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Blues Unlimited - The Radio Show
Join us as we explore the wonderful world of the Blues, and its history, heritage, and rich cultural traditions.
Great show ... on hiatus?
By Leon Luap - Sep 28 2019
Is Sleepy Boy Hawkins taking a break? No new shows for a while. Hope he's OK ...
Great show
By slit lip - May 19 2016
Just found this and I dig it. Do you ever plan on doing a show on jump blues?
Latest release on Jul 29, 2019
Rank #1: Take No Prisoners: The Monster Guitar of Pete Lewis, 1947-1960 (Hour 2)
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While the name Johnny Otis is certainly synonymous with West Coast R&B, and borders on what many people would call a household name, his one-time guitar player, Pete Lewis, is a virtual unknown whose life is shrouded in mystery.
Apparently, Johnny Otis "discovered" Pete Lewis at his Barrelhouse Club, in 1947, during one of the regular Thursday night talent shows. He went on to hire Lewis to be a part of his band, in what would mark an almost ten year relationship. Legend has it that Lewis came to California by way of his birthplace, now thought to be Oklahoma City, in the year 1913 (previously it was thought to be Louisiana, which we now know to be in error).
What Pete Lewis did prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, was that he was a guitar player like no other. A disciple of T-Bone Walker, he took the electric guitar to new heights, offering sophisticated turns of phrase that bordered on jazz-inflected, to low-down gut bucket riffs that were unceremoniously wrenched out of his instrument — sometimes, all in the same song, or if need be, in the short space of a twelve-bar solo. His playing is at once, crisp, precise, and gritty — not to mention endlessly inventive — the perfect compliment to Otis' rocking big band.
From what we can gather, Lewis must have been something of a character. One anecdote, related in the book "Midnight at the Barrelhouse," is that during a time of incessant touring, he arbitrarily one day decided to stop talking to his boss, Johnny Otis. After about a year had passed, he suddenly resumed talking to him, as if nothing had ever happened.
One member of the Otis band — a legend in his own right, tenor sax icon Ben Webster — admired Pete's playing, and the story goes that the two of them roomed together while out on the road (Be sure to listen for a couple of inspired duets between the two of them near the end of the first hour).
Although reports vary to the exact date, sometime around 1956, Johnny Otis and Pete Lewis parted company for good. Rumor has it that it was Lewis' problems with alcohol that lead to Otis seeking a replacement, which he found with yet another young and inspired talent, Jimmy Nolen.
Thanks to cracker-jack research detective Rob Ford, we happen to know that Pete Lewis was still playing guitar in the clubs of Los Angeles as late as 1962. After that, details start to get murky. According Johnny Otis, the last time he saw Pete Lewis, it was shortly after the L.A. riots of 1966. In the intervening years since he'd last seen him, Lewis had become a wino, apparently living on the streets. Lewis died a short time later, in 1970, at the age of 57. A sad and ironic end to a man whose guitar playing took no prisoners, and had few equals.
Photo of Pete "Guitar" Lewis courtesy of Ace Records/Johnny Otis Collection.
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If you were going to make a list of all the West Coast guitar players, the name of Pete Lewis might very well be at the top. Joining up with Johnny Otis, his fiery fretwork sparked dozens of sides by Otis, and a host of others, from the late 1940s through the mid 1950s. A tribute to Pete "Guitar" Lewis, on this episode of Blues Unlimited.
Rank #3: Blues On a Summer's Day: Newport Blues & Gospel 1958-1960 (Hour 1)
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On this episode of Blues Unlimited — our fourth and last installment paying tribute to the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals — we take a look at some of the fantastic Blues, R&B, and Gospel that was recorded live on stage at the iconic Newport, Rhode Island festival between the years of 1958 through 1960. We'll hear great, rare and classic performances from Ray Charles, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mahalia Jackson, Big Joe Turner, and more.
Pictured: Program for the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, which included performances by John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters.
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Rank #4: R. Crumb's "Heroes of the Blues" (Part 1) (Hour 1)
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In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustrator and cartoonist R. Crumb, and text by noted researcher and author Stephen Calt. They've long been favorites with Blues fans, and on this program (the first of three) we dive head first into "The Heroes of the Blues." Among the featured artists on this program are Peg Leg Howell, Blind Blake, Frank Stokes, Jaybird Coleman, Blind Willie Johnson, Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, the Mississippi Sheiks, and more.
Pictured: One of the "Heroes of the Blues" featured on this episode. Illustration by R. Crumb.
Rank #5: This Week in Blues History - July 8-14
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"This Week in Blues History" aims the spotlight on important recordings, artists, and events from the golden era of the blues. This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
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Rank #6: Chicago Blues Harmonica 1945-1955 (Hour 2)
As a special treat to our listeners, here's another blast from the archives that's sure to be a crowd pleaser. Enjoy! —SBH.
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we take a look at some of the great harmonica wizards that were a mainstay of the Chicago Blues scene. Beginning with 'The Chairman of the Board' – John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, who was pretty much responsible for putting the harmonica on the Windy City Blues map in the first place – and continuing on up through the early recordings of Little Walter, Snooky Pryor, Junior Wells, and Big Walter Horton, it's a veritable feast of Harmonica Blues, as we pull out some of the finest waxings the Windy City had to offer, including some rare gems and a look at some of the 'lesser knowns' who were a part of the scene as well.
Pictured: Little Walter, the King of Chicago Blues Harmonica.
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In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustrator and cartoonist R. Crumb, and text by noted researcher and author Stephen Calt. They've long been favorites with Blues fans, and on this program we finish up our exploration of "The Heroes of the Blues" with music from Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Peetie Wheatstraw, Memphis Minnie, and more.
Sleepy Boy Hawkins - in the flesh! - will be making an appearance at the first ever Bainbridge Island Museum of Art's Mojo Rhythm & Blues Festival! All the details you need to know, right here: https://tinyurl.com/yx9k9sbs
Rank #8: Smash Hits of the Late 1940s (Hour 2)
Join us as we count our way down through the biggest #1 R&B hits of the late 1940s. It was a period dominated by Blues shouters, wailing saxes, and piano-playing balladeers -- and Louis Jordan was king of the charts. But times were a changing, with independent record producers making inroads into previously uncharted waters.
One iconic record that helped pave the way for what would become the burgeoning independent record scene of the late 1940s was "I Wonder," by Private Cecil Gant. It was just the right record, at just the right time, hitting upon the zeitgeist of World War II and homesick soldiers who would soon be stationed "a million miles away" from their gal back home. The original version was recorded in June 1944 by Leroy Hurte for his independent Bronze label, but when Hurte couldn't keep up with demand, it was quietly recorded again, for yet another independent label, Gilt-Edge. And as events played out, it was Gilt-Edge — not Bronze — that had the Billboard smash hit with it. It was such a huge seller that Gilt-Edge had trouble keeping up with orders as well, even into the early days of March 1945, months after its release.
But it set the record industry on its ear, so to speak. As a massive hit with broad crossover appeal, it was a clarion call to the newly emerging independent record industry that success was possible in a market mostly dominated by the major labels up until that time.
By far, though, Louis Jordan was one of the biggest stars of the era, turning in almost 50 top ten performances on the Billboard charts between 1942 and late 1949, with most of those making it into the top 5, or higher. With cleverly crafted songs and a band that cooked, it's pretty easy to see how he would go on to influence Rhythm & Blues rockers like Chuck Berry the following decade (One main difference between the '40s and the '50s? Louis Jordan's instrument of choice was the saxophone. Chuck Berry wielded an electric guitar.... need we say more?).
To come up with our list of the biggest #1 R&B hits of the late 1940s, we devised a special super-secret formula, giving weight to the number of weeks a record was on the Billboard charts, with bonus points given for number of weeks held in the top position. After hearing the show and seeing the playlist, however, some might wonder why some all time classics didn't make the cut.
One of the most widely heard records of the late 1940s had to be "Open The Door, Richard!" by Jack McVea. Essentially a comedy record cut for the L.A.-based Black & White label, it entered the charts on February 8th, 1947, but only enjoyed a seven week run, topping out at number two, where it stayed for two weeks. "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee," Stick McGhee's homage to good times and cheap booze that helped put a fledgling Atlantic Records on the map, befell a similar fate. After a healthy run of 23 weeks on the charts, it stalled out at number two (a position it held for four weeks), but was unable to penetrate the grasp of three of the hugest hits of the decade that were making a run on the charts at exactly the same time -- "The Hucklebuck" by Paul Williams, "Trouble Blues," by Charles Brown, and "Ain't Nobody's Business," by Jimmy Witherspoon. And speaking of classics by Charles Brown, "Drifting Blues" -- cut in 1946 with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, and one of his most widely covered songs -- hit a similar brick wall when it ran up against Lionel Hampton's version of "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop," which was enjoying a 16 week run at the top slot that spring and summer. On the charts for 23 weeks, "Drifting Blues" finally topped out at number two, for two weeks.
Although Billboard chart statistics don't always tell us "the whole story" (so to speak), in any case, here are the hits that a generation of R&B fans danced to, heard on the radio, sung along to, and put their nickels in juke boxes all across America to hear again, and again, and again. Join us then, as we count our way down through the biggest #1 R&B hit records of the late 1940s.
Pictured: At 32 weeks on the charts, "The Hucklebuck," by Paul Williams, was one of the biggest hits of the decade.
Rank #10: This Week on BU - Movin' & Groovin' to the Hammond B3 (Hour 1)
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On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we're movin' and groovin' to the sounds of the Hammond B3 organ. Popular in Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, and Gospel, we'll celebrate the history of this hit making instrument over the years, with rarities from Sam Lazar and J.C. Davis, plus all time classics from Bill Doggett, Booker T. & the MG's, Jimmy McGriff, and more.
Pictured: Hit maker for Stax Records, Booker T. Jones.
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Nothing But The Blues
Uncensored History of the Blues
The Roadhouse
The Blues Kitchen Podcast
Old Time Rock n Roll
Jazz After Dark
ROOTS ROCK RADIO
The Miles Davis Podcast
Music City Roots
Americana Music Show Podcast
Out of the Box Album of the Week with Paul Shugrue
Music From 100 Years Ago
A History of Jazz Podcast
Nothing but the blues, from the earliest to the latest, all genres
Rank #1: Nothing But The Blues #344.
Joe Lewis Band (Stuck On Stupid); Hambone Wilson (Run To The River); Delta Moon (Down In The Flood); Kellie Rucker (Blues Is Blues); Hans Theessink and Terry Evans (Delta Time); Johnny Shines (Delta Pine); Carey and Lurrie Bell (When I Get Drunk); Phil Wiggins and The Chesapeake Sheiks (Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me); Mississippi John Hurt (Avalon Blues); Dan Treanor's Afrosippi Band (Ernestine); Joe Evans and Arthur McClain (Shook It This Morning); Barbecue Bob (She Shook Her Gin); Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women (T'ain't Nobody's Business); Rory Block (Maggie Campbell); Poplar Jake and The Electronic Delta Review (Big Road Blues); Larry Griffith (Blues Is Callin' My Name).
Eddie Martin (Tough Times); Big Harp George (My Baby Is Now On My Mind); The Undaunted Professor Harp (Sugaree); Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (Kind Lover Blues); Robert Curtis Smith (Rock Me Mamma); Dual Drive (Who Will The Next Fool Be); Bad Bob Bates (Brothers' Sons); John Fairhurst (Black Cat); Sabrina Weeks and Swing Cat Bounce (Slide Over Here); Jimmy Nelson (I Sat And Cried); Jimmy Rushing (I Cried For You); Hip Lankchan (Millionaire Blues); Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King (My Hat's Off To You); T-Bone Walker (Prison Blues); Earl Hooker and Junior Wells (Prison Bars All Around Me); Jimi Hendrix (Red House).
A discussion of the best in early recorded blues.
Rank #1: Show 65 - Snitcher's Blues.
Rank #2: Show 54 - The 1930 Drought.
The finest blues you've never heard.
Rank #1: Roadhouse 644.
