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Album Review: Johnny Paycheck – 'Mr Hag Told My Story'
2 Comments Posted by Paul W. Dennis on June 30, 2017
Nowadays when a tribute album is released, often it is more of a multi-artist gala event than an honest tribute with many of those paying tribute being mere poseurs. This was not always the case. Prior to the Urban Cowboy movement, it was common to see single artist albums that paid tribute to another artist. Kitty Wells, Faron Young and Del Reeves paid tribute to Jim Reeves. Similarly, Stonewall Jackson, Ernest Tubb and Charley Pride issued Hank Williams tribute albums and Loretta Lynn cut a tribute album to Patsy Cline. Even the great Merle Haggard issued tribute albums to Bob Wills and Jimmie Rodgers, as did Willie Nelson with his a salute to Lefty Frizzell. Most of these single artist tribute albums were sincere tributes, but they were seldom innovative or particularly soulful endeavors, just albums of adequate cover versions.
Mr. Hag Told My Story is different. For one thing Paycheck, a somewhat kindred spirit to Haggard, inhabits these songs, making them very personal indeed. Moreover, instead of merely recording a collection of Haggard's hits, Paycheck goes deep catalog, recording some relatively obscure songs that were mostly album tracks for Haggard.
While Haggard and Paycheck had some similarities such as tough childhoods which resulted in both being hellions during their younger years, Haggard outgrew his demons and never was regarded as being part of the outlaw movement. This may be at least partially due to Haggard's producer at Capitol, Ken Nelson, giving Haggard free reign to release some very personal albums with less commercial viability. Consequently, Haggard did not have much cause for rebellion.
I am not convinced that Johnny Paycheck ever truly conquered his demons, except when he grew too old to continue his self-destructive ways.
Haggard was a huge star with over 20 years of sustained chart success while Paycheck had three scattered periods of success scattered over a 15 year period. Both were successful songwriters and both got started in the bands of the biggest stars of the time.
For a brief period of time Haggard and Paycheck recorded for the same label, Epic, toured together and were able to record together.
Released in 1981, Mr. Hag Told My Story is an album of moody and/or introspective songs all of which were written by Haggard except for "Carolyn" a Haggard hit written by Tommy Collins. There were no hit singles released from the album, but there are a lot of classic performances, with Haggard's band The Strangers providing much of the instrumental backing.
The structure of the album is that Paycheck introduces each of the songs with a spoken introduction. Haggard himself weaves in and out of the album, sometimes as a lead or harmony singer, sometimes as part of a conversation and sometimes playing his guitar. Make no mistake – this is a Johnny Paycheck album but Haggard's presence is significant.
The album opens up with "(I'm) Turning Off A Memory", the B-side of Haggard's 1971 hit "Grandma Harp". This is a great song that I think should have been an A-side for Haggard. Haggard adds some asides and sings on the choruses and takes on one of the verses.
You can find me in a dim lighted bar room
If your coldness should ever turn warm
But the chances of you ever changing
Are as slim as your two loving arms
So I'm turning off a memory
As quickly as time will allow
Yes, I'm turning off a memory
And the wine seems to help me somehow
"I've Got A Yearning" was an album track on Haggard's 1978 Capitol album Eleven Winners. Taken slightly up-tempo, the song is another tale of loneliness:
I've got a yearning to hold you tight
A burning desire I live with day and night
Everything I lose keeps on hanging on
This feeling isn't leaving and by now it should be gone.
I keep on thinking those thoughts that keep making me want you all the time
I should be trying to find me a way I can drive you from my mind
I know that you wanted to give and I know that you gave all you could
Wish I could accept what is over and done with for good.
Tommy Collins wrote "Carolyn", a classic song of frustration and angst, that Haggard took to the top of the charts in 1972. Here Paycheck sings the verses and Haggard does the narrations. Don Markham's horns give the song a more jazzy feeling than on Haggard's earlier single.
Yes, Carolyn, a man will do that sometimes on his own
And sometimes when he's lonely
I believe a man will do that sometimes out of spite
But Carolyn, a man will do that always
When he's treated bad at home
"I'll Leave the Bottle on the Bar" comes from Haggard's 1968 album Sing Me Back Home. This song is another featuring a quicker tempo. The steel guitar sounds like that of Big Jim Murphy, Paycheck's regular steel guitarist:
A loser doesn't always know he's losing
Till he's lost the game and it's too late to win
I hope I'll call in time and you'll forgive me
'Cause I want so much to come back home again
And I'll leave the bottle on the bar
If you'll take me back to start anew
I'll leave the bottle on the bar
I'll sober up and come back home to you
I'm not sure that "All Night Lady" was ever issued on a Merle Haggard album. This song is about Death Row, not the first time Haggard wrote about the subject. Paycheck does a masterful job of singing the song.
Through the window he sits watching his last sunset
Like a blackout curtain closing out the light
It's now he needs someone's arms around him
Yes it's now he needs someone to help him through the night
An all night lady
One who loves me
And won't leave me when daylight comes
One who'll stay with me until my life is done
At 9 AM they're going to lead him to the death-house
And at 10 AM they'll lay his soul to rest
I can see them giving him his last supper
I can hear him giving them his last request
"I Can't Hold Myself in Line" was the only single issued from the album, dying at #41. The song originally appeared on Haggard's Pride in What I Am album released in 1969. This song is basically a very bluesy conversation between Haggard and Paycheck, with twin steel by Jim Murphy and Norm Hamlet, plus some very funky lead guitar by Roy Nichols and terrific horns played by Don Markham.
I'm going off of the deep end
And I'm slowly losing my mind
And I disagree with the way (ha-ha) I'm living
But I can't hold myself in line
You give me no reason for my drinkin'
But I can't stand myself at times
And you're better off to just leave and forget me
Cause I can't hold myself in line
"Yesterday's News Just Hit Home Today" is another bluesy track with the sage advice that 'being a fool is one thing, but not knowing you're a fool is another thing'.
"You Don't Have Very Far to Go" was a Haggard co-write with Red Simpson that first surfaced on Haggard's 1967 album Branded Man. I thought at the time that it would have made a good single for Haggard but then, most of his sixties albums were full of good singles material. Johnny gives it a more honky-tonk treatment that Hag had given it.
You always find the way to hurt my pride
If I'm not crying you're not satisfied
And I don't know why you want to hurt me so
If you're tryin' to break my heart
You don't have very far to go
Before the heartache begins
I already feel the sadness
Of a heartbreak settin' in
I don't know why you want to hurt me so
"No More You and Me" is a fairly generic honky-tonk ballad, executed perfectly by Paycheck.
The album closes with the bluesy title track "Someone Told My Story":
I played a brand-new record on the jukebox
And I scarcely could believe the song I heard
It told of how you left me for another
It was almost like I'd written every word
Someone told my story in a song
The lyrics told of happiness and home
And then it told of how you've done me wrong
The writer must've seen the way you done me
For he told it all and never missed a line
He told of swinging doors and the jukebox
And he even knew I almost lost my mind
After listening to this album, I think you'd have to say that Haggard definitely told Paycheck's story in his songs. This album is my favorite of the post-Little Darlin' Johnny Paycheck. Really, how could this miss?
The great songs of Merle Haggard, as sung by Johnny Paycheck with an amplified version of Haggard's Strangers providing most of the instrumental backing and Hag himself joining in at times.
Album Reviews, Retro Reviews, Spotlight Artist	Bob Wills, Charley Pride, Del Reeves, Don Markham, Ernest Tubb, Faron Young, Hank Williams, Jim Murphy, Jim Reeves, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Paycheck, Ken Nelson, Kitty Wells, Lefty Frizzell, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Norm Hamlet, Patsy Cline, Red Simpson, Roy Nichols, Stonewall Jackson, The Strangers, Tommy Collins, Willie Nelson
Album Review: Merle Haggard – 'Blue Jungle'
The 1990s saw Haggard make what he hoped would be a new start as, following his departure from Epic, he signed a deal with Curb Records. His first album for the label featured mainly his own songs, and they're a good collection.
There was only one single, 'When It Rains It Pours', which was almost ignored by radio, peaking at #30. But was this a missed opportunity? Haggard wanted his topical polemic 'Me And Crippled Soldiers' to be the lead single, but the label relegated it to the B-side, perhaps fearful that its message would be controversial. Written by Hag with his ex-wife Bonnie Owens, it was an outraged response to a recent Supreme Court decision which allowed burning the US flag as an expression of free speech. It may not have been a hit, but it still made an impact as a live favourite, and perhaps if it had been released in the download era I suspect it would have garnered big sales.
The actual single, 'When It Rains It Pours' is a rather downbeat little ballad about missing a loved one, written by John Cody Carter. It's not a bad song, but it's easy to see how it got lost in the competition from younger stars in the ferment of 1990.
There were other songs tackling current issues. 'Under The Bridge' and 'My Home Is In The Street' (the latter a co-write with wife Theresa) both put a personal face to the issue of homelessness. In both takes, a middle aged man loses his family's home as the result of losing a job, and both songs express a positive attitude to life despite their dire circumstances:
No sir, I'm not homeless
We just need a house to put it in
The title track is a mellow western swing about the dreariness of a workday city life without a lover. There is a nice cover of one of Jimmie Rodgers' lesser known tunes, 'Never No Mo' Blues', with some authentic yodelling.
The best song on the album is the lost-love ballad 'Lucky Old Colorado', written by Red Simpson. Also excellent in the same style is 'Sometimes I Dream', and the wistful 'Driftwood', both fine new Haggard compositions.
Finally, the enjoyable shuffle 'A Bar In Bakersfield' which Hag wrote with Freddy Powers from the point of view of a musician who never made it big. Very charming.
This is a very nice album, with a generally subdued, low key feel, and a step back to more traditional country sounds from the jazz influences of his later Epic releases. There's still an occasional bit of brass, but it is very much in the background. Unfortunately, lacking a big hit single or much in the way of promotion, it did not prove much of a commercial success, but it's worth checking out.
