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Saturday, 30 May 2009
Phil Spector sentenced
Famous producer Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison on Friday, May 29th after being found guilty in April of second-degree murder in the shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. Spector's bad health and age (69) means that the producer behind Let It Be (The Beatles), All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) and Imagine (John Lennon) may end his days in prison.
Prosecutors contended that after meeting B-movie actress Clarkson, 40, at the House of Blues club in Los Angeles in 2003 — where she was working as a waitress — the producer took her home to his Alhambra, California "castle," where she was shot to death in the home's front foyer. Spector had claimed that Clarkson killed herself by putting the gun in her mouth, but his chauffeur said he witnessed Spector emerge from the home holding a gun and heard him say, "I think I killed somebody."
Friday, 29 May 2009
Voormann & Friends - A Sideman's Journey
Klaus Voorman & Friends: "A Sideman's Journey", has been delayed to July 17th 2009.
Klaus Voormann celebrates his 70th birtday with this release. It's the documentation of a journey he took in his 70th year to visit old friends and record with them. Voorman's friends are people like Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yusuf aka Cat Stevens, Dr. John, The Manfreds (members of Manfred Mann), Bonnie Bramlett, Jim Keltner, Max Buskohl, Van Dyke Parks, Albert Lee, Joe Walsh, Don Nix and many others.
"A Sideman's Journey is a limited edition release, containing a CD, a DVD with the documentary "Making Of A Sideman's Journey", a hardcover book with 60 pages and a handsigned Lithography. Here's a teaser for the documentary.
The package are priced to 17.99 euros over at Amazon.de, but they are also listing a super deluxe overpriced edition at 120.99 euros, without detailing the contents.
The song he recorded with Paul and Ringo for this project has an interesting story. It's the old Fats Domino song "I'm In Love Again" (previously covered by Paul on the CHOBA B CCCP album). The reason for this choice was that this was the first ever song where Klaus tried his hand at playing the bass guitar. Klaus made his debut as a bass guitarist sitting next to the stage at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, borrowing Stu Sutcliffe's Höfner 333 while The Beatles performed the song.
This new version was recorded at Paul's studio in Sussex on June 19th 2008, with Paul handling all the other instruments: the piano, organ, harmonica, guitars etc, Klaus played on a Höfner 333 bass guitar. Ringo's drums were recorded in Los Angeles later.
A Sideman's Journey [Amazon.com Exclusive]
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Beatlemania Hamburg
Indra, Top Ten, Kaiserkeller, Star Club - these were the clubs on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg / Germany, where in the early 1960s the young and just-formed Beatles honed their skills onstage daily, for up to nine hours at a time, and from where they went on to conquer the world. From May 29th the Beatles will once again have a home in Hamburg, in the place where it all began - on the Reeperbahn, just a guitar's throw from the recently inaugurated Beatles Square and the venues in which they once performed. A unique project dedicated to the Liverpool band is opening its doors: BEATLEMANIA Hamburg.
Visitors to BEATLEMANIA can travel through time, re-living the world of the Beatles. Over 1300 square metres, the exhibition has a lot to offer: A fascinating experience using extraordinary displays of original items and unconventional presentations of selected eras of the Beatles' career - from the Hamburg days up until their break-up. Visitors can follow the footsteps of John, Paul, George and Ringo during their wild times in Hamburg, record songs at Abbey Road Studios and experience the madness of Beatlemania at its peak.
BEATLEMANIA is located right in the heart of the world-famous Reeperbahn, these days undergoing a transformation from a former red-light district to a cool entertainment and music venue. The tradition of attracting young artists and promising new talents continues, and hence, the spot where 50 years ago the story of the Beatles begun still has the liveliest music scene in Northern Europe and still young bands start their careers right here.
WogBlog is happy that Beatles travellers now have a museum in the midst of these historic surroundings. And we'll bet they have a souvenir shop as well!
Official Website
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Norwegian Wood no. 117
Page 2: Photos: George gets a star in Hollywood
Page 3: Contents page
Page 4-5: Dear Sir or Madam. By editor Ole-Andreas Refsnes.
Page 6-7: From Me To You. President Linda talks about The Beatles as a study in musicology and encourages further reading.
Page 8-9: Joakim Krane Bech reviews two Beatle-related songs with involvement from Yusuf Islam.
Page 10: What Goes On? A diary of forthcoming events
Page 11-19: The Beatles Remasters. The full Apple press release in english
Page 20: A photo of The Beatles 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 combined.
Page 21: A look at the boxes and guitars for The Beatles:RockBand
Page 22-34: On Tour with The Beatles: The Roy Orbison tour 1963 by Roger Stormo
Page 35-55: Sigbjørn Stabursvik ends his presentation of norwegian Beatles single-releases and their release dates (part 3 of 3).
Page 56-57: A look at the newly discovered Quarrymen photo
Page 58-61: Paul and Ringo together for meditation by Linda
Page 62-68: The Beatles and Phil Spector. Ole explores the ties between the recently convicted Spector and The Beatles
Page 69-70: Yellow Submarine: The Beatles' input by Roger Stormo
Page 71-74: A report from Hamburg - Kenneth Sevland has visited the Beatles city of Hamburg
Page 75-80: I read the news today, oh boy by Martin Aasen Wright
Page 81: Album cover Quiz by Joakim.
Page 82: Adresses
Page 83 (inner cover back) The Change Begins Within poster
Back cover: Photos: Ringo and Paul reunion in New York
This time around, the editor has decided to print most of the magazine in colour. The next issue will be a bit delayed, because we are waiting for 09/09/09 to bring us a thing or two to review...
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Another new Quarrymen photo
Click to enlargeThe new photo of the Quarrymen from the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney, July 6th, 1957 was recently published, and caused quite a stir in the Beatles fan community. However, a second new photo has gone by almost without anyone noticing. It was taken just a moment after the first one, and shows a larger portion of the surroundings than the previous one. The reason why it seems to have been neglected, is that John Lennon was obscured by another group member in the photo. You can just make out his checkered shirt between the legs of another fan of checkered shirts, Len Garry. It is, however, just as significant as the earlier one. The band has taken notice of Rod Davis' father James taking photos, and are turning their heads, facing the camera. As a bonus we get a glimpse of the truck in front of the Quarrymen truck, carrying the newly elected Sunday school "Rose Queen" Sally Wright and her court. In fact there are about 15 photos of the Rose Queen procession of 1957, but only two of the Quarrymen and on only one of those can you actually see John. It was part of a roll of 35mm film which was sitting in a dusty box on a shelf in a storeroom with thousands of other negatives.
From left to right: Eric Griffiths, Pete Shotton, Len Garry, John Lennon (hidden behind Len), Colin Hanton, Rod Davis.Recommended reading:
July 6th 1957 at The Savage Young Beatles site
The Beatles in Hong Kong
During their Far East tour in 1966, the Beatles had a stopover in Hong Kong. There aren't many photos from that visit, but here's a nice one I got in the mail today. Looks like Mal Evans is having a conversation with the stewardess in the background!
Monday, 25 May 2009
Solo Beatles Video Book
From one of the authors of The Beatles - Film and TV Chronicle, 1961 - 1970 from 2005 comes a new volume which takes us ten years into each Beatle's solo appearances on TV, video and the silver screen. The Solo Beatles Film & TV Chronicle 1971-1980 covers the first ten years of the solo careers of the individual Beatles from 1971 to 1980, and also includes a chapter of updates regarding recently discovered and new information about films of The Beatles as a group during the years from 1961 to 1970.
As a visually orientated person, I've always loved to see moving images of my favourite band and I have been a collector of The Beatles and solo-Beatles film and tv footage ever since the family first purchased a VCR in 1981. This book will be indispensible for someone like myself, but one must admit that it caters to a somewhat limited audience. Which is probably why this book is available through Lulu, a DIY internet based service which will print each book on demand. Author Jürg Pieper says abouth the new book that it covers recently discovered rarities like the performance of John singing Attica State at the Apollo theatre on 17 Dec. 1971, a previously undocumented Ringo interview for French TV from 18 Sept. 1976, George interview for German TV from 01 Feb. 1977 and a detailed overview of Paul presenting Disneytime from 19 Dec. 1973. On a personal note, I enjoyed reading the full description of the Cilla in Scandinavia TV Special from 1971, where Ringo participates in segments shot here in Norway. The updates to the old book are co-authored by David Ravenscroft and Volker Path.
