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As the Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean fiasco gains momentum with those who support the two incarcerated agents specifically, the border patrol generally, and the probe into questionable conduct by U.S. Attorney, Johnny Sutton and company, so too does this story gain detractors–detractors who generally have no more than a broad understanding of the incident, the trial, and the recent firestorm of outrage from the public and a growing number of congressmen and senators who are understandably demanding an investigation of Sutton, his office, and the DHS among others for their dubious ethics in regards to the apparent railroading of Ramos and Compean.
First, many question if these men are actually heroes. Here's a typical, partisan comment from Joshua Holland writing for Alternet.com…
So the [right] wingnuts have taken to calling Johnny Sutton an "agent of the Mexican government," demanded that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez step into the case and generally made a big stink on right-wing talk radio, blogs and on their fake "news" sites like Townhall and WorldNetDaily. It's all gotten conflated with the rank-and-file rebellion against the Republican Party over immigration. To many on the right, the two dirty cops are "illegal immigration heroes." [bold emphasis]
And from an Anonymous poster on this piece…
Whoa..everyone here needs to chill out. First, shooting someone in the back is not a "heroic" action. I don't know who taught you right from wrong, but you need to do some serious soul searching if you thing this is alright.
First, the comment by Anonymous is indicative of those who know little about the circumstances of the case. Compean claimed the illegal alien drug runner had a shiny object in his hand and it appeared as if the fugitive was turning to use it. Making the assumption that it was a gun, you simply cannot tell agent Compean that the suspect did not have a gun. If he saw what he thought was a gun, Compean has the right to defend himself. This is basic police policy. What would normal human being do in a similar situation?
As for both comments above, I call them heroes because they do something most of us don't have the balls to do, and they do it every day. They protect us with their own lives on the line, regardless of their imperfections–the same imperfections many of us have. The same can be said of firemen, marines, policemen, etc. I am a television producer. I am not a hero. Ramos and Compean are heroes.
Holland's comments are rife with liberal political partisanship when this is simply a matter of justice–left and right should make no difference. Of course, I would be a hypocrite if I said I don't include opinion in my writing (for crying out loud, this is a blog after all), but Holland even ridicules news outlets for offering information that doesn't line up with his liberal leanings. The Onion is a "fake" news site. World Net Daily is not. Whether you are uncomfortable with the level of bias World Net Daily delivers, dubbing it fake is odd. Alternet.com takes a similar approach, but I would not pin them as "fake" because of the political bias. Their leading headline, Bush is Screwing Up the War on Terror I couldn't agree with more. Does this make me a liberal? No (though some neo-cons would strongly disagree.) Does reading World Net Daily make me conservative? No. I never agree with every story a news outlet pushes on any website I visit or any publication I read. To do so would be mindless.
Personally I visit several news sites, conservative and liberal, and while I prefer to think of myself as a moderate, I often find myself leaning toward, what to me is, the more stable and thoughtful stance, and that generally leans to the right.
One thing I can certainly say about the liberal leaning news outlets is their trend to manipulate through emotional, straw-man arguments often devoid of logic. Take for example the cover story in latest issue of The Nation–Lockdown in Greely: How Immigration Raids Terrorized a Colorado Town (Marc Cooper.)
…December 12, the holiday celebrating the appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe. What materialized in front of the Swift gates that morning was more like a vision of hell. Shortly after 7 am a half-dozen buses rolled up with a small fleet of government vans, which unloaded dozens of heavily armed federal agents backed by riot-clad local police. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents sealed off all entrances and exits and formed a perimeter around the factory. Then others barged inside and started rounding up the whole workforce.
Some of the frightened workers jumped into cattle pens; others hid behind machinery or in closets. Those who tried to run were wrestled to the ground. Sworn statements by some workers allege that the ICE agents used chemical sprays to subdue those who didn't understand the orders barked at them in English. The plant's entire workforce was herded into the cafeteria and separated into two groups: those who claimed to be US citizens or legal residents and those who didn't.
Talk about appeals to emotion. The entire article is much like this–one big hyperbolic mess with absolutely no respect for American citizens, native born or immigrant. Vision of hell? A fleet of government vans? They barged inside? What constitutes a vision of hell? I've never been there (and hope I never pay a visit), so why the drama? I'm assuming that a fleet constitutes at least two vehicles, but the apparent tone conveyed here is to insinuate a large group of military vehicles filled with nasty-bad government agents, who in reality are simply doing their jobs, much like Ramos and Compean did. And they barged into a facility that was breaking the law by employing illegal immigrants, many of whom were shown to be guilty of identity theft which obviously illustrates why many of the workers initially attempted to hide and flee.
Curiously, pro-illegal immigrant activists, many of whom are liberals, simply don't understand that they're in the same boat with President Bush on this issue. You guys actually agree on something–Bush wants a low-paid, easily exploitable workforce and so do you. For many other reasons as well, I do not want to exploit poor illegal aliens. I desire an improved immigration system that starts with sharpened enforcement at the border.
More from The Nation article…
"By saying these raids were about identity theft, ICE and the Bush Administration suddenly changed the rules of the game," says Mark Grey, director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration. By highlighting the identity-theft angle, DHS officials have cast into a sinister light a common practice, at worst a victimless crime.
Hyperbole is one thing. Fabrication is another. Identity theft is never victimless, and it's a crime that's growing as more illegals flow into the country unfettered due to our porous border. I've heard illegal immigration apologists attempt to explain it away as an inevitability (and that seems to excuse it for them) but I've never heard or read anyone be so bold as to state identity theft is victimless. Tell that Linda Trevino and Steve Millet and the many thousands more victims of illegal immigrants who stole identity information of legal residents.
