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(Upcoming Show) Bo Ramsey Adds 2018 Tour Dates– Des Moines 3/9, Cedar Rapids 3/10, Fairfield 3/23 and more
Posted on March 8, 2018 by mike
Bo Ramsey has started adding dates to his 2018 tour calendar.
Which is good news for the many fans in Iowa who have been following his career. He wrapped up 2017 with a couple of shows: one at the Mill in November with a lineup that included new sidemen Matthew Bernemann on drums and Randal Davis on guitar in addition to original 90's Backsliders band member Marty Christensen on bass. A late December show at The Octopus in Cedar Falls replaced Bernemann with longtime drummer Steve Hayes. These were both amazing shows with Bo in excellent form and clearly really enjoying himself.
Bo is playing with different band lineups and he also pulled in some deeper catalog songs for those shows, and it will be interesting to see if they stay in. It's been a long time since I've heard songs like "On The Range" (from 1988's Either Way). These have been the first shows that Bo has brought out the songs from his 2016 album Wildwood Calling. These instrumental tracks have been used to open the sets and do a fantastic job of adding some mood and atmospherics to the show.
Bo is playing two shows this week. Friday will be at the Kum & Go Theater (at The Des Moines Social Club) in Des Moines with Erik Koskinen. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the show. Saturday will be at CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 at the door.
Later this month Bo will be playing the very cool Cafe Paradiso in Fairfield on 3/23 and supporting Greg Brown at the Englert on 3/30 (no solo set).
The next show on his calendar is at The Shitty Barn in Spring Green on Saturday, June 16th.
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The It's Time to Play B-Sides Top 20 Albums of 2017
2017 to me felt like a transition year in many ways– personally, politically, culturally and certainly musically. For me personally 2017 will represent the year that my wife and I made the biggest steps away from 2011 when I was unemployed for eight months following a 13-year run in IT middle management. We bought a house after renting for over six years– the house hunt was a crazy one with lots of ups and downs. But we found a house that we love and it ends up being kind of perfect for being a place our grandson can come hang out and listen to records with Papa.
2017 was another year in a troubling pattern of musician deaths. The biggest of these is the unexpected passing of Tom Petty which for me was as big a loss as Prince was in 2016. I discovered Petty in 1986 with the release of Southern Accents. Although I had heard the big singles on the radio up to that, Southern Accents was released when I was searching for music that spoke to me. In that regard I look at Tom Petty as being "my Beatles." The Beatles were a big part of my musical rearing, but they were already broken up by the time I started striking out on my own musical tastes. Petty was someone whose career set a benchmark for everyone who made guitar driven rootsy rock and roll. Petty continues to be something I can put on at any time and never tire of listening to. I was fortunate to be able to see him during his 40th Anniversary tour this summer in Des Moines and it was kind of full-circle as I was there with my dad and my brothers– just about 30 years after the first Tom Petty concert we saw in Chicago.
As far as new notable albums for 2017, I'm kind of out in left field again. My other writing gig as album reviewer for Little Village Magazine ends up determining what I listen to the most at any given time as I crash-listen to new Iowa-based or related albums and that is reflected again in my list. That said, these are all really strong releases that hold up against the deluge of new major releases. Albums that others are including in their lists that I probably need to give at least a cursory listen to include the new Foo Fighters album Concrete and Gold, Queens of the Stone Age's Villains, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit's The Nashville Sound, Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. Some releases that nearly made the list were the new National album, the new Fleet Foxes album, and the new War on Drugs.
Here's my Top 20 for 2017 (In no particular order):
Beth Bombara – Map & No Direction – Beth Bombara has been cranking out really solid albums for a while now. She's a gifted songwriter and musician and her releases are always really strong. With her 2017 album, she has taken her spin on folk, Americana and rock and turned the "rock" knob up a bit putting out a record that is up there with the best releases Sheryl Crow put out. Bombara is kicking off 2018 with her first tour of Europe which will give her more deserved exposure.
Pieta Brown – Postcards – Brown's latest album is a collection of "musical postcards" which are made up of collaborations with folks like Calexico, Mark Knopfler, The Pines and David Lindley. The resulting album still sounds like a Pieta Brown album which is always a good thing. You can read my interview with Brown for Little Village Magazine here.
Charlie Parr – Dog – Dog is Charlie Parr's second release for Red House Records and he's continuing the full band trend for releases. Dog doesn't have Phil Cook and friends behind him like Stumpjumper did, but the album still has the same energy and blistering slide guitar and picking we've come to expect from Parr.
Crystal City – Bartenderly – Iowa City's Crystal City is primarily the duo of Dave Helmer and Sam Drella who stylistically occupy an intersection somewhere between John Prine and Paul Westerberg. Their latest album Bartenderly is a celebratory salvo of headbuzz rock for the bruised blue collar. You can read my review for Little Village Magazine here.
Deer Tick – Deer Tick 1 & 2 – This couple of albums from Deer Tick is as close to a #1 as I'm willing to commit to on this list. Aside from John McCauley's stint in the supergroup of Middle Brother with Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit I really hadn't listened to any Deer Tick until this two LP release this year. The band took a four-year hiatus while the members did things like start families. They came back together and pulled a Use-Your-Illusion two album release this year. The band says that these are not to be considered as one release, but really it would be tough choice to only buy one of them. The band said that they were always kind of two bands: an acoustic folk band or an electric rock band. So, this is what we got, an acoustic album in Vol 1 and a rock album in Vol 2. These records are both full of brilliant songs– no filler (unlike the Guns 'n' Roses pair mentioned earlier).
SUSTO – & I'm Fine Today – SUSTO is a "friend of Codfish Hollow" band that's played there a few times and I managed to catch them during the first GARP Festival in 2016 and was really impressed. They played a few songs from this album, so I was interested in hearing it when it came out this year. & I'm Fine Today is an album that slides around stylistically with ease and comfort making this album musically more interesting than their previous releases to me. This album was on a very regular rotation for me in 2017 and one that I never get tired of spinning. The song that rips me up every time I listen to it is what I consider to be the spiritual successor to "Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat : "Gay In The South." Brilliant song.
Hiss Golden Messenger – Hallelujah Anyhow – If you've been following my Year End posts, it shouldn't be surprising to see this album on here, since M.C. Taylor has been a favorite of mine since before he launched Hiss Golden Messenger. His partnership with Merge Records and with Phil and Brad Cook (formerly of Megafaun) has created a music juggernaut: touring nearly incessantly and creating four albums in three years of head-nodding rhythm and groove albums which draw inspiration from the golden era of Van the Man and The Dead. Releasing Hallelujah Anyhow so soon on the heels of the double album Heart Like A Levee and Vestapol is counter-intuitive based on the typical album release/tour/album release cycle. Taylor said that when he and manager Brad Cook were talking about wanting to release an album right away, they thought it felt good to do it and Merge was amenable to the idea, and certainly it was the right time because this album fires on all cylinders.
Game Theory – Supercalifragile – Prior to his unexpected passing in 2013, Scott Miller of Game Theory and The Loud Family was working on a new album of collaborations. To be titled Supercalifragile, it was going to be the first album of songs under the Game Theory moniker since the 1988 album Two Steps from the Middle Ages (itself was reissued in 2017 as part of the massive Omnivore Records reissue campaign). Miller's wife Kristine took the mantle of finishing the album by taking the notes and her memories of what he had planned and called in friends, former bandmembers and collaborators in to finish the album. The songs were in varying degrees of completeness: some had demo recordings Miller had created, some just notes. The resulting album is bittersweet: equal parts official posthumous release and tribute to the fallen songwriter. I find it to be a fitting closure. You can read my post on this site here.
Grateful Dead – Cornell 5/8/77 – When the Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux announced that Cornell 77 was going to be released as a Dead Archives official release, I was really excited (as many were). Cornell was one of the first full Dead tapes I ever heard and was really amazed by how good it sounded– both performance and recording itself. I had pretty much been avoiding Dead tapes due to how much of a mixed bag they were. As luck would have it, one of the early peer-to-peer trading networks (pre-dimeadozen) had the full cache of the Betty Boards tapes, which included the legendary 5/8/77 show. These were early rips of the reel-to-reels done by a close-knit group of Dead fans who bought the contents of the storage facility that she'd let lapse. Eventually the Dead pulled electronic trading of soundboards, but I had the show I cared about downloaded. I managed to snag one of the 5 LP box sets of which 7700 were pressed used on eBay. It had a crumpled box corner, but the contents were in fantastic shape. They did a fantastic job of cleaning up this recording and somehow even fixing the first missing couple of minutes. The bootleg that circulated had spliced in part of an audience recording which created a really annoying transition. The box has has re-energized my interest in the Dead, and I've added some LPs to my vinyl collection and I'll continue to do that, I'm sure.