A sample of the unreleased rarities covered by the book
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Paul McCartney's Unplugged Tour 1991
|Ticket to the Falkoner Theatre concert.
|Ticket to the concert at Cliffs Pavilion.
These were impromptu concerts at mostly smaller clubs, inspired by the "MTV Unplugged" TV concert and subsequent album. A further concert at Paris L'Olympia was planned, but not announced. It was cancelled when Linda McCartney's father, Lee Eastman, passed away during the tour. Paul felt that he owed l'Olympia a concert and eventually returned to play there in 2007 on that "other" Secret Gigs Tour.
|One of the bootlegs from the tour.
At Cliff's Pavillion, Paul and his band backed guest poet Adrian Mitchell on the recital of his poems "Song In Space," "I Like That Stuff," "Maybe May Time," and "Hot Pursuit". They also added "I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside" to their set list.
I had the great pleasure of attending the gig in Copenhagen, driving down through Sweden with two good friends of mine, and taking the boat across the pond to Copenhagen. We arrived with not one ticket between the three of us, but hoped to get in, either through Geoff Baker, Paul's publicist, or with some help from the norwegian EMI representative.
|Paul arrives at the Falkoner Theatre and greets his fans.
Photo: © 1991 Tore Skaar.
It didn't work out that way, but I managed to buy a ticket from someone just before the gig started, and a few songs into the gig, my two friends also struck luck when a drunken swede with two tickets arrived, selling them both and then went back to the pub again! Great memories. I remember sitting on the floor in front of the stage, waiting for Paul to come on. And this is how that looked like:
When I got home, I wrote a review about the concert for Norwegian Wood, entitled "Sweetest Little Show In Town". And that review has the distinction of being the first ever article written for Norwegian Wood on a computer. Everything prior to that had been written on a typewriter, but I stayed after hours at work and wrote it on a newly installed computer with a word processor. Soon bitten by that bug, I went out and bought a computer (a PC compatible 386sx thing) later that year.
Set list (not all songs were performed in all locations):
Acoustic Set: "Mean Woman Blues," "Be-Bop-A-Lula," "We Can Work It Out," "San Francisco Bay Blues," "Every Night," "Here There And Everywhere," "That Would Be Something," "Singing The Blues," "O Sole Mio," "Down To The River," "And I Love Her," "She's A Woman," "I Lost My Little Girl," "Ain't No Sunshine," "Hi Heel Sneakers," "I've Just Seen A Face," "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise," "Good Rockin' Tonight"
Electric Set: "My Brave Face," "Twenty Flight Rock," "Band On The Run," "Ebony And Ivory," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Coming Up," "Get Back," "The Long And Winding Road," "Ain't That A Shame," "Let It Be," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Paul does Canada
In the ongoing concert series "Paul McCartney plays where he hasn't played before", we have now arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The former Beatle will play a large outdoor concert on the Halifax Commons on June 11th, 2009. Harold MacKay of Power Promotional Concepts says it will be McCartney's only concert in Canada this year. A McCartney show in Halifax has been rumoured since officials for the pop legend toured the Commons last year.
The concert will be held one week before '70s rockers KISS perform on the Commons. The ex-Beatle announced Wednesday he's "very happy" to be performing at an outdoor concert on July 11." "The Canadian audiences are great and the timing of the event, with the arrival of the Tall Ships, means that it will be an exciting event for us all," McCartney said on his website. "We are looking forward to rocking in Halifax."
Local promoters are calling it the "largest and most exciting" concert in Halifax's 260-year history. "This iconic and legendary performer's presence in our city will be an historic event for all Atlantic Canadians," said Harold MacKay, president of Power Promotional Events.
The concert is expected to attract 60,000 fans — 10,000 more than the crowd at the Rolling Stones show in September 2006.
Tickets will go on sale May 29 at 9 a.m. AT through Ticket Atlantic and at participating Atlantic Superstore locations.
Tickets will cost $125 for general admission and $305 for VIP tickets. Promoters say between 5,000 and 6,000 VIP seats will be available.
Last April, MacKay took McCartney's senior tour staff to the park. He said they were impressed with the site, but there wasn't enough time to set up an event that summer.
Halifax radio personality J.C. Douglas said he's excited to see Paul McCartney perform again. Douglas has been to McCartney concerts in England and Montreal but this time, he would like the chance to meet the former Beatle in person.
"Working in radio, you get to meet a lot of stars and things and there's no one I'd rather meet than Paul McCartney," Douglas said. "He's been at the top of that list for my entire career and I'm sort of hoping that might happen, I don't know."
This will be Paul McCartney's fourth concert this year, having previously played in New York City's Radio City Music Hall, at the Coachella festival in California and in Las Vegas, Nevada. Reports from those concerts tell of an edgier, harder sound than on previous concert tours.
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Boxed set news
There's no need to contact me for the track listing for that fourth disc in the Paul McCartney Studio Outtakes Boxed Set, I will post it here whenever someone has the details. So far, all we know is the time frame: The disc ends in 1998. So it looks like it will be a "Linda Years" set, spanning 1969-1998.
An informed source tells me that for you George Harrison fans out there, there are some bad news. It looks like Dhani Harrison compiled a boxed set of his father's unreleased material a couple of years ago, but when he offered it to EMI, they didn't think it would be a good thing to release. So back on the shelf it went. Indefinitely.
Will The Real Mr Sellers Please Stand Up (1969)
A weird 1969 Peter Sellers documentary, made to promote The Magic Christian, including appearances by Ringo, Paul and Linda, and John. Most of these appearances are in segment 3. The documentary was never repeated by the BBC, possibly due to the fact that Peter Sellers thought he came across as depressed. Spike Milligan narrates and dissects Peter's persona in the process. A word of warning: The documentary includes strong scenes (bullfight, open heart surgery, nudity) and language. Peter Sellers lived for 11 more years after this documentary. On 22 July 1980 Sellers collapsed from a massive heart attack in his Dorchester Hotel room and fell into a coma. He died in a London hospital just after midnight on 24 July, aged 54.
Sunday, 17 May 2009
November 22. 1963
A historic date. The Beatles release their second album, "With The Beatles", in England and across Europe, and they play two concerts at the Globe in Stockton. Between the two shows, a shocking news story shakes the world: President John F. Kennedy has been assassinated.
Paul Delplanque has researched the event: The Beatles and a night to remember. Friday November 22, 1963.
Forgotten footage
A forgotten film of teenagers putting questions to The Beatles in 1964 was included in a show which was part of this weekend's Late Shows event in the North East of England. The footage from a Tyne Tees TV programme was shown at at Tyne & Wear Archives, which is based in Blandford House in Blandford Square, Newcastle. The clip was discovered when archives staff were carrying out research for the North East Beat music exhibition, which opens today at Discovery Museum at the same location.
These were the questions North East fans asked The Beatles 45 years ago:
Fan to John: Why did you have to get married?
John: Because of the same reason anybody gets married. I don't want to be slushy like, but you do when you wanna get married, when you gotta go you gotta go, as I always say. [Joking] Anyway, what's it go to do with you? [Laughs]
Fan to Paul: Is it true you're going to get engaged to Jane Asher?
Paul: No, it's not true. Erm … the papers started off by saying that I was already engaged, now the papers tell me I'm married, and they told me I'm divorced now [smiles]. Maybe I am married, maybe I am married! I dunno. The papers tell me I am, I don't think I am. I'm not getting engaged, no.
Fan to George: What do you and Ringo do when John and Paul are writing songs?
George: Play marbles.
Fan to John: Why don't you wear your glasses on stage?
John: Because I'd lose my nerve if I could see everyone in the audience.
Fan to Paul: Which do you prefer Mods or Rockers?
Paul: I don't know I like any of them. Mockers, I like.
Fan to Ringo: Are you ever thinking of growing a beard again like you used to have before you joined the group?
Ringo: I like beards, that's why I used to grow them. I may do. It won't be until I've left the group though, you know, until we've broke up, when I'm about 48! [laughs]
Fan to George: What do you think of yourselves as a group?
George: We don't think of ourselves as a group. We're a band. Er.. it's hard to answer. Well, we like ourselves as a group but you've got to, haven't you? [laughs]
Fan to Ringo: I'd like to know what you would have done if you hadn't had your break in music?
Ringo: I'd have still been an engineer or something, you know, I'd have been working.
Fan to Ringo: How much do you spend generally on clothes and what do you do after you've finished with them?
