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The Commander Exits …
September 27, 2021 October 2, 2021 by Jerry Roberts, posted in ART ~ FILM ~ POP CULTURE, MOUNTAIN ~ DESERT ~ OCEAN ~ NEWS & STORIES ~, MUSICA ~ TUNES, REEFER (refrigerator) ART ~ QUOTES & NEWS OF THE WEIRD
COMMANDER CODY LAUNCHES FROM EARTH, RIP GEORGE FRAYNE (1944-2021)
HISTORYMUSICOBITUARIES
By Robert Millis
SARATOGA SPRINGS — George Frayne has resided in the Saratoga area across four decades. Until Sunday morning, Sept 26, 2021, that is, as he passed away at his home here after a gallant fight versus the Big C.
For the few Nippertowners recognizing that name, it is most likely because of his slashy-flashy, colorful paintings of pop-inspired imagery and personalities that hang in museums, galleries, private homes, and public spaces. It's great, smile-inducing stuff, all part of a lifelong love affair with the brush that included achieving an MFA from the U. of Michigan.
But it was at that institution of higher learning where George picked up an intriguing nickname; one that labeled his presence in another form of artistic expression and from which he gained wide national acclaim and recognition:
That name was Commander Cody.
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen sprang from the Ann Arbor college bar & frat house scene in the late '60s as a good time, rollicking funhouse of a throwback rock & roll band that quickly gained coast to coast radio play via a humorous yet long forgotten cover song called Hot Rod Lincoln; the tale of that era's young male fascination with big motors and fast speed. It was a big hit!
As is often the case, however, a chart-busting song with the type of quirkiness heard on this single will hang like an albatross on the offending performers' neck and very often stamp them as both a novelty act and a one-hit-wonder. Such was the case here; at least in the hearts and minds of the American Top 40 crowd.
But as the AM pop radio world shifted into the heavier and more serious FM/ Rock Era of the early '70s, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen played a different role in that emerging and glorious soundscape. As the group's leader and pianist, George would lead them onto a different path.
George Frayne IV (1975)
With the British Invasion making room for more Americanized formats, country roots-rock and cosmic cowboy music emerged as the particular styles dominating the playlists of that timeframe for the more in-the-know members of the nation's youth. Whether they be college kids, military grunts, backyard rednecks or wandering hippies, the consensus among them all made for a new and mostly unified music scene. Acts like the Dead, Allmans, Eagles, CSN, Skynyrd, Hot Tuna, and Marshall Tucker became major-major attractions, both over the air and (more importantly) in the live music halls, sheds, arenas, and stadiums throughout the land. It was big, wide, deep and spectacular ; dominating the radar screen of the Youth Culture of that faded day.
Floating just under the cloud of those giants were support players that, while not eventually gaining similar superstar status, were still recognizable enough to make a good living and to ride the tiger's tail of the high life and big time fun. There were acts like the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Poco, Flying Burrito Brothers, Charlie Daniels … and the Lost Planet Airmen. All were important cogs in that machine; recognizable contributors to the scene.
The Commander and his crew made for a most interesting member of that field, given their very off-center and outside the curve musical styling and vibe. For here was a wacky ensemble of weed smoking degenerate longhairs getting off a Kesey-style bus and playing old time Texas swing and roadhouse boogie woogie. It shouldn't have jibed. But it did, likely because it WAS something different while still being delivered by a bunch of regular guys (and the occasional Airgirl like Nicolette Larson) that one could easily hang out and party with. Plus, they made it all incredibly fun.
That 'fun' part can not be over-emphasized. From the opening notes, this was a band that let the audience know a celebration was starting and there would be no naysayers along the route. The ensemble aspect of a lot of different things happening up on stage by a lot of different people added to the impact. CC&HLPA were once described as "the perfect opening act" for any headliner of any genre.
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Along the way, they released a worthy catalog, including the famed Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas (at the Armadillo World HQ), which is consistently ranked as one of the top in-concert albums of all time and which spawned deep-cut original singles. Shows were performed around the globe, often with those previously mentioned superstars. They toured with the Dead during the over the top Wall of Sound days. Cody got into some sort of hotel trouble with Hunter Thompson (something about fireworks and a stun gun). Heck, they even warmed up for Led Zeppelin in the UK before 100K people. As always, it somehow worked out just fine. Imagine what this life was like?
But then began a fade to gray. Of course, it did. The Airmen were too numerous, too talented, too adventurous, too costly and too weird to hold together. Plus, arena rock, disco and punk/new wave were moving in and waving warning flags. The Scene was over. Those dope-smoking college kids with all the time in the world had now turned off the radio, junked the old VW and taken jobs downtown or in the Valley.
Mark Emerick, John Tichy and Commander Cody
But the Commander himself soldiered on under his own name, playing smaller and smaller venues as the years rolled on while the visual artist within him became the more passionate pursuit. It was during this transition that he made the move to the 518, while still climbing stages in a scaled-down format with a revolving cast of comrades and a more portable electric piano. But it didn't feel quite right to anyone that knew of him from "back in the day."
For the inherent unfairness of the Music Game is that it doesn't usually reward those that actually deserve it. That very case can be made with George and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. History has forgotten them, to a great degree.
That may be because History has also somehow forgotten those days of many dozens of original bands playing five shows a week, jumping from college to college and roadhouse to roadhouse and of young people having as their primary recreational outlet getting to those venues after hearing the recordings communally with their friends. Maybe it's because it sounds just too unbelievably good to be true vs the troubling landscape of the current music world's distressing reality? But leave all that analyses to the sociologists' grad school theses – if THEY even care.
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Sure, that handful of big timers became permanently enshrined in the annals of fame and went to the bank forever and ever and ever and a day. Their nostalgia tours still roll into Vegas and the big rooms, whether any of their members are still a part of the charade or not. Likewise, the royalty checks overfill their mailboxes and the plaques on the wall sometimes require additions to hillside mansions.
But the second-tier players like George and the gang deserve a better legacy than they have (or haven't) received. Heck, the only shrine dedicated to them seems to be a small, booth-side shout-out in Clancys Tavern here in the Spa City, courtesy of its owner and longtime Cody pal Tommy C.
But at least Mr. Frayne had that other equally loved artistic passion of painting to keep him rolling and to keep making people happy. Let's, therefore, chalk that part up as a blessing and a good thing. We just hope he looked at it that way and it kept him happy, as well.
Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate
Lord, you hate to make him wait
You just gotta have another cigarette
George Frayne Dead At 77: Commander Cody's Tragic Cause of Death Revealed
By Mike Stevenson Sep 27, 2021 07:20 AM EDT
(Photo : Ed Perlstein / Contributor) APRIL 2: Commander Cody, aka George Frayne, performs with the Lost Planet Airmen during a reunion concert on April 2, 1978 at Provo Park in Berkeley, California. (Photo by Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images)
George Frayne, popularly known as Commander Cody, of the popular country-rock band "Commander Cody And The Los Planet Airmen," has passed away at the age of 77.
His wife, Sue Casanova, confirmed the news on Facebook using his account. She mentioned that she lay her head on her husband's shoulder as the rock singer's "soul took to flight."
"I am heartbroken and weary and I know your hearts break too. Thank you so much for all the love you gave and the stories you shared." Casanova added. (read the full post below)
According to Saving Country Music, Frayne's cause of death was Cancer.
Frayne spent his early days in Boise, Idaho. In 1967, he formed his band "Commander Cody And The Los Planet Airmen," in Michigan.
He got his stage name "Commander Cody" from the 1951 sci-fi film "Lost Planet Airmen,"; he was inspired by the character of Commando Kody, King of Rocket Men.