Album Reviews, Retro Reviews, Spotlight Artist	Bonnie Owens, Freddy Powers, Jimmie Rodgers, John Cody Carter, Merle Haggard, Red Simpson, Theresa Haggard
Album Review: Dale Watson – 'The Truckin' Sessions'
Once upon a time, a long time ago, on a faraway planet similar to, yet very different from our own, existed a genre of music called Country Music. Within that genre was a subgenre know as Truck Driving Music, a subgenre mostly populated by big men with deep rumbling voices that sounded of too many cigarettes and too much coffee consumed at 3 AM at truck stops and diners around the country. This subgenre was populated by legendary singers such as Dick Curless, Del Reeves, Red Simpson, and Red Sovine. The king of the genre, the man so loved by truck drivers that the Teamsters Union awarded him a gold membership card, was Dave Dudley.
Meanwhile back on our own planet, the genre of Truck Driving Music barely exists at all, at least to judge from what is played by radio and CMT. What we have instead is songs about ruttish young males with their pickup trucks searching for scantily-clad females. Most of it is garbage and almost none of it is memorable.
That the genre of Truck Driving Music exists at all is largely due to the efforts of one brave man, Dale Watson, who has issued three complete albums of Truck Driving Music, starting with The Truckin' Sessions, issued in 1993. With this album Watson brings the feel of classic Truck Driving Music front and center for the first time in at least a decade and a half , or since the decline of the CB era.
Dale Watson wrote all fourteen of the songs on The Truckin' Sessions, and while it might have been interesting to hear Dale's take on some of the old classics of the genre, the product presented here is more than satisfactory , and is a worthy successor to the tunes of Dave Dudley, Red Simpson, et al.
Most of the songs on the album are taken at an up-tempo reminiscent of Dave Dudley's "Six Days On The Road" or "There Ain't No Easy Rides"; however, the overall feel of the album owes more to the 'Bakersfield Sound' of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Speedy West and Red Simpson, than to anything produced in Nashville.
"Good Luck 'n' Good Truckin' Tonite" opens the album with one of those up-tempo songs referenced above. This track is followed by "Big Wheels Keep Rollin' " a song which reminds me of the Merle Haggard classic "White Line Fever"
Big wheels keep rollin'
Feel the rumble 'neath my feet
The feelin's a part of me
This is followed by "Heaven In Baltimore" an upbeat number about the girl waitin for him in Baltimore. The arrangement is similar to the 'freight train' sound that Buck Owens used during the 1960s.
Heaven in Baltimore
Put the pedal to the metal
She's waitin' by the door
My Heaven in Baltimore
"Have You Got It On" is a mid-tempo ballad featuring some really nice steel guitar work by band member Ricky (C-Note) Davis. In fact, Davis shines through the album.
I see you roving up by tough look side
You got a six foot Shakespeare stickin' in the sky
You're smiling at me from your side view mirror
We might be closer than we appear
Babe, have you got it on?
Come on, come on, come back
"Makin' Up Time" picks up the tempo as does "Flat Tire", a song about a trucker stranded by a flat. The arrangement on this song would fit nicely onto many of Dave Dudley's efforts.
"Drag Along and Tag Along" is a bluesy ballad in which Davis runs some steel guitar runs that remind one of Speedy West.
"Exit 109″ finds our hero being seduced by a female on the CB radio for a tryst, whereas " Help Me Joe" tells the tale of a trucker far away from home who is fueled by coffee in his efforts to survive
"Everyday Knuckleclutchin' Gearjammin' Supertruckin' Loose Nut Behind The Wheel" is a trucker's self-description of himself and his life.
Stopped to grab a cup of Pick-Me-Up
At the Pink Poodle Coffee Shop
I had a pow-wow with a couple of pals
I said I'd meet there on the flip flop
We started tradin' stories with a little added glory
You'd think we were made of steel
Just your everyday knuckleclutchin' gearjammin' …
"You've Got A Long Way To Go" is an older truckers words of advice to a young driver.
"Longhorn Suburban" is a mid-tempo ballad extolling the joys of the open road.
The up-tempo arrangement, reminiscent of Del Reeves' "Looking At The World Through A Windshield", belies the sad lyrics of "I'm Fixin' To Have Me A Breakdown", a tale of a truck driver whose girl has left him.
Despite the solitary nature of the job, most truck drivers are family men and the reason why they persevere is exemplified by "I Gotta Get Home To My Baby". It's a topic that has been dealt with many times, and Dale does it as well as anyone.
That big eyed smile and a long hard hug
That's what I got waitin' for me
Move out of my way
I gotta get there today
She's got her heart countin' on me
I really liked this album and the full and tight sound Dale's band achieves with only four musicians. Because Dale plays his own lead guitar, he seems to let the steel guitar carry more of the melody lines than might otherwise be the case. Preston Rumbaugh plays bass and Brian Ferriby plays the percussion as it should be played – strictly to keep the rhythm.
Grade: an easy A+
Album Reviews, Retro Reviews, Spotlight Artist	Brian Ferriby, Buck Owens, Dale Watson, Dave Dudley, Del Reeves, Dick Curless, Merle Haggard, Preston Rumbaugh, Red Simpson, Red Sovine, Ricky Davis, Speedy West
Album Review: Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen – 'Bakersfield Bound'
Although not marketed as such, 1996's Bakersfield Bound is, in many ways, a Desert Rose Band reunion album, as it finds Chris Hillman working with both Herb Pedersen and DRB steel guitarist Jay Dee Maness again. The music is decidedly more traditional and less commercial than anything that the Desert Rose Band ever attempted and that may be why Hillman and Pedersen avoided labeling it as such.
Despite its title and Hillman's and Pedersen's west coast roots, this is not, strictly speaking, a salute to the Bakersfield sound in the same vein as many of the tribute albums that have been released since Buck Owens died in 2006. There is a healthy dose of Bakersfield, to be sure, but there are plenty of non-Bakersfield influences as well. Hillman and Pedersen harmonize on the albums 13 tracks in ways that are in reminiscent at times of The Everly Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, and the Willburn Brothers as well as Buck Owens and Don Rich. The album's first track "Playboy" was written by Eddie Miller, who was more famous for having written "There She Goes" for Carl Smith, "Thanks a Lot" for Ernest Tubb, and "Release Me" which was recorded by Kitty Wells and countless others. Hillman and Pedersen effectively channel The Louvin Brothers with an excellent cover of "My Baby's Gone". Also excellent is their version of "Lost Highway", a 1948 composition by Leon Payne, which was most famously recorded by Hank Williams in 1949..
Perhaps the most surprising cover here is "Time Goes So Slow", a beautiful waltz that was written by Skeeter Davis and Marie Wilson, which finds Herb Pedersen harmonizing at what has to be the very top of his register.
These songs aside, the meat and potatoes of this album are the Bakersfield tunes, which pay tribute to such legends as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. Owens is saluted with covers of "He Don't Deserve You Anymore", "There Goes My Love", and "Close Up The Honky Tonks", which was written by Red Simpson. Haggard is represented by a cover of the Hank Cochran and Glenn Martin-penned "It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)". The album closes with two Hillman co-writes, "Just Tell Me Darlin'" and the title track.
This an outstanding album with impeccable song choices and excellent singing and picking throughout. It's virtually impossible to select any favorite tracks, because they are all so good. It is a must-have for fans of Chris Hillman, The Desert Rose Band, and fans of roots music in general.
Album Reviews, Retro Reviews, Spotlight Artist	Buck Owens, Carl Smith, Chris Hillman, Desert Rose Band, Don Rich, Eddie Miller, Glenn Martin, Hank Cochran, Hank Williams, Herb Pedersen, Jay Dee Maness, Kitty Wells, Leon Payne, Marie Wilson, Merle Haggard, Red Simpson, Skeeter Davis, The Everly Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, The Wilburn Brothers
Favorite country songs of the 1970s: Part 7
2 Comments Posted by Paul W. Dennis on March 6, 2012
For part seven of this series, as always, just some songs I liked, one song per artist, not necessarily the biggest hit, (although I feel free to comment on other songs by the artist).
"I'm Having Your Baby" – Sunday Sharpe (1974)
Female answer to a rather lame Paul Anka hit with the answer song being better (or at least more believable) than the original. Ms. Sharpe originally was from Orlando, FL, but seemingly has disappeared from view. This song reached #10 on Cashbox, her only Top 10 hit (#11 Billboard). A few years later she had one more top twenty hit with "A Little At A Time".
"I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" – Billy Joe Shaver (1973)
For a guy whose only two charting records charted at 88 and 80, and who can't sing a lick, Billy Joe Shaver has had a heck of a career as a recording artist, issuing several acclaimed albums. Of course, his main claim to fame is as a songwriter.
"Slippin' Away" – Jean Shepard (1973)
Jean took this Bill Anderson composition to #1 (Cashbox) reviving a career that Capitol had abandoned. Jean was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001, an honor two decades overdue.
"Devil In The Bottle" – T.G. Sheppard (1975)
T.G. kicked off his career as a singer under the T.G. Sheppard name (real name Bill Browder, and recorded also as Brian Stacey) with consecutive #1s. T.G. would have fourteen #1 singles between 1975 and '86, along with three more that reached #2 . He worked for Elvis at one point, before kicking off his solo career.
"Greystone Chapel" – Glen Sherley (1970)
This song first saw the light of day when Johnny Cash recorded it for the Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison album in 1968. At the time Glen Sherley was a prisoner at Folsom. This was his only chart record, reaching #63. In addition to this song, Sherley had several other songs he'd written recorded, most notably Eddy Arnold's recording of "Portrait of My Woman." Johnny Cash helped get Glen Sherley released from prison, and even had him as part of his road show for a while. Unfortunately, Glen Sherley was unable to adapt to life outside of prison, and committed suicide in 1978.
"Dog Tired of Cattin' Around" – Shylo (1976)
An amusing tune, Shylo recorded for Columbia during the years 1976-1979. This single charted at #75. Columbia would release eight charting singles but none went higher than #63.
"I'm A Truck" – Red Simpson (1971)
A truck tells its side of the story:
There'd be no truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks
No double-clutching gear- jamming coffee drinking nuts
They'll drive their way to glory and they have all the luck
There'd be no truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks.
Red's biggest hit, in fact his only top 30 record, reaching #1 Cashbox/#4 Billboard. Simpson was from Bakersfield and co-wrote a number of songs with Buck Owens, many of which Buck recorded, including "Sam's Place" and "Kansas City Song." Junior Brown recently recorded Red's "Highway Patrol." Curiously enough, "I'm A Truck" was not written by Red Simpson, but came from the pen of Bob Stanton, who worked as a mailman and sent Red the song.