More from The Nation story…
…says an indignant Robert McCormick, a Greeley immigration attorney representing about sixteen of the workers. "This is indeed a declaration of war on the immigrant community. This is about Republicans trying to appease their core bloc of supporters. Yeah, some people got a big kick out of this. But I think most Americans were revolted by it. Here in town, a lot of people have said they want no part of it. And others, I assure you, are going to wind up being very ashamed of it."
As someone who supports stronger borders and LEGAL immigration I find particularly infuriating how often illegal immigration activists love to leave out the word illegal when discussing the subject of illegal immigration. I am wholly against illegal immigration. I am completely in support of legal immigration. As cheesy as this sounds, I am filled with joy (yes, filled with joy) when ever I hear "The American Dream" story, particularly centered around immigrants–immigrants who came to this country with little to nothing, and managed great successes for themselves. Whether they became CEO of a corporation, or they simply bought a home in the Midwest, I am always pleased when immigrants successfully weave themselves into the fabric of our society.
Conversely, it saddens me when illegals enter the country and fail to even attempt at integration. This post from last summer clearly demonstrates this problem. As I state in that piece (accompanied with the L.A. Times article, 6+1=1 Tenuous Existence), immigrant assimilation is the best means to achieve success in a foreign society.
From the mentioned post…
[L.A. Times – Neither Magdaleno nor her husband speaks English, though she has been in the United States 22 years and he 28. Even her teenage daughters speak mostly Spanish; their English vocabulary is limited.
Jesus Christ! Twenty-two and 28 years and they still haven't learned English? None?! What's even more frightening is the fact that their teenage children barely speak English as well. This is very sad. To me, it speaks volumes on Mexican familial culture–how improving oneself is simply sneaking across the border and continuing a genealogy that one was trying to escape in the first place.]
As I've said before, I don't blame poor Mexicans (or Chinese, or Indians, etc.) their need to come to this country for a better life. I blame this presidency and his administration for their failures to secure our border. When illegals enter the country, bypassing the proper channels to become legal residents, they will almost always fail to integrate. This often translates into large, poor illegal immigrant ghettos that do nothing to support the economy while serving as ethnocentric pools of resentment and anger towards the community, the city, and the country where in they now reside.
Also from commenter, Anonymous…
It is also a ridiculous statement to say that immigrants are "rotting" this country. If immigrants did not "rot" America for the first 300 years, how are they doing it now? The crime, gangs, and drugs would be here whether these people came or not. Crime was an issue long before immigration.
I may have been participating in dramatic license, but it is true, the more unrestricted illegal weight bears down on this country, or any country for that matter (France anyone?), the more damaged it becomes–more rotten. Here are some interesting statistics from the L.A. Times, an infamously pro-illegal immigration, liberal publication…
– 40 percent of all workers are working for cash and not paying taxes. Why would they want to be legal and pay taxes? They would be able to start bringing the rest of their families to the USA.
– 75 percent of people on L.A.'s most-wanted list are illegal aliens.
– Over two-thirds of all births are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by the taxpayers.
– Nearly 25 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are here illegally.
– Over 300,000 illegals are living in garages.
[Anonymous] The crime, gangs, and drugs would be here whether these people came or not. Crime was an issue long before immigration.
– The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegals from south of the border.
[Hecubus] Additionally, if our border was more secure, we would be dealing with fewer drug and crime problems. Would we still have crime and drugs? Of course, but it would be diminished.
– Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
– 29 percent of inmates in the federal prisons are illegal aliens.
– The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a negative.
– They also send between about $15 billion back to Mexico to assist their families and prop up the corrupt Mexican government that keeps most of its citizens in poverty.
– It cost Los Angeles $276 million in welfare costs for 100,000 children of illegal aliens.
[Anonymous] And please don't get indignant and act like you don't reap the benefits of undocumented workers. You like your oranges cheap. All of your products that are "Made in America" have most likely gone through the hands of undocumented workers at some point. Deep down you know that these people are benefitting you.
– Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops but 29 percent are on welfare.
Add to that California alone spent nearly $8 billion dollars in 2004 to educate illegal alien children and children of illegals. Also, the rate at which emergency rooms in California are closing due to EMTALA and illegal aliens not paying E.R. bills is astonishing. Who ends up footing the bill for these unpaid costs? American citizens.
[Anonymous] I am Mexican, and I don't believe I have any diseases that are foreign to this country. I don't believe that I have ever brought any foreign diseases back to the U.S. from my travels. You need to get the facts straight.
Also, many diseases are on the rise due to illegal immigration. I'm not saying you're disease ridden, Anonymous. I'm simply pointing out facts that many illegals who do not go through proper immigration channels are carriers of communicable diseases. Some illnesses thought to have been nearly squashed are on the rise again because of this–plague, dengue fever, and polio. Even leprosy has seen an alarming rise in regularity because of illegal immigrants.
Anyway, there is a horrible misconception in this country right now, based mostly on what people hear rather than on what they know, that illegal immigrants perform jobs that Americans won't do (though of late, this has been altered by illegal immigrant activists to "jobs Americans are too qualified for" since the condescending catch-phrase "jobs Americans wont do" was failing miserably.) This is patently false, but it's been regurgitated over and over so much that people simply accept it. (There was an incident recently in the post-Katrina south where African Americans looking for work at a specific job site were told to go home because "the Mexicans" were coming to work for less pay.)
For those of us living in border states, particularly southern California, keep in mind that Latino workers makes up only 5% the total workforce in the United States, and they don't make up a majority of the workforce in any occupation in America–yes, not even car washing, gardening, or house cleaning.
Much of the problem lies with employers, such as Swift Co. from The Nation article mentioned above, who hire illegals for a lower wage than actual American citizens are willing to take (well below minimum.) It's about a fair wage. Pay American citizens a fair wage and they will do those jobs that so many are claiming only illegals will do because we, as American citizens, are too good to get our hands dirty. In fact, if there weren't as many illegals doing "jobs Americans won't do" then Americans would be able to fill those jobs, probably promoting a general increase in wages for many Americans altogether.
