ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new hearing on the future of the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington began at the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission on Tuesday and could last up to two weeks.
The hearing will examine the costs and benefits of an agreement that plant co-owner and operator Public Service Co. of New Mexico signed in August with environmental groups, the Attorney General's Office and the PRC's utility division staff. That agreement calls for PNM to shut down two of the plant's four generating units and install pollution controls on the remaining ones to meet federal mandates to reduce haze from the plant. It also allows PNM to absorb more capacity from departing plant co-owners in one of the units that will remain operating, something most environmentalists and clean energy advocates had previously opposed.
To win their support, PNM agreed to a new PRC review of San Juan in 2018 to determine whether more or all of it should be shut down after 2022. That's when the current partnership among plant co-owners expires and PNM's coal supply contract for the facility comes to an end. PNM also agreed to lower ratepayer costs for nuclear energy to replace lost coal generation and to support more renewable energy development in the next few years.
But one environmental group, New Energy Economy, remains opposed, advocating instead for the immediate closure of more, if not all, of San Juan, and procurement of more solar and wind generation to replace lost coal. At the hearing, New Energy will question PNM executives about the costs and benefits of its plan.
PNM estimates its plan would raise customer rates by 2 to 3 percent starting in 2018, or about $2 per month more for the average residential consumer.
"We are grateful to have this opportunity to further demonstrate to the commission that the PNM plan is the best, most cost-effective way to address federal environmental regulations while protecting the economy of the Four Corners region and the state," PNM spokesman Pahl Shipley said.
Steve Michel of Western Resource Advocates, which supports the plan, said the agreement provides the best path forward for now on San Juan, since half the plant is closing and more units could be shut in a few years.
Still, notwithstanding the hearing, it's unclear when, or even if, the PRC can make a final decision on San Juan. The New Mexico Supreme Court ordered commissioners on Friday to temporarily refrain from new proceedings in the case until the court reviews New Energy allegations that four of the five commissioners have demonstrated bias in PNM's favor and should be recused. The current hearing is proceeding because it's a lower-level function presided over by a hearing examiner, who will later make a recommendation to commissioners about San Juan.


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TRANSPORTATION LA-I've no doubt that this column will be seen as either hopelessly naïve or hopelessly cynical by many a reader, but it's hard to escape the factual conclusion that LA Metro (or the "MTA" if you wish to call it that) is making progress on improving transportation despite a plethora of complicated obstacles and challenges--a "hot mess", if you will.
The problem is clear for most who have studied transportation challenges in LA County for years--we're over 50 years behind in building, and one of the few good things about our current construction boom is that (during this economic downturn) the costs of materials and labor are completely opposite to how expensive things were a decade ago.
Measure R was a great start in achieving both financial support and countywide voter/political consensus for our overdue road and rail projects, but it's clear that the feds and Sacramento have been derelict in their obligations to our transportation, water and other necessary infrastructure.
LA County has had to save itself, and may have to do so again with future taxes and/or bonds.
To some, one rail project is the same as another rail project...even if they do recognize that the I-405 freeway is a very different freeway than the I-15 freeway. The lack of funding and the legal challenges facing the CAHSR project might be solved by use of cap-and-trade funds, but this is still a very different project than that approved by the voters, as George Skelton of the L.A. Times points out).
Furthermore, if one were to weigh the priority of the CAHSR project to more local projects in the Sacramento/Bay Area and the Greater Los Angeles/San Diego Area, it wouldn't be difficult to conclude that the money going to the CAHSR project threatens and/or delays more popular and rapidly-buildable projects with greater and more certain economic and environmental benefits.
While this unwholesome playing of footsie isn't limited to LA, the greater responsiveness of the Santa Monica City Council to those residents/constituents concerned and/or opposed to the Hines/Papermate project is in marked contrast to the manner in which LA residents/constituents are treated when they oppose an ill-advised (and arguably illegal) project.
It's clear that developers want to take advantage of transportation measures, but the era of these developers paying for their fair share of transportation funding has morphed into an era where the voters pay for the ability of developers to make money...sort of a golden opportunity of paying big bucks for the privilege of being punched in the face.
If LA City residents are going to pay for improved transportation options, then they deserve to know that their neighborhoods aren't going to be destroyed to benefit a few well-connected special interests...especially because they're being asked to pay for TWO funding initiatives, one for an expansion of Measure R at the county level, and one to repair roads at the City level.
Lost in the mix of complaints about the safety and operations of the Metro Blue Line is that it's one of the most successful light rails in the United States, transporting approximately 90,000 riders a day. Operations from Long Beach to Los Angeles are now highlighted with the completion of the connecting Expo Line to Culver City, but the Blue Line is decades old and in need of repair.
Fortunately, the Blue Line will be upgraded, and with over 100 new and renovated train cars to help bring the Metro fleet to 21st century levels. The power lines and station infrastructure will also be brought to modern-day standards.
It's great that the recent appropriation bill from the feds includes $65 million each for both the Purple Line Subway to La Cienega (phase one of three needed to get to the I-405 western terminus) and the Downtown Light Rail Connector (connecting all four Downtown-oriented light rail lines to Bunker Hill, City Hall and other key Downtown locations).
However, it's just a start . Future grants and loans are anything but certain from a Congress that (on both sides of the political spectrum) treats transportation as an afterthought, rather than the first priority, when it comes to federal budgets.
It's no secret that connecting Metro Rail to LAX is a source of frustration and aggravation to voters and taxpayers throughout the county, but it's not so well-known that the complexities and challenges and misconceptions about what this means fly below the radar screen of most doing the belly-aching. In particular, the term "Metro Rail to LAX" means very different things to different people.
For example, Yaroslavsky and others on the Metro Board recognize that having the planned train to LAX is one that is too expensive and difficult if it goes underground, yet Knabe and Ridley-Thomas and others recognize that it's too soon to exclude all possible options.
What IS certain, and DOES have consensus, is that $1 billion or more is needed for this project, and that it's not because of poor Planning or spending practices. There are a lot of east-west, north-south and operational issues about a "train to LAX", with a lot of moving parts from LA World Airports, Metro, the LADOT and the Federal Aviation Administration.