"Nothing Can Stop My Loving You" – Patsy Sledd (1972)
Great debut recording – it only reached #68 but unknown to Ms. Sledd, her record label was created as a tax write off, so that there was no promotional push for anyone by the label. The next single "Chip Chip" reached #33 but from there it was all downhill. Patsy was part of the George Jones-Tammy Wynette show for a few years.
"The Lord Knows I'm Drinking" – Cal Smith (1973)
Bill Anderson wrote it and Cal Smith took it to #1 on March 3, 1973. Cal only had four Top 10 records, but three of them went to #1. His biggest chart hit was "It's Time To Pay The Fiddler," but this song and "Country Bumpkin" are probably the best remembered songs for the former member of Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours. Cal actually changed a few of the words from what Bill had written, probably a change for the better.
"Mama Bear" – Carl Smith (1972)
Carl only had one Top 10 song after 1959 and this song wasn't it, dying at #46. By the time this record was issued, Carl was 45 years old and his career as a recording artist was stone-cold dead but that doesn't mean he quit making good records. Carl issued many good records in the 1970s, but only "Pull My String and Wind Me Up" and "How I Love Them Old Songs" would reach the top twenty. Read more of this post
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Album Review: Merle Haggard: 'Strangers' and 'Swinging Doors And The Bottle Let Me Down'
2 Comments Posted by Occasional Hope on October 3, 2011
Haggard's debut single was a cover of Bakersfield star Wynn Stewart's 'Sing A Sad Song' which was released on independent West Coast label Tally. Although it crept into the top 20 on Billboard, Merle sounds as if he is trying too hard to copy Stewart vocally, breaking into an uncomfortable falsetto, and there is a very heavy handed string arrangement.
He followed that up with a song penned by another Bakersfield boy, Tommy Collins's perky novelty story song 'Sam Hill', which is certainly memorable, but now sounds very dated, particularly the backing vocals, and it performed less well than its predecessor. On the flip side was the pained ballad 'You Don't Have Very Far To Go', which Haggard wrote with fellow Bakersfield singer-songwriter Red Simpson. This is an excellent song, addressed to although the string section is overdone again.
The third and last single for Tally, the rueful '(All Of My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers', was the one which really kickstarted his career. The first of many genuine classics Haggard was to make hits, it is unusual in that it was not one of his own songs, but was written by fellow Californian Liz Anderson (mother of Lynn), to whom he had been introduced by Bonnie Owens. A Bakersfield bar room take on lost love, it was his first top 10 hit single and gave him the name of his backing band, the Strangers. Even though a competing version by the more established Roy Drusky may have cut into sales, it was a big enough success that it persuaded major label Capitol to buy out his Tally contract. Six Tally sides were packaged with newly recorded material in the same vein, produced by Ken Nelson, for Haggard's debut album in 1965.
The malicious 'I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can' (a Haggard original) was his first single actually released on Capitol, although it failed to break into the top 40 on Billboard. It is an energetic, personality-infused response to "get even with womankind" by breaking the hearts of every girl he meets.
Typically, country albums in the 60s featured one or two singles, a lot of filler, and covers of other artists' hits. Haggard was much more album-oriented, even at this early stage, writing five of the album's dozen tracks, and there are other songs which could have been hit singles given the exposure.
I really like 'Please Mr DJ', a disconsolate plea for the radio to play a specific song for "someone who broke my heart today". 'If I Had Left It Up To You' is another very good song with the protagonist regretting his earlier fighting for a doomed relationship, as if he had not done so,
It'd all be over now except the crying
I'd be used to spending all my nights alone
A couple of tracks are still filler, with overdone string-laden productions. The heartbreak ballad 'You Don't Even Try' was written with Haggard's friend (and Bonnie Owens's then boyfriend) Fuzzy Owen, co-owner of Tally, while steel guitarist Ralph Mooney's romantic and sophisticated sounding 'Falling For You' is not a patch on 'Crazy Arms'.
A cover of Ernest Tubb's classic 'Walking The Floor Over You' is taken at a disconcertingly brisk, almost cheerful pace, which doesn't quite work. Rounding out the set are rather better versions of another fine Liz Anderson song, the depressed 'The Worst Is Yet To Come', and Jenny Lou Carson's sad but pretty sounding lament for lost love 'I'd Trade All Of My Tomorrows'.
The West Coast based Academy of Country Music recognized this bright new star by naming him Best New Male Vocalist for 1965 and also gave him the Best Vocal Duo award for his duet album with Bonnie Owens. A year later he had advanced to the title of Best Male Vocalist. Haggard was definitely on the right track with his debut, but had not quite found his distinctive voice yet.
Album Reviews, Retro Reviews, Spotlight Artist	Bonnie Owens, Fuzzy Owen, Jenny Lou Carson, Jimmie Rodgers, Ken Nelson, Liz Anderson, Luke the Drifter, Merle Haggard, Ralph Mooney, Red Simpson, Roy Drusky, Roy Nichols, The Strangers, Tommy Collins, Wynn Stewart
Album Review: Rosanne Cash – 'Seven Year Ache'
2 Comments Posted by J.R. Journey on September 8, 2011
Rosanne Cash's first inroads on the country charts came from the minor hits on Right Or Wrong, but it would be Seven Year Ache, with its disparate themes of melancholy and female-empowerment, coupled with exceptionally cerebral material, that set the standard for Cash's next decade of recording. The memes set here, of folk singer-songwriter sensibilities meets modern pop-country production, have since been repeated by the likes of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, and any number of other fringe-favorites.
I've already written about this album's first single and its impact on me as a country fan. Even today, with a seriously out-dated production – the kind of synthetic hand-clap percussion employed here went out with the Atari, and for many of the same reasons – the track still packs a mighty, meaty punch. The dark, contemplative mood of the song – the internal monologue of bewildered, yet determined individual – is offset by the breezy melody and the entire affair is framed by a looping and driving steel guitar track supplied by Hank DeVito. Cash reportedly wrote the song after a fight with then-husband and producer Rodney Crowell. The songwriter herself says of the lyric: "That's one of those gifts you only get once in life. I wrote it in about an hour. I just poured my soul out into the song." She bared a lot of herself in the process, but gave us, in my opinion, one of the greatest lyrics of our time. In 1981, "Seven Year Ache" hit #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, #6 on the Adult Contemporary list, and #22 on the Hot 100. It's been covered several times over the years, most notably by Trisha Yearwood (with Cash featured on vocals, providing the harmonies Emmylou Harris sang on the original recording) on 2001's Inside Out.
The second single and second #1, Leroy Preston's "My Baby Thinks He's A Train", more than any other track Rosanne Cash has recorded save for covers of the Man In Black's songs, is a testament to Johnny Cash's musical influence on his oldest daughter. The steady and chugging back beat is accompanied by blistering guitar work, and progressive lyrics like:
He eats money like a train eats coal
He burns it up and leaves you in the smoke
If you wanna catch a ride, you wait 'til he unwinds
He's just like a train, he always gives some tramp a ride
"Blue Moon With Heartache" is the only song here besides the title track Cash herself put pen to paper to create. On this brooding number, the results were less satisfying. The story of a woman living in a troubled relationship, and daydreaming about leaving, is played out amid the intrusive electric piano and a swelling, but hushed, string arrangement. This, too, topped the country singles chart, but a much better candidate for the final single would have been "You Don't Have Very Far To Go", written by Merle Haggard and Red Simpson. "Go" is the most traditional country song on the album with steel guitar flourishes and no signs of pop or rock influences, and while simple in form is an effective heart's-breaking lyric.
At times, Cash seems bent on pushing the boundaries of a female country album as far as she possibly can, in both form and function. Listening to the roadhouse rocker "What Kinda Girl", clearly as influenced by Ronstadt and The Rolling Stones as by Loretta Lynn and The Tennessee Three, the cheeky lyrics – "I don't wear pajamas and I don't sniff glue" – and butchered-grammar rhyme scheme will turn your head on the first few listens, but the track loses much of its appeal soon after you're over the cheap tricks. "Only Human" may be the first time, and maybe still the only, instance of a woman using the word "stoned" on a mainstream country album. Keith Sykes' honest lyric is marred somewhat by the straight '80s pop production and the loud backing vocals, but is a marvelous song nonetheless that finds the narrator lamenting her own mortality for the anguish it indirectly causes. Another miss is "I Can't Resist" which ventures into easy-listening territory with Phil Kenzie's saxophone playing and the singer's detached vocal. "Where Will The Words Come From" with Crowell and Harris providing perfectly desolate harmonies, save for a minimal amount of the era's background noise, follows the singer's more recent sounds with its spare production.
Seven Year Ache was an album of firsts for Cash, not just in style and substance, but for being her first #1 charting album, housing her first #1 country singles, and her first pop hit. It also marks the singer's first instance of finding her artistry. Despite the missteps in production, which can easily be blamed on the release date as much as the artist and producer, this is a collection of great songs that set the stage for the first phase of a remarkable career.
The album was released as a 2-for-1 with Rosanne's U.S. debut album and has been re-released on CD and for digital download.
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Force of Nature: Where is GOP leadership on climate change?
By William Brock
What is the Republican strategy regarding climate change? From the White House to individual statehouses around the country, conservatives have — at best — adopted a See-No-Evil attitude toward one of our planet's most-pressing issues.
At worst, the GOP approach includes obstruction, belittlement, and threats of violence.
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was replacing a robust, Obama-era rule governing grubby coal-fired power plants. Billed as a job-saver, the new EPA rule requires older, pollution-spewing coal plants to, well, keep doing what they're already doing.