American citizens are doing jobs throughout the country that illegal immigrant activists say they won't do. Americans are making livings and getting paid fair wages gardening, house cleaning, building homes, and working at McDonalds. Often views are skewed by where people live (border states) and what they see in the news.
Many legal immigrants (Latino and otherwise) find great offense to the idea of illegals getting any sort of benefits, let alone amnesty, by being in the country without having gone through the proper channels. Most immigrants have waited with great patience, going through those proper channels in order to become American citizens. The general disdain and disrespect pro-illegal immigration protestors and activists have towards the country that they are trying to win favor from is galling.
What needs to happen? Mexico needs to step up to the plate and provide for its citizens, and the United States needs to stop paying their bills without any help from Mexico. Mexico relies on the fact that its citizens emigrate to the US. It even took out full page ads in American newspapers supporting Bush's guest worker program! It's what keeps the rich wealthy, and the poor even poorer. The corruptness of the Mexican government is abhorrent, and if it were governed with any sense of responsibility (doubtful there will be any change even with the new leadership), the situation would probably be different, especially considering Mexico is rich in natural resources. What the illegal immigrant demonstrators and activists should do is use that same determination to protest their own government in Mexico to incite change instead of alienating the American audience it's trying to win over.
Ultimately this is not a racist issue, at least for me. This is about providing American citizens a fair shot and keeping our economy running smoothly. Simply, if you pay people more money, they put more money back into the economy. If you pay them less, they put less back in, which weakens the economy. Add to that, most illegal immigrants send much of the money they make back to their families in Mexico and you can see how much of problem this will ultimately become (and already is.)
Senate hearings on Ramos-Compean postponed
Democrats who want 'extreme' sentences probed blame 'scheduling difficulties'
Posted: February 20, 2007
7:57 p.m. Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.comSenate Judiciary Committee hearings scheduled by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to investigate the prosecution of border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean and Texas Texas Sheriff's Deputy Guillermo "Gilmer" Hernandez have been postponed, WND has learned.
Sen. Feinstein's office told WND scheduling difficulties were responsible for the cancellation of the Feb. 27 hearing and her office anticipates that a new hearing date will be set soon. A spokesman for Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he was disappointed to hear of the postponement, noting the senator's staff had done extensive work in preparation. As WND reported, Feinstein received permission from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to examine the cases.
The Bush administration has drawn strong criticism from Republican congressmen angry about its handling of a case in which two border agents were given 11- and 12-year sentences after granting a drug smuggler immunity to testify against them.
"I strongly believe that the sentences in this case are too extreme, given the criminal nature of the defendant and his possession of large quantities of drugs," Feinstein said in a statement. "These men were given sentences that some individuals who are convicted of murder wouldn't receive." Leahy's office did not return WND's call for comment.


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Warns that a panic atmosphere is intentionally being nurtured to get bill passed
Steve Watson
October 3, 2008
A Democratic Congressman has warned that a panic atmosphere is being intentionally created in order to get the financial bailout billed passed, further stating that several members of Congress were told before Monday's vote that martial law will be instigated in America if the legislation fails.
Congressman Brad Sherman of California's 27th congressional district told the House in a speech yesterday evening that he personally knew of several Congressional representatives who have said they were threatened with the prospect of all out martial law should they vote in opposition to the $700 billion bailout.
Sherman essentially intimated that powerful forces who want the bill passed have attempted to blackmail elected representatives.
"The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. That atmosphere is not justified." Sherman stated.
"Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no." The Congressman continued.
"That's what I call fear mongering. Unjustified. Proven wrong. We've got a week, we've got two weeks to write a good bill. The only way to pass a bad bill is to keep the panic pressure on." Sherman urged.
Watch Rep. Sherman speaking in the House yesterday:
Watch Rep. Sherman's full speech at CSPAN.
Sherman has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1997 and also serves on the Committee on Financial Services along with Texas Congressman Ron Paul.
On the Eve of a second Congressional vote on the legislation, these revelations show that freedom in America is under direct attack. The Congress should instigate an immediate investigation into these serious allegations to uncover which private individuals and administration officials, if any, are involved with directly threatening a military takeover of the workings of the U.S. government.
Sherman's comments follow those of Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), who warned Monday that the only information he had received about the bailout was what talking points to use on the American people and that he had been thrown out of meetings for not blindly supporting the bill.
Ominously, Burgess also commented, "Mr. Speaker I understand we are under Martial Law as declared by the speaker last night."
Rep. Burgess appeared on the Alex Jones show earlier this week to discuss his comments. Subscribers, listen here.
However, it must be stressed that the definition of martial law that Congressman Sherman is referring to is the full blown military suspension of the normal administration of justice, while rep. Burgess was referring to the temporary suspension of the rules and procedures of Congress by its leaders so that a bill can be passed quickly.
Sherman's allegations of threats against elected representatives have also been echoed by outspoken political activist Lyndon LaRouche who told an audience "There are those in high positions who know that if they don't allow this bill to pass, that there are people behind the Bush Administration who will force them to pass it or kill them…". LaRouche stated that well placed sources had told him that the use of armed troops to enforce the passage of the bill is "reality".
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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Carmelo Anthony scored 31 points with 14 rebounds in just three quarters and the New York Knicks bounced back after having their winning streak stopped at 13 games one night earlier by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 101-91 on Friday night.
Anthony's streak of scoring at least 35 points ended at six games as New York coach Mike Woodson chose to rest the All-Star forward the entire fourth quarter.
J.R. Smith also scored 31 -- 13 in the fourth while Anthony watched -- for New York, which is trying to hold off Indiana for the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Knicks have a three-game lead over the Pacers with three games remaining for both teams, heading into their matchup Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
Kyrie Irving scored 31 for the Cavs, who are 4-17 since March 1. Irving attempted a career-high 27 shots.