There is an east-west People Mover, a north-south Crenshaw/LAX Line to connect the Expo and Green Lines that is 1.5 miles east of LAX, and a host of surface street and bus-related issues to resolve...to say nothing of a proposed consolidated Rental Car Facility at Century/Aviation.
Arguably, this project will eclipse the Wilshire Subway as the key item to promote future county, state and federal funding for LA rail projects--and, unfortunately, the Downtown Light Rail Connector does not get the attention it deserves as a critical countywide attention-grabbing item as does the Metro Rail to LAX project.
We also need Metro Rail and Metrolink extensions to the Westside, South Bay, Southeast Cities, and San Gabriel/Fernando Valleys as much as we need it to Downtown and LAX, to boot.
But at least it does appear that an initial countywide rail network is possible by/near the year 2020.
This is an item that will get unbelievably short shrift, but merits a great deal more attention, as the shortcomings of train-related transportation becomes more evident as we finally get many of the wishes we've wanted for decades with respect to rail.
Road and freeway upgrades and repair, sidewalk repair, bus- and bicycle-related transportation needs and the overarching issues of Planning and Land Use remain either neglected or ignored by elected officials and the electorate alike. We each have our own agendas, and most of us are just too darned busy making a living and raising our families to have the time and patience for this sort of "nerd talk".
Yet credit is due as much as is criticism when credit is merited, and for those willing to stop the screaming long enough to realize how much progress is being made under less than ideal circumstances, it does appear that Metro is making progress...despite the missteps and distractions and unforeseen obstacles that keep getting thrown at it.


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Ex-coach in New Jersey hazing case retains…
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Ex-coach in New Jersey hazing case retains teaching job
PUBLISHED: February 25, 2015 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 8, 2018 at 12:00 am
SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) — The former coach of the New Jersey high school football program that had its season canceled amid hazing and sexual assault allegations will remain a teacher.
The Sayreville school board on Tuesday night reassigned George Najjar from the high school, where he has been a physical education teacher for 20 years, to an elementary school.
Najjar lost his coaching job.
The Home News Tribune (http://mycj.co/18kyrtY ) reports the school board will discipline Najjar by withholding his annual raise for the 2015-16 academic year.
Najjar was suspended with pay on Oct. 16 when officials began investigating his football program.
The team"s 2014 season was canceled days before seven players were accused of hazing and sexually assaulting four teammates inside the locker room. The boys will be tried in juvenile court.
Information from: Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, N.J.) , http://www.mycentraljersey.com

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We are a real life league. Real teams and players. Using Baseball Mogul 2017. We will be starting in the year of 2010 and continuing with real players mixed with some fictional's up until its all fictional players. Hoping to get 20 GMs but would much rather have a solid 24. Schedule and playoffs work out a lot better. Myself and another guy are the only two with the password for the league. Will not be a file that is tinkered with. Still hashing out final details on comp and arby caps, things like that. Stop in and sign up, pick a team and help mold this newly forming league. Hoping to start the season in the next week or two if we get the GMs.
Also we will be hopefully cleaning up the forums and redesigning it a little as well.
BLM has merged with another mogul league that was created by a group of folks who play in a "Fake Baseball" simulation style game on Reddit. This league is called MLR and you can find them here.
In respect to the creator of BLM, mogul legend nwuhockey, they have taken the name MLR in order to open the door for a comeback with BLM at some point in the future.


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We use cell phones and does it really required to buy emf protection to get protect from radiation.
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The Liars Dictionary
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The Liar S Dictionary
An exhilarating, clever, funny debut novel from a prize-winning talent, chronicling the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman who decodes his trail of made-up words a century later. Will enthrall readers of CS Richardson, Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Mountweazel (n.), the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby's multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Increasingly uneasy that his colleagues are attempting to corral language and regiment facts, Winceworth feels compelled to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom, and begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries into the dictionary. In the present day, Mallory, a young intern employed by the publisher, must uncover these mountweazels before the work is digitized for modern readers. Through the words and their definitions, she begins to sense their creator's motivations, hopes and desires. More pressingly, she also has to contend with threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller. Is the change in the definition of marriage (n.) really that controversial? And does the caller truly intend for the Swansby's staff to "burn in hell"? As these two narratives combine, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of the often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn and undefinable path we call life. An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar's Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one's place in the world.
Genre : Fiction
Author : Eley Williams
Publisher : Knopf Canada
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "You wouldn't expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama." —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby's multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher's young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator's motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she's also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby's staff to "burn in hell." As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life's often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar's Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one's place in the world.