It's blazing hot in The Roadhouse Studions, and a hot hour in The Roadhouse. I've got music from Martin Lang with Oscar Wilson, Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm, Rhiannon Giddens, Hot Roux, and Vintage#18. The 644th Roadhouse is all about great artists, great music and, of course, another great hour of the finest blues you've never heard.
I think I've got a compelling hour ahead this week - one that will pull you effortlessly through 60 minutes. The Cash Box Kings, Joe Louis Walker, Gary Nicholson, Mavis Staples, and The Original Chicago Blues All Stars serve as the headliners, surrounded by other equally strong artists and tracks. 749 hours of The Roadhouse, and it's yet another hour of the finest blues you've never heard.
A great place to discover and relive vintage and modern rockabilly, blues, surf, roots, r&b, oldies, etc. Hear favorites and obscure tracks as well as exclusive interviews
Rank #1: Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour- Billy Burnette interview and music.
Billy Burnette is our guest as we play music from him, his family and more!. You'll also hear his unreleased version of "All I Can Do Is Dream You" featuring Brian Setzer on guitar! Intro music bed- Link Wray- "Jack The Ripper" Johnny Burnette & The Rock & Roll Trio- "Train Kept A Rollin'" music bed- Johnny & Dorsey Burnette- "The Big House" Johnny Burnette & The Rock & Roll Trio- "Honey Hush" music bed- Duane Eddy- "Twango" Billy Burnette- "Tear It Up" Billy Burnette- "Don't Say No" music bed- The Ventures- "Apache" Dorsey Burnette- "Bertha Lou" Dorsey Burnette- "Tall Oak Tree" music bed- Johnny & Dorsey Burnette- "Rockin' Johnny Home" Billy Burnette- "Hey Daddy" (as "Billy Beau") music bed- Johnny & Dorsey Burnette- "Green Hills" Johnny Burnette- "You're Sixteen" music bed- The Ventures- "House Of The Rising Sun" Elvis Presley- "Suspicious Minds" Shawn Camp & Billy Burnette- "Burnin' Love" music bed- Kenny Vaughan- "Mysterium" Billy Burnette- "All I Can Do Is Dream You" Mick Fleetwood's Zoo- "Angel Come Home" Fleetwood Mac- "As Long As You Follow" Billy Burnette- "Oh Well" Billy Burnette- "Believe What You Say" Billy Burnette- "Everything Is Broken" music bed- Johnny & Dorsey Burnette- "Lonely Island" Johnny Cash- "A Boy Named Sue" Billy Burnette- "Ring Of Fire" music bed- Kenny Vaughan- Minuit Sur La Plage John Fogerty- "Lookin' Out My Back Door" Billy Burnette- "Rock N Roll With It" Billy Burnette- "Hot Rod Hillbilly" music bed- Johnny & Dorsey Burnette- "Bloody River" Billy Burnette- "Ready Already" Outro music bed- The Ventures- "Memphis"
Rank #2: Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour- 3/28/14.
Robert Gordon's "I'm Coming Home" premiered later in the program. Intro bed- Link Wray- "Jack The Ripper" Voice Over- Rob Dempsey Gene Vincent- "Cruisin'" Jack Scott- "The Way I Walk" Music bed- Dick Dale- "Surf Beat" The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns- "King Of The Slot Car Track" Creedence Clearwater Revival- "Travelin' Band" Vintage Carl Perkins concert spot Carl Perkins & NRBQ- "All Mama's Children" Music bed- The Ventures- "Riders In The Sky" JD McPherson- "Fire Bug" Charlie Gracie- "Fabulous" Brian Setzer & Brian Wilson- "Little Deuce Coupe" Music bed- The Beach Boys- "Carl's Big Chance" Booker T & The MG's- "Green Onions" Dex Romweber Duo- "Blue Surf" Music bed- The Rumblers- "Boss" Gas House Gorillas- "I Want You To Want Me" The Phantom- "Love Me" Music bed- Duane Eddy- "Road Trip" Big Tiny Kennedy- "Country Boy" Greg Martin (The Kentucky Headhunters) liner Johnnie Johnson & The Kentucky Headhunters- "That'll Work" Tom Jones- "Evil" Music bed- The Ventures- "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" Jackie Brenston- "Rocket 88" Buddy Holly- Winter Dance Party liner and "Heartbeat" intro Buddy Holly- "Heartbeat" Vintage Johnny Cash Lionel Trains spot Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings- "I'm Movin' On" Music bed- Johnny & Dorsey Burnette- "Bloody River" Robert Gordon- "I'm Coming Home" Robert Gordon- "Flying Saucers Rock & Roll" Outro bed- Dick Dale & Stevie Ray Vaughan- "Pipeline"
Hosted by Liam & Gaz, The Blues Kitchen Radio celebrates everything from 1930's delta Blues, through gritty southern soul, funk, folk, rock n roll & the hottest new releases.
Rank #1: The Blues Kitchen Radio with ROBERT CRAY - 14 April 2014.
On the show this week, Liam and Gaz are joined by five time Grammy winner and Blues Hall of Fame member, Robert Cray. Robert talks about his new album In My Soul, watching Hendrix live for the first time and playing with Keith Richards and Chuck Berry. Tunes from Elmore James, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Robert Cray, Son Little, Ike Turner, Royal Blood and Soulsavers. Email the show on info@theblueskitchen.com, follow on Twitter @theblueskitchen.com and get all the tunes at www.itunes.com/blueskitchen
Rank #2: The Blues Kitchen Radio with Cage the Elephant.
Liam and Gaz bring you an exclusive interview with Cage the Elephant to talk about their new album 'Melophobia', collaborating with Alison Mosshart and having Dave Grohl step in on drums to help the band out in their hour of need! Plus tracks from Howlin' Wolf, Michael Kiwanuka, Black Diamond Heavies, Lonnie Mack, Cage the Elephant, Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Email the show on info@theblueskitchen.com, follow on Twitter @theblueskitchen and get all the tracks at www.itunes.com/blueskitchen
Old Time Rock n Roll is the largest oldies podcast in the world today. Over 2.3 million listeners have enjoyed the huge library of tunes. Host Lee Douglas uses his personal 120,000 song library to spin the classics,as well as the obscure songs of the 50's,60's and early 70's. Whether its doo wop, rockabilly, Rythym and Blues or pop, Old Time Rock n Roll has it all. Listen and be transported back to a time when the biggest problem we had was getting a date for Saturday night.
Rank #1: Show # 627: Northern Soul.
As the British musical groups invaded the United States, a revolution that saw American artists invade the British Isle began in Northern England.
Rank #2: Show # 766: Hidden Hits of 1959.
A collection of the lesser known hits that managed to skim the Billboard and Cashbox Charts back in 1959.
Join jazz aficionado Don Shor as he explores the diverse and fascinating world of jazz. Jazz After Dark spans the gamut, from roots in boogie woogie, blues, and ragtime, through traditional and straight ahead jazz, soul jazz, bossa nova, and more.
Rank #1: Jazz After Dark for 8:00pm on Jan 14th, 2020.
Rank #2: Jazz After Dark for 8:00pm on Jan 7th, 2020.
ROOTS ROCK RADIO presents the best indie ROOTS ROCK/POP, ALT COUNTRY/AMERICANA, BLUES/ROCKABILLY, GARAGE/PUNK, and Real ROCK & ROLL from around the globe. ©2019 RICHARD TAYLOR http://facebook.com/groups/RootsRockRadio http://Twitter.com/RootsRockRadio http://RRRadio.com
Rank #1: RRRadio.com 174.
ROOTS ROCK RADIO SHOW 174 Summer of 2016 with lots of indie ROOTS ROCK/POP, ALT COUNTRY/AMERICANA, BLUES/ROCKABILLY, GARAGE/PUNK, and Real ROCK & ROLL from around the globe.from around the globe. ©2016 RICHARD TAYLOR website www.RRRadio.com www.Facebook.com/RootsRockRadioShow and @RootsRockRadio on twitter
This week on The ROOTS ROCK RADIO SHOW 123, 4th Anniversary of The ROOTS ROCK RADIO SHOW!, Brian Jones, Social Crutch, WHFS, Congress prohibited dueling, a phrase used by John Wayne, rule the world, a good snow, final interpreter, siege of the Alamo, early birthday present, first day of Spring, Listener #1, and lots of indie ROOTS ROCK/POP, ALT COUNTRY/AMERICANA, BLUES/ROCKABILLY, GARAGE/PUNK, and Real ROCK & ROLL from around the globe. ©2009 RICHARD TAYLOR email Richard@RRRadio.com
Rank #1: Chris Botti: Miles is the greatest American artist in popular music we have ever had.
Versatile trumpeter Chris Botti shares his passion about Miles, his music and legacy.
Rank #2: Marcus Miller: Collaborating with Miles.
Marcus Miller tells the fascinating story of how he came to know Miles and shares his impressions about his tenure with the man with the horn.
Music City Roots: Live From The Factory is a weekly concert and live radio show that broadcasts every Wednesday night (7PM CST) on WMOT Roots Radio 89.5 FM in Murfreesboro-Nashville, Tennessee, and worldwide at www.musiccityroots.com. It's hosted by Grammy-winning artist Jim Lauderdale, legendary radio announcer Keith Bilbrey and show journalist/interview guy Craig Havighurst. We feature leading lights and new discoveries in Americana, blues, rock and roll, gospel, jazz, rockabilly, bluegrass, newgrass, western, folk, singer songwriter, country, soul, vintage, ragtime, cow punk, honky tonk, big band, swing, acoustic, celtic, and more! Since going on the air in 2009, Music City Roots has built a worldwide community of lovers of hand-made, real music. We showcase the finest artistry working in or passing through the dynamic Nashville music scene. With old-school radio presentation before a large live audience, artist interview and great audio, MCR is one of the best ways to get a weekly fix of roots music.
Rank #1: Oct. 12, 2016 w/ Raul Malo, Davina & The Vagabonds, Bryan Sutton, Paul Burch, San Rafael Band.
It must be October. A day after the Chicago Cubs pulled off a four-run ninth-inning comeback against the Giants to secure their Division title (rock!), this week's Roots featured: a band called the WPA Ball Club, Aly Sutton dressed like a cast member in A League of Their Own and four basses (we pun out of love). They were all acoustic upright basses belonging to four very different and thoroughly wonderful bands. Then we capped the night off with a solo performance which I can in no way force into my baseball metaphor. Except to say that we won. Our seventh birthday show looked really good on paper and it sounded amazing in actuality.
Rank #2: July 19, 2017 w Jerry Douglas Band, Billy Strings, Jill Andrews, Birds of Chicago.
There was a festival atmosphere in Liberty Hall on Wednesday night and not just because the crowd was large and loud (though that helped). There was also that ineffable flow and unspoken dialogue among the four bands, softly conveying the spirit of roots music in all its complimentary forms. The timeless but mysteriously innovative folk/gospel flavor of Birds of Chicago gave way to the pure mountain-tinged songwriting of Jill Andrews. The bluegrass second half paired young and hungry Billy Strings with one of his heroes, the sixtysomething but unaware of it Jerry Douglas. His band came with a jazz/grass/rock fusion mode that tickled my every musical nerve ending. Keep on the grass? Good luck with that.
El programa de Little Steven's Underground Garage en Rock FM. Una hora de Rock sin pausa
Rank #1: JACK KEROUAC.
Little Steven, guitarrista de la E Street Band de Bruce Springsteen y actor en afamadas series como "Los Soprano" hace un repaso a lo mejor del rock clásico y actual en su particular underground garage.
Rank #2: George Harrison.
The Americana Music Show is a podsafe music show that features hand-picked, road-tested american music and interviews with your next favorite bands.
Rank #1: Ep363 Tyler Childers.
Listen to a double shot of Tyler Childers new album, Purgatory. Plus new music from Jade Jackson, Kacy & Clayton, Chuck Berry, and much more.... "Ep363 Tyler Childers" originated from Americana Music Show.
Rank #2: Best of 2015, #20-#1 (Ep279).
This week I complete the Best of 2015 countdown, featuring albums #20 through #1 on the list. "Best of 2015, #20-#1 (Ep279)" originated from Americana Music Show.
All week, on each edition of Out of the Box, listen for songs from one of the best albums that's just hitting stores and hear Paul Shugrue's review of that album.
Rank #1: Gary Clark Jr..
To say the Texas blues guitarist's major label debut is explosive, is an understatement. It detonates.
Rank #2: Hozier.
Five years after the release of his debut, "Wasteland Baby!" picks up where the first album left off, further defining his unique blend of rock, gospel and soul.
Recordings from the early 20th Century with comments.
Rank #1: Chopin.
Historical recordings of Chopin favorites. Works include: Polonaise #3, Scherzo #1, Berceuse, Waltz # 7, and Nocturne #19. Pianists include: Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Eileen Joyce, Cyrill Smith, Louis Kentner and Vladimir de Pachmann.
Rank #2: Running Music.
Songs include: Runnin Wild, You Run Your Mouth, A Hit and Run Affair, Running a Temperature, Run Little Rabbit and You Can't Run Away From Love Tonight. Musicians include: Josh White, Jimmy Rushing, Benny Goodman, Thomas "Fats' Waller, Stan Getz, Dick Powell and Tommy Dorsey.
Exploring jazz history, one record at a time.
Rank #1: 1917: Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
Show Notes You can listen to songs from this episode on Spotify, either as an individual playlist, or as one ongoing playlist. You can subscribe to the show on iTunes, Overcast, or wherever great podcasts are found. You can follow along with the show on Twitter @jazzhistorypod. The website can be found at A History of Jazz. My name is Arik Devens and you can follow me on Twitter @danieltiger Bibliography: The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band - H.O. Brunn The History of Jazz - Ted Gioia The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century - Joachim-Ernst Berendt Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band - Lawrence Gushee Writing Jazz - David Meltzer Jazz: A History of America's Music - Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns Why Jazz Happened - Marc Myers
Rank #2: 1917: Everybody Else.
Show Notes You can listen to songs from this episode on Spotify, either as an individual playlist, or as one ongoing playlist. You can subscribe to the show on iTunes, Overcast, or wherever great podcasts are found. You can follow along with the show on Twitter @jazzhistorypod. The website can be found at A History of Jazz. My name is Arik Devens and you can follow me on Twitter @danieltiger Bibliography: The History of Jazz - Ted Gioia The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century - Joachim-Ernst Berendt Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development - Gunther Schuller Red Hot Jazz - Ciro's Club Jazz Age Club 1917 - Wikipedia James P. Johnson - Wikipedia Earl Fuller - Wikipedia W.C. Handy - Wikipedia


