught my attention was – his affair with a foreign girl. I could not find any mention of any affair of his on the internet. Is it so secretive that it's not on the internet or is it that he told only the director about it or is it just bollywoodized? Can the director show "Inspired by a true story" at the start and take liberty at will? I don't know.
This blog post is related to his affair.
But before that, a small context check – Cauvery theater is a local theater. I usually go to malls to watch movies (sigh… first world problems). This time, I wanted to watch it with the 'not-so-sophisticated' crowd. Watching the movie in Cauvery… man, had I missed something for a long time. The environment was awesome, lively, energetic & lovely. People shouting, whistling, screaming… phew.. it was good. That's when I got into the mood! I waited for the right moment to join in with the crowd. And that right moment was when he goes into the room with that foreign girl. And that's when everyone knows there will be a kissing scene. And that's when the theater became silent. And that's when he started kissing the foreign girl. And that's when I shouted "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag". And that's when the theater came to whistles again!
And that's when I realized I am local too! And that's when you realize how yours truly rolls!


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What goes into decision making?
Understand the importance of decision-making and what goes into making them.
Think of your brain as the information hub that only you have access to. It has curated information based on a series of interactions, reactions and influences, that all culminate into one succinct belief or opinion. While many of us have had come into contact with the same stimuli, the outcome of this may have varied significantly. Therefore, given this, it is important to understand the art of decision making and what goes into making them.
Can you influence decision making?
If we take into outcome certain behavioural economic principles, it is easy to understand in what ways a decision could be influenced. From social to cultural, cognitive to emotional, a simple question can be answered in a vast array of ways, and it is these pillars that allow an answer to be influenced. So, can a decision be influenced?
In short yes. While each of us has a degree of freewill, there is only so much in which our brain can think completely independently. From a young age, we have all be influenced to perform a certain way; not to speak with our mouth full or learn to turn-take during a conversation, therefore is any action truly our own?
What is decision-making made of?
Decision-making can be broken down into five simple parts:
1. An inciting incident or need
2. Search for a fix
3. Comparing which strategy aligns best with the objective
4. Confirmation of strategy
5. Evaluation
With the first point being a regular occurrence in the workplace, from a new client brief, to needing to reduce overheads, it is important to consider the role decision has in a business.
How does this play a part in a business?
Specific external and internal factors can impact the outcome of any decision. Unfortunately, making a decision isn't as clear-cut as it may seem. As humans, we are designed to think of multiple potential outcomes from past experiences and cumulative knowledge. While this can lead to rationalised decision, it is essential to understand how this way of thinking plays a role in business decision.
When a scenario arises that could take the company in one direction or another, it is the job of the business decision-makers to decide what plan of action to put in place. The outcome is normally based on past experiences but in most instances, it is made by using their own internal judgement. While this can be seen as a positive, if the individual is biased in anyway, the result of the decision may be detrimental to the company, which is why it is normally wise to have more than one decision-maker within a company.
When opinions and values are shared, not only is the ownness spread between the individuals, but the decision is re-enforced by multiple experiences and judgments. On the other hand, when opinions conflict, it can bring about a fresh perspective on the best method in achieving the objective.
In essence, decision making within a business is a fundamental part of what can increase of plateau a company's performance. Ensuring decisions are executed with precision is crucial, which is why it can't be taken lightly. Even the minutest detail should be taken into account particularly those that aren't always tangible.
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Earthquakes Don't Kill People, Buildings Do
Author: Nick StocktonNick Stockton
Nepalese residents carry belongings from their destroyed homes as they walk through debris of Saturday's earthquake, in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday, April 27, 2015.
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When the shaking from the Himalayan earthquake reached Kathmandu just before noon on April 25, the Nepalese capital was filled with buildings—hastily constructed, poorly built—that were filled with people.