Anthony came in as the NBA's scoring leader, averaging 28.7 points per game and he did what he needed to keep the pressure on Kevin Durant (28.3) as they battle for the scoring title with just a few days left in the season.
Anthony scored 14 in the third quarter, helping the Knicks open an 11-point lead entering the fourth.
Woodson felt comfortable enough with the lead to sit Anthony. So Smith took over, dropping a variety of jumpers much to the amusement of Anthony who stood and cheered his teammate from the bench.
New York was determined to erase the taste of Thursday's 118-111 overtime loss in Chicago, the Knicks first since March 17. They want to build some momentum heading to the postseason and Anthony and Smith made sure of it, combining for 62 points and 19 rebounds. They even added a combined three assists, not bad considering it's rare either gives up the ball for anyone.
The Knicks only had 10 players in uniform as they push toward the close of the regular season missing some key parts.
All-Star center Tyson Chandler (bulging disc), forwards Amare Stoudemire (knee surgery), Kenyon Martin (sprained ankle), Marcus Camby (plantar fasciitis) and Rasheed Wallace (broken foot) are all out.
Chandler and Martin are expected to return for the playoffs when the Atlantic Division champions will try to win a series for the first time since 2000.
With a section of New York fans leading "M-V-P" chants with every bucket, Anthony scored 12 consecutive points in the third quarter as the Knicks kept a Cavs team staggering to the finish at a distance. Anthony's three-point play put New York ahead by 11 and Jason Kidd followed with a rainbow 3-pointer to make it 69-55.
Irving was determined to keep the Cavs close and he kept launching shots in a shootout he wasn't going to win. He scored 12 in the third as Cleveland went into the final period down 75-64.
But Smith and Kidd hit consecutive 3-pointers early in the fourth to put the Knicks up 16 and New York pushed its lead to 21.
New York made 10 more 3-pointers, increasing their league record to 857 this season.
Tristan Thompson added 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Cavs, who are down to three more game in another dismal season. There's no guarantee coach Byron Scott will be back next season.
On their previous visit, the Knicks fell behind by 22 in the first half and lost Anthony, who came up limping after tripping and hurting his knee.
New York rallied without their superstar for a 102-97 win, but the Knicks left Cleveland looking nothing like a team capable of making a deep postseason run.
However, they've gone 17-6 since then, and could finish with the East's second-best record.
There was no falling behind this time.
Smith scored New York's first 10 points in the second quarter, and the Knicks went on a 13-0 run capped by a 3-pointer by Steve Novak to open a 44-30 lead.
Meanwhile, the Cavs couldn't get anything to drop and went 5 of 21 in the second quarter to trail 52-43 at halftime.
The Cavs played without rookie guard Dion Waiters, their second-leading scorer. Waiters never made it to the arena and Scott said he was dealing with a "family matter." Waiters recently returned after missing 10 games with an injured knee and has missed 21 games overall.
NOTES: Waiving Kurt Thomas, the NBA's oldest player, opened a roster spot for the Knicks, who signed C Solomon Jones. The 6-foot-10 Jones played previously played for Woodson in Atlanta. Jones didn't score in 12 minutes. ... The Cavs will play their final home game on Monday against LeBron James and the Heat, who rallied from a 27-point deficit to win in Cleveland on March 20.


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My ancestor was Frederick John Wilson. He was in Australia by 1859 when my greatgrandmother was born. He then went to New Zealand. There was a lot of movement bewteen Australia/ Melbourne & NZ,particularly Otago at that time. Do you know where he went to? I gather there are loads of Wilsons in Dunedin.What did he do?Shipping records are quite good one you start looking at them. R Dunk
BROOKS of Stratford
My great, great grandfather Philip Cannil Brooks was born in Stratford in 1831 according to the 1871 census. I do not know who his parents or siblings were. Any information would be gladly accepted. He married Elizabeth Annie Creed in London in 1850/1. They had 4 daughters.
This has been largely updated inn the interim to January 2014.
He married Frances Clark at St Pancras Aug 6, 1851 but there are not further records of her.
His first child was Rebecca Creed who always treated Phillip as her father. Elizabeth Annie Creed was the mother of the other daughters - hettie, Phyllis, Euphemia,Georgina, Caroline & Kate Louise.Georgina died as a child. Phillip died in 1876 with Elizabeth Annie by his side & not in different circumstances as the Australian descendants family legend has it. Rebecca married James Armond & was the mother of his children. She died & kate Louise became their stepmother. I do have further info obtained from England. Caroline Emma married Dugald McKenzie McLachlan at Liverpool in 1891 & migrated to Australia in 1913
Holdaway of Titchfield, Hants, UK
James Walter Holdaway & William Holdaway, sons of Stephen & Sarah Holdaway, then living in Southampton left for Australia in 1869. Work was scarce for the waterboys so they decided to try for a better life at Moreton Bay , Queensland. The land allocated to them was not too good for vegetable growing (it later became the famous Gabba Cricket Ground) so they headed south to the Clarence River. Here they cut timber. Later they came to Sydney.Stephen snr ws a sawyer, which craft was taken up by his son in NSW. I am looking for past family history, some of which I have or contact fromfamily who stayed in Hampshire.
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Solo Devil: Dave is Dave with another band
Dave Matthews is some devil. Or perhaps just devilish. He's been quoted as saying the collection of songs that constitute his debut solo album "didn't fit" with his band.
Hmm. Any of the 14 tracks on Some Devil would fit within the context of DMB. It's refreshing to hear Matthews work with other musicians Trey Anastasio, Tim Reynolds, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, etc. But while the album is receiving some accolades, many critics don't consider it the distinct or unusual product one would expect from a solo project.