Ringo: We just buy a suit when we want and couple of shirts. Erm .. we just sort of get fed up with them. We have a style, like, you know, the round neck collars we had and we went out and went potty, we bought hundreds. Well, not hundreds but loads of suits like, and we never wear them now. We just leave them laying round, we don't do anything with them.
Fan to Paul: Why is it, Paul, that you're always described as the most intelligent one of The Beatles? Are you?
Paul: Er … I'm not, no, well John's written a book so he must be more intelligent than me [smiles]. You've gotta be intelligent to write books [laughs].
16mm pristine Shea print for sale
The Beatles at Shea Stadium, 1965. One of the most memorable moment in rock'n'roll history. A great opportunity has just been opened on ebay, someone is selling a pristine 16mm print of the concert documentary. Here is the seller's description of this item: "This is an absolutely amazing original network print of The Beatles Shea Stadium concert in August of 1966. Check out the screen caps! This is the best film in my entire collection and I hate parting with it. It is complete with all titles, no splices, no scratches and printed on LPP low fade stock and no vinegar smell. This is a premium investment quality print. It even has the commercial bumpers still in it." The seller is located in Los Angeles, and the auction ended on May 19th at $1,300.99.
Ebay link
Here's a frame from the film, follow the ebay link to see more.
There are very good DVD bootlegs out on the market of this film, but none have matched the quality of the Shea footage officially released on the Anthology DVDs or the Dizzy Miss Lizzy promotional film released by Capitol in 2006.
See our informative Shea At Last post for more about this concert and the concert film.
Ebay link
Here's a frame from the film, follow the ebay link to see more.
There are very good DVD bootlegs out on the market of this film, but none have matched the quality of the Shea footage officially released on the Anthology DVDs or the Dizzy Miss Lizzy promotional film released by Capitol in 2006.
See our informative Shea At Last post for more about this concert and the concert film.
Saturday, 16 May 2009
John Lennon 1974 Interview
In this interview, broadcast by NBC Today on the morning of 16th December 1974, John Lennon promises to play on stage with George Harrison on the last night of Harrison's 1974 North American Tour at Madison Square Garden the following Friday, but after a falling out sadly doesn't turn up. Lennon also mentions the forthcoming Beatles Anthology, then named "The Long and Winding Road", unaware that it would take another 20 years to complete.
Thursday, 14 May 2009
McCartney "Cold Cuts" boxed set in the works
Paul McCartney has forever been teasing his fans with tales of an album called "Cold Cuts and Hot Hits", which was going to be an album of songs from throughout his solo recording career intersped with outtakes and unused songs that fell by the wayside along the line. His band Wings kept adding to those recordings, but the album was never officially released. When the Wingspan compilation album was released without any real rarities, true fans felt that a great opportunity was missed. Guess what? It looks like it's finally going to happen! And Paul has amassed a lot more material in the intervening years, so when this beast finally gets released, it'll be a boxed set of 4 CD's.
Due for release in 2010, Wogblog has obtained the track list for disc 1: 1969-1972.
1. Goodbye
2. Maybe I'm Amazed - 1st original mix by Chris Thomas
3. Every Night - take 1
4. Rode All Night - edit
5. A Love For You
6. Little Lamb Dragonfly - without strings
7. Get On The Right Thing - take 1
8. Monkberry Moon Delight - alternate vocal take
9. Sunshine Sometime
10. Big Barn Bed - complete Ram ukulele version
11. Dear Friend - w/o strings and horns
12. Some People Never Know - oboe version
13. Breakfast Blues - instrumental edit
14. Mary Had A Little Lamb - long version
15. Give Ireland Back To The Irish - slow version take 2
16. Tragedy
17. Thank You Darling
18. Soily -1972 studio version
19. Best Friend - studio version
20. The Mess - studio version
21. C Moon Jam - with John Bonham
22. Lazy Dynamite - long version
23. Night Out - instrumental
24. Hi Hi Hi - slow verson
25. Only One More Kiss - take 1
Hidden Bonus Track: Radio spot with untitled instrumental for Hi Hi Hi / C Moon recorded at Abbey Road.
It seems to confirm that yes, there IS a version of C Moon featuring the late, great John Bonham of Led Zeppelin on drums. 55 tracks were reviewed for this disc and these 25 tracks remained. The tracks for disc 1 were remixed at Abbey Road a month ago. What's more: Further boxed sets are to be expected! We keep hearing about another 4CD set featuring only demos! And yet another, featuring live recordings! Great stuff to please the old Wings fans for sure! For those who don't read the commentaries, here's disc 2 and 3:
Disc 2 - 1973/1978
1. Gotta Sing Gotta Dance
2. Why am I crying
3. I Lie Around
4. Six o'Clock
5. Bluebird
6. Let's Love (April 1974 Version)
7. Send Me The Heart (Take 1)
8. Blackpool
9. One Hand Clapping Theme
1O. Live & Let Die (74 Version)
11. Soily (74 Version)
12. Love In Song (Take 1)
13. Rockshow (74 Version)
14. Wild Cat
15. Baby Face
16. The Note You Never Wrote (Take 1, Paul & Denny Everly's Version)
17. Silly Love Songs (Fun Version)
18. Must Do Something About It (Paul on vocal)
19. She's My Baby (Rock Version)
20. Waterspout
21. One Woman
22. Girlfriend (First Version)
23. Twelve Of The Clock
24. Did We Meet Somewhere Before
25. Goodnight Tonight (Original 1978 Version)
Bonus hidden track : Wings 1974 Audio Ad for the Bread Company ("Proud Mum")
Disc 3 - 1979/1986
1. Love awake (Ranachan Version)
2. Rockestra Theme (Wings Version)
3. Cage
4. Robber's Ball
5. Blue Sway
6. Attention (Paul's guide vocal)
7. Ode to a koala bear (Take 1)
8. Rainclouds + George Martin & Paul moving impromptu dialogue about John
9. Blackpool (1981 version)
10. All the Love is There (With Stewart Copeland on Drums)
11. I'll Give You a Ring
12. No Values (1981 Montserrat Version)
13. Tug Of War (1st string arrangement version)
14. Stop You Don't Know Where She Came From (With great Brass section)
15. Long & Winding Road / Ebony & Ivory Strawberry jam medley (With Stevie Wonder)
16. Tug Of War acoustic reprise
17. The Fool On The Hill
18. Martha My Dear / Gloriana Medieval Guitar Piece Medley
19. Your School
20. Lindiana
21. Yvonne
22. Goodtimes Coming / Feel The Sun (Long Version)
23. Angry long jam version (with Pete Townsend & Phil Collins)
24. Hey Diddle (Paul & Linda duet, Chris Thomas 1986 version)
25. Linda
Bonus hidden track : The Juggler music 1981 Theme
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Abbey Road photos
Some of the rarer photos taken the day of the Abbey Road cover shoot, 10am on Friday, August 8th, 1969.
My previous incarnation of this photo was pieced together from several sources. Glad to have it in full colour now.
With Linda in the shot, who could the photographer have been? Here's what this photo used to look like in my collection:
That was my old copy, here's the new one:
View more Abbey Road photos with The Beatles
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Playing in the garden
A short scene from Magical Mystery Tour was the occasion for this great 1967 photo in vivid colours. John was a bit far away in the background, so I included a close up of him as well. Click on the image for a closer look.
Sunday, 10 May 2009
The day John met Paul
A new photo from the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney, July 6th, 1957, has just been found. The photographer was the father of Rod Davies, a member of John's band, the Quarrymen. As a result of the BBC Inside Out programmes in 2007 and 2008 featuring the Quarrymen and Geoff Rhind's famous photo of John with the Quarrymen at St Peter's Church Fete in 1957, Rod Davis was prompted to look once again through the huge collection of black and white negatives and colour slides left to him by his father, James Davis, who was a keen amateur photographer. To his amazement he found a photo of John with the the Quarrymen which had lain undiscovered for the last 52 years! James Davis had himself searched many times through his photo archive to see if he had taken a shot which included John, but had never found one. The photograph was recently published in the Daily Mail.
The driver of that truck was Douglas Chadwick, who's family owned the small transportation company and were members of St. Peters Church. They were asked each year to provide the transportation needed for the Rose Queen and parade. Doug does not remember speaking to the Quarrymen that day, other than to advise them to "keep still on the back of the truck and to be sure not to fall off!"