Publisher : Anchor
A WINNER OF THE 2021 BETTY TRASK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 __________________________ 'Joyous' SPECTATOR 'Remarkable' SUNDAY TIMES 'A playful delight... A glorious novel' OBSERVER Swansby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary is riddled with fictitious entries known as mountweazels penned by Peter Winceworth, a man wishing to make his lasting mark back in 1899. It's up to young intern Mallory to uncover these mountweazels before the dictionary can be digitised for modern readers. Lost in Winceworth's imagination - a world full of meaningless words - will Mallory finally discover the secret to living a meaningful life? __________________________ 'Made me almost tearful with gratitude that a book as clever as this could give such uncomplicated pleasure ... And when you find a book like this, you grab it, and you hold it close.' JOHN SELF 'A delight ... As funny and vivid as Dickens, as moving and memorable as Nabokov ... An extraordinarily large-hearted work.' THE CRITIC 'Deft and clever, refreshing and rewarding ... An assured and satisfying writer, her language rich and intricate and her characters rounded enough to be sympathetic and lampoonist enough to be terribly funny.' LITERARY REVIEW '[The] most exciting of young British writers ... Williams luxuriates in words and wordplay, in definition and precision and invention ...The Liar's Dictionary is a public joy, and Eley Williams a free-spirited literary kook with bags of potential.' BIG ISSUE 'A singular, hilarious, word-drunk novel, which I suspect will be seen in the future as a classic comic novel.' DAVID HAYDEN, IRISH TIMES 'The Liar's Dictionary is the book I was longing for ... Positively intoxicated with the joy and wonder of language ... Eley Williams brings erudition and playfulness - and lovely sweetness - to every page.' BENJAMIN DREYER, New York Times bestselling author of DREYER'S ENGLISH 'This tale of lexical intrigues is an absolute joy to read! It's gloriously inventive and playful, but with just the right amount of heart.' LUCY SCHOLES
Publisher : Random House
Peter Winceworth, Victorian lexicographer, is toiling away at the letter 'S' for Swansby's multi-volume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. His disaffection compels him to insert unauthorised fictitious entries into the dictionary in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory is tasked with uncovering these mountweazels before the work is digitised
Publisher : William Heinemann
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. Peter Winceworth, Victorian lexicographer, is toiling away at the letter 'S' for Swansby's multi-volume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. His disaffection compels him to insert unauthorised fictitious entries into the dictionary in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young intern employed by the publisher, is tasked with uncovering these mountweazels before the work is digitised. She also has to contend with threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller. Is the change in the definition of 'marriage' really that upsetting? And does the caller really intend for the Swansby's staff to 'burn in hell'? As these two narratives combine, both Winceworth and Mallory discover how they might negotiate the complexities of the often nonsensical, relentless, untrustworthy, hoax-strewn and undefinable path we call life. An exhilarating debut novel from a formidably brilliant young writer, The Liar's Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language.
Publisher : Random House Large Print Publishing
Attrib And Other Stories
"It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." --Max Porter A dazzling, prizewinning short story collection that showcases a bold new talent Eley Williams has been a literary sensation ever since this collection of experimental short fiction was published in the UK. Lauded as "elegant" (The Guardian) and "exhilarating" (Vanity Fair), Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was named a best book of the year by The Guardian. Attrib. presents a cast of unforgettable characters standing at the precipice of emotional events (a disastrous breakup, a successful date, an unexpected arrival) and finding it fiendishly impossible to express themselves. With intimate, irreverent, and playful prose, Eley Williams rejoices in both the possibilities and limitations of language, as well as the very human need to be known and understood--despite our own best efforts. Original and inventive in the vein of Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, and Amy Hempel, these stories are "emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective" (New Statesman) and "an absolute must-read" (The London Magazine).
The brilliant and outrageous debut novel from British actor, comedian, author, presenter, journalist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. Praise for The Liar: 'A quite brilliant first novel' Sunday Times 'Sublime' Cosmopolitan 'The Liar is hilarious - page after page of the most outrageous and often filthy jokes, delicious conceits, instant, brilliant ripostes that would only occur to ordinary mortals after days of teeth-grinding lunacy' Literary Review
Author : Stephen Fry
The Dictionary Of Lost Words
"Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded."—The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD • "A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress."—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means "slave girl," begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women's suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.
Author : Pip Williams
Gre 4000
The verbal section of the GRE is essentially a vocabulary test. With a few exceptions, if you know the word, you will probably be able to answer the question correctly. Thus, it is crucial that you improve your vocabulary. Even if you have a strong vocabulary, you will still encounter unfamiliar words on the GRE. Many students write off questions, which contain words, they don't recognize. This is a mistake. This book introduces numerous techniques that decode unfamiliar words and prod your memory of words you only half-remember. With these techniques, you will often be able to squeeze out enough meaning from an unfamiliar word to answer a question correctly. Nevertheless, don't rely on just these techniques--you must study word lists. Obviously, you cannot attempt to memorize the dictionary, and you don't need to. The GRE tests a surprisingly limited number of words, and this book has 4000 prime candidates. Granted, memorizing a list of words is rather dry, but it is probably the most effective way of improving your performance on the verbal section. All the words you need for success on the GRE! Features: * 4000 Words Defined * Word Analysis section * 200 Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes * Concise, practical definitions
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Author : Jeff Kolby
Publisher : Nova Press
The Devil S Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American journalist and author Ambrose Bierce. Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book, it features Bierce's witty and often ironic spin on many common English words.
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release : 101-01-01


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Pinewood Derby is de zesde aflevering van het dertiende seizoen van South Park. Hij kwam voor het eerst uit in de Verenigde Staten op 15 april 2009. Net als zijn voorgangers verscheen ook deze aflevering in hd-kwaliteit en een 16:9-ratio.

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Randy is vastbesloten dat Stan dit jaar de pinewood derby gaat winnen. Hij bedenkt een plan dat Stan gegarandeerd de eerste prijs oplevert. Randy heeft een supergeleidende magneet, welke hij gekleed als Prinses Leia gestolen heeft uit de Large Hadron Collider, in hun autootje gestopt, waardoor deze beter accelereert. Dit is tegen de regels, die voorschrijven dat alleen onderdelen gebruikt mogen worden uit de officiële kit die ze van de scouting gekregen hebben. Tijdens de derby bereikt Stans autootje de warpsnelheid en vliegt het de ruimte in.

Een paar dagen na de derby landt een buitenaards wezen genaamd Baby Fark McGee-zax op Aarde. McGee-zax heeft Stans autootje gevonden en vraagt wie hem gemaakt heeft. Als Randy antwoordt dat hij en Stan verantwoordelijk zijn voor de bouw van het autootje eist McGee-zax, die voortvluchtig blijkt te zijn, dat ze er nog een maken. Randy gaat liever mee in de onmogelijke eis dan dat hij opbiecht een onderdeel van buiten de officiële kit te hebben gebruikt, omdat hij bang is voor schut te staan. Na tijd te hebben gerekt verschijnt de ruimtepolitie, die de aardbewoners vertelt dat McGee-zax een heleboel ruimtegeld heeft gestolen en in zijn schip heeft liggen. De aardbewoners, vertegenwoordigd door Randy, liegen dat ze geen alien gezien hebben, waarop de agenten — hoewel argwanend — weer vertrekken.