Saturday's earthquake may have caught Nepal by off guard, but that doesn't mean it came as a surprise. "You have a massive plate boundary system going under the country of Nepal," says Janise Rodgers, a structural engineer with Geohazards International, a Palo Alto nonprofit that helps developing countries earthquake-proof their infrastructure. Experts like Rodgers expected the quake because Nepal sits astride a massive continental subduction zone.
And the resulting devastation came as no surprise, either, because Kathmandu is filled with buildings not made to stand up to a quake. "Seeing modern, vulnerable construction go up without engineering input, building codes, or thought to earthquake design made a lot of people very worried," Rodgers says. The details of earthquake mitigation vary from building to building, but the general principles are:
1. Build on bedrock (not sloppy sediment).
2. Tie buildings together so they won't be easily knocked over.
3. Use steel, or something similarly strong, to reinforce concrete buildings.
Proximity to a fault line puts cities in danger of earthquakes. Other accidents of geography can exacerbate a trembler1, but you can predict a city's real risk using a much simpler metric: net worth. "In Nepal, you have a rapidly growing population that is very poor, and has basic shelter that is unsafe rather than shelter that is earthquake safe that they can't afford," says Simon Klemperer, a seismologist at Stanford University.
The scary part? Kathmandu isn't unique. It's impossible to predict an earthquake with reliability, of course, but when I asked seismologists what places they worried about the most, these three were among the most compelling examples of places at the intersection of geology and economics.
Even though the Mexican capital is hundreds of miles from any fault lines, it is one of the most seismically threatened cities on the globe. If a quake strikes the coast, people living above the dense bedrock between the Pacific and the capital might only feel a slight tremble. But the capital sits atop an infilled lake, which traps and amplifies seismic waves. And before 1957, the city did not require buildings to be earthquake compliant. Since then, semi-regular tremblers have knocked down a lot of dangerous dwellings (some of which were rebuilt with quake reinforcement), but in the same period the city's perimeter has expanded with shantytowns.
On the plus side, Mexico City has a pretty nice early warning system. It 2012, when a 7.4 quake hit the coast 200 miles away, the alarm gave many Capitalinos precious seconds to find their way to safety.
Like Kathmandu and Mexico City, this ancient city connecting Europe and Asia is filled with poor people living in poorly built structures. Unlike those other places, Istanbul is right on top of a dangerous fault zone. "The North Anatolian fault is a similar type—strike-slip—to California's San Andreas fault," says Rodgers. And as with its North American twin, experts have been predicting a minimum 7.0 magnitude quake on the North Anatolian for years. But Istanbul does not have anything near California's stringent earthquake codes. The last quake to hit the city—a 7.4 magnitude—killed more than 17,000 people. In the Golden State, the Loma Prieta quake—of comparable strength—shook up the Bay Area, but only killed 63.
New Madrid, USA
On the surface, the middle parts of America do not seem like candidates for seismic disaster. But 200 years ago a small town in southeastern Missouri was the epicenter of several huge earthquakes, some of which reached up to 8.0 magnitude. The strongest of these quakes altered the course of the Mississippi River. But because the region has been so quiet in the past century or so, building codes were never brought up to snuff. In 2008, FEMA issued a warning that a modern earthquake of the same magnitude (the odds are around 7 to 10 percent in the next 50 years) would cause, "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States."
Bringing buildings up to code—at home or abroad—is costly, but economics is just the language we use to measure the true cost of disaster. "When you're talking about earthquake mitigation, you're talking about lives you're saving," says Rodgers. "That's where the real value is: You're protecting lives." In other words, we should start picking up buildings before they fall down.
1. Kathmandu was built in a huge, bowl-like basin atop young, sedimentary rocks. When the quake struck, the basin focused the seismic waves onto the city, which propagated through the soft sediments at amplified levels.