Ryan Adams – Prisoner B-Sides – 2017 brought the newest album from Ryan Adams titled Prisoner. It was his third release since his signing to Blue Note Records, and second album of original work (his full-album cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 was also on Blue Note). In many ways Prisoner was kind of self-titled part 2. Most of the songs to me seemed like outtakes from Ryan Adams. Pretty good, but ultimately just more of the same 80's influenced power pop mixed his trademarked Americana. For me, Adams is most interesting when he's experimenting, and to that end, the massive 17-track collection of "B-Sides" from Prisoner is far more satisfying a listen. He still brings on the Smiths-influence here, but I just like the songs more. The B-Sides were released as a box set of 7-inch singles (that I should consider picking up at some point) and digital download. I'd love to see the 17 tracks released as a 2 LP (hint, hint Blue Note).
Loess – Pocosin – 2017 brought the glorious reunion of Clay Emerson and Ian Pullman as Loess. Their particular spin on electronic music comes from the Boards of Canada and early Autechre diced up and distorted ambient influence. I have loved everything that Loess has put out and Pocosin was an exciting addition for me this year. You can read my article about the release here.
The Right Now – Starlight – Chicago R&B and Soul band The Right Now's third album came out this year and it veered a bit away from their more classic sound towards a sound very influenced by more recent disco and funk. While still fronted by the signature powerhouse vocals of Stefanie Berecz, the update is a welcome one as the push in this direction has inspired some of the best songwriting to date from the band. All Killer No Filler indeed! Here is my article about the release on this site. Here is an article about a remix from Starlight that has a 60 minute mix of songs that inspired the album, Here is an article I wrote for Little Village Magazine about a show at The Mill.
Gloom Balloon – Drying the Eyes of the Goddess of Gloom, Underneath the Stars and the Moon – Gloom Balloon is the moniker for Des Moines producer/artist/label head Patrick Tape Fleming. This album ends up being kind of the sonic brother from another mother of Christoper The Conquered's album I've Given Up on Rock and Roll. I love this record– it sits somewhere around The Flaming Lips and ELO for experimentation and bombast at times. My review for Little Village is a good place to start reading about what I think.
Har-di-Har — we will will you – Julie and Andrew Thoreen released their first full length album as Har-di-Har in 2017. They used to live in Cedar Falls, but relocated to St. Paul a few years ago. we will will you is an album that captures a marriage in a precarious state of doubt. The resulting album is a compellingly personal album featuring their signature vocal harmonies and spiderwebby chord and percussion infrastructure.
The Pines – Pasture II – The Pines returned with a second EP of covers. This time we get covers of a Bo Ramsey and a Pieta Brown tune. Read my review for Little Village here.
TIRES – LP1 – Phil Young is in a whole bunch of bands in and around Des Moines including The Wheelers. His instrumental side project TIRES put out their debut album in early 2017. It comes from the same "emergency rock" post rock space as bands like Trans Am and Cougar and I dig it a lot. The vinyl has a hand-screened cover, which is really cool. Here is my review for Little Village.
Colleen – Vol. 1 – Cedar Rapids synthpop duo Colleen put out their debut EP in 2017. Reminds me of Polica or Portishead. They have a new EP already recorded and should come out pretty soon. Read my review for Little Village Magazine.
NAOMI – Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish – Iowa band NAOMI is named after its lead singer and cranks out "snarky pop rock" which is as apt a description of the proceedings as any. A fun, anthemic guitar driven album that picks up where Avril Lavigne and No Doubt left off in the early oughts. Check my review for Little Village here.
Ryne Doughty – Date Night – Ryne Doughty has been crafting is particular singer-songwriter folk for a few years. I happened to catch him opening for The Pines at CSPS a while ago. He openly admits to worshiping at the temple of Greg Brown and that influence is obvious, but he's got his own style and really we don't have enough of the storytelling songwriters around. Read my review of Date Night for Little Village.
The Dawn – Wooly – The Dawn are the jam band ambassadors for the Quad Cities. Their latest album Wooly is the first for Cartouche Records and, I think is a bit of a departure for them. Wooly draws more R&B influences– specifically Prince into the mix which makes this album my favorite of their catalog to date. Here is my review for Little Village.
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(Upcoming Show) Pieta Brown Wraps Up The Year Bringing Sawdust Collective to CSPS, Friday 12/1
Posted on December 1, 2017 by mike
Friday night (12/1) Pieta Brown is returning to CSPS in Cedar Rapids. It's her last live show of the year and she's bringing Bo Ramsey and Marty Christensen as "Sawdust Collective." Pieta's shows at CSPS are a rare magical combination of artist, audience and venue and are some of the best shows I've seen of hers.
Her latest album, Postcards is a collection of long distance collaborations with artists like Mark Knopfler, Calexico, David Lindley, The Pines, and others– "musical postcards." In my interview with her for Little Village Magazine earlier this year, she said this about it:
It just came together really seamlessly and it just happened. I started reaching out to some people — kind of wishful thinking people I would want to record with. You know I was really touched and honestly really inspired and kind of encouraged by getting the energy and the super-willingness right back at a time when I was struggling to figure out how to even afford to move forward and make another album. So, it was cool timing. And, it was really neat to do it here and I had never really recorded like that either. Which is to say that all of my other recordings have been recorded in a few days in a row with a live band, with everybody playing together. Maybe rehearse the songs one at a time or maybe have a day of rehearsal and then go in and cut the songs. Very experimental and not a lot of room for getting it exactly right so to speak. [laughs] One thing that was cool was just singing by myself with my guitar — I just have never really recorded that way except for a track here or there.
Pieta and Bo did a Daytrotter session earlier this year focusing on songs from Postcards.
Pieta Brown with Sawdust Collective will be at CSPS tonight. Doors will be at 7PM and the show will be at 8PM. Tickets are $17 in advance and $21 at the door.
Tickets and information are at the Legion Arts website HERE.
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(Upcoming Show) River Glen and Band with DICKIE and Beth Bombara at Dick's Tap & Shake Room 11/17
Posted on November 15, 2017 by mike
We're in the days of indecisive weather and confused clocks. It feels deceptively like fall in the daylight but nighttime's dark, cold fingers close around the plants from summer extinguishing what optimistic reaching for the sun they had left. The days are shorter and even if you race home from a day at work, the dark is nipping at your heels reminding you that before long it will be settled in around you. A long winter's guest. As you pull the last of summer's shorts and tees from the wash– only to be banished to a drawer until the earth is warm– you wonder what you can do to stall the inevitable.
River Glen Breitbach is a member of the extensive and musical Breitbach clan from Dubuque. Performing simply as River Glen, he is a multi-instrumentalist that mixes a blend of Folk, Pop, Rock, and Hip-Hop and Friday night he's bringing a full band to Dick's Tap & Shake Room promising a sunny and warm respite from the impending weather. What I've listened to so far fits pretty well with artists like Keller Williams or Jack Johnson.
If that wasn't enough, two of my favorite artists are opening the show.
Beth Bombara
I've been following St. Louis singer/songwriter Beth Bombara's career since the beginning and three albums and one EP's worth of rustic and yearning Americana prove that she's in it for the long haul and a songwriter to keep an eye on. I was excited to hear her on SiriusXM's The Loft this summer! Her latest album Map and No Direction is a more rock-leaning record than the previous two, but shows how her songwriting fits pretty much any mold. She draws easy comparisons to Natalie Merchant, I think. I love the George Harrison-ish slide hooks in "I Tried."
Also opening the show is Dick Prall– daytime proprietor of Dick's Tap & Shake Room and nighttime purveyor of pristine pop as DICKIE. After a few albums as Dick Prall and The Dick Prall Band and Starch Martins, he relaunched with a new name and a self-titled biographical song cycle in 2015 which I said in my review for Little Village Magazine, "…has the introspective pop we're used to from Prall-—the head-hanging desperation, the wistful turn-of-phrase, the hopeful wishes all delivered in a brigade of earworm-wrangling hooks."
Maybe we can't completely avoid the cold, but with this line up on Friday night, we can stall it a bit as we listen to three really amazing musicians bringing their art to the stage at Dick's.
There is no cover, but it starts at 9PM.
Here is the Facebook event, so you don't forget.
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Posted on January 1, 2017 by mike
2016 was the 10th birthday of It's Time to Play B-Sides, as unreal as that seems. This blog started as an offshoot of the regular conversations about music I was having at work with my friends and co-workers. At the time there wasn't the proliferation of music sites that there are today, and informed or researched information about music was tough to find. With encouragement from my friends, I started this as a way to capture some of the tangents we'd get into at work. It also ended up being a return of sorts to doing a music website after shuttering the somewhat popular website I was running about DJ Shadow. The name of the blog came from the signoff post I made to the DJ Shadow boards and was also a line from "Burning For You" by Blue Oyster Cult which always represented the desire to dig a little deeper into music– to flip the record over and listen to the songs on the B-Side.