Als de ruimtepolitie weer weg is besluit Randy dat Stan McGee-zax moet neersteken. Stan staat erop dat ze in plaats daarvan gewoon bekennen een onderdeel van buiten de kit te hebben gebruikt, maar als Randy hem voor het blok zet steekt hij McGee-zax in de nek, waarop deze overlijdt. In zijn schip blijkt hij inderdaad een berg ruimtegeld te hebben liggen, wat ze verdelen over alle landen. Als de ruimtepolitie weer terugkomt biechten de aardbewoners op dat McGee-zax inderdaad op Aarde was, maar dat ze hem hebben gedood. Op de vraag of ze het gestolen ruimtegeld hebben gevonden liegen ze evenwel dat ze niets gezien hebben. De ruimte-agenten redeneren dat McGee-zax het geld vast op een andere planeet heeft verstopt, maar vlak voor ze vertrekken merken ze op dat ze het opvallend vinden dat het relatief arme Mexico in de afgelopen vier dagen tweeëndertig nieuwe ziekenhuizen en zeven nieuwe waterparken heeft gebouwd. Randy bedenkt snel een excuus, en de agenten vertrekken weer. Stan voelt zich ondertussen erg schuldig over het feit dat hij heeft valsgespeeld met de derby.

Finland wil de ruimtepolitie vertellen over het geld, wat reden is voor de andere landen om Finland met nucleaire raketten op te blazen. Als de ruimtepolitie terugkomt om opheldering te krijgen over de vernietiging van Finland verspreekt Randy zich, en de agenten vertrouwen het helemaal niet meer. Op dat moment bekent Stan dat hij een illegaal onderdeel heeft gebruikt bij de derby en geeft hij zijn beker terug. De agenten vragen of er niets anders is dat ze moeten zeggen, waarop de mensen antwoorden dat er verder niets is. Dan komt McGee-zax uit het politieschip en zegt dat zijn echte naam Kevin is. Kevin is voorzitter van de planetenassociatie en vertelt dat alles in scène gezet is: er is geen Baby Fark McGee-zax en de waarde van het ruimtegeld is niet groter dan de waarde die de aardbewoners er zelf aan gaven. Kevin vertelt de aardbewoners dat ze gezakt zijn voor de "ruimtegeldtest", die moet bepalen of een planeet die warpsnelheid heeft ontdekt kan worden toegelaten tot de planetenassociatie, en laat de Aarde blokkeren door een krachtveld zodat de bewoners nooit meer contact kunnen maken met buitenaards leven.

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The Laguna Art Museum director announced Monday that he is stepping down May 13.
Bolton Colburn started as a curator in 1987 and assumed the role of director after the Newport Harbor Art Museum and Laguna Art Museum merged in 1997.
"I love Laguna Art Museum, its mission, and the community, but it is time for someone else to take the lead and for me to pursue other opportunities in the art world," Colburn said in a news statement. I wish the museum every good fortune and prosperity."
Board President Robert Hayden III will help facilitate a transition and the Board of Trustees has created an executive search committee.
"Bolton Colburn is greatly responsible for setting the mission and direction of Laguna Art Museum," Hayden said in a statement. "His extensive knowledge of California art history has been instrumental in programming groundbreaking and critically acclaimed exhibitions. His exceptional contributions to the museum will continue to be felt for many years to come."
Prior to coming to the Laguna Art Museum in the late 1980s, Colburn worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, formerly the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.


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This update was published December 16, 2020. For the most up to date information on the City's work related to COVID-19, please visit our COVID-19 web pages. This update provides information on the latest City activities and links to more information. For health and safety information about COVID-19 including confirmed cases and testing data, please visit Lane County Public Health or Oregon Health Authority's websites.
Lane County Vaccinations
More people in Oregon and Lane County continue to get the COVID-19 vaccinations. These safe and effective vaccines are the latest in the efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Oregon is currently in Phase 1a, with all Groups in that phase currently eligible, including hospitals, urgent care, skilled nursing and memory care facility healthcare personnel and residents, tribal health programs, EMS providers and other first responders. See OHA's Frequently Asked Questions regarding Oregon's Phase 1a Vaccine Sequencing Plan.
Lane County is continuing to work with community partners to actively administer all doses of vaccines that are provided to local agencies from the State of Oregon.
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Federal and state governments are in charge of:
Establishing the rules/priorities for who gets vaccinated
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Local agencies (health care, hospitals, EMS, pharmacies, local public health, etc.) are responsible for:
Administering the vaccinations to people in the established sequence and with the supplies they receive
Lane County Public Health shared this information on their COVID-19 Vaccine Information web page (see the "How is it determined who gets the vaccine and when?" tab):
"The State of Oregon is currently receiving approximately 30,000 doses of vaccine each week, for the entire state. Lane County is approximately 10% of the state population, so while the state has not provided us a guarantee of the amounts it will provide to our community, just based on population we could expect to receive approximately 3,000 doses of vaccine to our community each week. At this time, we don't have enough supply from the federal/state governments to meet the demand in our local community."
To-date Lane County has shared that approximately 7,300 people in Lane County have received COVID-19 vaccine from the various local agencies noted above, as part of Phase 1A. Statewide, a total of 99,620 people in Oregon have received COVID-19 vaccine so far. Up-to-date vaccination numbers can be found on the OHA website.
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Oregon's Risk and Protection Framework uses data to help inform safety measures at the county level. Every two weeks, Governor Kate Brown's office announces the revised risk status of each county based on current data. Lane County will continue to be in the extreme risk category for the two-week period beginning January 15.
See Oregon Health Authority's guidance for activities at each risk level.
COVID-19 Household Survey
The challenges of COVID-19 and its impacts on our lives have been significant. As a city, we have changed and adapted our services and programs to support the health and safety of community members and staff during this pandemic. We know you've had to make sacrifices and faced challenges too, and it is important to know how you have been doing since the onset of COVID-19.
We launched a COVID-19 Household Survey, which will give us a chance to gather data to determine how best to focus our efforts to recover from the pandemic. Your input on this survey is critical: Your responses will help inform decisions on programs and policies as we move into the future.
