Barbara Jean Krotz, age 86, of Rushville, NE, died August 18, 2014 at the Gordon Memorial Hospital in Gordon, NE. For the last three and a half years she has resided at the Gordon Countryside Care Nursing Home.
Barbara Jean Landreth was born May 18, 1928 at Sterling, CO, the sixth of ten children born to Alva and Eva (Polen) Landreth. She married the love of her life, Charles J. Krotz on June 11, 1947. To this union six children were born, Thomas, John, Kathleen, Melvin, Wayne and Rosalie. Barbara was a stay at home mom who raised her children, planted huge gardens and canned the produce from the garden, did sewing and quilting, was involved in ECW of St. Mary's Holly Episcopal Church, enjoyed life and her children and grandchildren.
Barbara is survived by sons; Thomas and wife Judy, John and wife Julie, Melvin and wife Paula, Wayne and wife Rena, daughters; Kathleen and husband Bill Kocourek and Rosalie and husband Don Pierce. Her grandchildren, Tommy Joe and wife Angelina Krotz and children Dillon, Gabriel and Sawyer; Anthony and wife Kalyn Krotz and daughter Zailey; Tami Krotz and Toni Krotz and friend Ted Nichols; Kerri and husband Jeff Enders and children Kareshia, Katelyn, Colby, Jessica and Samantha; Donald Kocourek and wife Tia and children Jesse, Mark and Adrienne; Scott Krotz and Hayley Krotz; Greg Krotz and friend Nikki Stetson, Dennis and wife Melissa Krotz, and Joey Krotz and friend Jessica Roth and Jennifer and husband Tim Claar and children Joshua and Daniel and Sarah Pierce. She is also survived by her brothers Albert Landreth and Vern Landreth and sisters Ethel Blair and Grace Cerny, and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, Wilbur, Lawrence, Lloyd and Floyd Landreth and one sister Thelma Walker.
Funeral services will be on Saturday August 23, 2014, 10:00 AM at St. Mary's Holly Episcopal Church, Rushville, NE, with burial at St. Mary's Holly Cemetery.
The family suggests memorials to the Rushville Volunteer Fire Department or St. Mary's Holly Episcopal Church and donations may be sent in care of Chamberlain-Pier Funeral Home, PO Box 366, Gordon, NE 69343.


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The West Virginia State Civilian Conservation Corps Museum Association is proud to have inducted Darrell Leon Sparks, posthumously, into the West Virginia State CCC Museum Association Hall of Fame during ceremonies conducted at the October 17, 2015 CCC Fall Honors Jubilee held at the Quiet Dell United Methodist Church. Members of our Honoree's family, including his two sons, Howard and Doug accepted the certificate and medallion.
Darrell L. Sparks was born July 26, 1925 at Craigsville, Nicholas County, West Virginia. He is the son of William and Beatrice Bell (Brown) Sparks. Sparks had three brothers; Delbert, Dorin, and Hilbert. He completed his schooling up to the eighth grade at the Mudlick School, Nicholas County.
The economic conditions in the West Virginia countryside continued to be very bad when Mr. Sparks joined the Civilian Conservation Corps. He enlisted and served his first stint at Camp Woodbine, Richwood, West Virginia. He was fifteen. After one month at Woodbine, Darrell was transferred to F6, Camp Thornwood, located near the mountain town of Durbin, in Randolph County.
According to his son, Doug, his father immediately feel in love with a military style of life and camp life. "Dad was very proud of his time in the CCC. He loved the structured military setting. While at Thornwood, he learned techniques of carpentry which he used his entire life. Dad was a serious, no nonsense kind of guy, straight laced. He had a strong belief in the Almighty and the Bible." According to records, he served in the CCC from May 26, 1941 to November 25, 1941.
With the onset of World War II, Sparks immediately joined the U.S. Navy. He served as a Coxswain in the Pacific Theater with a Landing Craft Unit and was involved in numerous battles in the Island Hopping Campaign. While in the Navy during World War II he received numerous awards including The American Pacific Theater Ribbon, and the Victory Medal.
Our Honoree continued to serve our Nation leaving the U.S. Navy to be part of the U.S. Army while in occupied Japan in 1949. Darrell was among one of the first Army battalions to be sent to Korea when the Korean Conflict broke out. His battalion suffered many casulties. Mr. Sparks himself received the Purple Heart in the Korean Conflict for a gunshot wound over his left eye. At his discharge on February 3, 1953, he received the Combat Infantry Badge with Wreath, the Korean Service Medal, three Bronze Stars, and the Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation.
While serving in the U.S. Army Military Police in Baltimore, he met and married Vanita Ondean Heater, a Harrison County, West Virginia girl, in 1953. They started a family while living in Nicholas County, near Craigsville.
The Sparks family moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1960 where Mr. Sparks worked in a coal mine owned by the Cleghorn Company. He later worked construction. He was a skilled dozer operator and good carpenter. He passed some of his carpentry skills on to his sons, Howard and Dave.
Darrell and Vanita were the parents of three sons, Howard, the eldest, Doug, and David. While raising his children, he developed an even stronger faith. This was very important to the Sparks family. Mr. Sparks died on June 7, 2000.

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Tikjda (en , en tifinagh : ⵜⵉⴽⴻⴴⴷⴰ, en kabyle : Tikeǧda), situé dans la commune d'El Asnam dans la wilaya de Bouira en Algérie, est une ancienne station de ski à  d'altitude, sur le versant sud du Djurdjura dans la région de Kabylie.

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De Bouira, l'accès aux hautes régions de la chaine du Djurdjura est aisé. Bien que son altitude affleure les , cette chaine montagneuse offre tous les caractères de la haute montagne. Elle les doit à la nature de ses roches en crêtes dentelées, en pitons aigus, en murailles gigantesques aux flancs abrupts. Tikjda est située au pied du massif de l'Akouker.

Tikjda à  à l'est du chef-lieu de wilaya, constitue le point de départ pour de multiples périples panoramiques surplombant au nord le Massif Central de Kabylie où se nichent près d'un millier de villages berbères, et au sud, la Kabylie de la Soummam et celle des Bibans, riches plaines fertile de la kabyle aux abords des Hauts Plateaux. Sinon, une infinité de chemins pastoraux de haute montagne permettent de passer d'un massif à l'autre (rejoindre Tala Guilef au nord de la chaîne occidentale du Djurdjura, le Haïzer, de découvrir les cédraies endémiques soit en touffes isolées en très haute altitude (au-delà des ), soit en forêts telles celles de Tigounatine, Taouialt, ou plus loin, la fameuse forêt des At Ouabanes (cèdres, chênes, érables, peupliers, mélèzes dont les couleurs revêtent celles de l'été indien nord-américain), siège de nombreuses légendes et contes kabyles. Depuis Tikjda on peut rejoindre Tamda Goulmin (le bassin du lac), une sorte de mare, ou lac d'altitude, assez particulier, et bien d'autres.