The wood sign with "QUARRYMEN" was painted in red. It was hung from the back of the truck to identify the band during the parade.
After the procession ended near the field behind the church, somebody was saying that John Lennon had a girl with him in the 'Cuckoo Club', which was a small floral garden on the church grounds located near a cuckoo clock, and surrounded by some shrubs which created a private sitting area. Doug and some of his friends snuck up behind the shrubs and spied John sitting with the girl. They all started saying "cuckoo". This caused Lennon to get quite upset and he stormed off angrily.
An artists rendition of the first meeting of John and Paul. Eric Cash's painting "The Introduction," which depicts the meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney on July 6, 1957, will hang on the wall of the church hall at St. Peter's in Woolton village, Liverpool, where Lennon and McCartney first met at the annual Garden Fete.
In conjunction with Horst Fascher, founder of Hamburg's celebrated Star-Club, Garrelt Danker Medienproduktion, the German media company, brings music legends of the 50s and 60s back into the limelight - with lots of humour and affection.
"The Quarrymen - The Band that started The Beatles" (65 min) - the first film of the Horst Fascher Star-Club TV series, celebrates its television premiere on June 14, 2009. What better subject for this first episode than the fascinating story of the early days of the most famous music group of all time?
Although The Star-Club was born in Hamburg in 1962 the echoes of its success continue to reverberate worldwide throughout today's rock and pop music. Under the guidance of Horst Fascher himself, Star-Club TV is the legitimate successor of the original Star-Club and still boasts the original logo.
Featured in the film are interviews with Colin Hanton, Len Garry and Rod Davis, three original members of the "Pre-Beatles" - John Lennon's 1950s group "The Quarrymen" to which Paul McCartney and George Harrison both belonged.
The film also includes newly discovered photos, which have lain hidden since July 1957, of the "Day John Met Paul" at the St Peter's Church Fete in Woolton, Liverpool, together with live footage of a modern-day concert by the remaining Quarrymen and the sound of their first new single for over 50 years - "Never stop Rockin' 'n' Rollin'".
For more information about Star-Club TV and dates and times of television showings of "The Quarrymen - The Band that started The Beatles"", please visit: www.Star-Club-TV.de
First showing of the German language version: Sunday 14 June 2009 at 8 pm on Volksmusik TV.
Recommended reading:
July 6th 1957 at The Savage Young Beatles site
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Change Begins Within - new DVD
Another DVD put together from clips has been compiled for this concert and is currently circulating on the internet, we hear. A review we read had this to say:
"This is a decent collection of clips and small fan interviews from the show. Not the best in quality sometimes, but very watchable. Some bits are great to see as this might be the only footage we'll ever see!! This is news footage, maybe hand held camera but clearly some is recorded to cell phones etc. Some very good looking and some VERY close!"
Here's the track list for this DVD.
1. Scalp
2. Cosmically Conscious (From Off The Ground)
3. Press Review
4. Ap News Report
5. Meet The Fans
6. Yoko In My Dreams
7. Paul, Paul, Paul
8. Signatures
9. 1st Half Review
10. 2nd Half Review
The Concert:
11. My Sweet Lord (Sheryl Crow)
12. Eddie Vedder Solo
13. Vedder/ Harper
14. Under Pressure (Vedder)
15. Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Donovan)
16. Season Of The Witch
17. It Don't Come Easy (Ringo)
18. Boys
19. Yellow Submarine
20. Drive My Car (Paul)
21. Jet
22. Got To Get You Into My Life
23. Let It Be
24. Lady Madonna
25. Blackbird
26. Here Today
27. Band On The Run
28. Can't Buy Me Love
29. With A Little Help From My Friends
30. Cosmically Conscious
31. Final Bows
So it looks like we have something to put on our shelves until the pro-shot version is broadcast (by PBS, rumours say). Meanwhile, I also hear there's a good DVD from the Coachella Festival and a title called "Smokin the Joint" from the Hard Rock, Las Vegas making their rounds in the trading circles.
Much ado: The new George Harrison compilation
The US edition of The Best of George Harrison - a compilation from the mid-seventies.
Contrary to rumours, the new press release from Capitol/EMI about "Let It Roll - The Best of George Harison" shows an unchanged track list, the tracks are exactly like we said in our previous post about the matter.
Anyway, here's the rest of the text from the press release:
The single disc, to be released June 16 (June 15 internationally), includes a 28-page booklet with previously unseen and rare photos plus new liner notes authored by Warren Zanes. The 19 tracks have been digitally remastered by Giles Martin at EMI's Abbey Road Studios. The release will be available in CD and digital formats.
"Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison is a gathering of material that takes us far into the territory that was ultimately a place unique to George Harrison," writes Warren Zanes in his liner notes essay for the new collection.
"The keyhole into the world of George Harrison is the music itself. Yet his songs and the accomplishments for which he's remembered are inextricably bound - and those accomplishments are, without question, eclectic in scope," Zanes says in his liner notes.
George Harrison is a twice-inducted member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of the Beatles and as a solo artist. He is an 11-time Grammy Award winner for recordings with The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys and his solo career. On April 14, Harrison was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Unseen Lennon photos
Ringo, John and Yoko
Mojo Magazine are presenting some hitherto unseen John&Yoko photos by photographer Henry Pessar, who accompanied the couple "from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton", documenting their honeymoon. The magazine has also published an online gallery with the photos for all to see.
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It would appear in a rather odd post after the derby gubbing the LHSC account was mutually consented.
It this is a permanent ban (Im not ITK but used to be a member moons ago - were talking 20!) Id contact CyberSauzee or BrummieHibs.
Orra best and thanks for the mammories.
I will be in London for the derby this Tuesday and just wanted to check if the game will
be on in Quinns
May as well start the ball rolling early...
Is there going to be one next year?
Is there one planned?
Does anyone know how you can watch the game today if in England?
Alternatively pm me a link :)
Is anybody still watching in Quinns? I've not been for a while, and there are no longer London Hibs emails.
Will it be on in Steam Passage in Camden? I see Watford v Chelsea is on at same time.
Anyone know if the game will be on in Quinns this Sunday? Cheers
There was a guy that attended LH back in the mid-late 90s
His name was Rob - wore glasses. He had a T-shirt business I think making to order amongst other things - just wondered if he was still around. Im looking for some retro gaming T-shirts and the shipping is a killer £4 per T-shirt! Just...
Quinn's still have a problem with Sky feed so game is NOT on
Just had text confirmation from the guvnor that BT Sport is working and he'll be showing the Hearts game this Sunday.
12.15pm kick off.
Guys,looking for a pub in London preferably near Kings cross that is showing the Hearts v Hibs game this week,cheers.
I've moved to the smoke this week - just making sure games are still being shown at Quinns? I've been before so won't fall foul of the dresscode regulations :wink:
Is this being shown in Quinns - it is on Premier Sports, so not sure if they show those games?
Is it a goer?
Hi there, I will be in London on the 19th December and was hoping to watch the Rangers game with a few London Hibs, is it still the Quinns pub in Camden?
Thought Id ask about all three games against Celtic, Rangers and Hearts in the next few weeks to save multiple threads.
Is Hibs London still active? Website seems a bit out of date, Im moving "down South" from Lancashire to Cambridge/Essex area in the new year.
Hi Called Quinns in Camden last night they are showing the Hearts v Hibs on Wednesday the 31st,well that's what I was told .If wrong please correct me .
I'm not London-based, but having had a wee read through some of the London Hibs thread, I just wondered if I'm missing some sort of tongue in cheek reference to Quinn's? The way it's described on here makes it sound a real cut above most matchday boozers, especailly in relation to the way your...
Hi Does anyone know if the Hibs v Molde game is on the TV and if so where is it showing in London .
Folks - we have secured a new venue for the Tripolis away fixture on Thurday evening. I'll send an email out this afternoon confirming the exact times and location, but the bad news is that numbers may be limited and it'll be on a first-come basis.
I'll allocate a table placing to LHSC members...
I am presuming all renovation and restoration is complete and the restaurant has fully reopened?
I expect that the gold taps have been re-gilded, the men's cologne collection is in-season, the Egyptian cotton hand-towels have been neatly pressed and stacked and that Benjamin, Quinns longest...
Is the pub in Camden showing the Derby on Friday?
Is there anywhere else that anyone knows of? (the less Jambos the better), and preferably North of the river
So with Quinns out of action, are there any alternatives on go?
Only just realised it's on TV tomorrow! Many heading along to Quinn's?