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Brewster Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 107944
Feature type: Island
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Brewster Island (United States of America)
in Errera Channel, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and charted by FIDS from Shackleton in 1956-57; called Islote Sorpresa [=surprise islet] (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.106; Pierrou, 1970, p.669), Islotito Sorpresa (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.106) or Isla Sorpresa (Argentina. MM, 1958b, p.113); in association with the names of pioneers of photogrammetry grouped in this area, named after Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), British natural philosopher, who improved the mirror stereoscope invented by Sir C. Wheatstone (Wheatstone Glacier, q.v.) by substituting prisms in 1844 (APC, 1960, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974).
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CNN's Don Lemon Says That the "Silent Majority" Will Help Biden Win
On Tuesday, CNN's Don Lemon suggested that the "silent majority" will elect Joe Biden in November.
This was during his nightly exchange with Chris Cuomo. Lemon pointed out that 2020 is not 2016 as he "pointed to Biden's higher favorability than Hillary Clinton and the fact that President Trump now has a record to defend," reported Fox News.
"People talk about the 'silent majority,' you say you don't see the lawn signs or whatever, I think that people feel that they don't have to put up lawn signs and do all of those things because the lawn signs is Trump out every day giving misinformation," Lemon said to Cuomo.
"And when someone – after someone annoys you for a while… what's the best way to handle it? You just ignore it… When you ignore people, that is the worst thing that you can do to anyone," he added.
Lemon also said that he thinks people are "sick of us talking about Trump every single night, leading with him, it's a bulk of our show. People are tired of it and they're tired of his antics."
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According to Lemon, he believes there is a silent majority who will say, "You know what? I'm done."
"And they're not yelling and screaming, they're not ripping their masks off, they're not yelling at people to wear masks," he said.
Cuomo said he understood what Lemon was saying. However, he said the "silent majority" has "turned into the concern of whether or not the majority gets silenced through all of these suppression efforts with the ballots."
Lemon responded by saying he "wasn't saying" that Trump or Biden will win, but he emphasized that "this isn't 2016."
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Was not the leader of his team. (No one was.) Was made leader of his team.
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One dead in KL blast, 13 others injured
The Star/Asia News Network
KUALA LUMPUR - Terrorism may have been ruled out as the cause of the grenade blast which killed a man and injured 13 others, including one Singaporean, in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
But it has still left some Singaporeans jittery about visiting the popular Bukit Bintang district, where the blast took place outside a nightclub at 4.25am.
Police later detonated a second grenade that did not go off when thrown during the attack.
"I'll probably avoid the area for a while until the police have investigated and found the cause of it," Ms Pan Shi Hua, 26, a marketing executive who visits the Malaysian capital every three months to shop and eat, told The Straits Times.
The blast, which was determined to have been caused by a military-grade hand grenade, occurred outside the Cherry Blossom Club in the Sun Complex.
The man killed was 36-year-old car jockey Tiong Kwang Yie. Two Chinese nationals, Singaporean Wong Kim Teng and a Thai were among the injured.
The Straits Times reported that Mr Wong, 67, was hospitalised at the Ampang Hospital yesterday with leg injuries.
He told the paper: "It was like thunder. And then suddenly I saw blood all over me."
News of the blast created shockwaves on both sides of the Causeway. On any given day, the Bukit Bintang area is teeming with locals and tourists alike, as one can tuck into food, either along the streets or in cafes and restaurants, shop at several malls and then head for a massage or foot reflexology after. For late-night entertainment, there is also a bevy of pubs and nightclubs in the area.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak vowed that the authorities would track down and punish the perpetrators.
"I condemn in the strongest terms the violence that occurred this morning in Bukit Bintang," he said. "Such lawlessness will not be tolerated. Police investigations are under way and the perpetrators of this crime will be found and brought to justice."
The city's Criminal Investigation Department chief Gan Kong Meng told reporters that police believe the incident to be "business-related".
He added: "We believe the motive is revenge and more than one person is involved in this."
A senior counter-terrorism official, Ayub Khan, also ruled out terrorism, reportedly telling the Malay Mail Online: "It was a gang rivalry."
It is believed that police have several leads on the suspects.