Centra will soon begin a search for a new president and chief executive officer after E.W. Tibbs tendered his resignation to the Centra Board of Directors on Thursday, September 27th. A Bedford native, E.W. became President and CEO of Centra in April 2013.
Under E.W.'s leadership, Centra experienced significant growth and improvements in quality and healthcare efficiency, helping to create an enhanced culture focused on patient safety. He was instrumental in leading Centra's ambulatory strategy which placed facilities closer to patients' homes to improve access to care. EW was also responsible for Centra embarking on a two-year journey to transition to a single electronic health record that became operational this month. During his tenure, Centra achieved many national awards and quality recognitions.
"The Centra Board of Directors cannot thank E.W. enough for his energy, commitment and passion for Centra and while we wish him well in his next endeavors, we are sorry to lose him and grateful for his service," said Amy Ray, Chairman of the Centra Board of Directors.
Over the next few months, the board of directors, in partnership with an outside recruitment firm, will be conducting a search to hire Centra's new CEO. During the transition, the Centra Board of Directors has named Michael Elliott as the interim CEO, effective immediately, to ensure Centra remains a thriving and effective organization in the communities it serves.
Michael is currently Centra's Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and joined Centra in 2012. Michael has his Doctorate in Pharmacy and is involved in numerous local community services organizations.