Tim Upton passed away in Luxembourg on 10th Jan. Details are vague for the moment but I've seen it confirmed on a Chess website. Tim was an accomplished player & Scottish internationalist. We believe the funeral will be this Saturday in Luxembourg & charitable donations (possibly a Cancer charity)...
Hi troops can anyone tell me the best pubs for the derby on 27th Dec. Clapham/ Brixton area or anywhere central London !?
Thanks in advance
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Planning on hitting Quinns for tonights game - we expecting many hibees in attendance?
What's on the menu?
Will the brasserie be open on Saturday or just the piano bar? Just outfit planning for the week so need to make sure I dress appropriately.
Anyone know if Quinn's or any other pubs are likely to be showing the Dundee match tomorrow in London?
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I'm fairly certain I'll not be able to come anyway, but is the game showing at Quinn's tomorrow?
Folks - it's been confirmed that we will be holding a Burns Night on the evening of Saturday 28th January 2017. The venue will be confirmed over the next couple of weeks as we're trying to secure a Thames River Boat for the evening and are awaiting confirmation.
This years guests of honour are;...
Hi guys,
I am very new to London and a big Hibee supporter. I will be down here for the semi final tomorrow and was wondering if you guys could recommend somewhere to watch the game? Would be a lot better going somewhere with some fellow Hibs fans in attendance.
Thanks in advance.
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Folks - I must apologise for the radio silence prior to the Dunfermline match - I forgot it was an early evening KO .I will be in contact with Pierre tomorrow and will post the menu.Remember the dress code, folks. Strictly NO ****IN TRAINERS.
Anybody know if it'll be shown, considering Ireland v France is on and Watford v West Ham.
I'll be out in town watching Scottish Eggchasers, and was hoping I could catch this on in Quinns?
As we will all know by now, Pat Quinn is no longer with us and will undoubtedly be pulling pints looking over us on Sunday. I wasn't sure if Quinn's was going to be open for us this coming weekend, so I decided to pay them a visit on Saturday just to make sure, as emails and calls had went...
I heard last night that Pat has passed away. What a Gent!
Here's an article about his life from the Camden New Journal:
Folks - we've produced a limited number of t-shirts that will be available at the forthcoming Burns Night. Top quality material and available in one size only (XL) - The cost is only £10 (+£3.50 p&p should they be mailed) - if anyone reading this wants to reserve/order - please either drop me a PM...
As has been the the norm over the last few years, Pierre is once again spending January back home in Paris and the restaurant has a cover-chef for the month of January. This year (or actually since 27th December) Anne Sophie Pic (the only female French chef to currently hold 3 Michelin stars) has...
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The porn industry spent much of the past few days considering its options now that Los Angeles County voters have approved Measure B. The ordinance requires that condoms should be used in porn movies shot in LA.
Not so fast. First of all it won't apply in Long Beach, Vernon or Pasadena.
But it also won't apply in other cities in the county, unless (and until) the various city councils decide to adopt Measure B's provisions. At least that's the opinion of adultbizlaw.com in a post titled "Ballot Measure B – So What Happens Now?"
In order for this law to take effect in cities such as Los Angeles, Glendale, Malibu or any of the 85 independent towns and cities in Los Angeles County – each one of those cities will have to independently debate, vote on and themselves pass/adopt Ballot Measure B as law in their town. How long will that take is anyone's guess at this point. And it is not certain that all 85 independent towns and cities will even adopt Ballot Measure B. I can envision a situation in which some of the smaller towns that do not have any contact with the adult entertainment industry will simply ignore this law entirely.
Meanwhile the folks behind Measure B are looking for ways to take it statewide.
This from the Long Beach Press-Telegram:
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said Thursday it is seeking a state lawmaker to carry a bill that would broaden the power of the state and local governments to enforce health codes requiring condom use on porn sets.
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FRESNO, CA -- After a failed fundraising effort designed to pay off its debts, the Central Valley YMCA board of directors voted to close the downtown Fresno, CA, YMCA branch as of May 31.
Local organizers were only able to raise about $100,000 of the $500,000 required by the national YMCA organization to keep the branch open by guaranteeing its financial solvency.
The local board says it plans to sell the downtown YMCA building to pay off its vendors.
Members who paid their fitness center fees in advance will get refunds, according to John Shehadey, president of the Central Valley YMCA board. The closure will not affect the Y's child care programs or the Camp Sequoia program.
Members of the closing YMCA branch told local media that other local gyms are offering special joining rates to Y members.
Membership at the Fresno Y fell from about 700 members in 2004 to fewer than 500 in 2009. Shehadey told local media that the Y never recovered from losing members after closing its pool in 2005.
Membership also has declined as the city's residents have moved northward, away from the downtown location, he noted.
Shehadey said there had been talk of opening a smaller express Y location in the area.
The YMCA's national membership standards committee is expected to vote on ending the Fresno Y's charter within the next month.


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Happy Valentine's Day - A Corny Valentine
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What a cutie, I have several hundred cards from my grandparents and parents--they are really fun to look at..and so much more personable than the newer ones!ReplyDelete
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This competition is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Lisa Imlach, whose answer was: "I'd love to see a pack of lions in the wild!"
Ever dreamed of cruising down the Zambezi at sunset, spotting the Big Five in Kruger National Park or bush camping in the wilds of Botswana? Now we're making that dream come true as we partner with Acacia Africa to offer you the chance to win a two-week overland trip for two through southern Africa.
If you want to go in search of Africa's biggest beasts or meet the people of Botwana's rural villages then you need to enter this competition. The Southern African Magic trip takes you and your travel companion overland from Johannesburg, South Africa, through some of the country's most spectacular national parks, along the Zambezi river in Zambia and into Botswana to explore the Okavango Delta's 15,000 square kilometre maze of lagoons, channels and islands.
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From tented camping to sleeping in safari lodges, accommodation throughout the tour is included and you'll be guided through every part of the journey with knowledgable local guides to ensure you get the most out of your African experience. Highlights include a scenic drive through the 800 metre-deep Blyde River Canyon, night safaris in Kruger National Park and meeting the abandoned and injured animals rescued in the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, not to mention ample time for meeting the locals – human and animal! This tried-and-tested adventure is bound to give you a taste for further exploration of this vast and varied continent.
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The Conservatives have repeated their call for those involved in data losses to face criminal charges, following the Home Office's loss of data on all prisoners.
The party said the government should make it a criminal offence for someone to "knowingly or recklessly" cause the loss of data, reports the Observer.
The opposition had attempted to add the offence to the criminal justice and immigration bill earlier in the year, but the move was blocked by the government.
"Every time the government has lost data, ministers have promised a crackdown, but nothing has happened and a culture of complacency remains," said shadow justice secretary Nick Herbert.
"It is time to send a clear and unambiguous signal to officials and agents who are entrusted with private data that it is no longer acceptable to take risks over how it is handled. Civil penalties will not do. The regrettable conclusion is that only the threat of a criminal sanction will change mindsets and jolt this government to ensure proper precautions in future."
The loss of the memory stick containing data on all prisoners, as well as thousands of prolific offenders and those involved in drug programmes, is an embarrassment both for the government and PA Consulting, the firm which lost the device. In the past year the government has been rocked by a series of scandals involving lost data.
PA Consulting is one of the main companies involved in setting up the identity cards scheme. Its failure to protect sensitive data has raised fresh concerns about the safety of the national identity database and placed a question mark over its chances of winning future work from the government.
Between 2004-07, the Home Office paid the consultancy almost £100m, a large proportion of which was for work on the identity cards scheme. The consultancy has pledged to work with the Home Office to resolve any security problems.
Home secretary Jacqui Smith has denied that the loss of the data was due to failures by her department. "This was data being held in a secure form, but was downloaded on to a memory stick by an external contractor," she said. "It runs against the rules set down in the contract that we had with the external contractor."
The Home Office said no more information was being passed to the firm while the investigation continued and the government was "reviewing the terms of that contract and other contracts with PA Consulting".
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Date: Oct. 21, 2013
Leader of Smoking Cessation and Tobacco Prevention Efforts Receives
Institute of Medicine's 2013 Lienhard Award
WASHINGTON — The Institute of Medicine today presented the 2013 Gustav O. Lienhard Award to Steven A. Schroeder, whose pioneering efforts to control tobacco use have helped save millions from premature, smoking-related deaths. The award also recognizes Schroeder's leadership in general medicine as well as his work to improve end-of-life care.