Enfin, Tikjda offre le plus beau point de vue sur les sommets phares du Djurdjura : la Pyramide de Tamgout Amghor Lalla Khlidja (plus connue sous Lalla Khedidja, ), et Acquerru Timedwin, vertigineuse montagne nue aux paysages lunaires et piquetée sur sa crête de nombreux bassins naturels ou de profonds « trous » où se nichent eau et glaces dites « éternelles » (d'où son nom de Timedwin), alimentant les innombrables sources qui coulent continuellement de part et d'autre de ses versants.

Climat

Le site est particulièrement exposé à un cumul neigeux exceptionnel pour la région Méditerranée (comparable à la région du Mercantour) dû à la minéralité ferrugineuse du sous-sol et la proximité de la mer Méditerranée.

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Tikjda est un site touristique situé à l'est de la wilaya de Bouira, à  d'altitude au cœur du massif montagneux du Djurdjura et siège administratif du Parc National et Biosphère de l'UNESCO du même nom. Tikjda  est connue à l'échelle nationale mais encore peu à l'échelle internationale mis à part des résidents étrangers en Algérie. Tikjda est aussi une structure réservée, outre le tourisme, pour les pratiquants d'arts martiaux, une ancienne tradition, outre bien entendu le sport phare de la station : le ski, dont la saison s'étale de décembre à avril.

La station de Tikjda, dont le nom provient de « Tgjdit », en référence aux puissants troncs des cèdres ayant servi comme piliers centraux et symboliques aux maisons kabyles traditionnelles, permet la pratique régulière de tous les sports de montagne, été comme hiver. La piste de « Tigounatin » aménagée dans la cédraie a toujours été la plus populaire contrairement à celles vertigineuses et nues de l'Akouker - les téléskis n'ont fonctionné que quelques semaines avant que le climat tempétueux ne les neutralise. Les randonnées, le trekking, la spéléologie et l'escalade de haut niveau (au vu des aiguilles calcaires qui composent la chaîne du Djurdjura), sont aussi très populaires avec l'introduction encore timide du parapente en dehors de quelques pratiquants chevronnés. La station compte deux télésièges, plusieurs remontées mécaniques aujourd'hui obsolètes et hors d'usage, qui permettaient aux skieurs du chalet du Kef et de l'Hôtel Djurdjura de rejoindre le haut des pistes.

Quelques Français y ont implanté plusieurs chalets privés ou hôtels tel le Chalet du CAF (Club Alpin Français), la Résidence des Chemineaux, le Refuge du Djurdjura - devenu après l'indépendance le complexe hôtelier avec son auberge et ses appartements « Djurdjura ».

Mustapha Muller (Winfried Müller alias Si Mustapha), ex légionnaire autrichien d'origine et partisan de l'indépendance de l'Algérie, a longtemps et fermement présidé aux destinées du Parc National du Djurdjura avant d'être nommé à la fin des années 1980 à la direction du Parc National du Tassili. Il fut à l'origine de l'initiative heureuse de l'arrêt en Algérie du polluant Paris-Dakar qui traversait ce site fragile. Il aura aussi fondé l'école de ski, aujourd'hui caserne de la Garde Communale de Tikjda. Un agent forestier y donne aux visiteurs des informations et recommandations importantes sur les sites du Parc ainsi que les diverses restrictions propres à la gestion des parcs nationaux que doivent observer les visiteurs : interdiction d'arracher et de cueillir les plantes, le ramassage des graines, la coupe du bois, nourrir les animaux, la sensibilisation aux risques d'incendies.

Faune et flore

Tikjda est en outre le siège d'une riche flore et faune endémiques (macaques, caracal, aigles royaux, vautours, faucons, chacals, sangliers, panthères, cèdres, chênes verts et zéens, pins noirs, érables, peupliers géants, etc.).

L'actualité
Festival national du tourisme de montagne à Tikjda du 21 au .

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Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Algérie, les guides bleus - hachette, Paris 1974.

Articles connexes
 Wilaya de Bouira
 Tourisme en Algérie

Liens externes

Village dans la wilaya de Bouira
Station de sports d'hiver en Algérie
Ancienne station de sports d'hiver
Équipement sportif détruit en Algérie
Ski alpin en Algérie