Due to a mixup on Grammy night, Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are forced to share a private jet in order to arrive in time for the ceremony.
Q: Did you hear that R Kelly and Gerald Levert have a new Album?
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A pilot, the President, Micheal Jackson, a librarian, and some kids are on a plane that is about to crash. There are just enough parachutes that one person must die.
The pilot says "Well, I'm the pilot so i have to live," so he jumps out with a parachute.
"But what about the kids'" said the librarian.
"Screw the kids" said the President.
"I already did" said Micheal Jackson.


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Success in favorite business depends on confidence. This was repeatedly mentioned in his books, a successful businessman and he Bodo Schaefer. In order to maintain self-esteem, it recommends to keep a diary to record daily and Success to your small and big achievements.
I have long tested the effect of such a diary for yourself, and the results were impressive. My self-confidence grew with each passing day, and the amount of success grew exponentially. I had enough for a couple of months, and then I just started to forget to record at the end of the day events.
Now I found a similar one, but a fun way to support confidence. I want to share with you that we, together with the New Year could start its implementation.
By tradition, New Year's Eve to sum up the year. Those important events that a person can not remember can usually be counted on the fingers. And even if you kept a diary all year, you will not sit back and re-read all 365 entries. But do not rush to be upset, but better be engaged in creating a beautiful symbol of good luck in the coming year – a jar of happiness.
A set of colored paper for notes.
You can prepare all the material in advance, and directly into the New Year's Eve together with family or friends to spend the grand creation of jars of happiness. Determine the location of the apartment, where you would like it to be filled, for example, on your bedside table. Every time something good happens in your life, write an event on a small sheet of colored paper and put in a jar in a folded or rolled up into a tube form.
And now attention – motivation! Exactly one year later, on December 31, you can get the contents of the jars and re-read it. You will be able to relive all the great moments of the year, to understand how much you have time to do during this time and, possibly, based on those notes to write a post about the wonderful achievements of 2016. I do not know about you, but I do write. Well, you with me?
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"What your think about coverage"
What do you think? Do we have a right as Americans to have access to affordable health care or is it only for the wealthy and employed. Let's start with the basics. You may be vaguely aware that your tax dollars support health care for the disadvantaged, its called Medicaid. Your tax dollars also support Medicare, health care for the elderly and disabled. The health care system is beginning to split at the seams, I'll explain.
If you are in the vast majority of Americans you are not independently wealthy and probably have employer subsidized health care. Even if you can afford insurance without employer help, chances are the cost cuts deeply into your vacation fund every year. As your employer helps you with health insurance, your taxes help pay for Medicare and Medicaid. Unfortunately, the entire system is out of balance. An insurance pool, which is any group of people or things (homes, cars) insured for any reason, must have balanced risk.
It means an insurance pool (health insurance in this case) must have enough healthy people paying into the fund to pay for the sicker people using the insurance resources. In this model we share the risk equally. Right now this is not how it works in America. Private insurers ( the one you have at work) only want the healthy people. You may have noticed how hard it is to get private insurance if you have a pre-existing condition and don't have current insurance. Remember the sicker group of people that use the resources? The are mostly on Medicare if they are over 65, under 65 they are on Medicaid if they qualify.
Florida had to adjust its budget (place more money in Medicaid than planned) to qualify for the most Federal Stimulus possible. Should we not be funding Medicaid according to a standard? A Federal standard perhaps?
Is this any way to run a Health Care System? While we consider ourselves unique here in America, there is nothing unique about our health care system. It is poorly distributed and costs all of us too much money and gives us too little health care often too late. There are many models across the first world countries( not just Canada and Britain) that do a great job of caring for people, paying the health care providers what they are worth and cost less than our system.
Hmmm...... what is up with America?
Do you believe that your neighbor's child should die from cancer because his father lost his job? Should a young couple, both with jobs, have to take a loan to pay for the birth of their child? What will happen to you when you need care that your insurance won't cover and you can not afford? I think it is time we had a discussion with ourselves about how we should treat each other as Americans.
During his first official conference with the heads of other major industrialized nations, Barack Obama is dealing with questions about America's responsibility in the economic crisis currently gripping the world. Whether fair or not, delegates are pointing a collective finger in the direction of the newest delegate to the G20 union.
As always, the self-controlled Obama emphasized the need to move forward and look for solutions, rather than looking back to place blame. In the end, he explained that responsibility must be shared by all.
One problem the rest of these countries have long managed that we have yet to confront is health care. The rest provide their citizens with low-cost health care, while medical debt is responsible for roughly half the bankruptcies in the United States. Health care is right up there with unemployment and global warming as primary issues that must be addressed in order to solve our overall problems.
Some people fear that dealing with so many things at once will lead to failure in one or more areas. Obama counters by explaining that American families must deal with multiple problems at once, so why should the country be any different? But conservatives remain adamantly opposed to handing over more control to the government in this most personal service.
The argument is reminiscent of John McCain's campaign claim that the problems of uninsured people and the high cost of medical services can be corrected by "market forces." Republicans ignore the fact that "market forces" caused the mess in the first place. They argue that depending on government to solve the problem will put medical decisions in the hands of bureaucrats, while we suffer from the current practice of allowing insurance company executives to deny medical care to people who need it, while receiving fat bonuses for performing that odious task.
Whenever McCain sounded the warning about government employees making "decisions" about our health care, I remembered that he's received government-administered medical care every day of his life. I never heard him mention the terrible experience he's had in the delivery of poor medical care or being denied necessary care as a result of any decision made by a government employee. He seems to be in excellent shape for a man of his age who was so badly injured during his North Vietnamese internment and has survived multiple cancers. I always wondered how McCain could say we'll receive care that is worse than the government program he seems to have benefitted from so well.
McCain wanted insurance to be portable between jobs but never mentioned how people would pay for coverage during time gaps between jobs. He wanted insurance companies to sell policies across state lines, which would threaten the control states now exercise over companies that do business within their borders and lead to more abuses than already exist.
Lastly, McCain wanted to segregate sick people into a "pool" so that healthy people wouldn't help pay the cost of medical services for people who actually need them. He ignored the fact that such a practice would raise the already high cost of coverage for people who can least afford to pay for it. As a spokesman for the conservative point of view, John McCain's plan for health care "reform" was "business as usual."
Progressives have Governor Howard Dean, a medical doctor who's been fighting for true health-care reform throughout his political career. In the video below, Dr. Dean explains why all Americans must be provided with real choices for affordable health care immediately.
The president's opening offer of healthcare at a teaser rate fails to deliver what we actually need, value, and can afford.
The release by the Obama administration of its initial budget "outline" reinforced its strong commitment to step on the health spending accelerator, notwithstanding some rhetorical cover suggesting purported cost savings within its roadmap for universal coverage. Any selective application of the budgetary brakes would only maneuver around some tight political corners, because the overall goal is to re-allocate any "savings" to spend more and more, with Washington in the driver's seat.
Once one blows away the political smoke, there remains little evidence in the budget of a serious commitment to deliver more substantial and lasting savings.In any case, President Obama's preliminary budget framework would make the healthcare sector that some critics claim is already too "unaffordable" even more so.
The soft numbers presented in the budget amounted to $634 billion over ten years, tucked within a reserve fund that serves as a "down payment" for comprehensive health reform more likely to cost at least twice as much. This initial tranche of subprime financing at a teaser rate would come predominantly from the usual suspects—reimbursement cuts imposed on focus group–tested targets (drug companies and private insurers) and higher taxes on the $250,000-plus income club.
Once one blows away the political smoke, there remains little evidence in the budget of a serious commitment to deliver more substantial and lasting savings. Proposals for overhauling inefficiencies in the care delivery system, sensitizing the privately insured to value trade-offs, and reacquainting senior beneficiaries with the full costs of their Medicare entitlements remain either illusory, underdeveloped, or discarded in this initial Obama budget.
One should not be surprised. The healthcare portion of this budget is largely an extension of broader bait-and-switch tactics, for which the primary objective is to quickly lock in long-term structural changes in who controls healthcare choices. Left to less-urgent "out years" will be worries about how to renege on the too-generous terms of offers of universal coverage, comprehensive benefits, and lower list prices.
The short, postcard version of Obama's health reform pitch to the public represents a faith-based initiative that straddles the line between audacity and mendacity: Insurance coverage for everyone; more choices that include keeping what you already have; choices that will cost less but offer better benefits because "someone else" will pay more; reductions only in waste; and new wellness interventions that will make us all healthier anyway.
A national health insurance exchange would facilitate centralized regulation of insurance offers and purchase—purportedly to reduce administrative costs and provide a broader menu of choices, but ultimately to crowd out competitive variation and meaningful choice within private insurance.
The exchange would include a new public plan option, the favored choice within the exchange menu to serve as a halfway house to Medicaid-for-all coverage much further down a political road.
Additional expansion of public program insurance coverage would build on the loosening of income-based eligibility limits for Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in the recent stimulus package and on the crippling of private plan options in Medicare.
Mandates to ensure health coverage would start with employers but eventually move to all individuals, at least until affordability and enforcement hurdles become too visible and insurmountable.
Launching of more aggressive comparative effectiveness research would provide pseudo-scientific cover for the ensuing budgetary need to restrict coverage and limit reimbursements for higher-cost benefits, treatments, and products.
The short version of Obama's health reform pitch to the public represents a faith-based initiative that straddles the line between audacity and mendacity.Beyond this sketchy framework, the president appears to be ready to subcontract most of the operational details behind this plan to the Democratic leadership and committee chairmen on Capitol Hill.
However, the clock is ticking as this latest window for political opportunism will narrow after this year. Although fiscal price tags seemed to matter little just months ago, ongoing difficulties in stimulating a stagnant economy may soon overload our political willingness to double down on bets on change we cannot quite believe in. At that point, we might begin to re-open the health policy debate to consider what we actually need, what we value, what we can afford, and the limits of what we can do through politics as usual.