"It is my great privilege to present this award to a dedicated champion of health for Americans and citizens around the world," said IOM President Harvey V. Fineberg. "Dr. Schroeder's perseverance in funding tobacco research and creating breakthrough strategies to help smokers quit facilitated a shift in public attitudes toward smoking and shaped policies to prevent smoking."
As president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) from 1990 to 2002, Schroeder established and led programs to reduce smoking, enhance end-of-life care, expand health insurance for children, and encourage physical activity. His most influential initiative at RWJF focused on leveraging research, policy, advocacy, and education to reduce tobacco use and drive systemwide changes that created higher tobacco taxes, smoke-free indoor air laws, and better access to addiction treatment. RWJF tobacco research was cited in the formulation of and advocacy for such policy adoption. The impact of anti-smoking campaigns by RWJF and its partners was profound. Smoking rates among adults declined from 25.5 percent in 1993 to 18 percent in 2011, meaning that 5.3 million fewer people were smoking and more than 60,000 smoking-related deaths had been avoided by 2010.
At RWJF, Schroeder also funded the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which was influential in documenting large regional variations in medical services that do not correlate to desired health care outcomes. In addition, he initiated a national program to enroll eligible children for health insurance following the passage of State Children's Health Insurance Program legislation. The program has been credited as an important reason why the number of uninsured children reached a modern low from 2000 to 2005. Furthermore, after negative results from a controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospital patients, known as the SUPPORT study, Schroeder instituted a series of national programs to improve such care at hospitals. Bringing together physicians, nurses, palliative care experts, clergy, and patients, the initiative attempted to minimize legal barriers to prescribing pain medications at the end of life, expand hospice and hospital-based palliative care, energize patient groups, and work with hospital chaplains. As a result, more than 500 hospitals have received training in palliative care and many have instituted their own programs.
Upon leaving RWJF and returning in 2003 to the University of California, San Francisco -- he was originally on the faculty from 1976 to 1990 -- Schroeder continued his dedication to curbing tobacco use by founding the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. Under his direction, the center aims to increase the cessation rate of smokers and the number of clinicians who help smokers quit by creating partnerships to develop and implement action plans. By working with leaders at more than 80 health organizations nationwide, the center has expanded the types of groups that support smokers' attempts to quit, such as dental hygienists, pharmacists, emergency physicians, and nurses; created new ways to market toll-free telephone quit lines; and engaged the mental health community in treating tobacco addiction.
Schroeder has also been devoted to all aspects of health care delivery, including the training of health professionals, the equitable distribution of care, economics, and legislative barriers. He was one of the first physicians to describe variability in the physicians' use of costly medical services to demonstrate the pro-technology biases associated with fee-for-service medical payment and to illustrate the failure of voluntary approaches to containing the costs of hospital care. At UCSF, he founded the division of general internal medicine and conducted research and training programs of national significance, and at George Washington University, he was the founding medical director of a university-sponsored HMO.
Schroeder earned his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where he later served as president of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. He trained in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical Service of Boston City Hospital and in epidemiology as an epidemic intelligence service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has held faculty positions at Harvard University, George Washington University, and UCSF. Schroeder is the recipient of six honorary degrees and many honors, including the Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society, New Jersey Medicine 1999 Person of the Year, National Leadership Award 2001 by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, James D. Bruce Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions in Preventive Medicine from the American College of Physicians, and David E. Rogers Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. He was a member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and currently serves on the boards of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, the Robina Foundation, the Marin Community Foundation, and the Marin General Hospital. Schroeder is the past chair of the American Legacy Foundation (now known as Legacy for Health), which in 2006 established the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies in his honor. He was elected to the IOM in 1982 and is the former chair of IOM's Board on Health Care Services.
Schroeder is the 28th recipient of the Lienhard Award, which includes a medal and $40,000 prize. Given annually, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in improving personal health care services in the United States. Nominees are eligible for consideration without regard to education or profession, and award recipients are selected by a committee of experts convened by the IOM. This year's selection committee was chaired by Raynard S. Kington, president of Grinnell College.
The Lienhard Award is funded by an endowment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Gustav O. Lienhard was chair of the foundation's board of trustees from the organization's establishment in 1971 to his retirement in 1986 -- a period in which the foundation moved to the forefront of American philanthropy in health care. Lienhard, who died in 1987, built his career with Johnson & Johnson, beginning as an accountant and retiring 39 years later as its president. Additional information about the Lienhard Award can be found at http://www.iom.edu/lienhard.
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I'd like to take a minute to thank everyone who has joined us this year. I can't believe how quickly time has passed, but we're at the end of this term. We've been truly inspired by your cards, and your participation and we hope that you will continue to grace us with your cards in the upcoming year. Now, onto this weeks challenge. This week Peggy has created another fabulous sketch for us to use. Please keep in mind that the challenges each week are optional. The idea is just to help you create a Christmas card each week so that you'll have a good stack finished by the time December rolls around. Here is Peggy's sketch.
Our last guest designer for this year is Barb. Here is a bit about her, in her own words.
Hello everyone, my name is Barb. I have been married for 25 years, to a very patient man and we have two beautiful daughters who also like to scrap and make cards. We share our home with 2 cockatiels, and a very spoiled little doggie named Maxwell William. I have had a love affair with paper since I was a young girl, so it was no surprise to anyone when I started scrapbooking. Eventually, I moved on to digital scrapping, but found that I really missed my paper. So three years ago, I began card crafting and I LOVE it! I am thrilled to be chosen as a Guest Designer for Sparkle's Christmas Card Challenge. I really like the idea of creating Christmas cards all year. I turn on Christmas music in my studio, light a Christmas-y scented candle to help set the mood and then I create away!
Here is Barb's beautiful card, based on the sketch.
And here are the rest of the designers cards for this week.
Please link directly to the blog post or gallery page where we can view/comment on your creation and not just the generic link to your blog. Generic blog links will be disabled or deleted. To get the full URL, click the title of your blog post (which will load a page that has just that post on it), then copy and paste the URL.
Don't forget to post a comment so we know you added a card! If you are uploading to an online gallery such as Splitcoast, please use the tag SCCC52, so that we can all enjoy your cards.
We hope you'll be as inspired by us as we are by you, and join us for this last challenge of the 2010 year. There are only a couple weeks left until Christmas is upon us!


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In order to receive the official Pose Method® Certification and Title the candidates have to take the Technique Specialist Exam online after attending and successfully completing the Pose Method® Certification Clinic.
The examination has been developed by the International Sports and Exercise Technique Standards Council (ISETSC) board to assess whether an individual exhibits the competency of required knowledge and skills necessary to be designated as a Pose Method® Certified Triathlon Techniques Specialist. The certification examination is divided into two (2) sections. A minimum passing score of 75% is required on all sections in order to earn the credential.
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All Romanov Academy Examinations are computer based and administered online only.
You will have an opportunity to review your exam prior to submitting it. You must take the entire exam in one sitting. Once you finish and submit the exam, if the passing score is achieved, your certificate will be presented to you and could be downloaded as a PDF file. It will list your credential and your Unique Coaching Serial Number that you will need in order to register and list your contact information on our international registry of Certified Technique Specialists.
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A comparative analysis of the explanatory power of accounting and patent information for the market values of German firmsRamb, Fred; Reitzig, Markus (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the fitness of national German (German Commercial Code – Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB)) and international (IAS and US-GAAP) accounting information, as well as European patent data to explain the market values of German manufacturing firms. For the chosen volatile period from 1997 to 2002, cautious national accounting information does not correlate with the firms' residual market values (RMV). International accounting information makes no meaningful contribution to explaining firms' RMV and seems to measure overinvestment only. Finally, patents counted at the individual country level correlate with the firms' RMV. Keywords: Accounting standards, investor information, market value, patents JEL-classifications: D82, M40, M41, K11 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6814
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Balance Sheet and Patent Data as Sources of Investor Information During Volatile Market TimesRamb, Fred; Reitzig, Markus (Frederiksberg, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We originally investigate the comparative usefulness of patent data as a source of investor information depending on the market cycle (bull/bear market). Based on comprehensive data for firms listed on German exchanges between 1997 and 2002, we demonstrate that patent data contain complementary explanatory power to accounting data irrespective of the standard used to prepare the financial statement (German GAAP, IAS and US GAAP). Moreover, we provide original evidence that only patent data are able to provide plausible investor information in both bull-market and bear-market periods, whereas accounting information overvalues intangible assets in bull markets and undervalues them in bears. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7886
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One person has been arrested in the case of a kidnapped 10-year-old Los Angeles girl who turned up barefoot and wounded in a neighborhood near her own last week.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the arrest Monday afternoon. The subject under arrest is not the man police identified as the primary suspect, Tobias Dustin Summers. NBC 4 Southern California is attempting to obtain details regarding the arrest of the man police identified as 29-year-old Daniel Martinez, of the city's West Hills neighborhood.