"It's no surprise," says veteran New York freelancer Nick Catucci, who writes for the Village Voice, Blender, and Spin. "I think he has to get outside the constraints [of his band]." A million seller? Yes, says Catucci, but a musical disappointment nonetheless.
Waldo Jaquith, reporter/editor at Nancies.org agrees that it's bound to succeed. "In all," he writes, "Some Devil manages to be smooth without being slick, understated without sacrificing strength, sweet without being syrupy. What Everyday did with unbridled enthusiasm, Some Devil does with confident perfectionism. Should Dave Matthews Band decide to perform these songs next time they tour, they will no doubt be received with great enthusiasm."
The CD opens with the somewhat upbeat "Do Do," slips into the more melancholy "So Damn Lucky," and "Gravedigger" (the current single and video), and then becomes classic Matthews– which is to say, deals with his typical themes of love, loss, and the past.
Artistically, with Steve Harris as producer, the album resembles the somewhat reviled Everyday more than anything else Matthews and his band have produced. There are singles here. The longest song, "An' Another Thing," a retooled version of the previously released "Another Thing," clocks in at 5:29 minutes.
"Gravedigger" appears twice, once with full accompaniment and then, as the last song, acoustically. The album makes you think "Busted Stuff Part II," not "Here's something new and different."
As expected, "Gravedigger," the first single from the album, is receiving significant airplay. As WNRN's Mike Friend says, it's not a rocker, but it's classic Matthews.
Some Devil is not garage band rock. If anything, it's Matthews doing what he does best: sometimes Beatle-esque, more often infused with Matthews' familiar guitar and vocal stylings. Still an interesting and compelling recording especially without the diversions (worthy as they are) of Boyd Tinsley's violin, the honking sax of LeRoi Moore, and the jazz inflections of Carter Beauford the record is a sign of Matthews' maturity beyond DMB.
The Washington Post sums up Some Devil as "inoffensive," a damning-with-faint praise often lobbed at the DMB by the unfaithful. Nonetheless, the faithful are many, and the album is expected to go gold, if not platinum.
Dave's label, RCA, has high hopes for gaining the #1 slot on the charts. However, on the same day as Some Devil's release, hip-hop band Outkast released its latest album, Speakerboxxx: The Love Below.
"We're only hearing good numbers," says RCA spokesperson Meredith Israel. "We think the big competition is going to be Outkast. We're crossing our fingers."
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Focus on Funds: The ETF Price War
Brendan Conway explains that Fidelity has doubled the number of no-commission ETFs it offers, and Schwab has cut fees.
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The specific cause of nocturnal leg cramps is unknown. These cramps may be related to imbalances in local muscle chemistry. This can be related to problems with nerves, muscles, or blood supply.
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Nocturnal leg cramps are more common in people aged 50 years and older. Other factors that may increase your chances of nocturnal leg cramps:
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- Prolonged sitting, or standing on hard surfaces
- Pregnancy
- Flat feet, or other foot or ankle deformities
- Alcohol use disorder
- Neurological conditions such as Parkinson disease
- Certain medications such as those to treat high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or psychiatric disorders
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- Wear comfortable, supportive shoes
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Allen RE, Kirby KA. Nocturnal leg cramps. Am Fam Physician. 2012;86(4):350-355.
Butler JV, Mulkerrin EC, et al. Nocturnal leg cramps in older people. Postgrad Med J. 2002;78:596-598.
Garrison SR, et al. The effect of magnesium infusion on rest cramps: Randomized controlled trial. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2011;66(6):661-666.
Nocturnal leg cramps. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114870/Nocturnal-leg-cramps. Updated November 6, 2015. Accessed September 29, 2016.
2/11/2011 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114870/Nocturnal-leg-cramps: El-Tawil S, Musa T, et al. Quinine for muscle cramps. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010;(12):CD005044.
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…ron my apologies to you but not to David Hoover (DavidBenAriel) who failed attempting to blow up the Dome of the Rock and was caught and kicked out of Israel and banned from returning. Failure has it's price. -Yamit
Yamit, the failure is all your own. Why do you refuse to let the plain truth set you free? Why did you fail to document what you hatefully allege? Put up or shut up. I love Jerusalem, Jews and Israel, despite ignorant and prejudiced people like you (not representative of Jews or Israelis), and corrupt Israeli officials. Zion shall be redeemed with justice.
I was born David A. Hoover. However, I legally changed my name to David Ben-Ariel (with the help of my Jewish lawyer) during the Spring of 1989, as related in God-given names (otherwise you wouldn't know about my former name).
Furthermore, this Christian Zionist doesn't believe in the trinity, keeps Sabbath rather than Sunday, the biblical festivals (not holidays of pagan origin), the dietary laws, etc.


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Sareyyet, Ramallah's scouting organisation, has been a well-known part of the community for decades. In the group's Al-Tireh Centre, the walls are covered with photographs of drumming parades, sports and ceremonies, snapshots of the city's history, and trophies recording the group's success in Dhabke and traditional dance.
In the organisation's studios two weeks ago, however, a more unusual kind of class was taking place. For the whole day dancers from Company Ultima Vez, an acclaimed Belgian contemporary group, held open auditions that challenged local dancers to learn their innovative style of movement. By four in the afternoon, on a day when the summer heat seemed to have finally arrived in Ramallah, the young participants were exhausted but deeply engaged in the abstract movement and music of the class.
This audition was one of dozens of workshops, film screenings, talks and performances of cutting edge dance that, for the past two weeks, have been taking place daily in Ramallah and all over historic Palestine. The programme is the work of the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival (RCDF): an annual programme of arts that over a nine year history has developed an esteemed global reputation.