Several injured in Bukit Bintang bomb blast


SANTA ROSA, Calif. – (BUSINESS WIRE) – March 23, 2017 - AltaPacific Bancorp (OTCBB: ABNK), the parent company of AltaPacific Bank, today reported that the board of directors recently approved the payment of a 5% stock dividend per common share payable on May 19, 2017 to shareholders of record as of May 1, 2017.
"Regarding the pending merger with Commerce Bank of Temecula Valley ("Commerce Bank"), a special meeting of shareholders has been scheduled for April 14, 2017, at which time Commerce Bank's shareholders will vote on a proposal to approve the merger agreement and the merger," reported Charles O. Hall, Chief Executive Officer.
AltaPacific Bancorp (OTCBB:ABNK) shares closed at $10.90 on March 23, 2017.


CD limited to 2,500 copies.
The only collection of Noel Harrison's Reprise work on CD. The compilation features tracks from Collage, Santa Monica Pier and The Great Electric Experiment is Over as well as unreleased tracks and singles.
A must-have for fans, but the fact it was limited to 2,500 copies means finding one is hard - expect to pay up to £100 from Amazon or eBay. It is available however as a digital download.
*Bonus tracks: An out-take of Let's Not from Santa Monica Pier and a radio advert for Santa Monica Pier.
Click the gadget to listen to samples from the CD.
"Well. I never…" my grandmother used to say when she was astonished by something.
That was my reaction when Bill Inglot told me that Rhino hand-made was planning to put out a compilation of my '60s recordings for Reprise, some of which I never expected to hear again.
The titles on this CD take me back to what was an extraordinary period of my life; 1966-1969 the birth of the counterculture, when the youth of the West were filled with Idealism, and psychedelics.
When I Was 20, I started playing professionally, around the tables in a Greek restaurant in London, for meals and tips.
I graduated to cabaret and private parties. Princess Margaret came to one of them, with her entourage of Lords, Ladies, and gentlemen.
The flustered MC introduced me as Rex Harrison (my illustrious and brilliant father). I came on onstage and said. "It's only me," Well, it was and it still is.
I made a living playing in bars and nightclubs all over Europe at the beginning of the 60s.
It was fun, but l didn't really feel like I was getting anywhere, and considered going into the restaurant business.
I'd played in New York (at the Blue Angel, opening for Shelley Berman, the comedian and satirist), and decided to give American showbiz one more try before quitting.
For one reason or another - mainly thanks to my managers Bob Chartoff and lrwin Winkler, who went on to produce the Rocky films among many, other distinguished achievements - I hit it of with the press and public, and before I knew it I had a record on the charts (A Young Girl which unfortunately is not on this CD —wrong record company) and was starring in an NBC -TV series with Stefanie Powers, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The TV series, plus my top 40 record, landed me a contract with Reprise, and the tracks on here are some of the results.
There are several different producers involved, and many wonderful musicians from the L.A. music scene of the period, Jimmy Bowen was my first overseer at Reprise. He had started out as a rockabilly bass player, a contemporary of Elvis. In the 80s he became the number one producer in Nashville, that town in Tennessee where the waiters and waitresses all carry demos in their aprons.
Also involved in this collection were Peter Pilafian, producer of the Stone Ponies, Lind Ronstadt's first group; John Phillips of the Mammas and the Pappas and David Platz of Essex music in Britain.
So, let's to the songs themselves, each one having its own little history.
Other than "Windmills Of Your Mind", which was assigned to me by the director of the original Thomas Crown Affair, Norman Jewison, I chose them all myself because I liked the poetry.


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British Transport Police and Transport Scotland Launch Festive Plan to Keep the Railway Safe
British Transport Police (BTP) and Transport Scotland have launched their festive plan which will include more officers on the network over the festive period to ensure the safety of passengers and rail staff.
This comes after an increase in anti-social behaviour across the network last month where BTP increased patrols and worked closely with partners to tackle the issue.