Detectives gathered information during the weekend that led to Martinez's arrest, said LAPD Commander Andrew Smith.
Bond was set at $1 million. Police declined to discuss how the two men knew each other.
U.S. & World
The search for Summers (pictured, below) has expanded to the San Diego area, Smith said at a mid-day news conference. Smith said that Summers "may have shaved his head to alter his appearance."
"The information on him being in San Diego is very new," said Smith, adding that detectives are still working to verify the lead.
The case involves a 10-year-old girl who was kidnapped from her home in Los Angeles' Northridge neighborhood on March 27 between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. She was taken to several locations in the San Fernando Valley before being dropped off in the Woodland Hills neighborhood.
The victim told police that two men took her from her bedroom.
She walked about a mile to a Starbucks where a passerby recognized her from media reports and alerted police. She was found barefoot and with bruises and cuts on her face at 3 p.m. the same day she went missing, police said.
Police announced last week that Summers, who has a lengthy criminal history dating back to 2002 including arrests for assault and battery and kidnapping, was the primary suspect in the case. Summers was released from prison in July 2012 under California's AB 109, an initiative aimed at easing prison overcrowding and was on "post-supervised release," according to police.
Probation officials believe the 30-year-old is a transient known to frequent the North Hollywood and Devonshire areas. Summers is about 6 feet tall, 160 pounds, with blue eyes and cropped blond hair. He is not a registered sex offender, and authorities said there is no indication at this time that the victim or her family knows the suspect.


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Kemmer Named to Continuing Education Post
DuBOIS – Karen Kemmer of DuBois has joined the Penn State DuBois Continuing Education Department as an Education Program Associate. In her new role, Kemmer will work with businesses and leaders in area industry to develop and implement corporate training programs that will educate the workforce at companies throughout the region. She will also assist adult learners with their college enrollment, primarily in the St. Marys area.
Kemmer holds a master's degree in Human Services and Business Management from Liberty University. Before completing her graduate work, she earned an associate degree in Letters, Arts, and Sciences from Penn State DuBois, and a bachelor degree in Arts and Human Services from the University of Wisconsin.
Kemmer most recently worked at Penn Highlands Community College where she was director of the Ebensburg Education Center. During her successful tenure at Penn Highlands she increased enrollments by 500 percent. Previously, she was employed as the director of admissions at Triangle Tech in DuBois.
Kemmer can be reached at (814) 375-4818 or email@example.com


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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- You can call it "speed dating for entrepreneurs."
Startup Riot brought together representatives from 50 internet startups at an Atlanta concert hall Wednesday to zoom through three-minute presentations about their products.
The dream? That one of the dozens of investors in attendance -- call them "angels" if you're feeling upbeat or "sharks" if you want to get right down to it -- will rush up and write them a check to help make their ideas reality.
Even more realistic results -- like a new contact, a word of advice or a first step on the long trail to venture funding -- make the event worthwhile, organizers say.
"It's very rare that somebody's going to present and somebody's just going to give them a check," said Sanjay Parekh, the founder of Startup Riot, which is now in its fourth year. "It does happen -- some people have had that -- but it's such an aberration. But even if they don't give you money, they give you advice. They give you contacts."
The event, held on Wednesday in downtown Atlanta's Tabernacle music hall, drew about 500 people. Parekh estimated that about one quarter of them were investors. And it shows what the startup tech company community calls a growing push to find talent outside of Silicon Valley in California, he said.
Events in Chicago, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas (not to mention scores in India, Europe and Asia) are just some of the events that have cropped up in the past few years.
TechCrunch Disrupt, a series of startup-themed events hosted by the blog TechCrunch, will be held not just in San Francisco, but also in New York and Beijing.
"It's interesting to me to see the development of outside-the-Valley communities and how they've grown," said Charlie O'Donnell of First Round Capital, one of the investors at Wednesday's event.
Startup Riot was definitely interesting for the guys from Atlanta-based TripLingo.
Their mobile app, a light-hearted travel tool that lets users translate English phrases into other languages, was voted the top entry by event attendees.
Not bad for two week's work.
The app's working group formed February 1 at StartAtlanta, a smaller event where founder Jesse Maddox pitched his idea and others signed up to help.
"It's been 120 miles per hour since the beginning," said Matthew Stigall, a member of the group.
Maddox said his winning presentation for the app, currently in closed demo testing, felt much the same.
"It just flew by," he said. "It felt like two seconds."
They'll get nearly $15,000 in tech-related prizes and, maybe more importantly, more than seven hours of meetings with investors.
The presentations, sandwiched in hour-long chunks around keynote speeches and other events, ranged from buttoned-down to frenetic, and the products were just as varied.
How else to describe pitches that ranged from TeamEx, "an online strategy system that provides complete management insight" to "Pretty In My Pocket," a mobile app that lets users get feedback on lipstick and other cosmetics.
Often, the passion was obvious.
"I know from being on the ground that this is a need in the market," Adam Geller said in an emotion-choked voice as he wrapped up his pitch for teaching tool R3 Collaboratives. "I know from real teachers that they love this."
And, who knows? It may be just that kind of passion that catches the eye of one of those angel-funding sharks.
"It's funny because everyone asks what are you looking for," said O'Donnell, whose group has helped bankroll successful startups like Mint and StumbleUpon. "I just want to meet some interesting people doing some interesting stuff in the early stages.
"Most of the best deals end up being in spaces you didn't know you were looking at."


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Some very major changes came down the pipe for Discipline priests in WoW's 4.1 update. Our bubbles got stronger, but don't last as long. Prayer of Healing got a nerf; Renew got a buff. Prayer of Healing gives a better Divine Aegis bonus. It's time to re-examine the rotations we use in instances and raids.
I'm not usually one for a 'rotation' guide, but as I've been leveling a mystifying druid lately- and desperately looking for such a thing as I do (a bear can be a warrior tank OR a rogue?!)- I've come to look more kindly on the idea of looking at someone's rotation with associated explanation. As such, these are not hard rules about what you must be casting, but rather a starting point to get you comfortable enough with your arsenal of spells to build upon.
For reference, my spec and current gear is here on the Armory.
1. When you zone in, cast Inner Will on yourself, and Power Word: Fortitude and Prayer of Shadow Protection on your group.
2. Before the tank begins to run (or as he's running, if he won't give you a ready check), cast Power Word: Shield and Prayer of Mending on the tank.
3. When the tank begins to take 15%+ damage, hit Inner Focus and then Greater Heal. Keep Power Word: Shield up on the tank at all times. Try to keep Prayer of Mending up on the tank; it's useful to have your sound on for this, as you can hear the jingly-shoosh noise it makes as it jumps from target to target. When the noise stops, I reapply the Prayer of Mending.
For big heals, use Penance. For small heals, use Flash Heal or Renew. Personally, I never, ever use Flash Heal and would be hard-pressed to find it on my quickbar, but we're all supposed to shun Renew (I LOVE IT!).
Every time Inner Focus comes back up, hit it and use Greater Heal on the tank.
Every time Pain Suppression comes up, use it on the tank.
Every time Power Infusion comes up, use it on yourself.
Don't be afraid to apply a Renew to the tank if the group as a whole is taking heavy damage and your attention is split; it will give you a small buffer of heals if you look away from the tank's health for longer than you should.
4. As you're keeping your bubble and PoM up on the tank, watch to see who else in the group is taking damage. In a good group that's the tank and possibly yourself; in a great group, it's just the tank! Back in reality, though, it's probably going to be you, the tank, and another melee DPS.
Put a bubble on the melee DPS who is taking the damage, and possibly a Renew for insurance. Use Penance on the melee if they're taking a lot of damage, but hopefully you won't have to do that too often.
If you're taking a lot of party-wide damage, don't be afraid to put out a few more bubbles. We're not back to the Wrath days of being able to spam Power Word: Shield on every group member all the time, but it's still our best tool. Trust your Prayer of Mending to hit lots of targets, healing as it goes, if you're taking a lot of group damage, and keep it up at all times.