The Obama rule, known as the Clean Power Plan, had some bite to it: forcing closure (or modern retrofit) of excessively dirty coal-fired power plants, and requiring new ones to use cleaner, more-expensive technology. Its replacement, with the feel-good name of the Affordable Clean Energy rule, isn't much concerned with air pollution. Its intent is to prop up a declining coal industry.
Did I mention the head of the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, is a former coal industry lobbyist? And a former vice president of the Washington Coal Club? During his time in Washington, Wheeler has consistently sought to reduce federal regulation of greenhouse gases; at one point, he even pushed for the Energy Department to subsidize coal-fired power plants.
And this man is now the leader of the Environmental Protection Agency? With Republicans in charge, down is up, one plus one equals zero, and foxes are assigned to protect henhouses.
Even when they're not in the majority, conservatives are doing their best to deny, derail, and misdirect any efforts to combat climate change.
Take Oregon, for example.
One week ago, the Oregon Senate was poised to vote on a major cap-and-trade bill to reduce carbon emissions by 2050. Democrats are in firm control of Senate, so the legislation was clearly headed for approval. Unable to win a vote, Republican senators prevented a vote altogether by fleeing the statehouse – thereby denying Democrats a quorum.
That's what passes for GOP leadership on climate change. Delay, obstruct, and when all else fails, threaten violence.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ordered state troopers to return the AWOL senators to their workplace, prompting one of the fugitives, Brian Boquist, to issue a thinly-veiled threat.
"Send bachelors and come heavily armed," Boquist told a TV news crew. Though he was playing to the cameras, his remark was a dog whistle to right-wing militia groups that are quick to brandish rifles, pistols and shotguns when things aren't going their way. Recall that in 2016, armed militia members hijacked the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon for a month and a half.
Given that history, last week's threat of violence worked perfectly.
The Oregon State Police told Senate leaders "the safety of legislators, staff and citizen visitors could be compromised" by the militia groups. Faced with credible threats of violence, state Senate President Peter Courtney canceled Saturday's session; the errant senators were still on the lam nearly one week later.
The irony is that a cap-and-trade policy for carbon emissions was the apple of the GOP's eye about 15 years ago. Spawned by free-market economists, the idea was hailed as a put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is solution to what everyone agreed was a problem.
Good ol' capitalism at work.
Even Democrats came to like the idea, which was the kiss of death because cap-and-trade clearly was gaining traction. Fast forward to today and it is a pantomime villain for conservative politicians.
So they run from climate change, and they stall, and they deny it even exists. And they belittle those with the moral courage to stand up and work for meaningful improvement.
Despite the GOP's rope-a-dope tactics, a change is gonna come. Neither the Ugly American in the White House, nor his corporate cronies can turn back the clock to the days when smoke-belching factories were the embodiment of the American dream. As fuel prices rise, inexorable market forces are driving consumer demand for greater efficiency in everything from lightbulbs to pick-up trucks.
Proud coal miners, faces streaked with soot and sweat, are photogenic pawns in the fight to preserve a declining industry. Sure, their daddies and granddaddies were coal miners, but society doesn't owe them a living. Change is coming, whether Republicans like it or not.
Remember when the Underwood Typewriter Co. made typewriters? And the Eastman Kodak Co. made film for cameras? Those industries had their day, but nobody saved them when the sun finally set.
By obstructing efforts to fight climate change, America's conservatives are making an enemy of our own future.
William Brock lives in Pullman.
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Sea-Level Change Adaptation
Sea-level change has been the focus of intense interest by the U.S. water resources science agencies (NOAA and USGS), along with other agencies contributing to the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP, 2009) and the third US National Climate Assessment (2014), as well as the Fourth National Climate Assessment released in 2017 (Volume 1) and 2018 (Volume 2). Among the recent science reports supporting the development of new guidance are the NRC's 2012 report Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future and the expert report published by NOAA-USGS-SERDP-USACE on Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment, which was written in support of the 2014 National Climate Assessment. Finally, agency reports and peer review literature contain more than 10,000 citations in the area of sea-level change (or sea-level rise).
Because of the importance of coastal areas to the missions and operations of the USACE, the agency has considered sea-level change in its planning activities since 1986, beginning with a memorandum in 1986 and with EC 1105-2-186: Planning Guidance on the Incorporation of Sea Level Rise Possibilities in Feasibility Studies (pdf, 609 KB) in 1989. In 2000, USACE incorporated sea-level change considerations in its Planning Guidance Notebook, and in 2009, released an Engineer Circular (EC) 1165-2-211, Incorporating Sea-Level Change Considerations in Civil Works Programs (pdf, 457 KB), superseded by Engineer Circular (EC 1165-2-212 Sea-Level Change Considerations for Civil Works Programs). Engineer Circulars have a two-year lifespan, so these were superseded by Engineer Regulation 1100-2-8162, Incorporating Sea Level Change in Civil Works Program, released in December 2013. In July 2014, USACE published guidance on how to adapt to changing sea levels, Engineer Technical Letter 1100-2-1, Procedures to Evaluate Sea Level Change: Impacts, Responses and Adaptation (pdf, 4.75 MB). This was transitioned to Engineer Pamphlet (EP) 1100-2-1, also named Procedures to Evaluate Sea Level Change: Impacts, Responses and Adaptation, in 2019. An existing probabilistic tool used to assess vulnerability of non-developed natural coastlines or beach protection projects (Beachfx) has been updated for use with the new sea-level guidance, and a second tool for life-cycle analyses of developed coastlines, the Generation Two Coastal Risk Model (G2CRM) is currently under development at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
Adaptation to changing sea level is addressed along with examples in Engineer Pamphlet (EP) 1100-2-1. A key concept in this guidance is the identification of tipping points and thresholds. Tipping points are levels or conditions at which an irreversible change occurs. For example, if salt-water intrusion cases a particular wetland marsh to transition from primarily brackish to saltwater. Thresholds are often expressed in terms of elevation, but can take a wide range of forms, including physical, economic, social, and environmental. For example, a barrier island may use the elevation of the roadway which allows evacuation as a threshold: when sea level rise causes the roadway to be unusable during surge events, adaptation will be required to maintain the ability to evacuate. This adaptation could be structural (e.g., change the road configuration) or nonstructural (e.g., improve warning systems and mandate evacuation before the roadway will be impacted).
Identifying thresholds beyond which performance is adversely affected is an important way to understand current and future vulnerability. The USACE (or stakeholder) sea level change scenarios are used in a "When, Not If" approach to estimate the time at which these thresholds or triggers will be exceeded. Mapping the scenarios against one or more thresholds or triggers helps the planner and engineer to decide when adaptation is needed, or when one method is no longer adequate and a different adaptation pathway might be needed. It is especially important to understand any tipping points, because the performance of the system can deteriorate rapidly once these tipping points are exceeded. Understanding thresholds can inform the urgency of action, the range of feasible actions, any necessary transition points from one type of measure to another, and the selection of extreme conditions for design, as well as larger system effects (Environment Agency 2009).
USACE continues to work with Federal science agencies and other experts to learn more about coastal climate change impacts and how to adapt to these changes that can cause damages to human life and property as well as ecosystems. USACE considers the full array of coastal risk reduction measures, including natural or nature-based features (e.g., dunes), nonstructural interventions (e.g., policies, building codes and land use zoning, and emergency response such as early warning and evacuation plans), and structural interventions (e.g., seawalls or breakwaters), and combinations of these features. Natural and nature-based features can attenuate waves and provide other ecosystem services (e.g. habitat, nesting grounds for fisheries, etc.), however, they also respond dynamically to processes such as storms, both negatively and positively, with temporary or permanent consequences. Nonstructural measures are most often under the jurisdiction of State and local governments (and individuals) to develop, implement and regulate, and cannot be imposed by the federal government. Perhaps more well-known are the structural measures that reduce coastal risks by decreasing shoreline erosion, wave damage and flooding.
Together with its partners and stakeholders, USACE can apply science and engineering to configure an integrated approach to risk reduction through the incorporation of natural and nature-based features in addition to nonstructural and structural measures that also improve social, economic, and ecosystem resilience. To clarify our commitment to using the full array of measures for coastal risk reduction, USACE published a report in 2013 called "Coastal Risk Reduction and Resilience: Using the Full Array of Measures." This work identified the need for focused research is needed to reduce the uncertainties involved in evaluating and quantifying the value and performance of natural and nature-based measures for shoreline erosion and coastal risk reduction. Federal investments supporting erosion mitigation and coastal risk reduction and resilience could benefit from more consistent integration of natural and nature-based infrastructure. The USACE, along with other agencies, has made progress in addressing the need through its Engineering with Nature ® program, among other activities.
Incorporating social sciences along with physical sciences and engineering is another gap area where improved knowledge and understanding could help improve understanding of measures that encompass social (technological, institutional, and behavioral) responses (Kates et al. 2012) and legal issues (e.g., Craig 2010). Progress in this area would help to better inform investments in coastal systems and result in longer-term benefits for coastal risk reduction and an array of societal needs.