The focus of It's Time to Play B-Sides has morphed a bit over the years, some of it due to the amount of time I have to dedicate to writing on it, some of it is because I have focused a lot of my music writing since 2009 as a contributor to Little Village Magazine. This also explains why this list includes a lot of Iowa artists since that's what we review. That said, there are some really amazing bands in Iowa and even after I review the albums, they stay in regular rotation for me and earn spots on my list.
As many will note, 2016 was a really strange year for music– sadly, mostly notable for the striking number of losses: Glenn Frey, David Bowie, Sharon Jones, Greg Lake, Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell, Merle Haggard, Maurice White, and Paul Kantner. The one that really hit me hard was the loss of Prince. Prince represented for me the first artist that I discovered on my own. Most of my formative music taste came from my father and that music is still a big part of the foundation of what I think is good in music. Prince came onto the larger music scene for me with Purple Rain, and from there I followed his career, and bands he worked with closely. I don't think that we'll see another artist quite as influential or as boundless in talent and genius again. I hope I'm wrong, but I feel like part of his ability to branch out was due to the fact that he hit it big during a time when the music industry was creating huge stars and he could afford to make some albums that were more daring and experimental.
The list below is in no particular order, but represent the albums that I listened to the most in 2016.
Bon Iver – 22, A Million – Justin Vernon got back on the horse. It really seemed like he wasn't going to do another record as Bon Iver– he was burnt out of the attention and visibility he got from his Grammy-winning second album. He debuted a couple of the songs at the inaugural Eaux Claires Festival in 2015 with a glorious live show. It took the prodding of his friend Ryan Olson (Gayngs, Polica, etc.) to make him finish (or even keep working on) it. The resulting album seems related to the last album, but the textures and production are unexpected and frankly jolting in comparison, which was exactly his intention, I think. Lots of samples, and heavily affected recording techniques. I expect that this album will influence a lot of artists going forward. At the root of the album is still the perspective of Vernon. His losses and heartbreaks, the stories
Kalispell – Printer's Son – Kalispell is the name of Shane Leonard's solo music when he's not working with other bands like Field Report and JE Sunde. Printer's Son is a beautiful record, period. From my review on playbsides: "Printer's Son is one of those rare records that is so completely imagined and executed that when you first listen to it, it seems to drop unexpectedly out of the ether. It's a record that defies any convenient genre classification. Elements of ambience and folk and jazz come together to help deliver a grippingly emotional and personal album."
Lissie – My Wild West – Rock Island-native Elisabeth "Lissie" Maurus becomes homesick and moves back to Iowa and self-releases an album based on the experience. Full of hooks, driving and anthemic, it's a great start to a career back home. Here's my review from Little Village.
King of the Tramps – Cumplir con el Diablo – A later addition to the list. King of Tramps from Auburn, IA packs a lot of classic guitar-driven rock remniscent of Black Crowes into their latest effort (which comes in a super-cool transparent vinyl version). Here's my review from Little Village Magazine.
Durand Jones and the Indications – Durand Jones and the Indications – New release on the fantastic Soul and R&B label out of Ohio, Colemine Records. In 2016, Colemine Records started a kind of subscription series where they email you upcoming releases to allow you to opt-in to the special first-pressing variations. This is a much better approach to this idea than the forced-in versions that are the trend today. They let you listen to the releases and you can decide to be part of the drop or not. One of the releases was the debut release of Durand Jones and the Indications on transparent blue vinyl. Fantastic classic R&B in the tradition of Stax/Volt and Otis Redding. Check out the video for "Make A Change."
Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like A Levee – MC Taylor's second full-length on Merge started as a project to create musical accompaniment to an exhibition of photographs taken by William Gedney in 1972 of an Eastern Kentucky coal-mining camp. Initially the songs were going to be based on the photographs, but eventually took their own direction. The album is distinctively HGM with Taylor expressing the developing perspective of a man coming to terms with balancing a family life and a music career. I've been a fan from before the first release as HGM and eagerly await the next releases.
Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines – I found out about Steve Gunn through his connection to Hiss Golden Messenger– a one-off collaboration called Golden Gunn. His 2016 release is his debut on Matador Records. To me, his music is influenced by the great UK guitarists like Richard Thompson and Michael Chapman (whose upcoming release 50, he produced and played on).
William Tyler – Modern Country – Nashville guitar wizard William Tyler, who works with a lot folks including Hiss Golden Messenger and Lambchop, released another album of his particular atmospheric guitar acrobatics. For me, his albums add a wide cinematic soundtrack to whatever I'm doing.
Scott Hirsch – Blue Rider Songs – Scott Hirsch is the silent partner in Hiss Golden Messenger, but for his debut solo album (which has been a long time coming, frankly) he delivers a breezy laid-back album that sounds like JJ Cale's best work.
Bo Ramsey – Wildwood Calling – Bo Ramsey returns with his first album since 2008's Fragile. This album, recorded in his kitchen is instrumentals showcasing his distinctive country blues style he is reknowned for. Read my review in Little Village Magazine.
The Pines – Above the Prairie – It's safe to say that any time The Pines release a new album, it will be on my favorite albums for that year. Their signature atmospheric take on folk and blues has developed slowly over the releases to the point where it is nearly its own genre. I can't think of any other bands that sound quite like The Pines. Read Matt Steele's review in Little Village Magazine.
Chrash – Things My Friends Say – Chris Bernat of 90's alt rock band Tripmaster Monkey released their first album of angular pop rock on Quad Cities indie label Cartouche. From my review in Little Village Magazine: "Things My Friends Say is an album that distinguishes itself in the landscape of new releases by the determinedly outsider approach to songs which, in the end, are damn catchy."
Freakwater – Scheherazade – This reboot of Freakwater was a long time in the works, but turned out one of the best albums in their catalog. Scheherazade is a more rich and expansive version of their sound thanks to the band, which includes Jim Elkington of seemingly every band related to Chicago. Read my interview with Janet and Catherine in Little Village Magazine (Part 1, Part 2).
Halfloves – (self titled) – The Iowa band The Olympics reboot with the guiding hand of Brendan Darner to create a dark pop record of singular vision and execution. Read my review in Little Village Magazine.
SIRES – Soul For Sale – Another rebrand/reboot of an Iowa band– this time the former Dylan Sires and Neighbors become SIRES and also work with Brendan Darner to create a moody masterpiece (I think I see a trend here). Fantastic record, though– from my review in Little Village Magazine, " They've crafted an album packed with smart, bright classic hooks as well as dark, lusty bombastic rhythms: an impressive juxtaposition in contrast."
Max Jury – Max Jury – After a run of amazing singles and an EP, Des Moines native Max Jury releases his debut album, and the anticipation built by the singles was justified. Max Jury is a jaw-droppingly solid album. From my review in Little Village Magazine, "a balanced delivery of Spector-esque wall-of-sound and an updated take on early '70s R&B and soul." It's too bad that it's going to take Jury moving to the UK and blowing up over there before his native country takes notice.
TWINS – Square America – More Sires, please. This seeming dynasty of anyone with the last name Sires cranking out amazing pop rock continues with Cedar Falls band TWINS, whose second album on Maximum Ames takes their guitar rock guns and point them at 70's big hitters like Cheap Trick and KISS. These guys continue to slug it out on bar stages, but could easily fill an arena with their big sound if given the chance. Read my review in Little Village Magazine.
Devin Frank – The Vanishing Blues – Devin Frank of Poison Control Center releases an album influenced by 60's psych. "With The Vanishing Blues, Frank has made a refreshing stylistic statement by using a sonic palate derived from psychedelic rock's dawning era — using bits of Syd Barrett, Donovan and the Zombies. This makes the album a delightfully unique and compelling standout in the landscape of releases this year." – from my review in Little Village Magazine.
The Multiple Cat – Intricate Maps – This was an album I feel like I waited a long time for. I first heard these songs when Pat Stolley brought the band to Mission Creek Festival in 2015 opening for The Sea and Cake at The Mill. Really fantastic album that is tough to summarize. Lots of vintage tones in the guitar sounds, but not really a retro record, "It's tempting to suggest that Stolley's use of these elements makes Intricate Maps somehow retro. However, this stitched fabric of sound is more than the sum of its parts. It is a polished work that both honors the tradition of alternative rock and puts a current spin on it with Stolley's signature production work." from my review in Little Village Magazine.
Christopher The Conquered – I'm Giving Up On Rock & Roll – Dramatically bold anthemic rock that can barely be contained in a record. Christopher the Conquered is a one-man tour-de-force of pop, funny poignent and self-aware. Here's my review for Little Village Magazine.
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(Upcoming Show) 2010 American Idol Finalist Crystal Bowersox at CSPS Friday 8/12