His band has a distinct style of music as they mix country sounds with boogie-woogie, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, western swing, and jazz.
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According to Louder Sound, their band was one of the first musical acts to have a counter-cultural twist to the sound of Nashville.
From the countryside, the band ultimately moved to Berkley, California, where they got a recording contract with Paramount Records.
They were popularly known for their tracks such as "Hot Rod Lincoln," which entered the Billboard top ten at the time, "Mama Hated Diesels," "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!," "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar," and many more.
The band was disbanded in 1976, but Frayne was able to have a solo career. He went on to retain his stage name, Frayne began touring across the United States and released his first solo album titled "Midnight Man" the following year.
Aside from being a singer, Frayne was also an artist as he graduated with a bachelor's degree in design from the University of Michigan. He also has a master's degree in sculpture and painting.
Frayne's last solo album was "Dopers, Drunks, and Everyday Losers," which was released in 2009. His final collaboration album was titled "Live from Electric City."
Pioneering Country Rocker Commander Cody (George Frayne) Has Died
Saving Country Music
There were few that could tap into the cosmic side of country music better, and nobody that could sail as deep into the ozone as Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen. And now, the band's illustrious pilot, the Captain, keyboard player and singer Commander Cody himself, Mr. George Frayne, has flown his final mission.
On Sunday morning, September 26th, it was revealed that George Frayne had passed away in Saratoga Springs, New York due to Cancer.
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen revolutionized the space where country and rock intersected by bringing a wild, loose, and uninhibited attitude to the music. They were the cool everyone wanted to be, and every music scene wanted to claim them as their own. But the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan is where it all officially started, though the band would eventually move to Berkeley in California, and be closely associated with the hippies/cowboys scene in Austin at the Armadillo World Headquarters as well.
They only had one true hit—that being a remake of the 1955 song "Hot Rod Lincoln" that went Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1972. But "Seeds and Stems" is the song many bands an artists stole the idea from, while their live albums Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas (1974) recorded at The Armadillo, We've Got a Live One Here!(1976), and the essential country trucker record Hot Licks, Cold Steel, and Truckers Favorites (1972) all make for badass record store finds that have withstood the test of time, not to mention the band's original studio albums such as Lost in the Ozone(1971), Country Casanova (1973), and Tales from the Ozone (1975).
Officially formed in 1967 after George Frayne had earned a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Michigan, once Frayne finished his master's in sculpture and painting in 1968, he started devoting himself to the band full-time, and they hit the road, bolstered by the world-class Telecaster playing of Bill Kirchen, and saxophone/fiddle player Andy Stein. Borrowing from country, rock, Western swing, rockabilly, and rhythm and blues, their live shows were a thing of wonder, and the wild nature of their performances inspired bands like Texas mainstays Asleep at the Wheel, who Commander Cody even convinced to relocate to California for a stint.
The original Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen burned hot, but didn't burn too long. Signing to Paramount Records and later Warner Bros., the businessmen wanted to make them into a version of The Eagles or something similar. But they couldn't be tamed, and were even more tough to market beyond the band's legion of devoted fans. They did get to tour with The Grateful Dead and once opened for Led Zepplin as well before the original band officially broke up in 1976.
George Frayne kept going with the Commander Cody name for many years though, and in multiple iterations, including the Commander Cody Band, Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen, and Commander Cody and His Western Airmen, but mostly just Commander Cody, which he went by all the way until his death. Bill Kirchen and Andy Stein went on to continue in music quite successfully, with Bill becoming one of the most revered Telecaster players in history, and Andy Stein playing in the house band of A Prairie Home Companion.
George Frayne also never lost his passion for visual art. Originally born in Boise, Idaho on July 19, 1944, he received proper training in all sorts of mediums during his time in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan. Eventually Frayne permanently relocated to Saratoga Springs, New York where he spent the better part of four decades. He worked in acrylics and depicted a variety of subjects from pop art to portraits of classic cars. Frayne also published a book Art Music and Life through Qualibre Publications in 2009.
An important character in both the country and rock realm, George Frayne, a.k.a. Commander Cody will be sorely missed, while the seeds he planted with the other Lost Planet Airmen can still be seen and heard throughout country and rock today.
Commander Cody, aka George Frayne, Roots-Rock Band Leader and 'Hot Rod Lincoln' Singer, Dies at 77
By Chris Willman
CommanderCody.com
George Frayne IV, who led the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, a group that combined elements of the rock counterculture with a love for roots music in the early 1970s, died Sunday at age 77. Frayne had been receiving treatment for cancer for several years.
"Early this morning, as I lay my head upon his shoulder, George's soul took to flight," his wife, Sue, said in a post on his Facebook page. "I am heartbroken and weary, and I know your hearts break, too. Thank you so much for all the love you gave and the stories you shared."
Frayne's seminal group was popularly best known for a remake of the 1955 rockabilly-flavored song "Hot Rod Lincoln" that made the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, peaking at No. 9, with some crossover impact on the country and easy listening charts.
Although the group's style was often described in its early days as country-rock, the Bay Area-based band had a harder-driving style — and, as its sci-fi-serial-based name would indicate, more of a sense of humor — than other country-influenced artists coming along at the time down in Los Angeles, like the Eagles or Poco. The sounds of rockabilly, Western swing, jump blues, jazz and boogie-woogie piano figured into the band's free-wheeling style as readily as country, finding enthusiastic fans among followers of rock groups like the Grateful Dead, for whom Commander Cody sometimes opened, as well as devotees of more traditional music forms.
Although it took until 1971 for their major-label debut, "Lost in the Ozone," to be released, the group actually formed in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, going against the tide of the psychedelia that was peaking along with the flower-power movement in favor of sounds that dipped deep into the supposedly squarer music of decades past, like Western swing pioneer Bob Wills.
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen released seven albums on the Paramount and Warner Bros. labels from 1971-76. After the original group's breakup in 1976, Frayne continued to record and tour under the name Commander Cody until shortly before the pandemic kicked in.
He told the website Classicbands.com about the origins of the group's name, saying they got it from "the same place that George Lucas got it: from Republic Pictures. In 1948, 1949, Flash Gordon like operations would run in theaters in between films. Then later, this character Commander Cody made three movies, one of which was 'Lost Planet Airmen.' I was watching the Lost Planet Airmen movie and I saw the Commander Cody character and I thought it would be a great name for a band. I had no idea anyone was going to have to be Commander Cody. I mean, there's no Lynyrd Skynyrd. There's no Steely Dan. There's no Marshall Tucker. Why did there have to be a Commander Cody? That's a long story in itself.
But, of course, there was little sense sci-fi in the music itself… although there was a lot of weed. "In about 1966 I found a Bob Wills album and marijuana," Frayne said in an interview with No Depression in 2018. "I'm pretty sure those guys were stoned most of the time. I started listening to Jerry Lee Lewis' album that had 'Crazy Arms' and Buck Owens' greatest hits. We did [Owens'] 'Tiger by the Tail' regularly. What country music afforded for us was there was no rehearsal; we listened to the record, we drank a bunch of whiskey and coke, and played. Country music is easy to do if someone knows the lyrics and the song, you can follow along relatively easily."
But, comments like that notwithstanding, Frayne was a serious musician, whose foremost influence as a pianist was Fats Domino. "The Commander I knew was a music-history buff, fine-arts scholar and one of the sharpest minds I've ever encountered," David Malachowski, a guitarist who joined Commander Cody's band in the late '90s, told the Times Union, a newspaper in Frayne's final hometown, Saratoga Springs. Malachowski pointed out the complicated nature of a piano playing style that required different rhythms and even speeds for left-hand and right-hand parts. "I asked him once how he did it, and he said he just played the left-hand figures nonstop all day for about a year, until it became second nature," the guitarist said.