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About Boreal Forest Climate Change Disturbance Permafrost Social-Ecological Vegetation Wetlands Wildlife
The composition of the boreal forest varies greatly throughout its circumpolar range in response to differences in both current environment and histories. The primary species include broad- leafed deciduous trees, needle-leafed evergreens, and needle- leafed deciduous trees. In Alaska, the predominant conifers are white (Picea glauca) and black spruce (P. mariana).
Credit: Teresa Hollingsworth
Larch (Larix laricina) tends to be found in local populations, and pine is absent in interior Alaska, although it is a prominent component of the boreal forest to the east in Yukon and Northwest Territories of Canada. Important deciduous trees are aspen (Populus tremuloides), poplar (P. balsamifera), and birch (Betula neoalaskana).
Credit: Jeremy Jones
Important shrubs include alders and willows.
The boreal forest has fewer vascular plant species than any other forested biome, but a rich flora of mosses and lichens, and share most of this diversity with arctic tundra to the north.
Much of Alaska and the rest of Beringia were unglaciated, when most of the northern hemisphere was covered by Pleistocene ice sheets. This allowed the flora of Alaska to persist in the Beringian refugiam throughout the Ice Ages, whereas the flora and vegetation elsewhere in North America and Eurasia are entirely post-glacial. However, at the end of the last glacial maximum, the area occupied today by boreal forest was a treeless landscape that also lacked the common tall shrubs of today. Although forests have occupied interior Alaska for only 13,000 years, their floristic composition and patterns of distribution have remained relatively stable for the past 5,000 years. At the present northern limit of forests, harsh environmental conditions have prevented migration of new species from the south. The Bering Sea isolated interior Alaska from a taxonomically distinct flora in Eurasia and mountains to the north and south restricted the potential for latitudinal shifts in species in response to millennial-scale variations in climate. The stability of the Alaskan vegetation mosaic for the last 5,000 years contrasts with the substantial vegetation movements that have occurred in the eastern Canadian boreal forest.

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Q: Should web browsers include popular web framework libraries? What reasons are there for web browsers to not have a library of popular web frameworks.
For example if a web page included jQuery, why shouldn't the browser have it's own static version, which is separate from the normal cached items?
I would imagine if most libraries were preloaded into a browsers cache, before any request was made with a document that included a library, then this would remove the initial request to a CDN and have a potential performance improvement.
But if the browser 'preloaded cache' didn't include the library then the browser should request the resource that is included in the document.

A: Because within a month, the browser's built-in version of jQuery would be out-of-date, negating the whole reason for using a third party library in the first place.  Within 6 months, developers would be wanting to use features in the latest release of jQuery that weren't in what was built-in to the browser, but they wouldn't without including the whole new version of jQuery - negating the whole reason of bundling it in in the first place.
Browsers should follow and implement standards and developers will benefit years later when the older browsers stop being used or by writing browser-specific code to take advantage of the newest features.  The path for browsers to get more jQuery-like functionality is via that standards process.
The whole point of the cross browser framework is that you can specify one specific version of the framework and know that you get the exact same behavior everywhere right now because that version of the framework takes care of it for you.  That would never be the case with built-in frameworks (because the web developer is stuck with a different version of jQuery built into each targetted browser) so developers would just go about including the latest version of the framework and now you'd not be leveraging what was built-in.