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Javelin legend Jan Zelezny, 40, wins medal in dream farewell in Gothenburg
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Jan Zelezny is widely believed to be the greatest athlete to have ever thrown the javelin. He holds the world record in the discipline, and has been both Olympic and World Champion three times. His long and glittering career came to an end on Wednesday night, when Zelenzy, now 40, took part in his final competition, the European Championships. Fittingly, he came away with one last medal.
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Jan Zelezny, photo: CTK Both of Jan Zelezny's parents, Jaroslav and Jana, threw the javelin, though his first sport was handball. But handball's loss was certainly the world of athletics' gain when he switched to the javelin, in which he first made an impact on the world stage a full 19 years ago, with a bronze medal at the World Championships in Rome.
Since then this quiet and modest man from Mlada Boleslav has achieved more than any other athlete in the history of his discipline, and set standards that may never be equalled.
After a silver medal at the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988, Jan Zelezny took gold at the Olympics in 1992, 1996 and 2000. His collection of gold medals also includes three from the 1993, 1995 and 2001 Athletics World Championships.
He set a new world record of 98.48 m in 1996. Since then no other athlete has come within five metres of equalling that phenomenal achievement.
But time catches up on all of us, even Jan Zelezny. He turned 40 in the middle of June but was determined - despite injury setbacks - to achieve one last success on the international stage, at the European Athletics Championships in Sweden's Gothenburg.
After just making it through the heats, Zelezny got off to a flying start in the javelin final on Wednesday with a great throw of 85.92 m. He knew that put him in with a good chance of a medal, and decided to go hell for leather with his final two attempts. Here's how Zelezny himself describes Wednesday's competition.
"I'm satisfied. I was relaxed because I knew I would put everything into the final. After my first throw went well I decided to risk it a bit - the throws either worked out or they didn't, I wasn't trying to impress the spectators. But there was a chance that at least one of my other throws would go further. So yes, I risked it a bit."
Those final throws of his career were poor, but it didn't matter - he had done enough to reach the podium. The bronze medal he won on Wednesday provided Jan Zelezny with a fairytale - and entirely fitting - end to a wonderful career. He will go down in the history books as one of the all time greats of Czech and world athletics.
Zelezny is now expected to concentrate on coaching and his work as a member of the International Olympic Committee.
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Review: The Go-Go's
Still got the beat.
Kurt Loder | 7.31.2020 7:00 AM
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Let us now praise the Go-Go's, glittering jewels of the New Wave moment of the 1980s.
Praise has been in meager supply since the band's first album, Beauty and the Beat, streaked up the charts in 1981, fueled by the irresistible hits "We Got the Beat," "Our Lips Are Sealed," "How Much More," and "Skidmarks on My Heart" (all heavily assisted by the newborn MTV). Today, after nearly 40 years of eligibility for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Go-Go's remain un-inducted.
In the beginning, there was a certain amount of critical skepticism as to whether the group – chief songwriters Charlotte Caffey (lead guitar and keyboards), Jane Wiedlin (rhythm guitar), and Kathy Valentine (bass), along with singer Belinda Carlisle and drummer Gina Schock—actually played the instruments heard on their records. But they had started out on the tough LA punk scene; and as a terrific new Showtime documentary, The Go-Go's, irrefutably demonstrates—in period footage from old club gigs and big arena shows—they definitely could play. "We got onstage and happened to be a group of women who really kicked ass," Schock says.
Some notable fellow musicians were impressed. "They had the most important ingredient in musicianship, which is feel," says Stewart Copeland, drummer for the Police, which recruited the Go-Go's as an opening act for a 1981 tour. "They established a groove that worked, that you could lock into. They just created something that exploded on the stage." A little earlier, the English ska group Madness had the Go-Go's open for them on a UK tour. "Their musicianship was second to none," says band member Lee Thompson. "They taught me a thing or two."
The Go-Go's' heyday was brief, for the usual reasons. Despite their sunshiny sound, the group had some dark problems. Carlisle was plagued by decades-long drug and alcohol issues (she recalls the group's "cross-eyed drunk" performance on Saturday Night Live), Caffey was a full-blown heroin addict, Wiedlin was bipolar, and Schock had a heart condition that eventually required surgery. But in the end it was the music business that tore them apart. Their smash-hit debut album kept them on the road for a year, leaving little time to write new material for their second record, Vacation, which got over mainly on the strength of its title track. Their third LP, Talk Show, featured two classics, "Head Over Heels" and "Turn to You," but it didn't crack the Top 10. The magic was leaking away.
But the Go-Go's' main problem, which proved insurmountable, was money. Songwriters Caffey, Wiedlin, and Valentine got most of the song-publishing checks, and Schock—a great drummer and the band's lowest-paid member—grew increasingly resentful. A separate financial injustice propelled Wiedlin out of the group at the end of 1984; Caffey and Carlisle bailed shortly thereafter. And that was it. The Go-Go's stopped speaking to each other for the next five years. "Money wrecks everything," Schock says.
There have been several reunions since that time, though, and the best of them—like a 2001 concert in New York's Central Park, which launched a comeback album called God Bless the Go-Go's—have shown that the old songs still dazzle, and that the band still has the power and precision to put them over onstage. The Showtime doc—a blend of new interviews and old footage wonderfully well-assembled by director Alison Ellwood—is a rousing tribute to the first self-contained female band (they write, they play) to score a number-one album. God bless 'em.
(The Go-Go's premieres on Showtime at 9pm Friday, July 31.)
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It's better than seeing John Denver dead in 1997.
Now that's a coincidence. I saw HIM live– believe it or not– in 1995. Radio City.
And I'm not a heavy concert-goer.
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Sounds like you are a messenger of doom, at least for musicians.
Belinda Carlisle and Jane Wiedland were the Ginger and Mary Ann of New Wave. Wiedland was adorable.
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Mary Ann. Always Mary Ann.
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Despite their sunshiny sound, the group had some dark problems…decades-long drug and alcohol issues…a full-blown heroin addict…bipolar
Unfortunately those are often the ingredients that fuel the creativity and power in the first place.
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Jane Wiedlin and Susanna Hoffs fueled many fantasies back in the 80s.
Include Patty Smyth and Samantha Fox for me.
Samantha Fox is still in my cassette collection.
I have the Touch Me EP on vinyl with the lingerie cover.
beautiful. i always wanted to thank whoever made her a thing.
Page 3 of The Sun, where she posed topless at 16.
Monty Python audition.
>>the Go-Go's remain un-inducted
to the extent it matters that's bullshit.
GoGos blew it up live. and so much yum.
Good band, some good tunes.
But they don't belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They were a pop band. (that hasn't stopped a lot of other acts from getting inducted, I know.)
Highly recommend watching the Central Park show linked in last graph above…
I took your advice… and it was a fun watch. It brought two thoughts to mind:
1. The drummer had a point. If anything defines the Go-Go's sound it is Belinda Carlisle's lead vocals and the driving 80's new wave drum sound. The guitars and bass are pretty generic – it is the drum sound that is instantly recognizable.
2. Their songs are pretty simple and not really that great outside of their initial incarnation and performance. After "We got the beat" there was still a lot of that concert left, so I skipped ahead to see what the closer was. It was markedly different – much more musically interesting right off the bat. Very similar in new-wave style, but also more complex. What is that.. I know that…. Wait! That's not the Go-Go's! That's the Ramones! (a band that I would have been much less interested in at the time, I must confess) So yeah, that performance actually underscored why they are not a HoF group.
Ahem-
the first, and to date only, all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.[2] They are widely considered the most successful all-female rock group in history.[3]
They pretty much broke open the doors for female artist to be considered something more than eye candy or a vehicle for someone else's designs, even beating Joan Jett to the punch. They opened up the possibility that women could rock and on their own terms. If that is not Hall of Fame material, nothing is.
Even better: as the current Red Guard rewrite history of how much more sexism women face now compared to their enlightened view-
"Well, yeah, except for the most successful girl band ever, I suppose you have a point…"
Checkout Urgh! A Music War. They could lay it down as well as any other band from that period.
Nice writeup. Many people at the time were saying the same thing.
I think there are other groups that might have a bone to pick, even if they were not "all female". Jefferson Airplane, for one. Grace Slick surely rocked far harder than the Go-Go's and I have never thought of her work as being "eye candy" or on someone else's terms. Or how about Tina Turner? Janice Joplin?
Certainly the role of lead singer / front man for a rock band was open to women at the time, and had been so for … well, forever.
I suppose the unique thing about the Go-Go's on that front was the instrumentalists, particularly lead guitar. But their sound was pretty vanilla when it comes to the guitar/bass/keyboards. The drums are pretty hard driving. But they are definitely a vocal-driven group, and you would not put them in the category of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman (Prince and the Revolution) from that same time period as instrumentalists. Bonnie Raitt?