The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and we greatly appreciate your time. The information you share with us will remain confidential, and results from the survey will only be shared as a group – no individual responses will be shared. To access the survey, community members must create an account on Engage Eugene, the City's online engagement platform. The COVID-19 Household Survey will be open through January 31.
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We know many businesses have been hit hard by the effects of the virus and these supplies are a small way to help. Available supplies include large and medium gloves (14,000 boxes), disposable masks (39,600 boxes) and antiseptic wipes (32,000 boxes). As long as supplies last, each eligible business may pick up a two-month supply. The supplies will be dispersed on a first come, first served basis.
Eligible businesses must meet all of the following requirements to receive supplies:
Be in Eugene and headquartered in Oregon
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You must make an appointment to pick up supplies. See the online appointment form. Once a business's eligibility has been verified, the contact person will receive an email confirmation with the pickup date, time and location.
Email us with any questions. For over the phone assistance filling out this form, you may call the Eugene Public Library at 541-682-5450. Press 2 for English and 5 for Spanish.
State of Oregon Eviction Moratorium and Landlord Compensation Fund
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During a special session in December, the Oregon Legislature passed an eviction moratorium extension (HB 4401) that will last until June 30, 2021. The protections for renters under the new statewide moratorium are not automatic! Please visit our Housing Support webpage for important updated information.
For information specifically regarding Renter Protections view the Resources for Renters tab.
For information specifically for support for Landlords including potential financial support view the Resources for Landlords tab.
Calling All Artists for Downtown Program Fund
Is there an event or artistic installation you have been wanting to present downtown? The City of Eugene Cultural Services Downtown Program Fund offers you an opportunity to transform downtown outdoor spaces into arts and culture destinations.
Funding of up to $5,000 per project will be awarded to organizations or individuals who wish to produce their own quality programming in publicly accessible outdoor spaces in Eugene's downtown core. Funding can support any artistic or cultural discipline, including visual, dance, music, theatre, film/video/media and multidisciplinary fields. Culturally diverse programming is encouraged. More information can be found on the Eugene's Downtown Program Fund website.
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See a list of Community Resources for physical and mental health, food, housing, businesses, employees, schools and children, as well as information in Spanish.
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Chard Carnival: Eye witness praises 'hero' marshal who rushed to aid stricken woman after horrific incident
He climbed under the carnival cart to assist
James BrinsfordWeekend Editor
An eye witness to the horrific incident at Chard Carnival on Saturday night (October 14), which saw a woman get trapped under a carnival cart, has hailed the first steward on the scene a 'hero' for their actions.
Andy Brown, who was close to where the incident happened, said that the carnival marshal raced to the scene and climbed under the cart to assist the stricken woman.
It is believed that woman has suffered life-threatening injuries after getting trapped under a cart, just before 10pm last night. She was airlifted to hospital from the scene near Tesco on Tapstone Road.
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Speaking to Somerset Live, Mr Brown described the moments after the accident.
He said: "As I was walking back to my car I was passed by a carnival marshal running at a hellish pace.
"When I turned the corner and tried to walk towards the car park, I was gobsmacked. He was the first one there and without hesitation, he climbed right under the float with the injured woman.
"This man never left her side for a moment and stayed to help the first paramedics that came."
The coastguard air ambulance was called to the scene (Image: Malcolm Brown)
Chard Carnival: Police appeal for witnesses after woman suffers life threatening injuries
Mr Brown said that the marshal didn't think of his own safety as he rushed to help and put his own distress to one side so that he could help comfort the woman's family, who were quickly at the scene.
Mr Brown continued: "He was under there with her for ages and only stepped away when the doctors arrived.
"He was clearly upset but he took a deep breath and then spent the night comforting the family of the woman and making sure the carnival crew were alright while they got her out and into the air ambulance."
Chard reservoir assault: 10 weeks after woman found with potentially life-threatening head injury attacker remains at large
The Avon and Somerset Constabulary have issued an appeal for witnesses this morning.
They have asked for anyone that has information that would help with police enquiries into the incident, to call them quoting reference 5217235336.
Did you see the heroic actions of this carnival marshal? Let us know by contacting us at james.brinsford@localworld.co.uk.
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The 2015 Dissertation Prize of the Global Neutrino Network has been awarded to Tri Astraatmadja, who was part of the Leiden/Nikhef ANTARES group during his PhD research. Astraatmadja receives the award for his thesis 'Starlight between the waves: In search of TeV photon emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope'.
This is the first year that the GNN Dissertation Prize is awarded. It recognises three young postdoctoral candidates who have written an outstanding thesis and contributed significantly to the project. Primary criteria of the selection are the scientific quality, the didactics and the form of the thesis.
Astraatmadja has focused on the ANTARES telescope, which operated as a gamma-ray telescope. This is possible by searching for down-going muons produced in interactions of gamma-rays in the Earth' atmosphere. He looked at the short time windows when satellite experiments had announced a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). The sophisticated tools developed by Astraatmadja will make it possible for the much bigger KM3NeT detector to detect gamma-rays from a GRB with a significance of three standard deviations.


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Automaker says trading volume of its shares are too low on the Toronto-based stock exchange.
August 16, 2017	by CP Staff
TORONTO — General Motors Co. (GM) is delisting its shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada effective at the end of November.
The company's shares will still be traded in New York.
In a statement, the automotive company said there was low trading volume of its shares on the TSX.
It said the cost of maintaining the Toronto listing was "no longer justified."
The company first filed to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2010 after former finance minister Jim Flaherty urged them to do so.
GM had accepted billions of dollars in aid from the American, Canadian and Ontario governments after filing for bankruptcy protection in 2009.
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The outdoor industry is not doing enough, survey respondents say
While many outdoor companies have released statements in support of Black Lives Matter, workers are dissatisfied with their employers' response, our survey shows.
"Anything. Everything. Something."
In a recent SNEWS survey circulated around the outdoor industry, that was one participant's answer to the question, "What more would you like to see your company do in response to racial injustice?"