Gimelli, A.; Pugliese, N.Riccardo; Kusch, A.; Giorgetti, A.; Marzullo, P.
The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled: "Accuracy of cadmium-zinc-telluride imaging in detecting single and multivessel coronary artery disease: is there any gender difference?" (Gimelli et al., 2018). We evaluated gender-related differences in diagnostic accuracy of cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in detecting single- and multi-vessel coronary artery disease (CAD). We included 1161 consecutive patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (228, 25% women and 873, 75% men) who had been referred to our laboratory for stress-rest myocardial perfusion imaging (single-day stress-rest low-dose ultrafast protocol). All patients underwent coronary angiography within 30 days; CAD was defined in the presence of a coronary stenosis >70%. Summed stress scores (SSS), summed rest scores (SRS) and summed difference scores (SDS) were obtained. Image quality was graded "good" or better in more than 90% of patients.
Gimelli A, Pugliese NR, Kusch A, Giorgetti A, Marzullo P. Evaluation data about accuracy of cadmium-zinc-telluride imaging in detecting single and multivessel coronary artery disease: Focus on gender differences. Data Brief. 2018;21:1654-1658.


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Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta after the turn of the century. She was the daughter of a lawyer. She attended Atlanta public schools, and graduated from Washington Seminary, an Atlanta preparatory school. She then attended Smith College at Northampton, Mass., for about a year before leaving because of the death of her mother. Miss Mitchell became a member of the staff of The Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine in 1922 and worked there until 1926, writing under the name of Peggy Mitchell. She was forced to abandon this position, however, because of an injured ankle. It was then that she began writing her famous novel, "Gone With the Wind." The year before this, she married John R. Marsh.When "Gone With the Wind" went on the bookstands June 30, 1936, she had hoped for a sale of 5,000 copies. One day that summer it sold 50,000 copies.Early in 1949, it was announced that 8,000,000 copies of the book had been sold in thirty languages in forty countries, and that 50,000 copies were still being sold yearly in the United States. The motion-picture version, with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, became America's most popular movie and was shown throughout the country to big audiences in 1947 for the fourth time.On August 16, 1949, Miss Mitchell died of injuries received when she was struck down by a speeding drunk driver the Thursday before. She was crossing Peachtree Street in Atlanta with her husband, John R. Marsh. Mr. Marsh was the "J.R.M." to whom "Gone With the Wind" was dedicated. Miss Mitchell once said, "being the author of 'Gone With the Wind' is a full-time job, and most days it is an overtime job filling engagements and meeting visitors."
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
She published Gone With The Wind in 1936.She won the Pulitzer in 1939.Her book was made into a film in 1939, which one eight Oscars and two special Oscars.She worked for the American Red Cross during WWII.After her death in 1949, she continued to achieve, being inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement in 1994 and Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2000.
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After School Clubs - 2019/20
At Wookey Primary School we pride ourselves on the variety of after school clubs we are able to provide for our children. Places for clubs in the Spring Term can be booked through the online booking page of our website.
Mondays - Gym club with Miss Broom (Rowan and Oak Classes)
Tuesdays - Homework club with Mrs Davies (children who attended this club last term are welcome to continue, plus any other children who would like to join).
Wednesdays - Cooking club with Mr Marsh (Rowan and Oak Classes until Easter). Willow and Chestnut children will have the opportunity to take part in Cooking Club in the summer term. Please note that we will be asking for £1 per child per session to cover the cost of resourcing this club.
Wednesdays - Netball club with Mr Scriven (children in year 3 and older)
Thursdays - Music club with Mrs Davies (parent) (children who attended this club last term are welcome to continue, plus any other KS2 children who would like to join).
Cross country club will be continuing until Easter, with the children who attended the club last term. No new places can be booked on this club for the coming term.
Science club will be continuing on Thursdays, with the third cohort of children who signed up last term. Parents will be reminded if their child is due to start science club. No new places can therefore be booked on this club for the coming term.