There's a fairly extensive list of "rocks harder" women from earlier, and a list of instrumentalists … but nobody else put them all in one band together at the same time. People definitely claimed that it was groundbreaking at the time…but I never bought that. The groundbreaking thing for me was that somebody actually assembled an all girl band that was not a novelty act – not the fact that such a thing was possible. But maybe I'm just more cynical about music producers.
August.1.2020 at 1:13 am
the first, and to date only, all-female band
If it was easy to do, certainly there would have been another all-girl group of the same particulars to top the charts in the intervening 40 years, no?
And their accomplishments certainly don't detract from several other talented women in rock, but come on: they are, at heart, a punk band (and viewed through a certain lens, maybe the most successful punk band ever). Are you going to hold The Ramones to the same standards of musicality and musicianship? Pffft!
I'm not even a huge fan, but the mere fact they accomplished something no other girl group has before or since speaks for itself.
And again, if that is not "groundbreaking", nothing is.
Sorry, my point wasn't that it was not difficult to make a number one album, or that their status as an all girl band with a number one album is not unique…
My point was that "all girl band" is not a thing. There really is no reason to say "every musician in this group must be a woman" other than as a gimmick. And it is a gimmick with no demand. Nobody cares. Nobody buys an album because the drummer and base player are the first all-Filipino rhythm section in a chart topping ska band. The music is either good or it isn't. Beyond that, any hook you can find to get noticed is probably a good thing.
It isn't actually "groundbreaking" because there was no ground there to be broken. The reason there have not been hundreds of follow-on groups growing int the fertile soil of the ground the broke is that nobody cares if they are all women, or if they have a dude playing bass, or any of it. They don't want all women, and they don't want no women. They care if the music speaks to them and if they have a charismatic and entertaining stage presence. That's about it.
that was basically what I wanted to say. They are nowhere near "hall of fame" status, even as a pop band.
But that does not seem to matter for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
HoF status should be reserved for the elite. The best of the best. You have to at least be among the very best of your own era to be a hall of famer.
Who was better, Go Go's or other artists on this list of albums from the same year as their classic best:
AC/DC – For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
Def Leppard – High 'N' Dry
Foreigner – 4
Iron Maiden – Killers
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – I Love Rock'N'Roll
Journey – Escape
Mötley Crüe – Too Fast For Love
Motörhead – No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna
Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of A Madman
Pretenders – Pretenders II
ZZ Top – El Loco
The Police, Ghost in the Machine
U2, October
The Cure, Faith
Duran Duran, Duran Duran
Depeche Mode, Speak & Spell
The Human League, Dare
Kraftwerk, Computer World
Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Men at Work, Business as Usual
The Cars, Shake It Up
There are loads more, but let's just stop there. Not even all of this list should be in the HoF. But who is Go-Go's gonna displace over an entire career?
Well, probably Men at Work. Human League? Soft Cell…
And I didn't even include other names,
Devo, Elvis Costello, Oingo Boingo, Adam and the Ants, Stray Cats, Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Grace Jones, Ramones, Spandau Ballet, Joe Jackson, Prince, Gary Numan, Thompson Twins, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, David Byrne, Billy Squier, Genesis, …..
It is pretty hard to make a case that the Go-Go's were in the top 100 bands/artists operating at the time, let alone that they are among the elite of the elite.
Don't get me wrong… that was a great album and I definitely would have enjoyed being a post-show groupie at the time. But even in a watered down HoF like the Rock and Roll hall of fame, that's a pretty weak choice.
And all of that is with due respect to Kurt Loder who probably has forgotten more about the music of that era than I will ever know.
Thanks. Btw, James Taylor is in the Hall of Fame…
And what an awesome non-sequitur. I suppose James Taylor is an example of "Not Rock and Roll"? He's kinda folk-rock inspired pop, maybe? Or folk-inspired pop rock?
Either way, I'd put JT in the HoF before the Go-Go's. I saw them both in the 80's – JT was unquestionably the better show. And I'd guess that he's a more influential artist – although that's a tough call in the era of Post Malone and Drake. Yeah.. I have a kid in middle school. I'm not sure that much of what he listens to even counts as music. Which is awesome in it's own right.
The stereotype is dad doesn't like or understand your music. I was worried that my kids would never experience that. Music didn't change all that much over most of the last 30 – 40 years. I can listen to popular music from the 60's all the way into the new millennium and despite some style differences, the form is basically the same. Well, that finally changed, just in time for my kids to have their own "music". Rap like the works of Xxxtentacion, which I don't really count as either rap or music, being monotonous, repetitive and not having the poetry that drives rap.
So, like I said, awesome! Because I can say "that crap isn't even music" and put on something from Ruff Ryders or NWA and say "this is what rap sounds like!" I mean, come on, kids! That stuff you are playing isn't even up to "fly girl" or "Roxanne Roxanne".
And all is well with the world. Dad doesn't understand his son's music. The sun rises. The sun sets…
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Thanks for the middle school memories this brought back. The Go-Gos definitely had a better sound than a lot of the other crap of the early-mid 80s. I do not find myself changing the station if one of their songs comes on.
Great girl band. Always liked Gina Schock. Who says girls can't play drums. She just fit right in to that 80s straight up groove and never missed a note. Perfect for what they were.
Yup she was a 'wild thing'. Dang that girl could hit.
Who says girls can't play drums?
Samantha Maloney subbed in for Tommy Lee with Motley Crue. That's a pretty solid gig. Kate Schellenbach was the drummer for the Beastie Boys. I'm not sure if that is good or bad, but it is pretty hard core.
Karen Carpenter was the drummer for "The Carpenters". They didn't exactly rock, but they had a load of hits.
Meg White was the drummer for the White Stripes. If you can pull off being an imitation of Bonham, I'm gonna say you can rock.
Bobbye Hall played with …. well, everyone in the 70's. But for rock – she appears on Pink Floyd's "The Wall".
Moe Tucker of Velvet Underground… also on Lou Reed's solo stuff. That's about as hard core as it gets.
And of course Prince had Sheila E. He didn't countenance anything less than the best from his musicians.
Yeah, people who said women can't do percussion must be daft.
But it isn't really a new thing. Bennie Goodman had a female drummer back int he 50's, and they were the biggest band in the country at one point. Here she is, still jamming with her jazz trio in her 80's. Probably more women drummers performing paid gigs than octogenarian drummers performing paid gigs, but she manages to check both boxes.
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BTW, there is a change.org petition to induct the original MTV VJ's into the HoF.
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Informal Parking: Turning Problems Into Solutions
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Shoup on informal parking markets: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Cities regulate almost every aspect of both on- and off-street parking, and they employ legions of parking enforcement officers to ensure that drivers obey these regulations. If so much parking is formal, regulated, and policed, what then is informal parking?
Informal Markets for Off-Street Parking
Informal parking markets operating outside the regulated system can fill a market niche that is hard to serve by formal means. They often appear near sites that generate short, sharp, infrequent increases in parking demand. Near the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, residents charge for parking in their driveways on game days. Drivers may have to walk a few blocks to the stadium, but after the game they can leave from residential driveways much faster than from a crowded stadium lot where everyone is trying to exit at the same time. These dispersed informal lots also reduce the severe congestion caused by peak entry and exit queues.
The demand for game-day parking is so strong that some cities have legalized the informal markets. For example, Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor is the largest sports arena in the US, drawing crowds of over 100,000 for every home game since 1975. The large stadium crowds have created an informal market for off-street parking. Ann Arbor prohibits parking on lawns, except on football game days. Residents park their own cars on the streets before the games to create off-street spaces on their lawns, driveways, and back yards. Many drivers think that paying for parking is un-American, but residents who receive the revenue know that paying for what you use is a traditional American value.
Informal Markets for On-Street Parking
In neighborhoods where curb parking is scarce but free, informal markets can be quite profitable. Apartment building doormen in expensive neighborhoods in New York and San Francisco, for example, have become successful parking entrepreneurs, using their buildings' taxi zones to park cars for visitors, and earning tips for their service. When a curb space opens up near the building, the doorman moves the visitor's car into it. If a resident who parks on the street then comes home and cannot find a curb space, the doorman moves the visitor's car back to the taxi zone to create a curb vacancy, the resident parks in it, and the doorman receives another tip.