Born in Boise, Idaho in 1944, Frayne was raised in the Long Island area before attending the University of Michigan, where he received a master of fine arts degree in painting and sculpture the same year the Lost Planet Airmen assembled.
Frayne's first Ann Arbor band was the Fantastic Surfing Beavers, with a different frontman. After the Commander Cody band formed, according to a 1970 profile by Ed Ward in Rolling Stone, "Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen have devoted themselves body and soul to country music and old-time rock and roll. But that devotion is not an easy thing to stick to in the Midwest where, chances are, you associate that type of music with the greasers at the drive-in who love to vamp on longhairs and inevitably wind up becoming cops. And it was even harder in 1967 when everyone was just getting into acid and revolution and high-powered MC5 music and all the other things that have put Ann Arbor and Detroit on the map."
Frayne told Rolling Stone in that profile: "We didn't think of appealing to anybody,. We were just having a good time, picking and playing and making a few dollars on the side. It was when the psychedelic ballrooms were starting to be big. We played the Grande Ballroom in Detroit on the same bill with Canned Heat so, naturally, the audience hated us, booed us, you know." Yet audiences for the Dead and other groups cottoned to the group once they moved to the San Francisco area in 1969. Said Frayne in those early days, "We'd like to do for country music what (Paul) Butterfield did for blues."
Of the hit "Hot Rod Lincoln," Frayne said, noting how he came to be its lead singer, "At that time I couldn't sing a note really, but I could talk fast. It became apparent that I'd have to become Commander Cody, 'cause all the guys in the band who wanted to be Commander Cody would've been out of the question. So, the band voted that I would have to be Commander Cody because I could basically talk fast and had a good rap and gave pretty good radio. Then people started saying 'Who's the Commander and what's he gonna do?' So I had to come up and do a number; because I couldn't sing, I found out there's a long history of guys who couldn't sing. I first found it out through Phil Harris and traced it back to Johnny Bond."
He found his shot in a remake of "Hot Rod Lincoln," originally conceived in 1955 as an answer song to a hit from 1949 titled "Hot Rod Race." If that destined them to be a one-hit wonder commercially, it was OK with him that that was the hit: "I like the song, so it doesn't bother me to do it every night. No problem whatsoever."
The original band's sound grew less country during the 1970s. "We really liked [our sound] and we played that kind of music until we were booed off stage at the CMA Convention in 1973," he told Seattle PI in 2013. "In which case we decided that, well, if these guys are going to treat us like this, we're not going to do their music anymore. Because their attitude was, 'Who are these hippies? Take a bath, find a rock concert, et cetera, et cetera.' That was the end of our interest in country and western swing. The people from Texas found out that I wasn't from Texas and they thought that I was stealing their music and they didn't get it."
In that same interview, he said, "I smoke a lot of marijuana and it's really easy to change your groove around when you're stoned. … I especially enjoy painting while I'm stoned, and I keep doing that until this very day. On the other hand, I don't smoke weed at rock and roll gigs anymore, whatsoever, because I've been more interested in remembering all the words for the song. Don't forget, I'm an old geezer. I can't afford to forget the words."
In a 2012 interview, Frayne quipped, "The secret is we've been doing the same set for 40 years. It's like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' without the gay attire and dancing."
Frayne was well-regarded as a painter as well as band leader, and published a book of his visual art, "Art Music & Life," in 2009. He also taught art, including a stint on the arts faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. An experimental video he made, "Two Triple Cheese Side Order of Fries," is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Frayne's wife said on Facebook that memorial events are being planned. "We are working on 2 big gatherings, on both the east and west coast (The Island and the Bay Area) to celebrate the Old Commander's phenomenal life, and to benefit musicians in need," she wrote.
George Frayne, a.k.a. Commander Cody, Alt-Country Pioneer, Dies at 77 ~ NYT
With his band the Lost Planet Airmen, he infused older genres like Western swing and boogie-woogie with a freewheeling 1960s spirit and attracted a devoted following.
George Frayne, the leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, on the NBC show "Midnight Special" in 1973. The band lasted only a decade and had just one Top 10 hit, but it had a lasting impact.Credit…Paul W. Bailey/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
By Clay Risen
George Frayne, who as the frontman for the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen melded Western swing, jump blues, rockabilly and boogie-woogie with a freewheeling 1960s ethos to pave the way for generations of roots-rock, Americana and alt-country musicians, died on Sunday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He was 77.
John Tichy, one of the band's original members, who is now a professor of engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, said the cause was esophageal cancer.
Though the band lasted only a decade and had just one Top 10 hit, Mr. Frayne's charisma and raucous onstage presence — as well as the Airmen's genre-busting sound — made them a cult favorite in 1970s music meccas like the San Francisco area and Austin, Texas.
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen was not the only rock band exploring country music in the early 1970s. The Eagles, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Poco and others mined a similar vein and were more commercially successful. But fans, and especially other musicians, took to the Airmen's raw authenticity, their craftsmanship and their exuberant love for the music they were making — or, in many cases, remaking.
"He said, 'We're gonna reach back and get this great old music and infuse it with a '60s and '70s spirit,'" Ray Benson, the frontman for Asleep at the Wheel, one of the many bands inspired by Mr. Frayne, said in a phone interview. "He saw the craft and beauty of things America had left behind."
Mr. Frayne and his band were more comfortable onstage than in the recording studio. They often performed 200 or more shows a year, and they were widely considered one of the best live bands in America; their album "Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas" (1974), recorded at Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, was once ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the top 100 albums of all time.
"He was a comic-book character come to life," Mr. Benson said of Mr. Frayne. "He looked the part of the wild man, chomping on a cigar and banging on a piano. But he was also an artist, who happened to use the band as a way to express a much bigger picture."
Mr. Frayne in performance with a later version of the Lost Planet Airmen in 2016.Credit…John Atashian/Getty Images
George William Frayne IV was born on July 19, 1944, in Boise, Idaho, where his father, George III, was stationed as a pilot during World War II. Soon afterward the family moved to Brooklyn, where his father and his mother, Katherine (Jones) Frayne, were both artists. The family later moved to Bay Shore on Long Island, near Jones Beach, where George worked summers as a lifeguard.
Mr. Frayne's first marriage, to Sara Rice, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, Sue Casanova, and his stepdaughter, Sophia Casanova.
Having learned to play boogie-woogie piano while at the University of Michigan, Mr. Frayne used his musical talent to make beer money, joining a series of bands hired to play frat-house parties. He soon fell in with a group of musicians, including Dr. Tichy, who played guitar, and who introduced Mr. Frayne to classic country, especially the Western swing of Bob Wills and the Bakersfield sound of Buck Owens.
Both Mr. Frayne and Dr. Tichy stayed at Michigan for graduate school and continued to play in clubs around Ann Arbor. Although they offered throwback country to students otherwise keen on protest songs, they were a hit. They just needed a name.
Mr. Frayne was a big fan of old westerns, especially weird ones like the 1935 serial "The Phantom Empire," in which Gene Autry discovers an underground civilization. Something about sci-fi and retro country clicked for him. He took the stage name Commander Cody, after Commando Cody, the hero of two 1950s serials, and named his band after the 1951 movie "Lost Planet Airmen."
He received his master's degree in sculpture and painting in 1968 and that fall began teaching at Wisconsin State College-Oshkosh, today the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. But he was restless; he flew back to Ann Arbor on weekends for gigs, and when Bill Kirchen, the lead guitarist for the Lost Planet Airmen, moved to Berkeley and encouraged the rest to follow, Mr. Frayne quit academia and headed west.