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Q: Error: '1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'Jo' in 'field list'' I'm attempting to execute a simple query that inserts two names, "self.player1", and "self.player2" as VARCHAR datatypes into a table on a MySQL server version 8.0.31. When I call a custom-built function called "execute_query()" provided below, I receive the following error in my terminal:
Error: '1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'Jo' in 'field list''
Function Definition of "execute_query()":

def execute_query(self, query):

        ''' This function takes SQL queries stored
        in Python as strings and passes them
        to the "cursor.execute()" method to
        execute them on the server'''

        cursor = self.connection.cursor()
        try:
            cursor.execute(query)
            self.connection.commit() # Implements commands detailed in SQL queries
            print(query + "Query successful")
        except Error as err:
            print(f"Error: '{err}'")

The names of the attributes are "player_1" and "player_2", and the values to be inserted are assigned to variable names "self.player1", and "self.player2" as shown below.

query = "USE " + self.db_obj.db_name + ";"
self.db_obj.execute_query(query)
query = "INSERT INTO `match`(player_1, player_2) VALUES (" + self.player1 + "," + self.player2 + ");"

It is important to mention that the issue is not with the "execute_query()" function as I have been able to successfully execute other queries. Additionally, I have run through numerous other similar issues on this discussion forum and have tried dropping triggers, changing secure file priviliges, and hardcoding the value of my entries into the query as opposed to concatenating the values to other strings to produce the resultant query, and have not had any luck.
The design of the table, match is provided below (Note: I was not able to write out the contents of this query to a text file using the following command:

SELECT * FROM `match`
INTO OUTFILE "test.txt";

as I received this error:
The MySQL server is running with the --secure-file-priv option so it cannot execute this statement
The query that I used to generated the table in the image below is:

DESCRIBE `match`;

A: Your error says : Error: '1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'Jo' in 'field list''.
The word 'Jo' in the error is not a field name but a player name. You need to modify your query to :
query = "INSERT INTO `match`(player_1, player_2) VALUES ('" + self.player1 + "','" + self.player2 + "');"

Since string values need to be between single quotes.

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Such bonding and education yields positive results for both boys and girls, so it should be encouraged and fostered. Sadly, the war on traditional gender roles in America has been very successful. In recent years, there has been an explosion of initiatives to cultivate transgender children and adults.
The cultural shift has definitely impacted the Boy Scouts, an organization with a Judeo-Christian background of strong moral values. Needless to say, many Americans were disturbed when the Boy Scouts opened their doors to gay and transgender scouts and adult leaders. This was part of an effort to be "inclusive" to individuals with non-traditional gender roles who wanted to share in the experience of becoming a member of the Boy Scouts of America.
Now, by opening up membership to girls, the Boy Scouts have removed one of the last bastions of male fellowship for both boys and young men. It was a unanimous decision by the Board of Directors to "welcome girls." While it may have been financially motivated, the message is clear, the Boy Scouts of America has changed forever. It has morphed into a politically correct organization, no longer the same group that just four years ago highlighted a "morally straight" Scout Oath.
In pursuit of more members and revenue, and praise from social commentators, the Boy Scouts of America has abandoned its rich history. Over the years, many corporate and political leaders have credited their experience in the Boy Scouts as being extremely instrumental in their development. Clearly, the Boy Scouts has been very successful in cultivating the type of leaders this country needed, so why have all of the changes been enacted?
Simply, this is just another indication of the power of both money and political correctness. Despite an impressive track record, extending for many decades, of providing essential training and leadership to the young men of America, the Boy Scouts succumbed to these formidable forces of destruction.
Like the Boy Scouts, too many American institutions have abandoned their traditional values and moved far to the cultural left. They are out of step with mainstream America and the problem is going to get much worse before it gets any better.