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US companies are flocking to Europe to take advantage of extremely low interest rates by issuing euro-denominated bonds.
When foreign companies sell bonds in the US, these are known as Yankee bonds. When US companies sell euro-denominated bonds in Europe, these are reverse Yankee bonds. Both markets are well-established, but reverse Yankee issuance suffered a big hit last year as US companies took advantage of the 2017 tax reform to repatriate billions of dollars in profit retained abroad.
Ironically, the same reform is spurring demand this year for euro debt. US firms no longer have massive retained earnings to finance their operations in Europe, so they're raising euros by selling bonds.
Low interest rates are driving this resurgence in the reverse Yankee market. The European Central Bank's (ECB) benchmark rate is negative and the ECB has said it won't raise rates until 2020.
Investors worried about an economic slowdown, or even a recession, meanwhile, have pushed yields on sovereign debt much lower, with the German 10-year government bond going negative in March.
As a result, yields on corporate bonds are getting dragged down, even as they remain attractive to investors because they're still higher than on government debt. Coca-Cola, Ford Motor, Altria and IBM are among the US multinationals that have sold euro-denominated bonds this year as total issuance of reverse Yankee bonds was running at more than quadruple the 2018 pace in the first quarter, nearing €30 billion ($34 billion).
It's a small proportion of the nearly $500 billion in corporate bonds issued in the first quarter, but reverse Yankee bonds can cost issuers nearly 3 percentage points less than those sold in the US. Meanwhile, the cost of cross-currency basis swaps to convert proceeds to dollars when necessary has also declined significantly, making euro bonds even more attractive for borrowers.
Costs are falling across the board. The premium yield new issues must carry to compete with existing debt on the market - the so-called new-issue concession - has shrunk to 0.05 percentage points from 0.14 in February.
The difference between corporate bond yields and 10-year Treasuries has also dropped significantly as strong demand for reverse Yankee bonds pushes down yields.
Conversely, the sale of Yankee bonds has declined drastically as much higher borrowing rates in the US discourage foreign companies. The volume so far this year is little more than a third of what it was in early 2018.
Bond markets have become sensitive indicators for investors on prospects for growth. When the yield on 3-month Treasuries surpassed that of 10-year Treasury notes in March - a so-called inverted yield curve - US stock market indexes plunged as investors took it as a sign of impending recession.
But analysts caution that the inversion may no longer be such a reliable indicator of recession since ongoing central bank purchases have depressed yields on government bonds and flattened the yield curve, making such an inversion likelier.
In Europe, the ECB's asset purchase program included corporate bonds, keeping yields down and increasing investor appetite for highly-rated corporate debt. The ECB is no longer expanding its bond portfolio, but continues to reinvest maturing principal in new bonds, including from corporate issuers.
Low as yields are on fixed-interest securities, however, their minimal risk is appealing to investors worried by the intense uncertainty in the market. The knee-jerk reaction to a recession signal was to get out of equities and into government securities.
For investors, weighing the trade-offs between risk and return can be complicated, given the wide range of investments. But borrowers have an easier time of it. As long as there is demand for bonds, corporations can raise the money they need and, with the reverse Yankee bonds, lower their costs.
Corporate debt has reached a record level in absolute terms, but is still manageable relative to profit, analysts say. However, economic uncertainty and the prospect of a so-called earnings recession could yet dampen some of the enthusiasm for corporate bonds.


For the past few days, I've spent my time doing research. In the process, I also made it a point to share what I've found out to fellow freelancers who are also clueless or just haven't thought of paying taxes. In fact, I've made it as my advocacy to let freelancers know that they have to pay taxes. I've been pasting tax-related links, including yours, to different sites and forums. I've also started convincing my freelancing friends to pay their taxes.
Anyway, sorry for the long introduction :) . . . I used to be a call center agent but I've been made redundant last year. Thankfully, I discovered online jobs. I'm a freelance writer, specifically a web content writer at oDesk.com. I am not really a 'professional' in a sense and I just work from home. I've been providing writing services to my clients and most of them are from abroad. Since I used to be employed, I'm wondering if I'd be required to declare that or I can register as professional right away. Anyway, you're right. I think I'm going to have to ask a BIR personnel about this when I visit my RDO.
I've read that you've once registered as a single proprietor. I'm thinking of using a business name to represent myself to clients, but I'd be on my own and I won't have employees. My question is if I register as a single proprietor, will it mean more taxes for me even if I'm the only one in my business?
That's just about it. Thanks for taking time to read this email. You're such a nice and inspiring person. I'd certainly be visiting your site for its other contents. I'm also wishing all the best for you.


The third and final event in the Elite Events Summer 5k Series will take place at North Collier Regional Park. Runners will race through the park on closed pathways and have plenty of views of vegetation, fountains, and water. This flat and shady course will give runners a great chance to run a fast time.
At the conclusion of this event, the final Summer 5k Series standings will be posted and the awards ceremony will take place immediately after the 5k awards.