Posted on August 9, 2016 by mike
Though some would debate this, it's my opinion that American Idol's Season 9 in 2010 was the last season worth watching. The winning chemistry of American Idol to me was always a combination of the judges and the talent, and 2010 was the year that Paula Abdul was no longer a judge and in 2011, show creator and longtime judge Simon Cowell was gone. My wife and I– longtime followers of Idol– didn't tune in for Season 10.. Over the nine years that we watched, there have been standouts in the talent, Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Season Five's edge-of-the-seat powerhouse of Chris Daughtry/ Katherine McPhee/ Kellie Pickler/ Elliott Yasmin, Jordin Sparks, David Archuleta, David Cook and Chris Allen. One of my favorites for that nine-year run was Ohio native, by way of Chicago Crystal Bowersox. Though most of the highlights of American Idol have been squarely Top 40 types, Bowersox was an honest-to-goodness songwriter who could play and sing. She, with her slightly crunchy hippy personae topped with questionable dreadlocks, came off somehow as an underdog contender that I had hoped would take the top honors, but complications related to her Type-I diabetes (of which she is a spokesperson) cost her the top spot (Though, it could be argued that taking the top spot doesn't always help your career– I'm looking at you Ruben Studdard and David Cook).
Since Idol, Bowersox has released three albums, with her most recent full-length All That For This released in 2013 and produced by reknowned Los Lobos member and producer Steve Berlin and features guest Jakob Dylan. Notably, she also shed her dreadlocks in 2013. Her most recent release is a self-released 7-track EP titled Promises. It's difficult to glean what her next steps will be in her career based on her website, but she's touring quite a bit. I'm certainly interested to see her live. Check out this great performance of the Leonard Cohen classic "Hallelujah."
Crystal Bowersox will be performing for the 2nd time at CSPS this Friday night with a small band. The show is at 8PM (the doors and box office generally open an hour before) at tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door (if there are any left). You can purchase tickets at the CSPS box office or online. Details at the Legion Arts website.
Posted in Bands/Artists, Eastern Iowa, Music, Out and About, Personal History, Upcoming Show	| Tagged American Idol, Cedar Rapids, Crystal Bowersox, csps, Iowa, Live, Upcoming Show	| Leave a reply
(Upcoming Show) California Guitar Trio at CSPS, Wednesday 8/3
The last two times California Guitar Trio played CSPS they were heralding new eras for the venue. Their October 2008 show was the first show in CSPS since the Flood. They generously donated parts of the proceeds of the show to CSPS. Their 2012 show was after CSPS was re-opened following the substantial overhaul of the venue. So, it is certainly fitting that California Guitar Trio is back playing CSPS in 2016– the 125th year the venue has been in existence. Coincidentally, it is the 25th year of the Trio!
The band has been back in the studio working on a new album– their first since Masterworks, their 2011 album of classical music. The recording is complete, and mixing, mastering and the rest of the release process is left to do, so they're going to do a Kickstarter to get that funded. Some of the perks from that Kickstarter include a DVD of rare video performances from the band's archives!
The trio always sounds amazing in CSPS, so this is a show not-to-miss!
Wed Aug 3 2016 – 7:00 pm • CSPS Hall
$17 advance | $21 door
Details and to purchase tickets visit the Legion Arts website.
Posted in Bands/Artists, Eastern Iowa, Media, Music, Out and About, Upcoming Show	| Tagged california guitar trio, Cedar Rapids, CGT, csps, IA, legion arts	| Leave a reply
(Upcoming Release) Bo Ramsey Returns With Instrumental Solo Record Wildwood Calling Out 8/2
Posted on July 27, 2016 by mike
On August 2nd, Bo Ramsey is going to release his first new album since 2008's fantastic and understated Fragile. Titled Wildwood Calling, the album is 13 tracks of instrumental guitar backed by a band which includes in addition to Bo, JT Bates (The Pines, Marijuana Deathsquads) on drums and percussion, Marty Christensen from Bo's original Backsliders band on bass and son Alex Ramsey of The Pines on piano and keyboards. The album– which is on Pieta Brown's new "underground" record label Lustre Records— was recorded over two days in April at The Kitchen in Iowa City, and was mixed and mastered by BJ Burton, who is house engineer for Justin Vernon's April Base studio, and also worked the boards on Brown's Paradise Outlaw and her EP of outtakes Drifters.
I'll be writing a review of the album for Little Village in the coming weeks. I'll link to it here when that goes up.
Fly On (Part 2)
Through The Trees
Feather Trail
Jump n Run
Out Here
Come On Back
Across The Field
Movin' On
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Expressions Trace A Template of Loss in Kalispell's Printer's Son
Kalispell on the turntable, as The Multiple Cat looks on.
Kalispell is the side-project from Shane Leonard who, among other projects, is part of Field Report. He just released his second album under the Kalispell band name on Davenport, IA label Cartouche Records — home of recent releases by The Multiple Cat, Land of Blood and Sunshine, Brooks Strause, J.E. Sunde, and Daytrotter.com illustrator Johnnie Cluney's band Bedroom Shrine. Fantastic releases all, and you should check them out, and be on the lookout from releases by Devin Frank (of Poison Control Center) and Chrash in July.
Printer's Son is one of those rare records that is so completely imagined and executed that when you first listen to it, it seems to drop unexpectedly out of the ether. It's a record that defies any convenient genre classification. Elements of ambience and folk and jazz come together to help deliver a grippingly emotional and personal album. The album reminds me another album that slips from the grasp of genre: David Sylvian's 1987 landmark solo record Secrets of the Beehive. For his second release Sylvian took another step away from the New Wave-ish synthpop of his band Japan. He enlisted some Jazz artists including Ryuki Sakamoto and Mark Isham which gave that album a delicate ambience. Printer's Son carries a similar jazz folk vibe. Additionally, the dry production of Leonard's vocals suit the intimacy of the album.
Printer's Son owes some of its woody atmospherics to the fact that it was partially recorded at Justin Vernon's April Base Studios and was engineered and co-produced by Brian Joseph, who was on the boards for Bon Iver's 2012 Grammy-winning album. Bon Iver is another album that similarly made beautiful soundscapes out of impressionistic personal stories and accounts. Leonard takes recent painful events and uses them as the basis for Printer's Son. He talks about this on The Current show Radio Heartland:
I had this wildly unforseen year of just this radical change. I thought I had my path pretty set– music was going well and I was living in Chicago. All within this year, my dad was diagnosed with cancer, and his passing forced me– ultimately I think in a really important and helpful way even though very difficult– to reconsider a lot of assumptions I had. And, right after he passed our family dog died and then my dad's father also passed. It was all at the same time and I was moving and also moving away from a relationship that I had been in a long time. So, it was like the world got turned over and then I just started thinking differently as a symptom of that.
Some albums have stories that we can identify with. On Printer's Son, I feel the sentiments, the memories, the connections. Leonard tells his stories and like a good book or film, they become part of the listener's own fabric. I can picture that canyon climb with the banded walls in "Windfall." I feel the ghost itch from the overgrowth scratching skin on the fading road in "Parting Ground."
David Sylvian's Secrets of the Beehive has become part of my permanent soundtrack. I feel that Kalispell's timeless tapestry of folk and jazz in Printer's Son is destined to be another album that I will hold onto.
Listen to Printer's Son below and be sure to order yourself a copy from Cartouche.
Posted in Bands/Artists, Daytrotter, Eastern Iowa, Media, Music, Personal History, Reviews, Vinyl	| Tagged Bon Iver, Brian Joseph, Cartouche Records, Davenport, David Sylvian, Field Report, Grammy, IA, Kalispell, Printer's Son, Secrets of the Beehive, Shane Leonard, Vinyl	| Leave a reply
TWINS Cover "I Knew The Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)" Bonus B-Side For Square America
Posted on June 24, 2016 by mike
Photo by Michael Roeder
It's no secret that the guys in Cedar Falls band TWINS are fans of Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds and owe a little of their guitar pop swagger to the groundwork Lowe and Edmunds laid down in their various projects as solo artists, together in Rockpile and their production work for just about everyone in the late 70's and early 80's (Lowe's work with Elvis Costello is my favorite period of his).
As a tribute, TWINS have recorded a cover of "I Knew The Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)" a song that has been a part of every wedding reception I've ever attended. This cover is a bonus download for anyone who pre-orders the new TWINS album Square America which drops on July 1st! Be sure to catch TWINS with Volcano Boys at The Mill on 7/1 for the Square America release show! $8 Cover. Deets HERE.
You can read my review of Square America at Little Village Magazine.
A bit of trivia: Nick Lowe wrote "I Knew The Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)" and the version we usually hear is his 1984 recording. That studio version has Huey Lewis and the News as the backing band, with Mr. Lewis providing the distinctive harmonica honking. The version that TWINS have done is closer to the sped-up one that Dave Edmunds recorded in 1977.
Pre-order Square America at Maximum Ames!
Check out TWINS first Daytrotter Session. There will be a new one coming!
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Middlemere is a compelling tale of one family and their quest for independence from acclaimed author Judith Lennox. Perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies and Kate Morton.
The Coles have lived in Middlemere for half a century. When, in 1942, they are threatened with eviction, they flee the house. But not before eight-year-old Romy, hiding in a cupboard, sees her father shot dead.