The San Francisco scene was still in the thrall of acid rock, but the East Bay was more eclectic. Soon the band was opening for acts like the Grateful Dead and later Led Zeppelin and Alice Cooper.
The Lost Planet Airmen grew to eight core members, several of them sharing lead-singer duties; there would often be 20 or more others onstage, dancing, playing kazoo and even, at certain adults-only shows, stripping. Their music was bright and up-tempo, centered on Mr. Frayne, who sat — or just as often stood — at his piano, longhaired and shirtless, pounding beers and keys.
A 1970 profile in Rolling Stone, a year before the band released its first album, called Commander Cody and His Lost Airmen "one of the very best unknown rock 'n' roll bands in America today."
At first the Lost Airmen's rockin' country didn't really fit in anywhere — neither in the post-hippie Bay Area nor in Nashville, where they were booed off the stage at a 1973 concert, the crowd yelling "Get a haircut!"
"We didn't think of appealing to anybody," Mr. Frayne told Rolling Stone. "We were just having a good time, picking and playing and making a few dollars on the side."
In 1971 the band released its first album, "Lost in the Ozone." It spawned a surprise hit single, a cover of Charlie Ryan's 1955 rockabilly song "Hot Rod Lincoln," with Mr. Frayne speed-talking through the lyrics:
They arrested me and they put me in jail
And called my pappy to throw my bail.
And he said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that hot … rod … Lincoln!
It was that song, and the band's frequent trips to Austin, that allowed them room to find their place, nestling in among the seekers and weirdos piling into the city and building its music scene.
"They were plowing new turf, even if they were doing it with heritage seeds," the Austin journalist Joe Nick Patoski said in an interview.
But the success of "Hot Rod Lincoln" haunted them, especially when they tried to reach too far beyond their fan base.
"Their success got them pigeonholed as a novelty band, and so the suits at the record company were looking for the next 'Hot Rod Lincoln,'" Mr. Patoski said.
In 1974 they signed with Warner Bros. Records, but the relentless pressure to produce new music, and the band's lackluster album sales, eventually broke them apart — a story documented in the 1976 book "Starmaking Machinery: The Odyssey of an Album," by Geoffrey Stokes.
"The only thing worse than selling out," Mr. Frayne told Mr. Stokes, "is selling out and not getting bought."
After the band broke up in 1977, Mr. Frayne continued to perform with a variety of backup bands, always as Commander Cody. In 2009 he re-formed the Lost Planet Airmen, mostly with new members, and released an album, "Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers."
He also returned to art, making Pop Art portraits of musicians like Jerry Garcia and Sarah Vaughan — collected in a 2009 book, "Art, Music and Life" — and experimenting with video production.
As a musician, he had one more minor hit, "Two Triple Cheese, Side Order of Fries," in 1980. But it was the song's video, directed by Joe Dea, that really stood out: A fast-paced, low-tech (by today's standards) mash-up of 1950s lunch-counter culture and hot-rod mischief, it won an Emmy and is now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Every two people are not on fire...
by Tim Bayly on December 1, 2015 - 11:10am
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
- Mark 10:6
Joining scientists' in their giggling excitement over fashion, journalists are pleased today to report the latest study that purports to prove God did not make them male and female from the beginning. A couple scientists did MRI scans of 1,400 brains and are excited to tell us they found male aspects of brains in female brains, and vice versa.
The news pieces don't specify what those male and female brain markers are, nor why they labelled the markers with the simplistic binary classifications of "male" and "female." But having categorized the bodies and the differing characteristics of those bodies' brains, "male" and "female," they announce the death of...
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But God knows...
by Joseph Bayly on October 15, 2015 - 3:32pm
Turns out that DNA evidence just isn't as perfect as we want it to be. We've been through this before with all sorts of evidence that we thought was fool-proof turning out not to be. There will always be doubt in the courts of man, for man looks only at the outward appearance, but God knows. He has no doubt in His judgments. They are altogether perfect.
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The Bible no longer inspires...
by Tim Bayly on April 29, 2015 - 1:52pm
When pastors approach the Bible as if every text in Scripture is simply another opportunity to preach the Gospel, it makes sense for the Bible's detailed history to be relegated to the sidelines. This sort of preaching promoted as "redemptive-historical" or "Christ-centered" provides the perfect justification for the timorous to skip out the back, Jack, and preach John 3:16 every Lords' Day of the year. Then what does it matter if Adam and Eve were the first man and woman or merely the mythological father and mother of an early tribe of hominids? If the sermon text is Scripture's "narrative" of Adam and Eve, Creation, and the Fall, those stories are only there to show...
Not all dads bring roadkill home in plastic bags...
by Aaron Jones on August 31, 2014 - 2:30pm
Last night I had the pleasure of watching a good portion of a very strange film with my father as he struggles to recover from prostate cancer surgery. Unfortunately, he is among the 1 in 50 who have complications with their intestines "waking up" after surgery. It's been difficult to sleep and he's eaten almost nothing.
Academic freedom at Ball State University: the case of Eric Hedin...
by Tim Bayly on April 2, 2014 - 11:19am
Ball State University is a state school in Muncie, a small town just north of Indianapolis. According to Indiana Public Media, Ball State administrators recently cancelled an honors physics and astronomy course taught by tenure-track prof Eric Hedin because Hedin's course syllabus included the concept of "Intelligent Design."
Ball State president Jo Ann Gora justified the cancellation to her faculty and staff:
Teaching intelligent design as a scientific theory is not a matter of academic freedom – it is an issue of academic integrity.
Ms. Gora should be rebuked by her peers at the next...
Scholars and the Fall...
by Tim Bayly on February 13, 2014 - 9:39am
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. - 1Corinthians 2:12-16
Regularly, I warn academics that reason is not the one faculty of man that has escaped the Fall. To err is human, and institutions of learning both lower and higher are equally subject to this fruit of Adam's sin.
Reason and logic have been corrupted by the Fall. So, although we can say that all truth is God's truth, we must keep in mind that all man believes to be true is not. True.
The Fall's determinative impact on man's intellectual work is quite obvious to readers of Paul Johnson's Intellectuals. Again and again, Johnson demonstrates the connection between famous intellectuals' private sins...
Nye vs. Ham: Witnessing to scientists...
by Ben Burlingham on February 10, 2014 - 12:32pm
After watching the recent Creation/Evolution debate between Bill Nye, an atheistic scientist, and Ken Ham, a young-earth creationist, I was challenged to think about how I, as a scientist, should witness to my colleagues. As a six-day creationist working at a secular University, what is my "strategy?"
First, I want to thank God for the work of Ken Ham and others. While I don't agree with much of his approach, I was reminded recently that the "wrong" evangelism that he does is better than the "right" evangelism that I don't do.
With that said, though, there are some dangers in trying to learn lessons for our own witnessing from what Dr. Ham and Answers in Genesis do. It is easy to come away from a debate like that and think, "I wish I knew a lot more science! Then I could really witness to a scientist. Oh well, I better leave it to the experts." But the truth is that none of that science is needed in witnessing. In fact, it is a hindrance. God has given us all we need in His Word.
Here are a few Biblical points to keep in mind if you want to witness to a scientist...