It wasn't an isolated plea. Dozens of employees representing some of the industry's largest players echoed a similar sentiment, saying they felt their employers could be doing more.
Out of 59 respondents representing more than 40 outdoor businesses and organizations, 89.8 percent said their employers have not released action plans with specific, measurable goals for promoting anti-racism, and only 61 percent said their organizations have issued statements at all—the bare minimum of participatory support for racial equity in the industry.
More from our friends at Backpacker: "Words aren't enough this time"
Even more telling, 84.7 percent of participants answered "no" to the question, "Do you feel that your company has done enough to respond to the problems of racial injustice brought to light, once again, by the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests?"
That question was followed by a write-in section that produced perhaps the most vivid picture of inaction among industry organizations. Respondents painted an unfortunate portrait of resistance and halfheartedness at many companies.
Statements of frustration
"They have not specifically addressed systematic racism and police brutality in their statements," one anonymous respondent wrote of his or her company, which was not identified by name. "Some people asked for the company to include anti-racist wording in the company statement, but they refused to do so."
Many other survey participants, nearly all of them writing anonymously, made similar observations:
"Our GM does not believe that a statement is necessary. White male with a senior leadership team of all white males."
"My company issued a single paragraph on our website, nothing on our social or brand channels. They also just threw in some buzzwords and nothing more. Nothing about how they, as a leader in the outdoor industry, will strive to elevate black voices and fight for change in the industry. Employees voiced concern to our CEO and he completely dismissed us by telling us our disappointment is misplaced."
"No accountability measures have been put into place. Leadership/higher ups are still gatekeeping with white supremacy. Hiring more interns of color isn't going to help."
"Our company submitted a very ambiguous statement in an apolitical view. Very disappointing for our colleagues and many on the leadership team. We were not allowed to post anything on social. We are devastated by the continued racism and police brutality and can not voice our opinion at a brand level because of ownership's decisions to be non-partisan."
"The statement issued by my employer was extremely vague and focused on the company itself instead of the suffering of others. While it mentioned George Floyd, it did not name the causes of his death (racism and police brutality) and it included no indication that the company intends to take any action at all."
"They specifically rejected a letter written by 30 employees asking for them to address racism and police brutality against BIPOC after the murder of George Floyd, saying that they the company couldn't be political and must remain 'colorblind.'"
"We haven't made a response internally or externally, and I feel it is completely INADEQUATE to not issue a statement at the very least internally. I would like to see, at a bare minimum that our leadership team has a roundtable discussion about racism and we can agree on where we as a company stands on racism and then explain to our company as a whole where we stand, then take steps from there."
Positive responses
Not all of the statements were critical or anonymous. Several respondents expressed approval of their employers' action plans.
An employee from prAna wrote, "My company is in the process of outlining next steps in a long term plan with input from our advocates, consumers and employees. We're working to research the best approach to have meaningful change. It's important to hold brands accountable, but we need to give them space to create something that will hold up and something they can execute."
At Merrell, one respondent commented, "I think my company's response has been really good so far. We have made multiple statements in support of Black Lives Matter, made significant donations to black-led organizations, and are working internally and externally to make lasting change and be more transparent. But change takes time. Though the are working on a plan, I do not expect the company to have an action plan in place already. These plans should be well thought out and not rushed. But I would like to see an action plan with specific, measurable goals for promoting anti-racism within the coming weeks."
Another from Moosejaw wrote, "As an Afro-indigenous woman on the marketing team, I was proud to see Moosejaw be an ally to the movement as an outdoor company. Moosejaw signed the Outdoor CEO pledge prior to the protests. In terms of recent response, Moosejaw leveraged social media to make a statement, our CEO using his LinkedIn to reach other outdoor industry leaders, and him reaching out to the company internally with kind words of solidarity and encouraging/requiring that we engage in necessary discourse on these topics among each department with leadership. Our CEO has acknowledged publicly that there is more work to be done and is committed to following up with proof of the work."
These positive comments were far outweighed by criticism, however. In general, it appears as though most employee requests have gone unheeded.
"Anything, everything, something" is still needed, according to many.
If you haven't taken the survey yet, please do so here. Our collection of responses is ongoing. In coming weeks, we'll be following up with more in-depth investigation of some of the comments and concerns received.
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Jawbreaker At Riot Fest: The Moment I Stopped Hating Pop Punk
By Danny Baraz
Featured Image: D'Andre Ford
Sometimes, a live music moment catches you off guard and hits you so hard that you are overcome with the feels- a band or a song that summons a moment in time, a relationship, a victory or a defeat- you are instantly transported to that time and place with a chord, or a riff or a melody. As a reliable concert crier, I typically have a pretty good idea when that moment is coming. Before the show starts, before I get to the venue and even before tickets go on sale, as soon as a show is announced, I know. But The Misfits as the marquee headliners of Riot Fest 2016 and up to this past Sunday when Jawbreaker were the belles of the ball known as Riot Fest 2017, it redefined the criteria for the eligibility of what makes those moments and what don't and redefined how I reconciled my musical identity- yeah, Jawbreaker were that good.
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Jawbreaker at Riot Fest
I was 14 In 1990 when Jawbreaker's first album, Unfun was released. It was the same year the *greatest speed metal album of all time was unleashed and for all intents and purposes, changed my life forever.
*note- album, not band
One faithful summer night visiting my sister in college at SDSU for the weekend while my parents were going through a dramatic and at times abusive divorce, my sister's boyfriend, who was in a punk band that played a gig at an apartment complex my first night in town, put on the recently released Megadeth album called Rust in Peace on cassette tape at the after party.
After 6 minutes and 35 seconds, song one of the album, "Holy Wars… The Punishment Due" ended and the raucous party of maybe 30 people stood dead silent, with only a sort of shell shocked look on their faces- some from complete awe and curiosity about what type of masterful fuckery could possibly come next on the album and others hoping that this wasn't what the vibe of the party was going to be.
I was in the former demographic. I already had a casual relationship to skate thrash starting in 1987 when an album called Join The Army came out but back to 1990- it was also the year of Lights, Camera, Revolution, Seasons in the Abyss and the time I dropped acid and took a train back down to the San Diego Sports Arena to witness the Clash of the Titans tour.