Alternate-side parking regulations in New York City create another informal market. To allow for street cleaning, New York prohibits parking for a 90-minute period on one side of the street on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and on the other side on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. During the 90 minutes when parking is prohibited on the side being cleaned, many residents double park their cars on the other side of the street. This alternate-side regulation creates an informal market controlled by doormen. Residents who park on the street give their car keys to their doormen, who charge a monthly fee to move the cars from one side of the street to the other. When drivers want to use their cars, they ask the doormen where their car is. Some doormen leave gaps of curb space in front of and behind each vehicle they park, but not enough of a gap for someone to park in it. Then, when the doorman needs to park another car, he simply moves the first car forward to create a second parking space.
Informal markets for curb parking can also have a work requirement for the parkers. Residents of Boston and Chicago who have shoveled out a parking space after a snowstorm traditionally use lawn chairs or trash cans to claim it until they return. A Boston City Council member explained, "It's a cultural thing. When people work hard to clean a spot, you want people to respect that. It's part of living in a dense community."
Informal Parking on Sidewalks
Parking on sidewalks has evolved as an informal custom in some older neighborhoods in response to a shortage of free parking on the streets. I began to study this informal parking market when teaching a course on Urban Transportation Economics at UCLA. Many of the students live in North Westwood Village, a 15-block neighborhood next to campus. Drivers often park on the aprons of driveways (the paved area between the sidewalk and the street), with the front of the car extending over the sidewalk. Others park in the driveway with the back of the car extending over the sidewalk (and no part of the car on the apron). No matter how far the cars extend over the sidewalk from either the apron or the driveway, drivers call it apron parking. Landlords charge their tenants for the right to park in the aprons, usually about $50 a month. This informal market for parking on sidewalks lets landlords charge for parking spaces they don't own and shows that parked cars are more important than pedestrians.
Parking on a sidewalk violates both California and Los Angeles laws, but parking enforcement officers in the North Village ignore this violation because it is a student area and its city councilmember requested "relaxed enforcement." The result is a good example of what George Kelling and James Wilson referred to as the "broken windows" theory of urban disorder:
Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken…one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.
If we substitute cars parked on sidewalks for broken windows, North Westwood Village illustrates this theory. Where enforcement officers do not ticket the first cars parked on the sidewalk, more drivers will park on the sidewalk. Eventually, drivers will park on sidewalks throughout the neighborhood. Because the city has relaxed enforcement in North Westwood Village, an informal parking market has taken over the sidewalks.
My students began to study informal parking in the North Village, counting curb spaces and parked cars, analyzing census data, interviewing residents and property owners, and documenting the situation with photographs. The students counted 205 cars parked on the driveway aprons on a typical day. This might seem like a small number compared to the neighborhood's 11,000 residents, but these 205 cars were enough to block the sidewalks on every street. A tiny minority inconveniences life for the vast majority.
Informal parking on sidewalks may seem to be only a local issue, but the US Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to sidewalks. The decision in Barden v. Sacramento requires cities to make public sidewalks accessible to people with disabilities. Because of this ruling, cities must remove barriers that block access to sidewalks. This decision has created a serious liability for cities like Los Angeles that have informally allowed drivers to park their cars on sidewalks.
Two ADA lawsuits against Los Angeles have spurred reform. Both lawsuits address broken sidewalks and cars parked on the sidewalks. After years of neglect, these lawsuits have forced the city to reconsider the informal policy of relaxed enforcement and to decide exactly what should be legal and what should not. Given the threat of ADA lawsuits over inaccessible sidewalks, all cities that informally allow illegal parking on sidewalks will need to find ways to mitigate the withdrawal pains caused by enforcing the law.
Easing the Path to Formality
The loss of informal apron parking will increase the already high demand for curb parking, but Overnight Parking Permits can help solve the problem. Like many other cities, Los Angeles allows the residents of any neighborhood to adopt an Overnight Parking Permit District that prohibits overnight on-street parking except by permit holders. Enforcement officers need to make only one visit during a night to cite all cars parked without permits. Los Angeles charges residents $15 per year (less than half a cent per day) for each permit in an Overnight Parking Permit District. Residents can also buy guest permits for $1 per night.
Given the high residential demand for on-street parking in North Westwood Village, the demand for overnight permits will greatly exceed the supply of on-street spaces. The city could keep the permit price low and limit the number of permits in some way, such as by a lottery. Alternatively, the city can charge a fair market price for the permits, so the number of permits demanded will equal the supply of on-street parking spaces.
Suppose the city charges North Village residents the same price for a parking permit that UCLA charges students for a parking permit in the nearby campus residence halls─($96 a month). If the city charges $96 a month (about $3 a day) for 857 overnight permits (equal to the number of on-street parking spaces in the North Village), the new revenue to pay for public services will amount to about $987,000 a year ($96 x 12 x 857), or about $66,000 a year for each of the 15 blocks in the North Village.
Paying for curb parking will never be politically popular, but it will make finding a curb space much easier. To increase the acceptability of this market-based solution, the city can spend the new parking revenue to improve public services in the North Village: to repair broken sidewalks, plant street trees, and fill potholes—all of which the North Village needs. Public safety is another issue. In 2012, North Westwood Village experienced three rapes, 15 robberies, 20 aggravated assaults, 58 burglaries, and 89 larceny thefts. Using some of the parking revenue to improve public safety can be far more valuable than providing free parking for a few cars.
Dedicating parking revenue to the neighborhood that generates it has built political support for priced parking in other cities. The public improvements financed by fair market prices for 857 curb spaces will improve life for the North Village's 11,000 residents, and can help to satisfy the city's obligation to make the sidewalks accessible.
The Sound of Change
Solving the problems created by parking on the sidewalks will create long-term economic and environmental benefits but also short-term political conflict. As Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in The Prince in 1532:
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old order of things, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
Or as Woodrow Wilson said almost 400 years later:
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Most people want sustainable cities, good public transportation, walkable neighborhoods, public safety, and less traffic. But they also want free parking, which undermines these other goals. Fortunately, few people will have to give up their car if the city enforces the law against parking on the sidewalks and creates a formal market for parking on the streets. Instead, a few car owners will decide that a neighborhood without ample free parking is not the best place to buy or rent an apartment. People who cannot afford or choose not to own a car will take their place. During the transition, all the whining will be the sound of change.
Turning Problems Into Opportunities
Informal parking markets often respond to the failure of cities to create formal markets for on-street parking. Even on some of the most valuable land on Earth, cities offer free curb parking on a first-come, first-served basis. In dense neighborhoods, how could informal markets for this free parking not emerge?
If curb parking is free, entrepreneurs will find ways to create informal markets that serve drivers who are willing to pay for convenience. These informal markets respond to the problems caused almost entirely by free curb parking. The shortage of free curb parking is not merely a problem, however. It is also an opportunity to create a formal market with fair prices that efficiently allocate land for parking. A formal market for on-street parking will reduce traffic congestion, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions, and will generate ample revenue to pay for neighborhood public services.
Fair market prices can end the Hundred Years' War over free curb parking, and the revenue will provide a peace dividend to rebuild our neglected public infrastructure. Livable, walkable cities are worth far more than free parking on the streets and sidewalks.
This article is adapted from "Informal Parking Markets: Turning Problems into Solutions," originally published in the book, The Informal American City.
Jonathan Chait. 2010. "Hobbes, Locke, and Snowmageddon," The New Republic, February 11.
Douglas Kolozsvari and Donald Shoup. 2003. "Turning Small Change into Big Changes," ACCESS, 23: 2–7.
Regina Rheault. 1998. "No Parking: A Web-Based Study of the Dynamics of Parking Negotiations," Master's thesis submitted to the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Donald Shoup. 2014. "Informal Parking Markets: Turning Problems into Solutions," The Informal American City, Edited by Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Donald Shoup. 2014. "Informal Parking on Sidewalks: The Broken Windows Effect," California Policy Options 2014, Edited by Daniel Mitchell, Los Angeles: UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
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Donald Shoup is Editor of ACCESS and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA (shoup@ucla.edu).
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Review Philosophy
Lévy-Bruhl and the Problem of Contradiction
About: F. Keck, Lévy-Bruhl, CNRS Éditions.
by Gildas Salmon , 12 February 2009
Lévy-Bruhl has a bad reputation. Beyond what is needed to dismiss it and indignantly condemn such concepts as that of primitive mentality, very little is in general known about his work. Frédéric Keck revisits this case of ostracism, revealing the paradoxical posterity of this philosopher turned anthropologist.