These images are part of Glovers's Metabolic Landscape series. This is a travelling exhibition and book, co-authored with Glover's partner Dr Geof Rayner and daughter Jessica Rayner, and was published by Black Dog Publishing in 2014.
The photographs in this gallery examine more sustainable sources of energy, including geothermal energy, wind, and hydroelectric power.
Negratín Reservoir | Andalusia, Spain.


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Q: UIMenu buttons disappear after usage I've customized UIMenuController like this:
UIMenuItem* note = [[[UIMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Note action:@selector(noteItemTapped:)] autorelease];
UIMenuItem* share = [[[UIMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Share" action:@selector(shareItemTapped:)] autorelease];
[[UIMenuController sharedMenuController] setMenuItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:note, share, nil]];
[[UIMenuController sharedMenuController] update];

and in UIWebView it work, but with some problems:
1) After some usings only default "Copy" button is shown
2) They don't on touch (I have a UITapGestureRecognizer added to my view) but if I touch and drag a little, they ok.
Can anyone provide me with some tutorials of such customizing or give some your suggestions about problems?

A: Here is a Stackoverflow Answer that should solve your problem:
UIMenuController not showing up

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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Dr. Juliet Gnanasundari Karunya University, Coimbatore, India
E-mail: editoriaeme.com
Dr. Kumar Biradha Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India Email: [email protected]
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Dr. Parimal K. Bharadwa Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Email: [email protected]
Dr. K.Ravichandran Professor, Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected]
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Soap is a result of the chemical reaction of fatty acids with an alkali metal hydroxide, such as sodium or potassium. It's actually a salt with a molecular structure that is lipophilic on one end and hydrophilic on the other. That means soap molecules are particularly good at attaching to oil particles (lipophilic), and yet still manage to attach to water particles (hydrophilic), which explains why soaps (detergents, shampoos) are effective in washing away oil build-up.
There may also be other occasions that call for hand washing—so you just have to be sensitive about it. If you can't wash your hands because soap and water are unavailable, that's when the hand sanitizer comes handy. If there is no hand sanitizer around, then, by all means, keep your hands away from your mouth and face, and wash them as soon as you can.
Once you've developed a good habit of regular hand washing, teaching your kids becomes a piece of cake. (They learn best by example.) When your family has clean hands, your kids get sick less—giving you a better chance to focus on the more important things.


Voted one of Queensland's 'Most Beautiful Beaches', Basil Bay on Keswick Island is what dreams are made of!
A white sandy beach leading to water so crystal clear that you can see the reef, enveloped within a gorgeous bay area with national park surrounding it.
There are a few accommodation options on Keswick, including a luxurious self-contained holiday house, glamping or camping.
Located 32km northeast of Mackay, you can access the island by plane or boat and buggies are available to hire once you get on the island to make sightseeing easier.
The island is a protected national park and is home to a number of native wildlife including the spectacular Tiger Blue butterfly, fireflies, koalas, birds, monitors and goannas and flying foxes.
Keswick Island is also home to thriving hives of purebred Caucasian bees.
Tip: Grab a jar of the Keswick Island Honey from the Keswick Kiosk, it's a delicious blend using the honey produced in hives on Keswick Island.


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Expansion Update Access World Terminals B.V.!
In May 2019 Access World Terminals B.V., located in Vlissingen, signed a contract with North Sea Port for the expansion of its quay and terminal. The newly occupied area adjoins the company's existing site. The project almost doubles the terminal's size to 16.5 hectares over the upcoming years!
Most of the newly purchased land will be used for building warehousing facilities of the highest standards. Construction of the first warehouses will start in the second half of 2020. An additional investment will be made into the building of a new quay by the North Sea Port. The quay will be extended to 290 metres in length and will provide access to ships with a draught up to 13 metres. This will allow Access World the ability to service larger and more modern (break-)bulk vessels in the Kaloothaven dock (Vlissingen).
Benefits of the expansion
As a result, Access World Terminals B.V. will enjoy numerous benefits. The expansion plan will allow for increased efficiency and optimisation of our operations. Additionally, with the increased capacity, the potential for diversification will be far greater. While our focus remains on ensuring efficiency and the quality in the services we provide, we aim to expand our portfolio of value-adding services that we are able to offer our clients.
Access World has taken additional measures to assure that the newly built facilities will not only adhere to the highest safety standards, but also result in a reduction of the environmental impact of our operations. We have already adapted our construction plan in order to ensure compliance to the stricter building requirements within the Netherlands. All newly built facilities are required to be almost energy-neutral as per the 1st January 2020. We expect for the planned facilities expansion and quay to be fully operational in 2022.
This terminal expansion will be beneficial to the area by ensuring improved maritime access to the Kaloothaven dock (Vlissingen), as well as bringing additional business investment into the region.
We are very proud of our partnership with the North Sea Port and are looking forward to the upcoming phases!


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Q: Swift 4 using selector with Multiple Parameters I write with Swift 4 and try to write a function that send  categoryId as action but I couldn't write .I think my syntax is wrong.If I write function without parameters its not a problem but I get error with parameters functions. Could you say me how to use selector?
@objc func sendCategoryIdToPackageSelectionVC(categoryId : Int){
        MarketVC.categoryId = categoryId
        self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "sequeGoToPackageSelection", sender: nil)
    }

func addTapFeatures(){
        taplabel1 = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(self.sendCategoryIdToPackageSelectionVC(categoryId:2)))
        taplabel1?.cancelsTouchesInView = false
        self.labelFirst.addGestureRecognizer(taplabel1!)
}

I get an error saying that the action selector doesn't refer to any objc method.

A: i think, you can't directly use selector to pass parameter.
try some thing like this
you should create an @objc method that calls handleTap(modelObj:myModelObj).
@objc func someMethod() { // name this properly!
    handleTap(modelObj: myModelObj)
}

Then you can pass this as a selector:
#selector(someMethod)


His Convenient Highland Wedding is book one of a quartet of romances – The Lochmore Legacy – written by myself and my good friends and fellow Harlequin authors, Lara Temple, Elisabeth Hobbes and Nicole Locke. The stories are based around Lochmore Castle, perched high on a rocky promontory on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, and two feuding clans – the Lochmores and the McCrieffs.
His Convenient Highland Wedding is set in 1848 (early Victorian – a new era for me) and it opens with heroine Flora McCrieff uncovering a mystery in the forbidden Great Tower of her childhood home, Castle McCrieff. It is a marriage of convenience story, with a poor-boy-made-good hero – the delicious but secretive Lachlan McNeil – who takes his new bride to Lochmore Castle, which he has recently purchased.
Clues as to the mystery are gradually revealed during the four books as we follow the feuding Lochmores and McCrieffs back into the past, through the Regency and Tudor eras and into Medieval times when the answer to the mystery is finally revealed! And, of course, along the way there will be four sizzling, standalone romances to enjoy – see below for more details about The Lochmore Legacy!
Bought by her husband… Bound by secrets of their past. The start of The Lochmore Legacy—a Scottish castle through the ages! Earl's daughter Flora McCrieff brought shame on her family once. Now she discovers she must wed impossibly rich but lowborn Lachlan McNeill. He's undeniably handsome, but a man of few words. Despite the attraction that burns between them, can she reach beyond his impeccable clothing to find the emotions he's locked away for so long?


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Quentin Willson challenges MPs over fuel prices
Quentin Willson, well known columnist and TV presenter, presented MPs with letters from the Fair Fuel UK Campaign.
The campaign has written to every MP, asking for their support on:
The scrapping of April's fuel duty rise
The introduction of a methodology for stabilising fuel prices
Willson was joined by Theo de Pencier of the Freight Transport Association and Kate Gibbs, of the Road Haulage Association. Both organisations who, between them represent more than 20,000 businesses, are backing this campaign.
Peter Carroll of the Fair Fuel Campaign said: "Quentin Willson has a fantastic profile amongst the motoring public, and we are delighted that he is helping us. Our Campaign is reaching out to every type of business and the private motorist.
Theo de Pencier said: "With businesses wilting in the face of unsustainably high fuel costs, we urge MPs, businesses, motorists and all road users to get behind the Fair Fuel UK Campaign, otherwise the cost to the UK's economy could be severe."
Kate Gibbs said: "This is not a campaign about choice – it is a campaign about necessity. The economic recovery and future prosperity of the UK rests with the Chancellor. Plans to raise fuel duty by possibly as much as five pence on 1 April must be abandoned."
To help in the fight for a fairer fuel duty deal, sign up to: www.fairfueluk.com
Pay increases
EEF's pay data for the three months to the end of December 2010 shows that the average pay settlement has increased to 2.2%, up from 2.1% for the three months to the end of November. The number of pay freezes has fallen slightly but still remains at 1 in 5 settlements, reflecting continued downward pressure to contain internal costs in some companies.
Plant hits record output
Manufacturing output results from the Klarius Group Nicholsons manufacturing plant are consistent with recent UK GDP figures showing solid growth from the UK manufacturing sector.
Charles Greaves, UK operations director for manufacturing commented: "The Nicholsons plant in Glasson Dock, Lancashire manufactures pressed body exhaust systems, predominantly for the EU market. The plant is reporting record output on its wide portfolio of over 2400 individual products, providing 98% availability across the entire range of products on offer."
Promotion announced
Eaton Corporation has announced Egon Lechner, president - Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the Hydraulics Group has been promoted to solutions architect for the Hydraulics Group.
Lechner will work closely with Ruppert Russoniello, vice president - Global Markets, on global segment needs and with William VanArsdale, president - Hydraulics Group, on business development. He will continue to be based in Baden-Baden, Germany, and will be responsible for translating the business needs of Eaton's global market segments into technical requirements, as well as working across the business to identify targeted customer solutions.
Eurofighter contract
The Eurofighter consortium has signed a five year contract with IFS to maintain its IFS Applications-based system, which is handling the Industrial Repair Service (IRS) for the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. The contract will continue to support Typhoon deployments through the next 5 years, enabling through-life management and support initiatives, is valued in excess of £2m.