Michael Horton gives us space to maneuver...
by Tim Bayly on October 8, 2013 - 9:46pm
A week or so ago, I read this from Escondido Westminster Seminary's Michael Horton:
Instantaneous creation of Adam and Eve is not explicitly required by the text or its subsequent interpretation, but the historicity of a first human couple with whom God entered into covenant is indispensable to theology at significant points in almost every locus. (from Horton's Lord and Servant, p. 118; quoted by Daniel Wells)
How scandalous this should be among the people of God. Westminster Escondido's Michael Horton joins Covenant Seminary's Jack Collins in declaring that "the text" of Genesis does "not explicitly require" that Adam was created by God "instantaneously" from the ground, or that Eve was created by God "instantaneously" from Adam's rib. Rather, Horton says the Bible would allow for—what? Adam and Eve's extrusion, evocation, emanation, or evolution over a period of time?
And what of the water Jesus changed into wine?
Covenant Theological Seminary's C. John Collins dismisses the numbers of Scripture...
It's the first rule of journalism to "follow the numbers." C. John "Jack" Collins is a prof at the Presbyterian Church in America's Covenant Theological Seminary, and recently Jack published a book and article purporting to defend the historicity of Adam. Both are dangerous pieces of work because both are carefully wrong in a very soft and seductive way. But the numbers don't lie.
Collins writes:
The story of Adam and Eve, and their first disobedience, explains how sin, the alien intruder, first came into human experience, though it hardly pretends to explain how rebellion against God (as expressed in the serpent's speech) originated to begin with.
Note that Collins speaks of the Fall as the responsibility of both "Adam and Eve." He uses the plural: "their first disobedience." This is directly contrary to the Word of God which explicitly declares the Fall and Original Sin to be solely the responsibility of...
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In Manhattan, defending creation is woman's work...
Here's a delightful piece written by Virginia Heffernan, a former fact-checker for The New Yorker who's written for Talk, Harper's, Slate, The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine. Clearly Heffernan understands why no Manhattan pastor would admit to believing in creation.
In New York City saying you're a creationist is like confessing you think Ahmadinejad has a couple of good points. Maybe I'm the only creationist I know.
How poverty-stricken New York City is, that while PCA pastors promote Darwin and the high priests of Science, a female journalist is left to defend the Word of God. Like they say, "a woman can do anything an ordained man can't do."
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The global warning of Wheaton and Calvin biologists...
Here's a letter to Congress signed by a bunch of Evangelical academics who are on the global warning bandwagon and tell us the salvation of Gaia is at stake. Starting with the overpopulation mania of the seventies, I've noted Calamity Jane fads and Christian author fads have about the same half-life—ten years.
Some time ago in Madison, Wisconsin, I used to protest the genocide of over a billion infants with one of the guys who signed this letter, but now he's climbed a couple socioeconomic brackets and is protesting anthropogenic global warming. It might help to explain his new commitments that he's since moved from Madison to Wheaton where he teaches biology.
Which brings me to a couple observations. First, note how many of the signatories are from Wheaton and Calvin where profs live in mortal dread of appearing insufficiently progressive. They should get out more.
Second, note that only five (2.6%) of these guys have the terminal degree in Atmospheric Science, Climatology, or Meteorology...
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Evolution: "Choose you this day whom you will serve..."
by Tim Bayly on March 25, 2013 - 11:51am
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. - Joshua 24:15
Astronomer John Byl has posted his review of Rev. Paulin Bedard's new book, In Six Days God Created: Refuting the Framework and Figurative Views of the Days of Creation, and here's a teaser..
Charles Hodge, the Presbyterian pope (part II)...
by David Wegener on July 24, 2012 - 1:07pm
A Review of Paul Gutjahr's Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy .
As a teacher of theology I knew a fair bit about Charles Hodge, generally speaking, but reading Paul Gutjahr's biography gave me an inside view.
I knew Hodge used Turretin's text for his theology courses and didn't publish his own Systematic Theology until the 1870s. Why did he wait so long? Gutjahr fills in the details. It turns out Princeton Seminary's governing board asked Hodge not to take his three-volume systematic theology into print because they thought it would cause a decline in enrollment if anyone could buy his theology text.
I knew his Systematic Theology was thin on the doctrine of the Church. I didn't know ...
Nullifying the Word of God for the sake of academic reputation...
by David and Tim Bayly on February 12, 2012 - 1:48pm
This is a post showing how (it seems to me) shame over the Bible's history of Creation has led to the (maybe) decline of Covenant Theological Seminary. But first, a short back-story...
Some time back I had a man in my congregation who had grown up Baptist and was pursuing graduate studies in science. One weekend he was home visiting his childhood church and he came under the influence of John Armstrong who--whether through preaching or conversation, I don't know--convinced him to stop graduate studies in science and begin graduate studies in theology. Being PCA at the time, I encouraged him to go to the PCA's Covenant Seminary over in St. Louis and he matriculated there a year or so later.
Watching him across the years is part of the reason I've warned people to avoid Covenant. There's more to say than this, but two things are worth highlighting...
Fungus, yeast, and children...
by David and Tim Bayly on August 24, 2011 - 9:00am
National Geographic breathlessly announces: "Even after centuries of effort, some 86 percent of Earth's species have yet to be fully described, according to new study that predicts our planet is home to 8.7 million species. That means scientists have cataloged less than 15 percent of species now alive—and current extinction rates mean many unknown organisms will wink out of existence before they can be recorded."
So let me get this straight...
From Dark Ages, Galileo speaks of literal interpretation of Scripture...
by David and Tim Bayly on March 28, 2011 - 9:43am
(Tim) It's central to our chronological conceit to reassure ourselves the Middle Ages were the Dark Ages crammed full of religious bloodshed, religious oppression of scientific progress, and the Plague. So we've all learned the lesson to keep church and state separate to the end that we won't have as many wars or as many people die in those wars.
Doing well are we? Paganism is the state religion almost everywhere and more people were sacrificed on the altars of paganism's idols (Communism, Zionism, Feminism, etc.) this past century than ever died from all the religious wars of the Medieval world combined.
But what of science? Our modern morality play smugly assures us the Enlightenment busted truth loose from the religious ignoramuses who had oppressed the great minds across many centuries. Finally we know it's not wrong to take the Pill, unborn babies aren't persons and can't feel the knives, the iPhone is cool, washing hands saves lives, you can make babies in the lab, you can end the war by blowing up the women and children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Earth isn't the center of the Universe.
"Poor Galileo! If only he'd lived today when every man finally knows religion has nothing to say to the state or the high priests of Science. The Bible's true when it talks about spiritual things--not political or sexual or scientific things. It's no history book or textbook on cosmology. It tells you how to feel--not what to think. Poor Galileo! He had it right and the church tried to shut him up. Stupid ignorant church. Stupid Dark Ages...
Merry Christmas: science isn't all it's cracked up to be...
by David and Tim Bayly on December 24, 2010 - 6:28am
(Tim, w/thanks to Pastor Curell) The scientific method is coming in for some hard knocks, recently, as efforts to replicate a number of critical studies fail. Some would prefer to put it that "replication is proving difficult," but after reading some of the stats, "failure" seems the right description. In discipline after discipline, scientists doing experiments over again find themselves unable to replicate earlier findings that minted academic superstars and set the standard for medical practice, for instance.
Some of the inability to replicate is likely attributable to the very old problem we all fall into of looking for proof that we're right. The problem is too widespread, though, for that alone to be the answer. Thus the New Yorker subtitled its article reporting on this crisis under its Annals of Science: "The Truth Wears Off: Is There Something Wrong with the Scientific Method?"
After reviewing hundreds of papers and forty-four meta-analyses, Australian National University's Michael Jennions found "a consistent decline effect over time, as many of the theories seemed to fade into irrelevance. ...Jenions admits that his findings are troubling, but expresses a reluctance to talk about them publicly."