Under review: Frédéric Keck, Lévy-Bruhl, Entre philosophie et anthropologie, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2008, 270 p., 35€.
As a thinker who has no heirs and belongs to no school, Lévy-Bruhl's influence over the three main philosophical currents of the twentieth-century – analytical philosophy, phenomenology and structuralism – is gauged by the need each of them has felt to ward off the idea of a form of thought that excluded the principle of non-contradiction. The case that supplied the point of departure for Lévy-Bruhl's thought was borrowed from anthropologist Karl Von den Steinen, who reported that the members of a Brazilian tribe, the Borono, claimed to be araras (a type of parrot). However, to be at once human and non-human violates the most fundamental principle of logic. It was in order to describe this phenomenon that Lévy-Bruhl called upon the law of participation, which he identified as the central principle of the primitive mentality.
Starting with this example, Frédéric Keck shows that the problem raised by Lévy-Bruhl offers a panoramic view of contemporary thought. In analytic philosophy, Quine's principle of charity could thus be understood as a means for reducing the contradictory utterances upon which Lévy-Bruhl built his case to mere errors of translation. If phenomenology proved more receptive to the concept of a pre-logical mind, it is because it saw it as an instrument for describing the "naïve" experience of the perceptible world independently of the intellectual frameworks that science imposes on our perception. But by subordinating this "practical logic" to a putatively superior theoretical logic, phenomenology lost sight of what made Lévy-Bruhl's investigation radical. The great strength of structuralism, for its part, was to prove that these apparently contradictory utterances became intelligible in the light of the ethnographic context from which Lévy-Bruhl had isolated them: if the Bororo boasted of being araras, it is not because they were unaware of the contradiction but rather because they wished to distinguish themselves from their neighbors, the Trumai, who identified with aquatic animals. While recognizing the fruitfulness of this analysis, Keck emphasizes that structuralism's focus on networks of semantic opposition prevented it from accounting for the syntax of the contradictory utterances that so fascinated Lévy-Bruhl.
Keck divides the work of Lévy-Bruhl into four periods, respectively corresponding to the concepts of the primitive, mentality, participation and experience. His approach to examining the concepts of contradiction and participation is thus simultaneously chronological and thematic.
A genealogy of the notion of mentality
The first chapter sheds light on the roots of the concept of the "primitive" in nineteenth-century French philosophy. Like Durkheim's early work, Keck shows that Lévy-Bruhl's dissertation, L'Idée de responsabilité, was in the tradition of the philosophy of Renouvier. Keck nevertheless emphasizes that the interest shown by Lévy-Bruhl in the formation of a simultaneously subjective and objective feeling of responsibility at the juncture of moral conscience and penal regulation distinguished his work from the objectivist position that was to be adopted by Durkheim in The Division of Labor in Society.
The second part of the book offers a genealogy of the concept of mentality that is at once political and intellectual. This is first examined in the historical context of colonial policy: following the failure of the policy of assimilation, the concept of mentality was advanced in the framework of the new policy of association because it presented individuals as confined to mental structures they "could not claim to leave" (p.70). But the most surprising aspect of this chapter is probably the fact that it does not draw upon the works that Lévy-Bruhl specifically devoted to the notion of mentality. Instead, Keck seeks out this concept's intellectual roots in the works of history and philosophy that Lévy-Bruhl published in the years 1880-1900. He thus emphasizes that the importance Lévy-Bruhl accorded to the diversity of modes of thought that characterized particular populations was at the confluence of two distinct philosophical traditions, that of the German Romantic philosophy deriving from Jacobi and Herder on the one hand, and the positivism of Comte on the other. Keck proceeds to consider the posterity of this concept in order to shed light on its shortcomings: by examining the uses to which the notion of mentality was put in psychology, with Piaget and Wallon, and history, among the members of the Annales school, he demonstrates that it is inseparable from "an implicit form of evolutionism" (p.124).
The experience of participation
Yet the essential contribution of Keck's book consists in showing that the work of Lévy-Bruhl cannot be reduced to the universally disparaged notion of "primitive mentality". In the third chapter, he thus chooses to come to grips with the works of anthropology that made Lévy-Bruhl famous by means of the concept of participation, insisting that the latter must not be understood in negative terms as a state of intellectual confusion but rather positively as an attempt to rehabilitate the place of emotions in mental life. Even as he followed in the footsteps of Ribot, who sought to define a form of vital logic that would not be purely intellectual, Lévy-Bruhl reproached him for not having taken into consideration the role of social factors in the formation of primitive representations. As Keck very nicely shows, it was this connection between the vital and the social that defined the originality of Lévy-Bruhl's position relative to that adopted by the two dominant figures of the time, Durkheim and Bergson.
In contrast to Durkheim, Lévy-Bruhl did not concentrate on the collective representations that are enshrined in institutions: on the contrary, he wished to study how such representations were formed "in a field of perception that preceded the separation between the individual and the collective" (p.164). And while he relied on the Bergsonian analysis of perception in order to claim that such virtual elements as shadows and ghosts are an integral part of perception in the primitive mentality, he refused to adopt a metaphysical system of life that lost sight of the social dimension of mental life.
Yet it is his recourse to the malebranchiste theory of causality that best characterizes the original position occupied by Lévy-Bruhl on the frontier between philosophy and ethnology. With great finesse, Keck analyzes the manner in which he tweaked and twisted this philosophical theory in order to turn it into a tool of ethnographic description: where Malebranche claimed that it is impossible to conceive of mental causality without recourse to a divine first cause, Lévy-Bruhl maintained that the primitive mentality relates all natural events – and, in particular, unusual accidents – to supernatural causes. That is to say, it situates human life in a network of socially constituted invisible forces that give it meaning.
This surprising link shows that Lévy-Bruhl increasingly came to focus on the positive description of the experience of participation, pushing its opposition with conceptual thought to the background. The last chapter of Keck's work examines this attempt to describe in our language a form of experience that irremediably escapes it. Even as he explains how this radical approach proved capable of inspiring widespread interest in ethnological, philosophical and literary circles, Keck underscores the aporetic character of Lévy-Bruhl's last works, which seem to accumulate ethnographic data while renouncing any attempt at locating them in a theoretical framework that would inevitably betray their particular logic.
With this book, Keck has done more than clarify a decisive moment in the formation of French ethnology. He has also shown that anthropological inquiry into the diversity of modes of thought must not be understood as at odds with philosophy: in the case of Lévy-Bruhl, it was a way of challenging and "subverting" philosophical concepts (p. 256). Through the study of this "minor" figure (ibid.), Keck thus sketches a history of human sciences predicated on the construction of problems and the circulation of concepts among different fields of knowledge, not the accumulation of discoveries. In fact, what is interesting about the hybrid discourse developed by this historian of philosophy and latecomer to anthropology is less his positive contribution to one or the other of these disciplines than his ability to unsettle them both by "wiring" them into one another. Given the dead end to which Lévy-Bruhl's thought ultimately led, however, the conditions in which the study of participation might once again become relevant for anthropology and philosophy remain to be defined.
Translated from french by Ethan Rundell
by Gildas Salmon, 12 February 2009
Gildas Salmon, « Lévy-Bruhl and the Problem of Contradiction », Books and Ideas , 12 February 2009. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : https://booksandideas.net/Levy-Bruhl-and-the-Problem-of.html
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A "limited number" of copies of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) have been found to contain a printing error, with Penguin Random House's printer Clays having to print replacement stock.
Copies affected by the technical fault at Clays have two lines missing on each of six pages towards the end of the book.
A statement on the Amazon.co.uk listing for the book states: "We have been advised that copies shipped before July 16th 2015 may be missing text on some pages. We are working with the publisher to replace all affected orders as quickly as possible. Orders placed after July 16th 2015 are not affected."
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package org.sleuthkit.autopsy.experimental.autoingest;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.event.DocumentEvent;
import javax.swing.event.DocumentListener;
import javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.openide.util.NbBundle;
import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.casemodule.Case;
import static org.sleuthkit.autopsy.experimental.autoingest.Bundle.*;
import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.corecomponentinterfaces.DataSourceProcessor;
import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.coreutils.DriveUtils;
import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.coreutils.Logger;
import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.coreutils.MessageNotifyUtil;
import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.coreutils.ModuleSettings;
import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.coreutils.PathValidator;