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AAP crisis: Sanjay Singh lashes out at PM Narendra Modi, calls CEC AK Joti 'agent of BJP'
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New Delhi | Updated: Jan 20, 2018 2:45 PM
Sanjay Singh said, "CEC AK Joti is working for his boss PM Modi. He has a bungalow in Gujarat. Just 3 days before his retirement, he has shown his true face as an agent of BJP. I demand Narendra Modi's resignation."
Sanjay Singh said, "It has happened during Congress rule in Delhi, it has happened in Bengal and Jharkhand as well. This proves that the EC is working at the behest of BJP."
A day after the Election Commission recommended to the President to disqualify 20 of Aam Aadmi Party's MLAs for holding offices of profit, which has set the stage for their ouster from the Assembly, AAP leader, Sanjay Singh has lashed out at Modi government and election commission. As per a TV report, Sanjay Singh said, "Modi government is violating various institutions of democracy. Four judges coming out in the open and addressing media is a proof of it."
Singh laid out examples where the members holding office of profit who were never disqualified. He said, "It has happened during Congress rule in Delhi, it has happened in Bengal and Jharkhand as well. This proves that the EC is working at the behest of BJP."
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But the shocker came from him when he commented on the working of the chief of the election commission, AK Joti. Sanjay Singh said, "CEC AK Joti is working for his boss PM Modi. He has a bungalow in Gujarat. Just 3 days before his retirement, he has shown his true face as an agent of BJP. I demand Narendra Modi's resignation."
Another AAP leader, Gopal Rai jumped in the quarrel. Rai said, "All intellectuals and political people are shocked that under the pressure of the CEC Joti, who retires after 2 days, did you decide to cancel the membership of the legislators?"
Meanwhile, Sanjay Raut from Shiv Sena said, "There is a question mark on the decision of Election Commission. Questioning Election Commission is common when decisions like these come. Election Commission is itself responsible for it."
Former AAP member, Kumar Vishwas commented on the case. He said, "It's very unfortunate and sad the action against 20 AAP MLAs, I had given certain suggestions earlier but I was told its the CM's prerogative to appoint people so I kept quiet."
Yesterday, on the disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs, Wwest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee extended a strong support to the AAP. She took to Twitter and wrote, "A Constitutional body cannot be used for political vendetta. The 20 AAP MLAs were not even given a hearing by the Hon EC. Most unfortunate. This goes against the principles of natural justice.At this hour we are strongly with Arvind Kejriwal and his team."
AAP crisis Sanjay Singh lashes out at PM Narendra Modi calls CEC AK Joti 'agent of&nbspBJP'
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EmblemHealth Expands "Live Healthy Program" to Five NYC Communities
Free fitness, cooking and wellness classes offered in partnership with 12 NYC nonprofits
NEW YORK, NY (March 17, 2014) — EmblemHealth kicks off the second year of its 'Live Healthy' program, which helps local residents take charge of their health and wellness by offering free fitness classes, cooking demonstrations, and health education. This year the program continues in Central Brooklyn/ Bedford-Stuyvesant and Manhattan Chinatown and expands to Flatbush, Brooklyn, Jackson Heights, Queens, and Washington Heights/Inwood in Upper Manhattan.
The "Live Healthy" program helps residents take small, manageable steps towards living a healthier life through free health and wellness classes in their neighborhoods. The program is a collaboration between EmblemHealth and a coalition of seven nonprofit partners, including CAMBA, the Haitian-American Community Coalition, the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC), Queens Community House, the Coalition for Chinese American Children and Families (CACF), the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), University Settlement, and five other health-focused nonprofits from around the city.
"Many people who want to get healthy are challenged to find affordable exercise classes in their neighborhood and are looking for support to develop and maintain good lifestyle habits," said David Flemister, Director, Brand Strategy and Community Marketing at EmblemHealth. "This program is about helping people take small steps to stay healthy, get well and live better."
Nonprofits in these under-resourced neighborhoods are partnering with local schools, churches, and community centers that have generously agreed to open their doors to the community when their spaces are not otherwise in use. As a result, many residents are turning to these "health hubs" for health and wellness classes that are accessible and free of charge.
"Your health should not be determined by the zip code where you reside, yet there are huge health disparities that are based on the communities in which people live," said Marjorie Momplaisir-Ellis, Senior Program Director at GBHC/CAMBA. "GBHC is partnering with EmblemHealth and CAMBA to provide free fitness classes in low-income communities where people have fewer options for a healthy lifestyle. We hope this collaboration will help ignite people's drive to live healthier lives by providing them access to affordable activities and more opportunities in their neighborhoods."
Classes begin March 17, 2014 and are free to the community. For a full 2014 class schedule, visit www.emblemhealthlivehealthy.com.
About EmblemHealth
EmblemHealth, Inc., through its companies Group Health Incorporated (GHI) and HIP Health Plan of New York (HIP), provides quality health care coverage and administrative services to approximately 3.4 million people. Groups and individuals can choose from a variety of PPO, EPO and HMO plans, as well as coverage for prescription drugs and dental and vision care. EmblemHealth offers a choice of networks, including quality doctors and other health care professionals throughout the region, leading acute care hospitals across the tristate area, and physicians and hospitals across all 50 states. For more information, visit www.emblemhealth.com. To connect with EmblemHealth via Facebook, visit www.facebook.com/EmblemHealth.
About GBHC/CAMBA
Greater Brooklyn Health Coalition (GBHC) is a membership organization of nearly 140 agencies representing community-based organizations, hospitals, health insurance companies, educational institutions, disease associations, and local government departments. Formed in 1997 as a Jewish Community Relations Council project, GBHC's mission is to improve access to healthcare, increase prevention, and to effectively decrease the health disparities that presently exist in Brooklyn's culturally diverse communities. For more information, visit www.brooklynhealth.org.
About Queens Community House (QCH)
Queens Community House is a private, non-sectarian, non-profit agency that has served the neighborhoods of Queens for almost 40 years. Our programs and services currently reach approximately 25,000 children, teens, adults, and older adults a year. QCH's 23 sites serve as centers for community gathering, organizing, and social service activity, while working to promote inter-generational and cross-cultural cooperation and exchange. For more information, please contact Ada Ospina at 718-592-5757x241 or visit www.queenscommunityhouse.org.
About The Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC)
The Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) is a community-based, nonprofit organization that serves Washington Heights and Inwood, in upper Manhattan. The NMIC works to stabilize the community and help residents build a better life by preserving affordable housing through legal services, community organizing, and building weatherization; by promoting economic self-sufficiency through adult education and workforce development; and by stabilizing families through social services, health education, and domestic violence intervention.
About University Settlement
The University Settlement launched an innovative movement 125 years ago that changed New York City and the country by establishing the idea that immigrants and low-income families deserve basic services like quality education, decent housing, access to open space for exercise and health, and support for the aging. The University Settlement seeks to strengthen communities with a diverse, multilingual staff that offers culturally sensitive services in a wide range of languages including Spanish, French, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
About the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF)
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF) is the nation's only pan-Asian children's advocacy organization and aims to improve the health and well-being of Asian Pacific American children and families in New York City. Founded in 1986, CACF advocates for improved policies, funding, and services for children and families of East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander backgrounds. For more information, visit cacf.org.
About Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)
The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) was founded in 1965 as a grassroots community-based organization in response to the tremendous influx of Chinese immigrants and was the first social service agency to serve Chinese-Americans in New York. Since then, CPC has expanded its services based on the needs expressed by those in the community. The Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc. now provides 70 social services at 29 locations in New York City and is one of the largest Asian Social Services organization in the United States.
About Haitian-American Community Coalition (HCC)
HCC has been serving the Haitian and Caribbean communities of New York City and Spring Valley, NY since 1982. HCC's mission is to champion the well-being of its constituents through advocacy, empowerment, health education and supportive services. This is achieved by providing information, access to services and various resources toward the goal of self-sufficiency. Their initiatives and well-designed programs have helped thousands pursue a better life. In 2012, HCC served approximately 10,000 individuals through disease prevention, fitness, health education, case management, housing placement assistance, mental health services, substance abuse counseling, community mobilization, and client advocacy for individuals living with HIV/AIDS. HCC's radio programs reach approximately 130,000 individuals, annually. Topics include disease prevention, health education and general information regarding HCC's initiatives. HCC maintains English, French, Spanish and Haitian Creole speaking staff, and has the capacity to provide interpretation services and translate documents info the aforementioned languages.