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Previewing the Camping World Truck Series Rattlesnake 400 at Texas
Photo: Jared C. Tilton/NASCAR via Getty Images
Seth Eggert	 Jun 09, 2016
By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer
The last time the NASCAR Camping World Series visited Texas Motor Speedway, Erik Jones took home the victory. With the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in Michigan this week, there will not be any Cup Series regulars entered in this weekend's event.
Matt Crafton is the only former Texas Motor Speedway winner in the field, having won twice in the past four visits to the track.
Truck Series Chase
Six races into the 2016 Camping World Truck Series Season, there have been five different winners. Only one of those winners, Kyle Busch, is not eligible for the Truck Series Chase. Matt Crafton, William Byron, John Hunter Nemechek, and Johnny Sauter have all won at least one race, and are likely to be in the Chase thanks to those wins. Crafton, who has two wins, has likely boosted his odds of locking himself into the Truck Series Chase. The reason no winner is locked in just yet, is the fact that only eight drivers make it into the Chase in the Truck Series, and with so many races left more than eight drivers could win a race.
The other drivers currently in the Chase on points are Timothy Peters, Daniel Hemric, Spencer Gallagher, and Ryan Truex.
Ryan Truex
After scoring one top five and three top 10s in the No. 81 Toyota Tundra for Hattori Racing Enterprises, Ryan Truex will not be competing for the team at Texas Motor Speedway. A deal between Rette Jones Racing and Hattori puts Jesse Little in the No. 81 Toyota Tundra for Texas. This effectively eliminates Truex's chances at the 2016 NASCAR Camping World Championship and it's Chase. This should move Tyler Reddick into the final Chase position on points.
There are several storylines going into this weekend's race to watch for:
With no Cup Series regulars in the field which Camping World Truck Series regular will step up to contend for the win?
Many Truck Series regulars are looking at scoring their first win of the season and to lock themselves into the Truck Series Chase, while those with a win are looking for more security with their Chase position.
German Quiroga returns to the series after a 19-month hiatus. Quiroga will pilot the No. 11 Toyota Tundra for Red Horse Racing.
Ben Kennedy continues his tenure at GMS Racing in the No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado.
Cody Coughlin is back in the Kyle Busch Motorsports No. 51 JEGS Toyota Tundra for his third start of the season, and fifth career start in the Truck Series.
Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender William Byron looks to increase his 11 point lead on teammate Christopher Bell. Meanwhile, Cole Custer, Ben Rhodes, and Rico Abreu continue to try to gain ground on the rookie point leaders.
Points leader Matt Crafton is looking to extend his championship points lead even further over Timothy Peters.
Tags : Camping World Truck Series, Matt Crafton, NASCAR, ryan truex, Texas Motor Speedway, William Byron
About Seth Eggert
Seth Eggert has followed NASCAR his entire life. Seth is currently pursuing a writing career and is majoring in Communications and Journalism. He is an avid iRacer and video gamer. Seth also tutors students at Mitchell Community College in multiple subjects. He has an Associate's Degree in History.


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Saudi Arabia to launch $4bn tourism development fund
June 22, 2020 at 2:43 pm | Published in: Middle East, News, Saudi Arabia
The half built Qatari-funded hotel site in the eastern Saudi city of Al-Ahsa is pictured on November 29, 2019 after the construction was abruptly halted following a Saudi-led bloc boycotted Qatar in 2017 [Stringer / AFP via Getty Images]
Saudi Arabia has announced its plans to launch a development fund for tourism with a capital investment of $4 billion.
The Saudi Ministry of Tourism announced the plans for the Tourism Development Fund yesterday, saying that it will launch investment vehicles for equity and debt – collaborating with private and investment banks – in order to help improve the kingdom's tourism sector.
In a statement, the Minister of Tourism Ahmed Al-Khateeb, said: "The launch of the fund at this time, as the tourism sector faces unprecedented global challenges, is testament to investor and private-sector confidence in the long-term outlook for tourism in Saudi Arabia."
The kingdom's plans to develop its tourism industry comes after it opened itself up to international tourists last year, allowing visits to the country for purposes other than religious pilgrimage, family and business.
READ: Will the coronavirus claim Saudi's 'Vision 2030' as its victim?
In its aim to develop the sector for the nation's Vision 2030, with a goal of it producing over ten per cent of the GDP by the end of the decade, the kingdom introduced a new visa system for international tourists.
Despite its high aims, however, Saudi Arabia's economic progress has been severely disrupted this year due to its oil price war with Russia as well as the coronavirus pandemic which caused it to close its borders to international travel and even cancel pilgrimage, which gives it a significant annual revenue. It was revealed earlier this month that the Saudi foreign reserve fell by $20 billion, hailing economic decline for the kingdom caused by both crises.
Other reforms that have also been enacted include the allowing of music festivals and concerts throughout the Gulf nation, with Western artists and singers having been invited to perform earlier this year and last year in a bid to present a more open face for international tourism.
Apart from causing religious and conservative controversy, these concerts have also been scrutinised for their enabling of sexual assault to take place, and at one concert in November last year, an attacker stormed the stage and stabbed three of the performers. The assailant was later sentenced to death.
READ: Saudi music concert slammed for being 'mass sexual assault festival'
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Aldbourne Celebrate the Rich Heritage of Banding
Published in Events on 2013-09-15 by Empty Chairs
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On Sep 28th 2013, 7:30 PM at Holy Cross Church, Ramsbury (near Marlborough, Wiltshire)
2013 has seen Aldbourne Band commemorate its 153-year history with a lottery sponsored 'Heritage Project', collating stories, photographs, programmes and other memories of the band to document its illustrious history. As a finale the band is holding a 'Heritage Concert' on Saturday 28th September in Holy Cross Church, Ramsbury (near Marlborough, Wiltshire) starting at 7.30pm.
The concert will celebrate the longevity and heritage of the brass band movement, and the fantastic music that has been produced and performed over the years. Highlights will include 'Labour and Love', the first ever test piece specifically composed for brass band; Eric Ball's 'Resurgam' and Philip Sparke's 'Year of the Dragon'. It will also feature movements from 'A Moorside Suite', Peter Parkes' 'Pageantry' and 'An Epic Symphony', plus solos from throughout the years.
Tickets are £10 and include a complementary glass of wine in the interval. They will be available at the door, but can also be purchased from Alan Watson (01672 540680).
For further information please contact the secretary on secretary@aldbourne-band.co.uk or visit their website at www.aldbourneband.org.uk.
Article tagged: Aldbourne Band, Heritage Project
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Chromosomal organization of adrenergic receptor genes.
The adrenergic receptors (ARs) (subtypes alpha 1, alpha 2, beta 1, and beta 2) are a prototypic family of guanine nucleotide binding regulatory protein-coupled receptors that mediate the physiological effects of the hormone epinephrine and the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. We have previously assigned the genes for beta 2- and alpha 2-AR to human chromosomes 5 and 10, respectively. By Southern analysis of somatic cell hybrids and in situ chromosomal hybridization, we have now mapped the alpha 1-AR gene to chromosome 5q32----q34, the same position as beta 2-AR, and the beta 1-AR gene to chromosome 10q24----q26, the region where alpha 2-AR is located. In mouse, both alpha 2- and beta 1-AR genes were assigned to chromosome 19, and the alpha 1-AR locus was localized to chromosome 11. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis has shown that the alpha 1- and beta 2-AR genes in humans are within 300 kilobases (kb) and the distance between the alpha 2- and beta 1-AR genes is less than 225 kb. The proximity of these two pairs of AR genes and the sequence similarity that exists among all the ARs strongly suggest that they are evolutionarily related. Moreover, they likely arose from a common ancestral receptor gene and subsequently diverged through gene duplication and chromosomal duplication to perform their distinctive roles in mediating the physiological effects of catecholamines. The AR genes thus provide a paradigm for understanding the evolution of such structurally conserved yet functionally divergent families of receptor molecules.
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Caron, Marc G.
Lefkowitz, Robert J.
Yang-Feng, TL; Xue, FY; Zhong, WW; Cotecchia, S; Frielle, T; Caron, MG; Lefkowitz, RJ; Francke, U
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
10.1073/pnas.87.4.1516
Biological Evolution
Blotting, Southern
Chromosome Banding
Chromosomes, Human
Cricetinae
Cricetulus
Fibroblasts
Hybrid Cells
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha
Receptors, Adrenergic, beta


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Denise Robillard (née en 1931 à Montréal) est un historienne  et une journaliste canadienne. Docteure en sciences religieuses à l'Université d'Ottawa, elle a aussi travaillé pour Radio-Canada. Après une biographie d'Émilie Gamelin et d'autres études sur des communautés religieuses, elle est connue pour son étude détaillée du cardinal Paul-Émile Léger ainsi que pour sa biographie de Joseph Charbonneau parue en 2013. Elle est membre du réseau culture et foi.