The vision behind the project is both artistic and political: "to promote dialogue and cultural exchange between the Palestinian people and other nations of the world," the festival's opening letter announces, and to "introduce the Palestinian public to various forms of contemporary dance." For Assad Hussary, who has been working on RCDF since its inception, it's an opportunity to develop Palestinian arts, and to show the world the reality both of Palestine and the occupation.
"People come here for the festival, and they see the checkpoint, they see the wall," he told Palestine Monitor. "It's an important thing. They see this is the Palestinian life. And they are not just seeing, they are feeling the welcome of the people, and then talking about their experience."
This year, the talent attracted by the festival has travelled from all over the world and includes some of the biggest names in contemporary dance, such as the Russell Maliphant Company and the Royal Flemish Theatre. Companies from Australia, Norway and Algeria, as well as a number of Palestinian performers, are on the bill.
While few of the professionals that travelled to Ramallah for the festival have histories in solidarity work, many felt their visits to the West Bank were deeply revealing. "I do not feel comfortable in political connections, but it was impossible not to feel the oppression by the other side," said Bruno Serravalle, a British Brazilian member of the Tunisian Amira Chebli company. "The welcome from the Palestinians and the mature audience who came to watch the shows made me think that we really need to open our eyes around the world and join each other more."
Today, the international renown of the RCDF – which is now partnered with parallel festivals in Beirut and Amman – means its organisers feel secure in future successes. But this wasn't always the case. For many of those who have worked on the projects since the beginning, the festival's current popularity and scale can still seem surprising.
Sareyyet's dealings in dance were primarily concerned with Dhabke and other traditional arts, when the festival's founder Khaled Elayyan began introducing contemporary ideas around 2005. At first, colleagues were sceptical: modern dance, they believed, was risque, and would not be easily absorbed by Palestinian audiences. But then the group's first modern production, At the Checkpoint, proved a success – and lit the "fire," Hussary said, behind the festival itself.
The performance went on to tour all over Europe. It translated, critics said, the language of Palestinian folk dance into movement for the contemporary world of armed Israeli forces, walls and restrictions. According to a reviewer for Dance Europe, it was a "breathtaking piece": "humiliation, despair and resilience," he wrote, became "an integral part" of the dance.
The success continued. In the following years, Sareyyet has continued to tour globally, with productions including Sandweshet Labaneh, Ordinary Madness, and collaborations with Botega Dance Company Italy, Yaa! Samar USA and Tunisia's Nawel Skandrani dance company. The festival itself has attracted an impressive roster of global dance companies, including Mathilde Monnier and, memorably, British choreographer Akram Khan, one year before he opened London's 2012 Olympics.
As the festival's renown grows, so does the international interest in its story. Elayyan, the festival's founder, has spoken at numerous events internationally, drawing attention to the challenges facing not just dance in Palestine, but to the Palestinian cause itself.
This year, too, the festival programme featured several young performers who have achieved impressive success in the international dance scene before returning to Palestine to work and teach. Among them is Fadi Zmorrod, one of Palestine's first professional circus artists, whose performance B-Orders debuted in Palestine during the festival following runs in Belgium and France. He currently tours with both B-Orders and Badke, a Belgian Palestinian production, as well as teaching at the Palestinian Circus School in Birzeit. "Through the circus school we're attracting a new audience to the contemporary dance scene," he said, such as "families, kids, [and] people who might not have been interested in dance before."
As a Palestinian artist, Fadi must contend with a series of intertwined and unusual challenges. The difficulty of securing funding to deliver accessible arts while remaining independent from the demands of corporate and NGO sponsorship is just one element of that struggle. "From here, you are judged as a Palestinian, and not an artist," he said. "You are a Palestinian first and then maybe an artist, and as Palestinians we are painted as either rebels or victims. But I want to be seen somewhere in between that: I'm not powerful, and I'm not poor. I want to be seen as an artist in my own way."
Questions like these are not the only challenges the festival has faced. In 2008, statements in opposition to the festival appeared on a number of Hamas-affiliated websites, prompting founder Khaled Elayyan to publicly defend the event. This year there have been no problems, although Hussary told Palestine Monitor that contemporary dance is hardly familiar in rural areas and more conservative West Bank cities. "But this is Ramallah, people get what we're doing," he said. "And because we're the first Ramallah group, people know that whatever we do, we are doing good. We aren't just going to do something for one year and then leave. We're serious."
Fadi, too, is conscious that his art seems unusual to many audiences. "When we perform in Palestine we're doing something that's not traditional, where people tend to like traditional stuff and see stuff outside as not so acceptable," he said. "But more contemporary shows give people more chance to see these new, different things, and we can explore ideas in a different way on the stage."
The festival's political consciousness, still, is explicit and considered. For the first time this year, events are taking place in Nazareth: a recognition, Hussary says, of Palestinian unity and a response to the thirst for Palestinian cultural activity in the city. Many of the international professionals involved in the festival are engaging with wider activism, on a longer-term basis. The festival seems set to continue growing.
"When we started, there were maybe ten people doing this kind of dancing in Ramallah," Hussary told Palestine Monitor. "Now there are so many more, and people in Ramallah are thirsty for dance. For Palestinians, the festival means meeting teachers and dancers from all over the world, performing and seeing professional dance, learning and exchanging.
"This is dancing, yes," he said. "But it is not just dancing: it is fighting."
(disclosure: my sister's a professional dancer for Russell Maliphant company, and performed in this piece)
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Check out more photos from the chic interior of Uchi in our slideshow.
There is a certain anxiety and trepidation to dining at Uchi for the first time. Even if you're looking forward to your visit, even if you've saved your pennies and carefully made reservations for the evening and laid out your clothes for the big night, Uchi is intimidating. But it shouldn't be.
Yes, what Uchi offers is a carefully orchestrated marriage between haute cuisine and high art. And yes, you will come away having eaten one of the best meals of the year, or perhaps your life.