Global warming: everyone who's anything agrees...
by David and Tim Bayly on November 22, 2009 - 7:43pm
(Tim) It wasn't until my thirties that I learned scientists lie, too. They just use different techniques. So no surprise tonight when I read that someone hacked the servers of a global warming advocacy group called the Climatic Research Unit of University of East Anglia and posted thousands of their e-mails, papers, and other correspondence on a Russian server for all the world to read. It's caused big problems:
Global warming alarmists are scrambling to save face... The messages ...reveal correspondence
between British and American researchers engaged in fraudulent
reporting of data to favor their own climate change agenda.
Summing up the damage the documents have done, climatologist Patrick J. Michaels said: "This is
not a smoking gun, this is a mushroom cloud."
The report...
Hitchens + Dawkins = Ditchkins
by David and Tim Bayly on May 18, 2009 - 11:30am
(Tim, thanks to James) Alright, alright; I'll say something good about Stanley Fish. Check out two posts (one and two) he recently did for the New York Times' web site in review of Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith, and Revolution. To whet your appetite, here's an excerpt from the first post...

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🇰🇪🚉Aight #KOT, listen up! It's time for some train lessons. I'm sick and tired of people like @johnnjenga regurgitating bad/false information about Chinese made railways/locomotives/rolling stock in Africa as part of their debate over whether #Kenya got a bad deal on the #SGR.
@johnnjenga But, but.. high-speed rail in China! The four biggest networks in the world are USA 250,000 km, China 121,000 km, Russia 85,500 km, India 65,000 km. Of these 4, only China (29,000 km) & Russia (1,326 km) have HS railways. HS rail is for passenger service. SGR is freight focused.
Last December, you asked me for feedback on your recruitment process.
Here's my public response to your unethical, biased, and racist recruitment process.
Last year in August, I applied for a Communications Associate (Writer/Editor) position at One Acre Fund.
The interview process took almost 3 months!!!
And @OneAcreFund I was confident about my work and my interviews, considering I'd been coached by a top head hunter for global firms in Kenya.
I didn't get the job, and after the long interview process you chose to send me a very vague regret email.
THREAD: Why @NYTimes should learn from when @CNN got Kenyans on Twitter mad. After #SomeoneTellCNN, they had to fly Exec. Vice President & MD for @CNNi (@Tony_MaddoxCNN) in to @StateHouseKenya to personally apologise to Pres. @UKenyatta. CNN also lost $1,000,000 in advertising.
Tweet/Email NYT International Editor Michael Slackman - slackman@nytimes.com (@meslackman) referencing issues listed below. I believe we're escalating to the right person, given the circumstances.
ACTION: What do we want?
a. An explanation, @meslackman has done this on Yemen before here - nytimes.com/2018/10/26/rea….
b. A caveat e.g. "this article contains graphic images" to warn readers.
c . A formal apology and strong editorial consideration to withdraw the image.
A) Consumers ILLEGALLY billed for a 10.1B @KenyaPower loss incurred from their corrupt paka panya games during 2017 election period.
EXPECTED RESULT: End to illegal billing and refunds to all affected customers.
#AmKenyan 1. Dear #KOT. I want to remind you it took 2yrs 8months for you to campaign for #FreeSSudan4. It is because of you that they are now with their families. Your consistent support saved their lives.
#AmKenyan 2. Are we cowards, ignorant for insisting #SwitchOffKPLC campaign, which is about ALL Kenyans, cannot be pushed under the rug because of a VAGUE 'Out of court settlement' that doesn't STOP the CRIMINAL outfit that is @KenyaPower from exploiting us?
Neighborhood. So kindly allow me to take this opportunity to bring you up to speed on something that potentially has serious ramifications for our region.
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Have Pod and Princess finally lost it?
Shhh, we can't let anyone know what we're up to.
It's ok. Now what should we do?
*gives her a conspirartorial smile* Hee hee hee.
Can you alert the base so that they're ready when we show up?
Good. the PLOT is coming along nicely.
*rubs her hands together* They won't know what hit 'em!
*taps fingers together Mr. Burns style* Excellent.
When will they learn that it's not good for GB to leave the two of us on here alone. Especially when we're bored.
Great. A hyper Pod is more than I can handle.
*GASP! Grabs her plans off the floor and shoves them in a pocket* What are you doing in here?! How'd you find us? No boys allowed!
How'd you know the location of The Secret Hideout?!?!
Pod, Radar is picking up movement half a klick away.


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Your company might have a brilliant strategic plan in terms of growth and competition. But does it take your manager incentives into consideration?
Denise's company, for example, implemented an incentive plan for top management that was tied to improving the company's per-share earnings on an after-tax basis. The company had an opportunity to grow by acquiring another business in a synergistic field. But by structuring it through a stock swap, the acquisition would dilute the per-share earnings of Denise's company. Is it any surprise that management found ways to foil the acquisition? How can you expect managers to make a whole-hearted effort to follow a strategic plan when it will cost them money out of their wallets?
Russ' company's strategic plan called for 10% growth in annual revenue each year over five years. After the plan had been in place six months he realized that projected growth wasn't occurring, even though profits were improving significantly. Why? In formulating the plan, Russ made rewards contingent solely on improved profit. It didn't take management long to realize that the way to get greater compensation was to reduce expenses, even if those expenses could have led to future growth and profit. As a result, research and development were slashed, as was investing in hiring additional salespeople.
The message of both examples is that performance measurements must be based on a business's strategic plan.
Measurements for incentivizing performance must support the broader objectives and goals of the company. At the same time, performance criteria should lead managers to focus on the company's objectives as well as their own.
Identical performance measurements cannot be used for every aspect of the company. As measurements affect different people and departments, different goals must be set. But each goal should lead in the same ultimate direction. Each element of the company must be united in achieving the strategic plan.
A good strategic plan takes into account the managers' best interests as well as the company's goals. Furthermore, managers' performance measurements and compensation need to align with the company's strategic plan and goals.


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Faber Welcomes Katisha Brown as Senior Contracts Specialist
Katisha Brown
Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC welcomes Katisha Brown as a new member of the firm's contracts specialist team. "Like most of our team, Katisha brings extensive in-house experience in day-to-day R&D contracting for large and small biopharma companies," said Linda DeGraw, Associate Director of Contracts Specialists at Faber. "She will be a terrific addition to our contracts specialist team, who seek to help the firm's clients with a careful yet pragmatic perspective."
Brown has helped draft, negotiate and administer a wide range of template-based agreements in support of biopharmaceutical R&D operations. Prior to her arrival at Faber, Brown served as a Senior Contracts Manager with Kintai Therapeutics, Inc. and an Associate Contract Manager at Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
As explained by DeGraw, Brown will work under the supervision of the firm's attorneys to assist clients with drafting and negotiating confidentiality, service, consulting, clinical trial and related agreements for preclinical development and global clinical studies.
When asked what influenced her decision to pursue employment with Faber, Brown explained that Faber was a valuable resource for her when she worked as an in-house contract specialist. When an opening with the firm became available, she jumped at the opportunity. "Faber has an impeccable track record and reputation. The firm is well-known in the biotech industry for strong communication and working closely with client operations teams, and a vast experience base from handling a wide range of contractual matters involving so many players in the industry."
A graduate of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Brown said that Faber's commitment to philanthropy also influenced her choice. "The firm's philanthropic efforts had a large impact on my decision to apply for employment at Faber," explained Brown. "I am eager to be a member of the team and participate in all philanthropic endeavors. I was especially drawn to the firm's commitment to the Special Olympics. As a former Division 1 student-athlete, I would love to volunteer and help others discover their strengths and abilities through the power of sports."