Ouvrages publiés
Émilie Tavernier-Gamelin, 1988
La traversée du Saguenay : les Sœurs de Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil de Chicoutimi, 1994
Paul-Émile Léger : Évolution de sa pensée, 1950-1967 ; 1993
Aventurières de l'ombre. De l'obéissance au discernement, les missions des sœurs de la Providence, 1962-1997 ; 1997.
Enseigner le catéchisme, 1997.
L'expérience de Dieu avec Catherine de Sienne, 2000
Les merveilles de l'Oratoire : l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, 1904-2004 ; 2004
L'Ordre de Jacques Cartier, 1926-1965 : une société secrète pour les Canadiens français catholiques, 2009
Monseigneur Joseph Charbonneau, bouc émissaire d'une lutte de pouvoir, 2013

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Naissance en 1931
Historien canadien du XXe siècle
Historien canadien du XXIe siècle
Journaliste canadienne
Historien de l'Église catholique

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Volunteering is a great way to give back to the community by supporting the Omaha Running Club's events held throughout the year. Anyone can volunteer. If for any reason you are unable to participate in an event, you can stay active and support your fellow runners by volunteering.
Added Bonus: All volunteers receive a 5 point volunteer ticket for each day they help at one or more of our events. Volunteer tickets expire 3 years after the event date shown on each ticket. Volunteer tickets can be used to purchase ORC items at the ORC Gear Sales table available at our events several times a year. Also, volunteer tickets can be used to purchase Omaha Running Club membership.
In addition, all volunteers are invited to our Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner normally held in May or June.
"In 2004, I volunteered for the Omaha Marathon for what I thought was just one time. My one-time event turned into joining the Omaha Marathon race committee the next year doing whatever I could to help. After several years, I finally became actively involved with more ORC events. Although I am not a runner, I volunteered to be a part of the board because I wanted to be even more involved with the club."
I don't run many races anymore but volunteering is a great way to stay in touch with the sport. I also feel that it's payback to the many people who worked the many races that I ran in.
As a runner, I know first had how important volunteers are. Image a race without water stops! I choose to volunteer for the Omaha Running Club as a way to support runners in my community and to pay it forward to the running community at large.
"Running is my passion and I enjoy helping others getting involved with the sport so they can enjoy it as much as I do."
The Omaha Running Club is an extension of our community and it is our social responsibility to volunteer and help the ORC achieve its objectives of helping our local area become a vibrant and jovial place to live.
I volunteer because I know that races can't run themselves. I love seeing runners on race day, the vibe is intense.I love meeting people!!!!
I love to volunteer for the Omaha Running Club! I like to help people so I like to do a water stop on a hot day but I really like to feed people so the food areas at the Hearland Marathon and Chiller Challenge are my favorite!
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Joel Vengco
CIO and Vice President Information & Technology, Baystate Health
As CIO & VP of Information & Technology, Vengco oversees the technology vision, strategy, and operations of the entire Baystate Health system. In two and a half years with Baystate Health, Vengco founded and launched TechSpring, Baystate Health's technology innovation center.
Prior to Baystate, Vengco served as Vice-President and General Manager of one of the four global businesses that make up GE's $1.58B Healthcare IT business unit. Mr. Vengco is a senior fellow at the Health Policy Institute at Boston University and has served as lecturer at universities including BU, Harvard, and MIT. He has been an advisor and director to healthcare technology start-ups, and has provided informatics consultancy to various large organizations throughout the healthcare industry. He holds an undergraduate degree from Boston College and has Masters degrees from Harvard University and Boston University School of Medicine. In 2010, Mr. Vengco was recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in the country. That same year, he also received distinction from Information Management magazine as one of the Top 25 Information Managers in the country. He was also a recipient of the eHealth Initiative's Advocate of the Year for Business Process Improvement.


We'd love your help. Let us know what's wrong with this preview of One Sweet Day by Melanie Shawn.
The honor of your presence is requested at the wedding of Amanda Jacobs and Justin Barnes.
Catch up with the "Fabulous Four" as all the girls come together to celebrate Amanda & Justin's big day!
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I honestly love this series and all the characters - this little novella is sooo cute and a total must read if youre a fan of the Hope Falls characters.
We get to see the first couples wedding (Amanda and Justin) and get a glimpse of the new couple to be... and of course we see the amazing bond these friends share!
Cant wait to read more! I honestly love this series and all the characters - this little novella is sooo cute and a total must read if you´re a fan of the Hope Falls characters.
We get to see the first couple´s wedding (Amanda and Justin) and get a glimpse of the new couple to be... and of course we see the amazing bond these friends share!
Sweet, cute, quick, and typical Justin and Amanda. Grab this one for a lazy afternoon of reading in the hammock and join all of Hope Falls as they pull together to give their hometown sweethearts the wedding of their dreams. The Fabulous Four...There's nothing they can't accomplish!!!
Well written story for Justin & Amanda's big day and having the fabulous four get together again! There was even a nice surprise visitor to the mix in the book! The Fab Four and friends make Amanda & Justin's big day even more memorable!
Also a good introduction for Snow Angel, the next installment in The Hope Falls Chronicles series with Lily & Eric's characters making an appearance!
Definitely a Happy-Ever-After story....which is good reading with happy end for all.
You are cordially invited to the wedding of the century. Or it would be if the wedding planner hadn't stolen the money and left Amanda and Justin in a bind 2 days before the wedding. What's a bride to do? Call on her best buddies of course!
Seriously, the little scene in Justin's car might be the cutest thing ever!
Short read that gives you more in The Justin and Amanda story.
After reading a recent Hope Fall's series book I noticed that I hadn't read One Sweet Day yet. I really enjoyed Amanda's story, and the rest of the Fabulous Four, so I was excited to see Amanda get married. Unfortunately this novella just didn't work for me.
This is the story of Amanda and Justin's wedding. All the girls come in for the event and I thought it would be fun to catch up with them all again. The writing in this was just not that good. Really I was reading it thinking did I really like those other books? Were they really better than this was? The girls, their conversations and interactions, were all so stiff and almost robotic. It did not read like a couple of friends talking. It was too stilted for that.
After a while I did go back and read part of Amanda's story again to see if it was the same stiff conversations. It wasn't. In her story it did read like a bunch of friends who hadn't seen each other in a while were just catching up. I'm not sure why this novella was so different writing wise, but it didn't work for me. As much as I wanted to be enjoying the story I just couldn't. The wedding itself was nice, but getting there didn't wasn't much fun to read.
Little longer than a short story. I usually don't bother with stories this short but it was part of a box set.
It was cute. It was sweet. Even as a slow reader I finished it in one day. (that includes working 9 hours too). The story could have easily been incorporated into another book and just been a side story. At least half was rehashing the first 4 books.
It's finally time for Justin and Amanda to make it official. Problems come up two days before the wedding that could cancel it all. They need a miracle. Read how their friends pitch I n to help out.
Review to come... Just read EVERYTHING this author wrote non-stop!
I always cry at weddings........ this was no exception.
my only criticism would be the times the editor missed Jason instead of Justin, along with missed punctuation.
sweet story to finally have Amanda and Justin's wedding. I really enjoyed reading it.
This is a short sweet story but a little hokey. It was a nice catch up on all the characters we love in the town of Hope Falls. And of course FINALLY Amanda & Justin's wedding!
Love this series! Can't wait to read more!!
This was such a cute little story. I loved reading about Amanda and Justin's wedding. I loved all the stories in this series. Thank you for your stories. Keep them coming.


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Q: VSCode: Extension: folding section based on first blank line found or to the start of the next similar section How can I make a VSCode extension folding strategy based on the first blank line following a starting folding marker?
## Some section   --|
Any text...         |  (this should fold)
...more text.     --|
                       (blank line)
## Another section     (next fold...)

I've tried lots of regex in the language-configuration.json.
    "folding": {
        "markers": {
            "start": "^##",
            "end": "^\\s*$"
    } },

If I change things to test with something other than a blank (or whitespace) line as the end delimiter it works. Can't use the next start marker to mark the end of the last or it includes it in the fold (I tried look ahead regex, but I think the regex are applied line by line and the matches can't span lines?)
It's similar to the folding needed for Markdown which VSCode handles well (don't know if that's using a more complex method like https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#FoldingRangeProvider).
Maybe something in the fixes for [folding] should not fold white space after function has something to do with it.

A: What I learned: 1. the begin and end regex are applied line by line. 2. tmLanguage start/end regex will work on blank lines, but currently language-configuration folding doesn't seem to work on blank lines.
And since blank lines are in this case a hack for ending at the next begin section:
To solve the problem of folding a section to the next similar section I used the FoldingRangeProvider.
    disposable = vscode.languages.registerFoldingRangeProvider('myExt', {
        provideFoldingRanges(document, context, token) {
            //console.log('folding range invoked'); // comes here on every character edit
            let sectionStart = 0, FR = [], re = /^## /;  // regex to detect start of region

            for (let i = 0; i < document.lineCount; i++) {

                if (re.test(document.lineAt(i).text)) {
                    if (sectionStart > 0) {
                        FR.push(new vscode.FoldingRange(sectionStart, i - 1, vscode.FoldingRangeKind.Region));
                    }
                    sectionStart = i;
                }
            }
            if (sectionStart > 0) { FR.push(new vscode.FoldingRange(sectionStart, document.lineCount - 1, vscode.FoldingRangeKind.Region)); }

            return FR;
        }
    });

Set "editor.foldingStrategy": "auto". You can make it more sophisticated to preserve white space between sections.