/**
 * Panel for adding an archive file which is supported by 7zip library (e.g.
 * "zip", "rar", "arj", "7z", "7zip", "gzip, etc). Allows the user to select a
 * file.
 */
class ArchiveFilePanel extends JPanel implements DocumentListener {

    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(ArchiveFilePanel.class.getName());
    private static final String PROP_LAST_ARCHIVE_PATH = "LBL_LastImage_PATH"; //NON-NLS

    private final JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser();

    /**
     * Externally supplied name is used to store settings
     */
    private final String contextName;

    /**
     * Creates new form ArchiveFilePanel
     *
     * @param context            A string context name used to read/store last
     *                           used settings.
     * @param fileChooserFilters A list of filters to be used with the
     *                           FileChooser.
     */
    private ArchiveFilePanel(String context, List<FileFilter> fileChooserFilters) {
        this.contextName = context;
        initComponents();

        errorLabel.setVisible(false);

        fileChooser.setDragEnabled(false);
        fileChooser.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.FILES_ONLY);
        fileChooser.setMultiSelectionEnabled(false);
        fileChooserFilters.forEach(fileChooser::addChoosableFileFilter);
        if (fileChooserFilters.isEmpty() == false) {
            fileChooser.setFileFilter(fileChooserFilters.get(0));
        }
    }

    /**
     * Creates and returns an instance of a ArchiveFilePanel.
     *
     * @param context            A string context name used to read/store last
     *                           used settings.
     * @param fileChooserFilters A list of filters to be used with the
     *                           FileChooser.
     *
     * @return instance of the ArchiveFilePanel
     */
    public static synchronized ArchiveFilePanel createInstance(String context, List<FileFilter> fileChooserFilters) {
        ArchiveFilePanel instance = new ArchiveFilePanel(context, fileChooserFilters);
        // post-constructor initialization of listener support without leaking references of uninitialized objects
        instance.pathTextField.getDocument().addDocumentListener(instance);
        return instance;
    }

    /**
     * This method is called from within the constructor to initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is always
     * regenerated by the Form Editor.
     */
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">//GEN-BEGIN:initComponents
    private void initComponents() {

        pathLabel = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        browseButton = new javax.swing.JButton();
        pathTextField = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        errorLabel = new javax.swing.JLabel();

        setMinimumSize(new java.awt.Dimension(0, 65));
        setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(403, 65));

        org.openide.awt.Mnemonics.setLocalizedText(pathLabel, org.openide.util.NbBundle.getMessage(ArchiveFilePanel.class, "ArchiveFilePanel.pathLabel.text")); // NOI18N

        org.openide.awt.Mnemonics.setLocalizedText(browseButton, org.openide.util.NbBundle.getMessage(ArchiveFilePanel.class, "ArchiveFilePanel.browseButton.text")); // NOI18N
        browseButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                browseButtonActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        pathTextField.setText(org.openide.util.NbBundle.getMessage(ArchiveFilePanel.class, "ArchiveFilePanel.pathTextField.text")); // NOI18N

        errorLabel.setForeground(new java.awt.Color(255, 0, 0));
        org.openide.awt.Mnemonics.setLocalizedText(errorLabel, org.openide.util.NbBundle.getMessage(ArchiveFilePanel.class, "ArchiveFilePanel.errorLabel.text")); // NOI18N