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Brussels sprouts $6
Foie gras nigiri $9
Ham-and-eggs roll $10
Zero sen roll $12
Machi cure $18
Maguro and goat cheese $18
You'll dine on ruddy maguro sashimi with idiosyncratic pearls of fluffy goat cheese and slivers of Fuji apples in a musky, salty pumpkinseed oil and crispy, citrusy, caramelized Brussels sprouts — roasted in lemon-chile powder — that will make you want to hoard the bowl and savor each tiny cabbage. You'll find a stunning array of fresh fish at the sushi bar, but you'll also find triumphs such as two pert pieces of foie gras nigiri, the liver charred slightly and draped across perfectly sculpted lengths of rice, like smoked eel but with the heady rush of unadulterated fat. You'll emerge drunk not on sake but with the sensory overload of it all and a keen sense that the meal you ate was good for your very soul.
Certainly, from the moment you set foot inside Uchi's little rotunda-like entrance and are greeted with a beaming smile, any anxieties and trepidations you may have had will fall away. You'll feel the oddly paired sensations of excitement and relaxation. More important, you'll feel welcome.
And that's exactly how Uchi planned it, said Director of Culinary Operations Philip Speer. "It's comfortable," Speer told me by phone one afternoon. "I think of it as casual — you can come in and just have a good time. We always want to maintain that neighborhood feel." A native Houstonian, Speer worked with owner and executive chef Tyson Cole at the original Austin location of Uchi for six years before moving back to his hometown to help open the first — and, so far, only — outpost of the award-winning sushi restaurant.
Uchi Houston was built as a combination of both the original Uchi and its little sister in Austin, Uchiko, and borrows heavily from the latter's super-casual vibe and "Japanese farmhouse cuisine" menu. It's known as a neighborhood joint despite its pedigree — despite Cole's recent James Beard Award and despite another Beard Award for Uchiko's executive chef, Paul Qui. Speer hopes that Uchi Houston, with its industrial-chic dining room and location inside the shell of the beloved Felix Mexican Restaurant, will eventually come to be seen the same way.
Uchi is just one of the transformative restaurants that have opened along Lower Westheimer in the past year. L'Olivier has taken over a former adult bookstore next to Numbers and made it into a classic French bistro with a sunny, modern charm. Across the street from Tex-Mex palace El Real, Chris Shepherd's Underbelly is changing the way Houstonians view their own city's cuisine, and next door, at craft beer mecca The Hay Merchant, Bobby Heugel and Kevin Floyd are changing the way people think about beer.
It makes sense, then, that Uchi should completely alter the expectations that people have for a "neighborhood restaurant." At first glance, a place that only offers one service a day — dinner, which the full kitchen staff starts preparing at 7 a.m. every day — and often requires reservations for that meal would seem inaccessible. A place that offers dishes with names like "walu walu" or ingredients such as rosemary smoke, espresso fish caramel or sanbaizu doesn't immediately ring true as an after-work stop-off or a place to grab a quick bite to eat. And you may have heard stories that meals at Uchi are priced like those at L'Idiot, the restaurant in Steve Martin's L.A. Story that required a credit check and a meeting with your financial planner beforehand.
So you may be surprised to find how inexpensive Uchi actually is. It's still a significant meal — especially for those who, as Speer puts it, want to "blow it up, try everything and get the whole experience" — but it's also the kind of place where you'll find that you would feel comfortable stopping in for a $3 sake and $6 spicy tuna roll during its daily happy hour from 5 to 6:30 p.m. (You can absolutely do so, too; dropping by and finding a table is easier than you'd expect.)
"We try to keep it familiar and fun and try to do fun, cool things with the food," said Speer. Those fun things include a blackberry "soil" and spheres of liquid juniper scattered playfully across a plate of very serious, very studiously grilled and sliced Wagyu beef. Or bacon sen, hearty pork belly that you tug off a simple wooden skewer with your lips as you relish the salty-sweet flavor of caramelized fish sauce and the ethereal briny waltz of bonito flakes across your tongue.
The former is $28 on the menu of daily specials, but the latter is only $6 on its "Sake Socials" happy hour menu. It's an egalitarian concept that takes all comers. And, yes, some of the dishes approach the $30 to $35 range — but, as with all things in life, you get what you pay for.
"In doing what we do — using the best products and having the best waitstaff — that translates into a more expensive restaurant," explained Speer. The emphasis on "best" is found even in the smallest items, such as the sushi rice, because these are the foundations of the restaurant itself. The rice is cooked from scratch every single day, by the same person, in a traditional four-foot-wide wooden bowl with a wooden paddle. As Speer told it, the sushi rice is "an absolutely sacred thing that we spend a lot of time and energy on."
And the high bar set by the food at Uchi is easily cleared by the waitstaff, who offer what is hands-down the best service in the city right now. Getting hired at the restaurant is no small task, either: A server must endure a rigorous four-part interview and a battery of personality tests, then prove their mettle during a four-to-six-week training period before they're even allowed to take a table. If it seems like overkill, it's not. The result is a well-trained and disciplined waitstaff that can anticipate your every move, customize meals to your dining style, give a thoughtful explanation of any dish on the menu and do it all with bright, bubbly smiles.
The staff tends to stick around, too. Seven months after opening, Uchi Houston has retained 80 percent of its original opening crew. "We buy in," said Speer of the spirit endemic to the Uchi staff. "We drink the Kool-Aid." It's vital to the very nature of the place, because Uchi wouldn't be a welcoming, neighborhood restaurant without that staff. And — for all the talk of accessibility — you might not be able to navigate the menu as well, either.