If you can spare it, use Inner Focus and then Prayer of Healing as your big group heal, but don't expect miracles. It's slow and it does not do a whole lot of healing. At best it'll keep everyone alive long enough for Penance and Renew and PoM to make the rounds to pick everyone back up.
5. Keep the tank alive, and then yourself alive. If the tank goes down and you have a tough melee DPS like a DK, they are now the tank. Treat them thusly.
1. During the buffing/eating/waiting for people to pee phase, buff the group with Power Word: Fortitude and Prayer of Shadow Protection. Use Inner Will on yourself.
2. Ask for healing assignments. Druids and shaman should be on the raid; discipline priests and paladins should be on the tanks. Holy priests can go either way*.
If you're running 10 mans, you're going to be running with two or three healers.
If you have two healers, one of you should be assigned to the tanks and one to the raid. Ask to be assigned to the tanks (unless your other healer is a paladin, which is going to suck for everyone).
If you have three healers, a healer each should be assigned to the tank and off-tank, and the third should be on the raid.
If you're assigned to the raid despite the maximum amount of QQ you can generate, don't panic and see below.
*Disclaimer: I'm going to get a lot of crap for this in the comments, and I'd like to deflect some of that by recognizing that (a) Paladins are not crap raid healers, as much as I dislike them as people, (b) discipline priests used to be perfectly fine raid healers, but now we simply are not, and (c) if you have no druid or shaman you are not completely screwed, just mostly screwed.
3. Don't forget to flask and eat.
4. TANK HEALING: On the plus side, tank healing in raids is much easier in lots of ways than healing an instance because in theory you're going to be focusing on one person; at the same time, it can be more challenging because you don't have complete control over the healing of the raid that you have in an instance.
This leads to a healer-centric phenomenon that I think of as the Savior Complex. You've slogged through 85 levels of misery, the lone healer of your group, and you've become conditioned to save EVERYBODY ALL THE TIME! The fate of the world rests on your shoulders!
The problem with trying to save everyone in a raid is that you simply can't, of course. You have to actually trust other healers, those useless bastards, to do their job. It's incredibly difficult to let go of the fear that everyone will die if you don't heal them, but let go of it you must.
If you are healing both tanks, three people exist in the raid: the main tank, the off-tank, and you.
You cannot spare the mana to assist anyone else in the raid, with the possible exception of a bubble every now and then on the raid healer. If the boss gets loose and starts savaging a DPS or two with no regard to the tank waving his hands up and down, sure: you can jump in and start healing that DPS. The raid has just gone all weird, and no one's going to blame you for wiping it.
However, there's a big difference from the boss actually getting well and truly loose and really focusing on a DPS, and occasionally turning around to playful maul a DPS with his amusing razor-sharp claws just for the fun of it. The only way to know the difference is to run the fight a few times, or watch a few different versions of it on YouTube. ("Is he hunting down that deeps or just playing? Oh, just playing- Magmaw, you fool for comedy!").
Until you get a feel for that part of the fight, just focus on your assigned tank(s) and self. No one else.
When the tank begins to take 15%+ damage, hit Inner Focus and then Greater Heal. Keep Power Word: Shield up on the tank at all times. Keep Prayer of Mending up on the tank at all times.
For big heals, use Penance. For medium heals, use Heal. For small heals, use Renew.
Every time Inner Focus comes back up, hit it and use Greater Heal on the tank.
Every time Pain Suppression comes up, use it on the tank.
Every time Power Infusion comes up, use it on yourself.
Keep a bubble up on yourself and possibly on the other healers if they need it.
5. RAID HEALING: You're not completely screwed, believe it or not, if you're assigned to heal the raid. Take a deep breath and remember that these guys aren't going to be taking nearly the damage that the tanks will.
Before you start, look at your raid composition and mentally or physically separate out all the melee DPS. Melee DPS are warriors, DKs, rogues, druids dressed up like cats, and paladins.
I physically move them in my raid frame box to one side (the right, if you must know), leaving myself and the other ranged casters on the left.
The melee DPS will be taking the most damage in most fights, generally because they draw aggro away from the tanks more easily than ranged DPS.
Once you drag all the melee to one side, you'll see when the fight starts that they're taking most of the damage among the DPS, and that one or two of them is taking most of that damage. Occasionally a big damage-taker turns out to be something weird like a warlock; in that case, I drag the warlock over to the right with the melee and mentally treat him as a melee for the rest of the raid.
You will not have the attention or mana to heal the other healers in this raid. You also do not have big, raid-wide heals that will incidentally keep them going.
You must warn the other healer(s) that you will not be able to heal them. This is more important than you might think, as some people (paladins) will not be paying attention, not to mention it's just plain polite.
Now that you've effectively erased both tanks and any other healers from your mind, you're facing a situation that's actually not unlike healing an instance. You'll get one (or two) DPS who routinely draw aggro; treat them as your new tank. Bubble the most aggro'd DPS and apply Prayer of Mending religiously (ho ho ho).
For big heals, use Penance. For medium heals, use Heal. For small heals, use Renew.
Every time Inner Focus comes back up, hit it and use Prayer of Healing on the group.
Every time Pain Suppression comes up, use it on your most aggro-ing DPS.
Every time Power Infusion comes up, use it on yourself.
4.a brought the strength back to our bubbles, and I love it for that, but, like you, I hate it for the nerf to the length of bubbles. Disc is a tough spec to master, but so worth it as it just gets stronger and stronger with gear.
If you find yourself really struggling in instances or raids, do ask yourself: is my gear really good enough for this? What can I improve? Is my build all that it can be? Disc priests are extraordinarily gear-dependent- perhaps more than any other class- and it's impossible to hide behind bad gear in our spec.
Soldier on, noble discos, and keep those bubbles popping!


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rhenslee brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 94 Designs von 26 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Peabody School
Our school is a small private school that serves students in pre-k – 8th grade. Our school serves highly able learners who have an intellectual curiosity and love for learning. We offer a differentiated curriculum and instruction in a warm and caring environment where we embrace each child as an individual.
While we celebrate the academic achievements of our students, first and foremost we celebrate them as children, balancing each child's need for an enhanced learning experience equally with the need for a safe and rewarding social and emotional environment.
Our goal is to provide a foundation for students to become life-long learners; best embodied in our motto "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" (W.B. Yeats).
"Clean up" our school mascot (file attached)
We recently held a school wide contest to come up with the winning design for our new panther mascot. A student won and the winning design is attached. We DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE THE OVERALL DESIGN. We want it enhanced and given graphic design quality.
The outline of the panther needs to be cleaned up
We would like to see it with eyes (with variation in color and shape)
No eyes is also an option
Clean, crisp, classy with "pop" and/or "punch"
Will appear on, banners, t-shirts, athletic uniforms etc.
Would like to see the word PEABODY with the panther on top as if it is lightly walking on the letters
Also open to having PEABODY on top
Would like to see the "O" in Peabody in the shape of a panther paw as one option
Would like to see "E" in Peabody as claw slashes as an option, or claw marks over a letter
COLOR: I have included the logo so you can see our school colors (attached)
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Tahiti is the largest of the Polynesian islands with its population most concentrated in Papeete which is a major shipping crossroad located on Tahiti's northwest corner.
Shopping-lovers will enjoy Papeete's chic shops, busy municipal market, waterfront area and lively mix of French, Polynesian, and Chinese cultures. Its suburbs sprawl up the mountains overlooking the city for miles along the coast in both directions.
The interior of the island offers splendid and unforgettable opportunities for hiking or safari 4x4 excursions, with impressive waterfalls, archaeological sites, grottos and more.


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Braden Holtby Debuts His New Goalie Mask on Caps365
Today, Hershey Goaltender Braden Holtby showed off his new Capitals Mask to Mike Vogel of Caps365. Among the notable things that were discussed:
- Holtby had an artist in Sweden paint the mask.
- The process took a week to complete and was done all through email.
- The back of the mask features flags of Saskatchewan and Alberta, the text Carpe Diem and a Japanese symbol which means "constant improvement."
- Braden is having the artist design another mask that he'll wear Opening Night in Hershey. And he sounds worried it'll arrive on time.
- No word if any Russians were injured in the making of this mask.
Below the fold, check out all sides of the helmet in all its screen-captured glory.
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