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I learned a lot about myself on that night in San Diego that rippled through my life about who I thought I WANTED to be at the tender age of 14. I wanted to destroy my feelings, not nurture them. I wanted to hear songs from bands about corrupt government and institutions, I wanted to hear songs about wizards and Satan and when I needed something more cerebral, 1990 was also the year Against The Grain and Repeater came out. The angrier the better…
… and then there was "Emo."
The entire music industry was scaled and predicated on classifying and labeling music to bolster sales with terms like "Emo", when "Pop Punk" was perfectly sufficient enough label and MUCH less annoying, (but only slightly less so). Another example of this- not one "Grunge" band from Seattle sounded anything like the other…
Not. A. One.
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Yet Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were bands that were placed under the same umbrella term. I mean, if there were MAYBE one common thread amongst "Grunge" bands from Seattle it was Buzz Osborne and (the)Melvins.
Typically, I'm not super militant about what music I will or will not listen to, whether it ultimately resonates with me or not. I have never had a guilty pleasure in music no matter how hardcore I thought I was- even in my "Seek and Destroy" years I was very open minded to all music- as long as it sounded original. Why I liked something or didn't had nothing to do with fronting on a punk or thrasher image I was trying to portray.
The genre's I felt adamant about generally hating most of the bands that were in them were 80's Glam Rock and Pop Punk so, back full circle, I'm not going to front like I was some huge Jawbreaker fan while they were happening. I would go so far as to say that I had a complete aversion to that sound, the ascension of Green Day, the scalability of Blink 182 and the bleakness of expression in music that followed in the post 9/11 Noughties. (with the exception of …And You Will Know Us By Our Trail of Dead)
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Truth is that even with my claims of open mindedness to all music, I never gave Jawbreaker a proper chance- even though it was clear that their pop art imagery and penchant for catchy album and song names, at a time before the unspoken pop punk pre-requisite of unnecessarily long and complicated band names departed from the simplicity of one, hard hitting word, so to speak (two words if you count the word "the" in a bandname).
Now, anyone who knows me, knows there are fewer pet peeves I have that are bigger than name dropping or being the guy who knows a guy, who knows a guy, but explaining in that way is essential to my history with Jawbreaker, so I apologize in advance. Because without having met my friend Abby, I would have nothing substantial to write about the Jawbreaker reunion.
Abby is Adam and Kembra Phahler's brother but unlike Jawbreaker, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black is what made me say "No fucking way!" when Abby and I started to get to know each other 15 years ago for the first time. I fucking LOVED VHOKB.
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
So this review is written from a somewhat biased perspective but again, anyone who knows me knows I'll tell anyone the truth about whether I like their band or not without hesitation and that started WAYYY before music journalism first twinkled in my eye in 2000.
So with the backstory out of the way, flash to Sunday at Riot Fest 2017. I did grow an affinity for Jawbreaker in the 14 years Abby and I have been friends- friends who have witnessed each other get married and become fathers multiple times over. Lyrically, sonically and the depth of their songs are not common. Plus, he and my wife have always had a deep connection musically to both Jawbreaker AND Jets to Brazil. The truth is, big brother Adam or not, Abby TRULY loves the band Jawbreaker and would love them even if there were ZERO personal connection.
Now that brings us up to speed to Sunday, September 17th 2017 at Riot Fest in Chicago.
Abby and his wife Sarah flew in the previous night but I was busy Buzzcocking at the Cobra Lounge and fielding emergency calls from drunk, phone losing friends stranded at Douglas Park. It was the earliest I had gotten to the park in the three days of the festival so that I could catch two young bands that I love, Downtown Boys and Culture Abuse.
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Downtown Boys at The Smell
Culture Abuse at Riot Fest
Downtown Boys at Riot Fest
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black played the Heather Owens stage directly after Culture Abuse and I wandered back stage when they finished their set and found a couch and lit a cigarette and gave my feet the early day rest they didn't get the first two days of the festival.
Out comes Kembra Pfahler in her standard, yet surprisingly not bare breasted VHOKB styling , go go boots, elaborately styled, trademark faux beehive horror wig with every inch of skin from head to areola painted red and accompanied by a similarly uniformed dancer in blue. I didn't make her aware of my presence at that time since it was about 5 minutes to set time.
I'm going to save the glory of the VHOKB review for the main Riot Fest recap but let's just say it was one of my favorite sets of the festival and a naked Kembra Pfahler at whatever age she is now is just as believable and horrifically sexy shimmying, prancing and poetically preaching as she must've been in the dope, vomit and piss days of a pre-gentrified Lower East Side and East Village in her early 20's- patrolling the streets of Alphabet City at a time before gentrification transformed it into a family friendly neighborhood where people jogged and walked their dogs.
It was after this set that the family converged together, 123…
Two generations were represented, with the matriarch and patriarch thousands of miles away, unfortunately. Adam's daughters whom I hadn't seen since before puberty, some of their friends, some of Kembra's friends and then I met up with Abby and Sarah backstage just a few minutes later.
I could tell you that the excitement from this point of view was still almost as exciting for me as the build up to seeing the original lineup of The Misfits last year. The Misfits are a "top 3" type of band for me but that excitement was based on fantasy and people placed on pedestals who don't deserve to be up there at an elevated status for a grown ass man like me (*cough cough Glenn Danzig*). In 25 years I had never seen Glenn Danzig play a bad show, including the Danzig Legacy tour which was one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life (yup, cried at that one). But The Misfits performance at Riot Fest Chicago in 2016 left me feeling empty inside- like being betrayed or finding out you weren't going to make rent this month- they were awful.
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Jawbreaker at Riot Fest 2017 by D'Andre Ford
In all honesty, my excitement about Jawbreaker had little to do with the music I've heard on record and more to do with my day to day life and my excitement for friends. I wouldn't be singing along to any songs and I wouldn't feel the excitement you get when the first few bars of that song is played but as some of you that read Janky Smooth on regular basis already know, the REAL trial for the all (self) important Danny-B-ometer band test is the live show. If you can't pull off what's on the album live then I don't care how good your album is… you aint shit and the best bands sound better live than they do in the studio.