There are a multitude of ways to tackle the menu at Uchi. You can order à la carte, netting yourself dishes such as machi cure — an Uchi signature dish with smoked baby yellowtail amid crispy bites of dehydrated yuca, garlic brittle and salty Marcona almonds, all of which you can eat happily with your hands — or a ham-and-eggs roll with katsu pork belly and a trompe-l'il painting of a fried egg on the plate itself made with yolk custard.
The three tasting menus that Uchi offers are the best way to start for a newcomer, however. There is the chef's tasting, which — at ten courses — is the most omakase-esque service at the quasi-Japanese restaurant under the stewardship of chef de cuisine Kaz Edwards, another native Houstonian. There is the less hefty six-course signature tasting that allows you to enjoy a selection of Uchi's most requested and most popular dishes. And then there is the server's tasting, in which you allow your well-equipped server to completely customize a menu for you.
This is a very important thing, because the menu at Uchi can be impenetrable for people who aren't versed in the language of high-end, concept-driven restaurants such as Uchi — which, in a city such as ours, is most people. What we are, however, is adventurous and open-minded — and it's these same qualities that drew Tyson Cole to open Uchi in Houston above all other cities.
So indulge that adventurous Houstonian palate and dive into one of the tasting menus. And plan to be there for a few hours as plate after miraculous plate marches across your table, each one gently set down by one of the knowledgeable servers, each of whom has his or her own quirky language to describe the dish in front of you. Make that selection, as I did on my first visit, and your server will first determine your likes and dislikes ("no raw fish," for example, or "easy on the pork"), then guide you through each course with aplomb. In fact, my only complaint with the meal was that each dish wasn't delivered by our server, as I was curious to hear her own definitions of each plate and her own reasoning for choosing it. On the other hand, the "runner" service ensured that we didn't have to wait long between courses, which is — for me, at least — the lesser sin.
At the end of our first dinner, we'd demolished 14 courses between two people (12 savory plates and two desserts), along with four oversize glasses of high-end sake and two beers. The damage? $300 with tax and an extremely generous tip. And in that time, we'd enjoyed dishes made with such stunningly fresh and remarkably rare ingredients — precious, deep-cupped Kusshi oysters and cool, nearly translucent golden seabream over wonderfully room-temperature sushi rice that clung cleanly to itself — and with such talent and precision that it was difficult to argue with a $300 bill after such a feast.
I was lucky enough to get the same server, Jessica, on my return visit during Uchi's happy hour. She remembered every single course that I'd had eight days prior and reminded me with a pleasant, easygoing smile what they were so that I wouldn't have to duplicate them (and with a menu like Uchi's, you don't want to duplicate — you want to be blown away by something new every time). As she had the last time, Jessica started us out with lighter dishes — in this case, uchiviche and nasu nigiri — before moving on to heavier plates.
The uchiviche stands out as the only dish I haven't been fond of at Uchi, a rather uninspired collection of salmon and striped bass amidst a jagged field of bell pepper slices and some sultanas. It was oddly disjointed considering how seamlessly every other dish here is constructed. The exquisitely soft nasu (or eggplant) nigiri, however, changed the way both of my dining companions that night felt about eggplant. Such is the transformative power of a well-cooked vegetable coated in bright lemon and deepened with the rich, resonant, earthy flavors of miso and shio.
And even though we also ordered more "mainstream" items like a shag roll and a spicy tuna roll that night, those standards were handled and plated more beautifully than in any other sushi bar — the shag roll, for example, is centered in a pool of onyx-colored squid ink that radiates outward in strokes that are both exuberantly messy and carefully controlled. The squid ink has the same sweetly gratifying depth to it as hoisin sauce, a unique but somehow ideal pairing for the sun-dried tomato, buttery avocado and plump salmon inside the crunchy roll. Like that tuna sashimi with goat cheese and apples, the odd pairing shouldn't work — but it does.
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How much did we pay for the spread? $30 per person.
Herein lies Uchi's real charm, too. It's high-end and accessible all at once, a neighborhood restaurant that raises the bar for food and service at every other restaurant, neighborhood or otherwise. Sometimes, Speer admitted, he'll look at the artful plates that are being sent out each night and grab one. "Dirty that up a little bit; that's too pristine," he'll instruct. "Put a little more soul into it."
If there's anything a neighborhood restaurant should have, it's soul. And Uchi has soul to spare.
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The R-C Morning Report for June 10
The polls are open until 7 p.m. tonight, but I can guarantee you there aren't many lines out this morning. Remember to go to your polling place to vote today. If you don't know where that is, visit the Clerk-Treasurer's web site at http://cltr.co.douglas.nv.us. According to the site, early voting and absentee results should be available at 7:30 p.m.
Douglas County School Board trustees will hear a report from Superintendent Lisa Noonan on her recommendations for Carson Valley's middle schools beginning in 2015 when the freshman class returns to Douglas High School. The school board meets 3:30 p.m. today at Carson Valley Middle School.
There are 10 cases before District Judge Tod Young with the continued arraignment of David Gomez first up. Gomez missed his arraignment on Oct. 1, 2013, more than eight months ago on drug charges. He had a plea deal then. He might not have one today.
The Douglas County Bike Plan and a discussion on whether to allow medical marijuana establishments here is before Douglas County planning commissioners at their regular meeting 1 p.m. today in the chambers of the historic Douglas County Courthouse.
There's a chance we'll see some thunderstorms and isolated showers today after 2 p.m. Otherwise, expect mostly sunny skies and a high temperature near 90. There's still a fire weather watch on the board for Thursday, but on the other side, temperatures drop into the upper 70s.


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Shipping announcement…Thursday, October 18th, 2012
Hi everyone,
Things have been a little more hectic than usual here as my family and I prepare to move (temporarily) to another home. Because of this, I will be without internet for a week or two and I will not be able to mail any paintings then. I hope to be back again by the first of November, God willing, when we have settled.
To all my artist friends and collectors, thank you so much for your support!!
All the best,