        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(this);
        this.setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addComponent(pathTextField)
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.UNRELATED)
                .addComponent(browseButton)
                .addGap(2, 2, 2))
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                    .addComponent(pathLabel)
                    .addComponent(errorLabel))
                .addGap(0, 277, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        );
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addComponent(pathLabel)
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(browseButton)
                    .addComponent(pathTextField, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
                .addGap(3, 3, 3)
                .addComponent(errorLabel)
                .addContainerGap(javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        );
    }// </editor-fold>//GEN-END:initComponents

    private void browseButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_browseButtonActionPerformed
        String oldText = getContentPaths();
        // set the current directory of the FileChooser if the ArchivePath Field is valid
        File currentDir = new File(oldText);
        if (currentDir.exists()) {
            fileChooser.setCurrentDirectory(currentDir);
        }

        if (fileChooser.showOpenDialog(this) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
            String path = fileChooser.getSelectedFile().getPath();
            setContentPath(path);
        }

        updateHelper();
    }//GEN-LAST:event_browseButtonActionPerformed

    // Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
    private javax.swing.JButton browseButton;
    private javax.swing.JLabel errorLabel;
    private javax.swing.JLabel pathLabel;
    private javax.swing.JTextField pathTextField;
    // End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables

    /**
     * Get the path of the user selected archive.
     *
     * @return the archive path
     */
    public String getContentPaths() {
        return pathTextField.getText();
    }

    /**
     * Set the path of the archive file.
     *
     * @param s path of the archive file
     */
    public void setContentPath(String s) {
        pathTextField.setText(s);
    }

    public void reset() {
        //reset the UI elements to default
        pathTextField.setText(null);
    }

    /**
     * Should we enable the next button of the wizard?
     *
     * @return true if a proper archive has been selected, false otherwise
     */
    @NbBundle.Messages("DataSourceOnCDriveError.text=Warning: Path to multi-user data source is on \"C:\" drive")
    public boolean validatePanel() {
        errorLabel.setVisible(false);
        String path = getContentPaths();
        if (StringUtils.isBlank(path)) {
            return false;
        }

        // display warning if there is one (but don't disable "next" button)
        if (false == PathValidator.isValid(path, Case.getCurrentCase().getCaseType())) {
            errorLabel.setVisible(true);
            errorLabel.setText(Bundle.DataSourceOnCDriveError_text());
        }

        return new File(path).isFile()
                || DriveUtils.isPhysicalDrive(path)
                || DriveUtils.isPartition(path);
    }

    public void storeSettings() {
        String archivePathName = getContentPaths();
        if (null != archivePathName) {
            String archivePath = archivePathName.substring(0, archivePathName.lastIndexOf(File.separator) + 1);
            ModuleSettings.setConfigSetting(contextName, PROP_LAST_ARCHIVE_PATH, archivePath);
        }
    }

    public void readSettings() {
        String lastArchivePath = ModuleSettings.getConfigSetting(contextName, PROP_LAST_ARCHIVE_PATH);
        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(lastArchivePath)) {
            setContentPath(lastArchivePath);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        updateHelper();
    }

    @Override
    public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        updateHelper();
    }

    @Override
    public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        updateHelper();
    }

    /**
     * Update functions are called by the pathTextField which has this set as
     * it's DocumentEventListener. Each update function fires a property change
     * to be caught by the parent panel.
     *
     */
    @NbBundle.Messages({"ArchiveFilePanel.moduleErr=Module Error",
        "ArchiveFilePanel.moduleErr.msg=A module caused an error listening to ArchiveFilePanel updates."
        + " See log to determine which module. Some data could be incomplete.\n"})
    private void updateHelper() {
        try {
            firePropertyChange(DataSourceProcessor.DSP_PANEL_EVENT.UPDATE_UI.toString(), false, true);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "ArchiveFilePanel listener threw exception", e); //NON-NLS
            MessageNotifyUtil.Notify.error(ArchiveFilePanel_moduleErr(), ArchiveFilePanel_moduleErr_msg());
        }
    }

    /**
     * Set the focus to the pathTextField.
     */
    public void select() {
        pathTextField.requestFocusInWindow();
    }
}

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Samhain is a time of reflection and honoring the past, as it begins the new year. Not just the past turn of the wheel, but also continuing to remember the ancestors that came before us so that they and their lessons are not forgotten. During this time of year, the last of the harvest is gathered and put away for the upcoming winter months. To me, this time of year is also when I can feel the earth falling asleep and my survival instincts begin to kick in, much like my animal brethren. We begin chopping wood to save up for the coming cold, we begin to hunt for meat to hold us over during the poverty of winter.
Traditionally, Samhain was celebrated by the Celts of 2,000 years ago, who celebrated their new year as November 1st. It was a time when the veil between the physical world and spiritual world was the thinnest. October 31st was thought to be when unruly spirits would cause trouble and damage what was left of crops. To honor, costumes were made and hearth fires were lit for protection over the winter.
The Iroquois native tribes also celebrated a "Feast of the Dead", which was held every 12 years in honor of departed loved ones. Though the Iroquois held regular funeral rites to honor their departed with feasts and emotion, their "Feast of the Dead" was the most important. A large grave was dug and lined with their sacred beaver skins, where they removed the bodies from their graves and reburied them into their new home. Many other Native traditions do not speak of their dead except during festivals to honor them, for they feel it is rude.
Samhain, to me anyways, is the ending of the three harvest festivals, following Lughnasadh and Mabon. Like all things that begin and end, they symbolize stages in our lives. Samhain symbolizes the ending of one stage and the beginning of another.
In the 600's, Pope Boniface IV appointed November 1st as "All Saint's Day" as a time to honor saints and martyrs, no doubt to supercede the Celts Samhain with a more Christian oriented holiday. Eventually the church made November 2nd "All Soul's Day" as a time to honor the dead, somewhere around 1000 A.D., though this is not as widely celebrated. Ironically the modern day equivalent, Halloween, is currently deemed by some Christians as evil and a time where the Devil has influence over children.


So if you've been following along with our househunting saga... you know we're buying a new house that's being built as we speak. We have to wait until mid-July and pay a little more than we would for a short sale or something, but it'll be brand new and energy-efficient and we get to tailor some of the design details.
(The waiting is killing me. But I'd bore you if that's all I said.) One cool thing about watching this process is we can see it in different stages--I've driven by the past few weekends and taken pics of the progress! Wanna see?
And now, as of today, I can see where our door will be, and almost look through the living room to the kitchen and dining area! Amazing!
Ours will be the second doorway in from the left.
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