In that regard and with my less militant stance on punk rock and my overwhelming and prevailing need to "call em like I see em", this is about as unbiased of a review as I can possibly write. Friends or no friends, I would have no qualms about telling Adam or Abby or Kembra if I thought the performance of the band fell flat.
Jawbreaker absolutely CRUSHED it live.
The band was tight, REAL tight. Seeing the faces in the crowd, seeing the faces in the wings of the Riot Stage of both Adam's family and other musicians that played the fest that weekend, seeing one lonely tear roll down the cheek of a stranger when Jawbreaker started playing "Accident Prone" gave me that familiar feeling I didn't think would be possible without a lifelong, intimate connection to their music that is typically required for me to tap into those feelings I tried to destroy for so long and that come to the surface in these moments.
Adam Pfahler's daughters seemed suddenly awestruck and I could see them re-evaluating what they know about their dad in their eyes, borderline balling because their whole lives they have listened to their dad talk about a time before they were alive as most parents do, they watched their dad hope beyond hope and probably become somewhat bitter when the other two members of Jawbreaker couldn't get "it" together to do what he has always wanted to do- which is to resume playing music in a band he KNEW was iconic to so many anonymous people he'd never meet and just drop the drama already.
But the drama is a part of Jawbreaker lore and the tension in the ranks contributes to their art and let's face it, if they had reformed 10 years ago, they probably wouldn't be one of the most anticipated and probably one of the most well paid festival acts of the decade, the latter of which is pure speculation on my part.
Chris Bauermeiste
It was an interesting behind the scenes look at the biggest marquee bookings on the competitive festival circuit and two years in a row, Riot Fest has stolen the thunder from Hurricane Coachella (recently downgraded to a tropical, post pop depression) and the punks from Punk Rock Bowling. The Stern brothers are so punk that their one stage festival refuses to compromise their distaste for Emo, even if it allows them to grow big enough for multiple stages that would draw a crowd and a ticket price that could compete for bands like the Misfits and yes, they would've booked Jawbreaker in an INSTANT.
I've seen this story many times before just not to this magnitude. The reformation and resurgence of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and Sleep have propelled those bands to heights they had never looked down from in their prime songwriting years. That phenomenon is directly related to the internet and the fact that kids of every age will always want to collect things- things like rare vinyl.
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Adam Pfahler
It would be difficult for Jawbreaker to be bigger than they were after 24 Hour Revenge Therapy came out. But The Misfits just sold out The Forum in L.A. for a New Years Eve show in which they charged around $400 for a floor ticket. I see the same being possible for Jawbreaker IF they take it slow on what shows they play, post Riot Fest reunion.
I have no inside information on future plans and I wouldn't write it here without permission even if I did. I have no doubt that Jawbreaker will find a middle ground somewhere in the range between the Misfits and decent human beings. Between playing the Riot Festival and not playing again until New Years, so that the laws of supply and demand allow them to choose whether they will gouge and fuck their fans- because ain't no gutter punks gonna be inside the Forum in Los Angeles on New Years Eve- but I bet a Kardashian or someone of the same ilk will be.
Blake Schwarzenbach
I'm fairly positive that lead vocalist, guitarist and potential cult leader Blake Schwarzenbach, and bassist Chris Bauermeister enjoyed watching the transformation of their infamous history unfold in lore- even though that story ended prematurely, to being one of the most anticipated and talked about bands in the world since Riot Fest announced them in April of this year. And through these decades of inactivity, I DO know that Adam Pfahler hoped beyond hope, actively lobbied the other members, re-issued records and probably prayed to some sort of god that this day would come and now, here it is- And THAT, surrounded by his family and friends, standing 30 feet from him on the Riot Stage in Chicago, watching the joy in his face and the familiar tears of joy of everyone from the regular folks being crammed up against the rail during their set to the jaded rockstars watching Jawbreaker perform for the first time in decades from the wings- it was watching these people have those emotional moments that made me choke back my tears.
When I talk about weeping or balling at concerts, there is a bit of hyperbole happening in my choice of words. Saying I "cried like a baby" or even in my Black Sabbath review from the last time they played the Forum, with the words "Weeping Manboy" in the title is of course, an exaggeration.
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Weeping, balling, crying like a baby and other such phrases and terms are just words I use to relay the way music can sometimes affect a sensitive guy like me. A boy who was taught to push those feelings deep down long ago in the name of some twisted ideal of manhood and exchanged those base and pure emotions for a raging temper that helped me survive being completely unsupervised starting in the year of our lord, 1990, at the age of 14 when Unfun was released.
I've been trying to undo that survival impulse for decades now but one of the only ways I was able to access those feelings was through a deep connection to the arts- movies, music etc. and what I learned on Sunday is that I can also access them in an empathic reflex to others going through the same thing.
How was Jawbreaker's performance at Riot Fest 2017? I actually might be the wrong person to ask, given my casual relationship to the music but generally speaking, I do know a strong performance when I see one and if I was to compare those casual feelings to the type of militancy I have about the Misfits, I take the gratitude and humility of Jawbreaker every time. I might feel differently if the Misfits sounded halfway decent last year- but they didn't. Give me the stoke I saw in Jawbreaker on Sunday all day, errryday and I don't even have to think about it twice. One thing I know for sure- Jawbreaker is one of those bands that people build the foundations of their core beliefs around. Lyrically prodigious and musically delicious and innovative, I realized quite some time ago now that Jawbreaker, like Nirvana, Guns N Roses, Black Sabbath and Queens of the Stone Age are one of the bands you might list in your Craig;s List ad looking for a singer that is influenced by the "right kind" of music.
Congratulations to Jawbreaker and their fans and of course, their families. Taking this plunge will undoubtedly transform their lives forever, for better or worse but usually a little bit of both.
Life, man, life. What a trip.
Words by: Danny Baraz
Photos by: D'Andre Ford & Danny B
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