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The government of FYR of Macedonia must stop unilateral actions and meet the conditions for free and fair elections
The Party of European Socialists is deeply concerned about the decision by the government of the FYR Macedonia to dissolve Parliament and to tentatively hold general elections on 5 June. The local authorities should put every effort in to ensuring the necessary conditions for fair and democratic elections.
The PES continues to voice three main concerns: the fraud allegations relating to the electoral roll, the lack of freedom of the media and the recent controversial decision of the Constitutional Court to allow the President to pardon crimes such as election-rigging.
PES President Sergei Stanishev said: "We call on the government of FYR of Macedonia to carry out the necessary reforms as agreed in the EU-brokered Przino agreement. We can't accept that the current right wing government threatens the press, persecutes opposition leaders or that it shamelessly chooses not to act against the allegations that 330,000 names on the electoral role – more than 18% of the total – could be fraudulent."
High Representative Federica Mogherini also issued an official statement last week, mentioning the urgent need for all political parties to continue to work together to ensure credible elections, in the interest of the country and its citizens.
Stanishev said: "I specifically want to show my support to our member party SDSM, which is currently leading the opposition and courageously fighting for free elections and for the respect of the will of all Macedonians. We call on all political parties to continue to work together to ensure credible elections, in the interest of the country and its citizens".
The PES Deputy Secretary General Giacomo Filibeck was in Skopje in these past days, supporting the PES Member party SDSM in their efforts to ensure the next elections won't be a farce.


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Indian Teenager Creates Windows Phone 8 Malware, To Present it At MalCon
by Shivaank RanaNovember 14, 2012
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A 16-year-old security researcher from India plans to present a malware application for Windows Phone 8 at the upcoming MalCon security conference in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 24.
The Trojan, created by 16-year-old Shantanu Gawde, is said to work by posing as a legitimate app which can access a user's data once activated.
Fortunately for Microsoft and Windows Phone 8 users alike, Gawde is an 'ethical hacker' from India's National Security Database program.
It is not yet clear whether the malware is able to affect Windows Phone 8 handsets by targeting a specific weakspot in the system, or by duping careless users into installing something dodgy.
Nevertheless, it poses serious questions over the security of the Windows Phone 8 OS – particularly as it shares several similarities with its PC counterpart.
Microsoft has yet to see Gawde's findings and has therefore been unable to comment specifically on the nature of the risk.
However, Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Director Dave Fornstrum has said the company would "investigate any issues disclose" in the MalCon talk and "take appropriate action to help protect [its] customers".
Although finding vulnerabilities could be potentially damaging to the Windows Phone image, it could also be seen as a blessing in disguise by allowing Microsoft to discover and amend such security issues before hackers have the chance to develop more advanced malware.
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Roast vermicelli(semiya) in butter till they turn light brown in color.
In the same pan add oil and let it heat , add the mustard seeds and let them splutter. add cloves,cardamom and curry leaves and saute them for 10 secs.
Add ginger saute for few mins and then onion and saute it till it turn light brown,add tomatoes and saute it till they are soft.
Once onion turn soft,add mixed vegetables toss them till the gravy is coated,add salt accordingly and leave it uncovered for 2 mts.
mix it lightly and see that no lumps form and it combines well.
Leave it uncovered and stir occasionally,till the vermicelli is cooked.


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Q: Render a Backbone.js collection I am a Backbone.js n00b and trying to get my head around it. I know how to render a model using a view and the built-in underscore.js templating engine. Now I'm trying to render a collection and that's where I get stuck. There is no server here, so I'm not fetching anything  remotely, just a simple HTML page with some JavaScript.
ContinentModel = Backbone.Model.extend({});

ContinentsCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
  model: ContinentModel,

  initialize: function () {
    this.continentsView = new ContinentsView;
    this.bind("reset", this.continentsView.render);
  }
});

ContinentsView = Backbone.View.extend({
  el: '#continents',
  template: _.template($('#continents-template').html()),

  render: function() {
    var renderedContent = this.template(this.collection.toJSON());
    $(this.el).html(renderedContent);
    return this;
  }
});

$(function() {
  var continentsCollection = new ContinentsCollection();
  continentsCollection.reset([{name: "Asia"}, {name: "Africa"}]);
});

It breaks on the template attribute line in the view but I'm not sure that's where I need to look. Am I supposed to render a collection or do I miss the point completely here (maybe collections are just grouping objects and I shouldn't look at it as a list I can render)?
Thanks for helping...

A: It is also worth noting there are additional complexities that quickly rear their heads when rendering a collection in a view. For instance, the view generally needs to be re-rendered when models are added or removed from the collection. It isn't rocket science to implement your own solution, but it is probably worth looking into existing solutions since there are quite a few tried and tested ones out there.
Backbone.CollectionView is a robust collection view class that handles selecting models in response to mouse clicks, reordering the collection based on drag and drop, filtering visible models, etc.
Several popular frameworks built on top of backbone also provide simple collection view classes, like Backbone.Marionette, Chaplin, and Layout Manager.
Even though Backbone itself does not provide any structure for rendering a collection, it is a non-trivial problem and lots of people have different opinions on how it should be done. Luckily it is such a common need that there are quite a few good options already in the eco system.

A: The problem is that when you define ContinentsView, the template is evaluated and it uses $('#continents-template') - but the DOM is not ready yet, so it does not find the template.
To solve it, simply move the template assignment in the initialize function:
ContinentsView = Backbone.View.extend({
  el: '#continents',
  initialize: function() {
     this.template = _.template($('#continents-template').html());
  }
  ...

Regarding collections, yes, they are grouping objects, specifically sets of models.
You should make the code so the models (and collections) do NOT know about the views, only the views know about models.
ContinentModel = Backbone.Model.extend({});

ContinentsCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
  model: ContinentModel,
  // no reference to any view here
});

ContinentsView = Backbone.View.extend({
  el: '#continents',

  initialize: function() {
    this.template = _.template($('#continents-template').html());
    // in the view, listen for events on the model / collection
    this.collection.bind("reset", this.render, this);
  },

  render: function() {
    var renderedContent = this.template(this.collection.toJSON());
    $(this.el).html(renderedContent);
    return this;
  }
});

$(function() {
  var continentsCollection = new ContinentsCollection();
  continentsCollection.reset([{name: "Asia"}, {name: "Africa"}]);
  // initialize the view and pass the collection
  var continentsView = new ContinentsView({collection: continentsCollection});
});


UNITED NATIONS, April 15 -- While the UN speaks of the humane relocation of Haitians, on April 9 the Haitian National Police summarily evicted over 7000 people from the Sylvio Cator soccer stadium in Port-au-Prince. The stadium's managers said that "the Taiwanese are planning to repair the bleachers and replace the artificial turf," which the earthquake survivors had reportedly damaged.
The UN had send Deputy Secretary General Asha Rose Migiro to Haiti for the three month anniversary of the January 12 earthquake. On April 15, Inner City Press asked DSG Migiro if the UN had planned any role in the eviction, if the UN had been informed by the HNP, which UN officials have described as a "partner," prior to the evictions.
DSG Migiro said that despite her visit, she was unaware of the eviction. She said that some relocations are involuntary, but are intended to move people to higher ground before the rainy season. Those in the soccer stadium, however, were merely given one small tent per family, and were otherwise left to fend for themselves.
By contrast, the UN system has rented luxury cruise ships on which to house its international staff. Inner City Press asked Ms. Migiro about these ships. She disputed that they were luxury liners, despite the ship's owner's own photographs. She said she had been aware of the controversy, but had not visited the ships.
UN rented Sea Voyager- not luxurious? Piano honky tonk?
After her press conference, several correspondents remarked how her presentation style has improved since the halting and hurried MDGs presentations earlier in her tenure. The Secretariat's communications arm, on the other hand, seems to be moving backwards. Wednesday that Office said it would explain why Ms. Migiro's predessessor Mark Malloch Brown was at the UN Chief Executives Board meetings last week in Vienna. But a day later, no answer has been provided.
Footnotes: Later on Thursday, as SG Ban Ki-moon marched with his entourage into the Security Council, Mr. Ban asked Inner City Press about the new press arrangements. We still have less access that before, Inner City Press replied, but pointed out that after a fight, the press was allowed in a pen in front of the Council entrance. Mr. Ban indicated, seemingly joking, that this made him more vulnerable. But there are questions to be answered.
Among them is why the UN said nothing when it learned that its U.S. staff member Louis Maxwell and other colleagues in Kabul were quite possible killed by Afghan National forces and not the Taliban. Already this week Mr. Ban has said he was unaware of the case of Al-Tijani Al-Sissi Ateem, who was recruited as a pro-government Darfur rebel leader by the UN-AU mediator Djibril Bassole while Ateem was being paid as a UN staffer. (Inner City Press has been promised both contact information for Mr. Bassole, and a further answer about his activities, neither of which has yet been provided).
Will Ban say he is unaware of the troubling case of Louis Maxwell? Watch this site.