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Competition for office tenants set to intensify
KUALA LUMPUR: Competition among lessors of office space in Kuala Lumpur is expected to intensify this year, with the annual average rentals of office space in the business district projected at US$25.19 (RM76) per sq ft.
Global real estate firm Colliers International said completion of individual projects has been deferred from late 2010 to 2011.
"With a total of over 3.0 million sq ft new space coming on line by the end of 2011, competition for tenants is anticipated to intensify," Colliers said in its Asia Pacific Office Market Overview for the first quarter 2011.
According to the publication, which was made available to Business Times, prime office rental and capital values in Kuala Lumpur central area have improved slightly in the first quarter this year.
Colliers predicts the overall market to remain stable over the near term, on the back of economic growth of between 5 and 6 per cent this year.
The real estate firm anticipated that the new supply of office space in Kuala Lumpur business district to reach 3.2 million sq ft by year-end, bringing the total stock in the area to 31.1 million sq ft.
The take-up rate is expected to be 1.2 million sq ft, while the average vacancy for the year is estimated at 13.6 per cent.
For 2012, Colliers expects the average rentals to stay at US$25.19 per sq ft, while the new supply of office space in Kuala Lumpur to halve to 1.4 million sq ft, with the take-up rate to drop by a third to 800,000 sq ft.
Total stock is expected to increase slightly to 32.6 million sq ft, while average vacancy is also expected to trend upwards to 15 per cent.
Regionally, Colliers saw investment demand for office real estate remain strong in the first quarter this year, despite the recent interest rate rises.
"Firstly, the potential capital appreciation remained promising, given the continued rental catch-up in the market. Secondly, investors were encouraged by the sustained low-cost borrowing in the first quarter 2011," it said.
Buoyed by strong investment demand, it said individual centres such as Hong Kong and Taipei had seen office values reach new highs in the quarter under review. End-users remained keen on acquiring their office buildings for owner-occupation, it added.
On leasing, the real estate firm said although the individual centres are going to see an increase of three to four times of new supply this year, office rentals remained firm. This is due to positive business confidence and encouraging pre-commitment rate for a number of new developments.
The potential impact from the growing inflation is going to be the key uncertainty anticipated by most players in the office market.
Colliers, from its research, expects further rental and capital growth this year.
However, individual centres with major developments due for completion this year would provide a window of opportunity for tenants going for corporate relocation and upgrading over the near to medium term, it said.
"In particular, seismic concerns in Japan are expected to prompt more tenants to go for newer developments," it added.
Property at 'upper band'
KUALA LUMPUR: Property companies on Bursa Malaysia, which have lagged behind the performance of the broader market in the past month, are trading at valuations that put such counters at the upper band against its regional peers.
Some analysts admit the valuations of the larger property companies are frothy but say there are reasons why such stocks are seeing such valuation differences from property companies in Singapore, Hong Kong or Indonesia.
"They have a premium because of execution, a track record and branding," said HwangDBS Vickers Research analyst Yee Mei Hui, when comparing SP Setia Bhd, the country's top property company, with companies from other countries.
The regional comparison, which was made by CIMB after SP Setia released its second quarter results, showed the biggest property companies on Bursa Malaysia are generally trading at a slim discount to their share price as compared with the regional peers on a revalued net asset value (RNAV) basis.
The RNAV is what analysts think the market value of land and assets on a company's books amounted to compared with the book value of such land.
The small discount is more pronounced for the country's largest property counter by market-capitalisation terms - UEM Land Holdings Bhd, which has a market capitalisation of US$3.8bil - as the counter is trading at about a 9% discount to the stock's RNAV. SP Setia was trading at about 2% as of last week.
In comparison, the larger property companies, such as CapitaLand in Singapore and China Overseas Land & Investments Ltd, are trading at a much steeper discount to their RNAV.
One analyst thinks the difference in pricing compared with Singapore and Hong Kong is down to the mechanics of the markets there.
"Property prices there are volatile and investors who buy such stocks can overshoot in either way," said ECM Libra Investment Bank Bhd research head Bernard Ching.
He said the land value in Malaysia was not as volatile and tended to rise on a gradual basis.
Concerns over a property bubble in Hong Kong and Singapore has also led to investors taking a much more cautious view of the value of property stocks in those countries in relation to their RNAV.
Some analysts feel the reason why Malaysian property counters have a higher valuation than regional companies was also down to a few factors.
Concentration of Malaysia-based funds seeking investments in Malaysia has seen a lot of money chasing a few quality companies and the bigger the stock, the better their following is.
"Property development is a medium term business and it's not solely about land value," explained an analyst. He said investors generally want to look at stocks that generate a return on the value of the land the companies own and explained that companies that generally sit on large land reserves with little activity often see bigger discounts to their RNAV.
That argument has been used to explain Mah Sing Group Bhd's share price that is trading close to the company's estimated RNAV.
"Mah Sing works on a fast turnaround model and does not have a lot of landbank," said an analyst.
Although property stock valuations were high, analysts said the divergence of the property index and that of the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was down to investors chasing after the more liquid blue chip counters.
"The property index has a big number of mid and small cap stocks," said an analyst.
"When the market turns south, buying will concentrate on the large, blue chip stocks."
Property companies on Bursa Malaysia still, on average, attract "buy" calls with analysts saying the prospects of choice developers are still bright.
SP Setia plans to increase Australia landbank
MELBOURNE: Malaysian property developer SP Setia Bhd plans to increase its landbank in Australia, predominantly in popular cities such as Melbourne, Sydney and even Gold Coast, as it seeks to capture the growing opportunities from the population boom of these cities.
Having made its first Australian investment last year, the developer is in the midst of scouting for more investment opportunities in Melbourne.
"For the first few years, we are looking for investment opportunities and to take on projects that will provide quick turnaround and are easy sell. Subsequently, we will look at greenfield projects and (at building) townships," Setia (Melbourne) Development Co Pty Ltd chief executive officer Choong Kai Wai told Malaysian reporters here last Friday.
SP Setia is known for its township developments in Malaysia, which include Setia Alam in Shah Alam, Setia Indah in Johor and Setia Vista in Penang.
The developer, through its unit Setia (Melbourne) Development, will undertake a mixed-use development on the 4,340 sq metre site purchased last year for A$30mil in the central business district of Melbourne.
The property, dubbed Fulton LN, will comprise two towers of housing apartments as well as offering commercial and retail outlets closer to the ground level. It has dual street frontage, with the first tower facing Franklin Street and a two minute walk to the Queen Victoria Market while the second tower faces A'Beckett Street and is a five minute walk from RMIT University.
The first tower, which will be open for an exclusive preview on June 24, stands at 107 metres and will have 28 storeys offering some 300 apartments. Meanwhile, the taller tower at 44 storeys will be some 150 metres in length offering 400 apartments and should be open for sales in the next six to 12 months.
Most of the apartments will be one or two bedroom units although there will be units offering three bedrooms as well. Apartments start from A$370,000 for one bedroom at 45 sq metre, A$515,000 for a two bedroom starting at 60 sq metres and A$1.05mil for three bedroom dwellings starting at 114 sq metres.
Construction of this project, which has a gross development value of A$470mil, will commence next year and the development is expected to be ready by 2014.
The architectural design of the mixed development is by Karl Fender of Fender Katsalidis Architects, which happens to be the firm behind the proposed 100-storey tower Warisan Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur.
"The size of Fulton LN's ground plan gives us the opportunity to ignite activity movement around the laneway with retail, restaurants and cafes," Fender said. Fulton LN is within walking distance of several universities and colleges such as Melbourne University and RMIT University. It is also close to Melbourne's central shopping centre.
and easily accessible by public transportation services.
SP Setia is looking to appeal to and monetise its Malaysian customer base, with many local parents having sent their kids to Australia, particularly Melbourne, to further their tertiary studies.
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CapitaMalls to buy Pahang mall for RM310m
AmTrustee Bhd, the trustee of CapitaMalls Malaysia Trust (CMMT) has entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with Astral Realty Sdn Bhd to acquire East Coast Mall in Pahang for RM310 million.
In a statement today, CMMT said the mall a nearly-full occupancy rate of 97.0 per cent, with a forecast property yield of about 7.1 per cent for 2011.
Based on CMMT's closing price of RM1.17 on June 13, CMMT's implied property yield for 2011 is about 6.4 per cent, it said, adding that it would be yield-accretive to CMMT unitholders.
The East Coast Mall is a four-storey shopping mall with one basement car park level and 1,170 car park lots, with a net lettable area of more than 440,000 square feet.
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Meet Marina, the latest addition to Oceania's sleek fleet. Words: Sue Bryant
Imagine spending five years running an award-winning cruise line that you started from scratch, getting to know your guests and their tastes, experimenting with your product – and then, based on this experience, designing your own ship, throwing in all the best bits and adding a whole lot more.
That must be how it feels to be Frank Del Rio, founder of Oceania Cruises, who has just overseen the construction and launch of the line's first brand-new ship, Marina.
Oceania has always pitched itself a notch below the ultra-luxury lines such as Silversea Cruises and Crystal Cruises, billing itself as 'luxury lite', offering fine food and service on three decent but not opulent ships, and never offering all-inclusive pricing.
Marina, though, is a new jewel in the crown. Although the fare structure hasn't changed, the ship is stunning: classy, contemporary and elegant. And if you're not looking for a cruise with an all-inclusive drinks package, it should present a real alternative to the refined world of ultra-luxury cruising. Marina is larger than her three sisters, carrying 1,258 passengers, but not so big that she feels like a mega-ship; Oceania Cruises' guests, mainly Americans of a certain age (with a smattering of Australians and Brits), are not the type to go for big casinos, fancy nightlife and music blaring round the pool. Think more along the lines of fine dining, immersive shore excursions and a jazz trio to accompany the evening martini.
The ship is full of personal touches and you can feel the passion that's gone into it. The oak flooring in Jacques, the bistro, was sourced from an ancient barn near Lyon, culinary centre of France. The rich blue marble on the poolside bar was handpicked from a raw slab in an Italian quarry by Frank Del Rio.
A sense of decadence pervades the vessel. Cabins, most with balcony, are spacious and luxurious, with marble sinks in the bathrooms, memory-foam-gel mattresses and expensive 1,000-thread-count Egyptian cottons. The suites are the first seagoing venture by Ralph Lauren Home and add a new level of cool to cruising. Three Owner's Suites are seductive boudoirs; each has a baby grand piano, a Bose surround sound system and two jacuzzis (one alfresco). It's all very edgy and very chic.
Dining has always been a joy on Oceania Cruises and the company's president, Bob Binder, claims Marina is the first ship "purpose-built for epicureans". He has a point: there are 10 dining spots aboard, including five speciality restaurants as well as the main dining room and two casual eateries, all at no extra charge, plus a brace of private dining venues.
There's a real sense of occasion in the beautiful Grand Dining Room, with five-metre ceilings, a stunning chandelier as its centrepiece and a colour scheme of cocoa, cream and gold, with splashes of apricot and cranberry. Look out for the Versace charger plates that appear in all Oceania's dining rooms; quite the most desirable china at sea.
New on Marina is a French-style bistro, Jacques, the first shipboard restaurant from eminent chef Jacques Pépin, Oceania's culinary consultant, who creates French classics with a contemporary twist in an airy, almost rustic setting that's very un-cruise-ship-like. Red Ginger, Oceania's first Asian restaurant, serves Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese fusion cuisine.
Two restaurants that have been so successful on the line's three existing ships, Toscana and Polo Grill, are also present on Marina. Toscana serves Italian specialities, while Polo Grill does classic steakhouse and seafood dishes.
The informal Terrace Café has a beautiful outdoor dining area; try to grab a table on the aft deck at sunset. As well as a daily buffet, the Terrace Café serves dishes reflecting the area in which the ship is sailing.
Also new is La Reserve, a wine-tasting room seating 24 where special wine-paired dinners are offered (US$75 plus gratuity for the wine); and Privée, a chic little eight-person dining room set between Toscana and the Polo Grill, for degustation dinners. The charge for the room is a hefty US$1,000: it does include Kobe beef, Brittany lobsters, foie gras, caviar and truffles, but not wine.
As Oceania's guests often seem to have food on their minds, it's only natural that Marina incorporates the Bon Appétit Culinary Centre, a proper hands-on cooking workshop where up to 24 people can take part in interactive demos in anything from 'Perfect Paella' to 'The Best of Italy' and 'French & Fabulous'. Would-be artists, meanwhile, can hang out in The Studio, where guests can try their hand at watercolours and attend photography classes.
For less taxing activity, there's an expanse of warm teak decking around an elegant pool overlooked by the ship's 2,000-plus-volume library, which comes with its own coffee bar, Baristas. On the same deck, there's a large Canyon Ranch SpaClub, an offshoot of the famous American health resort. Whether Marina can successfully bridge the gap in cruising between premium and ultra-luxury remains to be seen, but the signs look promising. What's not to love, after all? Oceania Cruises is certainly confident: the launch of a sister ship, Riviera, is only a year away.
Cruise Line: Oceania Cruises
Vessel: Marina
Star rating: Not yet rated
Maximum passenger capacity: 1,258
Total crew: 800
Total staterooms and suites: 629
Passenger decks: 11
Entered service: January 2011
GRT: 65,000
Facilities: Gym; spa; boutiques; 10 restaurants; 8 bars; outdoor pool; hot tubs; casino; library; culinary arts centre; The Studio enrichment centre; theatre; internet centre plus wi-fi enabled laptop (access fee) in each suite and concierge-level verandah stateroom; hospital; 6 wheelchair-accessible cabins.
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Q: How to fix this JavaScript accordion error? I have been asked to create a new information page for our website and would like to place the information in an accordion to make it easier on the end users eye however I cannot get the script to work on the buttons could someone help me, please?
FYI I have no experience with JS and am really just a beginner with HTML & CSS.
Thanks,
Jack
I have moved the script tag into the body tag and have renamed the function to the accordion.