During her time at Faber, Brown hopes to grow as a legal professional and expand her legal career, as she serves clients, expands her knowledge base and learns from her colleagues.
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What's Next for Hydro One Ltd. (TSX:H)?
In a period of just under one year, Hydro One (TSX:H) has pivoted from being one of the most promising energy sector investments on the market to one that has many investors now questioning the continued feasibility of investing in Ontario's largest power generator and distributor.
Let's do a quick recap of how much the playing field has changed in that time, and what, if anything investors can come to expect from Hydro One moving forward.
For those who are unaware, Hydro One's standing within Ontario's market is one of a near monopoly; the share of the market still owned by other parties is so insignificant that it's perceived more as a rounding error than as any real competition. Furthermore, after a much-hyped IPO and the emergence of the company as an incredible income-producing investment, there wasn't much to hinder Hydro One from being branded as a great investment opportunity.
Unfortunately, that opportunity came with increasing costs, higher executive pay and an aggressive approach to expansion outside of Ontario, all of which translated into significantly higher rates for consumers. Hydro One's expansion plans included a multi-billion deal for Washington-based Avista, which was touted at the time to provide both cost-saving synergies and the type of growth that would provide a healthy return for several years.
To finance those initiatives, as well as the rapidly growing level of executive compensation, Hydro One pushed for rate hikes on consumers that proved to be both substantially higher than previously expected, which proved to be incredibly unpopular with consumers. This made Hydro One a hot-button issue in Ontario's election, with Premier Ford making good on an election pledge to oust the board at Hydro One and replace it with one that was more focused on the interests of Ontarians.
While Ford kept that promise within a few weeks of coming to power, the consequences of that action have now come back to haunt Hydro One.
Hydro One's deal for Avista appears to have now fallen out, with Washington regulators citing political considerations that ultimately resulted in the regulator rejecting the proposed sale of Avista to Hydro One.
Interference by the Ontario government in the operation of Hydro One, and by extension, Avista was apparently concerning enough for the regulator to reject the deal, which could now see Hydro One liable to pay a break-up fee of over $100 million.
The announcement has had a mixed effect on both stocks, with Hydro One trading up by over 5% at the end of the day while Avista reported its steepest loss in over a decade that by mid-day amounted to a drop of over 15%.
Despite Washington's regulator citing what amounts to political interference in the stock, Ontario's 47% share in the ownership of the company provides a healthy source of income for a cash-strapped government. If anything, this news could be interpreted as an opportunity for Hydro One to tighten its belt and rein in costs to keep both Ontarians and investors happy.
The bump we saw in Hydro One's price this week effectively erases most of the losses that the stock incurred over the course of the past year, and will result in a gain to any investor that bought in after February of this year.
Investors should keep in mind, however, that short-term gain is not the focus here- it's long-term growth and income-generating potential, and in those respects, Hydro One remains a promising long-term investment option.


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The buffer beam arrangements were not as original and it had Swedish safety valves and an electric generator and lights, all of which had to be scratch built.
This was my test build, the one I take to shows.
From top left are LKM NS2 and Schoma, Feldbahn Struver, LKM NS1, Jung EL105, Armoured Simplex, CKD 30R, Lord Raglan, Woolwich, 28hp Simplex,standard gauge Simplex and finally Mars.
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Signature Lecture to feature Daisy Rockwell on finding artistic inspiration in current global affairs
Kevin Dias
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Canadian International Council Waterloo Region (CIC Waterloo) are pleased to present US artist Daisy Rockwell and Christine Fair, assistant professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS), in discussion at the next CIGI Signature Lecture.
Entitled "Please Make it Stop! Traditional Portraiture in the Age of the Global 24-Hour News Cycle," this event will feature Rockwell, granddaughter of acclaimed artist Norman Rockwell, and Fair engaged in an on-stage conversation about Rockwell's recent work. Her vibrant acrylic paintings feature dictators, jihadists, terrorists and other recognizable faces in world news, in a jarring, almost neon palette. The event will be held on Thursday, January 19, 2012 in the CIGI Campus Auditorium.
Rockwell, who holds a PhD in South Asia Literature, paints under the alias of Lapata and has shown her work in numerous locations including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. In addition to this Signature Lecture, CIGI and the CIC Waterloo are pleased to be presenting Rockwell's work, in cooperation with the Waterloo Community Arts Centre, at the former Button Factory in Uptown Waterloo. Rockwell's art can be previewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lapata/.
Members of the public who want to attend the Signature Lecture in person can register for through this link: http://daisyrockwell.eventbrite.ca. Those who are not in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada or who want to watch the lecture from home can view the live-webcast at no cost by registering through the link above. The event will run from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Members of the media are invited to attend by registering with [email protected].
CIGI Signature Lecture with Daisy Rockwell and Christine Fair: "Please Make it Stop! Traditional Portraiture in the Age of the Global 24-Hour News Cycle"
The CIGI Campus Auditorium
67 Erb St. West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Daisy Rockwell paints under the takhallus, or alias, Lapata, which is Urdu for "missing," or "absconded," as in "my luggage is missing," or "the bandits have absconded." Rockwell grew up in a family of artists in western Massachusetts, some whose work adorns the surfaces of chinaware and brightens up the waiting rooms of dentists' offices, and others whose artistic output has found more select audiences. From 1992-2006, Rockwell made a detour into Academia, from which she emerged with a PhD in South Asian literature and a mild case of depression. Nonetheless, she sometimes still teaches Hindi, most recently at Dartmouth.
C. Christine Fair has a PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilization. Prior to joining the Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS), within Georgetown University 's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, she has served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and as a senior research associate in USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. Her research focuses upon political and military affairs in South Asia.
Kevin Dias, Communications Specialist, CIGI
Tel: 519.885.2444, ext. 238, Email: [email protected]
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, nonpartisan think tank on international governance. Led by experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. Conducting an active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI's interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world. CIGI was founded in 2001 by Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM (Research In Motion), and collaborates with and gratefully acknowledges support from a number of strategic partners, in particular the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. For more information, please visit www.cigionline.org.


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Bezos' Sec Advisor Claims Saudis Hacked, Leaked Amazon CEO Intimate Messages
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The security advisor to the richest person on Earth; the owner of Amazon.com and the Washington Post, conducted a personal investigation into the leak of the billionaire's private messages to a US tabloid.
Saudi Arabia is responsible for leaking the personal information of Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon and Washington Post, claims security advisor Gavin de Becker, who performed the duty for Bezos for 22 years.
In January, the National Enquirer published Bezos's intimate messages to news anchor Lauren Sanchez. The tabloid also acquired Bezos's "intimate photos." When Bezos threatened the magazine for their "politically motivated attack," the tabloid reportedly blackmailed him with the photos, demanding he admit the threats had nothing to do with politics. According to de Becker, the company got this data from the Saudis.
In an article published by The Daily Beast, de Becker said that Saudi Arabia hacked Bezos's phone in retaliation for the Washington Post's coverage of Riyadh's murder of opposition journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Yemeni Houthis Slam UK's Hunt Over Calls on Berlin to Lift Ban on Arms Sales to Riyadh
The security expert made his conclusion after an investigation which included "extensive discussions with top Middle East experts in the intelligence community, leading cyber security experts[…], discussions with current and former advisers to President Trump, Saudi whistleblowers, people who personally know the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, people who work with his close associate Saud al-Qahtani, Saudi dissidents, and other targets of Saudi action, including writer/activist Iyad el-Baghdadi."
"Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information," he wrote. "As of today, it is unclear to what degree, if any, AMI was aware of the details," he adds, referring to American Media Inc., the National Enquirer's parent company.
According to the experts whom de Becker spoke with, the Saudis have recently gained the means to "collect vast amounts of previously inaccessible data from smartphones in the air without leaving a trace-including phone calls, texts, emails."
The Saudis allegedly used these capabilities to set up "extensive surveillance efforts," which ultimately led to the Khashoggi murder.
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Ankara Accuses Riyadh of Reluctance to Share Info on Khashoggi's Murder
Riyadh is also said to possess an army of trolls, which it unleashed on Bezos October 2018. The attack involved mass calls to boycott Amazon.com and Souq.com, its Saudi subsidiary.
De Becker also claimed that AMI contacted him privately and demanded he deny finding any evidence of "electronic eavesdropping or hacking in their newsgathering process."
Saudi Arabia has denied any part of the Bezos affair. In February, Riyadh's minister of state for foreign affairs said Saudi Arabia had "absolutely nothing to do" with the National Enquirer reports.
AMI is said to have had a history of close relations with Saudi Arabia long before the Bezos scandal. In his article, de Becker cites a different scandal, reported by AP in April 2018. Back at the day, AMI reportedly sent Riyadh a digital "sneak peek" of upcoming magazine issue, "with a grinning Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman splashed across the cover." If Riyadh actually paid AMI to influence the magazine's contents, then AMI must have registered under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, AP report reads. Both AMI and Saudi Arabia denied the connection.
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'Bizarre' for Bezos to Suggest Saudis Linked to Leak of Lurid Texts
Prosecutors Review If American Media Violated Immunity Deal After Bezos Story
Bezos Says National Enquirer Tried to Blackmail Him With Intimate Photos
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Alright, I was saving this one for later but I gotta ask now. Which high school football field would you rank the best in the state and why? Atmosphere and setting mostly, I love fields which let the fans get right up on the sidelines, does any school still let you park around them? Man I thought that was cool, horns would be honking! Which field gives you that feeling like there is no place else you'd rather be on a cool fall evening?
I haven't been to Velva for a while but I used to really like their field. I had a lot trees around it, beautiful grass and a football tradition.
Oak Grove is nice but too many mosquitos, right by the river.
Central Valley's field always seems to be in really good shape and is a fun place to watch 9-man.
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Mayville would be right up there if they didnt have morons up at the college taking care of it. They just need to do something to the field so that when it rains it has somewhere to go and doesnt kill the grass.
Cavaliers field is usually always in good condition but you cant go on the track anymore to get closer to the game so that hurts.
Cushman Field is another nice one, i was at that South-Central game there during regular season. When Central scored that game winning touchdown in the final minutes the electricty there was awesome from the central fans, you could feel it from the other side of the field.
When i went to a 9-man game in Drake this past season for a playoff quarterfinal there were vehicles around the field and everyone was right on the field. I had forgot how much fun that was since Cavalier put in the new rubberized track and doesn't allow fans on the track anymore. The field in drake didn't seem the greatest but the atmosphere made up for that.
SCC wrote: Central Valley's field always seems to be in really good shape and is a fun place to watch 9-man.
Linton's field is a nice setting once it gets dark. It would have been better if you didn't have to play Linton while you were there.
I like Hope. Nice setting, good field. Oak Grove is good to, but mosquitos can be a problem. Another nice field is Kenmare.
Anyone speak to Beulah's field these days? Back in the day I thought it was pretty cool place, but of course I was just a little tike.
I really like the community bowl in Bismarck with a view of the Missouri River also.
Yeah I agree. I meant to include that in my post but forgot too. It is a beautiful stadium and with the river you feel even more a part of North Dakota.
point/center wrote: I like Hope. Nice setting, good field. Oak Grove is good to, but mosquitos can be a problem. Another nice field is Kenmare.
When I went to school in Kenmare the field was terrible, the bleachers needed to be replaced and the track went into the endzone. Parts of the field were rocky and parts had standing water. I think it was the only field that sunk in the middle :) I know it's been a lot of years and they've had it all redone but I just think it's ironic.
yeah honestly, kenmare is the worst field i've ever played on, including the school playground which was made of pavement. there is only grass on the sidelines and the track does cut on to one of the endzones. its like a street is going through the endzone???? and they don't even have lights so all of the games need to be played during the day. every high school football player wants to play under the lights!
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Maybe I am bias, but none the less Velva has to be one of the top fields in the state and the best I have seen in Class A. The setting is excellent for high school football and the atmosphere is unbelievable. The whole town is at every game and I if you have ever been to a Velva-Ryan or a Velva-Stanley game you can't get a parking spot in town. And Larry Sandy treats that field like his baby. I don't think most coaches put in the time he does to take care of his field.
lefty wrote: yeah honestly, kenmare is the worst field i've ever played on, including the school playground which was made of pavement. there is only grass on the sidelines and the track does cut on to one of the endzones. its like a street is going through the endzone???? and they don't even have lights so all of the games need to be played during the day. every high school football player wants to play under the lights!
I've followed it a little, a good community effort to raise money and donate whatever services they can to build a better quality field, with lights and everything (I'm assuming). MAYBE they can start a tradition finally with better facilities and a 9-man schedule. They big problem I think with the old field was there was zero drainage, because of a construction flaw.
In fairness, I really liked the gym, districts with the bleachers in the band room, that was BIG TIME, but I am biased.
I know putting Kenmare was a strech..maybe it would've been a little better to say it was the most 'unique' field in the stateA? definetly had it's own home field advantage. like the MN Twins in the Metrodome kind of a deal.
not a stretch at all, like I said, I still like the fields that let you park around the field in your cars. Nothing like hearing those horns on a cold night under the lights. Kenmare used to do that back before the track went in.
Velva in Iraq wrote: Maybe I am bias, but none the less Velva has to be one of the top fields in the state and the best I have seen in Class A. The setting is excellent for high school football and the atmosphere is unbelievable. The whole town is at every game and I if you have ever been to a Velva-Ryan or a Velva-Stanley game you can't get a parking spot in town. And Larry Sandy treats that field like his baby. I don't think most coaches put in the time he does to take care of his field.
Back in the olden days, I recall, when I think one of the Gleave brothers was coach at Velva. We had just gotten our ritual beating and we were getting dressed in the locker room. All of a sudden we could hear the whole Velva team singing the school song, echoing through the school vents. Our lockerroom got really quiet, it was almost surreal.
I always loved Roller field in Devils Lake, I never got to play on it under the lights. But I got to watch some really good football players play there in the early 90's.
ndfan wrote: I always loved Roller field in Devils Lake, I never got to play on it under the lights. But I got to watch some really good football players play there in the early 90's.
I saw a couple games there myself. I don't really remember the quality of the field, but I do always remember getting the feeling you just didn't want to play there. It was almost unexplainable. Maybe the true definition of home field advantage?
I would have to agree that Central Valley has the best field in the state. Yes, it is lacking the stadium seating atmosphere of triple A stadiums, but the field quality and fan atmosphere is second to none. When a huge region or playoff game is held there, the place is nuts. In '99 when they won the title we played them on their homecoming and it was the most insane game I've ever been a part of. (that's right, we were the lone blemish on their record). Enough said, CV has the best field in the state.
Roller Field has one of the nicest kept fields in the state and it's a great atmosphere to play in.
i would have to agree with DL-in-DL i have seen Roller feild in Devils Lake. The feild itself looked as if an artist painted the lines and numbers and as if no team had ever stepped a foot on it. The stands and concession area didnt seem above average. Grand Forks's Cushman feild is also very kept up.