As we live longer and work less, reliance on superannuation alone to provide an income in retirement looks increasingly bleak. Time spent in retirement or at least away from full time work could be up to 35 years. For many people, time in retirement will equal or exceed time at work. Financing such a time span will be an enormous challenge, even for the financially astute.
It is hard to imagine anyone being content to stay home for three decades or so. Retirement should mean that work is replaced by enjoyment of life. Committed time at work should be replaced by free time at home. Regular employment income into the retiree household should be replaced by alternative income streams.
In retirement, discretionary spending can rise significantly. It is a time for trips, holidays, pastimes and generally having fun. Unfortunately, poor health and the need for aged care can add other significant layers of expense.
For most Australians, the traditional retirement income streams include a pension from a super fund, supplemented by the Age pension via Centrelink. For the greater majority that won't be enough. It may be necessary to build other passive investments and to consider an active investment, such as a business.
However, older people need to be careful that a new business started later in life is not labour intensive. Nor should it occupy every waking moment. For those who want to travel as well, it needs to be flexible enough to operate from anywhere in the world. Therefore, it must have a strong commitment to portable computer technology, instant online communication and internet marketing.
Think about what you would do if it was your job to research and present the nation's good news. For a start, you would have to turn off your police CB radio and stop following ambulances. Secondly, you could look past today and lengthen your time frame from a day to a month. Thirdly, you could appoint yourself as the researcher and editor of "Monthly Good News and Innovation". There is plenty of good news and positive stories out there.
When I first read bullying story, I was gobsmacked. This is hard to top!
"This is about a sociopathic office bully called Colin. Affectionately known as 'Col' by his legion of enemies, Colin was a senior manager in a prominent service company who could be best described as a boorish and obnoxious pig. When introduced to a new employee, he would simply look up from his desk and tell the new incumbent to "get f***ked". Nothing more! Colin thought accessing private information and calling an employee's home phone at 2.30am to ask the whereabouts of a file was hilariously funny. He would then proceed to harass and bully the sleepless employee next day.


Our fees are broken down in accordance to the stages of the Debt Recovery Process.There are various members of our Debt Recovery team that will deal with your matter.
Spratt Endicott will commence recovery action normally via a standard letter before action. The charge for the LBA is dependant upon the monthly volume of instructions passed to us and will range anywhere between £2.25 and £25 per letter.
It is optional to agree a success fee for a recovery of money. This will again be negotiated but will vary from 2% of the sum paid, up to 40% of the sum paid. All our charges quoted here are exclusive of VAT.
VAT will be added to your bill. Court fees do not attract VAT and the 'fixed costs' (see below) recoverable from the 3rd party will not include VAT as the service element is rendered to you, not the 3rd party.
We will write to you informing you when the debtor has made payment, or if further action is needed. If further action is required we will seek your instructions before commencing any further activity – unless you agree otherwise.
If a specialist or bespoke letter is required, i.e. a letter in accordance with the Pre Action Protocol ('PAP'), then a charge will be rendered in line with our prevailing hourly rates. A volumes fixed rate can be agreed for this PAP letter of between £20 and £35 per letter.
If interest is to be claimed under your terms of trading or if interest and a fixed sum are to be claimed under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 and Regulations, an additional charge of £10 will be charged for calculations of interest on a number of invoices exceeding 20. There is an additional charge of £10 for each further group of up to 20 invoices.
County court proceeding and entry of Judgment will be charged a fixed fee which will be based on a sliding scale and calculated in accordance with the fixed sum awarded by the court. The fixed fee would be between £70 and £120 depending on the size of the debt. Depending on the size of your debt, there will also be an additional fee between £22 and £55 to cover the judgement costs. This fee is reflective of the fixed costs awarded by the court.
Any charges for the above methods will be calculated on an hourly rate, any time spent on your matter will vary based on the complexity of your matter.
Matters usually take x-x weeks from receipt of instructions from you to receipt of payment from the other side, depending on whether or not it is necessary to issue a claim. This is on the basis that the other side pays promptly on receipt of Judgement in default. If enforcement action is needed, the matter will take longer to resolve.
All additional work charges are charged at our prevailing hourly rate. We calculate our time by using 1/10th of an hour at a time., i.e. 6 minute units.
If a piece of work takes slightly less than 6 minutes we will apply our discretion where possible.
There may also be court fees, disbursement and VAT chargeable, where possible these will be recovered from the debtor. These fees are charged in addition to the figures quoted above.
For disputed debts, you will be charged for work done on an hourly basis. If this occurs we will inform you and obtain your agreement before proceeding. We will also provide our terms for dealing with disputed debts.


How do I attack with a single target before equipped with Magic Missile runeword?
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What's the best way for this type of pally to do Terror Fauzt for the BRC? The necrobots aren't undead so Bear Stance doesn't let vessel do any damage to them.
Suprfli6 wrote: What's the best way for this type of pally to do Terror Fauzt for the BRC? The necrobots aren't undead so Bear Stance doesn't let vessel do any damage to them.
You will need to kill the necrobots with slayer, they will die really fast to this spell. Also you will need the bear stance's damage reduction.
This part of BRC should take around half an hour with the low mid game gear.


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Norma G. García (born October 5, 1950) is an American politician of Hispanic descent. She was mayor of Mercedes, Texas from 1986 to 1993.

The daughter of Zacarias H. Garza and Olivia Cavazos, she was born Norma Linda Garza in Donna, Texas, attended high school there and studied stenography at a San Antonio community college. She worked as an interviewer for the Texas Employment Commission in Donna and, then moved to Mercedes in 1978 after she married Jorge Antonio García. The couple had three children. She took a real estate course at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, earning her real estate sales agent license in 1984.

García ran unsuccessfully for a seat on Mercedes city council in 1984. In 1986, she became a legislative assistant for Juan Hinojosa. She was named chair of the Hidalgo County Urban County Association. Also in 1986, she was elected mayor for Mercedes, the first woman to serve in that post, and went on to serve three terms, the maximum permitted by the city's charter. She was elected treasurer for Hidalgo County in 1994 and was reelected five times, most recently in 2015.

In 1992, she was named Mayor of the Year by the Association of Hispanic Municipal Officials; García was a founding member of that organization. She has served on the board of directors of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council and served four terms as the Council's president. She was named Outstanding County Treasurer of Texas in 2007.

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Dota Summit 11 will be the first event of the 2019-2020 DPC Season
The meme tournament is back!
By Nigel "Zim947" Zalamea September 20, 2019 11:38 am
Dota Summit 11 will be the first official Valve event for the 2019-2020 Dota Pro Circuit season. The event is set to take place on November 7-10, and will be held in Los Angeles, California.
Teams will have to go through the new qualifier format Valve announced a week ago. The Major/Minor qualifiers are set to take place on October 5 to 10.
The new DPC season will begin at #DotaSummit 11! This Minor marks the first ever live studio audience for our Dota events. Stay tuned for more info on talent and tickets. pic.twitter.com/rmEwxxAwAm
— Beyond the Summit (@BeyondTheSummit) September 19, 2019
Dota Summit 11 will be the first Minor of the season and will be the first time a live studio audience will be present for a Beyond the Summit event.
It will also be the first Minor event using Valve's new DPC points and prize pool distribution.
The event will still have a US$300,000 prize pool but with a more even distribution. The Minor also has an increased 660 DPC point pool with 140 points awarded to the winner, along with a spot at the first 2019-2020 DPC Major.
Credit: Valve
Fata and 33 leave NiP to form a new roster
1437 leaves J.Storm, replaced by Mooz
In the previous DPC season, Ninjas In Pyjamas dominated Valve's Minor events which helped them qualify for TI9. It's highly likely that all teams who fail to qualify for Major events will be aiming for a similar result.
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