BTP is also reminding the public to be respectful towards rail staff when using the network and be mindful that travel restrictions will be eased between 23rd – 27th December. They are also encouraging passengers to follow the Government guidance and only travel when necessary during this period, plan and book your journey in advance, ensure you wear face coverings and maintain social distancing.
David Marshall, BTP Superintendent and Head of Operations in Scotland, said: "We will not tolerate anti-social behaviour on the network and we will be increasing our visibility patrols to ensure the railway remains a safe place to travel. We are also reminding the public to be respectful to rail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic.
"Additional officers will patrol the rail network, supporting rail staff and engaging with passengers about the importance of maintaining social distancing and reminding those who are travelling to wear face coverings. We hope the public will continue to act responsibly and play their part in helping to protect themselves, and each other, by following the guidance and restrictions set out by the Scottish Government, as well as complying with the requirement to wear face coverings."
Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity said: "Abusing any frontline staff, especially those keeping services moving for other key workers, is unacceptable at any time never mind at the present while we continue to tackle the ongoing impacts on the pandemic. I have no hesitation in supporting BTP and the rail industry in their efforts to convey this message and reduce incidents.
"Everyone working on or using public transport has an absolute right to go about their business without fear of verbal or physical assault. We would ask the public that they not only refrain from this type of wholly unnecessary behaviour, but that they lend their support in actively reporting it where they see incidents or suspicious behaviour happening."
Alex White, ScotRail Chief Operating Officer, added: "ScotRail has zero-tolerance towards anti-social behaviour, so we hope people will show their support for the railway staff who have gone the extra mile to keep Scotland moving throughout the pandemic.
"We are determined to put the welfare of law-abiding passengers and our staff ahead of people who are breaking the law."


Sprint has been found guilty of violating two U.S. patents that were held by Prism Technologies. The patents were used during the rollout of their "Simply Everything" and "Everything Data" plans. The Nebraska Court's decision will cost Sprint a total of $30 million.
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Peter Albin interview by Joanna Manqueros
Joanna Manqueros hosted Dead to the World on July 30, 2014, and interviewed Peter Albin (Big Brother and the Holding Company). Listener Damien Palermo was kind enough to transcbie the talk. Enjoy!
Joanna Manqueros (host): Jerry Garcia was born in 1942. What was he doing in 1962? You brought some stuff in that's really cool with The Wildwood Boys, so talk a little bit about his early days.
Peter Albin: Well I'll tell ya how we met Jerry. My brother and a friend of his along with myself had a little club called The Boar's Head in San Carlos. It was above a bookstore called The Carlos Bookstall and uh we just had it during the summer of 1961 and '62. First it was in this bookstall and later it moved to the Jewish Community Center in San Carlos, but we looked around for people who would be willing to play for free and who needed a place to play. We heard about this guy who was really a good guitar player down in Palo Alto or Menlo Park, I guess, playing at a place, it was a bookstore, Kepler's Bookstore, a very famous bookstore that was used by a lot of Stanford students.
So we went down there and we asked, do you have a stage, do you have a, what do you have here? It's a bookstore. I said, well isn't there a guy playing music some place? He says, yeah go in the back. So we went way in the back and there's this little area that had free coffee and a couple of tables and chairs and there's Jerry Garcia playing finger style guitar.
So we asked him, would you like to come up to San Carlos and play? We can't pay you anything, but you certainly are good enough and a lot of people would probably like to listen to you. He said, "Uh sure and maybe I'll bring some of my friends, too." We said, fine bring whoever you want. The more the merrier.
The Boar's Head had a capacity of about 25 people. It was very small, almost as small as the area at Kepler's, but we had a lot of people who came to play and some of Jerry Garcia's friends came along with some of the electric people who came, mostly folk guys. There was a guy named David McQueen who sang blues and this young kid Ron McKernan also came with Jerry and Jerry would back both of these guys singing blues, but he also had some other friends. Marshall Leicester who played banjo and then he became friends with David Nelson who was a friend of mine. Actually, I went to high school with David and so they started working together, later on.