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    <button class="accordion" onclick="accordion()">How much is delivery?</button>

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We will not be liable for any lost or missing orders that have been signed for at the delivery address

    <button class="accordion">Can I cancel or amend my order?</button>

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Expected result: Open and closing of accorion on FE
Actual result: CTA doesnt action accordion script
Thanks again,
Jack

A: I have fixed your HTML. As Pete mentions in a comment, you should not put elements in the head tag. I have also remove the onclick attributes from each button, you are already adding event listeners in your javascript. You were missing a } to close the for loop so I have added that in and also pulled your accordion() declaration outside of the for loop.

function accordion() {
  /* Toggle between adding and removing the "active" class,
  to highlight the button that controls the panel */
  this.classList.toggle("active");

  /* Toggle between hiding and showing the active panel */
  var panel = this.nextElementSibling;
  if (panel.style.display === "block") {
    panel.style.display = "none";
  } else {
    panel.style.display = "block";
  }
}

var acc = document.getElementsByClassName("accordion");

for (var i = 0; i < acc.length; i++) {
  acc[i].addEventListener("click", accordion);
}
/* Style the buttons that are used to open and close the accordion panel */

.accordion {
  background-color: #eee;
  color: #444;
  cursor: pointer;
  padding: 18px;
  width: 100%;
  text-align: left;
  border: none;
  outline: none;
  transition: 0.4s;
}

/* Add a background color to the button if it is clicked on (add the .active class with JS), and when you move the mouse over it (hover) */

.active,
.accordion:hover {
  background-color: #ccc;
}

/* Style the accordion panel. Note: hidden by default */

.panel {
  padding: 0 18px;
  background-color: white;
  display: none;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.accordion:after {
  content: '\02795';
  /* Unicode character for "plus" sign (+) */
  font-size: 13px;
  color: #777;
  float: right;
  margin-left: 5px;
}

.active:after {
  content: "\2796";
  /* Unicode character for "minus" sign (-) */
}

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We work hard to deliver your items as quickly as possible and offer a fuss-free returns process.

 Below are some of our top FAQ's but if you have any further questions please contact us on +44 (0) 20 3946 3795 or help@fiorucci.com

  <button class="accordion">How much is delivery?</button>

        Delivery Location
        Delivery Charge
        Expected Delivery Timing

        UK Standard Delivery
        £3.95 (Free over £50)
        2-3 working days

We also offer international shipping to over 100 countries from our local sites for Europe and USA.

Please use our USA site for worldwide shipping, you can see a full list of all countries here

  <button class="accordion">How do I track my order?</button>

When your order's ready to leave our warehouse we'll email to let you know. Then you can Track your order for regular updates

    Only just ordered? You can check your order status and contact details in My Account.

    Don't forget that our couriers work 'til 9pm so your order could arrive in the evening. If you're not in when the courier tries to deliver don't panic! You will receive a notification with further instructions

  <button class="accordion">Do I need to sign for my delivery?</button>

All orders sent by DHL require a signature on delivery but this is not a named service which means that your order does not have to be signed for specifically by you.

We will not be liable for any lost or missing orders that have been signed for at the delivery address

  <button class="accordion">Can I cancel or amend my order?</button>

Cancellation: We can attempt to cancel your order within 60 minutes of placing, please call us to request this on +44 (0)203 946 3795 but this can't be guaranteed. After this time we can't cancel before delivery, but you can return unworn items for
      free within 14 days of receiving your order.

If you believe that your delivery address is incorrect please call us ASAP. Address changes cannot be guaranteed however will be attempted.

  <button class="accordion">Do you offer weekend delivery?</button>

DHL don't deliver on weekends or bank holidays but you can divert your delivery to one of over 1,000 service points across the UK to make your delivery easy.

A: You say you are a beginner... have you heared of the console?
If you open up the developer toolbar (see instructions for Chrome, FireFox, Edge, Safari) you will see your code was generating some errors.
The JS errors
First of all it stated: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input at line 112.
It turns out you missed a closing bracket there. The "for" loop was opened but not closed. This is where proper indentations helps a lot to spot mistakes.
When clicking the first button, console tells me: Uncaught ReferenceError: accordion is not defined.
I notice you have 'onclick' attributes on the buttons, but also listen to the click events in JS. It is best to only use one of these two methods. I prefer the last one.
Once I removed the onclick items all worked fine without any errors.
Your page structure
I see your page does not really adhere to standards as far as structure. As it is now, it might work in some browsers, but there's no guarantee.
Have a look at this article for a basic html5 structure.
https://www.sitepoint.com/a-basic-html5-template/

var acc = document.getElementsByClassName("accordion");
var i;

for (i = 0; i < acc.length; i++) {
   acc[i].addEventListener("click", function accordion() {
     // Toggle between adding and removing the "active" class,
     // to highlight the button that controls the panel
     this.classList.toggle("active");

     // Toggle between hiding and showing the active panel */
     var panel = this.nextElementSibling;
     if (panel.style.display === "block") {
       panel.style.display = "none";
     } else {
       panel.style.display = "block";
     }
   });
}
/* Style the buttons that are used to open and close the accordion panel*/
.accordion {
   background-color: #eee;
   color: #444;
   cursor: pointer;
   padding: 18px;
   width: 100%;
   text-align: left;
   border: none;
   outline: none;
   transition: 0.4s;
}

/*Add a background color to the button if it is clicked on
(add the .active class with JS), and when you move the mouse
over it (hover)*/
.active,
.accordion:hover {
  background-color: #ccc;
}

/* Style the accordion panel. Note: hidden by default */
.panel {
padding: 0 18px;
background-color: white;
display: none;
overflow: hidden;
}

.accordion:after {
  content: '\02795'; /* Unicode character for "plus" sign (+) */
  font-size: 13px;
  color: #777;
  float: right;
  margin-left: 5px;
}

.active:after {
  content: "\2796"; /* Unicode character for "minus" sign (-) */
}

Our top Delivery/Returns FAQ's

We work hard to deliver your items as quickly as possible and offer a fuss-free returns process.

 Below are some of our top FAQ's but if you have any further questions please contact us on +44 (0) 20 3946 3795 or help@fiorucci.com

    <button class="accordion" >How much is delivery?</button>

                Delivery Location
                Delivery Charge
                Expected Delivery Timing

                UK Standard Delivery
                £3.95 (Free over £50)
                2-3 working days

We also offer international shipping to over 100 countries from our local sites for Europe and USA.

Please use our USA site for worldwide shipping, you can see a full list of all countries here

    <button class="accordion">How do I track my order?</button>

When your order's ready to leave our warehouse we'll email to let you know. Then you can Track your order for regular updates

            Only just ordered? You can check your order status and contact details in My Account.

            Don't forget that our couriers work 'til 9pm so your order could arrive in the evening. If you're not in when the courier tries to deliver don't panic! You will receive a notification with further instructions

    <button class="accordion">Do I need to sign for my delivery?</button>

All orders sent by DHL require a signature on delivery but this is not a named service which means that your order does not have to be signed for specifically by you.

We will not be liable for any lost or missing orders that have been signed for at the delivery address

    <button class="accordion">Can I cancel or amend my order?</button>

Cancellation: We can attempt to cancel your order within 60 minutes of placing, please call us to request this on +44 (0)203 946 3795 but this can't be guaranteed. After this time we can't cancel before delivery, but you can return unworn items for free within 14 days of receiving your order.

If you believe that your delivery address is incorrect please call us ASAP. Address changes cannot be guaranteed however will be attempted.

    <button class="accordion">Do you offer weekend delivery?</button>

DHL don't deliver on weekends or bank holidays but you can divert your delivery to one of over 1,000 service points across the UK to make your delivery easy.


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