My brother and I had a group called The Liberty Hill Aristocrats, we first started in about '61 or '62 with a gal named Ellen Cavanaugh and we'll hear that a little bit later on, but we do want to play some of the early collaborations of Jerry Garcia with his friend, Bob Hunter.
JM: Those are the early days and you, Peter Albin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, you knew him when he was very young and just starting out, which is a tremendous thing. You know, he's ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists of all time. You're talking about American history there.
PA: Yeah, he's an amazing guitar player and after we heard him play guitar, he started learning how to play banjo around that time. He was incredible. A very influential guy was Roger Sprung and of course, Scruggs, and all the bluegrass players. Jerry also learned how to play mandolin and all sorts of instruments. He was a very talented guy, obviously, and very unique. He was very intense, in a good way, but very forceful.
One time I walked in and we were at The Top of the Tangent and he said, "I just learned how to play Nola on the banjo", which is a very difficult song to play, even on piano or whatever and he played it very well and very fast. He said, "dig this", you know kinda like shove it in your face kinda thing, but it was like "I can do this now, I'm learning how to do this."
So, we were kind of let into the process that Jerry was into at that time, learning all these different songs and different styles. It was incredible.
Music: "Hoochie Koochie Man" with Pigpen on vocals and Peter Albin on guitar, Top of the Tangent 1963
JM: We listened to an unusual track and Jerry was not singing on that track. Peter Albin, who was that?
PA: That was Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and he was about 15 years old. I was backing him on guitar.
JM: What was Pigpen like as a person?
PA: He was a very quiet guy. He really knew the blues. His father had been a DJ in Oakland and played a lot of blues on his show and he had a fantastic record collection. Pigpen was versed in not only playing harmonica, which he really did quite well, but also played guitar and piano.
Now, I gotta tell you about KPFA and how important it was to both myself and Ron because we came up here a couple of times for Gert Chiarito's Midnight Special show, which was fantastic. It was a round-robin show, one microphone and about 20 people and chairs around, circling the microphone and each person got a chance to sing a song and then passed to the next person. So Ron and I came up along with a bunch of other people. The Chambers Brothers were there, Janet Smith was there and next to me was Janis Joplin. I had never met her before. She was sitting there with her white man's shirt on and no bra and it was like, for a young kid I was goin, "woo". What is she gonna do and she started singing. It was incredibly loud number one and just incredible tone in her voice and she really knew the blues quite well. She and Ron kind of hit it off a little bit there and later on down the line they were kind of a thing for a while.
JM: It was the early days, wasn't it, that you connected with Jerry. I've asked you to bring out some music that was kind of what was in Jerry's ear. I'm always interested in sort of what brings someone to the music that they create and what inspired Jerry. One of the things you pulled out was Doc Watson, who is considered one of the best flat pickers in the United States and I wonder if you want to talk about that and other artists who were people who inspired Jerry Garcia.
PA: Jerry was a great flat picker, but he also was a good finger picker too. So there was besides Doc Watson and some of those great flat pickers in those days, there were the finger pickers like Merle Travis and even Chet Atkins for that matter, but going way back he was very influenced by some of the , I wanna say, the country artists of the 20's including Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, Charlie Poole, of course early bluegrass guys including Bill Monroe and of course, Earl Scruggs. But, he listened to everything, ya know.
JM: His dad was a musician and the family had emigrated from Spain in 1919 and his dad was from Spain, which I don't know why, but it's like never mentioned.
PA: Well I never met the family. I met his brother, Tiff, but that was about it. I never met his mother or father. You know, he never spoke Spanish and he didn't really give off any kind of like Latino thing and he didn't play that type of music. Very seldom did I ever hear him play any Spanish type of music, or Latin. It was always early American music and it was a delight to hear him replicate a lot of this stuff and then, of course, it was a delight to hear him get into a more creative line and make his own music and write his own songs. He was a pretty wonderful guy. You know and again, I think he had come up to Berkeley, to KPFA, to the Gert Chiarito Midnight Special show and participated in that and he really appreciated KPFA as well as all of his friends and the musicians who were around at the time. If it wasn't for KPFA, I probably wouldn't have met Janis Joplin, to tell ya the truth.
JM: What was Janis Joplin like? I've heard that when she got up onstage at Woodstock that people were just blown away to see a white person singing the blues.
PA: Well, she had a very strong voice, number one, and a very strong personality that backed up that voice so it was all from her heart and from her soul and she had kinda grown up, well she did grow up in the South.
JM: In Texas, in an abusive school environment, plenty of bullying is what I heard.
PA: Yes, unfortunately and she wanted to be a beatnik, you know, and come out west, which she eventually did, and she wanted to sing the blues., which she did all the time and she also sang a lot of folk music, too. When I saw her here at KPFA, at the Midnight Special, I think she did one blues song and one old folk song. So she was definitely into Americana and the roots music of the time and she was a wonderful person most of the time. You know, she was a human being, she had her moods, she had her ups and downs. She was a very well read person and you could have an intellectual conversation with her, you could have a conversation about anything, you know, give her a little bit of tequila or something like that and it might spark her onto different sorts of directions of conversation, but it was always fun and she was a very funny person. She had a very high laugh that was infectious, but most of the time it was a fun relationship that we had.
Music: "The Yodeling Song by Jimmie Rodgers
JM: Peter Albin has been choosing some beautiful stuff, and one of the things you've been doing has been grounding us in what Jerry Garcia was listening to when he was young. I know his father passed away in a fly fishing accident and his grandmother played bluegrass and listened to The Grande Old Opry, and it seemed like he was fascinated by bluegrass and country music. Why did you choose that cut?
PA: Well, that was Jimmie Rodgers and of course he's one of the founding, I guess one of the early inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He kind of borrowed his style from Emmett Miller which goes way back to the vaudeville days, but he kinda brought it out into country music and to that scene and Garcia listened to a lot of that early stuff, including cowboy songs, but it's all kind of Americana. All these kinds of music weave in and out and of course, it all seems to come together with rock and roll, and Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. They also listened to a lot of these things and incorporated it into their music as did Jerry and some of the band members of the Grateful Dead. Ron McKernan was extremely interested in the blues and very instrumental in bringing R&B into the GD's repertoire. We probably should dig out some of those Motown things and some of those Memphis cuts.
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Week of June 23, 2008
Part 1 15:41
Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol 1 no 3: Summer '71
CRYPTICAL ENVELOPMENT->
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THE OTHER ONE->
ME AND MY UNCLE->
CRYPTICAL ENVELOPMENT
Bob and Phil make a good solid attempt at "Me and My Uncle" about five minutes before the song actually starts, but Jerry and Billy are still out in the far reaches so the jam goes on a while longer. Fun!
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Grateful Dead Productions, announcing the release of Road Trips volume 1 number 3. Summer '71 has a full CD of music from July 31 '71 at the Yale Bowl and a full disc recorded August 23 of '71 at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, plus liner notes and rare photographs. There's also a bonus disc with two more tracks from the Yale Bowl, and eight more songs from August 4 and 6, 1971. Information, cover art, reviews and message board are online at dead.net
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Road Trips, vol 1 no 3: Summer '71
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Road Trips, vol 1 no 3
This is some great music. including the long-lost soundboard recording of the justly-legendary 8/6/71 Hard to Handle!
New Haven, CT – 7/31/71
Chicago, IL – 8/23/71
Hollywood, CA – 8/6/71
San Pedro, CA – 8/4/71
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The Association of Catering Excellence (ACE) has announced Rebecca Armstrong as the winner of the 2019 ACE Robyns Award, sponsored by Troika, at its annual summer party held at Kings Place, London on 10 July.
Armstrong, operations manager for The Genuine Dining Company, was declared the overall winner in front of over 200 hospitality guests. She is responsible for eight sites around London and training 40 members of staff.
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